Tian Yuan War Chronicles: The Path of Artifacts to Ascension – Chapter 55

Ch 55: Heaven-Confining Earth-Locking

Having heard that the other party had a method for crafting Hunyuan Fruit, Hua Kong quickly asked Li Mei for leave and went to Haizhou City with Hua Jingnian.

When they arrived at the branch of their own Chamber of Commerce in Haizhou City, the Nine Nether Sect Nascent Soul Late Stage Cultivator named Yan Donghai was already waiting at Hua Jingnian’s residence.

“This must be Great Cultivator Hua Kong!” An old man in black was waiting outside the guest room, and said when he saw Hua Kong and his party approaching.

“That’s right! Does Your Excellency have a method for crafting Hunyuan Fruit?” Hua Kong asked eagerly.

“Great Cultivator Hua, why be in such a hurry? Let’s brew a cup of Spirit Tea and talk slowly.” Yan Donghai reached out and led Hua Kong into the guest room.

“Serve the best tea!” Hua Kong said to Hua Jingnian.

“Please!” Yan Donghai said.

“Please, sir, you go first!” Hua Kong said politely.

“Then I won’t stand on ceremony.” Yan Donghai said, and took the lead to walk into the room, Hua Kong followed.

“This is my daughter, Yan Xiner!” Yan Donghai saw Hua Kong come in, pointed to a beautiful woman in black and introduced her, she was actually a Nascent Soul Mid-Stage Cultivator.

“Greetings, Miss, I am Hua Kong!” Hua Kong greeted politely.

“Greetings, Great Cultivator Hua!” The woman curtsied and said.

“Good! Good! Great Cultivator Hua, please sit down! Let’s chat slowly!” Yan Donghai pulled over a chair and sat down.

“Good! Good!” Hua Kong also sat down.

“Presumably your son has already told you my conditions! My conditions remain the same! Xiner can marry you as a concubine! My two hundred family members must go to the Eight Yang World! They must have a place to settle down in the Eight Yang World.

There must be cultivation resources every month! No less than your family! In addition, you must do your best to help me find medicine to repair my Spiritual Root! The benefit I give you is the method for crafting Hunyuan Fruit.” Yan Donghai stated his conditions bluntly.

“Haha! Easy to say! Easy to say! In that case, we are already family! Let’s drink tea!” When Hua Kong heard this condition, it was indeed a blatant demand! But as long as Yan Donghai gave him the Hunyuan Fruit crafting method! He would agree to have his ribs broken and used to make soup for Yan Xiner.

“Haha! Straightforward! Drink tea!” Yan Donghai also laughed.

“But I have one thing I don’t understand! As a Nine Nether Sect Nascent Soul Late Stage Cultivator, will your sect let you leave?” Hua Kong asked suspiciously.

“Alas! I am a dying man, and I have long been forgotten. Now the sect is still willing to give me some face, entirely for Xiner’s sake!” Yan Donghai sighed and said, not hiding anything.

“Then with such a treasure in hand, you should be able to exchange it for a chance to go to the Upper Realm with any Chamber of Commerce, why did you come to me?” In fact, this was Hua Kong’s biggest doubt.

“If it were before, I would have continued to stay in this East Sea until my Lifespan was exhausted, and I would not have looked for anyone.

But now I have heard about the Eight Yang World, and some old guys, in order to leave this world, have abandoned their families and businesses and become slaves to others.

Even some people have negotiated well with your sect’s Chamber of Commerce to only be disciples, but when they arrive in the Eight Yang World, they are still captured and branded with a servant Soul Imprint.

Alas~~ This old man has been in this area of the East Sea for fifteen hundred years, and I have seen countless people who forget righteousness for profit. I can’t say that I have been completely innocent to get to where I am today.

But as I am about to die, I have a large family to protect! I heard that Your Excellency was once a servant, but now you are a well-known Artifact Refining Master, so I think you will not do anything that forgets righteousness for profit.” Yan Donghai said helplessly.

“Uh~~ This~~” Hua Kong was speechless for a moment, because there were also several people in his family who had been Nine Nether Sect disciples, and he had never thought carefully about why, but now he understood.

“Hehe~~ Let’s drink tea first, we can set a date first,” Yan Donghai said with a smile.

“I have another question, I hope you can clear my doubts!” Hua Kong reacted and said.

“What is it? Tell me?” Yan Donghai responded.

“Won’t the large-scale departure of people from your three sects affect the Yin-Yang balance of this world and its affiliated Lower Realms?” Hua Kong asked.

