Chapter 146 Black Dog Hatches Golden Eggs, Builds Teleportation Array
A few months later.

In the mine to the north of Kuxiu Mountain, several palaces and pavilions rose from the ground, lined up one after another, like a prosperous town.

Ever since Chen An discovered the underground fire here, Chen Qing sent people to repair the mine and turned it into an underground fire cave.

Use formations to draw out the underground fire below for use by the entire clan, and it has endless uses whether for refining weapons or pills.

At this moment, a graceful figure jumped out from the entrance of the cave, and with a look of joy on her face, she set off towards the northern mountain of Kuxiu Mountain.

After landing on the North Mountain, he took a look and hurriedly went into the spiritual field, saying happily: "Elder, the Earth Core Fire Ganoderma is ripe!"

As the only tribe member who can go to the bottom of the cave, she often goes there to make elixirs and is most familiar with the underground fire ganoderma.

Every time Chen Shuang came back from the cave, she would report to him about the situation of the Earth Core Fire Ganoderma, and Chen An would go there at the appropriate time to ripen it based on her description.

After years of cultivation, it has finally matured.

Chen An, who had just finished taking care of a group of spiritual plants, walked out calmly upon hearing this and said with a smile: "Girl, you are happier to see the spiritual medicine mature than to see your success in refining the elixir."

"Hehe, Shuang'er is happy for you!"

Chen Shuang blinked his big, lively eyes and said with a grin.

"Okay, go practice first."

Chen An shook his head and said, this girl has studied alchemy deeply and is clearly eyeing the elixir inside.

After giving the order, Chen An jumped up and flew towards the underground fire cave.

He casually passed through the formations and came directly to the deepest part of the earth fire, where the Earth Core Fire Ganoderma was.

Now, the number of Earth Fire Ganoderma under the entire underground fire has grown to five. Under the nourishment of the rich underground fire, the fire-like Ganoderma lucidum has extended its roots to the edge of the underground fire with the growth of years.

At this time, it is slowly absorbing the fire power from the magma of the earth's fire and gradually growing stronger.

Chen An had harvested a wave of Earth Core Fire Ganoderma before, and the 200-year-old one contained the Earth’s marrow.

This item is a fourth-level spiritual item. Due to its very good integration properties, it is used in many elixirs. It is a fourth-level spiritual item with a wide range of uses.

Looking at one of the three hundred year old Earth Core Fire Ganoderma, Chen An stepped forward and plucked it off with its roots.

[Harvest a 300-year-old Earth Core Fire Ganoderma and obtain the Fire Dragon Pill Cauldron]

Chen An looked at the fiery red cauldron in front of him. It stood on three legs, and there were nine dragons engraved on the cauldron. Under the reflection of the ground fire next to it, it looked like nine fire dragons.

"Fire Dragon Pill Cauldron?"

Chen An's expression was a little strange, but he still waved his hand to put away the alchemy cauldron, and then planted the several spirit seeds he had just harvested from the Earth Core Fire Ganoderma one by one.

After flying out of the cave, he was about to return to Kuxiu Mountain, but he turned his head to look towards the north, raised the corner of his mouth, and waited quietly here.

After a while, a beam of light was seen flying from the north. When the man saw Chen An, his face lit up and he hurried over to pay his respects.

"Disciple greets Master!"

The person who came was Chen Shusheng who had just returned from Lihuo Palace.

"How is the matter at Lihuo Palace going?"

Chen An asked casually.

Following Chen Shusheng's explanation, as expected, with the help of the blood crocodile, the trip went extremely smoothly.

The Blood Crocodile suppressed the Lihuo Palace, and the extremely Yin remnant soul cleaned up the mess. He naturally made a copy of all the inheritance of the Lihuo Palace.

Chen An took the storage bag and praised: "Well done, take these bottles of Yuan Shui Lu and practice with them."

Those who have made contributions should be rewarded. This is Chen An’s principle.

"However, after Xin Fenghai imprisoned Cui Shuosheng, Cui Shuosheng somehow managed to sneak away from Lihuo Palace. No one knows where he went. I am also responsible for this. Please punish me, Master."

Chen Shusheng's face was filled with shame.

