Chapter 69: The Whole Body is Treasure

  The entire python tendon, from the python's head to its tail, was over 10 zhang long. Gu Chen used his Qing Lei sword to slash it several times, but not a single mark was left on the tendon. Without using his innate true energy to unleash his sword aura, even top-grade artifacts were unable to cut through the tendon. If it were refined into an artifact, even unleashing his sword aura would be unable to sever it.

  A ten-zhang-long dragon tendon, only half of it is needed. Refine it into the Soul Locking Rope, and you can refine the Soul Locking Rope into a top-grade artifact. At that time, even if a cultivator in the later stage of the Pre-Heaven Realm is bound by the Soul Locking Rope, they will not be able to escape.

  Gu Chen cut the Jiao Jin in half, one half was refined into a Soul Locking Rope, which became a high-grade magical tool. The other half was mixed with other materials and could be used to refine another high-grade Soul Locking Rope.

  Put the python tendon into the Qiankun bracelet, Gu Chen's eyes fell on the body of the black-striped python. The black-striped python was not only precious for its python tendon, it could be said that its entire body was a treasure.

  Jet-black dragon scales, non-top-grade magic equipment can't break them, enough to compare with top mid-grade defensive magic equipment. If refined into a magic equipment and adding some materials, it's possible to refine a top-grade magic equipment. Dragon scales are the top material for refining armor.

  This mature black dragon is over ten zhang in length and as thick as a water bucket. If its scales are completely peeled off, enough can be extracted to forge several sets of armor.

  In addition to the dragon scales, there are four dragon claws. These four dragon claws are so hard that even a high-quality magic sword like Qinglie Sword can't hurt them. If they are refined into a magic tool, they will definitely greatly enhance the quality of the magic tool. By integrating some special materials, it is even possible to refine an extremely high-quality magic tool.

  Top-grade artifacts are the highest level of artifacts, requiring not only top-notch materials but also refining techniques. Refining them is much more difficult than refining high-grade artifacts. Many cultivators who have reached the Divine Sea realm and can refine magical treasures may still be unable to refine top-grade artifacts.

  Now Gu Chen can't refine the best spiritual equipment, but he still cut off the four dragon claws and put them in the Qian Kun bracelet. When there are other good materials later, it's not too late to take them out and refine them again.

  He extracted the dragon tendon, stripped off the dragon scales, and cut off the dragon claws. Gu Chen struck a sword at the black-lined python's abdomen, cutting open a large mouth, and with a left palm absorption, a pearl the size of a fist flew out.

  This is the demon pill of Hei Xian Jiao. Generally, demonic beasts need to enter the Divine Sea realm before they can form a demon pill, but there are also some special demonic beasts that can form a demon pill in the Innate realm, and Jiao is one of them.

  For example, the two rare and exotic beasts that Gu Chen had encountered before, the Soul Devouring Beast and the Blazing Tiger... Both of these beasts were extremely rare and lived in very special environments. The Soul Devouring Beast was born alongside spirit stone veins, while the Blazing Tiger grew up in the molten fire at the bottom of the earth. Their unique environments made their bodies different from those of ordinary beasts, and one of the differences was that they had already formed their beast cores ahead of time.

  Jiao is because it has the blood of a dragon, is the king of the congenital boundary demon beast, its strength is much stronger than that of ordinary demon beasts in the same realm, precisely due to the reason of the demon dan in its body.

  "Jiǎo Dān..." A white shadow about an inch long jumped out of Gǔ Chén's sleeve, Xiao Bai transformed into a foot-long size and landed on Gǔ Chén's shoulder, its two eyes staring...

  Gu Chen's hand held the demon pill.

  Gu Chen smiled and said: "Once you have the demon pill, you can't wait."

  "Hehe... Who let Xiaobai remember the method of refining the demon pill in his memory? This one demon pill can also make my cultivation increase a lot." Xiaobai said with a smile.

  "Take it away......" Gu Chen tossed the Jiao Dan onto his shoulder, Xiao Bai's mouth opened wide and swallowed the entire Jiao Dan in one gulp. He fell silent, closed his eyes, and began to refine it.

