Proud Goddess Falls in Love with Me-Chapter 495 - 461 - Thief’s Gourd_2

Based on the experience from the last time he devoured the Sun’s True Fire, his cultivation level had instantly increased by three grades. Although his level had now reached the Nascent Soul Realm, and the effect of absorbing Divine Fire on his cultivation level might not be as significant as before, the difference shouldn’t be too great. By that time, if he found some Heaven and Earth Treasures that could enhance his strength and devoured them as well, he should still be able to raise his level by three grades in one go. freewebnσvel.cѳm

With that, his strength would directly reach the Grade 7 Nascent Soul Realm.

Grade 7 Nascent Soul, combined with the two Origin Divine Fires, the third stage of the Primal Chaos Indestructible Body, and the Divine Artifact Demon Suppression Pagoda, Lu Chuan felt that he should have enough confidence to head to the Kunlun Domain and demand an explanation from the Lu family.

He had originally thought that he would need at least a year to enhance his strength to a level that would make the Lu family take him seriously; however, he didn’t expect that in just a few short months, he had already seen hope of contending with the Lu family, far exceeding his expectations.

"Speaking of which, Xiu Niang once said that after I helped her to reconstruct her physical body, she would tell me about an Ancient Ruin. In the end, I was so preoccupied with concern for my sister-in-law’s condition that I forgot about it. If I could visit that Ancient Ruin before heading to the Kunlun Domain, my strength would surely increase even more. It’s really a pity."

He didn’t think that Xiu Niang deliberately withheld the information. After all, she had included this matter in her Heavenly Oath, and she must have forgotten about it in the excitement of finally regaining her physical body.

Without dwelling on it, although confronting the Lu family to demand an explanation seemed imminent, the most important thing at the moment was still to find the Extreme Yin Water and devour the Nine Heavens Profound Fire.

After all, this was also Taoist Priest Danyang’s karmic debt. If he failed to successfully devour the Nine Heavens Profound Fire within a month, he would ultimately suffer from karmic backlash, and then he could forget about going to the Kunlun Domain to seek justice from the Lu family.

Lu Chuan focused his gaze on the purple gourd in his hand, which also counted as an extra spoils of victory from his trip to Worries Forgetting Valley. The fact that Taoist Priest Danyang used this thing to make his consciousness instantly become chaotic and unable to resist was somewhat terrifying. So, he needed to properly research the origins of this gourd.

He tried dripping a drop of blood onto the gourd, and soon, he recognized it as his own and gained some information about the gourd.

It turned out that this purple gourd was called the Thief’s Gourd, and it was a magical treasure specifically for theft. This so-called theft wasn’t traditional theft. According to the information Lu Chuan received, besides stealing all tangible items, the gourd could also steal things like Spiritual Power, mental power, or even ideas and consciousness from one’s mind.

Furthermore, the gourd’s thievery was random, and it could not specify what it wanted to steal: it would simply lock onto a specific target, and what it would ultimately steal from the target was entirely dependent on its own whims.

Upon learning this, an expression of sudden realization appeared on Lu Chuan’s face.

"So the theft is random and completely uncontrollable. No wonder Taoist Priest Danyang had a surprised look on his face after using this gourd on me; it turned out that in one go, he had stolen thirty seconds of my consciousness with this gourd, making me lose the ability to resist, hence the surprise."

With this understanding, Lu Chuan also realized why this gourd, though far inferior to the Demon Suppression Pagoda, could exert such terrifying effects.

It was all a matter of luck.

It was his own bad luck that allowed Taoist Priest Danyang to steal his consciousness in one fell swoop, which made him perceive the gourd as terrifying.

Under the circumstances where he couldn’t control the gourd to steal specific items, it truly couldn’t compare to the Demon Suppression Pagoda, a Divine Artifact. After all, random theft, if luck was good, might occasionally help, but with bad luck, it could only be considered a useless endeavor that might even lead to some jokes, like stealing someone’s underwear in the midst of a fight, which would be quite embarrassing.

Lu Chuan looked at the Thief’s Gourd in his hand and felt that although it didn’t meet his expectations, it still counted as a treasure with unique features. In certain situations, as long as luck was on his side, it could even have the potential to turn the tides.

Of course, using the Thief’s Gourd also came at a cost. Each use, regardless of what was stolen, even if it was just a strand of the target’s hair, required the gourd to be fed with blood afterward. If not, it would backlash against the user, randomly stealing an organ from the user’s body.

As Lu Chuan read the conditions for using the Thief’s Gourd, he couldn’t help but complain internally. When stealing from others, it was only random, but when backlashing against the user, it was accurate enough to target organs. If it could precisely target organs when stealing from others, then it would definitely be considered an overpowered treasure.

Just imagine, in the midst of a fight, if your Dantian was suddenly stolen, who could bear that!

It was a pity that the gourd couldn’t do this; it was truly regrettable.

"Tower Spirit, have you ever heard of the Thief’s Gourd?" Lu Chuan thought, considering the Tower Spirit’s extensive knowledge, he was curious to see if it knew about this item.

The Tower Spirit said, ""It’s that gourd you put in the storage space, right? I have indeed heard some rumors about it. Supposedly, it was formed from the bones left behind by a Transcendence Tribulation Stage expert who loved stealing but failed the tribulation, dying and vanishing."

"Its sole function is to steal, to steal anything you can think of. It’s said that each act of theft is random and can’t be specified, but while that expert was alive, he loved to steal the personal garments of fairies the most. Therefore, if you task it with stealing female garments, it might actually steal the specified items."

Upon hearing this, Lu Chuan’s eyes widened in shock. He hadn’t expected the gourd to be so lewd, able to specify only when stealing female garments—utterly unimaginable.

"It’s probably just a rumor. After all, how can a gourd be so lewd?" Lu Chuan muttered to himself.

At that moment, Lu Qingshuang came out after her bath, wearing only a bathrobe, her wet hair loosely hanging down. Compared with the previous heroic image, she now exuded more of a womanly charm, with a touch more tenderness in her expression.

She sat down at the table, intending to finish the remaining two cups of milk tea.

At this time, a bold idea popped into Lu Chuan’s head; he wanted to test if the Thief’s Gourd was as lewd as the Tower Spirit had described.

So he aimed the Thief’s Gourd at Lu Qingshuang and channeled a burst of power into it, intentionally instructing it to steal Lu Qingshuang’s clothes.

A peculiar force emanated from the gourd, enveloping Lu Qingshuang. In the next second, her bathrobe disappeared into thin air, revealing her soft, delicate body in all honesty before Lu Chuan’s eyes.