Chen Yun was the first to solve the Southern Ming Fire Flag and the Five Element Sword with his swordplay.
Perhaps the two treasures were so complicated in construction that it took him quite a lot of effort to crack the codes, unlike the usual ease.
After about a cup of tea's time, he finally managed to crack the Southern Ming Fire Flag and the Five Element Divine Sword himself.
"Hu, cracking these two treasures was more exhausting than letting me and the four teachers from Yuhuang fight each other."
After resting for a while, Chen Yun picked up the Southern Ming Fire Flag and tried to input a bit of Danyiqi essence to see if he could activate its power.
The next moment, a yin and a yang flame of two different attributes rose from the Southern Ming Fire Flag.
The rising flames may resemble candlelight, but they give off a very terrifying feeling.
The Yang fire is scorching, even Chen Yun's first-grade success of the spirit jade symbol may feel like it might be burned if touched.
The Yin fire is icy cold, and when it shines on Chen Yun, he feels as if his soul might freeze.
"I've never really faced the power of the Southern Ming Fire Flag before, relying entirely on the Taiji Zizhu Xianyi. I didn't expect its power to be so terrifying."
After years of battles and traveling to the heavenly caves, he can say he has seen a lot. Naturally, he can discern how powerful the two flames that rise from the Southern Ming Fire Flag are.
"My Golden Demon Deity body also possesses two different types of flames, but they are not the same as the flames emitted from this flag."
Chen Yun carefully analyzed and compared, "The flames of the Golden Demon Deity Body represent destruction and life, while the flames emitted by this flag represent yin and yang."
In terms of the "quality" of the flames, the flames released by the Southern Ming Fire Flag, even a single one, seem to be less powerful than those of the Golden Demon Deity Body.
However, he knew that the two flames released by the flag could be combined.
Chen Yun tried to combine the two types of flames.
In the next moment, the two flames interacted with each other, merging into a blazing flame that appears colorless but feels radiant.
Not only was it scorching, but Chen Yun also felt an element of "yin" within it.
Suddenly, he realized, "Isn't this the Southern Ming Fire?"
In the Bagua, Li represents the south, opposite the noon position of the sun, belongs to Yang, and is related to the red-crowned phoenix guarding the fire of Geng and Ding.
As the saying goes, "A single yin does not grow, nor does a single yang spring up."
The growth or appearance of things cannot be brought about solely by one factor or condition.
The Southern Ming Fire is a strange divine fire. It is the strongest and the most Yang, but as Yang reaches its extreme, it generates Yin, making it also the coldest and most Yin flame.
Chen Yun remembered that the Southern Ming Fire is the flame of the top divine beast, the Azure Dragon. It has the amazing abilities to consume everything and fuse with nature.
Especially for Yin gods and demons, the damage is superdouble.
"Why didn't Xuanzhenzi combine the two flames into the more powerful Southern Ming Fire?"
This confused Chen Yun, "Whether he didn't combine them or not, with the Southern Ming Fire Flag, my strength will increase significantly in the future whether it's for refining weapons or fighting people."
Although it didn't meet his expectations, he was still quite satisfied.
Continue to check the functions of the Five Elements Divine Sword.
Chen Yun injected Danyiqi into the five divine swords.
Humble hum, the divine sword quivered slightly.
The tips of the five divine swords emitted a foot-long stream of the five elements' sword qi.
As a Daoist cultivator, he naturally knew that the five element sword qi corresponded to the five elements, namely, gold, wood, water, fire, and earth.
This made Chen Yun even more confused.
If taken separately, the five element sword qi are all powerful sword qi.
When combined, they can achieve a balance between the five elements and explosive power.
However, the power that arises from this combination is incredibly strong but not invincible.
At most, it may be a bit stronger than an ordinary single attribute treasure.
For example, his ice ring treasure might not match the power of the Five Elements Divine Sword being unleashed together.
However, compared to the water attribute's divine swords, it may still be a bit stronger.
Before going to the Star Sea, Chen Yun had already had a confrontation with Xuanzhenzi and Dongmiao Niangfu once.
As the saying goes, knowing of one's powerful techniques, the opponent should have prepared more formidable treasures for combat.
However, after seeing the Southern Ming Fire Flag and the Five Elements Divine Sword, Chen Yun did not find them more powerful than the Zhou Tian Xingjian or the Zǐ Qīng Shuāng Jiàn.
This does not conform to the usual logic.
"It shouldn't be like this."
Chen Yun felt very puzzled, "Isn't the most powerful treasure of the Star Sea the Zhou Tian Xingjian and the Zǐ Qīng Shuāng Jiàn?"
If that's true, Xuanzhenzi and Dongmiao Niangfu could not have countered Bado Ren and Jiande Ren, let alone suppressed them.
Could it be... that these two treasures hold some kind of secret mechanism?
Chen Yun knew that figuring it out by himself might take a long time.
He didn't continue to ponder over it, but instead continued to flip through the spoils from the Star Sea.
He wanted to see if he could find information about the Southern Ming Fire Flag and the Five Elements Divine Sword among them.
