The Chase and the Counterchase: Who Was Prey, and Who Was Hunter?

Luo Chen did not know whether the four sects had gone mad.

But he knew that every vassal force under them, and even the wandering Foundation Establishment Cultivators in the area, had.

Each of the four sects had offered up a Core Formation Secret Technique, generous to a fault.

For countless cultivators trapped in Late-Stage Foundation Establishment with no path to Core Formation, it was like a gate to the heavens had opened!

Even those in Early Foundation Establishment or the Middle Stage, who seemed to have no urgent need, would want to prepare ahead.

Luo Chen studied the four Core Formation Secret Techniques. Beside each was the number of Merit Points required to redeem it.

The most expensive was the Upper Method Core Formation Secret Technique offered by the Fallen Cloud Sect—Locked Pearl Curtain.

Redeeming it required a full ten thousand Merit Points!

Next came the Lower Method Core Formation Secret Techniques offered by the other three sects, each requiring only two thousand Merit Points.

The Ice Fortress's Dragon Phoenix Tribulation was among them.

Luo Chen already possessed that technique. He had even prepared both Tier 3 Pills it required.

Since the other two were listed alongside it, they could hardly be much better.

Even so, for Foundation Establishment Cultivators who were not true disciples of a major sect, even a Lower Method Core Formation Secret Technique was exceptionally hard to obtain.

Now the four sects had thrown open the gates of generosity.

They had laid the means of redemption right before everyone's eyes. Who would not be tempted?

Even Luo Chen, who already possessed one secret technique, could not take his eyes off Locked Pearl Curtain.

"Chairman, we..."

Duan Feng's voice sounded beside him.

Luo Chen came back to himself and looked at Duan Feng. Longing filled the