Chapter 367: Ten Thousand Escape Lights, Mayflies in Heaven and Earth

Half a month later.

Outside the Golden Sand Floating Island.

Luo Chen looked at the ten thousand li of yellow sands outside the floating island, which were so vast that even with his sharp spiritual eyes he couldn't finish seeing them, and a trace of melancholy couldn't help but flow in his eyes.

This seemingly calm yellow sand wasteland, who knows how many cultivator lives it swallows every day.

Tomorrow, he will also step onto the battlefield!

While he was sighing, footsteps came from behind.

"President, Yuan Xiaoyue and the others are ready."

Luo Chen turned around, watching the cultivators, led by Yuan Xiaoyue and Qin Liangchen, step onto the Langqi Flying Boat one by one.

Li Yingzhang stood by his side; three days ago, Luo Chen had completely removed all the Earth Fire Fiend Qi from his body.

Now, although the other party's foundation was slightly damaged, there was no problem with normal cultivation.

"On the way, be extra careful, and use that head of the Foundation Establishment robbery cultivator well."

"Mm, I know."

"After returning, follow the prescription of that physician from the Green Elixir Valley and take ten more doses of medicine. You seem fine now, but some injuries caused by Fiend Qi erosion cannot be solved by my techniques; you have to rely on the prescription."

"Thank you for your concern, President; Yingzhang will keep it in mind."

"As for the Luo Tian Society... you all listen to the President; I trust her in handling things!"

Li Yingzhang nodded heavily.

He had already firmly remembered every word of Luo Chen's in his heart.

Finally!

Luo Chen smiled: "If there is a chance, I will definitely find back your Li family's Chi Dragon Treasure Sword."

Li Yingzhang shook his head repeatedly: "The President bestowing me the Nine Canal Spirit King is already a great favor; how can I covet more. President, you really don't need to take risks for this."

Luo Chen smiled, not saying anything more.

The Chi Dragon Sword was ultimately different from other magic treasures.

It was not only the Li family's heirloom magic treasure but also the sword worn by his old friend Li Jinhuang during his lifetime.

If there was no chance, so be it.

If he encountered it, no matter what, he would try to retrieve it.

"Alright, get on the boat; they are all waiting for you."

Li Yingzhang looked up, and the Langqi Flying Boat had slowly started, with a layer of spiritual energy light shield gradually covering the boat body.

Compared to when they arrived, carrying a large amount of materials, which made the flying boat extremely huge and flight extremely slow.

When returning, it was more than half empty.

There were only some precious materials Yuan Xiaoyue collected from the Ice Fortress, preparing to take them back to Tianlan Xiancheng for sale.

They couldn't run an empty boat on the way back!

Therefore, when returning, the flying boat shrank to ten zhang long, just the length of a high-grade flying boat.

With this length and width, the flight speed was also optimal!

When encountering an irresistible enemy, they could also escape faster.

Li Yingzhang leaped and got on the flying boat.

Together with Qin Liangchen and Yuan Xiaoyue, they turned around and looked at Luo Chen.

"President, see you next year!" Qin Liangchen shouted.

"President, you must be safe!" Yuan Xiaoyue waved her hand, saying goodbye.

Luo Chen didn't say anything.

He just nodded at them.

Under his gaze, the Langqi Flying Boat slowly took off.

Afterward, it flew away from the Ten Thousand Li Yellow Sands region.

In his line of sight, the huge flying boat gradually turned into a small black dot, until Luo Chen couldn't see it anymore.

A feeling of melancholy floated into his heart.

Luo Chen turned his body and walked slowly back along the street.

When he reached the very center of the floating island, his footsteps stopped.

On that circular square, a huge white stone tablet stood, with rows of golden characters appearing on it.

Merit Board!

The cultivators of the Four Sects were not on it; they had their own set of ways to calculate merit internally.

This stone tablet mainly recorded the merits obtained by their respective vassal forces and some loose cultivators on the battlefield.

