Chapter 190: Outside the Dao Discussion Platform, Meeting an Old Friend Again, Hard Cultivation on Mount Luofeng

In a room.

Luo Chen held the banner and examined it carefully.

After a long while, he nodded slowly.

"Sure enough, this is the Soul-Refining Banner, a soul-path magic tool mentioned in Gu Yue's autobiography."

"I didn't expect that even Gu Yue didn't have a Soul-Refining Banner, yet it was forged by this Li Da."

"And the grade has actually reached high-grade!"

The Soul-Refining Banner was the reason Luo Chen caused extra trouble.

This treasure could imprison souls and turn them into a means to deal with enemies.

If it were just this, it would be fine.

Luo Chen didn't lack one or two magic tools.

But this treasure could also help Wang Yuan extract the remnant soul of Duan Qiankun from his body.

This made him have a temporary idea.

"Li Da can be considered unlucky."

Luo Chen smiled slightly, without any guilt for killing him.

Perhaps it was because Li Da was disrespectful to him first.

Or perhaps because after his realm breakthrough, his state of mind changed, and his actions became unscrupulous.

It was also possible that when he was weak, he had enough of the oppression from those in high positions.

Now, the dragon-slaying youth had finally become an evil dragon, taking on the airs of a Foundation Establishment True Person.

But in any case, he liked his current state.

"After I go out, I can start to resolve the sequelae on Wang Yuan."

"However, with the Soul-Refining Banner in hand, it is also quite beneficial to me at the moment."

Now he was in the Ghost City.

Although Luo Chen believed that the means he had were enough to deal with everything.

But treasures aimed at spirits were never too many.

Besides the Soul-Refining Banner, there was nothing worth mentioning in Li Da's storage bag.

Some elixirs and conventional magic tools didn't catch Luo Chen's eye.

After going out, he would put them in the Luo Tian Society for the cultivators below to exchange!

The only thing that interested Luo Chen a little was the three Ghost Mother Needles he had collected initially.

Looking at the three silver needles in his hand, Luo Chen muttered to himself.

"This treasure is not used like that!"

In the Ghost City, Luo Chen walked with a lamp.

His steps were slower than before.

It wasn't that there were too many spirits on the road.

It was that he was using this time to familiarize himself with the Soul-Refining Banner and the Ghost Mother Needles he had obtained.

There was nothing to say about the former; when encountering a slightly stronger ghost, just collect it and use it for oneself.

The latter was interesting.

"Um, three more spirits are coming."

His deep eyes bloomed with green light, and Luo Chen raised his hand, and the three silver needles flew out.

Low-tier spirits were not like Ghost Generals and had not condensed into a solid body.

Besides using Evil-Breaking Talismans and spells, they were not easy to deal with for ordinary people.

Luo Chen previously only had the Cleaning Spell, Fireball Spell, Soul-Capturing Spell, and the Green Glow Lantern to deal with them.

But now, he had more convenient things.

The three silver needles passed through the three spirits in an instant.

It seemed they caused no damage, but after passing through, three thin lines suddenly formed.

"Woo..."

The spirits let out a shrill cry, and then were carried back by the Ghost Mother Needles, turning into pure Yin energy and falling into the Soul-Refining Banner.

Nourished by the Yin energy, the pitch-black Soul-Refining Banner was clearly deeper in color.

The grade of the Soul-Refining Banner was never fixed.

Instead, it was determined by the material and the strength of the souls it contained.

Luo Chen knew this; what he cared about was the effect of the Ghost Mother Needles.

"Ghost Mother Needle, Spirit Sense Line."

"Sure enough, it is a rare soul-path magic tool that can guide spirit sense to attack."

In Gao Tingyuan's legacy, besides the "Soul-Refining True Technique," there was also a book involving spirit sense.

It recorded the various clever uses of spirit sense after a cultivator reached Foundation Establishment.

Generally speaking, the spirit sense of a Foundation Establishment True Person could only be used to detect nearby living beings.

Or, fully released to form the rare Foundation Establishment pressure.

His spirit sense clash with Nangong Jin back then was the manifestation of the latter.

Besides these two, the effect of spirit sense was not that great.

But this did not mean that spirit sense had no potential.

