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Chapter 652: Celestial Phenomenon, Golden Sky Black Sea
Chapter 652: Celestial Phenomenon, Golden Sky Black Sea
As Luo Chen secluded himself for cultivation, the outside world was in turmoil.
In the literal sense, the winds were howling and the clouds were surging! Above the Sinking Sea, the Void Flame Wind, which originally appeared irregularly, began to manifest uncontrollably in large quantities.
Even three years after the battle between Blood Scatterer and the Whale Emperor, the clouds above the Sinking Sea began to hover and gradually transformed into a dazzling golden hue.
The Golden Sky Black Sea formed the most magnificent scene in the Northern Sea.
Such a celestial phenomenon naturally attracted countless cultivators to the shores of the Sinking Sea.
However, the black and turbid seawater that could corrode everything, along with the Void Flame Wind that swept away countless creatures, blocked the way. Those cultivators who were determined to enter were all stopped outside.
Even if they managed to get in, they could only reach the extreme edge and could not advance any further.
Under these circumstances, those who knew the inside story also began to take action.
Ding Yi was one of them.
At Cloudsoaring Peak.
Ding Yi paced back and forth in his cave abode, his face filled with anxiety.
"Dao Lan has disappeared, making it harder for me to grasp the situation there. How about your side?" he asked.
The Lord of Cloudsoaring Cave, sitting across from him, spoke in a deep voice, "According to my connections, the Golden Sky Black Sea phenomenon has appeared above the Sinking Sea, but the cyclone of spirit energy inversion has not yet occurred, which means the ruins have not truly opened."
The Golden Sky Black Sea, with the spirit energy inversion, was the complete celestial phenomenon of the opening of the ruins.
Ding Yi shook his head, "It's not that the ruins haven't opened, but that they've already opened, and your connections just haven't discovered it yet. It's even possible that someone has already entered and is exploring the treasures of the ruins."
The Lord of Cloudsoaring Cave frowned, "What should we do then?"
Ding Yi took a deep breath.
"I'm thinking of going to the Sinking Sea to investigate. If I find a suitable cyclone, I'll enter in advance."
"But what about Qingyang Demon Lord?"
The Lord of Cloudsoaring Cave mentioned Luo Chen, which made Ding Yi even more anxious.
"That guy has been crazily acquiring medicinal ingredients in recent years, probably intending to refine pills. He wants to enter the late Golden Core stage before setting out, to increase his chances by threefold."
"Refine pills?" The Lord of Cloudsoaring Cave was taken aback.
"You probably don't know that he's also a skilled pill refinement master. Pills of the second and third tiers are nothing to him."
This time, the Lord of Cloudsoaring Cave was truly astonished.
Could there be such a genius in this world? At such a young age, he had mastered the two great arts of pill refinement and artifact crafting, and had achieved remarkable success in both?
"I'll go to Penghu!" Ding Yi exhaled deeply and left the mountain before the Lord of Cloudsoaring Cave could react.
However, when he arrived at Penghu, he faced layer upon layer of cloud mist blocking his way.
Within the cloud mist, a terrifying killing intent permeated.
It was clear at a glance that this was the simultaneous activation of numerous large arrays, and one must not enter them lightly.
Ding Yi had no choice but to release a sound transmission talisman and turn back.
He had already decided to go to the Sinking Sea first to check the situation.
Regardless of how Qingyang Demon Lord was delaying, he would urge him to set out later. If all else failed, he would join forces with the Lord of Cloudsoaring Cave to break into Penghu and demand an explanation from Qingyang Demon Lord.
...
Penghu, beneath Apricot Flower Peak.
In a plain spanning several miles, a gigantic figure moved back and forth, and the sound of breaking through the air frequently exploded like thunder.
Another tiny figure stood on Apricot Flower Peak, observing this scene.
Suddenly.
The gigantic figure paused, looking towards the peak.
"Senior, come!"
Han Zhan smiled slightly and waved his hand.
The heaven and earth's spirit energy surged, and a vast amount of unclaimed spirit energy was controlled by him, pressing towards the nine-zhang giant.
Luo Chen's expression was indifferent, and a domineering power suddenly emerged from within his body, surging out.
