Chapter 723: Eastern Wasteland Situation, Alchemy Sect Luo Chen

On the cloud chariot, Luo Chen's divine sense swept over the jade slip, and the geographical location of Shenyuan City was clear at a glance.

After reading, a thoughtful look appeared on Luo Chen's face.

Many things can be seen from the surface.

The Heavenly Origin Merchant Alliance's Shenyuan City in the Eastern Wasteland is not independent like in the North Sea, but is restrained.

Surrounded by nine immortal cities, three in front, three behind, and three on the right.

And the gap left is the location of the Dongyang Sect's mountain gate.

Just this point shows how deep the Mingyuan Sect's guard against the Heavenly Origin Dao Sect is!

In order to prevent the Dao Sect from infiltrating the Eastern Wasteland through the Merchant Alliance, not only was the Merchant Alliance headquarters placed in the territory of the Dongyang Sect, which the Mingyuan Sect trusts most, but it was also surrounded and restrained in the details.

I don't know if it was like this from the beginning, or if it became like this because of the Alchemy Saint matter.

Luo Chen didn't bother to think deeply.

The so-called Merchant Alliance is just a tool for the Heavenly Origin Dao Sect to collect wealth and information, and it has nothing to do with his Star Gate guest consultant status.

On the contrary, he was quite happy.

Because, it's very close!

With a thought, sound transmission entered his ears.

"You all rest, I'll control the cloud chariot!"

While speaking, he had already taken over the control of the Six-Imperial Gu Feiyun Chariot from the air.

Vast magic power poured into it, the cloud chariot paused first, then the light shone brightly, and it rushed out suddenly, drawing a bright arc in the sky.

Under his control, the speed of the cloud chariot was more than three times faster than before, no less than the full-speed flight of a late-stage Golden Core cultivator.

Even if the area of the Dongyang Domain is much larger than some small cultivation domains, at this speed, crossing half of the Dongyang Domain would not take a day.

Of course, if Luo Chen were flying at full speed himself, this time would be even faster!

But with Zhang Jingqing, a Foundation Establishment cultivator, and Sang Jinghe, who had just formed the core, Luo Chen couldn't do that.

Anyway, he had endured for two hundred years, so he wasn't in a hurry for these one or two days.

Luo Chen was controlling the cloud chariot while continuing to refine the Chixiao Qi.

This kind of spirit elite created by Heaven and Earth, even after being subdued, is still wild and difficult to tame.

If it weren't for the Hunyuan Cauldron helping to refine it, the loss would be extremely heavy.

Luo Chen followed the method in the sword scripture, first refining the violent part of the Chixiao Qi with the Hunyuan Cauldron, and after refining it to a certain degree, integrating it into the Yuantu sword.

Chixiao Qi and Yuantu sword merged, slowly nourishing into sword energy.

In this process, Luo Chen himself would also be affected a little.

Sharp-edged, imposing.

The reactions of Black King, Chi Zhong, and others had already reflected Luo Chen's slight changes from the side.

Regardless of day and night, without stopping.

In the vast starry night, the Six-Imperial Gu Feiyun Chariot stopped outside an immortal city.

"In the end, it's just the chariot of the sect master of a Golden Core great sect. It's gorgeous but lacks atmosphere. Under my full drive, it almost fell apart."

Luo Chen muttered, and put the cloud chariot into the storage ring.

Tianxuan and others leaned over.

"Master, it's late, are we going into the city?"

"Of course!"

Luo Chen didn't hesitate and walked toward the city gate.

The towering black city wall looked like a crouching giant beast under the starlight.

Luo Chen walked to the city gate step by step, where cultivators were already waiting at the gate.

"Stop..."

Luo Chen threw out the Star Gate guest consultant identity token.

Luo Chen's unique magic power was injected into it, and it suddenly shone with light.

This meant it was not forged, but held by the legitimate holder!

The cultivator was stunned when he saw it, but reacted quickly.

"True Person, please wait, I will open the city gate for you immediately."

"Hmm."

The heavy black gate opened slowly before Luo Chen's eyes.

And in a cave dwelling in Shenyuan City, a cultivator took the sound transmission talisman in surprise.

