Chapter 260

It is said to be boring.

In reality, Luo Chen finds joy in it.

There is no fighting and killing, no scheming against each other.

What there is, is the visible data improvement on the attribute panel!

What there is, is the constant transformation of his own strength!

Half a month later.

Afternoon.

Luo Chen, who was brushing up his proficiency in Profound Nether Pills, suddenly felt his body tremble.

His mind wavered slightly, and inside the Ice Emperor Cauldron, ten portions of raw materials were instantly destroyed.

This means that a full one hundred and fifty low-grade spirit stones went straight down the drain!

If it were in the past, Luo Chen would definitely feel heartbroken.

The Profound Nether Pill has magical effects, but the price is that the pill formula is incomplete, the refining difficulty is high, and the cost is three times that of the Myriad Wonder Pill and Jade Marrow Pill.

Ten portions at a time, that is one hundred and fifty!

Luo Chen has been frantically brushing proficiency here every day recently, and the low-grade Profound Nether Pills produced have accumulated to nearly a hundred.

He finally managed to brush his proficiency to the proficient level.

Not only has the pill success rate increased to thirty percent, but even the elixir grade has been upgraded to medium-grade.

He even wanted to try today whether medium-grade Profound Nether Pills have any effect on him.

As a result, this incident happened.

But he did not feel heartbroken!

Instead, a look of wild joy appeared in his eyes.

"Xiao Ling, help me clean up the Ice Emperor Cauldron; I am going into seclusion."

Bai Bai Meiling, who was studying the Soul-Gathering Banner outside, answered sweetly, and then she saw a figure dive into the quiet room.

Not long after entering.

Luo Chen ran out again and went straight outside the cave dwelling.

"Hm?" Bai Bai Meiling tilted her little head, "Didn't Master say he was going into seclusion?"

"The cave dwelling space is too small!"

As a second-tier high-grade cave dwelling, the planning of Mount Tianlan Xiancheng is very well-placed.

Even the Ice Emperor Cauldron, which is two zhang tall, can be accommodated.

Anyone who sees it would praise it as "spacious"!

But this time, Luo Chen complained that it was not spacious enough.

Standing on the open flat ground between the mountains, Luo Chen opened his eyes wide, fully circulated his Spirit Eye Technique, and stared at his arms, torso, and thighs.

A physique as hard as diamond.

Skin as tough as demonic ox hide.

Under the thick epidermis, there are white jade bones that are faintly visible.

At this moment, these things are faintly merging together.

Within his five viscera, there is even more exuberant vitality radiating, as if he is undergoing a transformation.

With a thought, Luo Chen's whole body shook.

A surge of vigorous blood slowly emerged.

Not only that, but there was also a wolf smoke of blood rising into the sky from his spine.

When it reached a high place, it gradually became thin.

A powerful force was born spontaneously between his clenched fists and palms.

Unlike mastering spiritual power, which is ethereal.

But when Luo Chen clenched his fists, he truly felt his own strength, as if he could blast a mountain to pieces with one punch.

"Is this the second realm of body refining?"

Luo Chen closed his eyes, feeling the rapid changes happening in his body.

After many years, under the infusion of massive resources.

Even though he did not deliberately practice body refining techniques, he eventually reached this step.

"Let me try just how powerful pure physical strength is!"

Luo Chen suddenly opened his eyes.

The next moment, he took a step and stepped straight into the sky.

He did not use spiritual power, nor did he use the Wind-Riding Technique.

He relied solely on the strength of his body and the power of the blood wrapping his whole body.

One step!

Three zhang!

After a pause, Luo Chen followed a set of Dragon-Rising Steps recorded in the "Wang Family Secret Manual" to roughly mobilize the power of his blood.

Another step!

Nine zhang!

It was a zhang or two shorter than when Wang Yuan fought the battle at Mount Xiaohuan Mountain.

In the void, Luo Chen kept stepping into the air.

Gradually, he mastered the tricks of it.

"The explosive power is extremely strong!"

