Chapter 584

Longevity: 146 / Spiritual Root: Metal, Wood, Water, Fire, Earth

Realm: Golden Core 5th Layer 30/100, Desolate Ancient 3rd Tier 75/ Cultivation Method: Heavenly Phoenix Nirvana Scripture Proficient 201/300, Ten Thousand Daos Convergence Great Perfection, Ten Thousand Beasts Scripture Perfect 375/ Spells: 4th Tier: Dragon-Slaying Art Great Perfection, Primordial Elixir Art Perfect 375/ 3rd Tier: Blazing Heaven Seven-Fold Ring Grandmaster 700/1000, Life-Severing Finger Entry-level 15/ Martial Arts: Sky-Exploding Step Grandmaster 575/ Great Perfection Spells (Click to view details)

The simplified attribute panel appeared before his eyes once again after many years.

Even with Luo Chen's long-maintained state of mind, which was as calm as an ancient well, ripples could not help but stir at this moment.

After settling into Penghu, it took only two years, with all configurations maximized in every aspect, to leap directly from the Golden Core 4th Layer, which was halfway through its progress, to the Golden Core 5th Layer. Furthermore, over the following three years, his cultivation speed had not slowed down in the slightest, surging to thirty percent at a rate of ten progress points per year.

It was only six or seven years away from the Golden Core 6th Layer.

Such extreme speed could be considered shocking even across the entire Mountain-Sea Realm.

But Luo Chen knew that this was actually his normal cultivation speed!

Being comparable to a Heavenly Spiritual Root was not just something said in jest.

According to rumors, cultivators with Heavenly Spiritual Roots achieve Foundation Establishment in ten years, Core Formation in a hundred years, and Nascent Soul in two hundred years; the further they progress in cultivation, the faster they go, with almost no bottlenecks to speak of.

Behind such exaggerated rumors lay a series of hidden conditions unknown to outsiders.

Cultivation methods, spiritual land, guidance from famous teachers, corresponding auxiliary resources, and so on.

Previously, Luo Chen had the reputation of having a cultivation speed comparable to a Heavenly Spiritual Root, but his actual cultivation speed was only about the same as a normal Dual Spiritual Root cultivator.

The biggest limiting factor was the spiritual land.

The eight-hundred-mile Penghu, with its gathered veins and upgraded quality, had resolved this limitation.

Therefore, his Daoist practice could surge forward!

Of course, during this process, the assistance of a large quantity of elixirs and the improvement in the proficiency of his natal cultivation method also played a very important role.

Especially the latter!

"The 'Heavenly Phoenix Nirvana Scripture' is truly incomparably miraculous. Not only has it improved my spiritual root aptitude, but the magic power cultivated is also so pure, almost devoid of impurities, saving me from so much useless effort in refining and purifying."

Amidst his reflections, Luo Chen could not help but wonder about the origin of this cultivation method.

Could it really be a cultivation method for human form after the Phoenix clan transforms?

Otherwise, it would be hard to have such magical effects.

This was only the Golden Core chapter; what kind of divine arts and Daoist principles that seize the creation of heaven and earth were recorded in the subsequent Nascent Soul chapter, Soul Transformation chapter, and even the complete volume?

Shaking his head, Luo Chen stopped thinking about it in detail.

His attention fell on the progress of his physique.

Desolate Ancient 3rd Tier 75/ As his self-created "Ten Thousand Daos Convergence" reached Great Perfection, his efficiency in body refining also reached its peak, especially with the assistance of the Black Emperor Paste, a spiritual medicine for puppet body refining.

Wandering and rushing about all these years, his immortal cultivation speed had fallen behind somewhat, but his body refining progress had almost never stagnated.

In one go, it reached the seventy-five progress bar; it seemed to be only one step away from the 4th Tier.

But this one step was clearly not so easy to cross.

Luo Chen had already vaguely felt that the ordinary 3rd Tier Black Emperor Paste no longer had any effect on him.

Even if consumed in large quantities, the progress growth was like a turtle crawling.

However, this was not a big problem.

Inside Luo Chen's storage ring, there was still a large batch of 4th Tier Black Emperor Paste!

That was the 4th Tier Black Emperor Paste refined from the carapaces of more than a dozen 3rd Tier Demon Crab Kings he had hunted back and forth over the years.

With the help of this batch of spiritual medicine, as long as he cultivated with perseverance, achieving a 4th Tier Desolate Ancient physique was just around the corner!

