Chapter 270: Monk Lian Chenglin (2-in-1)
Lian Chenglin is a casual cultivator in the eastern border of Chaoyang Continent, and he has reached the peak of foundation building in only two hundred years.
He thought that he would be able to get a glimpse of Jindan Avenue before his longevity was exhausted.
But the fact is that in the following decades, his cultivation has always stayed at the peak of foundation building, and he has never made the slightest improvement.
When he was two hundred and fifty years old, he finally couldn't bear it and decided to forcibly retreat, but unfortunately, in the end, he still failed to break through, and instead hurt his vitality.
After recovering from his injuries, he saved another spirit stone and prepared to cross the Hengduan Mountain Range and go to the cultivation realm in the middle of the Chaoyang Continent.
Because he heard that the cultivation realm over there was extremely prosperous, and there were countless sects and families with Yuan Infant Stage Ancestors, and there were even scattered cultivators in the Yuan Infant Realm.
If you can get there, maybe you will be able to find the opportunity to break through to the Jindan realm.
But fate did not seem to attach any affection to him, and he failed again without surprise.
The Hengduan Mountain Range was too treacherous, and in the year after entering the mountain, he encountered countless demon beast attacks, many of which were chased by fourth-order demon beasts, and many times they escaped death.
If it weren't for his strength, I'm afraid he would have completely stayed in the boundless mountains.
In this way, a year later, Lian Chenglin returned to the same place covered with injuries.
If you can't do it on land, then take the waterway, and I heard that if you go upriver along the Tianhe River, you can also reach the middle of the Chaoyang Continent.
So Lian Chenglin spent spirit stones to build a small boat, preparing to use it to achieve his goals.
However, he was still too naïve, the demon beasts in the Tianhe River were more dangerous than the Hengduan Mountain Range, and he had only set off for less than three months, and he lost an arm, and the small boat he had carefully built was also swallowed by the demon beasts in the river.
There was no way, he returned from the Hengduan Mountains again with his whole body wounded.
After a few years, he recovered from his injuries, flew to the edge of the Hengduan Mountains, quietly looked at the Tianhe River that meandered in it, and began to think!
It would be too difficult to break this natural barrier, otherwise for millions of years, this place would not have been isolated from the cultivation realm in the middle of the continent.
However, he did know that there was a fifth-order formation called the Teleportation Array that could cross the Heavenly Barrier of the Hengduan Mountain Range.
But as far as he knew, the eastern border of the continent he was in had never even had a fifth-order array mage, so how could there be a teleportation array to the cultivation realm in the middle of the continent.
Finally, after thinking about all possible ways, Lian Chenglin gave up his idea of going to the middle of the Chaoyang Continent, and was ready to find another opportunity to break through the Jindan realm!
More than ten years later, he stumbled upon a piece of news suspected to be related to the legendary Wanxing Islands.
He thought that on the Wanxing Islands, there was a high probability that there would be relics left by the ancient sect.
Therefore, after Lian Chenglin thought about it carefully and made sufficient preparations, he set off.
First of all, he set out from Wujiangfang City in the Hengduan Mountains, went to Binhaifang City at the mouth of the Tianhe River, and then arrived at Limeng Island.
However, at that time, there were no high-level spiritual veins on Limeng Island, and only a few small monk families settled on the island.
He made a little repairs on Limeng Island, and then took a small flying boat of the third order and went deep into the vast East China Sea alone.
According to the news he got, his journey to the Wanxing Islands was very smooth, although he was attacked by several waves of demon beasts in the sea, but they were all in danger.
In this way, Lian Chenglin walked and stopped on the sea, and the resources in the storage bag also decreased little by little with the passage of time.
Finally, after five years of wandering at sea, he finally saw a glimmer of light.
It is a small island standing in the extreme depths of the East China Sea!
Seeing the island from afar, he thought that he had finally found the location of the Wanxing Islands, and happily drove the flying boat away.
After I went, I found that this was just an ordinary island, and the surrounding sea was full of vast seawater, and there was no sign of the existence of a second island, let alone an archipelago!