The Hell of Samsara reappeared, directly resisting the Nascent Soul Domain.
The domain power, which he once feared like a snake, seemed to have gained a counterbalancing force ) after the Hell of Samsara appeared.
"Not enough!"
Han Zhan nodded and waved his hand, and the domain power increased again.
Under this overwhelming pressure, an ordinary Golden Core cultivator would have long been subdued, completely unable to mobilize their internal energy.
But Luo Chen still stood in the air, seemingly unaffected.
It wasn't that he was unaffected; his body had begun to slowly descend.
It was evident that the Nascent Soul Domain still had an effect on him.
However, Luo Chen remained calm. He formed a hand seal, and his figure suddenly transformed, standing firm in the air like a mountain.
It was the 'Mountain Stabilizing Technique' from the 'Apex Mountain Six Techniques'!
Relying on the Hell of Samsara and the Mountain Stabilizing Technique, these two formidable attacks finally temporarily withstood Han Zhan's Nascent Soul Domain.
Seeing this, Han Zhan was somewhat surprised.
"Not bad, you've really figured it out. Using your own power to resist the might of heaven and earth."
Luo Chen spoke calmly, "The might of heaven and earth is merely a Nascent Soul cultivator borrowing a bit of heaven and earth's power. It's not the true might of heaven and earth. By combining internal and external forces, even if I can't defeat it, I can still retain a certain degree of mobility."
At this point, he slowly bowed, and his entire massive body seemed like a leopard about to pounce.
The next moment, he stomped his foot.
The air burst with a roar!
Vacuum Burst Step! He burst through the air and flew out a hundred zhang.
In mid-air, Luo Chen leaped high, and his right foot kicked out like thunder.
Thunder Kick!
Boom! A residual image suddenly appeared, landing in front of Han Zhan.
There was also an astonishing impact that broke through the air.
Han Zhan smiled slightly and floated back.
This awe-inspiring kick didn't cause him any injury.
Luo Chen retracted his leg, frowning.
"The distance... is still too far."
Without pursuing Han Zhan, Luo Chen's gaze fell on Apricot Flower Peak below.
With a single sweeping motion of his palm, a surge of robust energy gushed out, and he struck down with a mighty palm strike.
A deafening explosion reverberated, and the Apricot Flower Peak beneath him instantly shattered into countless fragments, raining down like a stone shower.
Using sheer physical strength, he had just shattered a mountain with a single palm strike.
It seemed somewhat similar to the Mountain Splitting and Stone Breaking Palm he had learned in the past, but it was evidently more advanced.
The "Apex Mountain Six Techniques" lacked the Mountain Splitting Technique, the Extreme Mountain Technique, and only retained the Mountain Stabilizing Technique, the Mountain Lifting Technique, the Mountain Breaking Technique, and the Mountain Colliding Technique.
The fastest technique that Luo Chen had mastered was the Mountain Breaking Technique, which had a similar essence to the Mountain Splitting and Stone Breaking Palm.
Over the years, he had also gained a basic grasp of the other three killing techniques.
Amid the rain of shattered stones, Han Zhan flew over leisurely.
Although his core was still the Soul Nourishing Wood Plate, the Nascent Soul miniature figure on the outside had become quite solid, indicating that his recovery over the years had been excellent, and he only lacked a physical body.
Looking at the mountain that had been split into pieces below, he shook his head.
"You're truly seeking a fight with a Nascent Soul True Man!"
First, he countered the Hell of Samsara domain with the Mountain Stabilizing Technique, then used the extreme body technique killing move, clearly aiming to avoid the enemy's strengths and attack their weaknesses.
Even Nascent Soul True Men might not all cultivate body techniques.
Luo Chen spoke in a deep voice, "It's better to be prepared, and always plan for the worst."
"But you should know that True Men's methods are extraordinary. Even if you can't use the most powerful domain power to suppress Core Formation Cultivators, their ordinary means are still superior to yours. Especially, they won't just stand there and let you attack them like immobile mountains."
Luo Chen frowned, "With my ninety thousand li escape speed, combined with the Vacuum Burst Step and Thunder Kick, can't I still get close to them?"
