Chapter 518: Birds into the Blue Sky, Fish into the Sea (Attribute Inventory, Subscribe at Your Discretion)

"Hmm..."

A muffled groan came from a young man in tattered clothes, covered in cracked wounds, after an unknown amount of time.

In the dim and dark environment, Luo Chen sat up with difficulty.

With a dizzy head, his gaze first fell on the two objects in his hand.

One was a quiet three-inch black wooden figure, and the other was a withered green feather that had lost its luster.

Looking at these two objects, Luo Chen recalled the scene of the teleportation earlier.

When the spatial teleportation array opened, a huge pressure that was difficult to match squeezed in from all directions.

Even though he was proficient in body refining and possessed a powerful Tier 3 ancient physical body, he still felt his body collapsing under that terrifying force.

Fortunately, the green feather in his hand bloomed with green light at the last possible moment, completely wrapping him and Han Zhan.

Then, a flash of green light merged into the array.

At that moment, Luo Chen saw the stars shifting, glimpsed the four seas and five continents, and even countless peculiar places in the Shanhai Realm.

And at that moment, Luo Chen realized just how vast the coverage of the teleportation array at Mount Cangwu was!

It was a top-tier teleportation array whose tentacles reached almost every major area of the Shanhai Realm, far beyond the understanding of the many ordinary teleportation arrays Luo Chen had read about in books.

Such a teleportation array should not have appeared in the Shanhai Realm at all!

Because of this, he was even more terrified of Sovereign Qixia, the Soul Transformation ancient demon who had never shown her face!

Living alone in a Tier 5 sacred ground in the Eastern Wasteland with the strength of one person.

One legacy means that made all Nascent Soul cultivators unable to resist, and even Soul Transformation powerhouses had to give way.

And the teleportation array she arranged was even more magnificent.

"Such a person is truly brilliant and peerless; I wonder where she came from?"

Unaccountably, Luo Chen thought of some rumors he had occasionally heard while living at Mount Cangwu.

It was said that Sovereign Qixia rose a thousand years ago.

At that time, she obtained the upper-realm Phoenix inheritance from the Yuding Domain, which had not yet been renamed, specifically the Lianxia Mountain Range.

Therefore, since then, she had always used "Qixia" as her Daoist name.

Qixia, Qixia, meaning "dwelling in Lianxia."

However, later, the Yuding Sword Sect, supported by the Eastern Wasteland sacred ground Mingyuan Sect, launched a war to open up the Lianxia Mountain Range. At that time, Sovereign Qixia did not want to fight with the Mingyuan Sect, and she herself wanted to find a spiritual vein suitable for her cultivation realm, so she took the initiative to retreat and entered deep into the Eastern Wasteland.

Thus, she left behind only He Qingzi, who guarded the Lianxia Mountain Range alone.

As for how He Qingzi was later subdued by the then-Golden Core stage Master Yunhe, or rather, how she took a fancy to Master Yunhe, that was another matter.

"In this way, the legend of the Heavenly Phoenix falling into the Lianxia Mountain Range that I often heard back at Dahe Square must be seven or eight parts credible."

"Otherwise, how could this realm create such a powerful demon cultivator!"

His brain was dizzy, and miscellaneous thoughts rose and fell.

Luo Chen suddenly woke up!

At this time, how could he think about these things?

He gripped his hand tightly, using a little force.

Swish...

The green feather in his right hand, under external pressure, turned into a pile of ash.

As Luo Chen flicked his hand, it drifted and fell to the ground.

"The power contained within it has completely dissipated!"

This green feather was just a temporary token You Quan gave him to enter and exit the dungeon.

Truth be told, being able to use it to temporarily activate the teleportation array as a key was already a pleasant surprise.

By now, it was completely useless.

Luo Chen took a deep breath, took out the only remaining bottle of top-grade Starry Pill from his storage ring, swallowed it like a whale, and without waiting to refine it, stood up from the ground.

Turning around, he held the Xuanhuo Sword in his hand.

Without hesitation, he slashed down!

The exquisite and complex teleportation array lost a corner in an instant.

Luo Chen carefully collected the stone corner into his storage ring.

In this way, the teleportation array was destroyed, and the enemy should not be able to chase him.

