The original repairer

Chapter 111 Hiding and Waiting for News

Shi Chen and Liang Ruyan spent two days to find a family residence.

Looking at the devastated town, where a dozen or so Qi-refining sea monsters were still active, Shi Chen carefully sensed the spiritual energy. Unfortunately, the spiritual veins had been destroyed, and very little spiritual energy remained.

You can only practice here for one or two months at most.

Without disturbing the siren inside, Shi Chen changed direction and headed towards the eastern market with Liang Ruyan.

The further east they went, the rarer the sirens became. After only two hundred miles, the sirens had practically vanished. After three days of searching, they finally discovered a destroyed market town.

There was only rubble scattered across the ground, and the remaining walls had been reduced to ash. There were actually a few sirens still in this market town. One siren in the early stages of foundation building, along with four Qi-refining sirens, were still guarding the center of the market town.

Perhaps it is because the spiritual vein has not been destroyed and drained away that the foundation-building sea monster is holding on here.

Surrounding this dilapidated market town, Shi Chen meticulously arranged four formations, namely the second-level concealment formation, the second-level trapping formation, the second-level defense formation, and the second-level five-thunder attack formation.

After completing the arrangements, Shi Chen and the other two escaped and appeared in the center of the ruined town.

The five sea monsters were startled when they saw the two human cultivators appear. They couldn't understand why human cultivators would set foot in this place three or four thousand miles away from the immortal city. Before Shi Chen and the others could cast their spells, they immediately fled in all directions.

With a wave of the flag, the killing array was activated. The five sirens were trapped and unable to move before they could escape far.

Facing these trembling sea monsters, Shi Chen didn't even activate the Five Thunder Formation. He directly drove the magic sword and slashed at them fiercely.

For two years, Shi Chen hadn't been able to properly cultivate, and his cultivation had been stuck at the fifth level of Foundation Establishment. Now, he had finally found a place. Although it was only a first-grade spiritual vein, it was still much better than the wilderness.

He took Liang Ruyan and hid ten feet underground, opened up a space more than two feet wide, and set up a spirit gathering formation.

"How many cultivation pills do you still have?" Shi Chen asked as he watched Liang Ruyan embed a night pearl on the top.

"There are still two bottles of the pills you gave me before, enough for two months of practice." Liang Ruyan said after checking the pills in her hand.

Shi Chen handed over five bottles of Huiyuan Pills and a jade slip, saying, "You should cultivate until your foundation is complete. Take these bottles of Huiyuan Pills and practice the art of physiognomy. Don't be frugal with the pills. It would be best if you could master the art within a few months. That way, our safety will be more guaranteed when we're out and about. With my current level of cultivation, the chances of successfully refining the Jinyuan Pill are slim. I need to raise my cultivation to at least the sixth level of foundation building before I can begin refining the Jinyuan Pill."

"Zhang Hao's signature magic? Will he allow you to pass it on to others?" Liang Ruyan was full of doubts.

"You don't need to worry, he will agree, just practice." Shi Chen said firmly.

The time of cultivation passed by like a flash. Every ten or twenty days, Shi Chen would stop for a while to check on Liang Ruyan's progress in practicing magic, and they would also exchange their insights and experiences in the art of physiognomy, and then continue to practice.

Thanks to the blessing of the spirit gathering array, the spiritual energy of the first-grade spirit veins is all gathered within a radius of several dozen feet. The concentration of spiritual energy reaches the peak of the first grade, which is comparable to the spiritual energy of the second-grade spirit veins.

Shi Chen's cultivation went quite smoothly. Although his speed was not as fast as that of the Five Elements Spiritual Energy, he still managed to raise his cultivation to the sixth level of Foundation Establishment in the past six months.

During this time, Liang Ruyan received a lot of news. Team 3 members Tu Wu and Zhao Fang were missing, Zeng Tieniu had gone to the fairy city south of Duhai Xiancheng, and Fatty Yu had fled west of Duhai Xiancheng.

The siege of Duhai Xiancheng was extremely severe. The sirens were exerting all their might, with sirens below the Jindan stage taking turns attacking the Xiancheng's defensive formations daily. It was estimated that the Xiancheng's defensive formations would only hold out for another year before being breached.

