Chapter 1014: Luotian
Bi Kong Golden Domain, a place where no one can survive.
The black-robed Daoist sat cross-legged before the golden tiger, his Primordial Spirit already condensed, his spiritual sense slowly sinking into the sea of consciousness of the golden giant tiger.
During this process, the demonic beast before him always had an instinctive resistance, yet before Luo Chen's powerful spiritual sense, it had no power to resist.
Finally, once again, Luo Chen reached the depths of Di Tu's soul.
There, a faint green mark flickered, seemingly about to dissipate at any moment, yet it had always tenaciously survived.
Seeing the green mark, Luo Chen couldn't help but praise.
"As expected of a Soul Transformation Great Power; this slave mark left by Chun Yuan has actually survived for a hundred years, truly incredibly stubborn!"
Di Tu, son of the Ancient Demon.
Back then, the peace talks between the human and demon races in the Bi Kong Domain failed, and after a great battle, the Ancient Demon Di Tian fell.
At the moment of his fall, his majestic magic power swept across the surroundings, destroying everything in the Bi Kong Domain.
Only his offspring was preserved.
Not only that, Di Tu had also slumbered here for over a hundred years, continuously absorbing the residual power of the Ancient Demon.
It was a pity that the Bi Kong Domain was the hinterland of the Eastern Wasteland human race; how could they let him lie there and slumber while absorbing power at his leisure?
The Chun Yuan Great Power from the Central Plains discovered this place.
Chun Yuan could have killed it, but perhaps she was coveting an Ancient Demon seed, so she didn't deal a fatal blow, only leaving a slave mark, preparing to take it under her wing once it awakened.
However, Chun Yuan herself probably didn't expect that she would fall at Broken Soul Cliff.
Originally, according to Luo Chen's calculations, Chun Yuan was dead, and her carefully arranged slave mark would gradually dissipate with time.
But looking at it now, Chun Yuan's attainments in this aspect were not something that could be erased by time.
Or rather, not something that could be done in the time of a hundred years.
Luo Chen observed carefully for a long while, and already had a count in his heart.
"It is indeed a slave mark constructed by spiritual sense, so even if only one thought remains, it is still fresh and long-lasting, existing forever."
"Back then, not arrogantly attempting to use powerful soul power to break this slave mark was my vigilance; otherwise, if I wasn't careful, Di Tu might have fallen."
"Not only that, the slave mark also left behind a magic power containing the origin of wood."
"Breaking the spiritual sense slave mark is not difficult for me now; as for this wood origin magic power..."
Luo Chen narrowed his eyes, thinking carefully.
About a few days later, Luo Chen's spirit was lifted.
He carefully pressed his palm in the air toward Di Tu's head, and a wisp of green magic power slowly spat out.
Luo Chen's magic power was fire-attribute magic power polished with painstaking effort for hundreds of years, overbearing and fierce, with extremely strong destructive power. This green magic power, however, was incomparably gentle, making
people feel like they were bathing in a spring breeze. The two looked incompatible, but now, after Luo Chen displayed it, there was no sense of disharmony.
It was nothing more than converting the magic power attribute, which was not difficult for him.
What was difficult was that Luo Chen's magic power did not contain the origin power of fire, but rather the true meaning of withering and flourishing.
Everything around was metal-attribute heaven and earth spiritual energy; if Luo Chen wanted to continuously display the withering and flourishing magic power, he could only rely on his own foundation.
"Let's take it bit by bit!"
"With my persistent grinding, it won't take a few years to completely wear away Chun Yuan's slave mark."
"By then, I will be able to possess a Fourth-Rank Great Demon Emperor who has mastered the origin power of gold; this will definitely be a great help for my march on the Central Plains!"
In the Bi Kong Golden Domain, time seemed to have slowed down, everything was lukewarm.
But in the outside world, in the entire Eastern Wasteland, it was boiling over.
As Xiao Bai and Hei Wang sent invitations to the various mountain gates, a piece of news spread like wildfire.
【Dan Sect Luo Chen, Shouyang Dao Discussion】
In this news, both the name Dan Sect Luo Chen and the Shouyang Dao Discussion, which was extremely popular during the human-demon war, were famous.