  Then, Gu Chen found the head of Heixian Jiao and dug out the straight horn on its head, putting it into the Qiankun Ring. Basically, all the good things on Heixian Jiao had been harvested.

  Gu Chen picked up some withered branches from the trees beside, and returned to the body of the black python. He started a fire, cut off large pieces of python meat, pierced them on wooden skewers, and began roasting them over the flames.

  This python meat, although not as good as dragon meat, is also a highly nourishing food. Compared to the roasted tiger's meat, it is even more nourishing. With such a large python carcass here, Gu Chen naturally made use of it on the spot, so as not to waste it.

  Just sprinted for an hour and had a fierce battle with Liu Chuan and Hei Xian Jiao, and the essence was also consumed a lot. It's just right to eat some jiao meat to replenish the essence.

  When Gu Chen roasted the Jiao meat to perfection, Xiao Bai opened his eyes. The Jiao Dan inside Xiao Bai's body didn't melt that quickly, but the aroma of the roasted meat made Xiao Bai's mouth water uncontrollably. Gu Chen was not only a master of Dan medicine, but also a master of roasting meat. No matter what kind of meat he roasted, it was extremely delicious.

  After sharing the barbecue with Xiao Bai, Gu Chen flew away on his sword for over ten miles, finding a flat area to sit down cross-legged and continue breaking through the fourth layer of the Pre-Heavenly Boundary.

  The Black-striped Snake is now dead, its territory no longer exists, and its corpse is a great tonic that may attract other monsters to practice beside the Black-striped Snake's corpse, which is clearly not a good place.

  Originally, Gu Chen was in a normal state and fought against Hei Xian Jiao for about half an hour. This innate barrier of the fourth layer should have been broken unintentionally, but Liu Chuan's appearance forced Gu Chen to use Tian Ge Quan Ti to strengthen his body. The subsequent battles were intense, but had little effect on breaking through the barrier.

  Although no breakthrough was made, the fierce battle with Hei Xian also shook the barrier a lot. The fourth layer of the barrier, which originally needed ten days or half a month to break through, now felt like it could be broken through in just three days at most.

  As usual, Gu Chen practiced until midnight before going to sleep, and nothing happened that night.

  On the second day, after a series of physical exercises and breathing techniques, Gu Chen took out the roasted crocodile meat that had been stored in the Qian Kun Ring from yesterday and ate it for one meal. Then, he set up the refining furnace and prepared to refine the half-length crocodile tendon into the Soul Locking Rope.

  Refining the captive soul into a top-grade artifact, for cultivators below the Seventh Layer of the Pre-Heaven Realm, its power is extremely great. Even late-stage Pre-Heaven Realm cultivators who are bound will have their Pre-Heaven True Qi sealed, let alone cultivators below the Seventh Layer of the Pre-Heaven Realm, who would find it difficult to resist.

  At this time, more than 200 miles southeast of Guchen, two escape lights flew over slowly, as if searching for something.

  These two people were Wan Jiaolao, Wan Youqiao and Wan Yougen. After searching separately for over a month, they met again because they were both heading east to the depths of Liuchuan to find Gu Chen. So, the two deliberately kept their distance from Liuchuan. Yesterday, the two went in different directions, but to no avail.

  Yesterday, both of them felt that the direction where Liu Chuan went had a huge spiritual energy fluctuation, as if there were cultivators in a fierce battle. After they met up, it was already late at night, and only when the sky brightened today did they head towards the direction of yesterday's spiritual energy fluctuation.

  After searching slowly for a while, Wan Yougen suddenly pointed to the right front and said: "There are serious signs of fighting on that mountain...".

  "Let's take a look back." said Wan Youqiao, and the two flew towards the small hill.

  "There was a corpse......" Approaching within a hundred feet, Wan Yougen slightly exclaimed and glanced at Wan Youqiao.

