Mortal: My divine sense has mutated.

Chapter 51 Doppelganger and Nascent Soul Formation

Chen Liang pointed upwards and said, "That secret realm is about to reopen; you'll probably go there."

Xuan Gu nodded, then said through gritted teeth, "I will go there after I have dealt with those two traitors."

Chen Liang: "When we meet again in that secret realm, you have to bring me the Yin-Yang True Gold."

Xuan Gu: "Alright, then we'll part ways here."

Upon hearing this, Xuan Gu turned around and prepared to pack his belongings and leave.

But Chen Liang stopped him, saying, "Hey, wait a minute."

Just as Xuan Gu was filled with doubt and suspicion, wondering if Chen Liang intended to subdue him directly, Chen Liang took out a Golden Thunder Bamboo that had just been pulled out of his storage bag.

Upon seeing this item, Xuan Gu's eyes lit up without Chen Liang even needing to speak.

"Golden... Golden Thunder Bamboo?! Fellow Daoist, what is this?"

Chen Liang: "Senior, I see you're quite wealthy. How about it? Want it?"

Seeing Chen Liang raise an eyebrow, Xuan Gu's heart skipped a beat.

After a moment of hesitation, Xuan Gu spoke, "Dao... Fellow Daoist, what do you desire?"

Chen Liang turned to look at the demonic crown of the serpent and said, "Then let's see what treasures you can bring out, fellow Daoist."

Xuan Gu followed Chen Liang's gaze and felt a pang of heartache.

After a long while, Xuan Gu finally spoke, "I do know where the Seven-Colored Lotus is. However, I have already picked the Seven-Colored Lotuses that looked like this before to refine medicine, leaving only the lotus root and stem."

Chen Liang: "That counts as a treasure. Are there any others?"

Xuan Gu gritted his teeth and said, "I also know where to find Nine-Bend Spirit Ginseng. With both treasures combined, that should be enough, right?"

Chen Liang gave Xuan Gu a teasing look. "What do you think?"

Enraged, Xuan Gu's ghostly face glowed red as he asked directly, "Then what else do you want?"

Chen Liang: "Give me a copy of all the rare medicinal herbs and seeds in your inventory."

Upon hearing this, Xuan Gu gasped for breath, and finally gritted his teeth and spat out a single word.

"OK...."

After saying that, Xuan Gu turned and left, seemingly wanting to get away from Chen Liang.

But Chen Liang stopped him again, "Hey, wait a little longer."

Xuan Gu turned around warily, his eyes filled with fear as he looked at Chen Liang. "You... what else do you want?"

Chen Liang: "Don't misunderstand, I don't want your things anymore."

Although Xuan Gu remained vigilant upon hearing this, he was genuinely relieved.

Chen Liang continued, "Previously, I accidentally obtained the belongings of your disciple, Ji Xuan. He is dead; he died from severe injuries sustained while being hunted by Ji Yin."

Upon hearing this, a complex expression appeared on Xuan Gu's face. It seemed to be a mixture of relief and nostalgia.

Chen Liang: "I found this place among his belongings, and he left a suicide note asking me to pass on a message to you."

Xuan Gu: "What did you say?"

Chen Liang cleared his throat and said through gritted teeth, "Old man, at least I didn't die at your hands!"

After saying that, Chen Liang's expression returned to normal, and he looked at Xuan Gu's face with some anticipation.

Xuan Gu's face first turned red during a spasm, then became a mixture of red and blue.

It can only be said that this Xuanhun Demon Body is indeed mysterious, as it has allowed the remnant soul of Xuangu to retain some characteristics of a living soul to this day.

At this moment, Chen Liang, not wanting to miss out on trouble, continued, "By the way, Ji Yin has already become a Nascent Soul cultivator. He has also renamed Xuan Yin Island to Ji Yin Island and calls himself 'Ancestor Ji Yin'."

Oh dear, when I first met him, a whole bunch of people called him "Grandmaster." He was quite the figure back then, very imposing indeed.

Upon hearing this, Xuan Gu's face turned completely blue.

"Extreme Yin, the Patriarch?!"

