From He Wudi’s mouth, Jun Changxiao learned about the Land of Eternal Life, but his heart remained completely calm, because he hadn’t yet reached that higher level, so why bother delving deeply into it?

Simply put.

The road must be walked step by step, and must be encountered step by step.

When he reaches the peak in the Upper Layer Universe, what he should understand will naturally become clear.

Right now, he still needed to successfully cultivate these two martial techniques.

After returning to his quarters, Jun Changxiao took out the Nine Dragons Splitting Palm, then retrieved an Insight Talisman from his spatial ring, saying seriously: “Cultivate!”

“Snap!”

He crushed it skillfully.

However, when Jun Changxiao gained the power of insight and began reading the secret manual, he found it still profoundly mysterious, completely lacking that previous feeling where he would immediately understand after just reading the formulas.

“Although I don’t want to discourage the host, there’s something I must say.” The system said: “How long has it been since you upgraded the Insight Talisman?”

“…”

Jun Changxiao fell silent.

The Insight Talisman was still at the Upper Realm version.

Now, he had already left the Upper Realm and started the Great Space Age, so naturally it was outdated.

Moreover.

These two martial techniques came from the Land of Eternal Life.

Without exaggeration, in the entire Upper Layer Universe, there weren’t many powerful cultivators who knew about the Land of Eternal Life, yet Jun Changxiao already possessed martial technique manuals from there—this was being ahead of the curve.

“Fine.”

“I can only rely on the Shop.”

Jun Changxiao pulled open the system shop with extreme familiarity.

Having him comprehend the Nine Dragons Splitting Palm on his own actually wasn’t a problem, after all, having cheated his way up, he himself had an extremely high understanding of martial dao, but as a sect master who also had to busy himself with development, if there was a shortcut, naturally he should take it.

The system said: “I love the host’s attitude of ‘I cheat, and I’m proud of it.'”

It was very happy.

Because Jun Changxiao hadn’t opened the system shop in a long time, and recently obtained Xuanyuan Realm, so he completely lacked no martial dao resources.

If this self-reliance continued, there would definitely be an unemployment crisis in the future.

Actually, it wasn’t that Jun Changxiao didn’t want to use the shop, but rather after upgrading to the Upper Realm version, even becoming a VIP user had refresh limit restrictions, making him feel too constrained.

That’s right.

The shop had heaven-defying items that could strengthen the sect.

But as a sect master, how could he squat at home every day waiting for cooldowns to refresh?

With that time, going out to fight… resell, earning more resources, couldn’t he also develop the sect? Wasn’t that equally satisfying?

…

The Eternal Sect was settled in Eternal Realm, the disciples continued doing missions as always, so contribution points increased daily, gradually becoming substantial.

Jun Changxiao unhesitatingly opened the annual subscription service again, after all, it gave more refresh chances.

“Ding! Ding!”

Frequent refresh sounds rang in his ears.

From this, it could be seen that nothing good came out, because if there were good items, this guy would definitely squat in his chair covering his face with a strange laugh.

It had to be said.

Now he mainly went for a serious style.

Even the term ‘Gou Sheng’ hadn’t appeared anymore.

“Hm?”

After refreshing more than ten times, Jun Changxiao stopped, his gaze locking onto one grid, saying: “Heavenly Might Secret Realm?”

He clicked on the details.

Item: Heavenly Might Secret Realm.

Introduction: A Super-grade secret realm existing within the Upper Layer Universe system.

Function: The Heavenly Might Secret Realm was transformed from the Heavenly Might Battlefield, which experienced a hundred thousand years of brutal warfare, with countless powerful cultivators perishing there and becoming souls guarding the place. Defeating them can yield various martial dao resources.

Advantages: Contains supreme treasures, equipment, martial techniques, and pill formulas.

Disadvantages: Only disciples can enter.

Price: 10,000 reputation points.

Grade: Super.

“Super-grade?”

Jun Changxiao stroked his chin, saying: “Higher than the Life and Death Secret Realm.”

The system said: “The introduction doesn’t mention experience points, so it should be a place focused on grinding equipment.”

“Don’t have that much reputation, otherwise I would have bought it already.”