His gaze slid down, and Luo Chen fell into deep thought as he looked at the "scant" spell column.

"The Great Perfection Dragon-Slaying Art..."

Muttering to himself, he raised his finger, pointing it like a sword, intending to slash down.

But in the end, he suppressed this impulse.

Some spells, after reaching Great Perfection, would give birth to additional special effects.

Either it was achieved by exhausting the limits of human effort, or the spell's potential was not yet exhausted, and there were still superior substitute techniques.

Like the Fireball Art he learned first, in a situation where it could not be improved further, it naturally gained a "fusion" effect, becoming the so-called "Blazing Sun Art."

Over the years, Luo Chen had learned countless spells of all grades.

But those that could gain special effects were few and far between.

A more recent one was the illusion technique "Mirror Flower, Water Moon."

Yet he did not expect that this "Dragon-Slaying Art," specifically requested to remove the foreign magic power for Chu Kui, would have an unexpected joy after reaching Great Perfection.

Investigating carefully, the Great Perfection of the Dragon-Slaying Art was counted from the time he traveled from the Langya to Whale Port.

And the opportunity that made it perfect was resolving the bad luck on the Soul-Nourishing Wood for Han Zhan.

That bad luck was not some simple aura.

It was left behind by a top powerhouse of this realm.

To clear such foreign objects, with Luo Chen's Grandmaster-level Dragon-Slaying Art at the time, it was like the Foolish Old Man moving mountains, quite difficult.

But after success, without Han Zhan knowing, Luo Chen gained two benefits.

The first was an improvement in illusion techniques!

Luo Chen's heart stirred, and in his deep eyes, various visions seemed to be born, finally manifesting a terrifying scene of ghostly shadows and dense, gloomy buildings.

He integrated the terrifying illusion triggered by the bad luck rushing into his sea of consciousness into "Mirror Flower, Water Moon."

It was precisely by relying on this move that he was able to make the famous true disciple of the Soul-Refining lineage of the Yuan Demon Sect fall into the trap.

At that time, the optimization of this technique was still in the experimental stage.

Cultivating in secret over these years, the power of "Mirror Flower, Water Moon" had become increasingly unfathomable.

Luo Chen was already confident that once this move was unleashed, even Golden Core late-stage cultivators would find it difficult to resist.

The second harvest was something Han Zhan did not know either.

That was the mutation after the Dragon-Slaying Art reached perfection.

Slaying dragons, slaying energy, and even more, slaying the spirit!

"That bad luck was not just an aura, but the residual power of a powerhouse's primordial spirit! I repeatedly slashed away the bad luck, and unknowingly, I made the perfected Dragon-Slaying Art gain this effect of severing the influence of the primordial spirit."

Although there was this harvest, it was a bit of a chicken rib.

Luo Chen could feel that the range of the Dragon-Slaying Art's spirit-slaying spell was too narrow.

It could not be unleashed outside the body at all, and could only be performed on his own body and within his sea of consciousness.

It was likely because his realm was not high enough, or perhaps it was related to the fact that the illusion caused by the bad luck back then only appeared in the sea of consciousness.

But in any case, this was indeed an unexpected joy.

Who knows when it might have an unexpected effect?

Luo Chen took a deep breath and looked at the cultivation progress of the Primordial Elixir Art, a faint smile appearing on his face.

After all, he had cultivated this 4th Tier secret technique of the Luoyun Sect without relying on the system!

That grain of Dust-Hiding Sand had now transformed into a Primordial Elixir, entrenched in his sea of energy.

Not only would it automatically inhale and exhale the spiritual energy of heaven and earth from the outside world as he operated his natal cultivation method, but it would also accumulate a large amount of pure magic power within it, in preparation for emergencies.

It could be said that Luo Chen's current magic power was already more than double what it was before.

His own magic power was already stronger than cultivators of the same realm, not only high in quality but also large in quantity.

Now, having doubled out of thin air, its vastness was no less than that of an ordinary late-stage Golden Core Great Cultivator.

With more magic power, there would naturally be benefits.

Luo Chen could feel that whether he was controlling magic treasures or unleashing large-scale lethal spells, he could do so with ease.

He would no longer be in the embarrassing situation of having little magic power left after a fierce battle, like a clever housewife unable to cook without rice.

And clearly, Luo Chen's harvest over these years did not stop there.

Spreading his palm, a wisp of deep cyan flame with a greenish hue rose up.