"Strange, at this time, why did someone come from the Central Plains? Shouldn't the focus be on the North Sea and the Western Desert?"

The sound transmission talisman burned slowly, and the cultivator's brows frowned slightly.

"Star Gate guest consultant, Luo Chen?"

But the next moment, his eyes lit up.

"Could it be that Desolate Loose Cultivator?"

With this thought, his eyes turned, and he stood up directly.

When Luo Chen arrived at the City Lord's Mansion, someone was already waiting for him under the starry night.

Wide robes and big sleeves, hair tied high.

The smile was gentle, like a spring breeze.

Luo Chen tidied his clothes and bowed: "It's so late, and I'm still disturbing you, it's really my fault."

"No matter, Gu originally had nothing important. Come, please!"

Hearing the surname Gu, Luo Chen couldn't help but raise his brows.

On the way in, the two introduced themselves to each other.

Sure enough, this cultivator named Gu Zuokai was indeed from the Gu family of the Twelve Great Families!

The Heavenly Origin Merchant Alliance is set up in the four continents, each with four elders of the Nascent Soul level.

However, those elders are basically from great families, and few great family members participate.

Now the great elder of the Merchant Alliance here in the Eastern Wasteland was actually sent by the great family Gu.

From this, one can see the importance the Heavenly Origin Dao Sect attaches to the Eastern Wasteland.

Luo Chen was very careful when talking to the other party at first, but gradually found that the other party was easy to get along with!

This so-called "good" was different from the easy-going of Fu Chaosheng, but rather like the other party was deliberately making friends with himself.

Is it because he performed too prominently in the Mirage Dragon Cave Heaven?

Luo Chen's guess was not far off.

Gu Zuokai looked at the young man who was like a drawn sword in front of him, and couldn't help but secretly praise in his heart.

"The clan said this person is extraordinary and can be befriended. Now that I see him, it's even more than the rumors. If I can really pull him into my Gu family, it will definitely add a powerful helper!"

Just as he was secretly praising, Luo Chen, who was opposite him, didn't go around in circles and asked directly about the current situation in the Eastern Wasteland.

Gu Zuokai didn't twist, and explained the situation in the Eastern Wasteland to Luo Chen one by one.

"The Eastern Wasteland monster chaos has lasted for a hundred years, and the thirty-six domains of the past are no longer glorious."

"Now, among the thirty-six domains, twelve domains have completely fallen, and three domains are suffering from the ravages of war. The major forces that survived from the front line gathered in the front, using the five domains of the Mu Mansion and the Fenghua Palace as the base camp, and the three front-line domains as the battlefield, conducting a bloody tug-of-war."

"The six domains in the far east you asked about died long ago!"

Hearing this, Luo Chen's palm couldn't help but clench tightly under his sleeve.

Even if he had known from the information that the six domains in the far east closest to the millions of great mountains had fallen, hearing the result with his own ears from someone else's mouth at this moment still made his heart tighten.

He asked in a deep voice: "What is the so-called 'Death-Defying Army' you mentioned?"

Gu Zuokai smiled slightly and explained the origin of this so-called Death-Defying Army to Luo Chen.

Monster beasts are powerful, and the various domains and sects are scattered, unable to contend with the vast monster beasts head-on.

But cultivators are not dead people; they know how to run, and they know the truth that if you lose the land and keep the people, both will be kept, and if you lose the people and keep the land, both will be lost.

Therefore, after determining that they couldn't stop the monster beasts, they would run to the rear.

The more people who ran, the more they were like locust refugees, disturbing the major sects in the rear.

According to the history of the Eastern Wasteland, the further back the sect forces are, the earlier they were established, and the deeper their foundation is.

They don't care about these "refugees."

After watching twelve domains fall and three domains turn into battlefields, in order to prevent following in their footsteps, the major forces in the rear took action together to stop the fleeing cultivators from continuing to retreat. 【

They were ordered to stop at the front line of the human-demon battlefield.

For this, five domains were cleared out to serve as their wartime base camp.

These five domains were the Mu Mansion where the Mu family was located, the Fenghua Domain where the Fenghua Palace was located, the Bai He Domain where the Bai He Sect was located, the Baishou Domain where the Baishou Sect was located, and the Sword Domain where the Wan Jian Pavilion was located.

