Niu Youde was simple-minded, not very familiar with the intricacies of cultivation, and therefore did not think much of it.

Instead, Sha Luosheng was somewhat silent.

He truly hadn't expected that his newly acknowledged junior brother was hiding so deeply.

Without a sound, he had already achieved the Celestial Human Realm, and even Sha Luosheng hadn't been able to see through it.

This made him regard Gu Yuan more highly.

But Sha Luosheng still didn't think Gu Yuan could defeat Liu Xinjun.

Liu Xinjun had cultivated to the Celestial Human Realm for nearly twenty years, and now he had reached the Great Success Realm within the Celestial Human Realm.

Once he takes another step and breaks through to Great Perfection, he can attempt to begin gathering the Three Treasures, forming them into one, and forging the Golden Core!

Whereas Gu Yuan had at most just recently broken through to the Celestial Human Realm, and was quite some distance from even Small Success in the Celestial Human Realm; the gap in cultivation level was not something that could be easily bridged.

...

"Celestial Human Realm divine techniques? Good! Junior Brother Gu certainly didn't disappoint me!"

Seeing Gu Yuan's Sword Qi instantly shatter the Qi Soldier he had condensed, Liu Xinjun was not angry but pleased, laughing out loud: "In that case, Junior Brother Gu, receive my saber!"

As he was about to strike, Gu Yuan raised his hand to stop him:

"Wait!!"

Liu Xinjun's smile remained unchanged, but his gaze turned sharp: "What? Is Junior Brother Gu perhaps considering going back on his word?"

"Not going back on my word."

Gu Yuan smiled slightly and said, "We are merely sparring; it's really quite meaningless. Why not add a little bet to make it more interesting?"

"A bet?"

Liu Xinjun was somewhat surprised, saying, "Junior Brother Gu means..."

Gu Yuan directly proposed: "You and I spar, each take something as a bet to serve as motivation, the winner takes the other's item."

"Since Junior brother is interested, I naturally have no objections."

Liu Xinjun readily agreed.

He too did not believe he would lose to someone who had just broken through to the Celestial Human Realm in a spar.

He thought for a moment, then took a jade bottle out of his storage pouch, uncorking it to release an intoxicating fragrance that spread across the entire valley.

Anyone who caught a whiff of this fragrance felt completely relaxed, and the flow of True Qi within their bodies accelerated by a few degrees.

"Hmm? This medicinal fragrance is somewhat complex; it seems like the Jade Essence Pill, yet also like the Blood Spirit Pill, and has a taste of the Bone Marrow Supplement Pill…"

An older middle-aged steward, skilled in alchemy techniques, sniffed it with his nose and detected traces of an elixir's aroma, but after smelling for a while, he suddenly paused:

"No, why does this have the aroma of the Sun and Moon Green Jade Pill? This is a top-grade Spirit Pill that only ancestors of the Yin Spirit level are qualified to take, capable of Yang Transformation of the Yin Spirit!"

He seemed extremely surprised, incredulously asking, "Brother Liu, what elixir is this, for its medicinal properties to be so complex?"

In face of the middle-aged steward, Liu Xinjun did not dare to be negligent, offering a fist salute: "To answer Brother's question, this is not a Spirit Pill."

"Not a Spirit Pill?"

Hearing this, the middle-aged steward was stunned, murmuring, "Then what is it?"

"Wait, could it possibly be…"

The middle-aged steward seemed to have suddenly thought of something, his eyes widened considerably.

But the words in his mouth remained unsaid, leading several people with a strong curiosity to wish they could pry open his mouth, lest he deliberately keep them guessing.

In an instant, many people turned their gazes over, somewhat astonished.

Liu Xinjun's True Qi seemed like a thin veil, extracting the contents from the jade bottle, revealing a mass of pure Primordial Qi, suffused with seven dazzling colors.

Yet this mass of Primordial Qi was somewhat bizarre and peculiar, unexpectedly capable of turning and writhing on its own, changing status, sometimes forming auspicious clouds, sometimes transforming into small beasts, sometimes becoming reishi, sometimes becoming the sun and moon...

