Chapter 449

Chu Kui was preparing to form the core, and Luo Chen was not idle either.

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

He had a small gathering with Wang Yuan to drink, talked about array knowledge with Min Longyu, gave guidance to Qu Lingjun on his cultivation after Foundation Establishment, and set a date for his marriage with Mi Li.

He also summoned the new Foundation Establishment cultivators of the Luotian Society from these years in the cave dwelling one after another. Either encouraging them with kind words, or bestowing treasures as a congratulation for Foundation Establishment, and sometimes exchanging cultivation insights.

Finally, he lived with the two women, Huiniang and Caiyi, for three days, testing their cultivation results respectively.

After the three days of exchange ended, Luo Chen ended his short rest.

He entered the previous state of quiet cultivation.

The man who had once kept his appearance and demeanor in perfect order, looking dashing and elegant, was now disheveled, in rags, and completely unrecognizable as a generation of Yuding sword cultivators.

"Danyangzi successfully formed the core even before her, has officially come out of seclusion, and is holding a Core Formation ceremony."

"Dantai Jin of the Ice Fortress reached the Great Perfection of Foundation Establishment five years ago and announced he was going into death seclusion to sprint for the Core Formation stage."

"The Luoyun Sect held a sexagenary grand competition, inviting fifteen sects to observe 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 had the lowest realm and the youngest age, the others were all great cultivators at the ninth level of Foundation Establishment with profound cultivation, expected to form the core within fifty years."

"The Jade Cauldron Sword Sect is not to be outdone; in ten years, they will hold a sword fighting competition at Mount Yuhuang. The candidates for sword fighting are not limited to the sect's own cultivators, nor is the realm restricted. Anyone who wins a ranking in the competition will receive generous rewards from the Sword Sect."

"The Daoist Son of Mount Ailao returned from the Xiaoyue Mountain Range, and it is rumored that he drew a very detailed map of Xiaoyue."

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

One piece of outside intelligence after another flowed through Luo Chen's mind.

There were acquaintances who either successfully formed the core or went into death seclusion to seek a breakthrough.

There was the Luoyun sexagenary grand competition, and there was the Yuhuang sword fighting inviting cultivators from all sides, all of which were acts of showing off muscles.

The arrival of high-level cultivators from the Nascent Soul sects outside the domain added another fierce fire under this boiling giant cauldron.

Everything showed the heat before the arrival of war.

And under these circumstances.

The Foundation Establishment realm was no longer presentable.

"Danyang, Tao Wan, Dantai, 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 had been practicing in quiet seclusion for many years, began to constantly linger over his head.

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

But Master Cang Long failed to advance to Nascent Soul, the Ice Fortress lost four Core Formation cultivators in battle, and the juniors under their command, such as Dantai Jin, were going into death seclusion one after another.

It shows the tension of the Ice Fortress.

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

With the backer looking like it's about to collapse, how could he himself be worry-free.

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

He had basically stopped alchemy for the time being.

His main energy was placed on daily cultivation and studying several Core Formation secret techniques.

He had never stopped studying those secret techniques since he obtained them in the mid-stage of Foundation Establishment.

By now, he could be considered familiar with them, just waiting for practice.

And among them, what Luo Chen cared about most was undoubtedly the "Locking Pearl Curtain" and the "Settling the Wind and Waves" book that Miao Wen wrote for him before he died.

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

The latter is also a simplified version of the Jade Cauldron Sword Sect's secret technique. Even if the effect is not as miraculous as the "Wisdom Sword Technique," from Miao Wen's deep regret after waking up, and the smoothness of Pang Renxiong's resentful soul turning into a ghost cultivator, one can see the effect of this homologous secret technique.

Regarding the "Settling the Wind and Waves" secret technique, Luo Chen often studied it after returning, and finally confirmed that Miao Wen indeed did not leave any traps to harm him.

"Can't be anxious, the 'Locking Pearl Curtain' can still be slowed down, and I can wait for Chu Kui's Core Formation situation to decide how to practice."

