Chapter 273: Core of the Geng-Metal Ancestral Vein

Bai Diyuan stared at Su Chen for a good while.

A Tai Yi Jin Xian, joking in front of him, saying he was a "temp with pretty good luck."

If it were anyone else, Bai Diyuan would think this was courting death.

But the Saint Ancestor's attitude just now was clear.

Driving away all the Bai Hu clansmen and leaving this person alone—this kind of treatment was something he, Bai Diyuan, had never enjoyed in all the eras he had lived.

"Who exactly are you?" He asked again.

Su Chen put away his smile and said seriously: "There are some things I am not convenient to tell for the time being. If the Clan Leader really wants to know, you can ask the Saint Beast Senior."

Upon hearing this, the corners of Bai Diyuan's mouth twitched.

Ask the Saint Ancestor? He didn't think he had the guts.

But he understood the implication of these words—the matters between this person and the Saint Ancestor were not for him to inquire about.

Bai Diyuan was silent for a moment and stopped pursuing the matter.

"Someone come." He turned around, his voice returning to its usual majesty. "Arrange for this... Fellow Daoist Chitong to stay in the Bai Yu Cliff guest courtyard and treat him with the courtesy of an honored guest."

The Bai Hu clan guards who received the order looked at each other in dismay.

A moment ago he was a suspect, and in the blink of an eye, he became an honored guest?

But no one dared to say anything and left to carry out the order.

Su Chen cupped his hands in thanks and left with the guards.

Bai Diyuan stood in front of the holy hall, watching Su Chen's back disappear at the end of the white-gold corridor, the doubts in his heart never resolved.

The Bai Yu Cliff guest courtyard was located in the inner circle of the Bai Hu Holy Land.

The courtyard was large, and everywhere it revealed the Bai Hu clan's grand style.

The walls were cast from Geng-metal essence stone, the tables were carved from spiritual wood, and even what flowed in the pool in the courtyard was spiritual water.

Su Chen stayed here for three days.

During these three days, he didn't go anywhere.

First, there was no need; the purpose of his trip had been achieved, and for the next things, he only needed to wait.

Second, although Bai Diyuan treated him with the courtesy of an honored guest, the few Jin Xian-level Bai Hu guards outside the courtyard never left his side, calling it "guarding" but actually monitoring him.

Although this Semi-Sage Clan Leader followed the Saint Ancestor's arrangements, it did not mean he would completely trust an outsider of unknown origin.

Su Chen knew this well and couldn't be bothered to care.

He used these three days to do one thing: thoroughly refine the Geng-metal essence bestowed by the Bai Hu Saint Beast during the holy sacrifice.

Although that wisp of essence was far from enough to make the Metal Element perfect, the pale golden patterns it left on the surface of the Hunyuan Jin Dan had stabilized.

The morning of the third day.

Footsteps came from outside the courtyard; Bai Diyuan had come personally.

Su Chen opened his eyes and stood up to welcome him.

"Greetings, Clan Leader."

"Let's go." Bai Diyuan didn't exchange pleasantries, went straight to the point, called Su Chen, and turned to leave.

Su Chen followed.

The two of them, one after the other, left the courtyard, passed through layers of restrictions in the Bai Hu Holy Land, and went deep inside.

The deeper they went, the thicker the Geng-metal Qi in the air became.

Later on, that metallic aura could no longer be described by the word "thick."

Instead, it had turned into a tangible golden storm, howling and raging in the cave passages inside the Ancestral Vein.

Su Chen's robes were cut into countless fine holes by the golden wind, revealing the semi-innate body underneath.

The golden storm landed on his skin, leaving only shallow white marks, which then disappeared.

Bai Diyuan looked back, his gaze flickering slightly.

But he didn't speak and continued forward.

After walking for about another half an hour, the two arrived at a wide underground space.

The dome was extremely high, embedded with countless naturally formed Geng-metal mineral crystals.

In the center of the space, an altar built of divine stones had already been set up properly.

The Bai Hu clan's High Priest, Bai Xuanli, stood on the altar holding a staff.

