Chapter 965: Soul retrieval plan, million evil soul banner

Inside the Scripture Transmission Pavilion.

Calm conversation sounds rose from time to time.

"You caused big trouble outside?"

"How could Brother Wang say that? How do you see my strength now?"

"Unfathomable, profound like the sea, at least I am no match for you."

"Haha, is that so? With my current strength, what kind of enemy can be considered big trouble?"

"But the urgency you show, and the almost risky improvement of strength, are almost exactly the same as the preparations before attacking the Yan Alliance back then."

"Yan Alliance? What a distant name!"

In front of the desk, Luo Chen murmured, his right hand stopping the talisman brush he was drawing with.

A fourth-tier body-refining technique called "Hundred Poisons Body Refining Technique" was left on the jade slip, but unlike needing poisonous insects to assist, this body-refining technique was simplified by Luo Chen and only required corresponding toxins to practice.

The work he was doing now was precisely to leave behind the high-tier techniques he had obtained in recent years before leaving.

The "Hundred Poisons Body Refining Technique" was just one of them. Similar techniques like "Three Heads and Six Arms," "Moonlight Heart-Clearing Mantra," and some strange techniques obtained from the Southern Frontier were all recorded.

Not only that, Luo Chen also recorded his experience and insights from practicing the "Soul Splitting Technique" in recent years.

These things would be left in the Library Pavilion for future Luo Tian Sect cultivators to exchange for practice.

He picked up the recorded body-refining technique, got up, walked to a nearby bookshelf, and placed it in an empty spot.

Wang Yuan, who was on the side, followed him while saying: "Yes, at that time, the Yan Alliance was worthy of being one of the Seven Sects of Yuding, a solid Jin Dan great sect. And our Luo Tian Society couldn't even be counted as a first-rate force, and we couldn't even gather a single Jin Dan cultivator. And in this situation, you actually had the whimsical idea to deal with them, and even through alliances and personal strength, you finally wiped out the Yan Alliance, which had a four-hundred-year inheritance, in a life-and-death battle."

Luo Chen put down the jade slip and picked up a yellowed, incomplete jade slip next to it on the bookshelf.

His spiritual sense swept over it, and five large characters were imprinted in his mind—"Ming Sea Returning Origin Qi."

This was a high-tier technique of the Mingyuan Sect. How high it was, he didn't know, only because it was destroyed when Luo Tian Sect cultivators searched for it from the ruins, leaving only this part.

It was barely around the third to fourth tier.

Multitasking, Luo Chen smiled: "In that battle, it was you, Brother Wang, and Chu Kui who protected me, right?"

Wang Yuan nodded, "Yes, precisely because I have seen the crazy you at that time, I know that under your seemingly calm emotions now, there might be a madness even greater than that year!"

Luo Chen's hand movement paused, his eyes having a few inexplicable expressions.

At that time, the Yan Alliance and the Luo Tian Society were two grades apart, the difference between a Jin Dan great sect and a second-rate force.

Now, the Tianyuan Dao Sect he was about to face seemed to be only a line away from the Luo Tian Sect, but the gap was heaven and earth.

Then this time, could his madness continue?

"Who is the enemy?" Wang Yuan stood opposite Luo Chen and asked with a frown: "Is it the Million Mountains, or an ancient sect, or perhaps a Soul Transformation holy land!"

Speaking to the end, he even had a feeling of gritting his teeth.

Luo Chen smiled and put the "Ming Sea Returning Origin Qi" on the bookshelf.

This was a high-tier technique with a unique approach, extremely miraculous, claiming to be able to borrow the Qi of Heaven and Earth!

But the threshold for entry was very high, requiring the cultivator to abolish their own foundation before they could practice it. If the foundation was stronger, the Qi of Heaven and Earth that could be borrowed after re-cultivation would be stronger, and there was also a secret technique that could convert the borrowed power into one's own magic power.

It's a pity that the latter part was missing.

This technique was miraculous, but Luo Chen didn't care.

Who would be willing to abandon their hard-earned cultivation to practice a technique that requires borrowing power!

Just like Luo Chen walking to this day, in front of the path of Soul Transformation, he would never give up.

Luo Chen's expression was serious, staring at Wang Yuan and saying: "Brother Wang, do you want to help me?"

Wang Yuan asked back: "Do you dislike my low strength?"

Luo Chen shook his head. How could he dislike these things? An extra bit of strength was always good.

But considering that the survival of the Luo Tian Sect was not easy, he had never intended to let them get involved.

At this moment, Wang Yuan kept asking, so he no longer covered it up.

"It's the Tianyuan Dao Sect!"

Wang Yuan's pupils shrank, and he lost his voice instantly.

Luo Chen walked between the bookshelves, looking at the three hundred years of accumulation of the Luo Tian Sect, the dazzling array of techniques and secret arts, and various inheritances, and sighed faintly.

"Don't worry, if things go smoothly, maybe we won't fight. After all, the current Tianyuan Dao Sect also has a pile of internal and external troubles, and they may not necessarily care about a small pawn like me."

Behind him, Wang Yuan replied heavily: "If that day really comes, count me in!"

