Chapter 1007: Blue Fish Fire Spirit, Qixia's Plot

Shark Emperor True Flame!

Luo Chen is no stranger to this azure flame.

As early as when he entered the Demon-Falling Land back then and fought Shark Emperor Liu Jun for the first time, he had faced this flame directly.

It is quite wonderful, specifically used to target the physical bodies of living beings.

Especially wild beasts!

The more abundant the Qi and blood, the greater the power of the Shark Emperor True Flame; the Qi and blood on the enemy's body are like fuel. Once it touches the Shark Emperor True Flame, it is like a maggot on a tarsal bone, and it won't stop until it burns everything clean.

Back then, Luo Chen accidentally touched a strand, which forced him to cut off an arm on the spot to barely escape the fate of being burned to ashes.

Later, Luo Chen checked relevant classics and roughly came to a conjecture.

The Shark clan has a long heritage in the North Sea cultivation world, but it is not a big force.

In ancient times, the Shark clan was the food for many wild beasts, the object of hunting.

In ancient times and now, the Shark clan has been hunted extensively by human strong experts because of their beautiful appearance and the fact that their whole body is treasure.

Shark Emperor Liu Jun's active participation in the battle to destroy the Primal Demon Sect was also an effort by a clan emperor to change the plight of the race.

And this Shark Emperor True Flame was a response made by the top strong experts of the Shark clan in ancient times to get rid of wild beast hunting.

Using the oil on the Shark body, they nurtured a source-less fire, slowly cultivating it to the Fourth-Tier level, specifically to restrain wild beasts with powerful physical bodies.

Over thousands of years, this oil lamp doesn't know how many strong Shark oil and essence blood it contains!

Logically speaking, after generations of strong experts' cultivation and nourishment over such a long time, the Shark Emperor True Flame should have advanced to the Fifth-Tier level. But in the hands of Shark Emperor Liu Jun, its performance was not very good.

At least from Luo Chen's current perspective, Shark Emperor Liu Jun did not fully exert the power of this flame.

With a movement of his mind, the oil lamp flew to Luo Chen's front.

He stares at the blue flame, his divine sense deepening bit by bit.

A moment later, Luo Chen finally realizes.

"No wonder!"

Xiao Bai asks curiously: "Master, no wonder what?"

"No wonder Shark Emperor Liu Jun could not unleash the full power of this flame," Luo Chen said with a light chuckle, pointing at that blue flame. "Nurtured for thousands upon thousands of years, stained with the grease and essence blood of countless Shark clan powerhouses, this flame is mixed with too much will, to the point that it suppressed the birth of the Source Fire's own fire spirit! And given Shark Emperor Liu Jun's personal cultivation realm, he could not suppress the lingering thoughts of his predecessors within it, so naturally, he could only unleash a portion of its power."

Xiao Bai says "Oh", but her feeling is not very deep; as a ghost, she doesn't like these powerful flames.

But the demon monk Kong Chan beside him doesn't think so.

If the Shark Emperor True Flame really contains so many distracting thoughts that even the successor Liu Jun couldn't fully control it, yet Luo Chen could easily suppress it and even counter-attack its master, it shows just how powerful Luo Chen's soul foundation is!

For a time, he looks at Luo Chen with even more awe.

If Luo Chen knew Kong Chan's inner thoughts, he would probably agree with part of it!

The reason it is only part is that Luo Chen's means of suppressing the Shark Emperor True Flame are not just a powerful soul foundation.

There are many factors here.

First, the "Heavenly Phoenix Nirvana Scripture" that Luo Chen mainly cultivates is the strongest fire-type technique in the world; when it comes to fire control, none can compare!

Second, Luo Chen possesses two Fifth-Tier divine fires, Withered Prosperity and Nirvana; even if only a strand of aura leaks out, it is enough to suppress the Shark Emperor True Flame, which is not yet Fifth-Tier.

Finally, it has to do with Luo Chen comprehending the true meaning of the laws, the source of fire!

In front of the source of fire, no matter what unique performance these source-less fires have, their essence is ultimately fire, how dare they show off in front of him?

After briefly explaining to Xiao Bai, Luo Chen holds the oil lamp in one hand and rubs his chin with the other, falling into deep thought.

