Daqin Zhentiansi

Chapter 658 Stepping out of the Eastern Border, One Realizes the Vastness of the World

Yun Zhao landed, the jade bottle in his hand hanging upside down.

Chu Zhaonan and the others collected all the flowing Xuan Turtle blood essence that had been spilling on the ground: "I've taught you the trick of condensing blood into beads three times! This turtle heart blood can be used to refine three batches of life-extending pills..."

While scolding him, Yun Zhao quickly collected all the essence blood from the Xuan Turtle's body.

"What a waste..."

Everyone lowered their heads, their faces flushed, and dared not speak.

"careful!"

The exclamation sent chills down Chu Zhaonan's spine.

The black tortoise, which should have been dead, suddenly raised its head, its fangs only half a foot away from Yun Zhao's throat.

Oops!

The people from the Secret Medicine Bureau are not good at close combat!

"Zheng——"

Seven sword lights flashed in the bloody wind, and the Sword Sect steward who was guarding not far away struck with a single blow, pinning the Xuan Turtle to the beach.

The disciples breathed a sigh of relief, then their faces were filled with anger.

They were actually fooled by this black tortoise!

"kill!"

Chu Zhaonan let out a low shout and thrust out his long sword.

The others, swords in hand, also charged forward.

"Damn it, that son of a bitch dared to scheme against me."

"Pharmacist Yun, get out of the way, or you'll get splattered with blood..."

The moment the Xuan Turtle was completely killed, the natal swords of the twelve sword cultivator disciples suddenly resonated.

They then discovered that the starlight patterns remaining on the broken tortoise shell had some mysterious connection with the demon blood stained on the sword.

At this moment, his sword seemed to have gained a bit more spirituality.

"Case in!"

Pei Lie's shout pierced through the gradually thinning poisonous miasma.

The Nine Yang Sword Sect's 100,000 flying swords intertwined in the dome, enveloping the scattered remains of demonic beasts.

A young sword cultivator attempted to use his sword energy to peel away the Sea-Covering Pearl, but was instead struck by the recoil, causing his tiger's mouth to split open.

The poisonous miasma clinging to the bead was clearly a mark deliberately left by the Secret Medicine Bureau.

"Idiot!" The demon-suppressing guard tossed over a scale-peeling knife covered in runes. "Strike when the poison pattern has reached its third turn. Didn't you see the demon core emitting purple light?"

The swordsman blushed, but remained silent.

Little did he know that there were so many intricacies involved in peeling a Sea-Covering Pearl.
Amidst the sound of waves crashing against the ship's hull, the craftsmen from the Ministry of Works, clutching their copy of "Tiangong Kaiwu" (The Exploitation of the Works of Nature), chased after the soldiers.

Whenever the chains grazed the scales, an ancient roar would boom: "Be gentle! These scales can be embedded in the water-repelling array of three warships!"

……

As dusk fell, Chu Zhaonan stared blankly at the mountain of monster materials piled up on the deck.

A faint trace of blood flowed around his Canglang sword.

That was the "armor-piercing" power condensed after being stained with demon blood.

This mere wisp of armor-piercing power increased the lethality of his sword by more than 30%.

Not far away, Wang Cheng was picking up broken scales with the apprentices of the Spirit Array Division, arranging each scale according to the orientation of the "Star Array Diagram".

"So this is the real way to hunt demons..." Nie Duanqiu wiped the blood-stained sword and suddenly noticed that a certain sword mark overlapped with the starlight trajectory of last night.

On the mast of the ferry, Elder Pei Lie's sigh mingled with the sea breeze: "Poisonous miasma as the guide, starlight as the net, to suppress demons and lock souls."

"What a fine Marquis of Qingyang, what a fine Zhen Tian Division..."

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In the darkness of night, the Zhenhai Ship resembles a colossal sea monster, lying prone amidst the undulating, dark waves.

The red campfire cast leaping shadows among the rocks, and the aroma of roasted peppercorns mixed with the spiciness of Sichuan peppercorns filled the air.

New recruit Chen Dahu's hands were trembling as he held the ceramic bowl.

The white soup made from half of the tailbone of the nine-headed black dragon was even shimmering with starlight.

This is monster meat...

"Brother Tiger, I heard you're afraid of snakes?" A soldier licked the bottom of his empty earthenware bowl and grinned. "How about I have your bowl of meat soup?"

"Get lost!" Chen Dahu hissed, bringing the ceramic bowl to his lips. This is a dragon, not a snake!

If I hadn't served as the Marquis's personal guard, I would never have even seen such a great demon in my entire life, let alone eaten it!

Chen Dahu tilted his head back and drank the last half bowl of meat soup, the burning sensation in his throat turning into a warm current flowing to his limbs.

He suddenly noticed that the star array patterns on the black tortoise shell he had just seen, along with the bonfire in front of him, suddenly transformed into a dragon of sword light.

