Chapter 228: Turning the Tide of Battle, Phantom Blood Transformation Technique
Chen An didn’t care too much about this matter before, so he didn’t reveal his true identity.

I thought that after a long time of contact, I should be able to find out his identity based on the background of the Situ family. However, I lived a reclusive life and habitually hid my tracks when I went out. After a long time, the other party still didn't know his true identity.

If they had not gathered at the City Lord's Mansion today and the City Lord Ling Xuanxiao had not revealed his name, this woman would probably have thought he was "Wu Guang".

At the same time, this incident also shows from the side that the strength and foundation of the City Lord's Mansion in Feiyun City are far beyond the reach of these Lianxu families.

At this moment, facing Situ Yanran's questioning, Chen An avoided her gaze, coughed twice, and changed the subject: "I'm really sorry, when we met in the Ten Thousand Swords Tower, I was also tracking the black-robed man, so I had no choice but to do this."

At this point, Chen An took the opportunity to ask, "Come to think of it, when I came here, I saw Chu Fenglei step into the Ten Thousand Swords Tower again. Didn't the City Lord's Mansion ask about what happened last time?"

"I have heard about this matter. Li Zhen has already investigated and inquired clearly. Chu Fenglei approached the black-robed man in order to obtain the Nine Nether Sword Formation."

Situ Yanran seemed to have forgotten her previous unhappiness and lowered her voice and said, "This guy accidentally discovered that the black-robed man's whereabouts were suspicious earlier. After some investigation, he learned the other party's purpose. He wanted to catch him himself, but he was very interested in the Nine Nether Sword Formation, so he pretended to cooperate. During this period, he not only tricked the other party into giving him the formation and layout method, but also the materials for setting up the formation were provided by the black-robed man."

"I see. Chu Fenglei is a wonderful person."

Upon learning the truth, Chen An couldn't help but smile.

When they reached Xicheng District, Chen An separated from the other party and returned to their families.

Arriving at Beishan, the fifth-level spiritual plants in the spiritual fields were lush and green, and it looked like they would soon mature.

The most eye-catching thing in the fifth-level spiritual field is the Blood-Veined Heart Ivy. Its vines spread like blood vessels, entwining several dead trees that Chen An had planted next to them, flickering with a faint light.

Each vine is hung with translucent heart-shaped fruits, the surface of which is covered with intricate dark red lines and emits a faint, eerie glow.

As the maturity period approaches, the blood veins become clearer. At this time, the air around Xinluo begins to become sticky, and every breath seems to be devouring the surrounding spiritual energy.

Not far away, the Red Flame Spirit Fruit Tree stood proudly, its branches and leaves like burning flames that would never go out.

The fruits hung on the branches, each one was like a small sun, emitting a blazing light. Fortunately, there were no ordinary creatures nearby, otherwise the land within dozens of feet around would have been scorched black.

As the maturity period approaches, the color of the Red Flame Spirit Fruit gradually changes from the original orange-yellow to deep red, and the flames dancing on the surface seem to contain even more violent spiritual power.

Facing the Red Flame Spirit Fruit from a distance, at the other end of the spiritual field, the Mysterious Ice Grass was growing quietly.

The leaves of this herb are like the purest sapphires, sparkling with cold light, while its roots are deeply rooted under the soil, absorbing nutrients from the earth.

As the maturity period approaches, more brilliant frost crystals begin to condense on the leaves of the Xuanbing Hancao, and each crystal seems to contain the powerful force to freeze everything.

Chen An stood in front of the three spiritual plants, with faint fluctuations of magical power surrounding him.

He formed seals with his hands and chanted softly. A warm and vast magical power surged out from his palms and turned into infinite vitality, which was injected into the Blood-Veined Heart Radish, the Red Flame Spirit Fruit and the Mysterious Ice Grass.

