Chapter 408: Ten Times Cultivation Speed, Dual Cultivation of Array Dao, Opening Blind Boxes

On Tianlan Peak, Cave Dwelling Jia-3.

As one of the only three Third-Tier cave dwellings in this man-made Third-Tier spirit land.

When Luo Chen first stepped into it, he felt the rich spiritual energy not inferior to a Second-Tier spirit land.

This was just in the main hall.

If it were the quiet room specifically used for cultivation, it would only be better!

His gaze wandered, and room after room was sealed by arrays.

Those were places he could not set foot in.

This cave dwelling left by Haoranzi, although he could use it, was not without taboos.

Luo Chen wandered through it, and finally, his heart settled.

The rooms he could use were three in total: the cultivation room, the earth fire room, and the small study.

If counting the main hall, barely four.

Regarding this, he was already very satisfied!

What he wanted wasn't just the cultivation room; the others were just attachments.

Luo Chen went to the earth fire room first and took out a cauldron from his storage bag.

It looked like a pot but not a pot, like an altar but not an altar.

It was the Minister Cauldron given to him by Fairy Jueqing back then, a damaged magic treasure-level pill refining utensil.

Its attack and defense capabilities were gone, leaving only pill refining functions.

Over the years, he had occasionally refined pills, and he hadn't used the Ice Emperor Cauldron, but was using this object.

After many experiments, he was already very familiar with it.

After putting down the pill cauldron, Luo Chen went to the study again.

The empty study left nothing behind.

Luo Chen waved his hand, and streams of light flew out, placing books on the bookshelf.

Paper books, beast skin secret texts, bamboo slips, jade slips.

Various materials, and the things recorded were also quite numerous.

Not only that, Luo Chen's heart moved, and he spread out a cloth bag he brought up.

What came into view were densely packed storage bags.

All kinds of storage bags, with all kinds of patterns and logos.

This represented that their origins were all different.

Luo Chen's gaze swept over these storage bags; the bloodiness, Sha Qi, and spiritual energy lingering on them also represented the identities and encounters of their former owners.

All the storage bags were not something that could be owned by the weak.

At the very least, the holders were mid-stage Foundation Establishment cultivators!

Sword Sect's, Yan Alliance's, and even a small amount of Four Sect Alliance's.

These were all Luo Chen's spoils of war over the recent years.

Because the time was rushed, he didn't have time to unlock them.

Now the Luo Tian Society is short of spirit stones, and he, Luo Chen, is also short of resources, so it's just right to unlock them in his spare time to make up for it!

"There are many true disciples of great sects inside, I think the harvest won't be small later."

After putting these things away.

Luo Chen went to the living room again, his heart moved, and a spirit beast bag opened.

One by one, smaller demon beasts were released, and then they were enclosed in an array prepared in advance.

"My means on the divine soul are too few."

"The currently mastered 'Soul-Deterring Technique' and 'Soul-Bewildering Technique' both require targets to train."

"The number of these demon beasts is not enough, let Hui Niang help me raise another batch later."

After throwing in a few Spirit-Feeding Pills, Luo Chen closed the array.

"The basic preparation work is done, next is to practice step by step."

Luo Chen tidied his clothes and opened the door of the cultivation room with a calm face.

A surge of spiritual energy rushed toward his face.

Luo Chen frowned and stepped in forcefully.

Now, his physique has reached the Third-Tier level of the Desolate Ancient, and the weak Third-Tier spirit land that once made him feel pressure is nothing.

He even felt that he could withstand a real Third-Tier spirit land.

However, cultivation is a matter of accumulation, and there is no need to take risks for a moment.

A weak Third-Tier spirit land is enough for his current use.

Close the door.

Luo Chen wanted to take out his own special cushion, but didn't expect that one was already placed inside.

"Haoranzi still left me something!"

He looked at the cushion, which actually had the grade of a magic treasure.

The shape was ancient, and it looked like it had a long history, not cast in recent years.

Perhaps he forgot it when he tidied up the cave dwelling?

Luo Chen shook his head, carefully checked this magic treasure-level cushion, and after confirming it was fine, sat down immediately.

Holding his breath and concentrating, he returned to a state of mind as calm as ancient water.

Gradually, the "Evergreen Scripture" operated automatically.

