Chapter 149: The Sea King of the Immortal Cultivation World, Level Body Refining
After an unknown amount of time, the spiritual energy in Beishan stopped surging and returned to calm.

In the cave, as his cultivation was consolidated, Chen An's aura gradually stabilized, and finally settled at the fourth level of the Nascent Soul realm!

With the combined efforts of Linglong essence and Peiying Pill, it took Chen An a full sixteen years to break through from the third level of Nascent Soul to the fourth level.

Chen An was quite satisfied with this speed of cultivation. As long as he could keep it up, it would not be a big problem to complete his Nascent Soul within a hundred years.

As for the transformation into a spirit, he was only somewhat confident and he did not dare to say it was complete.

After all, the path of cultivating immortals is full of ups and downs. After the Nascent Soul stage, every major realm breakthrough is like a chasm in the sky, and one must go through the baptism of thunder and lightning before being able to truly cross it.

Fortunately, he had the help of the Soul Refining Technique to strengthen his soul during the last thunder tribulation when he formed his infant. Otherwise, even though Chen An’s soul was strong due to the technique, he would have been able to survive it, but it would not have been so easy.

"The road to becoming an immortal is long and arduous."

Chen An sighed and thought that if he could build a super long-distance teleportation array before breaking through to the God Transformation stage, he would have to reach that mysterious continent as soon as possible.

If he didn't have more powerful means to protect himself, he could continue to stay in the mountains and practice, but the thunder tribulation wouldn't allow that!

With each breakthrough to a new realm, the power of thunder and lightning increases linearly. Without corresponding means to protect oneself, one would most likely not be able to withstand it with just the physical body and cultivation.

Thinking of this, Chen An looked thoughtful.

"Master, the disciple is back!"

Following a shout, Chen Shusheng, who had now reached the fifth level of Jindan cultivation, slowly landed in front of the cave entrance.

He tidied his appearance, held up the exquisite pagoda in his hand, and walked in.

"Has the Lihuo training been completed?"

Chen An lifted up Chen Shusheng, who was kneeling and bowing, and asked.

"This person has refined many ghosts of Changhe Sect, and his cultivation has broken through the fourth level. His strength is about the same as that of an ordinary Jindan Perfection cultivator. I have brought him back this time, please decide his fate."

Chen Shusheng presented the exquisite pagoda and said with embarrassment: "That's it. The blood crocodile died a few months ago."

"Just die."

Chen An nodded slightly, not caring about it, and immediately took out an identical exquisite pagoda.

As soon as he thought of it, he saw a ghostly figure floating by on the opposite side, but as soon as it appeared, it was absorbed into the pagoda in his hand.

At the same time, several Blood Soul Immortals also flew out and landed in Chen An's storage bag.

Finally, there was the dried corpse of the blood crocodile. Having diligently cultivated the Blood Soul Immortal for so many years, Chen An naturally would not let him die in such a meaningless way.

With a wave of his hand, a dried-up corpse of a crocodile monster flew into the spiritual field. The earth dragon lifted it up and buried it underground.

In this way, the fourth-level spiritual field will probably increase by two or three points.

"How's the situation at Lihuo Palace?" After dealing with these things, Chen An asked casually.

"Without the Lihuo Patriarch, the Lihuo Palace has been severely damaged and its strength is no longer as strong as before. Many cultivators in the domain have fled to other domains."

This is a fact, and the biggest beneficiary is Black Wind City in Qingyun Domain.

Ever since the news of Changhe Sect and Lihuo Patriarch's absence spread, Lihuo Palace lost its backbone, and the cultivators in the underground immortal cultivation city also became tempted and fled out one after another.

Most of the cultivators came to Black Wind City. In the past few years, Chen An watched Black Wind City grow gradually.

Chen Shusheng pondered for a moment and said, "My disciple does not plan to stay long this time."

"Where do you want to go?" Chen An asked in surprise.

"In my opinion, although Xin Fenghai and his gang have joined forces to capture Cui Shuosheng and seize control of power, these people can only share adversity but not wealth. Perhaps I can lead the Chen family of Lihuo Territory and slowly make plans."

Chen Shusheng's eyes were burning and he looked excited, as if he was quite confident about this matter.