Finally witnessing this long-awaited scene, Chen Liang was satisfied and transformed into a streak of light, departing.

Until Chen Liang's gray-blue escape light disappeared into this underground cave, Xuan Gu could no longer bear it and began to gesticulate wildly, bend over, and curse loudly.

"Damn it!! Where did this little bastard come from?! And that damned traitor Ji Xuan!!! Why wasn't he completely dead yet..."

"Extremely wicked! This traitorous disciple dares to call himself some kind of 'patriarch'!! Bah!!! How shameless..."

Xuan Gu's cursing was hysterical and utterly insane. But after his tirade, he quickly packed his things and left.

Otherwise, the extremely yin spirits who have already received the news and are on their way will intercept him.

On the other side, after leaving the deserted island, Chen Liang couldn't help but curse Xuan Gu.

"Hmph! You old bastard, you still want to control me? If you weren't someone who could create your own cultivation techniques, given the 'filial piety' attitude of your Extreme Yin Island lineage, I would have just refined you."

In Chen Liang's eyes, Xuan Gu was not a good person at all. In the original story, Han Li, along with Jin Qing, Hu Yue, a cultivator surnamed Jian, and Shi Die, came to the deserted island to search for treasure. As a result, apart from Han Li, everyone else became nourishment for Xuan Gu.

Chen Liang wasn't familiar with Jin Qing, Hu Yue, or the cultivator surnamed Jian, and had no intention of standing up for them.

But Shi Die is now a big fan of Xin Ruyin, and Chen Liang has met her a few times.

For Shi Die's sake, Chen Liang wouldn't let this old devil get away with it.

This time, Chen Liang released the old demon ahead of time, which can be considered as saving the little sister Shi Die from death.

However, on the other hand, in Chen Liang's eyes, Xuan Gu was able to create his own cultivation techniques, so he was considered half a fellow practitioner, which is why he offered the Golden Thunder Bamboo to him in a deal.

With these thoughts in mind, Chen Liang's gray-blue escape light quickly disappeared into the horizon above the deserted island.

After returning to Tianxing City, Chen Liang did not rush back to the outer sea, but stayed in Tianxing City for a while.

Firstly, he needs to collect various rare medicinal herbs or medicinal herb seeds recorded in the new elixir formula.

On the other hand, Chen Liang also entrusted the Miaoyin Sect to collect the materials needed to build an ultra-long-distance teleportation array.

After all, having reached the Nascent Soul level, it was inconvenient for Chen Liang to rely on the Star Palace's outer sea teleportation array for travel. It was time for him to build his own ultra-long-distance teleportation array.

After finishing all that, Chen Liang returned to Biling Island to continue his Nascent Soul stage cultivation and technique deduction.

Years later, in the underwater ruins near Huangming Island, Chen Liang's second clone successfully formed his Nascent Soul after absorbing a massive amount of demonic energy.

He found this place more than a decade ago using his powerful mutated divine sense, and he even transformed the remaining array of this ruin into a unique forbidden array—the Ink Sea Demon Abyss Array.

Since then, this place has become a frequent retreat for the second clone.

It wasn't until Chen Liang was 120 years old that Han Li finally achieved the Core Formation.

After achieving the Core Formation stage, Han Li was finally able to put the ancient exotic bamboo—the Yin Gold Bamboo—that he had previously purchased from the Fengle Auction House to good use.

Yinjin Bamboo is a rare spiritual plant with both metal and wood attributes. The Green Bamboo Peak Cloud Sword, which is made from it, is not only exceptionally sharp, but also allows it to execute the Great Geng Sword Formation several times faster than other spiritual plants.

Therefore, according to the "Qingyuan Sword Manual", Yinjin Bamboo is one of the most suitable spiritual plants for refining the Qingzhu Bee Cloud Sword.

On the other hand, having already experienced the benefits of a powerful divine sense, Han Li is also looking for ways to further enhance his divine sense.

He learned from ancient texts that some cultivators experienced a significant increase in spiritual power after undergoing trials in the mortal world. Therefore, while preparing to refine his natal magic weapon, Han Li took the initiative to enter the mortal realm and undergo trials in the mortal world, which can be considered an unexpected experience of the mortal tribulation.