Therefore, the main body on it was either the names of forces or the names of individual loose cultivators.

This merit was not just for a good reputation, but had a real effect!

One could use merit to exchange for corresponding resources and treasures at the Falling Cloud Sect, the leader of the Four Sect Alliance!

For example, the First Grade Spirit Elixir urgently needed by Qi Refining late-stage cultivators, or the precious Foundation Establishment Pill.

Other precious elixirs could also be exchanged for.

At least Luo Chen saw a kind of mid-grade Han Guang Pill suitable for his cultivation on it.

It is said that this is a special cultivation elixir of the Falling Cloud Sect, with medicinal power not inferior to the Second Grade elixirs of the Medicine King Sect and Green Elixir Valley, and it was refined by the Falling Cloud Sect's chief alchemist, Fairy Mu Yunyan, herself.

Mid-grade Second Grade cultivation elixirs have a huge temptation for ordinary Foundation Establishment true cultivators!

However, Luo Chen currently didn't look down on it.

The high-grade Ascending Dragon Pill given to him by Tao Wan of the Green Elixir Valley was still being supplied stably.

Before developing drug resistance, Luo Chen didn't intend to change his main elixir.

Besides elixirs, there were many other resources given by the Four Sect Alliance.

Magic tools, magic treasures, talismans, spiritual herbs, cultivation techniques, secret arts, and the Falling Cloud Sect puppets that cultivators coveted the most!

Same-grade puppets, and even Third Grade puppets were available for exchange!

If one could exchange for such good things, then within the Foundation Establishment stage, saying one could walk sideways would be no exaggeration.

It was precisely because there were so many good things on it.

That the ranking on the Merit Board could not be used to judge who had made more contributions.

It was very simple; every vassal was worried that the resources on it were limited.

Therefore, they often earned a little merit and tried their best to exchange it, so as not to have merit but no desired resources when the time came.

The Luo Tian Society was also like this!

Over the past two years, the little merit earned had all been used to exchange for Foundation Establishment Pills!

A total of three were exchanged!

Currently, only one hundred merit points remained on it.

So much so that the Luo Tian Society's ranking was only in the lower-middle layer, just slightly better than some loose cultivator Foundation Establishment cultivators.

"After returning, I must find Xu Huanzhen and ask carefully how this merit is calculated."

Luo Chen's gaze fell on the stone tablet, familiarizing himself with the vassals of the Four Sect Alliance as much as possible.

On it, there were also several forces he was familiar with.

Like the Lianyun Business Alliance, ranked nineteenth.

The Luo family of Rakshasa Market, the Chen family of Tianyi Market, the Mountain-Refining Mountain, the Chang family of Changliu Gorge, the Wei family of Xuchen Mountain.

These were all second-rate forces in Tianlan Xiancheng or near Tianlan.

Over the past half month, several Foundation Establishment true cultivators from these families had taken the initiative to visit him.

Either to exchange cultivation insights, or to worry about the future development of the war, etc.

Some hadn't been seen yet, either in closed-door cultivation to heal injuries or hadn't come down after going to the Nine Mountains of Accumulated Thunder.

But so many familiar people and forces gathered here still made Luo Chen feel dazed.

It was as if he were still in Tianlan Xiancheng.

But the cruel fact told him that this was the Golden Sand Floating Island!

It was the base camp of the Four Sect Alliance on the Ten Thousand Li Yellow Sands!

After the war ended, how many of these familiar forces could live and return intact was an unknown.

Perhaps, if some forces had few Foundation Establishment true cultivators and they all died on the battlefield.

Their home territory would instead be stolen by others.

"Perhaps if more die, the various great sects will be happier, and they can collect rent again!"

Luo Chen never feared using the greatest malice to speculate on these Core Formation great sects.

In their eyes.

Vassal forces don't count for anything at all.

As long as their own sect doesn't fall, the vassals under their command are like wild grass; if they are gone today, others will take the initiative to attach themselves after a while.

