Longevity starts with choosing Hextech enhancement

Chapter 218 Obtaining Golden Hex

Since the yellow-level skills do not have detailed divisions into smaller realms, Xiao Chen's spiritual awareness range has not changed.

Until now, he has broken through to the middle stage of the Golden Core.

Suddenly, he felt a surge of original energy surging out from the flawless golden elixir, rushing straight to the Baihui point on the top of his head, and finally falling into the sea of ​​consciousness.

Immediately afterwards, he felt the spiritual consciousness in his sea of ​​consciousness growing rapidly under the nourishment of the original energy.

Xiao Chen felt that his field of vision suddenly rose and widened, and his observation range increased from the original thirty miles to about sixty miles.

The entire Baicao City seemed to be under his nose.

However, from this perspective, the City Lord's Mansion and many places in the city are blurry, which is obviously a means of defense and observation.

"Hmm? Which fellow Taoist is it?"

Suddenly a curious voice was heard, and then a new spiritual consciousness rose up and tried to communicate.

Xiao Chen immediately took the initiative to restrain his spiritual sense and did not give the other party a chance to contact him.

Of course, this can only prevent fellow Jindan cultivators. If there are Yuanying cultivators in the city, they will be able to detect the breakthrough as soon as possible.

Fortunately, after the spiritual medicine banquet ended, several Yuanying Zhenjuns left.

The remaining Master Momei and City Lord Huo also went to Jianhai to deal with the disaster caused by the evil spirits.

There happens to be no Yuanying Zhenjun in Baicao City at the moment.

The reason for being so careful is that Xiao Chen had seen in some ancient books examples where cultivators were tracked and even had their sea of ​​consciousness attacked by others using secret spiritual techniques.

He is not good at this at the moment, and if the other party has malicious intentions, he may suffer losses for no reason.

If a cultivator's spiritual consciousness is damaged, it is not easy to recover.

Either it takes several years or even decades to cultivate, or it requires consuming very rare natural treasures to nurture the spiritual consciousness.

"This matter needs to be taken seriously."

Thinking of this, Xiao Chen warned himself again in his heart: "I don't need to rush to learn the spiritual consciousness attack method, but I still need to collect and practice the spiritual consciousness defense secrets as soon as possible."

“When you go out, you must be on guard against others. Only by being prepared can you avoid danger.”

Swish~!

Three golden cards suddenly appeared in front of Xiao Chen.

With the breakthrough complete, the next round of Hextech enhancements is in place.

[Three-cost team: Provides four random species of Jindan-stage spirit beasts, they are absolutely loyal to you.]

[Portable Forge: Choose one of three artifacts. Artifacts are powerful equipment that provide unique effects.]

[Big and Powerful: Your body becomes larger, gaining an additional 500 years of lifespan, and increasing the maximum lifespan of 500 years.]

"A three-cost group? Does that mean there might be a five-cost group?"

Xiao Chen looked at the first Hextech and immediately thought of another Hextech with similar effects.

Unfortunately, if he remembered correctly, the five-cost group should be Color Hextech, and the chance of encountering it might be higher only when breaking through a major bottleneck.

If you can have four absolutely loyal spirit beasts in the God Transformation Stage, then it is indeed worth considering.

But the four Jindan stage spirit beasts don’t seem to be very powerful.

Xiao Chen turned to look at the second Hextech - the portable forge.

"Artifact? Provides unique effects?"

He blinked. "How unique... can this be?"

To be fair, this Hextech is actually a bit of a test of luck, and the gap between the upper and lower limits is very large.

If you are lucky enough to draw a more powerful artifact, you can gain a huge advantage.

Even some top-level artifacts can be constructed as the absolute core, and the effect is no less than that of a Prismatic Hex.

But if you are unlucky and draw a more ordinary artifact, it will become a useless thing that is tasteless to eat and a pity to throw away.

"Hey, it's fine if we bet on Hextech, but why do we have to bet on Hextech effects as well?"

Xiao Chen pursed his lips, feeling a bit complicated: "It really all depends on luck, right? Can you leave some room for operation for a master like me?"

