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Chapter 184 Obtaining the Jindan Spiritual Object: Changes in Hezhou
The Soul-Locking Smoke has never been broken by a Foundation Establishment cultivator.

At least for Linghu Sanren, she had never heard of such a precedent.

This super trump card from the Eastern Region has saved her many times, especially when combined with the Five Elements Spinning Blade, there is no rival below the Golden Core stage.

But tonight, both of her two reliances failed one after another.

However, this was not the only thing that shocked her. The overwhelming number of black fire crows in front of her also shattered her decades of cognition.

As far as she knew, there were only a thousand Luo Tianxuan Fire Crows at most.

Even Luo Yun, the wanderer who roamed the two states of Li and He, could only summon out a thousand Black Fire Crows.

But there were tens of thousands of Black Fire Crows in front of her, at least eight thousand if not ten thousand.

This is totally against common sense. Who is Xiao Chen?

"This is the method of Luo Tian Sect. What is your relationship with Luo Tian Sect?"

Although Linghu Sanren was tied up, he did not panic and was still asking questions.

Xiao Chen was too lazy to waste time talking to her: "Tell me everything about the deal between Huidong Chamber of Commerce and the Divine Fire Cult."

"Cooperate honestly, and I can give you a quick death."

Linghu Sanren shook his head: "You can't kill me, I can provide you with a lot of value."

"Ok?"

This was the first time Xiao Chen had heard such a reason: "What's the value?"

Linghu Sanren looked at him with a wink: "How is my health? If Daoist Xiao needs it, I can also practice the charm skills."

Xiao Chen decisively refused: "Not interested."

Linghu Sanren changed the subject: "I have a lot of confidential information and know a lot of secrets."

Blood worms began to condense in Xiao Chen's hands: "You are my prisoner now. Do you think I can pry open your mouth?"

Linghu Sanren's brows jumped when she looked at the blood earthworm. She recognized this Yellow Springs secret technique.

So he hurriedly shouted: "We have a strong network of connections in the Eastern Region. Through us, you can obtain rare spiritual objects from the Eastern Region."

"Some things are not for sale, and we can only help you get them through us."

This condition sounds more like a threat.

Xiao Chen didn't like being threatened, so he stretched out his finger and pointed, and the blood earthworm drilled into Linghu Sanren's body.

In less than half a minute, the other party became much more obedient.

She answered whatever was asked and revealed all the secrets she knew.

As she narrated, Xiao Chen finally understood the current situation of Huidong Chamber of Commerce.

Unlike ordinary forces, the Huidong Chamber of Commerce is composed of three parts.

There are two chambers of commerce in the South Region, the East and the West, and a base for docking in the East Region.

There is no need to say much about the Eastern Region, which is completely dominated by members of several local big families.

Behind those big families is a sect called Jinxia Sect.

The members of the East and West families in the Southern Region came from diverse backgrounds. Although on the surface they were mainly independent cultivators, many of them had close ties with certain families.

Therefore, within the chamber of commerce here, people can be roughly divided into family factions, independent cultivator factions, and speculative factions based on their identity and background.

At the same time, after the rise of the Divine Fire Sect, different positions emerged within the Chamber of Commerce.

There emerged the anti-demon faction that wanted to unite with the righteous to fight against the demonic cultivators, the neutral faction that intended to wait and see the situation, and the trading faction that wanted to develop in-depth cooperation with the Divine Fire Sect.

All in all, the situation within the merchants is also quite complicated.

Linghu Sanren belongs to the speculative faction and the trading faction that supports cooperation with the Shenhuo Sect.

Their confidence comes from their connections with the Jinxia Sect, and they can indeed obtain some good things that are relatively rare in the Eastern Region.

The trading faction believed that even if the Divine Fire Sect occupied Hezhou, it would still need them to communicate with the Eastern Region.

At the same time, many neutral factions who came from the background of independent cultivators were attracted by the high price offered by the Divine Fire Sect.

Capturing a qualified sacrifice will earn you three hundred spirit stones.

If you are a foundation-building cultivator, you can even exchange it for five thousand spirit stones.

Xiao Chen found it difficult to understand this, and calling them short-sighted was actually a compliment to this group of traders.

In order to make huge profits in the short term, they dare to sell anything.

If they really wait until the Divine Fire Sect occupies Hezhou, even if they give up all the spirit stones they have earned now, they may not be able to save their lives.

Of course, Xiao Chen was more concerned about two other things.

