Chapter 219: Soul Devouring Worm, Pure Yang Body
Lost Sea, a certain area of ​​sea.

Old man Zhan looked far away at the hazy coastline of the Mermaid Island, his eyes showing a sense of vicissitudes, and he did not move for a long time.

"That boy is trustworthy."

He already knew what had happened in the secret room in the small lake before, so this was not unexpected to him, otherwise, he would not have chosen Chen An at that time.

However, this matter was somewhat beyond his expectations.

"Isn't he a spiritual plant master? Why didn't he take the Canglan Golden Spirit Silk, but only chose the inferior feather?"

A hint of doubt flashed across old man Zhan's weathered eyes. This feather was indeed from a superior divine beast in the realm of refining emptiness, and was very precious.

But after so many years, some of the spiritual energy has been lost, and its power is not as strong as it used to be. It is slightly inferior to the Canglan Golden Spirit Silk in any way.

"I really don't know what this kid is up to."

With a sigh, Old Man Zhan turned his head and looked into the distance, his expression stern: "No matter what, being able to severely damage the dragon clan and greatly improve their strength is beneficial to our mermaid clan."

"Could it be that this kid went to Lingxiyuan?"

The more Old Man Zhan thought about it, the more he felt that it was possible. The only thing that could improve one's cultivation in a short period of time was the Lingqi Milk in the Lingqi Abyss.

However, due to the oppression of the dragon clan, his mermaid clan has no right to fight for Lingxiyuan.

I have lived for most of my life and have only heard of the Spirit Breathing Milk.

"Boy, I'll leave the mermaid tribe to you first."

Immediately, Old Man Zhan turned his head towards a certain direction, his expression suddenly became fierce, and he shouted in a low voice: "Three-legged bird! Back then, you took away the treasure of my mermaid tribe and made our tribe fall to this point. This time, I will definitely take it back!"

After staying for a while, Old Man Zhan set up a light of escape and flew towards the depths of the sea.

After obtaining the water-attributed feather from Zhan Jing, Chen An stayed on the Mermaid Island for about a year.

When he felt that the excitement of his last trip had passed, he set off and escaped into the sea of ​​​​turmoil.

To cross the Sea of ​​Turbulence and reach Dongzhou, one only needs to pass through the outer circle without alarming the powerful person in the inner circle.

Of course, just in case, Chen An did not travel through it alone, but took the teleportation array and arrived at the northern mountain of Kuxiu Mountain, thus saving the trouble of spending some spirit stones.

In the several major spiritual places of Kuxiu Mountain, the cultivators of the Chen family were practicing step by step, and there was no other movement. Instead, somewhere outside the mountain, the Golden Crow Bird and the Black-haired Hound were having a friendly exchange, and dog and bird feathers were scattered all over the ground.

There was a young man following behind a dog and a bird, happily picking up their fallen hair and feathers, and shouting as he did so: "Senior Dog, Senior Bird, come on, I'll take whoever wins as my disciple!"

Upon hearing this, the Golden Crow Bird and the Black-haired Hound bared their teeth and started biting and scratching each other. If you didn't know better, you would have thought that there was some deep hatred between them.

Seeing this scene, Chen An couldn't help laughing. This young man was quite interesting.

These two guys are both in the late Nascent Soul stage. The hair on their bodies is a rare spiritual material for low-level cultivators, so it makes sense to do so.

Since they were outside the mountain, Chen An did not pay much attention to them and let them mess around. Instead, he went straight to the spiritual field where he had not returned for several years.

Having not been cared for for a long time, many spiritual plants are growing normally, but are showing signs of decline and their quality is far worse than before.

Some of the spiritual plants even had yellowed leaves and branches and were weak, indicating that they were already terminally ill.

"Ok?"

Chen An took a few glances and saw that several of the spiritual plants seemed to be lacking in spiritual energy and nutrients.

But the spiritual energy in Beishan is comparable to that of a sixth-tier spiritual land, the soil is fertile, and the bodies of countless cultivators are buried underground. How is it possible that there is a lack of spiritual energy and nutrients?

Immediately, Chen An stepped forward, released his spiritual sense, and checked the entire spiritual field inside and out.

This investigation actually helped him find the cause of the disease!
"So it was you three guys who were causing trouble!"

In the thick trunk of the Eight Spirit Treasure Tree, Chen An found three thumb-sized spirit insects.

Each one is slender, gray-brown in color, covered with fine scales, with a pointed head and a pair of sharp mouthparts. When Chen An discovered them, they were using their two large claws to make holes in the heart of the tree, and their mouthparts were constantly sucking the juice of the fairy tree.

"Soul-eating beetle!"

Chen An recognized the spiritual insect in front of him. This soul-eating beetle was a kind of spiritual insect that liked to eat high-level spiritual wood. The higher the level of the spiritual wood, the more likely it was to be attacked. It was said that no grass would grow wherever it passed, and it was also good at burrowing into the ground, making it very difficult to catch.

Fortunately, there are only three of them here, otherwise, if there were too many, the entire spiritual field would be in trouble.

