Chapter 541: This Job, Must Be Done

Deep in the dark and mysterious ocean.

The water flow moved steadily and regularly, with schools of fish floating by freely.

Occasionally, a ray of sunlight penetrated through layers of water, and after catching a glimpse of a flash of red, it disappeared.

The quiet Coral Gully could be called a forbidden zone for living things within a radius of thousands of miles.

Any creature with some spiritual wisdom would subconsciously avoid this place.

Because those clusters of blood corals, under their gorgeous appearance, were piles of white bones.

A layer of red light spread along the rock wall, isolating the water flow.

Deep in the rock wall, there was a simple cave dwelling.

Inside the cave dwelling, a white-robed Daoist with loose clothes sat quietly.

At a glance, there was no sound, as if it were a dead object.

But every thirty-six breaths, his lips would slightly open and close, spitting out a long and thick breath.

Motionless like a mountain, towering like a pine, it actually gave people the illusion of an ancient Xuan Turtle in the world.

Suddenly, the white-robed Daoist slowly opened his eyes.

Calm eyes examined himself, and he nodded with satisfaction.

"Three months of seclusion, polishing the realm, finally consumed that restless fire."

Between the movements of his mind, the aura on his body suddenly released, climbing step by step, as if a volcano that had been accumulating for a long time was about to erupt. Its momentum was so domineering that ordinary Golden Core cultivators could not match it, and the terrifying spiritual pressure could perhaps only be compared to that of a Great Cultivator.

Suddenly, the momentum retreated like a tide, all collected in his body, like a withered tree or a dumb bird, showing no fluctuation.

Looking at it now, it was almost indistinguishable from an ordinary person.

This release and collection represented that Luo Chen's realm was stabilized, and he had thoroughly become a mid-stage fourth-layer Golden Core cultivator!

However, although he was a fourth-layer Golden Core, Luo Chen had abundant confidence that he could fight a late-stage Golden Core cultivator!

His eyelids lifted slightly, gazing into the void.

A transparent light curtain unfolded slowly like a curtain.

Lifespan: 136/Spirit Root: Gold, Wood, Water, Fire, Earth

Realm: Golden Core Fourth Layer 1/100, Desolate Ancient Tier 3 67/Cultivation Technique: Heavenly Phoenix Nirvana Sutra Proficiency 157/200, Ten Thousand Daos Convergence Perfection, Ten Thousand Beast Sutra Perfect 375/Spell: Tier 4: Dragon-Slaying Technique Grandmaster 750/Tier 3: Qingyang Great Handprint Perfection, Blazing Heaven Seven Rings Grandmaster 623/1000, Cutting Life Finger Entry 15/100,

Martial Arts: Cloud-Exploring Divine Claw Perfection, Fierce Fire Miasma Perfection, Explosive Air Step Perfect 486/Perfection Spells (Click to query details)

Profession Section:

Tier 4 Alchemist

Alchemy Technique: Scale Turning Hand Perfection, Burning Crane Hand Perfection, Perfection Alchemy Technique (Click to query details)

Tier 4 Elixir: Transformation Pill Entry 5/Tier 3 Elixir: Star Pill Perfection, True Flame Pill Perfection, Nether Yuan Pill Entry 6/Tier 1 Elixir: Condensing Water Pill Perfection

Perfection Elixir (Click to query details)

Tier 3 Physician: Medical Skills can be clicked to query details

Tier 3 Array Master: Tier 3 Array: Hidden Array Perfection

Tier 2 Array: Water-Avoiding Array Perfection, Nine-Turn Flame Dragon Array Grandmaster 501/1000, Armor-Breaking Array Proficient 215/300, Five-Wheel Turning Stone Great Array Proficient 207/300, Solid Pill Array...

Tier 1 Array: Five Elements Basic Array Perfection, Spirit-Gathering Array Perfection

Achievement Points: Looking at the attribute panel, Luo Chen felt full of harvest.

Twelve years have passed since he escaped from Cangwu Mountain.

Twelve years is enough for a baby to grow from birth to a teenager who understands human affairs.