The vines of the Blood-Veined Heart Wisteria trembled slightly, and the speed of the blood-colored veins suddenly accelerated, as if vitality was boiling in it; the flame of the Red Flame Spirit Fruit became brighter, and the spiritual power fluctuations in the fruit became more violent, like a small sun about to explode; the frost crystals on the Mysterious Ice Grass emitted a dazzling cold light, and the coldness was even more intense, and it seemed that even the space was trembling slightly.

Even the three soul-eating beetles that were working diligently beneath the soil had to take a detour when passing through the fifth-level spiritual field, for fear of being affected.

"call!"

After doing all this, Chen An exhaled lightly: "Just take care of them a few more times recently, and let these spiritual plants in front of you ripen first."

To refine the Yanbing Rongling Pill, you need the Red Flame Spirit Fruit and the Mysterious Ice Cold Grass, but you don't necessarily have to grow them at home. Those sold outside are just as effective, but the quality varies, so the effects of the pills refined may vary.

Just as Chen An was hesitating whether to buy a batch first to refine a few furnaces of pills and then go back to the City Lord's Mansion for reimbursement, he saw Chen Sheng hurriedly walking in with a storage bag in his hand.

"This was just sent by Li Zhen from the City Lord's Mansion!"

Chen Sheng handed over a storage bag, which contained a lot of red flame spirit fruits and black ice cold grass.

"Very good, it saves me the trouble of going back and forth!"

Chen An took a quick look and confirmed that the spiritual plants inside were correct, then he dived into the cave and started to refine the elixir.

Rift Valley.

Deep in the rift valley, the sky was covered by dark clouds, and the sunlight could hardly penetrate the thick clouds, as if casting an ominous omen over the showdown between humans and barbarians.

On the west side of the Rift Valley, the human race's defense line was built against the mountain. Although it was once extremely strong, it now appears dilapidated due to continuous wars and the erosion of time. The traces and mottled cracks on the stone walls all tell of countless confrontations in the past.

At the place where the two races were fighting, one after another huge figures, two or three hundred feet tall, were roaring and wreaking havoc at the human cultivators around them.

Occasionally, there would be a Void Refining Monk who had his hands free, who would fly forward and use all his strength to try to stop the giant in front of them. However, the barbarians of the same level who could use the power of heaven and earth were far more powerful than humans, and it would be useless for one person to do anything.

It was also because this Heavenly Guard was not destined to die. At this moment, ten Black-armored Guards riding on Six-Winged Frost Horses and Fiery Wind-Chasing Beasts formed the Ten Cold Flame Array and flew towards the barbarian who was three hundred feet tall.

With the combined efforts of the formation and the Heavenly Guards, they were able to make up for some of the disadvantage.

On the battlefield, similar fights were the loudest and were almost everywhere.

It is worth noting that a group of barbarian monks with similar body shapes to humans on the battlefield actually formed a formation. Their figures were like ghosts, shuttling across the entire battlefield.

"puff!"

"what!"

A tragic voice was heard, and then a Sky Guard who was fighting against the barbarians collapsed under the sneak attack of these ghostly figures.

"Son of a bitch, brothers, follow me and kill the Shadow Barbarian King's tribe!"

Chen Zhan, who was in charge of the lightsaber chain formation, was filled with rage when he saw this. He organized his men to go up and destroy the opponent's shadow killing maze formation.

Although he shouted this, he did not act immediately. Instead, he casually took out a Taiqing Lingmu Talisman and slapped it on his forehead.

This is a sixth-order talisman refined by a great master of talismans. The holder only needs to stick it between the eyebrows to open his spiritual eyes, see through everything, and perceive all illusions.

Even the slightest fluctuations of the barbarian's Shadow Killing Maze Formation could not escape its detection, leaving the barbarian monks with nowhere to hide, as if they were walking in an open area in broad daylight.

This precious talisman was obtained by him with his many years of accumulated military merits!

After his eyes cleared, Chen Zhan only took a few glances and found the Shadow Barbarians who had just killed people and left in a corner of the battlefield.

"Hey, get everything ready for me!"

