Chapter 598

Blackie set off.

Three days after meeting Luo Chen, he quietly departed with the map Luo Chen had drawn for him.

His destination: Purple Spirit Island in the depths of the demon sea.

Because Luo Chen needed to sort out the arrays and nurture the magic treasure, he could not spare himself for a short time, but he did not want this matter to be delayed, so he could only have someone else make the trip for him.

Logically speaking, Seeing Tianxuan would have been more suitable.

She had a human form, was of avian origin, and after practicing the Nine Myriad Miles technique, her escape speed was even faster.

However, in the vast sea area, powerful demon beasts were countless, and dangers were everywhere. By comparison, escape speed was not as reliable as absolute strength.

Blackie was now infinitely approaching the late stage of the third rank, and with his innate demon arts plus the two middle-grade magic treasure flying knives bestowed by Luo Chen, his combat power was extremely strong.

He was qualified to walk in the depths of the demon sea!

Moreover, Seeing Tianxuan had been handling trivial matters for Luo Chen these years, often dealing with the Zhang family and the Myriad Immortals Society; if she were to leave, Luo Chen would have to handle things himself if any issues arose, which would be extremely troublesome.

After a short consideration, Luo Chen made the decision to let Blackie go to Purple Spirit Island to scout for the Purple Monkey Flower.

Purple Monkey Flower, one of the three major fourth-rank main ingredients for the Core Formation Pill!

Nowadays, it was not well-known in the cultivation world.

But in ancient times, it was a rather famous type of poisonous flower.

The floral fragrance emitted from where it grew could confuse the souls of living beings, and it even fed on living beings!

And this poisonous flower most liked to confuse ape-like demon beasts with half-opened spiritual intelligence, both "farming" such beasts as food and letting them act as bodyguards to prevent other powerful demon beasts from picking and swallowing it.

Regarding this type of spiritual medicine, human cultivators, after suffering many losses, gradually discovered its uses.

Using this flower for medicine, refining incense, or even practicing poison arts all had great benefits.

Unfortunately, after the ancient human-demon war, the traces of the Purple Monkey Flower became increasingly scarce.

Later generations would never associate it with the main ingredient of the Core Formation Pill.

The Core Formation Pill recipe from the Green Elixir Valley came from Han Zhan.

And Han Zhan's experience in obtaining this pill recipe stemmed from the meditation cave of an ancient cultivator.

Since taking the Soul-Nurturing Wood from Han Zhan at Cold Light Island, Luo Chen had obtained the complete Core Formation Pill recipe from him.

Previously, he had thought about relying on large-scale trial and error, as well as system assistance, to deduce the complete pill recipe, but he had not expected the result to be this convenient.

After obtaining the pill recipe, Luo Chen naturally could not leave it idle.

Even though he had been quite busy all these years, he would always squeeze out a little time to study the pill recipe.

In his view, this Core Formation Pill recipe was indeed of ancient style.

Many auxiliary materials had characteristics that relied on quantity to win.

The three major main ingredients—Divine Shen Yuanwei Tail for body protection, Five Elements Lotus Platform for guiding Qi, and Purple Monkey Flower for leading the spirit—perfectly matched the essence of the Core Formation method Luo Chen had comprehended.

Essence, Qi, and Spirit—the three treasures combined.

Judging from this simple and direct pill recipe style, which was domineering and straightforward and had high requirements for the user's foundation, Luo Chen was very satisfied.

He himself had an extraordinary foundation, one that could even be called terrifying.

If it were other Core Formation Pills, he might have had doubts, but he decided to refine this pill recipe without the slightest hesitation.

Cultivators in the world all took seeking the Dao, ascending, and achieving longevity as their ultimate goal.

To reach this goal, there were thousands upon thousands of paths.

In fact, from the very beginning of Qi Refining, they would constantly diverge.

Various spiritual roots, various constitutions, numerous attributes, and numerous races.

There were countless Foundation Establishment spiritual medicines, Core Formation methods were categorized, and Nascent Soul methods were still strange and varied according to the individual.

And the Core Formation Pill refined by this pill recipe was undoubtedly the one most compatible with Luo Chen, and he did not need to waste effort searching for other auxiliary resources for Core Formation.

Over these years, Luo Chen had intermittently collected all the auxiliary materials needed for the Core Formation Pill; now, only the three major main ingredients were missing.

