Chapter 191

Time passes quickly, and summer is hard to keep.

The speed of time passing is often hard for mortals to feel; often, after many years, looking back suddenly, they will realize it.

"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 broke away from the state of long quiet cultivation.

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

"Has so much time actually passed?"

Luo Chen was a bit lost.

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

The realm was finally consolidated!

Click on the attribute panel that hadn't been opened for a long time.

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

【Lifespan: 3/160】

【Spiritual Root: Gold, Wood, Water, Fire, Earth】

【Realm: Foundation Establishment Second Layer 1/100】

【Cultivation Technique: Yi Wood Medicine King Scripture (Perfect 37/100), Bright Spirit Breaking Evil (Perfect 400/100), Ten Thousand Beasts Scripture (10/100)】

【Spells: Second-tier: Mountain Collapse (Entry 7/100), Glazed Heavenly Curtain (Entry 10/100)

First-tier: Healing Art (Master 700/1000), Earth Mountain Art (Perfect 400/100), Wave Art (Perfect 400/100), Sound-Isolating Art (Perfect 31/100), Soul-Awe Art (Proficient 1/300)

Great Perfection Spells (Click to query details)】

【Alchemy: Great Perfection Folding Jade Hand, Plain Heart Hand (Master 13/1000), Huanxi Hand (Proficient 1/300), Cloud-Transforming Hand (Proficient 11/300)】

【Martial Arts: Mountain-Opening Breaking Stele Palm (Great Perfection), Heavenly Maiden Scattering Flowers (Perfect 360/100)】

【Skills: Second-tier Alchemist: Blood-Burning Elixir (Proficient 10/300), Nether-Penetrating Elixir (Entry 80/100), Emperor Flowing Slurry (Entry 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 established my Dao foundation, the restrictions were broken."

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

Luo Chen's mouth curled up slightly, revealing the joy in his heart at this moment.

However, if his "slight improvement" in cultivation were known by other Foundation Establishment cultivators, they would only break into curses.

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

This cultivation speed was truly gifted.

Of course, Luo Chen knew his own affairs.

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

These three years, although he didn't take any elixirs besides Grain-Bigu Elixirs.

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

Now, it was just thoroughly refining it.

Moreover, to have this efficiency, he had to rely on this spiritual land under his feet!

This was the cultivation place arranged by Golden Core True Person Elder Pang Renxiong for himself.

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

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

This temporarily improved spiritual land gradually dissipated.

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

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

Following his all-out absorption over these three years.

The grade of the spiritual vein here was constantly falling.

Now, it could barely maintain the second-tier.

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

Luo Chen shook his head, not greedy either.

His gaze fell on other entries.

The main cultivation "Yi Wood Medicine King Scripture" was raised to the perfect level; this was not surprising.

After all, he himself had the Great Perfection Everlasting Spring Art as a foundation, and it was just a seamless connection.

In fact, Luo Chen still complained that this proficiency was brushed too slowly.

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

"To brush it to the master level, it will only get slower and slower."

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

Luo Chen was not concerned about this.

What he cared about was 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 an approximate data.

"If I don't rely on elixirs, and have a second-tier spiritual land of ordinary quality like now."

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

Terrifying data, plain tone.

The extreme difference didn't cause any big waves in Luo Chen's heart.

Or rather, when he first obtained this data, he had already had turbulent waves.

Now, it was just accepting it calmly.

To be honest, this data was not exaggerated.

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

There are records in the cultivation world that Heavenly Spiritual 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, which is why major sects scramble for disciples with Heavenly Spiritual Root aptitude.

Then, relative to this, the cultivation efficiency of cultivators with various aptitudes was 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 five-element spiritual root aptitude is one, as the standard degree.

Then four-element is two standard degrees, three-element is four standard degrees, and dual-element is eight standard degrees.

Heavenly Spiritual 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 was very consistent with Luo Chen's judgment.

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

The reason Luo Chen was not desperate.

The reason was very simple.

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

Such as elixirs, arrays, spiritual lands, and even secret methods and divine skills, etc.

These external cultivation resources could have a good acceleration effect on cultivation.

This point, in the Qi Refining stage, Luo Chen had 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 that troubles 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-Burning Elixir, Jade Dew Elixir, and the costly Emperor Flowing Slurry.

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 massive quantity, the barrier of elixir poison would only be more terrifying.

If it happened again, Luo Chen didn't have a single bit of confidence that he could break through to the Golden Core stage.

Let alone five sets of Core Formation elixirs, even fifty sets, he was afraid it wouldn't work.

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

Only by solving the problem of elixir sequelae could Luo Chen rely on external objects to accelerate cultivation.

Otherwise, until he died of old age, he was afraid he would find it hard to touch the door of the Golden Core stage.

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

And for this matter, he was not without confidence.

As early as when he just broke through to Foundation Establishment, he had talked to 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 were created because of the various difficulties encountered on the path of cultivation.

If there is a difficulty, solve the difficulty.

If one method can't 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 had now come up, and he had a power that he could command like an arm.