"This 'Settling the Wind and Waves' can be started directly."

The main reason Luo Chen made such a decision is that this secret technique is somewhat similar to "Bright Spirit Breaking Evil."

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

It is will, not spiritual sense!

There is an essential difference between the two.

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

And if one has weak spiritual sense and weak spiritual power, if the will is strong enough, they can often go further than the same existence.

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

Is aptitude first, or opportunity first, or is it character first?

This will is almost character.

Of course, specific discussions must still have differences, but Luo Chen will not delve into it.

After studying, he found that the "Settling the Wind and Waves" technique indeed has the effect of tempering the will.

If "Bright Spirit Breaking Evil" uses pain, external stimulation, and evil energy to temper the will.

Then "Settling the Wind and Waves" is clearly a level higher.

Entrusting the mind to an object, constantly focusing on nurturing it, thereby achieving the ethereal will comparable to the hardness of a physical treasure.

It is rumored that high-level sword cultivators will 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 dies, the person dies.

It is rumored that after Jade Cauldron sword cultivators advance to the Core Formation stage, they can often nurture their own sword pills to the level of magic treasures.

Such things all confirm that sword cultivators will practice some kind of method to strengthen their own will.

This "Settling the Wind and Waves" also has a similar effect.

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

Jade Cauldron sword cultivators naturally mostly choose the sword pill that accompanies them in life and death.

Luo Chen was in a dilemma.

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

But they are many and not refined.

The Minister Cauldron could have been the best object, a low-grade magic treasure, and it is also an alchemy tool, closely related to his alchemy path.

If he used this to practice "Settling the Wind and Waves," Luo Chen dared not imagine how good the effect would be.

But!

This thing is a damaged version!

And it was once the natal magic treasure of the alchemy master Shang Hu.

Yes, Luo Chen had long found out that the incomplete Minister Cauldron given to him by True Person Jueqing was the natal magic treasure of her Dao partner Shang Hu back then.

Therefore, the Minister Cauldron cannot be chosen.

What about the Mysterious Fire Sword?

This treasure has a good increase in Luo Chen's combat power, especially the technique of controlling techniques with tools, which is brought into full play on this magic treasure.

And "Settling the Wind and Waves" originates from the "Wisdom Sword Technique," which has a natural fit for sword-type treasures.

But!

This thing, the quality is too poor.

It is a low-quality magic treasure produced by the Flame Alliance back then, even less reliable than the one from Tianfan City.

Luo Chen has fought many battles over the years, and this treasure has already suffered multiple damages, and from time to time, he has to let Duan Feng use casting techniques to repair it for him.

Luo Chen is really afraid that the Mysterious Fire Sword will suddenly collapse in the next battle.

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

Besides these two things, Luo Chen has some boutique magic treasures in his hands.

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

Xiao Sanren's Soul-Taking Jade Flute, Song Taozi's flying sword, Zheng Xian's fire fan, the relic of Mi Shuhua, the Heavenly Moon Purple Gold Wheel, and even the eighteen thousand-year-old Thunder Eagle feathers in his hands, can all be used as "settling objects."

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

"These things, either they don't fit with me, or they haven't been seriously refined, and there is no close connection, so they are not the most suitable."

"The most suitable..."

Luo Chen murmured, pointing a finger at the center of his brow.

A black halo slowly emerged.

When the halo dissipated, it was a simple black chess piece.

"Actually, I already had the answer."

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

Lankes 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 supporting use.

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

But this thing indeed once had a mid-grade rank and had never been completely recognized and refined by the predecessors of the Ghost God Valley.

According to what he knows, the Lankes Black and White Chess and the Ghost God Heart-Questioning Mirror were all held by the Supreme Elder and the Transmission Elder of the Ghost God Valley in turns.

Luo Chen's figure paused as he looked toward the direction he had come from, at a massive demonic cloud rising into the sky.