"Within a short distance, it can be called unsolvable."

"However, using the power of blood like this has an unavoidable pause after the explosion."

Luo Chen stopped in the air, letting the powerful blood support him.

After thinking carefully, Luo Chen understood the advantages and disadvantages of the second realm of body refining.

The explosion is very strong, but it is ultimately not as agile and continuous as a Foundation Establishment cultivator.

If a Foundation Establishment cultivator controls the distance from the beginning and uses kite tactics to deal with a body refiner of the second realm, the latter can only be in a situation of being beaten.

Within a hundred zhang is the best combat distance for the second realm of body refining.

"What if I cooperate with the Great Perfection Carefree Wind-Riding?"

He did it as soon as he thought of it.

Luo Chen took a step, crossed a distance of nine zhang, and when the blood could not keep up, spiritual energy flowed, and his whole person flew in the air like a great roc.

Following this pattern, Luo Chen practiced continuously.

Initially, it was a bit green and stuck, but later on, it became more and more proficient.

Swish!

His figure appeared in front of a mountain wall, and Luo Chen blasted out a palm from a distance with his right hand.

Mountain-Opening and Stele-Breaking Palm!

Boom!

A huge beam of spiritual light surged out.

It hit the mountain wall and directly pierced through more than ten meters.

Dust swept up.

Luo Chen retreated and flew into the sky.

Looking at his right hand, Luo Chen was thoughtful.

The power is indeed very domineering.

If a Foundation Establishment True Person takes this palm head-on, if they only have a high-grade defensive magic tool, they definitely won't be able to carry it.

Only a top-grade defensive magic tool can carry it for a moment.

"However, it's still a bit weak after all!"

"This power is equivalent to the power of a Foundation Establishment True Person using a top-grade flying sword."

"Is the second realm of body refining so weak?"

Wrong!

Luo Chen suddenly woke up.

It is not that the second realm of body refining is weak, but that he does not have corresponding combat methods.

It is like a Foundation Establishment cultivator, whose spiritual power is a hundred or a thousand times that of a Qi Refining cultivator, but to exert full strength.

They also need top-grade magic tools and second-tier spells.

It is the same principle!

Body refiners naturally also need combat methods corresponding to each realm.

It can even be said that because great power belongs to the physique, the corresponding methods are even more demanding.

When Wang Yuan first achieved the second realm of body refining, he also bluntly said that he was not a match for a Foundation Establishment cultivator at all.

Later, he painstakingly researched several small methods.

Such as the Blood Snake, Dragon-Rising Steps, Giant Spirit Transformation, etc.

But these methods ultimately could not perfectly utilize the massive blood of a second-realm body refiner.

So much so that he was full of confidence in fighting Duan Duan Qiankun, but was still beaten by the other party, and could only serve as a meat shield and delay for Luo Chen's brilliant strike.

Until later, when he left Dahe Workshop.

Wang Yuan combined blood-path techniques to research a killing move that truly rivaled Foundation Establishment cultivators.

Blood God Tribulation Finger!

It was also relying on this killing move that he was able to seriously injure Huo Hu from a long distance when Huo Hu saw that the situation was not right and intended to escape.

The Blood God Tribulation Finger is the second-realm method that can perfectly utilize the power of blood.

The Mountain-Opening and Stele-Breaking Palm that Luo Chen just used, even if it has reached Great Perfection.

But in the end, its foundation is just ordinary martial arts.

Even the creator, Wang Yuan, doesn't use this move much anymore.

The Dragon-Rising Steps he simply tried were also very raw and stuck because he was not proficient enough.

"Lacking methods?"

"Should I practice some strength methods..."

"Forget it, my cultivation direction is not strength."

"Instead of being distracted, it's better to honestly master what I have in my hands first!"

"Stepping into the second realm can be a trump card at a critical moment, and I can faintly feel subtle changes happening in my body. Perhaps after it stabilizes, it will also be of great benefit to my cultivation."

Just a short moment.

Luo Chen cast aside those thoughts that shouldn't be there.