Luo Chen looked back, the sunlight shining through the window onto Wang Yuan, making his figure appear even taller.

Brother Wang is still Brother Wang, it seems he hasn't changed much after all these years.

Luo Chen smiled and stepped out of the Library Pavilion.

Passing by the main entrance, a gray-clothed sweeping Daoist lowered his head and bowed to him.

"Supreme Elder, walk slowly."

"Hmm."

Luo Chen responded, leaped up, and when he flew to a high place, he looked down again.

That gray-clothed Daoist had no aura of magic power, just a mortal, yet he could sweep the most important Library Pavilion of the Luo Tian Sect?

I don't know how Wang Yuan, this Scripture Transmission Elder, arranged it?

Luo Chen muttered, and then returned to the Luo Tian Hall.

In view of the fact that Dan Mountain was destroyed by natural disasters, he temporarily lived in the Luo Tian Hall.

Before leaving, he needed to refine a batch of magic tools that could travel through the Nether Abyss, and it just so happened that Luo Tian Sect cultivators could send the corresponding materials to the hall.

In this process, Luo Chen didn't ask anyone for help, but relied entirely on himself.

The thick water vapor, even with the shielding of the formation, spread out from time to time.

Inside the Luo Tian Hall, streams of Ming water gushed out from the high-hanging spring eye, and then were refined by Luo Chen into black small boats.

Luo Chen didn't even bother to name this batch of magic tools, so he simply used the name "Ghost Crossing Boat" that the Luo Tian Sect had obtained before.

Anyway, the function was similar, and in terms of effect, the ones he refined were far better than the Ghost Crossing Boat, saving more magic power.

With these Ghost Crossing Boats, Luo Tian Sect cultivators could freely enter and exit the Nether Abyss in the future.

Bai Meiling swept away the surrounding low-tier ghost cultivators, so Luo Tian cultivators wouldn't have to worry about being disturbed by ghost cultivators in the future.

Haoranzi stayed in the Upper Nether Ruined City and established a stronghold for the Luo Tian Sect to the outside world, so the sect wouldn't be blind to the outside world.

As long as it is managed well later, after hundreds of years, the Luo Tian Sect will digest the inheritance of the Mingyuan Sect, and the sect will surely flourish.

Luo Chen had no more worries.

His gaze at this time fell on that spring eye.

"I originally wanted to use the remaining water lotus seed to refine a clone to mix into the Tianyuan Dao Sect to retrieve the missing life soul. But the water lotus seed ultimately lacks foundation, and the clone's strength cannot be improved in a short time, so it won't be valued by the Dao Sect. If this spring eye is refined into the clone, would it create a clone with talent comparable to a monster?"

Luo Chen muttered to himself, his eyes also shining brightly because of this sudden whim.

The plan to retrieve the life soul was actually not perfect; Luo Chen just had a vague idea.

According to the information given to him by the Nether Spring, the Central Continent was divided into five, turning into five continents, with the Heaven and Earth Peak broken by the Qixia Yuanjun occupying one continent.

And the Tianyuan Dao Sect occupied the other four continents respectively.

Back then, the top Great Desolate Hanging Soul Desolation drove the Yellow Spring Sea all the way west, and in the process, it sank the Western Continent, and all living beings were swept into the Yellow Spring Sea, with no survivors.

Therefore, now only the Eastern, Southern, and Northern continents were inhabited by cultivators of the Tianyuan Dao Sect.

And the Dao Sect mountain gate, the Lanke Mountain Range, was on the Eastern Continent. It is conceivable that the Soul Transformation great power of the Dao Sect should also practice on the Eastern Continent after returning.

What Luo Chen needed to do was to avoid the Eastern Continent, enter the Dao Sect branches of the other two continents with a clone, and then practice to the Nascent Soul stage at a super fast speed.

At that time, the Tianyuan Dao Sect would definitely follow tradition to collect his life soul.

Taking this opportunity, he could rely on the connection on the soul to find back the missing part, and then escape from the Tianyuan Dao Sect.

The whole process might not necessarily face the Dao Sect great power head-on.

But if it doesn't go smoothly...

"Then I can't help but have a fight and forcibly retrieve my life soul!"

Luo Chen narrowed his eyes, flashing with an extremely dangerous taste.

He knew where his missing life soul was!

Back then, Mo Shouzhuo took his life soul while he entered the Mirage Dragon Cave Heaven, and the means used was "Phantom Chess."

And that Phantom Chess was clearly a derivative means of the Spirit Treasure Lanke Chessboard.

Combined with the various powers of the Lanke Chessboard to protect the primordial spirit, collect spiritual energy, and suppress a continent, it must also be a treasure that collects souls.

And according to the information from Cangwu Mountain, in that great battle, the Central Continent collapsed, spiritual energy scattered everywhere, and the Lanke Chessboard also suffered backlash.

In this situation, grabbing the Lanke Chessboard back through war was also a way to retrieve the life soul.

But he was not willing to do that unless it was a critical moment.

Because once that happened, it would be clear that he was dealing with the Tianyuan Dao Sect. The Dao Sect great powers are not fools; they would either destroy the Lanke Chessboard or find a way to find his life soul and crush it directly. Luo Chen would very likely end up with nothing.