At this time, Lian Chenglin didn't have much life left, but he still tried one last time, and set off from this small island again, and entered the deeper part of the East China Sea.
Another five years had passed, and his countenance had grown so old that he had returned from a place in the depths of the East China Sea and landed on the first island he had found.
Then he opened a cave for himself and went through the last retreat in it, trying to break through!
Ten years later, the door of the cave was opened, and an even older figure, exuding twilight and death, appeared.
There are not so many accidents and surprises in life, and like most foundation building period monks, he is destined to have no way to enter the next great realm and continue his path.
Lian Chenglin's failure this time means that he has no chance to make the next breakthrough at all.
He left the cave in a trance, and then walked to a cliff on the island and sat down, where there was a boulder, on which he leaned, his feet dangling in the air, just as he had been when he had not yet cultivated the Tao.
He looked at the remnant sun that was gradually falling in the west, and the large clouds that were dyed red by the remnant sun, and sighed silently, but then he became happy again, and a smile appeared on his face, as if he had finally let go of something!
When the afterglow had not yet dissipated, Lian Chenglin took off a spirit beast bag from his waist, stretched out his hand, and a huge black figure appeared beside him.
This is his spirit beast, a third-order high-grade black turtle!
They have been together for more than two hundred years, and at the end of their lives, Lian Chenglin took the initiative to terminate the contract and mental connection with it.
At this moment, this third-order top-grade turtle is free!
However, it did not choose to leave, but quietly stayed by Lian Chenglin's side and lay down, the latter raised his hand and touched its head, and said many words until the sun was gone, until night fell.
The turtle couldn't speak, but it could feel its owner's emotions, so it listened quietly the whole time, until the latter could no longer make a sound, and the breath on its body quickly declined.
Under the bright galaxy, Lian Chenglin raised his head and looked at the night sky, and the turtle also acted like him.
Suddenly, Lian Chenglin turned his head, looked at the turtle that accompanied him day and night, and said:
"You said that if I had joined a sect in the first place, would it have been a different scene at this time?"
Then, as if he thought that his turtle couldn't speak, he smiled softly again, and coughed with a smile.
Eventually, Lian Chenglin stood up and patted the latter's head one last time, his warm palm caressing its hard skin.
He said slowly and earnestly:
"In the lower scattered cultivation into a forest, the path has reached three hundred years, and now the path has been exhausted...... It is a blessing to be with you day and night for 232 years...... However, after that, you may have to go on your own!"
After speaking, he withdrew his hand, took off the storage bag on his body, put it at the turtle's feet, turned around, looked at the East China Sea at night, and stood with his hands in his hands.
And the turtle looked up at him, his eyes filled with sadness!
At this time, the night breeze is cool, the stars are shining overhead, the ethereal East China Sea is boundless, and it seems that only one of them and one turtle is left between heaven and earth.
Until the sky is white, until the sun rises.
The turtle lying on its stomach raised its head in the golden light, looked at the figure beside it, and let out a low whining.
And Lian Chenglin was in its sight, in the golden thread of the rising sun, and dissipated in the morning breeze blowing from the distant sky.
The turtle watched all this quietly, stayed in place for a long time, looked around, and looked at the East China Sea in the distance.
It's a bit dazed!
When night fell again and the starlight formed a galaxy, he swallowed a few storage bags at his feet and left the small island and entered the depths of the East China Sea.
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After that, this turtle traveled in the extreme depths of the East China Sea, and continued to search for the rumored Wanxing Islands for Lian Chenglin, while cultivating hard.
More than 300 years have passed in a blink of an eye, and it has not only successfully broken through to the fourth-order upper grade.
And by chance, he accidentally broke into the large array of membranes shrouded in the Ten Thousand Star Islands.
It's time to get to the interior of the Isles of Stars!
In the following hundred years, with the opportunity it found in the ruins of the ancient sect, it successfully broke through to the fifth order and was able to completely transform into a human form.
However, not long after he broke through to the fifth order spirit vein on Dongxuan Island, when he was still stabilizing the realm in the cave mansion, a third Jiao who had also just broken through to the fifth order actually found here.
