Born with immortal seed

Chapter 489 A Treasure Trove

With a single unfurling of the banner, the dragon's soul and primordial spirit were captured onto the banner.

The black dragon writhed wildly on the banner, threatening to tear it apart and break free at any moment.

"These banners are fine for gathering third-tier demonic beasts, but the divine souls of fourth-tier great demons are too powerful to be used as carriers..."

Bai Zichen ignored it. In any case, he didn't expect to refine the Dragon Soul Primordial Spirit through this banner; it was just a temporary confinement.

He put away the exquisite pagoda and the powerless, black-gold dragon spear that had fallen to the ground, unable to even escape. He also gathered the mountain of flesh and bones on the ground into his domain.

Each fourth-tier demon's body represents a vast treasure.

Back then, after Bai Zichen and Ge Cang joined forces to kill Qingluan, their biggest gain was taken by the white ape that appeared out of nowhere.

This time, I can finally enjoy all the spoils all to myself.

Bai Zichen unleashed a ball of pure Yang fire, burning the area to a scorched earth, before quickly departing on his sword.

The Demon Lord who had transformed into a Nascent Soul behind Ao Zhe was far away in the outer sea. With a single reverse scale, he had already reached the limit of his bloodline secret technique of launching a remote attack.

It's just unknown whether Ao Zhe left any special mark or soul guide on his body after his death, which would allow the Starry Sea Demon Clan to spot their enemy at a glance.

Many sects have similar restrictions. When a spell is cast on a highly valued disciple, if that disciple is killed outside the sect, a wisp of resentment will remain on the perpetrator after death.

Elders of the sect can also use this mark to seek revenge.

These kinds of vengeful spirits are difficult to detect and can only be sensed with corresponding secret techniques.

However, the Starry Sea is far away, and this move is merely an extension of the original irreconcilable feud with the Dragon Lord to the old dragon who has transformed into a Nascent Soul.

Once they set foot in the open sea, they will likely be met with hostility from all the demon races.

Even that Nascent Soul stage old dragon might risk shortening its lifespan to launch a fierce attack on him.

"What a pity. I was thinking that with the Star River Sword Formation completed, I would be able to face the Dragon Lord without any fear once I reached the mid-Nascent Soul stage. I was even planning to contact the disciples of the Fish Dragon Sect and go to the outer sea to open that Immortal Abode."

During his journey on the sword, this was the first thought that flashed through Bai Zichen's mind.

For him, the danger at sea has risen to a new level.

At this moment, in the Southern Region, the only remaining threat to him is the Qingqiu Dead Sea.

It's quite normal for the Qingqiu Dead Sea, once a sacred place for the demon race in the inland cultivation world, to have dealings with the Xingxiu Sea, which is also a demon race area.

Judging from the fact that they entrusted Blood God to deal with Bai Zichen instead of fighting him themselves, it may really just be a deal.

He simply wouldn't gamble with his own life, so naturally he wanted to expose as little as possible.

Who knows how much Qingqiu Dead Sea values ​​kinship? If they find out that Ao Zhe died at his hands, they might become determined to seek revenge, which would only cause more trouble.

He flew back to the Dian Kingdom on his sword in one breath and found the deep stone cave that Xin Youhuang remembered. When he saw the clusters of purple crape myrtle fire, he knew that he had not come to the wrong place.

The Soul Searching Spell didn't tell him the correct route to enter the stone cave and avoid the Purple Star Heavenly Fire, but Bai Zichen remained fearless and charged in after casting a Fire-Repelling Spell.

Even a single wisp of the Purple Star Heavenly Fire, capable of obliterating the remains of a Nascent Soul True Monarch, swirled and drifted across his body, indeed causing burns and stinging pain.

Unlike any other fireworks I've ever faced, I could still feel the pain and hurt.

"Fearless of heavenly fire, but only fearless, not completely immune..."