Just like the Luo Tian Society back then, Luo Chen took the initiative to attach himself to the Ice Fortress!

Because Luo Chen stood under the Merit Board for a long time.

Slowly, someone noticed him.

His appearance and deeds had not been unfamiliar on the Golden Sand Floating Island these days.

The vast majority of people knew this face of his, or had heard of his great name, Danchenzi!

Luo Chen's spiritual sense was powerful, even if he didn't deliberately eavesdrop.

But the sound transmissions of some cultivators with lower cultivation bases nearby couldn't escape Luo Chen's ears.

"Is that senior Danchenzi?"

"Indeed, just standing there, he is as steady as a mountain, quite having the demeanor of a grandmaster; he is worthy of being a leader among loose cultivators!"

"We are also loose cultivators, and I don't know if we can reach his height in this lifetime. Not to mention being famous in the Jade Cauldron Domain, but also being able to create a force like the Luo Tian Society, letting oneself be dispatched."

"Haha, you are thinking too much. Although the Luo Tian Society is only an ordinary second-rate force, the experts within it are not weaker than the true disciples of great sects. Like that Lei Zhenzi, with the power of Foundation Establishment early-stage, he blasted five same-grade cultivators. Do you think you can subdue such a genius figure? I'm afraid you can't even do it yourself!"

"Uh... life is already very difficult, so don't be so mean, Dao brother."

"Haha!"

The rustling sound transmission came to his ears, and Luo Chen's mouth couldn't help but lift.

He also only knew in this half month that Elder Min Longyu had actually made a Dao name.

Or rather, Elder Min Longyu himself might not know he had a Dao name, "Lei Zhenzi"!

This honorific title only gradually spread long after he left.

Setting up the Five Thunders Bombardment Grand Formation, blasting five same-grade cultivators with his own power.

With such a brilliant battle record, plus he was a formation master, naturally someone boasted for him.

In fact!

Luo Chen also finally knew why he found that the Luo Tian Society cultivators, who had clearly lost the battle, had no signs of decline after arriving here.

Even saying that their mental state was far better than other forces.

The whole reason stemmed from the night raid launched by the Yan Alliance on the Seventh Mountain before.

In that night raid, the Four Sect Alliance side suffered heavy losses.

Many vassal forces reached an astonishing 70% damage.

In comparison, the Luo Tian Society only lost less than half the people, and although the three major Foundation Establishment cultivators in the society were seriously injured or missing, in the end, there were no casualties.

Instead, they achieved the battle result of killing dozens of Qi Refining cultivators and blasting five Foundation Establishment cultivators on the spot.

In subsequent rumors, among the few people chasing Wang Yuan, two Foundation Establishment mid-stage cultivators also fell.

Under such brilliant battle results, how could the Luo Tian Society cultivators not be proud, and how could their morale not be high?

The defeat of the Luo Tian Society was not a crime of war.

It was the decline of the general trend, leading them to only be able to retreat together.

On the local battlefield, the Luo Tian Society was actually considered to have won.

Of course, these details are only for these vassal forces to haggle over, the true disciples of the Four Sects naturally disdain them.

Luo Chen looked at the Merit Board for a while, with little interest.

Except for the puppets and Han Guang Pills, as well as Foundation Establishment Pills taken out by the Falling Cloud Sect, he had no interest in other resources.

Perhaps other ordinary Foundation Establishment cultivators would flock to them.

But in front of his family wealth, they really couldn't catch his eye.

"Since there is nothing particularly worth my heart, and nothing of great benefit to the Luo Tian Society. Then there is no need to put in great effort on the battlefield to win merit."

"Seeing that the situation is not right, retreat immediately, this is the way to protect oneself!"

This was the purpose of Luo Chen studying the Merit Board.

Since they didn't bring out things that moved him, the combat strategy had to be changed well.

Unlike other forces, which must put in great effort.

Because of his own reasons, the Ice Fortress side would inevitably be lenient to him, and no one would blame him for slacking off.

The moon rises and the sun sets, time flows.

