Chapter 501

A bitter smile, and no other thoughts.

At this moment, it was not the time to reflect on himself.

Dealing with his injuries was the most important thing!

Luo Chen glanced at the golden light entrenched in his body like a maggot on a tarsal bone, then turned his attention to his other injuries.

"Don't worry about the external injuries yet; the top priority is to stabilize the internal injuries first."

Killing three Wolf Kings in the formation was not without a price for Luo Chen.

If he had killed them one by one, he was confident that with his current means, he could have killed them without injury.

It's a pity.

This battle came too suddenly and was too dangerous.

In the blink of an eye, killing three demon wolves in succession caused huge damage to his meridians due to the surging magic power.

Even his Qi sea was somewhat shaken.

Luo Chen carefully mobilized the little magic power left in his Core Formation, cast the Spring Breeze and Rain Transformation Technique, and began to nourish the damaged meridians.

Under the nourishment of the water and wood spiritual energy, a tingling sensation spread throughout his body.

Luo Chen couldn't help but groan.

"Stabilize the internal injuries first, and then deal with the more troublesome external injuries."

It might sound a bit strange.

For cultivators, external injuries are actually not that important; internal injuries are the heart-worrying disaster.

But this battle, the one that really caused Luo Chen serious injury, was the thunderous exchange with that Jin Langwang.

His physique was very strong!

Third-rank Ancient, and he didn't follow the path of blood energy transformation, just purely tempering his physical body.

But even so, it still hovered at the early Ancient stage level.

And that Jin Langwang, while practicing demon power, also focused on tempering its demon body.

Although there was no clear comparison of the difference between modern demon clan body tempering and ancient desolate beast body tempering.

But at least, the Jin Langwang's physical strength was above Luo Chen's.

Therefore, he was defeated by the opponent in a head-on collision and blasted back hundreds of miles away!

The Jin Langwang not only left a mass of demon energy in his body that wanted to tear his body apart but also caused unimaginable damage to his physical body head-on.

Therefore.

Luo Chen had to treat his internal injuries first, stabilize his meridians, and then mobilize more magic power to treat his external injuries.

"The many medical skills I learned in the past can finally be put to use!"

While resting, Luo Chen thought bitterly.

"Senior... Dan Chenzi!"

In the cave dwelling, Luo Chen, with a pale face, looked at the young man in front of him who was dusty but still full of spirit.

"It's little friend Han Zheng, what are you looking for me for?"

Han Zheng was slightly unnatural.

In the past, although Luo Chen was famous, he himself was no nobody.

Even with the grace of saving his life, they were considered peers.

But now Luo Chen had already formed his Core and had achieved brilliant results in the Core Formation stage.

By comparison, he was much inferior.

But this was not the time to think about these things.

Han Zheng flipped his wrist, and a tray appeared in his hand.

Luo Chen looked over, and on it were a gourd, a black jar, and two jade bottles.

"This is?"

Han Zheng explained for him: "This is the healing elixir that my ancestor specially ordered me to send. The two jade bottles contain Guhai Pill and Bumai Pill, enough for ten courses of treatment. The black jar contains Black Emperor Paste; applying it to your whole body will greatly help you recover from physical injuries. It is even said that after complete absorption, there is a chance to make the senior's physical strength go a step further."

Guhai Pill and Bumai Pill were one thing.

Luo Chen had heard the names of these two third-rank healing elixirs a long time ago.

The former was the exclusive elixir of the Luoyun Sect's Mu Yunyan, and the latter was a specialty of the Yaowang Sect, specially supplied to the Core Formation cultivators of large sects.

But the Black Emperor Paste was a bit unfamiliar.

He hesitated and said: "Is the effect really that good?"

Han Zheng said confidently: "It shouldn't be false. Senior also knows that my sect specializes in puppet arts, and in addition to various beast puppets, we also make human puppets. But once a human puppet is injured, because it has no autonomous consciousness, it often cannot repair itself. In this way, we can only rely on Black Emperor Paste to help repair the puppet's body. The reason why our sect's puppets are far stronger than other puppets in the cultivation world is also because we apply a small amount of Black Emperor Paste from time to time, making them more indestructible."

At this, Luo Chen was quite moved.

His gaze finally fell on the gourd.

"What is contained in this?"

"Dissolving Spirit Liquid; my ancestor said that there is a mass of pure demon energy entrenched in the senior's body. That demon energy is extremely powerful, and I'm afraid it's very difficult to remove with ordinary means. So I specially sent this fourth-rank spiritual liquid, which can dissolve it and discharge it bit by bit."

Looking at these good things, Luo Chen fell into silence.

External use, internal use, everything was complete.

