Longevity starts with choosing Hextech enhancement

Chapter 271 An Unexpected Joy: Giant Sea Beast
Broken Blade Qi is the seventh type of evil energy that Xiao Chen has collected.

After the Yin Metal Sha within his dantian had completely solidified, he had finally gathered all five elements of Yin Sha.

Therefore, after those mysterious runes were completed.

The other four types of Yin energy also trembled slightly, as if in response.

A faint suction force emanated from it, seemingly trying to draw in the nearby true energy.

However, the suction force was so weak that it could not affect the trajectory of the true essence circulation at all.

"It's been almost four years since I got the 'Mysterious Heavenly Elixir Secret Method'."

Xiao Chen thought back for a moment and couldn't help but sigh, "So much time has passed, and I've finally gathered all the conditions for cultivating the Five Elements Seal."

The Lord of the Celestial Palace once said that he had comprehended a path to heaven.

This statement may be a bit arrogant, but it's not entirely boasting; on the contrary, it has corresponding support.

The secret techniques he left behind were naturally not just about absorbing malevolent energy to help with breakthroughs.

If that's the case, it's at best a special breakthrough technique, how could it be worthy of being called the Path to Heaven?

In the Lord of the Celestial Palace's plan, the utilization of evil energy can be divided into three major stages.

The first stage is the same as Xiao Chen's previous one: finding and utilizing the evil energy to accelerate one's cultivation speed or enhance the power of spells.

It's just a simple use case.

Only when one cultivates to the second stage and condenses the Five Elements Seal within the Dantian can one be considered to have truly begun to utilize the evil energy.

Only from now on will the "Mysterious Heaven Food Secret Method" show its difference and truly surpass the inheritances of other different forces.

"Huff~, huff~!"

After getting up and stretching his limbs slightly, Xiao Chen sat cross-legged again and took several deep breaths.

Silently, he recalled the key points of the secret technique word by word in his mind, making sure there were no omissions.

Only then did he begin to draw out a strand of true essence from the flawless golden elixir, according to the records in the mental cultivation method.

Actively guide it to be injected into the Yin Wood Seal.

Such behavior would have no effect under normal circumstances.

However, today, when that true essence fell into it, the entire Yin Wood Seal trembled slightly, and then began to emit a blue spiritual light.

In the aura, the pattern of the sea willow could still be faintly seen.

Immediately, under the combined effect of the mental technique and the pulling force of the remaining Yin energy,

The true essence slowly flowed from the Yin Wood Seal to the Yin Fire Seal.

Then, in sequence, comes the Yin Earth Seal, the Yin Metal Seal, and the Yin Water Seal, finally flowing back into the Yin Wood Seal.

Once all the marks were lit, their auras almost touched.

In the dim light, it actually formed a larger outline of the mark.

Xiao Chen immediately began the second cycle, the third cycle, and so on.

It's like a cultivator breathing in the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, circulating it through the body in complete cycles.

With each cycle, the mark becomes more definite.

After a full day and night, and nine cycles in total, the mark finally became almost tangible.

"It's finally over. This must be the Yin Five Elements Seal!"

Xiao Chen used his divine sense to observe the entire process closely.

Although, in theory, the difficulty in condensing the Five Elements Seal lies almost entirely in collecting evil energy.

But he still didn't let his guard down until he saw the Five Elements Seal take shape, and only then did he finally breathe a sigh of relief.

At the same time, Xiao Chen also noticed that the true essence he had previously possessed was not only not exhausted in the nine cycles, but actually seemed to have doubled in strength.

At this point, it was directly split in two.

One of the streams was automatically injected into the Yin Five Elements Seal, and then the second cycle began without his active guidance.

The extra true essence remained suspended in the dantian.

Gradually, drawn by the flawless golden elixir, it was drawn back into the golden elixir.

The following process was exactly the same as before.

Without Xiao Chen needing to cultivate himself, the true essence flowed through the different Yin Sha seals in turn, driven by the Yin Five Elements Seal.

Each flow increases its strength by 20%, then generates a completely new true essence.

