Chapter 184

On the mountaintop.

Luo Chen personally closed the wooden door of the thatched cottage.

"Xiao Hong, shrink!"

The explosive ape was very obedient, and its body size shrank rapidly in front of Luo Chen.

In the blink of an eye, it was only one and a half feet tall.

Maintaining such a large body size was also a considerable burden for it.

Throwing over a pile of spiritual fruits full of spiritual energy.

Luo Chen gave it the order to guard this place.

Then, he called Feng Xia to go down the mountain.

Duan Feng was carried on Feng Xia's back, and after taking many elixirs, he was still unconscious.

Even if that cousin Duan Rui had no combat power, his realm was at the Qi Refining Great Perfection, which could not be faked.

Duan Feng killed him, and he himself must have suffered.

After a while.

The three of them arrived at the mountainside.

Luo Chen did not delay, and after handing the two to Granny Yuan, who was good at medicine, he continued to go down alone.

No one came to disturb him.

Everyone knew that although Luo Chen didn't seem to exert any effort in this battle, in fact, from the initiation of the war to the planning, it was all led by him.

The final finishing work was also his earth-shattering strike that laid the foundation for victory.

This battle was quite tragic.

Even though there were many survivors among the Luotian Society cultivators, they also suffered great losses.

In that situation at the time, if any rogue cultivator from Dahefang had been incited to rush up the mountain.

Let alone whether they could keep the spoils.

I'm afraid all the Luotian Society cultivators would have been wiped out.

Only Luo Chen, who had preserved his combat power, could come forward to deter everyone.

Not only that, no one in the Luotian Society could withstand the pressure from the Foundation Establishment force.

It was also Luo Chen who came forward personally, promising many benefits and even commitments, to achieve balance.

Walking in the mountains, with no one following, Luo Chen's face only then looked slightly pale.

Releasing that Blazing Sun Spell had completely exceeded the scope of the Qi Refining stage.

Even early-stage Foundation Establishment cultivators would find it difficult to perform such an attack.

It was only because he had continuously optimized the Fireball Spell to reach the extreme of Great Perfection.

Mastering the essentials of delayed fireball explosion and rapid fusion, he could barely manage it.

Even so, he had condensed it for a long time while continuously releasing fireballs and taking elixirs to recover his energy to create that peak strike.

If he had to do it again, he couldn't guarantee whether he would succeed.

"But even so, Duan Qiankun actually survived."

"Defensive magic treasure... what a pity..."

The Kingdom of Ze Gui Map had already been given to Nangong Jin, so it was useless to sigh anymore.

Luo Chen's footsteps stopped outside the deep pit.

Then, he leaped!

His whole body, with strong winds sweeping around him, like a goshawk pouncing on the earth, went straight into the depths of the huge pit.

As he moved forward, the flames were constantly pushed aside.

Finally, he arrived outside a cave entrance sealed by crimson chains.

As he arrived, the crimson chains seemed to sense it and pulled away with a clatter.

He slowly descended into the cave.

What came into view was a blood-colored cocoon that appeared glaringly in front of him.

Using the Spiritual Eye Spell, Luo Chen saw the scene inside the cocoon through the thick blood energy.

Duan Qiankun's expression was ferocious, his limbs bound by blood-colored little snakes.

Opposite him, Wang Yuan sat cross-legged, and those blood-colored little snakes were emitted from his body.

Not only that, a blood python was penetrating deep into Duan Qiankun's lower abdomen, reaching into his dantian.

Large amounts of spiritual power were constantly leaking out.

Most of it was absorbed by Wang Yuan through the blood-colored little snakes, and a small part leaked out, merging with Wang Yuan's blood energy to form the blood-colored cocoon.

Seeing this scene, Luo Chen's pupils shrank.

"Is this the Heavenly Work Spirit-Seizing Formation?"

"No, this is the Blood Fiend Spirit-Seizing Formation that I improved and fused."

Wang Yuan's voice came faintly from the blood cocoon.

Accompanied by it was Duan Qiankun's painful wailing, one after another.

Luo Chen only felt his scalp go numb and his whole body cold.

What a Blood Fiend Spirit-Seizing Formation!

Even though Wang Yuan had talked to him about this before, he still couldn't believe that there was such a secret technique in the world.

But unexpectedly, Wang Yuan really dared to use it!

The cause of the matter probably traced back to the Dao Discussion Platform, where Wang Yuan killed the blood cultivator Xiao Wuyan.

He obtained many things from the other party's inheritance.

A blood cultivation technique, a second-order elixir recipe, and several blood cultivation secret techniques.

If that was all, it would be fine.

But Wang Yuan later participated in the struggle for the Jin Dan ruins.

At that time, everyone focused their attention on the heavenly materials and earthly treasures, as well as the storage ring of the Supreme Elder of the Ghost God Valley.

