Chapter 1062

Splash!

The murky waves parted, and the white-robed Daoist descended from the sky, standing in the black water.

His hands shimmered with fluorescence as he lowered himself to scoop up the peculiar existence revealing its brilliance in the huge pit left after the Heaven and Earth Peak was taken away.

However, this scoop was like fishing for the moon in water; he came up empty-handed.

"An illusion?"

Luo Chen was surprised.

With the strength of his spiritual sense, there were very few illusions in this world that could deceive him.

Luo Chen faintly guessed something, a look of extreme interest appearing on his face.

Without a second thought, two distinct forces—magic power and source power—were poured into his eyes. When he opened them, his red eyes and golden pupils appeared once again!

An existence that could deceive spiritual sense might not necessarily be able to deceive these eyes of his.

This was a pair of spirit eyes capable of breaking through emptiness, illusions, and even space; any demons or monsters would have nowhere to hide before them.

Sure enough!

After Luo Chen opened his red eyes and golden pupils, he finally detected the location of the light point.

It was an existence that looked like a pearl.

It was silently buried beneath the Heaven and Earth Peak.

His spiritual sense then swept over it, and the feeling it gave him was as if it were a small world.

Layers of white mist shrouded it, and black water seeped out from time to time.

In an instant, a name popped up.

"Mirage Dragon Cave Heaven!"

No wonder this object could deceive his spiritual sense.

The Mirage Dragon itself was a top-tier Great Wilderness beast, capable of transforming the sun, moon, and stars, and forming its own Cave Heaven paradise. After its death, its body was transformed by the Heavenly Origin Dao Sect into the Mirage Dragon Cave Heaven, but it still retained its hallucinogenic characteristics. Because of this characteristic, it also became the secret realm most suitable for the Heavenly Origin Dao Sect's disciples to train in.

Only, looking at it now, the rumors might be wrong.

"It's not the corpse, but its inner core!"

Luo Chen took a deep breath, a hint of excitement faintly appearing in his eyes.

Monster beasts also have inner cores, but they are mostly limited to low-rank ones.

Once they reach the Fourth-Rank Transformation stage, they will shatter their cores to form a Nascent Soul just like human cultivators, embarking on the path of monster cultivation.

But Wilderness beasts are consistent from beginning to end and rarely transform.

Therefore, their inner cores are truly where their essence lies.

Luo Chen didn't expect that the so-called Mirage Dragon Cave Heaven was essentially just the Mirage Dragon's inner core.

"The creation of heaven and earth is truly too wonderful. To our kind, it's just a Wilderness beast's inner core, but to the creatures inside, what difference does it have from a planetary world?"

"According to the memories of the split soul from back then, the Gu family, one of the Twelve Great Houses, used the difference in time flow within the Cave Heaven to cultivate ten-thousand-year spirit herbs."

"If I control this Cave Heaven, can I also follow suit?"

Luo Chen had never thought about using the Mirage Dragon Cave Heaven's time flow difference for cultivation; this method was too dangerous.

The Mirage Dragon Cave Heaven itself was not suitable for cultivator cultivation; the spiritual veins inside were scattered, and the spiritual acupoints were not formed. The last time Ke Lianshan and the Dao Sect disciples were able to cultivate inside was because the Lankeshan Chessboard absorbed spiritual energy and suppressed the Cave Heaven's spiritual veins.

Now that the Lankeshan Chessboard had been destroyed, the Cave Heaven's spiritual veins were bound to be disrupted again.

But unformed spiritual veins, while not suitable for cultivation, had little impact on the growth of plants and spirit herbs.

As long as the overall environment was there, as the years increased, the medicinal power would gradually condense.

Moreover, his current body-refining path had reached a bottleneck, and relying solely on body-refining techniques was difficult to break through; only that Monster-Demon Concentric Tree might be able to help him.

This Mirage Dragon Cave Heaven might be able to make the Monster-Demon Concentric Tree bear a fruit.

