Chapter 251: How About an Exchange With You?
Silence!
The entire great hall fell utterly silent.
Everyone stood frozen like wooden chickens, unable to recover their senses for a long while.
Behind the Yin-Yang Holy Son, Feng Lie was still holding his wine cup. The wine had already spilled all over his robes, yet he remained oblivious. No one knew how long it took before he finally swallowed hard.
"Hiss—!"
Someone sucked in a sharp breath.
Looking ahead, he saw Li Xun slowly withdrawing his palm, as though he had merely brushed away a speck of dust—calm, effortless, and at ease. His gaze then shifted to the ruins, where the Golden Crow elder lay heavily wounded, on the brink of death.
The entire scene left him utterly numb.
"Why do I feel… as though the Profound Sun Holy Son has grown even stronger?"
A Holy Maiden whispered softly, her eyes shimmering with brilliance as they locked firmly onto Li Xun, as though trying to see through him completely, inside and out.
She had once been to the small world of the Great Strength Divine Demon Sect. She had personally witnessed Li Xun, relying on his own strength alone, defeat the combined forces of the Great Chu Dynasty and the Star-Moon Demon Sect. She was already well aware of his terrifying power.
But after seeing him again today, she realized that Li Xun's strength had grown even more unfathomable.
A single palm strike, and a Golden Crow clan elder was left severely injured and dying.
Was this really something a so-called "genius of the younger generation" could do?
One must know—that elder was a Divine Palace Realm existence!
The exact stage of his Divine Palace Realm cultivation was unclear, since all of them were only at the Life and Death Realm and could not peer across realms. But anyone with half a brain could guess he was at least mid-stage Divine Palace Realm or above.
Yet such a terrifying figure had not even survived a single move from Li Xun. Could Li Xun's current strength still really be just an early-stage Divine Palace Realm?
"The further one goes on the path of cultivation, the harder the progress becomes. Normally, after reaching the Divine Palace Realm, one might spend even a hundred years without advancing a single step. So why is it that Brother Li Xun…"
A Holy Son finally forced out those words, still shaken.
It had all happened too quickly. Before they could even properly sense Li Xun's aura, that dreadful momentum had already receded like a tide. What lingered was only the faint trace of a Divine Palace Realm's terrifying might.
'If I'm not mistaken, this should be the first time Brother Li Xun has ever met that… girl, Lu Qingxian. So why would Brother Li Xun take action for her sake?'
'And even go so far as to gift her such a rare and precious spiritual herb?'
'Could it be that between the two of them…?'
The Yin-Yang Holy Son's mind ran wild with speculation.
He had originally wanted to say "cripple," but after considering that Li Xun's relationship with the girl was still unclear, he tactfully swallowed the insult and changed his words. At such a time, to earn Li Xun's displeasure over a single word would be far too great a loss.
"Brother Li…"
Lu Qingxian's expression grew conflicted. She glanced at the crimson spiritual fruit before her, unable to pull her reluctant gaze away at first, then turned firmly toward Li Xun.
"This spiritual herb is far too precious. I cannot, in good conscience, accept it."
At this moment, to her, Li Xun's actions were no different from that blue-robed youth from before. The only difference was that Li Xun had paid a far greater price.
The problem, however, was that Li Xun's strength was greater, and his background even more terrifying.
The fact that he had offended the Golden Crow Clan wasn't much of an issue—after all, relations between the human race and the spirit race had never been particularly harmonious.
But today, Li Xun had not only acted on her behalf but had also gifted her such a rare spiritual herb. For two people meeting for the very first time, this behavior was far too abnormal.
As the saying goes:
A man who shows kindness for no reason is either a traitor or a thief.
There was a very high chance that Li Xun's real motive was her Dao Source Immortal Metal.
Thinking of this, Lu Qingxian's expression grew even firmer. She spoke in a low, steady voice:
"Brother Li Xun, I must ask you to take back this spiritual herb."
"You jest, when have I ever taken back anything that I gave away?"
Li Xun replied lightly, as if it were nothing.
He cast her a casual glance and said offhandedly:
"If you don't value the Scarlet-Blood Spirit Fruit, then just throw it away."
"This…"
Lu Qingxian froze, her expression stiff.
She bit her lip lightly. Her face, fair and luminous like carved jade, showed faint signs of inner struggle.
Don't be fooled by her current strength that made her strong enough to contend with Life and Death Realm experts, even having slain several princes of the Golden Crow Clan.
She knew her own condition best. The Ancient Immortal Sacred Physique was not tolerated by heaven and earth. To have reached this step at all was already a blessing against the will of the heavens.
But when she had forcefully broken through to the Divine Power Realm back then, she was rejected by heaven and earth, causing damage to her Dao Foundation. If she did not repair it soon, she would never be able to break through to the Life and Death Realm in the future.
And this Scarlet-Blood Spirit Fruit was precisely what could mend her flaw.
The issue was—if she accepted the fruit, she would owe Li Xun a great debt. If he later used that favor as leverage to demand her Dao Source Immortal Metal, would she give it or not?
After all, failing to repay kindness was not in her nature.
After hesitating for a long time, Lu Qingxian finally clenched her silver teeth. She raised her slender jade-like hand, and in her palm appeared a dull gray stone. The stone was tiny, no bigger than a little finger.
Yet the moment it appeared, a resonant Dao-sound echoed through heaven and earth. Faintly, one could sense a supreme Dao Sovereign seated cross-legged within the stone, expounding the Great Dao of heaven and earth.
This was the terror of Dao Source Immortal Metal. Not only was it an unimaginably rare immortal metal of extraordinary quality, but it could also harmonize and refine the myriad laws of the heavens into itself.
"She's actually willing to use Dao Source Immortal Metal in exchange!"
Someone gasped in disbelief.
Several princes of the Golden Crow Clan had already perished, and their main purpose hadn't simply been because they disliked Lu Qingxian—it was to seize this Dao Source Immortal Metal.
Even under such pressure from the Golden Crow Clan, Lu Qingxian had never once produced it. Yet now, today, she took out a piece. Just how much resolve had that taken?
"Are we focusing on the wrong thing here? Hasn't anyone noticed that even after using Dao Source Immortal Metal to forge an entire pagoda, this girl still seems to have some left over?"
A Holy Son spoke solemnly.
Dao Source Immortal Metal was such a rare Holy level forging material that normally, adding even a trace of it during treasure crafting would suffice. But to forge an entire treasure solely out of it? That was unheard of in all the world.
Any who saw it would sigh at such reckless extravagance.
And yet, the tiny piece she revealed now was already enough for Li Xun to forge a Sacred Weapon—or even a Sacred King Weapon—and still have some left over.
"Brother Li Xun," Lu Qingxian spoke at last, her voice calm but resolute, "it is not in my nature to accept such a gift without repaying it. I will use this Dao Source Immortal Metal to exchange with you—what do you think?"
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