If combined with his extraordinary medical skills, the injuries could be healed several times faster than previously expected.

But, this treatment was too good!

He couldn't help but ask: "Is it only me like this, or are others the same?"

Han Zheng was stunned, not expecting the other party to ask this.

However, he still honestly replied: "Other injured people also have compensation, but this level of treatment is only available to you, senior."

"Such thick love for me?" Luo Chen frowned.

Han Zheng answered frankly: "Senior did not retreat in the face of battle, killed three Wolf Kings in the formation, and even faced the third-rank late-stage Jin Langwang head-on, blocking it from entering the formation. This great merit naturally deserves this compensation. It is even said that my sect's elders feel it is still not enough, but they are short of funds at the moment and cannot take out better compensation. I heard from my master that after the Xiaoyue Mountain Range is completely taken down, my sect intends to let the mountain gate jurisdiction under your command expand by another thousand miles!"

Luo Chen raised an eyebrow.

It seems this is not just compensation.

There is also the meaning of buying a horse's bones with a thousand gold.

The other party said these things in front of him now, and it is estimated that they will promote it later to show the Luoyun Sect's generosity.

After pondering for a moment, Luo Chen decided to accept these things.

In the current situation, the sooner he recovers his peak combat power, the better!

"Thank Han Zhenren and Cheng Yan Shangren for me."

"Well, then the junior will take his leave; there are many things waiting for me to deal with."

After Han Zheng left, Luo Chen turned his attention to the four spiritual medicines.

Spiritual sense investigation, magic power testing.

Not only that, he also took out silver needles from his storage ring and used the unique medicine testing method of an alchemist to investigate the medicinal properties.

After a thorough investigation, confirming there were no problems, Luo Chen revealed a brilliant smile.

The Luoyun Sect was still willing to spend money!

However, his smile did not last long.

Because Fairy Jueqing came looking for him.

She told Luo Chen a piece of bad news.

Of the ten alliance cultivators Luo Chen brought, only seven were found, and three were missing.

In that kind of battlefield before, everyone knew what it meant for three people to be missing.

And of the seven found, five were dead and two were injured.

"Who are the two who are alive?" Luo Chen asked quietly after a long silence.

Fairy Jueqing naturally replied: "Ceng Yilong under your sect, and Wan Ting of the Wanxiang Sect. Especially the latter, when I found him, he had almost only one breath left, relying entirely on his strong willpower to struggle and crawl out of the pile of corpses."

"What about Xing Zonghan?"

"Sorry, he died in a forest not far from the main battlefield, his body torn apart, having been torn alive by demon beasts when he had no way out."

Luo Chen opened his mouth and finally closed his eyes.

"Thank you for your help, Fellow Daoist."

Seeing the sorrow on his face, Fairy Jueqing could only let out a long sigh.

Since ancient times, the consequences of encountering large-scale beast tide attacks have always been like this.

The Ice Fortress is adjacent to the Great Snow Mountain, and similar things are often encountered over the years.

She could only say, "Please accept my condolences."

Luo Chen said "um," opened his eyes, and the sorrow on his face had disappeared.

"I don't know how Ceng Yilong of my sect is doing?"

"He is a bit injured, but it's nothing serious. Currently, Murong Qinglian of the Luoyun Sect is taking care of him personally."

"That's good."

Luo Chen muttered.

He didn't expect that the Luotian Alliance's largest casualty in the three times it participated in the front-line war would appear in his hands.

Five dead and three missing, and he also lost one of his great generals!

He thought he could protect these people, and even felt he had spare energy, wanting to protect Ceng Yilong and let him experience it while ensuring his life.

Now it seems, how arrogant he was!

He couldn't even protect his own life, so where would he have the spare energy to protect others?

Fairy Jueqing had already left.

In the cave dwelling, there was only silence.

Luo Chen was reflecting, reflecting on whether he had done something wrong along the way, which led to this result?

For a long time, he let out a long sigh.

"Perhaps, there were some errors I didn't notice!"

"Those errors were covered up by being proud and satisfied."

When refining Qi, he was like walking on thin ice, planning everything in advance, so he was invincible and had almost no defeats.

After Foundation Establishment, although there were risky moves, most were within his capability. Even the battle in the Incense Valley was influenced by inner demons, falling into demonic obstacles and doing things beyond his ability.

All changes stemmed from the success of Core Formation!

When the Core Formation was successful, a city respected him, and all sides came to congratulate him; going to the meeting to build the sect could be called riding a horse in fresh clothes, how glorious!

After this, forming the Luotian Alliance, taking advantage of the situation to kill into the Xiaoyue Mountain Range, and taking down third-rank spiritual land, everything went as he wished.

