Enduring humiliation for three years, seizing the elixir, the treasure, and the holy maiden.

Master Yunmeng gazed at the distant, secluded peak and sighed.

"If it really succeeds, it will be a blessing for the sect."

Li Changfeng did not respond to that.

It's more than just a blessing.

That kid possesses two laws, and with that pen, if they truly combine, who in this star field will be able to suppress him?

There is no moon on a night with scattered stars.

The protective array around the camp glowed and dimmed, casting alternating light and darkness on the tents.

Su Chen sorted out the subsequent matters one by one.

The first communication jade slip was given to Lu Yao.

"During Su's seclusion, Lu Yao guarded the Pianfeng Cave."

"The connection with Su Hongfu cannot be severed. Record any news about who will rise and who will fall within the Demon Spirit Sect, and we will review it after Su emerges from seclusion."

"Also, there are spies of Lady Wangqing around Su Hongfu. Keep this a secret for now, and don't tell anyone."

The second one is for Cheng Mo.

"Don't sell a single one of those spiritual materials from the lower realm, and keep all dealings with Gu Sanchou until I emerge from seclusion."

Now that Cheng Mo has received the jade slip, he'll probably spend a long time figuring out what Brother Chen is up to.

Su Chen's lips twitched slightly as he thought of this.

The third letter was written on a plain white spiritual note.

Su Chen picked up his pen and thought for a long time, but in the end he only wrote one line.

"This junior is going into seclusion. After I emerge from seclusion, I will come to Juque City to have tea with you, senior."

The letter was folded twice and entrusted to the spirit boat caravan to be delivered to Juque City.

The spiritual mist over Juque City never dissipates.

When Gu Qingwu opened the letter, the fog outside the window was thick.

A pair of slender fingers held the thin spiritual note, reading it from beginning to end; it contained only one line of text.

Gu Qingwu read it again.

Watch it again.

After reading it for the fourth time, Gu Qingwu found it laughable. He folded the letter and was about to casually place it on the table.

My fingers paused for a moment.

That letter was eventually put into a personal storage bag.

After Su Chen finished writing the letter, he realized that there had been someone outside the tent the whole time.

The aura lingered outside the tent for almost half an hour, with footsteps echoing back and forth, sometimes near, sometimes far.

"Please come in and sit down, it's cold outside."

The curtain was lifted, and Lin Zhiya walked in.

She wore a light blue Taoist robe covered by a plain armor plate, the plate polished to a shine, which made her slender waist appear even thinner.

Lin Zhiya didn't sit down, but stood at the entrance of the tent.

"I heard that the true disciple is going back to the sect for seclusion."

"Um."

"Impact on the fusion period?"

"Um."

Lin Zhiya's fingers gripped her sleeve, then loosened them after a while.

"If a true disciple goes into seclusion for hundreds of years, this Holy Maiden doesn't have the time to wait."

Su Chen looked up and glanced at Lin Zhiya.

"Then the saintess shouldn't wait."

Lin Zhiya glared at Su Chen, turned and left, the tent curtain snapping open with a loud crack.

Lin Zhiya walked quickly along the road outside the camp.

They walked quite a distance, almost to the edge of the camp, before stopping.

The tent behind us still had lights on.

Lin Zhiya looked back for a while before continuing to walk forward.

The lotus on the remote peak withered and bloomed again, bloomed and withered again.

The day Su Chen returned to the sect, the restrictions around his cave were lifted.

There are three floors in total.

The innermost layer isolates the flow of energy, the middle layer seals divine sense, and the outermost layer is where Su Chen embedded the completed spatial array plate.

From the outside, the cave still looks like the same cave, but the world inside has been expanded several times over.

Even if outsiders manage to enter the first level, they can only go around in circles.

Lu Yao stood guard at the entrance of the cave, watching the stone door slowly close.

Now is the time to show my loyalty.

Lu Yao firmly believed that Su Chen was different from ordinary cultivators and might become a powerful ancestor in some faction in the future.

The spirit realm is vast; following Su Chen, we might truly witness the expansive immortal domain.