After giving an order, Chen Zhan aimed at a barbarian giant who was about two hundred feet tall, and led his companions in the formation to charge forward.

But when they reached the Shadow Barbarians hiding nearby, they suddenly attacked, and the entire sword formation turned into a sharp sword light, turned around and stabbed towards the opponent fiercely!

The Shadow Killing Maze Formation is good at concealment and assassination. It cannot sustain a frontal battle for too long. After fighting for a while, it will try to escape.

Chen Zhan was a little anxious: "Don't let him run away!"

At this moment, suddenly a magnetic force appeared, drawing the power of thunder and lightning from the sky, forming a thunder field nearby.

In this space of thunder and lightning, any slight concealment of the Shadow Barbarians would cause subtle changes in the magnetic field, which would in turn lead to thunder strikes.

Under the pincer attack from both sides, eight or nine barbarians in the formation were quickly killed!

"Haha, so happy!"

"Old man, let's work together to catch all these Shadow Barbarians."

Chen Zhan was delighted, and turned his head to look at a middle-aged male cultivator who looked to be in his forties or fifties, and invited him. The other party was in the middle stage of the Refining Void Realm, and was obviously a Heavenly Guardian, but Chen Zhan relied on the power of the formation to not only increase his strength, but also his courage.

"Chen Zhan, don't talk nonsense!" His companions beside him were horrified and reminded Chen Zhan.

The Heavenly Guard in front of him was of no ordinary background. He was Situ Ying, who was ranked second among the Heavenly Guards and also came from the Situ family, one of the top families in Feiyun City.

"You little guy, you think you can do whatever you want with the formation."

Situ Ying shook his head slightly and ignored Chen Zhan. Instead, he searched the battlefield, his eyes passing over the ordinary barbarian cultivators, looking for prey that would satisfy him, like the Shadow Barbarians just now.

"boom!"

Suddenly, an inconspicuous barbarian from the Lianxu tribe suddenly grew in size, and his skin color changed from bronze to golden yellow. He raised his fist and hit Situ Ying with lightning speed!
The latter's body fell from the sky like a kite with a broken string, and he landed headfirst among the rocks, with no telling whether he was alive or dead.

Chen Zhan swallowed hard and made a gesture to his companions to slip away, trying to quietly get away from the powerful barbarians in front of them.

Even though he had fought in several battles, he had never seen a tribe of barbarians with such strength. He secretly wondered in his heart, could it be the Golden Barbarians?

"Roar!"

Unexpectedly, the next moment, the barbarian with golden body turned his head slightly and looked at Chen Zhan with captivating eyes.

"Why are you staring at me?"

Chen Zhan groaned in his heart and could only escape for his life with his companions.

"Shh!"

The fist shadow passed by, and even though Chen Zhan was always on guard and reacted quickly, it still brushed the edge of the battle formation. In an instant, his two companions turned into a ball of blood mist and exploded to death.

"Damn it, the Frost Flame Ten Absolute Formation and the cultivators in the middle stage of the Void Refinement Stage are stronger than us, why are you holding on to them?"

Facing the fist shadow that was bombarding him again, Chen Zhan felt despair in his heart.

"Qiang!"

In the distance, an extremely sharp sword intent swept past, reaching into the sky, and struck the golden barbarian's fist solidly.

The barbarian's hands were covered in blood, and when they fell on Chen Zhan and others, it was like a bloody rain.

"What a powerful sword intent!"

"What a powerful barbarian tribe!"

The golden-haired barbarian and the white-haired sword demon were surprised at the same time and praised him generously.

Especially Man Qian. Counting the last battle at Lingxiyuan, this man in front of him is the second person who has broken his golden body!
"Thank you for your help, senior. I, Chen Zhan, thank you!" Chen Zhan was still in shock. When he saw this scene, he was immediately scared.

"Are you Chen Zhan?"

"Senior, do you know me?"

"Someone asked me to take care of you. I never thought I'd meet him right after I arrived. We are destined to be together."

