Chapter 892

The Black King has some talent.

Early on, under the cultivation of a large amount of top-tier Emperor Flowing Plasma used by Luo Chen, he catalyzed a devouring demon art that could devour various flesh, blood, and bones, extracting energy beneficial to himself.

Later, after advancing to a Desolate Beast, he successively obtained the two Desolate Beast talents of the Undying Body and Guiding Spirit into the Earth.

The former is manifested in battle; even if limbs are missing or part of the physical body is destroyed by others, as long as it is not instantly ground away, it can slowly recover. During the battle with Master Qing Shuang, the Black King was once beaten extremely miserably, but now he is still jumping around.

The latter, Luo Chen had always thought could only be used to cultivate spiritual land and improve the grade of spiritual veins.

But now it seems, he had somewhat neglected the talent of Guiding Spirit into the Earth.

Whether it was searching for spiritual wine in the Dieyun Sect or finding a large number of technique classics in the Five Elements God Sect, the Black King showed extreme sensitivity to places with dense spiritual energy.

Now, he has found another good thing for him!

"Perhaps I can pay attention to related resources in the future and dig more into the Black King's talent in this area."

After all, having many skills doesn't weigh one down!

The Black King is the same; it's not like he has to fight every day, so how can he just eat and sleep?

Having an extra skill is worthy of being Luo Chen's number one spiritual pet.

Luo Chen muttered in his heart and began to study the "good thing."

God-Illuminating Gu!

The closely guarded secret of the Shadow-Reflecting Sect.

And it is very clear that the God-Illuminating Gu found by the Black King is not of a low grade.

Looking at the sleeping Gu insect that looked like a caterpillar, Luo Chen carefully distinguished it with his limited knowledge of the Gu path.

Those black line rings are not patterns, but wrinkles.

The more there are, the older the age.

"Even if it's not a mother Gu, it's at least an adult one, enough for a powerhouse at the Nascent Soul realm to use."

"But how to use it specifically, I still need to study it."

Luo Chen pursed his lips and flipped through the other classics in the storage bag.

Facing those dense classics, Luo Chen couldn't help but look at the Black King with appreciation again.

This guy knows that he likes to read extensively, so when collecting resources, he always deliberately sweeps through them.

His mind is quite exquisite!

Smiling, Luo Chen sank his mind into it.

A flying boat went from east to south.

Cave Master Brother Minglei was on the deck at the bow of the boat, standing against the wind, his expression complex.

At this moment, this flying boat was being controlled by his magic power and spiritual sense.

A dignified generation of Nascent Soul powerhouses, actually reduced to the point of driving a boat for others; who wouldn't have a complex mood?

But that is Tyrant Cultivator Qitian!

Not to mention the powerful strength the other party displayed,

just for saving his life earlier, he had to show something.

A few words of thanks could not show sincerity.

The other party didn't care about various resources.

So he could only express it through his actions.

But thinking of the terrifying strength the other party displayed in the two battles, Cave Master Brother Minglei felt a bit of doubt in his heart.

"Is body refining that powerful?"

In the world of immortal cultivation, body refiners, or body-refining practitioners, are a long-declined school.

Even though the Southern Border preserves the path of body refining relatively completely compared to the other four continents, not many people take it to heart.

At most, it is used as an auxiliary means before the Nascent Soul to enhance the physical body.

After all, when forming the Nascent Soul, one needs the balance of the three treasures of essence, energy, and spirit; if the physical body is too weak, it cannot withstand the process of shattering the core to form the Nascent Soul.

But the strength Luo Chen displayed again and again had completely exceeded Cave Master Brother Minglei's imagination.

Actually, this is him being blinded by a leaf.

Luo Chen's strength is not just in the realm of body refining.

The Red Eyes with Golden Pupils allow him to ignore illusion and concealment techniques, finding flaws in the enemy's fighting process.

The Soul-Suppressing Soul Technique gives him powerful soul defense capabilities, not fearing the soul attack methods that body refiners fear most.

With these two points, plus a terrifying physique, Luo Chen is an invincible weapon of attack.

Moreover, in terms of rich combat experience, how many Nascent Soul True Persons in the world can compare to Luo Chen?

Not to mention the lively thoughts Cave Master Brother Minglei had about body refining, Luo Chen had gradually gained some clues about studying the God-Illuminating Gu.

Inside the cabin.

Luo Chen held a book and studied it carefully.

After a while, he put down the book titled "Hundred Solutions of Gu Insects" thoughtfully.

"The function of this God-Illuminating Gu, in layman's terms, is clearly a monitoring instrument!"

