Training in the Southern Continent's Divine Realm
However, time is also of paramount importance. Ordinary Cultivators sense heaven and earth, condensing their Primordial Spirit, Purple Mansion, and Dao foundation, often taking hundreds or even thousands of years.
Prodigies and evildoers might still need decades, but Chen Yuan estimated that he might only need half a year, or about a year.
However, this year is still time. Cultivators contend with heaven and earth, and time is even more crucial, so he planned to go out for training and seek a method for Breakthrough.
He already had a plan in mind.
"Revered Master, this Disciple's cultivation has initially stabilized. I wish to travel outside and seek further Opportunity."
Leng Youmeng, lying in his arms, nodded slightly: "You are already at Soul Transformation Perfection Stage. To quickly Breakthrough to the Void Realm, going out for training is indeed necessary. With your current strength, as long as you don't actively provoke those old monsters, you can protect yourself."
She pondered for a moment, as if remembering something, then added: "Since you are going out, take Nianchu with you."
Chen Yuan was slightly startled upon hearing this.
Second Senior Sister, Shen Nianchu?
Leng Youmeng's tone was calm, showing no emotion: "Nianchu also mentioned to me a few days ago that she wanted to go out for some training.
Her cultivation has been stuck at the Middle Stage Nascent Soul for a long time; her progress has indeed been a bit slow.
In contrast, that girl Baixi, following you, is now at the Late Nascent Soul stage.
Nianchu usually keeps to herself, so her experience is inevitably insufficient. Your cultivation has reached Soul Transformation, and you have... many methods. Taking her with you will provide mutual support, and ensuring her safety should be no problem."
Chen Yuan understood.
Revered Master was asking him to be a free bodyguard and training guide.
He didn't mind; taking her along was fine, and it would make the journey less boring.
"This Disciple obeys," Chen Yuan replied.
"Good, you may go. As for Nianchu, I have already sent her a voice transmission," Leng Youmeng waved her hand.
Meanwhile, inside Shen Nianchu's Immortal Cave.
Shen Nianchu, who was meditating, received Leng Youmeng's voice transmission. The message was concise: Prepare yourself and go out for training with your Junior Brother Chen Yuan. He has agreed. He will lead this trip, and you must follow his arrangements.
"Wh-what?! With Chen Yuan?! And I have to listen to him?!"
Shen Nianchu suddenly jumped up from her meditation cushion, her pretty face instantly falling, filled with a look of utter despair.
Chen Yuan's mischievous face immediately flashed in her mind. Wouldn't she be bullied to death along the way?
Go out with him? And have to listen to his arrangements? She'd rather continue cultivating in her Immortal Cave until the end of time!
She seemed to have already foreseen her tragic future, teary-eyed from being bullied by Chen Yuan.
Revered Master, oh Revered Master, you're pushing your own Disciple into a pit of fire!
Shen Nianchu wanted to cry but had no tears, pacing back and forth in her Immortal Cave, her small face wrinkled like a bitter gourd.
She wanted to resist, to find an excuse to decline, but a Revered Master's command was hard to defy, and... she was indeed stuck at a Bottleneck, needing to go out and seek Opportunity.
"It's over, it's over... I'm doomed this time..."
She wailed, and resignedly began to pack her bags.
Chen Yuan returned to his residence, made some preparations, and gave a few instructions to Ye Baixi, Shen Ling, Liu Meier, Lin Xue, and Qin Shuhan.
Not long after, a slightly hesitant and demure figure appeared at the foot of Ziqing Peak.
It was Shen Nianchu.
Today, she had changed into a tight-fitting outfit suitable for action, accentuating her graceful figure.
However, the expression on her face, a mix of resignation and a hint of grievance, really didn't match her attire.
She secretly glanced up at Chen Yuan, who was already waiting there. He was still in his green robe, standing with his hands behind his back, his expression calm, showing no signs of joy or anger.
The calmer he was, the more nervous Shen Nianchu became.
"Second Senior Sister, are you ready?" Chen Yuan turned around, his gaze falling on her, a faint curve seemingly appearing at the corner of his mouth.