"This thing has infinite potential, and since I reached Foundation Establishment, I have been nurturing 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 also greatly reduces the risk of being damaged."

"Using this as a settling object to practice Settling the Wind and Waves is the best!"

When the decision was made, Luo Chen completely cut off that trace of hesitation.

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

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

At the same time, his fingers constantly pinched the formula, and strands of spiritual power and spiritual sense gushed out from him, flying towards the Lankes Black Chess.

Entwining, sweeping, wrapping, outlining spiritual patterns.

In such practice, Luo Chen suddenly had a trace of realization.

This "Settling the Wind and Waves" secret technique simplified by Miao Wen might not have been simplified.

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

What he did was addition!

In "Settling the Wind and Waves," he mixed in the technique of refining magic treasures, melted some Buddhist meditation principles, and the core is actually the Core Formation technique.

Spiritual power and spiritual sense, with the help of the settling object, fuse and entangle together.

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

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

What if it's the original "Wisdom Sword Technique"?

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

Doesn't that also mean forming another "golden core"?

Therefore, when sword cultivators successfully form the core, they can often advance the sword pill.

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

In this way, the truth makes sense.

The sword pill is the sword cultivator's second golden core!

Years of reading books and outstanding talent in magic technique practice have allowed Luo Chen to accumulate profound knowledge unknowingly.

When practicing "Settling the Wind and Waves" for the first time, he saw its essence through the surface.

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

He vaguely felt that "Settling the Wind and Waves" still had many places that could be improved.

Even if it's not tracing back to the original "Wisdom Sword Technique," it can also take another path.

However.

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

Relying on the foundation of practicing "Bright Spirit Breaking Evil," he easily started "Settling the Wind and Waves."

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

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

Trembling carefully, like facing a valley.

Trembling and fearful, like walking on thin ice.

The long immortal path, more than just valleys and ice.

Lankes for a thousand years, only the heart does not change.

Three years later.

Tianlan Immortal City.

On the central street, the crowd was like weaving, more lively than ever before by ten or a hundred times!

The saying that Qi Refining was like clouds, Foundation Establishment was like rain, and Core Formation appeared from time to time, has now truly lived up to its name!

From all over the world, thirty-six domains, countless cultivators rushed to the Jade Cauldron Domain.

Even if only a small fraction flowed to Tianlan Immortal City, 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 smiles on their faces.

Especially the Jade Cauldron Sword Sect's Dao Discussion Platform, as the Yuhuang Sword Discussion was about to be held, the Dao Discussion Platform became more and more popular!

Because the rules of the Yuhuang Sword Discussion said that it was not limited to anyone, any sect, or any realm.

But in fact, there were also settings.

That is, one must obtain the top ten ranking of the Dao Discussion Platform of the corresponding realm in the ten major immortal cities of the Jade Cauldron Domain!

Only such people can be invited to participate in the Yuhuang Sword Discussion.

Therefore, the martial style in the ten major immortal cities of the Jade Cauldron Domain is growing day by day.

Discussing the Dao? Discussing the martial arts!

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

The audience for the competition is even more crowded every day and every game.

Under these circumstances, those shops in Tianlan Immortal City can be said to have made a lot of money.

The Luotian Society also gained a lot in this process.

Not to mention other businesses, just the shop opened on the central street can be called making money every day.

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

But it couldn't stand the fact that the Lianyun Business Alliance was weak, 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 let Sima Huiniang contact the then immortal city rotating sect, Mount Ailao.

When the Lianyun Business 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 the Danxia Hall.

The business operated is similar to the previous Lianyun Business Alliance, except for two more types of main businesses.

That is the elixir and snack business.

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

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 name "Lingjunzi."

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

But it also implies the meaning of flattering Luo Chen.

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

In this way, the Danxia Hall, with two second-tier alchemists, Danchenzi and Lingjunzi, naturally became a place where countless low-level cultivators flocked.

After all, the Luotian Society sells elixirs cheaply.

