Chapter 669

Aboard the Six-Imperial Gu Feiyun Chariot.

Beneath the jade-beaded curtains, Luo Chen held a jade slip in his hands, studying it carefully.

He would occasionally ponder, occasionally frown, and looks of surprise appeared on his face from time to time.

After a long while, he finally put down the jade slip, clicking his tongue in wonder.

"To think the world holds such an array. It appears to be nothing more than a connection of terrain, but in reality, it relies on the principle of interconnected earth energy, using one island as a center to continuously cover and link the surrounding spiritual veins. Moreover, in this process, every island involved can be treated as a central point, expanding outward... In this way, over time, even the most scattered small spiritual vein islands can rely on each other and grow stronger together."

"As for the philosophy behind it, defense is secondary; the way it connects earth veins and nurtures spiritual energy is truly shocking."

"It is truly worthy of being an array passed down personally by a Soul Transformation grandmaster of the Array Dao!"

That was right; the jade slip in Luo Chen's hand was none other than the most famous "Island-Linking Array" in the Northern Sea cultivation world over the past two hundred years!

After the Third Elder of the Xu family joined the Vast Sea Righteous Alliance, a powerhouse from the Vast Sea Alliance had bestowed this set of arrays upon him.

The relevant array disks, array flags, and all the tools for setting up the array had naturally been taken away by the Xu family's Third Elder.

But remembering the friendship between the Xu and Cheng families, that Third Elder had still left the array diagram for Chengcheng Haixin.

The Du Du Feiyan Archipelago was not lacking in spiritual veins; of the thirty-some islands, ninety percent were suitable for cultivation.

However, because the spiritual veins were scattered and the islands were fragmented like stars in the sky, the overall climate never amounted to much.

If this array could be used to connect the Du Du Feiyan islands, within a hundred years, the archipelago might be fully linked, possessing more solid earth and water veins, and becoming a true cultivation land suitable for Core Formation cultivators.

With such a foundation, the defensive arrays built upon it would naturally be even more formidable.

As long as they did not encounter enemies at the level of a Demon Emperor or Great Demon King, they would be able to protect themselves.

Now that Luo Chen was a Nascent Soul True Person, as he left this time, Chengcheng Haixin could not offer any gift of significant weight, so she had replicated a copy of the Island-Linking Array method for him.

From Luo Chen's perspective and experience, as long as this array was utilized properly, small islands could be strengthened, and scattered lands could be united; if it were a third-tier spiritual vein with a decent foundation, there might even be a chance to promote it to a fourth-tier spiritual vein through long-term cultivation!

As long as a powerful existence had the intent, they could always obtain this array from the disjointed Vast Sea Alliance and then pass it on to their subordinate forces.

At the very least, the Demon Luo Flow must have considered this, and perhaps they had already done so.

"For me, this is a good thing!"

"Years ago, I obtained the Mountain-Moving Method of the Five Elements Divine Sect, and I have the Black King's talent for automatically attracting free spiritual energy from heaven and earth. If I add this array, it will be much easier to cultivate a fifth-tier spiritual vein in the future."

"Hmm, if I could also get that Five-Peak Valley-Covering Feng Shui Array from the Green Elixir Valley, it would be even more foolproof!"

As Luo Chen muttered to himself, he suddenly raised an eyebrow.

"Seeing Tianxuan, slow down."

"Very well, Master!"

Although Seeing Tianxuan did not understand Luo Chen's intention, she still controlled the Six-Imperial Gu Feiyun Chariot to slow down.

Upon it were pavilions and towers, rockeries and flowing water, all exquisitely crafted.

Banners fluttered, figures were numerous, and an aura of slaughter permeated the sky and fields.

By comparison, although the Six-Imperial Gu Feiyun Chariot was the personal vehicle of the Master of the Ten Thousand Creations Mountain and was magnificent and extraordinary, it was slightly inferior in scale.