Especially after solving the dilemma of cultivation resources and reaching perfection in illusion arts, he unknowingly expanded to the extreme.

He fantasized about how he compared to mid-stage Core Formation cultivators.

He calculated whether he had the power to fight late-stage Core Formation cultivators.

However, when all is said and done, he was only an early-stage Core Formation cultivator at the second layer!

Especially in this kind of large-scale war involving thousands of people.

Even a great cultivator like Cheng Yan, who had been in the late Core Formation stage for years, couldn't advance and retreat freely, so how could he, a mere second-layer Core Formation cultivator, talk about taking care of others?

"If you don't become a Core Formation, don't talk about the Great Dao."

"Once you become a Core Formation, you are only standing at the starting line of the Great Dao."

"And what makes me think that my hundred years of work can erase the gap with others' hundreds of years of hard cultivation?"

The smooth sailing of these twenty years made Luo Chen ignore too much.

Those Core Formation cultivators he could only look up to in the past surrounded him with kind smiles, making him forget that what others respected was his alchemy, not his strength and cultivation.

It had nothing to do with inner demons, just arrogance and conceit.

After this battle, Luo Chen finally woke up.

He was still that humble seeker of the Dao; if he wanted to go further on this long road of longevity, he could only be careful in everything, like walking on thin ice!

Taking off his clothes, the body covered in scars was shocking.

The black ointment applied to it brought a wave of burning pain.

Luo Chen didn't make a sound, letting the Black Emperor Paste repair his body.

The subsequent impact of a great battle was extremely far-reaching.

On the human side, they took down Huangshan, thereby forming an absolute encirclement of the Aoxiao Wolf Court.

In this way, when to fight and how to fight would be decided by the cultivators.

But the demon side was not without gains.

Under the personal leadership of Wolf Emperor Aoxiao, they severely damaged the leading party of the cultivator coalition—the Luoyun Sect!

That night, the Luoyun Sect lost a total of seven Core Formation cultivators!

Including Sect Master Ruan Jing, Qu Xibai, Cheng Ru, and many other famous Luoyun Sect experts.

In one battle, the Luoyun Sect's high-end combat power was almost withered.

And in terms of low-level cultivators, the Luoyun Sect also suffered heavy losses.

Of the thirteen Luoyun disciples selected fifty years ago, apart from three who had formed their Cores and were assigned to the rear, eight of the remaining ten fell.

Only Han Zheng and another true disciple at the ninth layer of Foundation Establishment survived.

The remaining Foundation Establishment true cultivators suffered countless deaths and injuries.

From a strategic point of view, the cultivator coalition was a great victory, but from a local battlefield point of view, the Luoyun Sect, which led the opening war, suffered a heavy blow, which instead washed away the joy brought by the great victory.

Everyone knew that the most important purpose of this opening war was to take down the Xiaoyue Mountain Range, allowing the Luoyun Sect, this newly promoted Nascent Soul sect, to obtain fourth-rank spiritual land, thus becoming worthy of the name.

Now that the Luoyun Sect was injured, the subsequent pace of the war would only be postponed indefinitely.

After all, the Luoyun Sect couldn't fight the final battle in a crippled state.

Not to mention whether they could win.

Even if they won, apart from Han Zhan Zhenren, the Luoyun Sect would only have two or three kittens left, so where would they find the manpower to control the entire domain?

By then, the interests of the Xiaoyue Mountain Range would be divided by various Core Formation sects, and the Nascent Soul sects of the outer domains would become even more unscrupulous in encroaching on the Xiaoyue Mountain Range.

Would the Luoyun Sect be the kind of person who makes wedding clothes for others?

It was precisely because of these inferences that all forces realized that the next period would only fall into a long period of peace.

They had to wait for the Luoyun Sect to lick its wounds before completing the final battle.

"Perhaps, this is the true purpose of Wolf Emperor Aoxiao's strike at the heart!"

In a cave dwelling, several Core Formation Shangren who were famous in the outside world were talking in low voices.

The participants included Wei Wuya, a late-stage Core Formation cultivator of Motian Cliff, and Fairy Baihua, the palace master of Baihua Palace, who was good at dancing and beautiful.

In addition, Fairy Jueqing, who was cold as ice, and Lin Qingxuan of the Yuding Sect, who had been in the limelight recently, were all on the list.

"Abandoning Huangshan and severely damaging the Luoyun Sect to delay the pace of the war, buying more time for the Aoxiao Wolf Court so they can get more support from demon clan experts in the wild mountains. This kind of strategy of abandoning the car to save the handsome is simply not something that a person who drinks blood can make."