Soon, it came to the next day.

Waking up early, feeling the state of his body, Luo Chen couldn't help but be spirited.

Half a month passed, and he had successively opened 20 ordinary apertures.

Adding the 36 major apertures opened long ago during the Qi Refining stage.

In this way, 56 apertures had been opened.

Although there was no earth-shattering change yet, he truly felt something a little different.

That was the spiritual energy reserve and conversion efficiency!

The Dantian Qi Sea can actually be seen as an aperture in the human body, but because the position is special, plus the cultivation technique, the volume is far larger than other apertures.

And it is still constantly developing and expanding.

Now that he has developed ordinary apertures, they can be seen as reduced versions of the Dantian.

These apertures can store a large amount of ordinary spiritual energy that has not been purified.

In this way, the spiritual energy reserve is increased!

At the same time, because there is this spare spiritual energy, during the operation of the cultivation technique, the refining efficiency will also be greatly improved.

"If I can open 720 apertures, it is almost equivalent to opening a second Qi Sea in the body!"

"I myself have seven or eight times more spiritual energy than the same grade, and with the body of Foundation Establishment sixth layer, I am not inferior to late-stage great cultivators. If 720 apertures are opened together, under the bonus of double Qi Seas, I fear that as soon as I enter the Foundation Establishment seventh layer, my spiritual energy can surpass those of the eighth and ninth layers!"

"Even saying, it is not impossible to compare to Foundation Establishment great perfection cultivators!"

Thinking of the future scene, Luo Chen couldn't help but be excited.

This kind of improvement is no longer limited to cultivation speed.

It will also intuitively affect his combat methods.

Sure enough, his previous decision was not wrong.

Cultivation is a water-grinding effort, requiring time to endure.

But every step, he can draw inferences from one instance, take what is strong and discard what is weak, walking faster than others and more steadily than others!

And while he was daydreaming about the future.

The Luo Tian Society cultivators had already set out one by one, checking combat preparations such as magic tools and talismans under Duan Feng's command.

Even saying, it was not just the Luo Tian Society.

The nearby Ice Fortress encampment, and the entire Golden Sand Floating Island, seemed to have come alive.

Noisy sounds came from all directions.

More escape lights, led by powerful Foundation Establishment true cultivators, flew out of the Golden Sand Floating Island and entered the range of the Ten Thousand Li Yellow Sands.

Half an hour passed in a flash.

Suddenly!

A hundred-person small team flew towards the Luo Tian Society.

Seeing this, Luo Chen greeted them.

"Are you all ready?"

Tantai Jin asked while looking at the hundred Luo Tian Society cultivators.

Although they were the combat hall cultivators supplemented later, each one was full of spirit and had a fierce aura.

It can be seen that this is also a team that has experienced many battles.

"No problem." Luo Chen smiled slightly and bowed: "This trip, I have to rely on Fellow Daoist Tantai for more care."

"Mm, then let's go!"

Tantai Jin nodded and waved her hand.

Then the two teams merged into one, but they were also distinct, with men and women obvious.

It was not just them.

The Ice Fortress encampment soon gathered four more teams.

Compared to the two hundred people on Tantai Jin's side, the other four teams all had three or four hundred people.

All were more than their side!

From this, it can also be seen that what Uncle-Master Yinyue said to Luo Chen was not false, and the Jueqing lineage was indeed weak.

"Set off!"

A grand voice sounded.

Afterward, thousands of cultivators, either driving magic tools or riding clouds and mist, flew into the Ten Thousand Li Yellow Sands wasteland together, flying towards the nine high mountains in the center that were shrouded in thunderclouds all year round.

Under the blessing of colorful spiritual energy, this large-scale cultivator team soon merged with the main force of the other three sect cultivators.

Ten thousand escape lights merged, wind whistled, and clouds rolled.

If viewed from afar.

It was as if mayflies emitting faint light were rushing towards that universe of heaven and earth where life and death were unknown and there was great terror!

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 368 =====