Proud Goddess Falls in Love with Me
Chapter 114 - 114 113 Catalysis Essence_1

114: Chapter 113 Catalysis Essence_1 114: Chapter 113 Catalysis Essence_1 Mu Nanqing was looking forward to Lu Chuan lying down beside her.

“There’s nowhere else to sleep now; you’ll have to sleep on the bed,” she calculated in her mind.

However, she saw Lu Chuan stand in place for a while before walking over to the dressing table and sitting down on the chair there.

“Sister-in-law, I can just make do here for the night and practice some exercises while I’m at it.

You should go sleep,” he said.

Mu Nanqing’s eyes widened, “You…

are going to sleep on the chair?”

Lu Chuan smiled and said, “Yeah, I often sleep like this.

As a martial artist, I need to practice breathing exercises and absorb the spiritual energy of the sun and moon.

It’s not a problem not sleeping in a bed.”

Mu Nanqing immediately felt a wave of anger, thinking to herself, are you really that reluctant to share a bed with me?

She even came up with such an excuse.

She turned away grumpily, not bothering with Lu Chuan anymore.

Lu Chuan, unaware of the abnormality, quickly entered a state of cultivation.

The next morning.

Lu Chauan woke up from his cultivation and saw Mu Nanqing staring at him with dark circles under her eyes, her face full of confusion.

“Sister-in-law, you…

didn’t sleep well yesterday?”

Mu Nanqing said resentfully, “I couldn’t sleep because I was so frustrated.”

“Frustrated?” Lu Chuan was completely baffled.

Mu Nanqing humphed and ignored Lu Chuan, heading out to wash up.

After breakfast, Lu Chuan received a call from Wu Wei, saying he had already arrived at the entrance of the residential complex.

Lu Chuan informed Mu Nanqing and then left the complex and got into Wu Wei’s car.

The two headed towards the suburbs of Pingyang County and after about an hour, they arrived at the mining vein owned by the Wu family.

There were many excavators, loaders, and dump trucks parked around, with quite a few workers busy at work.

As soon as Wu Wei’s car stopped, a group of people ran over enthusiastically.

“Family Head, are you here to inspect the work today?

I’ll have them stop their tasks and line up to welcome you,” said a round-faced chubby man with a smile plastered on his face.

This person was the supervisor of the mine, named Liu Tian.

Wu Wei waved his hand, “Let them continue working.

You and your men go back as well.

Just take me and Brother Lu to see the stone.”

Liu Tian paused, glanced at Lu Chuan, and thought to himself that this young man must have quite the background to be called brother by the Family Head.

He immediately nodded, turned to the people behind him, and said, “All of you go back, and without an order from me or the Family Head, no one is allowed to go to the restricted area behind the mine, got it?”

“Understood!” The crowd answered in unison, turning to leave.

“Family Head, Mr.

Lu, please this way,” Liu Tian gestured and said with a smile.

The three walked towards the heart of the mine and soon came to a narrow junction leading into a forest, where there was a sign that read “No Entry.”

Following the path into the forest for about two hundred meters, Lu Chuan saw a large, deep blue stone about five meters high and three meters wide on the side of the excavated mountain, jarringly out of place with the surrounding minerals.

Wu Wei spoke up, “Brother Lu, this is the stone I told you about.

It has the effect of accelerating maturation and is quite miraculous, truly extraordinary.”

With that, he looked at Liu Tian, “Liu Tian, show Brother Lu a demonstration.”

“Alright!” Liu Tian immediately went to a tree, plucked a few blades of grass, and approached the big stone, then inserted the blades of grass into a crevice on the stone.

In just a few breaths, the grass, already uprooted from the soil, began to grow wildly until it reached over half a meter in height before it stopped.

Normally, such grass would need more than a year to grow to over half a meter tall.

Lu Chuan watched the scene and said indifferently, “This stone is indeed a bit magical.

So if I insert some medicinal herbs into this crevice, could I not get a lot of hundred-year medicinal herbs in a short time?”

Wu Wei said somewhat awkwardly, “Actually, when we first discovered this stone, I thought the same.

But after countless experiments, we realized that the stone does have a catalytic effect.

However, it can only accelerate the growth of plants to what would normally take a year; after that, no matter what you do, there’s no further change.”

“So the idea of using this stone to accelerate hundred-year medicinal herbs fell through, and even when ordinary herbs are accelerated, they only gain an extra year’s worth of growth, which has no significant effect.

Otherwise, I wouldn’t have asked Wu Xiu to look for hundred-year medicinal herbs at the auction.”

Lu Chuan nodded thoughtfully, then asked, “Haven’t you thought of extracting this stone and finding a dedicated place to study it?”

Wu Wei replied, “The density of this stone is many times that of ordinary stones, and its weight is astonishing.

We tried many methods and couldn’t even move it from the mountain, let alone transport it.”

Lu Chuan nodded and said, “Then I’ll take a look at the reason why this stone can accelerate growth.”

Hearing this, Liu Tian chuckled, “Young man, we’ve had many experts examine this stone, and they couldn’t figure out why it can catalyze growth.

