Chapter 1057: One Body, Two Souls; Right Envoy of the Luo Sect

That Xu Muxian was able to form a Nascent Soul was quite beyond Luo Chen's expectations.

After all, he had only taken him as a named disciple back then because he had some talent in medicinal herbs; in terms of cultivation, Luo Chen actually didn't think much of him.

The other party's Dao heart was not firm, his cultivation was not particularly diligent, and he had started a family at a young age.

If it hadn't been for Luo Chen's constraints, he feared he would have broken his primordial yang body before Foundation Establishment.

Yet he never expected that the other party would have such great fortune later on.

Perhaps it wasn't some fortuitous encounter, but rather that the other party's state of mind had changed, and he was willing to leave the comfortable Du Du Feiyan Archipelago to venture into the North Sea alone.

And that Cheng Haixin was able to reach Nascent Soul formation was within Luo Chen's expectations.

After Cheng Haixin reached Foundation Establishment, she began to cultivate the "Senior Qingyang Alchemy Canon" Luo Chen had left behind. This so-called "Senior Qingyang Alchemy Canon" was actually improved by Luo Chen from the top-tier Core Formation secret technique "Micro-Dust Origin Art."

Later, before Luo Chen returned to the East Wasteland after Nascent Soul formation, he came to the Du Du Feiyan Archipelago once.

That visit was not only to spend time with Cheng Haixin, but Luo Chen also specifically left behind a large amount of cultivation resources.

Core Formation-stage cultivation elixirs, auxiliary elixirs, cultivation insights, experience and techniques for breaking through to the Nascent Soul realm, and even a Nascent Soul Formation Pill!

Over the next few hundred years, Luo Chen traveled to the North Sea twice.

Both times, Luo Chen did not meet with the other party.

One reason was that he was in a hurry, and the other was that he didn't want his appearance to affect the other party's cultivation.

He even felt, after Sima Hui Niang's failed breakthrough, that concern leads to chaos, and cultivation is ultimately something one must face alone!

However, during his two trips to the North Sea, Luo Chen would use his divine sense to check on Cheng Haixin's cultivation progress.

From the mid-stage to late-stage Core Formation, until now, when Luo Chen timed his return perfectly to see her breaking through to the Nascent Soul realm.

"Although she has spent her whole life without leaving the Du Du Feiyan Archipelago, lacking experience and combat practice, this Dao heart that can guard a small island in solitude and endure the loneliness of bitter cultivation is rare in this world."

Luo Chen felt a sense of relief, his face showing satisfaction.

While closing one's door to build a cart is not advisable, there are bitter cultivation methods in this world that can similarly temper one's state of mind.

At the very least, he, Luo Chen, could not have stayed in the same place for hundreds of years without feeling any boredom.

However, while Luo Chen was satisfied, Xu Muxian on the side was slightly worried.

"Master, although the momentum of Master's wife's lightning tribulation is not vast, the means she is using to cross the tribulation are not powerful enough!"

Luo Chen hummed, indicating agreement.

The intensity of the lightning tribulation varies from person to person.

The deeper one's foundation, the more terrifying the lightning tribulation one encounters, just like Luo Chen back then, which was a narrow escape from death.

Although he didn't encounter a heart-demon tribulation, he did encounter the killing tribulation of Han Zhan's possession after successfully forming his Nascent Soul.

Cheng Haixin was different; her magic treasures were only of superior quality, not reaching the level of true treasures, and her Dao techniques could not be considered particularly exquisite.

At this moment, she was quite disheveled within the lightning tribulation.

Xu Muxian couldn't help but say, "Master, why don't you intervene to help?"

Luo Chen shook his head. "Don't you know that if an outsider intervenes, the power of the lightning tribulation will increase several-fold?"

Xu Muxian's worship of Luo Chen was almost blind. "But with your Soul Transformation ability, Master, even if the lightning tribulation increased several or dozens of times, I imagine it would be nothing to you!"

"Haha."

Luo Chen laughed at himself.

"If I were still at the Nascent Soul realm, even if it meant angering the heavenly tribulation and bringing its judgment upon me, I would have intervened to help her cross the tribulation. In fact, I have indeed done such things back then, and I succeeded."

"But the problem is that I am now at the Soul Transformation realm."

"Once one enters this realm, one grasps the authority of laws, and the spirit merges with heaven and earth, making oneself almost identical to this world. If I intervene, it would be a confrontation between me and the entire world. The intensity of the lightning tribulation would no longer increase by several or dozens of times, but rather..."