Of course, according to the research results left by Sang Jinghe before his death, cultivating the Monster-Demon Concentric Tree also required an indispensable condition: the heart essence blood of an Ancient Monster, Ancient Demon, or a high-rank Great Wilderness beast.

But for Luo Chen, that was not a difficult matter, as long as he was willing!

"Let's collect this treasure first!"

Luo Chen no longer hesitated and reached out again, scooping toward the pearl in the water.

This scoop felt as if he were scooping up a world.

Large masses of clouds and mist dispersed, the pitch-black, deep Ming water flowed gurglingly, and finally, Luo Chen lifted his hand with difficulty.

Looking up, it was soul-stirring.

A pearl in the palm, the Mirage Dragon Cave Heaven!

Luo Chen's spiritual sense probed inside, and the vast scene came into view, but the area of the Cave Heaven seemed to have shrunk many times compared to his memories.

"Is it because of the impact of the last great battle?"

When Luo Chen came back to his senses, his expression was somewhat uncertain.

"Not only has the area become smaller, but the time flow also seems to have shrunk a lot... Could it be that this secret realm is dying?"

The death of a secret realm sounds somewhat terrifying, but in the immortal cultivation world, it is the most common situation.

Secret realms themselves are mostly left behind by predecessors or composed of certain special spaces.

But if the foundation of the secret realm, such as arrays, treasures, or even spiritual veins and space, gradually collapses and decays, the entire secret realm will become unstable, eventually either dying or aligning with reality, becoming a part of this world.

Of course, in that case, the special nature of the secret realm would naturally cease to exist.

"There should still be time; if I can extract the Ming water that permeates the entire Cave Heaven and supplement it with restrictive arrays, I might be able to delay this process."

"For now, this secret realm still has great use for me!"

Luo Chen exhaled a breath of murky air and tucked the Mirage Dragon inner core into his bosom.

This object itself formed a Cave Heaven and could not be placed in a storage ring or the Hunyuan Cauldron.

Otherwise, the spaces would repel each other, and one side would eventually be burst or crushed and collapsed.

Putting away the Mirage Dragon inner core, Luo Chen looked into the distance, pondering silently in his heart.

Because of this unexpected gain, his ascension plan had temporarily changed, and time might be a bit insufficient.

"Must take a trip to the Wilderness!"

Eastern Wasteland, Alchemy Saint Blessed Land.

In a huge black lake.

Waves rolled, and a behemoth gradually emerged.

It looked silently toward the lakeside, where a woman with a hot figure and a neck as slender as a swan was waiting quietly.

Seeing the giant turtle emerge, the woman spoke.

"Xuanming, the Master has ordered us to rush to Cangwu Mountain immediately!"

After hearing this, the giant turtle Xuanming sprayed water columns from its nostrils, nodded silently, and stepped out of the Ming Lake with its four legs, which were as thick as heavenly pillars.

Tianxuan smiled slightly, "You wait at the entrance of the Blessed Land; I will notify the other two."

Tianxuan flew toward a canyon deep in the Blessed Land without stopping.

Before long, after she came out, Black King also followed, shaking his head and wagging his tail.

"Tianxuan, what great event is the Master doing this time, that he actually needs all of us to move out together?"

"The Master's order is to be carried out; why ask so many questions?"

"Tch, you little wench are using a chicken feather as an arrow again. If it's a wasted trip, be careful, or this King will beat you up."

"With your surprisingly slow escape speed, catch up to me first before you talk!"

The two were bickering as usual, but their movements were not slow.

When they arrived at the entrance of the Blessed Land, besides the giant turtle Xuanming, the monster monk Kong Chan was also already waiting.

There was also one other person, which was somewhat beyond Tianxuan's expectations.

"Mistress, why are you here?"

Gu Caiyi, dressed in gorgeous palace attire, asked calmly: "Can I not come?"