Wither-Prosper True Fire!

Observing its quality, it was even better than before.

The change within was not obtained through cultivation.

Rather, it was caused by devouring.

In the battle at the Qu Yang defense line, he reversed the Cyan Fire Bead released by the white-clothed cultivator and harvested a large amount of high-quality Cyan Yang Demon Fire.

This trophy, until he returned to the Long Yuan Immortal City, the Fishing Old Man had not mentioned a word about it.

After settling into Penghu, in his spare time, Luo Chen also studied this demon fire, which was said to be artificially manufactured using the essence and blood of living beings.

The final conclusion was that it was inferior to his Wither-Prosper True Fire.

Having this object in hand was quite like a chicken rib.

However, once, when Luo Chen was casting, on a whim, he tried to refine the Cyan Yang Demon Fire with his Wither-Prosper True Fire, and it was actually refined.

At that time, his idea was very simple: since it was a demon fire refined from the essence and blood of living beings, and his Wither-Prosper True Fire could burn living beings and extract vitality, could it also burn fire with fire?

Unexpectedly, the final outcome was far beyond his expectations.

That Cyan Fire Bead was completely devoured by his Wither-Prosper True Fire.

This also made Luo Chen's original true fire increasingly powerful.

Not only in terms of unleashing fire-type spells, but even in alchemy and casting, there was a great improvement.

His heart stirred.

The attribute panel unfolded again.

Profession Chapter

2nd Tier Caster

Casting Techniques: Iron Smelting Art Great Perfection, Quenching Art Great Perfection, Hundred-Forging Method Great Perfection, Flowing Fire Hammer Method Grandmaster Level 678/1000, Iron Refining Hand Perfect 400/500, Gold-Cutting Art Perfect 366/500, Snow-Blowing Method Entry-level 79/ Magic Tools: Low-grade Magic Tool Cyan Fire Sword, Mid-grade Magic Tool Peerless Ring, Jade Mother-Child Blade, High-grade Magic Tool Nine-Dragon True Fire Cover, Meteor Fire Ring, Flame Dragon Whip

Magic Treasures: Not yet entered

Looking at this professional panel, Luo Chen felt dazed, as if he had returned to the time when he first saw the alchemy attribute panel.

It was just that this time, it had been replaced by the casting chapter.

Although the two skills were not very related, all changes remained the same in essence, and they were much the same in form.

Just like alchemists need to master basic alchemy, and physicians who save lives need to master medicine, casters actually have some unique little tricks.

And the many casting techniques Luo Chen mastered had somewhat mixed origins.

There were the three-hundred-year evolution techniques of the Duan family from the East Wasteland, and also the common basic casting techniques circulating in Tianfan City.

Even, among them, there was no lack of basic casting techniques from the Green Elixir Valley, and low-tier puppet refining methods from the Luoyun Sect.

Besides these, among these casting techniques, the high-end ones came from the Refining Peak Pavilion and the Hundred-Creation Mountain on Cold Light Island in the North Sea cultivation world!

He harvested the storage bags of the second brother of the Wu brothers from the Refining Peak Pavilion, as well as the storage bags of the burly man and the old woman from the Hundred-Creation Mountain.

From their legacies, he didn't see many corresponding cultivation method secret books, but he collected a whole pile of classics related to casting.

This was easy to understand.

High-tier cultivators had long since memorized their natal cultivation methods by heart; unless they hadn't started cultivating yet, or had specifically recorded them to pass on to their descendants, they mostly wouldn't carry them around.

But books related to skills were often carried on their persons.

Reading often and learning new things was one aspect; on the other hand, high-tier cultivators had plenty of time and often practiced some skills, needing to study them constantly.

Thus, it finally benefited Luo Chen.

It could be said that in just a few years, Luo Chen's casting art had advanced by leaps and bounds, vaguely earning him the title of Casting Master Qing Yangzi among Qi Refining and Foundation Establishment rogue cultivators, all thanks to these legacies.

Even Han Zhan hadn't made much of a contribution to this.

By integrating the basic casting techniques of the East Wasteland and North Sea cultivation worlds, combining them with some magic tool and magic treasure refining blueprints, and adding years of persistent array cultivation, Luo Chen was able to maintain high output and high quality in casting.

But Luo Chen knew very well.

Just relying on his current attainments to refine the Demon Emperor's remains would be wishful thinking.

Failure, he was not afraid of.

What he was afraid of was wasting that "Mysterious Rock Armor."