He hasn't even reached the goal of Foundation Establishment Great Perfection yet.

How can he be distracted!

Just when Luo Chen had finished experimenting and intended to return home, crisp clapping sounds came from afar.

Luo Chen looked in the direction of the sound, and on a platform protruding from a steep mountain wall, a man was looking at him with appreciation.

"Fellow Daoist, good methods!"

Luo Chen was stunned for a moment, then laughed.

"Fellow Daoist Chu is too kind, it's just a mere body refining move."

While speaking, the other party flew towards him.

As the other party flew closer, Luo Chen's heart moved slightly.

In the past, he only knew that Chu Kui was a Foundation Establishment eighth layer cultivator.

The other party had always appeared very kind, so he had never felt any threat.

But as his spiritual soul foundation reached the Foundation Establishment late stage, Luo Chen finally felt the terrifying spiritual power fluctuations faintly visible under that body when facing the other party directly.

"So pure, so terrifying!"

"Its spiritual power capacity, I'm afraid it's more than ten times mine!"

"Is this a Foundation Establishment late-stage cultivator..."

When the realm gap is too large, the weak cannot feel the true power of the strong.

Luo Chen now, also relying on a spiritual soul foundation of about the same rank as the other party, finally felt a little bit.

This also made him understand that there is an insurmountable chasm between the early Foundation Establishment stage and the late Foundation Establishment stage.

Never mind crossing a major realm or fighting across realms.

Even within the same major realm, the early stage should not think about defeating late-stage cultivators.

This is the truth in the cultivation world!

In front of Luo Chen's cave dwelling gate.

In an outdoor flower hall opened by Ling Ling Yuzhi some years ago.

This is a place specially used for entertaining guests; meeting guests on one side and enjoying flowers on the other, how comfortable.

It's just that, before long, the flowers and grass in that spirit field will be ruthlessly cleared by Luo Chen and replaced with spirit plants with economic value.

Of course, Yuan Yuan Dongsheng is still collecting spirit plant seeds for him, so the exotic flowers and grass are still there.

It just so happens to leave Luo Chen a good place to entertain guests.

Fine wine, delicacies, and snacks were laid out on a table.

Even Foundation Establishment cultivators who can already simple grain-fasting cannot help but have a great appetite when seeing these things.

Chu Kui put down his wine glass and smacked his lips.

"When did you move up?"

"Half a month ago, I came in a hurry and didn't have time to visit you."

"Then it's fortunate you didn't come."

Chu Kui pointed outside, "I've been busy outside during this time."

Outside?

Luo Chen was stunned; Chu Kui doesn't usually go out of the city!

He probed, "Took a job?"

Chu Kui laughed, "Indeed!"

"At the auction, I met a few fellow daoists who had troubles in business. They pooled a sum of spirit stones and invited me to solve their troubles."

"I am the most righteous and helpful person; the cultivation world calls me the Number One Timely Rain of Mount Tianlan!"

Number One Timely Rain of Mount Tianlan?

Luo Chen almost couldn't hold it in.

He also boasted that he was the Timely Rain of Dahe Workshop back then.

While speechless, Luo Chen's mind turned.

What kind of trouble requires Chu Kui to take action?

And it was money pooled together!

Thinking about it, it's not a small amount!

Luo Chen smiled and said, "It seems Fellow Daoist has gained a lot!"

"It's alright, I can linger in this high-grade cave dwelling for a few more days." While speaking, Chu Kui had a look of pride on his face.

It was like showing off, and even more like demonstrating force.

Luo Chen laughed in his heart.

Seeing the other party behave like this, it seems he is determined to develop him as a client!

It's a pity that he doesn't have any use for Chu Kui right now.

Moreover, he doesn't have the money to invite Chu Kui at the moment!

Seeing that Luo Chen just smiled and didn't take the bait, Chu Kui lost interest and put away that look of pride.

He curiously looked Luo Chen up and down and asked tentatively, "You also practice strength?"