The powerful divine soul, which had already reached the ninth level of Foundation Establishment, leaped out of the sea of consciousness in the form of spiritual sense, and began to move and capture spiritual energy outside.

Not only that.

Luo Chen's lips opened slightly from time to time, and streams of slender spiritual energy light, like little dragons, were swallowed into his body.

This is the Qi-gathering method in "Ten Thousand Dao Convergence", which can not only be used for body refining but also for Qi Refining.

Now, three tubes are used together.

Luo Chen's efficiency in absorbing and refining spiritual energy doubled instantly!

Time passed slowly.

Ten days later.

Luo Chen woke up slowly from his quiet cultivation.

Feeling the state in his body, he couldn't help but let out a long breath comfortably.

The changes brought about by a strong physique to cultivation are not visible at ordinary times, but in this weak Third-Tier spirit land, it exploded with true potential!

In the year he was in the Daoist Hall of Qingdan Valley before.

His utilization of the weak Third-Tier spirit land was very insufficient.

The cultivation efficiency improvement was only seven or eight times.

But this time, he reached a full ten times!

"In this way, it makes up for my deficiency in pills."

A cruel fact once stood before Luo Chen.

That is, after he used the Dragon-Ascending Pill to cultivate all the way to the seventh level of Foundation Establishment, he developed drug resistance.

Even if the top-grade Dragon-Ascending Pill was taken from the fifth to the seventh level of Foundation Establishment, the medicinal effect was very average.

After reaching the seventh level, the Dragon-Ascending Pill no longer had any effect on him.

However, at that time, there were powerful enemies on the side.

Leaving him no time to think about future cultivation pills.

Now with the support of the weak Third-Tier spirit land cave dwelling, he can temporarily stop taking pills for cultivation.

The current cultivation speed is already very fast!

His heart moved, and Luo Chen opened the attribute panel.

The light curtain slid down like water.

【Lifespan: 53/260】

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

【Realm: Foundation Establishment 7th Level 2/100, Desolate Ancient 3rd Tier 5/100】

【Cultivation Method: Evergreen Scripture Master 680/1000, Ten Thousand Dao Convergence Proficient 250/300, Ten Thousand Beast Scripture 10/100】

【Spells: Third-Tier: Nine Ten Thousand Miles Master 501/1000, Mirror Flower Water Moon Proficient 107/200, Severing Life Finger Entry 1/100

Second-Tier: Water Mirror Technique Master 577/1000, Flower Fairy Proficient 150/200, Soul-Bewildering Technique Proficient 189/200, Grass-Cutting Geng Metal Sword Technique Proficient 125/200, Five Elements Organ-Returning Technique Entry 75/100】

First-Tier: Soul-Deterring Technique Master 509/1000, Bone-Restoring Technique Proficient 239/300

Great Perfection Spells (Click to query details)】

【Pill Technique: Qingyuan Wonderful Pill Method Master 970/1000, Peiyuan Hand Perfect 412/500, Scale-Turning Hand Entry 45/100, Plucking Star Hand Perfect 344/500. Great Perfection Pill Technique (Click to query details)】

【Wu Gong: Cloud-Exploring Divine Claw Proficient 271/300, Fierce Fire Miasma Entry 75/100, Heavenly Maiden Scattering Flowers Master 571/1000, Mountain-Opening Tablet-Breaking Palm Great Perfection】

【Profession: Second-Tier Pill Refiner, Second-Tier Physician

Second-Tier Pills: Dust-Descending Pill Entry 10/100, Emperor Flowing Plasma Entry 9/100

First-Tier Pills: Blood-Burning Pill Great Perfection, Spirit-Feeding Pill Entry Proficient 180/200, Great Perfection Pills (Click to query details)】

【Achievement Points: 29】

Just the first glance.

Luo Chen's gaze landed on the realm column.

Even the increase in the lifespan limit after the realm change didn't get much attention.

Looking at the progress bar, Luo Chen showed a satisfied smile.

Ten days!

Weak Third-Tier spirit land, persist in cultivation for ten days, and the progress increased by one.

In other words, as long as he is given one thousand days, less than three years, he can complete the cultivation of the seventh level of Foundation Establishment and be promoted to the eighth level of Foundation Establishment!

This is the Third-Tier spirit land!

Even if it is just a weak Third-Tier spirit land!

The boost to cultivation is terrifying.

