Lu Xuan was very curious. At this moment, Young Lu Xuan's life information slowly merged into his Divine Soul.
Lu Xuan carefully understood why this young man was so desperate and risked his life to save the girl named Xia Ziyan:
Lu Xuan's Lu Family, located in Dongchuan County of the Great Xia Kingdom in the Human Realm, was a King Rank Family, and its Family Ancestors had a Cultivation of Martial King Rank three.
The Lu Family had a Mortal enemy, the Qiu Family.
The Qiu Family was also a King Rank Family in Dongchuan County, and their Family Ancestors' Cultivation was also Martial King Rank three.
The two Families' Forces were evenly matched, and neither could do anything to the other for a time.
The Great Xia Kingdom's territory was vast, stretching for hundreds of millions of miles, and Dongchuan County was extremely far from the Imperial City, beyond the emperor's reach.
Therefore, although Dongchuan County was nominally under the Great Xia Kingdom's jurisdiction, in reality, the various Families and Forces in Dongchuan County attacked each other, surviving based on their strength, with no law to speak of.
In the Human Realm, Cultivation Ranks were divided into Mortal Realm and Cultivation Realm.
The Mortal Realm had five Ranks in total:
Skin Refining Realm, Flesh Refining Realm, Bone Refining Realm, Organ Refining Realm, and Marrow Refining Realm.
The Cultivation Realm could reach four Ranks:
Meridian Opening Realm, Core Formation Realm, Qi Gathering Realm, and Communication Realm.
In the Human Realm and Cultivation World, the Communication Realm was a major watershed in Cultivation:
When a Martial Artist's Cultivation reached the Communication Realm, he could communicate with the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi, condense Spiritual Qi hands and Spiritual Qi weapons, greatly increasing his strength, and he could also fly in the air.
Furthermore, by communicating with the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi, he could achieve Bigu, no longer needing to eat.
And when a Martial Artist could fly in the air, achieve Bigu, and no longer need to eat, he would break free from a layer of heavenly constraints, achieving a certain degree of great freedom and great liberation.
In the Human Realm, reaching the Communication Realm in Cultivation was the limit; it was no longer possible to improve further.
To continue improving, one needed to go to the Cultivation World.
The Cultivation World was above the Human Realm, where not only the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi, Cultivation conditions, and resources were countless times better than in the Human Realm, allowing for faster Cultivation improvement, but also, as long as one's Cultivation Talent was high enough, one could Breakthrough the Communication Realm, reaching the Liquid Core Realm, Solid Core Realm, Shattered Core Realm, World Realm, and even the Enlightenment Realm, passing through the Lightning Tribulation, becoming an Immortal, and Ascending to the Immortal Realm.
Being able to go to the Cultivation World to Cultivate was something all Martial Artists in the Human Realm yearned for immensely.
Sometimes, Sects and other Forces in the Cultivation World would also go to the Human Realm to investigate and recruit young men with outstanding Cultivation Talent as Disciples.
In the Human Realm, the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi was thin, so reaching the Meridian Opening Realm by completing the five Mortal Realms and opening the Meridians by the age of twelve was considered a Genius.
Lu Xuan reached the Meridian Opening Realm at the age of ten and was noticed by the Xuantian Sect, who accepted him as a Disciple and brought him to the Cultivation World.
Being accepted as a Disciple by a Sect in the Cultivation World was a great stroke of luck for the Disciples and Families of the Human Realm, allowing them to rise to prominence:
On the Spiritual Martial Continent, strength was revered.
If a Family had a Disciple Cultivating in the Cultivation World, other Families and Forces would be wary of this Disciple potentially becoming a High-level Powerful Figure with profound strength in the future, and would not easily dare to offend this Family.
After Lu Xuan arrived at the Xuantian Sect, he Cultivated very diligently, hoping to quickly improve his Cultivation, reach the Qi Gathering Realm, and even the Communication Realm, to deter the enemy Qiu Family and protect his Family.
Although Lu Xuan Cultivated diligently, unfortunately, while he was called a Genius in the Human Realm, in the Cultivation World, among many Geniuses, his Talent appeared very mediocre.
At sixteen, he still had not Breakthrough to the Core Formation Realm, so he remained a Utility Disciple.
The Xuantian Sect was a Monarch Rank Sect, and the Sect's Grand Elder, Sect Master, and some Elders were all Solid Core Realm Martial Lord Cultivators.