"Fellow Daoist, your words are wrong; once a demon beast transforms, it is actually no different from our generation. The evaluation of drinking blood? Inappropriate, inappropriate!"

"Arguing about these trivial details is useless. I just want to know how long the Xiaoyue War will last?"

"Fellow Daoist Baihua can't wait?"

"We waited through the fifty-year preparation period, and we waited through the recent ten years; I don't care about waiting a little longer. But who knows how long this little while will be? Do we have to wait for the Luoyun Sect to fill the vacancies of seven Core Formation cultivators?"

As soon as these words came out, the cave dwelling fell silent.

Core Formation cultivators are not so easy to cultivate.

The Luoyun Sect had accumulated for many years, and there were only a dozen or so.

Especially in that battle, they lost a large group of excellent Foundation Establishment true disciples.

Without enough seedlings, even if they exhausted the sect's resources, it would be impossible to temporarily give birth to Core Formation cultivators.

Lin Qingxuan said indifferently: "I don't care how long the Luoyun Sect wants to wait. It just so happens that the sword in my hand is not sharp enough; fighting a few more battles is what I want!"

The others looked at him speechlessly.

This Lin Qingxuan usually looks quite gentle, but deep down he is a fighting fanatic.

Every time he fights, he is always at the forefront.

When the flying sword leaves its sheath, it must return after drinking blood.

Others get weaker the more they fight, but he gets stronger the more he fights, and his cultivation realm improves by leaps and bounds.

It can only be said that although the Yuding Sword Sect is somewhat unbearable among the Nascent Soul sects, after hundreds of years of development, it has still cultivated some good seedlings.

After this battle ends, Lin Qingxuan digests his combat gains, and the Yuding Sword Sect will only produce another top expert among the Core Formation stage.

A Daoist wearing a mask in the corner suddenly said:

"In my opinion, perhaps it won't take long."

Everyone was stunned.

Wei Wuya frowned and said: "Fellow Daoist Baishun, your Pearl Tower has strong intelligence; have you learned any information we don't know?"

Daoist Baishun said in a low voice: "There is no movement from the Luoyun Sect at the base camp, looking like they want to recover their vitality in a low-key manner. But as far as I know, the disciples and clansmen left in the Moon-Breaking Immortal City and even the old site of the Luoyun Sect in the Yuding Domain are all rushing here."

As soon as these words came out, everyone looked at each other.

If they want to recuperate, why call people from the rear? They should let them collect resources in the back and supply the front!

But if they want to gather all their strength to start a war, does the Luoyun Sect really have this determination?

Everyone couldn't help but discuss it.

But after talking for a long time, there was no result.

Seeing this, Fairy Jueqing didn't have the patience to continue listening.

"I'll go see how Dan Chenzi's injury is recovering; you guys continue!"

After speaking, she left the cave dwelling directly.

The others were not too surprised.

The relationship between Dan Chenzi and the Ice Fortress is known to everyone.

Especially now that the Ice Fortress's strength is greatly reduced, and Dan Chenzi himself has revealed extraordinary Core Formation combat power in addition to his alchemy attainments.

It is only natural for Fairy Jueqing to be concerned about him.

Only Daoist Baishun in the corner twitched the corner of his mouth under the mask.

In the third-rank low-grade cave dwelling arranged by the Sword-Holding Hall.

Luo Chen, who was naked, was pitch black all over, only his occasionally opening and closing mouth revealed white and neat teeth.

Suddenly, Luo Chen opened his eyes.

Opening his mouth, strands of golden light were spat out from his mouth.

Such a strange scene would surely surprise others if they saw it.

But Luo Chen was very dissatisfied.

"Although the Dissolving Spirit Liquid has an effect, it's too slow."

"It seems that if I want to quickly clear the strong demon energy left by the Jin Langwang, I have to rely on myself!"

With a thought, his hands began to slowly form seals.

Initially, he was a bit unskilled, but slowly he entered the state.

Suddenly.

Luo Chen's fingers paused, and he slashed down with his fingers together in the void.

Clang!

It was as if a sound of metal clashing came from the void.

In reality, it was a strange sound erupting from within his body.

After the strange sound, Luo Chen opened his mouth and spat.

Another mass of golden demon energy was spat out.

"Sure enough, the Dragon-Slaying Technique has a miraculous effect on such foreign objects. It is worthy of being a fourth-rank spell developed by the Five Elements God Sect!"

Luo Chen pursed his lips, his eyes shining.

Binding the golden demon energy with the Withered Glory Fire, then dissolving it with the Dissolving Spirit Liquid, and finally cutting it off bit by bit with the Dragon-Slaying Technique.

With three-pronged approach, in at most a month, perhaps he could remove this heart-worrying disaster!

(End of chapter)