Around the altar stood twelve Tai Yi Jin Xian cultivators of the Bai Hu clan, each holding a totem flag of the Bai Hu clan.

"A small-scale sacrifice is enough to support the Saint Ancestor's will to descend briefly." Bai Diyuan explained concisely.

Su Chen nodded and didn't ask more.

"High Priest, begin."

As Bai Diyuan's voice fell, the High Priest raised the staff in his hand, and the twelve Tai Yi Jin Xian cultivators simultaneously activated the flags in their hands.

The Bai Hu patterns on the totem flags lit up, and strands of mysterious power gathered into beams of light, shooting toward the staff in the High Priest's hand.

The staff received those powers, the High Priest chanted the sacrificial text, and at the same time, the staff in his hand emitted a divine light, shooting toward the small Bai Hu statue in the center of the altar.

A moment later, the eyes of that statue lit up with the familiar pale golden light.

The Bai Hu Saint Beast's will had descended once again.

The Bai Hu clan members hurriedly bowed to welcome it.

The Bai Hu Saint Beast looked at the High Priest Bai Xuanli and the twelve Tai Yi Jin Xian on the side.

"You all, withdraw."

The High Priest Bai Xuanli and the twelve Tai Yi Jin Xian cultivators dared not ask more, bowed in unison, and withdrew from the interior of the Geng-metal Ancestral Vein.

In the underground space, only Su Chen, Bai Diyuan, and the stone statue inhabited by the Saint Beast's will remained.

"Bai Diyuan, guard the law. No matter what happens, do not allow anyone to approach this place."

"As you command." Bai Diyuan retreated to the entrance and sealed the only passage.

The Bai Hu Saint Beast's golden vertical pupils turned to Su Chen.

"Follow me."

After speaking, its tiger mouth opened, a white-gold light shot out and submerged into the earth beneath its feet.

"Boom—"

The ground cracked open into a bottomless fissure, and the Geng-metal Qi surging from the fissure was thick to the extreme, almost condensing into a liquid state, like a golden underground river.

Su Chen leaped into the fissure.

He fell rapidly along that golden "river," and a scorching sharpness began to mix into the Geng-metal Qi, as if something was burning below.

He didn't know how long he had been falling when Su Chen's feet finally landed on solid ground.

He looked up, his pupils suddenly contracting.

Before him was a huge spherical space.

In the center of the space, a white-gold light as thin as a hair floated in mid-air, swallowing and spitting out the surrounding Geng-metal Qi.

But the moment the Hunyuan Jin Dan inside Su Chen's body saw it, it trembled crazily, the four-element origins boiled simultaneously, emitting a silent longing.

Innate Geng-Xin Indestructible Spiritual Light.

The moment Su Chen landed, that white-gold light suddenly surged tenfold.

The entire spherical space was instantly submerged by the scorching golden light.

A destructive Geng-metal killing aura slashed toward Su Chen!

Su Chen's expression changed slightly, but he did not panic.

He knew the Bai Hu Saint Beast would not sit idly by.

"Trap!"

The Bai Hu Saint Beast's voice came from overhead.

The earth vein power deep in the Geng-metal Ancestral Vein surged suddenly, turning into countless white-gold chains, shooting out from all directions, tightly locking that surging Innate Geng-Xin Indestructible Spiritual Light.

The Innate Geng-Xin Indestructible Spiritual Light struggled continuously, the chains tightened, and the entire space trembled.

"This seat's clone power is limited; I can trap it for at most one year." The Saint Beast's voice rang in his mind. "Whether you can subdue it depends on your own fortune."

Su Chen took a deep breath and sat cross-legged.

He began to activate the method in the "Hunyuan Jin Dan True Explanation," driving the already restless Hunyuan Jin Dan in his dantian, attempting to use the Innate Geng-Xin Indestructible Spiritual Light to temper the Hunyuan Jin Dan.

The dim golden pattern on the surface of the Hunyuan Jin Dan lit up slightly, attempting to draw the Metal Element origin laws from the Innate Geng-Xin Indestructible Spiritual Light. ===== CHAPTER 274 =====