Simultaneous Transmigration: We Level Up Alone Across Multiple Worlds
Chapter 36: Time is tight, please excuse me for a moment.
"Yes." Chen Chen stepped aside to make way.
Zi Ling walked in and sat down on the futon in the reception room.
She sat down nimbly, her skirt draped naturally over her knees, and placed the jade slip in her hand on the table, pushing it in front of him.
"My father asked me to tell you about the copper sheet."
Chen Chen sat down opposite her and picked up the jade slip.
The divine sense probed deeper, revealing more detailed information than Wang Heng's previous message: the bronze piece originated from the ruins of an ancient cave near Qiyuan Island. Several fragments of demonic artifacts unearthed at the same time had already been taken by other rogue cultivators, leaving only this bronze piece untouched. The front of the bronze piece bore traces of demonic script and a relief of a three-headed, six-armed figure. Its edges were chipped, and the bronze itself was ancient.
He put the jade slip back on the table.
"Your father sent you here so that you'll be in charge of this matter from now on?"
"most."
Zi Ling took out a storage bag from her sleeve and placed it next to the jade slip.
The storage bag contained the detailed accounts of her supplying goods to Xinggong over the past six months. Chen Chen glanced at it and immediately noticed that the format of the accounts had changed.
It's not Wang Heng's old-fashioned notation, but a new classification logic, with cross-labeling based on category, frequency, and the flow of spirit stones.
"I've been handling all the procurement outside Miaoyin Gate, the intelligence network, and the supply coordination with Xinggong for the past six months. My father said he'd hand over the reins once I was familiar with all of this, but actually, I'm pretty much done with it already."
She paused, her brows furrowing slightly.
"His health has deteriorated in recent years. He eats less and sleeps less. Sometimes he can sit alone in the shop for an entire afternoon looking at an old account book. He almost lost everything on Kuixing Island, and that worry has stayed with him ever since."
Zi Ling took out a stack of talisman papers from her storage bag... Each one was drawn by her, water-element protective talismans, and he recognized the handwriting.
The initial stroke is heavy, and the ending stroke is habitually dragged back half a hair, exactly as he taught.
But the connections between the strokes had already developed their own rhythm, and the water patterns on the talisman paper moved with more dexterity than he had taught her.
"This batch is for next month's delivery. Please take a look."
Chen Chen took it, flipped through two pages, and put it aside.
"There's no need to pay attention to the brushstrokes on every single mass-produced talisman."
"I'm used to it, after all, it was you who taught me, senior." She said this with a slight smile.
Zi Ling's gaze slowly swept around the cave.
Chen Chen saw all of this.
"They're starting to see the details."
Zi Ling then stood up, walked to the entrance of the cave, and suddenly stopped and turned back.
"Senior, once we get the copper pieces, my father has some remnants of demon artifacts in his private treasury. Perhaps I can be of some help."
"OK."
The stone gate closed behind her.
After Zi Ling left, Chen Chen returned to his meditation room and put the jade slip into his storage bag.
He sat cross-legged on the Bodhi wood cushion, closed his eyes, and focused his consciousness into his dantian.
Inside the dantian, the golden core rotated along a constant orbit, with layers of dark blue Xuan Shui magic power stacked up. Next to the golden core, the light blue Reincarnation Eye satellite circled around slowly, its rotation rhythm as stable as ever.
The Ze Shui Three Yin Swords... Tian Shu, Di Sha, and Ren Jie are encased in a sword box and refined in the dantian.
He doesn't need to personally handle the matter of the copper pieces. Zi Ling will take care of it.
Five days later, a communication jade slip from the Miaoyin Sect was delivered to the entrance of the sixty-third level cave, along with a leather package.
Chen Chen unwrapped the animal skin package.
The copper plate was chipped at the edges, and its front was covered with unfamiliar demonic script. The strokes were bold and rough, completely different from the inscription system commonly used by human cultivators.
The remnants of the three-headed, six-armed relief are faintly discernible at the corners, the bronze is old and covered with a layer of dark verdigris.
It felt heavy in my hand, and the cool metallic touch traveled up through my fingertips.
The moment the fingertip touched the copper plate, the dragon vein fascia in the center of the palm suddenly twitched.
Chen Chen flipped the copper sheet over; the engravings on the back were shallower than those on the front, and some were worn away and no longer visible.