To be honest, he really doesn't have much confidence in his luck.

What if the bet goes wrong?
"Let's take a look at the third Hex first."

Xiao Chen looked at the last card, then immediately raised his hand and slapped his forehead: "Damn!"

How should I put it? To be fair, this Hextech effect is really good.

The importance of time is undeniable to everyone.

To increase lifespan by five hundred years at once is basically equivalent to living another life or even being stronger for a Jindan cultivator.

Even for Yuanying Zhenjun, extending life by five hundred years is a huge temptation.

The extra time can be used to gain enlightenment or collect rare treasures, which will definitely be of some help in cultivation.

But a big problem is that this Hextech can neither increase Xiao Chen's immediate combat effectiveness nor enhance his training efficiency. It is an option to increase fault tolerance.

The thing itself is good, but it doesn't quite suit his style.

"What should we do? These three Hexes don't seem very strong."

Xiao Chen's eyes wandered, and he looked back at the [Portable Forge]: "How about we continue the bet?"

"After all, it's a choice between three. I shouldn't be unable to open a useful artifact, right?"

As the saying goes, if you give it a try, your bicycle will become a motorcycle.

He gritted his teeth and directly chose the second Hex.

Suddenly, the golden card began to spin, and then split into three, turning into three special purple-red cards.

Each card depicts a special artifact with a small description below.

The first card showed a shield with a fiery red background and blue and silver patterns.

Its name is Randon's Omen!
The specific effect is: at the beginning of the battle, all friendly forces near the carrier (within one mile) will receive a 20% damage reduction, which will last until the end of the battle.

"Ah, this...damage reduction?"

Xiao Chen looked at the description and couldn't help but frowning. He felt that this thing would not be very useful in actual combat.

The fighting between cultivators is different from the sparring between martial artists.

There are rarely any real-time punches and a competition to see who can last longer.

If the enemy's attack is blocked by his aura or defensive spell, then this damage reduction seems to be useless.

If the enemy's attack is not blocked and directly injures him, he will still be injured even if the damage is reduced by 20%.

"Something's wrong. It doesn't make sense to be so useless, right?"

Xiao Chen felt that he was overthinking it. Maybe this damage reduction simply reduced the enemy's damage by 20%.

This is equivalent to increasing the friendly defense capability by 20%.

At least it has to be like this to be worthy of the title of "artifact", right?

"So this is actually a team battle weapon?"

During sect wars, or similar to the previous wars between good and evil.

If one of the parties could obtain such a magical artifact, it could indeed directly affect the course of the battle.

Specifically speaking of Xiao Chen, although he is alone now, it would be okay if he could improve his defense ability by 20%.

Especially when facing high-level monks or monsters, it can improve one's survivability to a certain extent.
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"Well, let's see what the other two artifacts are."

The second card depicts a staff with a bright silver surface and a sky-blue background.

Its name is Mo Yun!
The specific effect is: after releasing the spell for the first time in each battle phase, the carrier will continuously recover a total of 1,200 true essences within four breaths.

"For me, this is much more useful than Randon's Omen."

Xiao Chen's eyes lit up. The effect of this artifact was simple and easy to understand. It was used to replenish the loss of true energy.

Theoretically, with this artifact, Xiao Chen can use many spiritual weapons at the same time to fight the enemy.

You can even activate the spiritual forms of multiple spiritual weapons at the same time, effectively improving your own combat effectiveness.

Especially in one-on-one battles, you can gain a huge advantage in spiritual weapons, thus achieving a crushing victory.

"Very good, this will significantly improve my combat effectiveness."

Xiao Chen nodded in satisfaction. With the magic essence as a backup, his choice of Hex was not in vain.

"Let me see what the last one is."

On the third card, there was a picture of a khaki palm with an iron chain attached to the back.

It's called Rocket-Boosted Iron Fist!
The specific effect is: can only be used once per battle. Pull an enemy into melee range and stun them for a moment.

"what?"

Xiao Chen was confused at first: "Isn't this a mechanical flying claw?"

The Roboclaw is another name for the rocket-powered Iron Fist.

