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Chapter 123 Return to Dongzhizhou

Liang Ruyan opened her eyes. Consolidating her cultivation had taken three days. At this point, she was at the first level of the Golden Core stage, her aura steady. She felt she was much stronger than the average Golden Core cultivator. While she might struggle against a third-level Golden Core cultivator, she should be able to defeat a second-level one. This was all thanks to the Golden Sword Grass.

Seeing Shi Chen coming, he looked at her with a smile.

"Congratulations, captain, for successfully advancing to the Golden Core stage." Shi Chen said with a smile.

"Thank you! I feel that I can now defeat cultivators at the second level of the Golden Core Realm. The Golden Sword Grass has played a vital role in this. I feel that my golden spiritual roots are almost able to advance to the highest grade." Liang Ruyan was deeply moved.

"I'm glad that it helps you. How come you didn't experience any thunder tribulation when you advanced to the Golden Core stage?" Shi Chen asked doubtfully.

Liang Ruyan was slightly surprised and said, "I've never heard of anyone experiencing a thunder tribulation during a promotion. Normally, once a cultivation reaches perfection, one can break through and advance to a higher level. Without the use of breakthrough elixirs or spiritual objects, the chance of advancement is only 10% to 20%. With the cultivation accumulated and the preparation for advancement, the chance is at most 30%. A low-grade breakthrough elixir can increase the chance by 30%, and with one or two spiritual objects, it can reach 70% to 80%. Achieving such a chance is the dream of every cultivator. Most cultivators would choose to break through and advance to the next level if they have even a 50% chance."

Shi Chen couldn't help but feel indignant when he heard Liang Ruyan's answer. Other cultivators were promoted without any thunder tribulations, but he was struck by lightning every time he was promoted to a higher level. How much hatred did the Heavenly Dao of this world have for him?

"Well, then let's return to Dongzhizhou. Five or six years have passed, and I don't know if the war is over." Shi Chen changed the subject.

"We are at least 80,000 to 90,000 miles away from Dongzhizhou. It will take four to five months to return to Dongzhizhou. Now that I have been promoted to the Golden Core stage, I will control the flying boat, and you can just focus on studying the formation." Liang Ruyan took the initiative to assume the responsibility of hurrying on.

"That's fine. You just need to fly for three or four hours every day and go back slowly. There's no need to rush. Half a year or a year will be enough." Shi Chen said.

Shi Chen retracted the formation base, summoned the flying boat, and entered the pavilion of the flying boat. Liang Ruyan also boarded the flying boat. After Shi Chen entered the pavilion, she began to control the flying boat and headed towards Dongzhizhou.

The weather above the Demon Sea is unpredictable. Sometimes the sky is clear and there is not a breath of wind, and then in just a moment, dark clouds gather and torrential rain pours down.

In a violent storm, the tornado can even sweep the fish and shrimp in the sea of monsters high into the sky.

Liang Ruyan and Shi Chen once witnessed a ten-meter-long fish being swept into the sky by a storm. The fish and shrimp that had not yet matured found it extremely difficult to resist the power of nature.

The flying boat is equipped with restrictions and formations. Usually, in order to save spiritual consciousness and spiritual power, not all the formations and restrictions will be activated. At most, the wind-suppressing or wind-breaking restrictions will be activated. Only when encountering cultivators or monsters will all the formations and restrictions be activated.

With the formation restriction, no matter how violent the storm is, it will pose no threat to the flying boat.

Witnessing the power of nature up close also inspired Shi Chen, and his understanding of formations and spells was greatly deepened.

The numerous storms on the Demon Sea could threaten Qi Refining cultivators, even those at the first or second Foundation Establishment stages. Without the appropriate spells to resist this mighty force of nature, it would be truly difficult to cope with it.

Shi Chen and his companions traveled tens of thousands of miles without rushing, sometimes even staying on islands for a few days. Without the worry of pursuers, the two of them felt like they were on a circumnavigation of the islands.

Shi Chen spent most of his time in the flying boat pavilion studying the inheritance formation, and also delving into what he had gained on Shenguan Island, especially the bead on the top of the mountain.

