Mortal: My divine sense has mutated.

Chapter 23 New Treasures, New Beginnings

At this time, Chen Liang had already refined all the newly acquired materials into precious treasures or magical artifacts.

First, Chen Liang refined the Blood Jade Spider's jade shell into five sets of soft armor treasures.

This soft armor is inherently impervious to water and fire. Chen Liang also engraved advanced toughness restrictions and advanced spirit gathering restrictions on it, which greatly enhanced its defensive power and reliability.

Chen Liang gave four sets of soft armor to Mo Yuzhu, Mo Fengwu, Mo Caihuan, and Xin Ruyin. They were all very excited, after all, what girl wouldn't like such a soft, comfortable, and life-saving garment?

In addition, Chen Liang also used some of the blood jade spider silk he had collected to make several robes.

Besides the one he wore himself, the other robes were also intended for the four women, Mo Yuzhu, Mo Fengwu, Mo Caihuan, and Xin Ruyin, so he had asked them in advance which styles they preferred.

Furthermore, there was the pair of golden wings of the Golden-Winged Demon Mantis. After Chen Liang integrated them into the Wind Spirit Shuttle, its normal speed finally reached the speed of a Core Formation level escape.

Furthermore, Chen Liang also engraved advanced toughness and advanced spirit gathering restrictions on the shell of the Golden-Winged Demon Mantis. In addition, since it was already a Core Formation level spiritual material, the Golden Mantis Armor Treasure he crafted was much stronger than the Blood Jade Soft Armor Treasure.

After Chen Liang finished refining it, he immediately put it on his body, because the cyan-gold armor was just too attractive.

Finally, there's the Golden-Winged Demon Mantis's pair of incredibly sharp forelimbs, which are also a Core Formation level spiritual material. Chen Liang further refined the Golden-Winged Demon Mantis's flesh and blood into metallic spiritual ink, engraving advanced sharpness restrictions and advanced aura-breaking restrictions inside, maximizing its power.

Combined with some specially preserved lapis lazuli foot shells and blood-refining treasures that have not yet completed their recognition of a master, a powerful and sharp magic weapon—the Golden Mantis Scissors—was born.

Unlike the pseudo-magic weapons or rare treasures that Chen Liang had previously crafted, this was a true magic weapon. Only Core Formation level spiritual power could drive it, and its power level would not be lower than that of a Core Formation level cultivator. Moreover, it could be nurtured and advanced by Core Formation cultivators as their natal magic weapon.

While Foundation Establishment cultivators can use the spiritual power of the pseudo-magic weapons or rare treasures that Chen Liang crafted, their power level will be lower than that of Core Formation cultivators.

Of course, the biggest advantage of pseudo-magic weapons and rare treasures is that if a Foundation Establishment cultivator activates them with all their might, they can also unleash the power of a Core Formation level cultivator.

After crafting the Golden Mantis Scissors, Chen Liang attempted to activate them. His spiritual power, which had already achieved yin-yang unity and possessed some characteristics of the Golden Core level, could only be barely activated, but its power was unprecedented in Chen Liang's life.

However, Chen Liang had already used up more than half of his spiritual power in one strike, so this magic weapon was completely unusable for him.

On the other hand, Chen Liang heard that the battle on the border of Yue was very fierce. Although Huangfeng Valley had sent most of its disciples and two Core Formation cultivators, Lei Wanhe and Fengyun Zhenren, who were both highly skilled and powerful, they were still not enough.

After all, the six sects of the demonic path are too powerful. Even a relatively weak sect like the Ghost Spirit Sect has almost the same number of Nascent Soul cultivators as the Yue Kingdom.

Moreover, the territory of the Six Demonic Sects is more than ten times that of the Yue Kingdom, and the number of Foundation Establishment cultivators under their tutelage far exceeds that of the Yue Kingdom.

Under such circumstances, it's somewhat unreasonable for Chen Liang to still be clinging to a magical artifact that's unsuitable for him. Moreover, with the Yellow Maple Valley becoming stronger, only those close to Chen Liang, such as Mo Yuzhu, Mo Fengwu, and Mo Caihuan, will be safe.