"However, the enemies from Mount Cangwu cannot come over, but I must carefully deal with the strong enemies that might come from the White Bone Dao Palace."

Luo Chen pursed his dry lips and walked out quietly.

He could not wait here to recover to a complete state before seeking escape.

He had to escape before the people from the White Bone Dao Palace reacted!

He walked out carefully, his exposed skin covered in black lines, which was a sign that the Hidden Formation was activated to the limit.

With this perfect formation, even Nascent Soul cultivators would not notice his aura if they didn't look carefully.

One step, two steps...

Luo Chen sniffed his nose and smelled a salty, damp scent.

A place where demon pythons live should be fishy and smelly, right?

Why was it so salty and damp?

Just as he was puzzled, he had completely walked out of the cave.

Lifting the curtain made of thick vines, Luo Chen stood on the hillside, dumbfounded as he looked at the scenery outside.

The sea and sky were the same color, boundless!

Ten thousand miles of blue ocean, waves rising and falling!

Wisps of sunset glow shone down from the clouds in the sky, reflecting a golden color in the far distance.

It was exactly the time of sunset, when tired birds return to their nests.

Luo Chen swallowed his saliva, and an absurd feeling suddenly rose in his heart.

"How could the Great Snow Mountain have such a scene?"

The strange environment made Luo Chen unable to accept it for a while.

But soon, with his super adaptability, he forced himself to accept his current situation.

This was definitely not the Great Snow Mountain!

Nor was it any place he was familiar with!

And from the geographical features, he couldn't tell where it was.

Of course, if described according to some books about the Shanhai Realm, there were only a few places with such a boundless, huge ocean.

Eastern Nether Abyss, Southern Ocean, Northern Sea.

And the Eastern Nether Abyss was rumored to be always shrouded in dense nether energy and ghost mist, pitch black, so this place was definitely not the Eastern Nether Abyss.

Then only the Southern Ocean and Northern Sea were left.

The Southern Ocean had many strange insects, and the Northern Sea was full of demons; neither were good places!

Luo Chen's expression changed slightly, and he retreated quietly, his sleeves brushing lightly to wipe away the aura he had left outside.

When he returned to the cave engraved with the teleportation array, he fell into silence for a while.

What he could be sure of now was that there must have been a huge error in the teleportation!

Otherwise, Han Zhan said it was the Great Snow Mountain, so how could he have come to this place of endless ocean.

And the powerful force Han Zhan left behind at that time, he estimated, was not aimed at himself, but intended to deal with the White Bone Mysterious Snake in the White Bone Dao Palace of the Great Snow Mountain.

It was just that the other party didn't expect that a wisp of Nirvana Sacred Fire, weakened countless times, would not only consume Han Zhan's backup means but also heavily injure him, so much so that he hadn't woken up to this day.

His deep gaze fixed on the charred black wooden figure.

A murderous intent suddenly rose in Luo Chen's heart.

He could clearly perceive Han Zhan's current weakness; it was a weakness that even a Foundation Establishment cultivator could wipe him out.

A weak divine soul was curled up in the black wooden figure, and it could not get the nourishment of the sea of consciousness derived from the physical body.

The other party's injury recovery was extremely slow.

Should he kill him?

Evil thoughts arose!

Luo Chen had seen the power of Nascent Soul existences too many times.

Even the weakest early-stage Nascent Soul cultivator was absolutely not something a Golden Core cultivator could contend with.

Even if the other party only had a wisp of divine soul left and had no sense of threat.

But Han Zhan himself was most proficient in divine soul attacks and puppet control.

Who knew if he could use a wisp of remnant soul to launch some bizarre attack?

Leaving such a threat by his side was definitely not a wise move.

Killing him was the right way!

Luo Chen flipped his wrist, and a wisp of green flame spread over it; as long as he struck, Han Zhan's remnant soul would completely disappear from heaven and earth.

As for whether he would fall into reincarnation, return to the Netherworld, or completely lose the chance to reincarnate and re-cultivate, that was not something Luo Chen could predict.

The cold heat gradually approached the black wooden figure.

But in the end, Luo Chen waved his hand and dissipated the Withered Glory True Fire.

"Forget it! Forget it!"

