Chapter 191: Living as a Hero, Dying as a Ghost Hero

Time is easy to fade, and short summers are hard to keep.

The passage of time is hard for mortals to feel; it often takes many years before looking back, only then to suddenly realize.

"Oh, so many years have passed already!"

And for cultivators who have embarked on the true path of the Great Dao, the erosion of time is the most terrifying blade.

When Luo Chen detached himself from the state of long-term quiet cultivation.

In a trance, three years of youth had passed in a flash.

"Has it really been that long?"

Luo Chen was a bit dazed.

But soon, he collected his mind and focused his attention on himself.

The realm was finally consolidated!

He clicked on the attribute panel that he hadn't opened for a long time.

A series of data, like an ink painting, slowly unfolded before him.

【Lifespan: 3/160】

【Spirit Roots: Gold, Wood, Water, Fire, Earth】

【Realm: Foundation Establishment Second Layer 1/100】

【Cultivation Technique: Yi Wood Medicine King Scripture Perfect 37/100, Mingshen Po Sha Perfect 400/100, Ten Thousand Beasts Scripture 10/100】

【Spells: Second-tier: Mountain Collapse Introductory 7/100, Glazed Sky Curtain Introductory 10/100

First-tier: Healing Spell Master 700/100, Earth Mountain Spell Perfect 400/100, Wave Spell Perfect 400/100, Sound-Isolating Spell Perfect 31/100, Soul-Awe Spell Proficient 1/300

Great Perfection Spells (Click to query details)】

【Alchemy Arts: Great Perfection Jade-Folding Hand, Plain Heart Hand Master 13/1000, Huanxi Hand Proficient 1/100, Cloud-Transforming Hand Proficient 11/100】

【Martial Arts: Mountain-Breaking Tablet-Shattering Palm Great Perfection, Heavenly Maiden Scattering Flowers Perfect 360/100】

【Skills: Second-tier Alchemist: Blood-Burning Elixir Proficient 10/100, Nether-Passing Elixir Introductory 80/100, Di Liujiang Introductory 3/100, Great Perfection Elixirs (Click to query details)】

【Achievement Points: 7】

At the first moment, Luo Chen noticed the increase in his lifespan.

Seeing this scene, the hidden worries in Luo Chen's heart instantly dissipated.

"Sure enough, even though I have innate deficiencies, as I built my Dao foundation, the restrictions were broken."

"Now that my cultivation has improved slightly, the upper limit of my lifespan is constantly increasing."

The corners of Luo Chen's mouth rose slightly, revealing the joy in his heart at this moment.

However, if the "slight improvement" in his cultivation were known to other Foundation Establishment cultivators, they would only curse loudly.

In just three short years, he went from the first layer of Foundation Establishment to the second layer.

This cultivation speed was truly gifted.

Of course, Luo Chen knew his own situation.

This cultivation speed would likely not happen again in the future.

Although he didn't take any elixirs other than the Grain Bigu Elixir during these three years.

But when he broke through to Foundation Establishment, the dantian he reshaped had accumulated vast medicinal power.

Now, he was just thoroughly refining it.

Moreover, to have this efficiency, he owed much to the land of abundant spiritual energy under his feet!

This was the cultivation land arranged for himself by the Golden Core superior Pang Renxiong back then.

At its peak, it was absolutely a third-tier spiritual land!

However, after that great battle, the array on Mount Luofeng was completely destroyed.

This temporarily improved spiritual land gradually dissipated.

By the time Luo Chen entered, it had already fallen from the third-tier to the second-tier quality.

But even so, it far exceeded ordinary second-tier spiritual lands.

Following his desperate full-strength absorption over these three years.

The grade of the spiritual vein here was still constantly falling.

Now, it barely maintained the second-tier.

"Such a cultivation environment will likely be hard to find in the future."

Luo Chen shook his head, not greedy.

His gaze fell on other entries.

