Chapter 23: Enhancing Strength Three Updates Seeking Collection

  When Lu Shao Yu returned to the courtyard, Luo Lan also returned to the courtyard. Seeing Lu Shao Yu's gloomy face, she couldn't help but nag a few words.

  Lu Shao's words struck a chord in his heart, and he couldn't help but feel a surge of happiness. In the darkness, he made a silent vow to himself: he must work harder to increase his strength, and only when he had enough power would he be able to free his mother from the clutches of the Lu family.

  After nightfall, Lu Shaoyou returned to the secret room once again, and naturally, he couldn't avoid getting beaten up once more.

  As time slowly passed, Lu Shao arrived in the secret room at night to spar with Nan Shu, while also sensing the five-elemental attributes on his body.

  On the third day, Lu Shao took another Top-grade Pill and broke through to the fifth rank of Martial Artist again. He still had two more Top-grade Pills left and continued to exchange them for six portions of medicinal materials at Tianbao Gate.

  Every morning, Lu Shaoyou returns to his room to take a bath with the Washing Marrow Dan. Under its effects, he strengthens the muscles and internal organs of his previous body. After noon, Lu Shaoyou goes to the back mountain to refine the Top Grade Dan. Having failed once before, Lu Shaoyou is no longer daring to be careless in the slightest.

  It was fine afterwards. After refining the Guan Ding Dan, Lu Shao Yu never made another mistake again. The time it took to refine it became faster and faster, and the quality seemed to be getting better and better as well.

  On the fifteenth day, Lu Shaoyou's bath water in the morning had no impurities, and after the medicinal properties were fully absorbed, the water was clear and transparent.

  At this time, Lu Shaoyou could also feel that his body was undergoing a transformation, from the inside out. His body had now become brand new and close to perfection.

  In these fifteen days, Lu Shao had also refined nearly thirty pellets of the Crown Top Elixir. On the ninth day, after taking another pellet of the Crown Top Elixir, he reached the sixth level of Martial Disciple. Originally, one pellet of the Crown Top Elixir could enhance two levels of True Qi, but later on, it could only enhance one level of True Qi.

  In these fifteen days, Lu Shaoyou also sold twenty-seven top-grade elixirs to the Tianbao Sect. News of the top-grade elixir gradually spread throughout Qingyun Town. Although this top-grade elixir was only a first-rate medicinal pill, ordinary cultivators generally did not know the detailed recipe for it. Due to its significant effect on martial artists, some families in Qingyun Town with considerable wealth rushed to buy it for their young and talented descendants to consume.

  Because Lu Shao Yu only sent a few pills to Tian Bao Men after three or four days, the price of these pills outside had risen to sixty gold coins each and were still in short supply.

  During this time, Lu Shao also had to go find small animals for the little snake to eat every day. The little snake was not big in size, but its appetite was considerable. After eating, it would sleep, as if it could never get enough sleep.

  Night fell again, and Lu Shaoyou once more took advantage of the darkness to enter the secret room in the thatched cottage.

  Lu Shao Yu had just stepped into the secret room, a strange smile appeared on his face, but in his hand was a fake person that he threw in first.

  Bang! A light sound was heard, and the fake person was quickly hit by a fist print and flew to the stone wall of the secret room, smashing into powder.

  "Old man, I knew you'd launch a sneak attack. Look at my Mountain Splitting Palm!" Lu Shaoyou chuckled and shouted, having long been prepared for this moment. His hands formed a seal, and a faint yellow palm print burst forth with a loud crash. The palm print was surrounded by circles of aura.

  "Kid, you're still too tender." Nan Shu's voice said, at the same time, a figure appeared in the secret room, and immediately another fist print was swung out, a surge of energy caused a ripple, and then fiercely collided with Lu Shaoyou's palm print.

  Bang! After a loud crash, Lu Shaoyou stumbled backward several steps before regaining his balance.

