The Schemer
"What are you doing here?" By the Nine Yin River, Wei Tianchen had built a Magic Array using the bones of an unknown giant beast as a temporary shelter.
I'm worried you might get into danger.
"You're lying through your teeth." Wei Tianchen chuckled. "If this were how you could Heaven and Earth Attainment, you'd probably be God King Realm."
"Old Imperial Physician, don't be so harsh. Everyone says doctors are benevolent, how can you think of me like that?" Zhao Xing's gaze fell on Wei Tianchen's leg bone, where there was a noticeable black patch. "See, you're injured now, my worries were not unfounded."
Wei Tianchen removed the leg bone, burned it, and then replaced it with another bone from his Bone Ring.
Judging from his practiced manner, this was definitely not his first time doing it.
Zhao Xing looked at the completely burned poisonous bones and pondered for a moment, "Recently, you've been exploring the Nine Yin River. Have you been having a lot of bad luck? The poisonous gas can't be used and instead becomes a burden, harming you."
"How did you know?" Wei Tianchen, quite surprised.
During his campaigns, he continuously collected "Bone Poison" to temper himself, and using medicine to defend against poison was Wei Tianchen's main means of attack.
The current bone body is no longer the Sun-Shattering Bone Body, but a special type of [Heavenly Poison Bone Body].
This is a bone cultivation method created by Wei Tianchen in the Divine Realm.
However, he has been very unlucky lately. He has been exploring the Nine Yin River for several years and has made some gains, but he always inexplicably "Going Berserk".
Wei Tianchen suspected that there was a problem with the method he created, but now Zhao Xing's sudden remark made him doubt it again.
"The problem isn't with your self-created cultivation technique," Zhao Xing pondered. "The problem is with your luck."
"You mean luck?" Wei Tianchen was clearly skeptical. "How could that be?"
"Think carefully," Zhao Xing said. "Did your poisoning only occur after you passed through a certain place along the Nine Yin River?"
Wei Tianchen stood up abruptly, clearly realizing what Zhao Xing had said.
The flames burned brightly, reflecting a scene.
The river flows swiftly, meandering and turning, and the islands appear and disappear in the ink-stained water.
The water flows without any pattern, neither flowing north-south nor east-west; it is very disorderly, like black dragons swimming aimlessly between the islands.
"You're right," Wei Tianchen said. "Several times I've Going Berserk in seven years is clearly not right. Every time I finish exploring this area of the Nine Yin River, my Bone Poison becomes uncontrollable."
"True Self thought it was due to an imperfect cultivation technique and a very minor issue, but why could it be related to luck?"
Zhao Xing raised his hand, and the blue aura dissipated, revealing purple finger bones.
"Old Imperial Physician, you should know the Aura Observation Technique, surely you can see the peculiarity of this bone?"
Wei Tianchen remained unmoved. "I don't know the Aura Observation Technique."
"How could you not know? You gave the Great Zhou a treasure of destiny."
Wei Tianchen sighed and said, "Although I have a treasure of destiny to give to the Great Zhou, I will not do it myself, because I once swore to the statue of Li Emperor that I would not touch the path of becoming a god through destiny, nor would I cultivate any methods of destiny."
"Why?" It was Zhao Xing's turn to voice his opinion.
"Do you know where the Five Emperors Coins came from?" Wei Tianchen asked.
"The Five Emperors minted coins, imbuing them with their own fortune, allowing them to circulate and protect their subjects," Zhao Xing said.
"That was indeed the case at first," Wei Tianchen said. "The Five Luck Coin Casting Method was considered a blessing to all people at the time, but it changed later. It led to continuous chaos and turmoil."
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Zhao Xing listened quietly.
"The principle of the Five Luck Coin Casting Method is to weaken the strong and support the weak. The Heavenly Luck Five Coin Department Method first integrates the material of ancient coins into the body of a strong person to refine them, so that the strong person's luck can be used to taint the ancient coins. After many years, they are taken out and put into circulation."
"The Five Emperors Coins are also known as ' God-Forged Coin.'"
Zhao Xing was startled: "Wouldn't that mean—"
Wei Tianchen nodded. "No method is inherently good or evil; it is good when used for good and evil when used for evil."
"With good fortune and abundant blessings, cultivation will be twice as effective and smooth sailing—this is a Shortcut to becoming stronger."
"Everyone wants to take Shortcut, but the Heavenly Luck Five Coin Department leaked the secret method, and from then on, the Inverted Heavenly Dipper, and the purpose of this secret method changed."
"Officials of all ranks extracted the power of the Heavenly Fortune Coins and made it their own. Later, the Heavenly Fortune Coins became less and less. Some people complained that the process was too slow, so they simply massacred the city and killed the people to extract the fortune and refine the fortune coins."
