Chapter 214: Profound Xuan Xuan Huo Jian, Heavy Seal

Ten thousand li of floating clouds roll over green mountains, the solitary moon flows in the middle of the blue sky.

The solitary moon has passed, and beneath the floating clouds, three flying boats use all their strength to cross the long green mountains.

As if someone behind them were chasing them.

In the quiet room of the Sky Eagle flying boat.

Luo Chen looked at the pile of storage bags before him and couldn't help but shake his head.

Duan Qiankun's, Wang Haichao's, Tu Shan's, and even Huo Hu's storage bags were all with him.

"Troublesome!"

The storage bags of low-level cultivators were not a problem.

They were just some spiritual power imprints, which could be easily broken.

But the storage bags of Foundation Establishment cultivators were very troublesome.

Most of them were imprinted with spiritual sense by Foundation Establishment True Persons, and the cautious ones would even set up restrictions like Duan Qiankun.

To wear down these spiritual sense imprints was by no means a task that could be accomplished in a day or two.

Moreover, it had to be a Foundation Establishment True Person who also possessed spiritual sense to slowly wear them down.

Luo Chen envied the heritage of the great sects.

Back then, Miao Wen easily unlocked the restriction on the jade box that Mi Shuhua gave him.

That kind of method, if used on a storage bag.

I imagine it could achieve twice the result with half the effort!

"And I, however, have to grind it down bit by bit."

Curling his lips, Luo Chen put away these four storage bags.

He planned to slowly wear down Wang Haichao's and Tu Shan's after stabilizing.

Duan Qiankun's had been worn down for several years and was almost unlocked, so it was prioritized.

As for Huo Hu's storage bag, it was given to him by Wang Yuan.

No way around it.

Although this item belonged to Wang Yuan's spoils of war, Wang Yuan had not yet reached Foundation Establishment, so his spiritual sense could not be released, making it very difficult to unlock the spiritual sense restriction.

Therefore, it was handed to Luo Chen to help unlock it when he had time.

Yes, Huo Hu's storage bag also had a restriction!

The Flame Alliance was also a great sect specializing in casting, very skilled in arrays and restrictions.

Its disciples would all know a trick or two.

This one also had to be put aside.

In this way, only one dusty storage bag remained on the table.

It was from a Qi Refining cultivator who feigned death while cleaning the battlefield, and even managed to deceive Luo Chen.

At that time, Luo Chen had casually collected his storage bag.

It was very simple to open this one.

Luo Chen mobilized a wisp of spiritual power and directly and brutally destroyed its remaining spiritual power imprint.

There was no need to pour it out; with a probe of his spiritual sense, the contents inside were clear at a glance.

A pile of low-level materials, several bottles of conventional elixirs used for cultivation.

Hmm, there were also Jade Marrow Pills, which Luo Chen was most familiar with, confirming they came from Luo Chen's own hands.

There were no magic tools.

Ordinary low-level cultivators, after obtaining a handy magic tool, would often dispose of their previous low-level ones to exchange for other resources, keeping at most one or two as spares.

Like Luo Chen, he bestowed the Jade Blade he no longer used upon Qu Lingjun.

The Fire-Pointed Spear he used to use was also rewarded to Su Xiaolin, who worked diligently in the Luo Tian Society.

As for those puppets and top-grade magic tools, they were distributed to the cultivators of various halls according to their contributions or the needs of the gang.

He, Luo Chen, only took what he needed.

It was precisely because of this generous demeanor that the Luo Tian Society, which had been established for only a few years, had a growing sense of cohesion.

Sou!

A palm-sized turtle shell fell into his hand.

Luo Chen took a look and nodded lightly.

"Turtle Spirit Covering Armor."

"It is indeed a strange technique!"

"I can study it later."

Although he didn't know the name of that cultivator feigning death, he had clearly relied on this technique to deceive Luo Chen's investigation.

Putting away this strange technique, Luo Chen didn't put the rest of the things in his eyes.

Adding it all up, it was only worth a few hundred spirit stones.

Low-level loose cultivators were just that poor.

This net worth was completely incomparable to most of the cultivators in the Luo Tian Society.

After dealing with these storage bags, Luo Chen's gaze fell on the few spoils of war captured.

First was the magic treasure—Profound Xuan Xuan Huo Jian!

A very ordinary low-grade magic treasure, with only five arrays engraved on it, most of which were related to the fire element.

The specific power had not been tested, so it was not very clear.

But since it was fire-elemental, it was something Luo Chen could use.

Although he mainly cultivated the Yi Wood Medicine King Scripture, his most proficient attack methods were actually fire-elemental.

He used Dan fire for alchemy, had spells like Fireball Art, Blazing Sun Art, Mountain Collapse, and his previous weapon was the Fire-Pointed Spear.

