Chapter 769: Skylight, soul crystal!

“Someone’s arrived so quickly?”

“No, look at their clothing. They don’t seem to be from around here! They look somewhat similar to the ‘outsiders’ in the records.”

“Rumor has it that when the heavenly light appears, besides treasures descending, outsiders might also fall. These people can be strong or weak, but most of them carry treasures!”

“Just now, the heavenly light streaked across the night sky. This person must be extraordinary.”

Lu Changsheng saw several figures shrouded in light flying towards him, looking at him with surprised and suspicious expressions.

These people looked at Lu Changsheng’s handsome and refined face and demeanor, their expressions uncertain with surprise and suspicion, feeling as if he were a banished immortal.

But when they saw the Michen Banner and the Sun Moon Two Instruments Profound Light Mirror in his hands, greed instantly arose in their hearts, and some even attacked directly.

“Bang!”

Lu Changsheng frowned slightly, his expression indifferent. He directly slapped out with his palm, blasting the figure apart.

Although he didn’t have Qi and blood or mana, this person was at most comparable to a second-tier body refinement cultivator, someone he could easily kill with a spit.

“This!?”

The surrounding figures were shocked and horrified.

The one who went forward just now, although not the strongest among them, was still above average, yet he was blasted apart with a casual blow, which was simply terrifying.

“What is this place?”

Lu Changsheng looked at the people in front of him, asking to understand the current situation with their help.

His easy killing of one person was intimidating. In just a moment, he obtained a lot of information.

This place is the Land of Eternal Night, without daylight, forever pitch black, like an abyss that devours everything.

They came here because they saw a heavenly light streak across the eternal night, thinking a treasure had descended.

According to records, once a heavenly light appears, it is very likely that a treasure will fall.

Besides treasures, people like Lu Changsheng, or even beasts, might also appear.

People like them are called outsiders.

“What methods do you use?”

Lu Changsheng continued to ask.

His Qi and blood, mana, and divine sense seemed to be dormant here.

But these people possessed a method similar to body refinement, their bodies shrouded in a hazy light, like Qi and blood or mana.

“Reporting, Great One, this is Heavenly Light Strength.”

One of them respectfully introduced to Lu Changsheng that this was a type of power born after one’s life level was elevated.

Depending on each person’s cultivation method, the strength born would be different, but it was collectively called “Heavenly Light Strength,” a kind of beautiful name.

“Show me your cultivation method.”

Lu Changsheng said directly, wanting to understand further.

“This…”

The person looked hesitant.

Cultivation methods are secrets to everyone, and normally they would never be willing to reveal them.

“Great One, this lowly one is willing to offer up my cultivation method, but I don’t have it on me.”

However, Lu Changsheng displayed strength far surpassing theirs and was an outsider, so someone immediately stepped forward to curry favor, willing to actively offer up his cultivation method.

“There’s no need for so much trouble.”

Lu Changsheng signaled someone to demonstrate Heavenly Light Strength for him, and then used the Sun Moon Two Instruments Profound Light Mirror to observe his condition, seeing that it was similar to body refinement methods.

Only the strength cultivated would not be suppressed or affected by this world.

If he were willing, with his fourth-tier body foundation, he could quickly get started and cultivate this Heavenly Light Strength.

“Since you know about outsiders, do you know how to leave here?” Lu Changsheng asked.

“This… Great One, we have only heard about outsiders. For these things, you can go to Crimson Cloud City far away…”

These people said with embarrassed expressions.

They were just people living in the towns around this area, with limited information.

Outsiders like Lu Changsheng were only something they had heard of, not seen.

“Besides me, have you seen any other heavenly lights?”

Since he appeared and a heavenly light streaked across the eternal night, then if Qian Zhuyan, Golden-Winged Roc, or even the Sixth Dao Demon Concubine appeared in this world, there would be heavenly lights.

“It seemed like a heavenly light streaked across the depths of the mountains, but we didn’t dare to go in.”

They didn’t dare to hide anything, speaking truthfully.

The Land of Eternal Night was very dangerous, with a harsh environment, especially in such wilderness and mountains.

Not only were there wild beasts and mutated creatures, but also many mysterious and unknown dangers, not places they could set foot in.

“Deep mountains?”

Lu Changsheng looked towards the depths, then said, “Give me a direction, and an estimate of how deep.”

“Reporting, Great One, I only vaguely saw a heavenly light streak across. The specific distance cannot be estimated, but it should be in the deepest part of the mountains.”

Listening to these people’s accounts, Lu Changsheng pondered for a moment, still deciding to first understand the situation and then enter the deep mountains to investigate.

After all, according to these people, there were still certain dangers in the mountains.

Given his current situation, he absolutely couldn’t be careless.

Moreover, he wanted to see if Heavenly Light Strength, the cultivation method here, could awaken his dormant mana.

If he could recover some mana and use his storage ring, his combat power would be greatly improved.

In the depths of the mountains, everything was enveloped in thick darkness.

Dense weeds and trees rustled in the icy night wind, like hordes of ghosts crying and flitting about.