The Eight Spirit Treasure Tree in front of him has been cultivated by Chen An for more than a hundred years. It is now more than two thousand years old and is only two or three hundred years away from full maturity.

This kind of spiritual root is naturally the favorite of the soul-eating beetle.

"I have worked so hard to cultivate this immortal tree, how can I let you destroy it!"

Chen An's face turned grim, and then a green divine light shot out from his dantian, penetrated into the fairy tree, and went straight to the three soul-eating beetles.

The three spirit insects that were happily sucking tree sap seemed to sense the danger and immediately stopped sucking. The surface of their bodies flashed with an earthy yellow light, and they were about to retreat along the dug tree hole.

But Chen An had blocked all their retreat routes, so it wouldn't be so easy for them to escape.

With no way to retreat, the three insects turned around, waving their claws and opening their mouths, trying to eat the green divine light.

Seeing this, Chen An did not stop it, but instead sent the green divine light to the other party's mouth.

"Bah!"

After taking a bite, he did not get any delicious spiritual energy, but instead a poisonous and evil energy burst out from inside.

After taking just a few sips of the Five Plagues Poisonous Fire Evil, the three Soul-Eating Borers were no longer as lively as before, and gradually became listless.

Chen An immediately took out a jade box, forced the soul-eating beetle out of the fairy tree, and threw it in. The insect devoured the spiritual plants, but was not sensitive to jade.

Spirit insects like this are only harmful when they form a certain size; if they are just a few in number, they won't cause much harm as long as they are discovered in time.

There are many wormholes in the fairy tree, and the originally lush branches and leaves are now a little wilted.

Fortunately, the condition has not been seriously damaged. As long as the soul-infusing method is used to nourish the body for a period of time, the condition will gradually improve.

As for the other damaged spiritual plants, they were basically fourth or fifth level spiritual plants. The sixth level spiritual plants had not yet been planted, so they were gone, and the loss was not that big.

Immediately, Chen An performed the Soul Infusion Technique, and the rich spiritual energy of the entire Beishan Mountain suddenly rushed towards Chen An like crazy, condensing in the palm of his hand to form a small ball of crystal clear and rich spiritual essence.

"This is almost as good as the Spirit Breathing Milk!"

After advancing to the realm of refining emptiness, the degree of control over the spiritual energy of heaven and earth increased sharply, and the power of the soul-infusing method also increased greatly.

Based on this, it is estimated that within a few years, this fairy tree should be able to recover and mature.

After taking care of the fairy tree and dealing with the other spiritual plants in the field, Chen An returned to the cave.

I checked what I had gained from this trip.

The storage bag, purple net, purple-gold long sword and other treasures obtained from Manhuang were all in it.

In addition, there are four sixth-level spiritual plants, the Youshui Ice Heart Lotus, the Xuangen Spirit Orchid, the Haipo Divine Tree, and a Canglan Golden Spirit Silk.

This is why Chen An was not very interested in the Canglan Golden Spirit Silk that Zhan Jing gave him. The only difference was that when he broke through the Yin Fire Tribulation of Lianxu Dikan before, the Youshui Bingxin Lotus that was squeezed dry had exhausted its spiritual power and had turned into a small pile of ashes.

And under the ashes, a round spirit seed was revealed, and its spiritual essence seemed to be inferior to that of an ordinary fifth-level spirit seed.

"Is this...degenerated into a spirit seed?"

Chen An was surprised that a sixth-level spiritual plant gave birth to a spiritual plant. In extremely dangerous situations, it might use the remaining power to return itself to its original state, that is, the seed form.

Unexpectedly, the spiritual plant was squeezed too dry, causing it to degenerate.

But it’s just as well, as it saves him from having to look for spirit seeds again.

"In that case, why not..."

Chen An smiled lightly, then looked with ill intent at the remaining few spiritual plants that were slowly moving their bodies in an attempt to escape from this place.

In the cave, Chen Anjing sat quietly on the five-colored lotus platform, while Chen Qing stood in front of him, reporting on the clan's situation in recent years.

"You mean, in the past few years, how many spirits have appeared in the clan?"

"Yes, the five-colored lotus seeds are quite mysterious. If you take more of them, you can condense a spirit body of the corresponding physique. In the long run, my Chen family will prosper!"

Chen Qing looked excited, but he ignored the fact that the Chen family had already surpassed many other forces in Dongzhou and was extremely prosperous.

"You said before that there is a cultivator with a pure yang body in your clan. Is that true?"

Chen An said half-believingly that this pure yang body was one of the best even among the rare spirit bodies, far superior to other spirit bodies.

It is also rumored that if a person with a spirit body does not lose his virginity after reaching a certain age, his potential will increase linearly over time, comparable to the legendary spirit body!
If it had not died halfway, there would have been a good chance of advancing to the state of fusion. In this sense, it could be compared with the five-clawed golden dragon among the dragon clan.

Unfortunately, among the recorded cases of Pure Yang Body cultivators, many were trapped by their enemies with beautiful women, and lost control of themselves and had their Dharma bodies destroyed.