Ancestor Lihuo is no longer with us, but the heritage of Lihuo Palace still exists. It is far from being easy to take down by force, and it will take some effort.

Chen An could naturally use force to attack, but he didn't want to do everything himself. He should let the Jindan cultivators in the clan take up some responsibility. Otherwise, it would be meaningless for him to spend so much effort to train these clan members.

"Just do it according to your own ideas. You can keep this exquisite pagoda for self-defense for the time being. If you can give birth to a baby within a hundred years, I will give this treasure to you."

Chen An looked at the exquisite pagoda in Chen Shusheng's hand and gave instructions.

"My disciple should practice hard!"

Chen Shusheng knelt down to express his gratitude.

Seeing that Chen Shusheng had a good idea, Chen An instructed Chen Weiyang, as well as the siblings Chen Wen and Chen Rou, that the four of them should work together to accomplish this task so that they could look after each other to some extent.

With him in charge of the clan, it wouldn't matter much if there were more or fewer people who had reached the Jindan stage.

But after that, without Chen Weiyang's help, the pressure on the Black Wind Market increased greatly, and Chen Qing had to go back to the clan to find Chen Kebao and others for help.

The events of Changhe Sect and Lihuo Palace had originally caused many cultivators to migrate to Qingyun Domain. Now the number of people in the city was increasing day by day, and among them there were many Jindan cultivators who were entering and leaving the Black Wind Mountains and who came here to rest.

The public security issue alone is painful enough, and Chen Qing is simply unable to handle it alone.

However, this also caused another problem. In recent years, more and more cultivators have been eager to join the Chen family, even to be a guard, a spiritual plant husband, or even to marry into the family.

It is worth mentioning that there are also several cultivators who have completed their foundation building and have some hope of forming a golden core. They want to take the female cultivators of the Chen family as concubines. Even if they have inferior spiritual roots, they are happy to do so in an attempt to establish some kind of relationship with them.

The purpose of these people is self-evident, they are here for the Crystal Condensing Pill.

The quality of the crystal-condensing pill refined by Chen Shuang was average, but the one in Chen An's hand was different. The perfect quality one could even increase the chance of forming a pill by four levels.

In order to attract traffic, one or two pills were auctioned in Black Wind City in the past few years. Pills of this quality are fatally tempting to cultivators who have completed their foundation building!

Over the years, no one knows how many groups of monks have come from outside the mountain to beg for elixirs.

According to those people, they would be willing to exchange themselves for a pill of perfect quality even if it meant becoming slaves.

Chen An just laughed it off. Become a slave?

But there is no such good thing!
This is the only fifth-level spiritual land in the six regions of the Far East, and there are only a few of them in the entire East Continent. Kuxiu Mountain is not Black Wind City, so it is hard to imagine how easy it would be.

I'm really going crazy!
However, all these trivial matters can be left to Chen Qing.

After so many years, I naturally believe in his abilities.

Right now, Chen An is still having a headache about another matter.

Almost ten years have passed since the agreement was reached with Qinglong City to build a long-distance teleportation array.

Although the long-distance teleportation array is very complicated and requires a lot of time and resources, after so many years, even if it cannot be completed, it will not be only half built.

The reason for this was that when the construction in Qinglong City was halfway done, the formation master on the opposite side said that there was an urgent matter and the project had to be postponed for a while.

Everyone has urgent matters, and Chen An expressed his understanding.

But he waited for seven or eight years, and he had already broken through to the middle stage of the Nascent Soul, but there was still no movement from the other half of the teleportation array on the opposite side.

However, the cost of building half a teleportation array far exceeds the deposit for those infant-cultivating pills, so there is no need to worry about the other party having ulterior motives.

But dragging it on like this is not a solution.

Chen An sighed slightly, walked towards the communication array in the cave, and asked the other party a question out of habit.

I thought the formation master over there would continue to delay by saying other things, but I didn't expect that he would give a different answer this time.

"A month later."

The message on the communication array was concise and to the point, which made Chen An breathe a sigh of relief.

Since the other party responded to continue building the teleportation array, Chen An felt relieved.

As for the long-distance teleportation array in Black Wind City, Chen An had already completed its construction several years ago and was just waiting for Qinglong City.

After that, he can continue to practice and farm with peace of mind and wait for the other party to finish.