"Don't stand there!" A captain tossed over a skewer of Thunderwing Tiger meat, the oil splattering onto the demonic patterns on Chen Dahu's armor, which surprisingly emitted a faint golden light. "Commander Yuchi said that the tides at Yin hour are the best for body tempering, so hurry up and eat two more catties of Xuan Turtle meat."

These words made the eyes of the surrounding soldiers light up.

"Zizi!"

Not far away, the tortoise meat on the iron fork dripped golden oil, exploding in the fire with a roar like a tiger's roar.

The dense demonic energy and spiritual energy collided and spread out amidst the explosion.

With a light sweep of her whisk, the female cultivator from the Spirit Array Division caused the "Eight Gates Spirit Gathering Array" hanging above the soldiers' heads to immediately gather spiritual energy into rain.

"Don't waste this spiritual energy. You cultivate your Qi and blood, and use spiritual energy to nourish your physical body. It will bring you many benefits."

The female cultivator's words were gentle, causing the soldiers to sit up straight without realizing it.

Reiki.

These low-level martial artists also have the opportunity to integrate spiritual energy into their bodies.
On the Zhenhai boat, the meat skewers in front of Xue Dingyue were as glistening as agate.

Beside him, Yuchi Changshan was already eating his third skewer.

"He's still young. If he eats too much of this tortoise meat, he might get restless and have nowhere to release his pent-up desires at night," Jin Yuelin muttered as he took a bite of the meat.

Yuchi Changshan looked up, his expression calm.

"I have made an appointment with Bai Zhi from the Demon Suppression Division to patrol the camp together later."

These words made Xue Dingyue, who was eating meat with his head down, look up.

Looking at Yuchi Changshan's face, Xue Dingyue lowered his head again.

"Pretty boy..."

Rocky shore.

Chu Zhaonan crushed the wine block formed from demon blood, and the amber wine reflected the illusory image of the bronze pillar where the sea and sky met: "Three years ago, when I was drinking ice spring wine in the Sword Tomb, I never imagined that one day I would be able to use the essence blood of a great demon from the Free and Unfettered Realm to accompany my wine."

Beside him, his fellow disciple Wang Ming, dressed in a blue robe, shook his head, a look of bewilderment flashing in his eyes: "I thought the Eastern Territory was the whole world, but it turns out the world is so vast..."

Chu Zhaonan also looked up at the boundless sea, his eyes filled with confusion.

Only after leaving the eastern border do you realize how vast the world is.

A beach in the distance.

The head of the Spirit Array Division, Zhen Xuanpan, sat beneath a barrier formed by the wings of a golden-winged roc, his fingertips entwined with starlight around half of a tortoise-shell array plate.

Many Spirit Array Masters and some soldiers gathered around him.

“Look at the burn marks on this ‘Fire Position’, it’s perfect for inlaying Sirius Brilliant Stone.” Zhen Xuan drew on the sand with his finger.

"If the army is assembled, and happens to be at the eye of the Sirius formation, then, since Sirius is the master of killing, their combat power will increase by at least 30%."

Zhen Xuan's eyes shone with starlight, and the eyes of the Spirit Array Masters and the surrounding soldiers also shone with light.

On the cliff face a hundred feet away.

Zhang Yuan pressed his hands on the hilts of his sword at his waist, looking down at the ten-mile-long bonfire dragon along the coastline.

"Those old poisoners in the Secret Medicine Bureau actually dared to mix 'Seven-Turn Snow Frog Ointment' into Demon Blood Wine." Yin Jiuyou said in a low voice with a smile on his face.

Beside him, the robust Yu Wanjun turned to look at Yin Jiuyou.

Both being Grandmasters in the Zhen Tian Division, Yin Jiuyou, as the head of the Youming Division, is actually no less powerful than Yu Wanjun.

But at this moment, Yin Jiuyou was humble and respectful in front of Qingyang Marquis, showing no trace of the demeanor of a grandmaster.

"The three thousand black iron pots brought by the Ministry of Works have become the best alchemy furnaces. Just now, that scoundrel Jin Yuelin used the liver of a tiger dragon to refine three 'Dragon Tiger Pills'." Yin Jiuyou's voice was tinged with laughter.

These words were meant for Zhang Yuan, but they were clearly meant for Yu Wanjun.

Jin Yuelin, that guy, came from the Shadow Division, I didn't expect him to also have the ability to refine pills.

Three Dragon-Tiger Pills, if used properly, can produce two late-stage Innate Realm cultivators.

Yu Wanjun is the first commander of the Imperial Guard Battalion; we mustn't let him be surpassed by others.

Yu Wanjun turned his head to look at the bright spot of the campfire.

It seems I also need to find a way to talk to Yao Puti.

(End of this chapter)