In the game, you can hook the enemy's high-attack and low-defense back-row output position to the front to facilitate concentrated fire.

If the hook is accurate, it can completely achieve the effect of defeating the strong with the weak.

But the question is, what will this thing look like in actual combat?
Xiao Chen carefully reread the description at the bottom of the card: "Pull to close combat range?"

"Fuck, isn't this the ecstasy of physical cultivation?"

As we all know, the thing that physical cultivators fear most is being kite-ed and unable to touch the enemy no matter what.

If he could just pull the person in front of him, wouldn't it have the same effect as when he raided Xu Gongtong in Jianhai before?

Not only that, the rocket-boosted iron fist also has the effect of stunning the opponent for a short period of time.

What is this? This is a noble fixed-point control skill!

How to say it, although a breath seems very short, for Xiao Chen, it is enough for him to use the red gold four-sided mace to launch three consecutive attacks.

"By the way, hooking the enemy in itself also counts as control, right?"

Xiao Chen suddenly had an idea: "It can only be used once in each battle, and it doesn't specify when to use it."

In the future, if an enemy tries to escape, I can just stretch out my hand and the flying claw will rush out from my sleeve, and pull the person back directly like catching a chicken.

Just thinking about that scene made him want to laugh.

"Hey, wait, there don't seem to be any other usage restrictions?"

While Xiao Chen was thinking, he suddenly realized that this thing seemed to be more than just a simple thing, and it actually had great growth potential.

He is now in the Jindan stage, so he can be used to deal with Jindan cultivators.

Then when he is promoted to the Nascent Soul stage in the future, it seems that he can also take the other party's Nascent Soul True Lord.

Such a thing should never have appeared in the cultivation world before, which means that the enemy is likely to be unprepared for his hook.

"Hi~!"

Xiao Chen took a breath and said, "That's a sneak attack on the artifact!"

It could be said that Rocket-Boosted Iron Fist is the polar opposite of Randuin's Omen.

The latter is a teamfight artifact, and its one-on-one improvement is not very significant. The former is generally effective in multiplayer melees, but in one-on-one combat, it is definitely the strongest of the three artifacts.

And in the future, the higher your cultivation level, the more things you can do in a moment.

"It even seems like it can be used in conjunction with a formation!"

Xiao Chen suddenly realized that if he stood in the formation that had been set up in advance, could he directly pull the enemy in?
That's not direct invincibility!
If there is a strong enough formation, it is not impossible to defeat enemies of higher levels.

"This mechanism seems to have great development potential!"

Xiao Chen felt that if he studied it carefully, he might be able to develop stronger or more interesting uses in the future.

"Interesting, I'll choose this one!"

He decisively chose the rocket-assisted iron fist, and then the card flew directly into his storage ring.

Xiao Chen quickly used his spiritual sense to investigate, and sure enough, he saw a palm-sized, exquisite flying claw mechanism in the storage ring.

As soon as he thought of it, the flying claw appeared in his hand.

And without realizing it, he had completed the ritual training and the binding of spiritual consciousness.

"Is it automatic binding, or is it spiritual binding?"

Xiao Chen was a little surprised, but this was also a good thing. In this way, even if the flying claw accidentally fell into someone else's hands, the other party would not be able to use it.

He looked around and saw a teacup on the table not far away.

"go with!"

He raised his hand immediately, but nothing happened.

Xiao Chen immediately realized that since he was not in battle, he naturally could not use the flying claws.

"Well, there will always be a real battle later."

He retracted his flying claws, took a breath, and adapted to some subtle changes in the middle stage of the Golden Core.

Although "The Rejuvenation Sutra of All Things" is a yellow-level martial art, it also brings him a new ability, which is the great rejuvenation technique.

Despite the 'big' in its name, this is actually just a small spell.

It can release a stream of true energy that turns into a breeze and has the effect of nourishing spiritual plants.

Since the effect is slightly stronger than the second-level rejuvenation technique, it is called the Great Rejuvenation Technique.

Although I don't know what it's used for yet, it's always better to have more skills than none.

Xiao Chen did not despise him and tried to perform it according to his mental method. Suddenly, a strong wind blew in the room.