One is what the Divine Fire Cult wants to do by collecting so many sacrifices?
Linghu Sanren was unaware of this situation. She was just an executor, and the real secret was only known to the president of Huidong Chamber of Commerce.

The second is whether there is any spiritual medicine within the Huidong Chamber of Commerce that can help cultivators form elixirs.

Or there may be special secret techniques that can increase the success rate of forming a pill.

What surprised Xiao Chen was that although there was no spiritual medicine to break through the level, there was also no secret technique to form the elixir.

However, Linghu Sanren once accidentally learned that the Chamber of Commerce actually hid colorful jade corals from the Eastern Region.

The five-colored jade coral is also recorded in "Journey to the East". It is a rare external object that can slightly increase the success rate of cultivators in forming a pill.

It does not need to be taken orally. Just smash it directly when the pill is formed, and it will emit special five-element spiritual power.

By absorbing this special spiritual power, cultivators can increase their chances of forming a pill by about 10%.

It cannot be used at the same time as other external objects, but it does not conflict with evil spirits, fake pills, secret techniques of forming pills, etc.

Moreover, this thing is hidden in the warehouse of Huidong Chamber of Commerce, and three cultivators in the late foundation-building stage take turns to guard it all year round.

Originally, after catching Tong Mo from Huidong Chamber of Commerce, Xiao Chen wanted to report it to Lingyuan Sect.

But now, he felt that he could go and kill these traitors himself and rescue the precious colorful jade coral.

This kind of thing must be dealt with sooner rather than later, otherwise changes will occur.

If Huidong Chamber of Commerce finds out that Linghu Sanren has lost contact, things may change.

So Xiao Chen immediately dealt with Linghu Sanren and turned around to head towards Shouxian Mountain in the southeast.

Shouxian Mountain is the headquarters of Huidong Chamber of Commerce, about 1,800 miles away from here, located at the junction of Wanhua Valley and Lingyuan Sect.

Speaking of which, it is quite close to the current control area of ​​the Divine Fire Sect.

It’s just because there is only a first-level spiritual vein there and no important spiritual mines, so it is not on the attack route.

The scattered attacks from demonic cultivators were no match for the Chamber of Commerce's guards.

Some people were originally curious as to why the Huidong Chamber of Commerce didn't move to another location. Now it seems that being closer might make it more convenient for them to conduct secret transactions with the Divine Fire Sect.

In order to conceal his whereabouts along the way, Xiao Chen put on the stealth cloak again.

This time he chose to fly close to the Black Flame Mountains on the south side, but did not go into the mountains.

Sure enough, I didn't meet any passing monks along the way.

At 1:15 am in the middle of the night, they arrived at Shouxian Mountain.

Looking down from the mountain, you can see a large manor stretching for miles under the night sky.

Some of the courtyards are still hung with lanterns that stay lit all night long.

There were also occasional monks coming in and out, carrying various things in their hands.

It’s just that now there is no large amount of supplies coming in and out, so it seems a little empty.
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In the back hall of the Huidong Chamber of Commerce headquarters, President Li Yongfeng was sitting on the armchair with his eyes closed in concentration.

On the table in front of him were many pieces of intelligence from various sources.

In today's turbulent times, it is becoming increasingly difficult to sort out the true and false news.

But as a leader, he cannot miss any intelligence to avoid missing out on key information.

Xiao Chen used the "Sealing Acupoints and Concealing Qi Technique" to quietly move to the window of the back hall.

According to his rough investigation, there are currently seven foundation-building cultivators at the Huidong Chamber of Commerce headquarters.

One of them had just flown away on a sword, one was resting in the wing, and three were guarding the warehouse in the northwest corner.

The last person came to the back hall with a jade token in his hand to report the situation to Li Yongfeng.

Xiao Chen came here with this person, but he did not show up at the first time. Instead, he hid outside and eavesdropped quietly.

"President, we have received the latest urgent news. The Divine Fire Cult has taken control of the remains of the Huangquan Palace."

"The spiritual energy fluctuations over there stopped an hour ago."

"Right now, the demonic energy is spreading over a hundred miles in radius, and the range is still expanding."

hiss~!

Did the Divine Fire Sect win?

Xiao Chen was secretly shocked when he heard this outside. This was not good news.

But if the spread of demonic energy really happened, then it can basically be confirmed that the news is not false.

Now that he has obtained the Yellow Spring Secret Book, he has also gained a multi-faceted understanding of demonic energy.

According to the secret book, demonic energy is divided into two types.