Combining the two, it had even more weight.
And the reason that truly made the Eastern Wasteland boil was only one!
Opportunity for Soul Transformation!
It was said that Dan Sect Luo Chen would exchange experiences on breaking through to Soul Transformation with all the Nascent Soul True Persons of the Eastern Wasteland at the Shouyang Mountain Dao Discussion Assembly.
This sounded somewhat ridiculous, after all, Luo Chen hadn't ascended to Soul Transformation yet!
But don't forget the title "Dan Sect"!
If he had refined some miraculous elixir that could help people break through to the Soul Transformation stage, that was also highly possible.
Especially a hundred years ago, the Dan Sect made a grand gesture and brought out ten Nascent Soul Pills in one breath, allowing the major sects of the Eastern Wasteland, whose top powerhouses were empty after the war, to catch their breath; this was a clear proof.
The Dan Sect already had a reputation guarantee in refining realm-breaking elixirs.
It could be said that whether it was the vast network of contacts Luo Chen had built relying on high-level alchemists, the grace of the Nascent Soul Pills a hundred years ago, or the thirst of cultivators for the opportunity for Soul Transformation, all made countless Eastern Wasteland powerhouses flock toward Lingtian Pass.
Shouyang Mountain was in Lingtian Pass.
This place was originally the core area of the Eastern Wasteland cultivation world!
Its border coverage alone encompassed five Nascent Soul supreme sects, and it had once shone brightly in the two-hundred-year human-demon war, like a giant reef blocking the demon race's torrent firmly under Lingtian Pass.
Even after the war ended, Lingtian Pass still existed and became even more prosperous.
The resident population was over a million.
You must know,
these people were all genuine cultivators, not mortals.
Ordinary immortal cities only had tens of thousands to over a hundred thousand cultivators, while Lingtian Pass had millions of cultivators; this was already a super immortal city!
Looking at the Mountain and Sea Realm, one couldn't find a second existence that could be mentioned in the same breath.
And this number of cultivators was still increasing crazily as the date of the Shouyang Dao Discussion Assembly approached.
During the human-demon war, the city walls of Lingtian Pass were basically destroyed, and after the war ended, those ancient city walls were directly demolished.
Without the air-prohibition array covering the whole city, cultivators coming here were often straight and direct.
For a time, the sky above Lingtian Pass was filled with streaks of light, and cultivators were like rain; the prosperous scene was even more lively than the peak of the Eastern Wasteland before the human-demon war!
With more people, there would naturally be more fighting.
All kinds of vendettas, robberies, and disputes of spirit were staged in Lingtian Pass every day.
But this place was not entirely without order.
On every major prosperous street in the city, there were powerhouses from Golden Core great sects and even Nascent Soul supreme sects watching, to avoid unnecessary fighting affecting their business.
Furthermore, there was another behemoth standing above Lingtian Pass.
That was the "Lingtian Alliance"!
This was an alliance formed by the five Nascent Soul supreme sects bordering Lingtian Pass, led by the Fenghua Palace, assisted by the White Crane Sect, plus the Ten Thousand Swords Pavilion, the Hundred Beasts Sect, and the Dongyang Branch Sect; they held a large amount of Lingtian Pass's interests together.
Facing the terrifying flow of people brought by Luo Chen's restarting of the Shouyang Dao Discussion Assembly, the Lingtian Alliance reached a consensus from the beginning, leaving Shouyang Mountain vacant, waiting for Luo Chen's arrival.
From this aspect, the title "Dan Sect" indeed had a lot of weight.
Before he even arrived, just by his appeal, he made the local cultivators give up the "venue."
Not only that, the Alliance also dispatched a large number of cultivators to maintain order around Shouyang Mountain as much as possible.
Of course, the scope of this order maintenance was limited to cultivators below the Nascent Soul stage.
Regarding the fighting and competition between Nascent Soul True Persons, the Lingtian Alliance had no binding power.
The human-demon war had ended for over a hundred years, and the Eastern Wasteland cultivation world had also recovered a bit of vitality from the ruins, with powerhouses emerging one after another.