  The two exchanged a glance, both feeling unexpected. The clothes on the corpse were extremely similar to those of Liu Chuan, whom they had seen several times. But Liu Chuan was at the same boundary as the two of them, a sixth-layer cultivator in the Innate Realm. This place was only the territory of fifth-layer cultivators in the Innate Realm, how could he have fallen?

  It was only because of this that the two did not confirm which corpse was Liu Chuan until they fell to the mountain head, and Liu Chuan's appearance clearly appeared in front of them, and the two confirmed that it was indeed Liu Chuan's corpse.

  The cultivators of the Innate Six Layers actually suffered a loss here? Wan Youqiao and Wan Yougen looked around cautiously, their expressions were rather solemn, they made sure there was no danger before shifting their gaze back to Liu Chuan's corpse.

  The eyes are still shocking.

  Just a few days ago, the two had met with Liu Chuan, and unexpectedly, today they saw him again, but Liu Chuan was already dead.

  Although many pre-heavenly boundary cultivators have fallen in the Eastern Wastes, this is only true for those who are in the early stages of the pre-heavenly boundary. For a sixth-layer pre-heavenly boundary cultivator like him, as long as he doesn't venture too deep into the territory where late-stage pre-heavenly boundary demonic beasts reside, it's usually very difficult to fall. Even if he were surrounded and attacked by two or three sixth-layer pre-heavenly boundary demonic beasts and couldn't win, he could still escape...

  "There are nine blood holes on his body, which should have been made at the same time." Wan Youqiao said, looking at the wounds on Liu Chuan's body.

  Wan Yougen nodded and said, "Not bad, no one is bored enough to continue fighting after their opponent has died. Being able to instantly launch nine attacks in a row, Liuchuan can't even escape. It seems that the murderer who killed Liuchuan must have at least eighth-level pre-heavenly cultivation or above."

  The two of them exchanged a glance, and for both of them, the Eighth Layer of the Innate Realm was an absolutely terrifying existence.

  Wan Youqiao circled around and checked again, saying: "In addition to Liu Chuan, there is another person fighting here, a monster with one head."

  Wan Yougen swept his gaze over them, and exclaimed in surprise: "Two people, one demonic beast... Could it be that the one who killed Liu Chuan was actually a demonic beast? How could a demonic beast above the eighth layer of the Pre-Heaven Realm possibly appear here?"

  "There's only Liu Chuan's corpse here, two people, one demon beast. Logically speaking, it should be the two of them joining forces to kill the demon beast, but there shouldn't be such a powerful demon beast here, right? And there are no signs of another person or beast. Could it be that Liu Chuan was killed by another cultivator?" Wan Youqiao analyzed.

  "Impossible! A demon beast has appeared. As fellow human cultivators, are we going to kill each other?" Wan Yougen frowned and said.

  "Among masters, who is right?"

  Wan You looked around and pointed in one direction, saying: "Judging from the signs, that person and demon went in that direction. Let's go take a look."

  "If he is indeed a cultivator of the Innate Eight Layers...?" Wan Yougen asked doubtfully.

  Wan Youqiao chuckled and said, "What's there to fear? Announce the name of the Taiyang Wan family, who dares to take action against us? Besides, with the two of us joining forces, even a pre-heavenly boundary eighth layer cultivator wouldn't find it easy to hold us back."

  Wan Yougen nodded, and the two of them flew up and soared forward for over a thousand feet before they saw a massive pile of flesh appear on the ground ahead. The meat heap was over ten feet long and as thick as a water bucket. As they landed, both of their eyes were filled with astonishment.

  "Is this a python demon?" asked Wan Yougen.

  Wan You turned his head to the side and found a head in the grass, shouting: "It's actually an alligator."

  The two looked at each other and said in unison: "Was it the same cultivator who killed both Jiao and Liu Chuan?"

  Killed Liu Chuan, and killed a giant python, the two men in their hearts also rose up a chill, flew to the sky, vigilant looked around.

  "Look, there's a fire over there..." Suddenly, Wan Yougen pointed in a certain direction ten miles away, his expression hesitant.

  Wan Yougen pointed to the place where Gu Chen was located.