Bai Zichen took a few quick steps. The Sun Yuan Copper Bone inside his body was already extremely hot, making people worry that it might exceed the limit of the immortal bone's tolerance to heavenly fire.

Fortunately, it didn't take long before they came across the entrance to a dark stone cave.

Braving the last blaze of Purple Flame, they charged straight in.

"In the soul-searching scene, it takes Xin Youhuang half an hour to enter the stone cave every time... It seems that the correct path to avoid the Ziwei Heavenly Fire requires going back countless times."

Bai Zichen glanced back. The Purple Star Heavenly Fire Belt was only a hundred feet long. He couldn't understand how they had walked for half an hour in such a small area.

The cave was exactly like the scene in the Soul Searching video—deep, damp, and only the occasional sound of dripping water echoed within.

At the end of the path, he saw a broken stalactite with a sunken stone disc underneath.

Inside was a small handful of spiritual liquid, shimmering with silver light in the darkness, like shattered scales on the surface of a blue lake.

Earth Spirit Milk!

Standing in front of the stone slab, Bai Zichen smelled a faint sweet fragrance in the air.

With a flick of his finger, he guided the spiritual liquid into the jade bottle, which was less than half full.

"Only seven or eight drops, it's too slow to accumulate. No wonder Xin Youhuang hasn't come to collect it yet; the quantity is too small to even support a Core Formation cultivator to reach perfection. Even in a trade, a larger quantity will have a higher value."

Earth Spirit Milk is a spiritual substance that enhances cultivation without any side effects when taken directly. It can also be used as a material for alchemy to refine pills, producing elixirs with corresponding effects.

Moreover, a single drop of Earth Spirit Milk can serve as the main ingredient for a batch of pills, and the combined effect of the final pills can be several times that of Earth Spirit Milk.

However, those Core Formation cultivators with truly powerful backgrounds consume it directly, rather than using it to refine pills.

Any medicinal pill can cause erysipelas and resistance.

No matter how high its utilization rate is, it will never be as good as Earth Spirit Fluid because of this.

Bai Zichen estimated that this amount of spiritual milk would only save him several decades of cultivation time, and he could later use it as a reward to the most outstanding junior disciples in the Qingfeng Sect.

After dealing with these trivial matters, he began his serious work: taking inventory of Ao Zhe's belongings.

A fourth-tier great demon, and a dragon beast of extraordinary birth, makes Earth Spirit Milk merely an appetizer in comparison.

"The fourth-order dragon soul has a wide range of uses. It can be used as a weapon spirit in the refinement of magic weapons, and the resulting top-grade magic weapons have a good chance of being upgraded to spirit treasures. It can also serve as the main soul of a fourth-order array flag, the core of a fourth-order puppet, and can even be used to create and utilize all sorts of strange and wonderful secret techniques."

Bai Zichen took out the banner, which was already torn in one corner, with a dragon claw extending beyond the banner's surface.

"But no matter how useful it is, I can only search your soul... otherwise, my heart will not be at peace."

The Starry Sea was still shrouded in mystery for him; he only knew that its leader was called the Dragon Lord and had great influence among the demons of the outer sea.

As for its specific composition, it has several transformed great demons, many demon clans under its command, and some truly close maritime forces.

And most importantly, what exactly is the state of that Nascent Soul dragon, and is it possible that it will intervene for the Starry Sea?

I know absolutely nothing about any of this.

Conversely, although Xingxiuhai is constrained by its demon race identity and cannot openly reveal its identity in the inland areas, it has to rely on human cultivators to infiltrate its forces.

However, they had already identified the owner of the sacred beast's blood essence and had arranged for the demon cave cultivators to target Bai Zichen back in the Liang Kingdom.

Even Li Hansi, a descendant of the Xuanming lineage, had his identity discovered by Xingxiu Hai early on.

His survival suggests that he had already passed the tests and confirmed that the sacred beast's essence blood was not on him.

Furthermore, being located in the immortal city of the Five Thunder Sect, Xingxiu Hai had reservations and was unwilling to pay too high a price.