Luo Chen took a deep breath, as if the scene of the Heaven-Abyss Ancestor of the Mingyuan Sect using the forbidden technique of mutual destruction to draw down the lightning tribulation and blast the Qixia Yuanjun appeared before his eyes.

That was what kind of vast might!

Even someone as strong as Qixia Yuanjun was left in a sorry state, trapped on Cangwu Mountain for decades.

He currently did not have Qixia's ability and could not withstand that kind of backlash from heaven and earth.

Furthermore, if he really intervened to help, under the anger of the heavenly tribulation, even just the aftermath would be far stronger than the lightning tribulation Cheng Haixin was currently enduring.

That would truly be a case of good intentions leading to bad results.

"Let's see her own fortune!"

"If she can carry through, she will gain five hundred years of lifespan and achieve the realm of a True Person. If she fails, with me here, I can at least preserve her life. Even if she has to cultivate again and break through once more, it is not impossible."

Luo Chen's tone was resolute when he said this, filled with great confidence.

Haixin was different from Sima Hui Niang; the former had already crossed the heart-demon tribulation and only had to face external forces. Even if she failed, it would only be some physical injuries. Sima Hui Niang, however, had suffered true damage to her spirit and soul, and her lifespan had reached its limit; at that time, Luo Chen was truly unable to save her, and even with all his strength, he could only extend her life by one year.

But the current Luo Chen, preserving Cheng Haixin's life from the heavenly tribulation, was indeed not a difficult task.

With these words from Luo Chen, Xu Muxian finally set his heart at ease.

Compared to his once-stern Master, his Master's wife, Cheng Haixin, had given him more care, and back when he was at Foundation Establishment, it was thanks to her guidance.

Therefore, Xu Muxian had rushed back to protect her even after receiving the news from ten thousand miles away, and at this moment, he was the person most afraid of Cheng Haixin failing.

Luo Chen, however, appeared very open-minded, not only paying attention to Cheng Haixin's tribulation situation but also diverting his attention to the other battlefield.

Even though the Lord of the Heaven-Splitting Stream had extraordinary strength, having once had the proud record of fighting three peers of the same realm alone while at the third level of Nascent Soul, and having made a great name for himself after advancing to the mid-stage.

Yet, in the face of Kong Chan's strength as a Great Demon Emperor for hundreds of years, he was still unable to keep up.

Especially those two great true treasures, the Morning Bell and Evening Drum, which were quite miraculous. With the added Buddhist chants, the terrifying sound waves affected the soul, and the Lord of the Heaven-Splitting Stream could not even exert one or two tenths of his combat ability.

On the battlefield, from the very beginning, the Lord of the Heaven-Splitting Stream had fallen into a disadvantage.

Moreover, that space was restricted by Luo Chen.

He couldn't win the fight, and he couldn't escape.

Suddenly!

Luo Chen raised an eyebrow. "Interesting, interesting!"

Xu Muxian on the side was puzzled.

And on that battlefield, a strange change suddenly occurred.

A black mist spread out from the scarred Lord of the Heaven-Splitting Stream.

"Old ghost, if you don't act now, when will you?"

Following the Lord of the Heaven-Splitting Stream's loud shout, a black skull sitting on a white lotus flower emerged from the black mist.

The white lotus petals bloomed one by one, blocking the layers of sound waves on the outside.

Then!

Boom!

The white lotus exploded!

It forcibly blasted a gap in the trap Kong Chan had set.

The black skull did not hesitate in the slightest, turning and running through the opened gap.

As for the Lord of the Heaven-Splitting Stream, who was within the range of the white lotus's self-detonation, let alone running away, he was caught off guard and his physical body was blasted into powder.

Only a Nascent Soul remained, clutching his natal magic treasure and holding a storage bag, blankly sucked into the Morning Bell.

Before entering, as if he had reacted, he muttered a curse.

"Old ghost, you will die a horrible death."

After seizing the opportunity to collect the Lord of the Heaven-Splitting Stream's Nascent Soul, Kong Chan's blood and energy surged, and his entire body's magic power was in turmoil.

He looked at the self-detonating white lotus and the small black dot that had disappeared into space and reappeared a hundred miles away after a breath, showing a look of helplessness.

A Nascent Soul escaping through space, and the other party seemed extremely skilled in escape techniques; he couldn't stop him.

He truly hadn't expected that there was another person's Nascent Soul residing within the Lord of the Heaven-Splitting Stream.

But the next moment, the helpless Kong Chan was stunned.

In the distance, that small black dot stopped in the air, motionless.

On the pitch-black little face, a distinct look of fear was revealed.

Kong Chan turned his head and looked far away; the white-robed Daoist on Sea-Gazing Cliff was still standing there, as if he hadn't done anything at all.