"Practiced a little, practiced a little." Luo Chen waved his hand modestly.

Chu Kui shook his head, "You don't look like you practiced a little; your foundation is quite solid."

Can it not be solid?

For this body, Luo Chen has never been without spirit rice and demonic beast meat since he had the conditions.

Later, he was constantly infused with Origin-Nourishing Spirit Liquid and Golden Jade Liquid.

When he was at Taishan Workshop, he exchanged a large batch of top-grade Golden Jade Liquid from Kang Kang Dongyue and used it for a full three years!

Even now in the Foundation Establishment stage, he can already do simple grain-fasting.

Luo Chen has never stopped the supply of demonic beast meat and high-quality spirit rice for his three meals a day.

This body, although not tempered like Wang Yuan's, was also piled up piece by piece with spirit stones.

Luo Chen smiled reservedly, didn't continue the topic, and changed the subject.

It was a topic the other party definitely knew and would definitely be interested in talking about.

"Before the auction, I heard that the Sword Sect's true disciple and the Luoyun Sect's true disciple had a match on the Dao-Discussion Platform?"

"Right, they had a fight!"

Sure enough, mentioning this, Chu Kui, who is a regular at the Dao-Discussion Platform, instantly became interested.

"I heard that the Luoyun Sect's true disciple won that battle?" Luo Chen said in confusion: "Aren't sword cultivators known as invincible among peers? With their combat power dominating the Yuding Domain, they actually lost? And lost to someone with a lower realm than themselves?"

"Pfft, that also depends on the combat environment!"

Chu Kui curled his lips, seemingly disapproving of sword cultivators.

"And, it also depends on who the opponent is!"

Luo Chen asked curiously: "I only know that the sword cultivator is at the Foundation Establishment fourth layer, named Meng Meng Ziqi, and his sword Dao attainments are quite exquisite. He won the true disciple position in the mid-Foundation Establishment stage; he shouldn't be weak!"

"He is naturally not weak, but the one he took the initiative to challenge is even less of a weakling." Chu Kui said.

Luo Chen became interested.

"Isn't that Luoyun Sect true disciple at the Foundation Establishment third layer?"

"His name is Han Zheng!"

Hiss!

Luo Chen subconsciously gasped.

It was actually this person!

He only knew from President Sima Hui Niang that there was such a battle, but he didn't know the background of that Luoyun Sect disciple.

The other party had taken the initiative to hide his name at that time.

And the name Han Zheng is so famous that no one in the entire Yuding Domain doesn't know it.

During the Qi Refining stage, he was ranked first on the overall list of geniuses.

Dozens of battles, big and small, without a single defeat.

Even during the Qi Refining stage, he participated in Foundation Establishment battles and achieved a proud record of three wins and five losses.

Even if it was just a friendly match on the Dao-Discussion Platform, not a life-and-death struggle.

It was enough to be amazing.

Luo Chen asked himself, if he were to face off head-on during the Qi Refining stage, he would definitely not be a match for a Foundation Establishment True Person.

While Luo Chen was amazed, Chu Kui's voice kept ringing.

"This Han Zheng is not an easy person."

"He was designated as a true disciple of the Luoyun Sect during the Qi Refining stage."

"Although he is only at the Foundation Establishment third layer now, the puppet he controls is a Foundation Establishment late-stage demonic puppet!"

"That Meng Meng Ziqi was arrogant and let the other party choose the combat environment."

"Han Zheng directly chose a jungle battlefield with many obstacles, first consumed him with a large number of low-grade puppets, and then suddenly released the Foundation Establishment late-stage demonic puppet, succeeding in one strike!"

"Meng Meng Ziqi not only failed to bring glory to his sect, but instead achieved Han Zheng's reputation for fighting across levels, and added a bit of momentum to the Luoyun Sect!"

Chu Kui, as a Foundation Establishment late-stage great cultivator, is also famous on the Dao-Discussion Platform of Mount Tianlan Xiancheng.

He only talked about the battle between early and mid-Foundation Establishment stages.