He remembered the many cares the Luoyun Sect had shown him along the way.

Whether it was the transaction with Tian Xingzi during the Battle of Burning Incense Valley, the active opening of the Xiancheng's restrictions by the Luoyun Sect's Jin Dan Qu Xibai to assist him in advancing when he promoted to the Core Formation stage, or even the help Han Zhan provided when he was constrained by the Golden Wolf King's demonic Qi beneath Thousand Ye Feng.

Although Luo Chen had also made many returns in these events, overall, the two sides could be considered sincere cooperation.

Especially!

Luo Chen recalled the scene when the spatial teleportation array was activated.

At that time, Han Zhan had already been heavily injured by the Nirvana Sacred Fire and must have known that even if the teleportation was successful, he would be powerless and could only be slaughtered.

But even so, he still handed the Green Luan feather to himself.

"Do not betray me!"

Han Zhan's low shout still echoed in his ears.

Luo Chen shook his head.

"If others treat me sincerely, I should treat them with sincerity!"

He extinguished the heart to kill Han Zhan.

But Luo Chen didn't do nothing.

Instead, with a thought, he took out an object from his storage ring.

Hunyuan Cauldron!

Looking at this cauldron, a look of love and fear appeared in Luo Chen's eyes.

Whose natal magic treasure doesn't listen to their own commands?

However, Tian Yezi had already fallen, and there should be no one else in this world who could control this treasure, even Han Zhan and Qing Shuang, who had participated in the refining, could not do it to that extent.

After all, Tian Yezi was a master refiner, and Luo Chen was the master of this treasure, while others only added one or two formations.

They couldn't reach the level of the guest becoming the host.

"The Hunyuan Cauldron itself has the effects of suppression, imprisonment, and locking, which is just right for this place!"

Luo Chen cast a magic power, and immediately chains stretched out from the gray small cauldron.

Unlike the green chains summoned by Tian Yezi, the ones Luo Chen summoned were red chains.

One represented wind-element magic power, and the other represented fire-element magic power.

The chains slowly wrapped around the black wooden figure and then slowly pulled it into the cauldron.

In this way, the inside and outside were completely isolated, preventing Han Zhan from spying on Luo Chen or doing anything to attack him.

Even if the other party woke up, without Luo Chen opening the Hunyuan Cauldron, he could only stay inside honestly.

"When he wakes up, I will negotiate with him and see what he says!"

"If it really doesn't work, we will go our separate ways."

"At least it will be a good ending."

After muttering to himself, Luo Chen looked around, then found a place at random, sat cross-legged, and operated his natal cultivation technique.

At this moment, his realm was somewhat unstable.

He himself had just broken through to the third level of Golden Core and then went to find Tian Yezi; the small realm hadn't been stabilized at all.

A super-long-distance spatial teleportation consumed even more of his magic power.

In such a state, it was not suitable to go out and venture.

Even if the spiritual energy environment here was thin, it was better than nothing.

In the dim cave, it gradually became quiet, with only the rhythmic breathing of the tattered-clothed Daoist, swallowing the little spiritual energy of heaven and earth here.

Half a month later.

Luo Chen slowly woke up from his quiet cultivation.

He first observed the silent Hunyuan Cauldron, confirming that Han Zhan had not yet woken up.

Then, he naturally opened the attribute panel.

The transparent panel like water rippled and unfolded, visible only to Luo Chen, and his eyes instantly became focused.

【Lifespan: 124/446】

【Spirit Root: Metal, Wood, Water, Fire, Earth】

【Realm: Golden Core Level 3 1/100, Ancient Tier 3 30/100】

【Cultivation Technique: Heavenly Phoenix Nirvana Scripture Proficient 101/200, Ten Thousand Dao Convergence Grandmaster 657/1000, Ten Thousand Beast Scripture 15/100】

【Spells: Tier 4: Dragon Slashing Technique Proficient 175/200

Tier 3: Innate One Qi Handprint Grandmaster 810/1000, Mirror Flower Water Moon Perfected, Dust Yuan Technique Perfected, Cutting Life Finger Entry 15/100】

【Martial Arts: Cloud Searching Divine Claw Grandmaster 590/1000, Fierce Fire Miasma Grandmaster 530/1000】