"Some even became gods because of this luck. Since luck itself is more likely to bring good fortune to the stronger one is, even if one commits acts that Heavenly Wrath and Human Resentment, the stronger one's luck, the less likely one is to be investigated, and the more likely one is to rise to a high position. Even the Divine Emperor was deceived."
"From then on, this technique became the root of all chaos. When the chaos was rectified, a large number of powerful individuals fled to the Demon Clan Territory or the Desolate Territory regions."
"The nation was severely weakened as a result, and many generations thereafter suffered a power gap due to the lack of innate fortune."
Wei Tianchen said with some emotion, "It can be said that Five Emperors Era, except for the period of Xu Zu when control was strict, the other four emperors all experienced great turmoil because of this method."
Zhao Xing was stunned. He hadn't expected that there were such secrets in the Five Emperors Era. It seemed that only an old guy like Wei Tianchen knew about some of the dark history.
"Later on, the method of destiny was banned and completely abandoned. It was even blocked from Luck Apotheosis Path because of the wrath of the Divine Emperor."
"Is it an obstacle to the path to godhood?"
Zhao Xing suddenly realized something, and the flame flickered.
"Since Zuo Qiyu, Jin Yan, and I practiced the Straw Man Art together, does that mean our path to enlightenment was blocked?"
Wei Tianchen looked at him. "You saw my notes in the library. At the time, I was just guessing that Gu Tianyang probably thought about using his luck to avoid calamity when he created this method."
"As for the specifics, Gu Tianyang is dead after all, and I have never practiced this method, so I don't know much about it."
Zhao Xing fell into deep thought.
Gu Tianyang is Gu Luo River's older brother, and they are both descendants of the Heavenly God "Gu Xiao".
Gu Xiao had heard of his name when he first entered the Yuanhai Ancient Kingdom, but he had forgotten it later.
In addition, Gu Xiao appeared in Wang Tianzhi's records!
He said that a "Profound Yellow Divine Cult" has appeared in the Profound Yellow World. It is suspected to be a disguised version of the Profound Heaven Sect (a sectarian version).
At the time, Wang Tianzhi was quite puzzled, because their Time Faction, also known as the Profound Heaven Sect (Mystic Heaven Academy), revered their patriarch as...
It has always been Yun Tian Dao.
"You know the Aura Observation Technique, what clues did you notice?" Wei Tianchen's words interrupted Zhao Xing's thoughts.
"I suspect this is the bone of a God of Luck." Zhao Xing moved his index finger.
"No wonder—" Wei Tianchen suddenly realized.
The Path of Luck follows a law: when people are in the same event, those with high fortune will be lucky, while those with low fortune will be unlucky.
Of course, a powerful person like Wei Tianchen also has a high level of innate luck, which ensures that there is a lower limit to his misfortune.
That explains why he Going Berserk three times in seven years, but the severity was always minor. It was just a burst of poison in the bone marrow of a certain bone, which did not affect the whole body. He only needed to discard it and rebuild a new one.
Zhao Xing began by asking if Wei Tianchen had gone to a certain place before Going Berserk. It turned out that Wei Tianchen had mistakenly entered the domain of the Luck Free God.
"That Luck God may be dead, or perhaps because you left quickly, his influence did not spread."
"After seeing this bone, I became worried about your safety and came to find you immediately."
Wei Tianchen clapped his hands. "You managed to smooth things over, Tianning Zi, you really are a talent."
Zhao Xing was speechless; the old man's distrust of him was utterly extreme.
Did the Yuanhai Ancient Kingdom leave them with psychological trauma after being tricked once?
Wei Tianchen pointed, and the Enlightenment Golden Hoop detached from Zhao Xing's head, shrank, and turned into a ring, which he then wore on his hand.
"Huh? What does this mean—" Zhao Xing scratched his head in confusion.
Was Wei Dachen truly moved by what he saw?
"The space in the Nine Yin River is chaotic, and I might not be able to take care of you. If you and I are in a very distant space, the Enlightenment Golden Hoop will self-destruct, which would be detrimental to exploration," Wei Tianchen explained.
The reason he didn't self-destruct before was because Fugu City had a fire seed clone of Wei Tianchen, which was used as an anchor point for the Enlightenment Golden Hoop.
Zhao Xing believes that Wei Tianchen now trusts him to some extent.
Of course, this trust also stemmed from the fact that Zhao Xing could not escape this strange White Bone Divine Domain alone and had to rely on him and the Bamboo Sword.