At just one glance, Seeing Tianxuan realized what kind of existence was worthy of possessing such a travel vehicle.

A Nascent Soul True Person!

Just then, a mellow male voice came from the massive flying boat.

"This poor Daoist is Mei Mei Yiqi of Mount Langya Mountain. May I ask which high expert from an immortal sect is ahead?"

By stating his origin, his intent was self-evident.

Luo Chen smiled slightly, pondered for a moment, and then said in a clear voice: "I am but a wandering soul, what immortal sect do I cultivate in? I have long heard of the great name of True Person Mount Langya; I am the Wilderness Wanderer, greetings to you."

Aboard the Langxuan Cloud Ferry, True Person Mount Langya, dressed as a Daoist priest, subconsciously frowned.

A rogue cultivator?

And at the Nascent Soul realm?

Such existences were extremely rare in the world.

He had heard of the Mad Wanderer, the Blood Wanderer, and the Moon Wanderer, but he had never heard of such a "Wilderness Wanderer"!

A disciple serving nearby said cautiously: "Master, be careful, it might be an ambush set by the Demon Luo Flow!"

True Person Mount Langya shook his head. "This trip is intended to uphold the philosophy of ending the war; how could there be an ambush? Moreover, this person's spiritual sense is quite strong, and he slowed down to wait for us politely. To my knowledge, there are only a few such existences in the Demon Luo Flow, and none of them match this description."

The disciple suddenly realized, then hesitated: "Then we..."

"No matter. Although this person's spiritual sense is strong, his magic power fluctuations are fierce, suggesting he has only recently broken through to the Nascent Soul stage. As a master, I pride myself on having a few tricks up my sleeve, so I do not fear him." True Person Mount Langya stroked his beard and smiled. "Let us invite him up for a chat!"

"Master, is this actually a cultivator from Mount Langya Mountain?"

"Didn't you see the green flower emblem on that flying boat? When we took a Mount Langya Mountain merchant ship to Whale Port years ago, that ship had this emblem on it."

At the foot of Mount Langya Mountain, flowers bloomed all year round, especially a type of green flower that was light in color but had an extraordinary, rich fragrance.

Therefore, the emblem of the Mount Langya Mountain force was that green flower.

Seeing Tianxuan suddenly realized. Years ago, when she was seriously injured, she had no time to pay attention to such things while on the road.

Now that she thought about it carefully, she did have a slight impression.

Just then, the old man's mellow voice came from the flying boat again.

"Wilderness Wanderer, seeing you here, could it be that you are also heading to the Mo Lan Court to attend the Righteous-Demonic War-Ending Assembly?"

Luo Chen frowned.

Luo Chen took a deep breath and walked out from the chariot.

Seeing the worried gazes of Seeing Tianxuan and Sang Sang Jinghe behind him, he smiled and waved his hand.

"No worries!"

As he spoke, he drifted onto the boat without the slightest trace of worldly aura.

He did not ride the clouds or mist, nor was he supported by the breeze.

With this single feat, the hundred or so Mount Langya sect members aboard the Langxuan Cloud Ferry felt a chill in their hearts.

This was indeed the method of a True Person!

Silently and soundlessly, he manipulated the spiritual energy of heaven and earth to assist his flight.

This Mount Langya Mountain was managed quite well; there were about a hundred people, all Foundation Establishment cultivators, and the auras of several Core Formation cultivators were flickering within the flying boat.

And this was merely the configuration for a simple trip.

One could imagine that the full strength of Mount Langya Mountain would definitely not be inferior to any normal Nascent Soul upper sect.

"Fellow Daoist, please, this way!"

Luo Chen smiled slightly and strode into the palace in the center of the flying boat, which resembled a Daoist temple.

Upon entering, he saw a white-haired, long-bearded Daoist with a ruddy complexion waiting with a bow.

"This poor Daoist is Mei Mei Yiqi, greetings, Fellow Daoist."