This was the first task assigned to him by Chen An. The task was accomplished, but the culprit got away, which went against the prudent approach that Chen An often taught him.

Chen An frowned slightly when he heard this, then waved his hand and said, "It's okay. Cui Shuosheng has been the Palace Master for so many years, so he must have some skills. Besides, he is only in the late Jindan stage, so there is no need to worry."

With him in charge in Qingyun Domain, the other party would definitely not dare to come here.

As for whether the other party would retaliate against the Lihuo Palace, it was beyond Chen An's control. Besides, Xin Fenghai was no pushover, so he would naturally be on guard.

After explaining the situation and handing over the inheritance of Lihuo Palace, Chen Shusheng left again.

The matters of Lihuo Palace have been settled, but the cultivation of Old Ancestor Lihuo has not made much progress. He has just switched to ghost cultivation and needs to continue to go to Changhe Sect to absorb ghost energy for cultivation. This old man is still useful, so Chen An will help him out.

After Chen Shusheng left again, Chen An jumped back to Beishan.

As soon as he returned to the cave, the black-haired beast pounced on him.

It has nothing to do all day long except eating and sleeping. It used to play with Chen Shuang occasionally, but since the mining of the underground fire, Chen Shuang has been busy refining medicine and practicing, and does not have much free time to pay attention to it.

"Okay, let's go play with Chen Kebao and the others."

Chen An threw a third-level spiritual medicine to the black-haired beast, played with it for a while, and then ignored it.

Back in the cave, the door of a quiet room inside opened quietly.

Luo Ling'er needed to cultivate the poisonous insects, and since there were so many quiet rooms unused, Chen An let her do it in one of them.

When she saw Chen An coming back, she walked towards him with light steps.

"Master, I have tried to communicate with the Poison Demon Lord in the sect and trick him into coming here, but he seems to be breaking through the bottleneck of the late stage and won't say anything."

Luo Ling'er frowned slightly, looking quite guilty. She had boasted in front of Chen An before, but she didn't expect that the person would come. Instead, the other party's cultivation level was about to break through to the late Nascent Soul stage, which would make it more difficult to deal with him in the future.

"It doesn't matter. We are still short of materials for the teleportation array. Let's focus on the righteous territory first. After all, the progress of the teleportation array cannot be delayed."

Chen An comforted him by saying that there was no rush to take down the Five Poisons Sect.

Having gained the inheritance of the art of formation, he has now mastered the fourth-order formation. He can use it to try to build a small teleportation array and prepare for building a large teleportation array in the future.

The spiritual materials collected previously were still not enough to build a long-distance teleportation array, but they were completely sufficient for an ordinary teleportation array.

"So what you mean is that we should build it in Black Wind Market first?" Luo Ling'er asked curiously.

"good."

Chen An nodded and said, "But before that, we need to resolve one thing first."

After saying this, he turned his palm, and a golden egg suddenly flew out from a cluster of golden crow grass in the spiritual field outside. After spinning around, it went straight into the cave and landed in his palm.

Who would have thought that this action actually alarmed the black-haired beast, which stared at the golden eggs and followed them all the way into the cave.

"Is this a Golden Crow Egg?" Luo Ling'er's eyes widened, she covered her cherry lips in disbelief and exclaimed.

The Golden Crow in Beizhou usually reaches the fourth level of strength when it reaches adulthood. It is a spiritual pet comparable to that of a Golden Infant cultivator. In fact, relying on its innate magical powers, its strength far exceeds that of an ordinary fourth-level monster.

The most important thing is that no one in the entire Dongzhou has ever heard of anyone owning a Golden Crow as a spiritual pet.

"Over the years, the Golden Crow Egg has not hatched yet, and its life essence has begun to drain away. That's why I placed it among the Golden Crow grass. But this is not a solution."

Chen An patted the black-haired dog's head and scolded him with a smile: "You lazy guy, you must have eaten a lot of spiritual medicine recently. Take this egg and incubate it carefully. If there is any mistake, I will castrate you!"

"Ouch."