The white-haired sword demon did not say much. He held the sword in his hand and attacked the golden barbarians with a strong fighting spirit. He had not met an opponent for many years and was already impatient.

After leaving the center of the vortex, Chen Zhan discovered that there were suddenly more Void-Refining cultivators on the battlefield.

The human race, which was originally at a slight disadvantage, has now turned the situation around a bit and is now slightly suppressing the opponent.

"Father!"

A female cultivator in a purple dress pushed aside the rocks and rescued Situ Ying, who had just been seriously injured by Man Qian.

Fortunately, although the injury was serious, he was still alive and did not die.

"Senior Situ, our battle formation has been broken. We no longer have the ability to continue fighting. We need to return to the city for replenishment. Why don't you hand over Senior Situ to us?"

Chen Zhan stepped forward, completely losing the momentum of calling him "old man" just now, and became as respectful as possible.

"Okay, thank you for your help."

"No trouble, no trouble. The old senior helped us just now, and we are repaying the favor."

Chen Zhan and his companions were extremely nervous and took over Situ Ying's body. This place was at the edge of the battlefield, and not long after, they returned to the human settlement.

In this battle, more than a dozen Void-Refining Monks joined Feiyun City, which gradually reversed the situation on the battlefield and reversed the disadvantage of the human race.

Even so, the two tribes only fought on equal terms. After all, compared to the dozens or even hundreds of virtual-refining-level combat units, the addition of a dozen people was not enough to completely defeat them.

Until finally, both sides were exhausted and dispersed.

Ascetic mountain.

In the North Mountain, which is deserted all day long, there is now a refreshing medicinal fragrance that lingers for a long time.

Even the black-haired hound that was munching on the spiritual plants in the spiritual field stopped chewing and sniffed the enticing medicinal fragrance.

Not long after, Chen An walked out of the cave and stretched his body. Chen Sheng stepped forward and said, "Li Zhen from the City Lord's Mansion has urged him no less than five times. If you don't give him the elixir, he will probably break into the back mountain."

"This guy, give this to him."

Chen An handed a storage bag to Chen Sheng and gave instructions.

Chen Sheng took the order and left. Soon, he returned with the storage bag.

The difference is that when he went there, it was filled with elixirs, but now it is filled with spirit stones!

And the amount is not small. If you calculate carefully, not only does it make up for the money for the elixir, but the price is about 20% higher than the current market price after a sharp increase.

This was the result of Chen An's hard work over the past few days. With a wave of his hand, he pocketed all of it.

Looking back at the spiritual field, after many days of fighting, not only were all the spiritual medicines sent by Li Zhen consumed, but even the red flame spiritual fruits and black ice grass in the fifth-level spiritual field were also refined into Yanbing Rongling Pills after they matured here.

Such a large number of pills should be enough for the Hei family army to use temporarily.

A good cook cannot cook without rice. No matter how many there were, Chen An would not be able to refine them. After all, the two kinds of spiritual plants on the market were controlled by the City Lord's Mansion. If Li Zhen didn't send them to him, he would not have any extra ones.

After entering the fifth-level spiritual field again and harvesting the Red Flame Spiritual Fruit and the Mysterious Ice Grass, most of the spiritual plants disappeared, replaced by spiritual seeds one after another.

The remaining blood-veined heart radishes have also fully matured. Their lush branches and leaves are like a green canopy, covering the sky above half of the fifth-level spiritual field.

On the branches of the Blood-Veined Heart Wisteria, there are fist-sized fruits hanging. The fruits are crystal clear and it seems as if blood is flowing slowly inside. This is the essence of the Blood-Veined Heart Wisteria.

Chen An walked forward and picked it with a calm expression. Now most of his energy was focused on the sixth-level spiritual value. The fifth-level spiritual plants were not of much value to him.

[Harvest a 900-year-old blood-veined heart radish and obtain the Phantom Blood Transformation Technique]

(End of this chapter)