Charm.
This was not easy for Long Chen to understand. After studying it for two more days, he realized that it required more control over one's True Qi. From the Soul-Devouring Demon Eyes, Long Chen understood that there were countless meridians in the human eye. The complexity and fineness of the meridians were even more complicated than the meridians in the human body. If one could circulate True Qi perfectly in these meridians, one would be able to unleash unimaginable power.
This was the essence of eye sorcery.
The Soul-Devouring Demon Eyes was undoubtedly a top-notch mystique. Hence, it required much more control than the average eye sorcery. Long Chen could completely understand the chant, but when it came to cultivation, he had to practice it over and over again. After five days, he had already made more than a hundred mistakes. Each mistake caused him to feel a fatal pain. His eyes had even bled from the explosion. Fortunately, he had the Returnance to repair these small and delicate injuries. Coupled with the responsibility in his heart, he gritted his teeth and continued to practice.
On the sixth day, he completed the charm for the first time. After that, his progress was very smooth. Very quickly, he cultivated the first level of the Spirit Devouring Demon Pupil to the realm of completion. However, this meant that his eyes had already bled more than two hundred times. He had endured the pain of more than two hundred mistakes.
At that moment, when Long Chen opened his eyes, one could see a dark green light flowing in his eyes. An ancient and complicated pattern appeared in his pupils. If one did not look closely, it would be difficult to tell what the symbol was. However, Long Chen knew that it was an ancient character for "charm." This was an ancient script that had been lost in history. Naturally, Long Chen did not understand it. He had only learned about it from the information in his mind.
Soul-Devouring.
The second level of Soul-Devouring was not as difficult as Long Chen had imagined. Perhaps it was because he had the experience of practicing the first level, and his control over his True Qi had improved greatly. Furthermore, Soul-Devouring required more impact, so Long Chen completed the cultivation of Soul-Devouring Demon Eyes in seven days. In total, he had completed the cultivation of the Soul-Devouring Demon Eyes in twelve days. However, Li Xuanji had still not woken up.
He could no longer cultivate the Soul-Devouring Demon Eyes. Li Xuanji had said that with his current strength, he could only reach the second level. If he were to cultivate the third level, the consequences would be dire. Even for charm and Soul-Devouring, Long Chen would have to spend more effort to reach a higher level.
After cultivating the second level, when Long Chen used Soul-Devouring, an ancient word would appear in his eyes.
Although he was worried about Yang Lingqing's safety, after the incident in the Star Demon Prison, Long Chen had matured quite a bit. He knew that no matter how frustrated he was, he had to calm himself down. Li Xuanji was anxiously recovering her strength. If Long Chen were to disturb her, he would definitely die. Therefore, after completing the Soul-Devouring Demon Eyes, he switched to cultivating the Blue Dragon Battle Technique.
Among the three techniques, Break the Yellow Springs, Shatter the Green Hells, and Dragon Battles the Stars, he could only use the first technique.
Therefore, Long Chen took out the Blue Dragon Halberd and practiced Shatter the Green Hells and Dragon Battles the Stars in this underground space. Shatter the Green Hells was a consecutive technique of Break the Yellow Springs. Using both techniques in succession would allow one to unleash greater power. However, this was only the basic starting technique of the Blue Dragon Battle Technique. Dragon Battles the Stars was the simplest technique of the Blue Dragon Battle Technique.
Time passed quietly, and Long Chen's trump cards gradually became stronger. During this time, he deeply experienced loneliness. When Li Xuanji cultivated, she was like a piece of rock. She had lost all signs of life, and Lingxi was still unconscious. Long Chen did not know how to wake her up.
The emptiness in his ears could only be filled with crazy cultivation.
He cultivated like crazy, day and night. In order not to disturb Li Xuanji, he ran to a place far away from the ancient coffin. It was dark everywhere, as if apart from the endless soil, there were only the five stars in the sky. Long Chen cultivated like crazy here, using the Azure Dragon Halberd to create a ravine on the ground, a network of cracks appeared on the ground.
In the blink of an eye, twenty-seven days had passed in Li Xuanji's cultivation. On this day, Long Chen had successfully cultivated the Earth Rank Battle Skill, Dragon Battles the Stars. A warrior at the Initial Earth Core realm had skipped six levels and successfully cultivated an Earth Rank Battle Skill. This was unprecedented in the entire Yuan Ling county.
"Bei Tang Mo, if I go back and find that little Qing is missing a single hair, I will definitely use this Blue Dragon Halberd to cut you into a thousand pieces!" Long Chen roared.
"Little Qing, is this the woman you like?"
At this time, a cold voice sounded behind him. Long Chen turned around and saw Li Xuanji. She had finally finished cultivating, which meant that she could finally leave this place.
Li Xuanji had originally thought that Long Chen liked the strange sword spirit, but now that he had said the name of another woman, she felt disgusted.
"It's my sister."
Long Chen put away the Blue Dragon Halberd and said, "I've already cultivated the first two levels. As for collecting souls for you, as long as we leave this place, I can do it for you. However, I still have a request. I want to confirm the safety of my sister first. She's not far from here, so it won't take up too much time."
Hearing that it was his sister, Li Xuanji's expression became a little better. She didn't need that much time, so she said, "Alright, seeing that you still care about your sister, I'll give you some benefits first."
