Romance Game: Embrace of the Inhuman-Chapter 384 - 352: Preparing for Battle

Lin Qianxuan already felt something was off.

This Three Palaces Real Zhu Qianqiu was a bit too enthusiastic.

Moreover, the intensity in his eyes made Lin Qianxuan a little uncomfortable.

Lin Qianxuan was quite familiar with human nature, and even the slightest emotions Zhu Qianqiu showed couldn't escape his notice.

However, he didn't dare to ask directly now.

After all, Zhu Qianqiu was a master in the Circulation Realm.

The difference between Innate and Circulation was much greater than from Postnatal to Innate.

The difficulty of crossing realms was not just one or two levels higher.

Lin Qianxuan decided to proceed with caution.

"Since that's the case, let's forget it," Lin Qianxuan said, "Thank you for your kindness, senior."

"It can't be forgotten, otherwise, if others know, wouldn't they say my Three Palaces Sect has lost integrity?" Zhu Qianqiu laughed, "My friend, you should come to Three Palaces Sect as a guest with me."

Although he was smiling, Zhu Qianqiu had already planned to capture Lin Qianxuan.

He had no intention of continuing to parry with Lin Qianxuan.

If such a great treasure medicine escaped right in front of him, how much would he lose?

Lin Qianxuan didn't dare continue beating around the bush with Zhu Qianqiu and only said, "I have a junior disciple cultivating over there, and there's something I need to instruct him on before leaving."

"Why don't you call your junior over as well?" Zhu Qianqiu said.

"The sect has tasks for us to complete, at least one of us needs to stay," Lin Qianxuan said.

"Is that so? How unfortunate!" Zhu Qianqiu said, feigning regret.

He didn't care about Xi Yunyi.

Although being Innate at twenty was rare, how could it compare to Lin Qianxuan, who touched the Circulation Realm at ten, a human-shaped treasure medicine with abundant Innate Fetal Essence?

Lin Qianxuan approached Xi Yunyi, who instantly opened his eyes under the sense of Qi and looked at Lin Qianxuan, "Brother Tan?"

"Junior Brother Xi, I deciphered the inscription on the Divine Stele, and Three Palaces Real Man wants to invite me to the Three Palaces Sect for a reward. Junior Brother, finish the sect's mission and report back to the Mountain Master of Lanxi Sect, I will return to the sect later," Lin Qianxuan said.

Hearing this, Xi Yunyi glanced over at Zhu Qianqiu behind Lin Qianxuan, then looked at Lin Qianxuan again.

He immediately realized something was wrong.

He wasn't from Lanxi Sect, yet Lin Qianxuan called him junior brother, and now he was letting him complete the task and report to the Mountain Master of Lanxi Sect.

This clearly meant for him to seek help from the Lanxi Mountain Master!

Was that old man Three Palaces Real Man Zhu Qianqiu?

He couldn't sense much aura, but this posture seemed even more so like one of his master!

"In that case, Brother, you go ahead. I will handle everything," Xi Yunyi said, waving his hand carelessly.

Even at this point, he still wanted to take advantage calling him junior brother, Brother Tan was indeed.....

"Thank you, Junior Brother," Lin Qianxuan said.

"Don't disturb my comprehension of the Divine Stele, just go do what you need to do!" Xi Yunyi said with an annoyed face.

Having said this, he turned his back and continued meditating.

Although it seemed like he didn't get along with Lin Qianxuan, he was actually contemplating the route to Lanxi Sect.

Yunjin Town was more than one thousand three hundred miles from Lanxi Sect, he thought that by the time he ran to inform the Lanxi Mountain Master, Lin Qianxuan might already be doomed.

For the current situation, there's only one way.

That is to go to Bixiao Ridge to find his unreliable master, the Bixiao Immortal.

After all, he was one of the famed Circulation Realm masters back then.

Even if he couldn't defeat Three Palaces Real Man, at least rescuing a person wouldn't be an issue.

Seeing Xi Yunyi's current demeanor, Lin Qianxuan knew his message was successfully conveyed, and immediately turned to Zhu Qianqiu.

