Capítulo 1411: Chapter 1382: Treasure
There was almost no mistake in Li Chen’s prediction. He noticed that people started heading toward the source of the commotion before he had even run far.
Although the Remnant Cloud Forest is vast, the noise just now was quite significant, especially the clash between Ji Dao and Hou Zhengyu, which alarmed countless people.
After snatching the ring, Li Chen made the immediate and correct decision to flee.
Under the repair of super-speed regeneration, Li Chen’s injuries began to heal rapidly. He also finally learned how to use the ring, wearing a White-Robed Guard’s ring on his hand and casually draping a long robe over himself.
“Is this a flying artifact?”
While checking the ring, Li Chen found several flying artifacts. There were actually three flying spirit artifacts, and several fine instruments as well.
“No, there’s no time now. I need to find a place to hide first.”
Without much thought, Li Chen directly took out the most ordinary low-grade flying fine instrument and quickly rushed into the depths of the Remnant Cloud Forest.
However, to Li Chen’s surprise, he hadn’t flown far before being stopped by someone.
The ones stopping him were three people, two men and a woman. Li Chen’s divine sense slightly checked them, causing his heart to sink.
Both men were Mid-Heaven Realm, while the woman with a seductive aura was Infinite Level.
“I wonder what business you might have, friends?” Li Chen didn’t come down from the flying fine instrument and directly cupped his hands asking.
“Friends?” One of the men, whose face was full of flesh, sneered: “A mere Infinite Level dares call us friends? Come down from there!”
Li Chen remained motionless: “It seems you’re here to rob me?”
“Rob?” The alluring woman laughed sharply: “Little brother, you just realized we’re robbing you?”
“Enough with the nonsense!” The last man in hemp clothing frowned, saying, “Tell us what happened in the direction you came from, then leave your ring and flying fine instrument, and we’ll spare your life. Otherwise, die!”
Upon hearing this, Li Chen cupped his hands, slightly lowered his head: “Actually, here’s how it is…”
Seeing Li Chen’s performance, the three finally felt satisfied.
For a weak person, one must have the awareness of a weak person. The Remnant Cloud Forest is such a place, and still such people dare to come alone?
However, the next moment, their expressions suddenly changed.
Endless blade light instantly enveloped the three.
This was Li Chen’s Third Blade, Wind Roar.
Looking at the three covered by his blade light, a cold expression flickered across Li Chen’s face.
At this moment, if he launched a surprise attack, he could completely manage to eliminate the strongest among them, and gradually deal with the other two. However, for him, clearly, there wasn’t that much time.
If a truly strong expert arrived, he would be even more easily exposed.
“I’ll let you guys live for now. We’ll settle this score when we have time.”
Changing the instrument, Li Chen directly took out a low-grade flying spirit artifact and quickly dashed into the Remnant Cloud Forest.
The speed of the spirit artifact was evidently incomparable to the fine instrument, and in just a moment, Li Chen vanished without a trace.
When the Wind Roar was torn apart and enveloped them, Li Chen had already disappeared to an unknown place.
“Damn it! We actually let that kid escape!”
“A mere Earth Level actually managed to simultaneously trap the three of us for a while,” said the other hemp-clothed man grimly.
“Forget it, let’s head over there first. With such a big commotion just now, an exotic treasure might have appeared. Although our strength might not get us much of a big head, we can at least get some soup.”
“Let’s go, we’ll settle that boy’s account the next time we run into him.”
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Not only were the people around that area of the Remnant Cloud Forest alarmed, but even Baiyue City had people rushing to the source of the earlier commotion. The movement from two Higher Heaven Realm powerhouses exchanging blows was not small.
But by then, it had nothing to do with Li Chen anymore.
After charging into the depths of the Remnant Cloud Forest, Li Chen directly found a cave to hide in. After knocking out the slumbering bear inside, he laid out a simple formation and began studying the rings he obtained.
“One low-grade flying spirit artifact, one superior grade flying spirit artifact, and one superior grade.” Li Chen’s eyes flashed.
From Li Xinsheng and others, he knew the value of such flying spirit artifacts.
In the entire Nanxiang Prefecture, not many people could afford to use such things, yet he had obtained three, including a superior grade one.
Regarding Spirit Crystals, Li Chen was even more relieved.
Not to mention Guu Bugui, just from the rings of Ji Dao and Hou Zhengyu alone, the superior-grade spirit crystals amounted to over 100,000, and the mid-grade spirit crystals numbered in the millions, whereas the least were the low-grade spirit crystals, only a few tens of thousands.
There were quite a few pills as well, and even some things that made Li Chen unable to contain his excitement.
“Hmm?”