At this time of gathering, some newly ascended True Persons couldn't help but make a move to spar, and it was normal to make a name for themselves.
Even, it was not just newly ascended Nascent Soul True Persons; even some old-school powerhouses who had been famous for a long time had secretly fought privately after many years of loneliness.
Naturally, some battle records were released by interested people.
Among them, True Person Tai Yue from the Mount Tai Sect became the center of everyone's discussion!
Regardless of the former Eastern Wasteland
cultivation world, or the two-hundred-year human-demon war, True Person Tai Yue could not be considered a top existence.
The realm of the mid-stage Nascent Soul made him unable to compare with the Great Cultivators of the late Nascent Soul stage above, and it was also difficult to have absolute suppressive power against the early-stage Nascent Soul cultivators below.
But after the human-demon war ended, he went into seclusion for a full hundred years.
As soon as he came out of seclusion, it was the Dan Sect restarting the Shouyang Dao Discussion Assembly.
Then he successively made moves, challenging several Great Cultivators who had been famous for a long time.
Tian Du Zi of the Tian Du Sect!
True Person Peng Xiang of the White Deer Cave!
Nine Spirits Yuanjun of the Nine Spirits Sect!
These three, one was a grandmaster of array Dao, one was the Supreme Elder of the White Deer Cave; both had been famous for a long time.
And although Nine Spirits Yuanjun had only broken through to the Great Cultivator realm for over a hundred years, long before he broke through, he had the reputation of having magic power comparable to a Great Cultivator. Especially Nine Spirits Yuanjun had mastered a grand killing move comparable to a divine ability back then, once roaming the human-demon battlefield. Now that he had stepped into the late Nascent Soul stage for over a hundred years, his strength must have improved further.
It could be said that not one of these three was easy to deal with!
However, the battle records of True Person Tai Yue and these three people were a terrifying two wins and one draw!
Even if he had broken through to the Great Cultivator realm, he shouldn't have such overwhelming advantage, right?
This rumor made many people question its accuracy.
But those three Great Cultivators who stood at the peak of the Eastern Wasteland cultivation world did not come out to refute it.
This made people ponder.
Had True Person Tai Yue really soared into the sky, not only breaking through his realm, but also having his strength skyrocket to the point of suppressing peers?
Not long after, another piece of gossip circulated in the circle of Nascent Soul True Persons.
【True Person Tai Yue obtained the help of the Dan Sect, not only breaking through to the late Nascent Soul stage in one fell swoop, but also comprehending the true meaning of the Dao; if there are no accidents in the future, Soul Transformation is a matter of course.】
This news once again shocked the circle of True Persons.
Especially combined with the four words "Opportunity for Soul Transformation" written on the Dan Sect's invitation, this made people restless.
Who didn't know that True Person Tai Yue had been trapped at the sixth level of the Nascent Soul for a long time, and was also a single heavenly spirit root cultivator who cultivated the slowest in the Nascent Soul realm? If he could walk to this step, if they obtained the help of the Dan Sect, would they go further?
For a time, many people visited True Person Tai Yue, hoping to understand something about the Dan Sect first.
But True Person Tai Yue closed his door and refused to see anyone, only saying "Wait"!
Wait for what?
Everyone knew clearly that naturally, they were waiting for the official opening of the Shouyang Dao Discussion Assembly, waiting for the appearance of Dan Sect Luo Chen.
However, as time approached bit by bit, Dan Sect Luo Chen still hadn't appeared.
It was just that one day, a special team came to Lingtian Pass.
This team's
special feature lay in two points.
One point was that their strength was thick, far exceeding the major sects; even the White Deer Cave and the Dongyang Sect, whose strength was relatively well-preserved in the human-demon war, were not much higher compared to them.
A full six Nascent Soul True Persons led the team, and one of them was a fighting maniac who had defeated a Nascent Soul True Person across realms back then!
The second point was that their clothing was unified, all wearing magic robes embroidered with the Dan Ding Arching Sun logo.
And this Dan Ding Arching Sun sect emblem only existed in one place in the entire Eastern Wasteland.
That was the Luotian Sect!
In this way, everyone knew the origin of this special team.
The Luotian Sect founded by Dan Sect Luo Chen!