But this kind of unshowy, unpretentious action had rendered the Nascent Soul cultivator's strongest escape technique powerless.

"Is this the means of a Soul Transformation powerhouse? Truly, they have heaven-reaching and earth-shattering abilities!"

Kong Chan swallowed hard and drove the Morning Bell to collect the black Nascent Soul, whose eyes were darting around wildly.

Afterward, he flew back to Luo Chen's side quickly.

"Master, I have not failed the mission."

"Hmm."

Luo Chen nodded slightly, took the Morning Bell, and swept it with his divine sense, his mouth curling up slightly.

So it was this fellow!

Old Ghost Nan Qi!

An existence he had met once at the Mo Lan Court. If nothing went wrong, this person was not a native North Sea cultivator but a Nascent Soul True Person from the Luo Sect in the Southern Frontier, whose real name was Nan Yiqi.

His position in the sect was not low, listed as the Right Envoy, on par with the Luo Sect's Left Envoy, Bei Puti.

Later, he stole a heavy treasure, betrayed the Luo Sect, and came to the North Sea cultivation world to live a life of leisure.

He didn't know what kind of bad luck he had run into to end up with his physical body destroyed and only his Nascent Soul residing in the Lord of the Heaven-Splitting Stream.

"Master, how should we deal with these two?"

"No rush."

Luo Chen waved his hand, signaling Kong Chan to put away the two Nascent Souls.

Everyone knew what the most urgent matter was at the moment.

After Kong Chan put away the Morning Bell, his gaze fell on the tribulation-crossing place at Ten-Mile Pinghu. It was already at the end of the tribulation, and after just one look, he couldn't help but exclaim in surprise.

"Although the Master's wife's strength is not particularly powerful, the means she prepared for crossing the tribulation are quite numerous!"

Under the gaze of the three, and with countless Du Du Feiyan cultivators looking up, facing the final wave of lightning tribulation, Cheng Haixin had displayed all her means.

A talisman transformed into a blue light curtain, enveloping her entire body.

Then, a silk scarf swirled, a short spear struck the lightning, and she even sacrificed a thick turtle shell to block in front of her.

Only a heaven-shaking thunderclap was heard exploding suddenly in the void!

Boom!

The thick turtle shell shattered.

The silk scarf was torn into countless fragments, and the blue light curtain derived from the talisman also could not bear the burden, turning into streams of light and dissipating.

But under the triple protection, this final wave of lightning tribulation was ultimately carried through.

Afterward, sweet rain fell from heaven, and spiritual energy poured in.

A weak Nascent Soul escaped into the air, accepting the gifts of heaven and earth in large gulps.

Under such thirsty drinking, the condition of the little Nascent Soul gradually improved.

A moment later, finally unable to bear the fatigue, it disappeared from the void and returned to the physical body.

With this, the tribulation crossing ended.

The breakthrough was successful!

On the Du Du Feiyan Archipelago, countless people who witnessed this scene issued cheers of joy.

On the Sea-Gazing Cliff side, Xu Muxian felt a sense of relief, and Kong Chan also offered his congratulations.

"Congratulations, Master, the Master's wife has successfully crossed the tribulation and become a Nascent Soul True Person!"

Luo Chen was also in a great mood, casually taking out two bottles of elixirs and rewarding the two.

Xu Muxian didn't understand what these elixirs were, but Kong Chan, upon getting them and taking a sniff, showed a look of wild joy.

It was the Great Soul Pill!

The best tonic elixir for refining the foundation of the soul.

For them, demon cultivators, it was far superior to all cultivation elixirs.

Sure enough, his choice to follow Luo Chen was the wisest decision; this one bottle of elixir alone was enough to save him a hundred years of bitter cultivation.

"You two do as you please; I'm going to go see Haixin."

Leaving behind these words, Luo Chen drifted away.

Ten-Mile Pinghu, Invitation Moon Island.

In the lake, blue sea snakes were swimming freely. The pressure of the lightning tribulation made them afraid, but after the tribulation ended, the sweet rain falling from heaven was a great gift to them.

A white-robed Daoist landed suddenly, attracting the attention of the sea snakes, and some even revealed their ferocious blue teeth.

But after the Daoist glanced at them, these sea snakes lowered their heads inexplicably, showing obedience.

"Hundreds of years have passed, and they've grown quite fat; there's even a Blue-Tooth Sea Snake King."

Luo Chen chuckled and strode into the palace.

A woman with a weak aura was sitting cross-legged on a prayer mat, opening her eyes in surprise as she looked at Luo Chen.

"Husband, you're back!"