With a wave of her hand, a majestic force immediately attacked Long Chen. In an instant, it wanted to wrap around Long Chen. Long Chen was shocked. Just as he was about to resist, he realized that the force was actually very gentle and pure. It was like the clear stream of medicinal energy that appeared when Long Chen ate the Empyrean Fruit.
"Refine this force and turn it into your own True Qi." Li Xuanji's voice faintly sounded in Long Chen's ears.
Long Chen didn't dare to be negligent. He hurriedly used his True Qi to refine the force, turning it into his own Dragon Soul True Qi. Because of the stable and powerful force provided by Li Xuanji, Long Chen's True Qi grew rapidly. After half a day, he had broken through the Earth Core Realm and reached Dongfang Tianyu's realm.
However, the growth of his strength hadn't stopped yet.
Li Xuanji continued transferring her True Qi into his body. Long Chen felt like his body was about to explode. All he could do was to refine and refine. Time passed by while he was refining, and in the blink of an eye, one day and one night had passed. At this moment, the energy in Long Chen's body had reached its limit. Finally, with a loud bang, the entire Earth Core exploded. Within Long Chen's body, it turned into a blood red liquid that was surging violently.
The True Qi gathered in his Dantian and condensed into a Heavenly Core the size of a pinky finger. The cultivation of the Divine Core realm meant that while absorbing natural energies, one had to constantly compress their True Qi. From the Mortal Core realm to the Heavenly Core realm, the volume of the True Qi had shrunk by a few times. However, the True Qi contained within the True Qi, as well as the explosive force, was still dozens or even hundreds of times greater than that of a Mortal Core warrior.
"I've broken through to the Heavenly Core realm!"
Long Chen couldn't recover from his shock at this moment. The Heavenly Core realm was the realm of the top geniuses in the inner family. He was only two levels away from Mo Xiaolang, and he had already reached the same level as Dongfang Tian Xuan. Within the Lingwu family, there were only four people from the younger generation who had surpassed him in terms of cultivation, excluding Mo Xiaolang.
More importantly, Long Chen had completely mastered the Blue Dragon Halberd, and he had learned the Earth rank combat skill, Dragon Battling Star Field, the True Dragon Nine Flash, and the Soul Restoring combat skill. As for the Dragon Soul Transformation and the Blood Devouring Realm that came from his inherited blood essence, together with the Soul Devouring Demon Eyes that Li Xuanji had given him, his combat strength had skyrocketed to a new level.
"Let's take Dongfang Tian Chen as an example. He is at the Early Heavenly Core realm, and his true energy is similar to mine when I use the Dragon Soul Transformation. In other aspects, although he has also learned the Blue Dragon combat skill, he is definitely not as strong as me when I have the Blue Dragon Halberd."
When thinking about this, Long Chen felt excited. If he could defeat Dongfang Tian Chen, then he would be able to kill Bei Tang Mo. That is, if Bei Tang Mo really pushed him too hard.
"Ling Qing, wait for me!" Long Chen's eyes were filled with determination.
At the same time, he was grateful to Li Xuanji. It was just a coincidence that Lingxi's sword had pierced through the coffin, but up until now, not only had Li Xuanji not killed him, she had even given him the Soul Devouring Demon Eyes, and his combat strength had increased by two levels.
The Heavenly Core realm, this meant that Long Chen had truly stepped into the realm of the top geniuses in Yuan Ling County, and he was now very close to the older generation warriors. For example, Dongfang Xuanyu and the other useless Late Heavenly Core warriors.
"Let's go."
Surrounded by Li Xuanji's energy, Long Chen flew straight up into the sky. His clothes were fluttering in the wind.
For Long Chen, Li Xuanji being able to fly wasn't something shocking anymore. She was a mysterious and miraculous person, and it wasn't difficult for her to bring Long Chen out of the Star Fiend Prison.
Now that he had regained his consciousness, Long Chen finally realized how deep he had fallen. It was as if he had fallen from the sky to the ground, and now, he had returned to the sky from the ground.
Li Xuanji's speed was extremely fast, but it still took her half a day to bring Long Chen to the Transition Palace. Standing in the Transition Palace, he turned around and looked at the bottomless abyss. Thinking about how he had survived such a situation, Long Chen couldn't help but feel ridiculous.
"Next, I'll go check on Ling Qing …" Long Chen had no idea what to do next. He was only worried about Yang Lingqing's safety. However, there was still a cunning thought in his mind. As long as Li Xuanji followed behind him, no one in the entire Cangyang Kingdom would be able to kill him. Even the four Old Ancestors didn't have the ability to do so.
This was the reason why Long Chen wanted to see Yang Lingqing first, then collect her soul.
After composing himself, Long Chen exited the black hole. After arriving at the Sky Martial Realm, the first thing Long Chen saw were still the armored guards. However, there were only three of them today. The Beitang Clan member wearing Xuanwu's armor was missing.
"Long Chen!"
Yan Honghai and the others cried out in shock when they saw Long Chen suddenly appear. Long Chen was already dead. This was absolutely true. He had fallen into the Star Fiend Prison, and no one had naively believed that he could return. However, Long Chen was still standing, alive and well.
Not only had he become stronger, but there was also a fierce girl following behind him.