Even when he reached Foundation Establishment, the three portions of Emperor Flowing Liquid he used were all refined from the bones, flesh, and even the demon core of the second-stage fire-elemental demon beast, the Blazing Fire Cloud Roc.

"This treasure came at a good time!"

"After I reached Foundation Establishment, I was just thinking of going to Tianlan Xiancheng to buy a magic treasure; having the Profound Xuan Xuan Huo Jian saves me the trouble."

This could be considered as having a pillow when one is sleepy.

Luo Chen smiled and put the Profound Xuan Xuan Huo Jian into his own storage bag.

This item was of a slightly higher grade and needed to be refined and nurtured for a long time before it could be used freely.

Like Wang Haichao, who had it for only a few days and used it in a rush.

The consequence was that his spiritual power was exhausted, and both his hands were crippled.

Facing Luo Chen's final sword strike, he had no power to resist.

"Cannot be used as a conventional method!"

After admonishing himself, Luo Chen picked up a small seal.

The color was mysterious yellow, and it felt quite heavy in his hand.

With Luo Chen's Great Perfection body-refining strength, he still had to supplement it with spiritual power to hold it in his hand.

Top-grade magic tool—Heavy Seal.

Without testing, just by holding it and relying on the impression from the battle back then, Luo Chen could judge the effect of this treasure.

"It should be used to suppress people with the force of a thousand jun!"

"It's a pity, if it hadn't failed during the refining process and become a magic treasure, perhaps it would have other powers."

"Now that it has fallen to a top-grade magic tool, it only has the effect of suppressing people with weight."

"However, it can also be kept for one's own use."

Regarding methods related to his own combat, Luo Chen had always been consciously matching them.

For defense, he had the Lankeshan Black Chess, the Four Symbols Tripod, and top-grade magic robes. These three formed a triple defense.

Attacks were mainly based on the Sword Pill and the Green Musk Gathering Dragon Flag, supplemented by various spells.

Movement relied on the Carefree Wind-Driving Art and top-grade Cloud-Stepping Boots.

Although the methods did not seem many, in reality, they far exceeded those of many who had just entered Foundation Establishment.

Magic tools and magic treasures were never the more the better.

Foundation Establishment True Persons had spiritual power far exceeding the Qi Refining stage, but there was still a limit.

And controlling magic tools required spiritual sense guidance.

Ordinary Foundation Establishment True Persons did not have powerful soul foundations, so their released spiritual sense naturally could not be called abundant.

As far as the Foundation Establishment battles Luo Chen had participated in were concerned.

Duan Qiankun's main methods were the River-Luo Sword, the Wave-Drum, the Swamp-Kingdom Gui Map, and some spells.

Wang Haichao mainly relied on top-grade flying swords and top-grade defensive magic tools; in his final desperate counterattack, he only had one more Profound Xuan Xuan Huo Jian.

Tu Shan, this loose cultivator Foundation Establishment, was even more miserable.

His attacks relied on the Heavy Seal, and his defense relied on a top-grade Flying Sky Iron Shield.

As for Li Yixian, Nangong Jin, and others, they also usually used flying swords that consumed less spiritual power to deal with enemies.

In comparison.

Luo Chen relied on his thick soul foundation and massive spiritual power.

He could switch between controlling multiple magic tools, which was truly extraordinary.

Moreover, he also had the Soul-Refining Banner containing Little Black as a killing weapon.

"After the Profound Xuan Xuan Huo Jian is nurtured well, it can be used as a trump card."

"This Heavy Seal can be used as a finishing move among conventional methods."

"It's just a pity for that strange defensive magic tool of Wang Haichao, which was destroyed by my Green Musk Gathering Dragon Flag combined with the Great Perfection Mountain-Opening Tablet-Breaking Palm."

After a count, Luo Chen kept what was most suitable for himself.

As for the broken Flying Sky Iron Shield and Wang Haichao's top-grade flying sword, he did not intend to keep them.

Later, when rewarding based on merit, they would be distributed.

To enhance the strength of the Luo Tian Society cultivators!

These things might be worth a few tens of thousands of spirit stones.

For ordinary people, it was absolutely a huge sum of money.

But for Luo Chen, who was a second-stage alchemist, it was not worth mentioning.

Not to mention how many spirit stones would be in those storage bags when opened.

Not to mention the tens of thousands of spirit stones on the Luo Tian Society's books, which he could use at will.

Just his own savings amounted to forty or fifty thousand spirit stones.

Even in his storage bag, there was a batch of top-grade Jade Marrow Pills worth fifty thousand spirit stones that had not been sold.

"For now, I should be considered not lacking money."

"The only thing I lack is a place for quiet cultivation... and time."

After exhaling a breath of turbid air.

Luo Chen put everything away, then his spiritual sense moved slightly, and a sound transmission was sent out.

After a great battle.