And for him, there have been earth-shaking changes!

The first is the terrifying change in lifespan!

It went directly from 446 to 480, an increase of a full thirty-six years.

Among the changes, besides the fixed increase of twenty years from the third layer of Golden Core to the fourth layer, the extra sixteen years, according to Luo Chen's judgment, should have been produced by his feat of refining ten thousand Blue-Ringed Sea Snakes with Withered Glory True Fire in the Xintian Sea area back then.

Ten thousand Tier 1 sea snakes brought sixteen years of lifespan after absorbing the majestic vitality.

It's not surprising!

Because of this surprise, Luo Chen once had the urge to hunt demon beasts on a large scale, and even hunting demon crabs in the Xuanyan Sea area was driven by this desire.

However, under such desire, he still tried his best to restrain the greed in his heart.

What if the lifespan limit is high?

If the realm doesn't go up, it's ultimately a moon in the water, a flower in the mirror.

On the contrary, if he carries out large-scale slaughter, it is easy to attract fatal disasters.

He only hunted demon crabs for five years, and he attracted the siege of the Demon Spider Crab clan; if he really let go of his hands and feet, he didn't know if the next one to come would be which Demon Emperor!

Aside from the changes in the Qi Refining realm, another surprise is the progress in physical cultivation.

However, this joy, because Luo Chen has been paying attention to the growth of his physique all the time for these five years, he is not so excited now.

Desolate Ancient Tier 3, the progress has reached 67%.

This also means that he has reached the late stage.

Desolate beasts do not transform into human form, purely walking the path of strength, focusing on physique.

The physique of a late-stage Tier 3 Desolate Beast, looking at the current Mountain and Sea World, is enough to crush the vast majority of Tier 3 demon beasts.

Maybe, it can even compete with some Tier 4 demon beasts that don't focus on physical cultivation.

"This is the result of my hard cultivation for five years in the Xuanyan Sea area!"

Luo Chen hung a faint smile on his mouth.

Five years, from the early mid-stage to entering the late stage in one fell swoop, brought him powerful combat power.

However, in addition to being happy, Luo Chen also had a little hidden worry.

"My physique has an increasing demand for foreign objects. Nowadays, the Tier 3 Black Emperor Paste, although it can still play a role, no longer has the efficiency of rapid progress as before."

"If I want to maintain high-speed growth in the increasingly difficult late-stage cultivation, I'm afraid I have to consider Tier 4 Black Emperor Paste."

"But Tier 4 Black Emperor Paste..."

Luo Chen was troubled.

The main material for Tier 4 Black Emperor Paste is Tier 3 demon beasts!

Demon beasts that can cultivate to the Tier 3 level are basically heroes of one side, can be called demon kings, and are definitely not weaklings.

Especially the Demon Crab clan, which is suitable for refining Black Emperor Paste, is also a group living together.

He has hunted for so many years, and only three months ago, he killed three demon kings and collected two complete crab shells.

The captured Tier 3 Demon Spider Crab is already gone.

The crab shell was refined into medicine.

The crab meat was eaten by Luo Chen and Black King.

A pair of giant pincers and eight crab legs were carefully collected as refining materials, intending to be processed after leaving the Xuanyan Sea area.

The demon core is also the same.

The rest of the fragments were all rewarded to Black King by Luo Chen, letting him devour and refine them.

Finally, it is the demon soul!

It was personally ingested into the Soul-Refining Banner by Luo Chen, becoming the third major Ghost King-level main soul of the Ten Thousand Soul Banner.

Under Han Zhan's control, it should be able to erupt with extraordinary power.

It can be said that this existence, who was still called "fellow Daoist" by Luo Chen, was skinned, dismantled, and utilized to the extreme.

Back to the topic.

Thinking of refining a large amount of Tier 4 Black Emperor Paste, Luo Chen was a bit troubled.

It might not just be Tier 4 Black Emperor Paste; in the current situation of alerting the enemy, hunting low-level demon crabs to refine Tier 3 Black Emperor Paste might be a bit difficult.