"I have one Divine Shen Yuanwei Tail. Although the quantity is not enough, through the Demon Hunting Division's intelligence system, I found that Divine Shen Yuanwei Tail is often traded in the Li Canghai Alliance. After all, the territory occupied by the Li Canghai Alliance is the most essential area in the North Sea, excluding the Northern Extreme Night Demon Heaven, and it also has the largest number of Nascent Soul cultivators."

"After my cultivation achieves success, the Li Canghai Alliance will inevitably have to be visited, regardless of whether I go myself or send someone."

"Now that I have obtained news of the Purple Monkey Flower..."

Luo Chen's eyes revealed a look of hope.

According to the records in the miscellaneous books, that Purple Spirit Island was entirely shrouded in purple poisonous miasma, and such a scale must mean a large amount of Purple Monkey Flower grew there.

If he could control this island, Luo Chen would not need to worry about the share of Purple Monkey Flower.

"I hope Blackie can bring me good news!"

Luo Chen muttered, though he did not have much confidence in his heart.

So many years had passed, and the North Sea had experienced so many major events in these years, among which there were even earth-shattering battles like the demon coalition attacking the Yuanmo Sect; who knew if that Purple Spirit Island still existed?

Letting Blackie make a trip could both scout the path for him in advance and avoid some potential "dangers."

"It is a pity that the only thing is the Five Elements Lotus Platform; there has been no relevant news for so many years. Even the books from before ancient times have very little content recorded about it."

"The occasional mention is just a single sentence: 'Attribute of the five Qi, essence of the five elements'."

With hope in his eyes, Luo Chen could not help but feel a bit despondent.

The current him, although claiming to possess the cultivation speed of a Heaven Spiritual Root, was not a true Heaven Spiritual Root.

It was rumored that Heaven Spiritual Root cultivators had almost no obstacles when advancing to the Nascent Soul stage, only needing to consider the tribulation crossing.

He, however, could not.

Therefore, he had to consider external assistance.

His searching for medicine all these years was to supplement external assistance.

As for the tribulation crossing?

Luo Chen's gaze fell on the gray cauldron before him, his spiritual eyes seemingly piercing through the cauldron body to look at the existence within.

"The Hunyuan Cauldron and the Yu Xuan Chen Armor are the preparations I have made for the tribulation crossing!"

The former was beyond doubt; as his natal magic treasure, it was destined to stand alone in the Nascent Soul tribulation.

And this Yu Xuan Chen Armor was the name Luo Chen had chosen for the defensive magic treasure inside the cauldron.

Its name was derived from taking one character each from the former owner, Demon Emperor Xuanyan, and Luo Chen's own name.

Simple and clear.

Although Luo Chen boasted of a powerful physique, he did not dare to use his body to hard-resist the tribulation lightning.

When the time came, the Hunyuan Cauldron would be at the front, and the Yu Xuan Chen Armor would have to play the role of protecting his body.

With both working together, perhaps he could survive the Nascent Soul tribulation.

"Perhaps..."

Luo Chen sighed, re-mobilizing his spiritual sense and magic power to cast various restrictions onto the Yu Xuan Chen Armor inside the Hunyuan Cauldron.

It had to be said that this weapon refining had too many twists and turns.

If one were to use giving birth as a metaphor, obtaining the Demon Emperor's remains was like getting a spouse, and frantically practicing weapon refining techniques afterward was like preparing for pregnancy; the special effects of the Hunyuan Cauldron almost made Luo Chen hit the mark on the first try.

But after finally getting pregnant with the treasure fetus, it was now having a difficult labor at the final step!

What Luo Chen was doing now was like a difficult birth requiring a forced cesarean section.

The basic restrictions he cast from time to time were no different from a sharp scalpel.

Fortunately, thanks to practicing arrays all these years, Luo Chen had gradually filled in his previous shortcomings in restrictions.

From only understanding the obscure restrictions at the beginning, to becoming proficient in them, and then turning to involve himself in other basic restrictions.

Mountain, water, wind, cloud, obscure, bright, void...

Unknowingly, he had already mastered the basic restrictions required for arrays solidly.

Even the void restriction, which was the hardest for ordinary array masters to master, he had managed to grope his way to a bit by peeking at the space restrictions Qing Shuang Demon Emperor had set in the Hunyuan Cauldron.

Luo Chen even had the confidence that if he were given materials related to storage bags, he could try to refine low-rank storage bags.

