Chapter 596: Water and Fire Fused, Two-Yi Mutually Generated, Penghu Trembles

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Luo Chen treated Black King and Tianxuan differently.

One was free-range, the other was kept by his side.

Such differential treatment was not just because of their different forms.

It also lay in the cultivation paths of the two, which had been completely different since Tianxuan transformed into human form years ago.

Over these years, Tianxuan's cultivation progress was slower than Black King's, even though she could get Luo Chen's guidance from time to time, her realm now was only barely at the Golden Core fourth layer.

But Tianxuan had no dissatisfaction at all.

She knew very well that Black King's progress was so fast, first, because he had awakened special bloodline talents, and second, because he had swallowed too many powerful monster beasts in his early years, especially that cliff snake corpse, which allowed Black King to rush to the mid-stage third-grade peak in one breath after digesting it. And her cultivation speed, after having the "Huan Yu Secret Canon" tailored by the Master, was already considered very fast.

One could imagine that long-term cultivation of this secret canon would make her cultivation speed faster and faster, no longer like monster beasts that took hundreds or thousands of years to improve a major realm, but enough to be comparable to human cultivators.

Black King was the same, not jealous that Tianxuan could get guidance from the Master at any time.

He had his own set of cultivation methods.

Even if it was relatively rough and primitive, he felt subconsciously that this path was the most suitable for him.

Usually, the Master let him roam free.

But once he was summoned, there must be something to be ordered.

At this moment, Luo Chen said lightly, "Nothing major, just cooperate with me later."

After speaking, his gaze fell on the girl on Black King's back.

Bright eyes and white teeth, spiritual energy compelling.

Because of the water-green clothes, her skin looked like snow and frost.

"She is... Zhang Jingqing?"

Luo Chen thought for a moment and found a vague impression in his memory.

"Xiao Qing, hurry up and greet the Master!" Black King urged.

Zhang Jingqing stood up and bowed respectfully. "Xiao Qing greets the Master!"

The Zhang family on Cai Lian Island was Luo Chen's vassal, and those within it who saw Luo Chen, even if they didn't call him Master like Black King and Tianxuan, had to say "Master."

After she finished greeting, Black King said in a muffled voice, "Master, what do you think of Xiao Qing?"

Luo Chen quietly looked at Zhang Jingqing, the girl whose name was taken to curry favor with him.

Standing tall and graceful, pitiful and lovely.

In her, Luo Chen felt the passage of time.

Fourteen years old!

This also meant that he had been in the Wan Xian Society for a full fourteen years.

These fourteen years were the fastest time in his life, so fast that almost nothing major happened in his memory, so fast that a baby went from birth to becoming a Qi Refining cultivator in the blink of an eye.

In his spiritual sense perception, the girl's mid-stage Qi Refining spiritual power fluctuation, even if hidden very well, was as conspicuous as a firefly in the dark night.

This concealment method seemed to be the one he had taught Black King and Tianxuan.

It was summarized by Luo Chen from all the concealment methods he had learned in his life, and the effect was extremely good.

Even if Xiao Qing only learned the fur, she could already deceive Foundation Establishment cultivators.

And Black King being able to pass this method to Xiao Qing showed that he truly loved this child from the bottom of his heart.

Now asking him for his opinion on Zhang Jingqing?

Luo Chen smiled slightly. "Quite good."

The girl's originally nervous face revealed a joyful smile; the Qingyang Senior, whom even her father and others had to treat with caution, praised her as quite good.

However, Black King sighed regretfully after hearing it.

"Tianxuan, take Xiao Qing to the side; the movement will be a bit big later, so protect her."

Luo Chen gave an order and walked toward the depths of Penghu.

Black King followed closely, and couldn't help but say on the way, "That child has quite good aptitude, water and wood dual spiritual roots, and is born intelligent; she is a good seedling for cultivation."

Luo Chen said lightly, "I have no plans to take an apprentice."

"But what about Xu Muxian of the Flying Swallow Islands?"

"That's just a nominal disciple, not an apprentice. Besides, intelligent?"

Luo Chen shook his head slightly. Having such exquisite thoughts at such a young age was not a good thing.

The so-called "wisdom hurts" has some truth to it.

Of course, it's not that being too smart is bad; when you get older and your mind matures, being smart is definitely a good thing. But being too precocious at a young age, seeing through the ways of the world, and having too many distracting thoughts is a great hidden danger for Qi Refining cultivation, which is the foundation.

