Chapter 449

Facing Chu Kui is preparing for Core Formation, and Luo Chen is not idle either.

After advancing to the ninth level of Foundation Establishment, he rested for a few days.

He drank and gathered with Wang Yuan, talked about array knowledge with Min Longyu, guided Qu Lingjun's cultivation after Foundation Establishment, and set a date for his marriage with Mi Li.

He also summoned the newly advanced Foundation Establishment cultivators of the Luotian Society in his cave dwelling one after another. Either encouraging them with good words, or bestowing treasures as a celebration for their Foundation Establishment, and sometimes exchanging cultivation insights.

Finally, he lived with his two wives, Hui Niang and Caiyi, for three days, and tested their cultivation results separately.

After that three-day exchange, Luo Chen ended his short rest.

He entered the previous state of quiet cultivation.

"Tao Wan went into seclusion twelve years ago to impact the Core Formation stage, and succeeded three years later. The Qingdan Valley rang the bell three times to celebrate. Since then, she has continued to go into seclusion to consolidate her realm, and the day of her exit is not far off. The Qingdan Valley has already started to issue invitations in advance, inviting fellow Daoists from all sides to attend Tao Wan's Core Formation ceremony."

"Dan Yangzi succeeded in Core Formation even before her, and has officially come out of seclusion to hold a Core Formation ceremony."

"Tantai Jin of the Bingbao reached the Great Perfection of Foundation Establishment five years ago and announced that he would go into dead seclusion to impact the Core Formation stage."

"The Luoyun Sect held a Jiazi Grand Competition, inviting fifteen sects to watch the ceremony. Thirteen true disciples stood out and were hailed as the Thirteen Sons of Luoyun. Among these thirteen people, except for Han Zheng who has the lowest realm and the youngest age, the rest are all Foundation Establishment ninth-level great cultivators with profound cultivation, and are expected to achieve Core Formation within fifty years."

"The Yuding Sword Sect is not to be outdone. Ten years later, they will hold the Yuhuang Mountain Sword Fighting. The candidates for sword fighting are not limited to the sect's own cultivators, nor are they limited by realm, but any contestant who wins a ranking will receive generous rewards from the Sword Sect."

"The Daoist of Ailao Mountain returned from the Xiaoyue Mountain Range, and it is rumored that he drew an incomparably detailed map of Xiaoyue."

"True Person Yunhe of the Hehuan Sect entered the Yuding Domain and visited the Baihua Palace first. The three major Core Formation True Persons of the Baihua Palace, Baihua Fairy, Peach Blossom Ancestor, and Food Fragrance Master, traveled a hundred miles to welcome him."

Pieces of outside intelligence flowed through Luo Chen's mind.

There are familiar people who have achieved Core Formation, or have gone into dead seclusion to seek a breakthrough.

There are the Luoyun Jiazi Grand Competition, and the Yuhuang Sword Fighting inviting cultivators from all sides, all of which are actions to show off muscles.

The arrival of high-level cultivators from Nascent Soul upper sects outside the domain has added another flame to this boiling cauldron.

Everything shows the heat before the war arrives.

And under these circumstances.

The Foundation Establishment realm can no longer be put on the table.

"Dan Yang, Tao Wan, Tantai, Facing Chu Kui... they have all walked ahead of me, and I should also speed up my pace."

Luo Chen muttered to himself.

A sense of urgency, even though he has been in quiet cultivation for many years, began to linger over his head.

If it were before, perhaps the feeling wouldn't be so deep.

But Venerable Cang Long failed to advance to Nascent Soul, the Bingbao lost four Core Formation cultivators in one go, and subordinates of the younger generation such as Tantai Jin have closed themselves in dead seclusion one after another.

It shows the tension of the Bingbao.

And the Bingbao is Luo Chen's biggest backer at present.

With the backer looking shaky, how could he be worry-free.

However, no matter how anxious he was, Luo Chen's cultivation plan was orderly in the chaos.

He has basically stopped refining pills for the time being.

His main energy is placed on daily cultivation and researching several Core Formation secret techniques.

He has never stopped researching those secret techniques since he obtained them in the middle stage of Foundation Establishment.

By now, he is already familiar with them, and only needs practice.

And among them, the ones Luo Chen cares about most are undoubtedly "Locking Pearl Curtain" and "Ding Feng Bo," which Deacon Miao Wen wrote for him before he died.

The former is the high-level Core Formation secret technique of the Nascent Soul upper sect Luoyun Sect.

