Longevity starts with choosing Hextech enhancement

Chapter 245: Market Conversation and Return to Ji'e Island

"I haven't taken a walk like this in a while. Today is a good time to relax and combine work and rest."

After making up his mind, Xiao Chen was no longer as anxious as usual, but strolled leisurely on the streets of the market town.

While looking at the unique scenery of the Mercy Sea, he pricked up his ears to listen to the conversations of the surrounding cultivators.

"Happy New Year, Brother Zhang! Hey, long time no see. I heard that last month, one of your fellow Daoists showed off his prowess in the Guiyun Secret Realm, overwhelming everyone else. That was quite impressive!"

"Happy New Year, Brother Wang. Please stop teasing me. How could I possibly have anything to do with a young talent like him?"

"Hey, Brother Zhang, you're wrong."

The prince laughed and said, "I heard that Zhang Shouquan was just like us, an ordinary casual cultivator."

"As a result, this time in the secret realm, I comprehended the secret methods left by my predecessors, and only then did I gain power and successfully kill my enemy and avenge my hatred."

"In my opinion, Brother Zhang is no worse than him. It's just that his opportunity hasn't arrived yet. Sooner or later, he will be able to take advantage of the opportunity. I just hope that when that time comes, Brother Zhang won't forget me, his old friend."

The brother Zhang he was referring to smiled bitterly and shook his head: "Brother Wang, please stop joking. I can't be compared with a potential dragon like him."

"I heard that he only got the secret technique seven days ago, but he already comprehended it successfully and mastered it thoroughly."

"With a single wave of his hand, he could unleash an ice dragon as long as 1,600 feet to fight the enemy."

"With my current level, I can't even reach a fraction of what others can do."

Oh?
One thousand six hundred feet?

Xiao Chen was a little surprised when he heard this. This guy is quite amazing. He is almost catching up with his level.

He secretly memorized the name Zhang Shouquan, hoping that he might meet him in the future.

A young cultivator passing by was quite dissatisfied: "Humph, we are all at the Golden Core stage, they just practiced more True Essence Secrets than us."

"If I could possess a Heaven-level spell, I wouldn't necessarily be worse than them."

However, an old monk shook his head and said, "Alas, it's not that simple."

"Not to mention that Heaven-level spells are hard to find, even if you can obtain them by chance, the difficulty of practicing such skills is far greater than that of Earth-level spells."

"Even among the disciples of those large sects, how many can cast such a powerful spell?"

Someone else chimed in, "What the old gentleman said makes sense. Take the man in our market for example. He's been able to hold such a lucrative position only because of that 1,300-foot-long green vine."

As he spoke, he sighed, "Alas, I hope that in my lifetime, I can also master such a great magic."

The monks around also expressed their feelings.

Some people said that they would be satisfied if they could one day master a thousand-foot magic spell.

Some cultivators even sighed and said that they would be satisfied if they could cast spells over a hundred feet in length, and they could not even imagine casting spells of a thousand feet in length.

Come to think of it, you can't really blame him for having no ambition.

After all, the original True Yang Fire Dragon was only twelve zhang in size when it was first introduced.

Even if one wants to cultivate to a level exceeding a hundred feet, one must spend decades of hard work to reach the state of great success.

But for Xiao Chen, everything is naturally a different matter.

Now he doesn't want to spend time studying magic.

Theoretically speaking, he has every chance to reach the realm of Wanzhang magic.

But after thinking it over, he felt that there was no need for that at the moment.

After all, magic is just external, so it's enough as long as it is sufficient.

It would be more cost-effective to use the extra time to improve your realm.

When you break through to the Yuanying Zhenjun realm in the future, you will naturally be able to master more powerful spells.

As the crowd dispersed, Xiao Chen also walked towards the center of the city.

Although he came here on a whim, he still had two small things to do.

One reason is to relax slowly and join in the fun.

The second is to get rid of the extra storage rings in hand.

Including those accumulated miscellaneous items, sell them directly when the price is right and exchange them for spirit stones.

"Huh? Why are there so many people over there?"

