Chapter 136: Teleportation Array Jade Slip, Golden Crow Appears
The final result was that the giant crocodile only took away the corpse and the elixir in the coffin.
Judging from the giant crocodile old man's happy expression, the corpse in the coffin might be of great use to him, and might even solve his life span problem.
Chen An put away the jade slips, the crocodile tail magic treasure, and the huge bronze coffin. This coffin was of great value and was not inferior to the magic treasure at all.
After that, the giant crocodile looked at the blood crocodile lying on the ground, opened his mouth and wanted to say something, but when he raised his head, he met Chen An's cold gaze. He shuddered involuntarily, and then he dared not say anything more. He said goodbye to Xun Liang and other monsters and left in a hurry.
"Wait a minute, Brother Crocodile, we haven't discussed the deal for the Infant-Breaking Pill yet."
True Lord Yuheng said goodbye to Chen An and followed closely.
"Fellow Daoist Chen, if there is nothing else, I will leave too."
Ancestor Lihuo breathed a sigh of relief, then looked at Chen An with a complicated expression, stood up and said goodbye.
"Fellow Taoist, walk slowly!"
Chen An saw the other party off and looked around. He found that the guests had finished the banquet and left at some point, leaving the peak empty.
Kuxiu Mountain has returned to its former tranquility.
After seeing several Yuanyings leave, Chen Qing and Chen Kebao came to the main hall, looked at the blood crocodile lying on the ground in surprise, and reported the income of the gifts.
In general, together with the gifts from several demon kings and true kings in Chen An's hands, the cost of this ceremony has far exceeded it, and he has made a lot of money.
"If we hold more banquets like this, we'll become rich." Chen Qing said a little obsessed.
Chen An smiled: "It's not that there is no chance, but I don't know if you can live to see that time."
Chen Qing suddenly looked a little lonely, he was already nearly 140 years old, if he couldn't form a pill as soon as possible, the longer he delayed, the slimmer his hope would be.
When the end of time comes, you will inevitably become a handful of yellow earth.
Seeing that he remained silent, Chen An threw him a few bottles of Essence Pills and said, "Leave the clan affairs to Chen Duoduo in the future. Just concentrate on your cultivation and form a pill as soon as possible. I don't want to go to your grave to pay tribute a hundred years later."
The Chen family’s strength is no longer what it used to be. With the accumulation of resources, Chen Duoduo has already successfully established his foundation.
"You have worked diligently in the clan over the years. If you can enter the late stage of foundation building within two years, come to Beishan to practice."
Leaving a word, Chen An picked up the unconscious blood crocodile, sealed the other party's demonic power, and came to Beishan.
"Now there's blood and fat."
Chen An felt the rich energy and blood of the blood crocodile, chuckled, and planted five blood soul fairies from the crocodile's mouth.
With his powerful magic power, even a cultivator at the sixth or seventh level of the Nascent Soul could be barely sealed, let alone a demon cultivator at only the third level of the Nascent Soul.
However, just in case, Chen An sealed the opponent's body as well, making him unable to move.
After packing up all this, Chen An returned to the cave, took out the jade slip he got from the giant coffin, and examined it carefully.
The jade slips mainly record the construction methods of several long-distance teleportation arrays, including but not limited to one-way teleportation arrays, disposable teleportation arrays, long-distance and ultra-long-distance teleportation arrays, etc.
Except for one-way teleportation arrays, general teleportation arrays often appear in pairs. As long as power is provided, the two can teleport to each other.
This jade slip is of great use to Chen An. He can use the teleportation array to communicate with the sects in the heart of Dongzhou to a certain extent.
After all, the limit of the six regions in the Far East is the Nascent Soul stage, and its prosperity is far inferior to that of Dongzhou. More exchanges will not only be beneficial to the development of the Chen family, but also of great help to Chen An. At the very least, there will be more sources of fourth-level spiritual plants.
Although he practiced hard every day, he still had to contact the outside world. The path of cultivating immortals cannot be completely closed off.
