Chapter 153: Rampaging Through the Field

As a shareholder, after reviewing the project, Xu Chen resumed his daily grind.

Before even returning to his immortal cave, Xu Chen spotted two figures waiting outside.

"You're back from the front lines."

Xu Chen was overjoyed to see Li Chengfu and Zong Changshou.

Inside the cave, Xu Chen handed a tea box to Li Chengfu.

"Pick whatever tea you like and brew it yourself."

The moment Li Chengfu opened the box, ten different kinds of tea lay before him, all on par with the Profound Yellow Spirit Tea.

"Junior Brother, isn't this a bit too extravagant?" Li Chengfu couldn't help saying.

"Since when do you stand on ceremony with me?"

Hearing this, Li Chengfu immediately took out a small jar of Nebula Tea from the box.

Once brewed, a shimmering river of stars hovered above the teacup.

"The ultimate sacred tea in the hearts of body-refining experts. Drinking a cup when hitting a bottleneck might just trigger a breakthrough," Zong Changshou said with a sigh as he gazed at the tea in his cup.

The three of them sipped the tea together.

The moment the tea went down, it felt as though their physical bodies were immersed in a sea of stars.

The power of the stars coursed through their entire bodies, cleansing their flesh.

After finishing a cup, the three felt incomparably relaxed, as if they had just enjoyed an ultimate full-body spa treatment with four extra sessions added on.

"Did you guys go to the battlefield?" Xu Chen asked curiously.

"Not really, but Little Fuzi and I took on a few reconnaissance missions over there. We completed them pretty well and earned some military merit rewards."

As soon as Zong Changshou finished speaking, Li Chengfu began recounting those missions.

Some were easy, others perilous, but beneath the surface, they reeked of layers of mystery.

"You mean on the front lines, the Holy Spirit Celestial Court deliberately sends lower-tier and even mid-tier races to their deaths?"

"And the souls of the alien races on the battlefield are all being absorbed by some unknown force."

"Why would those middle and lower-tier races willingly go to the battlefield to throw their lives away?" Xu Chen asked in confusion.

"If they don't die, their entire clan dies."

"The Holy Spirit Celestial Court maintains a rigid hierarchy among upper, middle, and lower races. Daring to disobey orders means the immediate extermination of one's entire clan," Zong Changshou explained.

"That's quite miserable, then~"

"Of course. Those middle and lower-tier races can't even rebel if they want to; they've long been targeted and locked down by the upper-tier races."

"Corpses form mountains, blood forms seas."

"It's a good thing our human race grew strong back then, otherwise we'd end up like that too."

Drinking tea, sharing wine, eating, and chatting, the three lingered until late into the night before dispersing.

"Let's just consider today a day of relaxation."

The wine they drank now was spiritual wine, and the intoxication after drinking required them to circulate their spiritual energy at full strength to dispel.

Xu Chen couldn't be bothered to dispel the drunken haze, so he simply threw himself onto the bed and fell fast asleep.

In the Sacred White Space, inside the Fire Bird Technique room.

This time, Xu Chen didn't use any tricks; he went head-on with the clone in a direct confrontation.

Hard strikes against hard strikes, a torrential flood of spells.

The clone only knew a single Fire Bird Technique, but just this one spell—even when suppressed by Xu Chen's water-type spells—failed to yield any decent results.

Xu Chen watched with his own eyes as a sparrow-sized fire bird, its sharp beak like a keen sword, directly pierced through the water sword he shot out.

Then, it gathered the surrounding fire birds, merging them into a giant fire bird whose explosive power directly melted Xu Chen into slag.

Re-condensing his conscious avatar, Xu Chen reviewed the battle once more.

"Well, I've learned another trick."

Xu Chen discovered that ever since he advanced to the Precious Body Realm, the rules restricting the clone had become much more flexible.

Almost every spell clone could play around with simple spells and turn them into dazzling arts.

Just from this simple bird technique, Xu Chen had already picked up several master-level tricks.

In the Human Realm, within the Divine Weapon Battlefield.

Xu Chen dragged the two deadweights, Li Chengfu and Zong Changshou, along to embark on a chicken-dinner style journey.

As soon as the two returned, the rules of the Divine Weapon Battlefield here underwent a change.