According to the introduction in the "Hundred Solutions of Gu Insects" collected by the Shadow-Reflecting Sect, the God-Illuminating Gu is different from ordinary Gu insects that assist in cultivation and enhance magic power and soul; it does not directly improve the cultivator's strength.

But it does indeed help in identifying gaps and making improvements in cultivation.

Refining it into the body, the God-Illuminating Gu can clearly perceive changes in the body.

And this refining is not like ordinary magic treasures or elixirs, refined with magic power, but purely refined with the soul.

In this way, the memory perception of the God-Illuminating Gu will also be perceived by the host afterwards because of the soul connection.

Cultivation can be said to be a work of water-grinding effort, and it is also a delicate work.

The world is chaotic; as long as the realm can be improved, cultivation is always more or less the same.

But if one wants to walk every realm steadily and build a

perfect foundation, one needs to do it to the extreme in the details.

The God-Illuminating Gu is specifically used to make up for details.

After each practice, the host observes the changes in the whole body during the cultivation process through the God-Illuminating Gu, achieving the point of knowing why it is so, instead of muddling through it.

"A bit interesting..."

Luo Chen muttered to himself.

Afterwards, he made up his mind.

He must refine this God-Illuminating Gu!

All along, Luo Chen's foundation at each realm has been very solid.

But in fact, many times, he himself did not understand some peculiar changes in the cultivation process, just muddling along the paths of his predecessors.

If there is this Gu insect to assist, he can understand the essence of cultivation, and in the future, he can not only adjust the details of his cultivation at any time but also clarify the direction of his future cultivation.

The only thing to worry about is probably how to refine it.

Because he does not have the specific method of the Shadow-Reflecting Sect for refining the God-Illuminating Gu.

But for this, Luo Chen has his own set of solutions!

He glanced outside and estimated the time in his heart.

The journey to Mijie Mountain is long.

Originally, he intended for himself and Cave Master Brother Minglei to fly at full speed to get there quickly.

Because he wanted to study the Gu insect, it turned into taking a flying boat.

In this way, the speed naturally dropped.

But time also became much more abundant.

"Before arriving at Mijie Mountain, it should be enough for me to refine this God-Illuminating Gu."

After some calculations, Luo Chen calmed his heart, squeezed a drop of essence blood from his fingertip, and dripped it onto the caterpillar-like flesh worm.

As the blood entered the body, the sleeping God-Illuminating Gu woke up instantly.

Circles of black ring wrinkles began to squirm, and eyes like insect compound eyes opened in confusion, looking at Luo Chen at first glance.

"Come in!"

Luo Chen opened his mouth and inhaled, and the Gu insect was swallowed by him in one gulp.

As the Gu insect entered his body, it headed straight for the Purple Mansion.

During this process, the God-Illuminating Gu also began to become active, frequently emitting consciousness to scan Luo Chen's whole body.

However, as soon as it entered the Purple Mansion, it froze.

A small pale-green tree stretched its branches, emitting slow flames.

Not only that, but a bird resembling a phoenix curiously flew towards it.

That posture seemed to want to eat it.

The God-Illuminating Gu was shocked and hurriedly crawled inside.

Suddenly, it saw a small gray cauldron standing quietly there, as if it could suppress everything in the world.

This would be a good shelter.

The God-Illuminating Gu subconsciously

crawled toward the tripod feet of the small gray cauldron.

However, before it could climb onto the tripod feet, it was struck by lightning and retreated in panic.

Inside the small cauldron, there were even more terrifying things!

Moreover, the natural rank suppression of its own kind was far greater than the fear given to it by the fire tree and fire bird.

For a time, the God-Illuminating Gu felt lost in fear and panic.

In the vast Purple Mansion, there was no place for it to stand?

Just at this moment!

A chubby hand descended from the sky, grabbed it, and refined it into the body in an instant.

The Nascent Soul, the product of the fusion of the three treasures of essence, energy, and spirit, is the second dwelling place of the soul besides the physical body.

Luo Chen's main soul was inside it at the moment. After grabbing the shrinking and fearful God-Illuminating Gu, he used the most basic method to refine the consciousness of the God-Illuminating Gu itself bit by bit with his soul.

This process cannot be slow.

If it is too slow, the God-Illuminating Gu will react and resist him.

But likewise, it cannot be fast.

If it is too fast, Luo Chen's powerful soul will instantly destroy this fragile Gu insect.

In that case, all previous efforts would be wasted.

Time passed slowly in this process of refining the Gu insect.

Half a year later.

The wind whistled outside the boat.

Inside the boat, it was extremely quiet.

Gulp.

With a mouthful of wine in his belly, the conversation between the two people on the boat opened up.

"The disaster of the Demon Heart Gu, strictly speaking, broke out five hundred years ago."

