CHAPTER 662: CHAPTER 490: ZHOU YAN MUST NOT BE KEPT!

"So it seems this Zhou Yan does indeed have some significance."

The Golden Silkworm Ancestor became even more convinced.

The Heavenly Defect Saint Master excels in Heavenly Mechanism Calculation, his expertise in the art of divination only second to ’Ancestor Dongwei’. In the Shenzhou Heaven and Earth, he can divine some Second Realm and Third Realm True Immortals, but Zhou Yan is completely inscrutable. Unless the Daoist Sect is dead set on protecting him, he must have had some fortuitous encounters.

He cannot be underestimated.

The Golden Silkworm Ancestor turned to the Vermilion Blood Ancestor: "Fellow Daoist, if you are worried about the Daoist Sect amassing too many new True Immortals, you might as well start with Zhou Yan. This man carries great fortune, having proven himself as a True Immortal in just over three thousand years, with a boundless future ahead and every prospect of achieving the Fourth Realm Thunder Tribulation. Also, the Daoist Sect’s sequence of proving ten immortals began with him. If we can kill him, we might break their momentum."

"Kill Zhou Yan?"

The Vermilion Blood Ancestor shook his head vigorously at the suggestion: "Before Zhou Yan proved himself, he only emerged from Golden Wind Mountain and Sea twice, totaling less than three hundred years outside. He hasn’t left the mountain gate at all in the forty thousand years since proving himself. How do we kill him?"

The Heavenly Defect Saint Master laughed: "This Zhou Yan may be reclusive for now, but what cultivation doesn’t involve eventually venturing out? He doesn’t yet comprehend the hardships of the True Immortal path. Wait a few more millennia until he faces his first round of True Immortal Tribulation; he will feel the urgency and will not remain secluded. Then it will be easy to deal with him."

"Wait until he faces the tribulation?"

"If it truly takes another ninety thousand years to wait for Zhou Yan to leave the mountain, so be it."

"But Zhou Yan’s temperament is steady; he’s never been fond of leaving while cultivating. With many newly ascended True Immortals in the same sect and knowing we have our eyes on him, even if he faces a True Immortal Tribulation once or twice, learning of the dangers of being a True Immortal, he might still not come out."

The Vermilion Blood Ancestor cast his gaze toward the Eastern Continent, looking at the East Coast, faintly seeing the two True Immortals from the Vermilion Blood Palace still keeping watch there.

Is the Heavenly Defect Saint Master trying to get him to wait for Zhou Yan to come out?

The Vermilion Blood Ancestor was not like Ku and Rong, he wouldn’t be fooled!

Furthermore.

If the key to the Daoist Sect’s mass production of True Immortals truly lies with Zhou Yan, leaving him could lead to the nurturing of more and more True Immortals, pushing the Golden Silkworm Ancestor and the Heavenly Defect Saint Master to their limits, which was more to the Vermilion Blood Ancestor’s liking.

Even if the Daoist Sect produces ten more True Immortals, the Golden Silkworm Ancestor and the Heavenly Defect Saint Master wouldn’t care;

If they produce twenty or thirty more, they likewise could remain indifferent;

But if in a short period, the Daoist Sect could newly ascend forty or fifty True Immortals, these two old demon giants might not be able to sit still.

Then, seeking cooperation might hold more hope.

"If the Daoist Sect stops producing True Immortals en masse, it poses no threat to my grand plan."

"If they continue, it helps these two old fellows to make up their minds sooner."

Considering this, the Vermilion Blood Ancestor said no more, cupped his hands to the two: "Farewell."

Then his figure faded away.

Seeing this, the Golden Silkworm Ancestor and the Heavenly Defect Saint Master exchanged a glance, the former’s expression slightly darkened as he said to the Heavenly Defect Saint Master: "The Daoist Sect’s Zhou Yan must be eliminated as soon as possible."

"The Vermilion Blood specializes in curses, particularly skilled at assassinations. If he can deal with Zhou Yan, it wouldn’t be hard to eliminate him."

"But it seems the little Daoist temple’s Vermilion Blood intends to keep Zhou Yan alive, forcing you and me to take a stand."

The Heavenly Defect Saint Master’s brows also furrowed slightly.

"In Shenzhou, in terms of dark magic and curses, Vermilion Blood is supreme."

"But outside of Shenzhou, in those twelve Great Heavens and Earths, there are many who can match Vermilion Blood in this aspect. There are also many who exceed him in the way of curses."

The Golden Silkworm Ancestor snorted coldly: "In the ’Jade Toad Great Heaven and Earth’, I happened to befriend a Fellow Daoist skilled in curses. I will go and ask him to refine a treasure to curse Zhou Yan to death!"

"Jade Toad Great Heaven and Earth?"

"Expert in curses?"

"Is it ’Emperor Jiao Qi’, or ’Qiu Sha Daoist’?"

The Heavenly Defect Saint Master wondered.

"It’s Qiu Sha Daoist."

The Golden Silkworm Ancestor squinted his eyes: "But Qiu Sha Daoist takes some time to refine treasures, and it will also take time for me to send this treasure from ’Jade Toad Great Heaven and Earth’ back to Shenzhou, so we’ll have to wait a bit."

"No problem!"

"That Zhou Yan probably won’t come out any time soon, so waiting a bit longer is nothing."

The Heavenly Defect Saint Master was overjoyed.

He knew of ’Qiu Sha Daoist’s power, his spells were even above the Vermilion Blood Ancestor. With him refining a treasure, cursing a newly ascended True Immortal would be easy.