Naturally, there could not be two fifth-order demon kings on a fifth-order spirit vein, so between the two of them, there was a fierce fight.
In the end, this Xuan Turtle failed, escaped with serious injuries, and "ced" the fifth-order spirit vein to the Sanshou Jiao named Ao San.
After making sure that the Xuan Turtle had escaped and was not staying in the sea area of the Wanxing Islands, Ao San settled down on the fifth-order spirit vein and built a nest for himself.
However, before he sank into cultivation, the turtle that escaped from his hands still made a deep impression on him.
Of course, this impression is not because of the other party's realm or strength, but because this turtle has a very strange name for a demon beast.
This fifth-order Xuan Tortoise calls himself: Lian Chenglin!
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After Lian Chenglin escaped from the Wanxing Islands, it took a long time for him to recover from his injuries.
He then wandered around in the East China Sea, and finally decided to return to the Chaoyang Continent to have a look, and cultivate his life as his master had done before.
Following his memory, he successfully returned to the eastern border of Chaoyang Continent, and spent almost another hundred years in Dafang City.
It wasn't until he met two human cultivators who had just entered the Qi Refining Period in an unknown Fang City in the territory of the Immortal Yuan Sect.
One of them is named Yu Yunzhen, and the other is named Lan Yingxu.
After discovering that these two people's cultivation talents were excellent, an idea gradually took shape in Lian Chenglin's mind.
He wants to recapture the Isles of Ten Thousand Stars and establish a powerful sect.
Since the master regrets not joining the sect, then I will build one for him!
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With Yu Yunzhen and Lan Yingxu, Lian Chenglin came to Limeng Island, and with his powerful cultivation, he easily occupied the third-order spiritual vein at the highest level on the island.
So while secretly teaching Yu Yunzhen and Lan Yingxu to cultivate and providing corresponding resources, he also began to establish a Fang City on this third-order spiritual vein.
He named this square city: East China Sea!
Fang City, named Donghai, is easily killed every time a sea beast attacks because of his protection.
Gradually, with a safe environment, stable spiritual veins and aura, and the convenience of going deep into the East China Sea to obtain resources, more and more casual cultivators began to come to Donghaifang City to cultivate.
Of the spirit stones earned in Donghaifang City, some of them were used by Lian Chenglin to improve the spirit vein level of Donghaifang City, and some of them were given to Yu Yunzhen and Lan Yingxu by him to provide them with their increasing cultivation.
And as the name of the scattered cultivation Lianchenglin became bigger and bigger, the scale of Donghaifang City also became larger and larger, and it successfully attracted the attention of the two major sects, the Ghoul Sect and the Xianyuan Sect, in the eastern part of the Chaoyang Continent.
Away from Meng Island and Donghaifang City, it is undoubtedly a benefit that they are very coveted!
But when they had sent several of their Jindan elders to look for Lian Chenglin once, they never had the idea of fighting Donghaifang City again.
In this way, Lian Chenglin has always shown his cultivation in the Jindan period, increasing his cultivation every once in a while until he stays at the peak of the Jindan realm, but in fact, he has already reached the fifth order middle grade.
About one hundred and fifty years ago, Yu Yunzhen and Lan Yingxu also broke through to the Jindan realm respectively.
In order to provide experience for himself to establish a sect in the future, Lian Chenglin asked the two of them to suppress the cultivation to the foundation building realm, and then each established a sect in Donghaifang City.
One is called Haichaomen, and the other is called Guijizong.
And Yu Yunzhen and Lan Yingxu also obeyed his orders, accumulating experience in managing the sect while maintaining order in Donghaifang City.
And all the income of Donghaifang City over the years will be stored for the establishment of the sect in the future.
Therefore, with the passage of time, Donghaifang City, which is far from Mengdao, has gradually become one of the largest markets in the eastern border of Chaoyang Continent, which is no different from Binhai Fang City and Wujiangfang City!
And Lian Chenglin, a scattered cultivator with the pinnacle realm of Jindan, has also become one of the top monks in the cultivation realm on the eastern border of Chaoyang Continent.
