I Have An Infinite Cultivation Resource
Chapter 79: Combat Power
Lu You returned home as usual, calm and unhurried.
Something seemed to have happened in the courtyard—the large tree that had been used for forging swords had been chopped into a scattered mess.
"What kind of temper did Lu Xiao'e just lose…?"
Confused, Lu You searched around the courtyard and the house, but found that Lu Xiao'e was nowhere to be seen.
Back in his room, he noticed that the prepared jade key hidden in the pillow had already been taken.
"She already got the key, so why is she still this angry?"
A girl's thoughts were truly hard to understand. Lu You quickly shut all the doors and windows tightly, then reinforced them over and over again with Hard Metal Talismans. Even though he didn't know why Lu Xiao'e was angry, he always made sure to avoid getting caught in the crossfire.
After placing several soundproofing talismans and turning his room into an impregnable quiet chamber, Lu You finally sat down cross-legged in peace and took out two transmission tokens from the small cauldron.
"Wu Tong is really stingy. Would it kill him to give me ten talisman options instead of just three?" Lu You sighed.
Now that he had learned all three talismans, Lu You had no intention of providing Wu Tong with further intelligence anytime soon. He had already guessed what Wu Tong's future rewards would be—most likely talisman paper, brushes, and spirit ink. At best, it would just be access to the Frost Talisman and Mount Tai Talisman, nothing more.
Placing the transmission tokens against his forehead, Lu You finalized his choices and obtained the full methods for both the Frost Talisman and the Mount Tai Talisman.
After mentally rehearsing the process, he took out high-grade talisman paper and high-grade spirit ink from the cauldron. With swift, flowing strokes, he completed the Communication Talisman in one go.
The Communication Talisman was used for messaging—one copy for himself and one for another person—so there was no need to expose the special ancient skin material. As soon as it was completed, the talisman split into two.
After placing it into the cauldron, Lu You suddenly felt as if he had unlimited data and endless phone credit.
"Tomorrow, I'll go to the Sword Tomb and give a few of these to Senior Sister. There's no need to rely on others to deliver messages anymore."
After making his plan, Lu You took out the ancient skin and began carefully drawing the Frost Talisman.
He got about two-thirds of the way through when he suddenly staggered. His spiritual energy supply cut off, causing the talisman's structure to collapse and fail.
"My spiritual energy isn't enough to complete a Frost Talisman?"
Each time Lu You advanced, his dantian expanded. Although he was only at the eighth level of Qi Refining, his total spiritual energy actually exceeded that of a typical ninth level cultivator. After all, not every cultivator had access to unlimited spirit stones and pills like he did. Every breakthrough cost him hundreds of thousands of spirit stones—but none of it was wasted. With zero impurities, his spiritual energy became purer, stronger, and more abundant.
"The talisman path really is difficult. If it were an ordinary Qi Refining talisman master, even with the Frost Talisman method, they wouldn't be able to produce one."
With a thought, a pile of spirit stones appeared in the room. Lu You buried himself in it, leaving only his head and arms exposed. Still worried it wouldn't be enough, he stuffed three Qi-Nourishing Pills into his mouth.
He began drawing the Frost Talisman again.
This time, with sheer financial power backing him, the process went smoothly without the slightest obstruction. The pile of spirit stones visibly shrank, and the Qi-Nourishing Pills were fully absorbed.
Using the ancient skin as material made the Frost Talisman far more demanding than usual. Holding the completed talisman in his hand, Lu You didn't even need to activate it to feel its terrifying power—it was like holding a bomb in his arms.
Should I find a place to test it?
The thought had just formed when he immediately dismissed it.
The entire Deep Literary Pavilion was currently searching for "Dongfang Bubai." A Frost Talisman would cause too much commotion—best not to stir up more trouble.
Placing the Frost Talisman into the small cauldron, Lu You rubbed his hands together and turned his attention to the Mount Tai Talisman.
"One Frost Talisman is already this powerful—how strong would a Mount Tai Talisman, capable of suppressing a Golden Core cultivator, become if made with the ancient skin?"
Compared to the Frost Talisman, the process of drawing the Mount Tai Talisman was simpler. For this kind of semi-permanent talisman, the hardest part wasn't the drawing—it was the massive amount of resources required to charge it afterward.
After completing the Mount Tai Talisman, Lu You picked it up and infused it with spiritual energy to examine it. Surprisingly, he didn't notice any obvious enhancement from using the ancient skin. After thinking for a moment, he drew another one using high-grade talisman paper and compared the two.
"This kind of semi-permanent talisman is really fascinating."