After all, cultivators focused on Qi Refining and supplemented with Spirit Refining; as the external manifestation of the soul, how could spirit sense really be useless?

It was just that ordinary cultivators lacked specific methods of use!

These methods were only possessed by those large sects.

Luo Chen learned from that spirit sense book that besides specific spirit sense techniques, there was another method of use.

That was to use magic tools made of special materials to manifest intangible spirit sense into tangible objects.

These Ghost Mother Needles were the best among them.

"That Li Da was truly wasting heaven's gifts... no, he couldn't release his spirit sense, so even if he knew the method, he couldn't do it."

Under Luo Chen's exploration, the power of this set of Ghost Mother Needles was finally fully displayed.

Needle-type magic tools were known for their speed and strong concealment.

If they could also guide released spirit sense, ordinary spirits and ghosts were not a match at all.

Moreover, using this to defeat low-tier spirits and injecting their Yin energy and soul power into the Soul-Refining Banner could also increase the power of the Soul-Refining Banner.

In this way, it was the best of both worlds!

Luo Chen put away the silver needles and continued forward.

Two days later.

Luo Chen stood outside the White Stone Square.

He had been cautious all the way, trying his best not to provoke powerful ghosts, which was why he was so slow.

There was no help for it; inside the Dahe Ghost City, it wasn't just as simple as these low-tier spirits.

Here, thousands of Qi Refining loose cultivators were buried.

Among them, those in the late Qi Refining stage were countless.

Under such numbers, resentful souls and fierce ghosts would often be born.

These two were not comparable to low-tier spirits.

They were naturally aggressive!

Plus, being in the Ghost Domain, they could unscrupulously devour the weak.

In just a few years, from the initial one Ghost General, it had become nine Ghost Generals.

This was data from a year ago!

A year later, maybe only ghosts knew what level the number of Ghost Generals had reached.

After his realm breakthrough, Luo Chen was high-spirited, but he was high-spirited.

But he hadn't reached the point of being invincible, looking down on everything.

Concerning life and death, he had to be cautious.

And to enter Mount Luofeng, the most critical thing was to break through the White Stone Square.

Here, there was the first Ghost General level existence born in the Dahe Ghost City!

Back then, the Nangong family suffered a huge blow at the White Stone Square and was forced to choose to close the family.

Now, several years later, they had slowly recovered.

For that powerful Ghost General born initially, Luo Chen also had to treat it carefully.

"However, the problem shouldn't be big!"

Luo Chen was full of confidence!

After advancing to the Foundation Establishment stage, the power of his first-tier spells had greatly increased.

Dealing with a famous ninth-level Qi Refining expert like Li Da, he only used one Entanglement Spell to kill him, which was proof enough.

And among these spells, what Luo Chen valued most were the four major spells.

Fireball Spell, Cleaning Spell, Spirit Eye Spell, and Breath-Concealing Spirit Technique!

Back in the Qi Refining stage, the Breath-Concealing Spirit Technique was enough to deceive Foundation Establishment True Persons.

Now that he was in the Foundation Establishment stage, with the cooperation of spirit sense, the effect of the Breath-Concealing Spirit Technique was even more outstanding.

Whether it could deceive Golden Core cultivators was hard to say.

But for Ghost Generals with no wisdom to speak of, there was absolutely no problem!

In fact, this was the confidence Luo Chen had to dare to go deep into the Ghost City alone.

With a thought!

The Great Perfection Breath-Concealing Spirit Technique was instantly applied to himself.

In an instant, Luo Chen's aura was almost non-existent!

Not a trace of spiritual power fluctuation!

Vigorous blood energy was all restrained within the body.

This was just the first layer of insurance.

If he were accidentally bumped into, inside, there was another layer of simulated spirit aura.

"In this way, it can be considered foolproof!"

Luo Chen took a deep breath and walked generously toward the White Stone Square.

While walking, his gaze fell nearby.

The Mixue Bingcheng milk tea shop had long since turned into ruins.

That battle back then happened near here, so how could it be preserved.

Yuan Xiaoyue's snack stall had also disappeared.

However, in the ruins, there was a corner of a blue stone that gave Luo Chen a sense of familiarity.

"That should be the large blue stone that Old Daoist Chen gave me."