This is one of the three major characteristics of the Yin Five Elements Seal: accelerating the cultivation process.

This feature is truly remarkable!
First of all, it should be known that when Xiao Chen himself cultivated, it took him two days to condense a strand of true essence.

Secondly, this circulation of true essence does not conflict with the cultivator's own cultivation at all.

Therefore, the Yin Five Elements Seal does not simply mean doubling the cultivation speed.

If a cultivator wishes to cultivate personally after condensing the Yin Five Elements Seal, then the two can be done simultaneously.

Secondly, Xiao Chen can now rapidly improve his physical cultivation with the help of blood crystals.

In comparison, the progress in the path of Dharma cultivation is much slower.

Now that I have obtained the Yin Five Elements Seal, I can accelerate my efforts to overcome my weaknesses and strive to keep up with both paths, advancing in tandem.

Finally, this doesn't just affect the Golden Core stage!
Even after Xiao Chen broke through to the Nascent Soul stage, he still needed to refine his true essence.

Moreover, by then, the total amount of true essence required will only be greater.

At that time, all cultivators will have to spend a lot of time accumulating true essence and consolidating their realm.

As far as Xiao Chen knew, many Golden Core cultivators needed to spend decades just to cultivate their magical power.

It is conceivable that after reaching the Nascent Soul stage, it would probably take hundreds of years just to refine one's true essence.

In addition, the number of fourth-tier spiritual objects is even rarer than that of third-tier spiritual objects.

It can be said that the further one progresses in cultivation, the more difficult it becomes to continue climbing.

The more Yin Five Elements Seal is used, the more precious its function becomes.

As for the other two major characteristics of Yin Five Elements Seal.

These can resonate with the Yang Five Elements Seal, increasing the success rate of Nascent Soul formation.

It also contains the principle of the five elements generating each other, and this process is demonstrated at all times.

The effect of witnessing it firsthand is far greater than that of things like Shen Yun illustrations.

No matter which path a cultivator chooses to comprehend after forming their Nascent Soul, they can benefit greatly from it.

Even cultivators with different spiritual roots can use this to comprehend the principle of mutual generation of the five elements, achieving the effect of drawing inferences from one instance to another.

In the short term, this last feature doesn't seem to have a significant effect.

However, for most cultivators, enlightenment is not achieved through a sudden flash of inspiration, but also requires daily accumulation.

The stories of sudden enlightenment and ascension to immortality in broad daylight are nothing more than myths and legends from ancient times.

At least Xiao Chen felt that he couldn't be counted on.

In this context, the Yin Five Elements Seal, which can be frequently observed and studied, undoubtedly becomes even more important.

As the saying goes, "Read a book a hundred times, and its meaning will become clear."

He carried the Yin Five Elements Seal with him at all times, glancing at it whenever he had a spare moment. Over time, he would eventually gain some insights.

Even a tiny bit of understanding can be a great help to a Nascent Soul cultivator.

"If only we could gather all the Yang Five Elements evil energy as soon as possible and condense the Yang Five Elements Seal."

Xiao Chen sighed, "The Way of Yin and Yang is also a great path to heaven."

Compared to the common paths of the Wood element, such as the path of transformation between decay and prosperity, and the path of longevity for plants, this is a different approach.

The future potential of the Yin-Yang Dao will undoubtedly be even greater.

More importantly, he had some foundational knowledge from his previous study of the Yin-Yang Cantong Qi.

If possible, making a breakthrough in this direction would be a good option.

Of course, if you can obtain the relevant Hextech Tokens, then everything else is a different story.

"There's still quite a bit of malevolent energy left here."

Although Xiao Chen had absorbed a lot of it before, there was still a relatively thin layer of malevolent energy in the canyon.

However, with the remaining quantity, it cannot cause any harm in the short term.

Even if other demonic cultivators come, they can only wait tens of thousands of years to slowly accumulate enough numbers.

That's a matter for future generations to decide.

"But then again, since we're already here, why don't we take a look at the source?"

Xiao Chen stood up and curiously looked around at the ancient battlefield.