“Of course not! The Great Dao of Heaven and Earth will naturally maintain the Yin-Yang balance!” Yan Donghai said decisively.

“Then what is the purpose of your three sects’ existence?” Hua Kong was greatly puzzled.

“Haha! In fact, it’s not what the outside world says, that our three sects maintain the Yin-Yang balance, it’s all the Great Dao of Heaven and Earth!

We won’t have any problems even if we don’t do anything! It’s just that some Ghost Cultivators and Yin Cultivators in our sect need the huge Yin Qi and Death Qi by the Soul Pool to cultivate!

In fact, when the Seven Yang Sect was around, cultivators were not allowed to approach the Soul Pool! But now no one cares about that anymore.

Moreover, only less than 30% of the cultivators in the sect are Ghost Cultivators or Yin Cultivators, for example, I am an ordinary Water System Cultivator!” Yan Donghai explained.

“So that’s how it is! Then what’s the matter with using the Soul Pool to check some people’s past life memories?” Hua Kong asked again.

“This is the reason why the Seven Yang Sect didn’t allow cultivators to approach the Soul Pool when they were around, but now someone is willing to pay Spirit Stones to check, but whether you can find it is another matter.” Yan Donghai shook his head and said.

“So that’s how it is!” Hua Kong finally understood.

Hua Kong was still in a good mood, although he suddenly had a large family to support, he had a magic weapon with unlimited potential waiting for him.

So he quickly set a date, and held a ceremony directly at the Hua Family Chamber of Commerce’s branch in East Sea City, and brought Yan Xiner into his family.

Yan Xiner decided to stay with Hua Kong first, while the Old Man Yan and his two hundred family members arranged for their family to send a Flying Boat to take them back to the Eight Yang World, and bought two large houses on the other side of Small Stone City to settle them down.

Hua Kong obtained the Hunyuan Fruit crafting method, but he was dumbfounded when he saw it. Although he already had the main ingredient of Hunyuan Fruit, the other auxiliary materials were not easy to collect.

Just ten Void Dragon Horns would be enough to keep him busy for who knows how long. Could it be that he would ascend to the Immortal Realm and kill the Dragon Clan to ask for them? Only then did he exclaim that he had been fooled!

What is a mirage? This is it!

Helpless, Hua Kong had no choice but to turn back and continue to study Elixirs. With Yan Xiner taking care of his life in the Small Courtyard, Hua Kong’s state of mind was much more stable.

After several years of continuous experimentation, and after wasting a lot of Spirit Grass and Spiritual Medicine, Hua Kong finally produced an Elixir!

What made Hua Kong depressed was that Lin Yu came to join in the fun once, and as a result, he produced an Elixir on the spot. Only then did Hua Kong understand that this thing was a bit like cooking?

During this period, Hua Kong also introduced Yan Xiner to Lin Lan, Lin Yu and others. No one said much, because Lin Yu and Yang Yuzhuo had also brought back several people each to introduce to everyone. Compared to them, Hua Kong had only brought back one person.

As the “great heroes” who opened up the Eight Yang World, they had a great reputation in the Seven Yang World.

So this time when they came back, a large number of Cultivators came to join them. Although not all of them were brought under their command, they all suddenly had some more disciples, and there were many whose realms were higher than theirs. Of course, the realms of the Seven Yang World were somewhat weak in front of them.

On this day, it was time to go to work again, and Hua Kong got up early and went to the Sword God Hall.

Unexpectedly, Li Mei told him that it was time to replace the Spirit Stones for the Heaven-Confining Earth-Locking Grand Array once every ten years, and handed him a Storage Bracelet.

As the person most familiar with Formations among them, Hua Kong naturally did not refuse, took the Storage Bracelet and boarded the Flying Boat. The journey that originally took more than ten days on the Seven Yang World Flying Boat only took two days on the Eight Yang World Flying Boat.

Seeing this huge Formation from afar, Hua Kong was also stunned. This Formation was also fierce, directly wrapping up the entire lake area of several hundred miles.

The small village he had visited before was no exception. This place was already very remote, but now it was completely isolated from the world.

But it seemed that those people should be able to live, because the Grand Array also extended dozens of miles outward along the lake area. The villagers who could be moved had been moved away, leaving only that village not moved away. There was definitely no problem with such a vast area supporting so many people.

This Formation was vast, and there were several Formation Eyes, so Hua Kong rode the Flying Boat to replace the Spirit Stones one by one.

Just as Hua Kong had replaced the Spirit Stones at one Formation Eye, he heard an explosion at another Formation Eye hundreds of miles away.

