Ordinary People: Starting with the Chen Clan

On the way back, Chen Xuanzhou kept thinking about these things. It was a pity that although his strength was already quite strong at the Foundation Establishment stage.

However, compared to the overall situation in the south, it is still nothing more than an ant, unable to influence the development of events in the slightest.

Once back in his cave, he didn't even bother with the backlash from the sect leader's clone; he simply tossed him the Blood Transformation Blade and let him recover slowly.

He walked slowly in the cave for a long time, but couldn't come up with any good ideas. He had to admit that he wasn't a very resourceful person.

Finally, he remembered a little habit from his past life, took out a blank jade slip, and began to write and revise on it.

There was no plan of their own; instead, they simply recorded the timeline they remembered from reading books in their previous life.

Then, on this timeline, let's see if there are any things that are not easily changed, or if he still has room to manipulate them.

Looking at the timeline in the jade slip, Chen Xuanzhou's eyes flickered slightly, and he pointed to a few places.

The first place was one he had almost forgotten about—Jiayuan City.

Of course, when he thought of this, he wasn't thinking of the Mo family mother and daughter; they were just a group of ordinary people, and he didn't have the ability to defy fate for them.

What attracted him was the Core Formation cultivator from the Yuling Sect. He remembered the unknown Core Formation cultivator, but he had possessed Zhang Tierou's body several years earlier.

Although it is unknown whether things will change due to the new Nascent Soul cultivator of the Hidden Moon Sect, what loss would he suffer from such a near-zero-cost trap?

He doesn't even need to go there in person; he can simply send a clone with a decoy.

Whether there's a chance or not, we'll try our best. If we can capture this Core Formation Soul Split and hand him over to the higher-ups of the Hidden Moon Sect, it will definitely allow the six sects to prepare.

At least it won't be sold off by Spirit Beast Mountain.

However, based on his memory of the timeline, if we follow the original timeline, it would still be several years before that Core Formation cultivator appeared.

Therefore, this step will have to wait until he selects another physical body to refine into a novice puppet.

As for the second place, it is that spirit stone mine.

However, going to the Chaotic Star Sea is not a good idea either.

There's no other reason; the Chen family's fundamental cultivation technique, Blood Refining Divine Light, originated from the Profound Yin True Scripture.

Ji Yin never stopped searching for his fellow disciples. Most of the capable members of the Chen family had practiced this technique.

This left him with very few disciples to send out, and as for the few Foundation Establishment cultivators in his sect, he never considered sending them over.

It's not that I don't trust them, but these disciples have already settled in the Hidden Moon Sect and it's impossible for them to disappear without a trace for a long time.

Of course, we still have to go. Not for any other reason than that the island-centric way of life in Luanxinghai is very suitable for family-based development.

After thinking for a while, Chen Xuanzhou came up with a group of people who would be very suitable to go there.

Those are the grooms of the second wife's family; as cultivators, they are bound to become the island lords of those small islands.

And since they frequent the islands with their mortal women, it won't be long before these islands belong to the Chen family.

Chen Xuanzhou even thought that these descendants didn't need to have spiritual roots; they only needed to continue intermarrying with people on the surrounding islands.

That's practically an inexhaustible supply of the Chen family bloodline...

In this way, there would be no need for the Yue Kingdom to transfer too many people to develop there.

This ensures that neither side affects the other.

Because the Chaotic Star Sea is not a safe place either, the Reverse Star Alliance has probably already begun to secretly deploy its forces on the surrounding islands.

The Chen family doesn't want to get involved right now.

Besides these two backup plans, Chen Xuanzhou now has an even more important backup plan for him.

He sensed the incense burner in his mind and saw that, apart from the five demonic apes still unconscious, there was nothing else inside.

There was also a luminous pearl, emitting a faint glow, making the space inside the incense burner even brighter.

By this glimmer of light, one can vaguely see a Bagua (Eight Trigrams) mark on the bottom of the incense burner. Unlike the usual Bagua shape, it also features mountain reliefs on its eight sides.

It is exactly the same as the design of the Dragon-Seeking Compass.

Chen Xuanzhou touched the Bagua mark with his divine soul, and it immediately emitted a burst of golden spiritual light and a spatial fluctuation.

Feeling the view coming from the other side of the Bagua mark, Chen Xuanzhou could no longer help but smile slightly.

Fortunately, he also knew that this was the time when the entire sect was under the most strict guard, fearing that the upgraded Inverted Five Elements Formation would not be able to stop the Nascent Soul's investigation.

Therefore, he dared not attempt to teleport himself into the secret realm, either personally or through a clone, nor did he dare to summon the contents of the incense burner.

However, there are still interesting things to keep him from getting bored.

After accumulating for so long, the incense burner finally formed a black bead. Chen Xuanzhou naturally had to use such a rare item sparingly.

Under his control, black incense sticks were actually drawn out from the black condensed bead.

To his surprise, all the incense sticks were poured into the luminous pearl at once, and this time it went exceptionally smoothly.

By simply reducing the size of the crystal pearl by a little, the luminous pearl had been thoroughly cleansed inside and out.

The old man Chen Xuanzhou had expected did not appear, leaving him somewhat surprised and feeling a sense of unreality.

Probing inside with my consciousness, I found that the space inside the luminous pearl was nearly a hundred feet long, but there weren't many things there.

The most conspicuous thing was an alchemy furnace. Even after scanning it with divine sense, it was impossible to discern its material. It was neither gold nor jade, but dark red, with volcanic eruption-like patterns all over its body.

A fire-breathing unicorn crouches on the stove lid, and there are three beast feet on the bottom of the stove. There are no flames, but you can feel the scorching temperature when you touch them.

Without hesitation, Chen Xuanzhou directly infused several wisps of white incense, not because he was stingy, but because he simply couldn't afford any more.

We always need to keep some as a backup.

His divine sense followed the incense and merged into the alchemy furnace, quickly figuring out its details.

It was cast using copper from the earth's core, and then nurtured for a thousand years by drawing fire from the earth's lungs and the true fire of a red phosphorus leopard with the bloodline of a qilin in an active volcano.

The success rate of refining pills is extremely high; it can increase the chances of success by more than 10% when refining pills that enhance cultivation in the Nascent Soul stage.

Moreover, it combines offense and defense. When facing an enemy, it can unleash the true fire of the Crimson Phosphorus Leopard; when defending, the furnace body can withstand a full-force attack from an early-stage Nascent Soul cultivator.

Of course, offense and defense are just auxiliary; if someone actually used them like that, they would probably be cursed to death by alchemists.

This furnace also has another very important function: it can absorb the spiritual fire of heaven and earth, making it a treasure for cultivating fire-based techniques.

Next to this cauldron is a three-pointed, double-edged sword, which is indeed similar to the blade worn by Erlang Shen.

It is thirteen feet long, with a narrow blade covered in flowing silver star patterns. The most peculiar thing is that these silver star patterns sometimes appear and sometimes disappear.

When it is revealed, it exudes a chilling aura; when it is hidden, it is as cold as a piece of ordinary iron.