There, in the deep, dark forest, a puppet with a cold, metallic sheen was observing its surroundings, its eye sockets burning with two balls of eerie green flames.

“What is this place…”

Qian Zhuyan wanted to find Lu Changsheng’s trail, but she couldn’t sense any aura.

After waiting for a long time and seeing no trace of Lu Changsheng or the Golden-Winged Roc, she began to walk towards other places, searching further.

Just then, she suddenly noticed a ball of black mist not far away, as if it were alive, secretly spying on her.

Alarmed, she raised her mechanical arm, and a burst of dark wind blades flew towards the black mist.

“Ah!!!”

The wind blades pierced through the black mist, and instantly a shrill scream rang out in the night sky.

Immediately afterward, the black mist quickly condensed, transforming into a humanoid silhouette of a ghost, its eyes looking at Qian Zhuyan with a cold and piercing gaze, rushing towards her.

Unlike Lu Changsheng, the core puppet crystal within Qian Zhuyan was unaffected, and even half of her divine soul, transformed into a puppet spirit, was more active.

Her eye sockets burned with ghost fire, and her mechanical arm was like a battle blade, bursting forth with a dark, sharp light, directly cutting the humanoid ghost in half.

The ghost’s form was like oil poured on a raging fire, crackling and sizzling. Cut in half, it dimmed a lot, then merged into a ball of black mist and quickly fled.

This ball of ghost was incomparably bizarre, its origins unknown. How could Qian Zhuyan easily let it escape? From her eye sockets shot out two fiercely burning azure flames, and then the battle blade in her hand flew out.

“Ah!!!”

Under the azure flames, this ball of black mist, like a living being, shrieked miserably, and then was completely shattered under the slashing blade, vanishing into smoke, dropping a fingernail-sized turquoise crystal.

“What is this?”

Qian Zhuyan stepped forward, picked up the crystal, and felt that this object possessed a strange attraction to her puppet spirit.

She examined it carefully.

It was a bit like a demon beast’s crystal core, but completely different, revealing a chilling aura.

Having only a divine soul left, and half of her divine soul transformed into a puppet spirit, she instantly saw that the crystal contained the power of a nether soul.

But unlike the ghost core seen in the Myriad Demon Abyss, the crystal’s nether soul power was very pure and refined.

It seemed that it could be used to enhance and nurture her puppet spirit.

“This…”

The spirit fire in Qian Zhuyan’s eye sockets burned and flickered, somewhat excited.

Although she possessed a fourth-tier puppet body, her puppet spirit was still only third-tier.

Facing a Nascent Soul True Monarch, only relying on the puppet battle formation could barely allow for a fight.

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If the puppet spirit advanced to the fourth rank, she could truly contend with a Nascent Soul True Monarch, and control more puppets, unleashing even more powerful术法, puppet battle formations.

However, thinking that she still didn’t know where she was, and that her master was missing, she felt a wave of sadness in her heart.

But thinking about the ghostly ship’s black mist sweeping over them before, and her master’s magic power and spiritual treasures seeming to be suppressed and affected, possibly in danger now, she immediately searched everywhere.

At the same time, a tall and magnificent white bone palace was located above a spring pool flowing with fiery red light, making it look extremely eerie.

“I didn’t expect the rumors to be true, the ghostly ship connects to a spatial rift.”

“According to the records in that notebook, the Netherworld possesses a kind of crystal called ‘Soul Crystal’, similar to Ghost Cores, but incomparably pure, which can be used to cultivate the ghost path and nurture ghost spirits.”

Inside the white bone palace, the Six Desires Demon Consort looked at the corpse in front of her, recalling a notebook she had once read about the ghostly ship.

It contained a lot of information about the ghostly ship and the Netherworld.

Although the notebook information seemed true, not many people dared to try using the ghostly ship to come to this spatial rift.

Even if cultivators wanted to come to this world to seek opportunities, whether or not they could encounter the ghostly ship was one thing.

Encountering it, entering it alive, and being able to guarantee their exit was another matter entirely.

“The Netherworld suppresses cultivators’ qi and blood, magic power, and divine sense…”

The Six Desires Demon Consort felt her seemingly dormant Nascent Soul and couldn’t help but think of Lu Changsheng.

Although she was suppressed, the palace’s Dao soldiers and ghost servant girls were not affected.

If she encountered Lu Changsheng, this would be an opportunity for revenge.

Thinking back to before, when she was right here, on these steps, the Six Desires Demon Consort’s beautiful and charming face revealed a hint of intoxication.

But the next moment, a cold killing intent suddenly appeared in her clear and flawless, naturally charming eyes.

She, as the wife of the Six Desires Demon Lord, a Nascent Soul True Monarch, was actually forcibly pinned down here by a Golden Core cultivator…

She must kill this person to vent her anger!

Using the most cruel and ruthless methods!

But thinking about the opponent’s mighty and robust fourth-rank physique, like a pure body cultivator, and the fourth-rank puppet and roc beside him, a hint of fear appeared in her eyes.