Just as Luo Chen was waiting for the magic treasure to be born, Blackie, after spending more than half a year, finally arrived at his destination.

In a dead sea area, the waves were not rising, and the sea breeze was not strong.

A single horn slowly emerged from under the water, finally revealing a pair of huge pupils.

He looked up at the island in the sea area that was shrouded in purple poisonous miasma, his eyes revealing a look of wariness.

"Is this Purple Spirit Island?"

"It took this demon such a long time, and I had to fight several battles, to finally arrive."

"Looking at it, apart from being a bit mysterious, there's nothing special about it!"

Blackie muttered, but his subsequent movements were not that reckless.

His throat surged, and he spat out an object from his stomach pouch.

Looking through the looming sharp teeth, it was clearly a red medicinal pill.

He bit the pill to pieces in one go.

Immediately, a spicy taste spread along his digestive tract and surged throughout his body.

"I am naturally immune to all poisons, and I have the detoxifying pill refined by the master himself to protect my body, so this purple poisonous miasma should have no threat to me."

With a chuckle, Blackie shrank his body and swam toward the island covered by the poisonous miasma.

Three days later.

A roar of anger came from Purple Spirit Island.

The poisonous miasma that had accumulated for many years surged and rolled in the aftermath of the dragon roar, sweeping toward the west and all directions.

At the same time, a huge figure soared into the sky from Purple Spirit Island, with black and white colors surrounding his body, occasionally slashing out huge blade lights dozens of feet long at the figure behind him.

The dragon looked a bit listless, stumbling as he plunged into the depths of the sea and fled toward the distance without hesitation.

And behind him came the sound of thunderous running.

Before long, more than a dozen purple figures rushed out from the poisonous miasma in the forest, each filled with huge purple demon Qi.

They roared angrily, chasing after him.

But when they reached the coast, they could only stop and roar impotently at the sea.

Inside the Alchemy and Weapon Refining Hall.

The white-robed, red-faced Daoist looked a bit thinner, but his eyes were incomparably bright.

Looking at the gray cauldron before him, he took a deep breath.

"Since coming to the Myriad Immortals Society, eighteen years have passed; even if you were an immortal artifact, it's time to be born!"

He put his hands together, then slowly pushed them out.

Huge magic power surged, and the gray cauldron began to tremble violently.

The next moment.

A spiritual light slowly floated out from the gray cauldron.

When the spiritual light dissipated, a suit of armor appeared before the Daoist's eyes.

Luo Chen grabbed the Yu Xuan Chen Armor without hesitation, his spiritual sense sweeping over it.

The armor presented a deep, pitch-black color, its luster restrained to the extreme.

Each plate of armor looked like the distribution of a tortoise shell, and also like the tortoise patterns on the ground after a long drought.

Yet, as his spiritual sense swept over, the patterns echoed each other, flashing with spiritual light, and the surrounding spiritual energy surged toward it involuntarily.

"Array and fetus combined, Qi generated by the armor."

"The Two-Instrument Six-Armor Array is perfectly integrated with the treasure fetus, and the impurities are almost non-existent."

"Yu Xuan Chen Armor is born, the grade is... Superior!"

Counting the complete array patterns on it, Luo Chen finally concluded that the Yu Xuan Chen Armor was of superior grade.

This result was a bit unexpected, yet it was also within reason.

What was unexpected was that with Luo Chen's weapon refining technique, he had refined a superior-grade defensive magic treasure.

But it was within reason because it should have been like this!

With the Demon Emperor's remains as the raw material, supplemented by a large number of precious auxiliary materials, plus the refining method of the Penglai Immortal Sect, and finally the nurturing merit of the Hunyuan Cauldron.

If this finally resulted in an inferior-grade defensive magic treasure, Luo Chen would have nowhere to cry.

His original lowest psychological expectation was a middle-grade magic treasure, but obviously, superior-grade was more to his liking.

However, this was just a hurried glance; the specific power still needed to be tested.

Luo Chen did not hesitate, beckoning toward the Yu Xuan Chen Armor.

In an instant, the spiritual light transformed and attached itself to his body.

Magic power surged in the Alchemy and Weapon Refining Hall.

When he looked again, Luo Chen's figure was gone.

And above the Penghu, a streak of escape light soared into the sky, heading straight for the nine heavens.

Reaching the sky.

Luo Chen cast a spiritual formula, and his body began to expand.

One zhang, two zhang...

Swish!