The latter is also a simplified version of the Yuding Sword Sect's secret technique. Even if the effect is not as miraculous as the "Wisdom Sword Art," it can be seen from Deacon Miao Wen's remorse after he woke up, and the smoothness of Pang Renxiong's soul turning into a ghost cultivator, that the effect of this homologous secret technique is visible.

Regarding the "Ding Feng Bo" secret technique, Luo Chen often researched it after returning, and finally confirmed that Deacon Miao Wen did not leave any tricks to harm him.

"Don't be anxious, 'Locking Pearl Curtain' can still be slowed down, and can be decided based on Facing Chu Kui's Core Formation situation."

"This 'Ding Feng Bo' can be started directly."

The main reason Luo Chen made such a decision is that this secret technique is somewhat similar to "Ming Shen Mingshen Posha."

Both have the effect of tempering the cultivator's will!

It is will, not spiritual soul!

There is an essential difference between the two.

If the spiritual soul is strong and the will is weak, it is just holding a sharp weapon but not daring to wield it.

And if those with weak spiritual souls and weak spiritual power have a strong enough will, they can often go further than those with the same existence.

Here, it is roughly similar to the three elements of immortal cultivation often mentioned by immortal cultivators.

Is aptitude first, opportunity first, or disposition first?

This will is almost disposition.

Of course, there are definitely differences in specific discussions, but Luo Chen will not delve into it.

After research, he found that the "Ding Feng Bo" technique indeed has the effect of tempering the will.

If "Ming Shen Mingshen Posha" uses pain, external stimulation, and evil energy to temper the will.

Then "Ding Feng Bo" is clearly a level higher.

Entrusting the heart and mind to an object, constantly focusing and nurturing it, so as to achieve the hard degree of will comparable to a physical treasure.

It is rumored that high-level sword cultivators will spontaneously generate sword intent after a certain realm.

It is rumored that high-level sword cultivators have the saying that if the sword is there, the person is there, and if the sword is gone, the person is gone.

It is rumored that Yuding sword cultivators can nurture their sword pills to the level of magic treasures after advancing to the Core Formation stage.

All these kinds of things can prove that sword cultivators will practice some kind of method to strengthen their own will.

This "Ding Feng Bo" also has a similar effect.

The stronger the object chosen for nurturing, and the closer the connection with oneself, the better the final effect!

Yuding sword cultivators naturally mostly choose life-and-death companion sword pills.

Luo Chen is in a dilemma.

If he wants to take external objects, he has many treasures in his hands.

But they are many but not refined.

The Minister Cauldron could have been the best object, a low-grade magic treasure, and it is a pill refining utensil, closely related to his pill refining art.

If he used this to practice "Ding Feng Bo," Luo Chen wouldn't dare to imagine how good the effect would be.

But!

This thing is a damaged version!

And it was once the life-bound magic treasure of the pill refining master Shang Hu.

Yes, Luo Chen had long inquired that the incomplete Minister Cauldron sent to him by Venerable Jueqing was the life-bound magic treasure of her Dao partner Shang Hu back then.

Therefore, the Minister Cauldron cannot be chosen.

What about the Xuanhuo Sword?

This treasure has a good boost to Luo Chen's combat power, especially the use of the art of controlling the weapon, which is brought into full play on this magic treasure.

And "Ding Feng Bo" originates from the "Wisdom Sword Art," which has a natural fit for sword-type treasures.

But!

The quality of this thing is too poor.

It is an inferior magic treasure produced by the Yan Alliance back then, even less reliable than the one in Tianfan City.

Luo Chen has fought consecutive battles over the years, and this treasure has already been damaged many times, and he has to let Duan Feng repair it with his casting art from time to time.

Luo Chen is really afraid that the Xuanhuo Sword will suddenly disintegrate in the next battle.

He doesn't want to learn from those sword cultivators and play the trick of if the sword is there, the person is there, and if the sword is gone, the person is gone.

Besides these two things, Luo Chen does have some high-quality magic treasures in his hands.

Even among the low-grade magic treasure level, they can be considered excellent.

The Soul-Snatching Jade Flute of Master Xiaosan, the flying sword of Master Songtao, the fire fan of Zheng Xian, the Heavenly Moon Purple Gold Wheel of Mi Shuhua's legacy, and even the eighteen thousand-year-old Lei Ying in his hands can all be used as "fixed objects."

But after a thorough study, Luo Chen finally gave up.

"These things are either incompatible with me, or have not been seriously refined, and have no close connection, so they are not the most suitable."

"The most suitable..."

Luo Chen pointed to the center of his eyebrows while muttering.

A mass of black light slowly emerged.

