Chapter 527: Senior Qingyang Dan Canon

On Wanghai Cliff.

The night curtain was heavy, and the sea breeze was gentle.

Amidst the waves, there was a sense of unusual silence.

Luo Chen flipped his wrist, and the black long banner was immediately inserted in the center of the cave dwelling.

Probing with spiritual sense, the slaughter was still continuing.

Hundreds of powerful resentful souls were circling Yan Nantian's remnant soul, continuously pulling and gnawing.

Especially that Jin Dan-level Ghost King remnant soul, devouring in large mouthfuls, the originally dim spiritual light began to recover again.

Besides this, there was nothing else.

Looking at this scene, Luo Chen revealed a thoughtful look.

"Although cultivators use external resources to accelerate cultivation speed, in essence, they are still the same as the ancient Qi Refiners, walking the path of refining essence into Qi, and refining Qi into spirit."

"Foundation Establishment allows spiritual sense to be released, and Jin Dan transforms spirit into divinity, but when calculated, the essence of the soul still hasn't undergone a qualitative change."

"Without the physical body as this raft to cross the world, the soul of a Jin Dan cultivator is like a child without clothes, wind, frost, rain, and snow can all break it, let alone the attacks of resentful souls and fierce ghosts that have fallen into the ghost path."

"This situation might improve slightly when reaching the Nascent Soul stage, where the soul can drive the Nascent Soul to form a second raft. But even so, it cannot be considered a qualitative change; the true qualitative change should be the Soul Transformation stage, where the Nascent Soul and soul are integrated into one, forming the Primordial Spirit."

Luo Chen didn't know if his guess was correct.

But based on past records in classics, exchanges with fellow Daoists, and the situation where Yan Nantian's remnant soul had no power to resist at this moment, he reached this guess.

His thoughts wandered, and he thought about if he were to fall into such a situation, how would he maximize the preservation of his own remnant soul?

The answer, none.

Or rather, there is one and only one, which is to continue strengthening the foundation of the soul.

"Unfortunately, the Tongyou Elixir no longer has any effect on me. The soul-refining effect of the 'Micro-Dust Yuan Technique' is also negligible."

Luo Chen had judged for himself that after promoting to the third level of Jin Dan, the strength of his soul now still did not exceed the level of ordinary late-stage Jin Dan cultivators.

It was roughly equivalent to a fifth-level Jin Dan, or even a slightly weaker sixth-level cultivator.

He thought again of the 'Heavenly Phoenix Nirvana Scripture,' this top-tier fire-type cultivation method.

It also didn't record any soul-refining methods.

But he felt that this divine skill, rumored to be able to reach the Mahayana stage directly, shouldn't have such flaws in this regard.

"Therefore, if there really are such secret techniques, they should be in the Nascent Soul chapter, or even the Soul Transformation chapter."

Pursing his lips, Luo Chen dismissed those delusions.

He didn't intend to return to Mount Cangwu Mountain, so naturally, he had no chance to obtain higher-level subsequent cultivation methods.

Thinking for a while, Luo Chen squeezed out a drop of essence blood and let it fall onto the Ten Thousand Soul Banner.

Spiritual power surged out, and spiritual sense circled.

Luo Chen sat cross-legged and performed the refining.

This was a very good magic treasure, especially since it was a soul-path magic treasure not within the Five Elements system, which he could use without any obstruction.

Especially, its foundation was also very good!

Even though the tens of thousands of low-grade souls inside were all consumed in that previous battle, the core hundreds of resentful souls, the eight great split souls, and the Jin Dan main soul were still preserved.

As long as he spent some effort later to replenish the low-grade souls, this treasure would still not lose its power.

It could even be said that it possessed very good growth potential!

What was above the Ten Thousand Soul Banner?

The Hundred Thousand Fierce Soul Banner, right?

Time passed bit by bit...

By dawn, Luo Chen stopped his hand movements with a somewhat tired expression.

With a beckon of his hand, the black long banner inserted on the ground fell into his hand.

A faint connection reached from the long banner deep into his soul.

"Although it cannot be used directly yet, as long as I refine it persistently, it won't take a few months for this treasure to be usable by me. By then, Yan Nantian's soul inside should also be completely divided."

Luo Chen revealed a satisfied smile and put the Soul Refining Banner into his storage ring.

Afterwards, another item appeared in his hand.