As soon as he reached the center of the market, Xiao Chen saw a large group of people gathered in the corner in front of him, talking together.

He immediately leaned over to take a look, and found that someone was selling Cun Yang Stone at a stall.

This is really a rare thing.

The Cun Yang Stone is a third-level strange stone that has the effect of preserving Yang and expelling Yin.

It can be used as a material for refining weapons, and can also be used to set up formations.

The most crucial function is to use the true essence to replenish the cultivator's own yang energy.

The magical effect of this is beyond words, but those who understand will understand.

"Why are there loose Yang stones for sale here?"

Xiao Chen was very curious. Normally, such things would be directly booked by various forces.

It won't flow out at all, and there is no need to sell it on the stalls.

He looked carefully and saw a low-price sale label in front of the stall.

This is even stranger.

In theory, selling such items in bulk can only be done in pursuit of higher profits.

If it can be sold at a low price, it’s better not to bother.

Just when Xiao Chen was puzzled, he moved his ears and heard discussions on the right.

"Brother Zhao, look carefully. This stall owner seems to be from the Luo family."

"What, there is such a thing?"

"No doubt about it. Look at the sachet around his waist. I've only seen this kind of sachet used by families like his before. It's used to protect the body from the miasma in the mines."

"You're really from the Luo family. No wonder you can get some Yang Stone to sell."

"Oh, the Luo family's patriarch is so powerful that even the Luo family members can enjoy the benefits."

"That's right. I heard that the head of the Luo family scraped together some money and borrowed some spirit stones to buy Xizang Mountain four years ago."

"Many people laughed at him at the time, but who knew he would actually discover a vein of Sunstone in it."

"Not only have we paid off our debts long ago, but I heard that after deducting all expenses, we can still make a net profit of 200,000 spirit stones in a year."

"What, there are so many?"

"I'm telling you, 200,000 is a conservative estimate, only counting the Yang Stones. In reality, there might be 300,000 Spirit Stones."

"Anyway, in the past four years, the Luo family has earned at least one million spirit stones."

When he mentioned one million, his voice became a little higher, and it immediately reached the ears of the people around him.

When everyone heard this, there was an immediate uproar.

"I've heard about Senior Luo's deeds a long time ago, but I didn't expect him to be so powerful."

"Alas, I have been running around all my life, but I have never earned as much as one million spirit stones."

"Fellow Daoist Luo is indeed formidable. Looking at his fellow Jindan Daoists, few possess his abilities."

……

For a moment, everyone was envious of the Luo family.

Xiao Chen nodded when he heard this. This was indeed impressive. Most Jindan cultivators did not have this kind of income.

The key mineral veins are still relatively stable, and production can almost be guaranteed every year.

For other independent cultivators, they have no fixed income at all.
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After coming out of the stall, Xiao Chen found three shops nearby.

He disposed of the extra storage rings and unused pills, skills, and spiritual weapons.

The first three items were not very valuable, and they were only sold for a total of 380,000 spirit stones.

Only the spiritual weapons accumulated from previous battles were of considerable value, and were sold for a total of 1.655 million spiritual stones.

The total amount just exceeded two million spirit stones.

Rounding off, it is equivalent to two Luo families.

"Oh, I still have to keep working hard."

After all, Xiao Chen holds Hextech, so his goal is of course to be ahead of those big sects one day.

To achieve that step, it really requires continuous efforts.

After coming out of the market town, Xiao Chen picked up Yuelun again and started his journey back.

Perhaps because he had arrived at the core area, he did not encounter any other problems that delayed his journey.

He returned directly to Ji'e Island in one breath.

From hundreds of miles away, he saw Su Li sitting on the reef with her knees hugged, staring at the sea in a daze, as usual.

Before he could get close, the other party cast his eyes over here.

"Ding~!"

The red line bell rang.

Su Li immediately took the initiative to greet him, with an expression of unconcealable surprise on her face: "You, you are back."

As she spoke, her beautiful eyes curved like a pair of crescent moons.

Watching her afterimage disappear on the reef, Xiao Chen's pupils immediately shrank like needles, and then returned to normal.

