Chapter 118

Deep in the night, everything is silent.

In the Changyin Mountain, at a cliff.

A figure, with eyes shining brightly, stepped out of the narrow cave entrance silently.

The Breath-Restraining Spiritual Incantation has been fully activated, and Luo Chen is like a dead tree, looking around.

Good, this cave entrance has not been discovered by the demon beasts of Changyin Mountain.

Some time ago, through Zeng Wen's relationship, he obtained a geographical record of the millions of great mountains in the Eastern Wasteland.

It marked many specific place names that rogue cultivators don't know.

Among them, the marking of the Guyuan Mountain Range is the most detailed, after all, that is where Po Shan Gang cultivators and Great River Market rogue cultivators go most often.

In contrast, the Xiaoyue Mountain Range is much simpler.

Like this tunnel he extended from Xieyue Valley, it leads to Changyin Mountain.

This mountain is rich in resources, has many demon beasts, and is occupied by Gray-Leaf Wolves and Frost Wolves all year round.

Or rather, these dozens of mountains nearby are dominated by these two demon wolf tribes.

In addition, there are some demon wolf natural enemies and weak demon beasts mixed in.

Determining that there is no problem around, Luo Chen stepped out of the cave entrance cautiously and explored the surroundings bit by bit.

After a while, his footsteps stopped.

His gaze condensed, falling three hundred meters ahead.

Two lone demon wolves are fighting, and the sound of wolf howling and panting is endless.

"I didn't expect that after so long, the battle between demon wolf tribes has not stopped."

"But that's good, it's just right for me to act!"

Luo Chen's heart moved, and he took out four formation flags from his storage bag.

Hidden Spirit Array, obtained from Lu Huaiben.

He had been using it to cover up the spiritual power fluctuations of the spiritual vein cave, and today it is just suitable for him to set up the battlefield.

Setting up the four formation flags in a specific orientation, Luo Chen waited quietly for the result of the battle ahead.

The fighting between low-grade demon beasts is very pure.

So pure that they don't even cast accompanying demon arts, relying entirely on physical combat.

This situation must wait until the demon beasts advance to the second tier to improve.

It is said that after demon beasts reach the third tier, which is the same as human Core Formation, their intelligence will evolve significantly, and many third-tier demon beasts can even refine the horizontal bone in their throats and learn various languages, instead of simple roaring and howling.

The so-called "demon spitting human words" is generally after the third tier.

The two demon wolves in front of him have not reached that level, their intelligence is quite low, and they fight purely by instinct.

Therefore, their battle ended very quickly.

The corpse of a Gray-Leaf Wolf lay quietly there.

On the corpse, there were hideous wounds, broken fur, exposed internal organs, and the smell of blood lingered for a long time.

It is the season of heavy snow sealing the mountains and ice everywhere.

Gray-Leaf Wolves do not have the advantage of time and place.

And the winner is definitely not doing well.

The fur, which was originally as white as ice and snow, is now rolled up, and there is a deep wound on the neck that can see the bone.

It wants to lick the wound, but the position is very awkward, so it can only walk back tiredly.

Suddenly, it stopped.

A low roar was issued, all its fur stood up, and a huge danger shrouded its limited intelligence.

The Frost Wolf wanted to resist, and then a large cauldron pressed down from the top.

Four-colored light, like tassel strips, tied its limbs and even its head tightly.

"This Four-Image Cauldron, although called 'four-unlike', has many wonderful uses, truly extraordinary."

Luo Chen looked at the large cauldron floating above the Frost Wolf, with a smile on his face.

It is said that this cauldron comes from the casting master Huyanzhuo of Tianfan City, and was originally intended to be refined into a low-grade magic treasure, but because of problems with the formation and casting technique, it only achieved a high-grade magic tool in the end.

After Luo Chen got it, he often explored it, thereby learning many wonderful uses.

Alchemy, defense, offense, suppression.

The power of each wonderful use is not outstanding, only the power of ordinary high-grade magic tools.

But there are many uses, so there are many occasions where it can be used.

For example, now, Luo Chen has exerted its suppression function to the fullest.

A first-tier demon wolf was originally not Luo Chen's opponent.

Not to mention the other party was injured!

Caught off guard, the Four-Image Cauldron easily suppressed and subdued it.

Looking at the demon wolf lying on the ground, its eyes full of anger and fear, Luo Chen walked to it kindly.

Lowering his body, Luo Chen took out a pill as red as blood with a smile.

"Little doggy, don't be afraid."

"Brother has good things here, eat them and it will be good for your body!"

The demon wolf "obediently" ate the pill, it was just almost stuck in its throat, and Luo Chen had to use spiritual power to help it smooth it out and pat its back.

After feeding the Blood-Burning Pill, Luo Chen stepped back cautiously step by step.

The Spirit Eye Technique was no longer passively activated, but actively urged, and a pair of spirit eyes stared dead at the demon wolf.

Soon, the demon wolf reacted!

With the spread of the medicinal power, the demon wolf let out a low howl, and its eyes became blood-red.

Its back arched high, and the muscles all over its body began to tremble continuously, as if an earth dragon was rolling inside.

Not only that, the foul-smelling demon energy continued to spread.

That represents its demon power, surging continuously.

*Clang!*

Luo Chen's eyelids jumped, only feeling that the Four-Image Cauldron under his control was a bit unstable.

The four-colored tassels that originally bound the Frost Wolf were now pulled tight, as if they could break at any time.

Luo Chen increased his spiritual power to maintain the suppression ability.

But the constantly surging power made the already ordinary suppression power difficult to sustain.

*Crack!*

A faint sound rang out.

The Frost Demon Wolf lying on the ground stood up; its huge body, which was already one person high, was now swollen by about one-third, becoming even larger.