He himself was a noble alchemist!

Under so many conditions, finding a method to resolve the poison was not a very difficult thing.

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 mastered the second-tier spell "Mountain Collapse."

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

"Mountain Collapse" entry, it was within reason.

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

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

As far as the current situation was concerned, it was slightly inferior to the Fierce Sun Art, which was the fusion of the Great Perfection Fireball Art to the extreme.

This was very normal.

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

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

In the future, he still had to persist in cultivation.

After all, he also wanted to see what the top power among second-tier spells was like.

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

That was a congratulatory gift Wang Haichao specially gave him at his Foundation Establishment Ceremony.

This was a very valuable gift!

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

"Small success protects the whole body, and its power is not weaker than a high-grade defensive magic tool."

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

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

Just listening to this skill description, one could see its extraordinary effect.

It was worthy of the prestige of a "top-tier defensive spell."

However, this was also a gift with ulterior motives!

This spell was extremely difficult to cultivate!

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

Not only that, but the consumption of spiritual power for this spell was also huge.

Just think about it, the so-called Great Success could cover a piece of the sky; the spiritual power it would consume would be immense.

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

Compared to this, it would be better to learn other second-tier defensive spells.

Whether it was the earth-type Wall of Copper and Iron, or the wood-type Qilong Pile, the effects were good.

Even the fire-type, which was known for being the least good at defense, still had an excellent defensive spell called the Seven-Fold Ring of Blazing Heaven.

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

Moreover, ordinary Foundation Establishment cultivators didn't use spells very frequently.

Most of them still used magic tools to deal with enemies.

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

"My reputation for being good at spells, after the Battle of the Fu Family and the Battle of Mount Xiaohuan, has long been spread far and wide."

"Is he catering to my preferences?"

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

Luo Chen smiled, too lazy to think deeply.

He only knew that with the proficiency system.

Given enough time, he would sooner or later be able to master it.

Wang Haichao was throwing a meat bun at a dog, never to return... Pfft!

Luo Chen put away the attribute panel.

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

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

Next, it was time to strive for future cultivation resources.

In order to break through to Foundation Establishment, he had truly exhausted his bottom line.

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

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

Using a Cleaning Art 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 quite nostalgic.

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

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

I'm afraid it wouldn't be a few months before it would fall back into being a part of the large first-tier spiritual vein in Mount Luofeng!

"Hmm?"

"First-tier spiritual vein!"

Luo Chen's eyes lit up instantly.

Such a large first-tier spiritual vein, didn't it mean there were abundant spirit stone raw ores below!

Spirit stone raw ore!

Any place with a spiritual vein would form spiritual energy crystals like ore.

Known to the world as spirit stone raw ore.

This thing, after being born, would act like a magnet, automatically attracting the free spiritual energy between heaven and earth.

In this way, it could ensure that the place of birth would have increasingly prosperous spiritual energy.

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

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

Because doing so would be equivalent to destroying the Great Wall.

After the spirit stone raw ore is taken out, it would strangely lose the effect of automatically attracting spiritual energy.

Even if put back, it wouldn't have the effect of attracting spiritual energy.

In this way, major and minor powers would often protect the spirit stone raw ore within the spiritual vein with great care.

However, another paradox appeared.

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

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

All could verify this source.

Then, where did so many spirit stones come from?

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

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

Below this, the Nascent Soul major sects of each domain would also be bestowed with the method of making spirit stones.

In other words, spirit stones mostly 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 mine spirit stone raw ore without damaging the quality of the spiritual vein.

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

It was in the spiritual vein cave below Xieyue Valley.

He didn't dig it out back then.

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

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 have been at most no more than ten thousand low-grade spirit stones.

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 stones."

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

Second, Luo Chen's strength was weak back then.

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

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

But now, he had solved the second problem.

"I have the strength now!"

"And I also have the means!"

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

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

With the foundation of Mount Luofeng.

The spirit stone raw ore below must be extremely abundant!

Perhaps there were 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, would be highly sought after.

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

Nothing to say.

Start working!

Luo Chen immediately summoned the sword pill, turned it into sword light, and started digging down.

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

His original self had done it for a while initially.

Later, when Luo Chen took the Tongyou 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 soon dived down constantly.

"It's this direction."

"That's right!"

"I can feel it! A massive 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.

Before long, a pure spiritual energy rushed toward his face.

Luo Chen just took a breath and 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 tunnel that revealed a tiny crack.

A massive and solid shadow slowly opened its eyes.

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

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

"Damn it! Damn it!"

"Wasn't he dead? How is he still alive?"

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

"What kind of anger and unwillingness is it that made 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 True Person!

That was 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 give 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 fled regardless of everything.

At the same time.

Almost the moment he fled, Mount Luofeng began to tremble.

Large amounts of ghost energy erupted from the depths of the earth.

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

Peerless aura permeated in all directions.

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

This Ghost Domain was created by the fall of three major 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 had awakened.

This Ghost Domain, in a silence, instantly boiled up!

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