"Then forget it, please proceed, miss."
Lu Xin refused decisively. Although being beaten up wasn't a big deal, it felt extremely insulting, and he didn't know what methods the other party had.
It wouldn't be good to suffer a loss.
"Hey, you should think carefully. The kind of body-refining treasure I know about isn't simple."
The woman clearly didn't expect the other party to refuse so straightforwardly.
Lu Xin still shook his head.
The woman said unwillingly, "How about just one punch? And you can fully activate your golden body defense."
She touched her fist, a look of excitement appearing on her face again.
Lu Xin frowned upon seeing this, "What's special about this punch of yours?"
The woman snorted lightly, her tone somewhat proud, "Then you better listen carefully. This punch of mine is called the Armor-Piercing Divine Fist. It's a divine ability specifically designed to break physical defenses. I've never encountered anyone who has cultivated their physical body to an extremely high level before. Now I've finally met you."
Speaking of this, her face was full of anticipation, even a little pleading, "How about it, just one punch."
Lu Xin thought for a moment. He did want to see what a fist technique that specializes in breaking physical defenses was like, but now might be an opportunity to ask for information about the body-refining treasure.
So he shook his head decisively, "That won't do. My body-refining technique has only been cultivated to the point where it can defend against a full-strength attack from someone in the Human Immortal realm, and you are in the early Earth Immortal stage. I can't withstand it."
"Ah?" The woman was clearly a little disappointed.
Seeing this, Lu Xin quickly added, "Why don't you tell me the location of that body-refining treasure first? After I retrieve it and refine it to the Earth Immortal realm, how about I be your sparring partner every day?"
The woman narrowed her eyes, "Oh, so that's what you're after."
Lu Xin didn't hide his thoughts, "What do you say? Do you agree or not?"
The woman didn't speak, looking Lu Xin up and down, seemingly considering it.
Lu Xin was calm and composed, not in a hurry.
After a while, the woman finally spoke, "Alright, this lady will reluctantly agree to you."
Lu Xin was overjoyed, "Then tell me quickly."
"I thought you really didn't care."
The woman saw his eager expression, snorted coldly, then walked to the railing of the pavilion next to her and sat down, "Let's formally get to know each other. My surname is Du, my name is Zhiyan."
"Miss Zhiyan." Lu Xin cupped his fist in greeting.
Du Zhiyan looked at him, "Is Luo Feng your real name?"
Lu Xin nodded seriously.
Du Zhiyan obviously didn't believe it, but she was too lazy to argue. She stood up and said, "I don't care what your name is, I don't want to waste time with you. Listen carefully."
Lu Xin quickly perked up his ears.
Du Zhiyan didn't beat around the bush either, directly telling him all the information she knew about the body-refining treasure.
She only said it once, not caring whether Lu Xin remembered it or not, and then left arrogantly.
Lu Xin pondered for a while in place, then began to set up a formation.
In the following days, Lu Xin didn't rush to find that treasure. Instead, he cultivated while refining pills for the merchant guild.
This also proved his ability once again. His pill refining speed was really fast.
Therefore, the merchant guild would generally give him the pills that needed to be refined urgently.
Hence, after a period of time, as Lu Yunxi had said, more than a dozen Earth Alchemists approached him under the guise of friendly competition, wanting to see if he was really that fast.
And proposed to compete in refining pills in public.
This once attracted the attention of many people within the merchant guild, and people outside also heard about it.
Lu Xin naturally didn't have so much time to compete with them for fame, so he invited them into his courtyard in the name of friendly exchange.
A few days later, those Earth Alchemists walked out, with no expression on their faces, but after that, no one ever heard them speak ill of Lu Xin again.
This made many people curious about what happened in the courtyard those few days, and they speculated that the most likely possibility was that after a closed-door competition, everyone was sincerely convinced.
Thus, this matter came to an end.
However, following this matter, Lu Xin's reputation grew even greater, and it spread throughout the entire Eastern Pole City.