Providing territory, providing resources, setting rules, and integrating this large, idle force to build a cultivator army to resist the demon clan.

This was the origin of the "Death-Defying Army".

To find life in death!

Either die on the human-demon battlefield, or be suppressed and wiped out by the twenty-one Nascent Soul great sects in the rear!

Only by turning around and moving forward, fighting for a clear sky, could they return to their homeland!

After understanding the origin of the so-called Death-Defying Army, a glimmer of luck arose in Luo Chen's heart.

Before the Spirit Rhinoceros Gu disappeared, he clearly knew that Sima Hui Niang was not dead; if they were smart enough to escape to the rear, they would have a chance to survive.

Perhaps they were in the so-called Death-Defying Army.

Luo Chen, while harboring luck, asked: "The war situation in the Eastern Wasteland is so bad, does the holy land not have a statement?"

"What statement do you want?" Gu Zuokai sneered: "In the Million Great Mountains, God knows how many demon beasts there are. In the early years, they carried out that pioneering war, nibbling away at the demon clan's territory step by step. Although they did conquer many territories, just like those of us on the front line now, some smarter and more powerful demon beasts fled to the rear. Having accumulated for thousands of years, they have become a climate! Now the Mingyuan Sect is sitting still, just opening up the battle line, expanding the war situation, and at the cost of the lives of countless sects, families, and small scattered cultivators, just to probe the bottom of the demon clan!"

Luo Chen opened his mouth; the inaction of the holy land from his perspective was, in the other party's view, a probe of the overall situation by the Eastern Wasteland holy land, the Mingyuan Sect.

But this strategy, when falling on individuals and small sects, was a devastating blow!

Of course, if he were in that position, he might also do the same.

It was just that Gu Zuokai was quite disdainful of the "pioneering war" strategy of opening up territory.

Luo Chen thought deeply about it and soon understood.

The Heaven Origin Dao Sect was not so sluggish!

In the ancient era, they conquered Central Province in one battle, cleared the demon atmosphere, and only then did they have three thousand years of peaceful and prosperous times.

The cultivators he saw everywhere in Central Province, with Core Formation cultivators like clouds and Nascent Soul figures frequently seen, were the fruitful results of the Heaven Origin Dao Sect's conquest of Central Province back then.

"Of course, the Mingyuan Sect is not completely inactive. In this process, they will dispatch Nascent Soul sects from time to time, and occasionally send disciples to enter the battlefield to kill demons."

"At least, from a moral standpoint, there is no way to blame them."

Gu Zuokai said a lot, and finally his expression became solemn.

"In my opinion, the Mingyuan Sect's approach is more like stretching out a fist and then striking it out more forcefully."

"Shrinking the battle line is one thing, ordering the formation of the Death-Defying Army is another; next, there might be bigger moves!"

Bigger moves?

Luo Chen fell into silence.

The so-called big move was probably to let those survivors counterattack the demon clan, and the Mingyuan Sect would also send troops at the same time to recover the lost territory.

But in this process, the Death-Defying Army would definitely be on the front line, and the casualties could be imagined!

If Sima Hui Niang and the others were really still alive...

Luo Chen suddenly raised his head: "Is there a teleportation array in Shenyuan City?"

Gu Zuokai was stunned: "You want to go to the front line?"

Luo Chen nodded.

Gu Zuokai spread his hands: "I'm sorry, the Heaven Origin Trade Alliance is not allowed to set up teleportation arrays in the Eastern Wasteland. If you want to go to the five domains on the front line, you can only borrow the teleportation array of the Dongyang Sect. But at this time, the cost of one teleportation is a bit expensive. And, in a wartime state, it is very difficult for ordinary people to borrow it..."

"Please, fellow Daoist, help me out."

While speaking, Luo Chen handed over a jade bottle.

Gu Zuokai didn't care: "Fellow Daoist, you are being too formal; even if there is no..."

The bottle stopper was opened, and a thick fragrance of elixir drifted out.

Gu Zuokai's expression changed slightly.

He carefully took the jade bottle, tested it with his spiritual sense for a long time, and finally said in a deep voice: "I will do my best!"