The Mount Tai Talisman made with the ancient skin had several times the capacity of the one made with high-grade talisman paper. More importantly, when both talismans were placed on a pile of spirit stones, the one made with high-grade paper required Lu You's spiritual guidance to absorb energy. But the one made with the ancient skin, the moment it touched the stones, devoured the energy like a starving demon.
"That saves me a lot of effort."
Using his will, Lu You pulled out several more piles of spirit stones from the cauldron and let the ancient skin Mount Tai Talisman absorb freely. Then he picked up the high-grade version and tried activating it.
A grainy, dense strand of spiritual energy floated in Lu You's palm. With a thought, he guided it forward, letting it drift onto a cup of water on the table.
In the next instant, the cup became unbearably heavy. The sturdy wooden table creaked and cracked under the weight, fractures instantly spreading across both the tabletop and its legs.
Lu You hadn't infused much energy into the talisman, so the result didn't surprise him. However, the activation and attack speed of the Mount Tai Talisman were far too slow. Even if it could suppress a Golden Core cultivator, it would only matter if it could actually hit one.
"I need to rethink how I use talismans. I can't just throw everything out like lightning talismans. If used properly, this Mount Tai Talisman could become my trump card."
"Evil Eye, use Blood Shadow Technique."
Evil Eye could not only replicate others' techniques but also assist Lu You's own training.
A cloud of blood mist appeared, and in front of Lu You materialized the shadow of Elder Wen.
At the moment when Zhou Lei had ambushed Elder Wen, Lu You had already instructed Evil Eye to record the battle. Even though Elder Wen had been caught off guard and couldn't display the full strength of a Golden Core cultivator, his flying sword alone far surpassed anything at the Foundation Establishment level. He was the strongest opponent Lu You had ever replicated.
"Sword core—rise."
The moment he saw Elder Wen, Lu You launched a sword core at him. At the same time, with a thought, he controlled the cauldron and activated the Mount Tai Talisman.
Instead of attacking Elder Wen directly with it, Lu You attached the Mount Tai Talisman onto the sword core.
The timing was perfect—the slow activation and effect of the Mount Tai Talisman synced just right. Across from him, Elder Wen summoned his flying sword and slashed toward the incoming sword core. At that exact moment, the talisman took effect, and the extremely fast sword core suddenly gained immense weight.
Clang!
The flying sword collided with the sword core. Previously, Elder Wen's sword had shattered nineteen sword cores in succession. But this time, after cutting through the sword core, the force of the Mount Tai Talisman caused the flying sword to recoil slightly, delaying it for a full second before it shot forward and destroyed Lu You's blood shadow.
Lu You opened his eyes.
Although he had still "died" in the simulation, he was extremely excited.
Evil Eye had only replicated the energy of the high-grade Mount Tai Talisman—and it hadn't absorbed much from the spirit stones yet. If he used the ancient skin version, fully charged it, and combined it with sword core attacks, then with just two sword cores—launched as a surprise attack—he might be able to kill Elder Wen outright.
The sword core was the embryonic form of a flying sword. In the entire cultivation world, very few people would ever use a sword core as a thrown weapon—let alone combine it with a Mount Tai Talisman. But with the small cauldron, this became Lu You's unique advantage.
Especially for the Mount Tai Talisman: other cultivators could pour enormous resources into charging just a single talisman. But for Lu You, as long as he fully charged one, he could instantly replicate countless fully charged copies. This kind of overwhelming, resource-heavy fighting style had never been seen in the cultivation world before.
Looking at the Mount Tai Talisman still devouring spirit stones, Lu You simply controlled the cauldron to fill the entire room with spirit stones. Then he buried himself in the pile, stuffed Qi-Nourishing Pills into his mouth, and began circulating the Five Elements Qi-Nourishing Technique.
While Lu You cultivated on one side, the Mount Tai Talisman absorbed energy on the other—neither process interfered with the other at all.
"Since I'm in such a good mood today, I'll push through to the ninth level of Qi Refining in one go."
With endless spirit stones and Qi-Nourishing Pills, surging spiritual energy flooded into Lu You's dantian. Whenever he encountered resistance, he immediately swapped in a Foundation Establishment Pill to break through the obstruction. These two types of pills were highly effective even for Foundation Establishment cultivators—let alone for breaking through Qi Refining bottlenecks.
Soon, Lu You's dantian swelled again with pressure. With the help of the Foundation Establishment Pill, his spiritual energy surged forward like a breaking wave, quickly reaching the peak of the eighth level of Qi Refining.
He didn't take another Foundation Establishment Pill immediately. Instead, he continuously used Healing Talismans while swallowing Qi-Nourishing Pills in large quantities.