Where can he run to? Emperor Lord Level beings are everywhere, and over a dozen Demigod at the King level have been killed in recent years. Zhao Xing runs around aimlessly, he could easily get killed.
On the Nine Yin River, Yin Wind blew in gusts, making one's bones tremble.
Even the Sunlight Dao Bone cannot shine here; only certain special types of bone structures can resist it.
Wei Tianchen held a bone shield, which was light blue in color. It was made from the bones of a special skeletal being and could resist the Yin Wind blowing on the Nine Yin River.
"Can you pinpoint the exact location?" Wei Tianchen led Zhao Xing through the archipelago in his memory for two and a half months.
"Not found." Zhao Xing shook his head.
"The locations I've been searching for over the years are just a few places, so they should be easy to find. If they're not here, then there are only two other places left."
"Let's go take another look," Zhao Xing nodded.
He used Aura Observation Technique observation and panel observation simultaneously.
The Aura Observation Technique didn't reveal anything special, but Wei Tianchen's luck level did fluctuate somewhat.
Wei Tianchen's luck level is Derivation-24, but he has a treasure that adds five levels to it, so his total luck level is Derivation-29!
We're already very close to the threshold of level 30!
To go even further, he would need to reach the level of fortune of Bowei Gu Luo River.
Reaching this level, Wei Tianchen's fortune is like a vast ocean, and ordinary small waves can hardly shake it.
Only when pursued by a super power or in an extremely dangerous situation will his fortune fluctuate.
Otherwise, you'll always be in a state of great fortune and it's hard to encounter anything bad.
Zhao Xing kept observing Wei Tianchen's luck level. If there was a change, it would prove that they had entered the target area.
After flying for another two and a half months, Wei Tianchen's luck level suddenly fluctuated.
It dropped from Derivation-29 to Derivation-20!
It dropped Ninth Order in one go!
One of the laws of fortune: When the inherent fortune fluctuates greatly, it will produce obvious good or bad fortune.
"We've arrived!" Zhao Xing immediately reminded him.
"There are five islands and reefs below. Which one is it?"
"Take two steps."
Wei Tianchen suspected that this kid was taking revenge on him.
He took Zhao Xing on a tour, shuttling back and forth between the five islands and reefs.
Zhao Xing planned to make a judgment based on the fluctuations in the aura on the panel.
However, he discovered that all five islands and reefs were the same, meaning that this range would constantly decrease by Ninth Order of fortune.
As for himself, his luck did not decrease, seemingly because the purple index finger bone on his hand originated from the same source.
"It's the same for all five islands and reefs; the entire area has been affected."
"Let's go down and take a look." Wei Tianchen made a quick decision and landed with Zhao Xing.
Just as Zhao Xing and Wei Tianchen landed on one of the five islands to explore, a black beast-bone ship was flying towards them from another direction.
Inside the main hall on the ship, a group of pink skeletons dressed in ceremonial robes were waving flags, performing songs and dances.
Above is a throne, finger bones tap gently to the music, and the True Spirit Fire Seed scatter and leap, seemingly dancing along as well.
The king's upper body is still in a skeletal state, but flesh and blood have grown on the soles and ankles of his lower body!
The flesh and blood are fluid, seemingly dancing along, as the music reaches its climax.
Two clumps of flesh suddenly detached from the soles of the feet and climbed upwards along the ankles.
Fascia is like a battle line, and flesh and blood are like soldiers. They use the leg bone as the battlefield and launch an attack on the high point!
However, when the flesh and blood climbed up to the knees -
A loud "thump!"
A loud explosion occurred.
The king's finger-bone tapping became increasingly rapid. Suddenly, all the red-pink skeletons in the hall released their fire seeds, which merged into the flesh and blood to rapidly repair the festering flesh, while quickly organizing a second wave of attack.
However, just as the flesh and blood "soldier" reached his knees, it seemed as if he had been hit hard.
The triumphant summer song abruptly ended, and the army suffered a crushing defeat!
The king watched helplessly as the flesh retreated back to his feet. He tried his best to attack again, but could only defend his ankles.
"Sigh—" A soft sigh escaped her lips. "Fu Mengzhen, Fu Mengzhen, when will you find peace?"
The White Bone King stood before a bronze mirror, surrounded by some high-end jewelry and bone artifacts. She stroked her facial bones, sighing with self-pity.
"Once a peerless beauty in the mortal realm, admired and adored by countless people, now she has fallen to this wretched state."
In the Way of Dance and Music, aesthetics are very important, but every time Fu Mengzhen sees the appearance of her own skeleton, she feels disgusted, and even her Dao heart is affected.