In a Monarch Rank Sect, those in the Meridian Opening Realm could only be Utility Disciples, while those in the Core Formation Realm could be promoted to Outer Sect Disciples.
A Sect Steward once examined Lu Xuan's Meridians and said that the Meridians Lu Xuan had opened were very small and narrow, and even with diligent Cultivation, he would at most be able to Cultivate to the Qi Gathering Realm Martial King Realm in the future, with virtually no possibility of reaching the Communication Realm Martial Emperor Realm.
The Steward's words greatly disappointed Lu Xuan:
If he could only Cultivate to the Qi Gathering Realm Martial King Realm in the future, and it was unknown how many years that would take, then he would not have the ability to deter, or even eliminate, the Qiu Family and protect his Family.
So Lu Xuan thought of another method.
He was kind to others in the Sect, trying his best to build good relationships with some Senior Brothers, especially those with outstanding Cultivation Talent, hoping that if any of these Senior Brothers' Cultivation improved to the Communication Realm, or even higher, they could help him deter the Qiu Family, or even eliminate the Qiu Family and protect his Family.
Xia Ziyan was the daughter of the Great Xia Kingdom's emperor.
Not only was she exceptionally beautiful, but her Cultivation Talent was also extremely high, making her the goddess in the hearts of almost all Utility and Outer Sect male Disciples.
Lu Xuan liked Xia Ziyan very much.
Of course, Lu Xuan's liking was merely his unrequited love, his secret crush.
Xia Ziyan was a high and mighty goddess, a Golden Phoenix, a white swan, and Lu Xuan felt that he was too ordinary to harbor any improper thoughts.
He only hoped to befriend Xia Ziyan.
If he could befriend Xia Ziyan, not to mention Xia Ziyan's own extremely high Cultivation Talent, which meant her Cultivation might Breakthrough to a very high Realm in the future, even her status as a Great Xia Kingdom princess, with her help, the Qiu Family would not easily dare to do anything to the Lu Family.
If he confessed to Xia Ziyan and incurred her dislike, not only could he not expect Xia Ziyan to help protect the Lu Family, but it was even possible that Xia Ziyan would no longer pay him any attention, and he wouldn't even be able to speak with her anymore.
In fact, this was because Lu Xuan was too self-deprecating:
Lu Xuan was very handsome and charming, and he and Xia Ziyan were both Geniuses from the Great Xia Kingdom.
Xia Ziyan was very kind and also had a good impression of Lu Xuan.
However, Xia Ziyan was beautiful and had high Cultivation Talent, so she was often surrounded by many Genius Disciples who either had strong backgrounds or high Cultivation Talent.
Lu Xuan was very ordinary in all aspects, and if Xia Ziyan acted too intimately with Lu Xuan, it would likely attract the jealousy of those Genius Disciples who liked her, which would be very unfavorable to Lu Xuan.
Therefore, Xia Ziyan rarely got too close to Lu Xuan.
And later, when Xia Ziyan Breakthrough to the Core Formation Realm and was promoted to an Outer Sect Disciple, Lu Xuan found it even harder to see her.
Not long ago, Lu Xuan's father sent him a Sound Transmission Talisman, telling him that the Cultivation of their Lu Family's Mortal enemy, the Qiu Family's Old Ancestor, had already Breakthrough to Qi Gathering Realm Martial King Rank four.
The Qiu Family's young Genius, Qiu Biao, had been accepted as a Disciple by the Xuan Yin Sect several years ago, and now he was in the Xuan Yin Sect, his Cultivation had Breakthrough to the Core Formation Realm, and he had been promoted to an Outer Sect Disciple, with a high possibility of his Cultivation Breakthrough to the Communication Realm in the future.
Furthermore, news about Lu Xuan's low Cultivation Talent and that he could at most Breakthrough to the Qi Gathering Realm in the future had also spread to Dongchuan County.
Between Qi Gathering Realm Rank three and Rank four, there was a huge watershed.
When Cultivation reached Qi Gathering Realm Rank four, one's power was several times higher than Rank three, allowing one to easily crush Rank three High-level Powerful Figures.
Coupled with Qiu Biao's boundless future and Lu Xuan's lower Cultivation Talent, the Qiu Family no longer felt any apprehension.
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All these factors and signs indicated that the Qiu Family was very likely to make a move against the Lu Family.
Once they made a move, it would be a battle of annihilation.