One is the strange red mist that Xiao Chen saw in the bead in Xianghe Market last time, which can greatly increase the power of magic spells.

The other type is the one in Huangquan Palace.

It can block the spiritual consciousness of the cultivator and spontaneously dissipate the spiritual energy nearby.

Wherever this evil energy has invaded, the concentration of spiritual energy will drop significantly, and any spiritual fields will be completely destroyed.

Under normal circumstances, the righteous side will definitely not allow the evil energy to spread.

Unless they've lost control of it.

"Most of the foundation-building cultivators from Lingyuan Sect and Wanhua Valley have also retreated to Yuanci Peak. Our people saw Gong Lingfeng appear at the foot of the mountain."

The people inside were still reporting: "There is no definite news about Jindan Zhenren yet."

"But there are rumors that the Yaohua Master from Wanhua Valley has passed away."

what?
Li Yongfeng was stunned for a moment, then asked, "What's going on? What's the specific news?"

Xiao Chen also pricked up his ears, and then he heard: "It is said that many independent cultivators saw Fairy Yaohua's brocade basket of flowers shattered."

"Rumor has it that a few monks bravely rushed in and snatched the fallen spiritual weapon fragments."

The Thousand Flowers Basket is the signature item of Yaohua Zhenren and is also the inherited spiritual weapon of the Thousand Flowers Valley.

Xiao Chen had seen him once before, outside Qianzhu Tower.

At that time he didn't know it was a spiritual weapon, he only remembered that the flower basket was as big as a house.

Later I heard that the spiritual weapon had belonged to Wanhua Valley more than two thousand years ago and had been passed down from generation to generation.

This thing is basically the lifeblood of a cultivator.

If the brocade basket of flowers is really broken, then the safety of Master Yaohua is hard to say.

"Send more personnel to Wanhua Valley. They don't need to get too close. Focus on the supplies in Wanhua Market."

Li Yongfeng instructed, "Especially the incense, candles, and white lanterns used for memorial services. If you purchase in bulk, please report back immediately."

"Also, send someone to keep an eye on Luoyan Mountain."

"If the Divine Fire Cult launches an offensive, we must also be careful not to be affected."

The Foundation Establishment cultivator asked, "President, are we still going to go through with the deal tomorrow night?"

"There are still two defensive formations in the new warehouse that haven't been set up yet. We'll need to allocate some people if we want to move there."

Li Yongfeng pondered for a moment before commanding, "We must not give up on this deal. Bring the Xu brothers with you later."

"As for the base, I will personally lead people over to keep an eye on it."

"If you have any new information along the way, you can seal it in a secret letter and have Xu Er bring it to me."

Then there were some arrangements regarding the specific staffing arrangements for Huidong Chamber of Commerce.

Xiao Chen also learned that most of the people who remained at the Huidong Chamber of Commerce headquarters were neutral.

With the exception of a few individuals who stayed behind, most of the Traders were busy fishing in troubled waters outside to capture sacrifices. As for the Anti-Demons, they either returned to their respective families or went to the battle front to earn points.

Basically, he can no longer be commanded and only has a nominal presence in the Chamber of Commerce.

In other words, the monks who remain now basically have no objection to trading with the Divine Fire Sect.

This made things convenient for Xiao Chen, as he no longer needed to distinguish the identities of these people.

We'll just catch them all in one fell swoop later, and I guarantee that no one will be wronged.

And it seemed that they were planning to act separately, which made it easier for him to defeat them one by one.

In fact, with Xiao Chen's strength, he didn't need to be so cautious.

But the appearance of Suo Lingyan reminded him.

The Huidong Chamber of Commerce has a background in the Eastern Region, and the Jinxia Sect helps them provide all kinds of strange trump cards.

Maybe there is some powerful killer weapon that has never appeared in the Southern Region.

Not to mention other people, President Li Yongfeng at least has a portion of Soul-Locking Smoke on him, or even a more effective life-saving method.

That's why Xiao Chen didn't take action directly, but instead planned to find an opportunity to fight alone.

At that time, if there is no interference from outsiders, I can directly use the Small Three Talents Sword Formation to force out his trump card.

It didn't take long.

The foundation-building cultivator who came to report the situation turned and left.

After a while, Li Yongfeng also left the back hall and went to the side room to call the foundation-building cultivator who was resting. The two of them flew to the west on their swords together.

According to the information Xiao Chen had heard before, they should have gone to the newly built stronghold in the Black Flame Mountains.