Not only that, the jade slip also records a magical power called the Great Sun Golden Flame, which is probably used by the Crocodile Ancestor specifically to refine high-level spiritual materials.
This fire is one level higher than the Netherworld Ghost Fire, and requires at least a Nascent Soul cultivator to cultivate it.
At the same time, the golden flame of the sun is extremely strong and yang. Human cultivators cannot practice it out of thin air. They need the help of spiritual objects such as the Golden Crow Grass that contain the essence of the sun to assist in their practice.
The solar essence contained in the thousand-year-old Golden Crow grass is not only huge, but also gentle and pure, which is just right for assisting in the cultivation of this fire.
There were large areas of Golden Crow grass planted in the fields. Chen An was quite interested in it. If he could cultivate it, it would be a very useful spiritual fire whether for fighting or refining medicine.
What puzzled Chen An was that there was a string of strange information in the jade slip.
Although Chen An only had a rough understanding of the formation, he was also proficient in the arrangement of several formations. Combining several key information about the teleportation array in the formation, he guessed that this string of information should be the coordinates of a certain place.
Sure enough, at the end of the jade slip, Crocodile Ancestor not only explained the mysterious information, but also left a warning message.
It is said that this string of information is one of a pair of ultra-long-distance teleportation arrays, and as long as another one is built according to the coordinates, it can be teleported over.
According to Crocodile Ancestor, the other end of the coordinates is a higher-level continent of immortal cultivation. Its territory is extremely vast, many times larger than the four continents. It is filled with countless resources and powerful people, and can be said to be a holy land for immortal cultivators.
That year, he accidentally found a broken ancient teleportation array. Out of curiosity, he studied the human formation method and finally repaired it after hard work.
The Crocodile Ancestor, who originally had mediocre qualifications, was able to cultivate to the God Transformation Stage by relying on the resources obtained from that continent.
However, his qualifications only extended so far, and he had made many enemies there, so he simply returned to the Black Wind Mountains and completely destroyed the teleportation array.
Originally he thought that he could dominate Dongzhou with his strength, but he never imagined that there were actually two Divine Transformation cultivators hidden in the Dongzhou sect. The two of them joined forces and seriously injured him.
However, relying on the means of cultivation gained on that continent, the other two were not much better off. After a stalemate, the two sides reached a reconciliation, which led to the subsequent rules being set.
But over the years, the rules set back then seem to be gradually disintegrating.
After a long time, Chen An put down the jade slip, took a deep breath, and slowly digested the information he had just received.
According to the Crocodile Ancestor, there seemed to be only five levels of spiritual veins in the four continents, and the highest one could cultivate was only to the level of Divine Transformation. If one wanted to go further, they would have to go to that mysterious continent.
However, Chen An was not in a hurry. He had just advanced to the Nascent Soul stage and was not prepared yet, either in terms of cultivation or means.
He didn't want to take any risks until he was completely sure.
Besides, there are eight spiritual trees on the mountain that provide abundant spiritual energy, which is enough for his cultivation, so he doesn't necessarily have to go to that continent.
Even if I have to go as a last resort, I have to at least break through to the Spiritual Transformation stage first. There is no rush now.
Chen An immediately put away the jade slip, sat cross-legged in the cave, and began to practice in an orderly manner.
In addition to practicing, he would also take a stroll around the spiritual fields every day.
Both the Changhong Sword Qi and the Golden Crow Transformation Technique require the harvest of Golden Crow Grass. The Great Sun Golden Flame also requires thousand-year-old Golden Crow Grass to assist in cultivation. Therefore, Chen An put more energy on this spiritual plant.
Even if it was a thousand years old, there were only dozens of mature Golden Crow grasses. Not long after, under Chen An's careful care, he cultivated a plant that was eight or nine hundred years old.
Near the border between Qingyun Sect and Jinyang Sect.
It is a hot summer day with beautiful weather and gentle breeze.
Chen Zhan was running fast on the road under the scorching sun, stepping on a black shuttle-shaped spiritual weapon, looking very anxious.