Luo Chen smiled slightly and returned the bow: "I am Luo Chen, greetings, Fellow Daoist."

After exchanging names, Luo Chen took his seat.

Amidst the swirling tea fragrance, True Person Mount Langya examined Luo Chen carefully for a long time before sighing and shaking his head: "The Wilderness Wanderer's appearance is so young; this poor Daoist cannot see a trace of the frost of time, yet your cultivation realm is similar to mine. Tsk, the cultivation world is truly full of hidden dragons and crouching tigers!"

Luo Chen chuckled: "It is merely quiet cultivation in the wilderness, missing the battering waves of the cultivation world, which is why I appear slightly young. True Person, you flatter me!"

In these few short words, there was hidden probing.

Luo Chen had given the other party an answer, but it was an evasive one.

He changed the subject and went straight to the point.

"I have been cultivating in the Demon Sea for many years and have not stepped into the mortal world for a long time. May I ask, what is this Righteous-Demonic War-Ending Assembly?"

True Person Mount Langya laughed: "Ending the war means stopping the fighting. The righteous and demonic war has been going on for a hundred years without a clear victor, and now that the Northern Sea Demon Alliance is launching a large-scale invasion of our human territory, this righteous-demonic struggle should also come to an end."

"Is the demon threat really that serious?" Luo Chen frowned.

True Person Mount Langya was still smiling, but this time, it was somewhat bitter.

"Fellow Daoist, you have been carefree in the Demon Sea, so how would you know that the demon beasts are now so powerful that they are hard to contain? Thirty years ago, the Desolate Beast Ghost Immortal Tower broke the demon-locking array of the great expert Li, broke into the Northern Polar Night Demon Heaven, and with the help of the residual power of the sinking sea's anomalies, tore a gap in the Billion-Soul Demon-Locking Array laid down by the Soul-Refining Ancestor of the Yuan Demon Sect before his death. A thousand-mile dike collapses at an ant's nest; because of that one gap, countless powerful demon beasts sealed in the Night Demon Heaven were completely freed."

"I hear that the Great Sage of Northern Li is now sitting in the Night Demon Heaven, and the Sea Emperor Whale has come out of seclusion, confronting our human great expert Li Li Canghai without a clear victor."

"Logically speaking, it should be a balanced situation, but the Desolate Beast Ghost Immortal Tower has met no equal wherever it has passed!"

"The Wan Xian Assembly has been broken, the Divine Origin City is under siege, the Penglai Immortal Sect has fled, and our Vast Sea Righteous Alliance is being attacked from both sides. This righteous-demonic war truly cannot be fought any longer."

Each piece of news burst into Luo Chen's ears like exploding soybeans, making it impossible for him to maintain his calm expression.

He never expected the situation to have deteriorated to this extent.

Even if many demon beasts were sealed in the Northern Polar Night Demon Heaven, they had experienced the Demon-Devil War after all; with the foundation of the Yuan Demon Sect, their final counterattack should have taken away most of the elite forces.

Unexpectedly, the demon alliance still maintained powerful combat strength.

But the fact that Divine Origin City was under siege was somewhat mind-boggling.

One had to know that the force behind Divine Origin City was the Heavenly Origin Dao Sect of the Central Plains!

Luo Chen took a deep breath and asked about another matter.

"Is the Demon Luo Flow willing to stop the war?"

True Person Mount Langya poured a cup of tea for Luo Chen and then said: "Why wouldn't they be? Their ally, the Penglai Immortal Sect, has fled, and their own strength is not as good as our Vast Sea Alliance; stopping the war is the wise choice."

Luo Chen was puzzled. "But I remember that the Blood Nightmare Flow Master of the Demon Luo Flow is a character who fears nothing but chaos; is he actually willing to join hands with you to resist the demon race? And even give up his place of cultivation to serve as the venue for the War-Ending Assembly?"

"Haha, you speak of Blood Nightmare Demon Luo!"