Thanks to the hundredfold boost from Hextech, the original breeze became much stronger.

"Wow!"

The teacup on the table was blown directly to the ground and broke into pieces.

"Hey?"

Xiao Chen heard the noise and turned around to see: "A good sign, everything is fine."

Then he raised his hand and sent out a stream of true energy to clean up the fragments.

Today is the third day of May, and it is already the day I had agreed to meet Cao Mingjie from the Three Immortals Sect.

So he didn't delay any longer and went straight out to prepare for the appointment at Sanxian Island.

When passing through East City on the way, Xiao Chen went to add ten jars of white jade small green dragons.

He had already drunk six of the eight jars. This spiritual wine was indeed very helpful for cultivation and tasted good too. He could bring some with him to drink on the road.

I also took the opportunity to ask the manager about the situation of the evil spirit disaster.

The other party was very enthusiastic: "Then you've asked the right person. We do know the news over there. Just yesterday, the white fog expanded for the fourth time and finally established its maximum coverage area."

"If you ask me, this time it will definitely not be simple."

"What's the concept of the fourth expansion? Now, the area of ​​more than 50,000 miles is completely covered with thick fog. You can't see anything."

"Many people around us have rushed over. I heard that even True Monarch Qingxiao of the Five Thunders Monastery in Black Rock Sea has been alarmed."

"If you want to hunt down the Yin spirits, it's still not too late."
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Go east from Baicao Island for about 300,000 miles, then turn north for another 20,000 miles, and you will reach Sanxian Island.

The Three Immortals Islands are actually five medium-sized islands that are relatively close to each other.

It is said that there are tens of millions of mortals living there, like five large kingdoms.

It is named Sanxian Island simply because there were only three Jindan monks here who became brothers and founded the Three Immortals Sect.

The sect's main hall was built on the island in the middle to show fairness and justice.

When Xiao Chen arrived, it was already noon on the seventh day of May.

The disciple on duty respectfully welcomed him into the main hall and asked him to sit down. Not long after, he saw Cao Mingjie coming with another Jindan cultivator.

"Hey, Fellow Daoist Jin Guang, you're finally here."

Cao Mingjie smiled and said, "Let me introduce you. This is my second senior brother, Ma Wenbo."

"My senior brother just went out to teach his fellow apprentices and will be back soon."

Ma Wenbo looked like a thin young man. He bowed and said, "Friend Jin Guangdao, it's a pleasure to meet you."

Xiao Chen politely replied, "Friend Ma Dao, I have long heard of your great name."

The two exchanged a few pleasantries and sat down as host and guest.

Sure enough, not long after, a hearty laugh could be heard from outside: "Hahaha, Second Junior Brother, Third Junior Brother, guess who I met?"

Then, a burly man with a red face, big eyes and a long beard strode in.

"Oh?"

When he saw Xiao Chen, he was stunned at first.

Then an eager smile appeared on his face. "This fellow Daoist has a majestic appearance, sword-like brows, and bright eyes. I'm sure he's the fellow Daoist Jin Guang that Third Junior Brother mentioned, right?"

"It is truly a pity for me to fail in welcoming you, my distinguished guest."

"My two junior brothers, why didn't you send anyone to call me?"

In fact, he had certainly received the notice. After all, Xiao Chen arrived openly, and so many disciples along the way saw it clearly.

The few people introduced themselves to each other again, and it turned out that this person's name was Yu Zhenyang.

He is now the current leader of the Three Immortals Sect, and previously served as an inner disciple in Baicao City for a period of time.

However, he was not proficient in alchemy and failed in the competition for the true teachings. He simply handed over the spirit stones, crossed his name on the list, returned to his family to practice in seclusion, and later founded the Three Immortals Sect.

To be honest, this operation is a bit outrageous.

Xiao Chen was shocked. Could the inner disciples who had just entered the sect actually mark their names?

However, he did not ask any more questions. Since Baicao City had such a rule, there must be an underlying reason.

The four of them met and exchanged a few pleasantries again.

Yu Zhenyang couldn't wait to say, "Good news! I was educating Yan'er at sea just now, and I happened to meet Fellow Daoist Qiu."

