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stunned.

The woman's few short words seemed to have broken the most critical barrier in Geng Xuan's thinking, and his thoughts suddenly became clear.

All kinds of thoughts that he had never thought of before and felt very incredible, at this moment, flowed into his heart naturally and continuously like a trickle of water.

The woman's words were not over yet.

"...You may have heard about some of Xi Hanyue's early experiences.

I wonder if you have ever had such doubts. Since she can cultivate to the peak of marrow refining at such a young age, her talent for cultivation cannot be bad.

Then why does she still abuse herself like that?
It is true that some women are not ashamed of such experiences, but instead take pleasure in them, but Xi Hanyue is obviously not such a person.

If she could choose on her own, she would never take the initiative to go through that."

Having said this, she paused and added:
"Although Wuyou Palace is cruel to outsiders, it will not use such 'training' to humiliate those who have shown outstanding talent since childhood and are expected to join the core senior management."

Geng Xuan remained silent, having understood the meaning of the woman's words.

“So, Xi Hanyue’s initial cultivation talent wasn’t as high as everyone thought.

In fact, it is likely to be very ordinary.

She was able to finally escape from that quagmire and even became the Left Envoy of Wuyou Palace.

Although her own opportunities and efforts were indispensable, what really helped her change her fate was the secret manipulation of Wuyou Palace, which turned her into a genius who could grow to the peak of marrow refining in just 10 to 20 years!"

The woman nodded and said "hmm" softly.

His expression became quite subtle and complicated.

After hearing her exact response, although Geng Xuan was prepared, he still couldn't help but gasp.

Seeing that she looked strange, he asked, "Why...is there any problem here?"

The woman shook her head and said:
“No, I just thought of Xi Hanyue’s experience, and I couldn’t help but feel a little emotional.

She didn't know me, but I noticed her when she was still smiling and welcoming customers in a brothel in her early years.

In order to escape from the quagmire and gain the trust of the upper echelons of Wuyou Palace, she certainly did many heinous evil things.

But it has not been easy for her to get here, and her determination is unmatched."

Having said this, she looked at Geng Xuan and said:

“Improving one’s cultivation talent is not an easy task.

From what I understand, it was very painful and very cruel.

Every time, it was like dying, and being tortured to death.

And Xi Hanyue had experienced this kind of situation at least four times!

...When I first heard that she was killed by you like that, I couldn't believe it."

At the end, the woman couldn't help but sigh again, shaking her head gently with a look of sorrow.

Perhaps, as she witnessed the entire process of Xi Hanyue's rise to death with her own eyes, she had some special emotions in her heart.

But Geng Xuan's thoughts did not stay on Xi Hanyue for too long, and turned back to Wuyou Palace again.

"Even if Wuyou Palace can produce another group of geniuses like Xi Hanyue, it must have taken Xi Hanyue at least a dozen years from the time he first showed his brilliance to the time he broke through to the peak of marrow refining, right?" Geng Xuan asked.

The woman said:
"Of course there is a way... There are slow ways and fast ways.

Of course, the faster the method, the greater the consequences.

But now we have a strong enemy like you, right? Wuyou Palace will naturally come as fast as possible!"

"How fast?" Geng Xuan asked.

The woman said:
“I don’t know exactly how fast it can be, this is the core secret of Wuyou Palace.

But for us, if we want to take action against Wuyou Palace, the sooner the better.

The further time goes by, the more time Wuyou Palace will have to make more preparations.

The more strength is restored, the more disadvantageous it will be for us."

Geng Xuan nodded slightly, but then frowned a little.

"But after hearing what you said, I feel like the peak level of marrow refining isn't that valuable in Wuyou Palace?

Since they can easily create strong men at the peak of the marrow refining level, even if I killed five of them at once this time, it shouldn't be a big loss for Wuyou Palace, right?"

The woman shook her head and said, "That must be your illusion."

Thoughts, Women’s Way:

“I don’t know how Wuyou Palace improves a person’s talent or how it works.