Shen Nianchu felt uncomfortable under his gaze. She stiffened her neck, forcing herself to sound calm: "Rea...ready! Junior Brother, where are we going?" Her voice, however, involuntarily dropped a few octaves.
"Just follow me." Chen Yuan said no more, his figure moving, transforming into a streak of light that shot towards the Sect gate. His speed was not fast, clearly accommodating Shen Nianchu's pace.
Shen Nianchu looked at his back, gritted her teeth, stomped her foot, and quickly followed.
The two, one after another, quickly left the Xuantian Sect gate.
Chen Yuan was in front, calm and composed.
Shen Nianchu was behind, her mind racing with thoughts, constantly pondering how to protect herself and avoid being bullied too badly by her Junior Brother.
As for Chen Yuan, he merely found his Second Senior Sister, with her rich inner monologue, somewhat amusing.
This journey will be long; with her along, it probably won't be too boring.
After leaving Xuantian Sect, Chen Yuan did not wander aimlessly. He already had a clear destination in mind—the Southern Continent, Pill God Domain.
This Domain is as famous as his Great Thousand Domain, vast and boundless, its area capable of containing dozens of Blue Star continents from his previous life.
And the overall strength of the entire Southern Continent is stronger than the Eastern Barrens.
Unlike the Great Thousand Domain, which is filled with Sects and a hundred flowers blooming, the Pill God Domain can almost be called a "nation of Pill Cultivators."
The spiritual energy here seems to carry a faint medicinal fragrance, with the Dao of Alchemy held in highest esteem. Alchemists enjoy supreme status here.
Countless Alchemy Sects and Families are entrenched here, forming a unique and prosperous Alchemy civilization.
And the ruler of this Domain is the Pill God Sect, which shakes the entire Continent!
The Pill God Sect is a First-Grade Sect. Its Sect Master is a Venerable with a cultivation level reaching the Early Stage Mahayana. Most crucially, he is a Seventh-Rank Alchemist, revered as the "Pill Saint"!
A Seventh-Rank Pill Saint is a rare existence even across the entire Xuanling Continent.
In comparison, Chen Yuan knows that in the Eastern Barrens Continent, apart from himself as a hidden Sixth-Rank Alchemist, there are only two Sixth-Rank Alchemists openly. The disparity is self-evident.
Chen Yuan's purpose in coming here is very clear: to see if he can acquire an Emperor Rank Alchemy Cultivation Technique to give to Shen Nianchu, which would then be returned as a Saint Rank one by the System, allowing him to refine the void-breaking pill.
The Pill Formula for the void-breaking pill is probably only incomplete in the Pill God Domain, meaning the Medicinal Pills refined from it would not be very effective.
Unlike the one bought from the System, which has a 30% Breakthrough probability, this one would probably only have 15%.
Chen Yuan had asked, and the Saint Rank Cultivation Technique returned by the System comes with all Seventh-Rank Pill Formulas, just as the previously returned Emperor Rank one did.
Therefore, Chen Yuan currently possesses Sixth-Rank Pill Formulas, ancient, primeval, and even extinct ones, their value immeasurable.
This is also his confidence.
The Southern Continent and the Eastern Barrens are separated by the Demon Nether Domain, but there are teleportation arrays connecting the two, though the price is not cheap.
Several days later, after paying the Spirit Stones, the two sat in the teleportation array bound for the Southern Continent.
Shen Nianchu also felt a faint sense of anticipation.
She had never traveled across continents for training before.
After a bout of dizziness, the scene ahead suddenly opened up.
At the border of the Pill God Domain, Wood Pill City.
Streaks of radiant light shimmered in the Void Realm, with Dao rhythms flowing.
"Wow..." Shen Nianchu couldn't help but exclaim, her small mouth slightly agape.
Although she was a Direct Disciple of Xuantian Sect, she had never seen such a unique Dao Domain sight.
This city is a border city of the Pill God Domain, a hub for Medicinal Pills and spiritual materials, bustling with people and traffic.
Cultivators came and went continuously at the city gate, many of them carrying a faint medicinal fragrance, clearly mostly Pill Cultivators.