However, he had a vague feeling that this matter was not that simple, but he also didn't know what had happened in Qinglong City. He would only know when the teleportation array was completely opened.

"I was so busy with my breakthrough that I haven't used the spiritual rain to nourish my spiritual field for some time."

Since the fifth-level spiritual land was acquired, the spiritual energy of Beishan has greatly increased. However, Chen An did not redivide the spiritual land of Kuxiu Mountain. After all, there were still few Jindan cultivators in the Chen family, so there was no need to do so. He still maintained the original rules.

In such a blessed place, the older cultivators who had followed the Chen family all the way naturally cherished this hard-won opportunity and devoted themselves to cultivation.

But there are also young monks who occasionally enjoy entertainment and relaxation after practicing.

"Qian'er, these are the three bottles of Qi Gathering Pills I earned from selling talismans in Black Wind City. They can help you break through the eighth level of Qi training."

Chen Guangzhi tried hard to open his eyes as big as soybeans, looked at the slim figure in front of him, handed over the pill in his hand, and said infatuatedly.

"I broke through to the eighth level of Qi training last month."

Qian'er looked at the ugly face approaching her, frowned slightly, and took a half step back involuntarily: "Don't send me Qi Gathering Pills anymore, I'm afraid Brother Hao will misunderstand."

"Chen Hao?"

Chen Guangzhi thought of that handsome face that disgusted him, and couldn't help but clench his fists: "He is just prettier than me, how can he compare to me in other aspects!"

Chen Hao's talent for cultivation is stronger than his, he is also very handsome, and he can talk and make girls happy. It seems that he is infinitely stronger than him, but Chen Guangzhi believes that with his skills in talismans, he will form a golden elixir sooner or later and become a powerful cultivator like Elder Zhongtian.

Qian'er looked at Chen Guangzhi's ugly face with his yellow eyes, flat nose and thick lips, and she really couldn't feel any love for him.

She sighed slightly and said, "Brother Guangzhi, let's just be friends from now on."

"Qian'er"

Chen Guangzhi looked at the beautiful figure who didn't even turn back, his heart aching. He wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes and silently took out a booklet from his arms.

Looking at the ninety-nine names of female cultivators above, he used the talisman pen and wrote Qian'er's name on it with hatred.

"Oh my God, how unkind to me!"

At some point, heavy rain fell from the Kuxiu Mountain, hitting Chen Guangzhi's ugly face, causing him to feel a dull pain.

“Even God is crying for me.”

Chen Guangzhi felt bitter in his heart. He was born ugly and was bullied a lot when he was a child because of this.

Fortunately, he had spiritual talent and jumped from an orphan in a mortal town to a cultivator of the Chen family.

I thought that this would be a turning point in my life, but because of my appearance, I was still looked down upon by my peers.

"I once swore that if I still failed to pursue a hundred female cultivators, I would never fall in love again in this life!"

Chen Guangzhi swore in his heart, but he caught a glimpse of a beautiful figure in the distance, hurriedly hiding from the rain, with a stupid look in her eyes: "Sister Chan."

Chanmei was the ninety-ninth person who rejected him. He pursued Qianer wholeheartedly just to forget her. However, he hadn't seen her for a long time and suddenly saw her returning to the tribe, which touched his heart.

"No, I must resist temptation!"

He gritted his teeth and looked up at the misty North Mountain: "It is said that Elder Zhongtian was also proficient in the art of talismans in his early years. I am somewhat similar to him, but I wonder if I can be fortunate enough to become his disciple."

This kind of thing has been done before, but no one has succeeded. Most people only kneel for a few months, and then leave in disappointment when they see no movement on the mountain.

Chen Guangzhi's heart moved, and without saying anything, he immediately walked to the foot of the North Mountain and knelt on the ground with a plop: "Junior Chen Guangzhi, I am determined to get rid of the troubles of worldly affairs and come to the elder's door to practice hard. I hope the elder will consider it!"

After saying this, he knelt down for a long time, refusing to get up, even though his clothes were soaked by the rain.

Chen An, who had just performed the art of calling the wind and rain, seemed to have sensed something and glanced towards the foot of the North Mountain.

"This kid is really ugly but unique." Chen An curled his lips.