Below the Immortal Dao, the battlefield was divided into two zones: the Blood Qi Realm up to the Return to Void Realm formed one battlefield, while the Nourishing Spirit Realm up to the Ascending Immortal Realm formed the other.

Upon receiving the news, the two excitedly sought out Xu Chen.

Xu Chen also grew interested; after all, there were contribution points to be made, and no one ever complained about having too many of those.

Originally, Xu Chen wanted to choose a saber and a bow, but when making his selection, his eyes landed on the Fire Control Bead, prompting him on a whim to choose the Fire Control Bead and a bow.

"Junior Brother Xu, I don't have much combat power, just a bit of luck. I'll choose two bows so I can have two quivers." Li Chengfu quickly figured out an option to assist his powerhouse thigh.

"Then I'll choose a bow as well, plus a pair of gauntlets." Zong Changshou considered himself to have a sliver of combat strength.

"The two of you just need to pick a bow each. As for the rest, just choose whatever you like."

Just as the three made their choices, a hidden arrow came whistling in from afar.

Xu Chen grasped the Fire Control Bead and flicked a finger slightly, causing a tiny stream of fire to directly intercept and crash into the hidden arrow.

Seeing this, the two hurriedly finalized their choices and then dove into hiding with great tacit understanding.

Li Chengfu very consciously pulled out an arrow and handed it to Xu Chen.

The bow was drawn to a full moon, and the moment the arrow was loosed, a wisp of flame adhered to it.

"Boom!"

A cluster of flames erupted in the distance.

Xu Chen felt two surges of warm currents welling up within his body.

"Let's go, time to seize a divine weapon." Xu Chen looked toward that ray of light in the distance.

Along the way, whenever Xu Chen saw someone, he would loose an arrow. Occasionally, an expert might manage to block one arrow, but that only meant nine out of ten shots hit their mark.

Before even reaching the divine weapon's location, the quivers of all three were already starting to grow empty.

Meanwhile, Xu Chen had now reached a terrifying strength of four bulls.

Compared to the battlefields he had participated in before, the current experience felt to Xu Chen like dropping a grandmaster player into a low-tier lobby.

It was nothing short of unadulterated, wild slaughter.

Half an hour later, a divine weapon descended from the sky—a long spear.

Looking at the descending spear, Xu Chen felt it would barely do for making do.

The spear landed, and instantly hundreds of people rushed out from the surroundings to vie for that single divine weapon spear.

"Wait for me here!"

Crying out, Xu Chen strode forward gripping the Fire Control Bead. Three crescent blades condensed from flames hovered within two zhang of him, and anyone who dared approach was swiftly reduced to Xu Chen's experience points.

Seeing more and more people closing in on the divine weapon spear, Xu Chen gripped the Fire Control Bead and swept his arm fiercely.

Instantly, hundreds of fire birds shot into the crowd like arrows leaving a bowstring.

"Bang! Bang! Bang!"

Explosive sounds rang out as the fire birds pierced into bodies, bursting open one after another to transform into Xu Chen's experience.

The blood qi power within Xu Chen's body surged at a terrifying rate.

In the end, it actually grew to a terrifying strength of one dragon.

While seizing the divine weapon spear, Xu Chen even had the leisure to deliberately spare over thirty individuals to serve as experience fodder for nourishing the divine weapon.

Xu Chen grasped the spear and whipped his head around to glare at the fleeing crowd.

"Nobody moves!"

The spear moved like a dragon, sweeping and thrusting; in the face of such overwhelming disparity in strength, technique was hardly even needed.

The twenty people required by the divine weapon were slaughtered and filled up in an instant.

Li Chengfu and Zong Changshou in the distance were dumbfounded—this was even more invincible than the Ancient Desolate Battlefield.

"What on earth has Junior Brother been up to while we were away?"

"This is just too terrifying." Li Chengfu watched as Xu Chen walked toward them.

"Isn't this even better?" Zong Changshou said with a smile.

"Let's go. Looks like there's not much challenge here."

It was then that Xu Chen realized the divine weapon would mark a beam of spiritual light above them, visible from as far as ten miles away.