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Since then, time has quietly moved forward,
It wasn't until Lian Chenglin, who was in retreat from Meng Island, that he heard that Xun Jinyuan, the great elder of the Ghoul Sect, had broken through to the Yuanying realm.
Immediately, he realized that this might be the time for him to return to the Isles of Stars.
Just as he asked Yu Yunzhen and Lan Yingxu to release the news and solicit loose cultivators to board the treasure ship, he suddenly heard the news that Xiong Keshan, the great elder of the Immortal Yuan Sect, was also in retreat and preparing to break through the Yuanying realm.
So Lian Chenglin carefully weighed the strength of the first three Jiao, and decided that it would be safer for one more Yuan Infant Monk to go together.
As a result, the news of the discovery of the Wanxing Islands that had been circulating during the foundation building period in Donghaifang City had disappeared again.
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Finally, decades later, Xiong Keshan did not disappoint Lian Chenglin, and he successfully broke through to the Yuanying realm.
Therefore, Lian Chenglin began to implement his plan, and he invited Xun Jinyuan and Xiong Keshan to Limeng Island and told them some things.
After the promise is completed, eighty percent of the interests of Donghaifang City will be surrendered, and two additional fifth-order ethereal stones will be used as a reward!
On the other hand, Yu Yunzhen and Lan Yingxu organized a trip to the Wanxing Islands again!
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In order to be foolproof, Lian Chenglin discussed the plan with Xun Jinyuan and Xiong Keshan for a long time.
In the end, it was decided that while letting Yu Yunzhen and Lan Yingxu take people to repair the fifth-order teleportation array left by the ancient sect, the three of them arranged a fourth-order suppression array, asking them to suppress Ao San, who was very likely to have reached the fifth-order mid-grade realm.
And not only that, Lian Chenglin also knew that there was a broken fifth-order great array in the sea near the island: the Five Extremes Ten Thousand Thunder Array.
With this big array, their plans will undoubtedly be more secure!
So the final plan was born!
Three Great Arrays:
A fourth-order suppression array,
A fifth-order teleportation circle,
A fifth-order, five-pole, and ten thousand thunder arrays.
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Since it would take half a year for Xiong Keshan to repair the Five Extremes Ten Thousand Thunder Array, the three of them would take at least half a year to suppress the Great Suppression Array that they had arranged while Ao San was dormant.
However, when they arrived in the Wanxing Islands and began to implement specific plans, they found that Ao San was even more powerful than they imagined, and they could actually smash the fourth-order suppression array from the inside.
Therefore, while Lian Chenglin and Xun Jinyuan and Xiong Keshan worked hard to maintain the large array to ensure that he did not collapse for the time being, he immediately asked Yu Yunzhen to drive the treasure ship to summon the most powerful group of monks in the accompanying monks, as well as the high-level array mages inside to come and assist in their plan.
Among them, the array mage is to assist Xiong Keshan to complete the repair of the Five Extremes Ten Thousand Thunder Array in advance.
And those powerful monks in the foundation building period and the golden pill stage provided spiritual power for the magic circle and crystal energy giant crossbow in the treasure ship.
Let in the fight with Ao San, increase your chances of winning by a few points.
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Things went very smoothly, and after hundreds of years of planning, Lian Chenglin finally completed the killing of Ao San and successfully recaptured the fifth-order spirit vein.
And the fifth-order teleportation array has also been successfully repaired, just waiting for the last ethereal stone to open it.
Before leaving on the treasure ship, Lian Chenglin finally fulfilled a long-cherished wish of his hundreds of years.
He has already built the prototype of a large sect!
As long as you wait until you return to Donghaifang City on Limeng Island, and open the teleportation array there together, you can start the normal development of the Sea Pole Sect.
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In the night of returning to Limeng Island, Lian Chenglin stood alone at the top of the treasure ship.
At this time, the night breeze was cool, the stars above his head were bright, the ethereal East China Sea was boundless, and he seemed to be the only one left between heaven and earth.
It's all the same as that night many years ago, just one figure missing!
"I used to have a host, and later... He's dead, and now I'm a little sad!"