Simultaneous Transmigration: We Level Up Alone Across Multiple Worlds

After Feng hope's footsteps disappeared along the stone steps.

Chen Chen did not act immediately. He stood in front of the refining platform for about half a cup of tea's time, spreading his divine sense outward along the cave wall...

Feng hope's aura had indeed retreated above ground, towards the direction of Cun Jin Pavilion in Blackstone City.

This distance is safe enough.

Pushing the detailed route diagram on the stone slab aside, he took out Gengjin Thunder Sand, Jiao Marrow, and fragments of Thunderstruck Wood from his spirit beast bag and laid them out on the refining platform.

The portions were very small; each item was only about the size of a fingertip.

He wrapped the material in his palm with the power of Xuan Shui, compressing the lightning force layer by layer and locking the runes layer by layer.

The whole process took less than half a cup of tea...

After the first rune was engraved, the semi-finished product was sealed in the bottom layer of the spirit beast bag, allowing the aura of the gold-devouring insect to cover the fluctuations of the magic weapon.

Only a few inconspicuous material fragments remained on the refining table, mixed with the stone dust that had fallen when the circuit diagram was drawn earlier, and there was nothing unusual about them.

After finishing all this, Chen Chen picked up the talisman brush again, stood in front of the Thunder Roc skeleton, and began to trace the arc of the thunder patterns at the base of the wing bones.

This process would last all night, while something else was also on his mind.

"Feng hope can't possibly keep an eye on me every day for the next five days... He still has businesses in Blackrock City to manage, and he needs to contact the Poisonous Flood Dragon and the Black Tortoise. The periods when he's away from his cave are my opportunities to act, so it's not a big problem. The real problem is... who will provide the wood-attribute spiritual energy?"

It turns out that Han Li was captured and used as a power bank to supply wood-attribute spiritual energy, while Chen Chen himself did not have a wood spiritual root.

"Feng hope himself is of the wind attribute, the Poisonous Flood Dragon is of both poison and water attributes, and the Black Tortoise is of both earth and water attributes. How will he solve this? Will he capture a Core Formation stage cultivator with a wood elemental root to use as a power bank? Impossible."

"He's already captured one of me. If he captures another cultivator… he won't take the risk of locking two cultivators up in the same cave. Demonic beasts are easier to control than human cultivators; he's more likely to capture a wood-attribute demonic beast to fill the gap. It's easier to release or kill it after he's done using it."

Thinking of this, Chen Chen's lips curled into a helpless smile.

Working with an unknown wood-attribute monster, and then working together for Feng hope.

It's really not very good-looking.

Chen Chen turned his attention back to the wing bone and continued to draw a lightning pattern.

……

On the evening of the third day, Feng hope arrived.

He didn't come alone this time. He was carrying a cage.

The cage was small and square, with a frame made of some kind of dark black spirit wood. The cage walls were wrapped with restrictive threads woven from wind-elemental demonic power.

Each thread was flowing slowly, moving back and forth on the cage wall like a living creature.

When the cage was placed on the stone platform next to the weapon-refining table, the thing inside moved slightly.

Chen Chen put down the talisman brush and walked over.

A monster was lying in the cage.

It resembles a young deer, but is smaller than an adult goat, and is covered with a very thin layer of bluish-green moss-like fur.

Small, pale golden flowers, no bigger than grains of rice, bloom on the moss. There aren't many flowers; they are distributed on the back and the outer sides of the limbs.

Its eyes are pale gold, with horizontally slit pupils and a ring of extremely fine wood grain growth deep within the pupil.

As soon as the cage was placed on the stone platform, the concentration of wood-attribute demonic power within the beast reached an overflowing level, and its mere breathing was enough to spur the surrounding plants to grow.

Chen Chen had seen similar records in the Star Palace's books, but this was the first time he had ever seen such a concentration of wood-attribute demonic power in person.

"Azure Scale Deer." Feng hope stood beside the cage, his tone as calm as if he were introducing a newly arrived refining material.

"A branch bloodline at the late stage of transformation, possessing pure wood demonic power and lacking intelligence. It doesn't need to understand weapon crafting; it only needs to continuously output wood-attribute spiritual power during the crafting process to act as a buffer layer for wind and thunder power."

He paused, then turned his head to glance at Chen Chen.

"You control the rhythm of its demonic power output."