But from what I've learned, this is not something that can be done easily.

……

The simplest way is to increase the body tempering talent in a certain aspect, whether it is refining the skin, or refining the flesh, or it may be refining the blood, or refining the bones.

In addition, there is another way, which is to improve the corresponding body tempering talent while also improving the corresponding body tempering cultivation.

No matter which one it is, people will die.

The greater the change, the more people will die.

……

Take Xi Hanyue as an example. I paid very close attention to her twice in secret.

The first time, she only improved her talent in flesh refining.

When she was taken to the Caizheyuan in the city wall of Wuyou Palace by a special person, nine other women who were not much different from her age were also brought in.

I knew three of those nine people.

One of them, like Xi Hanyue, was born in a brothel in Yuanjing, another was an unfavored concubine's daughter in a certain family in Yuanjing, and the other was a little courtesan in a market near Yuanjing.

Ten days later, Xi Hanyue came out.

She looked pale and frail.

Of the other nine women who had entered the Caizheyuan with her, only the concubine of Yuanjing walked out on her own. The other eight all turned into horrible corpses and were loaded into a carriage and transported out of the Caizheyuan through the side door. "

“After that time, Xi Hanyue took about a year to advance from the initial stage of skin refining to the stage of flesh refining.

Then, she entered the Caizheyuan for the second time.

Ten days later, when she came out of the surgery center, she was in very good condition and didn't look weak at all.

...Through my secret observation, I found that on that occasion, not only her cultivation talent increased, but also her skin and flesh refining levels improved to varying degrees.

But the price was that among the ten people who entered the Caizheyuan with her, she was the only one who walked out alive.

The other nine people all became corpses.

Including the concubine's daughter from the family who walked out of Caizheyuan with her more than a year ago.

Although I don’t know all of the other eight, I happen to know that two of them have gradually emerged in the Dingxing Hall of Wuyou Palace. "

"...After that time, Xi Hanyue only took about a year to break through again and almost completed all the accumulation of blood refining levels."

"After that, she entered the Caizheyuan at least twice more.

The number of people who entered the Caizheyuan with her not only increased, but the strength and status of each person were also incomparable to the previous two batches.

The security around Caizheyuan also became tighter.

In order to avoid being exposed, I did not investigate further, so I don't know the exact damage... But, based on the situations of the previous two times, even this is the most optimistic estimate.

Every time you upgrade your talent, the success rate is only 10% to 20%, while the mortality rate is as high as 80% or even 90%.

“That’s still good.

As far as I know, it is not successful every time. There are cases where ten living people go in and ten dead people are carried out.

Moreover, it is not very rare. It is said that this is related to each person's mental fortitude and tolerance of pain.

...I think this may be one of the reasons why Wuyou Palace deliberately uses such a cruel method to cultivate the lower-level gang members.

Many of those who entered the Caizheyuan with Xi Hanyue were disabled."

Having said this, the woman looked at Geng Xuan and said:

“I said so much just to make you understand.

Even if a relatively slow method is used, the price that Wuyou Palace has to pay to create a peak marrow refining expert like Xi Hanyue is enormous.

The first price is a large number of lives.

Moreover, you can't just kidnap some people and force them to do it.

As far as I know, everyone who enters the Caizheyuan does so voluntarily."

At this point, the woman paused and couldn't help but say:
"Of course, behind this 'voluntary' action, the Wuyou Palace also played many tricks. Many people were actually forced to take this path under the step-by-step guidance of the Wuyou Palace.

For example, Xi Hanyue was thrown into a brothel by Wuyou Palace.

The main reason she entered the Caizheyuan was to escape from that situation.

...But at the moment of entering the Caizheyuan, everyone did it voluntarily and no one was forced.

I guess it has something to do with the success rate.

If someone who is resistant participates in it, the success rate will not even be 10% or 20%. "

Listening to the woman's story, especially her two more careful observations of Xi Hanyue, Geng Xuan gradually formed some clear impressions in his mind.