"You're almost there!" Han Zhan praised, but his tone still carried a hint of regret. "But you're still a little short."
Luo Chen opened his mouth, speechless for a moment.
A hair's breadth difference could mean the difference between life and death.
"Unless... your physical body can advance further!"
Luo Chen looked at Han Zhan in surprise.
Han Zhan shrugged, "I can see that your physical body has improved rapidly, and it's likely that some Nascent Soul Demon Cultivators' bodies are already inferior to yours. But to achieve a qualitative change, you're still a step away."
Incarnated Demon Cultivators still followed the path of forming a Nascent Soul, and didn't entirely rely on their physical bodies.
Some extreme entities might even refine their limbs into Lifebound Treasures after incarnation.
"Advance further?"
Luo Chen muttered to himself, "It's almost there, almost!"
In the past few years, he had been practicing body techniques and killing moves frantically, and with the help of the system, his progress was incredibly fast.
Even with incomplete techniques, he could take their strengths and compensate for their weaknesses, forming alternative killing moves.
For example, combining the Vacuum Burst Step and Thunder Kick, or advancing the Mountain Splitting and Stone Breaking Palm and Mountain Breaking Technique, and even the internal and external combination of the Hell of Samsara and Mountain Stabilizing Technique.
Moreover, he had combined the "Five Steles Hand" and "Flowing Cloud Seizing Finger" to complete a new inspiration and create a unique armor-breaking killing move.
This inspiration came from Purple Spirit Island, where he had forcefully killed a Yuan E to vent his anger.
At that time, he had forcefully peeled off the Yuan E's thick and sturdy scales.
While practicing body techniques, Luo Chen suddenly had a flash of inspiration—could this move be used against human cultivators' defensive treasures?
After years of research, he had made some progress.
He named this technique "Overlord's Armor Removal," which consisted of eight hand techniques, including finger, palm, fist, claw, tap, and smash, injecting robust energy into the enemy's defensive treasure in batches, and then detonating it instantly.
In this way, he could disrupt the opponent's divine consciousness control.
In just three short years, Luo Chen's development of this physical body far surpassed his previous progress!
This achievement seemed unbelievable to outsiders, but Luo Chen knew that it was merely a natural outcome of his accumulated efforts.
He already had the foundation, and it only required a little brainpower to change his attack methods)
To use an example from a wuxia novel, it was like completing external techniques after achieving mastery in internal cultivation.
Of course, these were just minor details.
The most important thing was still the progress in body tempering.
"I'll go back first. Remember to make the saber case, or else you can only look at the Seven Stars Saber without being able to use it." Han Zhan bid farewell and returned to his cave abode.
The saber case he mentioned was a mystic artifact he had told Luo Chen about recently.
By using this saber case to hold the Seven Stars Saber, Luo Chen could attach his divine consciousness to it, and even without refining the saber, he could wield some of its power.
The most important purpose was for Luo Chen to carry the saber for Han Zhan when he wasn't using it, as Han Zhan's Nascent Soul body lacked the physical barrier, and he couldn't be exposed to excessive killing intent.
Luo Chen didn't mind this.
With his current artificer skills, crafting a treasure might be time-consuming, but a mystic artifact like this wouldn't take long.
Keeping Han Zhan's words in mind, Luo Chen returned to Peng Island.
"Advance further? It shouldn't take too long now!"
On the attribute panel, his body tempering progress had reached the Primordial Third Stage, 98/100.
He was just a step away from breaking through to the fourth stage.
This showed that Luo Chen's decision to slaughter and absorb a vast amount of life force in the Sinking Sea was incredibly correct.
Normally, body tempering couldn't progress so quickly.
Even refining the fourth-stage Black King Ointment required a significant amount of time for the body to adapt.
Just as Luo Chen was estimating the time for his breakthrough, his gaze paused, and he saw a sound transmission talisman flying around Peng Island like a headless fly.
He reached out and summoned the talisman, which ignited without wind.
After listening to Ding Yi's slightly anxious divine consciousness message, Luo Chen frowned.
"The Golden Sky Black Sea's celestial phenomenon has appeared?"
(End of Chapter)
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