What a great speed!

If Su Li had ill intentions towards him, the Night Blade should have been triggered by now.

She is a girl who looks weak and delicate, but who would have thought that she is actually a Nascent Soul True Lord with witch blood and a natural body.

"How come you came back so soon?"

The two returned to the stone house, and Su Li's eyes followed Xiao Chen the whole time: "I thought you wouldn't be back until autumn."

She did think so, after all, the northwest corner of the Sea of ​​Mercy was too far away from here.

The speed of ordinary Jindan cultivators is slow to begin with, and coupled with searching for Wu Ling and trying all kinds of ways to crack the mechanisms and traps, each task should take a long time.

Sometimes, Su Li even has doubts.

Had she been alone for too long that she had hallucinations? In fact, she had never met anyone else. She was the only one there from beginning to end.

Fortunately, the pair of brand new statues in front of the stone house prove that all this is not a dream.

“It’s really not that simple.”

Xiao Chen smiled slightly: "But you don't care who I am. Of course, such a small matter is easy to handle."

"Why are you always staring at me? Look at this!"

He pointed to the large crystal moon wheel beside him and said, "Aren't you curious about what this is?"

On the way back, he attracted the attention of many monks along the way because he was holding the moon wheel.

Everyone looked at him curiously, but no one took the initiative to approach him.

However, from just now until now, Su Li has been staring at him in a daze.

Xiao Chen even suspected that she had not seen the moon at all.

"Huh? What is this?"

Upon hearing this, Su Li turned to look at Yue Lun, her beautiful eyebrows furrowed. "Judging from the style, it doesn't look like a spiritual weapon."

She leaned in closer to take a closer look and soon discovered the witch talisman left on the moon wheel.

After thousands of lunar eclipses, she had learned the meaning of many witch symbols and could easily understand these records.

But because of this, Su Li's eyes widened in surprise: "This is the clan's main magical weapon back then - the Fantasy World Moon Wheel!"

The next moment I realized this.

She turned to look at Xiao Chen, her lips slightly parted, but she didn't know how to speak: "You..."

Back then, in the hands of the high priest, this magical weapon, created with the combined strength of the entire clan, was enough to intimidate the surrounding alien races and suppress the clan's destiny.

Logically speaking, even a True Lord of the Nascent Soul Realm would find it difficult to resist the invasion of the Fantasy World Moon Wheel.

"Like it?"

Xiao Chen reminded: "This is a gift I brought back specially for you."

"You don't know, it's so hard to take this thing apart." Take it apart?
Su Li was a little stunned for a moment. In theory, damaging anything in Wuling was an act of great disrespect.

All witches of the Moon Witch clan should regard him as an enemy.

However, she smiled and nodded: "Well, thank you for the gift, I like it very much."

It was a broken rule that was set up millions of years ago. Whoever wants to enforce it can do so. It has nothing to do with her.

Then, Xiao Chen took out the small ball from the spare storage ring: "Here, this is a magical weapon that can suppress curses."

"You can try the effect later."

At the same time, he took out the strange animal skin and said, "And this, it looks like the skills stored in the main tomb chamber."

"I brought it back for you."

"By the way, do you know the witch talisman?"

Su Li nodded: "I know some of them."

Xiao Chen immediately unfolded the animal skin: "Then come and see what this is."

Since it was something left behind on purpose, it must involve some kind of secret, and he was quite interested in it.

"It says..."

The moment he saw the content clearly, Su Li's heart trembled, and he felt a chill surge from the bottom of his heart.

Her body trembled slightly involuntarily, and her eyes immediately turned red.

"Wow!"

The waves in the distance suddenly surged, as if a storm was about to break out.

The lunar eclipse curse on Su Li immediately began to stir, even causing the crystal moon to glow slightly.

She saw clearly that there was a secret language on the animal skin that only a few people in the witch clan could understand.

It is specially noted that there is a resurrection witch array engraved on the coffin, and future generations must not open it, otherwise their souls will be destroyed.

