noffsinger Chapter 718 Finding a Foothold! The Most Urgent Task!
Chapter 718 Finding a Foothold! The Most Urgent Task!
Huoyuan Daoren said that he wanted to gather people to explore together. Although he had his own selfish reasons, it was indeed the only feasible way at the moment.
If the five Nascent Soul cultivators can set up a combined attack formation, and with Chen Fan, who has a special sensitivity to spatial rifts, leading the way, they can at least find a relatively safe route in the transition area between the outer perimeter and the depths.
However, that's a story for later.
He has a month left, and he can't let it go to waste.
Having made his decision, Chen Fan no longer hesitated and turned to leave the flying boat graveyard. He did not return the way he came, but instead walked westward along the edge of the gravel plain, searching for a suitable place to settle on the Yuanlingzi map.
After walking for about half an hour, he found an extremely secluded spot in the southwest corner of the plain. It was the ruins of a half-collapsed stone palace, with most of the palace body buried under rubble, leaving only an entrance less than three feet wide exposed.
The entrance was piled high with fragments of weathered bones, inconspicuous in the dark underground space. The interior of the hall was not large, only a few dozen feet square, but it was well hidden, and there were no spatial rifts or traces of cultivators within several miles.
Chen Fan crawled in through the entrance and carefully explored the hall with his divine sense. He saw a thick layer of dust on the ground, and a few inactive spirit stones and broken jade slips scattered in the corners.
He flicked his finger, and a gust of wind swept up all the dust, then moved a few pieces of gravel to the entrance as a cover.
After doing all this, he took out several sets of array flags from his storage bag.
These banners were made by Ouyang Yelian when he was in the Zhao State's Imperial Palace. They were not of very high quality, but they were complete in variety.
He first used eight earth-attribute array flags to set up a fifth-grade hidden spirit array around the stone hall. Once the array was complete, all the aura inside the hall was firmly locked inside, and no spiritual energy fluctuations could be sensed from the outside.
Then Chen Fan set up a fourth-grade killing formation at the entrance using four metal-attribute array flags.
This killing formation isn't particularly powerful, but it's enough to hold the enemy back for a moment, giving him time to react.
Finally, he inserted three water-attribute array flags into the ground and added another layer of isolation barrier inside the Hidden Spirit Array, completely isolating the stone hall from the outside world.
The three formations echoed each other and interlocked, transforming this unremarkable stone palace ruin into a hidden fortress. Unless a cultivator at the peak of the Nascent Soul stage forcibly broke the formations, or a half-step Void Refinement old monster like Master Xuan Gu deliberately searched for it, it would be difficult for others to discover the secrets of this place.
After doing all this, Chen Fan sat cross-legged in the center of the stone hall, and with a thought, he disappeared from the spot.
A world within a bowl.
Three hundred acres of spiritual fields surge with layers of green waves in the eternal spring sunshine.
The spirit rice has produced heavy ears of grain, each grain gleaming with a faint glow. The sweet potato vines have climbed over half the field, and the mounds of earth rising beneath them are large and round, a delightful sight.
The radish leaves are lush and green, and its rhizomes have already pushed halfway out of the soil, looking plump and white.
At the edge of the spirit field, there was a small lake, several dozen feet in circumference. The water was crystal clear, and a thin layer of spiritual mist floated on the surface. Several small fish, which had appeared out of nowhere, swam in the lake, occasionally leaping out of the water and splashing up tiny droplets.
The dragon beard fruit tree has grown much taller, its canopy spreading out to provide shade covering an area of about half an acre.
Black King was dozing under the tree, his snoring making the grass on the ground tremble.
Since breaking through to the Nascent Soul stage, this guy has become increasingly muscular, resembling a small black mountain from afar.
Lazy Horse Black Wind curled up next to it, sleeping even more soundly than it, with a trace of drool still hanging from the corner of its mouth.
Eunuch Wei was squatting on the edge of the field, teasing a frog that had appeared out of nowhere with a blade of grass in his hand. Hearing footsteps behind him, he said without turning around, "Oh, Eunuch Chen is back."
Chen Fan ignored his gossip and squatted down by the edge of the field to check on the growth of the sweet potatoes.
He saw that the sweet potato leaves were lush and green. He gently poked the soil with his finger and felt the firm, full texture underneath. He nodded slightly.
"These sweet potatoes will be ready to harvest in another six months," he said.
"Do you need to teach me this?" Eunuch Wei rolled his eyes, stood up with a blade of grass in his mouth, and said, "You've been having a good time being a hands-off manager. We've been farming the land for decades. These hands of mine used to serve tea and water in the palace, and now they're used for farming. It's all tears."
Knowing his temperament, Chen Fan didn't respond, but simply stood up and walked towards the quiet room.
Everything in the quiet room remained the same.
A futon, a low table, several pots of long-dried spiritual herbs, and the blurred array patterns on the wall. He sat cross-legged on the futon, not immediately entering meditation, but first carefully sorting through the gains of this exploration in his sea of consciousness.
Among the items in the Scattered Demon Master's storage bag, the dozen or so thousand-year-old top-grade magic crystals were the most valuable. The demonic energy within these crystals was so pure as to be almost tangible, and he planned to use a portion of them to temper the Black Soul Banner.
It should be noted that after the Black Soul Banner devoured a large number of remnant souls in the Land of Dead Souls, it had already broken through to the level of a late-stage Nascent Soul magic weapon.
The soul array on the banner has also repaired all the hidden damage, and the material of the banner itself can still be improved further.
If the banner were tempered with the pure demonic energy from a millennium-grade magic crystal, its grade might be raised even higher.
Secondly, among the demonic artifacts of the Scattered Demon Master, although Chen Fan could not use the three demonic blades at the late Nascent Soul stage, he could use them to trade with the Fire Source Daoist to exchange for some things he needed.
There's also that Heavenly Demon Banner, which is at the Great Perfection of the Nascent Soul stage, and it's a good thing. Unfortunately, with his current cultivation level, he can't fully control it. Forcing its use would only cause a backlash.
However, the demonic patterns in the Heavenly Demon Banner are quite mysterious. If some of its techniques could be incorporated into the Black Soul Banner, it might give the Black Soul Banner another way to counter demonic cultivators.
Amidst a flood of thoughts, Chen Fan recalled the jade slip.
The star map jade slip covers the area of several star regions, with the Qin Empire occupying only a small corner on the edge. Judging from the markings in the jade slip, the star region where the Qin Empire is located is called the "Xuantian Star Region," which contains three third-level cultivation kingdoms and dozens of second-level cultivation kingdoms. Tiannan Star is just the most inconspicuous one among them.
Further away, there were markings for fourth-level cultivation kingdoms, and even the blurry outlines of several fifth-level cultivation kingdoms.
The Great Yu Empire was among the five levels of cultivation kingdoms.
This information is of little use to Chen Fan at the moment.
Having been trapped in this place for so long, he didn't even know if he would have a chance to escape.
If he's stuck here forever, Chen Fan will have no choice but to accept his fate!
As for saving the sealed land or joining the Cultivation Alliance, he had to put those aside for the time being.
Chen Fan's immediate priority is to familiarize himself with the area before finding a way to survive!
Only in this way can he have a chance to get out alive.