Those were two weapons that looked like short halberds but were even narrower and longer, with sharp tips, and a pool of blue light flowing over the whole.

Water-Splitting Thorn!

Low-grade magic treasure!

Contains the killing move of splitting water and transforming into a dragon.

This was also one of the few spoils of war left to Luo Chen by Yan Nantian in that previous great battle.

The power of fire-type magic techniques was too violent.

Under extreme confrontation, even Yan Nantian's physical body couldn't be preserved, let alone his storage bag.

The Ten Thousand Soul Banner and the Water-Splitting Thorn were already everything.

"The quality is indeed good, almost equivalent to the Heavenly Moon Purple Gold Wheel I used before."

"Unfortunately, I can't use it."

Shaking his head with regret, Luo Chen put away the Water-Splitting Thorn.

After he started specializing in fire-type cultivation, his spiritual power was indeed more pure and overbearing, but the shortcomings were also very obvious.

He couldn't flexibly use high-quality magic treasures of the other four elements.

Even if he forcibly refined and drove them, the power exerted during battle would only be five or six out of ten of the original, and it would cause great damage to the treasure itself.

There are gains, there must be losses.

Luo Chen had long been mentally prepared; after all, he had even given up the Heavenly Moon Purple Gold Wheel that he had spent great effort on before, let alone this Water-Splitting Thorn that he had just obtained.

Then, Luo Chen reached out and pushed, and a round, gray small tripod flew out from his palm, changing from small to large, and landed in front of Luo Chen.

Looking at this small tripod, Luo Chen fell into unspeakable silence.

This was the natal magic treasure he had painstakingly sought and spent who knows how much energy to create.

But now, among all his treasures, this Hunyuan Tripod was in the most awkward situation!

He was not a master refiner and didn't know if the means left by Tian Tian Yezi were still there.

Because of this reason, after leaving Mount Cangwu Mountain, he had long hesitated to swallow this treasure into his Qi Sea to nourish and refine it day and night, and could only place it in his storage ring.

And it was precisely because of this that the quenching process of this thing had been stuck there.

Not only was its appearance ugly, but the terrifying impurities contained within could not be refined, hindering the promotion of this treasure's grade.

However, even so, the power of the Hunyuan Tripod still made Luo Chen marvel.

Whether it was imprisoning Han Zhan's soul, capturing the Blue-Ringed Giant-Toothed Sea Snake, or nourishing the Blazing Fire Miasma, all reflected the power of this "proud work" of Tian Tian Yezi.

One could imagine, if its impurities were truly completely removed, how great its potential would be!

Even, after that, continuing to integrate Millennium Thunder Ying, as well as various mineral materials, to what extent its grade would grow!

High-grade magic treasure?

No, this was far from the end of the Hunyuan Tripod.

True treasure... Spirit treasure...

After a long silence, Luo Chen fought a battle between heaven and man in his heart, and finally clenched his fists tightly.

"Why care about it, Tian Tian Yezi is already dead, even if there are backhands left, no one else can drive this treasure."

"Being so hesitant, is that my, Luo Chen's, character?"

With a thought, Luo Chen opened his mouth and inhaled.

Immediately, the round small tripod shrank rapidly, and finally turned into a streak of light, spinning and flying into Luo Chen's mouth, finally staying in the Qi Sea.

The pure spiritual power swirling in all directions surged up, and there was even the source True Fire swirling and burning to quench the impurities.

In the end, Luo Chen still couldn't bear to part with his natal magic treasure.

Not to mention how much energy he had spent for this treasure.

Just for the alchemy cause that was about to begin, he had to master this treasure.

That True Flame Elixir was not the incomplete Minister Cauldron that could support long-term, high-frequency refining.

After checking the spoils of war.

Luo Chen left the cave dwelling and strolled on Wanghai Cliff.

Looking at the boundless sea and the scorching sun slowly rising, his tired mind seemed to be relieved.

Yan Nantian was dead.

After the cultivators of the Flying Swallow Archipelago personally observed him displaying his great power, there would be no strange thoughts in the short term, and they could be used by him.

In this way, he, Luo Chen, finally had a temporary place to dwell and could continue to cultivate.

The things to do later were instead simple.

Nothing more than organizing manpower, collecting resources, refining elixirs, and cultivating in seclusion.

Looking at the sea swallows circling on the sea surface, Luo Chen felt comfortable.

"Seriously calculating, Yan Nantian was the first enemy I had a proper life-and-death battle with after forming the Jin Dan."