Zhang Jingqing having such changes was probably related to the Zhang family.

That Zhang Jiadi was a character who was fierce in appearance but weak in reality and had a weak personality from the first time they met. At that time, it was Wen Xiu, a fallen family cultivator, who talked eloquently in front of Luo Chen and stabilized the relationship between them and him.

Later, Zhang Jiadi gradually exposed some habits of a schemer.

Taking a name for his daughter to curry favor with Luo Chen, never offending anyone in dealing with things, and when he learned there was a chance to cling to the Zhou family of Coral Sea, he fawned over them without hesitation. For this, he married Zhou Shanshan, neglected Wen Xiu, and even began to gradually alienate the daughter he had loved the most before.

All of this, Luo Chen didn't comment on usually, but he knew it clearly in his heart.

Because he was also such a person before.

It's just that, under the means of scheming, he had things he would do and things he wouldn't.

Back then, when Mi Shuhua secretly conveyed the intention of marriage through Sikong Shoujia, Luo Chen refused without hesitation.

Because he knew very well that so-called marriage and so-called Daoist companion relationships couldn't completely bind a person or a force, but this was a stance!

Once a stance was taken, dealing with things later would be constrained everywhere.

Now Zhang Jiadi is clearly Luo Chen's vassal, but he has the status of the Zhou family's son-in-law of Coral Sea.

It's fine if Luo Chen and the Zhou family's interests are consistent now, but what should the Zhang family do if there is a conflict in the future?

Luo Chen didn't care about the small actions of his subordinates; anyway, they were still useful now, and he could borrow Zhang Jiadi's hand to shear the wool of the Zhou family of Coral Sea.

If they truly had ulterior motives in the future, he could use thunderous means to carry out the matter of deposition.

From this point of view, the mother and daughter Wen Xiu gradually moving away from the core of the Zhang family's high-level was actually a good thing.

"Heh, I've thought a bit far."

Luo Chen laughed lightly and stopped his footsteps in a water area blocked by islands.

The place was not big, totaling only a hundred miles or so.

"Master, what do I need to do?"

"Very simple, use your innate monster art to gather the surrounding water vapor and become my array eye!"

Black King was a bit confused.

But under Luo Chen's command, he still performed the so-called "innate monster art" meticulously.

As he opened his bloody mouth, monster aura surged out of his body.

The water vapor within a radius of dozens of miles began to gather toward him crazily.

Luo Chen watched this scene, feeling the increasingly powerful momentum, and a look of amazement flashed in his eyes.

This Jiao Dragon's swallowing monster art was truly a bit powerful.

If he were allowed to stack it up, I'm afraid the range of influence would spread to a hundred miles away.

Probably, this was also the reason why mid-stage Golden Core cultivators were somewhat vulnerable in front of Black King!

"Master, I'm reaching my limit."

In Luo Chen's quiet waiting, Black King gradually became a bit strained.

And this water area was already stormy, with strong winds, as if it were the end of the world.

Luo Chen nodded slightly, then took a deep breath, and his Daoist robe bulged without wind.

He pushed his palm horizontally with one hand, and a domineering fire-attribute magic power surged out, its intensity roughly equivalent to what Black King had released now.

One water and one fire, gathered together at the last moment, suddenly erupted with terrifying collision.

Unparalleled power exploded frequently in the void.

Black King's monster power was not as good as Luo Chen's Heavenly Phoenix magic power cultivated over many years.

However, in the previous stacking, it had reached its strongest point, so it could barely be equivalent to Luo Chen, and this was still under Luo Chen's intentional restraint.

Now, the two energy forces of water and fire began to collide crazily, and destructive power constantly dissipated in all directions.

Some islands were annihilated silently.

Some waves evaporated as soon as they bloomed to the extreme.

Even Black King had a look of horror in his eyes; he vaguely couldn't control his power.

"Master, what did Old Black do wrong? Are you going to kill me?"

Luo Chen didn't say a word, just watching the place where water and fire collided.

Suddenly.

His empty right hand mobilized another strand of magic power, frequently sketching in the void.

Strands of array patterns began to emerge in heaven and earth.

Not only that, he also adjusted Black King's uncontrollable monster power at the last moment, following the mental connection between the Master and the spirit pet.

