Chapter 1020

The Shouyang Discussion Assembly has ended!

When they came, dozens of escape lights gathered like stars.

When they left, they were in twos and threes, scattering with the wind.

Luo Chen stood with his hands behind his back on the peak of Shouyang Mountain, looking at those departing escape lights, his expression no longer as confident as before, but rather somewhat melancholy.

Behind him, Fairy Canglong and Gu Caiyi looked at the tall back with admiration.

The list of attendees was now in Fairy Canglong's hand.

"Thirteen upper sects, plus the loose cultivator Bo Hanjun, a total of twenty-five people; all those who left their names have agreed to make a move for Qi Qi Shixiong this time."

"In addition, there are four Nascent Soul True Persons from the Dongyang Sect who remained at the mountain gate; the Great Elder of Dongyang also promised to bring them along when the time comes."

"Qi Qi Shixiong, this time we will definitely succeed, right?"

Luo Chen did not answer, just pacing slowly along the edge of the cliff.

Gu Caiyi was best at observing expressions, and at this moment, seeing Luo Chen's melancholy side profile, she felt puzzled.

"Husband, why are you unhappy after orchestrating this matter? Is there a variable in it?"

Variable?

Luo Chen's footsteps paused, and he sighed slightly.

Of course there are variables!

What truly made everyone agree to this plan was the existence of two Soul Transformation beings!

Whether it was Deng Taiyue's pledge of allegiance by fiercely killing the two Dao Sect True Persons, or the strong alliance between the human and demon races of the Eastern Wasteland, or the temptation of the Ambrosia Pill's opportunity for Soul Transformation, they were ultimately just inducements.

Li Canghai of the North Sea and Qing Shuang of Cangwu Mountain—the participation of these two was the reassurance in everyone's hearts.

Human Soul Transformation Great Beings and Demon race fifth-grade Ancient Demons—in terms of numbers, they were not inferior to the Tianyuan Dao Sect, which now only had one Soul Transformation Great Being.

It was precisely because of this intuitive comparison that it instantly overwhelmed everyone's wavering thoughts.

However!

"Li Canghai and I are only nodding acquaintances; the so-called tacit understanding still depends on the other party's willingness."

"As for Qing Shuang... she didn't give me a direct answer as to whether she would make a move."

"In the end, we still have to rely on ourselves!"

Luo Chen thought so in his heart.

But verbally, he did not say these things.

Instead, he turned around and looked at the two women with gentle eyes.

"Fairy Canglong, how is the refining of that White Tiger puppet going?"

Fairy Canglong smiled slightly, "I have completely mastered it. Although this puppet was refined extremely cleverly, the manipulation technique is more in the style of the Luoyun Sect. I had a good friendship with Han Zhan in my early years, so I received his guidance; a hundred years is enough for me to refine it to perfection."

Luo Chen hummed, and said not without surprise: "With your current mid-stage Nascent Soul realm, you should be able to fight with this puppet for a long time

. In addition, I will give you fifty fourth-grade talismans; just smash them out at the critical moment."

Luo Chen actually had a very solid family foundation in his hands, and that was a huge number of fourth-grade talismans!

They were by-products of when he was comprehending the true meaning of fire laws through talisman making in the Dan Saint Blessed Land; most of them were the two fourth-grade magic spells, Fire Phoenix Raging Plains and Flame Dragon Birth, which had been suppressed in his hands with no place to use them.

These talismans were not inferior goods, but the best of the best!

You must know that Luo Chen had cultivated both magic spells to the Great Perfection level, and their power could be called unique under Soul Transformation; ordinary Nascent Soul True Persons couldn't block even one.

The Ice Fortress is good at making and using talismans; Luo Chen had known this since the early days from the Jueqing Fairy.

He believed that with this batch of talismans, plus a late-stage Nascent Soul White Tiger puppet, Fairy Canglong's combat power would definitely not be inferior to any Great Cultivator.

Gu Caiyi was stunned on the side, "You are at the mid-stage Nascent Soul?"

Fairy Canglong nodded slightly, looking at Luo Chen with a smile: "This is all thanks to Qi Qi Shixiong's grace. The things you left in my body back then, I have refined most of them after a hundred years; the mid-stage Nascent Soul realm was just a matter of course."

