Lu Li was uplifted again. His aunt should be one of the closest relatives he had at the Lu Family, a person that he should be able to trust.
He had seen several patriarchs of the same generation as his grandpa, or his great grandpa, and he met several of his father’s younger cousins.
Patriarch Eight had said that Great Patriarch was loyal to Lu Li’s grandpa but Lu Li still could not put his mind at ease. He still hadn’t said that his father was at the Ice Abyss.
Maybe the Lu Family could launch some sort of search and find out that Lu Li had come from the Northern Desert. Maybe the Lu Family could send someone to the Northern Desert to get more information. However, the fact that Lu Li’s father was at the Ice Abyss was only known to him and his sister.
Not even… Ming Yu knew. He was just having some suspicions.
How would they go down the Ice Abyss without any proper cause? That was the most dangerous place at the Northern Desert. As long as Lu Li and Lu Ling kept the secret, n.o.body would find out where Lu Renhuang was.
Lu Li was still thinking when a maid walked in and sent him a booklet golden in color. Lu Li opened it and saw three worlds in bold characters—Soul Cultivation Method.
There were two ways to cultivate souls. One was relying on treasured materials, and the other one was to rely on soul cultivation methods. Lu Li had learned a method to cultivate the soul from Ming Yu but Lu Li’s progress was slow.
The method at the Lu Family must be better. Also, Lu Li had the blood essence Patriarch Eight talked about. Lu Li got every excited. He had absorbed a whole pond of blood essence.
Of course!
It was not Lu Li that had taken in a whole pond of blood essence. More of it… were sucked in by the silver dragon mark on his Soul Pond.
Lu Li didn’t tell anyone about it. In that underground hall, Lu Li only talked about the silver dragon mark on his back and said that he had cultivated a special body refining skill.
This was his secret that he intended to keep from everyone!
He didn’t start absorbing blood essence as soon as he was in that pond. He had suddenly started to take the blood essence in because of the silver dragon mark. He somehow felt much of the blood essence went into his Soul Pond and was taken in by that silver dragon mark.
This was too weird a matter. Lu Li dared not to talk about it or ask the Lu Family about it.
He didn’t worry about it too much. He focused on the Soul Cultivation Method. In a matter of an hour, he had comprehended it.
This method was much stronger than the one Ming Yu gave him, as he expected. This method was more miraculous as well.
Ming Yu’s method was only to refine the soul and make it stronger and grow slowly, but this new method could not only quicken the process of soul refining for times, it could also absorb essence in heaven and earth and turn that into a power for the soul.
It was said in the Soul Cultivation Method that there were a diversity of powers in the Xuan Qi between heaven and earth, the origin of everything. Xuan Qi between heaven and earth had nurtured every living organism and all the treasured materials were born because of Xuan Qi. Therefore, some essential energy in Xuan Qi could be transformed into energies for the soul to strengthen Soul Pond.
"Cultivate!"
Lu Li forgot about meals and started closed-door cultivation after he had understood the booklet.
He realized this method was at least five times faster than the one given by Ming Yu. Also, when he took in energy from heaven and earth to nurture his soul, his cultivation would be faster. In conclusion, this new method should be at least eight times faster than Ming Yu’s.
Using Ming Yu’s method, it would take Lu Li at least more than 10 years to reach the peak of the Soul Pond Realm if he didn’t use any soul cultivating elixirs.
With this new method, it would only take him more than a year at most. If Lu Li could have Soul Crystals and other treasures alike supplied to him constantly, it would take half of that time.
Patriarch Eight and Patriarch Four didn’t give him any elixirs. Lu Li realized that those two were not being petty after cultivating for an hour. It was because… he didn’t need any.
When he cultivated, there would come surges of a strange power from within his body to his Soul Pond. His Soul Pond was growing at a horrifying speed. The process was times faster than consuming Soul Crystals!
"Blood essence!"
It was till this time that Lu Li finally tumbled to the truth about Patriarch Eight’s words of "being beneficial". This blood essence was without a doubt top-level treasures. Lu Li had only been cultivating for an hour but he felt it was faster than consuming hundreds of Soul Crystals.
Lu Li did not know that the Blood Pond of G.o.d was one kind of the powerful resources of the 12 Royal Families. It was the foundation on which the 12 Royal Families could have powerful warriors and one of the conditions for Lu Renhuang to cultivate so quickly.
Lu Renhuang could reach the Human Sovereign Realm at the age of 20. It was not only his own doing. He had varied valued materials of the Lu Family to rely on.
Lu Li was consumed by excitement. He had forgotten about everything and he had been focusing only on cultivating his Soul Pond. If n.o.body was here to disturb him, he would stay in closed-door cultivation for 10 days or even a month until his body could not take it any longer.
He cultivated till the next morning. Lu Li was woken up from his cultivation at noon. Ming Yu walked in and said, "Young Master, Lady Feixue is here."
Lu Li opened his eyes and then closed them. He exclaimed to himself after he inspected his Soul Pond. The blood essence was really doing him good. His Soul Pond was twice as large as its original state. He should be at the middle stage of the Soul Pond Realm right now.
He had consumed a lot of Soul Crystals before, but this time, he only cultivated for half a day and a night. Lu Li was greatly uplifted. If he could keep on cultivating like this, he would reach the peak of the Soul Pond Realm in less than a month.
"My aunt is here?"
Lu Li turned to Ming Yu who nodded. Lu Li stood up, tidied up his clothes and walked out.
In the hall outside, Yu Huashen was staying on guard. There was a beautiful lady standing in the middle of the hall with a maid.
The lady had a beautiful figure and a pretty face. She grabbed on to her own sleeves, looking about with eagerness and nervousness in her eyes.
As soon as Lu Li came out, the lady saw him. When she looked at his face, she trembled. Tears filled her eyes. Her lips were shaking. She seemed to be very excited.
Lu Feixue should be around mid-thirties, but she appeared only to be at her twenties. She was gentle and kind. Tears in her eyes made her more appealing.
Lu Li was excited as well. But he paused. He looked at the lady. The look seemed to have frozen time. Lu Li was getting more and more emotional.
After the time for more than 10 breaths, Lu Li took a deep breath and walked over step by step.
"Drip, drip!"
Lu Feixue could not hold back her tears any longer. Her tears dropped from her smooth chin onto the ground, making a clear sound. She tried to speak. Her lips trembled. Finally, she said in a shaking voice, "You, you are really the son of my big brother?"
Tears filled Lu Li’s eyes. He walked over quickly to Lu Feixue, knelt down and bowed, "I am Lu Li, aunt."
"Get up, quickly get up!"
Lu Feixue bent down and took Lu Li’s hands. She could not stop crying. Seeing that Lu Li didn’t get up and he was still kowtowing to her, she dropped to her knees as well. She hugged Lu Li and rambled, "My child, don’t kowtow anymore. I am useless. You have suffered… don’t be afraid. n.o.body can hurt you when I am here…"
Lu Feixue’s tears dropped on Lu Li’s face and wetted his clothes and hair and melted his heart. Lu Li almost cried his eyes out. For the first time, he had felt the warmth of a family and a relative. He had felt the affection between family members.