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

Cultivators have the saying of grain Grain Bigu, but it is limited to after Foundation Establishment.

And cultivators after Foundation Establishment are not eating 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, spends eight or nine out of ten days sitting in the Danxia Hall.

This day.

She was welcoming a Core Formation True Person together with Yuan Xiaoyue, who had already reached Foundation Establishment.

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

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

Especially the floor selling elixirs, she stopped and didn't leave.

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

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

Fairy Fengyue raised the corners of her mouth, "Master Danchenzi is good at refining Jade Dew Elixirs, isn't this a well-known thing?"

Jade Dew Elixir!

Specialty of Fenghua Domain!

Within the Fenghua Palace, there are several master-level figures who are good at refining this elixir.

And Fairy Fengyue is also a leader among them.

Although she does not specialize in alchemy, she can also stably refine top-grade Jade Dew Elixirs.

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

Fairy Fengyue raised her eyebrows.

She actually knew this news too.

However!

Sniffing with her delicate nose, a look of amusement appeared on her face.

"Junior, you say you only supply to the Ice Fortress, but why do I smell the elixir fragrance of long-term consumption of Jade Dew Elixirs on you?"

Gu Caiyi was startled.

She and Sima Huiniang indeed take Jade Dew Elixirs for a long time, and most of them are top-grade and extreme-grade.

But elixir fragrance?

Jade Dew Elixir is icy and tasteless. Under the cover of their rouge and body fragrance, there is still a smell?

Luo Chen never mentioned this matter!

But it was this startle that confirmed Fairy Fengyue's thoughts.

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

Gu Caiyi's face changed. She had been tricked!

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

If Jade Dew Elixir had an external elixir fragrance, he would definitely mention it.

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

While her expression was changing.

Fairy Fengyue smiled 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 close relationship with Luo Chen, Sima Huiniang and Gu Caiyi had 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 mid-stage Foundation Establishment, comparable to the cultivation speed of true disciples of large sects.

If it weren't for the help of Master Danchenzi's Jade Dew Elixir, how could there be such progress.

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

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

"Like this, do you think it's okay?"

Which elder buys elixirs for Qi Refining disciples by spending fifty thousand at a time!

Especially since Fenghua Palace also cultivates some sect alchemists, they are not lacking in low-level elixirs that ordinary rogue cultivators need.

At this time, Gu Caiyi was in a dilemma.

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

In this way, it doesn't count as Luo Chen violating the cooperation contract with the Ice Fortress.

However...

Gu Caiyi tightened her face and insisted: "Senior, this matter is not something I can decide. I must ask my President, you..."

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

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

"It's a pity that you don't eat the toast and only eat the forfeit. Do you really think that in the immortal city, I can't do anything to you?"

As she spoke, a spiritual pressure emerged vaguely.

Gu Caiyi's face turned pale.

At this moment, a scholarly middle-aged man walked in from outside the building.

"Little Gu, have you restocked the fried silkworm pupae for wine?"

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

Fairy Fengyue's face changed slightly, staring at the scholarly middle-aged man walking up step by step.

"Haoran righteous energy? Isn't the Haoran Sect already gone?"

The scholarly 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. Fairy Fengyue, ten years ago!"

Fairy Fengyue 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 the other party look up, and a pair of bright eyes seemed to pierce through the wooden floor of the pavilion and the array restrictions, looking at the high place.

Fairy Fengyue was startled, but then she reacted.

"Someone is trying to form the core!"

Haoranzi looked in the direction of Tianlan Peak and nodded.

"Dragon and tiger gather, spiritual energy pours back, this is the sign of elixir formation!"

Fairy Fengyue frowned. The opening war is imminent. The Jade Cauldron Domain has accumulated for many years and has experienced a civil war that lasted for decades. Those junior powerhouses who survived began 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 to form the core in that cave dwelling is a Luotian Society cultivator. Fellow Daoist Fengyue, why don't we go visit together later?"