When the light dissipated, it was a simple and ancient black chess piece.

"Actually, I already have the answer."

Looking at this black chess piece, Luo Chen's hesitant thoughts gradually dissipated.

Rotten Ke Black Chess—one of the three town-sect magic treasures of the Ghost God Valley (incomplete version).

Although incomplete, it is not completely incomplete.

What it lacks is just the white chess piece that can be used as physical defense and used in coordination.

Without the cooperation of the white chess, the black chess fell to a low-grade magic treasure.

But this thing did indeed once have a middle-grade quality and had never been completely recognized and refined by the predecessors of the Ghost God Valley.

As far as he knows, the Rotten Ke Black and Bai Qi and the Ghost God Asking Heart Mirror were all held in turn by the Supreme Elder and the Transmission Elder of the Ghost God Valley.

Used for sect inheritance and for Foundation Establishment to advance to Core Formation.

"Not to mention the infinite potential of this thing, and since I established my Foundation, I have been warming and refining it day and night, and it has an incomparably close relationship with me."

"And such magic treasures are rarely shown to fight with others, which greatly reduces the risk of being damaged."

"Using this as a fixed object to practice Ding Feng Bo is the best!"

After making the decision, Luo Chen completely cut off that trace of hesitation.

With a thought, the black chess piece floated away and hung in the air above his head.

Luo Chen stared at it fixedly, then gradually closed his eyes.

At the same time, his fingers kept forming seals, and strands of spiritual power and spiritual sense surged out from his body and flew toward the Rotten Ke Black Chess.

Entangling, sweeping, wrapping, outlining spirit patterns.

In this kind of cultivation, Luo Chen suddenly had a trace of realization.

This "Ding Feng Bo" secret technique simplified by Deacon Miao Wen might not have been simplified.

With his ability and knowledge, how could he simplify the secret technique created by the predecessors of the Sword Sect?

What he did was addition!

In "Ding Feng Bo," he mixed in the art of refining magic treasures, melted some of the Buddhist principles of entering meditation, and the core is actually the art of Core Formation.

Spiritual power and spiritual sense borrow the fixed object to fuse and entangle together.

Isn't this another form of "Locking Pearl Curtain"?

It's just that the spirit pearls formed by "Locking Pearl Curtain" are too dangerous and too easy to lose balance, so Deacon Miao Wen took a shortcut and chose an intermediary to let spiritual power and spiritual sense have a buffer and a place for negotiation and compromise.

What if it were the original "Wisdom Sword Art"?

Using the sword pill nurtured day and night by the sword cultivator as a fixed object, letting the cultivator's spiritual sense and spiritual power interweave in it, letting the sword threads constituting the sword pill be stained with every part.

Doesn't that also mean forming another "Core"?

Therefore, sword cultivators who achieve Core Formation can often upgrade their sword pills.

Similarly, if the sword pill is destroyed, the sword cultivator himself will suffer heavy damage, or even fall.

In this way, the truth makes sense.

The sword pill is the second Core of the sword cultivator!

Years of extensive reading and outstanding talent in spell cultivation have allowed Luo Chen to accumulate profound knowledge unknowingly.

When he first practiced "Ding Feng Bo," he saw its essence through the surface.

He even traced back to the original Yuding secret technique and glimpsed that corner of truth.

He vaguely felt that "Ding Feng Bo" still had many places that could be improved.

Even if it wasn't tracing back to the original "Wisdom Sword Art," it could also take another path.

However.

At this juncture, Luo Chen would not create extra trouble.

Relying on the foundation of practicing "Ming Shen Mingshen Posha," he easily got started with "Ding Feng Bo."

In a trance, he seemed to have become a black chess piece, experiencing the scouring of the long river of time, and gradually decaying.

But in that scouring, his will was like a black reef, standing in the long river of time, motionless as a mountain!

Cautious and careful, as if standing on the edge of a valley.

Trembling and fearful, as if walking on thin ice.

The long immortal journey is more than just valleys and ice.

Rotten Ke for a thousand years, only the heart remains unchanged.

Three years later.

Tianlan Xiancheng.

On the central street, the crowd was like weaving, ten times and a hundred times more lively than in the past!

The saying that Qi Refining was like clouds, Foundation Establishment was like rain, and Core Formation appeared from time to time, has now truly become a reality!

From all directions, thirty-six domains, countless cultivators rushed to the Yuding Domain.

Even if only a small fraction flowed into Tianlan Xiancheng, the number was staggering.

The shuttle buses in the immortal city ran day and night.

Every shop opened its doors, and cultivators were doing business with joy.