He had been curious from the beginning why so many cultivators had died here.

Cultivators are different from ordinary people; they basically don't have the concept of an army.

"Sigh, I heard before that there is a court established by cultivators in the Central Region."

Xiao Chen suddenly remembered a rumor he had heard before: "Could it be that the Sea of ​​Compassion has experienced a similar situation before?"

Thinking about it this way, he became even more curious.

So they followed the canyon deeper into it, wanting to find out what was going on.

The canyon doesn't look deep, but it's surprisingly long.

Xiao Chen walked for about ten miles before finally seeing a main battlefield that had widened considerably.

"No, this area has been forcibly widened!"

Upon closer inspection, he saw that both sides were covered with traces of various spells.

Because no one cleaned it and it was sheltered from wind and rain, it has been preserved to this day.

"Wow, such a deep palm print!"

Xiao Chen had noticed earlier that there was a pit on the ground in front of him that looked about the size of a palm.

But it wasn't until he got closer that he discovered there was a hidden world inside the pit.

The deeper you go, the larger and wider the palm print becomes, and it runs through a rock layer that is over a hundred feet long, leaving a handprint-shaped pit at the bottom that is a hundred feet long.

"This level of destructive power must have come from a Nascent Soul cultivator."

At least Xiao Chen's current Fire Condensation Palm technique, while capable of penetrating a hundred feet, definitely doesn't have that wide a range.

Not to mention that the palm force was almost completely solidified at the beginning, and only began to expand after hitting the ground.

To achieve such an effect, a very strong degree of control is required.

Besides the handprints, the closer one gets to the center of the main battlefield, the more terrifying the remaining traces of battle become.

It was as thin as a hair, and we didn't notice it at first.

It was only by chance that I saw the sword energy that spanned the entire main battlefield and was a full seven thousand feet long.

The shield, which remains as smooth and new as ever, has stood for countless years.

"Boom!"

Xiao Chen tapped it with his hand: "It's quite sturdy."

"when!"

He used all his strength this time, but only managed to leave a shallow fist mark on the shield.

One can imagine how sturdy it must have been back then, infused with true essence.

And how sharp must the attack have been to completely sever this shield, making the broken surface appear as smooth as a mirror?

"Wait, something's not right?"

Xiao Chen's ears twitched, sensing something amiss.

The loud sound of the shield being struck echoed through the canyon.

This is normal; similar terrain tends to produce echoes.

The abnormality is that there is one more echo on the left front than on the right front.

This subtle inconsistency might be hard for ordinary people to notice, but it is very obvious to cultivators.

"Is there a hidden room here?" Xiao Chen walked to the left side of the mountain wall and reached out to touch it.

A cool sensation came from the rocks, and everything seemed normal.

Even when I probed it with my divine sense, I found nothing unusual.

"Condensing Fire..."

Xiao Chen raised his hand to strike, but suddenly felt that it was inappropriate.

So he took out his flying sword and cut into the ground.

"There is indeed a problem!"

After the flying sword penetrated deep into it, the remaining restrictions collapsed on the spot.

The rock wall in front of Xiao Chen collapsed with a crash, revealing the hidden space inside.

It was an ancient altar that was three zhang high and ten zhang long and wide.

It was constructed from large pieces of mutton fat jade, with a battle flag hanging on top.

However, Xiao Chen noticed that the runes on the array flags were in disarray.

Thanks to "An Introduction to Formation Techniques," he immediately recognized that this situation was caused by the enemy violently destroying the formation, resulting in the formation flags also suffering a backlash.

It's clear that one side was prepared in advance and had hidden a formation in a secret room.

However, the enemy was too powerful, and the formation was directly damaged.

"what?"

Xiao Chen was about to go over and take a look, but before he could step into the dark room, a malevolent aura emanated from it.

There were still remnants of broken blade energy in the canyon.

However, the malevolent energy emanating from the dark room was similar to, yet different from, the Broken Blade Malevolence!
Although they both belong to the metal element in the Five Elements theory.

