Chapter 253: Locust Tribe, Dharma Shadow
After understanding the relevant matters of Shenglin Island, Chen An also got Situ Yanran, or rather the Five Elements Sword promised by the City Lord's Mansion, and one hundred drops of Sanyang Divine Water.

Each person costs 100 yuan for the Three Yang Divine Water, plus the cost of the Five Elements Sword, which adds up to about 600 to 700 yuan for the Three Yang Divine Water.

Such a generous reward, even for a wealthy city lord, obviously meant a huge investment.

It wasn't that Ling Xuanxiao made such a big decision on impulse, but most likely he had planned it in advance.

After a long time, Chen An put down the jade slip in his hand, and the surprise on his face lingered for a long time.

The jade slip was given to him by Situ Yanran, and it recorded the practice method of the Earth Element in the Five Swords Return to Origin Sword Formation.

The Five Swords Return to Origin Sword Formation before us has an unknown origin, but it is an extremely powerful sword formation.

As long as five people are gathered together, distributed according to the five elements and controlling the sword formation, the power of the five elements will begin to circulate in the formation, checking and balancing each other and promoting each other. Metal overcomes wood, wood overcomes earth, earth overcomes water, water overcomes fire, and fire overcomes metal. The five elements are mutually generated and restrained, constantly transforming, so that the power of the sword formation can reach the level of perfect refining emptiness!

If you encounter an ordinary cultivator who has reached the Perfection of the Void Refinement Realm, you can fight him head-on. If you cooperate well with each other, it is not impossible to find an opportunity to kill him.

Such a powerful sword formation, on the surface, only requires five Void Refining cultivators in the early to middle stages of the Void Refining Realm, but it actually has very strict requirements for the five people who control the sword formation.

All the people in the sword formation must be cultivators in the Refinement Void Stage. The cultivators of the gold, fire, and earth elements need to be at the fourth level, while the third level is best for the cultivators of the wood and water elements, to ensure that the basic cultivation is up to standard and can carry the energy flow of the formation.

At the same time, each cultivator must be proficient in the five elements of sword intent corresponding to his position, and at least reach the level of sword intent taking shape, in order to ensure the stable operation of the formation.

Among them, the earth position bears the heavy responsibility of stabilizing the foundation. If, on this basis, the person in the earth position can possess all five elements of sword intent to balance the operation of the entire formation and ensure the flow of sword intent and magic power between the five elements of gold, wood, water, fire and earth, the power of the sword formation can be increased by one-tenth or one-twelfth.

Chen An felt somewhat doubtful about this. He seldom displayed the Five Elements Sword Intent in front of others and would only use one or two of them at most.

For a moment, even he couldn't figure out whether Situ Yanran simply thought he was a pretty good Earth Element Sword practitioner, or whether she had known at some point that he had mastered the Five Elements Sword.

In any case, according to what Situ Yanran said before, now that all the people have been gathered, he can just use this as an excuse to go to Shenglin Island and wait for the opportunity to act.

Although those two requirements are difficult, they are not impossible to meet. With careful search, one can still find a few sword cultivators who meet the requirements.

After Situ Yanran searched all over Feiyun City, she finally managed to gather five sword cultivators.

Zhao Lingyun is in the gold position, Mu Baichen is in the fire position, Chen An is in the earth position, Pei Zitian is in the wood position, and the last one in the water position is Situ Yanran herself.

The cultivation levels of the others were easy to understand and were more in line with the requirements, but the cultivation levels of Situ Yanran and Pei Zitian were still a little short of that and did not seem to meet the minimum cultivation level for the sword formation.

But this sword formation was jointly owned by Situ and the Pei family. The two insisted on participating in it and there was no room for negotiation. Moreover, the two said that they would be able to reach the third level of the Refining Void within 30 years.

With their qualifications, it is not impossible for them to advance further in their cultivation, but it will require a lot of resources.

After thinking for an unknown amount of time, Chen An silently put away the jade slip. Since the matter had been decided, there was nothing more to say.

During these twenty or thirty years, what he needs to do is to improve his cultivation and strength as much as possible in order to cope with future journeys.

In terms of cultivation, the Sanyang Divine Water given by the auction and the City Lord's Mansion can support cultivation for a long period of time.

It is worth mentioning that after winning the bet with Zhao Lingyun, he did not need to pay the other party the agreed share, and all 180 drops went into Chen An’s pocket.

All in all, Chen An had about two hundred and eighty drops of Sanyang Divine Water on his body.

With the spiritual land of Beishan and the resources at hand, he has a good chance of advancing to the eighth level of Refining Void, but if he wants to go further, that would be a bit risky.

As for strength, in addition to deepening the various methods that have been mastered, the only other powerful methods that can be mastered are the condensation of the Dharma image and the five-colored divine light.

Thinking of this, Chen An took out a jade bottle, and the Nine Revolutions Profound Yuan Pill was still inside.

