Too Many Rewards Can Also Be a Kind of Distress

Li Xun's courtyard.

Inside the room.

Li Xun sat cross-legged on the steps with excitement in his eyes.

What he gained today exceeded his expectations. He invested hundreds of times alone, and he almost lost count of how many good things the system gave him.

Not to mention.

He also snatched three storage bracelets from the hands of extraterrestrial evil spirits.

Each of the Blood Essence Stones in the bracelet is a priceless treasure. Throwing a few of them away might cause a bloody storm!

In addition, the sect also presented a local mid-level technique.

Li Xun heard from Elder Xie that there would be rewards in the future, but Li Xun no longer cared about it. The value of the rewards in the future would definitely not be more than a local mid-level skill.

It's probably just some symbolic rewards.

Suppressing the excitement in his heart, Li Xun said in his mind: "System, collect the reward!" As soon as he finished speaking, a buzzing sound filled his body. His cultivation level, which was at the early stage of the Xuandan realm, suddenly reached the middle stage of the Xuandan stage, with only a thin line separating him from the late stage of the Xuandan stage. "To gain such strength, it should take decades of cultivation, right?" Li Xun murmured.

There was too much investment this time, and there were many inner disciples. After being invested, the reward was cultivation. It was just a few years for each person, but when added up, it equated to almost a few decades.

When Li Xun was immersed in the pleasure after the breakthrough, a loud noise interrupted his thoughts. The whole courtyard seemed to tremble, bringing him back to reality.

Now.

In front of him, the room was filled with spiritual stones. The rich spiritual energy almost felt tangible. Among them, countless spiritual stones of upper, middle, and lower grades were scattered.

Li Xun even spotted two top-grade spiritual stones in the pile!

This was a rare find.

One top-grade spiritual stone could be exchanged for one million low-grade spiritual stones, a substantial sum!

"Crash!"

Li Xun reached out and plucked various weapons, elixirs, secret books, and other items from the pile of spiritual stones.

"Sometimes, having too many rewards can be overwhelming," Li Xun sighed.

With so many items, merely counting them would take a lot of time.

Li Xun raised his head and glanced at the sky outside. He didn't hesitate for too long. His consciousness reached out, and he began sorting through the items.

Half an hour later.

He finally organized the room full of system rewards.

There were more than 120,000 spiritual stones, including upper, middle, lower, and top-grade varieties.

There were ninety-seven bottles of elixirs, including healing pills, nourishing pills, enlightenment pills, and even a bottle of Hehuan Powder.

He didn't know that the system rewarded him because he invested in that wizard in the world of cultivation.

There were sixteen defensive magic weapons of various kinds, all of which were magic weapons. There were no spiritual treasures, but two pieces of armor caught Li Xun's eye, so he decided to keep them.

Maybe they would come in handy later.

There were thirty-nine elixirs that were over a hundred years old, mostly hundreds of years old. Only three elixirs were over a thousand years old.

There were twenty-four volumes of martial arts techniques, with twenty-one at the Yellow level and three at the Xuan level. For Li Xun, they didn't hold much value.

Because there was nothing he could use among them. There was a halberd technique, but it was only yellow-level and low-grade. He glanced at it and set it aside.

In addition, there were other treasures of heaven and earth, such as red flame stones and thousand-year cold iron. These items had less value to him.

He didn't even know how to refine weapons, so he could only keep them in case they might be useful in the future.

"Hu Yi Yi!"

Li Xun let out a long breath, collected all the rewards from the system, and then retrieved the Zi Yao Tian Compass.

This was the technique he had chosen in the Sutra Pavilion.

It was of prefecture-level mid-grade quality.

According to the description in the technique, once mastered, it would allow him to reach for the stars and the moon, or move mountains and fill seas.

"The Earth-level is so formidable. How much more powerful will it be if I advance to the Heaven-level?" Li Xun wondered.

Without hesitation, he took out the skill advancement talisman and applied it to the identity jade token. "Buzz!"

A purple light flashed.

Li Xun's spiritual consciousness once again entered the jade tablet. While the name of the Zi Yao Tian Compass remained the same, the content underwent a significant transformation. "Heavenly Middle-grade!"

Li Xun was pleasantly surprised and quickly checked.

A quarter of an hour later, he withdrew his consciousness and was extremely shocked. The Heaven-level mid-grade Ziwei Tianluo Jing was an advanced version of the Earth-level mid-grade Ziwei Tianluo Jing.

In essence, there was no difference between the techniques, but the power of the true energy had been improved by several levels! "There shouldn't be many books like this in the Sutra Pavilion, right?" Li Xun sighed.

After mastering the earth-level skills, he didn't know whether he could reach for the stars and the moon, move mountains, and fill the seas, but he was certain that after mastering the heaven-level skills, he would definitely be able to achieve such feats!

Li Xun's mind fell silent, and after adjusting everything to the best condition, he began to practice according to the Ziwei Tianluo Scripture. "Buzz!"

The mid-grade Ziwei Tianluo Jing was extremely powerful.

As soon as he began practicing, Li Xun felt as though a seal within his body had been lifted, and his latent potential exploded. His energy soared into the sky, penetrating the heavens like a dragon ascending.

He greedily absorbed spiritual energy from all directions.

This astonishing scene was visible within a radius of dozens of miles.

Li Xun emerged from his room dressed in white, sitting cross-legged. His black hair billowed, and his body seemed translucent. He resembled a deity, tranquil and oblivious to the outside world.

Meanwhile, at the Xuanyang Sect's main hall, Elder Xie stood respectfully before a middle-aged man with a dignified and scholarly demeanor.

The man's eyes were as deep as the starry sky, gazing towards the direction where the inner disciples resided.

Observing the energy and blood dragon rising from Li Xun's courtyard, his expression grew rare and solemn. "Is that the residence of the inner disciple Li Xun whom Elder Xie mentioned earlier?"

The headmaster of Xuanyang Sect spoke slowly, his voice gentle as a spring breeze. "It should be," Elder Xie confirmed.

Their first encounter with Li Xun had been today, and it was still uncertain where exactly he resided among the inner disciples. "Among the thousands of inner sect disciples, I'm afraid that, aside from the Li Xun you mentioned, no one could create such a spectacle," the headmaster remarked.

"The era of great strife is approaching, and having a genius like Li Xun is a blessing for Xuanyang Sect."

"I share the same sentiment," Elder Xie agreed. He fully concurred with the headmaster's assessment. It was a rarity for someone at Li Xun's level to defeat an extraterrestrial demon, let alone three in succession. When the headmaster referred to Li Xun as a genius, Elder Xie saw it as an accurate characterization.

However, there was one regret...

Such an astonishing and gifted disciple did not belong to his own discipleship.

"Elder Xie, please inform Elder Chen that starting today, he should discreetly watch over Li Xun until Li Xun breaks through to the realm of life and death."

"Li Xun's safety shall be entrusted to him," the headmaster calmly instructed. "Yes."

Elder Xie felt a shiver down his spine and respectfully complied. He understood from the headmaster's words that Li Xun was being groomed as the future successor of Xuanyang Sect.

After all...

Even the headmaster's own disciples didn't have elders specifically assigned to protect them.