Since they lack the essence blood of sacred beasts, a few remnants of the Fish-Dragon Sect at the Core Formation stage might be a major threat to sects like the Dragon-Wandering Sect.

If it were in Xingxiuhai, it wouldn't even be worth a second glance.

At most, they would send someone to keep an eye on things and see if there were any unusual occurrences, such as if the person had become involved with the blood essence of a sacred beast, or if the person had successfully transformed into a Nascent Soul. Only then would they report to their superiors.

The huge discrepancy between the two pieces of information weighed heavily on Bai Zichen's mind.

Even if it means wasting a fourth-tier dragon soul, there's nothing that can be done; as long as some key information can be extracted from the soul, that's enough.

The Taiwu Soul-Searching and Soul-Severing Technique was activated, and Bai Zichen became completely immersed in it.

His expression kept changing, sometimes serious, sometimes lighthearted, sometimes furrowed brows, sometimes suddenly enlightened.

As the person whose soul is being searched retraces their life's journey, their emotions are synchronized with those of the person whose soul is being searched.

Only in this way can the restrictions at all levels of consciousness be bypassed and the scene reproduced.

After a long while, the mini black dragon screamed and howled in agony, and wisps of blue smoke rose up, disappearing into the ashes along with the banner.

"What a coincidence! They killed Ao Zhe, the only one in the Starry Sea who could be connected with the Nascent Soul Dragon..."

Bai Zichen had a headache. It turned out that being dragon beasts didn't mean they were all family.

Old Dragon is currently the only Nascent Soul Demon Lord in the Outer Sea, and Starry Sea has risen rapidly precisely because it borrowed this title.

In fact, none of the multi-headed dragon beasts, including the Dragon King, had any connection with the old dragon.

That's normal, though. Apart from the Dragon Lord, there are a total of four transformed demons in the Starry Sea.

Among them, Ao Zhe was of the noblest birth and had the purest bloodline, so it was only natural that he would be entrusted with tasks such as the mission to Qingqiu and the Dead Sea.

After all, among the demon race, lineage is of utmost importance, especially in the Qingqiu Dead Sea.

When introducing themselves, they would start by saying they were descendants of the Black Sea Demon Lord, which would earn them some respect from the Dead Sea of ​​Qingqiu.

That old dragon, now at the Nascent Soul stage, guarded the Water Eye. Even the demons of the outer seas didn't know how many years it had been there. In any case, Ao Zhe had never seen his ancestor leave the Water Eye since he could remember.

As one of the few descendants of the old dragon, his reverse scale contains a trace of his ancestor's divine will.

That's why activating the bloodline secret technique summoned the intervention of the ancestor.

"Judging from the soul search footage, the Dragon Lord couldn't even see the face of the Nascent Soul Old Dragon; he was merely using the big shot's name."

This is undoubtedly good news; the Starry Sea was never considered part of the old dragon's territory.

As long as there is no concrete evidence to pin the blame on Ao Zhe's death, it's not a big deal.

It's also possible that a Nascent Soul demon lord who has lived for countless years will look after his descendants, but it will require them to pay a price of hundreds of years.

Even those of the direct bloodline might not be willing to give it up.

"One more thing, after hundreds of years of accumulation, the Dragon Lord has broken through to the peak of the fourth rank, and is only one step away from the fifth rank..."

Ao Zhe had a memory of a scene where he was discussing matters with the Dragon King when he left the Starry Sea.

This allowed Bai Zichen to meet the Lord of Xingxiu Sea, who had single-handedly destroyed the Fish-Dragon Sect and become a major threat to him.

He was of medium height, even slightly hunched, with ordinary and regular features. At first glance, he looked exactly like a wandering cultivator from the marketplace.

He wore a plain linen robe, and deep, sharp wrinkles around his eyes added a touch of maturity to his youthful face.

As arrogant as Ao Zhe was, he followed closely behind, not daring to take a single step forward.