She struggled to get up, but was pressed down by an invisible force.

"Do not act rashly. Although you successfully crossed the lightning tribulation, your depletion is too great. If you don't seize the time to recuperate and stabilize, there is still a risk of your realm falling."

Luo Chen said while flicking his fingers repeatedly.

Medical spells were cast from his hands, landing on Cheng Haixin, who had opened her heart.

Several more elixirs were taken out by Luo Chen and given to her to take.

Gradually, her ruined body gave birth to new life, and her weak aura gradually became robust and strong.

Half an hour later.

The most dangerous moment was finally overcome.

Cheng Haixin finally regained her senses.

"Husband."

Simple two words, yet they seemed to contain thousands of words.

Luo Chen walked up, embraced her, and kissed her forehead affectionately.

"Stabilize your realm well; I will wait for you to come out of seclusion."

"Hmm."

The woman responded softly, her face flushed red, filled with anticipation.

She had formed her Nascent Soul, her lifespan had greatly increased, and she would have plenty of time to accompany her beloved in the future.

It was just that she hadn't discovered that Luo Chen had already reached Soul Transformation.

After chatting for a while in the palace, Luo Chen specifically left behind a high-tier cultivation technique for her to switch to during her seclusion.

Afterward, he came to the side hall.

Kong Chan had already been waiting for a while.

The Morning Bell stood quietly within the great hall.

"Take them out!" Luo Chen said indifferently.

Kong Chan opened the Morning Bell, and two Nascent Souls bound by spiritual light were revealed before them.

As soon as he appeared, the Lord of the Heaven-Splitting Stream hurriedly kowtowed and bowed.

"Spare my life, Lord! It was this little one who was blind and offended your Dao companion. Spare my life!"

Luo Chen did not speak, but released his divine sense, forcibly invading the other's soul.

For someone who dared to provoke those close to him, no matter how much they begged for mercy, he could not let them go.

The soul-searching technique was overbearing and peerless.

In just an instant, the little Nascent Soul figure showed a dull look.

Clearly, Luo Chen had not cared about the other's sanity at all.

Old Ghost Nan Qi on the side watched with his heart and gallbladder split, trembling.

Half an hour later, Luo Chen crushed the little Nascent Soul figure with one hand.

The vast spiritual energy wanted to sweep out, but was firmly suppressed by Luo Chen, kneaded into a ball, and thrown to the side.

Such means were awe-inspiring.

"So, this is the so-called evil method of devouring Nascent Souls to increase cultivation!"

Luo Chen curled his lips, showing great disdain.

With his knowledge, he naturally distinguished the roots of the Lord of the Heaven-Splitting Stream's technique at a glance.

It originated from the Soul-Refining lineage of the Yuanmo Sect, but it followed the style of the Blood Sea lineage.

The Lord of the Heaven-Splitting Stream had even used it wrong!

The Blood Sea lineage borrowed soul techniques from the Soul-Refining lineage, but they were not used to increase one's own soul, but to refine Blood Gods.

This Lord of the Heaven-Splitting Stream was wishful thinking, actually wanting to devour others' Nascent Souls to help himself increase cultivation and condense his Primordial Spirit early, not even afraid that the lingering thoughts of the cultivator's Primordial Spirit would ruin the purity of his own soul.

"According to his memories, this technique was left behind by the Blood Nightmare Demon Luo, but it was you who improved it." Luo Chen turned his gaze, looking at Old Ghost Nan Qi with a half-smile. "Nan Yiqi, Right Envoy of the Luo Sect, Lie Tian kindly took you in, so why did you still harm him so secretly?"

Having his dark intentions spoken out loud, and his background revealed, Old Ghost Nan Qi's heart was in chaos.

"Lord, spare my life! I did not intend to harm him, but he was greedy himself..." Old Ghost Nan Qi explained while his thoughts turned rapidly; he knew that no matter how much he explained, the other party likely wouldn't let him go. The matter concerning Cheng Haixin could not be faked, but if he were to end up like Lie Tian, with his sanity gone and his Nascent Soul crushed, he could not accept that. That would mean losing even the chance to maintain his sanity and reincarnate.

Suddenly.

Old Ghost Nan Qi's heart skipped a beat, and he said tentatively, "Since the Lord knows my background, you must have been to the Southern Frontier or come into contact with people from the Luo Sect."

Luo Chen said indifferently, "So what if I have?"

Old Ghost Nan Qi gritted his teeth. "Since that is the case, then surely the Lord is curious about what the heavy treasure I stole from the Luo Sect back then was?"

"Oh?"

Luo Chen was truly interested. ===== CHAPTER 1058 =====