Chapter 196

It took three days for Chen Jingzhai to completely sort out the item alchemy inheritance.

He had also deposited the item alchemy inheritance in jade slips at Archive Pavilion in the Grotto-heavens Marketplace.

Naturally, ordinary guests could not lay their hands on it. However, if the price was high enough, Chen Jingzhai would consider selling it. He knew that that would not be so simple. Nevertheless, the price offered had to be very high.

Besides that, Chen Jingzhai had unlocked some new achievements while sorting out the item alchemy inheritance.

It was an Item Cauldron Forging Technique, which could cultivate divine spirits when they were in their spirit body.

The Thousand-forged Method of Item Cauldron Forging Technique was very suitable for refining spirit bodies.

Chen Jingzhai had deliberately passed the secret technique to Lord Hailong.

In order to make his cultivation smooth, Chen Jingzhai had taken out the Kraken cauldron, a superior Grade 2 item cauldron. After Lord Hailong had refined it, he created a new spirit body for himself, using the spirit cauldron as his core.

He thoroughly tempered the spirit body, inside out, with the essence power of heavens and earth before combining it with his own magic power. Through this process, a new spirit body could be forged. Additionally, the Kraken cauldron could be upgraded to become Lord Hailong’s natal item cauldron.

Once successful, Lord Hailong could become an item alchemist in the future.

Not only that, the best thing was that the Kraken cauldron could resonate with Ocean Taming Drum and Twin Dragon Mallet. Lord Hailong could continue refining these two objects.

He could use the set of magic treasures and the Kraken cauldron as sacrificial instruments for his natal item cauldron. Although it would consume more time and essence power, Lord Hailong could be stronger in the future. He would surely break through True Venerable Spirit Plane then.

Besides Lord Hailong, the two Grade 4 divine spirits, White Jade and Golden Flame also benefited from Chen Jingzhai’s teaching. The two divine spirits forged had their own spirit bodies, using the White Jade Sword and Golden Flame Sword as their cores.

The two were the sun and moon divine spirits Chen Jingzhai had proclaimed under Grotto-heavens’ authority. With the aid of the two swords, they could create unique and compatible spirit bodies and become Chen Jingzhai’s right-hand men in the future.

After sorting out the item alchemy inheritance, Chen Jingzhai counted the loots from Starlight Demon Subduing Tower.

The tower had a total of 36 floors. Venerable Ning had transformed the first twenty-four floors into a place for testing disciples and passing down inheritances. Meanwhile, the twenty-fifth floor had become a portable cave residence to enhance the tower’s potential.

On the twenty-fifth floor, there were monsters and demons in Golden Core Plane. According to the tower boy, the twenty-sixth to thirty-fifth floors had extremely ferocious beings above Grade 3.

The thirty-sixth floor was the real inheritance place left by Venerable Ning. One could obtain the Star Cultivation Method, which was the Inheritance Sky Scripture Venerable Ning obtained by chance, on that floor.

Chen Jingzhai did not hesitate and followed the tower boy’s lead. He finally reached the thirty-sixth floor of Starlight Demon Subduing Tower. Before entering, the tower boy reported the tower’s situation.

“There is a total of 139,600 Grade 1 demonic beasts…

48,300 Grade 2 demonic beasts and spirit monsters…

6,921 Grade 3 demonic beasts and spirit monsters and…

Five Grade 4 demonic beasts and spirit monsters in the tower. All of them are on the thirty-first to thirty-fifth floors.

There are a lot of areas in the tower, and each of them is in a different space.

There is also a Grade 4 spiritual cauldron source and a Grade 4 spiritual treasure source.

Besides that, there are 13 superior Grade 3 magic treasures…

A total of 69 Intermediate Grade 3 magic treasures and…

4,822 inferior Grade 3 magic treasures and spiritual treasure sources.

There are also several medicinal herbs of various grades.

Lastly, there are several inheritances such as the Alchemy Method, formations, and other inheritances.”

Venerable Ning had left behind a lot of wealth for his heir. The spirit monsters in the tower could be very helpful as long as they were tamed. Plus, there were also spirit treasures on the list. According to the tower boy, the two Grade 4 sources mentioned were tests left by Venerable Ning.

One could only obtain it by truly accepting the inheritance of the Heavenly Scriptures.

Meanwhile, the other three magic treasures were more or less on par with each other. On the other hand, the superior-grade magic treasures were all stored in the tower.

“Why are there still elixirs?” asked Chen Jingzhai.

“They were from enemies and some opportunists,” said the tower boy. “The former owner occasionally visited other territories as an alchemist. After all, cultivators from Heaven Star Territory are too eye-catching.”