After obtaining this pill from Yun Yichen, he had been concentrating on improving his cultivation for more than ten years and had not had time to take it.

Given the current situation, he must take it and try to condense the phantom of the Dharma image to enhance his own abilities.

As for the five-colored divine light, we can only wait and see what news we get from Huoyu in the future.

Thanks to Master Mu Yanshi selling out the information about Shenglin Island, within less than a year, the matter was no longer a secret. Not only in Feiyun City, but also in the entire Qingcangzhou, all the forces and families with a little strength learned of this shocking news.

Under the temptation of the opportunity of fusion, no Void Refining cultivator could resist it. Many cultivators were ecstatic and were preparing to go to Shenglin Island in thirty years.

But there were also those who were puzzled. After all, if one got such an opportunity, anyone would keep it to themselves and not reveal any information to others. How could they sell it in public like Mu Yanshi did?

Some people even doubted the authenticity of the news and wanted to find Mu Yanshi himself to ask for clarification.

However, Mu Yanshi's whereabouts are elusive, and it would be extremely difficult to track him down.

But no matter how difficult it is, there are people who can do it.

"Fellow Daoist Mu, we have no ill intentions. We just want to borrow the original jade slip from your hand for a look. Just take a look. We will not make things difficult for you."

In a remote place in Qingcangzhou, Fairy Chixia and Taoist Yunxiao teamed up to stop Master Mu Yanshi and demanded the original jade slip that recorded the opportunity for fusion.

"Haha, I have already copied more than a dozen copies of the jade slip and sold them to various forces. It shouldn't be difficult for you two to get a copy with your means."

There were several puppets standing in front of Mu Yanshi, in human form, beast form and even bird form, two of each, all of which were puppets with cultivation levels comparable to those in the late Refining Void stage.

If he had met an ordinary person, he would have taken him down with a few puppets long ago, but the two people in front of him were not ordinary people.

Even if the other party came here alone, he still had the means to deal with him. But now that two of them have joined forces, he is finding it a bit difficult.

"How about this, you name a price and we two will buy it."

Fairy Chixia, who was also wary of the other party's strength, thought for a moment and made a suggestion.

Mu Yanshi has been famous for many years, even nearly a thousand years earlier than the two of them. She doesn't believe that the other party's means are limited to these puppets in front of her.

But it's far from the right time now, and no one, including her, is stupid enough to reveal their cards in advance. It would be best if it could be resolved with money.

"I'm sorry, I've already sold the original jade slips. What's more, the records in the jade slips I sold are true and there is not a single falsehood. I can guarantee that."

Mu Yanshi swore solemnly, and in case the other party did not believe him, he even swore by his own inner demon.

The opportunity for fusion is approaching, and swearing an oath to the inner demon is a taboo, which is enough to prove that what he said is true.

"Do you think we are three-year-old children?"

Taoist Yunxiao sneered and said, "I can believe you whether the story is true or not, but this has nothing to do with the key information you concealed!"

According to his and Fairy Chixia's speculation, the opportunity is undoubtedly on Shenglin Island, but this island is comparable to most of the Tianyuan Continent. How easy is it to sweep every piece of land?

Even if the two of them have reached perfection in refining the void, it will still take a lot of effort. If they are really foolish enough to search the island, not to mention whether they have the strength to do so, even if they do so, by the time they find the opportunity, it will probably have fallen into the hands of others.

At this moment, whoever has the most detailed information will have the upper hand. Hearing this, Master Mu Yan's mouth twitched, and then he laughed: "You two are different from those idiots. You seem to be smart. In this case, I have to change my previous plan."

As he spoke, he put away several puppets, leaving only one in the shape of a bird in front of him.

Upon seeing this, Taoist Yunxiao and Fairy Chixia smiled at each other, thinking that the other party had already surrendered under their pressure and was about to reveal the unknown news in the jade slip.

Suddenly, Fairy Chixia's face changed and she quickly reminded, "Retreat quickly!"

"boom!"

The flying bird puppet not far away suddenly exploded, and not an inch of land within a radius of dozens of miles was spared. The originally vibrant environment turned into wasteland in the blink of an eye.

After a while, the smoke dissipated and there was no trace of Mu Yanshi anymore.

The golden shield around Taoist Yunxiao dissipated and turned into a talisman that fell into his hand.

He was not as sharp as Fairy Chixia and his reaction was a little slow, but he had many means of protection and was not affected too much by the puppet's self-explosion.

"Hmph, that's quite a good way to escape." Fairy Chixia bit her red lips lightly, her face looking a little unwilling.

"This person is still as cunning as ever. He actually gave up a puppet comparable to the ninth level of the Refined Void Realm!"

After a brief reorganization, the two still did not give up and dug almost three feet into the ground, but did not find any trace of the other party.

After searching around for a while, he chased in the direction of Cangwu Prefecture.