"Senior, I've handled it," Lin Qianxuan said.

"Good, good, let's go then," Zhu Qianqiu said.

With that, red, silver, and yellow tri-color True Essence surged from Zhu Qianqiu's body, forming a True Essence Shield that wrapped around him, before grabbing Lin Qianxuan and shooting up into the sky.

"That old man can fly!"

"It's a Circulation Realm master!!"

"This True Essence color, Three Palaces Real Man?"

....

At this moment, Lin Qianxuan's body was restrained, as if a thin film enveloped him, the True Essence sealed his energy; under that profound pressure, he had almost no ability to resist.

This was the difference between Innate and Circulation.

Inside Lin Qianxuan's collar, You Xi, transformed into a little sparrow, gently pecked at the back of Lin Qianxuan's neck, as if inquiring.

You Xi wasn't weak, a bit stronger than Lin Qianxuan, theoretically comparable to the Circulation Realm.

But facing Zhu Qianqiu now, You Xi seemed hardly likely to win, she only had the confidence to take Lin Qianxuan and escape.

But Lin Qianxuan didn't plan to just run away; he wanted to counterattack.

He had a milestone of battling across realms, now with his cultivation at the Peak of Innate, given enough support, he should be able to touch the Circulation Realm, and with the Heaven-swallowing Sword in the gun case, if he found the right opportunity, he might just be able to kill Three Palaces Real Man.

However, he only had one chance to draw the Heaven-swallowing Sword. If it wasn't lethal, Three Palaces Real Man would be alerted, and then any further attempt to kill him would be a pipe dream.

"I'm very curious, why does a Circulation Realm senior stoop to such methods to capture a young junior like me?" Lin Qianxuan suddenly said.

With his voice carried in near True Essence quality inner Qi, it reached Zhu Qianqiu even in the high-speed flight in the air.

"You mustn't belittle yourself, in my eyes, you're not a youngster," Zhu Qianqiu said, squinting, smiling at Lin Qianxuan, "You destroyed one of my medicine pools, and now using yourself to fill it is repaying karma."

"Medicine pool?"

Lin Qianxuan found it hard to understand.

How long had he been here? He hadn't done anything major, how could he have destroyed a medicine pool of the Three Palaces Sect?

"Wang Mountain Dual Heroes... were precisely one of my medicine gatherers!" Zhu Qianqiu said unabashedly.

"Hmm? Medicine gatherer!" Lin Qianxuan widened his eyes, instantly realizing, and said, "You use people as medicine?"

"The human body naturally contains the essence of Heaven and Earth, and children's essence is even more abundant, so why can't it be used as treasure medicine? It's just that those who claim to be moral weaklings dare not..." Zhu Qianqiu said.

"I see!!" Lin Qianxuan suddenly understood.

He suddenly understood why the other party wanted to capture him.

If humans were used as medicine, the essence within each person's body is limited.

But Lin Qianxuan is different. He started cultivating when he was young, accumulating essence qi, and he also consumed many great medicines to enhance himself. Furthermore, he received the blessing of four Innate root bones under the milestone's blessing.

Even if he never cultivated again, he could live over three hundred years.

In other words, he possesses more longevity substances.

Hence, it's not surprising that Zhu Qianqiu, this cannibalistic monster, would target him.

"How old are you?" Lin Qianxuan asked.

"This old man is five hundred and seventy-nine years old this year." Zhu Qianqiu said with pride.

In general, those in the Circulation Realm are said to have a lifespan of five hundred years, but very few actually live to five hundred.

He's been able to live this long solely by extending his life with Longevity Pills refined from Innate Fetal Essence.

"Unfortunately, it seems you won't make it to five hundred and eighty." Lin Qianxuan said.

"Peng Ran indeed has some strength, but by the time your junior brother brings him over, you'll likely have already turned into an elixir pill." Zhu Qianqiu laughed.

He could, of course, see through the secret communication between Lin Qianxuan and Xi Yunyi.

But as always, he didn't care either way.

The Circulation Realm is already the Peak of this world.

And he is one of the elites within it.

