Immortality Begins With The Alchemical Master Chapter 558: Waiting for the Rabbit, Cliff Snake's Remains - Novel Cool

Chapter 558: Waiting for the Rabbit, Cliff Snake's Remains

Chapter 558: Waiting for the Rabbit, Cliff Snake's Remains

In the vast and desolate sea, a fierce wind swept across the waves.

Suddenly, a massive figure appeared from the distance, shooting through the sky like a meteor, and when it came to a halt, the seawater exploded into countless splashes.

At this moment, the heavy rain had ceased, and the splashing water, illuminated by the sunlight, reflected a spectrum of vibrant colors.

Under the hazy glow, the colossal figure slowly shrank, its aura armor dissipating, and its wings retracting, as layers of vapor-like energy waves pushed the surrounding seawater aside.

In just a moment, as the splashes fell back into the sea, Luo Chen returned to his original form.

Looking at his naked body, he couldn't help but frown.

Whether it was the Tianpeng Transformation or Wang Yuan's Giant Spirit Transformation, both had this issue—clothing would be torn apart during the transformation.

Before, when his cultivation was lower, his body's transformation was only a dozen or so zhang in size, and his casual cultivation robe could expand accordingly.

But now, after advancing to the late third stage of the Ancient Desolation Realm, his full transformation could reach several dozen zhang, and his top-grade cultivation robes couldn't withstand the strain.

"Never mind, it's just a minor issue."

Casting a healing technique, he quickly controlled the injuries on his body, and a loose, moon-white Daoist robe appeared on him.

After that, Luo Chen sank into the seabed and quietly waited.

With his full speed, the previous short distance had already taken him over a thousand li away from the Mystic Rock Sea.

Ordinary third-stage demonic beasts couldn't catch up.

Especially the demonic beasts on Mystic Rock Island, which were mostly known for their powerful claws and shells, like the Demon Crabs and Demon Turtles, and many of them were still severely injured from the Thunder Tribulation.

The only ones who could possibly catch up to Luo Chen were the few great Demon Kings like Jin Cao and the others, but after receiving Luo Chen's Azure Sun Palm, which he had been accumulating for a long time, they were already struggling to handle their own situations.

Therefore, Luo Chen wasn't worried about being pursued.

He was waiting here to meet up with Han Zhan and Black King.

Han Zhan's evacuation point was a path that Han Zhan had discovered through an array, a way out from Mystic Rock Island. With the help of the Divine Sealing Compass's Misty Wave Array, they could escape calmly.

Moreover, Luo Chen had also bought them enough time.

It was unlikely that anything unexpected would happen.

After waiting for about half an incense stick's worth of time, Luo Chen opened his eyes in confusion during his meditation.

"Why haven't they arrived yet?"

Splash!

Luo Chen rose to the surface, using both his Spirit Eye and Divine Sense to look in a certain direction, but there was still no movement.

Strange!

He had clearly agreed with Han Zhan to meet here, but there was still no sign of them.

Luo Chen's heart sank.

"It can't be that Han Zhan has abandoned his principles for personal gain and fled, right?"

If that were the case, Luo Chen would be heartbroken.

At this moment, Han Zhan possessed all the treasures that belonged to Luo Chen.

The Ten Thousand Souls Banner, which had become increasingly sharp after being nurtured for a long time, the Divine Sealing Compass, an essential item for travel, and the Demon Sovereign Remains, which Black King had snatched from the Demon Spider Crab.

Just these three items, if placed in the increasingly turbulent Northern Sea cultivation world, would be worth several million spirit stones.

Especially the Demon Sovereign Remains, which was the body material of a fourth-stage Human Transformation Period demonic beast; if refined properly, it could produce an unparalleled treasure.

Otherwise, Luo Chen wouldn't have risked his life to obtain this item.

Oh, that's right!

There's also Black King!

This originally mediocre black-scaled python, after receiving the combined nurturing of Kun Jiao and Luo Chen, especially after consuming a large amount of top-grade Imperial Flow Paste, had finally unearthed its hidden potential, and its future prospects were limitless.

If Han Zhan had taken it and run off, Luo Chen wouldn't know where to cry!

It was at this moment that Luo Chen realized that the so-called Dao Oath wasn't all-powerful.

The Dao Oath that Han Zhan had made to Luo Chen only stated that Han Zhan couldn't take any actions detrimental to Luo Chen before he advanced to the Nascent Soul Stage.

But the content of the oath didn't restrict Han Zhan from leaving on his own.

For a moment, Luo Chen's joy from obtaining the treasures also faded.