The main cultivation "Yi Wood Medicine King Scripture" was raised to the Perfect level, which was not surprising.

After all, he himself had the Great Perfection Changchun Gong as a foundation, and it was just a seamless connection.

In fact, Luo Chen still felt that the proficiency was brushed too slowly.

"After all, it is a second-tier cultivation technique; it takes multiple operations to increase proficiency by one point."

"To brush it to the Master level, I fear it will become slower and slower."

"But this is also reasonable; whether it is the realm or the cultivation technique, the further one goes, the smaller and slower the improvement will be."

What Luo Chen cared about was not this.

He cared about his current cultivation speed.

After digesting the accumulated medicinal power in his body, Luo Chen consciously calculated his cultivation speed.

Initially, because the proficiency level of his main cultivation technique was constantly climbing, the data obtained was not stable.

But as the "Yi Wood Medicine King Scripture" later got stuck at the Perfect level, his data gradually stabilized.

Finally, Luo Chen obtained a rough data.

"If I don't rely on elixirs and have a second-tier spiritual vein land of ordinary quality like the current one."

"To cultivate to the Great Perfection of Foundation Establishment, it will take at least... two thousand years."

Terrifying data, plain tone.

The extreme difference did not cause any big waves in Luo Chen's heart.

Or rather, when he first obtained this data, he had already caused a stormy sea.

Now, it was just accepting it calmly.

To be honest, this data was not exaggerated.

He used the legendary Heavenly Spirit Root cultivators as the control group.

There are records in the cultivation world that Heavenly Spirit Root cultivators, without taking elixirs, can establish Foundation in ten years, form a Core in a hundred years, form a Nascent Soul in two hundred years, and transform into a Soul in five hundred years.

This is an extremely terrifying cultivation speed, otherwise, it wouldn't cause the situation of large sects fighting over Heavenly Spirit Root aptitude disciples.

Then, relative to this, the cultivation efficiency of cultivators with various aptitudes is easy to measure.

Luo Chen didn't know how others calculated it, but he had his own set of quantitative standards.

If the cultivation speed of a five-spirit-root aptitude is one, it is the standard degree.

Then four-spirit-root is two standard degrees, three-spirit-root is four standard degrees, and double-spirit-root is eight standard degrees.

Heavenly Spirit Root aptitude is as high as twenty times the standard degree!

Whether this set of standards is accurate or not, no one can say clearly.

But at least in the Qi Refining stage, it fits Luo Chen's judgment very well.

As for what it will be like in the Foundation Establishment stage, it remains to be investigated.

The reason Luo Chen is not desperate.

The reason is very simple.

All of the above are without considering taking auxiliary cultivation resources.

Such as spiritual elixirs, array spiritual lands, and even secret techniques and divine skills, etc.

These external cultivation resources can play a very good role in accelerating cultivation.

This point, in the Qi Refining stage, Luo Chen also verified.

"Two thousand years is just vanity; as long as I can continue to take elixirs, this time will be crazily shortened."

"Therefore, the only thing bothering me is elixirs."

Luo Chen's gaze flickered.

What he was thinking about was naturally not what elixirs to take.

There are many second-tier elixirs suitable for Foundation Establishment True Persons to take.

He himself mastered a full three types: Blood-Evil Elixir, Jade Dew Elixir, and the expensive Di Liujiang.

What made him difficult was the sequelae caused by taking too many elixirs.

He couldn't just pile them up to the Great Perfection of Foundation Establishment, and when approaching Core Formation, go face the situation when breaking through Foundation Establishment!

The number of elixirs taken in the Qi Refining stage was just a drop in the bucket compared to the Foundation Establishment stage.

Under such a huge quantity, the barrier of elixir poison that will be caused will only be more terrifying.

If it happens again, Luo Chen has not a single bit of confidence that he can break through to the Golden Core stage.

Let alone five portions of Core Formation spiritual medicine, even fifty portions, I fear, would not work.