As soon as Zhou Yan leaves Golden Wind Mountain and Sea, he must die.

Now, they just have to hope that the Daoist Sect’s secret of mass-producing True Immortals truly lies with Zhou Yan, or it would indeed be troublesome.

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Golden Wind Mountain and Sea.

Dongqi Immortal Palace.

The ’Zhou Yan’, whom these three demons were discussing and wanted to eliminate quickly, was currently sitting quietly in a chamber. Chen Jichuan focused his mind and opened the ’Immortal Record’ panel.

Name: Chen Jichuan [The Ninth]

Age: 43,320

Immortal-order: 5

Immortal Position: None

Cultivation: Mahayana Sensing Realm

Talent:

Creation·Insight;

Creation·Derivation;

Creation·Enlightenment;

Creation·Commanding All Laws;

Cultivation Technique: "Five Directions, Five Emperors, Five Spirits, Five Elements, Five Phases, Great Yan True Scripture" (True Sect Level)

Divine Skills:

Fourth Realm: Guiyuan Cangtian Technique, Vajra Calamity Armor, Avatar Technique, Dayan Divination Method

Third Realm: Wind Thunder Walking, Five Elements Escape Technique, Five Thunders True Skill, Daluo Heavenly Sleeve, Seven Stars Eight Dragons Sword Formation, Daluo Heavenly Fire, Ruyi Mountain Opening Method, Heavenly True Water, Qinglian Eight Techniques, Heaven Mending Seal, Seven Emotions Magic Sword, Pure Heart Mantra, All Heavens Desire Demon Five Lustful Fat Magic, Pagoda Heart Holding, Transformation Technique, Heart Lamp, One Origin to the End, Ice Soul Divine Needle

Magical Treasure: Water and Fire Wandering Dragon Sword (First-order Immortal Artifact), Profound Yin 25 Soul-Slaying Blade (First-order Immortal Artifact), Five Directions Purity Bell (First-order Immortal Artifact)

Skill: Artifact Refining (Fourth-order); Array (Fourth-order); Alchemy (Fourth-order); talisman making (Fourth-order);

Immortal Salary: 10,000 Source Power/day

Immortal Origin: 1343.47

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"The ’Dayan Divination Method’ has finally broken through to the Fourth Realm!"

Glancing over the panel, joy rose in Chen Jichuan’s heart.

Having proven the Dao for forty thousand years, he had never slackened in his cultivation.

The Dharma Domain Avatars continuously extracted source jade on the Ancient Immortal Battlefield, while other avatars traveled, wielding source jade, to purchase diverse resources needed for divine skill cultivation.

Divine skills continuously improved.

Today, the ’Dayan Divination Method’ finally advanced to the Fourth Realm, becoming the fourth divine skill on Chen Jichuan’s path to reach the Fourth Realm.

Among the first three, the ’Guiyuan Cangtian Technique’ is a supreme method for concealing oneself and obscuring destiny. Chen Jichuan knew that in recent years he had ’enlightened’ nearly ten True Immortals, making him conspicuous and easily memorized by demons and devils for harm. Thus, while staying put in Golden Wind Mountain and Sea, he focused on cultivating this divine skill.

Now with the addition of the Fourth Realm’s ’Guiyuan Cangtian Technique,’ few in the True Immortal Realm can discern his foundations. With his destiny obscured, perhaps only ancient immortals high above can divine anything, and few below ancient immortals can plot against him.

This is the foundation for survival.

Moving forward.

The ’Tribulation Armor’ divine skill acquired from the ’Changshan Tower’ had always been a thorn in Chen Jichuan’s heart. After proving the Dao, while overseeing the Ancient Immortal Battlefield with ample source jade, Chen Jichuan consumed his cultivation to integrate this incomplete divine skill with his primary protective divine skill, ’Vajra Mantra,’ and after searching through the Daoist Sect memory for various methods, and numerous attempts, he finally derived the ’Vajra Calamity Armor.’

[Divine Skill: Vajra Calamity Armor]

[Level: Ordinary]

[Description: A fusion of the divine skills ’Vajra Mantra’ and ’Tribulation Armor,’ extremely strong in protection, capable of absorbing various disaster tribulation concepts and integrating them into the ’Tribulation Armor,’ enhancing the divine skill’s power. It is divided into ’Soldier Armor Chapter,’ ’General Armor Chapter,’ ’King Armor Chapter,’ and ’Tribulation Armor Chapter.’ Ten thousand King Armors, ten million General Armors, one billion Soldier Armors, can form one set of ’Tribulation Armor.’ Wearing the Tribulation Armor, one can endure myriad tribulations and remain unharmed.]

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Vajra Calamity Armor.

This divine skill holds enormous potential, and should Chen Jichuan have the opportunity to preach to the universe someday, he has hope of forging a ’Tribulation Armor.’

If successful, it would also hold promise for becoming an ancient immortal.

Besides these two divine skills, the third to reach the Fourth Realm is ’Avatar Technique.’

No need to elaborate on this.

The Fourth Realm ’Avatar Technique’ allows for a total of six thousand five hundred sixty-one avatars, with the ability to have four perfect avatars simultaneously.

This divine skill’s major advancement greatly enhances Chen Jichuan’s survival capability, significantly boosts his battle strength, and in the Ancient Immortal Battlefield’s source jade extraction, the speed has soared, greatly aiding his progress.

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