"No, I have to go and find them."

Luo Chen checked his condition; his spiritual power was still more than half full, and although his physical body had injuries, it didn't affect his ability to unleash his full combat power.

If he were to encounter any enemies, he had enough strength to protect himself.

Following that direction, Luo Chen summoned a cloud of spiritual power and quietly flew along the surface of the sea, using the array.

During the flight, he constantly paid attention to any fluctuations in spiritual power.

Black King was his spiritual beast, and when he had enslaved it, he had taken its soul blood, establishing a connection between them.

As long as the distance wasn't too far, he could unilaterally sense the other party's general location.

After flying for about the time it takes an incense stick to burn, suddenly, the cloud stopped above the sea.

Luo Chen looked up at the sky, where a streak of light fled in a panic, and the powerful aura that burst out from it was at least at the seventh layer of the Golden Core!

Especially, that aura was quite familiar.

"It's Gu Shaoshang!"

"What is he doing here, and why is he running for his life?"

Just as Luo Chen was puzzled, a vortex appeared in the sea ahead, and a massive black-scaled python emerged from the water. Its body was thick and fat, with a ferocious horn on its head. If one ignored its appearance and only felt its aura, it already had a somewhat majestic presence.

It's Black King!

Luo Chen's heart leaped with joy, and he dismissed the array.

Black King also noticed and quickly swam over.

"Master, Black King has not failed your command!"

As he spoke, he opened his mouth and spat out a ball of bright yellow light, which slowly floated above the two of them.

After just a glance, Luo Chen felt a sense of ancient and profound power.

Focusing his eyes, he penetrated the yellow light and saw a turtle shell inside, with intricate patterns covering its surface, forming hexagons.

Such orderly shell patterns were extremely rare in the cultivation world, and only those with outstanding talent could refine them.

"Is this the Demon Sovereign Remains, the Mystic Rock Armor?"

He reached out and took the shell.

After examining it carefully, he carefully put it into his storage ring and then looked at Black King.

"What about Gu Shaoshang? What happened with him?"

Black King was a bit confused, "I don't know either. When I escaped from the underwater spring, I found him blocking the exit. It was only after Elder Han personally intervened that he was driven back."

Driven back?

Luo Chen was puzzled, and at that moment, a scale on Black King's back flipped open, revealing the Ten Thousand Souls Banner within.

Luo Chen took the banner, and Elder Han's voice drifted into his ear.

"That young man is not ordinary. He's proficient in the art of formations. Perhaps, like us, he also saw through the hidden escape routes on Mystic Rock Island and was waiting for us along our escape path."

"Did you fight with him?"

"No, I didn't. As a dignified Yuan Ying True Monarch, I wouldn't repeatedly engage with a Golden Core junior. I merely released a strand of my Yuan Ying aura to scare him off."

So that was it!

Luo Chen nodded, but he still had some doubts in his mind. If the young man was scared off so quickly, why did it take so long?

Perhaps understanding Luo Chen's cautious nature, Elder Han further explained, "The Ring-Topped Turtle Clan also knows about the escape routes on Mystic Rock Island. After the death of their Clan Leader and Great Elder, some Ring-Topped Turtle Demon Kings led the surviving clan members to evacuate, and their route was one of the escape paths."

To prevent any unexpected conflicts, Elder Han and Black King had no choice but to slow down their speed, taking a long time before finally leaving Mystic Rock Island.

As soon as they emerged, they encountered Gu Shaoshang, who was waiting for them, resulting in the scene Luo Chen witnessed when he arrived.

"Alright, this place is too close to Mystic Rock Island. To be safe, it's better to leave first!" Luo Chen said.

"Are we leaving the Mystic Rock Sea and returning to the Flying Swallow Archipelago?" Elder Han asked.

Luo Chen shook his head, "I still need to process the batch of Third Stage Demon Crab materials I obtained before returning. Otherwise, if it takes too long, the materials won't be suitable for refining the Black King Ointment."

As he spoke, he used his spiritual power to wrap the Ten Thousand Souls Banner and hold it in his hand, while Elder Han timely entered it and handed over the Divine Compass.

Black King's body shrank, curling up beneath Luo Chen's spiritual cloud.

With a pinch of his spiritual technique, the grayish cloud dissipated into the horizon.

...

At an uninhabited island located tens of thousands of miles away from Mystic Rock Island.

A sea gull perched on it.

On this day, a streak of escape light descended upon the island.

The sea gull hurriedly approached, "Master, you're back."