Suddenly, Li Chen noticed a piece of pure black ore inside Ji Dao’s ring, and on the surface of the rock, there were colorful lines.
“Seven-colored Black Gold?”
Li Chen couldn’t help but feel delighted. He had seen this in a Jade Slip before; it’s a rare high-grade ore used to upgrade weapon levels.
Although he found many good weapons in both rings, for Li Chen, he was already accustomed to Red Moon. Instead of changing weapons, it would be better to upgrade Red Moon.
“I’ll definitely find a chance to level up Red Moon again in the future.”
Li Chen glanced at the blood-colored long saber beside him. Now, he understood that Red Moon should be a medium-grade Spiritual Artifact, but curiously, its core seemed different from other weapons because it had a devouring attribute.
It could devour the blood of strong enemies to enhance its own level.
Previously, Red Moon had absorbed some of Ji Dao’s blood, now the entire blade was glowing, as if it might upgrade at any moment.
After thinking for a moment, Li Chen directly took out the Seven-colored Black Gold and tossed it beside Red Moon.
An astonishing scene appeared before Li Chen; originally only able to devour blood, once the Seven-colored Black Gold approached, Red Moon emitted a scarlet aura, enveloping the gold. The gold then began to shrink visibly.
“Auto-devour?”
Li Chen let out a long sigh of relief. It seemed Red Moon was more extraordinary than he had imagined. Over the years, he could feel that each time it devoured enemy blood, Red Moon became more powerful. He never expected that Red Moon even had the heaven-defying ability of auto-devour upgrades.
It looked like, even as his own strength grew in the future, he wouldn’t need to worry about Red Moon lagging behind.
What he needed to worry about was whether his strength could keep up with Red Moon.
Thinking of this, Li Chen couldn’t help but smile wryly, realizing that he couldn’t even compare to a saber.
“Next, it’s this.”
Seeing Red Moon gradually devour the piece of Seven-colored Black Sword, Li Chen understood that Red Moon was about to upgrade. He temporarily set Red Moon aside and began to study the most inconspicuous Jade Slip in Hou Zhengyu’s ring.
According to Ji Dao, the two were fighting over a book, which Li Chen hadn’t seen, so the only thing left was this Jade Slip.
Sure enough, after opening the Jade Slip for a while, a map appeared in Li Chen’s mind.
“It’s in Remnant Cloud Forest?”
Li Chen was somewhat surprised to find that the treasure location marked on the map was in Remnant Cloud Forest.
He nodded, no wonder both those guys ended up in this area of the forest.
After thinking about it, Li Chen abandoned the idea of immediately looking for Li Xinsheng and others since Remnant Cloud Forest was so vast; he wouldn’t know when he’d find them. It was better to check out the treasure spot first.
To be honest, Li Chen was quite curious, especially since Ji Dao’s words left him slightly incredulous.
Many strong practitioners from Star Continent fought amidst the starry sky over a book?
What kind of book could this be?
Li Chen tried calling out to Cang Ku twice; he received no response, but he could sense that Cang Ku’s soul fluctuations were exceedingly weak.
It seemed Cang Ku wasn’t lying; this incident indeed caused him significant injuries.
Shaking his head, regardless of whether Cang Ku and he were mutually using each other, if it weren’t for Cang Ku this time, Li Chen estimated he would’ve ended up at least severely injured, or perhaps dead.
He had decided that if there was a chance in the future, he would help Cang Ku find a body to revive.
With his body adjusted to the optimal state, Li Chen didn’t hesitate long and directly took out a flying spirit instrument, rushing towards the location marked on the map.
He didn’t dare use Spiritual Energy, knowing the area was full of strong practitioners, any slightly stronger opponent could easily defeat him, and he didn’t want to stand out.
Sitting on the flying spirit instrument, Li Chen encountered several demon beasts blocking his path, and even a celestial demon beast, but he dispatched them all, turning them into his rations.
Now Li Chen was no longer the same as before; after the battle with Guu Bugui, Li Chen’s understanding of Heavenly Realm experts deepened. He felt he might not need long to break through to the Heavenly Level.
Li Chen flew the flying spirit instrument in Remnant Cloud Forest for two whole days without knowing how far he’d traveled until he finally arrived at the location marked on the map.
“Is it here?”
Looking at the scene before him, Li Chen’s expression turned somewhat peculiar.
In front of him was a cave, extremely hidden, but to say this cave was the rumored treasure location seemed… a bit too simple?
“Hmm?”
After hesitating a little, Li Chen noticed that the cave wasn’t as simple as he first thought.
There was even a formation around the cave, and if one accidentally took the wrong step, the cave might instantly disappear.
This formation, just like the relic’s one, was a transfer formation!