"Master, we have arrived at the Nine Yin River." Just then, a Sun-shaped skeleton carrying a long spear appeared outside the door. "Understood. Prepare my ceremonial guards," Fu Mengzhen said calmly.
"Yes."
After her subordinates left, Fu Mengzhen's gaze fell on a piece of fur in front of the mirror.
The red fluff curled gently, twisting into individual characters.
Fire Source Script!
This is a unique mark of the Fire Source Temple.
"It took a lot of effort to exchange for a secret location in the Nine Yin River from the Divine Temple. I don't know what's on Five Fortunes Island. Just the location alone is worth 50,000 Fire Seed Source."
Fu Mengzhen put on her own decorations one by one, and as the bone ship slowly came to a stop, she descended onto Five Fortunes Island surrounded by a group of ornately dressed skeletons.
"Huh? Someone actually arrived at Five Fortunes Island before me?!" Fu Mengzhen's beautiful mood was instantly ruined.
"That bastard, Venerable Nanying, did he sell the information twice?!"
"Zhao Xing, someone's coming." Below were gaunt, skeletal mountains. Wei Tianchen, who was exploring a cave and carrying a swaying star lantern, suddenly stopped.
"Who?" Zhao Xing jumped and retreated behind Wei Tianchen.
Wei Tianchen took out a double-layered mirror shaped like a Bagua (Eight Trigrams). Eight wisps of gray mist swirled around it, eventually revealing the beast-bone ship in the sky.
This is a divine artifact for Fate Master!
Zhao Xing couldn't help but marvel at Wei Tianchen's wealth. How many divine artifacts had he seen before? Did the old man end up in the Divine Emperor's treasury back then?
It is only natural for the Imperial Physician enter and leave the palace. Could it be that Wei Tianchen inherited a treasure of a divine dynasty, just as he did when he inherited the Great Dream Academy?
"Hmm? She's regained her flesh and blood, and she even has magic robes?" Wei Tianchen's eyes lit up immediately.
During the more than thirty years that they occupied Fugu City, almost all the spoils of war that Wei Tianchen and his men obtained were made of bone.
Bone spears, bone swords, bone helmets.
It's either a magic artifact made from Bone Spirit Stone or Soul Crystal.
The making of ceremonial robes usually involves extracting sap from plants or using animal hides.
It signifies the emergence of flesh and blood life, naturally growing plants!
In other words, there are still things from the living world in this godforsaken place!
However, Wei Tianchen has never seen a high-quality non-skeletal life form in all these years.
The location of the legendary Fire Source Temple is completely unknown.
The Southern Continent is shrouded in mist, with poisonous swamps and dark clouds Yin Wind everywhere. His exploration of the Nine Yin River may well be a desire to explore a wider world. Having a river as a reference point is always better than wandering blindly.
When Zhao Xing saw Fu Mengzhen in the mirror, he instantly understood Wei Tianchen's spirit.
He stamped his foot. "Leave the lowly soldiers around her to me."
Wei Tianchen watched as the Earth Palace Art rapidly took shape beneath Zhao Xing's feet, yet remained extremely subtle. "Tianning Zi, how come you're so skilled? You must have done this quite a few times before."
He merely posed a question, and Zhao Xing immediately took action, as if it were an instinctive reaction.
"Old Imperial Physician, we're all old acquaintances, so stop pretending." Zhao Xing buried himself in his work.
Wei Tianchen chuckled to himself.
His bones quickly turned black, and streams of poison were rapidly extracted, spreading throughout the island along Zhao Xing's Earth Palace passage.
The Self-Oriented School's Sima Nong is adept at ambushing and setting up ambushes. By deploying troops in the shape of forests and disguising them as natural environments, he is highly deceptive.
However, the Earthly Advantage Faction is not to be outdone; the Earth Palace Art, the Earth Treasury Art, and the Mystic Earth Art are all excellent spells for the Yin people.
Especially in a place like the White Bone Divine Domain, which merges the Southern Continent and the Yin Realm, and Earth Vein are also of the Yin attribute, after Zhao Xing became familiar with the area over the past thirty-odd years, all his Earthly Advantage Faction magic adapted to the local environment, becoming more Yin-like.
After being mastered in the Mustard Seed Law Domain of the Extreme Land, most of the Earthly Advantage Faction magic techniques transformed into Reincarnation-level Secret Technique.
The spells of the Ancient Hill of Antiquity are complete; the Demon God Earth Palace, Yaoguang Earth Treasury, and Earth Core Rifting Soil are all at the level of the Reincarnation Secret Technique.