However, for some reason, the malevolent energy in the dark room was not assimilated by the dense yin energy of this burial ground.

In other words, it belongs to Yang!

Without a second thought, Xiao Chen immediately sat down cross-legged on the spot.

He fully activated the "Mysterious Heavenly Food Secret Method" to gather the surrounding Yang Metal Sha.

The goal is to absorb all the evil energy in the dark room into one's own body before it dissipates into the outside world and is contaminated by the remaining evil energy from the broken blade.

Another three days passed in a flash.

"Oh dear, so close!"

Xiao Chen, who had moved into the dark room halfway through, absorbed all the evil energy inside, only to find that he was still a little short of condensing the Yang Gold Seal.

After all, the space in this dark room is limited, and not enough evil energy is preserved.

He opened his eyes and quickly scanned his surroundings.

Without thinking twice, he slammed his palm down on the altar in front of him.

"Boom!"

The altar was immediately smashed to pieces.

Fortunately, there were indeed a few strands of malevolent energy that had seeped into the jade over the long years.

It was released again after the jade broke.

Thanks to this influx of new life force, Xiao Chen finally gathered enough evil energy and successfully condensed a brand new Yang Gold Seal in his dantian.

The moment the Yang Metal Seal was successfully condensed, it overlapped with the Yin Metal Seal.

Together they form an extremely mysterious pattern.

Similar to the previous two pairs of marks, it seems that all the weapons in the world are hidden within that pattern.

This also means that another 50% success rate in achieving Nascent Soul formation has been achieved.

"Wow, what a blessed place this is!"

After checking his dantian, Xiao Chen opened his eyes with delight: "There are actually two kinds of evil energy in the same canyon, which make up a perfect pair."

Compared to the previous two pairs of malevolent energies, this pair has the shortest time interval between collections, almost consecutively.

Prior to this, he had come into contact with the other four types of malevolent energy.

Only Jin Sha was missing two pieces, and Xiao Chen thought this would be the most difficult hurdle.

I never expected it to work like this!
"Oh dear, if only the other evil energies were also in pairs."

Xiao Chen couldn't help but sigh, "That way, we won't have to run around anymore."

Unfortunately, the remaining two types of malevolent energy have different attributes, so they definitely won't appear in the same place.

"Forget it, one shouldn't be too greedy. Today's result is already very good."

Xiao Chen stood up with a smile and looked at the jade plate that had fallen beside the altar.

In a moment of quick thinking, I smashed the jade and also destroyed the altar.

Therefore, the five jade plates that were originally placed at the top to hold the offerings also fell down and shattered.

Due to the passage of time, most of the original offerings have weathered into powder.

Only one of the jade plates contained a piece of golden, bright spirit ore, which is why it was preserved.

"You look a bit unfamiliar."

Xiao Chen picked it up and examined it from all angles, but he still couldn't recognize the type of spirit ore.

However, one thing is certain: this is a special spiritual object that can be used to set up formations, and it is quite valuable.

Under normal circumstances, if a Golden Core cultivator were to find a piece of ordinary fourth-tier ore, it would already be considered a remarkable encounter.

Moreover, this ancient battlefield is very old.

During that period, the cultivation world possessed a vast quantity of rare and precious materials.

What was used to set up an array back then might be some kind of extremely rare spiritual object now.

"I was just about to go see an appraiser anyway, so I might as well take them along for an appraisal."

Xiao Chen put away the ore and then searched the entire dark room.

Unfortunately, apart from the broken jade and the broken battle flags, everything else had long since weathered away.

The same applies to the canyons outside.

Even though Xiao Chen searched through it twice, he still couldn't find the third type of evil energy.

"Alright, let's go then."

They returned along the same path and flew out again from the abyss-like crack.

It was noon outside, with the sun high in the sky, casting bright and dazzling rays.

"Hiss~, I haven't seen the sun for several days, I'm still not used to it."

Xiao Chen subconsciously raised his hand to shade his eyes.

Having spent several days in darkness, the sudden exposure to the blazing sun felt strangely unsettling.

