Ordinary People: Starting with the Chen Clan

"Why would a powerful cultivator like him collect figurines? Among the three emperors of the spirit world, the Spirit Emperor is the only one who has gone offline."

Chen Xuanzhou muttered to himself, not even glancing at the puppetry technique that followed.

However, given the immense power of his divine sense, using it merely as a radar seemed somewhat wasteful to Chen Xuanzhou.

He touched the bridge of his nose, thought for a moment, and then took out a pitch-black sword box from his storage bag.

It had been gathering dust in his storage bag for a long time, and Chen Xuanzhou had almost forgotten about it. The main reason was that the sword box was somewhat useless to him; he couldn't use it against ordinary enemies, nor could he use it against extraordinary ones.

However, if he mastered the first level of the Great Evolution Technique and combined it with some sword control techniques from the Hidden Moon Sect, he could create a Pinduoduo-style sword formation.

It's enough for him to use until the Foundation Establishment stage, and with Han Laomo's Gengjin Sword Formation coming up, let's let people experience his Big Dipper Heavenly Gang Sword Formation first.

With that thought, Chen Xuanzhou waved his hand and sucked the sword box into the incense burner to begin refining it.

"Huh! What's this...?"

Half an hour later, Chen Xuanzhou withdrew from his sea of ​​consciousness.

"I knew it! With such a cheat code by his side, how could he not have any extraordinary encounters?"

Only after he had deeply refined the sword with incense did he discover the secret within the sword box. He hadn't expected that there was a legacy at its core called "Taibai Star Forging Sword Technique".

This sword technique requires the forging of a natal sword box. The sword box can not only nurture flying swords, but also use flying swords to replenish cultivators. As long as the sword box is of high quality, it can assimilate the natal flying swords of others.

However, all of these were still too far off for Chen Xuanzhou, but the sword formations within were ones he could use immediately.

This also saved him some time and incense offerings.

In the days that followed, Chen Xuanzhou spent most of his time in seclusion studying the two great inheritances, with his cultivation of the Great Evolution Technique progressing very smoothly.

He only borrowed a little power from the incense offerings and managed to cultivate to the first level. Now his divine sense has surpassed the early stage of Foundation Establishment.

With such a foundation, practicing sword formations will naturally be much more efficient.

Although he couldn't set it up yet due to his limited magical power, he had no problem controlling the seven flying swords in the sword box. Once he successfully established his foundation, setting up the simplest Seven Luminaries Sword Formation would be no problem at all.

"There are only two months left until the opening of the Crimson Realm. It's time to make the final preparations."

With a light breath, Chen Xuanzhou stood up and flew towards the Earth Fire Chamber on his sword.

He walked into one of the most powerful weapon-refining rooms with ease, took out a crimson-red weapon-refining furnace, and threw it into the fire pit.

The six surrounding flame vents simultaneously spewed out raging flames, and the originally crimson cauldron instantly transformed into a crystal-clear, blood-red jade, revealing the contents of the cauldron.

Chen Xuanzhou took out various spiritual materials from his storage bag, the most numerous of which were different kinds of spirit jade and spirit beads.

With just a wave of his hand, half of the jewels and precious stones around him disappeared.

Under Chen Xuanzhou's control, the fierce earth fire, like a young girl's jade hand, gently brushed over each fragile spiritual material.

Soon, these spiritual materials turned into a paste-like substance, like soft mud. Chen Xuanzhou remained calm upon seeing this, and with a gentle touch, he caused the flames in the furnace to extinguish.

Chen Xuanzhou then did not rush to put in the remaining spiritual materials, but instead kept making hand seals.

The originally spherical paste, as if kneaded by seven or eight hands, slowly unfolded and transformed into an octagonal compass.

However, the compass has a missing circular groove in the center.

Suddenly, Chen Xuanzhou slashed his palm, and a stream of bright red blood sprayed into the air, but instead of dripping everywhere, it gathered in one place.

He had no time to pay attention to his still bleeding hand; he quickly used his right hand as a pen and blood as ink to draw runes in mid-air.

"Imperial Edict!"

With a low shout from Chen Xuanzhou, the blood-red runes landed on the central compass. Soon, in addition to the original Bagua pattern, a ring of pictographic characters appeared on the outermost edge of the compass.

Upon closer inspection, it bears a slight resemblance to the oracle bone script of Chen Xuanzhou's previous life.

"receive!"

Only when Chen Xuanzhou saw that there were no errors in the circle of runes did he put it back into his sleeve with satisfaction.

Then he waved his hand again and threw the spiritual materials into the furnace. This time, the refining speed was even faster than when he was refining the compass. However, this time the spiritual jade did not turn into spiritual ointment, but into a pool of spiritual liquid.

After that, Chen Xuanzhou carefully took out a dark black spirit bead and went to the furnace.

As soon as the spirit pearl fell into the furnace, the surrounding earth fire dimmed. Although it quickly recovered, the flames avoided the spirit pearl.

"Gather!"

Suddenly, a banner appeared in Chen Xuanzhou's hand. With a gentle wave, the six fiery eyes around him suddenly intensified, transforming into a giant fire lotus within the cauldron.

The spirit pearl and other spirit liquids were encased within it.

. . .

Early that morning, figures flew out from all directions and headed towards the council hall.

Soon, nearly twenty people gathered in the square in front of the main hall.

These people sized each other up, looking for those who deserved their attention.

Chen Xuanzhou was not conspicuous in the crowd. Among these dozen or so people, all of them were at the twelfth level of Qi Refining. Although he had some skills when he joined the sect, he had been in seclusion for a long time and rarely interacted with others.

Naturally, no one here recognized him, and neither did he.

Soon a giant ship, several tens of meters long, slowly flew over, and before it had even come to a complete stop, a clear, cold voice echoed throughout the entire square.

"Come on up, everyone. The journey is quite long, so don't keep the other factions waiting."

Those present dared not delay and flew onto the flying boat one by one using their magical artifacts.

Feeling the clouds constantly swirling past his ears, Chen Xuanzhou couldn't help but marvel at how a Core Formation expert could possess such a powerful escape technique, perhaps even faster than a passenger plane in his previous life.

Despite their hurried pace, they were still the last to arrive outside the secret realm.

A graceful figure in palace attire flew out of the spirit boat and said to the other six people, "Now that everyone is here, let's quickly open the secret realm!"

"Since it was Fairy Ni Chang who gave the order, we naturally have no objections. We have already tested the secret realm's restrictions, and it should be able to open in about half an hour."

On either side, a Taoist-looking Core Formation cultivator immediately replied with a smile, and the others had no objections.

After several attempts, the seven finally saw the formation fluctuate violently after the time it takes for an incense stick to burn, and then decisively made their move.

The seven magical treasures gathered in mid-air and attacked the wind blade array for a long time before opening a passage. The group dared not linger and rushed into it one by one in the pre-arranged order.

Chen Xuanzhou felt a sudden darkness before his eyes, and when his vision returned, he found himself in a mountain forest, with no demonic beasts around him.

Even with divine sense probing, no special landmarks were found.