Therefore, it is best to do everything quietly!

Half a month later.

At the entrance of the Dan Saint Blessed Land, figures stood, the atmosphere serious.

Luo Chen's gaze swept over everyone one by one.

The steady and unchanging Wang Yuan, the flickering-eyed Ling Fengzi, the high-spirited Yu Jiaolong, the respectful and admiring Li Yingzhang...

Luo Chen didn't say anything, but in front of everyone, he summoned the three women of Sima Huiniang.

"I'm leaving, why don't I see Lingxi coming?"

Sima Huiniang was originally worried, but hearing Luo Chen's inquiry, she hurriedly explained: "Lingxi has already started seclusion to prepare to impact the Foundation Establishment realm. He also wants to improve his realm so he can come to help you sooner!"

Luo Chen was a bit dazed. Is his son also about to establish his foundation?

He should be able to succeed, right? His own spiritual root talent is not bad, and he has famous teachers to guide him, plus the Luo Tian Sect provides him with open resources.

Even a pig should be able to successfully establish its foundation!

If he failed, Luo Chen wouldn't care about anything, just treating his previous busyness as wasted.

Luo Chen's gaze fell on Gu Caiyi, pityingly rubbing her smooth hair.

"I know you have always been strong, but regarding cultivation, it's better to be a bit slower and not be so anxious."

Gu Caiyi's magic power fluctuations were very obvious at this moment, a sign of the eighth layer of Jin Dan.

How long has she stepped into the late Jin Dan stage?

In total, it has been less than thirty years, and she is already at the eighth layer of Jin Dan, which is simply scary.

Gu Caiyi wanted to explain something, but her gaze was attracted by a box Luo Chen took out.

"This is a Foundation Establishment Pill I specifically left for you, but I have placed a seal on it, and it will take at least a hundred years to open. During this time, you must organize your magic power and adjust the state of your three treasures of essence, energy, and spirit."

"Husband..." Gu Caiyi's tone was choked with sobs, only then knowing that Luo Chen had never ignored her, and even prepared a Foundation Establishment Pill for her alone, which even Sima Huiniang didn't have.

Luo Chen smiled, his line of sight meeting Fairy Cang Long.

Although the other party was still worried, she squeezed out a smile on her face.

"Just feel free to go out. I will watch over the affairs at home for you."

The Cang Long Fairy who said these words had a calm and generous expression.

Sima Huiniang's expression was a bit strange, as if she thought of something, but the words she opened her mouth to say were: "My son and I will wait for you to come back."

Luo Chen waved his hand and drifted out of the Dan Saint Blessed Land.

Behind him were a group of Luo Tian sect members with different expressions.

In front of him was Bai Meiling, who had been summoned and hurriedly returned by riding a mysterious turtle.

"Master, are you leaving again?"

"Hmm." Luo Chen nodded, then reached out his hand, "Let me see your achievements over these twenty years."

Yes, twenty years had passed in the blink of an eye since Luo Chen returned to the Luo Tian Sect.

During this period, condensing the primordial spirit, refining the spring eye, comprehending the source of water, and even the nirvana of the soul, many things occupied twenty years of time.

If you want to talk about rest and relaxation, perhaps the few days of entanglement with Fairy Cang Long could be considered relaxation!

And in the twenty years, Bai Meiling only did one thing.

The pitch-black Soul Refining Banner fell into Luo Chen's hands, and upon touching it, an inexplicable sense of heaviness arose spontaneously.

"Master, Xiaobai did not fail expectations, footprints covered most of the Nether Abyss, gathering a full million low-tier ghost souls, please accept them!"

Luo Chen's eyes lit up, and his spiritual sense immediately sank into the Soul Refining Banner.

Thousands of wailing and shrill sounds came.

Seeming to perceive the entry of a living soul, countless fierce ghosts rushed toward Luo Chen in unison.

However, before they could get close, they were shocked in place by a natural pressure.

Instantly, ten thousand ghosts were silent!

Bai Meiling looked at this scene and exclaimed: "As expected of Master, one thought can suppress a million ghost souls. I recently felt that I couldn't control this Ten Thousand Soul Banner anymore."

"You've worked hard." Luo Chen took out a wooden box and handed it to Bai Meiling.

Inside was exactly a soul stone, which he had brought out from the Soul Breaking Cliff back then.

This thing is also a great tonic for ghost cultivators!

After telling Bai Meiling how to refine and absorb it, Luo Chen focused his attention on the Soul Refining Banner in his hand.

"Ten Thousand Soul Banner?"

"A million ghost souls, already having the foundation of a fierce soul banner, only lacking a fierce soul that can devour spirits and ghosts."

He took out his Soul Nourishing Banner and threw all the dozens of Ghost Emperors inside into the Soul Refining Banner.

Sensing slightly, Luo Chen couldn't help but shake his head.

Not enough!

Wanting to fuse these dozens of Ghost Emperors into a Ghost God comparable to Soul Transformation was still not enough.

While he was thinking, Bai Meiling had already approached him.

"Master, this time when you go out, can you take me with you?"