Battle Through the Heavens Prequel - The Legend of Yao Lao Chapter 36

Chapter 36 Black Demon Cauldron Transformation

However, having those transformations imprinted into his spirit ended up using all of Yao Chen's energy. Endless pain flooded out from Yao Chen's spirit, filling every inch of his body. This kind of pain was at least a hundred times greater than the medicinal baths he was used to taking. It was something that had exploded from his spirit and provoked his physical body before once more returning to his spirit, a pain that cycled over and over again while becoming stronger and stronger.

To the side, Mu Gu was delighted by that chance and wanted to stand up and attack Yao Chen. However, a white light suddenly shot over. The Bone Chilling Flame had actually automatically protected its master at this critical moment.

Mu Gu held his stomach. Due to being heavily injured by the Bone Chilling Flame just now, his strength had descended to around the peak of a Dou Ling. Any random Dou Wang would be able to crush him. Now that the Bone Chilling Flame had come out to protect Yao Chen, Mu Gu no longer dared to attack. The delight on his face turned into a dark scowl as he hatefully glared at Yao Chen. However he was a resolute person. He knew that being greedy would likely end up killing himself. If he waited for Yao Chen to recover, even if he didn't die, he wouldn't be able to get out unscathed. At this time he gave up any thoughts against Yao Chen and quickly fled.

Just as Mu Gu disappeared down the stairs, Yao Chen suddenly opened his eyes. The intense pain left his body and his Spiritual Strength had weakened greatly. However this wasn't a bad thing. Although his strength had become weaker, he had become more stable. That Spiritual Strength of his hadn't disappeared, but instead had been used to increase his innate talent. It could be said that for Yao Chen to advance past Dou Zong to Dou Zun was an extremely great difficulty before. After all, his cultivation talent had never been that great. For him to become a Dou Zun would have had to have waited until he was much older. The strengthening of his spirit had been because of his medicinal baths and some medicinal pills forcefully raising it.

But now his spirit had been transformed to boost his cultivation realm. Yao Chen could truly sense the barrier of the Dou Zun realm now and knew how to advance. The Flame Mantra truly was strong. Just through the transformations in his spirit, it brought about such a miracle, turning his spirit into something substantial in his cultivation realm.

However, Yao Chen still hesitated and bitterly smiled. This Flame Mantra… it seemed it didn't suit him. It was only suited for Dou Zhes who had only just stepped into cultivation.

At the beginning it could only count as a Huang class technique. In order to promote it required you to search for Heavenly Flames and use the Flame Mantra to devour them…

If he wanted to now cultivate the Flame Mantra, he would have to give up all the accomplishments he had made up till this point and completely restart from nothing.

Yao Chen hesitated. In his current state, he would definitely step into the Dou Zun class within a year.

If he started from zero, let alone Dou Zun, he might have to fall from Dou Zong to Dou Wang, maybe even Dou Ling… of course, there would be benefits from it. His talent would be rebuilt completely anew. When he began his cultivation again, his talent would be much greater, and within the same class he would have double the strength.

But over the past ten years, the Falling Star Pavilion had made many enemies. Although they had allies, but that was due to the influence of his status as the mainland's number one alchemist. If he were to drop down now, would he still be able to stop those powers that currently didn't dare seek revenge against him?

To not cultivate the Flame Mantra, his heart was unwilling.

But if he did cultivate it, it was asking for death. Unless he completely abandoned the Falling Star Pavilion and concealed himself…

Yao Chen shook his head. A man couldn't act like that. Wasn't it just a powerful cultivation technique? In addition, the Flame Mantra was extremely dangerous. It required Heavenly Flames to increase the cultivation technique's rank. How could Heavenly Flames be something so easily swallowed?

Collecting his thoughts, Yao Chen decided to give up on the Flame Mantra and instead follow his own path.

As soon as he decided on that, his spirit shook and the green gas rushed out of his body. The green gas transformed in front of him and turned into a scroll that fell into his hand.

Yao Chen was shocked; this ability to turn it into a scroll was similar to refining medicine. It was an extremely profound process, a technique of top level complexity. Refining Qi to turn into a scroll was definitely a technique only a Dou Di was capable of using.

This Flame Mantra was definitely something left behind by a top-tier Dou Di.

Yao Chen was once more tempted to cultivate the Flame Mantra, however that thought only crossed his mind for a moment before he brushed it away. Unless the Falling Star Pavilion grew to the point that it no longer needed him, he absolutely would not cultivate the Flame Mantra.