Perfected Spells (Click to query details)

【Pill Art: Scale Turning Hand Grandmaster 580/1000, Burning Crane Hand Entry 77/100. Perfected Pill Art (Click to query details)】

【Profession: Tier 4 Pill Refiner, Tier 2 Physician

Tier 4 Pill: Transformation Pill Entry 5/100

Tier 3 Pill: Starry Pill Perfected, Nether Yuan Pill Entry 6/100

Tier 2 Pill: Di Liu Jiang Perfected

Perfected Pill (Click to query details)】

【Tier 1 Formation Master: Tier 3 Formation: Hidden Formation Perfected

Tier 1 Formation: Spirit Gathering Formation Grandmaster 800/1000, Sharp Metal Formation Grandmaster 750/100, Wood Armor Formation Grandmaster 900/1000, Cangyuan Formation Grandmaster 760/1000, Fire Gathering Formation Perfected, Solid Armor Formation Grandmaster 767/1000】

【Achievement Points: 101】

The lifelike entries caused ripples in Luo Chen's heart lake.

"A 124-year-old Golden Core Level 3; this can be considered a leader among the geniuses in the Eastern Wasteland cultivation world!"

Luo Chen couldn't help but sigh.

Such a fast cultivation speed, even the true disciples of the upper sects couldn't catch up.

Like the Heavenly Spirit Root cultivator Yu Jade Jiao Long of the Mengquan Cave, she was slightly inferior.

In fact, Luo Chen wasn't that fast at the beginning.

After forming the core, he spent ten years just to barely stabilize his realm and reach Golden Core Level 1.

And the reason why the following fourteen years, which should have been a more difficult and longer cultivation time, saw him break through two small realms in succession.

The main reason was that he solved the external resource dilemma.

Whether it was the increase in the proficiency of his natal cultivation technique or obtaining a Tier 3 spiritual land where he could cultivate for a long time, they all provided him with immense help.

Especially!

He also refined a large amount of top-grade Starry Pills to assist his cultivation.

Top-grade Tier 3 pills!

In the entire Eastern Wasteland cultivation world, who else could be this extravagant?

Luo Chen even suspected that even the Golden Core cultivators of the Mingyuan Sect couldn't enjoy this kind of treatment.

After all, high-grade pills were still normal, but top-grade pills didn't fit the cost-effectiveness at all; that was purely exchanging resources for time, and a losing exchange at that.

Luo Chen could do this, but the great sects couldn't bear to make such extravagant investments in their own disciples.

Apart from these, Luo Chen's self-created "Dust Yuan Technique" also made great contributions.

Counting from the day it was created, he had cultivated it for a full thirty-plus years.

By now, it had barely reached the Perfected realm.

If he were still in the Luotian Sect, Luo Chen estimated he would have already transcribed a simplified version of the "Dust Yuan Technique," and it would be at least mid-grade, or even high-grade!

Cultivators using this to assist in forming the core would have a success rate even higher than other high-grade core-forming secret methods!

"Finally, the key to crossing from Golden Core Level 2 to Golden Core Level 3 in a short time was the top-grade Tier 3 spiritual vein of Mount Cangwu, as well as the 'Heavenly Phoenix Nirvana Scripture' I switched to!"

Sighing, Luo Chen's mood couldn't calm down for a long time.

The former could be considered the result of his efforts, and he felt at ease, even very proud!

But the latter could be considered an opportunity.

A top-grade Tier 3 spiritual vein—who else could enjoy it?

The "Heavenly Phoenix Nirvana Scripture," known as the ancestor of fire methods—let alone the Nascent Soul upper sects, even the Soul Transformation sacred grounds in the Wuzhou might not necessarily possess it.

"There is great terror between life and death, but there is also great opportunity."

"Falling into the hands of the Mount Cangwu demon cultivators, I had already prepared to be a bird in a cage for a lifetime, a tool for others, but I gained something else. Every drink and every peck is determined by heaven; cause and effect cycle, nothing more than this."

Luo Chen pursed his lips, feeling somewhat emotional for a while.

The three years of time at Mount Cangwu, thinking about it now, still felt somewhat unreal.

It wasn't self-pity, but it really felt like a dream.