"But the time point when the Demon Heart Gu truly appeared was even earlier; it is rumored that it was the product of a powerful Gu refiner researching the fifth-grade divine Gu 'Live and Die Together Gu' based on ancient books."

"At that time, people discovered this Gu, which was extremely perfect; once refined, it could greatly improve the efficiency of refining essence into energy."

"Brother Qi should understand that for us to practice, there are no more than two paths. Either swallow and refine spiritual energy from the outside world, or convert magic power from the physical body's blood and energy."

"The former is very cumbersome, requiring spiritual land of corresponding grade, requiring a not-weak soul, and also requiring good techniques; there are too many conditions and restrictions."

"But refining essence into energy is relatively simple. Whether it is exercising the physique, or food supplementation, or medicinal supplementation, it can have immediate effects."

"Coupled with the fact that the path of body refining has always been circulating in the Southern Border. Therefore, after the Demon Heart Gu appeared, it immediately became the fastest method to improve the realm of immortal cultivation!"

After more than half a year of refining the Gu insect, Luo Chen finally had time to spare.

The conversation topic that had been interrupted earlier was brought up by him again.

Regarding this matter, Cave Master Brother Minglei had long been prepared, so he spoke eloquently, almost without interruption.

It was also under his narration that Luo Chen learned that after the Demon Heart Gu appeared back then, in the Southern Border,

it was quite lively.

Just like the appearance of some top-tier elixir, the appearance of the Demon Heart Gu also caused a huge uproar.

Moreover, because there were no restrictions on conditions, the impact it brought was even crazier than the grade restrictions of elixirs!

Perhaps the only threshold limiting the spread of the Demon Heart Gu to every cultivator was its high price!

"I was still young at the time, and as a rogue cultivator, I had no extra assets, so naturally I was unable to afford the spirit stones to buy the Demon Heart Gu."

"But it was just right, allowing me to avoid a catastrophe!"

Speaking of this, Cave Master Brother Minglei's face was full of sighs and lingering fear.

Luo Chen was curious: "What catastrophe?"

Cave Master Brother Minglei asked back: "Brother Qi knows about rank suppression, right?"

Luo Chen nodded, "I naturally know this common sense. High-grade demonic beasts will suppress low-grade ones, and powerful immortal cultivators, even if they don't make a move, will make the weak naturally fearful. Could it be that Gu insects are also like this?"

"Gu insects are naturally like this, but the suppression of the Demon Heart Gu is even more powerful!"

Cave Master Brother Minglei said so, and then the conversation changed.

"Let's not mention the rank suppression for now; let's talk about the magic power attribute! The magic power refined using the Demon Heart Gu, although it will have different attributes due to the cultivator's spiritual root and physique, people later discovered that among these differences, there is still commonality!"

"Commonality?" Luo Chen seemed to have thought of something.

Cave Master Brother Minglei nodded, "Yes, some people discovered that the magic power between two different cultivators who refined the Demon Heart Gu can actually be absorbed and converted through each other's Demon Heart Gu. If the realms are similar, it can even achieve near-lossless absorption! The catastrophe also started from this!"

Luo Chen thought of himself.

Although he had never refined the Demon Heart Gu, he relied on his powerful physical blood and energy to forcibly cultivate a low-grade Luo Lingxi Gu to the level of a third-grade Demon Heart Gu.

Later, when his physical body underwent nirvana, the Demon Heart Gu died along with it.

But half of the magic power was strangely transmitted to Hui Niang, who was hundreds of millions of miles away.

Luo Chen did not know what mystery was in the transmission, only thinking it was the rules of heaven and earth.

But the fact that President Sima Hui Niang could receive his magic power showed clues.

The only flaw was probably that Hui Niang's own physique was not enough, so she did not cultivate the Luo Lingxi Gu on her body to the third-grade Demon Heart Gu level, which led to her inability to fully convert the domineering fire-attribute magic power he transmitted.

It was also in the slow evolution afterwards that the Luo Lingxi Gu advanced to the third grade and was too deeply bound to Hui Niang.

Beside him, Cave Master Brother Minglei's voice was still slowly coming.

"Since someone discovered this, the Southern Border immortal cultivation world erupted into endless blood and rain."

"In order to seek rapid improvement in cultivation, many people chose to take a dangerous path that was faster than a shortcut. They wantonly hunted down cultivators who had also refined the Demon Heart Gu, converting their magic power into their own, and even later, they didn't even need to distinguish, just kill them first."

"At that time, I was still in the Qi Refining stage, living in fear all day long, wishing I could carve the words 'I have not refined the Demon Heart Gu' on my forehead, just afraid that someone would make a move on me."