Chen Liang has already discussed his plans to go to the Chaotic Star Sea when the Seven Sects are defeated with his four fiancées, Mo Yuzhu, Mo Fengwu, Mo Caihuan, and Xin Ruyin.

In response, Xin Ruyin, along with Xiao Mei who was standing nearby, decided to follow Chen Liang to the Chaotic Star Sea.

Although Mo Yuzhu, Mo Fengwu, and Mo Caihuan also wanted to leave with Chen Liang, the many entanglements of their families and sects forced them to give up this idea.

As the eldest daughter in the family, Mo Yuzhu naturally could not leave.

Mo Caihuan has always been nurtured by Huangfeng Valley as the future of the sect, and it is neither reasonable nor emotional that she cannot be separated from them;

As for Mo Fengwu, she is an adopted daughter of the Mo family, not Mo Juren's biological daughter, but she has always been treated as his own, so she cannot leave.

Since Mo Caihuan and the other two women will have no choice but to evacuate Yue Kingdom with Huangfeng Valley, Chen Liang naturally needs to strengthen Huangfeng Valley's capabilities.

So he found Zhongling Dao and presented the newly made precious magic weapon, the Golden Mantis Scissors, to Huangfeng Valley.

Zhong Lingdao hesitated at this. Although he knew that Chen Liang was highly skilled in crafting magical artifacts, and had even asked Chen Liang to craft several excellent magical artifacts, he could not appraise magical treasures, so he could not calculate the sect's contribution for Chen Liang at this moment.

So they contacted Li Huayuan and Hong Fu Zhenren, the two Core Formation cultivators who stayed behind in Huangfeng Valley, and asked them to appraise the magic weapon.

Li Huayuan and Hong Fu Zhenren initially didn't have high expectations for the Golden Mantis Scissors. However, when the Golden Mantis Scissors, activated by Li Huayuan, a cultivator in the early stage of Core Formation, unleashed power approaching that of a Pseudo-Nascent Soul Realm magic weapon, Li Huayuan, Hong Fu Zhenren, and Zhong Lingdao were stunned into silence.

Then Li Huayuan and the other two were overjoyed. Li Huayuan, in particular, was so fond of the Golden Mantis Scissors that he was reluctant to part with them, even when Hong Fu Zhenren asked for a copy.

Afterwards, both Li Huayuan and Hong Fu Zhenren realized that the Golden Mantis Scissors could be improved further.

Thus, Li Huayuan, a peak early-stage Core Formation cultivator who possessed a top-tier Yang attribute physique—the Three Yang Body—and had also cultivated the top-tier Yang attribute technique, the True Yang Manual, personally assisted Chen Liang in refining a portion of golden essence.

Chen Liang carefully refined this golden essence into the Golden Mantis Scissors, and at the same time optimized the internal restrictions of the Golden Mantis Scissors.

Ultimately, the reforged Golden Mantis Scissors reached the level of a pseudo-infant realm magic weapon, and was one of the most powerful pseudo-infant realm magic weapons.

It is conceivable that, given that Nascent Soul cultivators generally do not personally participate in battles, the Golden Mantis Scissors, a powerful pseudo-Nascent Soul realm magic weapon, will bring a huge advantage to Yellow Maple Valley.

This magical artifact even alarmed Linghu Laoguai, and made Chen Liang's reputation as a master weapon refiner resound throughout the entire Huangfeng Valley and even the cultivation world of Yue Kingdom.

However, that's a story for later. Now that Chen Liang has received a large amount of sect contribution points, he exchanged them for two Foundation Establishment Pills for Xin Ruyin to help her establish her foundation.

After all, in this chaotic world, only strength is the true guarantee.

Chen Liang planned to follow Li Huayuan on the expedition to support the border defense, his purpose being to exploit the massive amount of malevolent energy on the battlefield.

The malevolent energy contained a great deal of soul energy, soul essence, blood energy, yin energy, and death energy. Although it was highly poisonous to ordinary cultivators, it was a perfect tonic for Chen Liang, who cultivated the "Primordial Chaos Scripture" and possessed the fire of divine sense.

