Terran Guardian - Chapter 3489

Chapter 3467 Dispensable News

“Boom!”

The void trembled and shattered, and the deep sound of a bell spread out in all directions like ripples.

“The re-refined Xuantian Emperor Bell is as powerful as ordinary top-grade Emperor Immortal artifacts, but it still lags behind those treasures that have survived the military tribulation.”

Shen Changqing briefly tested the Xuantian Emperor Bell’s power and was satisfied. After all, it was a practice piece for his ascension to the peak of the Seventh Rank. The   fact

that the Xuantian Emperor Bell was comparable to treasures of the same rank was already quite impressive.

If he wanted to go further, it would naturally fall far short of those treasures that had survived the military tribulation. Moreover,   the Xuantian Emperor Bell’s inherent power was not enough to sustain it through the military tribulation.   To achieve this,   Shen Changqing would have to wait until he had further experience at the peak of the Seventh Rank and found enough top-quality materials to re-refine this treasure.   Then,   Shen Changqing, with a sudden thought, took out the Immortal-Destroying Formation Diagram.   ”The true power of the Immortal-Exterminating Formation Diagram lies in the Immortal-Exterminating Sword Formation it contains.   Without the Immortal-Exterminating Sword Formation, the power of this supreme treasure would be greatly diminished.   Even if I were to ascend to the eighth-rank Grandmaster, I wouldn’t be able to re-refine the Immortal-Exterminating Formation Diagram—”   With Shen Changqing’s current vision, he could discern many clues from the Immortal-Exterminating Formation Diagram.   This supreme treasure, born of nature, possesses a celestial rhythm that cannot be matched by any man-made treasure.   An eighth-rank Grandmaster   could re-refine the Immortal-Exterminating Formation Diagram, but not the formations within it.   Thus,   the Immortal-Exterminating Formation Diagram without the Immortal-Exterminating Sword Formation was meaningless.   There were only two ways to simultaneously enhance the Immortal-Exterminating Sword Formation.   The first was to seek out a top-tier Grandmaster of formations and have them inscribe the formations during the re-refining phase of the supreme treasure, completely merging the two.   The second, however,   was much simpler.   Finding the Chaos Embryo would allow the Immortal-Exterminating Formation Diagram to transform to the Origin level.   At that point,   the opponent would ascend autonomously, naturally receiving the blessing of heaven and earth, and the Immortal-Exterminating Sword Formation would also undergo the desired transformation.   But again,   Chaos Embryos are rare. For years, Shen Changqing had instructed the Xingdao League and Xuantian Dao Sect to secretly search for the Chaos Embryo, but to no avail.   No—   it’s not entirely fruitless.   For example, the Xingdao League reported that a source had accidentally revealed that the Shenyang Immortal Court possessed a Chaos Embryo.   The problem was,   the Chaos Embryo was in the hands of the Shenyang Immortal Court. Even if Shen Changqing achieved Semi-Sainthood on the spot, he couldn’t break into the Shenyang Immortal Court and snatch it from them.   As for a trade, that was even more impossible.   Trading with a power of this caliber is no easy task.   Furthermore   , when the Great Yi Immortal Emperor approached him, Shen Changqing’s refusal was a veiled offense against the Shenyang Immortal Court, making a deal impossible.   Furthermore,   Given the status and position of the Divine Sun Immortal Court, ordinary gifts would be difficult to impress.   With Shen Changqing’s current wealth, he couldn’t persuade the Divine Sun Immortal Court to agree to a trade unless he offered the Seven Profound Divine Pagoda or Nine Leaf’s Green Leaf.   Otherwise,   he felt it would be difficult to convince the Divine Sun Immortal Court to offer anything else, even the Eight Trigrams Purple Sun Furnace. While   a seventh-grade Xiantian Imperial Weapon was certainly powerful ,   it depended on the object.   Something like the Chaos Spirit Embryo might be worth less than an ancient immortal artifact to ordinary cultivators,   but for some peak powerhouses and even powerful forces, even a Xiantian Imperial Weapon couldn’t compare.   It could be said that   the value of a Chaos Spirit Embryo depended entirely on the cultivator’s vision.   After all, such treasures, capable of ascending to the Origin level and becoming capable of growth, were inherently incalculable.   However, trading the former two was an outrageous proposition.   Only Shen Changqing would be foolish enough to offer them.   The Chaos Spirit Embryo was indeed precious,   but those two items were even more indispensable.   Not to mention the Seven Profound Divine Pagoda.   This supreme treasure is the foundation that has truly brought Shen Changqing to this point.   Such a supreme treasure is absolutely incomparable to a mere Chaos Embryo.   Even   if offered the opportunity to attain sainthood in exchange, Shen Changqing would not accept it.   And that Green Leaf is even more so.   It is his most powerful trump card at this stage.   With it   , even the Ancient Supreme Beings would be intimidated.   It can be said that   with this Green Leaf, Shen Changqing has the confidence to face the Supreme Divine Cult or other supreme forces.   After all, a leaf suspected of carrying the power of the Chaos Lord would be feared by even the Divine Sun Immortal Court.   Shen Changqing now understood   what the Chaos Lord was .   It was a being capable of opening up three thousand universes. For example   , the Guanming Immortal Sect of the   Guanming Realm, capable of competing with numerous supreme powers, suppressing the Qingxuan Sacred Land, and dominating the Shenyang Territory, likely only possessed powerful individuals of this level during its peak. Precisely because of the terrifying power of the Chaos Lord,   the significance of the Qingye gifted by Jiuye is self-evident.   Beyond these two, Shen Changqing had nothing else to offer.   Therefore,   the existence of such a Chaos Spirit Embryo was irrelevant.   But Shen Changqing could understand this.   Ultimately,   treasures of this caliber were rare, and their appearance would attract scrambles from all sides.   Unowned Chaos Spirit Embryos might exist in the Nine Heavens Immortal Realm, or even in the Primal Chaos, but they were surely well hidden.

