Chapter 93

"Are you sure you want to choose this?" Li Jianshu couldn't help but be stunned. The item in Zhan Chen's hand had been lying in the treasury for god knows how many years. No one had ever asked about it and no one knew what it was used for.

"Yes, Master!" Zhan Chen's answer was very firm.

"What exactly is this?" Li Jianshu probed.

"Yes … I'm not too sure either." Zhan Chen almost said the words' broken formation ', but on second thought, he decided not to let anyone else know about this secret, not even his master.

"Then why did you choose it?" Li Jianshu was even more confused. There were so many other good things in the treasury. Did Zhan Chen really not like any of them?

Zhan Chen scratched his head and pretended to be simple and honest. He answered, "Master, I actually don't know what this is either. I just feel that it is fated with me, so I chose it."

Li Jianshu was stunned and looked at him for a while. Suddenly, he burst into laughter. "Zhan Chen, sometimes I really don't understand you. However, those unknown things here could really be treasures. It depends on your fate."

"Yes, I believe that our ancestors must have their reasons for leaving this thing in the treasury." Zhan Chen nodded and answered.

After leaving the treasury, Zhan Chen returned to his courtyard and shut himself in the cultivation room. He hung up the seclusion token and took out the Tiger Tendon Pill. His eyes were burning. He could finally take this fourth-grade pill.

He first calmed himself down, adjusted his state of mind to its peak, and then opened the jade bottle's cork.

As soon as it was opened, a golden stream of air gushed out and formed a small golden tiger in the air. It leaped and ran for three breaths before dissipating in the air.

Seeing this, Zhan Chen praised in his heart, "Good pill. It seems that fourth-grade pills can produce strange phenomena. The Golden Dragon Pill I took before is similar to the Tiger Tendon Pill. It's quite magical."

He quickly took out the pill. The Tiger Tendon Pill shone with golden light. It was only the size of a soybean, but it contained surging medicinal power. Zhan Chen observed it for a while before putting it in his mouth. As soon as the pill entered his mouth, it seemed to have a life of its own. It turned into a pure gas that spread throughout his body.

Then, he felt his whole body start to heat up, especially his meridians, which felt like they were burning. Zhan Chen had the urge to stand up and run out to vent, but he gritted his teeth and suppressed this desire. He knew that this was because the medicinal power of the pill was too strong for his body to bear.

What he needed to do now was to seal his seven apertures and lock the medicinal power firmly in his body so that he could absorb it without wasting.

Sure enough, the medicinal power of the Tiger Tendon Pill ran amok in his body. Unable to find a breakthrough point, it began to gradually integrate into his body, first into his tendons, then into his flesh.

Zhan Chen began to circulate the True Golden Elephant Tactic day after day, increasing the efficiency of his body's absorption of the medicinal power. Even so, it took him an entire month to completely absorb the medicinal power.

When the last trace of medicinal power entered his meridians, Zhan Chen couldn't help but stand up and roar to the sky. Then, he stretched out his hands and feet and performed a set of Six Nine Fist. Although there was not much change in his strength, his whole body was full of Qi and blood, as if he had endless strength. The flexibility of his meridians was also greatly improved, and he took another big step towards the Martial Venerable Realm.

After a short rest, Zhan Chen took out the formation breaking pill and the ugly alchemy furnace he had obtained from the first floor of the treasure house from his Qiankun Bag. He asked Frightened Boy, "Boy, you said before that you can use the formation breaking pill to break the restriction on this alchemy furnace. How do you do it?"

Frightened Boy replied, "Master, it's not difficult. You just need to hold the formation breaking pill in your hand, get close to the alchemy furnace, and inject your Genuine Qi into it."

"Okay, I'll give it a try."

So Zhan Chen did as Frightened Boy said. When he injected his Genuine Qi into the formation breaking pill, it seemed to have no reaction, but on the other side of the alchemy furnace, there was a magical change.

Above the alchemy furnace, the original gray surface spread outward, forming a huge spherical light shield. It was as big as a basketball, and it was covered with crisscrossing white filaments. They were so dense that they wrapped the alchemy furnace in the middle like a cocoon, making it impossible to see the original appearance of the alchemy furnace.

He took the alchemy furnace in his hand curiously, only to find that his hand could pass through the white net freely, as if it was an illusion.

When he took away the formation breaking pill, the net light shield was thrown back into the alchemy furnace, and the alchemy furnace returned to its original gray appearance. When he approached the alchemy furnace with the formation breaking pill, the light shield appeared again.

Zhan Chen couldn't help but be surprised. "What are these silk nets?"

"This is the restriction," Frightened Boy answered.

"Why can't I feel the existence of these restrictions?"

"Yes, master, they were attached to the surface of the alchemy furnace in the beginning. They were activated when you activated the formation breaking pill, and now they should be fighting against the power of the formation breaking pill."

