Staying Alive Cautiously in the Celestial Realm and Becoming the Strongest

A shadowy figure vaulted onto the inn\'s back wall, lightly touching the top with his toes to propel himself onto the roof, landing silently on the tiles.

He hunched down, his face concealed by a black scarf, revealing only a pair of eyes sparkling with sharp light.

The man in black drew a dagger and gently inserted it between the tiles.

"Scram!"

Just at that moment, a voice suddenly rang in his ears.

The man in black was struck as if by lightning, almost rolling off the rooftop, with a stifled breath of old blood he couldn\'t spit out pressing against his chest.

In his panic, he forcefully summoned his True Qi and leapt up, swooping out like a large bird.

In the blink of an eye, he disappeared into the dark alley behind the inn.

In the guest room, Wang Chen sat cross-legged on the soft couch, closing his eyes again to continue cultivating the Five Elements Technique.

The stealthy visitor, regardless of his agility, was nothing more than a mortal.

Not to mention a fully-grown person, but even a single feather falling on the rooftop would not escape Wang Chen\'s spiritual senses.

Wang Chen simply couldn\'t be bothered to deal with such petty thieves and simply scared him off instead.

Lest it affect his cultivating mindset.

A moment later, he again entered a state of self-forgetfulness, accumulating his strength bit by bit.

The next morning, just as dawn began to break, Wang Chen left the inn.

He mounted his large blue donkey and headed deep into the East Wasteland Great Marsh.

For mortals, the East Wasteland Great Marsh was undoubtedly a dangerous fiend-infested land.

The giant crocodiles, water pythons, huge lizards, and various venomous insects and creatures lurking there represented a massive danger to intruders, swallowing up many lives each year.

And in the afternoon, the Great Marsh would become foggy, drastically reducing visibility.

Those who ventured deep into the Marsh easily lost their way.

However, despite the dangers, because the East Wasteland Great Marsh had a Path to Ascension leading to the world of immortal cultivation and was home to all kinds of precious herbs, there was a constant stream of intruders.

People, always with desires and ambitions, often forfeit their lives due to these very things.

Wang Chen patted the neck of the great blue donkey, which obediently came to a stop.

Turning his head, Wang Chen said, "My friends, you can stop here; the road ahead is treacherous."

After Wang Chen exposed their presence, shadows flashed like ghosts, surrounding him in the blink of an eye!

With a quick glance, Wang Chen knew what was happening.

Seven people had followed him into the East Wasteland Great Marsh, three of whom were Innate Martial Artists.

The other four had also reached the peak of the Acquired level.

Although the breathing of the few Innate Martial Artists was deeply hidden, under Wang Chen\'s Great Perfection level Spiritual Perception Technique, their formidable Qi-Blood shone like bonfires in the darkness.

Wang Chen could even see the varying intensities of Blood Fiend Energy seeping from their bodies!

All seven martial artists were masked with black scarves, concealing their faces.

Yet such disguises were laughable to Wang Chen!

He didn\'t even need to guess to know that the stealthy visitor from last night was surely among them.

"Esteemed Daoist,"

the leading Innate Martial Artist said solemnly, "We have no intention of being your enemies, we just want to know what ingredients you used in your porridge yesterday, and ask for the recipe!"

His voice was extremely hoarse, and he even bowed to Wang Chen with clasped hands.

Wang Chen couldn\'t help but laugh, "The recipe? It\'s no problem to tell you, White Jade Rice with Flower-spotted Pig meat."

For Wang Chen now, these two Spirit Food ingredients were considered discarded items, barely enough to fill his stomach, and totally insufficient for his daily cultivation needs.

Yellow Millet Rice, Black Sesame Rice, and higher-grade Monsterized Beast Meat were what he actually needed.

It\'s just that he had obtained too many of these items previously, and it would be a waste to let them go unused.

Who would have thought that such a pot of meat porridge that Wang Chen looked down upon would attract a group of high-level warriors.

Three Innates!

Wang Chen realized that he had greatly underestimated the allure of Spirit Food to the common martial artists.

He asked with a smiling face, "Would you like me to give you some?"

Perhaps because Wang Chen seemed too easygoing, the group of martial artists looked at each other with peculiar expressions in their eyes.

The leader, an Innate Martial Artist, his eyes flashed as he said, "Good!"

His left hand gripped the hilt of his sword.

This martial artist was best at using his left hand for swordplay, and his action of gripping the sword was also a signal to his companions.

Clang!

A dazzling sword light flashed in everyone\'s vision in an instant.

The leading Innate Martial Artist was suddenly overcome with a hair-raising sense of horror, and without a second thought, he roared, "Retreat!"

No sooner had his voice fallen than the sword light streaked past his neck like lightning.

A head with glaring eyes of rage shot up into the sky.

Then the second, third, fourth, fifth...

These masters of the martial world were all renowned figures in the Martial World, especially the three Innates, whose martial careers could be described as brilliant, with their stories taking three days and nights to tell.

Each was influential enough to shake the entire Martial World with a mere stomp of their feet.

However, under the assault of the Fire Crow Sword, they were no different from ordinary mortals.

Even with Innate True Qi protecting their bodies, they were still beheaded with a single swing of the sword!

Within the span of three breaths, all seven martial arts experts were killed.

They didn\'t even have a chance to beg for mercy!

Wang Chen retracted his Fire Crow Sword, reached out to gather the bodies on the ground together, and then a Fire Crow Technique descended upon them.

A simple rite to supplicate their spirits.

He wasn\'t even interested in searching the bodies.

To him, this was merely a minor interlude in a long journey, hardly worth mentioning.

As the big green donkey continued to make its way deeper into the East Wasteland Great Marsh, the road ahead became increasingly difficult to navigate.

Eventually, there was no road left, and all that could be seen was an endless expanse of marshy water.

And fog was rising, too.

When the mist arising from the swamp drifted onto Wang Chen, his heart suddenly stirred.

He reached into a Storage Bag and pulled out a painting.

This painting, tucked away in the Storage Bag, had inexplicably caused a sense of Induction in Wang Chen just now.

[True Form Chart of the Mystical Mirage Dragon (Sealed): 2510/50000]

This painting was given to Wang Chen by Tong Zhi Wang Jingwen from Nan Shao as a reward for his intervention.

After saving tens of thousands of innocent people coerced by the Maitreya Sect, as well as guarding the lives of several hundred thousand people in Nan Shao City, Wang Chen left as quietly as he had come, hiding his achievements and fame.

Wang Jingwen\'s painting was meticulously studied by Wang Chen along the way.

It was definitely a good item; otherwise, it wouldn\'t have appeared on the Immortal Cultivation panel.

Although the sealing points—50,000—were not as many as the 100,000- point Thousand Mechanisms Changing, the value of this painting was undoubtedly far greater than all the Spiritual Artifacts he had obtained!

As soon as the True Form Chart of the Mystical Mirage Dragon was revealed, the surrounding vapor surged into the scroll like mad, as if it had gone crazy.

[True Form Chart of the Mystical Mirage Dragon (Sealed): 2510/50000]

[True Form Chart of the Mystical Mirage Dragon (Sealed): 2511/50000]

[True Form Chart of the Mystical Mirage Dragon (Sealed): 2512/50000]

With the vapor continuously flowing in, the sealing points for this piece of equipment climbed steadily.

It was completely beyond Wang Chen\'s expectations!

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