"You returned before us. Has anyone been to the Coral Gorge?" Luo Chen asked, looking at Tianxuan.

Tianxuan quickly shook his head, "I checked, and no one has. Even if some low-level sea demons accidentally entered the Coral Gorge, they were preyed upon by the nearby Blood Coral. That place remains undiscovered."

Luo Chen nodded; since it hadn't been discovered, it was still relatively safe.

He would first go there to process the shells of the Demon Kings, and then it wouldn't be urgent to leave the Mystic Rock Sea.

After instructing Tianxuan to stay nearby and be vigilant against outsiders, Luo Chen returned to the Coral Gorge with Black King.

Upon arriving, he took out the Divine Compass, preparing to rearrange the Misty Wave Array.

"You're still so cautious," Elder Han said with a smile.

Luo Chen manipulated the compass while casually replying, "It's always good to be careful when traveling. Otherwise, back when I was on Tianxuan Island, I would have been surrounded by the Demon Spider Crab Clan."

Once surrounded, breaking through would be no easy task.

The battle on Mystic Rock Island, where he broke through the interception circle, was well-prepared.

But if he were ambushed in the cave abode, even with a full-power burst, he might not be able to escape.

If the enemy were a Demon Spider Crab, a demon clan skilled in perception and blockade, escape would be impossible!

Just as Luo Chen was setting up the array, Elder Han suddenly said, "Expand the range of the formation a bit."

"Hmm?"

"Cover an area of one square li!" Elder Han estimated a number.

One square li was approximately 500 meters in radius, which Luo Chen usually used as a reference.

Although he was a bit puzzled, he followed Elder Han's instructions.

In an instant, under the support of spiritual power, the Divine Compass glowed with spiritual light, and the array patterns that had been previously set up began to spread outward.

The water surged, and red mist filled the air.

The Blood Coral Gorge, already bathed in red light, became even more crimson.

Those who didn't know might think that a Third Stage Blood Coral had just been born there.

Just as Luo Chen expanded the array's coverage, Elder Han spoke, "Haven't you noticed that there's something extra inside your Ten Thousand Souls Banner?"

Luo Chen was taken aback.

He hadn't inspected the banner.

Although he had personally refined and acknowledged the Soul Refining Banner, most of the time, Elder Han had been controlling it. It could be considered Elder Han's dwelling place, and Luo Chen had provided him with 'room and board'.

Therefore, he hadn't paid much attention to the banner.

At this moment, as his divine sense probed within, Luo Chen's face showed surprise.

Souls!

Countless souls!

Not only were there the two Demon Kings from before, but also over a thousand Demon General-level souls and tens of thousands of low-level souls.

Moreover, there were even more than a dozen Demon King remnant souls!

"What are these?" Luo Chen asked, unable to hold back his curiosity after examining half of them.

"Hehe."

Elder Han smiled slightly, "When I was monitoring the battlefield for you, I didn't just do nothing. I merely collected some unclaimed remnant souls, which didn't take much effort."

Luo Chen was speechless.

At that moment, he also understood why those proficient in the Soul Dao in the Demon Dao liked to roam ancient battlefields—it was to collect powerful souls!

Some even went to the extreme, deliberately stirring up trouble and controlling the outbreak of large and small wars.

Even low-level Soul Refining Demon Cultivators had been known to manipulate the outbreak of wars in low-level countries.

There was no other reason; the benefits were simply too great.

On the battlefield, the bloody and murderous aura was too intense.

In such an environment, the souls that could survive, even if they were just remnants, would undoubtedly be powerful tools if nurtured well.

The batch of souls Han Zhan collected, those tens of thousands of low-level souls, were insignificant to the millions of crab soldiers and generals of the Five Great Crab Clans, but for the Ten Thousand Souls Scepter, it was a significant boost to its strength.

As for the dozen or so third-stage remnants, as long as they were properly nurtured through mutual consumption, they might even give birth to a few complete third-stage Demon King-level beings.

At that time, the power of the Ten Thousand Souls Scepter would surely increase several times over! Perhaps this was Han Zhan's intention all along!

He had held back not only to avoid wasting his origin, but also because he was in a predicament where even a skilled cook couldn't make a meal without rice.

Now that the Ten Thousand Souls Scepter had a solid foundation, he could calmly employ some methods in the future.

"For me, this is a good thing. I've gained a powerful tool out of thin air, and it can also make up for the gap in combat strength after losing the Mystic Fire Sword."

Luo Chen's face lit up with joy.

Before he could praise Han Zhan, the latter suddenly spoke, "Why don't you take a closer look?"

