Immortality begins with Becoming an Alchemy Grandmaster

Chapter 1499: Chapter 557: Wait For the Enemy, Cliff Serpent Remains_2

”This is the Demon Emperor’s Metamorphosis—the Mysterious Rock Shell?”

Reaching out a hand, the turtle shell fell into his grasp.

After a careful examination, Luo Chen gingerly put it into his storage ring and then turned towards Black King.

”What’s the deal with Gu Shaoshang?”

Black King was somewhat bewildered, ”I don’t know either. Right when we escaped from the spring at the seabed, we found him blocking the way outside. It was Elder Han who personally took action and scared him off.”

Scared him off?

While Luo Chen was puzzling over this, a scale on Black King’s back flipped open, and the Ten Thousand Soul Banner flew out from within.

Luo Chen caught it, and Han Zhan’s voice wafted into his ears.

”That youngster is no slouch, and he has mastery over arrays. Perhaps, like us, he saw through several hidden escape routes on Mysterious Rock Island and decided to lie in wait for us.”

”Did you fight him?”

”That, I did not. How could I, a dignified Nascent Soul True Master, stoop to repeatedly dealing hands with a Golden Core junior. It was merely the release of a Nascent Soul breath that scared him away.”

So that was it!

Luo Chen nodded in understanding, yet some doubts still lingered; if the guy was scared off so easily, why then was there a delay?

Perhaps knowing Luo Chen’s cautious nature, Han Zhan offered a further explanation.

It happens that the Ring-Headed Turtle Clan was aware of several escape routes on Mysterious Rock Island.

After both their Clan Chief and the Great Elder fell, a corresponding Demon King of the Ring-Headed Turtle Clan led the surviving clan members in a strategic retreat. Their route was also one of the escape paths.

To avoid any unforeseen complications arising from a collision with them, Han Zhan and Black King had to slow down, which is why it took so long to finally depart from Mysterious Rock Island.

As soon as they emerged, they encountered Gu Shaoshang lying in ambush. That’s the scene Luo Chen arrived to see.

”Alright, this place is too close to Mysterious Rock Island, better to leave first to be safe,” said Luo Chen.

”Do we leave the Mysterious Rock Sea Area and head back to the Flying Swallow Islands?” Han Zhan asked.

Luo Chen shook his head, ”We have to process the batch of Third Order Demon Crab materials we obtained before we can go back; otherwise, if we delay for too long, those materials will no longer be suitable for concocting Black Emperor Ointment.”

While speaking, Luo Chen gathered Qi Power around him, holding the Ten Thousand Soul Banner in his hand. Just in time, Han Zhan snuck into it while also passing over the God Sealing Compass.

Black King shrank in size, curling up beneath Luo Chen’s Magic Cloud.

With Spiritual Secrets calculated, the grey Magic Cloud dissipated into the horizon.

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At a small spiritless island tens of thousands of miles from Mysterious Rock Island.

A seagull perched upon it.

One day, a Glint descended into it.

The seagull hurried to meet it, ”Master, you’re back.”

”Have any outsiders been to the Coral Trench Cave Mansion while you came back earlier?” Luo Chen asked Tian Xuan, looking at him.

Tian Xuan hurriedly shook his head, ”I’ve checked; no one has been there. Even some Low Order Sea Demons who stray into the Coral Trench are preyed upon by the nearby blood coral, so it has still gone undiscovered.”

Luo Chen nodded. Not being discovered meant it was still relatively safe.

He would deal with the various Demon Crab shells first before leaving the Mysterious Rock Sea Area without haste.

After instructing Tian Xuan to keep watch in the vicinity and stay alert for external enemies, Luo Chen took Black King back to the Coral Trench.

As soon as he arrived at the Coral Trench, he took out the God Sealing Compass, ready to reconstruct and set up the Lanyun Mist Array.

”You’re always so cautious,” Han Zhan said with a smile.

Luo Chen, while operating the compass, casually replied, ”Being cautious when you’re away from home is always good. Otherwise, back on Tianxuan Island, I would have been surrounded by the Demon Spider Crab Clan.”

Once surrounded, breaking through would not be so simple.

In the battle on Mysterious Rock Island, he prepared in advance to kill his way out of the encirclement.

But if he were ambushed while in his Cave Mansion, even if he broke out with all his might, escape would be unlikely.

Especially if the enemy belonged to a demon clan like the Demon Spider Crabs, adept at sensing and sealing, escape would be near impossible!

While he was setting up, Han Zhan suddenly said, ”Expand the range of the array a bit more.”

”Hm?”

”Cover an area of one li,” Han Zhan estimated a distance.

One li—approximately five hundred meters in radius—is usually the conversion Luo Chen would use.

Though somewhat confused, he still followed the instructions.

In an instant, under the enhancement of Qi Power, the God Sealing Compass’s Spirit Light intensified, and several previously outlined array patterns began to spread outwards.

Currents surged, red mist pervaded.

The already reddish Coral Trench glowed with an even deeper scarlet.

Uninformed onlookers might even think that a Third Order blood coral had just emerged here.

Just after Luo Chen expanded the array’s area of effect, Han Zhan spoke up, ”Haven’t you noticed that there’s something extra inside your Ten Thousand Soul Banner?”

Luo Chen was startled.

He hadn’t checked the item yet.

Although he had personally refined and recognized the Soul-Refining Flag as his, Han Zhan had been mostly in control of it most of the time, making it a sort of residence for him, providing ”board and lodging.”

Therefore, Luo Chen didn’t pay much attention to the Ten Thousand Soul Banner.

Now, with Divine Consciousness probing into it, Luo Chen couldn’t help but reveal a look of surprise.

Souls!

Countless souls!

Not just the previous two Ghost Kings or the over a thousand Ghost General level souls, but also thousands upon thousands of Low Order souls.

Furthermore, there were even more than a dozen residual souls of Demon Kings!

”What are these?” Luo Chen couldn’t help but ask halfway through looking.

”Hehe.”

Han Zhan smiled faintly, ”While I was monitoring the battlefield for you, I wasn’t doing nothing, just collected some unclaimed residual souls, which didn’t take much effort.”