Especially the Dao Discussion Platform of the Yuding Sword Sect, as the Yuhuang Sword Fighting was about to be held, the Dao Discussion Platform became more and more popular!

Because the rules of the Yuhuang Sword Fighting say that it does not limit anyone, any sect, or any realm.

But in fact, there are also settings.

That is, you must obtain the top ten ranking on the Dao Discussion Platform for the corresponding realm in the ten major immortal cities of the Yuding Domain!

Only those who achieve this can be invited to participate in the Yuhuang Sword Fighting.

Therefore, the martial arts style in the ten major immortal cities of the Yuding Domain is becoming more and more prosperous.

Dao discussion? Dao fighting!

Even loose cultivators who don't want to participate in the Yuhuang Sword Fighting are willing to go to the Dao Discussion Platform to see the gap between their strength and others.

The audience was full every day and every session.

Under these circumstances, those shops in Tianlan Xiancheng made a lot of money.

The Luotian Society also gained a lot in this process.

Not to mention other businesses, just the shop rented on the central street was worth a lot of money every day.

In fact, with the strength of the Luotian Society, it is not qualified to own a shop on the central street.

But the strength of the Lianyun Alliance was declining, and the Great Elder of Lianyun had disappeared for many years and did not return.

Luo Chen knew that Helian Yun had long died at his hands.

Therefore, after returning, he asked Sima Hui Niang to contact the then-rotating sect of the immortal city, Ailao Mountain.

When the Lianyun Alliance was unable to pay the rent, the Luotian Society was the first to take over the Lianyun Building.

Now!

The Lianyun Building has been renamed Danxia Hall.

The business operated is similar to that of the Lianyun Alliance before, except for two more main businesses.

That is the pill business and the snack business.

The pill business has become more stable and calm after Qu Lingjun advanced to the Foundation Establishment stage, and Qu Lingjun has even refined second-tier pills.

And because he is Luo Chen's direct disciple, many low-level cultivators in Tianlan, in order to flatter him, specially gave him the Dao title "Lingjunzi."

This kind of Dao title seems perfunctory, just adding the honorific "Zi" after the name.

But it also implies the meaning of flattering Luo Chen.

After all, Luo Chen has dual Dao titles, one of which, Fire Spirit Lord, has a nominal connection with this "Lingjunzi."

In this way, the Danxia Hall, with two second-tier alchemists, Pill Dust Lord and Lingjunzi, sitting in town, naturally became a place where countless low-level cultivators flocked.

After all, the Luotian Society sells pills cheaply.

And that snack business is a tradition of the Luotian Society.

Cultivators have the saying of fasting, but it is limited to after Foundation Establishment.

And cultivators after Foundation Establishment don't eat nothing; if the snacks taste good and contain spiritual energy, no one minds spending a few spirit stones to taste them.

It is precisely because of this.

Among the high-end shops on the central street, the Danxia Hall, which focuses on low-level cultivators, has become the shop with the largest flow of people and the most lively atmosphere.

Even Gu Caiyi, the Hall Master of the Golden Hall of the Luotian Society, stays in the Danxia Hall to sit in town for eight or nine out of ten days.

This day.

She and Yuan Xiaoyue, who has already established her Foundation, are welcoming a Core Formation True Person.

The other party is said to be a senior from Fenghua Palace.

After she entered the Danxia Hall, she kept wandering around.

Especially the first floor where pills are sold, she stopped and didn't leave.

After a long time, the senior suddenly asked: "Are there no Jade Dew Pills for sale?"

Gu Caiyi's expression tightened, and she said carefully: "Senior Fengyue, I don't know where you heard the news, but our Danxia Hall does not sell Jade Dew Pills."

Fengyue Fairy's mouth curled up: "Master Pill Dust Lord is good at refining Jade Dew Pills, isn't this a well-known thing?"

Jade Yu Yu Ludan!

Specialty of the Fenghua Domain!

In Fenghua Palace, there are several master-level figures who are good at refining this pill.

And Fengyue Fairy is also one of the best.

Although she does not specialize in pill cultivation, she can also stably refine high-grade Jade Dew Pills.

Gu Caiyi had sweat on her forehead and said softly: "Our President is indeed able to refine Jade Dew Pills, but currently they are only supplied to the Bingbao, so they will not be sold to the outside world."

Fengyue Fairy raised her eyebrows.

She actually knew this news.

However!

She sniffed with her nose, and a look of amusement appeared on her face.

"Junior, you say they are only supplied to the Bingbao, but why do I smell the pill fragrance of long-term use of Jade Dew Pills on you?"