Even if his actions were exposed, at most it would be troublesome, he'd get some rebukes, cause some panic among the Three Palaces' disciples, and his business might suffer slightly.

That's all.

Do you really think someone will wage a crusade against him?

No way!

Neither able nor willing to!

Existences of the Circulation Realm wouldn't easily fight each other.

It's just a few mortal lives, and he does have some restraint.

Honestly, those he'd directly killed through alchemy are far fewer than those who died due to the foolish actions under the forces of other Circulation Realm existences.

In recent years, the Weapon Casting Alliance alone took more than ten thousand lives just to forge that furnace for the Divine Weapon.

So many people, it would take him a decade of alchemy to compare.

But the Weapon Casting Alliance did it in just two years!!

Among the many styles of action by those in the Circulation Realm, he's already considered humane.

"Do you really think I want him to call for reinforcements for me?" Lin Qianxuan laughed.

"If not, then what?" Zhu Qianqiu looked at Lin Qianxuan curiously.

He genuinely wanted to know what other cards Lin Qianxuan had up his sleeve, what tricks he could pull.

"I just want someone significant to collect your corpse." Lin Qianxuan said.

"Provoking me at this moment will only make you suffer more." Zhu Qianqiu squinted slightly.

Lin Qianxuan gazed at Zhu Qianqiu, already seeing him as an enemy. The inner qi within him was circulating and beginning to condense more and more, while the milestone [Weak Overcoming Strong] automatically activated.

[Weak Overcoming Strong: When facing an enemy with higher cultivation than yours, your Inner Qi Cultivation automatically rises by one small realm. (Note: Cultivation and age have never been the only criteria for victory.)]

"Boom~!"

Lin Qianxuan's aura burst forth, his vast inner qi spread out, instantly breaking free from Zhu Qianqiu's True Essence confinement, standing alone in the void.

In the mystic realm, his Unbreakable Realm connected with the acupoints throughout his body. At this moment, his inner qi was no less than True Essence, even more condensed.

Seven hundred and twenty acupoints connected to form the Grand Circulation, spirit and energy became one.

Lin Qianxuan felt the next realm ahead of time.

To breakthrough to the Circulation Realm with inner qi.

"Is that even possible?" Zhu Qianqiu exclaimed in surprise.

He truly hadn't heard of anyone who could comprehend a realm and, in such a short time, break through directly to the Circulation Realm.

Even with exceptional talent, doesn't it take tens of years of honing?

Doing something truly extraordinary?

How interesting!

Yes, merely interesting.

"You don't understand the gap between us." Zhu Qianqiu said, still smiling, "The difference between the Circulation Realm and the Circulation Realm isn't like the difference in Innate, where it's just a matter of different qi recovery."

"Boom~!"

Zhu Qianqiu's aura exploded, vaguely revealing three mountain peaks within him.

No, he was those three mountain peaks.

A peak of extreme cold, freezing to the core.

A peak of scorching heat, burning everything.

A peak of thunder, enveloped in lightning.

Three different types of True Essence seamlessly merging together.

Throughout history, it's not that no Martial Arts absorbed more than two kinds of Heaven and Earth Energy, even "Heaven and Sea Devouring True Technique" could devour all Heaven and Earth Energy and convert it to the needed energy, the Cultivation Technique Zhu Qianqiu used to combine three kinds of Heaven and Earth energy into True Essence naturally existed too.

Under Zhu Qianqiu's Three Palaces Realm and True Essence pressure, Lin Qianxuan's Unbreakable Realm and his recently reached Circulation realm of Attributeless Inner Qi True Essence were severely suppressed.

Like a watermelon compared to an egg between the two.

The gap wasn't just tenfold?

This was even after Lin Qianxuan had broken through with the milestone's blessing, without it, he wouldn't even compare to an egg.

Lin Qianxuan grimly loaded his gun, the long spear was already in hand.

This time, although not a leap over levels, it was much harder to fight than a leap.

Zhu Qianqiu, this person, might already be among the very top of the world's martial artists.

For him, the Pill Body Realm was likely just a thin line away.

This battle, low chances of victory!