Shangyang City!

A direct major city under the Dongyang Sect, its scale is no less than Shenyuan City, and it is a top-tier immortal city that can squeeze into the top ten even in the Eastern Wasteland!

Here, a super-long-distance teleportation array was set up, which could lead to the Bai He Domain.

It is said that because the Dongyang Sect and the Bai He Sect have a good relationship, and the two sides communicate with each other, they can have this kind of two-way teleportation array.

Luo Chen stood outside a great hall and said to Gu Zuokai: "These followers of mine are different from ordinary people. It is not suitable for them to walk in the Eastern Wasteland at this time, so I have to trouble you, fellow Daoist, to send someone to escort them."

Gu Zuokai looked at Tianxuan and the others, but didn't see anything different.

But when the black dragon pattern on Luo Chen's left arm's white clothing suddenly came to life, turned into a small dragon, and jumped onto Zhang Jingqing's shoulder, his expression changed slightly.

At that moment, he felt the aura of the same rank!

The rumor that the Desolate Loose Cultivator had a spirit pet at the level of a fourth-rank Demon Emperor was indeed true!

Such an existence was indeed not suitable for walking openly in the Eastern Wasteland now.

But looking at the bottle of Hongyuan Elixir, he still agreed to this matter.

"Fellow Daoist, just go ahead. At the speed of the caravan, as long as there are no accidents, they will only need two or three years at most to reach the Bai He Domain."

"In that case, thank you, fellow Daoist!"

Luo Chen arched his hands, gave a few more instructions to Tianxuan and the Black King, and then strode toward the heavily guarded great hall.

The cultivators gave way, and the great door opened.

Luo Chen stepped into it, and a Nascent Soul cultivator greeted him.

"Please!"

"Trouble you, fellow Daoist Lu."

"No problem, the few bottles of elixir that fellow Daoist Luo took out earlier are really good. I wonder if there are any left?"

"That's a coincidence, those are the only ten bottles I, Luo, have on me now. But I am proficient in the refining method of this elixir; if you want more in the future, fellow Daoist Lu, you can come and find me!"

"Then thank you, fellow Daoist Luo!"

True Person Lu looked happy.

For Nascent Soul cultivators, external objects like elixirs are no longer of much use.

But those are just ordinary elixirs!

The ten bottles of Hongyuan Elixir that Luo Chen took out as the teleportation fee were all mid-grade; he had taken a little, and still hadn't refined it yet.

One can imagine what kind of progress his magic power would have after completely refining it!

The Nascent Soul 3rd layer realm that had trapped him for many years might be broken through by relying on these ten bottles of Hongyuan Elixir. If he could continue to take them later, then the Nascent Soul late stage realm might not be impossible!

After handing Luo Chen a jade plate and watching the other party enter the teleportation array, True Person Lu personally activated the teleportation array.

When a burst of light flashed, Luo Chen's figure had completely disappeared.

True Person Lu breathed a sigh of relief; there were no accidents.

He strode out of the teleportation hall, chatted with Gu Zuokai for a while, and then returned to his residence, intending to continue refining that Hongyuan Elixir.

But before he could sit still, he heard someone report that a fellow sect junior wanted to see him.

"Is it Chi Zhong?"

True Person Lu was somewhat curious; usually, this fellow sect junior from the Mingyuan Sect would not come to find him.

He didn't put on any airs and soon summoned the other party.

When Chi Zhong explained his purpose, True Person Lu showed a look of hesitation.

The person he personally sent away just now was actually a guest consultant of the Star Gate?

No wonder Gu Zuokai personally vouched for him.

He smiled and said to Chi Zhong: "Don't worry, I will notify your sect about this news."

"In that case, thank you, Uncle-Master." After Chi Zhong bowed, he retreated respectfully.

After he left, True Person Lu took out a jade slip and began to record the content.

"Star Gate guest consultant, named Luo Chen."

"Nascent Soul early stage realm, extraordinary demeanor, suspected to be a sword cultivator."

After a pause, True Person Lu hesitated, but still added the news he knew.

"Can refine fourth-rank mid-grade cultivation elixirs, suspected to be a grandmaster of alchemy!"