If he used another Foundation Establishment Pill right away, he could directly break into the ninth level. But to further expand his dantian, Lu You deliberately lingered at the peak stage, letting his spiritual energy push his dantian to its absolute limit before advancing.
Finally, unable to endure the intense pain any longer—and with his dantian stretched to the extreme—Lu You swallowed a Foundation Establishment Pill without hesitation, smoothly breaking through into the ninth level of Qi Refining.
Healing talismans. Detoxification talismans.
Ever since using detoxification talismans before, Lu You had made it a habit to use hundreds of them after consuming pills, just in case any pill toxins accumulated in his body. Exhaling a breath of turbid air, he immediately felt refreshed and invigorated.
Now at the ninth level, he could cast more talismans and had gained two additional sword cores.
Before he realized it, a full day and night had passed. The Mount Tai Talisman had completely absorbed the piles of spirit stones.
After placing the talisman back into the cauldron, Lu You examined it and discovered something: the Mount Tai Talisman could not absorb spirit stones inside the cauldron. Without his active control, everything inside the cauldron remained in absolute stasis, even a talisman mid-absorption would stop completely once placed inside.
After pondering for a while, Lu You recalled how he had previously found sword cores in Zhou Lei's storage ring.
"If the cauldron won't work… what about a storage ring?"
Taking out the storage ring Elder Wen had given him, Lu You filled all one hundred cubic meters of space with spirit stones, then tossed the Mount Tai Talisman inside.
As expected—Zhou Lei had placed sword cores in spirit stone piles to nurture them for the same reason.
Inside the cauldron, everything was frozen in time. But inside a storage ring, things behaved differently. It functioned like a warehouse, not a stasis space. The moment the Mount Tai Talisman came into contact with the spirit stones, it immediately began absorbing energy on its own.
"For now, I can't keep the Mount Tai Talisman in the cauldron."
Lu You slipped the ring onto his index finger and sensed the talisman's absorption rate. A hundred cubic meters of spirit stones would likely last about a week—though it was also possible the talisman would reach full capacity even sooner.
Knock, knock, knock.
A sound came from the door.
Lu Xiao'e had returned—and the moment she did, she started banging on the door.
Lu You quickly tidied up the room, removed the soundproofing and Hard Metal Talismans, and opened the door.
In the courtyard, Lu Xiao'e stood at the entrance with a stern face, staring at him without saying a word.
After a long silence, she raised her hand and tossed a longsword to Lu You.
"You have such great talent in the sword path—how can you not have a sword? This is a treasured artifact. Hmph, it's even better than your senior sister's. And it's a gift, so you won't have to return it someday."
As she spoke, Lu Xiao'e widened her eyes and snapped fiercely, "I really paid a big price for this one. You'd better take good care of it. If you lose it or give it away, I'll skin you alive!"
Holding the sword, Lu You looked troubled. "It's not suitable for me to use a treasured artifact right now. First, I can't explain where it came from. Second, showing wealth like this will attract trouble."
"Are you taking it or not?!" Lu Xiao'e bristled like an angry cat.
"I'll take it, I'll take it." Lu You quickly stored the sword into his storage ring. That look in Lu Xiao'e's eyes was more dangerous than a fully charged Mount Tai Talisman.
Only after seeing him accept the sword did her expression soften a bit.
"Lu You, I want to eat Guo Bao Rou."
Not daring to hesitate, Lu You immediately rolled up his sleeves. "Perfect. I was craving it today too."
As he spoke, he walked into Lu Xiao'e's kitchen and started heating the oil.
Unlike last time—when Lu Xiao'e had only stood at the kitchen door watching—this time she actually stepped inside and helped him.
It should have been a warm and harmonious scene, but for some reason, Lu You didn't even dare breathe too loudly.
"Has your senior sister ever eaten the Guo Bao Rou you made?"
Just as the oil reached the perfect temperature and Lu You was about to start frying, Lu Xiao'e suddenly asked.
"No." Lu You was already well-trained—his heartbeat and breathing didn't change at all. Even in front of a Nascent Soul expert, he could lie without hesitation.
"Pah, you scumbag." Lu Xiao'e spat lightly, then suddenly burst into laughter. "Lu You, are you lying on purpose because you're afraid I'll get jealous? Relax~ I'm the third party here, the one stealing someone else's man. I'm not even qualified to be jealous."
Before Lu You could respond, she suddenly leaned close to his ear and whispered mysteriously, "But think carefully—your senior sister just eats the food you make. Your junior sister, on the other hand, cooks with you."
Lu You calmly dropped the battered meat into the hot oil, not taking her words seriously at all.
"You really are clearly aware of your own 'scheming,' aren't you?"
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