A pair of wings unfolded behind him.

When his body finally reached nine zhang in size, Luo Chen stopped changing.

This physique, compared to before, was smaller, but the power was more restrained and more powerful!

Years of body tempering, plus the improvement of his cultivation method, had long since made Luo Chen's body tempering path worlds apart from the beginning.

Luo Chen had no time to pay attention to his current body tempering progress, instead focusing his attention on the armor on his body.

The Yu Xuan Chen Armor was worn extremely comfortably, without any feeling of discomfort.

Tailor-made, that was how it was!

Not only that, Luo Chen did not even feel the weight.

The Two-Instrument Six-Armor Array, when combined, naturally possessed the effects of each array.

Obviously, this light and agile feeling was the effect of the Spirit-Connecting Cloud Armor Array.

Luo Chen's magic power surged, injecting into the Yu Xuan Chen Armor, and the next moment, a five-colored light emerged, shrouding him.

"Qi Armor, it really was generated!"

Luo Chen's face revealed joy, and his heart moved, descending from the nine heavens to the earth.

Wind and thunder roared, making the cultivators of Penghu terrified and unable to calm down.

Standing with both feet on the ground, a feeling of endless supply came to him.

Even if Luo Chen did not continue to inject magic power, the Qi Armor remained brilliant and tough.

"This..."

Luo Chen had thought it was an accident before, but now it seemed that this superior-grade Yu Xuan Chen Armor truly had this wonderful use.

As long as he stood on the ground, he could automatically absorb the earth-attribute spiritual energy from nearby to maintain the Qi Armor's immortality.

"I don't seem to have set up a similar Spirit-Gathering Array?"

Luo Chen was puzzled, and his fingers touched the physical inner armor.

After a moment of thought, he probably guessed the origin of this wonderful use.

Demon Emperor Xuanyan had purified his bloodline starting from a Ring-Necked Turtle, step by step cultivating to the Nascent Soul stage, and returning to his ancestors to become a Yu Xuan Turtle body.

And the Yu Xuan Turtle was one of the representatives of earth-attribute desolate beasts.

It was not strange to have this characteristic.

Luo Chen stood there motionless, feeling the difference between being in the sky and on the ground.

Although he could still automatically absorb the earth-attribute spiritual energy wandering nearby after leaving the ground, it was reduced by ninety percent.

From this, he drew a conclusion.

What it absorbed was perhaps not just spiritual energy, but also earth Qi!

The most direct evidence was the land under his feet; it was originally lush with green grass and fertile black soil.

But as he stood there longer, the black soil under the green grass became increasingly gray and white, and even the depths of the earth veins trembled slightly, as if they could not bear it.

The earth could not bear its weight!

"This small island only has a trivial first-rank spiritual vein spreading through it, which cannot bear my extraction."

"But if I change to a place with better spiritual land to fight, I can almost be invincible."

Luo Chen's eyes revealed excitement.

This was just the Qi Armor.

Next, it was time to test its true defensive power.

Luo Chen looked around; escape lights were flying toward this side from afar.

With his excellent vision, he could naturally discover that the leader was Seeing Tianxuan, and the others were Zhang family cultivators.

"This is one of my trump cards, it is not suitable to be revealed to others."

Luo Chen shrank his body, returning to his normal posture, but did not take off the Yu Xuan Chen Armor.

Instead, with a thought, he changed its color and patterns.

In the blink of an eye, the moon-white Daoist robe he usually wore was worn on his body.

"It is indeed extremely convenient."

Luo Chen chuckled, sent a spiritual sense transmission to Seeing Tianxuan, and returned to the Star Dou Hall.

Before long.

Seeing Tianxuan entered the Star Dou Hall.

Seeing Luo Chen smiling and no longer confined to the Alchemy and Weapon Refining Hall, she instantly realized something.

"Congratulations, Master! Congratulations, Master!"

Luo Chen was in an extremely comfortable mood, waving his hand at the woman who was bowing and saluting.

"Exempt from the ceremony!"

"Tell me, during the days I was in seclusion, were there any major events in the Myriad Immortals Society? And how is Blackie doing?"

Obviously, the latter was what Luo Chen was most concerned about!

Seeing Tianxuan's expression became solemn, and she immediately replied: "Blood Loose Cultivator has returned to the Myriad Immortals Society!"

Blood Loose Cultivator?

Luo Chen could not help but be stunned.

(End of chapter)