"Take one step at a time!"

"No matter how much I plan, it can't keep up with changes."

Luo Chen shook his head, and his gaze slid down all the way.

The two main cultivation techniques, one progresses slowly, and the other is completely perfect, so there is no need to say more.

The "Ten Thousand Beast Sutra" for enslaving demon beasts, the proficiency reached the perfect level, which is an unexpected joy.

It is estimated that it has something to do with him often driving Black King and Tianxuan.

After long-term driving, Luo Chen still had some insights on how to enslave demon beasts.

Therefore, the proficiency of the "Ten Thousand Beast Sutra", which is only Tier 2, grew so fast, which is a matter of course.

"Speaking of which, there is a famous Ten Thousand Beast Sect in this world. Although it is only a Nascent Soul sect, it is suspected that a Transformation-stage power once appeared in its ancestors. Unfortunately, this sect is not in the Eastern Wasteland, nor in the North Sea, but in the Southern Border where everyone talks about it."

Muttering, Luo Chen's gaze continued to move.

The Innate Qi Great Handprint, which changed its name, reached perfection ten years ago.

The self-created defensive spell Blazing Heaven Seven Rings, because of the relationship of self-creation, progressed rapidly and reached the grandmaster level.

The Cloud-Exploring Divine Claw, which has been cultivated for many years, is perfect, and the Fierce Fire Miasma is perfect.

The self-created Explosive Air Step also progressed rapidly, reaching the perfect level, only one step away from perfection.

These are all happy changes in Luo Chen's combat power.

This also means that his hardware has received an absolute improvement.

Besides that, it is "software".

Currently, Luo Chen holds three major skills, which can naturally be seen as three professions.

The highest achievement is the alchemist profession.

It has reached the Tier 4 level!

All kinds of alchemy techniques are at his fingertips, whether it is knowledge or practical operation, they can be called excellent.

Calling him an alchemy master of the current era, or even a grandmaster, is not an exaggeration at all!

The Tier 3 True Flame Pill he refined himself reached the perfect level, adding bricks and tiles to his cultivation.

The Tier 1 Condensing Water Pill from the Feiyan Islands allowed Luo Chen to have a personal experience of the alchemy techniques of the North Sea cultivation world after refining it himself.

He refined it to perfection in one go, and at the same time integrated the North Sea alchemy style into his own alchemy system.

If he can learn more high-level alchemy techniques of the North Sea in the future, perhaps it can make Luo Chen's alchemy techniques go to the next level.

Tier 3 Physician?

Luo Chen shook his head; perhaps this path ends here.

After only cultivating the Fire system, he lacked the other four elements of magic power in the Five Elements, and even if he could temporarily transform, it was quite inconvenient in actual application.

And medical skills often involve all aspects.

What is needed is comprehensiveness, not specialization.

If it were a cultivator who mainly cultivates the Water system or Wood system, it would be fine, as the inclusiveness is relatively strong.

But the Fire system is relatively domineering, making it difficult for him to practice medical skills of other attributes.

The path of a physician can be seen to the end at a glance, but the array master side is advancing by leaps and bounds!

After Elder Min Longyu and Fu Jiusheng laid a good foundation for Luo Chen.

Now he has received personal guidance from Han Zhan, a Tier 4 array master.

Luo Chen's learning of basic arrays of various systems is progressing rapidly!

The basic arrays of the Five Elements are perfect, and the spirit-gathering and gas-gathering arrays are also perfect.

He is also proficient in most of the Tier 2 arrays.

Especially the Nine-Turn Flame Dragon Great Array that he favors, under day-after-day copying, has reached the grandmaster level.

If there are enough materials to set it up, he believes that its power might be three points more powerful than the Nine-Turn Flame Dragon Great Array set up by Elder Min Longyu back then!

Now that he has obtained a Tier 3 array plate.

For Luo Chen, it can be considered that he met a pillow when he was sleepy, and he can unfold what he has learned for many years one by one.

However, the array plate is mainly a water-attribute array, and it still needs to be adjusted and changed.