Bad news, it seems there is no hope if we fight alone.

The good news is that there are only three foundation-building monks guarding the warehouse at the Huidong Chamber of Commerce headquarters.

It is a difficult decision whether to follow Li Yongfeng or stay to rescue the colorful jade coral.

Xiao Chen hesitated for a whole moment.

Finally decided to get the colorful jade coral first.

He quietly moved to the outskirts of the warehouse and waited for a while to make sure that no foundation-building cultivator had suddenly returned.

Then he took out various magical instruments, first casting a sword formation to the left to trap the person, and then throwing a fairy-binding rope to the right.

Finally, holding the golden pumpkin thunder hammer, he rushed towards the foundation-building monk in the middle.

Speaking of which, ever since he acquired the skill of body refining, Xiao Chen has found this pair of hammers increasingly useful.

Especially when used to hit people, it is very convenient.

This sudden attack caught the three remaining monks off guard.

The monk in the middle faced the sudden attack and subconsciously dodged backwards, taking out a magic shield to block it.

At the same time, he shouted a warning: "Enemy attack!"

With the help of magic power, the sound instantly spread throughout the entire stronghold.
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I have to say, his reaction was quite quick.

Unfortunately, I was a little slow and didn't have time to avoid it.

"boom!"

There was a loud bang.

Immediately afterwards, there was a crisp "crack" sound, accompanied by the sound of shattering, and the high-grade magic shield in his hand immediately cracked.

Xiao Chen struck back with another hammer.

The opponent had just taken out a battle flag from his arms and was hit before he could unfold it.

"Snapped!"

The flagpole broke instantly, and the sledgehammer hit the opponent's chest, killing him instantly.

It was also at this time that Xiao Chen realized that this opponent was only at the third level of Foundation Establishment.

If one deliberately restrains his aura, other cultivators can only judge his general realm unless there is a huge gap in his cultivation level.

In particular, in order not to alert the enemy, Xiao Chen deliberately did not use the spiritual eye technique to investigate.

He immediately prepared for the battle as he was going to face three cultivators who had reached the great perfection of the foundation-building stage.

Who would have known that Huidong Chamber of Commerce would actually arrange someone in the early stage of foundation building to be responsible for guarding the warehouse.

Xiao Chen turned his head to the left and saw a cultivator at the sixth level of foundation building trapped in the Small Three Talents Sword Formation.

He is holding on with the help of the top-grade robe on his body.

He looked to the right again and saw that the Immortal Binding Rope had already tightly bound the only cultivator at the eighth level of the Foundation Establishment Stage present.

That's it?

Before taking action, Xiao Chen was already prepared for a big battle.

However, I didn't expect the opponent to be so vulnerable.

其实也不能这么说。

Theoretically, if three foundation-building cultivators work together and cooperate with the warehouse's defense formation, they will be able to hold out for at least an hour even if facing two cultivators who have reached the great perfection of foundation-building.

But first of all, Xiao Chen's strength far exceeds that of an average Foundation Establishment cultivator.

The three remaining monks didn't even have time to deploy a defensive formation before they were defeated like a rotten wood.

Secondly, the Huidong Chamber of Commerce is now divided into factions and is extremely short of manpower.

In addition, there are not many cultivators who can be won over, and it is impossible to gather three cultivators in the late Foundation Establishment stage.

You know, although there are a lot more foundation-building cultivators in Hezhou than in Lizhou, the overall number of foundation-building cultivators is still not large.

Huidong Chamber of Commerce is not a big sect like Lingyuan Sect, so how could it have so many foundation-building cultivators at its disposal?

Xiao Chen quickly figured this out and couldn't help but laugh.

Before, he was either on the front line of the battle between good and evil, or in the secret realm.

There are cultivators in the foundation-building stage all around me, so it naturally feels like those in the late stage of foundation-building are everywhere.

However, if one thinks about it carefully, if Huidong Chamber of Commerce could really dispatch three people who have reached the great perfection of foundation building to guard the warehouse, it would have long been the fourth largest force in Hezhou.

After dealing with the guards, the small defensive formations remaining in the warehouse naturally could not stop Xiao Chen.

"Boom! Boom!..."

Along with Li Huolei's roar, the west wall of the warehouse was instantly reduced to ashes.

Then a flash of sword light appeared, cutting a path through the fire.

Xiao Chen rushed directly into the warehouse and quickly spread his spiritual sense to search for the colorful jade coral.