But before that, Su Chen's seclusion was of particular importance.

Never allow outsiders to disturb you.

It took Lu Yao an entire day to finally clean up the area around the cave.

He then set up several spirit arrays that he had acquired from the auction house in the Nightless City.

In this way, anyone who is not at the Integration Stage will have to go through a lot of trouble to enter this place.

As for those old monsters in the Fusion stage, there's no need to worry about them.

Even if they wanted to bother Su Chen, they couldn't do it openly; at most, they would just secretly call some juniors over.

After all, who would dare gamble their life against Li Changfeng...

There is no day or night in the cave.

That ever-burning lamp burned year after year...

Su Chen wasn't in a hurry; there were still many things to do...

I thought that a few months of seclusion would be enough.

From Foundation Establishment to Void Refinement, Su Chen's talent, combined with his several heaven-defying cultivation techniques, was remarkable.

Breaking through realms is something ordinary people can't compare to.

Moreover, there are several Daoist partners with special physiques who provide dual cultivation support.

But now, Su Chen realized why those cultivators would often go into seclusion for a hundred years.

Take the power of heavenly tribulation in the sea of ​​consciousness as an example.

The spatial laws within the meridians, the immaculate sword embryo nurtured in the dantian.

The Spring and Autumn Annals of Crossing Calamities, and the Taiyi Precious Record, which was cultivated all the way up from the lower realm.

Which one of them wasn't an incredible stroke of luck?

However, if I focus on breaking through, I might be able to reach the Fusion stage in twenty or thirty years.

However, these magical treasures and supernatural powers will not be able to withstand tempering.

Once you reach the Fusion stage, you'll become powerless.

After all, once you reach the Integration Stage, you won't be able to unleash the full power of those supernatural abilities.

Now we can only ponder it carefully.

Snowflakes fell heavily from the sky.

The new batch of disciples often cleaned in front of Su Chen's cave.

Another seven years have passed, but for cultivators, that is insignificant.

With Su Chen's current lifespan, seven years would pass in the blink of an eye.

The prescription clearly states which medicine is potent and which is mild.

Which two ingredients complement each other, and which two ingredients counteract each other?

The ingredients that clashed were not removed from the prescription; instead, a fire-inducing agent was used to combine the two medicinal effects.

The properties of medicine are such, and the laws governing them may well be different.

Su Chen put down the jade slip and chuckled.

This prescription was obtained from the old man of Tiandu back then, and it was a worthwhile bargain.

Outside the cave, a fierce battle was raging.

Every few years, Lu Yao would pass a jade slip into the restriction.

It records which battles the Shattered Star Cluster won and lost, which elders perished, and who in the Demon Spirit Sect overpowered whom.

The jade slips were piled up in a corner of the cave. Sometimes Su Chen would pick them up and look at a few, and sometimes he wouldn't touch them for a whole year.

There was a jade slip that Su Chen looked at twice.

The record above describes the battle of the Shattered Star Cluster, in which Qin Lie, the young master of the Crimson Flame Sect, was surrounded by demonic cultivators and nearly perished. He was rescued by his uncle, who was seriously injured, at the cost of his own life.

After reading it, Su Chen tossed the jade slip back into the corner.

In his twentieth year, Su Chen made his first attempt at breaking through the barrier.

The spiritual energy surged from his dantian and rushed towards his sea of ​​consciousness. Halfway there, it seemed to hit an invisible wall.

It was smashed to pieces.

The backlash came swiftly and fiercely. Su Chen spat out a mouthful of blood onto the stone ground in front of him. The Immaculate Sword Embryo in his dantian hummed, and a fine crack appeared on the sword's surface.

Su Chen wiped his mouth and didn't try again.

First, heal the crack on the sword's core.

I raised it for three years.

The crack healed, and Su Chen waited another two years for the surging spiritual energy within his body to completely subside.

When he was in the lower realm, he broke through to the Void Realm through the Nascent Soul stage, one breakthrough after another.

The more anxious you are, the less you can overcome the obstacles.

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