It stood there, its size almost exceeding Luo Chen's.

And the muscular demon body looked extremely huge; looking at it from a close distance, it was like an elephant.

The angry red eyes stared dead at Luo Chen, and the originally weak aura was now several points stronger than in its prime.

Fierce, stubborn, overbearing, bloodthirsty, and crazy.

Suddenly, it moved.

It broke free from the residual suppression of the Four-Image Cauldron and ran wildly towards Luo Chen.

Luo Chen had already prepared, and seeing this, he was not panicked and pulled back.

Moreover, the profits from last month hadn't been settled at the Chenyue snack stall and Mixue Bingcheng yet.

Although they hadn't been settled, by mastering the raw materials and the sales data, Luo Chen had a count in his heart of how much he could earn.

If settled, his savings would break through three thousand for the first time!

Perhaps compared to some late-stage Qi Refining cultivators who had accumulated for years, it was still a bit less.

But Luo Chen's consumption had never stopped this month.

Whether it was buying extra Huachen Pills or Anshen Incense, he had spent a lot of spirit stones.

On the milk tea shop side, he had invested six or seven hundred spirit stones.

In general, every spirit stone was used on the cutting edge.

Hearing Mi Shuhua's praise, Luo Chen smiled honestly.

He put the spirit stones, four bottles of Huachen Pills, and a box of Anshen Incense into his storage bag.

Luo Chen rubbed his hands and, taking advantage of Mi Shuhua's good mood, asked some questions about cultivation.

"You said purifying spiritual power?"

Mi Shuhua stroked his beard, his spiritual sense sweeping over Luo Chen, who was still at the seventh level of Qi Refining.

He smiled and said: "Purifying spiritual power in the late stage of Qi Refining is not a matter of one morning or evening, and there is no trick; it only relies on the effort of grinding."

"Is there really no trick?" Luo Chen was unwilling to give up.

His cultivation progress was visible to the naked eye every day.

But when it came to spiritual power purification, there wasn't much progress.

He occasionally discovered this problem when he was familiarizing himself with spells in the back mountain.

For the same ordinary spell, Zhou Yuanli only needed a small amount of purified spiritual power to cast it.

He had to continuously inject a large amount of spiritual power; although the speed was fast, the power was about the same.

The gap between them appeared in the degree of purification of their spiritual power.

His spiritual power was too floating.

Perhaps because he had always relied on pills for cultivation, although Luo Chen's total spiritual power far exceeded those of the same rank, the consumption of releasing spells was also greater.

Hearing Luo Chen's persistent questioning, Mi Shuhua pondered for a while.

"Actually, it's not that there is no trick, but this trick, I'm afraid you can't use it now."

"Hmm? Please speak directly!"

"Cultivation technique!"

Mi Shuhua looked at Luo Chen and gently spat out two words.

"All Qi Refining stage cultivation techniques, as long as they involve the late stage, more or less have the effect of actively purifying spiritual power."

"But this effect depends on the grade of the cultivation technique."

"You are currently practicing the Changchun Technique, and this technique comes from the Medicine King Sect."

He shook his head, "It is rumored that the Changchun Technique is derived from the Medicine King Sect's Everlasting Evergreen Scripture; it only absorbed the characteristic of continuous flow from the Everlasting Evergreen Scripture. But the most famous evergreen characteristic of the Everlasting Evergreen Scripture was not left in the Changchun Technique."

"And this evergreen characteristic, at the Qi Refining level, is purifying spiritual power. After Great Completion, the spiritual power is like green brilliance, full of vitality; even when the lifespan is about to end, the spiritual power is still incomparably pure, and it can even preserve youth."

Listening to this explanation, Luo Chen had a terrible headache.

Involving the natal cultivation technique, he had no way.

He couldn't just change to a cultivation technique that was good at purifying spiritual power now, could he?

However, Mi Shuhua's next words also destroyed this last bit of luck.

"In fact, most of the cultivation techniques that loose cultivators can come into contact with, or those circulating on the market, are simplified and simplified again by major sects before they are circulated."

"Their core characteristics have almost all been removed from these simplified cultivation techniques."

Luo Chen was shocked, "Then how do we loose cultivators solve the natal cultivation technique for the Foundation Establishment stage after luckily breaking through to Foundation Establishment?"

Mi Shuhua gave a wry smile, "How else to solve it? Go to the black market to dig for it, buy it at an auction, or try your luck in a secret realm."

Luo Chen frowned, "In that case, I'm afraid the cultivation technique obtained is not that compatible with one's own spiritual roots, right?"

Mi Shuhua sighed, agreeing with Luo Chen's guess.

Seeing Luo Chen still frowning, he comforted him:

"Actually, you don't have to worry; purifying spiritual power is a matter for the entire late stage of Qi Refining; only disciples of large sects will perform purification as soon as they enter the late stage of Qi Refining."

"Like us loose cultivators, many of us only start to ponder this matter after being promoted to the ninth level of Qi Refining."

"Even without those good cultivation techniques, grinding day by day, one can always grind out a body of purified spiritual power."

Whether spiritual power is pure or not doesn't have much impact on combat of the same rank.

After all, many people rely on magic tools for combat.

As long as you ensure that your spiritual power is enough to control the magic tools, there is indeed no difference between pure and floating.

But this had some impact on Luo Chen; he was better at spell combat.

Moreover, from the "Qi Refining Insights" that Mi Shuhua gave him at the beginning, he also knew that breaking through to Foundation Establishment, besides the Foundation Establishment Pill, the degree of purification of a cultivator's spiritual power was also the most critical point.

That was why he started to worry about this matter at the seventh level of Qi Refining.

But even Mi Shuhua couldn't give him much help.