Chapter 882: 882

Shi Cang brought Long Chen to see the Stone tribe’s leader . Long Chen was startled to see that he was a Foundation Forging expert .

In terms of appearance, he seemed to be the same age as Shi Cang, and only later did Long Chen learn that he was Shi Cang’s grandfather . He didn’t seem to find it too strange for Long Chen and Yue Xiaoqian to arrive here . He was very cordial .

He directly set up a new tent for Long Chen and Yue Xiaoqian, as well as setting up guards so that they could heal in peace . He even offered them their Stone tribe’s most precious medicinal pills .

But naturally, those medicinal pills were refused . They were too lacking, and Long Chen couldn’t even force himself to eat them . He simply said that he had his own pills before going into seclusion with Yue Xiaoqian .

This time, it took him a long time to recover . Long Chen only came out of seclusion after half a month . His spiritual yuan had finally begun to recover .

It was like starting a fire . The first requirement was a flame seed . When the spiritual yuan was completely exhausted, the flame seed was also extinguished . To recover, the flame seed had to be reignited in order to recover more spiritual yuan . Igniting the flame seed of his spiritual yuan took him half a month . The price for completely exhausting one’s spiritual yuan was a heavy one .

Yue Xiaoqian was still sitting . While in seclusion, she wasn’t wearing her veil . Her beautiful face that was both holy and bewitching was fully revealed to him . That was a kind of soul-stealing beauty that would make it so a person couldn’t extricate themselves from it .

After staring at her for a while, Long Chen suddenly realized he was breathing faster, and a strong desire had appeared . He had an urge to kiss her .

“Stay calm, stay calm, stay calm . Important things have to be said three times . The meat will sooner or later be cooked in the pot . It won’t run away, so don’t rush things . ” With supreme willpower, Long Chen turned away from Yue Xiaoqian to avoid losing control . It was too difficult to control himself around her .

“Let’s check the spoils . ” To distract himself, Long Chen looked inside his spiritual space . “Damn, am I seeing things? There’s this many?”

Long Chen almost jumped . His spiritual space was filled with various Treasure items . They were piled into a small mountain . There were probably no less than a thousand of them .

Furthermore, hundreds of spatial rings could be seen piled up beside the Treasure items .

“While you killed people, I’d be embarrassed to just do nothing, so I helped you gather some of this junk . It’ll cancel out the karma of absorbing their Spiritual Strength,” said the Eastern Wasteland Bell .

“Senior, how much have you recovered?” Long Chen was delighted . He wanted to know just how much the Eastern Wasteland Bell had recovered so he could decide when to use it .

“How much have I recovered? Hehe, you don’t need to play such a game with me . The injuries I’ve suffered are not something you can imagine . My body is incomplete, and this little Spiritual Strength is only able to nourish my soul . To recover, I need to find the other pieces of my body,” said the Eastern Wasteland Bell .

“Where are the other parts of your body? Do you need me to help you?” asked Long Chen courteously .

“Hehe, you want me to owe you another favor? Little fellow, give up on that thought . Your fate is different from others . Even if it’s to get rid of karma, each time I help you will still cause you to bear the Heavenly Daos’ karma . You can’t rely on anyone in this life . You can only rely on yourself . To put it in the manner of the secular world, if you lean on a mountain, the mountain will collapse; if you lean on water, the water will dry up . ”

“What the fuck? Why does it feel like I’m an unlucky star?” Long Chen was speechless .

“That’s not the case . All you need to know is that your cultivation path is different from everyone else’s . You’ll need to work for whatever you have,” said the Eastern Wasteland Bell . Suddenly, it shut its mouth . It must have felt that it had touched upon some taboo .

“Fine, I feel like power is more reliable than luck anyways . Ah, senior, are there any good Treasure items amongst this pile? Can you help me pick some?” asked Long Chen .

“They’re all trash . What is there to pick?” said the Eastern Wasteland Bell .

“No, please don’t look at them from your height . I need to know which one of these are top grade and which are trash,” said Long Chen .

“Treasure items are split into low, middle, high, and top grade . You already have two top grade Treasure items . One of them is that sword, Flying Rainbow . The other one is your blood-colored saber . As for that saber of yours, it should have been forged by an ancient craftsman . It’s much better than average, and its innate quality has also received an upgrade . It’s not bad,” said the Eastern Wasteland Bell .

Long Chen hastily took out Flying Rainbow and Blooddrinker from the primal chaos space . He asked, “Senior, can you tell me more about them?”

“Me? Are you treating me as some ordinary craftsman?” said the Eastern Wasteland Bell with irritation . But although it was dissatisfied, it still said, “Flying Rainbow’s quality is not bad . The forging technique that went into it was a bit lacking, but because an expert once used their own Sword Dao to create its spirit, it contains a trace of the Sword Dao’s will . However, you aren’t a sword cultivator, and you can’t receive its approval . So it’s fated that it can’t become your companion . You should find a better master for it . ”

Long Chen thought to himself that there would be no better master for it than Yue Zifeng . Originally, his plan had already been to give it to him .