In the most extreme case, if all the people entering Caizheyuan are "rising from the grassroots" like Xi Hanyue.

If Xi Hanyue reached the peak of marrow refining, he would have only experienced four "talent enhancements".

The number of lives that would be lost in Wuyou Palace would not be forty to eighty, but tens of thousands.

——If the survival rate is 10% each time, the survival rate for four consecutive times is 1 in 10,000.

Of course, if you can “quit while you’re ahead” and stop in time after reaching a certain stage, the survival rate would not be so low.

But this also means that he will never be able to reach the heights of Xi Hanyue.

Moreover, it is impossible that all the people in Wuyou Palace are "grassroots rise" like Xi Hanyue. There must be a large number of ordinary geniuses who already have outstanding cultivation talents, or even have cultivated to the marrow refining level on their own.

If they want to reach the same level as Xi Hanyue, they will not have to undergo as frequent "artificial transformation" as Xi Hanyue, so their survival rate will naturally be much higher.

But even so, Geng Xuan wanted to "create" a super genius who could cultivate to the peak of marrow refining in a short period of time - for practitioners at this level, more than ten years, or reaching this level in their twenties or thirties, is a "short time".

At least dozens of lives of ordinary geniuses who can enter the marrow refining level must be filled in, regardless of whether these ordinary geniuses are "natural" or "acquired".

There cannot be any "forced" behavior, and the person accepting this transformation must do so voluntarily.

This means that Wuyou Palace cannot just kidnap people from outside as consumables, but can only train from within.

"The influence of Wuyou Palace is so widespread in Yuanzhou, this is also a reason, right?

...From a certain perspective, these are the raw materials for Wuyou Palace's 'Synthetic Genius'!"

The woman's explanation has not yet ended.

In order to convince Geng Xuan, she told him everything she knew.

"In addition, from what I understand, these practitioners who have gone to Caizheyuan to receive talent enhancement consume more resources in their daily practice than other practitioners of the same level."

"As your cultivation progresses quickly, your energy consumption will naturally be greater," Geng Xuan said.

The woman shook her head and said:
"After Xi Hanyue's cultivation reached the peak of marrow refining, there has been no significant improvement in the past few years, only in his killing skills.

Her rapid progress in cultivation has stagnated, but the resources she consumes in daily cultivation are still quite a lot.

Under normal circumstances, this wouldn’t happen.”

Geng Xuan nodded slightly.

If a practitioner is a "pure original" practitioner, if he only maintains his cultivation at a certain level and has no further needs, his consumption of cultivation resources will be sharply reduced.

Unless there is severe consumption, there is no problem even if you don't specifically consume any cultivation resources.

Your cultivation will not regress because of this.

But the situation of Xi Hanyue described by the woman did not seem to be the case.

“Although there is no exact data, according to my speculation, Wuyou Palace should only have ten to fifteen fighters at the peak of marrow refining level all year round.

Now, with your five kills, that number has dropped to five to ten."

If it weren't for what the woman had revealed earlier, Geng Xuan would have doubted the accuracy of her data.

For a force that has mastered the "peak marrow refining synthesis technology", such an estimate is undoubtedly too conservative.

However, if all practitioners of "acquired synthesis" consume more resources than those of "natural" ones.

Even if there is no progress, just maintaining the current level of cultivation will continue to consume energy.

Then the information she provided has strong reference value.

Because the resources that Yuanzhou can produce are limited.

The amount that Wuyou Palace can consume is also limited.

Perhaps, some people would think that Wuyou Palace, which possesses this ability, is fully capable of eating more.

But this means that forces like the Xu family and the Zhao family in Yuanjing will have to eat less, or even nothing at all.

Wuyou Palace, if it shows its true abilities, will naturally be able to do this.

But this is something that Yuanzhou's current environment cannot allow.

Unless Wuyou Palace changes its strategy of hundreds of years and stands up with dignity, it can try to take over not only Yuanjing, but the entire Yuanzhou.

But this is a road that has no retreat.

Either you withstand the siege of the whole world and unify the nine provinces.