After losing its Yuan Yang, this spiritual body became almost useless, even worse than an ordinary cultivator with ordinary spiritual roots, and could only eat and wait for death!

"This is absolutely true, but it's not someone from our clan, but someone from the Wang family of Shuanghu Mountain."

"Wang family? Did you kidnap the person directly?!" Chen An raised his eyebrows, not knowing what to say for a moment.

"Eh? I didn't rob him. The Wang family sent him here themselves. It's none of my business. After all, this child has half of my Chen family's blood!"

In response to Chen An's speculation, Chen Qing shook his head and denied it flatly.

After Chen Qing told the story in detail and explained the details, Chen An finally understood the whole story.

It turned out that the Wang family member with a pure yang body was also the son of Wang Guanyu and Chen Zhilan.

Talking about this couple, Chen An still remembered that when he was practicing Qigong, he gave her some elixir to stabilize the pregnancy in order to get some spiritual fertilizer.

Unfortunately, many years ago, Wang Guanyu died in a fight with other families because of his incompetent tactics.

It was also because the Chen family sold a lot of Condensing Crystal Pills over the years that Chen Zhilan was able to advance to the Jindan stage by chance and survive to this day.

The current head of the Wang family is his eldest son, Wang Quan!
Wang Ming, who has a pure yang body, is the youngest son left by Wang Guanyu before his death.

"The Wang family sent this boy to Kuxiu Mountain. Besides being afraid of delaying his path, they were probably more afraid of other forces coveting him."

Chen Qing did not say it explicitly, and his words were rather euphemistic. His implication was that rather than letting the Chen family wipe him out or covet him in the future, it would be better to send the person over now.

The important thing is that this boy has half of the Chen family's blood flowing in his body. Sending him here is equivalent to making him half a member of the clan, and the Chen family will certainly not make it difficult for him.

Having dealt with Chen Qing for many years, he and Chen Qing know each other quite well. Even though the other party didn't say it explicitly, Chen An knew what he meant.

"boom!"

At this time, there was a loud bang from Beishan, which was deafening. Even the entire Beishan shook a few times. I don’t know which nearby mountain had collapsed again.

Judging from the noise, it was most likely caused by the Golden Crow Bird and the Black-haired Hound.

"These two hot guys!"

Chen An's face darkened, his eyes twitched slightly, and he waved his hand behind him. Immediately, a thin figure walked out quickly from the dark corner of the cave and left the cave in the blink of an eye.

In just a moment, the old man Ji Yin returned to the cave, holding the black-haired beast in his left hand, the black bird in his right hand, and a struggling young man between his ribs.

"They were vying to take the young man as their apprentice, and they started fighting after the argument." Ji Yin left the three men in the cave, and disappeared in a flash.

When Chen An was away, it was the Old Ancestor Ji Yin who was guarding Kuxiu Mountain. Others were already used to this.

"Such pure Yang energy. At such a young age, his cultivation has reached the late stage of foundation building. He is indeed a pure Yang body!"

Grabbing the boy's wrist, Chen An carefully examined his body and confirmed it without a doubt.

"You also want to take me as your disciple?" Wang Ming held the dog hair and golden feathers in his arms, his expression uncertain, even a little numb.

"If you want to become my disciple, it depends on whether you are qualified."

Chen An asked: "What are you doing with these feathers?"

"I'm going to trade them for a sword!"

"Oh? You want to be a swordsman?"

"No, I want to kill Chen Dazhuang!"

"This"

Chen An's face was full of confusion. He looked at Chen Qing with an inquiring look.

"Ahem, Xiao Ming, it's getting late. You should go back. If you're late, your mother will be worried again."

After sending Wang Ming away, Chen Qing whispered a few words into Chen An's ear.

Chen An suddenly understood what was going on, then shook his head and sighed, "It's fate. Back then, Chen Dazhuang tried hard to pursue Chen Zhilan but failed. Now, more than three hundred years have passed, and the two of them can be considered to have rekindled their past relationship."

After Wang Guanyu died, Chen Zhilan went back to the Chen family, but for some reason, she and Chen Dazhuang became very close after they met, and soon they started to be affectionate with each other.

After all, Wang Dazhuang is a Jindan cultivator of the Chen family, so the Wang family naturally didn’t dare to say anything.

However, Wang Ming, whose father had just died, thought that Chen Dazhuang had taken his mother away, and in anger he wanted to kill Chen Dazhuang.

In desperation, Chen Zhilan confiscated all the magical and spiritual weapons on him, putting an end to the matter once and for all.

In the end, these two people are still together. They have gone through three hundred years of detours, which is really sad.

After understanding Wang Ming's situation, Chen An let Chen Qing go about his business while he practiced quietly in the cave.

In the blink of an eye, several years passed.

With diligent daily watering, the fairy tree quickly repaired its roots. At the same time, its branches and leaves became more luxuriant. Unknowingly, the age of the tree was approaching three thousand years, and it was about to mature.

(End of this chapter)