Unexpectedly, Huidong Chamber of Commerce actually made additional arrangements in the warehouse.

On the shelf in the center of the warehouse, there are 365 identical storage boxes.

Each box has been specially treated to block spiritual detection.

There is a lock on the outside of the box, and it cannot be opened normally without the corresponding key.

At the same time, these boxes are made of hundred-forged gray fine iron, so it is not easy to dismantle them by force.

Especially since Xiao Chen came for the five-colored jade coral, it was not convenient for him to smash it with the golden pumpkin thunder hammer.

To prevent the colorful jade corals in the box from being smashed into pieces by accident.

Moreover, the bottom of the box is connected to the entire shelf and cannot be moved away.

Anyone who came could only use their flying sword to carefully cut open the corners one by one to check the items inside.

Xiao Chen opened more than ten boxes in a row, but most of them contained some ordinary spiritual stones and spiritual objects.

There were even empty boxes mixed in, which wasted a lot of his time.

When a cultivator encounters this situation, he will usually look at the unprotected spiritual stones and spiritual mines around him.

It is very likely that he took the spirit stones with him and left to avoid being blocked inside by the monks from the Chamber of Commerce who were driven back.

However, Xiao Chen did not evacuate. Instead, he took out the flag of the Yellow Wind Quicksand Formation and placed it outside the warehouse.

Then he continued to cut the box with the flying sword, looking for the colorful jade coral inside.

It lasted for three hours, until noon the next day.

Finally, in the 299th box, I found a coral that was dazzling and crystal clear.

When the sunlight shines on it, you can see five colors flowing, brilliant and colorful, it is the five-colored jade coral.

"Finally found."

Xiao Chen carefully took out the coral and put it into the storage bag: "I thought I had to open the last box first."

Fortunately, his luck was not that bad.

The main goal was accomplished, and he didn't plan to open the remaining boxes.

He walked out of the warehouse, put away the Yellow Wind Quicksand Array, and looked around.

Except for some places where flames were still burning, the entire Huidong Chamber of Commerce headquarters was empty.

Xiao Chen was a little surprised because at that time there were many Qi-refining cultivators in the Chamber of Commerce fleeing from all directions.

Logically speaking, the news of the attack here should have spread long ago.

But so much time has passed, and no one has come back to stop him.

"Where are the people from Huidong Chamber of Commerce?"

This is not to say that Xiao Chen wants to get into trouble, but that there must be something wrong when things are abnormal.

This kind of strange situation often indicates that there are other variables.

Xiao Chen thought about it and did not go to the Black Flame Mountains to search for the rest of the Huidong Chamber of Commerce, but returned to Xianghe Market first.

He didn't forget the important information he heard last night.

Now that the multicolored jade coral is in hand, it would be better to find out what the current situation is.

As everyone knows, there are only two Jindan Zhenren in Wanhua Valley now.

If something really happened to Master Yaohua, it would have a huge impact on the overall situation in Hezhou.

Originally, the tripod was supported by three legs. If one of the legs suddenly broke, the tripod might even fall over.

Now that we have the Divine Fire Sect as an external enemy, internal strife should not break out immediately.

But who can tell for sure about this kind of thing?
The Lingyuan Sect has been attacked for such a long time, and the Wanhua Valley occasionally takes action, but the Qingxiao Sect has not made a single move.

Thinking of this, Xiao Chen was a little speechless.

The Qingxiao Sect isolates everyone equally.

Therefore, it became very difficult for him to enter the opponent's main spiritual vein to look for evil spirits.

If the evil spirit was in Lingyuan Sect or Wanhua Valley, then with the Chen family's network of connections and his current fame, he should have gotten it by now.

Unfortunately, such a good thing will never happen to him.

Two hours later, Xiao Chen arrived at Xianghe Market.

At this time, there were almost no people in the entire market. Looking around, there was not even a single foundation-building cultivator on the street.

Obviously, this place has also been greatly affected.

When Xiao Chen arrived at the Qiu family, the elder was still the only one left in the mansion.

"Fellow Daoist Xiao, I'm so glad you're okay. If I had known the Yellow Springs Palace was so dangerous, I shouldn't have urged you to go there that day."

The other party looked apologetic. He was also deceived by the fake news at that time and thought it was an opportunity.

"Forehead……"

Xiao Chen waved his hand and said, "Fellow Daoist Qiu, you are too kind. May I ask where the other fellow Daoists are now?"

Considering that the other party's information was not accurate, he decided to ask other people for intelligence.

(End of this chapter)