And from that moment on, no matter where the three walked, hidden arrows and sneak attacks followed them like shadows.

However, with Xu Chen's current strength of one dragon, circulating his protective vital force meant that arrows shot with the power of one bull couldn't even approach within a zhang of him.

"This is basically starting the match with a 5,000-gold lead; how are the opponents supposed to play?"

Drawing an arrow-feather, he casually loosed it toward the direction whence a hidden arrow had been fired.

A force of flame coiled around the arrow, turning every arrow Xu Chen shot into something resembling a rocket-propelled grenade.

Usually, a single arrow could blow up several people at once.

A man hiding in the shadows in the distance looked at the terrifying aura radiating from Xu Chen.

"People from the Myriad Saints Sect?"

On the other side, someone else was filled with doubt.

"I've never heard of the Human Emperor Great Dao Palace having such a ferocious disciple."

Just as the two were harboring their doubts, two fiery arrows flew toward their respective hiding spots.

"Hiding pretty deep, aren't they? If not for the vibration of the sound, I wouldn't have spotted them."

By the time the second divine artifact descended, Xu Chen was already on the verge of reaching a strength of two dragons.

"Aside from earning contribution points, this game isn't all that interesting."

Having become invincible, Xu Chen found it somewhat dull.

Right at that moment, a familiar figure appeared.

"Daoist Friend Gu." Recognizing the newcomer, the three were overjoyed.

"I didn't expect to run into you guys here." Gu Chen felt the terrifying aura emanating from Xu Chen's body.

With his opponent nearing two dragons of blood qi strength while he himself remained stuck at three bulls of blood qi strength, this was completely impossible to fight.

"Let's talk terms, shall we? No need to exterminate everyone."

To put it without exaggeration, Xu Chen could slaughter everyone in the entire Divine Weapon Battlefield right now.

"Then I want eight divine artifacts, and the remaining two are yours."

Since they were acquaintances from the Ancient Desolate Battlefield after all, this face still had to be given. Although there were contribution points involved, it was ultimately just a game.

"Many thanks, Daoist Friend Xu."

Subsequently, the first eight divine artifacts of the entire battlefield all fell into Xu Chen's possession.

Just as Xu Chen intended to distribute two of them to Li Chengfu and Zong Changshou, the two shook their heads and refused.

"Junior Brother, we originally just wanted to come along and experience it, not to freeload contribution points off you," Zong Changshou said.

"Besides, the two of us didn't play any role, so there's even less reason for us to take them," Li Chengfu added.

Seeing the resolute look in their eyes, Xu Chen took back the two divine weapons.

When the tenth divine weapon descended and toxic fog began to blanket the entire divine weapon world, Xu Chen chose to exit.

On the Divine Weapon World plaza, Xu Chen, Li Chengfu, and Zong Changshou materialized.

A piece of information flashed into Xu Chen's mind.

"Isn't one divine weapon worth ten contribution points? Why did it drop to five?" Xu Chen asked, puzzled.

"It's been changed. Now, only bringing back a divine weapon from the Immortal Dao-level Divine Weapon Battlefield yields ten contribution points," Zong Changshou explained.

"Didn't pay attention."

"Junior Brother Xu, to prevent farming contribution points in the Divine Weapon Battlefield..."

"You can only seize a maximum of three divine weapons per year. Barring any accidents, Junior Brother Xu probably won't be able to participate for the rest of the year," Zong Changshou said after quickly reviewing the rules concerning the Divine Weapon Battlefield.

"They patched it so hard they don't even give people a chance."

"I'm going back to cultivate. Are you two still playing?" Xu Chen looked at the pair.

"Little Fuzi and I are going to try another match. I found that some of the rules can be exploited."

Zong Changshou looked at the tens of thousands of people on the Divine Weapon Battlefield plaza, feeling rather eager to try.

"Then you guys go ahead, I'm heading back to cultivate."

With that, Xu Chen exited the Human Realm and commenced his daily training.

After a night of cultivation, just as Xu Chen felt the nine-colored spiritual lake in his Dantian break through to fifty zhang, a memory resembling a legacy emerged in his mind.

"Three-Turn Life Cicada, a divine ability evolved from the Three Cicada Metamorphosis Arts."

Chapter Four!

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