Chen Jingzhai nodded all of a sudden. It was indeed difficult for a cultivator from Heaven Star Territory to disguise himself.

In the entire Heaven Essence Realm, most of the cultivators who cultivated the power of the stars gathered in Heaven Star Territory. Many cultivators acquiesced that anyone they encountered with the power of the stars should be from Heaven Star Territory. Since Venerable Ning wanted to avoid his enemy, he had to change his identity and go to another territory. He would be attracting too many eyes if he were a cultivator from Heaven Star Territory.

Since he had to fully receive the inheritance, Chen Jingzhai did not hesitate and walked straight into the Restriction on the thirty-sixth floor, under the tower boy’s watchful eyes.

In a trance, Chen Jingzhai felt the world around him change drastically.

It became a vast sparkling space filled with all kinds of stars. All the stars were shining while the rest of the void was pitch black. There was no sun or moon. It seemed as if they were in space. If it was not for the light door there, Chen Jingzhai would have thought that he was not in the tower.

After taking a deep breath, Chen Jingzhai continued to walk forward. Every time he took a step, a star from the void would fall into his body. Nonetheless, he kept moving forward as he did not feel anything amiss.

He was too engrossed by the emptiness of the void. Every time a star fell, the divine spirit in his body would change. Slowly, more and more divine spirits were awakened.

Chen Jingzhai was immersed in the process. As the stars fell, he naturally obtained the Inheritance Sky Scripture, which appeared in his mind. It was called the Ruling Star Divine Sky Scripture.

It came from the Zhoutian Star Celestial Scripture. The sky scripture was not created or derived by later generations. It was a genuine fragment of the Celestial Scripture, which was a part of the Zhoutian Star Celestial Scripture. Moreover, it was a part of its essence.

It was a pity that he could not get the complete inheritance since Venerable Ning was not from a sect. Venerable Ning was a rogue cultivator who obtained the inheritance during an opportunity but ended up receiving karma from the Celestial Scripture.

Star Divine Clan, which resided in Heaven Star Territory, was the true heir sect of the Zhoutian Star Celestial Scripture. Anyone who cultivated and comprehended the Ruling Star Divine Sky Scripture would immediately be sensed by Star Divine Clan.

Once his presence was sensed, the cultivators from Star Divine Clan would hunt him down and reclaim their inheritance.

That was also why Venerable Ning had to hide and change his identity constantly. He even had to modify the source of the final entry to Tempest Ocean. He had to refine spiritual treasures with the inheritance of the sky scriptures. With little luck, he naturally passed through Tempest Corridor.

According to the information left by Venerable Ning, Wang Ju and the others were indeed very lucky to be able to reach the Eastern Ocean. They did not even encounter much spatial turbulence.

After taking a hundred and eight steps forward, Chen Jingzhai had completely inherited the Ruling Star Divine Sky Scripture. When he opened his eyes, 108 beams of star power were already in his body.

That was a gift left behind by Venerable Ning. It was the gentle power of stars after the refinement of True Venerable Spirit Plane. With that, he could smoothly condense the seeds of the Star Divine in his body.

However…

Chen Jingzhai frowned slightly. He had no intention of cultivating it directly.

The Ruling Star Divine Sky Scripture was indeed very powerful and befitting of a celestial scripture. However, in terms of completeness, it could not compare to Dragon and Phoenix Consummation Seal Script. He had not even cultivated that celestial scripture directly, so how could he cultivate the incomplete celestial scripture?

“There’s no need to dispose of it either. I shall ignore it for the time being. After I have comprehended it carefully, I can create the Golden Core passage. It might be useful in the future,” thought Chen Jingzhai to himself.

At that moment, he had gained a lot. The Ruling Star Divine Sky Scripture suited him very well.

The celestial scripture was mainly used to obtain the power of the stars outside the sky, and condense and refine the seed of the Star Divine into the body before transforming the flesh into the body of the Star Divine.

After the body of the Star Divine was completed, he would major in Star Divine Method. He would condense the Star Golden Core before contracting the Star Divine Golden Core. His focus would be mainly on the Star Golden Core, with the Star Divine Golden Core as a supplement.

It was also necessary to refine the materials and spiritual herbs of various star attributes, and constantly make the Star Divine Golden Core complete. Before the Star Divine Golden Core evolved into Nascent Soul, he would have to draw in Nascent Soul Qi to awaken the Star Divine Golden Core.

After that, in addition to his Nascent Soul, the cultivator also had to nurture a Star Deity, namely the second Nascent Soul, and even the third and fourth one. Venerable Ning was one of those who had successfully nurtured two Star Divine Golden Cores into Star Deities.

That greatly increased his cultivation. As such, he was even able to change his identity to get rid of the pursuit of the Star Divine Clan.