Chapter 123: The Potential of the Boundary Pearl Devouring All Things

  According to legend, after the ancient times, the earth's veins changed, and the top-grade spiritual veins of the Tianyuan Continent disappeared, taking with them the top-grade mineral veins.

  From then on, the top-grade spirit stone became a legend!

  After the Middle Ages, another mutation occurred. After this mutation, the top-grade spiritual veins on the Tianyuan Continent also disappeared. Later, the top-grade mineral veins were gradually depleted!

  From then on, the top-grade spirit stone became a legendary item!

  Therefore, the spiritual stones that can be found in the Tianyuan Continent are only low-grade and mid-grade, occasionally there are high-grade spiritual stones, which are also very expensive!

  This change also limits the power of the masters, as the masters generally set up arrays that help break through the upgrade when upgrading, and the arrangement of the array requires spirit stones, high-level arrays require high-level spirit stones!

  High-quality Spirit Stone and Top-quality Spirit Stone!

  The Qi Refining stage and the Foundation Building stage can use low-grade Spirit Stones, while the Core Formation stage and the Nascent Soul stage can also use mid-grade Spirit Stones. However, once you progress further, low-grade Spirit Stones will no longer be effective!

  Even some puppetry and other immortal skills require high-grade spirit stones, otherwise they can't be used!

  Wang Chen had copied these information on Yu Jian before, but he never had an objective understanding. Now that he has entered the mining vein of Liang Guo, he finally realizes how barren it is!

  Yes! It's so barren that even low-grade spirit stones are hard to come by, and when they do appear, there are only two or three of them at most, and their quality is not very good, barely qualifying as low-grade spirit stones.

  Recalling the ancient descriptions of the mineral veins, Wang Chen truly felt the difficulty of cultivating immortality in the present! However, this only deepened Wang Chen's confusion - what exactly happened during the ancient era, and how did things change during the medieval period?!

  Vaguely, Wang Chen felt that this might be related to the inheritance site of Longtan Valley, but what specific thing it was, Wang Chen couldn't guess either!

  He picked up a piece of ore and was about to throw it into the boundary bead when a swift figure rushed towards him.

  A small figure, like a black light, instantly bit towards Wang Chen's neck!

  A faint killing intent floated before his eyes, Wang Chen's finger slightly moved, and he stretched out one finger. Without any fancy moves, without any sword techniques, but with a sudden strike, it hit the black figure!

  Bang!

  A black shadow fell to the ground, blood flowing all over the place. Only then could it be seen that this was a black mouse-like monster!

  Wang Chen smiled slightly, this rodent-like demon beast should be a mix of gold and earth attributes, but due to swallowing minerals and staying in the mine for years, its body is black.

  "This golden mouse is extremely fast, even a foundation-building cultivator in the mine wouldn't be able to catch up. Moreover, after long-term absorption of minerals in the mine, its body is extremely tough. Even a peak Qi-refining disciple would lose their life if they're not careful! Unfortunately, it encountered me!"

  Wang Chen's mind stirred, and the water attribute spiritual energy in the air suddenly fluctuated, then formed a stream of water that washed away the bloodstains on Wang Chen's fingertips!

  After practicing for a while, Wang Chen's control over the water attribute spiritual energy has improved significantly. With a slight movement of his mind, another stream of water appeared!

  However, in the next moment, Wang Chen seemed to think of something and hesitated slightly.

  After a moment of stunned silence, Wang Chen finally walked towards the corpse of the mouse-like demon beast and picked it up. The next instant, the corpse of the demon mouse suddenly vanished!

  In the midst of the orb, Wang Chen's faint illusory shadow stared at the demon beast's corpse. Under the seven-colored giant grinding disc, another small whirlpool appeared. The demon beast's corpse was in the whirlpool, and then its body gradually disappeared, transforming into earth-attribute and metal-attribute spiritual energy!

  Furthermore, the fresh blood and internal organs of the monster were completely decomposed, turning into unknown substances!

  But things didn't end there. After the corpse had decomposed, several mysterious runes actually appeared near the whirlpool. These runes were completely different from the previous ones.

  Wang Chen had already studied the Five Elements Yin and Yang talismans very deeply, and at a glance, he could see that although the power of this talisman was small, it was clearly a talisman from another system, representing a different Great Way than the Five Elements Yin and Yang talismans.