Gu Caiyi's eyes widened; what is "things left in the body?"

Luo Chen coughed awkwardly and explained in detail: "It was a portion of primordial energy of heaven and earth plus converted water-attribute origin magic power. Back then, I was eager for success and when I comprehended the origin of water, it caused a clash between the water and fire origins, even causing a change in heaven and earth. Caiyi, you should know about this. The situation was extremely critical at the time; although I relied on secret techniques to avoid it, my body was filled with too much primordial energy of heaven and earth. It was Fairy Canglong who sacrificed her purity and used her special physique, combined with dual cultivation methods, to save my life. After the matter was resolved, I left a portion of the excess primordial energy of heaven and earth in Fairy Canglong's heart aperture; that's roughly it."

After this explanation, Gu Caiyi finally understood why Fairy Canglong had progressed so much in a hundred years, leaping from just forming her Core to the mid-stage Nascent Soul realm.

At the same time, she was also very grateful to Fairy Canglong for sacrificing her purity... to save her husband.

Wait, sacrificing purity, dual cultivation methods, what is this again?

Gu Caiyi suddenly realized; no wonder after reuniting with her husband, Fairy Canglong had been by his side, traveling with her without avoiding suspicion.

Even when the Shouyang Discussion Assembly was held, she was sitting behind her husband.

In order to show her magnanimity, she didn't get angry, just thinking it was for her husband to "decorate the facade."

Now that she thinks about it, she had unknowingly ignored a lot during those hundred years when she was quietly breaking through to the Nascent Soul stage!

Regarding the resentful gaze cast by Gu Caiyi, Luo Chen pretended not to see it, but opened his mouth and spat out a five-colored light group.

He rubbed his hands, and the five-colored light group dispersed into five separate sword pellets.

Fairy Canglong just took one look and exclaimed in surprise.

"Is this the batch of sword pellets you specifically refined with heavenly thunder when I was undergoing the tribulation, Qi Qi Shixiong?"

Luo Chen nodded lightly and then looked solemnly at Gu Caiyi.

"These are the Five Elements Sword Pellets, each one belongs to the category of True Artifacts, painstakingly refined by your husband."

"Separately, they are unparalleled in sharpness; combined, their power is magnificent, and they can form the Great Five Elements Sword Array, roaming the Nascent Soul realm without any problems!"

"Caiyi, you have just formed your Nascent Soul, your magic treasure foundation is insufficient, and it has not been tempered by the thunder tribulation into a True Artifact, so it is of little help to your current combat. I will temporarily give you these five sword pellets, and leave behind an array diagram and a large amount of magic power. When the time comes, you can forcibly activate the Great Five Elements Sword Array to deal with all enemies!"

Gu Caiyi showed hesitation and did not reach out to take them.

She looked at Luo Chen in confusion: "With such magnificent power, these treasures should be even more powerful in your hands, Husband; why give them to me?"

Luo Chen smiled gently: "Remember the old man who went to the Luo Tian Sect?"

Gu Caiyi subconsciously said: "Zhou Yunshen?"

Luo Chen smiled, as if recalling the past: "Yes, he is the ancestor of the Zhou family in the Central Continent. When I met him, it was even before the Central Continent, at that time their family was still in the North Sea. I reached a cooperative relationship with him in secret; once I make a move against the Central Continent, the Zhou family will inevitably be affected afterwards. Therefore, you need to do one thing for me: when we attack the Dongyuan Continent, you go to the Tiannan Continent and pick up the important clansmen of the Zhou family and bring them back to the Eastern Wasteland."

Gu Caiyi nodded subconsciously and then went to take the five-colored sword pellets.

And the moment her hand grasped the sharp sword pellets, she suddenly raised her head.

"Husband, are you deliberately sending me away, not wanting me to participate in the frontal battlefield?"

Luo Chen smiled and shook his head, "Why would you think that? This matter is your husband's promise; if the Zhou family suffers, wouldn't your husband be breaking his word? Moreover, that Zhou Yunshen traveled thousands of miles to the Luo Tian Sect before his limit arrived, which shows the importance of this matter. There are not many people I can fully trust; Caiyi, you won't let your husband down, will you!"