Su Li knew about the resurrection witch formation, but it could not truly resurrect the high priest.

However, it can temporarily occupy the body of the person being cast the spell, and form a brand new puppet based on the pre-sealed inherited knowledge.

The puppet can exist for up to three years, until all the pre-sealed power is consumed.

Su Li felt the resonance and changes of the crystal moon wheel.

It suddenly dawned on her that it was no wonder that the Fantasy World Moon Wheel appeared here. Did it want to use the Moon Wheel to suppress her and reduce its energy consumption?

It’s all her fault. She shouldn’t have let Xiao Chen take the risk.

The one standing here now should be...

"No, don't just look at it yourself, read it."

Just as Su Li was sinking into grief and about to take action, Xiao Chen's voice suddenly rang out: "What does it say?"

His tone was steady and he sounded completely unaffected.

Ok?
Could it be that?
Su Li asked in surprise: "You didn't open the coffin?"

Xiao Chen was a little confused and quickly explained, "You can't blame me for this. The magic weapon is inside the coffin. If you don't open it, I can't help you get it."

"You don't mind this, do you?"

Su Li suddenly smiled brightly: "I don't mind, as long as you are okay."

She has no feelings for Wu Ling.

hiss~!

Xiao Chen vaguely felt that there seemed to be some deviation in the content of his conversation with her, but it also seemed to be okay.

He pressed on, "I'm sure I'm fine. Tell me quickly, what's written on it?"

Su Li had recovered her composure, and with a quick glance, she said, "This contains a record of a secret inherited technique, a heavenly-level spell."

"Do you want me to teach you?"

Xiao Chen shook his head decisively: "No need then, I'm not interested."

Hearing his unhesitating refusal, Su Li was actually somewhat moved: "Actually, I don't mind you learning the secret arts of the Wu Clan."

"That's not a compliment."

She said very seriously: "If it's you, we can share all the inheritance."

Xiao Chen waved his hand to refuse.

But seeing her serious expression, he still said it tactfully: "I can't take care of it for now, you can teach me later when you have time."

Su Li nodded: "Okay."

"So do you want to rest for a while or practice first?"

She reached out and pulled out two blood crystals; "I saved them for you."

Xiao Chen had come such a long way, but when he saw the blood crystal, he immediately said, "Practice first!"

Perhaps it was because his cultivation had improved, the effect of the blood crystal that could originally increase his true essence by 100 decreased by 10%.

At the same time, the increase in the total amount of qi and blood is also smaller.

Instead, more qi and blood dissolved in Xiao Chen's meridians.

I don’t know whether it was saved or wasted.

The last two blood crystals helped his life pill increase its true essence by 180 lines.

But it doesn't matter. Even at this speed, he is still not far from the upper limit of 666 true essences.

Theoretically, with two more blood crystals, one can directly break through to the late stage of Jindan.

"Alright, you should hurry up and try to practice your magic weapon. You don't have much free time."

After Xiao Chen finished his training, he immediately signaled Su Li to get ready as well.

Although he returned very smoothly according to the original plan.

But today is already the 13th day of the first lunar month, and there is only one and a half days left until the 15th day.

"okay."

Su Li actually had a lot to say, but she also understood that time was indeed running out.

So he nodded and began to recall the method of practicing the witchcraft weapon.

In order to avoid affecting each other during practice, Xiao Chen specially went to the other side of the island to practice.

After all, as a True Lord of the Nascent Soul, Su Li has no spiritual veins here, so when he breathes in and out, he naturally needs to draw spiritual energy from a large area to satisfy his needs.

Two days later.

On the fifteenth night of the first lunar month, under the shining moon, the crystal moon is also exceptionally bright.

So much so that the entire Ji'e Island was almost covered with a layer of silver light.

Xiao Chen looked around and everything seemed to be sparkling.

However, the most eye-catching person tonight has to be Su Li standing next to him.

She was originally dressed in misty white gauze, her hair was as white as snow, and her skin was frosty.

At this moment, under the dual reflection of moonlight and the moon, the whole person is simply otherworldly, as if he is a fairy who has secretly come to the mortal world and is about to fly away in the next moment.