Xiao Bai and Kong Chan dare not disturb him, standing quietly to one side.

In the howling north wind, the azure lamp flame sways gently, emitting a hazy luster.

Suddenly!

Luo Chen's left hand joins fingers like a sword, slowly pulling outward toward the starlight-like lamp flame.

Kong Chan lets out a low cry, "Soul-Hooking Pull!"

Luo Chen glances at him, saying casually: "What is Soul-Hooking Pull?"

Kong Chan is stunned, "Isn't the high-level soul technique you are performing now the Soul-Hooking Pull?"

Luo Chen's black eyebrows tremble, "I am just performing the Soul-Deterring Technique from low-level spells."

Soul-Deterring Technique?

Kong Chan swallows his saliva, feeling even more unfathomable Luo Chen's attainments in soul.

He actually achieved the effect of the high-level soul technique Soul-Hooking Pull with the lowest-level Soul-Deterring Technique.

These are two soul techniques that look the same but have completely different powers.

Both are for capturing souls, but the former can only do pulling and capturing when the enemy has no body. But Soul-Hooking Pull can ignore the shackles of the flesh and forcibly hook out the soul of a living being.

After Kong Chan explains, Luo Chen becomes interested.

"It seems you know this high-level soul technique, do you have the original copy of the technique?"

"Little monk indeed knows this spell; it was collected by accident after the destruction of the Primal Demon Sect, but it is only a copy."

"A copy is fine too!"

Kong Chan respectfully takes out a piece of yellow skin and presents it to Luo Chen.

"Human skin paper?"

Luo Chen sees the essence of the yellow skin at a glance; he unfolds the skin paper calmly, and the words on it immediately enter his eyes.

After observing for about a while, the movements of Luo Chen's fingertips change slightly.

The index and middle fingers, like swords, have a slight bend, like a hook or a moon. He mutters the spell in his mouth, and his soul no longer focuses on deterrence and pressure, but turns into charm and enticement.

With the trembling of his fingertips, strands of illusory figures appear in the azure flame.

Each figure has an excellent figure, or is tall and handsome, or elegant and slender, and the blurred faces can also see the peerless beauty before death.

These are the top strong experts of the Shark clan from the past!

Kong Chan stands beside him, his eyes wide, full of disbelief.

This "Soul-Hooking Pull" cultivation secret book, Luo Chen just got it, and he actually mastered it immediately.

What level has his attainments in soul reached?

As Luo Chen continues to cast the spell, a large amount of residual distracting thoughts are hooked out from the Shark Emperor True Flame.

Gradually, the originally azure flame becomes deep and pure.

Even faintly, a small fish phantom is swaying and swimming inside.

"Come out!"

Luo Chen shouts low, his Primordial Spirit suddenly merging.

A pressure like heavenly might appears in this territory, and strands of power even stronger than divine sense shuttle back and forth.

That is divine thought!

As Luo Chen's divine thought surges, he forcibly condenses the small fish into shape.

The next moment, the fish leaps out of the fire, and the fire waves ripple out like ripples.

Xiao Bai cheers: "Congratulations to Master for collecting another powerful flame!"

Luo Chen shakes his head with a smile, "Currently, it has only removed impurities and forcibly helped it condense a fire spirit; its rank is still Fourth-Tier, far from being called powerful."

He opens his mouth and inhales, and the blue small fish is swallowed, finally entering the Purple Mansion.

Once inside, the blue small fish deeply feels two auras stronger than itself.

One is like a tree, with branches spreading.

One is like a bird, soaring and circling.

It dares not disturb the two "seniors", obediently falling into the Purple Mansion, spreading layers of fire waves, forming a blue sea of fire, disappearing inside.

The Withered Prosperity Fire Spirit turns a blind eye to this.

The Nirvana Fire Spirit is somewhat eager to try, pecking lightly with its sharp beak, circling above the sea of fire.

But with a gaze cast over, the Nirvana Fire Spirit is forced to fly away, not daring to have any ideas about the blue small fish again.

Thus, the blue small fish finally breathes a sigh of relief, and also has a trace of intimacy for the owner of the previous gaze.

On the glacial wilderness.

Luo Chen weighs the oil lamp in his hand, then hands it to Xiao Bai.