Without such a spirit land, even if he could find pills not weaker than the top-grade Dragon-Ascending Pill, it would take at least twenty or thirty years to walk through this small realm.

No wonder when he last saw Tao Wan, he found that the other party was approaching the Great Perfection of the Foundation Establishment stage.

The other party's resource supply and spirit land supply were not inferior to his; having this progress is reasonable.

"If I could always possess a weak Third-Tier spirit land, I'm afraid it would only take a few decades to cultivate to the Great Perfection of Foundation Establishment."

"Unfortunately, this cave dwelling is only temporarily lent to me by Haoranzi."

"If he dies in..."

Uncontrollably, Luo Chen had a dark thought.

But soon, he threw it behind his head.

Haoranzi is quite good; wishing for his sudden death is truly inappropriate.

And he now has a long lifespan; with step-by-step cultivation, he will sooner or later reach the Great Perfection of Foundation Establishment before his lifespan ends; why covet this Third-Tier cave dwelling?

Compared to this, the secrets related to cultivation that the knowledgeable Haoranzi mentions casually are undoubtedly better.

It's better for him to be alive!

It's rare to know a kind-hearted Core Formation Master.

The progress in Qi Refining makes Luo Chen very satisfied.

However, the progress in body refining makes him somewhat dissatisfied.

Three years have passed, and he has only walked five progress bars.

This is still the initial stage where cultivation is fastest!

If it reaches the later stage, I'm afraid it will be even slower.

To reach the Fourth Tier of the Desolate Ancient, it might be three to five hundred years of effort, or even longer!

The progress is so slow, related to the body refining technique "Ten Thousand Dao Convergence" created by Luo Chen himself.

This technique originates from Luo Chen's thick accumulation.

But it is precisely because the accumulation is thick that this technique is relatively mixed.

Every small realm, every small stage of body refining, has detailed corresponding refining methods, and even needs to be equipped with related resources, such as pills, medicinal materials, mineral materials, Sha Qi, etc.

Unless Luo Chen gives up Immortal Dao cultivation and focuses on it.

Otherwise, the trivial and complicated steps in it would make him too busy to handle.

"Forget it!"

"The strengthening of the physique was originally for Immortal Dao cultivation at the beginning, but I cannot abandon the root for the tip."

Luo Chen dispelled the idea of going further on the body refining path.

First, the road ahead is confusing, and he can only explore it himself. Compared to this, the Immortal Dao of Qi Refining has long been explored by predecessors; why should he bump his head on another unfamiliar road?

Second, this "Ten Thousand Dao Convergence" is clearly walking the path of humans refining demon bodies.

And Desolate Ancient demon beasts, although their physiques are strong, they are accumulated over time.

People have natural lifespans of thousands or ten thousand years.

Even if he shortens the time of each level by ten times, it still takes hundreds or thousands of years.

Too slow!

Even, it is not as good as the Qi and Blood path taken by Wang Yuan.

The current powerful physique is already enough to carry Luo Chen to travel through the Foundation Establishment and Core Formation realms.

As for the future, whether to change to a bigger ship is a matter for the future.

His gaze slid down.

There is not much change in spells.

'Nine Ten Thousand Miles', a Third-Tier flight spell that integrates multiple spells, has been promoted to the Master level, and after changing into the Heavenly Peng True Body, its power has doubled.

'Mirror Flower Water Moon' has reached the Proficient level, but still cannot be used in actual combat.

'Water Mirror Technique' is at the Master level, and the promotion is fast; after all, this technique is very simple, and wanting to improve it depends on the cultivator's divine soul foundation.

Two more spells have been added, 'Five Elements Organ-Returning Technique' and 'Bone-Restoring Technique'.

You can practice more in the future; if there is a mistake in cultivation, you can save yourself.

In the martial arts column, two entries have been added.

'Cloud-Exploring Divine Claw' and 'Fierce Fire Miasma'.

These were means attached to "Heavenly Peng Transformation" before.

After he could change into the Heavenly Peng True Body, he could naturally use them.

A bit like the innate supernatural powers of demon beasts?

In terms of pill technique, not to mention other small ones, the "Qingyuan Wonderful Pill Method" Luo Chen is most concerned about is stuck at 【Master 970/1000】.

The progress of this technique is unimaginably slow.

How many years has it been? What about the ten-year perfection?

He has reached Great Accomplishment, but he can't cross the step of perfection no matter what.

