Just as Jiang Chong had said, the Netherworld Square was indeed huge. It was estimated to be around ten miles in circumference. At the side, Long Chen had to use the Blood Escape Technique to reach the Netherworld Stone.
The ground of the Netherworld Square was covered with a layer of black crystal. The crystal was beautiful and transparent. The light it emitted seemed to be able to reflect a person's appearance. Rays of dark green light flowed in the depths of the crystal floor.
At this moment, there were about ten thousand people gathered in the Netherworld Square to cultivate Nether Qi. Among these ten thousand people, there was a mix of good and bad. The strong ones were probably chiliarchs of the God Martial Realm. The weak ones were rookies like Long Chen who had just joined the Netherworld Army.
Among the rookies, there were actually very few who dared to directly cultivate Nether Qi. For Long Chen to come out as soon as he arrived at the Wild Wolf Battalion was already considered a weirdo.
In the Netherworld Square, the most prominent thing was the hundred-meter-tall Netherworld Stone. Long Chen raised his head and looked at it. It was an irregular black stone, like an oval egg full of sharp edges. It was a hundred meters tall and took up a lot of space. It could be considered a huge object.
The black stone was filled with dark green symbols. These symbols combined and moved, faintly revealing a strange aura. Long Chen roughly knew that this should be the method to cultivate Nether Qi.
"Jiang Chong, you go back first."
Long Chen only wanted to quietly cultivate here. Once he was done, he would go to the Netherworld Battlefield. He would not care about the Netherworld Army's training camp in the future.
The Netherworld Battlefield was his goal.
"I'll go back, you stay here …" Jiang Chong was a little hesitant. After all, Long Chen was a rookie and did not know many things. If he offended someone else, it would be troublesome.
"Go back." Long Chen reminded him.
"Alright, be careful."
After saying that, Jiang Chong went back the way he came. Now that Yan Tufu had been crippled by Long Chen, he would not be able to recover without a few months of rest. He was not Jiang Chong's opponent. Moreover, the evil things he had done had already been destroyed by Long Chen.
Jiang Chong suddenly felt that it was truly wonderful to live without fear.
After Jiang Chong left, Long Chen carefully examined the Netherworld Stone. Those who came here approached the Netherworld Stone and sat down beside it. Long Chen also looked at the Netherworld Stone as he walked inside.
"Long Chen." Right at this moment, a familiar voice called out to him.
Long Chen looked to his left and saw Ye Xuan, who was dressed in a white brocade robe, sitting among the crowd. He had probably just arrived and hadn't immersed himself in cultivation yet. When he saw Long Chen, he waved at Long Chen.
Long Chen sat down beside him.
"You also came to cultivate Nether Qi in order to enter the Nether Battlefield?" Ye Xuan asked with a smile.
He was a young master from a large family. He had an elegant temperament and was gentle and polite. Even the way he spoke made people feel comfortable.
Long Chen nodded and said with a smile, "I didn't expect you to be faster than me and come here directly."
Ye Xuan was not surprised that Long Chen came to cultivate Nether Qi. In his mind, Long Chen should be a hidden expert since he could help him escape from the pursuit of the second level of the Divine Martial Realm.
"Since you are here, let's cultivate this so-called Nether Qi together. We can also exchange our experiences and see who can cultivate Nether Qi faster." Ye Xuan wanted to compare.
To be honest, in the entire Ghost City, there were very few geniuses who could compete with Ye Xuan at his age. Therefore, when Ye Xuan saw Long Chen, he felt that they were on the same level. It was interesting to compare two people who were about the same level.
"Alright, I won't lose to you."
Along the way, Long Chen mainly killed. It was good for Long Chen to meet one or two friends who didn't have any conflicts of interest.
The two chatted for a while and then began to observe the mysterious Nether Stone.
"It is said that the Nether Stone comes from outer space. There are a total of one hundred and one Nether Stones. Each of the hundred main cities of the Nether Prefecture has a Nether Stone. In the capital of the Nether Prefecture, there is the largest Nether Stone. I have never seen that Nether Stone before. Only the high ranking members of the Nether Army can comprehend it. I heard that the Nether Stone is five hundred meters tall."
While chatting, Ye Xuan said with some emotion.
"From outer space. In other words, it is a meteorite from outer space."
Long Chen looked up and down. Indeed, there was a mysterious aura surrounding the Nether Stone. It was indeed a little strange.