"Take it, this can be considered a very strong

true artifact. Although the Shark Emperor True Flame was taken away by me, the Shark oil remaining on it can still stimulate the Shark Emperor True Flame many times."

Xiao Bai takes it happily, "Thank you, Master, for the treasure!"

The inheritance left by Shark Emperor Liu Jun is not just an oil lamp and a fire, but also a storage bag.

But Luo Chen is not in a hurry to count the spoils.

For him right now, the inheritance of a Nascent Soul demon cultivator is just like that.

Compared to the storage bag, Luo Chen cares more about the "spirit pet" he easily subdued.

"Demon monk Kong Chan, rumor has it that your true form is a chanting monk, show me your true form!"

Facing Luo Chen's somewhat frivolous, even contemptuous words, the demon monk Kong Chan has no dissatisfaction.

The moment Luo Chen's divine thought burst out just now, he knew why Luo Chen was so strong, strong to the point that he couldn't give rise to any thought of resistance.

This is an existence that has condensed a Primordial Spirit in advance!

And even mastered the true meaning of laws!

Plus the Green Sun Great Handprint that destroyed Tai Sui earlier, and the performance of absorbing the spiritual energy of heaven and earth along the way.

Kong Chan swallows his saliva.

Primordial Spirit, true meaning of laws, controlling the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, these characteristics are all possessed by Soul Transformation great masters.

Mastering one is a peerless genius.

Mastering all three, what is the difference between this young man in front of him and a Soul Transformation great master?

Boom!

A behemoth sits on the glacial wilderness.

Luo Chen looks up and sees a strange creature that looks like an octopus, yet also like a jellyfish.

A shiny, round, huge bald head, facial features like a human, black dots like ring scars covering the body, and eighteen tentacles covered with cracks.

"Master, this is my true form."

As the bald head speaks, the cracks on the tentacles also open simultaneously, emitting the same voice.

Nineteen mouths speaking at the same time, the buzzing sound is annoying, as if a nagging monk is chanting scriptures non-stop.

"So this is the origin of the name chanting monk!"

Luo Chen smiles and waves his hand.

"You'd better transform into human form, the true form is really a bit ugly."

Amidst the demonic Qi, the huge chanting monk dissipates, turning into Kong Chan's withered body.

He stands respectfully in front of Luo Chen, showing no sign of the Great Demon Emperor who once ran rampant in the North Sea.

Luo Chen takes a step, his eyes shining with golden light, walking toward a direction of the Primal Demon Sect.

While walking, he asks Kong Chan about the demon race.

Especially the specific situation of the destruction of the Primal Demon Sect back then.

"That battle was the North Li Great Saint and the Sea Emperor Whale ancestor joining forces to fight the Soul-Refining ancestor, shattering his physical body, and even his Primordial Spirit was scattered by the Sea Emperor Whale ancestor. Before the Soul-Refining ancestor died, he scattered his Primordial Spirit and set up a great array to trap us in the Night-Demon Heaven for over a hundred years."

"As for the Primal Demon ancestor of the Primal Demon Sect, the battlefield was not on our side at the time, so I don't know who was fighting him."

"I only remember that a strand of golden flame leaked out from that battlefield, taking away millions of strong experts from both human and demon races."

Luo Chen's footsteps pause.

"Golden flame?"

Kong Chan nods, then as if remembering something, his eyes show suspicion.

The means Luo Chen used to kill the corpse giant in the blood lake earlier seemed to be a kind of golden flame.

Could it be...

Luo Chen's eyes flicker; some of his speculations from back then were finally verified at this moment.

The dignified Primal Demon Sect was destroyed by the demonic beasts they had suppressed for three thousand years; the inside story was indeed not simple.

Inside, Sovereign Qixia personally took action!

Destroying the Primal Demon, burying the Abyss, causing the two major continents of the North Sea and Eastern Wasteland to be empty of strength, attracting the Heavenly Origin Dao Sect to send troops to occupy them.

Her ultimate goal was actually the Heavenly Origin Dao Sect.

And later, Sovereign Qixia indeed killed her way into the Central Plains.

But why didn't Sovereign Qixia take action against the Western Desert and Southern Frontier?

No!