He even suspects that Huo Hu exaggerated and concealed the truth in order to sell this thing back then.

Achievement points have reached 29 points unconsciously, about to break through the thirty mark.

After browsing.

Luo Chen has a clearer understanding of his current state.

The fog on the road ahead has also been dispelled a lot.

"Next, what I want to do and the previous plan are not much different."

"Cultivate to the eighth level of Foundation Establishment as soon as possible!"

"Refine a large number of top-grade Tongyou Pills to supply Chu Kui and me, preparing for the 'Locking Pearl Curtain' secret technique. Yulu Pills also need to be refined from time to time to stabilize the Ice Fortress side, which is also one of the important sources of my wealth."

"The 'Soul-Deterring Technique' and 'Soul-Bewildering Technique' must be raised to the Great Perfection level. It is both to improve my divine soul combat means, and perhaps it can also play a little role for 'Locking Pearl Curtain'."

"Those storage bags should be unlocked as soon as possible; with my current divine soul strength at the ninth level of Foundation Establishment, combined with the array knowledge sent by Elder Min Longyu, I should be able to save a lot of time."

Luo Chen has accumulated a large pile of storage bags from late-stage Foundation Establishment and mid-stage Foundation Establishment cultivators.

In them, there is the vast majority of the wealth accumulated by the cultivators in their lifetime!

If he can digest them cleanly.

Not only can Luo Chen reverse the situation of being penniless due to the Luo Tian War.

He can even use the resources in them to strengthen the foundation of the Luo Tian Society.

After determining what to do in the future, Luo Chen began to allocate time.

Cultivation, pill refining, learning techniques, reading books, unlocking storage bags.

Every day, every minute, every second, is arranged fully.

Time flies like a shuttle, white horse passes the gap.

One year later.

In the living room.

Luo Chen looked at a storage bag in front of him, his eyes closed.

The external spiritual sense seemed to turn into a small hand, flexibly moving in the narrow interlayer space of the storage bag.

And his ten fingers also played one spiritual formula after another.

If you look closely, it is exactly the same as the means of playing restrictions when array masters set up arrays.

Suddenly!

A sound like building blocks collapsing rang out.

Affected by the chain reaction, the originally stable spiritual sense mark of the storage bag scattered layer by layer instantly.

His heart moved, and Luo Chen's spiritual sense drilled into the storage bag.

"Come out!"

With a crash, the living room was filled with a small mountain.

Luo Chen opened his eyes, and the first thing he did was not to look at the spoils that belonged to him.

But happily moved his wrists.

This is the third storage bag of a mid-stage Foundation Establishment cultivator he has unlocked.

The biggest gain is not the tens of thousands of spirit stones, nor the various resources left inside.

But the growth in restrictions!

In order to deal with the spiritual sense marks on the storage bags, Luo Chen borrowed a large number of array classics from Elder Min Longyu.

He is not prepared to do it blindly like before, using the water-grinding effort to hard-unlock.

But intends to learn some array knowledge, and then crack the spiritual sense marks.

In the previous decades, he had done similar things, but it was passive.

This time, it became active.

Don't say, there is really some progress.

"Low-tier array masters set up arrays, borrowing various utensils, spirit stones, and terrain to build large arrays."

"And high-tier array masters, as the realm becomes higher, integrate divine soul into it, so they can use restrictions to set up arrays, control arrays, and break arrays."

"Using small to win big, this is the truth."

"I have now mastered hundreds of common small restrictions, and cracking these storage bags is easy."

"I even feel that I can try to set up arrays."

The power of array masters is widely circulated in the cultivation world.

Pill, Array, Tool, Talisman; Array ranks second, which can be seen.

Luo Chen himself has witnessed many powerful arrays.

The Ghost God Valley's Heaven-Work Spirit-Seizing Array, not broken for hundreds of years.

The Yuding Sword Sect's Ten Thousand Sword Killing Array, gods and ghosts avoid.

Tianlan Immortal City has the Heaven-One-Water Array inside, and the Tianlan Array outside, protecting one side.

If these have little to do with Luo Chen.

Then Elder Min Longyu's repeated brave performances prove that the rumors are not false.

Whether it was breaking the Xieyue Valley during the hostile period, the Battle of Gaoling Plain, or the Seven-Colored Danxia Array, Nine-Turn Flame Dragon Array, and Violent Thunder Wild Wave Array he performed after following him.

