Chapter 701

Fu Fu Qinglan looked blankly at Luo Chen's firm side profile, completely unable to react.

This overbearing Luo Chen was the first time she had seen him.

She also did not expect that he would suddenly change his face when they had just entered the Cave Heaven and were with a friend she was on good terms with.

Initially, she was somewhat angry.

How could he act as the host instead of the guest and go against her wishes?

But amidst those questions, she couldn't help but ask herself.

"Should I yield?"

Luo Chen knew nothing about her psychological activities at this moment.

He only knew that he had been entrusted by others and would be loyal to the matter!

He himself had taken a great advantage in the deal with Fu Fu Chaosheng, and every one of those conditions was inclined toward him.

At that time, Luo Chen thought that this matter could not be handled perfunctorily.

And later, Fu Fu Chaosheng sent elixirs and sent Withered Source Fire Marrow; even though the status of an official guest of the Star Gate was not handled for him, it could be considered done to the extreme.

Since that was the case, Luo Chen had to exert all his strength for this Dao Protection.

In the Mirage Dragon Cave Heaven, Fourth-Order illusion beasts have unpredictable movements and are hidden extremely deep, and every illusion core is extremely difficult to hunt.

Moreover, Luo Chen didn't want to linger in this Cave Heaven for too long; the earlier he collected enough illusion cores and the earlier he helped Fu Fu Qinglan complete her cultivation, the earlier he could leave.

Therefore, it was even more impossible for him to give up the one delivered to his door!

Luo Chen didn't care how Fu Fu Qinglan thought of him; even after they went out, her grandfather Fu Fu Chaosheng would likely support Luo Chen's approach.

Therefore, the style of conduct for the subsequent Cave Heaven journey was already destined.

Different from his usual style of not offending others if they don't offend him, and not worrying about others if it has nothing to do with him, he would hunt illusion beasts and compete for illusion cores as much as possible, even if it meant conflict with others.

Let's start from right now!

The red chains transformed by the Hunyuan Cauldron behind him locked the illusion core and flew toward Luo Chen.

His right hand held the seal, already ready to go.

And his left hand also began to stretch and bend its five fingers, striking out one spell seal after another in a dazzling manner.

Majestic magic power began to surge out from his body.

Opposite!

Seeing this scene, especially Fu Fu Qinglan's silent appearance, Lin Jingtang laughed in anger.

"Good! Good! Good!"

"Since you want to fight, then Lin is not afraid!"

Before the words fell, he saw Luo Chen's hands cross, the two seals merge, and his right hand slowly push out.

A blue palm print, following his right hand's push, flew toward him without a ripple.

"How dare you show off with such a small technique!"

Lin Jingtang sneered, waved his large sleeve, and wanted to shake away the palm print.

But a surprising scene appeared.

The palm print was steady, not only not shaken away, but instead expanded and grew larger crazily in the process of flying over quickly.

Lin Jingtang frowned, and he had already made a decision in his heart.

First defend against this move, then do a counterattack!

Without hesitation, the golden bell suddenly flew up and covered him underneath.

The next moment, the blue palm print collided with the golden bell.

Clang!

A heavy bell sound rang out.

Lin Jingtang raised the corner of his mouth slightly, and the counterattack started from this moment.

This bell is named Startling, startling and hesitant.

Besides its powerful defensive ability, the emitted bell sound would make the enemy lose their composure unconsciously; losing their mind is a small matter, and their spirit could even be shaken away.

Relying on this move alone, even if he were not a disciple of the Heavenly Origin Dao Sect, he was famous within the Dao Sect.

"The family head treats me well, so how can I let him down? Just as the Desolate Loose Practitioner Luo Chen said, within this Mirage Dragon Cave Heaven, I cannot yield on anything related to Xiao Fan!"

As his mind turned, he was about to pull out the long sword on his back.

But!

"Not right!"

Lin Jingtang's expression changed drastically; he only felt that the blue giant palm print blocked by the Startling Bell showed no signs of dissipating, but instead increased its force, becoming heavier and heavier.

His body began to be unable to withstand that giant force and was forced to retreat.

Through the hazy, boiling spiritual energy, he vaguely saw that cold middle-aged man; the other party didn't seem to be affected by the Startling Bell's sound?

Rumble!!!

The huge blue handprint swept up the surrounding heaven and earth spiritual energy and began to frantically increase its force.

It pressed the person shrouded in the golden bell shadow to retreat continuously.

Ten zhang, a hundred zhang, a thousand zhang... ten miles, a hundred miles...

Wherever it passed, the wind tore and clouds split, the earth shook, and the mountains and rivers were all in a mess.

The vast amount of heaven and earth spiritual energy seemed to return to the nest like swallows, constantly pouring into the blue giant handprint, stirring up a spiritual energy storm in the void.

And the main target of the attack seemed like a meteor, being pushed and thrown hundreds of miles away, turning into a small black dot invisible to the naked eye.

"Its force is not declining, it's endless... how can this be!"