Finally, after about twenty years, Han Li's divine sense not only grew to a level close to the Nascent Soul stage, but he also used the Yin Gold Bamboo he had already cultivated to forge seventy-two Azure Bamboo Bee Cloud Swords as his natal magic weapons.

However, those are all stories for later. In the year Chen Liang turned 123, the tribal coalition of the Mulan Grassland once again invaded Tiannan.

Chen Liang's first clone had no choice but to drag its near-Nascent Soul stage cultivation level into battle.

During that time, the first clone was genuinely worried that he would be forced to break through to the Nascent Soul stage on the battlefield.

Therefore, he became a little irritable, and because he displayed the great supernatural power of five-colored spiritual light, he was targeted by two Nascent Soul stage cultivators from the Mulan Grassland.

So when the two Nascent Soul cultivators attacked, the first clone killed them directly, even refining their Nascent Souls with three-colored flames.

In the aftermath of the battle, the high-ranking officials of the Mulan Grassland and the cultivation world of Tiannan were all shaken. For the first time in tens of thousands of years, the cultivation world had witnessed a peak Core Formation cultivator capable of defeating a Nascent Soul cultivator, so how could this not attract attention?

The higher-ups of Mulan Grassland even declared that as long as the first clone was willing to switch sides, Mulan Grassland was willing to treat him as a holy son.

Meanwhile, his first clone had already informed Linghu Laoguai and Wei Wuyai that he was close to forming his Nascent Soul, and thus returned to Huangfeng Valley to focus on preparing for the formation of his Nascent Soul.

That autumn, thanks to the benefits of refining two Nascent Soul cultivators, the first clone saved about three years of hard work and successfully formed its Nascent Soul ahead of schedule.

On that day, the Yuanfeng Spiritual Light Array, which had been modified by the first clone, was fully activated in Huangfeng Valley, and Old Monster Linghu also returned to the sect to oversee it.

Amidst great anticipation, celestial signs of the Nascent Soul stage, such as the vortex of spiritual energy and the Five Elements Spiritual Stars, appeared one after another.

Finally, as the first avatar's illusory form opened its eyes and stood up, Huangfeng Valley finally welcomed its second Nascent Soul cultivator, who was also a Nascent Soul cultivator who was 123 years old.

Once this news spread, the high-ranking officials of the Mulan Grassland and the major forces in Tiannan were green with envy, and Old Monster Linghu was laughing in his dreams every day.

The first clone spent more than a year familiarizing himself with the Nascent Soul realm and some cultivation methods of the Nascent Soul stage, and participated in the large-scale decisive battle between the Mulan Grassland and Tiannan when Chen Liang was 125 years old.

In this battle, the first clone killed a mid-stage Nascent Soul cultivator, which prompted Zhong Shenshi, a late-stage Nascent Soul cultivator from the Mulan Grassland, to personally intervene.

However, once the first clone reached the Nascent Soul realm, it was no longer restrained and directly used the Five-Colored Divine Light, a peerless divine power for restraint and weakening, and the Five Elements Great Escape, a great divine power for escape, to deal with it.

In the end, even Master Zhong was powerless against the first clone.

Until Wei Wuyai arrived to provide support, the first clone turned to face the Mulan Saintess, Master Yue, who had summoned the phantom of the Mulan Sacred Bird using the Yuanming Lamp.

Because the true form of the Sacred Bird of Mulan is a bird with the bloodline of a five-colored peacock, it is unwilling to attack its first clone, an entity that it feels naturally close to.

Having lost the trump card of the Mulan Sacred Bird Phantom, and with all his skills and supernatural powers being restrained by the Five-Colored Divine Light, Master Yue was naturally extremely frustrated. Even the first clone, seeing her clenched teeth, had no doubt that if given the chance, this Mulan Sacred Maiden would definitely give him a hard bite with her teeth.

Even after the final battle ended, Master Yue's expression as he looked at his first clone was still one of gritted teeth, his eyes practically spitting fire.

Master Zhong looked at the first clone with a complicated expression and said, "If only you were born in the Mulan Grassland."