Black Haired Hound was excited to see the Golden Crow Egg, but when he heard the last sentence, he shuddered and immediately wilted. "Black Haired Hound is a Feng Shui dual-attribute monster, so it doesn't seem appropriate to use it to hatch the Golden Crow Egg with fire attribute," Luo Ling'er reminded.

"With this thing helping it transform its demonic power, it shouldn't be a problem."

As Chen An turned his palm, a golden feather emitting a strong fire aura slowly floated out and lingered around him.

"Such a rich true fire of the sun!"

Luo Ling'er felt the terrifying power in the feathers, her eyes shining with excitement, and she suddenly felt that her previous defeat to this master was not a loss at all.

The black-haired hyena took the golden crow egg and feather, obediently found a place to dig a hole, put the egg in, and then sat on it to start incubating.

"Okay, let Black Haired Hound hatch the Golden Crow Egg, and you can help me build the teleportation array."

Chen An waved his hand, left behind the Golden Crow Feather, and brought Luo Linger to the top of Kuxiu Mountain.

Building a teleportation array requires certain attainments in array formations, but the process is not complicated. It basically consists of three steps: measuring coordinates, refining the array base, and engraving the array patterns.

The first step of measuring coordinates is not complicated. It is nothing more than determining the direction based on the stars in the sky.

Chen An observed the starry sky according to the method inherited from the fourth-level formation, then wandered around Kuxiu Mountain and quickly determined the coordinates of the top of the mountain.

The next step is to refine the array base.

As a stable material that is easy to engrave array patterns on, red refined gold will be very suitable to serve as the base of a fourth-level array as long as it is mixed with seven or eight third-level auxiliary spiritual materials.

Then add the Void Stone as a carrier for recording coordinates and connecting to another teleportation array, and the array base will be completed.

As for the Dream Crystal, it is usually refined into a jade talisman to protect the person being teleported from being eroded by the turbulence of space.

However, the transmission distance of this small teleportation array is relatively short, so there is no need to waste it. Just use a third-level talisman for protection.

After preparing the spiritual materials, Chen An sat cross-legged on an open space on the top of the peak, sacrificed the true fire of the sun, took out the red pure gold, and seven or eight kinds of spiritual materials that he had collected from the market in advance, and threw them into the true fire one by one in a certain order.

This ball of true sun fire, after being nourished by countless Golden Crow grasses, has grown to the size of a washbasin. The golden flames swaying in the wind continue to twist, and faintly form a Golden Crow flying up and down inside.

Under the scorching flames, a pile of spiritual materials quickly melted into a ball. Chen An's spiritual sense probed into it and slowly shaped it into the prototype of the array base.

Under the tempering of the sun's true fire, when the array base was completely formed, Chen An threw the array base to Luo Ling'er.

Luo Ling'er, who had already dug a one-foot-three-inch deep array pit nearby, took the array base and embedded it into the array pit without any error.

Chen An picked up a piece of Kongming Stone, quenched it into liquid with real fire, took out the essence, burned away the impurities, and then split it into two.

The next step is the third step of engraving the array pattern.

A formation master usually uses his spiritual consciousness as a sword and magic power as a source to engrave formation patterns on the corresponding formation base or formation plate.

The formations that Chen An had obtained before were all based on formation plates, supplemented by formation flags. This kind of formation is portable and can be set up anytime and anywhere. The disadvantage is that its power is not as good as the formation set up with a formation base, and the latter is not easy to move.

Both have their advantages and disadvantages, and it is hard to say which one is better.

Chen An immediately turned his spiritual consciousness and probed into the Kongming Stone. Using his spiritual consciousness as a knife and his magic power as the source, he engraved the coordinates of the top of Kuxiu Mountain and somewhere in Black Wind Mountain in the form of an array pattern.

The function of this stone is to record coordinates and then connect the two teleportation arrays to achieve the purpose of positioning.

Engraving array patterns does not require a very high level of spiritual awareness from the array master, but it does require concentration, otherwise it will be impossible to leave any trace on the spiritual material.

This is one of the biggest difficulties in becoming a formation master.

Chen An practiced the Soul Refining Technique. Not only was his spiritual awareness comparable to that of a cultivator in the late Nascent Soul stage, it was also extremely condensed, like metal forged by true fire. It was natural for him to engrave coordinates with ease.