He hadn't been bullied or humiliated, nor had he been imprisoned all the time; instead, he gained a lot.

He had talked and laughed with Nascent Soul demon cultivators and had seen Soul Transformation powerhouses take action personally.

Among the Golden Core cultivators in the world, how many could have such bizarre experiences as him?

The more he thought, the more he couldn't help but think deeper.

But Luo Chen had long been accustomed to cutting off messy thoughts, collected his thoughts, and continued to browse the attribute panel.

The growth of his physical realm was not large, only increasing by five progress points over so many years.

If his path of body refining also had realms, it could be considered the final stage of the initial phase, and he would be ten progress points away from entering the intermediate phase.

And this progress was brought about by the proficiency of the "Ten Thousand Dao Convergence" technique increasing by another hundred-plus points.

The physical progress was slow, and Luo Chen naturally knew the reason.

One reason was that his cultivation technique was self-created, and even if he had simplified it several times, it was still too mixed.

Second, he had left the Tianlan Xiancheng and didn't have Bai Meiling to make him spiritual meals often, cutting off the simplest and fastest auxiliary supplement path of food supplementation.

Finally, Luo Chen also lacked pill formulas that helped with body refining.

Of course, if Luo Chen relaxed his restrictions and wantonly slaughtered living beings, using his Primordial True Fire to refine the vitality of those demon beasts, perhaps he could make his physical realm improve faster.

But doing so in his original environment would be too conspicuous and easily attract trouble.

Thinking of this, Luo Chen subconsciously glanced at the Hunyuan Cauldron again.

A thought, vague and indistinct, emerged.

"Wait for now, let's talk after he wakes up."

Muttering a sentence, Luo Chen's gaze slid down all the way.

In terms of spells, the Tier 4 Dragon Slashing Technique reached the proficient level; this technique could be cultivated more in the future, perhaps with miraculous effects.

The Tier 3 Innate One Qi Handprint reached the Grandmaster level, and it wasn't far from the Perfected level.

This technique was extremely comprehensive, and all five elements of magic power could be used to drive it, each with different effects.

However, its comprehensiveness would definitely decline in the future.

As he switched to cultivating the "Heavenly Phoenix Nirvana Scripture," the Golden Core in his body contained only fire-element magic power.

The remaining four elements of magic power would all be converted into fire elements.

In this way, the Innate One Qi Handprint could only be performed by driving it with fire-element magic power.

And if that were the case, this technique would become the purest and most direct killing technique.

"There are gains and losses; who knows, maybe a single Handprint is stronger?"

In the Tier 3 column, there were also Mirror Flower Water Moon, Dust Yuan Technique, and Cutting Life Finger.

The former two had been Perfected after his many years of bitter cultivation and would definitely bring him more help in the future.

As for the Cutting Life Finger, this bizarre spell he obtained from Li Jinhuang, Luo Chen hadn't cultivated it much over the years.

He had tried to perform it several times on demon beasts, but the lifespan intercepted often didn't stay long before disappearing.

At the same time, his own lifespan loss didn't stop.

Since it couldn't increase the lifespan limit and couldn't replace his own lifespan loss, this technique was too chicken-rib-like.

Perhaps it was just right for Li Jinhuang's situation back then!

After browsing the spells, there was nothing much to say about the remaining entries.

The pill art had an extra Burning Crane Hand exchanged from Murong Qinglian of the Luoyun Sect, just at the entry level, suitable for processing fire-attribute medicinal materials, especially when refining the Core-Forming Pill.

A Tier 4 Transformation Pill at the entry level, thereby promoting his profession attribute from a Tier 3 pill refiner to Tier 4.

Starry Pill and Di Liu Jiang Perfected.

In terms of formations, it was still Tier 1.

But a group of Tier 1 basic formations had all been cultivated by him to the Grandmaster or Perfected level.

This was during the Xiaoyue opening war period, when he was bored every day under Qianye Peak on the front line and painstakingly copied them.

Originally, he intended to lay a foundation for refining his natal magic treasure.

Who would have thought that with Tian Yezi's "help," he saved those efforts.

Finally, it was the achievement points!

So many spells, pills, and formations Perfected provided him with dozens of achievement points!