"The world beyond the heavens is incomparably mysterious. Who knows what is beyond the heavens? Hehe, let's just concentrate on cultivating Nether Qi. In history, the fastest person to successfully cultivate Nether Qi took two months. Ordinary geniuses basically took three months or even four months. That Su Mo actually took three months. I want to see how long I, Ye Xuan, will need to use it."
"Two months? Let's see who will break this legend," said Long Chen.
After agreeing, the two stopped talking and focused on comprehending the runes on the Nether Stone. Among the tens of thousands of cultivators in the Nether Square, the two of them didn't stand out at all. After all, they had just joined the Nether Army, so not many people knew them.
This also prevented them from being disturbed.
While Long Chen was concentrating, the Nether Stone in front of him was the only thing left in the world.
He knew that the direction of his comprehension had always been very shocking. This was also a gift from the Ancestral Dragon's inherited blood essence. Currently, he had only absorbed one percent of the Ancestral Dragon's blood essence, but his comprehension had already surpassed ordinary people and even many geniuses in the three great Emperor Domains.
In this small Nether Prefecture, Long Chen's comprehension could be said to be the best among the outstanding talents.
He was born with a very sensitive sense of touch, which allowed him to naturally see through these obscure things.
Moreover, Long Chen was a very patient person.
There were many runes on the Nether Stone, so it wasn't easy to find the source. These runes revolved, so Long Chen didn't need to revolve with the Nether Stone. However, they disappeared in a flash, so it wasn't easy to find the point of entry. Many people who came to cultivate for the first time were looking for a point of entry, which wasted a lot of time.
Long Chen had comprehended this point on his own.
Among the countless runes, there would always be a special place. The process of comprehending the Nether Qi was actually very ordinary. Long Chen had been looking for it. Ordinary people would need ten to twenty days to find the point of entry. However, after two days, Long Chen already had a vague feeling.
"It seems like I should start from here."
His extraordinary comprehension allowed him to be very clear about these things. After he had a grasp of these runes, it was indeed very easy for him to find the point he was looking for.
Looking at Ye Xuan, who was still working hard and was even sweating profusely, Long Chen knew that Ye Xuan hadn't found the point that he had found. Everyone's comprehension was slightly different, so Long Chen couldn't tell him where to start. Everything depended on himself.
Next, Long Chen began to comprehend the runes.
These things seemed complicated, but in fact, it wasn't difficult to understand if it was clear. Long Chen used the thinking of the Ancestral Dragon to stand at a very high position to study these runes. After understanding the foundation, it was actually much easier to understand the specific operation. Time passed gradually. No one knew how fast Long Chen's progress would be. After about ten days, a dark green aura quietly appeared in Long Chen's dantian and quietly moved towards other acupuncture points. Soon, this dark green aura had spread to all of Long Chen's qi and permeated into his qi.
Long Chen felt that there was indeed a mysterious aura in his body.
This was the Nether Qi.
Nether Qi had a certain effect on improving the dragon soul qi, but it didn't have any other side effects. After all, this was what Long Chen had comprehended by himself and was under his control.
When Long Chen cultivated the Nether Qi, Ye Xuan probably just started to enter the state.
"I didn't expect that I could actually cultivate the Nether Qi in eleven days. Isn't this several times faster than the highest record in the Netherworld Army?"
Long Chen was delighted. The Nether Aura circulated through his nine acupuncture points. Just as he was about to stop, suddenly, through the connection between the Nether Aura and the Nether Stone, Long Chen seemed to feel that there seemed to be something inside the Nether Stone.
Subconsciously, he opened the True Martial Emperor Spirit. The True Martial Emperor Spirit seemed to have become Long Chen's third eye.
A gray light flashed faintly between his eyebrows.
Under the observation of the True Martial Emperor Spirit, the black Netherworld Stone actually changed. The dark green runes rotated rapidly and gradually evolved. Finally, it turned into a dark green circle. In this circle, which was the inside of the Netherworld Stone, a golden light appeared. Long Chen took a closer look and saw that the golden light emitted a violent and ferocious aura. It turned out to be a small golden lightning beast.
This small beast was about the same size as a kitten, but it looked like a lion and a tiger at the same time. Its entire body was made up of golden lightning. Densely packed strands of lightning formed the body of this small lightning beast. Although it was made up of lightning, this small golden lightning beast seemed to have its own intelligence. It was imprisoned in the Netherworld Stone. It let out angry roars from inside, and a wave of air rushed towards Long Chen. The golden lightning splashed out from this small body, crackling as if it wanted to destroy the world.