Tianxuan hurriedly waved her hand, "This servant didn't mean that, it's just that this trip is dangerous, and the place we are going is quite sensitive, which is why the Master only called the four of us."

Gu Caiyi looked around at the four: Black King and Xuanming were of the Wilderness beast type, while Kong Chan and Tianxuan were of the Monster beast type.

Clearly, the place they were going to was not suitable for human cultivators.

Moreover, being able to make Tianxuan, who was at the Nascent Soul realm, say it was dangerous showed that this trip was definitely not easy.

Gu Caiyi sighed, "I want to see him."

Tianxuan opened her mouth and finally nodded.

"Then let's set off together!"

As for the matters that followed, let the Master worry about them; why should she burden herself?

Four monsters and one human left the Blessed Land together.

They crossed the Nether Abyss, arrived at the Luo Tian Sect's mountain gate, and then took the teleportation array.

When they appeared again, they had arrived at a place filled with birdsong and fragrant flowers.

Gu Caiyi walked out of the underground teleportation hall, looking at Cangwu Mountain, where hundreds of birds circled and everything was lush and green, her eyes filled with deep curiosity.

"Is this the place where my husband achieved Soul Transformation, the legendary Feather Clan holy land, Cangwu Mountain?"

"Exactly!"

Tianxuan nodded, her eyes filled with reverence.

News regarding Luo Chen's Soul Transformation had gradually spread in recent years.

Whether it was the heavy losses suffered by the Wolf Clan in the Million Great Mountains or Luo Chen's appearances in the North Sea and Southern Frontier, all had played a huge role in the changes in the pattern of the major forces in the Mountain and Sea World today.

As the sect founded by Luo Chen, the Luo Tian Sect's news in this regard, although lagging, was not lacking in the slightest.

Especially with eyewitnesses like Tianxuan and Kong Chan.

In the distance, an ethereal voice rang out.

"Is this the Mistress?"

Gu Caiyi looked back and saw a woman with picturesque features and an extraordinary temperament walking over with a smile.

"Who is this?" Gu Caiyi asked curiously.

Tianxuan hurriedly explained: "This is Fairy Huamei, the current Hall Master of the Zhoukong Hall, and also the Master's disciple."

Gu Caiyi raised an eyebrow, "Disciple? Is it like Xu Muxian?"

Huamei smiled slightly, "Mistress is joking; Huamei is only the Master's nominal disciple."

Xu Muxian was also just a nominal disciple back then.

Gu Caiyi thought to herself.

She then looked around, faintly seeing gorgeous palaces on two mountain peaks in the distance.

The highest one must be the Tongxuan Hall, where the former Sovereign Qixia resided.

Opposite the Zhoukong Hall should be the Duzhen Hall, which was the place governed by her husband, Luo Chen.

Following her gaze, Fairy Huamei explained softly: "The Master has already resigned from the position of Duzhen Hall Master and passed it to He Qingzi. The Zhoukong Hall has been handed over to me. As for the Master, he is temporarily residing in the Tongxuan Hall."

Gu Caiyi was slightly bewildered, never expecting that Luo Chen had even arranged the affairs of Cangwu Mountain.

She only felt fortunate in her heart.

Fortunately, she followed along this time; otherwise, with her husband's style, having arranged everything properly, he would likely have started preparing for his ascension after returning to the Luo Tian Sect.

Then the time she could spend with him would be very little.

"Everyone, please follow me; the Master has been waiting in the Tongxuan Hall for a long time."

Everyone did not hesitate and followed Fairy Huamei toward the Tongxuan Hall.

At the gate, a burly man was chewing on a blade of grass, guarding it listlessly.

Seeing the crowd, he just nodded casually and let them pass.

Gu Caiyi took a look and couldn't help but feel a chill in her heart.

A Great Monster Emperor at the late Nascent Soul stage!