Gu Caiyi put away the sword pellets with half-belief, "Caiyi will complete this matter perfectly and will definitely not let Husband down."

"Hmm, then hurry up and spend some time simply refining these five sword pellets and this array diagram. There are still three years left, which is barely enough."

Gu Caiyi took an array diagram from Luo Chen's hand and left in a hurry.

Fairy Canglong stood on the side, her eyes filled with envy.

She could feel Luo Chen's partiality towards Gu Caiyi, which contained a gentle love different from that between herself and Luo Chen.

This was something she hadn't seen between Luo Chen and President Sima Hui Niang; towards President Sima Hui Niang, Luo Chen showed more responsibility.

However, regarding that array diagram, Fairy Canglong had a familiar feeling again.

Great Five Elements Sword Array?

Coupled with the rich puppet manipulation style of the Luoyun Sect on the White Tiger puppet earlier.

Fairy Canglong brought up Han Zhan inappropriately.

"Qi Qi Shixiong, you and Han Zhan?"

Luo Chen said frankly: "There are some grievances and entanglements, it's a long story."

Fairy Canglong said thoughtfully: "Since that's the case, then don't say it."

"It's okay, telling you about it is fine." Luo Chen's gaze was distant, and he spoke of the past.

From being imprisoned together in Cangwu Mountain, to the North Sea, and finally to the life-and-death struggle between the two on Dragon Abyss Island in the Demon Sea.

Bit by bit, when the words were finished, the moon was already in the middle of the sky.

The more Fairy Canglong listened, the more silent she became; the friend from before was actually such a person with deep schemes and evil intentions.

In the end.

Fairy Canglong sighed lightly: "Knowing people, knowing faces, but not knowing their hearts; this concubine never thought there would be such a turn of events."

Luo Chen waved his hand, "The tree that stands above the forest will be destroyed by the wind; some people use my pill refining skills, some covet my physical body, and some take a fancy to my extraordinary combat power; I am used to it, truly used to it."

He took a step forward, standing between the cliffs and precipices, facing the mountain wind, his robes fluttering.

"But after this battle, no one will ever be able to disrespect me again!"

The woman looked at the tall and straight figure that seemed to be able to stand up to heaven and earth, her eyes full of reverence.

……

After everyone in the Shouyang Hall agreed to help Luo Chen, this discussion assembly was declared over.

To prevent the news from leaking, everyone made a Great Dao oath together.

After the matter was over, they could reveal the inside story to the outside world.

And before making a move against the Central Continent, Luo Chen left everyone two years.

These two years were for them to return to their respective sects and arrange all kinds of matters, so that if anyone fell on the battlefield, the sect would not be leaderless and in chaos.

In addition, Luo Chen also made a not-so-small promise.

Apart from the Ambrosia Pill, if anyone falls in this battle and the sect's strength is greatly damaged, he, Luo Chen, and the Luo Tian Sect will protect the other party's sect.

This promise covers the thirteen Nascent Soul upper sects and lasts for a thousand years.

As long as Luo Chen is still here, as long as the Luo Tian Sect is still here!

With this, everyone felt relieved and left Shouyang Mountain full of ambition.

Along with the return of these people, some relatively important information about the discussion assembly also spread to all parts of the Eastern Wasteland.

Under the vigorous promotion of Dan Sect, the human and demon races finally reached a ceasefire treaty!

The human-demon war, which had lasted for two hundred years and had been vacant for a hundred years in the middle, slowly drew its curtain.

Next, the Eastern Wasteland cultivation world will usher in a peaceful time lasting a thousand years.

A thousand years is a long time for any existence.

Even for a Nascent Soul True Person, their lifespan is only about a thousand years at most.

Therefore, no one thought about what would happen after a thousand years; people only knew that they no longer had to worry about sudden attacks by large groups of demon beasts, and they could live with peace of mind.

Dan Sect's reputation rose once again because of this matter.

It was even raised to an unimaginable level!

Whether it was the Great Elder of Dongyang, known as a perfect Nascent Soul, or Tian Douzi, whose formation Dao was superb, or even Jiuling Yuanjun, whose combat power was unparalleled, none could be mentioned in the same breath as Luo Chen.

