Chapter 271 (2/2)

Chu Yao and Tang Wan-er both remembered how terrifying Yin Luo was, and their smiles faded to be replaced with worry .

“That Yin Luo really is too terrifying . His body actually contains Xiantian essence blood . Although he can’t control it perfectly, as his cultivation base grows, he’ll gradually become accustomed to it .

“If he can use his body’s Xiantian essence blood to control natural energy, then his attacks really will be horrifying .

“Last battle, he should still have been unfamiliar with his Xiantian essence blood . He was afraid of dying from the backlash of the natural energy, and so he didn’t dare use too much strength .

“Yet even so, you all saw just how powerful that last attack of his was . ” Just recalling Yin Luo’s last attack filled Chu Yao with worry .

This time Yin Luo had ended up injured . He would probably go all-out cultivating so he could wash away that humiliation . It was extremely likely he would attempt to kill Long Chen in the Jiuli secret realm .

“Long Chen, with your current strength, it should be no problem for you to at least survive against Yin Luo if you manage to break through to Tendon Transformation . But if you can’t break through to Tendon Transformation before the opening of the Jiuli secret realm, that really will be dangerous,” said Tang Wan-er .

The reason Long Chen had been able to seize victory last time had been because of Chu Yao’s secret art . She had lent her ocean’s worth of spiritual qi to him to use .

If it hadn’t been for Chu Yao, let alone Yin Luo, just that Corrupt Elder would have killed Long Chen .

Long Chen also understood his weak points . One weak point was his cultivation realm was too low, while the other was that he didn’t have enough energy .

In regards to ordinary core disciples, his FengFu Star’s energy definitely wouldn’t be lacking compared to any of them .

But Long Chen’s FengFu Battle Armor and Split the Heavens were both too exhausting .

So right now Long Chen had two choices: one, he could do his best to attempt to make a cultivation base break through to Tendon Transformation .

Or his other option was to condense the second of the nine stars, the Alioth Star . Long Chen was sure that if he could just condense the Alioth Star, then with both stars’ superposition, he would be even stronger and be able to fight longer .

As for more Battle Skills, Long Chen didn’t really need them . That was because his spiritual qi wasn’t able to keep up with such a huge expenditure .

The crucial point of all this was that Long Chen was stuck in a bottleneck, and he had no idea how he could break through to reach Tendon Transformation .

The bottleneck he was in was extremely strange . He had already reached the peak of Blood Condensation, and yet he was unable to break through . That was extremely vexing for him .

But Long Chen knew that this kind of situation couldn’t be rushed . Rather than attempting to break through this impossible bottleneck, it would be better for him to focus on gathering all the Alioth Pill’s ingredients .

They had killed many Corrupt experts this time, and there would definitely be large rewards . Long Chen didn’t need anything else; all he needed were the Alioth Pill’s medicinal ingredients .

As long as he gathered even just a few sets of them, he could at least condense an embryonic Alioth Star .

Long Chen had a premonition that as long as he could condense the Alioth Star, his combat ability would definitely crazily surge .

Seeing that Long Chen looked a bit grave, Chu Yao didn’t want him to feel so much pressure so she held his hand and asked, “What did you do yesterday at the alchemist guild and the Huayun Pavilion?”

Yesterday, despite how busy he had been, he had taken the time to go to those two places . Chu Yao and Tang Wan-er had stayed with his parents, and so they didn’t know what he had done there .

Long Chen laughed mischievously, “First I went to the alchemist guild to officially greet the new chairman . After all, he has treated our Long family really well . It would have been too rude if I didn’t at least pay him a visit . Other than just greeting him, I also asked him a couple matters to do with the alchemist guild . As for the Huayun Pavilion, I just wanted to see if I could find anything I need, and, hehe, I actually did manage to buy it . ”

An ink-black stone appeared on Long Chen’s hand . It was just the size of an egg . Ancient lines covered it, and it gave off an extremely archaic aura .

The two women were slightly surprised . They took that stone from his hand and examined it from all directions, unable to see through its mysteries .

“It looks very ancient . These lines should also be natural, and contain an ancient aura . But other than that, I can’t find anything special about it,” said Chu Yao curiously .

Long Chen purposely acted mysterious . “It’s natural that you can’t see through what’s so special about it . After all, you’re all too young . Then let me tell you, the most special part about this stone is: it is very old!”

“And then…?” asked Tang Wan-er .

“Nothing . ”

“Are you playing us?” asked Tang Wan-er disdainfully .

Long Chen laughed mischievously again . And rubbed that stone with a pleased expression . But looking at Long Chen’s smile gave the two of them a chill . They both had a bad feeling .

“Long Chen, are you planning on doing something bad again?” Chu Yao understood Long Chen very well .

“Of course not!”

Long Chen shook his head like it was a rattle, righteously saying, “What kind of person do you think I, Long Chen, am? This is to be sent as a gift . ”

But neither Chu Yao or Tang Wan-er really believed him . That was because Long Chen’s smile just now really had been too mischievous .

Tang Wan-er suddenly had a thought . “I think I know who Long Chen is sending this gift to . ”