"I must find a method to resolve the poison!"

Only by solving the problem of elixir sequelae can Luo Chen use external objects to accelerate cultivation.

Otherwise, until he dies of old age, I fear he will find it hard to touch the door of the Golden Core stage.

Finding a method to resolve the poison will be Luo Chen's most important task in the future, and he kept it firmly in his heart.

And in this matter, he was not without confidence.

As early as when he just broke through to Foundation Establishment, he chatted with Nangong Jin about this matter.

There are many ways to resolve elixir poison in the cultivation world.

Medicine methods, elixir methods, spell methods... and so on.

It can only be said that the prosperous hundred arts of cultivation are created because of the various difficulties encountered on the path of cultivation.

If there is a difficulty, solve the difficulty.

If one method cannot solve it, think of others.

Over time, the means for cultivators to solve difficulties evolved into various techniques, which were finally passed down.

Forming the so-called "Hundred Arts of Cultivation."

His realm has now come up, and he has a force under his command that he can use like an arm.

He himself is also a noble alchemist!

Under so many conditions, finding a method to resolve the poison is not too difficult.

Thoughts flowed through his heart.

Luo Chen's gaze fell on the spell column below.

The current attribute panel had been adjusted by him.

The reason for the adjustment was that in these three years, he finally entered the introductory level of the second-tier spell "Mountain Collapse."

In this way, to distinguish between first-tier and second-tier spells, he had to plan the dazzling panel well.

"Mountain Collapse" introductory, within reason.

After all, Luo Chen had long met the basic conditions for satisfaction.

As for the power, Luo Chen had experimented with it.

As far as the current situation is concerned, it is slightly inferior to the Blazing Sun Spell, which is the fusion of the Great Perfection Fireball Spell to the extreme.

This is very normal.

After all, the Fireball Spell was the spell he spent the most time and effort on, and it had been deduced to the peak, with no further progress.

What Luo Chen valued was the potential of "Mountain Collapse."

In the future, he still had to insist on cultivating it.

After all, he also wanted to see what the style of the second-tier spell that claimed to have the top power was like.

However, another second-tier spell Luo Chen learned was quite interesting.

It was given to him by Wang Haichao as a congratulatory gift at his Foundation Establishment Ceremony.

This was a very valuable gift!

"Glazed Sky Curtain, a top-tier second-tier water-type defensive spell!"

"Small Success protects the whole body, power not weaker than a high-grade defensive magic tool."

"After proficiency, it can be retracted and released freely, and the defensive effect is not weaker than a top-grade defensive magic tool."

"If it reaches Great Success, once unfolded, it can protect a piece of sky, and its power is not inferior to a mountain-guarding array!"

Just listening to this skill description, one can see the extraordinary effect.

It deserves the reputation of a "top-tier defensive spell."

However, this was also a gift with ulterior motives!

This technique has an extremely high cultivation difficulty!

One must have a certain attainment in water-type spells to get started.

Not only that, the consumption of spiritual power for this technique is also huge.

Just think about it; the so-called Great Success can cover a piece of sky, and the spiritual power to be consumed would be immense.

If an ordinary cultivator obtained this technique, eight or nine out of ten would abandon it.

By comparison, it would be better to learn other second-tier defensive spells.

Whether it is the earth-type Copper Wall and Iron Wall, or the wood-type Qilong Stake, the effects are good.

Even the fire-type, which is said to be the least good at defense, has an excellent defensive spell called the Blazing Sky Seven-Fold Ring.

When Luo Chen optimized the Fireball Spell back then, he had a flash of inspiration, and the flame ring he cast had the shadow of the Blazing Sky Seven-Fold Ring in it.

In any case, ordinary Foundation Establishment cultivators do not use spells very frequently.

Most of them still use magic tools to fight the enemy.

Under such circumstances, Wang Haichao giving Luo Chen a defensive spell that is hard to learn and hard to master is very intriguing.

