Master, Long Time No See

The Azure-Scaled Giant Eel's three pairs of scarlet compound eyes suddenly contracted, as if it understood Lu Qing'an's words. Its scales suddenly exploded, emitting a piercing metallic scraping sound.

It sounded like she was angrily cursing Lu Qing'an.

Immediately, its twelve mandible tentacles straightened, and the tips of the tentacles burst forth with dazzling blue-purple lightning. In an instant, the entire lakebed was transformed into a thunderous inferno!

Hundreds of lightning chains, as thick as water buckets, came from all directions to strangle Lu Qing'an.

Each bolt of lightning carried a poisonous mist that corroded the space, electrolyzing even the lake water into boiling bubbles wherever it passed, shattering the void.

Lu Qing'an remained calm, flicking his fingertips. A wisp of black light flowed from his sleeve, transforming into a barrier as thin as a cicada's wing.

The devastating thunderstorm, upon striking the barrier, melted away silently, like snow falling into a furnace!

Upon seeing this, the giant eel let out an enraged hiss.

The chains of vengeful spirits binding his body suddenly twisted as if alive, and hundreds of remnants of powerful beings that it had devoured transformed into blood-red spikes, flashing past with a piercing shriek that tore through his sea of consciousness as they stabbed straight toward Lu Qing'an's brow.

This is its deadly spiritual move that allowed it to dominate the bottom of the lake: "Hundred Souls Devour the Heart"!

"How about an electric shock massage to my temples?" Lu Qing'an chuckled, his pupils flashing with a silvery light. "I'll give you a head spa too!"

As soon as he finished speaking, the blood-red spikes that had attacked flew out of his mind and then swirled back with even greater ferocity!

"Roar!!!!"

The giant eel suddenly roared, its compound eyes instantly filled with blood vessels, and its head was violently thrown back by the backlash of its own mental attack, causing its skull, which was as hard as divine iron, to crack with spiderweb-like fissures.

As it writhed in agony, the undercurrents it stirred up tore a thousand-meter-long ravine into the rocky bed at the bottom of the lake. Then, its vision went white, and it fainted!

"You use such a large Soul-Nourishing Crystal to cultivate your soul, yet you can't even withstand such a small mental attack..." Lu Qing'an stepped forward and mentioned the Azure-Scaled Giant Eel, causing it to shake its head.

"Hey, wake up."

Seeing that the Azure-Scaled Giant Eel remained motionless, Lu Qing'an didn't wait for it to wake up and directly forced a contract with it.

With his strength, he wouldn't even need the Azure-Scaled Giant Eel's consent; he could simply force a contract by crushing its soul.

A blood-red contract array appeared in his mind, and the next moment, it flew into the mind of the overlord at the bottom of the lake.

In less than a breath, the contract was completed.

Lu Qing'an sealed the Azure-Scaled Giant Eel with a barrier and stored it in his own storage treasure.

After he finished, he smiled and looked at the huge Soul-Nourishing Crystal.

"Alright, let's make it an even stronger formation. Zixuan's soul breakthrough speed will be much faster afterward, and she'll have more and more spiritual weapons."

He patted the Soul-Nourishing Crystal with satisfaction and put it away.

"Let's see if there are any other powerful aquatic animals nearby."

He transformed into a streak of light and soared into the sky, continuing to scan the surroundings with his Divine Sense while keeping his eyes closed. After a moment, he flew at full speed in one direction.

Half an hour later, the group finally gathered in the plaza at the end of the second area.

Lu Qing'an's guess was correct. This second area did not contain large pieces of Divine Crystal, but rather small Divine Crystal, which were also self- Divine Crystal.

Many powerful creatures at the bottom of the lake gain power by devouring other creatures.

Besides the Azure-Scaled Giant Eel, he also took a giant turtle, a crocodile, and several blue-skinned piranhas.

They are all at the Late Profound Heaven Emperor Realm.

"This second area is no challenge at all, they're all so weak," Li Cangxuan said.

"That's normal. There's nothing here that can allow a sentient Divine Crystal to possess it," Zheng Miaoyin said.

"Then let's go to the third area," Dao of Alchemy Master said with a smile.

He did kill some creatures at the Profound Heaven Emperor Realm and extracted some unrefined Divine Crystal from their bodies.

Each piece is about the size of a pea.

They may not look big, but there are many of them!

They're about the size of pigeon eggs combined!

Therefore, there must be many Divine Crystal in these nine areas!

It's unclear whether these Divine Crystal originated from the Divine Continent or the Pill Cloud Continent!

"You all really haven't seen my wife?" the Saber God asked tentatively.

Everyone shook their heads.

"Let's go to the third area," Lu Qing'an said.

Before long, a group of people arrived at the third area.

As they appeared, a voice rang out from above.

"The Wood Luan Lifespan-Depleting Domain!"

Everyone looked ahead.