During this period, the disciples doing missions accumulated quite a lot of contribution points for Jun Changxiao, but the system had long since collapsed, so aside from recharging annual subscriptions to get refresh chances, it was essentially just numbers. Thus, buying good items still depended on reputation points.

Unfortunately.

The reputation points accumulated during this time were only 5,000.

“Save it.”

The system said: “Buy it when you have enough.”

“Won’t that create a bottleneck?”

Jun Changxiao still wanted to refresh for Insight Talismans.

The system then said: “The refresh probability for secret realms isn’t high, moreover it’s Super-grade. I suggest the host save it to avoid regrets.”

“Fine.”

Jun Changxiao returned to the shop page, continuing to look at subsequent items.

“Hm?”

At this moment, he discovered another commodity, named—Independent Battleground.

He clicked on the introduction.

That’s right!

It was the former Xuanyuan Realm.

“Good heavens.” Jun Changxiao said: “The shop really steals everything.”

He glanced at it and exclaimed in shock: “A hundred thousand reputation points?”

Coming to the Upper Realm, Jun Changxiao had also bought reputation-type items, most around several thousand, with the just-appeared Heavenly Might Secret Realm being the most expensive. He didn’t expect Xuanyuan Realm’s price to be ten times higher.

What did this represent?

That’s right!

He inherited it without spending a single penny, absolutely profitable!

“Shan.”

Jun Changxiao said: “You saved this lord a huge sum of money.”

When the Independent Battleground appeared in the shop, it truly demonstrated the importance of lucky charm Ren Shan.

The items below had nothing good, so Jun Changxiao closed the shop and headed to the Space-Time Secret Realm with the Nine Dragons Splitting Palm.

Since he couldn’t refresh anymore, he could only rely on himself.

“Step!”

After entering the Space-Time Secret Realm, Jun Changxiao turned his back to the camera, saying: “If I don’t comprehend this martial technique, I won’t step out of the back mountain even half a step!”

The system said: “We can end the series early with celebrations!”

…

Time flew by, days and months passed quickly.

“Senior Brother.”

Su Xiaomo asked: “The Sect Master still hasn’t come out?”

“No.”

Li Qingyang shook his head.

“He’s been going in and out for two months now, what is the Sect Master comprehending?” Su Xiaomo was very puzzled.

Li Qingyang said: “Should be a profound martial technique.”

“Ah.”

Xiao Zuiji walked out from the back mountain, holding a pile of hair in his hands, saying: “The Sect Master went bald again.”

Li Qingyang and Su Xiaomo weren’t surprised.

In their view, as long as the Sect Master was absolutely focused on doing something, just like wildfire that can’t be completely burned out sprouts again with the spring breeze, his hair would definitely fall out.

He Wudi, standing in the distance listening to their conversation, thought: “Although these two martial techniques aren’t the most top-tier, wanting to initially cultivate them successfully requires at least several hundred years. The Sect Master he…”

“Hahaha!”

“Hahahaha!”

Suddenly, loud laughter came from the back mountain.

“He’s out!”

Li Qingyang, Xiao Zuiji and the others hurriedly ran over.

Just entering the back mountain, they saw the Sect Master standing outside the Space-Time Secret Realm, hands on his hips, laughing toward the sky. Due to the sunlight, his head was illuminated extremely brightly.

“Could it be…”

He Wudi, who had rushed over upon hearing the news, exclaimed in shock: “He comprehended it?”

“Swish!”

Just at this moment, Jun Changxiao spread his legs apart, placed his hands in front of his chest, and began rapidly forming hand seals. The surrounding heaven and earth attributes were immediately mobilized, forming an extremely spectacular scene.

“This is…”

Li Qingyang, Xiao Zuiji and the others had their hair blown wildly by the strong wind, their eyes flashing with shock, saying: “Junior Brother He’s martial technique!”

“Mount Lu Rising Dragon Strike!”

“Roar!”

“Roar!”

As Jun Changxiao shouted out the technique name, the gathered heaven and earth attributes instantly transformed into nine dragon beasts, rushing toward the nine mountain peaks in the distance in a crisscrossing pattern.

“Boom boom boom!”

“Boom boom boom boom!”

Rocks shattered, heaven and earth lost color!

He Wudi roared: “What the hell is Mount Lu Rising Dragon Strike!”

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