Luo Chen couldn't help but say: "With such chaos, don't the holy lands care?"

Cave Master Brother Minglei nodded, and then quickly shook his head.

"They care, but only in name. After clearing out the Demon Heart cultivators within their own ranks, they only issued an order to the outside world, ordering the Southern Border not to circulate the Demon Heart Gu anymore."

"What truly calmed this catastrophe was the appearance of a Nascent Soul old monster."

"Wherever he passed, any cultivator who refined the Demon Heart Gu, regardless of their realm, had no ability to resist, and all their magic power was harvested by him."

"Only at this time did people know that besides converting magic power of different attributes, the Demon Heart Gu also has natural rank suppression of the same Gu. In front of a fourth-grade Demon Heart Gu, no matter what realm you have cultivated to, even if you are both in the Nascent Soul stage, as long as your own Demon Heart Gu is not of a high enough grade, you can only become a fish on the chopping block, at the mercy of others."

"And that old monster was also called the Demon Heart Gu Emperor!"

Luo Chen's expression changed slightly.

Demon Heart Gu Emperor, this name finally appeared!

But he was not in a hurry, because this was very likely not the one he was looking for.

Sure enough.

Following Cave Master Brother Minglei's narration, Luo Chen finally came into contact with the information he wanted.

"Such a terrifying existence naturally annoyed the many Nascent Soul powerhouses in the Southern Border. After all, anyone who could achieve the Nascent Soul stage at that time would not be alone."

"They also had disciples and grandchildren, and blood descendants. Among these juniors, there were always some who wanted quick convenience and went to refine the Demon Heart Gu to accelerate their cultivation."

"Mutual hunting still belonged to the competition for resources. But the appearance of the Demon Heart Gu Emperor was like a harvest; no one could sit by and watch their own juniors become nourishment on others' path forward."

"A war to surround and kill the Demon Heart Gu Emperor started!"

Speaking of this, Cave Master Brother Minglei visibly breathed a sigh of relief.

He smiled, "Under that level of pursuit, the Demon Heart Gu Emperor dared not be arrogant anymore and could only act in secret. One day, a piece of news spread from nowhere: the Demon Heart Gu Emperor was dead."

"Dead?" Luo Chen raised his eyebrows.

Cave Master Brother Minglei nodded slightly, "Yes, he was dead. And he died in the most unexpected situation; he was backlashed. He was backlashed by a low-grade cultivator who had also refined the Demon Heart Gu, using the inferior to overcome the superior."

"Who was that person, and where is he?"

Cave Master Brother Minglei spread his hands, "I don't know, no one knows. That person is very mysterious, and his style of conduct is different from the old Gu Emperor; he never launched a harvest against others and quietly disappeared from the Southern Border immortal cultivation world."

Luo Chen opened his mouth and finally said slowly: "He is a cautious one."

Cave Master Brother Minglei smiled, "Maybe it's not caution, but fear. After all, the battle to pursue the Demon Heart Gu Emperor was too big, with powerhouses from dozens of top forces moving together; I'm afraid even the holy land would find it difficult to bear such anger."

Luo Chen also smiled, laughing at Cave Master Brother Minglei for taking things for granted; the foundation of the holy land is enough to suppress a continent.

Without the intervention of external forces, I'm afraid that even if all the powerhouses in the Southern Border gathered together, it wouldn't be enough for one ancestor of the Gate of Life and Death of the holy land to kill.

He was just curious, where did that new Demon Heart Gu Emperor go?

"Later, with the disappearance of the Demon Heart Gu Emperor, the forces in the Southern Border aimed their spears at the remaining Demon Heart Gu cultivators. Either hunting them down, or imprisoning them, or using various secret methods to try to remove or suppress them."

"Anyway, under the call and order of various families, the Demon Heart Gu, a cultivation tool that can be called cheating, gradually disappeared from the history of the Southern Border."

A catastrophe, a piece of history, told from the perspective of a bystander.

It was also the first time Luo Chen fully understood this history.

The information useful to him was not much, but he did capture some.

For example, the habits and efficacy of the Demon Heart Gu, as well as... the personality of that new Gu Emperor!

"Where would he hide?"

"He couldn't have already died of old age, could he?"

In such speculation, Luo Chen's heart suddenly moved.

"Brother Brother Minglei, excuse me first; I have some cultivation matters to deal with."

"Go ahead!"

Cave Master Brother Minglei said so, watching Luo Chen enter the cabin again.

There was quite a bit of envy in his eyes; the other party was already so strong, yet he was still constantly improving himself, not even relaxing while on the road.

In comparison, after he achieved the Nascent Soul stage, he had become somewhat slack.