Over the years, countless tribesmen knelt at the foot of Beishan Mountain, most of them wanting to become his disciples, but he never paid any attention to them.

I just looked at him a few more times because I thought his appearance was different from ordinary people.

"Let him be. He probably won't last more than a few months."

Chen An put away the spell, glanced at Chen Shuang who was busy working in the spiritual field with a basket on his arm, turned back to the cave and continued to practice.

His physical training was about to break through to the fourth level, so he didn't have much time to deal with these trivial matters.

If you want to take him as your master, can you just do that?

Either he has talent in cultivation or in alchemy, talismans, formations and equipment, or he can be of great use to the Chen family or Chen An himself. Otherwise, how can he accept a disciple so easily?

After returning to the cave, Chen An took off his outer clothes, revealing his muscular upper body, and began to practice physical training techniques.

As the cave opened and closed, there were gusts of wind in the air and shadows of blood could be seen from time to time.

When you feel that you have warmed up enough, you can step into the insect room and practice the five poisons to refine your body.

After a long time.

Chen An walked out with a slightly pale face, sweating profusely and breathing slightly.

At this time, Chen Shuang had already carefully prepared the medicinal bath and was standing aside waiting.

Before Luo Ling'er went to the Five Poisons Sect, she specifically taught Chen Shuang the recipe for the medicinal bath so that she could continue to assist Chen An in his practice after she left.

The recipe for medicinal bath is not too difficult and you can master it by just spending some time.

Chen An was about to undress and take a bath as usual, when he suddenly saw Chen Shuang standing aside with a flushed face and head lowered.

"You are not needed here anymore, please get out first."

Chen An said softly that Luo Ling'er was just a puppet and did not have the functions of a normal person. Apart from having a soul, she was no different from an ordinary puppet. Therefore, he did not shy away from this. But Chen Shuang was different. This girl was a living young lady, even though she was almost a hundred years old.

"Huh? Oh"

Chen Shuang reacted, breathed a sigh of relief, and hurriedly turned around and rushed towards the cave gate.

The strange thing was that the moment she turned and left, there seemed to be a hint of disappointment in her expression. Whether unintentionally or out of curiosity, she secretly glanced at Chen An's sturdy body.

"Coming out so soon?"

The black-haired beast was squatting not far from the door. Seeing Chen Shuang rushing out with a red face, he asked in surprise, "When Luo Ling'er was here, didn't she serve for a long time?"

"Oh, the elder is practicing," Chen Shuang said absentmindedly with an evasive look.

"Gah, so fast!"

The little golden crow lying on top of the black-haired beast flapped its wings and jokingly said, "Master has been training his body for many years, but it seems to have no effect!"

Perhaps it was because the little Golden Crow had eaten too much Golden Crow grass, his mind became clear and he was able to speak human language even though he was still at the second level of cultivation.

Its body has now grown to two or three feet long, and it is still used to lying here. It is only because the black-haired leopard is so big that it would not be able to lie here.

"Bah, you can't spit out ivory from a dog's mouth, what nonsense are you talking about!"

Chen Shuang heard the hidden meaning in Little Golden Crow's words, and his face turned redder. He glared at it fiercely and said angrily.

In a rage, she drew out a sharp sword and pointed it at the little golden crow lying on top of the black-haired beast.

The black-haired beast didn't like what he heard and said unhappily, "Who are you scolding?"

"Haha, Brother Gou, save me!"

"You're getting more and more unpleasant as you grow older, you mixed-up bird. Look at my sword!"

For a while, Beishan was in chaos.

The black-haired hound is also a third-level spiritual beast. With Chen An's feeding, its foundation has become strong, and neither side can do anything to the other.

Chen An in the cave had of course noticed the commotion outside a long time ago, but this kind of commotion had happened more than once or twice, and the attacks of the man and the two beasts had all been of varying severity, so he was not too worried.

Three years later.

On this day, the entire Kuxiu Mountain suddenly shook violently, as if there was an earthquake, and bursts of dogs barking and birds singing could be heard from the mountain from time to time.

But this was not a real earthquake, but Chen An's physical cultivation had broken through to the fourth level.

　Sorry, I'm late today. I've had a cold recently and I'm not feeling well. But the Sunday update will still count!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)