Two hours after the two men left, the space somewhere in this desolate land twisted, and Mu Yanshi's smug smile slowly emerged.

The difference from before was that this time he was wearing a tattered cloak. As he took off the cloak, the slightly distorted space around him gradually returned to normal.

"It's smart, but that's all."

After two proud shouts, Mu Yanshi leaped away in the opposite direction of the two men.

Right now, he plans to find a quiet place to make good preparations, and strive to successfully manufacture the unfinished puppet within 20 years.

By then, his strength will be further improved, and he will be invincible in his trip to Shenglin Island!

After walking for a few days, as they were hurrying on the road, a black shadow flashed before their eyes, and Mu Yanshi was so frightened that he broke out in a cold sweat.

After seeing the other person's figure clearly, he felt a little relieved, and then raised the corner of his mouth playfully: "Qianying? As a cultivator of the Locust Clan, you secretly stepped into the territory of our human race. Aren't you afraid that you will be discovered and be beheaded!"

The Qianying on the opposite side had an upright figure, a slender body, and eyes as sharp as a hawk. The most eye-catching thing was the two pairs of transparent wings behind him.

One pair is long and narrow, nearly ten feet long when spread out, and the other pair is relatively wide, folded under the long and narrow wings when stopped.

Qianying smiled faintly: "This place is far away from the core sphere of influence of the various emperors in Tianyuan Continent. Unless a great master of fusion comes in person, who can catch me if I don't show up?"

"Stop talking nonsense. Where is the news I want?"

"Where is the spiritual material I want?"

"You and I have traded this technique many times in the past, so there is no need to be so defensive."

The two smiled at each other, then each threw a storage bag to the other.

Opening the storage bag, Master Mu Yan was delighted: "It really is Meteoric Soul Iron!"

This thing is exactly the last rare material missing from the puppet he is making!

He just needs to find a secluded place and stay in seclusion for a while. The day he comes out will be the day for him to travel around Shenglin Island!

Qianying on the opposite side checked the jade slip and found that it was correct, and she couldn't help but be overjoyed.

If his locust tribe was not much farther away from Shenglin Island than the human race, making it inconvenient to transmit messages, there would be no need for them to come here to trade.

Now that he had received the confirmed news about the opportunity of fusion, he had taken a small step towards the fusion realm.

When this trip is over and I return to the tribe, I will surely amaze all the tribesmen!
Afterwards, Qianying left Tianyuan Continent and came to a remote island overseas.

A slightly bloated monk, with a frown on his face, kept fiddling with the jade slip in his hand, reading it over and over again.

"What are you doing? Is there something wrong with the jade slip?" Seeing that his expression was not right, Qianying's heart skipped a beat.

"Alas, I can't tell whether the content is true or false, but the spiritual power fluctuations of the Feiyun Pavilion mark on this jade slip are a little wrong."

"Many years ago, I obtained several treasures from Feiyun Pavilion. The fluctuations of the mark in front of me are slightly different from what I have seen before."

"You might have been fooled!"

Qianying's face was as gloomy as water, he lowered his head and his body was shaking.

He had traded with Mu Yanshi no less than ten times and there had never been any mistakes. He never expected that such a huge mistake would occur in this most crucial transaction.

"Master Mu Yan! When the time comes, I will extract your soul and refine your spirit on Shenglin Island!"

Ten years passed by like a flash.

Inside the cave, Chen An sat upright on the lotus platform, as still as a rock. The surroundings were so quiet that even the sound of an embroidery needle falling to the ground could be heard clearly.

However, beneath this apparent tranquility, there is another world in turmoil.

The magic power in his body was as surging as the Yangtze River. Every flow was accompanied by a thunderous roar and the faint sound of dragon roars.

As time passed, Chen An's breath became more and more steady, and his body was wrapped in a layer of faint golden light. In the light, the outline of a giant golden dragon could be vaguely seen slowly emerging and soaring into the sky!
This golden dragon was a hundred feet long, and its scales sparkled with dazzling golden light. Each scale contained endless pressure. It circled and danced around Chen An. With every breath, spiritual energy from heaven and earth gathered together, allowing the golden dragon to refine it into the purest spiritual energy and absorb it into its body.

Not long after, the golden dragon grew a lot bigger again, and its huge body coiled around the top of Kuxiu Mountain, accompanied by dragon roars.

But even so, the golden dragon's figure was still a little blurry, even a little illusory, and did not seem real.

Chen An, who was immersed in cultivation, suddenly opened his eyes at this moment, and then the golden dragon turned into a stream of light and sank into his dantian.

“I thought the Dragon God Body Refining Technique would cultivate into a Azure Dragon, but I didn’t expect it to actually create a Golden Dragon Dharma Image!”

Chen An was delighted with this change. The reason for this change was probably related to his profound attainments in the Dragon God Body Refining Technique.

(End of this chapter)