The magical weapon that suppressed the curse has been completely refined and has become almost completely transparent.

At this moment, it spontaneously hung in front of her chest, almost so white that it dazzled the eyes.

What is this seemingly larger effect called?

Xiao Chen couldn't remember it all of a sudden.

The two of them came to the center of the island together. Half an hour later, it was almost midnight, and it was time to test whether the magic weapon was effective.

If the moon worship ceremony is successful, the curse of the lunar eclipse will be completely controllable from then on.

For Su Li, this meant a new life.

Even though she was a True Lord of the Nascent Soul Realm, her heartbeat couldn't help but quicken, and she subconsciously bit her red lips.

"take it easy!"

Xiao Chen noticed her awkwardness and said comfortingly, "Just follow the steps and you will definitely succeed."

But persuasion alone is clearly not enough.

At times like this, you have to find a way to distract yourself.

Xiao Chen thought about it, and for some reason, he immediately associated the Lantern Festival with fireworks.

"Su Li, look up!"

He stretched out his hand and waved, and tens of thousands of black fire crows quietly appeared in front of him.

Then, they skillfully divided into ten groups under the guidance of their spiritual consciousness and rushed into the sky.

"Crack!"

Suddenly, fireworks bloomed in the sky.

Among them were the poisonous crow black fire with a gray-green glow, the orange-red Luo Tian Zhen Fire, and some of the black fire crows that exploded on their own and dispersed into a large number of sparks.

The spiritual energy surged, and the collision caused more sparks to fall.

In Su Li's eyes, the whole sky suddenly became lively.

To be fair, for a Yuanying Zhenjun, a mere second-level Black Fire Crow can only be considered a small trick at best.

But this little trick made the corners of her mouth curl up involuntarily.

In a trance, she looked at Xiao Chen who was manipulating the spell.

For some reason, my nervous heartbeat not only didn't ease, but became even more rapid.

"Together we will!"

Su Li smiled and raised her hand, and immediately tens of thousands of fireballs rose up and exploded in the sky.

Each fireball turned into ten small fireballs, and then exploded a second time, forming even more dazzling large-scale fireworks.

However, she pushed a little too hard.

In an instant, a strong tide of spiritual energy swept across an area of ​​100 miles, and even the snow-leaf grass beside it bent down and trembled.

The strong impact of spiritual energy even made Xiao Chen feel a tightness in his chest.

hiss~!

It’s so annoying. I have to hurry up and break through to the Nascent Soul stage.

Fortunately, after this incident, Su Li was no longer nervous.

Before I knew it, it was midnight.

A ray of moonlight that seemed to be real descended, but was blocked by the magical weapon raised above the head.

With such a buffer, the lunar eclipse that once caused Su Li so much pain turned into a sacrificial ceremony to accept bloodline inheritance.

"Ok?"

Xiao Chen looked down at the soft body that crashed into his arms: "The magic weapon has no effect?"

Can't you?
There are no datura flowers around?
"Witchcraft weapon... I haven't fully mastered it yet."

Su Li's face flushed: "Maybe the preparation time was too short, so it didn't take full effect."

I understand, one and a half days is indeed too short.

Xiao Chen stretched out his hands and hugged him. In this case, he didn't mind watching the inheritance scene again.

The main content of this lunar eclipse is the decline of the witch tribe and the prophecy of the last high priest.

The former is somewhat similar to the Tianxing Sect, both mentioning great changes in heaven and earth.

In short, the overall environment suddenly deteriorated, making it difficult to adapt.

The latter mentioned that one day in the future, a celestial witch would be reincarnated to revitalize the witch clan.

It is hoped that the existing members of the Moon Witch tribe, especially the Saint, can find the reincarnation of the Sky Witch in time and follow him to revive the Witch tribe.

How should I put it? It sounds very unreliable.

Xiao Chen finally understood why the Moon Witch clan could no longer survive.

In such an important ceremony, it would be more practical to share some of your cultivation experiences instead of talking about these useless things.

(End of this chapter)