After all, in the past, when looking for the Eastern Pole Merchant Guild to refine pills, it had never been so quick to obtain the pills.
"Damn it, don't let me know who gave me this nickname." In the courtyard, Lu Xin was furious, because he accidentally heard that he was actually called "Quick Pill Hand" outside.
He didn't know who started giving him that name.
"Forget it, Quick Pill Hand is Luo Feng, it doesn't have much to do with me, Lu Xin."
Lu Xin took a deep breath, calmed his mood, first rejected some pill refining tasks, and then walked into the secret chamber to fully cultivate in seclusion.
… …
On the other side, in a lakeside pavilion, Lu Yunxi looked at Du Zhiyan, who was feeding the fish, and said:
"Sister Zhiyan, what do you think will happen if he finds out that we gave him such a nickname?"
Du Zhiyan threw out a piece of fish food, casually saying, "If you don't say it, how would he know?"
"That's true." Lu Yunxi nodded, looking at her teasing the fish, she couldn't help but say, "Sister Zhiyan, the Profound Origin Secret Realm is about to open soon, why aren't you stepping up your cultivation, and you still have the leisure to tease the fish."
Du Zhiyan heard this, threw out all the food in her hand, attracting a group of fish to devour it, then laughed loudly and clapped her hands, and then said:
"You stinky girl, your tone of voice is becoming more and more like your grandfather's. Also, how dare you say me, who was it that played in the Beast Fighting Arena for a few days before coming back?"
Lu Yunxi's face turned red, and she said unhappily, "Tch, I'm just concerned about you, anyway, I don't need to go to that secret realm or anything."
"Ah, to be honest, I don't want to go either."
Du Zhiyan sat on the railing with a plop, leaned against the stone pillar and sighed, "But Master said that law techniques are extremely rare, even the Holy Spirit Palace, the master of the Holy Spirit Immortal Domain, doesn't have many, and the only one he knows isn't suitable for me."
Lu Yunxi asked in confusion, "But you're only in the early Earth Immortal stage, aren't laws only comprehended in the Golden Immortal stage?"
"Why else." Du Zhiyan said distressedly, "The further you cultivate in the techniques, the harder it is to convert. Master wants me to prepare early."
"Forget it, it's useless to talk to you." Speaking of this topic, Du Zhiyan lost her leisure and waved her hand to leave.
… …
Inside the secret chamber, Lu Xin had already filled the space in front of him with pills and spirit crystals. Seeing that everything was ready, he began to enter a state of cultivation.
Thus, ten years passed in the blink of an eye.
One day, Lu Xin finally opened his eyes and exhaled a mouthful of turbid air heavily, "I've finally reached the late Earth Immortal stage."
He looked at the system panel:
[Host: Lu Xin]
[Lifespan: 267 / 259200]
[Body Refinement Realm: Human Immortal Body]
[Qi Refinement Realm: Late Earth Immortal (Zero / 500 million)]
[Technique: Chaos Sword Art Eleventh Layer]
[Convertible Immortal Spiritual Power: Zero (Continuously Increasing)]
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[Passive Skills: Breathing, Stealth, Focus, Heart of the Sword, Heart of Self, Affinity, Poison Devouring Body, Lord of Myriad Treasures, Restriction Breaking Body, Heart of Alertness, Karma Chaos, Convergence of All Paths, Unyielding, etc.]
With the help of pills and active and passive cultivation, it took a total of more than ten years to finally become a late Earth Immortal.
It won't be easy to break through again in a short period of time, so he plans to go and find that body-refining item next, focusing on improving his physical body.
As long as he raises his physical body to the Earth Immortal level, then in this realm, if not invincible, he can at least be invincible.
Of course, he can't be careless either, who knows what methods those people have.
Ending his seclusion, Lu Xin walked out of the secret chamber, first reported to the merchant guild, and then directly left Eastern Pole City, heading towards the treasure location.