"Back then, I used it for Xiaoyue to set up her stall; I didn't expect it to end up like this."

Seeing that blue stone corner, Luo Chen sighed in his heart, his steps not stopping at all.

Soon, he passed through the empty White Stone Square.

It was strange here; not a single spirit or ghost wandered.

As if there was some natural suppression.

Arriving under that huge jade wall.

Luo Chen shook his head.

The jade wall that used to gather the most people was now just a gray, broken wall.

No longer the grand scene of the past.

Without stopping, Luo Chen entered the passage leading to Mount Luofeng from the ticket office.

Without the restriction of the array, the passage that used to feel magical was now just a corridor paved with huge blue stones.

"Closer, closer!"

"I can feel that not far ahead, there is a surging spiritual energy, emitting fluctuations."

"Life and death coexist; this spiritual land has not completely dissipated yet!"

Just as Luo Chen was about to step into the range of the Dao Discussion Platform, his body couldn't help but stiffen.

He turned around slowly.

A flickering figure floated past outside the corridor.

Its eyes were blank and helpless, as if without reliance.

But occasionally for a moment, there was a trace of sharpness.

It walked out of the corridor and wandered slowly around the White Stone Square.

Occasionally, spirits without god or wisdom accidentally entered the White Stone Square and were instantly strangled and devoured by it.

Ghost energy permeated, crisscrossing, like sword light.

Looking at that figure, Luo Chen couldn't help but feel a sense of desolation that things were not what they used to be.

"So it was him... sigh..."

The person he saw was none other than the Foundation Establishment True Disciple of Yuding—Luo Tianhong.

He was sent to Dahe Square to execute the Foundation Establishment task.

Originally, he could have returned to the Yuding Sword Sect after the ten-year period expired.

But he didn't expect to fall in this place.

After turning into a ghost, he still relied on instinct to guard this area of the Yuding Sword Pavilion.

"This person was rarely friendly to me. Although there was suspicion of using me, he indeed removed the hidden danger Mi Shuhua left on me."

"During the Battle of the Lancang River, he also took care of me a lot."

"It's a pity that in his current state, I am powerless."

Sigh...

Sighing, Luo Chen shook his head, and his figure disappeared into Mount Luofeng.

Mount Luofeng!

According to legend, in ancient times, it was the place where the Heavenly Phoenix fell.

Ancient legends are unreliable, just like some say the Lancang River was formed by a flood dragon named Lancang walking through the water and turning into a dragon.

But in reality, it was formed by the melting snow from the Great Snow Mountain, merging with thousands of streams, rushing all the way, and finally forming a vast river.

Luo Chen didn't care about these; he only knew that Mount Luofeng was the center of the spiritual vein within a thousand miles of Dahe Square.

The reason the Yuding Sword Sect set up a square here and even built a Dao Discussion Platform.

Was also because there was a huge spiritual vein extending for hundreds of miles underneath.

Passing through the underground palace and entering the Dao Discussion Platform, Luo Chen's vigilance was fully raised.

Other places were fine, but this was the center of the great battle back then.

If there was any place in the Dahe Ghost City that was the most dangerous, it would inevitably be this place.

He was already prepared.

If there was anything wrong, he would run away immediately.

However, after entering the Dao Discussion Platform, besides the huge ruins formed by the collapsed buildings, there were no spirits or ghosts.

"That's right, as the center of the great battle, what ghost could survive here?"

Feeling the rich sword energy nearby, Luo Chen smiled self-deprecatingly.

Many years had passed, and the sword energy of the Golden Core sword cultivator remaining here still emitted a sharp aura.

Even though his physique was infinitely close to the first realm of body refining, he felt his hair stand on end.

With a leap!

Luo Chen turned into a nimble ape and shuttled through the rugged Dao Discussion Platform.

Soon, he crossed the range of the Dao Discussion Platform and arrived at an unfamiliar territory.

A pair of spirit eyes bloomed with brilliance, exploring up and down.

"There!"

Luo Chen did not hesitate and moved toward the deepest part of Mount Luofeng.

Not long after, he arrived outside a mountainside covered by huge rocks.

Without hesitation, Luo Chen spat out the Sword Pill.