"He has returned from his retreat in the Myriad Immortal Islands and is preparing to go to the outside world to earn some resources for cultivation."

"After my persuasion, he has agreed to go to the open sea with us. Now we don't have to worry about the sirens along the way."

Hearing this, the other two looked happy.

Cao Mingjie sat up straight and asked, "Big Brother, I remember that Fellow Daoist Qiu had already broken through to the late Jindan stage fifty years ago, right?"

"Now, after such a long period of seclusion, I think you have reached the state of Golden Core Great Perfection."

Yu Zhenyang smiled and nodded repeatedly: "Yes, it must have been there."

"He has already reached the Great Perfection of the Golden Core at the age of only 300. This is such a fast speed that even if you count all the people in Nanlaohai, you would still be among the best."

"In my opinion, there is still a great chance of achieving Yuanying Zhenjun in the future."

Cao Mingjie immediately smiled and said, "That's indeed a good thing. The journey to the ruins is long, and it will probably take forty days."

"I am the youngest and I am not afraid of losing face. I will ask for advice from Taoist Qiu when the time comes."

"Maybe I can get some advice, or at least become familiar with him."

……

They were very interested and obviously valued this late Jindan cultivator who was less than 300 years old.

Xiao Chen remained silent about this. He was not yet thirty years old, so of course there was no need for him to take the initiative to show off about this.

In the middle of the conversation, he took the initiative to ask, "I heard that a disaster involving evil spirits occurred in Jianhai. What do you three fellow Taoists think about this?"

"Aren't we going to hunt ghosts?"

The main thing was that after listening for a long time, Xiao Chen found that no one mentioned this matter, which was very strange.

It is obvious that almost all the monks in Nanlaohai have been alarmed recently.

Upon hearing this, Cao Mingjie smiled and said, "Oh, look at me, I even forgot to tell Fellow Daoist Jin Guang."

"I've already inquired about it. This time the evil spirits are projecting the ruins."

"Judging from the date, it's the new ruins we're planning to visit this time."

The evil spirit disaster is a variant of the mirage, and most of the time it is related to the original ruins.

Yu Zhenyang also said, "Hahaha, Fellow Daoist Jin Guang, let those people fight over the fake ones."

"Let's go directly to the open sea to find the real ruins."

"By then, not only will there be the Yin Spirit Heart, but there might also be a fourth-level inheritance or even an ancient treasure."

Xiao Chen immediately understood: "So that's what's going on. Thank you both for clearing up my confusion."

As he spoke, Ma Wenbo's expression suddenly turned serious. "Now that everyone is here, why don't we first decide on the division of labor and prepare for exploring the ruins in advance?"

"I haven't asked you yet what aspect you are good at, Fellow Daoist Jin Guang?"

Ok?
Xiao Chen asked in return, "To be honest with you fellow Daoists, this is my first time participating in a ruins exploration. I'm wondering how the division of labor works."

"Hey, this is a simple matter, there's no need to go through so much trouble."

Yu Zhenyang smiled and said, "It's just that when exploring the ruins, in order to avoid triggering traps and being targeted by other monks, we need to cooperate with each other."

"Usually, we brothers have our own responsibilities."

"I'm a bit proficient in body training, so I'm thick-skinned and not afraid of pain. I usually walk in front and explore the way."

"Junior Brother Ma is a vigilant person with a wide range of spiritual awareness. He has also practiced the art of spiritual eyes. He usually stays behind to keep watch."

"Junior Brother Cao is proficient in the Five Elements magic and will be responsible for coordinating the actions."

Cao Mingjie also laughed and said, "Yes, yes, it's just a simple standing position, no other meaning."

"Let's cooperate like this, it will be more efficient."

"There's no need to go into detail. Second Senior Brother, I just want to get a general idea of ​​what Fellow Daoist Jin Guang is good at."

So this is ah.

Xiao Chen thought about it and felt that he was pretty good at body refining, spiritual exploration, and casting spells.

"I wouldn't say I'm good at it, but I know a little bit of everything."

(End of this chapter)