Chen Liang was certain that if he could refine a large amount of evil energy for cultivation, his cultivation speed would advance by leaps and bounds.

He had experienced this firsthand when he was purging the Black Fiend Cult.

But as soon as Chen Liang voiced his idea, he was met with unanimous opposition from Zhong Lingdao, Li Huayuan, and Hong Fu Zhenren.

Li Huayuan and Master Hongfu even lectured Chen Liang, bringing up theories like "A wise man does not stand under a dangerous wall" and "A wealthy man does not sit under a dangerous roof," leaving Chen Liang stunned.

However, this is quite normal. After all, Chen Liang's weapon-refining skills are already close to the level of a grandmaster. No sect would risk sending such a precious talent to the battlefield unless the sect's survival is truly at stake.

As for the large amount of malevolent energy that Chen Liang needs, he doesn't need to collect it himself at all.

Because whenever there is a great war in the cultivation world, both sides will issue wartime missions to collect evil energy.

After all, apart from a few cultivators who can effectively utilize evil energy, other cultivators avoid evil energy like the plague.

In order to ensure that the strength of the cultivator army was not affected, the wartime mission of collecting evil energy was created.

Moreover, this task is not difficult. Any Qi Refining cultivator can collect a large amount of it by wielding a standard magic weapon—the Gourd of Fiendish Qi. Therefore, the collection is quick and easy.

Since Chen Liang needs a large amount of malevolent energy, then we can simply send cultivators from Huangfeng Valley to deliver the malevolent energy gourd to Chen Liang.

This way, the allied cultivators won't have to find a place to bury the evil energy gourd.

In addition, the wartime regulations of the Seven Sects clearly stipulate that every cultivator of the Seven Sects must complete certain wartime tasks, and Chen Liang is no exception.

Since he couldn't go to the battlefield, Chen Liang chose instead to guard the spirit stone mine in the wasteland.

In this way, Chen Liang could secretly repair the ancient teleportation array. Moreover, the location was very close to the border of the Yue Kingdom, making it convenient for the cultivators of Huangfeng Valley to deliver the evil energy gourd to Chen Liang.

Han Li originally wanted to choose the task of guarding the sect, but the hot-tempered Li Huayuan was furious when he saw this timid disciple.

Especially since even a master weapon refiner like Chen Liang wanted to go to the battlefield while Han Li wanted to hide within the sect, Li Huayuan glared at him, and Han Li also chose the mission of guarding the spirit stone mine in the wasteland.

In this way, Han Li not only reassured his master, but also greatly reduced the possibility of encountering danger while carrying out the mission.

As for Mo Yuzhu and Mo Fengwu, they chose the task of guarding the sect. This way, they could take care of Mo Juren and the other members of the Mo family, and also spend some time with Mo Caihuan.

After all, with the outbreak of war, the only task that sects like Mo Caihuan can choose in the future is to guard the sect.

Soon, Chen Liang, Han Li, and Chen Qiaoqian set off on the Wind Spirit Shuttle.

Chen Qiaoqian also chose this mission, so the three of them agreed to set off together.

Throughout the journey, Chen Qiaoqian was visibly restless, frequently glancing at Chen Liang with complicated emotions. Chen Liang roughly guessed the reason for her unusual behavior, so he remained relatively calm, but Han Li, standing beside him, was extremely uncomfortable.

It took Chen Liang and his group several days to reach the location of the wasteland spirit stone mine.

At this moment, the other two Foundation Establishment cultivators who had chosen this posting mission had been waiting for a long time. They were Lü Tianmeng from Spirit Beast Mountain and Xuan Le from the Hidden Moon Sect.

In the cultivation world, strength is paramount, and these two are both at the late Foundation Establishment stage. Therefore, this guard duty is mainly decided by these two, but Chen Liang, Han Li, and Chen Qiaoqian also have the right to participate in the decision-making process.

After exchanging pleasantries, the extraordinary mission officially began.