The number of Luo Tian Society cultivators, which had expanded to over three hundred, fell back to over one hundred.

For the Sky Eagle flying boat that could accommodate thousands of people, this number was truly too small.

Even after loading a portion of the Li family's mortals later, they were mostly crowded on the deck and in a few large cabins.

Therefore, the Sky Eagle flying boat still appeared somewhat empty.

There were many small rooms that were left empty.

And in a small hut near the stern of the ship, it was separated from other rooms.

The rooms in the middle were all empty.

Regarding this strange scene, the Li family mortals had some complaints, wondering why they weren't given more spacious accommodation.

The middle and late-stage cultivators of the Luo Tian Society were also very strange.

But for Luo Tian Society high-level figures like President Sima Hui Niang and Duan Feng, they knew it clearly.

In fact, this arrangement was decided by President Sima Hui Niang herself.

The reason was very simple.

In that room, lived a person.

Min Longyu!

This was a very sensitive figure, to the point that even President Sima Hui Niang had to treat him carefully.

As for how to deal with him, it still depended on the Society Leader.

Inside the room, Min Longyu sat cross-legged on the bed, operating his cultivation technique to consolidate his cultivation base.

He had been at the ninth level of Qi Refining for many years.

After arriving at Dahe Square, apart from a few rare instances of taking action, he had always been concentrating on quiet cultivation.

Three years ago, he listened to Luo Chen's preaching and gained some insights.

Combined with persistent cultivation, he finally reached the Great Perfection of Qi Refining a year later.

Now two years had passed.

His realm had been completely consolidated, and the spiritual power cloud in his body was incomparably full, as if it would turn into liquid spiritual energy at any time, achieving the status of a Foundation Establishment True Person.

But he had been slow to take this final step.

Or rather, he dared not forcibly take it.

In the cultivation world, there are existences who break through without relying on Foundation Establishment Pills!

But throughout the ages, they have belonged to those with heaven-grade spiritual roots or special physiques.

For someone like him, the opportunities to charge at Foundation Establishment were extremely limited, so how could he dare to waste them easily.

His age was there; if he failed, spending a few years healing his injuries might mean missing the best opportunity to reach Foundation Establishment before the age of sixty.

Therefore, even though he felt he was better prepared than the vast majority of those at the Great Perfection of Qi Refining.

He still dared not forcibly charge at the Foundation Establishment stage.

Cultivating now was merely a habitual action.

After a round of cultivation, there was no major progress.

Opening his eyes.

Min Longyu sighed in annoyance; he thought of those troublesome things from the past again.

Now, he could be considered to have separated himself from the past.

However, what followed...

"Sigh, the past is unbearable to look back on, the future is hard to predict."

"Forget it, forget it, I hope I haven't entrusted the wrong person!"

Taking out an array book, Min Longyu concentrated on reading it.

Perhaps, in this cultivation world, only the profound and vast array path could make him forget all his troubles!

"The Five-Wheel Turning Stone Array is a second-stage array after all; although I successfully set it up, it still cannot be called a second-stage array master."

"Relying on the countless stone pillars of Gaoling Plain to set up the array was taking a shortcut after all."

"However, there were also new gains. This array is mainly based on the earth path; if I had back then..."

Just as he was immersed in it, a sound transmission suddenly entered his ears.

His entire body shook, and he closed the book.

Standing up.

He tidied his magic robe, his hat, and released a Cleansing Art.

Afterward, he took a deep breath and walked out of the room.

Walking unhurriedly along the way, he occasionally encountered Luo Tian Society cultivators.

Facing those strange gazes filled with contempt and disdain, he acted as if he didn't see them.

Everything was just for the sake of the Great Dao!

Finally, under the gaze of dozens of strange eyes, he arrived at the room in the very center of the flying boat.

Dropping his hands, he bowed in salute.

"Junior Min Longyu, come to pay respects to Senior Dan Chenzi!"

After saying this, he was incomparably respectful.

Not until a "come in" came from inside did he push the door and enter.

The moment he entered, he couldn't help but feel a chill all over his body.

A pair of faint eyes, as if residing high above the nine heavens, looked through him completely from inside to outside.

Even his soul was trembling uncontrollably.

He wanted to prostrate himself before the person at the head.

He gritted his teeth, barely raised his head, and squeezed out a smile.

"Eh?"

Luo Chen gave a light, imperceptible sound of surprise.

For this meeting, he had prepared a little bit.

Not to mention anything else, relying on the Great Perfection Spiritual Eye Art and the Proficient-level Soul-Intimidating Art, it was enough to intimidate Qi Refining cultivators, making them too terrified to speak nonsense.

Those with slightly weaker courage might even collapse on the ground.

Unexpectedly!

This Min Longyu actually withstood his soul intimidation.

Although, it looked very strained.