"Is there something else?"

Driven by curiosity, Luo Chen's Divine Sense probed deeper into the Soul Refining Banner.

The further inside, the more souls there were. He hadn't noticed this during his previous hasty glance.

At this moment, he realized that those battle souls were all concentrated around one place.

When Luo Chen finally saw the true form of that place, his expression changed dramatically.

"This!"

A startled exclamation escaped his lips.

Then, his spiritual power surged, and the Soul Refining Banner grew in the wind, expanding to an extreme length of nine zhang.

The banner's entrance opened wide, and a thing two to three zhang wide slowly "swam" out from inside.

The moment it appeared, its aura immediately spread out.

Hei Wang, who was crouching at the entrance of the cave, looked up in surprise and doubt.

"Master, what is that?"

Luo Chen didn't answer him but instead focused on controlling his spiritual power to guide the object out.

One zhang, two zhang, three zhang... it wasn't until it reached a hundred zhang that its true form appeared.

It was a giant snake! A hundred-zhang giant snake!

Its massive body, winding and curving, spanned the Coral Gorge. Even though it was lifeless, the remaining aura still oppressed the nearby blood coral, causing it to prostrate in a graceful manner as if it were naturally afraid.

Looking at the scarred body of the giant snake, resembling charred wood, Luo Chen swallowed hard and turned to Han Zhan.

"Cliff Snake?"

Han Zhan's slightly illusory face was filled with a smile, but at this moment, he also revealed a hint of fatigue.

"It's the Ring-Topped Turtle that failed to cross the tribulation. However, even though it failed, it has shed its shackles and gained the body of a Cliff Snake."

"This... this..."

Luo Chen sighed repeatedly, unable to stop shaking his head.

"You've really given me a big surprise!"

Han Zhan tiredly said, "Although I can't help you much in battle, this small matter is still insignificant."

This was no small matter!

A Cliff Snake corpse, even though it had not completed its Human Transformation and failed to cross the tribulation, was still a top-tier Great Demon Overlord at the pinnacle of the third stage.

If released, there would be people willing to pay a high price for it.

Even if he kept it for himself, the materials on it would still be very useful.

Luo Chen naturally couldn't bear to sell it.

But if he kept it for himself? Luo Chen hesitated for a moment, looking at the Cliff Snake corpse. How should he use it? Just as he was pondering, he felt a rubbing sensation on his calf.

He looked down, and Hei Wang was carefully and cautiously rubbing against him in a flattering manner.

"Master, this..."

Luo Chen frowned, "This isn't something you can eat."

"He can really eat it."

Luo Chen looked up, and Han Zhan smiled.

"When I allowed this little guy to take action, I promised him some conditions, one of which was this Cliff Snake body. Give it to him. Anyway, this Cliff Snake failed to transform and was struck by a Thunder Tribulation dozens of times stronger. The materials on it are actually not very useful to you anymore."

Hei Wang also looked at Luo Chen with pleading eyes, "Master, when I helped you grab the Granite Shell, I almost got beaten to death by the Golden Claw crabs."

Luo Chen's expression kept changing, and his Divine Sense continuously entered and exited the Cliff Snake's body.

After multiple inspections, he had to admit that Han Zhan's words made sense.

This snake corpse, which looked no different from charred wood, had indeed lost most of its spirituality. Whether refining it into medicine or crafting a magical tool or treasure, the effectiveness would be quite average.

After all, this wasn't a Thunder-attributed demon beast but a Water-attributed Great Demon naturally afraid of heavenly thunder.

Being able to preserve such a complete corpse was already a stroke of luck in an unfortunate situation.

In comparison, his own harvest was still the dozen or so Great Demon crab king corpses and the Granite Shell that Hei Wang had obtained for him.

After some thought, Luo Chen reluctantly withdrew his lingering gaze.

"Alright, it's yours. Don't slack off after eating it."

Hei Wang hurriedly bowed on the ground, repeatedly kowtowing to Luo Chen.

"Thank you, Master. From now on, I will devote myself to serving you, even to the point of death!"

Heh, this guy was becoming increasingly fluent in the human language.

But seeing the longing in Hei Wang's eyes, Luo Chen also realized that this failed Cliff Snake corpse might be another great opportunity for Hei Wang!

If Hei Wang became stronger, it would also be a great joy for his master.

Calculating this, Luo Chen's inner knot vanished, and he laughed.

"This trip to Obsidian Island was truly fruitful, the first time I've had such a great harvest in my history!"

With a light heart, he stepped into the cave.

(End of Chapter)

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