Under his adjustment, the collision of water and fire began to slow down, replaced by the meaning of fusion.

Luo Chen seized that sudden meaning of fusion, and the array patterns were sketched more and more urgently.

Just as Black King was exhausted, Luo Chen's eyes suddenly lit up.

"Yes, just like this!"

The next moment, he pushed his palms horizontally, completely fusing water and fire together.

A Yin-Yang fish, half black and half red, appeared in the void.

The moment the Yin-Yang fish appeared, an invisible energy fluctuation spread from Black King and Luo Chen, covering a hundred miles in an instant, and constantly spreading outward.

One hundred miles, two hundred miles, three hundred miles...

The eight-hundred-mile Penghu trembled in unison at this moment.

The spiritual energy of heaven and earth became violent, and the immeasurable lake water boiled and flew, and the terrifying water vapor surged toward Black King.

There was also the fire-attribute spiritual energy wandering between heaven and earth gathering toward Luo Chen, but that amount was too small.

But Luo Chen didn't care in the short term; his magic power was still above Black King's, even if Black King had the blessing of the terrain, he could still continue to release magic power to maintain this array.

"Two-Yi Array, so it's like this!"

Luo Chen's eyes became brighter and brighter, and his understanding of the Two-Yi array became deeper and deeper.

On the attribute panel, the Two-Yi array, which was stuck at the perfect level, broke through to the master level silently at this moment.

Black King, as one of the two major array eyes of this array, naturally sensed the changes in heaven and earth.

When the array was born, he felt he could do it again!

The state of being exhausted was blessed by the spiritual energy of heaven and earth from the outside world, as if it were endless.

It's just that the power was too terrifying, and for a while, he was also uneasy in his heart.

He hoped the Master would stop this array quickly, but also hoped it would continue.

Luo Chen's eyes had already widened to the extreme at this moment, crazily capturing the changes between heaven and earth.

Because of the fusion of water and fire, a more extreme force was born, and this force led to the gathering of water and fire spiritual energy between heaven and earth.

It was the reason for the array!

It was also the reason for that more high-end force!

And the gathering of this specific spiritual energy formed an array, and also formed a special field.

That feeling, just like...

"Nascent Soul Domain!"

Just when this thought flashed in his mind, the Two-Yi array could no longer be maintained.

With a bang.

The Black King flew backward for several miles, crashing into a small, uninhabited island and snapping one of its mountain peaks clean in two.

Luo Chen didn't care, just stood in the sky, closing his eyes and savoring the special experience before.

Originally tonight, he was just practicing the Two-Yi array of water and fire fusion with Black King, but he didn't expect to have extra insights.

He captured that trace of inspiration.

From this, he constantly fantasized.

On the Qu Yang sea area, the black domain arranged by the white-clothed cultivator with the Ten Thousand Soul Banner.

On the Heavenly Drum Plain, the collision of the Nascent Soul domains of Han Zhan and the Wolf Emperor Ao Xiao, the former was not enough, so he forcibly contended with the Two-Yi Five-Element Sword Array.

Gradually, a hypothesis emerged in his mind.

"Can I use arrays, treasures, and even other forces to forcibly arrange a domain similar to Nascent Soul cultivators in the Golden Core stage?"

On the way back.

Looking at Black King's bruised body, Luo Chen felt a bit apologetic.

"Apologies, when the array went out of control at the end, you were injured."

Black King grinned. "It's okay, Old Black has thick skin and flesh, just some minor external injuries."

Luo Chen smiled. "After going back, I still have some third-grade Black Emperor Paste left; you can take it and try!"

Black King's eyes lit up instantly.

Black Emperor Paste, that was the Master's body refining secret medicine.

And they, the monster race, even if they took the path of transformation, tempering the physique was also the top priority.

If he got the Black Emperor Paste...

After the ecstasy, it cooled down suddenly.

The Master's remaining Black Emperor Paste shouldn't be much, just one or two bottles, which was a drop in the bucket for his huge body.

Thinking of this, Black King hesitated.

"Master, can I not have the Black Emperor Paste?"

"Oh, then what do you want?"

"Can the Master personally take action to refine a magic treasure for me?"

"Magic treasure, didn't I bestow upon you the two flying knives, Yin Slaughter and Yang Absolute? Those are a set of middle-grade magic treasures with extremely strong lethality."