Although the sun was shining brightly and would cause burning pain to most people, it was nothing for Chen Zhan, who was a physical cultivator.
Half a year ago, he received news that Chen An of the Chen family was going to hold a baby-birth ceremony.
He was very excited when he found out, and immediately rushed back to his family, hoping to go back and participate.
But we are in the heart of Dongzhou, tens of thousands of miles away from Qingyun Territory.
When we received the news, there was less than a month left until the ceremony.
Even though he has now reached the second level of physical cultivation perfection, and has been rushing back non-stop except for recovery, he cannot go back in a short period of time. Now, quite a while has passed since Chen An's Infant Formation Ceremony, and he is still some distance away from the territory of Qingyun Domain.
"Strange, my physical cultivation has already reached perfection at the second stage, so I should be immune to cold and heat, but why do I feel it's getting hotter and hotter!" Chen Zhan muttered. He was already sweating profusely, and his clothes were soaked with sweat. He was so hot that he simply unbuttoned his clothes, revealing his muscular upper body.
But this was only slightly better and could not solve the immediate problem, and I was still sweating profusely.
"Things are a little out of the ordinary. Could it be that my good fortune has come and there is a heavenly and earthly spiritual fire nearby?"
Chen Zhan raised his eyebrows and immediately started looking around.
After walking around, he found a barren mountain not far ahead. The closer he got to the mountain, the more obvious the burning breath became.
"Good fortune has arrived!"
Chen Zhan rubbed his hands and flew quickly towards the barren mountain. Before he got close, a golden figure rose into the sky from behind the barren mountain.
"quack!"
In a flash, a bird's cry was heard from the sky. The cry was shrill, and its golden feathers sparkled in the sun. Flames were rising from the bird's body, like a little sun.
As the golden bird moved, its huge shadow slowly swallowed Chen Zhan.
"This is the Golden Crow Bird!"
Chen Zhan was stunned. The Golden Crow Bird was a legendary divine bird that was born with the ability to control the sun's true fire. It was said that once it developed its third leg, it could ascend to become an immortal!
I thought the Golden Crow Bird was just a legend, but I never thought I would be able to see it with my own eyes one day.
However, he didn’t understand how the small Six Regions of the Far East could attract such a divine bird?
"Snapped!"
A drop of light golden liquid dripped onto Chen Zhan's cheek, and the burning pain immediately woke him up.
Smelling the faint smell of blood, Chen Zhan suddenly realized: "This bird is injured!"
"Not good, this golden crow seems to be heading for Kuxiu Mountain. Its aura is far superior to the Nascent Soul cultivators I have seen before. I am afraid it is quite powerful. If it really passes by our clan, it may cause disaster!"
Seeing that the Golden Crow was taking the same route as him to go home, Chen Zhan was horrified and hurriedly used all his strength to drive the black shuttle under his feet to chase the Golden Crow that had already flown away, although it was in vain due to his speed.
"Oh, right, we are already in the Qingyun Region, not too far from Kuxiu Mountain. I can send a message to my clan and ask them to respond as soon as possible!"
Chen Zhan slapped his forehead, then took out a jade token and tried to communicate with Chen Qing from the clan.
Ascetic mountain.
Beishan, where birds sing and flowers bloom, is home to only two people and a dog all year round. It is the most peaceful place for the Chen family.
At this moment, two figures, a beast and a man, appeared here, and walked hurriedly towards a cave. From time to time, the barking of dogs was heard, breaking the tranquility of Beishan.
"Wang!"
When they reached the entrance of the cave, the huge body of the black-haired beast blocked the way. It seemed that it didn't want Chen Qing to go in.
Chen Qing was so angry that he jumped up and down, pointing at the black-haired beast's nose and yelling, "It's already this hour, and you're still reporting something? Let me in!"
He had been in contact with the black-haired beast for a long time and could more or less understand what it was conveying.
While the man and the dog were arguing, the door of the cave suddenly opened, and Chen An walked out at the same time.