“As for your blood-colored saber, its item-spirit has been injured . No wonder its power is low . Oh, it actually absorbed Phoenix Blood Black Gold and is still digesting its essence? Long Chen, you have Phoenix Blood Black Gold?” asked the Eastern Wasteland Bell .

“Yes, I do . If you need it, you can take it . But there are only some broken down pieces now,” said Long Chen .

Long Chen saw that the Phoenix Blood Black Gold ore he had obtained was already fractured . It was now broken down, and he assumed there wasn’t much use to it any longer .

“Let me see it,” said the Eastern Wasteland Bell a bit urgently .

Long Chen took out a piece of the Phoenix Blood Black Gold out of the primal chaos space . The Eastern Wasteland Bell scanned the ore and was shocked . “It actually contains the divine phoenix’s essence blood, and from a pure-blooded descendant of the divine phoenix at that . This is very helpful to me . ”

Hearing that the Eastern Wasteland Bell wanted it, Long Chen brought all the Phoenix Blood Black Gold out of his primal chaos space .

Seeing more and more ore entering the spiritual space, the Eastern Wasteland Bell couldn’t help but say, “Long Chen, this ore is very important to me . However…”

“However, your conditions don’t change . You can only help me once,” said Long Chen .

“Yes . If you feel like you’re on the losing side…”

“It’s fine . I’m not so stingy . Blooddrinker has already said that it doesn’t need this ore . It’s useless to me . If you didn’t want it, I’d have to just throw it away,” said Long Chen . He truly didn’t have a use for it, as he didn’t have the time or energy to go smelt the ore for its essence .

The Eastern Wasteland Bell was a bit embarrassed . After all, its status was extremely high . But it had its own difficulties and couldn’t help Long Chen too much .

After obtaining the Phoenix Blood Black Gold, the Eastern Wasteland Bell felt bad not helping Long Chen more . Hence, it helped Long Chen divide the Treasure items into grades . Long Chen was disappointed to see that many of the Treasures items he had obtained were just low grade .

He had obtained 1187 Treasure items in total when including the ones from the coffins and the ones from people he had killed . 1045 of them were only low grade . That caused his excitement to diminish .

But then when he thought about it, he laughed involuntarily . He had been too greedy . After all, those were Treasure items, not cabbages . When he thought about it, just how many Treasure items had been in the Xuantian Dao Sect’s treasury? A person should know when to be satisfied .

There were 107 middle grade Treasure items . Middle grade Treasure items had higher level item-spirits . They had a certain level of intelligence, and thus wouldn’t be as foolish as low grade Treasure items . They could help their masters release even greater power .

There were 35 high grade Treasure items . Two of them were the pagoda and the bracelet he had swindled out of Huang Junmo .

Long Chen’s guess was that Huang Junmo definitely hadn’t known the true power of these two Treasure items . He had just felt them to be not bad, but hadn’t known their true value . If it weren’t for the Eastern Wasteland Bell, Long Chen also wouldn’t have been able to distinguish their value .

High grade treasure items had even more intelligent item-spirits . But such Treasure items required their masters to use Spiritual Strength to nourish them and form a bond of trust . They would form contracts with their owners, with each side dependant on the other . With the two sides working together, they could release the greatest power .

The Eastern Wasteland Bell explained that Blooddrinker was originally a peak grade Treasure item . Its quality was extremely high, and the craftsmanship that went into it could not be criticized . Most importantly, having absorbed some of the Phoenix Blood Black Gold’s energy, its quality had greatly increased .

It was just that its item-spirit had once been injured, so Long Chen needed to nourish it with his own soul . It gave Long Chen an item-nourishing technique . That delighted Long Chen . The Eastern Wasteland Bell was so picky, so whatever it transmitted to him was definitely a priceless treasure . This nourishing technique was incredibly refined, and he had never heard of it before .

Furthermore, the Eastern Wasteland Bell hadn’t said that he couldn’t transmit this technique to others . He planned on transmitting this secret art to everyone by his side . That way, they could quickly control Treasure items as well .

Regretfully, Yue Xiaoqian was from the original devil race . Their weapons were different from his world’s . She couldn’t bring out these Treasure items’ power, which was why they were all in Long Chen’s hands .

Half a day later, Yue Xiaoqian also awoke . She had managed to activate her Heavenly Dao energy and begun to recover her spiritual yuan . However, she had completely exhausted her core energy, and it was impossible for her core energy to recover in this world . She had to return to the Skyscraping World for that .

Seeing Long Chen look at her with distress, she smiled and comforted him, saying that it was a good thing . Without the slightest bit of the original devil race’s energy, she could undergo tribulation in the Immemorial Path and receive its lightning baptism .

Countless people were waiting for the spiritual qi eruption right now . That would give them a perfect foundation for Sea Expansion and allow them to walk further on their cultivation path . Many people even thought that the secret to becoming a god or immortal lay in this heavenly tribulation .

Originally, Yue Xiaoqian had no intention of undergoing that tribulation . But because Long Chen had given her a Heavenly Dao Fruit, she could enjoy that special treatment . She was also preparing to tell her clansmen to find ways to exhaust their own core energy so that they could undergo their tribulations as well .

“Brother Long Chen, there’s someone looking for you,” a person called out from outside the tent .