"My reputation for being good at spells has long been spread far and wide after the Battle of the Fu Family and the Battle of Xiao Huan Mountain."

"Is he catering to my preferences?"

"Or is he deliberately giving me this spell to delay my cultivation speed?"

Luo Chen sneered, too lazy to think deeply.

He only knew that with the proficiency system.

Given enough time, he would eventually be able to master it.

Wang Haichao is throwing a meat bun at a dog, there is... phew!

Luo Chen put away the attribute panel.

Three years of bitter cultivation had passed, and it was time to go out.

Now that the realm had been consolidated, the combat means of the Foundation Establishment stage had also been tempered and skilled in the three years.

Next, it was time to work hard for future cultivation resources.

To break through to Foundation Establishment, it really consumed his bottom line.

If he didn't get some spirit stones, he wouldn't have the confidence to participate in large auctions that only rich brothers could enter.

And in these three years, there were a lot of things piled up in the Luo Tian Society waiting for him to handle.

Using a Cleaning Spell on himself, Luo Chen looked at this cave dwelling with some reluctance.

Three years of time!

This should be the most bitter period he had lived since he crossed over.

It was really nostalgic.

Unfortunately, this second-tier spiritual land, without the maintenance of Pang Renxiong's secret technique, was slowly dissipating.

His three years of bitter cultivation had instead accelerated its passing.

I fear that in a few months, it will return to being a part of that large first-tier spiritual vein in Mount Luofeng!

"Um?"

"First-tier spiritual vein!"

Luo Chen's eyes lit up instantly.

Such a large first-tier spiritual vein, doesn't it mean that there are rich spirit stone raw ores underneath!

Spirit stone raw ore!

Any place with a spiritual vein will form spiritual energy crystals like mineral stones.

Known to the world as spirit stone raw ore.

This thing, after being born, will automatically attract free spiritual energy between heaven and earth like a magnet.

In this way, it can ensure that the place of birth has more and more vigorous spiritual energy.

Over time, even a first-tier spiritual vein has the opportunity to advance to a second-tier, third-tier, or even fourth-tier spiritual vein!

Under normal circumstances, no one will actively dig for spirit stone raw ore.

Because doing so is equivalent to destroying the Great Wall.

After the spirit stone raw ore is taken out, it will weirdly disappear the effect of automatically attracting spiritual energy.

Even if it is put back, it will not have the effect of attracting spiritual energy.

In this way, major forces will always carefully protect the spirit stone raw ore in the spiritual vein.

However, another paradox appeared.

That is, "spirit stone," the thing known as the universal currency of the cultivation world, is clearly made from spirit stone raw ore.

Whether it is the spiritual energy contained within or the material itself.

Both can verify this source.

Then, where do so many spirit stones come from?

And who is doing this stupid thing of destroying the Great Wall?

According to the legends of the current cultivation world, spirit stones mainly come from the five major holy lands distributed over the five continents.

Below this, the Nascent Soul sects of each region will also be bestowed with the method of making spirit stones.

In other words, most spirit stones come from the five major holy lands and major Nascent Soul sects.

Cultivators speculate that in the five major holy lands, there are magical means to quantitatively dig for spirit stone raw ore without damaging the quality of the spiritual vein.

Luo Chen had also seen a piece of spirit stone raw ore before.

It was in the spiritual vein cave under Xieyue Valley.

He didn't dig it out back then.

Mainly because he didn't want to destroy that micro-spiritual vein land.

Facts proved that he could cultivate to his current level, and the spiritual land of Xieyue Valley indeed provided great help.

If it had been dug out back then, the value would not have exceeded ten thousand low-grade spirit stones at most.

Its true value lay in actively attracting free heaven and earth spiritual energy.

Moreover, there were two other reasons for not digging it back then.

One was that Luo Chen didn't know how to make the currency "spirit stone."