Although Zhao Xing has lost the power of the Extreme Land, it doesn't mean he can't use the Earthly Advantage Method. With the amplification of Qinghua 'Azure Flower Mana, he can still use it. This secret technique has already covered the levels of the Extreme Land. With his current realm, whether he has the power of the third level of the Extreme Land or not makes no difference, unless he cultivates to the fourth level. The Mustard Seed Law Domain has transformed into the Mustard Seed Law Realm.
The twelve Earth Palace Art of the Ancient Hill of Antiquity correspond to twelve demon gods, which Zhao Xing explored in the Bai Han Realm.
There are four clones in the outside world: one is in charge of the daily construction of the Annihilating Star Ancient Road, one is looking for the Time Faction's cultivation method, one has returned to the Primordial Beginning Realm, and one has gone to the Ancient Hill of Antiquity.
This avatar went to the Ancient Hill of Antiquity to learn the Life Earth Palace Art from Venerable Meishan, the contemporary head of the Ancient Hill of Antiquity.
When I first entered the Second Stage of the Bai Han Realm, Extreme Star Island, I had already learned the Life Earth Palace, and then I turned to learning other Earthly Advantage Spells.
When Zhao Xing emerged from the Bai Han Realm, his original body and his divided soul completed a mutual exchange.
What Zhao Xing knows now is not just one type of land management method.
"The Demon God Earth Palace that Emperor Hongshan taught me back then was only the foundation of the Twelve Demon God Earth Palace, namely the Great Divine Ability Secret Technique."
"The full name of the Life Earth Palace should be called the Life Demon God Earth Palace Art." Zhao Xing said as he made the arrangements, recalling the scenes he learned from the Soul Division and Venerable Meishan.
The Life Demon God Earth Palace Art was developed based on the Ancient God "Agalu," Innate God.
However, this method naturally cannot be called the Agalu Earth Palace Art or the Life Demon God Earth Palace Art, otherwise it would make Ancient Hill of Antiquity look like a cult, so it is simply called the Life Earth Palace Art.
Zhao Xing is setting up now is the Silent Extinction Earth Palace Art.
The source of the creation of the law comes from the "Silent Death" demon god among the twelve demon gods.
It was born in the "Annihilation Chapter Period" of a top-tier world. Logically speaking, the Great Dao is already extremely weak during the Annihilation Chapter Period.
Moreover, with all material life in a state of destruction, it is very difficult for "born god-like" life forms to emerge.
However, the appearance of the Silent Demon God was different; the great world he inhabited happened to collide with a Source Origin World.
The Nirvana Realm, nourished by the devastation, gave birth to a naturally Innate God amidst the destruction.
The Silent Extinction Demon God wields the Great Dao of Destruction and possesses extremely tenacious vitality. To this day, the Ancient Hill of Antiquity can only trap it, but cannot kill it.
"Gurgle~"
The Earth Vein changed, and the ground rose slightly, as if a small earthquake had occurred.
Such changes are negligible in the Nine Yin River and are difficult to detect as human intervention.
Because Zhao Xing's magic was specifically adjusted for use even in the White Bone Divine Domain, the formation of this Annihilation Chapter Earth Palace can be described as perfectly natural.
They appeared beneath the island without anyone noticing.
Its interior is entirely engraved with the divine essence of the Great Dao of the Silent Demon God, all of which were recorded when the Silent Demon God roared and unleashed his innate secret techniques during battle.
Several wisps of gray gas still lingered in the dark Earth Palace. The True Spirit Heavenly Poison that Wei Tianchen had cast was quite compatible with the Earth Palace Art.
"One Earth Palace isn't enough; a combination of two methods would be more appropriate."
Zhao Xing didn't see Fu Mengzhen directly, so he didn't know her cultivation level, but the fact that she had flesh and blood proved that she must be a Demigod.
It's always wise to overestimate the enemy's strength; you can never be too overconfident.
"Burning Earth Palace, rise!"
Golden Light surged from the ground, and a pyramid-shaped Earth Palace appeared on the outer layer of the Annihilation Chapter Earth Palace.
The combination of the two techniques increased the difficulty dramatically, and Zhao Xing's Azure Flower Mana was completely burned out at that moment.
"You've really made great progress." Wei Tianchen was surprised. After not seeing Zhao Xing for more than thirty years, he had reached the level of Eight Tribulation Emperor Lord. He thought that Zhao Xing had the realm but not the magic.
Unexpectedly, this dual-method Earth Palace amazed him.
"Old Imperial Physician, let's stop with the idle talk. This guy seems to have quite a background." Zhao Xing disliked chatting during battles. If Wei Tianchen were in his team, he would definitely be kicked out after just one fight.
"..." Wei Tianchen was speechless. As Demigod, he actually felt like Zhao Xing was treating him like a scoundrel.