The quality of the spoils from Star Sea is significantly higher than that from Yinshan Sect.
Various powerful artifacts, pills, and cultivation techniques were available.
Some of the artifacts were even applicable to Chen Yun, who possessed battle power comparable to that of sect leaders.
For example, there was a little knife with starlight colors.
Chen Yun had previously attempted to summon it and found that the little knife could unleash an unstoppable blade qi.
Moreover, the blade qi was extremely eerie, as if it had an eroding function.
It seems to be specifically designed for cultivators with strong bodies.
"This thing is somewhat similar to the Huaxue Shen Dao from 'The Romance of the Three Kingdoms', but its attributes are more powerful."
Chen Yun analyzed it for a moment, "The Huaxue Shen Dao needs to come into contact with blood to unleash its toxicity, but this starlight-infused small knife is not the same. It can penetrate through an opponent's defenses, allowing the starlight with strong corrosive properties to enter their body, thereby causing death within a short period of time."
However, if someone else is cultivating Yinshen or something like that, the power of this starlight dagger may not be particularly strong.
After all, cultivators who have cultivated Yinshen can survive even if their bodies are destroyed by relying on their Yinshen. They can even possess a new body to reincarnate and be reborn again.
However, for cultivators who train their bodies, this starlight dagger is deadly.
Firstly, it has the unbreakable attribute, which is something that generally strong-defended cultivators take pride in, but in front of this starlight dagger, their formidable defense is nothing. At the very least, breaking through it is not impossible. Once the defense is broken, it can corrode others' physical bodies.
Therefore, Chen Yun knew that the value of this starlight dagger was actually very high.
Not only the starlight dagger, but also a copper mirror and a one-foot-long divine needle seem to be quite good.
As for the pills, Chen Yun found many suitable for master realm, which could rapidly enhance cultivation.
That means they are suitable for him.
These are all good acquisitions.
Of course, these were not the biggest acquisitions he considered.
Chen Yun's greatest acquisition was obtaining the "Star Sea Treasure Manual" and the "Starry Yuan Shen Supreme Skill."
"Starry Yuan Shen Supreme Skill" is naturally a cultivation technique for cultivating one's spiritual realm.
Chen Yun carefully looked at it for a while and found that this cultivation technique can absorb the power of countless stars to refine one's spiritual realm. It can rapidly enhance one's spiritual realm in the early stage, which is much stronger than Yinshen, and its advancement speed is not slower than cultivating Yinshen.
As everyone knows, cultivating the Yinshen is considered a side track or a forbidden path in the cultivation world.
That's why it progresses so quickly.
On the other hand, cultivating the spiritual realm is a legitimate method of Daoist cultivation, and its advancement speed is generally slower.
Now, this "Starry Yuan Shen Supreme Skill" is able to achieve the speed of cultivating Yinshen even under the premise of being a legitimate Daoist cultivation method?
Chen Yun really wanted to say, this cultivation technique is definitely a great law!
"The cultivation technique is very helpful to me at the moment."
He pondered for a moment, "I can use the techniques within to absorb the power of the sun and stars to cultivate and strengthen my spiritual realm. Maybe it will allow me to cultivate more rapidly to the 'Yangshen' realm."
Indeed, this "Starry Yuan Shen Supreme Skill" when refined to its highest realm has similarities to the Neidan Art in subtlety, and both can refine one's spiritual realm to a pure Yang state without any Yin.
However, the Neidan Art refers to the pure Yang and Yin-free spiritual realm as the Yangshen.
While the "Starry Yuan Shen Supreme Skill" refers to it as the Pure Yang True God.
"What wonderful treasures, what wonderful treasures!"
Chen Yun couldn't help but feel overjoyed, knowing that he had struck gold.
He carefully put away the "Starry Yuan Shen Supreme Skill" and prepared to study it thoroughly when he had some time, then integrate it into his Neidan Art.
The remaining "Star Sea Treasure Manual" was equally remarkable.
It contained not only various methods for cultivating the spiritual realm.
It also had numerous methods for refining bodies, pills, weapons, and qi, encompassing a wide variety of techniques.
Some of the techniques described in it were things Chen Yun had never heard of before.
For example, there was an array called the "Zhou Tian Xingjian Great Array".
It was said that if a powerful cultivator had enough numbers, they could even unleash the terrifying might to exterminate "Rujin Renzhen" (those who have transcended into immortality).
The Zhou Tian Xingjian Great Array, Chen Yun had previously witnessed its power.
At the time, he didn't think it was particularly impressive.
After reading the records on the Treasure Manual, he realized that it wasn't because the Zhou Tian Xingjian Great Array's power was weak, but because the disciples of Star Sea were too weak in strength.
If Star Sea had hundreds of disciples at the level of senior cultivators to set up this great array, there would indeed be a real possibility of exterminating immortals!
Hundreds of senior cultivators?
How could a sect possibly have such a powerful force!