As his spiritual consciousness, carrying the powerful power of the Nine Revolutions of Reincarnation, penetrated into it, engraved one array pattern after another and the coordinate information, soon, the coordinate cores of two finished arrays were completed.

However, since the array patterns on the array base are quite complex, with almost thousands of them, it is very difficult to engrave them.

Fortunately, Chen An had just received a wave of fourth-level formation inheritance not long ago. In addition, this was only the smallest teleportation formation, and it took a lot of effort, but he managed to complete it.

A small teleportation array only needs this array base, while a larger teleportation array will require more than this.

Chen An checked the formation again and again, confirmed that there was no problem, waved his hand to put away the true fire, and slowly exhaled a breath of foul air.

Then embed one of the Kongming stones into the groove in the middle of the array base.

"Take this Void Stone and go to the Black Wind Market and wait for me."

Chen An handed the second piece of Kongming Stone to Luo Ling'er.

"Yes!"

Luo Ling'er, who had been waiting for a long time, picked up the Kongming Stone and fled towards the Black Wind Market.

After a while, Chen An felt that the time was almost up, so he took out nine top-grade spirit stones and embedded them in the nine grooves on the base of the array, surrounding the Kongming Stone in the middle.

After the formation was activated, a dark blue light flashed above the Kongming Stone in the middle of the formation base.

Chen An reached out and touched it. Through the Kongming Stone, he could sense that there was another Kongming Stone not far to the south. However, the formation base over there had not been built, so he could only sense it vaguely.

"It seems there is no problem. The coordinates are also correct. The next one is another one."

Chen An breathed a sigh of relief when he saw this, and after a short rest, he immediately flew to the Black Wind Market and landed in a hidden corner of the market.

This is a secret place exclusively for the Chen family, and ordinary cultivators in the market cannot enter.

Luo Ling'er, who had been waiting here for a long time, had already dug the formation pit and prepared the spiritual materials.

Chen An stepped forward and followed the previous method to go through the process again, refining materials, refining the array base, and engraving the array patterns. He was busy in full swing.

I don't know how much time passed until the teleportation array in Black Wind Market was completed.

As Chen An placed the Kongming Stone and the Spirit Stone on the grooves of the formation, the Kongming Stone in the middle lit up with blue light, burning like an eternal lamp.

"It's done!"

Chen An clapped his hands, showing some excitement on his face.

"Congratulations, Master!" Ling'er, who was guarding nearby, stepped forward to congratulate.

"The teleportation array is built, but it still needs to be tested."

Chen An looked at Luo Ling'er and ordered, "Go up and give it a try!"

The newly built teleportation array has not been tested. If you teleport rashly, there is a risk of failure. Usually a monk is required to check it personally.

Even if the distance is only a hundred miles, once the transmission fails, it will be difficult for a Nascent Soul cultivator to withstand the erosion of the space turbulence and he will most likely be seriously injured. However, Luo Ling'er, as the Ten Thousand Blood Demon Puppet, is different. As long as her origin is not destroyed, the worst thing she will suffer from is the loss of some flesh and blood, which can be easily replenished later. There is no need to worry about this risk.

"Yes, Master, please wait a moment here. I will be back soon."

Luo Ling'er understood that it was her time to contribute, and she immediately agreed without hesitation. After receiving the order, she held the teleportation talisman, twisted her waist, and stood on the teleportation array.

The amulet was activated, and a blue light lit up, covering the entire teleportation array. After a few breaths, it returned to calm.

At this time, Luo Ling'er's figure also disappeared.

Through the connection of the soul seed, Chen An could vaguely sense that Luo Ling'er had been teleported to the top of the mountain where she was practicing for a hundred miles or so without any damage to her breath.

The teleportation array now seems to be completed.

However, Chen An was still worried, so he asked Luo Ling'er to test it back and forth several times before he confirmed that the teleportation array was completely successfully built!
All that’s left is for Chen Weiyang to return, or for the Five Poison Sect to be conquered. Then, based on this, they can communicate and trade with more forces, expand their own power, and prepare for the construction of an ultra-long-distance teleportation array in the future.

　Let me say something harsh: there will be a big update on Sunday!
　　
　
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