He injected a wisp of Xuan Shui magic power into the edge of the copper piece with extremely low power. As soon as the magic power touched the surface of the copper, a very faint dark golden halo appeared on the front of the copper piece, and then it went dark again.
The text was still incomprehensible, but the feedback from the magic was clear... These markings were not merely decorative patterns, but rather some kind of medium.
Each stroke corresponds to a meridian pathway, and the entire copper sheet is a highly condensed diagram of energy flow.
Chen Chen wrapped the copper sheet back into the animal hide and put it into his storage bag.
Deciphering the copper plate will take time, but there are more pressing matters at hand... We still need materials from a few high-grade demonic beasts to strengthen the demonic bones of the Gold-Eating Insects, and the opening time of the Void Heaven Palace is also approaching.
Time is limited.
After a final check of the cave's formation, seventy percent of the adult insects were put into the spirit beast bag, while the larvae were left in the stone vat. The nurturing formation was replenished with sufficient spirit stones to supplement the Blood Jade Spider's food.
After doing all this, they left the cave.
The stone door closed behind them with a muffled thud as the spiritual pressure shut off.
We took the teleportation array out of Tianxing City, made one transfer, and rented a small spirit boat for the last leg of the journey.
Several level-seven demonic beasts have migrated from the deep waters to the shallow reefs in the open sea, and many demon-hunting teams no longer dare to venture out to sea alone.
The spirit boat glided across the sea, the white waves pressed out by its hull trailing a continuously expanding arc at its stern.
After entering the waters at the edge of the outer sea, Chen Chen had the captain stop at the outer edge of a group of reefs northeast of Silver Shark Island, paid the spirit stones, and sent the people back.
"I'll walk back myself."
The boatman took the spirit stone, saw the Star Palace Token on Chen Chen's waist, and swallowed back the advice he was about to give.
The spirit boat turned around and quickly shrank into a small black dot in the sea fog.
Chen Chen stood on the reef.
The seawater surged at my feet, crashing against the rocks and breaking into white foam.
The sea breeze carried a heavy, salty smell and a faint hint of blood. Chen Chen took out a demon core from a level six dragon beast from his storage bag, held it in his left palm, and spread his divine sense outward from his dantian, gathering his human cultivation power layer by layer. At the same time, he used the demon cultivation affinity of the Hanyuan Fulong Body to release the remaining demon beast spiritual pressure in the dragon demon core.
Within a few breaths, the aura of a human cultivator on his body was completely concealed.
Instead, there was a faint spiritual pressure from a dragon demon cultivator... It wasn't a pure dragon demon beast, but more like a being that had taken human form from a branch of the dragon bloodline.
This level of disguise wouldn't fool monsters at the Transformation stage or above in face-to-face identification, but it would be sufficient for deep-sea monsters' territorial perception.
Low-level demonic beasts will automatically retreat after sensing this spiritual pressure; high-level demonic beasts will hesitate... The sensitivity of demonic beasts to their level is far more instinctive than that of human cultivators to their cultivation level, and the dragon bloodline is naturally at the top of the pressure chain among aquatic demonic beasts.
After completing the disguise, Chen Chen used the Xuan Shui Escape Technique to skim low over the sea surface.
The Mysterious Water Escape Technique is a variant of the escape technique inherent in the Tai Bai Mysterious Water Manual. Although it is slower than the Geng Bai Escape Light, its spiritual energy fluctuations are more restrained, making it better able to deal with some unexpected situations.
In seas teeming with monsters, they are not easily locked onto from a distance.
Below the sea, huge shadows occasionally glided by... Several times the shadows paused for a moment directly below him, and Chen Chen could feel those vertical pupils staring at his silhouette through the seawater.
A moment later, the shadow slowly sank back into the deep sea.
The spiritual pressure of the dragon demon cultivator is at work.
After venturing more than a hundred miles into the outer sea, the color of the seawater changed from light gray-blue to dark dark green, the concentration of spiritual energy increased significantly, and the spiritual pressure of the demonic beasts carried in the water also became denser.
Chen Chen stopped on an underwater reef platform.
The reef is surrounded by mountains on three sides, with only one narrow entrance, making it suitable for both ambush sites and desperate battles.
He directly unleashed his divine sense, which was now close to the late stage of the Nascent Soul realm.
Get ready to clean the floor!!
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