[TL: Due to lack of demand this series will be discontinued. If you are in desperate need of more chapters please start a peition in the discord and annoy me into uploading more lol.]

Chu Xiaolian and Yan Lao’s battle of wits for now needn’t be mentioned.

On the other side, Li Hanguang was feeling pretty damn good.

[Chu Xiaolian: Third young master of the Chu family of Hong City, already taken Hao Ran Sword Saint Yan Chixiao as his teacher, learned the Nine Revolutions Tempering the Spirit Art, cultivation greatly improved. Faith Value: 251]

[Yan Chixiao: The “Hao Ran Sword Saint” from seven hundred years ago, residing as a remnant soul within the ancient ring on Chu Xiaolian’s hand, quite fond of you. Faith Value: 178]

He took out a sheet of xuan paper and updated the intel on Chu Xiaolian and Yan Lao.

Li Hanguang sat cross-legged inside the wooden hut by the field, his mind moving as he summoned the bronze little seal.

The small green seal floated in the air, emitting a faint halo.

Around the bronze little seal, three light orbs were also floating, continuously revolving around it.

These were the abilities Li Hanguang had copied using the bronze little seal before parting with Chu Xiaolian, and now he was ready to “open the loot.”

Two of the orbs belonged to Chu Xiaolian, and the third belonged to Yan Chixiao.

‘Please, heavens, let it be fire!’

Li Hanguang clenched his fist in secret, then fixed his gaze on the first orb.

[Origin of High-Grade Metal Spiritual Root: Merge with this origin, your constitution will undergo a transformation and you will gain the talent of a high-grade metal spiritual root.]

‘High-grade metal spiritual root?’

The smile on Li Hanguang’s face froze.

Collecting spiritual roots was like collecting cards.

Pulling a duplicate card you already had was completely pointless.

‘Mistake, this is just a mistake!’

Li Hanguang shut his eyes and rubbed his palms like crazy.

After a long while, when his palms had warmed up, Li Hanguang suddenly opened his eyes.

He glared at the second orb!

Explode!

[Origin of Top-Grade Fire Spiritual Root: Merge with this origin, your constitution will undergo a transformation and you will gain the talent of a top-grade fire spiritual root.]

‘It’s fire! It hit, a super massive hit!!!’

Li Hanguang’s body trembled as hot blood surged through him!

Three years!

He had been waiting for this origin of a top-grade fire spiritual root for three whole years!

Heaven knows how he lived through those three years!

Showing off without rest, all to complete the Five Elements set!

Hard work doesn’t betray the dedicated!

Li Hanguang calmed his pounding heart, then slowly extended his trembling hand toward that orb.

He silently chanted: absorb.

At once, the orb representing the origin of a top-grade fire spiritual root slowly merged into Li Hanguang’s body, turning into an incomparably gentle warm current.

As that warm current surged through his entire body, Li Hanguang felt his aptitude transforming.

At this moment, his affinity for fire-attributed spiritual energy increased far beyond before!

If before, he could only mobilize one unit of fire-attributed spiritual energy, then now he could mobilize one thousand units.

If he wanted, he could instantly increase his cultivation speed in the fire aspect by a thousandfold.

Of course, that was only for the fire aspect.

If he wanted to condense Five-Elements mixed primordial energy, he still had to consider his other attribute roots.

‘Right now, my build is high-grade metal spiritual root, top-grade wood spiritual root, top-grade water spiritual root, top-grade fire spiritual root and high-grade earth spiritual root. In other words, next I need to think about strengthening my earth and metal sides.’

Of course, haste makes waste!

This time, gaining a top-grade fire spiritual root had already patched Li Hanguang’s biggest shortcoming.

He had absolute confidence that he could raise his cultivation at the fastest speed and the issues of not enough earth and not enough metal would naturally be solved in the future.

‘First, let’s test my cultivation speed now!’

Li Hanguang sat cross-legged on the bed and began circulating the Five-Elements sword qi he had cultivated for many years.

The Proud Sword Immortal Sect had five sect-defining sword scriptures, respectively: Metal Edge Sword Qi, Green Leaf Sword Qi, Long River Sword Qi, Fire Dance Sword Qi and Suppressing Mountain Sword Qi.