  Jiuzhu has now rarely spawned five-elemental runes, unless it absorbs higher-level five-elemental spiritual materials again, but other runes are not necessarily!

  Wang Chen designed the Pearl of the Design World at that time, and did not consider this mysterious rune. However, it can be guessed that the production of this rune should be related to the aura of creation!

  Something out of nothing, it's creation!

  As soon as the rune was produced, it quickly entered the boundary bead and disappeared! At the same time, Wang Chen also felt that the boundary bead seemed to have some other things, although he didn't feel the power of its strength, but it seemed like an upgrade in the level of life, Wang Chen felt the change in the boundary bead!

  In the mine, Wang Chen's heart was surging with excitement.

  "It seems that Jie Zhu's potential is still much greater than I thought, it's just that I didn't discover it! Jie Zhu probably doesn't know that the material he absorbed earlier was not a spiritual material, but rather an omnivorous material! In that case, even if only one-tenth of the spiritual energy remains, cultivation will become much simpler!"

  Wang Chen's mind flashed with other thoughts for a moment, and he let out a breath. Wang Chen took out a storage bag, a black storage bag with colorful symbols on it, which was personally drawn by Wang Chen himself. The things inside were not pleasant to look at! As for its origin, it had to be traced back to the Battle of Fuyue City. During the battle, Wang Chen was poisoned and almost lost his life!

  But fortune and disaster are unpredictable, blood can entangle with corpse poison, and one's own physical strength is greatly increased. The harvest that time, in addition to these, also had more than a dozen refined corpses, the most powerful of which were three refined corpses with special abilities!

  At that time, the three corpses were extremely low in cultivation, but the potential hidden within was astonishing. Wang Chen later learned that these special corpse cultivators were also a rare breed among the Yin Corpse Sect's disciples!

  Jie Zhu can swallow the corpse of a demon beast, what about Lian Shi?

  Wang Chen opened the storage bag, and in an instant, the corpse inside the storage bag disappeared!

  Jie Zhu, under the seven-colored disc, in the whirlpool, Lian Shi was also slowly decomposing, only this speed was a bit slower than the five-element spiritual materials.

  After a moment, the corpse refining turned into several black air flows. Wang Chen's faint shadow hesitated for a moment before putting the black air flows in one go!

  As usual, nine-tenths of the black air was swallowed up, and then several black runes actually evolved near the whirlpool.

  This rune carries a mysterious and unpredictable blackness, Wang Chen took a few glances and felt some eerie feelings deep in his heart!

  Terror, mystery, death... all sorts of negative information leaked out from the runes, I reckon an ordinary cultivator would go mad if they looked at it for too long!

  The runes formed and quickly entered the boundary bead!

  In an instant, Wang Chen felt that the boundary bead had changed again, and even the aura of the yin attribute became more lively!

  "Corpse energy, it should be inclined towards the yin attribute, representing death, decay and so on. Unfortunately, my cultivation is too shallow, otherwise, if any of the symbols representing the great way are understood, that would be a great opportunity!"

  Of course, understanding the truth from the scriptures has reduced the difficulty a lot compared to before, but it's still not that simple!

  "The absorption of the boundary bead is not singular, the more types there are, the richer the essence of the boundary bead will be, the stronger the effect will be, and the greater the potential will be..."

  Wang Chen smiled and suddenly became interested in fighting against Mo Xiu.

  If it was just about getting the spiritual materials before, now Wang Chen is also extremely interested in all the magical items on Mo Xiu's body. The corpse refining, poisonous substances, and ghostly spirits can all promote the evolution of the Boundary Pearl. Wang Chen is like a hungry wolf, targeting the group of sheep that are the demonic cultivators, waiting for the perfect moment to strike!

  Next, Wang Chen began an even greater destruction. All the items in the mine vein, whether living or dead, were all collected into the Boundary Pearl!

  At that time, the ore vein was devastated. All living things that Wang Chen could see were killed, and not a single one survived. As for the minerals, it's unknown how many were refined!

  Unfortunately, the total amount of spiritual energy is still far from enough!

  If it weren't for the task, Wang Chen would even be willing to go to the Demon Beast Mountain Range and kill some demon beasts to satisfy the Boundary Pearl!