The original repairer

Chapter 128 Armistice

Time passed, and a month went by in a hurry. Shi Chen, who was in seclusion, had a slow growth in cultivation.

At this rate of cultivation, it would take about three years to reach the third level of the Golden Core. If the Five Elements Spiritual Energy were abundant, supplemented by Xuanhuang Liquid and elixirs, it would only take three months.

Unfortunately, the spiritual energy released by the fourth-grade spiritual vein in the Immortal City was not enough to support his rapid improvement in cultivation. Unless he could cultivate near the spiritual vein, but this was just wishful thinking.

It is no longer possible to go to Shenguan Island. Only when one's own attainments in formation have reached the pinnacle can one go there to practice with the help of the five elements' spiritual energy. One must also be wary of the major repairmen who placed the Xuanhuang Pearl there.

If you want to speed up your cultivation, you need to find another method or go to the Thousand Poison Pond.

The war is not over yet, and leaving Dayu Continent is extremely difficult.

If one could obtain a third-grade spiritual vein and use it for one's own cultivation, one's cultivation would surely increase rapidly.

You own the Xuanhuang World and can move your spiritual veins into it. You can practice in the small world with the help of the spiritual veins, and the effect is no less than that of the five elements of spiritual energy.

He practices for four hours every day, and uses the remaining time to study elixir recipes, formations, talismans and spells.

Shi Chen gave the corpses of the Jindan Siren and the Yuanying Siren to Liang Ruyan to exchange for military merits, in exchange for several spells and elixir recipes used for Jindan stage cultivation.

A month passed, and he had mastered the magic and the recipes. Once he had exchanged the elixir for it, he could start refining it.

Several months passed, with no military assignments or official appointments. Shi Chen sent a message to Liang Ruyan, and the response he received was surprising.

Liang Ruyan claimed that the demon race had sent envoys to negotiate with the human race. The details of the negotiations were known only to the envoys and several powerful individuals.

During the negotiations, both sides ceased fighting and retreated a thousand miles each, forming a two thousand miles ceasefire zone in the middle, giving both the human and demon races a chance to catch their breath.

The specific content of the negotiations has not been revealed, but everyone speculated that the demon tribe might be about to withdraw.

After exchanging the elixirs and various materials, Shi Chen hung up the sign indicating he was in seclusion again.

Time flies, and three months pass in a flash. Every day, I refine elixirs, practice, learn spells, and study formations.

I've already mastered several newly learned spells, and with another six months of practice, I'll achieve minor success. My cultivation hasn't progressed much, remaining at the second level of the Golden Core stage. The Golden Core stage requires a vast array of elixirs, but I haven't yet produced any of the highest quality or higher. I've mastered the recipes, and with a few more batches, the quality will improve.

The most significant improvement was in formations. He had inherited formations, but previously, due to limited time and low cultivation, he was unable to set up advanced formations. This was mainly due to the difficulty in controlling high-level materials, and he did not have enough spirit stones to purchase them.

In half a year, Shi Chen was promoted from a third-level formation master to a fifth-level formation master.

He even studied the sixth-order formation, but due to the limitation of his cultivation, he was unable to control it. He could only stop at the fifth-order formation master for the time being as he could not master the overly advanced formation.

According to Shi Chen's understanding, most of the well-known formation masters in the entire cultivation world are at the fifth level.

Sixth-level formation masters are rare.

As for a seventh-rank formation master, he had never heard of one. According to the sect's records, such a master had only existed ten thousand years ago. Currently, the one with the highest attainments in formation was Chen Zhi from the Tianyuan Sect on the Yuanling Continent.

It is said that he has reached the threshold of a seventh-level formation master, and is only one crucial step away.

What Shi Chen lacks at the moment is cultivation. As long as he can reach the middle stage of the Golden Core, he will be able to set up a sixth-grade formation and have complete control over it.

The improvement of cultivation is really slow. Without the support of the five elements' spiritual energy, the progress of cultivation is as slow as a snail.

It seemed that they had to find a spiritual vein of rank three or higher and move it into the Xuanhuang World. However, once spiritual veins of rank three or higher were discovered, they were all occupied or moved away by the sects and aristocratic families.