Lin Jingtang's eyes were about to split, and he was already too late to hold back.

Both palms struck out toward the inside of the golden bell.

One palm, two palms, three palms...

Countless afterimages gathered together, finally turning into one palm.

"Break!"

With a sharp shout, the Startling Bell suddenly trembled.

Clang!

A terrifying bell sound rang out instantly, and the golden light spread outward like waves.

The blue giant handprint pressing on the golden bell dissipated inch by inch.

Finally, the wind stopped and the clouds rested, and the spiritual energy storm lost its core and scattered on the earth in a daze.

A figure walked out from it, with disheveled hair and a pale face.

He looked down at the shrunken golden bell in his palm, on which there were two completely different palm prints.

One inside and one outside.

And the one outside was caused by Luo Chen.

In that situation, he had already realized that as long as he didn't die and Luo Chen didn't die, that palm would constantly accumulate heaven and earth spiritual energy and become stronger and stronger.

He had no choice but to urge all his magic power and use the strongest strike to defeat it before it reached its peak.

But the price was that he himself was inside the golden bell and received a great counter-shock force.

If it weren't for the fact that this bell was his natal True Treasure and had the function of automatically protecting its master, his physical body and spirit would have been seriously injured.

Suddenly.

He looked up fiercely and roared:

"Desolate Loose Practitioner!!!"

The monstrous anger turned into a rumbling sound wave that surged toward the road he came from.

However, a figure blocked the front.

"Xiao Fan?"

Lin Bufan shook his head at him, "We have just entered the Cave Heaven, there are still many opportunities, it's not worth being impulsive."

"But..."

"The Desolate Loose Practitioner is very strong! Although he occupied the first-hand advantage this time and caught you off guard, I can feel that his strength is like an abyss, and his means are not limited to this palm. If you fight him to the death, even if you win, it will be a miserable victory at most; in that case, how can we have enough strength in the subsequent illusion core competition?"

Lin Bufan said slowly, trying his best to give Lin Jingtang enough face in his wording.

In fact, in the battle he watched earlier, the Luo Chen he felt was even more powerful.

Especially, when he was urging the spell, there was another suppressed power in his body.

Once that power was unsealed, he feared Lin Jingtang would have no resistance at all, and at most, he could rely on the True Treasure Startling Bell to save his life.

Oh!

That's assuming the other party doesn't have a True Treasure of the same grade.

If there was a True Treasure of the same grade, Lin Jingtang's end, I fear...

The violence on Lin Jingtang's face dissipated a little, but he was still resentful.

"That illusion core was discovered by us first, and it was also something I spent all my effort to force out."

Lin Bufan shook his head, "It's just an illusion core. With my perception ability, it's not difficult to find the next Fourth-Order illusion beast. With this experience, we will be well prepared to collect the illusion core next time. Let's just treat that one as... the last gift I give to Sister Fu Qinglan."

The last one?

Lin Jingtang raised his eyebrows.

It's just that before leaving, he still looked resentfully at the direction where Luo Chen was.

Obviously, he had taken this palm of shame to heart.

Whoosh...

The wind blew on his face, and Luo Chen slowly retracted his right hand, his face full of satisfaction.

This was the first time he had fully unleashed the Senior Qingyang Great Handprint after becoming a Nascent Soul, and the effect could only be described as pleasantly surprising.

The Senior Qingyang Great Handprint was derived from the Innate One Qi Great Handprint.

That Innate One Qi Great Handprint was originally a Third-Order spell, with mediocre power and nothing too outstanding.

After he pursued the ultimate and changed it to the fire attribute, its lethality surpassed that of ordinary Third-Order spells.

Especially after cultivating to the Great Perfection stage, it was enough to rival ordinary Fourth-Order spells.

Originally, reaching this stage, the potential of this technique was exhausted, and for Luo Chen, who had advanced to the Nascent Soul realm, the assistance was relatively average.

However, he had a sense of the special nature of Nascent Soul cultivators manipulating heaven and earth spiritual energy, and he integrated the Spirit-Controlling Seal into it.

In this way, the Senior Qingyang Great Handprint evolved once again.

Fully unleashed, if the enemy was careless and didn't disperse it in the first instance, it would become stronger and stronger, until it was as precarious as a pile of eggs, as heavy as Mount Tai!

"It's a pity that Lin Jingtang took the initiative to retreat, otherwise I would have liked to use him to test other means."

Luo Chen felt quite sorry.

If Fu Fu Qinglan beside him knew his thoughts, she would probably be stunned.

Using a powerhouse of the same realm to test moves?

What kind of powerful ability must one have to have such composure and confidence?

But coincidentally, Luo Chen had this confidence.

All along, his opponents were often older than him, higher in realm than him, and often crossed a large realm, or several small realms.

Like this Mirage Dragon Cave Heaven Grand Competition, although there were many enemies, Luo Chen was not worried at all.

Because these Dao Protectors were all restricted by the rule of not exceeding a hundred years since advancing to Nascent Soul.