Only Wang Yuan harvested the Heavenly Work Spirit-Seizing Formation that guarded the ruins.

This formation was conceived in a simple and natural way, grand and open, plundering the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, forming a self-sustaining great formation.

Wang Yuan could not set up the formation, so he combined this formation with Xiao Wuyan's blood cultivation secret technique to form a brand-new secret technique.

Blood Fiend Spirit-Seizing Formation.

This formation was harmful to heaven and reason, and violated the Great Dao.

Therefore, there were many restrictions, such as only being able to be used three times, etc.

But its only effect was something that could not be ignored.

That was, it could seize a cultivator's cultivation base.

This "cultivation base" included spiritual power, soul, and even the Dao foundation!

Dao foundation, the foundation of the Great Dao.

Foundation Establishment, what was built was this intangible thing.

From plundering the spiritual energy of heaven and earth to plundering the enemy's cultivation base, it was undoubtedly a weakening.

But if it only fell on one person, it was a great enhancement.

This meant that besides the Foundation Establishment Pill, a new path to Foundation Establishment had been opened.

The reason Wang Yuan agreed to attack Mount Xiaohuan and served as the main force to fight Duan Qiankun head-on.

His goal was the Dao foundation of this old Foundation Establishment cultivator.

With Luo Chen's assistance, he had indeed achieved the first step of his goal.

Duan Qiankun was not dead, but was controlled and plundered by him.

Once successful, Wang Yuan would ascend to the sky in one step and become a Foundation Establishment True Cultivator!

Taking a deep breath.

Luo Chen said softly, "Is there anything you need my help with?"

Inside the blood cocoon came Wang Yuan's steady voice.

"No need, everything can only rely on myself."

Nodding, Luo Chen turned and left.

After leaving the cave, he cast the Earth Mountain Spell to completely seal the entrance.

Not only that, he sent people to guard the surroundings, not allowing anyone to approach the huge pit.

By this time, the flames had gradually extinguished.

After all, it was a fire without fuel and could not burn for long.

Continuous spring rain fell, and soon small water puddles accumulated in the huge pit.

If time passed, this place might become a small lake.

Such means of changing the landscape were indeed not something Qi Refining cultivators could do.

This also showed that Luo Chen's Blazing Sun Spell was a genuine Foundation Establishment means, even exceeding the ordinary attacks of most Foundation Establishment cultivators.

After coming out, Luo Chen walked on the mountainside.

Watching Sima Huiniang and Murong Qinglian lead people to deal with the aftermath.

He did not disturb them too much, just stayed here as a leader to stabilize people's hearts.

It had to be said that with him here, everyone felt much more stable.

Since the establishment of the Luotian Society, in less than a year, it had experienced two or three great battles.

And all of them were successful, which brought Luo Chen huge prestige.

During this period, Qin Liangchen found Luo Chen.

"There is a group of surviving mortals in the Duan family?"

"Yes, there are also five early-stage Qi Refining cultivators inside. Do we need to kill them?"

Hearing this news, Luo Chen fell into silence.

He did not give a direct answer to Qin Liangchen's murderous proposal.

Qin Liangchen looked at him and said, "It's very simple to handle this matter; just leave it to me."

He didn't want to make things difficult for Luo Chen.

He volunteered to do this dirty work.

However, Luo Chen shook his head gently.

"The overall situation is set, a group of weaklings can't make waves."

"As for those few early-stage Qi Refining cultivators, just abolish their cultivation base."

"As for this group of mortals... wait for Duan Feng to wake up and let him choose for himself!"

After speaking, he flicked his sleeves and turned to go up the mountain.

Qin Liangchen stayed where he was and sighed.

This little brother of his!

He was still too kind after all.

Is Luo Chen kind?

This has to be viewed dialectically.

For close friends, he is indeed kind.

But for enemies, naturally, there is no such thing as kindness.

Even for the middle and lower-level cultivators of the Luotian Society, he made it clear that it was a relationship of mutual utilization.

Usually, I pay you with high salaries.

At critical moments, you have to stand up for me.

In this battle, the Duan family was almost wiped out, and the Luotian Society also suffered losses.

Those Luotian Society cultivators who died could not experience Luo Chen's kindness.

And all of this.

In Luo Chen's view, it was all worth it.

In this battle, those who survived gained a lot.

Nangong Jin harvested the magic treasure he wanted most—the Kingdom of Ze Gui Map.

Wang Yuan harvested the Foundation Establishment cultivator Duan Qiankun, and he might rely on the Blood Fiend Spirit-Seizing Formation to ascend to the sky in one step.

And himself...

"The Luotian Society has finally established a firm foothold in Dahefang from now on."

This was a huge harvest.

This meant that he, Luo Chen, finally gained the space and time to develop freely.