Gu Caiyi was stunned.

She and Sima Hui Niang have indeed been taking Jade Dew Pills for a long time, and they are mostly of high-grade and top-grade levels.

But pill fragrance?

Jade Dew Pills are icy and tasteless, and under the cover of their rouge and body fragrance, there is still a smell?

Luo Chen never mentioned this!

But it was this stun that confirmed Fengyue Fairy's idea.

"It seems you have indeed used Jade Dew Pills. Do you have any on you? Give me two."

Gu Caiyi's expression changed. She was tricked out!

Luo Chen always does things thoroughly and rarely leaves a tail.

If Jade Dew Pills had pill fragrance, he would definitely have mentioned it.

Now that she was careless and tricked out, she was afraid of causing trouble.

While her expression changed.

Fengyue Fairy smiled lightly in her heart. Although it was verbal deception, wasn't it something that had long been determined?

As the two women who are rumored to have a deep relationship with Luo Chen, Sima Hui Niang and Gu Caiyi have long fallen into the eyes of countless people.

Especially Gu Caiyi, who often walks outside!

Clearly her aptitude is ordinary, but her cultivation progress is rapid!

At a young age, she already has the cultivation of the middle stage of Foundation Establishment, comparable to the true disciple cultivation speed of a major sect.

If it weren't for the help of Pill Dust Lord's Jade Dew Pills, how could there be such progress.

Gu Caiyi's expression changed, and she gritted her teeth: "Senior, this is Tianlan Xiancheng, forced buying and selling is not allowed..."

"It's not forced buying and selling, I'm not even buying your Jade Dew Pills." Fengyue Fairy waved her sleeves and pointed to the various pills on the shelves, "I'm just spending fifty thousand spirit stones to buy a batch of first-tier pills needed by Qi Refining disciples from you. And you, feeling my generosity, specially gave two Jade Dew Pills as a bonus."

"What do you think of this?"

Which senior buys pills for Qi Refining disciples for fifty thousand, fifty thousand?

Especially since Fenghua Palace also cultivates some sect alchemists itself, it doesn't lack these low-level pills needed by ordinary loose cultivators of the Luotian Society.

At this time, it was Gu Caiyi who was in a dilemma.

The other party's realm is profound, but she didn't completely use force to suppress people, but gave her a step down.

In this way, it wouldn't count as Luo Chen violating the cooperation contract with the Bingbao.

However...

Gu Caiyi tightened her face and insisted: "Senior, this junior cannot make the decision, I must ask our President, you..."

Hearing her words, the smile on Fengyue Fairy's face gradually faded.

"What a good temperament, what a good persistence."

"It's a pity that you refuse a toast only to drink a forfeit. Do you really think that in the immortal city, this seat can't do anything to you?"

When speaking, a spiritual pressure appeared faintly.

Gu Caiyi's face turned pale.

It was also at this moment that a refined middle-aged man walked in from outside the building.

"Little Gu, have you replenished the deep-fried silkworm pupae for wine?"

As the voice came, the spiritual pressure emitted by Fengyue Fairy suddenly disappeared, turning into a warm and majestic aura.

Fengyue Fairy's face changed slightly, staring fixedly at the refined middle-aged man walking up from the building.

"Haoran Righteous Qi? Isn't the Haoran Sect gone?"

The refined man smiled slightly: "I am Haoranzi, a remnant of the Haoran Sect. Counting it, I was also a part of the Fenghua Domain back then. Fengyue Fairy, ten years ago!"

Fengyue Fairy was suspicious. She didn't expect the other party to know her so well.

But she knew nothing about Haoranzi.

Just as she was about to probe the other party's background, she suddenly saw him look up abruptly, his bright eyes seemingly piercing through the wooden floor and array restrictions of the pavilion, looking toward a high place.

Fengyue Fairy was stunned, but immediately reacted.

"Someone is trying to achieve Core Formation!"

Haoranzi looked at the direction of Tianlan Peak and nodded.

"Dragon and tiger gathering, spiritual energy pouring backward, this is the sign of Core Formation!"

Fengyue Fairy frowned. The opening war is imminent, and the Yuding Domain has accumulated for many years and experienced a civil war that lasted for decades. Those surviving younger generation powerhouses have begun to erupt one after another.

She had seen such a scene not long ago.

Suddenly!

Haoranzi turned his head and smiled at her.

"As far as I know, the fellow Daoist preparing for Core Formation in that cave dwelling is a cultivator of the Luotian Society. Fellow Daoist Fengyue, why don't we go and visit together later?"

(End of chapter)