Her husband's status among the Monster Clan was even higher than she had imagined, actually having a Great Monster Emperor guarding the door.

Inside the hall.

He Qingzi was reporting to Luo Chen about the current situation of the Monster Clan in the Million Great Mountains.

"On the Tiger Clan side, Fairy Jinxiu is supporting Emperor Tian's daughter, wanting to reorganize the Monster Court. But because of Emperor Tu, the various tribes can't cause any major trouble."

"The Wolf Clan, following the fall of Ao Kuang, has split apart and is currently fighting internally."

"The Feather Clan's status is the highest in the Million Great Mountains today. After you, Master, re-established the three hall masters, the power structure has become incomparably clear, and there is not the slightest dissent within the Feather Clan. Although Lei Yu is unwilling to serve as the Tongxuan Hall Master, the title of Feather Clan Grand Commander you bestowed is enough for him to suppress any petty troublemakers."

Cangwu Mountain now had its three halls re-established.

He Qingzi governed the Duzhen Hall, Fairy Huamei governed the Zhoukong Hall, and the position of Tongxuan Hall Master remained vacant.

No one dared to replace the position once held by Sovereign Qixia.

Luo Chen had originally intended for the Thunder Prison God Peng, but the other party did not dare to offend, so he gave the other party another title—Feather Clan Grand Commander.

In this way, the power structure of the Feather Clan holy land, Cangwu Mountain, was no longer chaotic and became incomparably clear.

It could be said that Luo Chen had already handled his "post-ascension affairs" in an orderly manner within his ability.

In addition, he also recorded Xu Muxian's name in the Duzhen Hall.

He could enter and leave Cangwu Mountain freely while also not being under the jurisdiction of the Duzhen Hall.

The purpose of such an arrangement was naturally only one: to make it convenient for Xu Muxian to return to the North Sea from time to time to look after the Feiyan Archipelago.

He Qingzi, who was reporting, suddenly stopped speaking because Luo Chen above was looking outside the hall.

Several figures walked in one after another.

He Qingzi looked over and saw both familiar faces and strangers.

Only the stranger caught her attention the most.

Because as Luo Chen beckoned, the other party walked up very naturally and sat beside Luo Chen.

"Why did you come?"

"I heard that my husband is about to take a trip to the Wilderness, and I have been cultivating hard in the Blessed Land for a long time, so I also want to go out and take a look. Will I be dragging my husband down?"

"Haha, aren't you asking knowing the answer? But since you're here, there's no reason to go back. Don't worry, with my ability, it's enough to protect you."

Gu Caiyi was overjoyed; she knew that Luo Chen wouldn't mind if she acted a little spoiled appropriately from time to time.

Especially now that Luo Chen had the ability to take care of everything!

After chatting for a while, Luo Chen turned his gaze to the giant turtle that had shrunk its size and entered the hall together.

"Xuanming, I have a task for you."

Xuanming stepped forward.

Coming into view was an inner core that looked like a pearl, appearing before it.

"You go inside, use your innate talent to sort out the Ming water within, and clear out a pure place."

Xuanming did not hesitate, and under Luo Chen's spell, it entered the Mirage Dragon inner core.

The current Mirage Dragon Cave Heaven was already incomplete, and it was not difficult to open it.

Especially since Luo Chen had also mastered the "Refining Heaven's Secrets" alchemy technique, which could intercept spiritual energy; being in Cangwu Mountain, he naturally had plenty of spiritual energy to help him open the Mirage Dragon Cave Heaven.

Then it was Tianxuan's turn.

"Did you bring the Monster-Demon Concentric Tree?"

Tianxuan replied: "I brought it; it is currently planted in the Penglai Octagonal Pavilion."

"Very good!"

Luo Chen stood up slowly, his eyes filled with confidence.

"Then let's set off; the destination of this trip—the Wilderness!"

He Qingzi and Fairy Huamei bowed, "Wishing the Master/Master a smooth journey!"