"Do you see the many silk-like things wrapped around the surface of the alchemy furnace?"

"Yes, I see them."

"Those are restrictions that haven't been activated yet. They are still attached to the surface of the alchemy furnace, so the spherical silk net that you see outside is only a part of the restrictions."

"It's just a part, but there are so many and so complicated!" Zhan Chen exclaimed.

"Yes, the restrictions on the alchemy furnace are complicated, and they can still be intact after so many years. It can be seen that the person who set the restrictions has a high level of cultivation, and it's not that easy to break!"

"Then what should I do?"

"Master, it's not difficult to break this restriction, but with your level of cultivation, I'm afraid it will take a lot of time. This work is like spinning silk from a cocoon, and you have to unravel it layer by layer. Right now, the power of this formation breaking pill that you can use is not even a thousandth of its normal level, so you can only focus its power and break those silk threads one by one. "

"Break them one by one? No way? " Zhan Chen looked at the silk threads wrapped around the restriction. He couldn't even count how many there were, but there were probably tens of thousands of them.

"I also didn't expect there to be so many restrictions on the alchemy furnace. Let's start from the outermost layer and start one by one."

Zhan Chen pondered for a moment, nodded, and controlled the power of the formation breaking pill to force it towards one of the spirit threads on the outermost layer of the restriction.

After receiving the support of his true qi, the restrictive spell formation inside the formation collided with the spirit thread on the restrictive spell, wearing down its energy. Gradually, the spirit thread became indistinct and eventually disappeared.

Only then did Zhan Chen let out a sigh of relief. He wiped away the sweat on his forehead and controlled the formation breaking pill to collide with another spirit thread …

After a while, Zhan Chen felt that the True Qi in his body was exhausted, and he had to stop. He smiled bitterly. He had spent so much time only to break 10 spirit threads, and this was simply a drop in the ocean for the restriction on the alchemy furnace.

He didn't know how much energy and how many years it would take to break all the restrictions on the alchemy furnace.

At this time, he heard Frightened Boy cheering him on from the side, "Master, don't be discouraged. Don't be fooled by the complexity of the restrictions on the alchemy furnace. As long as you have the willpower to break a stone, I believe that one day, you will be able to break all these restrictions. Moreover, your current cultivation level is still low. If one day, master can break through to Martial Venerable, King Wu, or even higher realms, you will be able to unlock a greater function of the formation breaking pill. When that time comes, the speed of breaking the restrictions will increase exponentially! "

Zhan Chen nodded and replied, "I understand. How about this? My cultivation level has reached a bottleneck, and I don't have much hope of breaking through to Martial Venerable in a short period of time. I'll focus on using this formation breaking pill to break the restrictions on the alchemy furnace. Isn't this a form of cultivation?"

Thus, he took out a Ling Xiao Pill, stuffed it into his mouth, and began to circulate the Golden Elephant True Skill. On one hand, it was to replenish his lost True Qi, and on the other hand, it was to consolidate his cultivation level.

After recovering his True Qi, he picked up the formation breaking pill and began to break the restrictions on the alchemy furnace.

Just like that, day after day, Zhan Chen spent more than a year in this boring and monotonous activity.

However, this kind of effort was not without rewards. In addition to the improvement of his cultivation level, he also had an unexpected harvest.

In the cultivation room, Zhan Chen held the formation breaking pill in one hand, and the alchemy furnace in the other. He was breaking the restrictions on the alchemy furnace. Compared to a year ago, the restrictions on the alchemy furnace didn't seem to have decreased by much. However, Zhan Chen understood that he had already broken an unknown number of restrictions.

Previously, the crisscrossing and seemingly disorderly spirit threads didn't look like that in his eyes anymore. He didn't know when, but he felt that the arrangement and combination of these spiritual threads had a certain pattern, and it even seemed to contain some kind of profound principle.

What was even more amazing was that sometimes, when he broke a spiritual thread, the same spiritual thread would immediately appear in the same place, and if he was unwilling to break it again, the spiritual threads in the same place would grow again, as if there was no end to them. But sometimes, when he only broke a spiritual thread, it would be accompanied by the disappearance of dozens or hundreds of spiritual threads in the vicinity. There was even a time when he only broke a spiritual thread, and the entire outermost layer of restrictions on the alchemy furnace disappeared.

At that time, he boldly guessed that each restriction must contain a key point, and as long as he grasped this key point, the whole restriction would be easily broken. It was just that he didn't understand the principles of those restrictions, and there was no one to guide him.

Now, when he closed his eyes, there would be countless spiritual threads freely arranging and reorganizing in his mind, forming one restriction after another. These restrictions seemed to have come to life, deeply integrated into his mind, and buried in his subconsciousness, becoming a huge secret.