But his words were still full of appreciation and admiration.

Looking at the other party's face, Luo Chen thought that the other party had been fighting on the Dao-Discussion Platform for many years and must have had many records of fighting with sect disciples.

Seriously speaking, it seems he really hasn't fought with sect disciples.

In this regard, he can ask for advice in the future.

"Controlling a Foundation Establishment late-stage puppet with a Foundation Establishment early-stage realm!"

"In this way, that Han Zheng's spiritual soul foundation must be quite powerful!"

Chu Kui nodded.

His tone was very emotional.

"Luoyun Sect disciples are like this; their spiritual souls are generally stronger than their peers."

"This Han Zheng is even more extraordinary; he has a spiritual soul foundation comparable to the Foundation Establishment late stage at the Foundation Establishment third layer. I think his Derivative God Technique has also been practiced to a very high level."

Luo Chen blinked.

"Derivative God Technique?"

"Does Fellow Daoist not know?" Chu Kui said suspiciously: "This Derivative God Technique was obtained by the Luoyun Sect's Supreme Ancestor Han Zhan from an ancient secret realm. With the help of this technique, his spiritual soul reached Great Perfection, not only making extraordinary attainments in puppet Dao, but also breaking through to the Nascent Soul stage in one breath!"

Luo Chen was truly shocked this time.

A technique to cultivate the spiritual soul!

It actually allowed Han Zheng to possess a spiritual soul comparable to the Foundation Establishment late stage at the early Foundation Establishment stage.

And even allowed Han Zhan to break through to the Nascent Soul stage in one breath!

He also has a set of techniques to cultivate the spiritual soul—Bright God Breaking Evil.

However, the foundation of this technique was only created by a martial arts grandmaster; he practiced it to the grandmaster level, and it only had a weak effect on cultivating the spiritual soul.

The reason why Luo Chen's spiritual soul foundation can now be comparable to the Foundation Establishment late stage.

It mainly lies in the fact that he experienced a heart tribulation during the Qi Refining stage and insisted on taking hundreds of Profound Nether Pills.

With such a solid foundation, he was able to leap to the mid-Foundation Establishment level after breaking through.

Even so.

Reaching the Foundation Establishment late-stage level also relied on the merit of the Ghost God Heart-Questioning Mirror simulation.

Chu Kui didn't care about Luo Chen's shock; he just sighed enviously: "If only I had learned this technique; Core Formation is the most testing of spiritual soul foundation."

"Who wouldn't want to?" Luo Chen's tone was also a bit sour, but he instantly captured the information Chu Kui had inadvertently leaked in his words.

"Core Formation is very testing of spiritual soul foundation?"

Chu Kui's face changed slightly, and he kept his mouth shut.

His relationship with Luo Chen hadn't reached the point where he could share this precious knowledge for free.

Luo Chen was a bit disappointed; he had inadvertently appeared a bit eager.

For a time, the atmosphere in the flower hall became a bit awkward.

In the silence.

Suddenly!

Both of them looked up at the mountain below at almost the same time.

A weak momentum was gradually rising, faintly showing signs of becoming stronger and stronger.

"Eh?"

"Eh?"

After Chu Kui gave a light sound of surprise, he looked at Luo Chen with surprise again.

"He seems to have sensed the movement down the mountain only a moment later than me?"

"What a strong spiritual soul foundation!"

Luo Chen didn't care about this, but stood up.

"Sorry, I can't drink this wine today."

Why say "again"?

Chu Kui was stunned, "Could it be that the one down the mountain who is about to successfully establish Foundation is also your subordinate?"

He remembered the cultivator who established Foundation on the mountainside a year ago, named Duan Feng, who was a hall master of the Luo Tian Society and respected Luo Chen.

Luo Chen was about to answer, but his face changed again.

Chu Kui's expression also became interesting.

Because down the mountain, another new Foundation Establishment momentum was slowly rising.

At this, Luo Chen was a bit dumbfounded.

(End of chapter)