Perhaps it wasn't that she didn't take action.

The Western Desert Buddhist Land was alert, closing the Hanging Temple in advance, and only opened the mountain gate after the Central Plains collapsed.

And in those years, the demon race in the Western Desert also moved out, which led to the Heavenly Origin Dao Sect sending troops.

As for the Southern Frontier?

With You Li Divine Lord stationed there, even Sovereign Qixia didn't dare to rashly kill her way to the mountain gate.

However, the Heavenly Origin Dao Sect later indeed sent people to the Southern Frontier, causing the Central Plains' strength to be empty, and Sovereign Qixia took advantage of the situation.

"Sovereign Qixia was so calculating, creating excellent conditions for her to attack the Central Plains; what was her purpose?"

"According to intelligence, the final battlefield of that battle in the Central Plains was Heaven-Earth Peak, and the Star Gate, one of the three treasures of the Dao Sect, was stationed on Heaven-Earth Peak."

"After Heaven-Earth Peak collapsed, the Star Gate organization disintegrated, and it is rumored that even the Spirit Treasure Star Gate went missing."

"Could Sovereign Qixia's ultimate goal be to seize the Star Gate?"

Luo Chen thinks carefully, his footsteps slowing down a lot.

No sound comes from his ear, he reminds: "Continue, talk about the recent attacks of the North Sea demon race on the three continents of the Heavenly Origin Dao Sect."

Kong Chan dares not neglect, telling everything he knows one by one.

"I don't know much about this either, I only know it was the order of the two ancestors."

"Some guess it's to avenge the hatred of the Heavenly Origin Dao Sect intervening in the North Sea battle over the past hundred years and obstructing the demon race from unifying the North Sea cultivation world."

"But from the little monk's perspective, the intensity of the retaliation is not high, at least no strong experts at the Great Demon Emperor level participated."

Luo Chen blinks, stopping in front of a high mountain that remains mostly intact.

The order of the two North Sea ancestors?

This might have something to do with Li Canghai.

He doesn't think further down; at least for now, Li Canghai is his ally.

An ally's ally might not be an ally, but without a real conflict of interest, they can't be counted as enemies.

"You go back!"

"Continue to station in Sea-Surging City, don't let anyone break into the Night-Demon Heaven and disturb my cultivation."

Kong Chan nods, hesitating before leaving.

"Master, the Fifth-Tier spiritual vein of the Night-Demon Heaven was shattered in the battle back then, so it is not suitable for breaking through the Soul Transformation realm."

Luo Chen smiles; he is not going to break through the Soul Transformation stage here.

It's just that the amount of Nine Heavens Sky Qi he has collected is quite large, so he can proceed to the next stage of refining.

"Thousand Sky Ten Thousand Transformation Sword Scripture", as a Fifth-Tier sword Dao technique, the master level in his hands can already deal with a Soul Transformation strike, but Luo Chen is not satisfied.

Only at Great Perfection can one truly threaten a Soul Transformation great master!

Luo Chen doesn't explain too much, waving his hand to signal Kong Chan to leave.

After this place becomes completely quiet, Luo Chen walks step by step along the broken mountain body toward the mountain waist platform that was cut off by a sword.

Along the way, he occasionally casts out array flags, personally taking action to organize the flow of the earth's veins.

Three days later.

When Luo Chen's footsteps step onto the flat mountain waist.

The Fourth-Tier spiritual vein deep inside this great mountain has been organized, providing Luo Chen with considerable spiritual energy.

Throwing it casually.

Dong!

The Nine Heavens Urn stands steadily on the ground.

Luo Chen sits cross-legged, pinches a sword seal, and inhales.

Immediately, a strand of purple Sky Qi flies out from the black urn, is inhaled into his body, and the magic power begins to circulate and refine rapidly.

As if sensing it, the condensed Thousand Sky Sword Seed also begins to spin. ===== CHAPTER 1008 =====

Luo Chen sat cross-legged, formed a sword seal, and inhaled through his mouth.

Immediately, a wisp of purple-tinged Xia Qi flew out from the large black urn and was drawn into his body, his magic power circulating as he began to refine it rapidly.

As if sensing it, that condensed Thousand Xia Sword Seed also began to spin rapidly.