"What's the dispute?"
Chen An glanced at the angry black-haired beast, and laughed. He turned to Chen Qing and said with a smile, "You too, why bother with it?"
"Still making fun of me here, something terrible has happened!"
"It's a remote place in the Far East Six Regions. What big thing can happen there?"
Chen An said calmly that he didn't think anything big would happen in Qingyun Domain unless the Jiyin Sect attacked again.
"I just received a message from Chen Zhan, saying that a divine beast is heading towards Kuxiu Mountain."
Chen Qing had a worried look on his face as he repeated the message that Chen Zhan had given him.
"Suspected to be a wounded fifth-level Golden Crow?"
Chen Angu's calm eyes flashed with a hint of surprise.
Rumor has it that the earliest Golden Crow was an innate creature, transformed from the essence of the sun, born and raised by nature, with strength and potential far exceeding that of monsters of the same level.
What's more, it is only a fifth-level monster, comparable to the human race's divine master. Even if the opponent is injured, its strength should not be underestimated.
"I will go down and tell the tribesmen on the mountain to go out and take shelter for a while until the divine bird passes by."
Chen Qing had a sad face, as if he had foreseen that there would be a great disaster for all the people on Kuxiu Mountain.
Chen An suddenly raised his head and stared towards the north: "Hurry up, it may be almost there at this distance."
After saying this, his figure flashed, and with a rainbow of light trailing behind him, he rushed towards the north.
And a hundred miles away from Kuxiu Mountain, a rainbow light was flying towards them at a rapid speed. Its speed was not slower than Chen An's at all, and was even much faster.
"quack!"
A shrill cry resounded through the sky.
The wingspan of this golden crow was about ten feet long, so its body was not too big, but its body was burning with true sun fire. Even though there was still some distance between them, Chen An could feel a hint of burning sensation, so he didn't dare to get too close.
If the other party is really allowed to pass through Yunwu Valley and Kuxiu Mountain, there will be a lot of casualties.
"Fellow Daoist, the place ahead is my Daoist temple, please take a detour."
Chen An stopped Jinwu and bowed.
While looking at the Golden Crow, Chen An shifted his gaze to the other's abdomen, where there was a hideous wound. Through the gaps between the outer layer of golden feathers, the internal organs could be vaguely seen.
Chen An felt awe in his heart. This Golden Crow was probably at the early fifth stage in strength. To be able to injure him like this, the person must be at least at this level in strength.
Could it be that a deity or a demon god is chasing this bird?
However, the aura of this monster seems to be unstable, and it seems that it will fall back to the fourth level at any time. If things go wrong, it might just break through and be discovered and hunted down.
"Gah!"
The Golden Crow Bird flapped its wings a few times, and the flames all over its body became more intense, and the temperature around it also rose a little.
"not good!"
Chen An thought that the other party was going to attack without any explanation, so he quickly used his magic treasure to defend himself, while preparing to sneak attack the other party's wound.
But the next moment, the Golden Crow turned into a golden rainbow, rising into the sky, and flew directly towards the direction of Kuxiu Mountain. In the blink of an eye, it disappeared like a startled wild goose.
Even though this monster was seriously injured and its escape speed was not as fast as it was at its peak, this speed was still far beyond the reach of ordinary cultivators.
But facing such contempt, Chen An's heart suddenly surged with nameless fire. He held the Eight Spirit Sword and the Blood Sea Flute in his hands, and the crocodile tail steel whip was suspended in the air behind him.
Immediately, rainbow light appeared all over his body, and seven red lights appeared in succession. Even in the bright sun, they were extremely dazzling, as if a banished immortal had descended to the world.
This was the first time that Chen An had performed the Golden Crow Transformation Technique at full speed since he had perfected it. At such a high speed, he couldn't help but feel that the scene in front of him was a little blurry and a little uncomfortable.
Just as he was slowly adapting to this speed, a ball of golden flame suddenly appeared in front of him.
Caught up!
(End of this chapter)