The entire Eastern Wasteland was singing the praises of Luo Chen's prestige and his various deeds.

And while the Eastern Wasteland cultivation world was celebrating because of the ceasefire, Luo Chen's figure had already crossed the ocean and arrived at the "Central Continent" once again.

It's just that this time it was no longer the Tiannan Continent, but the ancestral court of the Dao Sect—the Dongyuan Continent!

This territory was actually not unfamiliar to him.

In the past, when he participated in the Cave Heaven Competition, it was in the Mirage Dragon Cave Heaven below Heaven and Earth Peak. And Heaven and Earth Peak, following the Shi River upwards, is the Lankeshan Mountain Range.

Later, when he left the Central Continent and returned to the Eastern Wasteland, he also walked in the direction of the Dongyuan Continent.

Now he is just retracing the path he came from.

Blending into the Dongyuan Continent was not difficult for Luo Chen; he was already good at hiding and restraining his aura.

Coupled with the fact that the current Dongyuan Continent was ushering in a Jiazi Competition after a hundred and sixty years, it was even more suitable for him to sneak in.

Luo Chen found a Foundation Establishment cultivator from a fallen cold-door family and replaced him.

Through his meticulous body-refining attainments, he changed his appearance to be the same. He obtained the other party's cultivation technique, practiced it slightly, and it was at the perfect master level, with his magic power aura being exactly the same.

In this way, Luo Chen finally entered the ancestral court of the Dao Sect, the Lankeshan Mountain Range, two years later!

The Jiazi Competition was being held in full swing!

This competition was one hundred and sixty years after the previous five-hundred-year Cave Heaven Competition.

It should have been held every hundred years, but it was delayed because of the Central Continent Great Tribulation. It took sixty years for it to be held again.

Under such circumstances, the Tianyuan Dao Sect attached great importance to this competition.

It was both to pick good seedlings and to enhance the sect's cohesion.

It was to use martial arts competitions to show that the Tianyuan Dao Sect was still strong and still the strongest human Holy Land in the world!

Therefore, the Tianyuan Dao Sect tried its best to make this competition perfect from beginning to end.

From the Qi Refining stage, to the Foundation Establishment stage, and then to the Core Formation stage, it was conducted in three major stages.

Then these three major stages were divided into the Dongyuan, Tiannan, and Libei continents to conduct the selection and competition of excellent disciples.

Each continent and each realm would produce ten people.

In the end, only the top ninety people could compete in the Lankeshan Mountain Range.

The winners would receive generous rewards.

Luo Chen didn't care about the ranking; he only cared about one person.

The man in white, Zhou Fuyou, who had strongly defeated an opponent on the ring.

This was the first time Luo Chen had seen his clone.

His appearance was completely different from his own, his personality was also completely different from what Bai Qi had reported, and even his magic power was as majestic and deep, even more so than himself at the same realm back then.

The only point that was somewhat similar was probably that outstanding magic spell!

"It's a pity, only at the ninth level of Core Formation, ultimately not having reached the Nascent Soul stage."

Luo Chen sighed faintly in his heart.

But he knew that he couldn't ask for too much.

At most, Zhou Fuyou was not even a hundred years old.

For an ordinary person, forming a Core at a hundred years old is already a genius among geniuses, so how could it be possible to form a Nascent Soul at a hundred years old?

He shook his head secretly, and ignoring the high-level powerhouses of the Tianyuan Dao Sect above, he quietly exited the Lankeshan Mountain Range.

He walked alone to the side of the Shi River, which flows east and never returns, waiting secretly.

I don't know how much time passed, but a figure also appeared behind him.

"You're here."

"Yes, I'm here."

"I thought Senior wouldn't come."

"Why is Little Friend so impatient? There is still one year until the formation is activated. By then, Liancheng will be unable to attend to everything, and the various Nascent Soul powerhouses of the Tianyuan Dao Sect must be stationed at various formation nodes. That will be the best time for us to make a move."

While speaking, the owner of the vicissitudes voice had already walked to Luo Chen's side, watching the rolling eastward Shi River under their feet together with him.

It was none other than the North Sea Great Being, Li Canghai!