"Not weak, actually having the fourth level of Jin Dan realm."

"It's just a pity that just after breaking through, he received a Senior Qingyang Great Handprint from me, and the subsequent battle situation was all under my control."

"I guess he also felt very wronged, having no grievances with me, just taking a fancy to his spiritual land, and thus inviting this unprovoked disaster."

"Seriously calculating, his means were still very good, and extremely comprehensive, and he could even simultaneously control two magic treasures with full strength. His biggest mistake was that he shouldn't have forcibly broken through the realm..."

On the cliff, the young man paced in small steps, summarizing the gains and losses of that previous battle.

The salty sea breeze slapped against him, and when it rolled up his black hair, it seemed to also roll away the impetuous aura on his body.

One month later!

At the center of the Thirty-Six Islands.

The ten-mile flat lake reappeared with ripples, the small Fairy Yaoyue Island floated up from the bottom of the ground, and the rich heaven and earth spiritual energy began to spray again.

Figures walked between them, preparing for today's grand ceremony.

There was not a single mortal present, the lowest being a Qi Refining stage cultivator.

From time to time, people cast their gaze toward the small island in the center of the lake, with expressions of fear on their faces.

The name of Demon Lord Senior Qingyang had already spread among the hundreds of thousands of mortal cultivators on the Thirty-Six Islands in this short month.

Everyone knew that the Flying Swallow Archipelago had changed its sky!

No longer "Nantian," but "Senior Qingyang."

What kind of weather it would be in the future, no one knew.

But for now, clues had already begun to appear.

Just for gathering spiritual energy and solidifying meridians, and rebuilding the third-tier spiritual land, it consumed a lot of financial resources from dozens of families on the Thirty-Six Islands.

A while ago, forty-nine Foundation Establishment true cultivators, led by the three great formation masters of Flying Swallow, forcibly pulled Fairy Yaoyue Island out from the deep bottom of the ground; that movement was completely no less than the movement of Luo Chen knocking Fairy Yaoyue Island down.

One could imagine what other things Demon Lord Senior Qingyang might ask them, the cultivators of Flying Swallow, to do in the future.

The buzzing discussion continued to rise as the crowd moved.

But as it reached noon, the discussion gradually dissipated, and the cultivators below Foundation Establishment all retreated.

Suddenly!

A red cloud came from afar and stopped above Fairy Yaoyue Island.

On the red cloud, a tall man was dressed in a black Daoist robe, his black hair neatly bound by a jade hairpin. Although his face was young, his pair of spiritual eyes were like cold pools and deep abysses, vast gullies, bottomless.

Seeing the person coming, all the Foundation Establishment cultivators by the lake bowed and saluted.

"See Demon Lord Senior Qingyang!"

Although it was the sound of a hundred people, gathered together, it also had the momentum of a mountain shout and a sea roar.

Luo Chen's pair of spiritual eyes overlooked the cultivators by the lake, slowly sweeping across.

Finally, it stopped on Fairy Yaoyue Island.

On his face, a satisfied smile appeared.

"Not bad, I am very satisfied."

"And not a single one of you is missing, and there are even a few more people, I am even more satisfied."

Hearing this, everyone couldn't help but feel slightly relieved.

Luo Chen flicked his sleeves and said loudly: "Other words, I won't say much; what kind of style this seat Senior Qingyang has, in the future getting along, you will naturally understand."

"Today, I only speak of three things."

"First, the Cheng family of Black Swan Island, from now on, is my agent on the Flying Swallow Archipelago; all secular affairs will be handled by them."

The cultivators heard this, and even if they had psychological preparation, they couldn't help but feel a faint sense of loss in their hearts.

That Cheng family had truly ascended to heaven in one step, clinging to a thick thigh, and from now on, they were under one person and above ten thousand!

The seven Foundation Establishment members of the Cheng family in the front row of the crowd all showed expressions of self-satisfaction at this moment.

Suddenly, a streak of spiritual light flew out from Luo Chen's sleeve, fluttering and hovering in front of the seven Cheng family cultivators.

Magic treasure!

Unlike the flooding of low-grade magic treasures in the Yuding Domain, magic treasures were still very rare in the cultivation world.

Apart from large sects and old-fashioned cultivation families, ordinary small forces almost had no powerful magic treasures to take out.