What met the eye was a churning sea of blue flames.

The flames flowed like liquid jade, intense yet eerily radiating a bone-chilling cold.

Where the heatwave passed, space itself twisted and cracked like a spiderweb.

In the very center of the sea of fire, there is a tall mountain, and on the summit of that mountain, a blue phoenix is circling!

With each flap of its wings, thousands of blue flames flew in all directions.

"It's actually a cluster of Wood Luan Flame! Moreover, it has such a large Divine Crystal attached to its body!"

Everyone looked up at the blue phoenix on the mountaintop, their eyes lighting up.

The Wood Luan Flame is precisely the wood-attribute fire among the Five Elements Fire!

There was also Divine Crystal about half the size of a person on it!!

It was this Divine Crystal that allowed the Wood Luan Flame to attain the cultivation level of the Tribulation Heaven Emperor Realm!

"Have you noticed? The heat emanating from the flames here seems to be reducing a person's lifespan! In just a short while, I've already lost a year of my lifespan!" Xiao Qingyi quickly reminded him.

He's old and ugly; if he gets any older, it'll be terrible!

Lu Qing'an said, "This is related to the upgraded Wood Luan Flame. I'll go and collect the Wood Luan Flame first, and you can approach it later."

Having said that, he looked at Wu Ciren and said, "Fellow Daoist, come, you have a long lifespan, share some of your lifespan with me."

He didn't want to waste his lifespan.

The Chaos Emperor Realm is actually still Emperor Realm; lifespan has not increased.

Only after breaking through to the Divine Realm will one's lifespan increase dramatically.

Wu Ciren nodded with a wry smile.

And so, Lu Qing'an treated Wu Ciren like a life-saving blood bag and flew to Wood Luan Flame.

Suddenly sensing Lu Qing'an's approach, the flames of the Wood Luan Flame suddenly burst forth with a dazzling blue light, transforming into a streak of light that rushed straight towards him!

Lu Qing'an chuckled, and a towering demonic figure tore through the void behind him and leaped out, slapping his palms together as if swatting a fly, onto the Wood Luan Flame.

However, the Wood Luan Flame quickly unleashed a terrifying azure flame, resisting the attack. But it was only able to withstand the attack because Lu Qing'an did not want to destroy it. At this moment, the demonic shadow's fingertip condensed into a pitch-black chain of Demonic Qi, which coiled around the azure flame like a dragon.

The runes on the chains flickered, instantly preventing the Wood Luan Flame from breaking free.

Unable to break free, the Wood Luan Flame let out a cry and unleashed its strongest attack.

A burst of blazing blue flames erupted, engulfing the thousand-mile void where Lu Qing'an was located in a fiery domain!

"Oh ho, there are such methods?"

All living beings within this area will have their lifespan reduced by a rate of thousands of years per second!

"Hmph!" At this moment, Wu Ciren began to exert his power, and the vitality within his body burst forth.

A terrifying force of life enveloped her and Lu Qing'an.

Her lifespan was rapidly decreasing, while Lu Qing'an, enveloped in vitality, showed no signs of losing any lifespan.

The imprisoned Wood Luan Flame already possessed extremely strong intelligence. It originally thought that Lu Qing'an and the others had been tricked, but now it was dumbfounded when it saw this scene.

"Alright, I'm not playing with you anymore."

Lu Qing'an's lips curled up, and the demonic hand surged with Demonic Qi, enveloping the entire ball of Wood Luan Flame.

After a moment, the Wood Luan Flame quieted down.

Lu Qing'an casually grabbed and forcefully extracted a wood-attribute Divine Crystal, about half the size of a person, from the heart of the flame.

The blue flame let out a mournful cry, and its light suddenly dimmed.

The demonic shadow behind Lu Qing'an vanished in the blink of an eye, and his cultivation aura receded once more.

"Are you feeling weak? Then you should get some rest."

He lured the Wood Luan Flame to his front, flicked his finger to set up a triple barrier, sealed the struggling Wood Luan Flame into a crystal ball, and casually tossed it into his storage treasure.

Once everything was settled, he carefully examined the half-human-sized Divine Crystal floating in front of him, which he had trapped with a barrier.

"We've already found such a large piece in only the third region. This piece is almost the same size as the one I found in the Battle Ruins of the Immortal-Demon War. I wonder if there are any more Divine Crystal this large in the higher regions."

He smiled. If they had them, they wouldn't be short of Divine Crystal for a while.

Thinking of this, he prepared to put away the Divine Crystal.

Just then, a voice rang out from behind in the distance.

"My good master, is it true that everyone who sees this Divine Crystal gets a share?"

Upon hearing that familiar voice, Lu Qing'an turned around at lightning speed and looked toward the entrance to the third area.

Then, a handsome man dressed in black appeared, staring at him with a wicked smile.

The moment their eyes met, the world fell silent.