The other four states of Dayu Continent were assembling a large army of human cultivators, and several great palace masters had already gathered. Once the human cultivator army was assembled, they would launch a counterattack to reclaim the lost territory.

The whereabouts of Peng Xuanbo, the military commander of Dongzhizhou, are unknown. At this time, the one leading the Dongzhizhou monk army is the deputy military commander Tan Kang, whose cultivation level is at the initial level of fusion, and he is trapped in Duhaixian City.

Many sirens also came to the vicinity of the ruins of the market town. Fortunately, the concealment formation worked well, and very few sirens broke into the ruins of the market town. Most of them just wandered around the periphery for a while and then left.

Time passed slowly, and a year passed in the blink of an eye. Liang Ruyan's physiognomy skills had been cultivated to a proficient level, and it was difficult for a spiritual sense of the same level to detect any flaws. Shi Chen decided to leave this place. After reaching the sixth level of foundation building, the spiritual energy here was extremely slow to improve cultivation. If he continued to cultivate here, it would take at least two years, if not three, to reach the seventh level.

Liang Ruyan agreed with Shi Chen's idea, but was hesitant about their next destination. Duhai Xiancheng was out of the question, and traveling westward through Duhai Xiancheng and Dagu Xiancheng was fraught with danger.

Going south and then west, the journey to the East Sea Immortal City, which is on the other side of the Duhai Immortal City, is seven or eight thousand miles long. If one takes a circuitous route, it might not reach the East Sea Immortal City even after half a year.

Liang Ruyan, who was still hesitant, was asked by Shi Chen about the latest news about the monk army. Based on this, Shi Chen gave the next destination - Donghai Fairy City.

After nearly a year of gathering, the human cultivator army has gathered 300,000 cultivators. The lords of the other four states each lead their own assembled cultivator armies.

Li Tianfeng, the Lord of Bingzhou Prefecture, led an army of more than 80,000 cultivators from Bingzhou and advanced towards Duhai Immortal City.

Cao Gou, the lord of Laizhou Prefecture, led an army of more than 50,000 monks and marched along the monk route of Bingzhou Prefecture.

Qiu Xiande, the lord of Yezhou, led an army of more than 70,000 monks and broke directly into Dongzhizhou from Yezhou, heading all the way to Duhaixian City. His destination was south of Duhaixian City.

Ma Lingyao, the lord of Xiqiongzhou, led an army of more than 100,000 monks through the southern part of Dongzhizhou to lift the siege of Chenyue Immortal City.

An army of more than 200,000 monks lifted the siege of Duhai Fairy City, and an army of more than 100,000 monks lifted the siege of Chenyue Fairy City.

Shi Chen and Liang Ruyan belonged to the previously defeated army. Normally, even if they arrived at the Immortal City, they would not be immediately transferred to the cultivator army, and could only engage in some logistical support work.

Shi Chen hopes to stay in the fairy city for a while, preferably one or two years.

By practicing in an immortal city with third or fourth grade spiritual veins, one can break through the sixth level of foundation building in about a year and raise his cultivation to the seventh level of foundation building.

Before leaving the ruins of the market town, Shi Chen retracted the formation and rearranged the sealing formation, sealing the first-grade spiritual vein under the market town, making it almost impossible for the spiritual energy to escape.

Then, he and Liang Ruyan began to move south along the coastline, keeping a distance of three or four hundred miles.

This place was already far from the encirclement of Duhaixian City, and the scattered sea sirens were only at the Qi Refining level. Whenever they encountered a scattered sea sirens, Shi Chen and Liang Ruyan would slay them one by one. Using the Physiognomy technique, they simulated the sea sirens and headed south.

The further we traveled, the fewer sea sirens we encountered. After four months of travel, we only encountered a group of seven Qi Refining Stage sea sirens.

Traveling over two thousand miles south, it was two to three thousand miles northeast of the East Sea Immortal City. By this point, it was possible to fly directly on a sword or take a flying boat to travel. The sea monsters had reached the edge of their range.

Therefore, Shi Chen and Liang Ruyan unanimously decided to take a flying boat to speed up their journey.