Breaking down something in order to rebuild it; it might sound simple, but Yao Chen knew that it was extremely difficult. Just the slightest carelessness might cause him to fall forever.

At this time, the huge formation was gradually fading. With the Flame Mantra having left it, the formation had lost its purpose. The formation slowly flowed away like water, eventually turning into formless energy that floated away.

That formation was also definitely something that only a Dou Di could have made. It had its own intelligence that caused it to fade away naturally once it had lost its purpose… furthermore it disappeared without leaving behind a trace.

Yao Chen didn't even have the time to lament over losing the chance to examine a Dou Di's formation when he felt the pagoda began to wildly shake. Apparently even the huge pagoda was about to follow along the formation and disappear.

He quickly retreated, but at this time it was already a bit late. The walls had already started to become smoke. The smoke surged out and in just an instant the entire pagoda collapsed.

Yao Chen tumbled down from the sky. This wasn't something dangerous to a Dou Zong like him who could fly. But Yao Chen was stunned to find that at this moment his Dou Qi was unable to leave his body. Whenever it did it would it would disperse into nothingness just like the black smoke.

To fall from a hundred meters in the sky was also not something that could cause injury to a Dou Zong. Yao Chen prepared himself for the pain.

However, suddenly when he passed through the black smoke Yao Chen saw Mu Gu standing in his group. The four Dou Zongs had arranged a battle formation. Seeing him falling, they all attacked at the same time. Over ten rays of Dou Qi condensed together into a single body that charged at Yao Chen.

BANG!

Yao Chen was at this time unable to use his Dou Qi, so he could only use his physical body to take the attack head on.

Intense pain rolled over within his body. The good thing was that although his Dou Qi was unable to leave his body, he was still able to circulate it within his body to protect his organs. Otherwise he would have been severely wounded.

"Capture him!" Mu Gu laughed evilly. Only the last person laughing was the victor. Even through Yao Chen had obtained the treasure first, wasn't it about to land in his hands either way now?

However, black lightning suddenly descended. A spatial fluctuation suddenly came from the spatial wormhole in front of the gate that no one had been able to enter. That spatial energy sucked in the falling Yao Chen.

After swallowing Yao Chen, that wormhole shrunk until it disappeared completely.

Mu Gu blankly stared at that empty spot. Originally Yao Chen wouldn't have landed over that wormhole, but because of their attack they had pushed Yao Chen perfectly over it.

To the side, no one was paying attention as the Three Scorpion Devil Ghosts took their chance to exchange glances and form their own battle formation. Their power exploded as they attacked Mu Gu!

How could the Three Scorpion Devil Ghosts be kind-hearted people? As soon as they gained a chance they would bite back.

At this time, Yao Chen entered a strange space that was completely black. However this darkness didn't actually block his sight. Instead it was a different kind of feeling.

All around him were strange treasures related to darkness. Some were medicinal ingredients, some were ingredients required for refining. They all emitted powerful energy fluctuations.

Yao Chen noticed that the injury he had just obtained was actually slowly healing under those ripples. It wasn't healing just the superficial outside, but instead restoring him from the inside.

Suddenly, a fist-sized black cauldron appeared before his shocked eyes.

This cauldron was the same shape as the demonic cauldron he had seen outside. Back then it had been the size of a huge mountain, while now it was just the size of a fist. But the aura emitted from it was the exact same.

Could it be this fist-sized shape was its true form?

But why had it appeared like this before him?

Buzz….

The black cauldron suddenly spun and a thought entered directly into Yao Chen's head.

This black demonic cauldron had been born from the huge battle between light and dark. It was a dark-attribute divine object that could simply be called the Black Demon Cauldron.

However in opposition to it was also a light-attribute divine object that was also in the form of a cauldron.

The light cauldron had already been taken by someone before. Through some kind of twist of fate, the black cauldron's time to appear back in the world had also come. And Yao Chen was the person he had chosen to take it out.

That was what it meant in general. However since this was a divine object's thoughts, Yao Chen didn't know just how much he had understood.

But that divine cauldron immediately merged into his body just like the Flame Mantra had. Yao Chen hadn't even had the chance to refuse before the divine object caused his head to turn completely dizzy.

Following the Black Demon Cauldron's merging into his body, the surrounding various medicinal ingredients and object all rushed into Yao Chen's body as well, entering the Black Demon Cauldron. Not a single item was left behind.

