Emperor Qiankun

Chapter 322 The Spendthrift Miss

Zhongzhou, northern region, Yunxi City.

Inside the restaurant's private room, the flickering candlelight illuminated Li Qingyuan's seated figure.

He closed his eyes and focused his mind, immersing himself in the Qiankun Palace.

Inside the Gate of Time, within a domain with a flow rate fifteen times faster, Li Qingyuan sat cross-legged, his body enveloped in a misty aura of spiritual energy.

He took out a jade bottle and poured out one after another crimson pills with flowing red patterns. The pills melted in his mouth, turning into powerful medicinal energy that surged through his meridians.

The medicinal power surged like a raging fire to every part of his body, scorching every inch of his flesh.

He frowned slightly, his profound energy surging like a river, constantly eroding the barriers of his cultivation realm.

His cultivation at the early stage of the third level of the Earthly Fiend Realm was as stable as a mountain!

At this moment, he is advancing towards the mid-stage of the third level of the Earthly Fiend Realm.

Old Yellow Ox, Wang Anran, and Yue Qinghuan also went into seclusion to cultivate.

The old ox squatted in the backyard of the restaurant, its muscles bulging like iron, and every breath it took made the ground tremble slightly.

He had a pile of body-tempering pills that he had 'swept' from Beiminghai City in front of him, and he was putting them into his mouth one after another, chewing them with a 'crunch' sound. The medicinal power turned into a scorching torrent, rushing and crashing through his body.

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Wang Anran sat by the window, her fingertips swirling with wisps of spiritual light.

An ancient scroll of talisman diagrams lay open before her. Sometimes she frowned in thought, sometimes she chuckled and wielded her brush. Mysterious runes were born from her brush, only to quietly dissipate into the air.

The most eye-catching one is Yue Qinghuan.

On the third day of her seclusion, a clear and melodious sword cry suddenly rang out from her room!

She successfully entered the realm of sword intent.

In that instant, all the candlelight in the restaurant flickered, as if intimidated by the invisible sword energy.

With the abundance of spiritual herbs and rare resources, coupled with relentless training day and night, her cultivation level successfully broke through, reaching the mid-stage of the second level of the Heavenly Gang Realm.

Now, she wears a fiery red dress, but her eyes are as cold as frost.

With a gentle lift of her hand, a wisp of sword energy silently pierced through the window frame, quietly splitting the leaves of a tree a hundred paces away in two, the cut surface as smooth as a mirror!

Murder can happen without leaving a trace!

Her inner demons seemed to have completely dissipated, which is why she progressed so quickly.

But Li Qingyuan knew that this was only temporary, and that it was merely a breakthrough in a minor realm.

Perhaps this is just the calm before the storm.

Entering the realm of King from the Heavenly Gang is the true tribulation!

At that time, the nightmare that was temporarily suppressed will probably make a comeback in an even more ferocious form!

Of course, there is also the possibility that the knot in one's heart has been completely untied and the inner demons will never reappear.

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Five days passed in the blink of an eye.

At dawn on the sixth day, the four of them ended their seclusion one after another.

Li Qingyuan stepped out of the Qiankun Palace, his eyes gleaming with a restrained light—at the fifteen times the speed of the Time Gate, he had essentially been cultivating for more than two months.

At this moment, the profound energy within his body was as vast as an abyss, and he was only a thin veil away from the mid-stage of the third level of the Earthly Fiend Realm.

However, time was of the essence, and a message arrived like a thunderbolt:

The elder of the Treasure Pavilion is coming with his Purple Gold Hammer!

Yunxi City was in an uproar that day!

The streets were teeming with people, shoulder to shoulder.

Cultivators from all walks of life gathered in Yunxi City!

There are sword cultivators who can fly through the air on their swords, beast tamers who can control demonic beasts, ferocious demons and monsters... and even old monsters who have been in seclusion for many years have broken out of their seclusion!

The inns and restaurants throughout the city were already full, and even the rooftops were crowded with cultivators watching the spectacle.

"I heard someone wants to buy that purple-gold hammer?"

"A million top-grade mystic crystals to buy a piece of scrap metal? That's probably some rich young master who's burning money!"

"..."

Similar discussions were heard constantly in teahouses and taverns.

All eyes were focused on the direction outside Yunxi City, awaiting the arrival of the Purple Gold Hammer!

This "useless weapon," which has been dormant for hundreds of years, is finally going to meet its master today.

What's even more astonishing is that, according to insiders at the Treasure Pavilion, this hammer weighs 108,000 jin (approximately 54,000 kg) or even more, and cannot be moved by anyone but those with superhuman strength!

An elderly man at the Emperor Realm stroked his beard and sneered, "I'd like to see just who this person is..."

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Also at this time.

An elderly man with gray hair and white eyebrows, dressed in a white Taoist robe, and exuding the air of a reclusive sage, led a group of men carrying purple-gold hammers into Yunxi City.

The old man looked at the crowds discussing in the streets and restaurants, his spirits high, and his barely suppressed excitement made the corners of his mouth turn up slightly.

This news was deliberately released by Treasure Pavilion to generate buzz and to silence these busybodies!

"The so-called useless soldiers? It's just that ordinary people don't understand the true meaning."

"When the destined person appears in the world with this hammer, the world will surely know that a true divine weapon will naturally dominate the eight wastelands and suppress all enemies in the world!"

The group slowly walked to Yunxi City Square.

The heavy purple-gold hammer was slowly placed on the black iron platform in the center of the square. With a muffled "boom," the ground trembled violently.

Subsequently, eight Treasure Pavilion stewards dressed in black robes with gold patterns stood in eight directions, their energy linked together to form an array, isolating the onlookers three zhang away.

The gray-haired, white-browed old man leading the Treasure Pavilion looked around, nodded in satisfaction, and then turned and left, heading to a restaurant.

Meanwhile, the plaza was already packed with people, the cultivators craning their necks like cranes, their shouts rising and falling—

"Make way! Let this old man have a look!"

"Is this hammer really worth 108,000 jin? I think the Treasure Pavilion is just bragging!"

"A million top-grade mystic crystals for a lump of iron? Anyone who wants it is a sucker!"

"We don't even know who the buyer is yet. We might not even be able to lift the hammer handle; that would be a laughingstock..."

Laughter erupted from the crowd from time to time. Some people held up the telescope-like magical artifacts to examine them closely, while others shook their heads and argued with their companions about the price.

Some even stood on tiptoe to peer into the distance, trying to catch a glimpse of the buyer, the noise almost lifting the floating barrier above the square.

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Li Qingyuan and a few others were unaware of the commotion within the city.

At this moment, the atmosphere in the private room of the restaurant was as heavy as lead.

Li Qingyuan and his three companions, along with the gray-haired, white-browed elder of the Treasure Pavilion, Tong Mufeng, were staring at each other, their eyes locked in a tense standoff.

Tong Mufeng's gray eyebrows were twisted into a knot, his withered fingers gripped the chair armrests tightly, and his cloudy eyes almost bulged out of their sockets.

"Miss, you're not kidding, are you? A gift?!"

"This is no joke, not child's play. It's a huge sum of millions of top-grade Xuan Crystals..."

At this moment, the veins on his forehead bulged and his face turned bright red!

He was in a good mood because someone was finally going to buy the Purple Gold Hammer.

This matter had been a major concern for him, but now it has finally been resolved.

But he never expected that his young mistress would give it to the other party. This was like a bucket of cold water poured over his head, chilling him to the bone!

He thought to himself, "This spendthrift young lady..."

This plan was obviously out of the question; the elders of the Treasure Pavilion were still waiting for him to return in glory with the Mystic Crystal...

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