In other words, all the Dao Protectors had realms similar to Luo Chen's.

Either Nascent Soul First Layer, or at most Nascent Soul Second Layer; between each other, there was almost no gap in realm.

And in a battle of the same realm, Luo Chen was not afraid at all!

If it weren't for Fu Fu Qinglan's face, he would have chased after him and used other means, and he would have had a ninety percent chance of seriously injuring Lin Jingtang!

And with the Hunyuan Cauldron's help, the other party's Nascent Soul wouldn't have been able to run away.

"Knowing when to retreat, you are sensible!"

Luo Chen hummed lightly and looked to the side.

"Let's go!"

Fu Fu Qinglan looked at him blankly, and for a moment, she didn't even react to what the other party said.

When she saw Luo Chen's eyebrows furrow, she hurriedly asked: "What?"

Luo Chen's eyebrows furrowed even deeper.

"Let's go, the movement here is too big, it will attract others, it's not suitable to stay long."

"Oh, oh."

Fu Fu Qinglan hurriedly followed Luo Chen's footsteps, but looking at his back, the shock in her heart still couldn't calm down for a long time.

One move!

With just one move, he blasted the famous Lin Jingtang hundreds of miles away!

That kind of movement was far more shocking than when he defeated Qi Qi Xiongcheng silently earlier.

She couldn't help but ask herself, can I also master this kind of power later?

Are those Nascent Soul early-stage senior brothers in the sect this powerful?

Searching through her memory, it seemed there were only a few who could barely rival the demeanor Luo Chen just displayed.

Mountains and forests, ancient trees reaching the sky.

With the sword light waving, a simple cave dwelling took shape.

Luo Chen stopped his movements with satisfaction.

"Let's do it here; there are no extremely condensed spiritual veins in the Mirage Dragon Cave Heaven, but the scenery here is still considered beautiful."

Fu Fu Qinglan nodded.

It was more than beautiful; looking down from the rock protruding from the mountainside, large patches of ancient trees formed a vast primitive forest.

And in the distance, mountains with different styles rose from the ground, like swords piercing the sky.

There were even stars shining in the night sky.

The starlight sprinkled down, illuminating this place like a dream.

It's just that...

She looked back; the newly opened cave dwelling was not big, at most enough to accommodate one person's cultivation.

Luo Chen's words explained her confusion just right.

"You can just refine the illusion core and cultivate inside, and I will stand guard for you outside."

Immediately, Luo Chen changed the subject.

"You go and adjust your breath first; I will study that illusion core, and I will give it to you tomorrow morning."

"En, I will trouble Dao Brother."

Fu Fu Qinglan walked in.

After she left, Luo Chen's mind moved, and a white, round bead appeared in his hand.

Unlike the Third-Order illusion core that looked like a date pit he had obtained earlier, the surface of this Fourth-Order illusion core had no rough patterns and appeared incomparably smooth.

But the condensed cloud energy was enough to explain the extraordinary nature of this core.

"Is this cloud energy the power of the Mirage Dragon?"

Luo Chen examined it for a while and found it a bit difficult to start.

He knew that the Nascent Soul True Inheritors of the Heavenly Origin Dao Sect who entered the Cave Heaven this time had unique means to refine the Mirage Dragon's power, and they would not pass it on to them, these Dao Protectors.

However, just by relying on this cloud energy, can one comprehend the true meaning of the Laws and lead to the Soul Transformation Great Dao?

Luo Chen was full of confusion.

He released his spiritual sense and began to erode the illusion core, but under the obstruction of the condensed Mirage Dragon power, he was completely unable to penetrate too deep.

Luo Chen frowned, and suddenly his heart moved.

His eyes were bright with spiritual light, and not only that, but source power surged into his eye sockets, and crimson light flickered.

From the outside in, he vaguely perceived some lively things.

"Eh?"

Luo Chen was surprised, and another white pill appeared in his hand.

It was the Heavenly Mystery Pill given to him by the Alchemist Saint before she ascended.

The moment the Heavenly Mystery Pill appeared, the sealed Fourth-Order illusion core suddenly became restless, with a tendency to pounce on the Heavenly Mystery Pill.

Luo Chen pursed his lips.

"I really didn't see it wrong; inside this illusion core wrapped in a large amount of Mirage Dragon power, there is a wisp of spiritual opportunity! It is of the same origin as the spiritual opportunity used as the main material for the Heavenly Mystery Pill refined by the Alchemist Saint!"

"Could it be that those spiritual opportunities intercepted by the Heavenly Origin Sect Master back then were cast into the Mirage Dragon Cave Heaven?"

"Fu Fu Qinglan and these Dao Sect True Inheritors are not absorbing the Mirage Dragon's power at all, but are trying to absorb these spiritual opportunities to comprehend the true meaning of the Laws!"

"Spiritual opportunity... World consciousness... True meaning of the Laws..."

Looking at the white illusion core and the white Heavenly Mystery Pill, Luo Chen's eyes kept turning, and he vaguely had some calculations.