I Can See Through All Things Information

Chapter 284: Chapter 209 Refinement of the Earth Spirit Pearl

Watching the middle-aged beauty’s life essence gradually dissipating, Lu Qing’s face remained expressionless.

He had never intended to truly let her go the moment he read the information about the middle-aged beauty.

The reason he didn’t kill her immediately was simply that she still had some utility.

Even the poison he had fed her was real.

The poison was something Lu Qing had found on an assassin from Seven Killings Tower, exceptionally cruel.

Had she not taken the antidote within the time limit, the middle-aged beauty would indeed have died a gruesome death from her intestines rupturing.

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However, considering that she led the way for him, Lu Qing ultimately chose to let her die without suffering.

After a final glance at the corpse of the middle-aged beauty and using his Superpower to confirm her death, Lu Qing left the secret chamber and exited Zheng Mansion.

But before leaving, he did something else.

“Fire, there’s a fire!”

A quarter of an hour later, as Lu Qing stood atop a tall tower, Zheng Mansion was already in chaos.

Multiple streaks of flames shot up into the sky, raging fiercely.

The places where the fire started were exactly where Lu Qing had raided the storerooms and Mrs. Zheng’s courtyard, as well as two other uninhabited small courtyards.

Naturally, Lu Qing did this to create a diversion.

By the time the fire died down, the storerooms and the old lady’s courtyard would probably be in ruins.

How much had been burned and how much had been stolen were things no one would know.

After watching for a while from the tower and seeing that the fire wouldn’t be extinguished anytime soon, Lu Qing left, satisfied.

After all, the most precious items were already in his possession, he wouldn’t care even if the entire Zheng Mansion burnt down.

Moreover, the residences in the west of the city were homes to the wealthy and noble.

Each mansion was separate, with significant distances between them.

The great fire at Zheng Mansion wouldn’t reach any other homes.

Thus he left State Mansion City with great ease.

While leaving State Mansion City, Lu Qing saw a well-dressed elderly scholar and a large group of people returning from outside the city.

However, none of them noticed Lu Qing.

Watching them hasten toward Zheng Mansion, Lu Qing felt somewhat amused.

He wondered what their expressions would be when they discovered the Zheng Family’s treasury destroyed by fire.

With a very pleasant mood, after leaving State Mansion City and entering the forest, Lu Qing immediately activated the Earth Element Talisman and used his movement technique, heading in the direction of Jiuli Village.

After a long journey with frequent stops, Lu Qing returned to Jiuli Village without incident.

However, he did not go home but directly entered the forest and went to the Jade Cave.

Everything in the Jade Cave was as before; Lu Qing sat on the Jade Bed in the secret room and took out the Earth Spirit Pearl from the Qiankun Qi Bag.

The reason he hadn’t gone home was precisely for this Earth Element Treasure Bead.

Even in the Cultivation Era, the Earth Spirit Pearl would have been regarded as a treasure, its value by no means inferior to those powerful high-tier Spiritual Artifacts.

Because such a treasure, birthed from the Earth Element Origin and imbued with the purest Earth Element Power, had all sorts of incredible uses.

Once refined, the Cultivator would gain unimaginable benefits.

“Among them, one was my talent, which had already reached its limit, could, once again, obtain enhancement,” a glint of light appeared in Lu Qing’s eyes.

According to the Li Huo Sect’s inherited records,

the five fundamental Spiritual Pearls each possessed all sorts of wondrous uses.

If one could refine any one of them for personal use, they could harness the power of the Spiritual Pearl to cleanse the physical body and enhance one’s inborn talent.

Lu Qing had previously ingested Earth Vein Spiritual Liquid, and his cultivation talent had been enhanced to a certain limit.

Unless he could find something even more extraordinary than Earth Vein Spiritual Liquid, it was almost impossible for his cultivation talent to be further improved.

Coincidentally, this Earth Spirit Pearl was a cultivation Spiritual Object far more precious and magical than Earth Vein Spiritual Liquid.

“That Mrs. Zheng, her Divine Soul Power is weak, and she lacks heritage. Therefore, she possesses the Treasure Bead but is completely unable to comprehend its mysteries, nor does she know how to refine it. She can only store it in her secret vault as a collected item.”

“But I am different; Li Huo Sect, as a Cultivation Sect proficient in both alchemy and Artifact Refining, holds numerous techniques for refining Spiritual Objects in its legacy, including a few powerful refining methods that I can currently use.”

After his emotions fluctuated for a while, Lu Qing then calmed his spirit, settling all his thoughts.

Sitting cross-legged, he held the Earth Spirit Pearl in both hands in front of him, ready to begin Refinement.

It was also thanks to the Jade Bed, nurtured by the Array’s earth energies for countless years within the Jade Cave, that was extremely sturdy.

It was able to bear the weight of the Earth Spirit Pearl.

Once his thoughts had completely calmed, the Divine Soul Talisman trembled lightly, and from the acupuncture point between his eyebrows, Lu Qing extended a wisp of Divine Soul Power, which entwined towards the Earth Spirit Pearl.

The moment his Divine Soul Power touched the surface of the Earth Spirit Pearl, the first sensation Lu Qing felt was its heaviness, extreme solidity.

When he had previously collected the Earth Spirit Pearl, he had relied on the might of the Qiankun Qi Bag, a Spiritual Artifact, and hadn’t felt much.

But now, as he directly contacted and felt the Earth Spirit Pearl with his own Divine Soul Power, he truly experienced the might of this Earth Element Treasure.

His Divine Soul Power, when facing the Earth Spirit Pearl, was like an ant climbing a high mountain, completely unable to shake it even slightly, truly a futile effort.

However, Lu Qing was using his Divine Soul Power not to move the Spiritual Pearl, but to refine it.

With a thought, the legacy methods for refining Spiritual Objects with Divine Soul Power in Lu Qing’s mind from the Li Huo Sect’s inheritance began to flow.

That wisp of Divine Soul Power entwining the Earth Spirit Pearl suddenly became incomparably gentle, like flowing water or mist, softly seeping into the internals of the Earth Spirit Pearl to leave its Divine Soul imprint.

Of course, as the Earth Element Treasure, the inside of the Earth Spirit Pearl wasn’t so easily penetrated.

This was destined to be a test of patience and will, a grind.

Fortunately, Lu Qing was not lacking in either of these qualities.

Time ticked away, and in the Jade Cave, unaware of day or night, whether it was dark or light, the walls of the cave on both sides always emitted a faint white glow.

Lu Qing remained seated cross-legged on the Jade Bed, motionless.

Only his slightly pale face showed that he was not having an easy time.

Time passed, unknown how long, when suddenly, Lu Qing’s expression relaxed, he opened his eyes, and a trace of a smile appeared on his face.

“At last, the Refinement is successful.”

“Although it’s only a preliminary Refinement, at least I can now barely control this Earth Spirit Pearl.”

“Fortunately, now that the Spiritual Energy has not yet revived, and this Earth Spirit Pearl has undergone tens of thousands of years of depletion in Spiritual Energy, its spiritual nature exhausted and might greatly diminished, otherwise, with my current Cultivation, thinking of refining it for my own use would be as fanciful as having ‘Heavenly Opening.ʼ”

“Now, let me feel just how wondrous this legendary Earth Spirit Pearl truly is.”

With a thought from Lu Qing, the painstakingly placed Divine Soul restriction imprint within the Earth Spirit Pearl suddenly activated.

The Earth Spirit Pearl abruptly shrank, transformed into a beam of light, and entered the acupuncture point between his eyebrows.