Rural Romantic Life

Chapter 358 Brother Cui's Desire

Although Lu Yang concealed himself in time, and almost no one present saw the strange phenomenon around Chu Yuyao, one person's gaze happened to fall on her position for a brief moment, and the other person keenly noticed a clue.

This person was none other than Brother Cui, who had a strong interest in Chu Yuyao.

Brother Cui is a direct descendant of the Cui family, one of the most powerful clans in the capital. He possesses extraordinary talent in martial arts and also has a powerful hidden bloodline, which is the Nine-Headed Bird bloodline, a distant relative of the Nihuang bloodline.

Brother Cui came to the Phoenix Secret Realm claiming that he had found the Phoenix Spirit Herb, which would allow him to truly elevate his immortal martial arts strength to the Innate Realm.

However, his main purpose this time was to use the Phoenix Spirit Grass to awaken the nine-headed bird bloodline hidden within his body.

The reason he sensed the fiery red aura emanating from Chu Yuyao for a fleeting moment was naturally due to the nine-headed bird bloodline hidden within his body.

When Brother Cui felt Lu Yang's gaze sweep across the entire room, he immediately averted his eyes, but deep within his heart, a storm of emotions surged: "Hmm? The fiery red aura emanating from Chu Yuyao just now actually caused a slight tremor in the nine-headed bird bloodline hidden within me?"

"Could it be that this woman, like me, possesses a hidden, extremely powerful bloodline, perhaps even one related to my nine-headed bird bloodline?"

If Chu Yuyao truly possesses a powerful and hidden bloodline, he vowed to get his hands on her. By cultivating with her, he could find out exactly what kind of powerful bloodline she had. Similarly, any bloodline connected to him could be devoured after he awakened his Nine-Headed Bird bloodline, allowing his own Nine-Headed Bird bloodline to become even stronger.

The Nine-Headed Bird bloodline can devour nine other powerful bloodlines related to birds. If it is successfully devoured, its Nine-Headed Bird bloodline will be comparable to the ancient divine phoenix, or even the most ancient and powerful bloodline like the Phoenix.

After concealing the strange phenomena that suddenly occurred around Chu Yuyao, Lu Yang quickly scanned the entire scene and found that apart from Brother Cui, no one else had noticed or sensed anything.

He sensed that the other party seemed to be aware of what was going on with Brother Cui.

Given this, and considering that the other party had harbored improper thoughts towards Chu Yuyao when entering the Phoenix Secret Realm not long ago, Lu Yang secretly decided that if he had the chance, he must kill the other party.

boom!

Just then, another martial arts prodigy broke through to the Martial Arts Grandmaster realm, causing quite a stir among those present.

However, the shock quickly subsided.

Boom boom boom...

Suddenly, several booming sounds of breakthroughs in cultivation levels came from the edge of the mountain peak.

Lu Yang's gaze swept across the distance and he discovered that some of the people, including Xuan Jiaolong, who had followed him to the platform entrance, had actually broken through a minor realm after being bathed in a large amount of spiritual spring rain.

Their expressions were filled with unprecedented excitement and surprise.

Xuan Jiaolong, in particular, had been stuck at the seventh level of the Innate Realm for a long time. This time, he easily broke through to the eighth level of the Acquired Realm using the Spirit Spring Rain, which made him feel extremely excited.

However, he also knew in his heart that if it weren't for Lu Yang, even if he were a martial arts prodigy of the Xuantian Sect, he probably wouldn't have been able to come to this platform on the mountain peak to collect and bathe in more spiritual spring rain at close range, and naturally he wouldn't have been able to break through a small realm so quickly.

This made him feel incredibly fortunate; it seemed that submitting to Lu Yang not long ago was the wisest thing he had ever done in his life.

Everyone else understood this principle as well. If it weren't for Lu Yang, they wouldn't have been able to bathe in so much spiritual spring rain, and naturally, they wouldn't have been able to break through a minor martial arts realm so quickly.

Lu Yang quickly withdrew his gaze and then collected the spiritual spring rain even more frantically than before, engaging in unprecedented cultivation. He pushed the Yin-Yang Harmony Technique within his body to its limit, rapidly refining the collected spiritual spring rain into even purer spiritual energy, which was then stored in his dantian.

Because the martial arts technique Lu Yang cultivated was a true immortal martial arts technique, and the most top-tier immortal martial arts technique at that, coupled with the influence of his own physique and other factors, he had to consume a great deal of spiritual spring water to finally succeed in breaking through to the last major realm.

Now, if he wants to continue his breakthrough, he needs an even larger amount of spiritual spring rain than before. Fortunately, he has a good position. As the spiritual spring continues to gush out for a quarter of an hour, he has collected even more spiritual spring rain.

boom!

Just as this gushing of spiritual spring water ended, a deep rumbling sound finally emanated from his dantian once again.

His martial arts realm broke through once again, reaching the second level of the Innate Realm.

Aside from Lu Yang breaking through twice, there were others who did, but the rest, while making some progress, did not truly break through.

This left the nine martial arts prodigies present somewhat disappointed; out of ten, only one had successfully broken through to the Martial Arts Grandmaster realm.

As the gushing of spiritual spring rain ended, the young master from the capital who had broken through to the Martial Arts Grandmaster realm suddenly stood up and his figure quickly disappeared from the platform.

He knew that even if he continued to wait here for the next gushing of the spiritual spring, and even if he could collect and bathe in more of it, he probably wouldn't be able to advance his martial arts realm by another small level.

Therefore, he lost interest in the spiritual spring rain and instead prepared to take advantage of this great opportunity to go to other places to find more precious martial arts cultivation resources that would be more conducive to his breakthrough in cultivation.

Seeing this, the other nine martial arts prodigies pondered for a moment, and six of them decided to leave the platform and seek opportunities for breakthroughs elsewhere.

Lu Yang's gaze fell upon Long Jingyun and the other young masters and noblemen from the capital who were also leaving. He noticed the sudden flash of murderous intent in Long Jingyun's eyes before he left, and similarly, he also saw a hint of longing in Brother Cui's eyes.

From this yearning look, Lu Yang could easily confirm that this Brother Cui must have truly sensed Chu Yuyao's powerful hidden bloodline; otherwise, he wouldn't have harbored such covetous feelings.

Once Lu Yang confirmed this, the killing intent in his eyes intensified. He decided that he would not let the other party leave the Phoenix Secret Realm alive.

Lu Yang withdrew his gaze and looked at Chu Yuyao and Xin Yi beside him, saying, "The next gushing of the spiritual spring won't be for a while, let's leave too!"