Chapter 239: Skip the Process, Go Straight to the Answer

Chen Shicheng took out three copper pieces and glanced at them.

At this moment the two copper pieces that have already been gathered are still wrapped in an unknown energy, and their backs show no arrows, meaning that not all six copper pieces have been discovered by players.

However, the single copper piece is completely opposite: a green arrow appears on its back, pointing straight toward the inland direction.

He, like checking a navigation, spun in place a few times, and the arrow gave no sign of changing direction.

It seems the owner of the copper piece nearest to him is either running straight toward him or, like him, standing still observing the arrow's movement.

Yet the first guess is probably closer, after all not everyone is like him—busy clearing Japanese pirates when the copper pieces appeared—so others would collect Token Fragments at the fastest speed.

Six Token Fragments, a mere handful, should be gathered quickly.

What left Chen Shicheng speechless was that, in the past, the gathering speed might have slowed to a month or several months, but his new Yinxiang Incense debuted spectacularly and was heavily promoted by him on the forum.

This also caused players, like untethered wild dogs, to break regional limits and run amok across Great Yu, and the forum is now full of complaints.

It's not the creator being blamed, but the merchants: wherever cheap good goods appear, they rush to stock them and sell elsewhere, driving the origin's prices sky‑high. Still, it has boosted Great Yu's commercial circulation.

"Amitabha."

Chen Shicheng glanced at his own panel; Merit Points had not decreased at all—what a relief! But this is also good; looking at it another way, Yinxiang Incense speeds up players' collection of Token Fragments while giving Chinese players a huge lead in Task progress over other nations.

From the results, it is beneficial.

In that case, let's add another fire!

Chen Shicheng didn't bother with location, pulling out a house‑sized turtle shell and Fusang leaves exchanged at the Huoyao Bu, ready to hand‑craft Yinxiang Incense on the spot to boost Chinese players.

But after taking out the Fusang leaves, he noticed something off.

The Fusang leaves exchanged from the Fire Crow Tribe constantly bear an illusory Flame; this Flame, unless under specific conditions, does not scorch any item, and its shape is chaotic.

Yet now the Flame on the Fusang leaf seems attracted by something, tilting toward him as it burns.

Not right!

Chen Shicheng examined closely, then plucked a leaf, held it over his head, and, just as before, began spinning in place.

Sure enough, the leaf's Flame, like the arrow on the Token Fragment, consistently points in one direction.

Moreover, after long observation, he discovered something even more interesting.

The Flame on the Fusang leaf doesn't stay fixed in a tilt; it sways naturally, bit by bit, looking as if it is worshipping!

That's interesting. The leaves Chen Shicheng holds were harvested from a Fusang offshoot; though he doesn't know how many generations apart, their essence is certainly high, comparable to some millennial Spiritual Medicines, and they can be harvested endlessly.

Not to mention, under the careful cultivation of the Huoyao Bu, this Fusang tree has grown for nearly ten thousand years; if it gained consciousness, it might ascend to the Immortal Realm in a single step.

And this very leaf, grown from the concentrated essence of the Fusang tree, now worships an unknown presence in some overseas direction! Chen Shicheng's mind raced with countless thoughts.

The Divine Realm's Token appearing overseas, the Fusang tree, the true solar Flame worship—countless ideas converge, yielding an unbelievable yet most plausible notion in his mind: Tang Valley!

A Divine Realm not belonging to the inland.

Legend says Tang Valley lies above the East Sea, opposite Gui Xu, and in antiquity there was a divine being named Xi He, wife of Di Jun, who gave birth to ten suns; the place bathed by the ten suns was Fusang. "It's chaotic, chaotic, what random thoughts are you having every day?"

Chen Shicheng used the Taiyin Cold Ice Curse to form an ice halo around his head, hoping to calm himself, but it had no effect; countless chaotic thoughts kept leaping out.

As a training ground of ancient celestial beings, the Divine Realm's Dao fruits left inside undoubtedly belong to the owner, and those ancient beings vary in strength; thus, might their Dao fruits also differ?

It is well known that Lu Ya Daojun, though rarely appearing in ancient myths, always caused a huge stir; his strength is almost on par with Kong Xuan, the top figure below the Holy Ones.

If he could obtain Lu Ya's Dao fruit, Chen Shicheng quickly formed a piece of cold ice, shoved it into his mouth, and began gnawing with a crunch.

The icy breath cooled his mind, and suddenly he recalled something; he immediately produced the copper piece he had snatched from the East Sea envoy.

Hmm. No problem; just as the Task states, before any player obtains all fragments, the copper piece shows no reaction.

Yet Chen Shicheng didn't trust that nonsense; without a complete Token guide, the Fusang offshoot had already shown him the direction, so testing whether the copper piece belongs to Tang Valley's Token isn't a big issue. He tentatively placed the copper piece on a Fusang leaf, fully activating Divine Perception, and watched the copper piece intently.

Sure enough, the moment the copper piece touched the burning Flame, the unknown energy enveloping it trembled briefly, then was smoothed by an unnamed force; the copper piece returned to dead silence, with no further reaction.

But it doesn't matter; that brief anomaly already lets Chen Shicheng roughly confirm his conjecture.

Yet for safety, he took out two more copper pieces, burned them on the Fusang leaf, and still got no reaction.

Good, the probability instantly rose to 70%.

The copper piece snatched from the East Sea people indeed has a high chance of being a Tang Valley Token Fragment.

In other words, without gathering three copper pieces, Chen Shicheng can already roughly identify which Divine Realm this copper piece belongs to.

Moreover, most importantly, even without collecting all Tokens, he can, using the Fusang offshoot's leaves and its connection to the Fusang tree, roughly know where Tang Valley lies.

If he wishes, he can now find a ship and sail straight to Tang Valley following the Flame's worship direction.

In Task progress, he's directly ahead of other players by a whole version, right? (End of chapter)