"Uh, it's not for my own use. I want to ask the Master to use this thing as a raw material to refine a magic treasure and give it to that child Xiao Qing."

Luo Chen looked at the skin scroll Black King spat out from his mouth.

It looked like a meat membrane, and also like a skin silk.

On it, he felt the rich aura of the cliff snake.

"This is the skin membrane on the cliff snake corpse that I didn't digest, extremely tough. If this is used as a raw material, perhaps it can result in a good defensive item." Black King said the origin of this thing, his eyes rarely revealing a look of softness. "That child Xiao Qing is a bit pitiful."

"You, a snake python rolling in the mud, are pitying a family young lady who grew up in silk and satin."

Luo Chen sneered.

Black King was stunned for a moment.

"Give it to me. She is still young and her realm is not enough; we'll talk after she reaches Foundation Establishment."

Luo Chen took the cliff snake skin membrane, but no longer mentioned the reward of Black Emperor Paste.

After the two left that water area, Tianxuan brought Zhang Jingqing to greet them hurriedly.

"Congratulations Master, congratulations Master for the great success of the array!"

Luo Chen gave a hum, his gaze sweeping over the low-hanging night sky.

The movement just now seemed a bit big.

He truly didn't expect that the Two-Yi array, with the blessing of two array eyes comparable to late-stage Golden Core cultivators, could erupt with such power.

However, this also made him more convinced that with the Two-Yi array as the core, combining six third-grade defensive arrays and arranging them on the Monster Emperor's remains, its defensive power would surely be incomparably terrifying!

For a time, he even couldn't help but want to engrave the array on the treasure embryo on the spot.

But after the excitement, he suppressed the restlessness.

"Only nourished for a year, it's enough for ordinary Six Armor, but for my protective treasure, it's far from enough."

"Nourish it more, nourish it more!"

Cai Lian Island.

Where the Zhang family clan is located.

More than ten years passed, and the Zhang family's population was indeed quite prosperous.

Apart from the vassal rogue cultivators, Zhang Jiadi took in many small concubines, adding quite a few people to him.

However, the one he loved the most in his heart was still the son born to Zhou Shanshan.

On this full moon reunion, Zhang Jiadi was surrounded by beauties and children, very harmonious.

When that terrifying spiritual energy fluctuation swept through the eight-hundred-mile Penghu, he woke up suddenly.

"What is this?"

A young woman holding a little boy also stood up in horror.

"This feeling is exactly like the Nascent Soul domain unfolded when my Zhou family ancestor suppressed the third-grade perfect Great King Squid!"

As soon as these words came out, the couple couldn't help but look at each other.

In Penghu today, there was only one person who could cause such a movement!

Zhang Jiadi revealed a look of awe, dispersed the concubines, and only kept Zhou Shanshan.

"The power of Qingyang Senior, you have also seen it; this is just the tip of the iceberg. You should give up the plan to seek this eight-hundred-mile Penghu for your clan brother as soon as possible!"

Zhou Shanshan was a bit unwilling. "He is just a rogue cultivator..."

"What if he is a rogue cultivator? Your Zhou family ancestor still has to rely on him to refine defensive magic treasures for you; do you still dare to have designs on the Master?"

Zhou Shanshan was speechless.

Zhang Jiadi shook his head. "Since you have entered my Zhang family door, you are a Zhang family person in the future. My Zhang family is Qingyang Senior's vassal, so you should be respectful to him in the future!"

The woman recognized it in her heart, but she didn't forgive him in her mouth.

"If you have the ability, don't use the spirit pills of my Zhou family."

Zhang Jiadi laughed and hugged the woman's plump body again.

"It's all family affairs, what's the distinction between Zhang family and Zhou family? Madam, you are too distant!"

And on the lonely island of Penghu, Han Zhan walked out of the cave dwelling.

Looking at the direction where the spiritual energy anomaly erupted before, the Nascent Soul little person revealed a look of approval.

"The Two-Yi array can greatly improve the upper limit of power. My Two-Yi Five-Element Sword Array is like this, and the Two-Yi Six-Armor Array that Luo Chen will arrange in the future is also like this."

"If I restore my peak state, attacking with the sword array and defending with the armor array, I might be able to climb to a new peak!"

"For now, let Luo Chen explore the path for me first!"

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 597 =====