This scene only contains the content, with no sound, just like the scene where Ao Zhe survived the tribulation of transformation and returned to the Water Eye to pay respects to the ancestor.

Upon entering the center of the water eye, what leaped into view was an ancient dragon whose head and tail stretched for an unknown distance. The moment the eyes opened, the entire scene turned into static, and not only the sound, but even the image became invalid.

"This must be the limitation of the Taiwu Soul Searching and Soul Severing Technique. Even if it is just indirect reading by a third party, it will be directly blocked if it involves cultivators with too high a cultivation level. For cultivators at the peak of the Nascent Soul stage, sound is blocked."

The Starry Sea has a Dragon Lord at the peak of the Nascent Soul stage, as well as four Nascent Soul level demons, and can command millions of demonic beasts.

If placed inland, its strength would be comparable to some super-large corporations.

In terms of grassroots combat capabilities, they still have a significant advantage.

No other sect has as many low-level demonic beasts as the Starry Sea to serve as cannon fodder, charging into battle fearlessly.

However, given the vastness of the open sea, this is insufficient, requiring powerful demons to be stationed everywhere.

In Ao Zhe's memory, there is also the scene of paying respects to the senior of Qingqiu Dead Sea.

Similarly, after seeing a white light, the few people vaguely visible in the scene only showed changes in light and shadow, and no further information could be gleaned.

Overall, the soul search yielded little information, but at least it didn't contain any random or nonsensical details.

At the very least, the relationship between the Nascent Soul Dragon and the Starry Sea was clarified, and the overall power of the Starry Sea was ascertained.

More importantly, he knew that the Dragon Lord had already reached the peak of the fourth rank, and was only one step away from becoming a god.

At this point, the Dragon Lord had reached the limit of advancement in the Nascent Soul stage and could only seek that faint hope of advancing further.

"All that remains blocking the Dragon King's path is the essence of the sacred beast's blood. I'm afraid that in just a few years, its patience will run out, and it will personally venture inland..."

Bai Zichen had already anticipated this.

After the soul search was completed, he continued to examine the remaining spoils.

The Panlong Black Gold Spear is a low-grade spiritual treasure that can emit black flames.

Although Bai Zichen doesn't need weapons of this caliber, it's still good to keep an offensive spiritual treasure he picked up for free and exchange it with other Nascent Soul True Monarchs.

The artifact spirit seemed to be stunned by the Star River Sword Formation, and the injection of true essence had no effect. It casually inserted itself into the realm.

The real highlight is definitely that Void Treasure.

The Exquisite Primordial Pagoda, a supreme spiritual treasure!

Whether it was the sheer power of the Void Spirit Treasure that impressed it, or the severe lesson it learned from the flying swords as it left, which made it understand that there are always higher realms to be conquered.

He began to communicate with the spirit of the artifact through a wisp of divine thought. The spirituality of this top-grade spiritual treasure was already quite astonishing, on par with his fourth-order flying sword.

Of course, the fourth-tier flying swords mentioned here must exclude the Ziwei Dazzling Thunder Sword, otherwise there would be no need for comparison at all.

“You are a Void Spiritual Treasure, only one step away from becoming a Heavenly Spiritual Treasure… If you follow me, I can consider giving you the spot to enjoy the power of heaven and earth when you reach the Divine Transformation stage.”

Bai Zichen casually made up a big picture.

If a cultivator's ultimate dream is to live a long and prosperous life, and to watch the changes in mountains and rivers, then...

Therefore, for each spiritual treasure, advancing to the level of a Heavenly Spiritual Treasure is their highest aspiration, which is not complicated.

Spiritual treasures are naturally much stronger than magical treasures, but the main difference lies in their spiritual qualities.

The Tongtian Lingbao, on the other hand, has undergone a leapfrog growth in its inherent nature, and barring any unforeseen circumstances, it is almost impossible for it to be lost in the long river of history.

(End of this chapter)