  "Huh." A hint of surprise appeared in Old Steward Nan's eyes, and he threw a punch with all his might. Naturally, he knew Lu Shaoyou's strength, which was at the sixth level of martial arts. However, Lu Shaoyou was able to withstand his punch, which was indeed astonishing.

  "Old man, I'm not afraid of your fists. I don't believe I won't be able to hit you once today." Lu Shaoyou took a light drink and launched an attack on his own initiative, no longer like the first few days when he was completely at the mercy of being beaten, occasionally playing a little dirty, making Old Nan, the old servant, sometimes busy and flustered.

  After half a month, Lu Shaoyou had already taken this training as a kind of fun. As long as he could hit Nan Shu once, it was already a success. As for getting beaten himself, Lu Shaoyou had also gradually gotten used to it. Anyway, with the Washing Marrow Dan to soak in every day, his body had become more and more numb to pain.

  Before, being punched by Uncle Nan was a heart-wrenching pain, but now being punched only hurts slightly.

  "Opening Mountain Palm." Seizing the opportunity, Lu Shao-yu bent his waist and sank his energy, immediately a palm print burst out with a loud bang.

  "Kid, you're still no match for me." Old servant Nan Shu smiled slightly and threw out a punch.

  "Green Spirit Armor, Defend." Lu Shaoyou let out a sly smile, and his entire body was instantly covered in thick, dark yellow scale armor. On top of the armor, there was a faint layer of light.

  "Bang!" Nan Shu's fist landed directly on Lu Shaoyou's shoulder, and Lu Shaoyou felt a sharp pain in his shoulder, but he gritted his teeth and endured it, slapping his palm heavily on Nan Shu's waist.

  "Bang!" This palm, Lu Shaoyou felt like it was split on the stone, his hand numb with shock, a huge counterforce poured into his body, and he stumbled and fell to the ground.

  "Little kid, you've learned to catch people off guard, but also remember to check if it's effective first." Old servant Nan Shu said with a smile, his eyes revealing a hint of praise. In the past half month, Lu Shaoyou's progress was most clear to him; in this half month, Lu Shaoyou's combat skills and physical body had undergone earth-shaking changes.

  "Hmph, you're just making excuses. If you used a warrior's defensive strength, I wouldn't believe it was useless." Lu Shaoyou quickly got up from the ground, rubbing his sore butt.

  "Still talking about fairness? In a battle, many unexpected things can happen, and everything depends on you to resolve. Nan Shu's face was expressionless for a moment, if he had only used the first level of martial arts defense just now, then he would have really been hit."

  "You can say whatever you want, come on." Lu Shaoyou said with a hint of grievance. Being inferior in strength was indeed frustrating. Without another word, he figured that since he was looking for a fight anyway, what did he have to be afraid of? He swung his palm again.

  "It's good that you're here." Nan Shu smiled slightly and immediately went to greet him. By the time they took a break halfway through their training, Lu Shaoyou was already covered in bruises again. However, all of this no longer had much of an impact on Lu Shaoyou. At this point, with his body and the defensive martial skill Qingling armor, although he was battered and bruised, it was only superficial injuries.

  During the break, Lu Shao Yu took a deep breath and in that moment, five elemental glows surrounded his body. The five glows were of different colors, with the light yellow one being the brightest. As Nan Shu had said, Lu Shao Yu knew that his strongest attribute was still earth, followed closely by the other four attributes which were almost evenly matched.

  After resting, Lu Shaoyou continued to be coaxed by Nan Shu into having another meal. It wasn't until the fifth watch that he returned to the courtyard under Nan Shu's satisfied gaze to take a bath.

  At noon, Lu Shaoyou once again arrived at the back mountain to refine the elixir. On the seventeenth day, Lu Shaoyou, who originally needed to rest once before he could successfully refine the Crown Top Elixir, was able to succeed in one go.

  Now, in just one afternoon, Lu Shaoyou was already able to refine three pellets of the Crown Top Elixir, which made him extremely delighted.