These divine items would all incite huge battles if they appeared outside. But now Yao Chen didn't know whether to laugh or cry. To him it felt like this was the Black Demon Cauldron's way of bribing him into taking it away. Or perhaps it would be more appropriate to call it a reward.

No matter what it was, this was a good thing in the end. Yao Chen let it act as it wished to.

When the last divine object entered into the cauldron, light suddenly blossomed in front of his eyes. An unavoidable spatial energy wrapped around him and teleported him far away.

The moment he was sent out of the teleportation, he saw a familiar person.

"Brother Chen!"

That familiar person was Feng Xian!

Who knew how the Black Demon Cauldron had decided on it, but it actually directly let Yao Chen and Feng Xian reunite.

Yao Chen was a bit uncomfortable with this. Just how badly did that Black Demon Cauldron want to leave that place? It seemed as if it had found Feng Xian to act as a bodyguard for Yao Chen.

However Yao Chen could also feel that the moment the Black Demon Cauldron left that dark space it had entered a kind of deep slumber. A strand of his own spiritual imprint had appeared on it, meaning it had accepted him as its master. However he could clearly feel that the Black Demon Cauldron was constantly absorbing Yao Chen's spiritual energy. It seemed it was recovering from something.

"How did it go?"

"I got a couple medicinal ingredients as well as a set of  Dou Techniques for refining artifacts. It's perfect for me to learn to refine artifacts," laughed Feng Xian. Obviously he had made many gains.

Yao Chen nodded his head. He was also happy that Feng Xian had found his own way.

At this time the Black Demon Cauldron in his body suddenly shook. It was a warning!

BOOM!

The Three Scorpion Devil Ghosts had charged out from the side. The three of them had joined hands to release a power on par with a Dou Zun.

But with the warning of the Black Demon Cauldron, their sudden sneak attack had lost any significance. Pure power didn't mean anything in front of Yao Chen. Dodging to the side, his power was unleashed as he stepped forward. Feng Xian also taciturnly followed up, joining hands with him to attack.

BOOM!

The three ghosts joined forces were actually broken apart by Yao Chen in one blow. At this time, Feng Xian's body twisted and he ended up entangling with one of the ghosts while Yao Chen also focused on another. Spreading his arms wide open, he used a Dou Technique that combined with the Bone Chilling Flame to form over a thousand flame palms that descended out. The power of a peak Dou Zong could not be looked down upon!

"Flee!"

The Three Scorpion Devil Ghosts only now realized Yao Chen wasn't someone they were able to provoke. The remaining one of them who hadn't suffered an attack had a Dou Zong's strength yet still didn't attack. He was simply unable to find any opportunity at all to attack. A chilling killing pressure sealed him in place. It felt to him that if he moved the slightest, then the person who would die would be him.

Although the three of them moved as one, they still hadn't reached the point where one of them would take the blows for another person. Just yelling to flee was already as far as one of them would go.

Now that the Three Scorpion Devil Ghosts had realized their mistake, they immediately fled. In terms of fleeing they were definitely amongst the best in the Central Plains. At this time the three of them joined hands to take out a strange ancient item. Their Qi combined as spatial energy enveloped them. The three of them were planning on simultaneously teleporting away.

Yao Chen coldly laughed. Waving his hand, he left a deep imprint of the Bone Chilling Flame onto one of them, using the Heavenly Flame's aura to interrupt their teleportation.

However, in a short moment the three of them used their treasure to forcefully teleport, disappearing completely. But by doing this, their item shattered and could no longer recover. Obviously in order to forcefully teleport away they had had to pay a huge price.

Feng Xian let out a breath. "These Three Scorpion Devil Ghosts really are troublesome. If we could have eliminated them in one blow here then that would also benefit the Central Plains."

Yao Chen shook his head. Each person had their own lives. He wouldn't forcefully take those lives away. But the one thing that surprised them was that form the Three Scorpion Devil Ghosts' state just now, they had obviously escaped Mu Gu's control. He didn't know just what state Mu Gu was in anymore.

At this time the Black Demon Cauldron in his body once more shook to urge him to quickly leave this space. Thinking about the treasures he had obtained from the Black Demon Cauldron, Yao Chen also felt it was time to leave. People had to know when to be satisfied. If they continued exploring it didn't mean they would be able to gain much more.

As soon as he had this thought, the Black Demon Cauldron released a ripple that opened a spatial channel.

Feng Xian was startled and looked blankly at that spatial channel. From the other side of it came the familiar aura of the Central Plains. So in order to leave this place they actually had to go through a transportation formation… that was a bit overly excessive.

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