Chapter 153 - Everyone was Making Great Progress (1/2)

With the formation to protect the mountain being laid in place, Lu Xuan was finally able to rest easy.

He had basically used up all the spirit stones he had looted from the Song Clan’s estate, as well those he had acquired for the Special Task Force, just to lay that massive formation in place.

However, Lu Xuan deemed all those expenses worth it.

Other than his family, Zhang Hongyang, Shi Danze, and Ding Zhuxuan were given the jade pieces for accessing the villa as well.

There were also servants and bodyguards who were allowed access, and all of them had been carefully selected from Zhang Hongyang’s sect. All of them were proven to be loyal people.

But then again, it was not like there were many of there who would have dared to do Lu Xuan’s family any harm anymore, not after all that had happened before.

People would have usually beaten the dog before the lion as an act of warning. In Lu Xuan’s case, however, he opted to kill the lion instead.

“If you run into extreme danger that’s more than you can handle, just crush the jade pieces. The broken pieces will then form a barrier to protect you all. I’ll be able to sense what happened and make my way to you guys as quickly as I can,” Lu Xuan reminded them.

All of them only knew that the jade pieces, which looked simple and unassuming, had such uses as well.

It was especially so in the case of Zhang Hongyang, Shi Danze, and Ding Zhuxuan. Unlike Lu Xuan’s family, they had been in the world of cultivators long enough to know just how precious those jade pieces actually were.

“Bro, the jade is rather warm. Just putting it on seems to have enabled me to work better with Spiritual Qi.” Lu Shanshan was very surprised to find just how quickly she became able to work her Spiritual Qi. “At this rate, I’ll be able to make a breakthrough into the National Guardian Level before long!”

The crowd all went on to sense the jade pieces seriously after hearing what Lu Shanshan said, and they were indeed truly able to sense the articulation of their Spiritual Qi becoming a lot faster.

While the improvement was only about 30 percent, and it did not seem to be much at the moment, but in time, the accumulated benefits would have been staggering.

It was especially so given how all of them had grown considerably over the past three months and became way more powerful than they had once been.

Zhang Hongyang was naturally the strongest after Lu Xuan, who had been able to make a breakthrough from being a National Guardian into becoming a Deity. His powers saw exponential enhancement, and he was no longer the same person as before.

While only months passed, there had been quite an increase of Deity level cultivators compared to just several months ago.

There were already Ming Yueyao, the Chief of the Special Task Force, and Master Bushuo, and the abbot of the Southern Shaolin Temple having made it through to Level Eight Deity Level in Min Province alone.

But then again, one could still count the number of Deity level cultivators in the province on the one hand.

Zhang Hongyang’s disciples, Shi Danze and Ding Zhuxuan, saw frightening progress over the past few months as well, becoming National Guardians in very short periods of time. This made them some of the top-notch beings in the province.

While the other disciples of his had, of course, not seen that much growth, they made progress nonetheless, and there were already Martial Arts Legends among the strongest ones among them.

Zhang Hongyang himself felt really impressed and complicated. His sect saw significant progress in combat prowess within just little more than half a year’s time.

When Zhang Hongyang came to kill Lu Xuan half a year ago, he had been but a Martial Arts Legend, yet even the Martial Arts Legends among all of his disciples were no longer even considered the most powerful at the moment, with two of them having become National Guardians.

He had also made a breakthrough and became a Deity.

If someone were to tell him that he would have grown that much half a year ago, he would have dismissed the notion entirely.

Yet, he was actually able to reach this level so easily just half a year later.

There absolutely was nobody in his sect’s history who had made it as far as he had.