Not relying on others, not borrowing the power of others, but relying on his own strength to fight for space and time.

And another huge harvest would fall on the spiritual spring in front of him.

"The creation of nature is truly ingenious."

"Such a terrain where yin and yang run parallel and water and fire complement each other would actually appear on such a mountaintop."

Luo Chen sighed repeatedly.

Surrounding this spiritual spring that resembled a Taiji diagram, his eyes flickered.

A plan in his heart could not help but emerge.

"Di Liu Jiang..."

Since Pang Renxiong's death, the inner city of Dahe has turned into a ghost realm.

The Jade Tripod Sword Pavilion no longer exists, and the orthodox auction naturally cannot be held.

Thus, the rogue cultivators of Dahefang lost the normal way to obtain Foundation Establishment Pills.

Luo Chen was once worried about this.

Later, he reached a cooperative relationship with Tian Xingzi and obtained the three Foundation Establishment Pills promised by the other party.

Only then did he have a solid direction for cultivation.

However, until Tian Xingzi left last month.

He had not seen the shadow of the three Foundation Establishment Pills.

Although the other party swore that they would send someone to deliver them to him.

But who knows how long that time will be.

It can't be delivered to his grave after a hundred years!

Since then, Luo Chen had been looking for ways to break through to Foundation Establishment.

A simpler one is to go to other markets, or even Tianlan Immortal City, and obtain them at a high price from auctions.

But the problem is the same as before.

Unfamiliar with the place, unable to participate in the internal cake-sharing of high-level cultivators, relying only on the one or two quotas for rogue cultivators, it could not satisfy his needs at all.

A more complicated one is the method provided by Wang Yuan.

Blood Fiend Spirit-Seizing Formation!

Take the path of blood cultivation Foundation Establishment.

But this path requires high attainments in body cultivation and blood cultivation, and even the physique must be strong enough to barely manage it.

Even so, even Wang Yuan himself could not guarantee success.

Moreover, it also requires a Foundation Establishment True Cultivator who can be taken at will!

The difficulty is no less than attacking the Duan family again.

Luo Chen, naturally, would not take it.

There is another way.

That is soul cultivation Foundation Establishment.

Luo Chen has this method.

Moreover, the conditions have been met.

That is a strong soul foundation and enough souls of late-stage Qi Refining cultivators.

The former, supported by the Tongyou Pill, he is very confident.

The latter, in Dahefang, there are thousands of ghosts.

Let alone late-stage Qi Refining, even ghost generals comparable to the Foundation Establishment stage have at least one.

However, the terrifying sequelae of soul cultivation Foundation Establishment made Luo Chen avoid it like a snake or scorpion.

So, after thinking about it.

He pinned his hope on Di Liu Jiang.

After many days of study, this elixir recipe had been studied by him almost completely.

The medicinal power is to improve the foundation of monsters and speed up their cultivation.

If it is grass and wood, or intelligent monsters, the effect will be better.

It stands to reason that this medicine is specially developed for monsters.

But among them, the few medicinal materials added make it applicable to a small number of humans.

In other words, it can improve the human foundation.

Doesn't this mean that it also has some Foundation Establishment effect?

"Elixir Foundation Establishment is hard to find Foundation Establishment Pills."

"Blood Foundation Establishment, hard to find materials."

"Soul Foundation Establishment, terrifying sequelae, not advisable."

"Only this monster Foundation Establishment, or can be used as a backup!"

Luo Chen does not intend to pin his hope only on Tian Xingzi's conscience.

The conscience of high-level cultivators is never reliable.

He has seen through it completely.

Everything can only rely on himself!

And the conditions required for refining Di Liu Jiang, he has already gathered.

Auxiliary materials, before Tian Xingzi left, he had already purchased a part through Wang Yanchang.

Later, he supplemented it from the Lianyun Business Alliance.

Main material, he has a corpse of a second-order Blazing Fire Cloud Peng, with bones, meat, and blood, and even the monster core is preserved.

This corpse is enough to refine ten times.

Refining method requires water method refining.

He also has a set of Falling Cloud Smoke-Generating Method, enough to deal with second-order elixirs.

Next, as long as he spends time to polish it, he can start.

And the spiritual spring needed in the Falling Cloud Smoke-Generating Method, there is one under his feet!

"Everything is ready, only the east wind is missing."

Luo Chen took a deep breath and looked at the attribute panel he brought out.

The east wind is naturally the entry!

If he cannot enter, then with the grade of second-order elixir, Luo Chen, a mere first-order alchemist, would have to pay thousands or ten thousand times, perhaps he could succeed once.

This cost is something he cannot afford.

He does not have so many spirit stones and time to prepare so many raw materials.

As long as the system can make him enter, then everything is not a problem.

The problem is, can he enter?

【Di Liu Jiang, second-order complete elixir recipe】

【Whether to enter】

This time, Luo Chen did not hesitate.