Even midway, because of cultivating the "Heavenly Phoenix Nirvana Scripture," he consumed ten achievement points to get started.

But now, he possessed a terrifying 101 points!

This was the most terrifying number of achievement points Luo Chen had ever mastered.

It could be said that because of these achievement points, Luo Chen felt full of security.

Now, give him any Tier 4 spell, cultivation technique, or even any Tier 4 pill formula, and he could get started directly without any difficulty!

After browsing the attribute panel, Luo Chen fell into a long silence.

What to do in the future?

Although he didn't know if this place was the Southern Ocean near the Southern Border or the Northern Sea known as the place of demons, both were extremely far from the Eastern Wasteland.

It was even more unknown how many billions of miles away it was from his home, the Luotian Sect.

In the short term, he feared he couldn't go back.

And if he went back, he estimated he would have to face the war between the Eastern Wasteland demon clan and the Mingyuan Sacred Ground.

With his early-stage Golden Core realm, he couldn't even protect himself in such a tide of great trends.

Especially, he had the traitorous act of refining pills for the demon clan. If it were known, it would instead implicate his Daoist companions and disciples.

"Sigh..."

With a long sigh, Luo Chen's originally excited mood became low.

Far from his hometown, far from those close to him, in a strange place—this encounter almost gave him a sense of confusion and helplessness as if he had transmigrated again.

The sect he had worked so hard to cultivate, the corresponding inheritance he left behind, his Daoist companions, disciples, friends, subordinates, the Tier 3 spiritual vein he had personally fought for...

All gone.

"No!"

"They aren't dead!"

"As long as I am still alive, one day I will be able to go back."

Luo Chen regained his spirit.

So what if there was no Tier 3 spiritual vein?

The Shanhai Realm was vast; it wasn't that only the Eastern Wasteland had high-grade spiritual veins, so couldn't he find one here?

Relying on his Golden Core realm, as long as he didn't unluckily provoke a Nascent Soul True Person, where couldn't he live comfortably?

Moreover, he still had a superb pill refining technique!

The top priority was to figure out his environment, then seek long-term development and continue his cultivation path.

After sorting out his emotions, Luo Chen planned to close the attribute panel.

However, before closing it, his heart moved.

As his realm became higher and higher, his knowledge broader, his lifespan longer, the skills he learned would inevitably become more and more.

It would be too troublesome to browse such a complex panel.

Therefore, with a thought.

The attribute panel rippled and turned into three chapters.

The first chapter was basic attributes, cultivation techniques, spells, etc.

The second chapter was related to pill refining.

The third chapter was related to formations.

If he learned other skills in the future, he would just open new chapters then.

After tidying up everything, Luo Chen stood up calmly.

He put the Hunyuan Cauldron into his storage ring and left the quiet cave.

After coming out, he glanced at the cave entrance shrouded in vines.

The spiritual vein here was of extremely low grade, barely at the edge of Tier 2, and bound by the formation, it didn't show anything to the outside.

Luo Chen had been quietly cultivating here for half a month, almost swallowing the spiritual energy here completely, causing the grade to fall to the Tier 1 low-grade level.

Almost breaking the root of the spiritual vein.

And the Mount Cangwu demon cultivators didn't set up other formations to cover this place, only using natural trees, vines, and rocks to form a natural maze illusion formation. This was to prevent low-level demon beasts from accidentally breaking into this place.

"I don't need to do anything extra."

Luo Chen smiled slightly, his eyes blooming with spirit light, and he saw through the scene outside the mountain at a glance.

Following the flaws of the maze, he stepped out step by step, and finally leaped onto the ocean.

The splashing waves hit the shore.

The morning sun rose, boundless.

Luo Chen looked front, back, left, and right, then took out a high-grade flying boat, threw it on the water surface, and with magic power driving it, the flying boat sailed toward the southeast based on his feeling.

The cold sea breeze rolled up his pitch-black long hair.

His clothes fluttered, and Luo Chen looked at the unknown scenery ahead, his eyes extremely bright.

"At Mount Cangwu, I was like a bird in a cage, a fish in a net. This departure is like a bird into the blue sky, a fish into the sea, no longer bound!"

On the vast ocean, a small boat carried the young man in black, sailing with the wind.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 519 =====