"This child has such a deep soul foundation; I fear it is only slightly weaker than when I was at the Great Perfection of Qi Refining."

After sighing, Luo Chen put away his Foundation Establishment pressure.

"Hu..."

As if the clear sky after a storm.

Min Longyu finally felt that suffocating feeling disappear.

He could finally breathe.

This Luo Chen had such a strong aura, even more so than Wang Haichao and Zhou Qing.

Must be treated with caution, not a single bit of luck!

Swallowing his saliva, he respectfully closed the door and stood below Luo Chen.

Silence.

Was the tone of the room.

The superior did not speak, the inferior did not dare to speak.

Finally, leisurely words came down.

"Where do you come from, where are you going?"

Min Longyu took a deep breath, "Coming from Tianlan, going toward the Great Dao."

Luo Chen savored these words, and couldn't help but raise the corners of his mouth.

The other party's purpose must be in the second half of the sentence.

After opening the topic, the subsequent conversation was much smoother.

Luo Chen directly asked the question he most wanted to know.

"Why betray the Dajiang Gang and instead help my Luo Tian Society."

Min Longyu replied, "I am not a person of the Dajiang Gang, so it cannot be called betrayal. And what I helped was not the Luo Tian Society, but you!"

Not waiting for Luo Chen to say he was sophistical.

He said everything one by one, "I am not a person without roots; I come from the Min family, a fallen cultivation family in Tianlan Xiancheng. By the time it reached my generation, apart from many mortals, I was the only Qi Refining cultivator left."

"Feeling powerless to prosper the family, yet not wanting to give up on the Great Dao of longevity. Therefore, relying on some old connections, I followed Elder Zhou Qing of the Lianyun Business Alliance."

"Because of business matters, Elder Zhou brought me to Dahe Square, and in order to repay him, I had contributed on the Dao Discussion Platform."

Listening to these words, Luo Chen nodded.

Min Longyu's first appearance was a battle against Han Dang of the Poshan Gang on the Dao Discussion Platform.

As the person with the highest realm among the low-level cultivators of the Poshan Gang at that time.

The Heart-Devouring Tiger Han Dang had the realm of the Great Perfection of Qi Refining.

But he was cruelly strangled by Min Longyu with a strange array.

That scene, even after several years, Luo Chen still remembered vividly.

"Later, the two great Nascent Soul sects became hostile, and the Lianyun Business Alliance was involved. Elder Zhou urgently needed to return to Tianlan Xiancheng, and before leaving, he consulted my opinion, and I chose to stay in Dahe Square."

This was very normal.

A mere Qi Refining loose cultivator, rather than struggling in the highly competitive Tianlan Xiancheng.

It was better to fight for a future in the resource-rich Dahe Square.

Luo Chen asked curiously, "Why did you attach yourself to Wang Haichao?"

"Because he promised to find me a Foundation Establishment Pill!"

Mentioning this matter, Min Longyu was still indignant.

"Rather than saying attaching, it's better to say cooperation. I provide array assistance for him, and he seeks a Foundation Establishment Pill for me."

"However, this person only knew how to draw big cakes, and although opportunities appeared before my eyes many times, he never fought for me with all his might."

Luo Chen was puzzled.

"But I remember during the Battle of Gaoling Plain, he said publicly. If you strangled the Luo Tian Society cultivators with all your might, he promised Huo Hu would reward you with a Foundation Establishment Pill?"

Min Longyu gave a miserable smile.

"That was just another big cake!"

"Huo Hu indeed has channels to obtain Foundation Establishment Pills from within the Flame Alliance."

"But the current him in the Flame Alliance has no status and no merit. To exchange for a Foundation Establishment Pill, it would take at least ten years."

"And I, however, am already fifty-six; I fear I cannot wait for that reward."

Luo Chen nodded.

The best age for a cultivator to reach Foundation Establishment is before sixty.

After sixty, because Qi and blood begin to weaken, and the soul also gradually loses the lively and agile upward opportunity.

At this time, reaching Foundation Establishment again, the chance of success is slim.

Even if one luckily succeeds, the remaining time is very difficult to support moving toward a higher realm.

After the miserable smile, there was bitterness.

"Moreover, his Huo family is not a top cultivation family, and there are not a few cultivators in the clan who need Foundation Establishment Pills."

"If that day truly comes, with Huo Hu's narrow-minded and profit-seeking personality."

"It definitely wouldn't be my turn!"

The promise was made by Wang Haichao.

And what did it have to do with Huo Hu?

Everyone knew the logic, no one was a fool, and they all knew it clearly.

Min Longyu was even less of a fool, and would never be deceived again.

"So, you chose to defect to me?"

Luo Chen looked at him with a smile.

"Then how can you be sure that I won't turn my face and be heartless after the matter is done, and kill you to vent my anger?"

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