Every one of them was a powerful array that could fight across realms after being set up!

It can be said that as long as an array master has enough preparation, he can create miracles.

Whether it is one against many, or weak against strong, it makes people full of trust.

After all, that is a combat environment where one can construct one's own time, place, and people!

"Perhaps I can consider dual cultivation of array dao?"

In front of the mountain-like spoils, Luo Chen fell into deep thought.

It is not that he envies Elder Min Longyu, or envies the power of array masters.

But he found that he indeed possessed the basic conditions to become a qualified array master.

First is abundant resources!

All the resources of the Luo Tian Society can be mobilized by him alone.

Second is the strong divine soul foundation, which even Elder Min Longyu cannot compare to.

Then, he also has a pair of spirit eyes cultivated for many years, proficient in the way of observing Qi, which can peek at the flow of spiritual energy and vitality; as long as he supplements some knowledge of Feng Shui, he can become a qualified Feng Shui master.

Array masters and Feng Shui masters are often indistinguishable.

Finally, he also has Elder Min Longyu, this teacher!

Wang Yuan didn't understand arrays before either.

But under the teaching of Duan Feng and Elder Min Longyu, didn't he also master one or two arrays?

He can do it, why can't I!

Over the years, the only skill Luo Chen has dual-cultivated is pill refining.

Medical skills are just incidental to practicing spells and body refining. He didn't spend much energy at all.

Before, he had obtained classics related to talisman making and tool casting, but he didn't consider them.

Dual cultivation of skills is all to earn cultivation resources.

With the skill of pill refining, he has enough.

But Array Dao is different; this skill, even if not used to earn resources, has great use for combat and auxiliary cultivation.

After some thought, Luo Chen finally suppressed his agitated heart.

"Can't be in a hurry!"

"Just pill refining alone took me a lot of thought; going to dual-cultivate Array Dao will distract me too much."

Luo Chen always knows how to trade off.

Even if the body refining path is strong, he can distinguish the importance and cut it off at the right time.

Dual cultivation of Array Dao can be a long-term plan for the future.

But for now, it's not worth the trouble to learn.

It can be dabbled in, it can be accumulated, but it must wait until after Core Formation before he considers doing such things.

Core Formation not only means a surge in strength and a leap in realm, but also represents a long lifespan.

Only with a long lifespan can a cultivator have the confidence to dabble in other things!

Powerful high-tier cultivators often dual-cultivate multiple skills.

The Fairy Jueqing Luo Chen is most familiar with clearly dual-cultivated talisman making.

That Profound Ice Talisman is not something an ordinary talisman maker can produce.

After suppressing his thoughts.

Luo Chen's gaze swept, and he quickly and skillfully selected the things he needed from the mountain-like spoils in front of him.

A total value of 70,000 spirit stones.

Mostly low-grade, only two hundred or so mid-grade spirit stones, and not a single top-grade one.

Luo Chen didn't care.

Top-grade spirit stones are relatively rare and generally only circulate among Core Formation Masters.

Over the years, he has only saved three top-grade spirit stones, all of which were consumed in the Luo Tian War.

Then there are pills; he checked the bottles and jars simply.

He only got two bottles of top-grade Qi-Combining Pills, and the rest were of no use.

Finally, there are other miscellaneous resources.

Luo Chen picked out two Second-Tier defensive talisman seals and a top-grade defensive magic tool that the other party had as a spare.

The rest were all put into a separate storage bag in one go.

In two days, someone will come to take these things away and deal with them.

"Take your time, there are still many storage bags on hand."

"While honing divine soul skills and mastering restriction means, while opening bags to extract needed resources, occasionally there are unexpected gains, just like opening blind boxes."

Luo Chen smiled.

This can also be considered a rare pleasure in bitter cultivation.

The top-grade defensive magic tool obtained this time is a bell, which can be taken to give to others.

As for the remaining storage bags, his heart moved, and he placed two at the very front.

One is from Taoshan Xuan Yu, the person involved in the Blood Demon legend of the Jilei Mountain battlefield.

One is from Zheng Xian, a renegade of the Yan Alliance, the leader of the Luo Tian War.

In here, there must be good things.

After all, one is a False Core cultivator, and one is a Foundation Establishment Great Perfection; their wealth shouldn't be too little.

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