Spiritual veins are usually accompanied by spiritual mines. In the world of cultivation, if you want to find spiritual veins, you can only look for them from the mineral veins. For example, the veins where spiritual objects such as spiritual stone mines gather are spiritual veins that are generated by the creation of heaven and earth.

Every large spiritual mine will be accompanied by a spiritual vein. The higher the grade of the spiritual mine, the better the grade of the spiritual vein.

Large families possessed one or two spiritual veins of rank three or higher, while large sects possessed more than a dozen, all of which were of high quality. The immortal cities controlled by the sects each possessed spiritual veins of rank three or higher, providing spiritual energy.

If Shi Chen wanted to obtain a spirit vein of the third rank or higher, the easiest way was to stumble upon one in a wild spirit mine, a rare opportunity. Apart from that, he could only target the spirit veins of the Immortal City.

In the present-day Dongzhizhou of Dayu Continent, the nine immortal cities occupied by the sea monsters are all Dongzhizhou's most important defensive immortal cities. Shi Chen speculates that the spiritual veins of each immortal city are at least third-grade, and may even be fifth-grade. Especially for a prefecture city, it possesses at least one fifth-grade spiritual vein.

The coastal fairy city has been occupied by the Sirens. The East Sea Fairy City, as the command center of the Sirens in Dongzhizhou, is home to many powerful demons.

With Shi Chen's level of cultivation, his ability to identify objects would be easily detected by the sea monsters with the level of fusion cultivation.

The other eight immortal cities outside the provincial capital may not have combined sea monsters in charge, so you can give it a try, but you need to first investigate the situation clearly before taking action.

In Dongzhi Prefecture, Shi Chen had visited three immortal cities: Donghai, Duhai, and Dagu. Donghai's defenses were a fifth-grade mixed formation, while the other two cities employed fourth-grade mixed formations. While Donghai was difficult to sneak into, the other two cities might have fewer powerful demons, so they might be worth a try.

Shi Chen sent a message to Liang Ruyan, saying that he would be away for a while and would not return soon, and then left Linyang Fairy City.

Half a year later, Shi Chen returned to Linyang Immortal City.

Shi Chen had managed to sneak into Dagu Fairy City and Duhai Fairy City. There were many sea monsters in the city, including two or three sea monsters in the God Transformation Stage, more than a dozen sea monsters in the Nascent Soul Stage, and as many as forty or fifty sea monsters in the Golden Core Stage.

Although the formation used to suppress the spirit veins in the immortal city was easy to break, the ground would vibrate violently after the spirit veins were collected, making too much noise. If only two Nascent Soul Sea Monsters came, Shi Chen would be trapped in the city, unable to escape. It would be impossible.

In the end, he had no choice but to return to Linyang Fairy City and seek another strategy.

After three months of seclusion in Linyang Immortal City, Shi Chen realized that his cultivation hadn't improved much. He had previously estimated that he would reach the third level of the Golden Core in three years, but if he continued practicing at this rate, he might not even reach the third level in five years.

I still have to find a way to obtain a spiritual vein, a spiritual vein of the third grade or above.

Over the course of several months, Shi Chen took on the military task of refining elixirs used in the Golden Core Stage, and his accumulated military merits exceeded 30,000.

The elixirs used in the Golden Core Stage can earn a high level of military merit. Handing in all the low- and mid-grade elixirs you refine will earn you a large amount of military merit, which can then be exchanged for several top-grade magical weapons.

The best magic flying sword, the best protective clothing, and the best flying boat.

There were still several thousand military merits left, all of which were used to exchange for mid-grade treasured clothes and two flying swords, kept as backup in case the magic tools and magic treasures were all destroyed like on Shenguan Island, and he could only wear mortal clothes for several years.

The exchange price of each top-grade magic weapon is more than 10,000 military merits. I want to exchange for more, but I am unable to do so. I can only continue to take on military affairs to gain more military merits.

On this day, Liang Ruyan sent a message to ask Shi Chen to meet in person.