Either they will die and their clan will be destroyed, their bones will be crushed to ashes by the enemy, and their inheritance will be cut off.

Obviously, Wuyou Palace, which has a history of more than 500 years, including the Miaoshou Pavilion period, and even longer heritage, does not have the courage to make a big gamble in this regard.

Under such circumstances, Wuyou Palace naturally had to abide by the customs of Yuanzhou. In order not to cross the "boundary", it always ensured that it stayed in the safe zone and consciously controlled the number of combat forces at the peak level.

This really feels awkward.

In the eyes of outsiders, Wuyou Palace acts so ostentatiously and recklessly.

Deep down, he is so cautious, conservative, polite and well-educated.

Although he has such ability, he just manages his own piece of land honestly and has never exceeded his limit for hundreds of years.

In comparison, people like Meng Tiexin are indeed a bit "aggressive" and "ungrateful".

Geng Xuan thought for a moment and then asked, "Wuyou Palace's strongest fighter can't possibly be just at the peak of marrow refining, right?"

The woman said:
“After years of observation, I suspect that the previous head of the Wuyou Palace’s Transmission Hall was most likely a powerful person who had reached the Second Realm of Perfection.

However, he is now over 80 years old. As long as we are careful not to give him the opportunity to die together with us and drag him into a tug-of-war, he can only exert 80% of his combat power at most. "

Geng Xuan was surprised and asked, "Just this one? Isn't that a little too little? Where is the Lord of Wuyou Palace?"

The woman said:
"I only found this one. As for whether there is a second or even a third master of the Transmission Hall who is as powerful as him hiding, I don't know.

This is also the reason why I wanted to invite you to join me. I have just reached perfection in skin refining and can barely handle one.

If there are more, and if several peak-level marrow refining masters join forces to attack me, the situation will be very passive for me.

...The worst thing is that if I use all my strength, my whereabouts will be exposed.

If I return empty-handed, or if I only kill one or two peak marrow refiners, it will do me no good. "

She stared at Geng Xuan and said sincerely:
“You don’t have to worry about any danger. Although Wuyou Palace can create more combat power at the peak level of marrow refining, they cannot create perfect body tempering, even if it is only one level of perfection, using this method.

As far as I know, the lifespan of all those artificially created peak marrow refiners is much shorter than that of normal marrow refiners.

Once they are over 60, their fighting capacity will drop sharply, and once they are over 70, they will be basically completely useless.

Only those who have not undergone any artificial transformation and are natural geniuses can achieve perfection in body tempering.

...In this regard, Wuyou Palace not only has no advantages, but also has a huge disadvantage."

Geng Xuan was stunned for a moment, then a look of sudden realization appeared on his face.

Cultivation talent cannot be accurately quantified.

What's more, life is so long, no one can predict what will happen along the way.

No one, on the first day of practicing, is certain that he will be able to achieve perfection in body tempering in this lifetime.

It is normal to never reach the destination in your lifetime, or even die on the way.

In this situation, when presented with the option of "quickly reaching the peak of marrow refining", how many people could resist being tempted?
The mortality rate is high? But there is still a 10% to 20% success rate.

This probability is much higher than cultivating to perfection in body tempering.

Under such constant temptation, how many people can resist being tempted and keep moving forward on their own with determination?
What's more, Wuyou Palace's strategy has always been to use various means to "induce" people to "voluntarily" enter Caizheyuan.

Perhaps among these "volunteers", there are those with the potential to grow to perfect body tempering on their own.

But unfortunately, after entering Caizheyuan, this person lost such an opportunity forever.

At this moment, Geng Xuan didn't even know whether mastering the "peak marrow refining synthesis technology" was a good thing or a bad thing for Wuyou Palace.

"... You don't have to worry about Palace Master Wuyou. We can't say he's a fool, but we really don't have to regard him as a threat."

Having said this, the woman looked at Geng Xuan and said:

"I have told you everything I know... So, can you tell me your decision?" (End of this chapter)