Yet regardless of its transformations, it could not escape Liu Xinjun's control; only his voice was heard:

"Indeed, this object is a Pill Spirit."

"It is birthed from a sliver of Creation Qi within countless Spirit Elixirs, a half-spirit half-object existence that can absorb Pill Power and medicinal properties to survive and grow, capable of distinguishing between genuine and fake elixirs."

"Some Alchemy Masters will go to great lengths to obtain a Pill Spirit because this spiritual object is innately able to sort medicinal properties and stabilize the furnace fire, offering many benefits to alchemy."

Saying this, Liu Xinjun returned the Pill Spirit to the jade bottle, looking at Gu Yuan with a smile: "Junior Brother Gu, I will use this as the bet for this duel, what does Junior Brother plan to wager?"

Pill Spirit… Gu Yuan deeply regarded the jade bottle in his counterpart's hand, his mind filled with more speculation and anticipation.

Then, he took out the Essence of Wood obtained from True Monarch Withered Wood:

"This object is a piece of Essence of Wood, refined by a giant of the Yin Spirit level, its value is undoubtedly high, certainly more so than your Pill Spirit. What does Brother think?"

Liu Xinjun's gaze condensed, appraising the Essence of Wood in Gu Yuan's hand with several glances, then nodded: "This object is of excellent quality, naturally acceptable!"

Having settled on the wager, the spectators also felt invigorated, their spirits rising, their desire to watch like a burning flame.

"Junior Brother Gu, my 'Seven Kills White Tiger Saber' is quite fierce; be cautious!"

With these words just out, a cloud of smoke appeared behind Liu Xinjun's head, and a ghastly white saber flew out, its light fierce and unrivaled, exuding a potent murderous aura, slicing ferociously at Gu Yuan!

With Gu Yuan's vision, this ghastly white saber was unmistakably a Bone Saber, probably forged from the vertebral bones of some demon combined with other Spirit Iron and Exotic Gold as sacrifices to become a treasure.

It was a saber of slaughter, possessing a grade of a top-grade Magical Artifact, and most likely harboring forty to fifty Restrictions.

Magical Artifacts forged from bones, Gu Yuan had seen before, such as when the Old Monster Xuan You practiced human refining of swords, the White Bone Yin Sha Sword that he sacrificed, which was refined using Qian Yunfeng, who had the Three Evil Child Fate, as the material.

Although back then Old Monster Xuan You boasted that he could eventually refine a top-grade Magical Artifact, after obtaining the Luo Sha Scripture, Gu Yuan realized that, at that time, Old Monster Xuan You was merely talking big.

Top-grade Magical Artifacts are rare and hard to come by for ordinary Loose Cultivators; even after planning for years, Old Monster Xuan You could never possibly succeed in refining one.

Together with numerous evil spirits, he might at most refine a middle-grade Magical Artifact.

And that White Bone Yin Sha Sword compared to this saber in front of him was almost like dirt and jade; there was simply no comparison!

Clang!

As various thoughts flitted through his mind, the Silver Flood Dragon Sword had already transformed into a brilliant and dazzling Sword Light flying out from above his head, the murderous aura bone-chilling, not inferior at all to Liu Xinjun's saber light!

"Then I must take the liberty,"

Gu Yuan chuckled lightly, the Sword Light meeting the chopping saber light.

Clang!

Sword Light and saber light collided and clashed, one silver-white and dazzling, the other ghastly white and bone-chilling.

The saber light was fierce and overbearing, savage and cruel, like a white ferocious tiger roaring at the sky, its killing aura shaking the heavens and earth.

The Sword Light, sharp and peerless, captivating and soul-stirring, transformed into a vicious silver-white Flood Dragon, seemingly capable of flipping rivers and seas, emitting a skyward dragon roar!

Saber light and Sword Qi clashed with one another, ringing out like iron being beaten, deafening, the sound carried far and wide, causing the cliffs surrounding the valley to begin shedding loose stones.

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