Translator: CinderTL
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Li Chunjun approached the fallen cultivators and began searching their bodies, quickly gathering useful items.
Pills, talismans, Magical Artifacts, and spirit stones.
In addition, there were mundane items like money.
The pills were primarily for enhancing Mana.
Li Chunjun glanced at them.
He picked up a bottle and swallowed the pills like beans.
As the pills entered his body, they quickly dissolved into a thick surge of energy that spread throughout him.
Li Chunjun controlled the Profound Phoenix Devouring Sun Sword Qi, which rolled up the energy like fuel, causing the Sword Qi to burn even more intensely.
Waves of pain accompanied the residual energy from the pills.
This was the impure energy within the pills.
It could also be called pill toxicity.
To completely refine it would inevitably take time.
Li Chunjun took the opposite approach.
He fully activated the Profound Phoenix Devouring Sun Sword Qi, drawing in Solar Essence Qi, which continuously refined into his body, causing the Sword Qi to burn even more fiercely, forcibly purging the impurities.
This process naturally intensified his pain.
After an hour, he had completely refined an entire bottle of pills that would take ordinary cultivators months to use.
He could feel the improvement in his Profound Phoenix Sword Qi.
At the same time, the number representing his life evolution had also changed.
[Life Level: 15 (4947/5020)]
The progress had increased by 56 points.
But the required threshold for the life level...
had increased by 20 points.
"My foundation has been damaged."
Li Chunjun remained calm.
He took out another bottle of pills and consumed them.
After an hour.
[Life Level: 15 (5000/5043)]
Progress increased by 54, threshold increased by 23.
After deducting the 20-point increase in threshold from the previous bottle, the effective gain was 36 points, this time...
it had directly dropped to 31 points.
Li Chunjun assessed his physical condition... and continued.
He refined the third bottle of pills.
Gained 51 points, threshold increased by 27 points, effective gain of 24 points.
Fourth bottle of pills.
Gained 47 points, threshold increased by 32 points, effective gain of 15 points.
[Life Level: 15 (5099/5102)]
Li Chunjun could already feel the pain in his meridians and the strain on his body.
If he slowed down, refining one bottle of pills every ten days or half a month, the damage would not accumulate so rapidly.
But he had refined four bottles of pills in one go... clearly exceeding his body's limits.
Yet, he still didn't stop.
He consumed and refined the fifth bottle of pills.
Not only that, he also summoned the Scarlet Gold Sword, forced out a mouthful of vital blood, and sprayed it onto the sword, using the vital blood to refine the flying sword.
As the vital blood was expelled, his entire spirit plummeted, leaving him weak and listless.
Refining the pure and purging the impure, using vital blood to refine the sword!
At this moment, he had pushed himself to the absolute limit.
Just as he refined the sword with his vital blood and refined the medicinal power of the pills, a surge of heat, more intense than before, swept through him, wiping away all his injuries and ailments.
An unprecedented sense of comfort, pleasure, and refreshment washed over him.
It was as if someone on the brink of death had suddenly been restored to peak health...
No one could truly understand the exhilaration of such a feeling.
The vast heavens and earth lay open for him to roam freely.
Li Chunjun closed his eyes, quietly savoring the removal of his ailments and the evolution brought by the increase in his life level.
[Life Level: 16 (1/6000)]
He had come back to life.
After a while, Li Chunjun focused his "gaze" on the "Human Emperor Banner."
"It's like a game," he muttered.
Unfortunately... no one answered him.
Nor did anyone come to tell him that this was indeed a game.
A game where even death could be reversed.
Whether NPCs or players.
As long as... the dead could be revived.
But it didn't matter.
Becoming an immortal could achieve the same.
...
Li Chunjun forced himself to shift his attention away from the "Human Emperor Banner" and focus on his current cultivation.
Qi Refining! Spirit Refining! Void Refining! Dao Unification!
It was so long.
This path was truly long.
After all this time, he had only reached the third level of Qi Refining.
If you counted the forced Condensing Gang Qi of the Profound Phoenix Sword Qi, it was only the fourth level of Qi Refining.
It had already been over a month.
At this rate, how long would it take to reach Spirit Refining, Void Refining, and Dao Unification?
Especially...
Li Chunjun looked up toward the horizon.
Not long ago, a sparrow had flown over and was circling above.
This was a spirit bird specifically trained by the Chiyang Sword Sect's outer sect law enforcement team for tracking targets.
With the sparrow here, the law enforcement team members couldn't be far behind.
Li Chunjun glanced in the direction of Yu Feng's corpse.
While he was refining the pills, the law enforcement team captain's phone had been ringing incessantly.
But then again, it had been half a day.
With ten law enforcement team members out of contact for four or five hours, it was only natural that the Chiyang Sword Sect would be anxious and send a second team to investigate.
Because they weren't afraid.
What was there to fear from a mere "Body Refinement Cultivator"?
Just like the high-ranking officials in Guangzhou City, they wouldn't care about the struggles and pleas of ordinary people.
At the pinnacle of the clouds, they couldn't hear the voices of those at the bottom, nor see the exploitation of the lower classes.
Perhaps they saw it, but their lofty status was built upon the exploitation of the lower classes.
So they ignored it, they didn't comply.
How could the beneficiaries of the system revolutionize themselves?
Li Chunjun had already changed.
He was no longer at the bottom of society, and even when facing oppression and injustice, he could use his sword to resist, to express truth through violence!
But...
"I've only changed myself, not your Chiyang Sword Sect."
Li Chunjun spoke calmly: "When someone stands up to resist, when they make you sacrifice, make you bleed, you will be furious, incomparably furious, but as the numbers grow, as it happens more and more, you will gradually begin to feel fear, to feel terror, and thus use your power and violence more cautiously, and eventually... listen to our voices."
Originally... he had planned to leave.
To go to the Taixu Sword Sect.
To see if it was any different from what he imagined.
If it wasn't, it didn't matter.
He only wanted the Taixu Sword Scripture.
But now he felt he shouldn't leave.
At least not now.
He felt the strength born from the removal of his ailments after this recent evolution.
He knew that charging forward recklessly was unwise.
He was already somewhat losing his rationality.
But he still intended to do it.
With his sword, he would face them head-on!
If they dared to hunt him, he would kill every single one of the pursuers.
Even... march on the Chiyang South-Eastern Academy!
Kill all those who ordered the hunt!
And then, continue to kill his way up.
Danger?
Without destruction, there can be no construction.
Only by facing death can one find life.
...
At the South-Eastern Academy of Chiyang.
TL/N: From now on shortening, it to Chiyang Dao Academy.
In the office of Vice-Principal An Yuan, the dean watched the figure on the screen.
The figure was earnestly making assurances.
"Dean An, rest assured, I'm not a useless waste like Yu Feng. Over the years, his incompetence as the captain of the law enforcement team has been evident to all. What he couldn't do doesn't mean I can't. Just watch, with a single call, I've gathered thirty people to surround this criminal, ensuring he has no chance to escape..."
If Yu Feng were still alive, he would have recognized the person speaking to An Yuan as none other than his long-time rival, Deputy Captain Ran Renxiong.
As he gave his guarantee, Ran Renxiong glanced to his side: "Besides, isn't Mr. Mao Ying here to assist?"
(End of the Chapter)
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