Finding it was no easy task.

Shen Changqing could only take things one step at a time, while also vaguely pinning his hopes on the Heavenly Dao Divine Monument.

The Heavenly Dao Divine Monument!

Anything was possible!

Perhaps it would allow his immortal body to reach perfection, perhaps it would grant him a Chaos Spirit Embryo, or perhaps some other heaven-defying opportunity.

Ultimately,

Shen Changqing suppressed all distracting thoughts.

He stopped dwelling on the matter and glanced at the Xuantian Emperor Bell in his hand. With a flick of his mind, he absorbed the treasure into his sea of consciousness, then tore through the void and departed.

Shen Changqing was naturally satisfied that refining the Xuantian Emperor Bell had allowed him to ascend to the pinnacle of the Seventh Rank.

Honestly,

even hundreds of thousands of years ago, Shen Changqing never imagined that his path to reaching the pinnacle of the Seventh Rank Grandmaster would be through weapon refining.

He had originally thought that the breakthrough in alchemy would come first.

After all, Shen Changqing possessed the Eight Trigrams Purple Sun Furnace, a treasure imbued with the Dao rhyme power of the former Danxin Venerable.

This level of Dao rhyme power is in fact no less than a complete eighth-level alchemy inheritance.

But alas,

the world is unpredictable.

Plans and changes are always subject to slight discrepancies.

However, Shen Changqing considered this result satisfactory. While

the alchemy path is certainly good, the instrument path is also not bad.

…

Returning to the sect

, Xuantian Dao Sect had undergone little change in the past thousands of years.

Such a short period of time would hardly leave even the slightest trace of time on an ancient sect with a heritage spanning billions of years.

No one knew.

Shen Changqing had left Xuantian Dao Sect, and even less was it known that he had already achieved a breakthrough to the peak seventh level in the instrument path during the millennia since his departure.

Shen Changqing also kept this fact to himself.

“The million years agreed upon with the Tianzhu Mansion have only passed a few hundred thousand years, so there’s still plenty of time.”

Shen Changqing calculated the time. Despite the considerable time spent in seclusion, the total time in the outside world had only been 160,000 years.

160,000 years.

Compared to a million years, it was still a long time.

Shen Changqing didn’t rush to the Tianzhu Mansion, instead fulfilling his original agreement.

A major reason for this was that, although he had reached the pinnacle of the seventh rank in weapon cultivation, he was only just beginning to reach this realm. Among

his peers, Shen Changqing’s weapon cultivation was only average, and his accumulated foundation was still insufficient.

Using a semi-saint Chaos beast as a foundation, refining a supreme treasure would inevitably require the level of an innate imperial weapon.

Anything less than that would be considered a failure.

However,

refining an innate imperial weapon requires the right timing, location, and people, and even more so, the refiner’s own foundation.

There’s a significant gap between just beginning to reach the pinnacle of the seventh rank and truly reaching the pinnacle of this realm.

To avoid wasting such precious materials, Shen Changqing had to be fully prepared.

Moreover,   a breakthrough from mid-level seventh rank to peak seventh rank

in just over 100,000 years   would surely cause a huge stir if news of this were to spread.   At that point, even the True Intention Weapon Forging Method wouldn’t be enough. Of   course,   these were minor matters.   Whether or not he concealed himself was irrelevant. Shen Changqing could easily attribute the incident to his own talent and the True Meaning Weapon Forging Method.   Whether others believed him or not was none of his business.   The main reason he didn’t depart so quickly was due to his own accumulated knowledge.   Therefore,   after reaching the peak of the Seventh Rank, Shen Changqing didn’t deliberately spread the news. Instead, he headed to the Divine Weapon Hall of the Heavenly Foundry to continue comprehending the legacy.   The difference was that,   now that he had reached the peak of the Seventh Rank, Shen Changqing’s perspective had greatly improved compared to before.   In fact,   at this level, compared to the hundreds of thousands of Seventh Rank Grand Masters throughout the Heavenly Foundry , he   was considered above average. Of all the Seventh Rank Grand Masters, only a handful truly achieved the peak.   And for those less accomplished than Shen Changqing, comprehending the legacy of Grand Masters was naturally easy.   Even legacy of the same rank, though somewhat obscure, was not too difficult to truly grasp.   Only a very small number of peak seventh-order, or even half-step eighth-order inheritances, and true eighth-order inheritances, found Shen Changqing somewhat puzzling.   But that was all.   Shen Changqing’s greatest asset now lay at the peak of the seventh-order, and coupled with his already impressive comprehension, comprehending these inheritances was like a fish in water.   Therefore,   for Shen Changqing, these inheritances served as nourishment for his own advancement.   With these, he was confident he could reach the end of the seventh order, but as for breaking through to the eighth order, that was less certain.   (End of this chapter)