With a flick of his finger!

The Sword Pill turned into a sharp long sword, cutting open the huge rocks and moving forward constantly.

Luo Chen followed behind, moving forward constantly.

About an incense stick of time later, Luo Chen stopped the Sword Pill's excavation work.

Pushing with his hand, the mountain wall collapsed with a bang.

A simple cave dwelling instantly appeared before him.

There was nothing.

It was simple to the extreme!

"Unexpectedly, Pang Renxiong was also a bitter cultivator."

Looking at the simple cave dwelling, Luo Chen sighed.

He didn't go in directly.

This place was indeed filled with pure spiritual energy to the extreme, far from what a first-tier spiritual vein land could compare to.

It even made Luo Chen suspect if it was a third-tier spiritual land.

However, mixed in the spiritual energy were many cold Yin energies and ghost energies, and even a small amount of evil energy filled it.

Such a place was simply not suitable for cultivation!

Even with a Spirit Gathering Array, it was very difficult to extract the pure spiritual energy from it to assist cultivation.

In fact, this was also why the several Foundation Establishment cultivators of Dahe Square were uninterested after multiple explorations.

They lacked the means to deal with this predicament.

But Luo Chen had them!

"Fortunately, to enter the introductory level of Di Liujiang, I frantically brushed proficiency and brushed many spells to the Great Perfection level."

"Right now, the Cleaning Spell is very good for dealing with this situation!"

There was a reason why the Cleaning Spell was listed by Luo Chen as one of the four most valued first-tier spells.

After reaching Great Perfection, it erupted with unimaginable effects!

Ordinary Cleaning Spells could only clean dirt and were used for leisure.

Back then, he cultivated it to the Master level, and finally, it had the effect of clearing foreign objects from the body.

Like demon energy, elixir energy, and even the pure spiritual power Mi Shuhua left on him.

But it stopped there.

At that time, the Master-level Cleaning Spell could only exert its maximum effect internally.

Externally, it could only be used as a means to clean alchemy furnaces.

All this changed qualitatively with the Great Perfection of the Cleaning Spell!

The current Cleaning Spell could be cast instantly!

Not only that, but it could also have a powerful effect when facing external objects.

Like the water-type spell Wang Haichao cast at his Foundation Establishment Ceremony, it was resolved by his full-strength Cleaning Spell.

Or like Li Da using the Ghost Mother Needles and the Soul-Refining Banner resentful soul attack two days ago.

Under the Great Perfection Cleaning Spell, they all returned without success.

This spell truly had infinite potential.

Even in the Great Perfection state, Luo Chen felt there was potential for optimization and deduction.

It was just that, unlike the Fireball Spell, he hadn't found the general direction for optimization and deduction.

Now, what Luo Chen had to do was to clear away all foreign auras in this spiritual land except for spiritual energy with the assistance of spirit sense.

"Haha, it's just a big cleaning!"

Luo Chen laughed loudly, his sleeves constantly waving.

Soon, large amounts of Yin energy were expelled from the cave dwelling.

The remaining evil energy and ghost energy were also cleared one by one.

Before long, the cave dwelling in the mountain belly regained its vigorous spiritual energy.

Its purity far exceeded the second-tier spiritual vein environment Mi Shuhua stimulated back then.

Compared to the second-tier spiritual vein environment temporarily formed by relying on the Ice-Fire Spiritual Spring on Xiao Huan Mountain, it was also much better.

Most importantly, there was no need to consume mid-grade spirit stones!

Luo Chen suppressed the excitement in his heart and set up a first-tier defensive array at the cave entrance.

Not only that, but he also set up a concealment array.

In this way, it was foolproof!

After handling all this, Luo Chen breathed a sigh of relief and sat cross-legged in the cave dwelling.

His aura gradually became even, and his mind was clear.

The Yi Wood Medicine King Scripture slowly began to operate.

The spiritual energy from the outside world constantly poured into Luo Chen's body.

And the vast medicinal power that had been accumulated in the Qi Sea for a long time was also mobilized during the repeated operations.

"Drip..."

After the first drop of spiritual energy liquid fell into the vast and boundless Qi Sea.

It announced that Luo Chen's quiet cultivation had officially begun.

End of Chapter