It was said these five peerless sword scriptures were originally one whole, split off from a single supreme sword scripture.

Therefore, these five peerless sword scriptures could all be fused together.

For example, if you had both fire and wood dual spiritual roots and cultivated both Green Leaf Sword Qi and Fire Dance Sword Qi, the sword qi’s power would be far stronger than a single attribute.

Of course, there were also geniuses who had both water and fire dual spiritual roots and cultivated both Long River Sword Qi and Fire Dance Sword Qi.

The result was the sword qi conflicting and turning themselves into a sieve full of holes.

Starting three years ago, with the help of the bronze little seal, Li Hanguang had been cultivating all five sword qis at the same time.

Now, he had long since cultivated all five sword arts to the realm of perfection.

Relying on the bronze little seal, he had even improved these five sword arts many times over.

Even if the creators of the sword arts were reborn, purely in terms of attainment in these five sword arts, they wouldn’t be able to surpass Li Hanguang.

‘Five Elements revolve, mixed primordial is born!’

Li Hanguang formed a sword hand-seal, one hand pointing to the sky, one hand pointing to the earth.

At once, the Five-Elements spiritual energy between heaven and earth surged toward him like a tide.

Vast quantities of spiritual energy poured into Li Hanguang’s meridians, then flowed into his dantian according to the sequence of mutual generation.

Metal generates water, water generates wood, wood generates fire, fire generates earth, earth generates metal!

The Five-Elements spiritual energy constantly revolved and refined.

Soon, strands of incomparably pure, completely new spiritual energy were produced.

The essence of this spiritual energy transcended Five-Elements spiritual energy, seeming to contain mysteries that encompassed all things.

‘Being stuck at the third layer of Qi Refining for so long, it’s time to break through!’

Li Hanguang’s eyes burned bright, all the spiritual energy in his body boiling as his whole being radiated a terrifying aura!

Break!

The Five-Elements spiritual energy turned into overwhelming sword qi, sweeping and raging outward.

In an instant.

The cabinet shattered.

The table and chairs shattered.

The main door shattered.

Even the roof beam shattered.

The entire wooden hut instantly became ruins.

With mixed primordial energy driving them, the five kinds of sword qi were terrifyingly powerful.

Wherever the sword qi reached, all tangible things were instantly torn apart by the five forces and ground into nothingness.

If Chu Xiaolian saw this scene, he would definitely be stunned.

Because the amount of sword qi rampaging here couldn’t compare at all to the amount from his Qi Refining seventh layer.

But if he had to face this sword qi alone, then in just a few breaths, he would likely turn into a rain of blood within this overwhelming sword qi.

The quality of this sword qi was simply too high!

Hoo~

As if piercing through an invisible membrane, he entered a brand-new realm.

Li Hanguang knew he had broken through.

At this moment, he was no longer that weak chicken at the third layer of Qi Refining, but a dignified fourth layer of Qi Refining!

More importantly, with his cultivation speed increased by a hundredfold, he was confident he could return to the Foundation Establishment realm in the shortest time.

On top of that, he had Five-Elements sword qi cultivated to perfection and mixed primordial energy that could boost the power of any technique by tenfold.

Leaping five or six minor realms, even an entire major realm to beat people up, honestly couldn’t be easier!

Today really was leeks’ harvest season!

Li Hanguang felt smug.

Bragging and painting grand pies was ultimately the lower path.

If you really wanted everyone to be convinced, you still had to buckle down and do real work!

If one day, rice spread across the world and billions upon billions of common folk were freed from hunger and cold because of it.

Then would he still worry about not having enough Faith Value to harvest?

Of course, that was for later.

‘Let’s see what that Hao Ran Sword Saint dropped for me!’

Li Hanguang regulated his breath and finished his cultivation, took out the bronze little seal and looked to the final orb.

[Origin of Hao Ran Sword Intent: Merge with this origin, you will condense ninth-rank Hao Ran Sword Intent, gain a ninefold amplification to sword-type techniques and strongly restrain demon and ghost-type lifeforms.]

…Looking at the orb before him, Li Hanguang swallowed.

‘As expected of an old grandpa, this pull… A straight-up critical hit! Leeks really are tastier when they’re old!!!’