Chen Chen squatted down in front of the cage.

The Azure-Scaled Deer raised its head, its pale golden pupils meeting his face.

The horizontally cleaved pupil lingered on him for a few moments, then it made a move that slightly surprised Feng hope.

It stood up, walked to the side of the cage closest to Chen Chen, stuck its nose out from the gap between the two cage posts, and sniffed in Chen Chen's direction.

His nostrils flared slightly, and his breath carried a very faint scent of grass.

Chen Chen did not immediately reach out to touch it.

Simply place your finger on the outside of the cage post, letting the green-scaled deer decide for itself whether or not to approach.

The deer lowered its head to sniff his knuckles, then rubbed them together with its nose.

"It doesn't possess any wind elemental energy. Feng hope probably used the most basic demonic energy restriction on it..."

That's not what Chen Chen was thinking.

What he really cared about was why the Azure-Scaled Deer had taken the initiative to approach him.

This deer was captured from the deep sea by Feng hope and kept imprisoned for an unknown period of time. Logically, it should be instinctively wary of humanoid creatures.

Unless it senses something about him.

The spiritual pressure of a branch of the dragon race?

No.

It is the affinity of the demon race with the Hanyuan Fulong Body.

To other demonic beasts, this spiritual pressure is the "aura of a dragon," which will trigger the instinctive reaction of those at the top of the pressure chain.

But for this deer... the way wood-attribute monsters perceive things is different from ordinary monsters. There is a natural affinity between the wood and water elements, so what it feels may not be pressure, but a sense of closeness.

"That works too, at least it won't cause trouble during the refining process."

"It's kinder to you than to me," Feng hope said with a hint of amusement as she watched the scene unfold.

"How long do you plan to keep it in the cage?"

"Until the refining is finished, or until it becomes useless." Feng hope's disdain was undisguised.

"If you think the cage is in the way, you can mark out a space for it on the weapon-refining platform."

Chen Chen did not continue the topic.

He stood up and walked back to the refining platform, turned to a new page on the detailed circuit diagram on the stone slab, and marked a new node at the location of the wood circuit circuit.

"If the four attributes of wood, fire, wind, and thunder converge at the root simultaneously, the water-element buffer zone may not be able to withstand it. It would be safer for the wood element to go separately on the outer side, first converging with the water element before injecting the wind and thunder wings."

Feng hope walked behind him to look at the picture. After a moment, she nodded.

"I have two more friends arriving tonight. We'll start the refining process tomorrow."

He turned and walked toward the stone steps, stopping as he passed the cage and glancing down at the green-scaled deer.

Lu didn't look at him; her eyes were still fixed on Chen Chen's direction. Feng hope's lips curved slightly, but she didn't say anything and went up the stone steps.

Before long, it got dark.

Footsteps were heard first on the stone steps of the cave.

Chen Chen put down the talisman brush and turned around in front of Lei Peng's skeleton.

A long, thin face first appeared at the corner of the stone steps.

His eyes were sunken, his skin was dark green, and his pupils were vertical.

Poisonous dragon.

Chen Chen nodded to him, but the Poisonous Flood Dragon didn't respond. He looked away, walked to the stone stool on the left side of the refining platform, sat down, and crossed his arms.

The black tortoise followed the poisonous dragon down.

He was short and stocky, with a slightly hunched back, and his skin was as rough as a rock that had been washed by waves for hundreds of years.

His steps were much slower than the venomous dragon's. After entering the room, he only glanced at Chen Chen before turning to look at Lei Peng's skeleton. From the moment he sat down until he looked away, he didn't say a word.

Feng hope was the last to come down; the Azure Scale Deer was still lying quietly in its cage.

Feng hope clapped his hands and pointed at Chen Chen.

"Everyone's here."

"Fellow Daoist Chen is in charge of this refining process. Any objections should be raised on the spot. Once the refining begins, everyone should follow his lead."

The venomous dragon's vertical pupils rotated halfway, scanning from Chen Chen to Feng hope.

"You believe him?"

"Fellow Daoist Chen is a young and promising Grandmaster of the Four Sects, so this difficulty is nothing to him, right, Fellow Daoist Chen?"

"..."

Seeing the silent Chen Chen, the venomous dragon realized that Feng hope must have caught this human cultivator red-handed.

Then it exhaled through its nose and stopped speaking. The black tortoise slowly nodded.