Chen Yun however blinked his eyes and pondered in his heart, "My Divine Warriors and Generals, combined with the many Yin Warriors and Generals I have captured this time, their strength seems to have reached that of a senior cultivator. If I can consecrate all those Yin Warriors and Generals into Divine Warriors and Generals, it might be able to unleash the full power of this array."
That means, relying on the massive amount of divine warriors and generals, he might have a chance to kill immortals?
This is definitely something that cheers him up to the extreme for himself, who will soon participate in the Battle of Divine Scripture!
"Of course, the exact power level it can reach, I'm not sure yet. It will require testing after arranging the Divine Warriors and Generals, to see what the true power is."
Chen Yun continued to study the manual.
Suddenly, he saw the records of the Southern Ming Fire Flag and the Five Elements Divine Swords in the manual.
He looked at it carefully.
Not looking was better.
After seeing it, he finally realized why he felt that the two artifacts were weak in power.
Because these two artifacts were not used individually, but rather in combination.
To put it simply, like a combo move.
Once used in combination, the Southern Ming Fire Flag and the Five Elements Divine Swords can combine the power of Yin and Yang, and the Five Elements.
Yin and Yang, Five Elements, are the "basic forces" that make up the world.
Imagine the power that could be wielded by gathering the powers of Yin and Yang, and the Five Elements.
Indeed, Chen Yun realized it from the manual.
These two treasures could unleash their full power before achieving enlightenment and becoming immortals. They can only give a certain degree of over-level challenge ability to their wielders.
For example, Xuanzhenzi and Dongmiaofu relied on the combined power of the two treasures to not only withstand the attacks of Ba and Jiao immortals but also to subtly suppress them.
If those who achieve enlightenment and become immortals use them, the power will be amplified many times.
Even more so, these two treasures could create independent interdimensional space on their own to trap enemies, thus suppressing the enemy's power and greatly enhancing their own.
With this decrease and that increase, it's not out of the question to annihilate a spirit realm immortal with a human realm immortal!
In short, these two treasures can unleash a greater power as one's own strength increases.
The same goes for their lower limit.
Similarly, if a cultivator of very low strength wields these two treasures, they may not be able to unleash any significant power at all.
This is quite different from the Zhou Tian Xingjian Sword and the Purple-Qing Twin Swords.
The Zhou Tian Xingjian Sword and the Purple-Qing Twin Swords have a high lower limit, but their upper limit is not particularly high.
For example, the Zhou Tian Xingjian Sword has the major characteristic of being able to suppress souls.
If others cultivate Yinshen or spiritual realm, their strength will be significantly weakened.
Unless you can communicate with the stars every day using this divine sword and harness their power, you can only unleash terrifying power.
Chen Yun said with a bad taste, "If I had the time, I'd rather focus on cultivating internal energy to enhance my physical strength instead."
The Purple-Qing Twin Swords are in a similar situation. They are also suppressive artifacts with some limitations on their upper limit.
The Southern Ming Fire Flag and the Five Elements Divine Swords are different; when used together, their upper limit can reach a terrifying level.
Chen Yun estimated that even if he reached the Immortal realm, the two treasures could still unleash considerable power when used together.
It can be said that if the combined value of the Zhou Tian Xingjian Sword and the Purple-Qing Twin Swords is "one", then the combined value of the Southern Ming Fire Flag and the Five Elements Divine Swords is at least "ten".
Yes, the difference is that great.
Of course, if taken separately, the Southern Ming Fire Flag and the Five Elements Divine Swords may not be as powerful as either the Zhou Tian Xingjian Sword or the Purple-Qing Twin Swords.
"Regardless, the Southern Ming Fire Flag and the Five Elements Divine Swords will definitely become my go-to artifacts for over-level challenges in the near future."
Chen Yun knew the value of these two artifacts and carefully stored them separately.
After checking his loot, he felt very satisfied.
It was well worth the effort to lead over ten thousand divine warriors and generals in battles all over the world.
Just as he was thinking, the voice of "Big Steward" Gong Juji suddenly echoed from outside, "Teacher, there is someone who wishes to see you."
Chen Yun didn't think much at the time and asked out loud, "Who is it?"
Gong Juji's tone was somewhat surprised, as if he couldn't believe it, "The visitor is a young girl. According to her self-introduction, she is from Kunlun Mountain and claims to be from the door of the Western Queen Mother. She invites you to go to Kunlun Mountain."
Ah?
The Western Queen Mother summoning me?
Chen Yun felt a bit dazed at the time.
He had previously destroyed the entire Star Sea clan near Kunlun Mountain.
The Western Queen Mother did not send anyone to stop or summon him.
How come he returned, and instead of sending someone to stop him, they send someone to summon him?
Although puzzled, thinking about the prospect of meeting the legendary Western Queen Mother from mythology, Chen Yun was very much looking forward to it.
He really wanted to know what kind of appearance the Western Queen Mother was like, what incredible laws she had, and even... if she would teach him some major laws because of their relationship in the same cultivation lineage.
Chen Yun was unsure of this for now, but he still replied to Gong Juji at the first opportunity, ready to travel to Kunlun Mountain to meet the Western Queen Mother.
(End of Chapter)