"Enter!"

Under his gaze, on the system panel, the entry of Di Liu Jiang slowly appeared.

【Di Liu Jiang—progress 30/100】

Luo Chen was stunned, feeling incredible, investing ten achievement points, can the progress only reach this level?

It is still seventy away from entry!

Just as he was disappointed, that entry slowly changed.

31... 5... 0... 0... 0... 0

Finally, the progress got stuck at 70/100.

Looking at this slowly changing scene, Luo Chen was thoughtful.

The initial thirty points of progress should be brought by the achievement points he invested.

The subsequent changes are his familiarity with the elixir recipe and his own attainments in alchemy, which made the system judge that he himself has the possibility of successful refining.

"Still need thirty points of progress to enter?"

Luo Chen pursed his lips, his eyes fell on the remaining achievement points.

There are still 18 left.

Without hesitation, he began to add them one by one.

Finally, the progress bar got stuck at 【88/100】.

A very auspicious number!

"Want to enter second-order elixir, one achievement point can only provide one progress?"

"If you are not familiar with the elixir recipe at all, and have no alchemy attainments, wouldn't you only have 10 progress at the beginning?"

"Cross-level alchemy is so difficult."

Luo Chen sighed.

Then, he raised his confidence.

He was not disappointed; this was a result that could be foreseen long ago.

Even to say, 88 points of progress, such a quantified, visual way, instead gave him great confidence.

"But it's just missing twelve achievement points."

"This is not difficult!"

Achievement points come from cultivation techniques, spells, alchemy, and even alchemy techniques, etc., the proficiency improvement of these things.

Every time you upgrade a level, you will provide an achievement point.

For this, he is already familiar with it.

Twelve achievement points mean that he only needs to improve the proficiency level twelve more times.

"In this way, I only need to choose the entry closest to the breakthrough and practice more."

"This is the fastest way to get achievement points."

Muttering to himself, Luo Chen's eyes fell on the long attribute panel.

【Realm Qi Refining Stage Ninth Level 28/100】

【Cultivation Technique Great Perfection Changchun Gong, Ming Shen Po Sha Entry 91/100, Ten Thousand Beast Sutra Entry 10/100】

【Spells Great Perfection Fireball Spell, Great Perfection Carefree Wind Control, Great Perfection Traction Spell, Great Perfection Breath-Restraining Spiritual Decision, Great Perfection Spiritual Eye Spell, Entanglement Spell Master 810/1000, Cleaning Spell Master 775/100, Healing Spell Perfect 485/500, Earth Mountain Spell Perfect 315/500, Wave Spell Perfect 309/500, Sound-Isolating Spell Entry 81/100, Soul-Shocking Spell Entry 92/100】

【Alchemy Technique Folding Jade Hand Master 700/1000, Pure Heart Hand Perfect 390/500, Huanxi Hand Entry 79/100, Transforming Cloud Hand Entry 65/100】

【Martial Arts Mountain-Breaking Monument-Shattering Palm Master 880/1000, Heavenly Maiden Scattering Flowers Perfect 357/500】

【Skill First-Order Alchemist Grain Grain Bigu Great Perfection, Zhongmiao Pill Master 830/1000, Jade Marrow Pill Master 910/1000, Blood-Burning Pill Proficient 150/200, Tongyou Pill Entry 7/100, Di Liu Jiang Not Yet Entered (Click to view progress details...)】

【Achievement Points 0】

Browsing through it at a glance.

Luo Chen soon had a plan in his heart.

He is now about two years away from the Qi Refining Great Perfection under full power.

At that time, he will need to rely on Di Liu Jiang for Foundation Establishment.

So, two years is the time for him to brush achievement points.

And the most suitable achievement points to brush are undoubtedly the four spells of Entanglement Spell, Cleaning Spell, Sound-Isolating Spell, and Soul-Shocking Spell.

And three alchemy techniques.

In terms of martial arts, it is also simple to brush.

In terms of elixirs, whether it is Zhongmiao Pill or Jade Marrow Pill, he could have refined high-grade levels long ago.

It was only because he needed to cover up his alchemy attainments before, so he deliberately controlled the refining of this type of high-grade elixir.

But now, he has taken down the Duan family and reached a certain balance with several forces.

He has also ushered in a relatively stable cultivation environment.

Just need to control the elixir not to flow out, the proficiency of these few elixirs can be quickly brushed to the Great Perfection level.

In this way, he can harvest a few more achievement points.

"Speaking of which, I also really want to know, what is the effect of top-grade Zhongmiao Pill and top-grade Jade Marrow Pill?"

Luo Chen smiled slightly.

He did not feel confused or painful because the road ahead was difficult.

He only knew that he was walking on the right path, that was enough.

No matter how many difficulties and hardships, it is just a little wind and frost!