Chapter 298 - 148: The Young Lady Heir Gifts an Earth Treasure, 1 Gulp of the Nirvana Flower, the Cloud Luo Scroll is Completed, Ji Xiu’s Outer Gang Perfection

Chapter 298: Chapter 148: The Young Lady Heir Gifts an Earth Treasure, 1 Gulp of the Nirvana Flower, the Cloud Luo Scroll is Completed, Ji Xiu’s Outer Gang Perfection

’Perfect for quenching the *Cloud Luo Scroll*!’

’So, this Miss Xiao wasn’t just making empty promises?’

Recalling how the Celestial Blade School had ascended Golden Turtle Island in a single night after consuming the Thunderstruck Tribulation Wood, their members shedding their old skins to attain Jade Skin, Ji Xiu felt a fire ignite in his heart. The feeling of such rapid advancement, of his power soaring ever higher, was exhilarating.

The heirs and figureheads from the Daoist School Street couldn’t be considered the true prodigies of Jiangyin Prefecture’s younger generation.

The top youths of Jiangyin Prefecture... were either the True Inheritances of their Schools or had secured a place in the Mansion Courtyard!

Legend had it that every generation produced figures who had broken the Two Limits, or even the Three Limits, to compete with the various mansions for the title of Prefecture Official!

His Gang Skill was still incomplete. Even if he was a demon fiend with a profound foundation, he couldn’t claim to have complete confidence against such figures.

After all, they had practiced Martial Arts for over a decade, making them several, or even more than ten, years older than him. Furthermore, they came from prominent families within the prefecture. How long had he been practicing?

Just catching up was already incredibly difficult.

But if he could master the *Cloud Luo Scroll*, don the Immortal Robe, and truly stand at the peak of the Power Barrier...

Then everything would be different!

And now, his Divine Soul had broken its shackles, allowing him to generate thoughts and use Magic Techniques. He recalled Xiao Mingli mentioning that the Marquis’s Mansion’s Treasure Tower held a collection of Scriptures, and that he could even borrow them for a look...

A fiery passion filled Ji Xiu’s eyes.

’There’s gold everywhere!’

’I’ll study here in the Beicang Marquis’s Mansion, and when I emerge, I’ll be invincible in this prefecture!’

’I’ve already thought of the perfect script!’

...

Outside Shuyu Pavilion, waterfront pavilions encircled the area.

He crossed the White Jade Bridge spanning the Cold Water Spirit Pool, reaching the end of a fine gravel path that resembled Cold Crystal Tempered Jade.

Xiao Mingli, pushing her wheelchair, handed Ji Xiu a small flower that glowed with firelight and a crimson aura, passing it to him under the vast night sky.

Just by sensing the dense Spiritual Essence on the crimson Nirvana Flower, Ji Xiu could feel his Purest Gang begin to boil and burn.

After thanking Xiao Mingli, he immediately wanted to return, consume, and refine it. He hoped to quickly master the *Cloud Luo Scroll*, bring his Gang Skill to Perfection, and then borrow the Scriptures from the Beicang Marquis’s Mansion.

But just as he turned to leave, he heard Xiao Mingli speak.

"Young Master Ji, because of my injuries these past few years, this Cold Jade Spirit Pool has been nurtured with a great number of Spirit Fish and has become a Blessed Land. If you refine this Earth Treasure here, it will be of great benefit to your Skin Refining Attainment."

"This... won’t it disturb the Young Lady Heir’s rest?"

Hearing Xiao Mingli’s words, Ji Xiu hesitated.

Xiao Mingli shook her head gently.

"Ever since I achieved Martial Arts Foundation Establishment at ten years old, I have rarely rested through more than a decade of springs, autumns, winters, and summers."

"It has always been polishing my physical body by day and quenching my Divine Soul by night. I’ve maintained this for over ten years."

"Although I no longer keep to that routine, the habit has become ingrained. Even without you here, I would be reading Scriptures or quenching my Divine Soul."

"It’s no trouble."

Hearing her casually downplay her years of arduous Cultivation, Ji Xiu couldn’t help but feel a deep sense of respect.

"Miss Xiao."

"Hm?"

Xiao Mingli lightly raised her eyelashes.

"I don’t know about other things, but a person like you..."

"You’re not destined to be buried in this small prefecture for the rest of your life."

The woman in the wheelchair, draped in a gauze skirt, smiled.

"The world is an unpredictable place. Besides, to many people, a single prefecture is already vast and boundless, a place they can never step out of in their entire lives. Young man, you..."

A warmth flowed through Xiao Mingli’s heart.

Over the years, many had written her off for dead. Their attitudes had grown distant. Aside from Xuanyi, the vast majority of those who still respected her did so only because of her status as Miss Beicang.

The fickleness of human nature had taught Xiao Mingli how to distinguish between sincere words and false sentiment.

Thinking of this, her appreciation for the young man before her grew.

’Although he comes from a humble background, who’s to say a poor boy can’t turn his life around?’

’The Nine Great Families may have noble blood, but the figures who reached the Peak of the Human World from the Ten Directions Celestial Pillar were not all from long lines of nobility!’ 𝒻𝑟ℯℯ

Just as these ripples were stirring in Xiao Mingli’s heart...

Having received permission from the master of the Beicang Marquis’s Mansion, Ji Xiu didn’t hesitate. Just as he had when he consumed the Thunderstruck Tribulation Wood, he took the Nirvana Flower, which was as scorching as a Fiery Sun, and...

Swallowed it in one gulp!

Xiao Mingli’s beautiful eyes immediately froze.

"Wai—"

The Nirvana Flower, a Fire-Attribute Earth Treasure, was as fierce as the scorching sun!

Just grinding the petals into powder and consuming it bit by bit was enough to make one’s organs feel like a boiling furnace. No Grandmaster would dare to swallow it whole...

She was about to call for Granny Shi behind her to intervene, to help the reckless boy regulate his body and expel most of the medicinal properties.

However—

The next moment, she saw Ji Xiu sit cross-legged by the Cold Pool. A fiery rune swirled on his forehead, glowing brilliantly!

Immediately, scalding Qi and Blood surged like a tide. It was as if the young man’s shoulders were carrying two blazing suns formed from condensed True Gang, threatening to erupt!

A full quarter-hour later...

...did things finally begin to calm down.

And watching the crimson-tinged True Gang, which seemed to be everywhere, spreading through every single pore of Ji Xiu’s skin—omnipresent and meticulously detailed...

Even the worldly and knowledgeable Xiao Mingli was struck speechless.

A whole Nirvana Flower,

refined just like that!?

[The Tutor consumed the Fire-Attribute Earth Treasure ’Nirvana Flower’. Aided by the ’Cold Jade Spirit Pool’ Blessed Land, his Gang Armor has come to resemble Cloud Luo. Progress on the ’Feathered Immortal Robe’ Cloud Luo Scroll has greatly increased!]

[Cloud Luo Scroll: (1000/1000)!]

[Advance available for Martial Arts/Skill Dao: 1!]