Just as Luo Chen had observed before, the Foundation Establishment cultivators here mostly used high-grade magic tools and top-grade magic tools.

Those like the Cheng family who were a bit more powerful only had one more soul banner with growth attributes.

Seeing that magic treasure spiritual light.

Cheng Dou's heart moved, wanting to step forward to receive the spiritual light, but unexpectedly, the spiritual light automatically fell into the hands of the woman beside him.

"This is my token, held by Cheng Cheng Haixin; seeing her is like seeing me."

Cheng Cheng Haixin looked at the pair of Water-Splitting Thorns in her hand, her expression blank.

Especially when she saw the fleeting gloom on her big brother's face, she trembled in her heart.

"Lord Demon Lord, I..."

The following words came to an abrupt end; under Luo Chen's faint gaze, she swallowed the words of refusal.

In front of a superior, how could there be refusal.

"Second thing!"

Luo Chen looked coldly at everyone, his tone slightly cold.

"This seat is going to cultivate in seclusion next, and needs to refine a large amount of a third-tier elixir; the medicinal materials needed for this elixir will be searched for by you for me. From now on, you don't need to offer tribute to me, just collect medicinal materials for me."

"The list of medicinal materials has already been given to the Cheng family; they will assign tasks, and you just need to go and collect them after receiving the tasks."

Everyone's expression moved slightly.

No need to offer tribute to Yan Nantian every year like before, just collect medicinal materials?

In that case, it seems even better.

The elixir resources used by a Jin Dan cultivator for a year of cultivation wouldn't be too much; with their Thirty-Six Islands working together, the expenses shouldn't be large.

Cheng Dou sneered as he watched this scene; if they knew the quantity of medicinal materials on the list, they probably wouldn't be so optimistic.

The quantity of medicinal materials needed by Demon Lord Senior Qingyang, if converted into spirit stones, was even more than the annual tribute demanded by Yan Nantian before!

Don't know if, after he issues the tasks later, these people discover the gains and losses, will they cause any trouble.

Demon Lord Senior Qingyang, how will he appease the dissatisfaction in their hearts?

The next moment!

Luo Chen's words sounded again.

And this time, everyone's face revealed a fanatical expression.

Luo Chen flipped his wrist, and a stone tablet hovered beside him.

On the stone tablet, the handwriting was like a dragon and snake, as if divine skills and wonderful methods had been engraved, but it was covered by spiritual light, and everyone couldn't see the true appearance.

Only four words reflected in everyone's heart.

"Senior Qingyang Dan Canon"

"Before, this seat understood the history of the Flying Swallow Archipelago; for a hundred years, not a single Jin Dan cultivator has emerged. Even in the past eight hundred years, only two Jin Dans have walked out."

"Such a ridiculous success rate of Jin Dan formation, could it be that your aptitude is not good? Or is your temperament too poor?"

"This seat doesn't think so."

"You have gathered spiritual veins for me before, and will run around for me in the future, which can be called hard work and high merit."

"Therefore, this seat passes down this medium-method Jin Dan formation secret technique. Each family can exchange for it based on their contribution and merit to me. And this is the third thing."

Luo Chen smiled slightly, and spiritual light bloomed on his hand.

Layer after layer of obscure prohibitions were struck onto the stone tablet, and the hazy spiritual light on it instantly rushed to the sky, finally disappearing into nothingness.

The handwriting on it also completely dissipated.

But everyone knew that it wasn't that the handwriting had dissipated, but that it had been temporarily hidden under the great means of Demon Lord Senior Qingyang, a Jin Dan cultivator.

If you want to exchange for it in the future, you have to bring out enough contribution and merit.

And how does that merit come?

Without accident, it depends on how many precious medicinal materials each family can collect for Demon Lord Senior Qingyang.

Luo Chen patted with one hand, and the stone tablet immediately fell and inserted itself on Fairy Yaoyue Island.

After doing all this, Luo Chen smiled slightly.

"Everyone, the Great Dao is difficult, let us encourage each other!"

As the words fell, his figure gradually dissipated.

And on Fairy Yaoyue Island, layers of white clouds and mist suddenly appeared, completely covering it.

By the lake, the hundred Foundation Establishment true cultivators looked at each other, their eyes full of fanaticism and obsession.

"Senior Qingyang Dan Canon" — medium-grade Jin Dan formation secret method.

From now on, the cultivators of Flying Swallow have hope for the Jin Dan Great Dao!

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 528 =====