Speaking of this, True Person Mount Langya looked at Luo Chen with a half-smile.

"It seems Fellow Daoist has not been cultivating in the Demon Sea for very long!"

Luo Chen smiled slightly and did not argue.

Blood Nightmare Demon Luo's personality was only known to the world later.

The ambush and siege of the high-level members of the Vast Sea Alliance, including Muran Gaoxiong, which completely ignited the righteous-demonic war, happened eighty or ninety years ago.

Since Luo Chen knew the other party's style of conduct, it meant he was still in the Northern Sea cultivation world at that time.

True Person Mount Langya had probed Luo Chen's reality and was quite satisfied.

Then, his tone sank.

"After Blood Nightmare Demon Luo came out of the sinking sea, he was hunted down by the Blood Wanderer like a stray dog. He was too busy hiding to even think about returning to the Demon Luo Flow."

"Especially since it was discovered that he had refined all the Yuan Demon Sect disciples he had recruited in his early years into Blood Gods."

"With such demonic conduct, there has long been no place for him in the Northern Sea cultivation world!"

Luo Chen was stunned.

Refining Blood Gods was inherently contrary to human nature.

Yet, he had used the remnants of the Yuan Demon Sect he had recruited in his early years to refine them.

One had to know that when Blood Nightmare Demon Luo established the Demon Luo Flow in his early years, the banner he raised was to shelter the survivors of the Yuan Demon Sect and restore the glory of the Yuan Demon Sect.

In his early years, his Daoist title of Fire Spirit True Person was enough to make many strangers trust him directly; this was the benefit brought by reputation.

The founding philosophy of the Demon Luo Flow was also to restore the glory of the Yuan Demon Sect.

Regardless of whether the founder was that great expert in the late Nascent Soul stage behind the scenes, or Blood Nightmare Demon Luo, this elder of the demonic sect, in any case, their banner had been torn down by themselves, and they no longer had any righteous cause.

Therefore, True Person Mount Langya was not wrong when he said there was no place for Blood Nightmare Demon Luo in the Northern Sea.

As for the Wan Xian Assembly, one of the three great hegemons of the past, it had long since scattered like wind and clouds.

If one added the relentless pursuit of the Blood Wanderer...

Luo Chen sighed and shook his head: "No wonder the Mo Lan Court, a place of cultivation for a demonic giant, has become a place for righteous and demonic parties to negotiate a ceasefire."

"The world is impermanent; who could have known it would be like this now? However..."

True Person Mount Langya sighed first, then revealed a smile.

"However, this gives us a chance."

"A chance?" Luo Chen was curious.

True Person Mount Langya nodded. "Yes! In the past, the righteous and demonic parties fought fiercely, communication between the two sides was cut off, and the trade of various cultivation resources was suspended. For example, a material I need for a secret technique I am cultivating is only produced by the subordinates of the Crack Heaven Flow Master of the Demon Luo Flow. Now that the righteous-demonic war has ceased, I can resume purchasing that material and continue the secret technique cultivation that had previously stalled. This Righteous-Demonic War-Ending Assembly is both a ceasefire negotiation and an excellent opportunity for Nascent Soul True Persons to exchange ideas."

Since they had defected to the Vast Sea Alliance, the Demon Luo Flow would certainly not trade relevant resources with them.

Now, it was indeed a chance.

Thinking of this, Luo Chen suddenly asked: "I heard that in the past, the Yuan Demon Sect passed down a method for making Soul Essence, and the forces that mastered this method are now mostly within the Demon Luo Flow. I wonder, are they still continuing to produce Soul Essence?"

As soon as these words were spoken, the atmosphere in the hall suddenly stagnated.

True Person Mount Langya pinched his white beard, his eyes narrowed as he looked at Luo Chen.

"Soul Essence?"

"Wilderness Wanderer, are you perhaps a remnant of the Yuan Demon Sect?"