Yuantian Pidao

Chapter 501 Fragments of Dao Artifacts
In the Western Regions, the wind howls and cranes cry.

The destruction of Jade Mountain City was like a fuse. With the arrival of the Illusionary Dream Master, the Impermanence Sect, which had originally sought stability and adopted a defensive posture, suddenly began to fight back.

For a time, human cultivators and demons clashed frequently. Even several Purple Mansion cultivators took to the field and clashed with several demon kings. Among them, True Person Illusion Dream was the most ruthless. He used a mysterious method to lock onto the Gale Demon King and directly injured him severely.

If the Gale Demon King hadn't cultivated the Gale Body and mastered the Wind Escape Technique, he might have perished on the spot.

"Are they really looking for that thing? If so, then perhaps the Lei Peng clan still has royal blood in its veins."

Within the void, gathering clues from all sides and connecting them with the scattered information he had stolen from the mind of the Gale Demon King, True Person Illusion Dream fell into deep thought.

Her trip to the Western Regions was ostensibly to stabilize the situation, but in reality, she was ordered by another sect leader, Yun Wuyai, to verify the sect's conjectures. The reason she attacked the Gale Demon King first was not because of the Jade Mountain City incident, but to find a breakthrough from him.

In fact, before attacking the Gale Demon King, she had already searched the souls of several Dao Foundation level demons, but unfortunately, even with her supernatural powers, she did not find any useful information.

"We weren't sure before, but now it's clear that those Dao Foundation Demons not only don't know much, but they're also all under forbidden spells, making it difficult to get any clues from them. On the other hand, the Purple Mansion Demon Kings have less severe restrictions."

With a flicker in his eyes, Master Huanmeng had already begun to favor one side.

The Wuchang Sect has indeed been quite busy lately and is short-handed, but it's not to the point that they can't spare any Purple Mansions to support the Western Regions. The main reason they sent her is because she is good at gathering information.

"This message needs to be sent back as soon as possible. As for how to do it, that will naturally be decided by the sect."

With a single thought, the figure of the Dream Immortal vanished into the void once more, intending to continue her attack.

Although she had basically achieved her goal, she did not intend to stop there. To make the performance more convincing, she needed to show the attitude of the Impermanence Sect and, incidentally, reduce the prestige of those demon clans.

Jiang Chen was unaware of the turmoil in the outside world at the moment.

Inside the Cloud Palace, the two energies of water and fire evolved, and Jiang Chen silently tempered himself.

At a certain moment, having achieved perfect mastery, Jiang Chen exhaled a breath of white air. As the white air fell, a layer of dark gray frost immediately formed on the ground.

Opening his eyes and seeing this scene, Jiang Chen frowned slightly.

"The souls of ghosts are indeed a source of nourishment for me to strengthen my own soul. The only downside is that the yin nature of the ghost souls is too heavy. Even with the filtering of the Soul Suppression Hall, it is difficult to completely separate them. After I swallow them, I will be affected to some extent."

As his thoughts raced, Jiang Chen pondered many things at that moment.

He devoured ghosts to strengthen himself. At first, he did not notice anything unusual. However, after devouring the fox ghost, he keenly sensed that the yin energy in his soul had deepened.

It was precisely for this reason that he had been practicing the Kanli Soul Forging Method during this period, using the power of water and fire to temper his soul, and while refining and increasing his soul power, he also tried to use the power of water and fire to dissolve the yin essence.

"The Kanli Soul Forging Method uses the body as a furnace to refine the soul from the outside in. It does have some effect on dissolving Yin matter, but the effect is not that great."

Through his divine sense, Jiang Chen saw his own Yin spirit.

Compared to before, the yin substance had indeed dissolved considerably, but it had not completely dissipated; a trace of it remained.

"In dissolving Yin matter, thunder magic is actually better than the power of water and fire. It's just a pity that the Mysterious Sound Shocking Thunder I master has a special nature and is not good at dissolving Yin matter. Moreover, its level is also a bit lower."

Invisible lightning crackled around the Yin God, and various thoughts flashed through Jiang Chen's mind. He had imbued the source of the Profound Sound Soul-Shaking Thunder into the Hundred Fruit Garden Secret Realm, making it a part of it. Over the years, nourished by the Hundred Fruit Garden Secret Realm, its power had grown considerably, reaching the peak of the second tier, but it was still some distance from the third tier.

"The Mysterious Sound Shocking Thunder is essentially a manifestation of the Heavenly Tribulation, with an impressive origin. However, I only intercepted one of its strands, which took root in the secret realm by chance and thus gave birth to the Thunder Seed. It is somewhat lacking in its innate nature."

The mysterious sound of thunder startled Jiang Chen, and seeing the lightning flashing, he had a guess in his mind.

Over the years, he had indeed considered cultivating the Mysterious Sound Shocking Thunder to the third rank, but his attempts failed several times.

"The power of thunder, to make up for deficiencies..."

With a sudden thought, Jiang Chen waved his sleeve and took out a treasure.

It was a pill furnace, pitch black and looking very rough. It was used by fox spirits to refine pills and was called the Ghost Fire Furnace. It was itself a top-grade spiritual artifact.

Jiang Chen didn't care much about the spiritual artifact itself, but what he really cared about was what was inside the alchemy furnace. After devouring the fox ghost, he learned some secrets from its memories.

With a whoosh, a powerful surge of divine soul energy swept down, and Jiang Chen easily broke through the technique left by the fox demon. The reason he hadn't moved before was mainly because the effects of the blood sacrifice hadn't been fully realized, not because he couldn't open it.

The next instant, the furnace cracked open, and the metal fragment appeared in front of Jiang Chen.

"This is it. According to the fox spirit's memories, this thing seems to contain an extremely powerful force. Now it seems that it is indeed true."

With a gleam still in his eyes, Jiang Chen carefully examined the metal fragments.

Unlike the silence in the fox spirit's memory, this fragment now has a dim spiritual light flowing through it, exuding wisps of ancient aura and revealing a hint of the extraordinary.

"This thing is definitely related to thunder magic."

As his spiritual power continued to penetrate deeper, a thunderous sound suddenly exploded in his ears, giving Jiang Chen a feeling of dread.

"Judging from this, this thing seems to be a fragment of some treasure. We don't know what kind of treasure it is, but it still has such power even after it's broken."

Having confirmed the extraordinary nature of the fragments, and upon examining them further, Jiang Chen began to form various speculations.

"What a pity, what a pity. This treasure is too badly broken. Although it still retains a trace of its extraordinary essence, it is probably unusable. If we want to unleash its power again, we must reforge it, but that is too difficult."

"Although I don't know the true origin of this treasure, I am fairly certain that its level has surpassed that of a magic weapon, and there is a considerable probability that it is a legendary Dao artifact."

Having grasped part of the essence of the fragments, Jiang Chen couldn't help but feel a pang of regret.

Dao artifacts are powerful objects that possess Dao essence, can draw upon the power of the Great Dao, and have all sorts of incredible abilities. He had never truly come into contact with such a thing before. The closest he had ever been was with the Taixu Daowen Stele of the Wuchang Sect, which was a genuine Dao artifact.

"The only use of this fragment might be to gain some insight into its workings."

Shaking his head, Jiang Chen prepared to put the fragments away. The item was good, but it was too useless.

At that moment, an extremely sharp aura suddenly soared into the sky from Lanque Mountain.

(End of this chapter)