He slowly flew higher, looking around to re-identify the direction for his return journey.

"Huh, why have there been three small islands to the west?"

Xiao Chen blinked to make sure he wasn't seeing things.

Originally, on the west side of this island, roughly where the sea and sky meet, there was a pair of small islands that could serve as a reference point.

However, upon closer inspection, they were clearly three small black dots.

"Wait, something's not right, the island is moving?"

Xiao Chen noticed that the rightmost black dot seemed to have shifted slightly.

Ok?
What happened?
He instinctively flew a little over there to get a better look at the situation.

Once you get closer, you can see that the black dot is indeed moving slowly.

It's just that it's very slow, so it's not noticeable from a distance.

"Hi~!"

Xiao Chen took a breath of cold air.

According to the markings on the nautical chart, those two small islands are more than 900 miles away from here.

They appear small because they are so far apart.

But even if it's small, it's still an island!

What is that thing next to it, which is about the same size but can still move?
At that moment, four words suddenly appeared in Xiao Chen's mind—large sea beast!
"Could it be that……"

"I've encountered a large sea monster too?"

Since we're already here, let's go take a look.

Of course, Xiao Chen wouldn't be foolish enough to actually get close; he just planned to observe from a distance.

At least figure out what kind of marine mammal it is.

Therefore, after flying for about 500 miles, he stopped on his own initiative.

"What a huge octopus!"

Standing four hundred miles away, Xiao Chen could clearly see that it was an extremely large octopus.

At this moment, the giant octopus is heading northeast, moving slowly but with a strong sense of oppression.

Its body is at least three thousand feet long, resembling a moving island.

A ghostly blue light flowed across its thick skin, and every inch of its skin refracted eerie ripples as it writhed. A dozen crimson vertical pupils on its head observed all directions.

Suddenly, a tentacle thousands of feet long shot out from the seabed, immediately stirring up a towering wave.

At the top of the giant wave, a golden sea fish, several tens of meters in size, was launching a futile attack.

But in the next instant, it was completely swallowed up by the suckers at the bottom of the tentacles, leaving not even a bone behind.

Moreover, the octopus never stopped moving throughout the entire process.

Another tentacle broke through the water and stretched straight toward the reef blocking its way.

The thick tentacles instantly wrapped tightly around the reef, actually uprooting it completely.

With a casual flick, the reef flew away like a discarded pebble.

"Wow!"

The fallen rocks were located exactly two hundred miles in front of Xiao Chen, splashing up a large amount of water.

It also allowed him to see clearly that the reef was hundreds of feet long, almost like a small mountain.

Such force, if it were to strike a person, would have unimaginable consequences.

Because the distance was still relatively far, Xiao Chen could not yet feel the pressure from the demonic beast.

But even by sight, he knew that it had to be at least a Nascent Soul demon beast.

"Strange, where did such a huge monster come from?"

Xiao Chen frowned, finding it hard to imagine what kind of environment could give birth to such a giant sea beast.

He had previously read in intelligence reports that someone had discovered a scallop the size of three thousand feet in the north.

I never expected there would be another one to the south, and it's even closer to the Sea of ​​Compassion!
At the time, when looking at the intelligence, Xiao Chen didn't actually have any particular feelings.

Only now, witnessing the colossal octopus that is three thousand feet tall, have I truly grasped the immense sense of oppression it evoked.

"Indeed, a large forest has all kinds of birds, and a large sea has all kinds of fish."

Xiao Chen sighed, glanced one last time at the giant beast in front of him, and then turned and left.

Don't be fooled by how slowly this thing moves; nobody really knows what it's capable of.

Most of the time, the so-called clumsiness is only a weakness relative to cultivators or demonic beasts of the same level.

Therefore, for safety's sake, it's best to get away as soon as possible before it notices you.

Such matters should naturally be left to the Nascent Soul True Monarchs to handle.

Xiao Chen had absolutely no need to risk his life; it wasn't worth it at all.

After determining the direction, he headed directly towards the southeast corner of the Sea of ​​Compassion.

(End of this chapter)