I think this thing might be a meteorite from beyond our world, inexplicable.”

In his view, Lu Chuan was just in his twenties, how much insight could he have?

The masters couldn’t figure it out, so this young fellow in his early twenties was even less likely to.

Wu Wei glared at him and barked, “Stop talking nonsense.”

Lu Chuan just smiled, ignoring Liu Tian’s comment, and walked up to the huge rock, reaching out to touch it.

Ordinary people indeed had no way to understand why this rock could catalyze, but as a cultivator, Lu Chuan had an enormous amount of inherited memories, making it simple to figure out why a rock had catalytic properties.

As soon as he touched the rock, he felt a rich power, a force that only cultivators could sense.

Following this force, Lu Chuan perceived the interior of the rock.

In no time, he confirmed that at the core of the rock, there was a drop of liquid containing powerful energy.

Based on the characteristics of this rock and the feedback from the vibrations of that drop, it was certain to be a drop of Catalysis Essence!

The so-called Catalysis Essence is an extremely rare Heaven and Earth Treasure, rumored to be the blood of an ancient powerful being that had been nurtured by the sun, moon, and stars over time, resulting in an item with tremendous power.

It could not only enhance a cultivator’s power and shorten the cultivation period but could also change one’s physique, making one’s perception of nature’s spiritual energy sharper, effectively increasing one’s talent for cultivation.

A drop of Catalysis Essence was worth at least as much as three hundred-year medicinal herbs!

Lu Chuan immediately became excited.

With this drop of Catalysis Essence, he could not only break through to Qi Cultivation Level 9 but also have enough energy for his Foundation Establishment!

Wu Wei really had prepared a great gift for him!

Of course, to achieve Foundation Establishment, apart from having sufficient energy, many other preparations were necessary.

It wasn’t as simple as advancing one’s strength in the Qi Refinement Realm.

Seeing Lu Chuan smiling while touching the rock, Liu Tian was very skeptical and asked, “Young fellow, have you figured out why this rock can catalyze plants?”

Lu Chuan turned to look at Liu Tian, nodded, and said, “There is a drop of liquid inside this rock, a liquid that contains miraculous power, allowing it to catalyze plants.”

Liu Tian was shocked, “Really?

We brought many pieces of high-tech equipment to inspect it and, after all that, could only confirm it’s a rock.

We didn’t discover anything else.

You just touched it and already know there’s a drop of liquid inside?”

Wu Wei also had his doubts and felt that Lu Chuan was now acting like a charlatan.

Meanwhile, in the woods, atop a lush tree more than ten meters high, a youth with sharp eyes was quietly observing the situation in front of the rock.

With a blade of grass in his mouth and a flippant and ill-disciplined air about him, coupled with his handsome appearance, one could tell at a glance that he was a playboy.

After listening to Lu Chuan’s words, his eyes narrowed as he murmured to himself, “There is actually someone who can discover the secret of this rock.

This lad isn’t simple.

But the treasure within this rock that I, Su Ming, have my eye on—no one else should even think about touching it!”

In front of the large rock.

Lu Chuan, looking at Liu Tian and Wu Wei, said with a smile, “Whether I’m right or not, we’ll know once I cut open this rock.”

On hearing this, Wu Wei couldn’t help saying, “Brother Lu, you might as well give up on that idea.

Though I am not good at research, I am very good at destruction, but even so, I couldn’t make the rock budge in the slightest, let alone cut it open.”

Liu Tian also laughed, saying, “Brother, I know you might not believe it, but let me give you a demonstration, and you’ll understand.”

Having said that, he actually pulled out a gun from behind his waist.

He then aimed at the rock and fired a shot.

Bang!

The bullet hit the rock, was instantly deflected, and didn’t even leave a mark on it.

Liu Tian walked over, picked up the flattened bullet head, and handed it to Lu Chuan, saying, “Do you still think you can cut open this rock?”

Hidden in the tree, Su Ming burst into laughter when he heard Lu Chuan’s words, thinking although the kid had some ability to detect the treasure in the rock, his ideas were still rather naive.

If the rock could be so easily split open, he wouldn’t have had to hide here for so many days.

“I have Peak Grade 9 strength and, combined with so many top-secret resources from the sect, I still do not know how to cut open this rock, so how could you possibly do it?”

“If you really manage it, I’ll acknowledge you as my big brother,” mused Su Ming to himself.

Yet, Lu Chuan laughed heartily and said, “You can’t cut it open because you don’t have the right method.

To me, splitting this rock is a piece of cake.”

Having said that, he concentrated all his spiritual power in his palm, turned it into a knife, and formed an invisible blade.

He then swung down fiercely onto the rock.

The group could only see a flash of light before their eyes, not clearly understanding what had happened.

Then there was a thunderous noise.

Suddenly, a fine line-like crack appeared in the middle of the more than five-meter-tall rock, which then fell to the left and right.

The rock that Wu Wei had tried numerous methods to move without budging was now split in half.

A drop of golden liquid slowly emerged before them all.