The colorful bead radiated a rainbow of light. His divine sense detected nine layers of restrictions that required refinement. As for the water in the stone pool, he hadn't figured it out, only knowing that this small pool of water was anything but simple.

His cultivation has reached the first level of Golden Core, and his spiritual awareness is comparable to the first and second levels of Nascent Soul. He has not yet broken through the second level of the Soul Tempering Technique, and his spiritual awareness can only cross one major realm.

Refining the colored beads was quite difficult. Shi Chen estimated that refining the first restriction would take a year to complete. Once the refining was complete, the information about the beads would be known.

He would set aside an hour every day to refine the colored beads and erase the spiritual imprint of the previous owner.

While the origins of the colored beads were unknown, their unique properties were already apparent. Their most useful use was cultivating with them, as spiritual energy could be absorbed twice as quickly, and the resulting spiritual power was twice as pure as that obtained through self-cultivation.

Over the past three months, Shi Chen, with the help of the colored beads, had completed the transformation of his spiritual energy to the first level of the Golden Core. Looking within himself, he could see a shimmering golden light within his Golden Core, occasionally surrounded by purple lightning. The transformed spiritual energy had turned golden yellow and was twice as powerful as when he first advanced to the Golden Core stage.

Shi Chen's current cultivation level and pure spiritual power are not inferior to those of a mid-stage Golden Elixir, and ten times his dantian has been transformed into Golden Elixir. The size of the Golden Elixir is now comparable to that of a late-stage Golden Elixir.

If he encountered a mid-stage Jindan sea monster, Shi Chen firmly believed that he could defeat it even without using his spiritual sense secrets. However, he was afraid that he would not be able to stop it.

After five months of travel, they were nearing Dongzhizhou. With only a few thousand miles remaining, they could reach land in less than a month. Along the way, they encountered sea sirens, and they flew right past them. In all those months of travel, they had only encountered two sea sirens above the Jindan level.

One was a second-level Jindan cultivator. After entering its range of consciousness, the Jindan sea monster realized they were two Jindan cultivators and immediately fled. Shi Chen and the others did not pursue them, but let them go.

The other one was a sea monster in the middle stage of the Golden Core Realm. It mistakenly thought that the two were ordinary first-level Golden Core Realm cultivators. Relying on its higher level of cultivation, it stepped forward to fight with them.

Liang Ruyan faced the battle alone. The two fought back and forth, each unable to defeat the other for a moment. The mid-stage Jindan sea monster grew fearful, fearing that another observing human cultivator might suddenly join forces and overwhelm them. Seizing the opportunity, she fled the battlefield, escaping with her own agility.

Shi Chen hadn't made a move yet. His current spells were insufficient to suppress the sea monster, and his own magic weapons were all destroyed by the thunder. Unless he attacked suddenly, engaged in close combat, and used his spiritual consciousness secret technique to kill it.

Although his whereabouts were exposed, Shi Chen was not panicked. Unless a Nascent Soul sea monster came to hunt him, a sea monster within the Golden Core stage would not pose much threat to him.

However, he didn't know that there was a Nascent Soul Siren following them hundreds of miles behind, dispatching Siren troops, preparing to encircle them in the near-ground Siren Sea.

Liang Ruyan had experience chasing fugitives, and her flight direction varied from day to day. Sometimes she would fly for an hour or two before turning around, and sometimes she would go in circles and back off.

Shi Chen was in the flying boat pavilion when he saw four or five Jindan sea monsters appear within his spiritual sense range. Only then did he realize that he was being surrounded by sea monsters again.

With only one or two months left, the first layer of restrictions on the colored beads could be refined, but the way was blocked by the sea monster.

Surrounded by Jindan sea monsters on all sides, the situation was not optimistic. The two Jindan sea monsters they had encountered earlier had exposed their combat capabilities.

The Jindan sea monsters that have surrounded them now are all in the middle Jindan stage, and behind them are thousands of foundation-building and Qi-refining sea monsters.

Such a formation shows that they are determined to capture them.

Shi Chen was not alarmed. Liang Ruyan's consciousness had not yet noticed the situation and she continued to move forward.

Shi Chen called her and asked her to return to the flying boat to recover her spiritual power.