Although she possessed Dao soldiers and ghost servant girls, her greatest means, the White Bone Demon Palace, was also affected.

The White Bone Ghost King could not freely move this Demon Palace as easily as in the outside world.

Without the White Bone Demon Palace and the White Bone Ghost King, even with the ghost servant girls, she was no match for Lu Changsheng, Qian Zhuyan, and the Golden Winged Roc.

“Soul Crystals, if I have enough Soul Crystals, my Dao soldiers’ strength can be raised by a level…”

“Moreover, according to the notebook, there are some rare treasures in this world that can release a little of the dormant magic power. As long as I recover a little magic power, I can open my storage ring and spirit beast pouch.”

The Six Desires Demon Consort held the exquisite jade hand wearing the blood-colored ink jade ring, the Cloud Mountain Young Serpent ring guard, her beautiful eyes flowing with an indescribable charm, endless grace, elegance, and nobility.

Reaching the Nascent Soul level, almost everyone has a deep foundation, possessing many treasures and exotic items.

And as the Six Desires Demon Consort, she naturally surpassed many cultivators of the same level.

As long as she could open the storage ring and spirit beast pouch, her strength in this world could be raised by a level, fearless of Lu Changsheng, and even find a way to leave.

Without much hesitation, she summoned some Dao soldiers to scout the situation and hunt some demon beasts.

Under the boundless, abyss-like pitch-black eternal night, a black-feathered, white-beaked night hawk spread its wings and flew over a series of rolling mountains.

On the edges of these mountains, one could occasionally see some places or villages that emitted a faint light.

After a long time, the night hawk swooped down towards a city standing in the center of several majestic mountains.

This city was dazzling with light, as bright as day in the eternal night, illuminating many colors in all directions, very eye-catching.

Passing through the cyan, heavy city walls full of the aura of time, the night hawk landed on the tallest and most magnificent building in the city, chirping clearly.

“Reporting to the City Lord, the night hawk has scouted a huge heavenly light appearing in the depths of the Youye Ridge!”

A guard outside the building saw the night hawk and immediately went to the hall to report.

“A huge heavenly light? I wonder if there are any natural treasures that can restore magic power in this heavenly light…”

Deep within the City Lord’s mansion, a beautiful figure wearing a colorful palace dress, with a tall and graceful figure, heard the report and murmured softly, then walked out of the palace.

Lu Changsheng and these people came to a town.

Although this world was pitch black, without daylight, there were still some places suitable for human survival.

For example, the villages and towns where they lived were mostly built based on the [Fire Springs].

Putting certain stones into the Fire Spring to soak, not only could it provide light, but it could also keep warm.

And the crops and grains irrigated by the Fire Spring were also like spirit rice, with great benefits to people.

“This is the Fire Spring?”

Lu Changsheng came to the front of the misty, fiery red pool, seeing that the Fire Spring was somewhat similar to spiritual veins and spiritual eye springs.

The shimmering spring water in the pool possessed some special substance that could nourish people and things.

Under the tense gazes of these people, as if worried that he would seize this Fire Spring for himself, Lu Changsheng looked at it for a moment and then looked away, temporarily staying in the town, preparing to study the Heavenly Light Strength.

“Hmm!?”

Then, just after settling down, holding the secret manual, preparing to read it, Lu Changsheng suddenly felt a faint magic power surge into his Qi Sea Dantian out of thin air.

But soon, this wisp of magic power sank into the seemingly dormant Dan Lake.

“It can be like this?”

Lu Changsheng’s face was filled with joy.

When the Lu family disciples and descendants cultivated, once they broke through, their cultivation and magic power would be added to him, the ancestor.

It was just that now, apart from his children breaking through to Golden Core, under normal circumstances, the addition to him was almost better than nothing.

But just now, it should be that a Lu family descendant’s Qi Refining cultivation had broken through, causing him to gain a wisp of weak magic power.

Under normal circumstances, such a wisp of weak magic power was useless.

But now, in this world, his qi and blood, magic power, and divine sense were all suppressed and dormant.

As long as he obtained a little magic power, he could open his storage bag.

Not to mention anything else, among the puppets Qian Zhuyan created, there were three top-grade third-rank puppets that could fight autonomously without his divine sense fully controlling them.

If he took these three puppets out of the storage bag, he would instantly have three top bodyguards, and he could consider going to the Heavenly Light in the deep mountains to take a look.

Moreover, the Mountain Moving Whip given to the Brahma Demon True Body could be temporarily used as his weapon to enhance his combat power.

If that didn’t work, he could also awaken the Soul-Crying Beast in the spirit beast pouch, adding another top combat force!

“It’s a pity that this wisp of magic power is too small and too slow. As long as a Qi Refining disciple in the family breaks through, it will allow me to quickly take an item out of the storage bag.”

Lu Changsheng let out a breath of turbid air, focusing some of his spirit and attention on his Qi Sea Dantian.

Waiting for one of his children or descendants to break through and give him some magic power.