"Still need to settle down!"

Luo Chen sighed and put away the attribute panel.

As for the alchemy chapter, physician chapter, and array chapter, he didn't look at them much.

For the first two, he hadn't spent much effort over these years; apart from becoming more solid, there was no progress.

For the latter array chapter, he checked it at any time, and the situation within was already well known to him.

Even the several high-tier arrays needed to refine the Mysterious Rock Armor, he had already started to study.

At the end of closing the attribute panel, Luo Chen glanced at the number of achievement points.

An unprecedentedly huge number of achievement points!

Regarding this, Luo Chen just smiled knowingly.

With his current vision, intelligence, realm, and cultivation, he could already enter the basics of ordinary cultivation methods and secret techniques without needing achievement points.

Unless it was those cultivation methods and secret techniques that didn't belong to his realm at all, or high-tier elixir formulas, he wouldn't need this huge sum of achievement points.

"Keep them, the more the better."

With a light chuckle, Luo Chen turned and entered the main hall where he lived for cultivation.

Unlike the simple and quiet cave dwelling that ordinary people imagined, the main hall where Luo Chen was located was unusually gorgeous.

Looking closely at the stars in the sky above his head, they were bright pearls, all five elements present.

Stepping on clean white mysterious jade, it seemed as if jade smoke was rising.

Huge beams made of thousand-year-old ancient wood supported the sky and the earth, running through the entire main hall.

Wisps of golden patterns spread from the jade, beams, ceiling, and pearls, forming special array patterns.

Not only that, in the main hall, there were also screens, meditation cushions, bonsai, rockeries with flowing water, and so on.

Such gorgeousness had both the grand atmosphere of the secular imperial family and the magnificent wonder of the immortal family, making people dazed and unable to control themselves upon entering.

It was not that Luo Chen was greedy for enjoyment.

In fact, this arrangement had other mysteries!

For this main hall, Luo Chen invested a full million spirit stones.

The spread of those array patterns was not just in this Star Dou Hall, but also spread throughout the eight-hundred-mile Penghu.

At this moment, if someone's spiritual sense covered the entire Penghu, they could see that in more than 3,600 corners of Penghu, large and small, there were array flags inserted.

This was the Great Array for Gathering Veins and Upgrading Quality that Han Zhan had set up for him.

The methods of the Luoyun Sect were even more secret techniques of the Mingyuan Sect!

Thus, the 3rd Tier High-grade spiritual land of this Star Dou Hall on Penghu Island was forged!

To assist Luo Chen in full-speed cultivation!

As soon as he entered, Luo Chen took off his high crown, removed the jade hairpin binding his hair, and took off the white robe on his body.

He let his long black hair drape behind him.

Lighting a stick of sandalwood that clears the mind and concentrates the spirit, he sat cross-legged on the golden meditation cushion leisurely.

First, he applied black ointment to his body, then held a high-grade True Flame Elixir in his mouth, and operated his natal cultivation method.

A large amount of spiritual energy of heaven and earth, at a speed visible to the naked eye, began to gather from the eight-hundred-mile Penghu toward the Star Dou Hall, finally turning into a white gas dragon, which was swallowed by Luo Chen like a whale.

If it weren't for the concealment of the array, this scene would definitely cause a commotion.

Ordinary Foundation Establishment cultivators forming a core would be just like this.

Luo Chen's heart was as calm as an ancient well, as if the pain brought by the Black Emperor Paste did not exist.

Thousands of alchemy sessions, hundreds of casting sessions, were all external objects. Only cultivation was the essence.

This kind of high-quality spiritual land was the only one of two he had possessed in his hundred years of cultivation.

He didn't want to waste a single day.

And within the mountain gullies of the Fulong Mountain Range, on a mountain peak towering into the clouds.

A gorgeous cloud carriage pierced through the clouds and mist, slowly landing on the mountaintop.

The Cave Master of Mo Yun stepped out of the cloud carriage, and before he could accept the respectful welcome of the disciples, his brows could not help but wrinkle.

"Still haven't left?"

The next moment, a man stepping on woven gold cloud shoes and wearing a purple Daoist robe strolled out from the clouds and mist.

His eyes were bright and piercing, and the clear essence light was soul-stirring.

Seeing the Cave Master of Mo Yun, he bowed with both hands.

"Fellow Daoist Mo Yun, on this trip to Penghu, did you see the master of that eight-hundred-mile Penghu?"

(End of chapter)