Even if dug out, it would just be directly absorbing spiritual energy, and the efficiency was not as good as carefully refined elixirs.

The second was that Luo Chen's strength was weak at that time.

Such a large piece of spirit stone raw ore, without special means, was hard to use separately.

If taken out as a whole, it was hard not to be coveted by others.

But now, he had solved the second problem.

"I have the strength!"

"And, I also have the means!"

"Although I still don't know how to make orthodox currency spirit stones, I can use spirit sense restrictions to seal the cut raw ore."

Luo Chen pursed his lips, his eyes flashing with excitement.

With the foundation of Mount Luofeng.

There must be a lot of spirit stone raw ore underneath!

Maybe there are mid-grade spirit stone raw ores inside, and there might even be a few high-grade ones!

Such things, whether for self-use or trading, are highly sought after.

If he could get it all out, wouldn't it instantly solve the current shortage of funds?

Nothing to say.

Do it!

Luo Chen immediately summoned the Sword Pill, turned into sword light, and started digging down.

Digging mines, don't say, he actually had quite a bit of experience!

His original body had done it for a while initially.

Later, when Luo Chen took the Nether-Passing Elixir for the first time, he had dreamed for ten years.

In that long memory, Luo Chen had dug mines for a full ten years.

So, he was at least a qualified miner.

The Sword Pill's material was special, focusing on sharpness.

Under Luo Chen's manipulation, it quickly dived down.

"It's this direction."

"That's right!"

"I can feel it! A vast amount of spiritual energy is right below."

Luo Chen was incomparably excited.

Originally, this cave was at the bottom of the mountain belly, extremely close to the center of the spiritual vein.

With his Foundation Establishment means, combined with the Sword Pill, the speed was flying fast.

Not long after, a pure spiritual energy rushed toward his face.

Luo Chen just breathed in, and he felt his spirit shake.

"There wouldn't really be high-grade spirit stones... right!"

His open mouth gradually closed.

His rosy face instantly turned pale.

His excited mood fell to the bottom of the valley.

Luo Chen didn't say a word and retreated.

The speed was the peak of his life!

In the blink of an eye, he turned into a golden light, wrapped in the Sword Pill, and fled crazily!

Under the mine path that revealed a trace of a crack.

A huge and solid shadow slowly opened its eyes.

In the huge eyes, there was sadness, regret, confusion, and even a trace of anger that could never dissipate for eternity.

"Living as a hero, dying as a ghost hero... am I, Pang Renxiong, really dead?"

"Damn it! Damn it!"

"Isn't he dead, how is he still alive?"

"No, that's the state of being dead, transformed into a Ghost King!"

"What kind of anger and unwillingness would make him transform to the Ghost King level in such a short time."

Luo Chen didn't know.

He only knew that what he had to do was only one word.

Run!

Run with all his might!

A Ghost King comparable to a Golden Core superior!

That was absolutely not an existence that any Foundation Establishment True Person could contend with.

Perhaps just a wave of his hand would take his life.

Luo Chen didn't want to lose his life here, so he used the strength he had never seen before in his life and fled crazily.

Great Perfection Carefree Wind-Riding!

Sword-riding flight!

Pure spiritual power wrapped him together, merged with that golden sword light, broke through all obstacles, and ran away regardless of everything.

At the same time.

Almost the moment he ran away, Mount Luofeng began to tremble.

Large amounts of ghost energy erupted from the ground.

Earth-shattering momentum descended upon the Dahe Ghost City once again.

Peerless aura permeated all directions.

In the Ghost City, all spirits and ghosts, up to Ghost General level existences, down to spirits without consciousness, all trembled and prostrated on the ground.

This Ghost Domain was created by the fall of three Ghost Kings.

That was why it hadn't dissipated for many years.

And it hadn't appeared for many years.

But only because another new Ghost King was born.

Now, that Ghost King woke up.

This Ghost Domain, in a silence, instantly boiled!

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