In this regard, Luo Chen has already entrusted Han Zhan to help him adjust the array plate, and after a period of time, perhaps there will be results.

After a count, Luo Chen couldn't help but be proud.

Finally, his gaze fell on the achievement points column.

The highest value in history!

Twelve years ago, it was barely over a hundred.

And in just twelve years, it soared by fifty achievement points.

"Sure enough, quiet cultivation in seclusion is always the best cultivation method that surpasses fighting."

"If it were the busy me before, let alone twelve years, even if another ten or twenty years came, I wouldn't be able to brush out so many achievement points."

The dazzling numbers made Luo Chen feel full of security in addition to being proud.

Even, there is some expectation.

"I only have the list of medicinal herbs for the Nascent Soul Pill, but no corresponding ratio, as well as refining techniques, details, taboos, etc."

"If I want to deduce the real pill recipe in the future, I will inevitably spend a huge amount of achievement points."

"Crossing a big level, the required achievement points will be a lot, but no matter how much, it will not exceed one hundred points. My 151 points, no matter what, should be enough!"

Muttering to himself, Luo Chen was more confident about his future cultivation path.

Cultivation is full of difficulties and obstacles.

Even if you don't encounter strong enemies, there are restrictions on the resources you need.

But under his efforts, those so-called restrictions were also solved one by one.

Cultivation techniques, elixirs, spirit lands, magic treasures...

"It's just water coming to cover with earth, soldiers coming to block with generals!"

Putting away the attribute panel, Luo Chen smiled freely, stood up, and left the seclusion cave dwelling.

"Is this the information sent back from Tianxuan?"

In the outer hall, Luo Chen held the wooden board handed over by Black King, on which was the information content written by Tianxuan herself.

The handwriting was crooked, but it vaguely showed a bit of elegance.

Tianxuan is female!

Of course, this is not the point; the point is that information.

"Five royal demon crab clans, Feiyun Stream cultivators, Ring-Necked Turtle clan... these forces gathered on Xuanyan Island, what are they going to do?"

Muttering, Luo Chen vaguely felt a pressure like a mountain rain coming.

According to what is written above, these forces can be called coming out in full force.

In the sea area near Xuanyan Island, there have been several frictions and big fights.

Even the Feiyun Stream cultivators were accidentally involved in it once, and even a Golden Core cultivator died!

If there is nothing to attract them, Luo Chen absolutely does not believe it.

"Could it be a Tier 4 spirit vein place?" Black King said carefully.

Luo Chen's brows twitched!

He knew very early on that there was a Tier 4 spirit vein in the Xuanyan Sea area.

It was on that Xuanyan Island.

Because of this spirit vein place, it also attracted countless demon races to occupy and inhabit it.

For this reason, when he chose the base camp back then, he deliberately stayed away from Xuanyan Island.

If it is said that they are fighting for the spirit land, it is not impossible.

But!

What are human cultivators participating in it for?

In the current North Sea cultivation world, they have enough to protect themselves but cannot make progress.

Not to mention opening up a war, even going out to sea to hunt demon beasts is full of dangers.

Feiyun Stream's mere seven Golden Core cultivators, getting involved in the spirit land dispute, are they crazy?

Luo Chen shook his head, excluding this possibility.

Perhaps, there is some precious treasure or opportunity inside, which attracted the demon race of the Xuanyan Sea area to fight fiercely!

Wait!

Luo Chen looked at the wooden board again, and the number of Tier 3 demon kings who fell from the five royal demon crab clans was written on it.

The more he looked, the more his heart beat.

He was still worrying about how to refine Tier 4 Black Emperor Paste in large quantities.

If he could participate in it, fish in troubled waters, and get a few Tier 3 demon crabs, wouldn't that solve this problem naturally?

Tier 3 demon crabs have huge bodies, and the Black Emperor Paste refined from them can be worth a hundred Tier 2 ones.

Come with seven or eight, no, maybe five or six.

It is enough for his cultivation needs in the late stage of Desolate Ancient!

As soon as he thought of this point, Luo Chen couldn't help it.

"This job, must be done!"

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