“Boom!”

The huge explosion seemed to be able to destroy the heavens and the earth. Hua Kong could immediately feel the Spiritual Power of the Grand Array rapidly losing. If he could not plug the gap immediately, the Grand Array would definitely be destroyed.

“I’ll go!” Hua Kong was furious. You didn’t act rashly when others came, but you acted rashly when I came! He quickly jumped on the Flying Boat and flew towards the gap.

Soon Hua Kong drove the Flying Boat to the gap, and saw the Grand Array frantically leaking Spiritual Power, while two Cultivators in the shape of women were greedily absorbing the Spiritual Power leaking from the Grand Array.

The two were very high in realm, and Hua Kong could not detect them. The two immediately discovered Hua Kong approaching, and the Old Woman turned around and approached Hua Kong.

Hua Kong was not used to her either, took out his Spirit Energy Hand Cannon, and pulled the trigger at the Old Woman, and a rain of bolts flew towards her.

“Hmm?” The Old Woman had never seen this kind of weapon, but seeing the bolts flying, she still dodged.

The bolts touched the obstacles and exploded instantly, and the Spiritual Power fluctuations suddenly became chaotic, affecting the White-Clad Young Woman behind her from absorbing the Spiritual Power of the Formation.

“Ah?” The two were shocked and immediately attacked together.

“Hmm?” Now it was Hua Kong’s turn to worry. The two were very fast, and Hua Kong could hardly capture their trajectories. The Spirit Energy Hand Cannon could only chase the two’s figures to attack, and the falling bolts continued to explode on the ground.

“Five Elements Sword Formation!” Seeing that the Spirit Energy Hand Cannon could not do anything to the two, Hua Kong quickly summoned five Flying Swords to form a simple Sword Formation. This was a Cultivation Method given to him by Old Ancestor Lin Lian, and it was especially suitable for people like Hua Kong with Mixed Five Elements Spiritual Roots.

But after Hua Kong studied it for a period of time, he found that he could not exert the advantages of his Void Spiritual Root, so he tried to add his Void Spiritual Power to the Formation. After decades of research, he successfully added it, and now it was the first time he used it.

This Sword Formation not only had the attack power of Flying Swords and Spiritual Power, but also had multiple Space-Time Swamps and Void Blade Traps.

Although the two were one or two major realms higher than Hua Kong in realm, they could not gain too many advantages in front of Hua Kong. After all, Hua Kong was already a body of the Eight Yang World, and with Hua Kong’s Void Spiritual Power Flying Blades flying from time to time, the two were greatly shocked and wanted to escape.

“Want to escape?” Hua Kong quickly expanded the scope of the Five Elements Sword Formation and covered the two in it. Unexpectedly, he just happened to put a Void Blade Trap in front of the White-Clad Woman, and the woman plunged into it.

“Master! Ah~~” The Old Woman saw a Void Blade attacking the White-Clad Woman, and quickly jumped over and pushed her, blocking the attack for her, and her body was also torn apart by the oncoming Void Blade.

But the Transformation Stage body was powerful, and in the blink of an eye, the Old Woman’s body was reconnected and began to recover. How could Hua Kong give her a chance? He threw a high-level Spirit Sealing Talisman over.

The remnant body really stopped recovering, but the Transformation Stage Cultivator would not die quickly. The Old Woman just screamed in pain and wanted to launch a Mental Attack. Hua Kong quickly took out the Spirit Beast Ring and took her in as a Spirit Beast, using the Formation in the Spirit Beast Ring to seal her.

“Ah~~~” The White-Clad Woman who fell into the Void Blade Trap suddenly screamed loudly, launching a Mental Attack. The sharp sonic waves accompanied by a powerful Mental Power attacked, and the Treasure Pearl on Hua Kong’s body that prevented Mental and Illusion Techniques attacks suddenly cracked and was about to collapse.

Even the Void Blade Trap that trapped her became unstable due to Hua Kong’s wavering mind. Seeing the woman’s ghost-like screams about to break through his Formation, Hua Kong could not sit still and wait for death.

He quickly threw out all the Trap Formations he had crafted over the years, trapping the woman in the middle, and at the same time withdrew the Five Elements Sword Formation.

But the woman’s screaming Mental Attack was too powerful, and the Treasure Pearl was about to fail to support it. His hands were a little numb, and the Spiritual Power was not flowing smoothly.

Hua Kong could only leave a distance, but the woman stared at him and attacked. It was useless to be too close, so he could only step on the Flying Boat and fly high into the sky to avoid it.