This also made countless cultivators even more shocked!
Who didn't know that back then, apart from Luo Chen, the Luotian Sect only had two or three kittens, and couldn't even produce a second Nascent Soul True Person.
Unexpectedly, in less than four hundred years of founding, six, no, counting the fighting maniac Wang Yuan, that was a full seven Nascent Soul True Person-level combat powers.
With such a foundation, the world no longer doubted the Dan Sect's ability.
A powerful alchemist was able to make a sect flourish.
Let alone the Dan Sect Luo Chen, who was known as the successor of the Dan Saint and the first in alchemy?
The Luotian Sect's powerhouses came out in full force; the first thing they did after coming to Lingtian Pass was to take over Shouyang Mountain from the Lingtian Alliance, then began to arrange the Dao Discussion Assembly venue, and entertained the many powerhouses who came from afar.
When all this was ready, everyone was waiting for that time point.
Seven years after the invitation was sent out, the seventh day of the seventh month!
Whether this time point had any special meaning, the world didn't know, but the date of the Shouyang Dao Discussion Assembly set by the Dan Sect was this day.
Whoosh!
In the sky, a cold light flashed by.
A man with an ordinary appearance but a vastly different temperament and white eyebrows pierced through the clouds and fog, crossing mountains and seas to come.
On his shoulder lay a centipede with six wings, spitting out cold air from time to time.
The man looked down at the centipede and muttered to himself: "I luckily broke through to the Nascent Soul stage relying on elixirs, but you are stuck at the Fourth Rank. I have already felt the ability of the Dan Sect. If I can get his help at this Shouyang Dao Discussion Assembly, perhaps you can also take the final step."
Just as the man was muttering, the wind and clouds in front suddenly changed color.
Boom!
Between heaven and earth, a roar sounded.
Then countless golden wind gang qi erupted, completely blocking this side of the sky.
The man's expression changed greatly, and he hurriedly stopped.
He was no stranger to the territory in front; it was known as the Bi Kong Absolute Domain, and was mentioned in the same breath as the nearby Absolute Spirit Domain.
One prevented living beings from entering, the other was not suitable for cultivators to cultivate; both were products of the human-
demon war back then.
It stood to reason that people were already used to these existences.
But why was there such an abrupt change?
He stared fixedly at the front.
Only to see that within the golden wind gang qi, a vortex was generated out of thin air, constantly rotating in the sky.
Like a funnel, countless golden winds flowed down toward it, then disappeared without a trace.
And the Bi Kong Absolute Domain, which blocked all living beings from entering, also began to disappear rapidly, countless golden winds disappearing strangely.
At the same time, an incomparably powerful aura spread toward all directions like crazy.
The white-browed man's eyes widened: "Great Cultivator?"
"No!"
"It's a Great Demon Emperor!"
The terrifying demon aura climbed step by step uncontrollably, soaring into the sky, breaking a big hole in the ten-thousand-mile clouds, revealing the clear blue sky.
The white-browed man's heart and soul were about to crack; how could such a terrifying Great Demon Emperor be hidden in the hinterland of the human race?
Just as he was about to run away.
Suddenly!
"It's not the time yet, stop!"
A calm voice sounded, and the demon aura that was climbing step by step suddenly stopped, then rolled back.
The white-browed man looked up, only to see that in the mountains, a huge golden tiger was lying on the ground, lying there respectfully.
And before it was a black-robed Daoist, reaching out and pressing on its head.
Under his hand, the golden giant tiger was as obedient as a house cat.
Was this still the Great Demon Emperor that made heaven and earth change color earlier?
Who was that black-robed Daoist?
The white-browed man swallowed his saliva, turning around and wanting to leave.
Unexpectedly, a voice fell into his ears leisurely.
"Meeting is fate, fellow Daoist, please stay."
The white-browed man took a deep breath, forcibly turning around, although he was looking down, he bowed to the black-robed Daoist.
"Junior Bo Han Jun, may I ask how to address the Senior?"
"Senior?" The black-robed Daoist's mouth curled slightly, saying slowly: "Luo Chen, you can also call me Dan Sect." ===== CHAPTER 1015 =====
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