53: Ancient Demon Tomb

By the way, the current Lu Chen no longer only has thirty-five Dao Soldiers, but a full forty-five.

Among them, ten new Silver Armor Dao Soldiers were nurtured, but these ten Silver Armor Dao Soldiers had not achieved any merit, so they did not get to enjoy any of the remaining Monster Corpses and could only watch enviously from the side.

There was nothing to be done, those Monster Corpses were obtained by the previous thirty-five Dao Soldiers in fierce battles, and crucially, there weren't many left to begin with, so it wouldn't be fair to give them to these ten new Dao Soldiers who hadn't achieved any merit. Therefore, they could only be wronged for now.

However, Lu Chen still offered comfort, roughly meaning 'do it yourself, and you will have plenty'!

After a simple comfort, Lu Chen could no longer bear it: "My good Golden Armor, quickly come out and show yourselves."

As soon as the thought arose, twelve behemoths, over ten feet tall and estimated to be no less than four meters, appeared before Lu Chen. Just standing there made Lu Chen feel his vision darken, completely blocking out the light, giving him an inexplicable sense of oppression.

With Lu Chen's height of just over 1.8 meters, standing before these behemoths was like a child.

It was also fortunate that the room was tall enough, otherwise it really couldn't accommodate these twelve behemoths.

Looking closely, he saw that these twelve behemoths had dark golden skin, as if cast from refined gold. Their faces were still blurry and unclear, only a vague outline could be seen, which seemed somewhat similar to Lu Chen.

"I really want to find a Xuan Fa Realm monster to kill." Lu Chen felt a bit itchy, well... to be precise, he wanted to test the strength of the Golden Armor Dao Soldier, especially the Earthly Fiend Dragon Slaying Art.

"Clang!" "Clang!" He couldn't help but tap on the arm of one of the Golden Armor Dao Soldiers, immediately producing a crisp sound like metal striking metal.

"So hard!" He rubbed his knuckles. Just tapping a few times, even with his powerful physique, he felt a stinging pain from the recoil, as if the Golden Armor Dao Soldier possessed a miraculous characteristic, 'damage reflection'.

Amazing, simply amazing!

With such a powerful body, they probably couldn't be moved even if they stood there and let those Xuan Fa Realm monsters attack them.

With nothing to test them on, Lu Chen reluctantly withdrew the twelve Golden Armor Dao Soldiers back into the Nurturing Soldier Immortal Coffin.

"The nurturing of the Golden Armor Dao Soldiers this time has indeed advanced my strength further." Lu Chen silently felt the changes within himself.

First, his Physical Body had greatly strengthened, roughly reaching the Late Stage of the Tong Qiao Realm Body Refinement.

Secondly, his comprehension of True Intent had advanced. His Earth Element True Intent had entered the Peak of the fourth level, his Fire Intent had entered the fourth level, his Water Elemental Intent was also at the fourth level, and finally, he had gained comprehension of a Metal Element True Intent as well, which had also entered the second level.

As for the slight improvement in cultivation brought about by the Dao Soldiers' advancement, it was already negligible for the current Lu Chen, merely better than nothing.

"I need to go and get the Metal Element Spells."

Also, it's time to collect the Merit Points from slaying monsters in Mangniu Mountain. Then, cultivate the Metal Element Spells, and finally, exchange the Merit Points from slaying monsters for pills to try his best to improve his cultivation.

The cultivation of the Spirit Transformation Realm was still too low after all. Although his Body Refinement strength was already at the late Tong Qiao Realm, the Nurturing Soldier Immortal Coffin did not recognize Body Refinement strength, which made Lu Chen quite helpless.

"Time, it's not enough, completely not enough!" Lu Chen couldn't help but exclaim, there were still too many things he needed to do.

His cultivation needed to be improved. He had planned to go to the True Intent Tower to comprehend Sword Intent but never had the time. He also didn't have time to cultivate many small Spells he needed. Now that the Golden Armor Dao Soldier had been nurtured, shouldn't he go kill some powerful monsters?

There were still thirty-three Silver Armor Dao Soldiers remaining that needed Monster Corpses to advance to Golden Armor Dao Soldier.

And the highest limit for demonic beasts was the Tong Qiao Realm. Above that, they were no longer demonic beasts. Instead, they were exotic beasts, also possessing intelligence. Unlike monsters, exotic beasts did not take the path of transformation but would reach the extreme in their Bloodline.

However, there were no exotic beast resource areas within the Dongming Sect's territory, so Lu Chen still needed to kill more monsters or search for things like ghosts, zombies, and dragon transformation fruit trees to enhance his Dao Soldiers.

"Can't rush, can't rush, take it step by step, and you'll eventually reach the top." Lu Chen let out a long breath and calmed his mind.

Normal cultivators, which one hasn't cultivated for decades, centuries, or even millennia? He had only cultivated for less than a year now. Sometimes, walking too fast on the path of cultivation was not necessarily a good thing.

Because walking fast meant there were definitely shortcomings and flaws in certain areas. Having flaws made one easily targeted, and Lu Chen was unwilling to have obvious weaknesses or shortcomings.

After restraining the surging vitality and blood from his greatly increased Body Refinement strength, and also the spiritual power fluctuations from just breaking through to the late Spirit Transformation Realm, Lu Chen walked out of his small courtyard and headed straight towards the Internal Affairs Hall.

Along the way, Lu Chen suddenly noticed something was off: "Why does it seem like there are suddenly many more Inner Sect Disciples?"

More importantly, Lu Chen heard many Inner Sect Disciples mention the words 'Ancient Demon Remnant Tomb', 'about to open', and 'soon, in half a month' several times. Any two Inner Sect Disciples together were bound to mention these things.

"Ancient Demon Remnant Tomb? What kind of trick is this? Could it be that the Sect has found some ownerless Secret Realm to attack?" An inexplicable sense of anticipation arose in Lu Chen's heart.

'Ancient Demon Remnant Tomb', just hearing this sounds like there are many monsters. Isn't this exactly the resource he urgently needs right now?

Taking on missions only provided scattered monsters wandering within the Dongming Sect's territory. It was too little. Waiting to gather enough Monster Corpses to upgrade all the remaining thirty-three Silver Armor Dao Soldiers to Golden Armor Dao Soldier, who knows how long that would take!

This 'Ancient Demon Remnant Tomb' was just right, Lu Chen liked it very much.

"No, I need to find a familiar Senior apprentice-brother to inquire about it." Lu Chen urgently wanted to know if this 'Ancient Demon Remnant Tomb' was as he imagined.

Continuing on his way to the Internal Affairs Hall, Lu Chen heard more Inner Sect Disciples discussing this 'Ancient Demon Remnant Tomb'.

Before long, he arrived at the Inner Sect's Internal Affairs Hall. Lu Chen took out the mission bamboo slip from his last trip to Mangniu Mountain to slay monsters and found where White Steward was, naturally following behind the many Disciples.

"Huh, why does this Senior apprentice-brother in front of me look a bit familiar!" Lu Chen looked at the back of the Senior apprentice-brother queuing in front of him and couldn't help but start searching his memory.

Wait, slaying monsters in Mangniu Mountain, from Doujian Peak?

It seems his name is 'Senior Brother Xin Xiang Sheng'. Hiss, didn't this Senior apprentice-brother die at the hands of the monsters in Mangniu Mountain?

How did he come back to life?!

Lu Chen's heart trembled. Good heavens, in broad daylight, it couldn't possibly be a zombie rising, could it?!

What place is this? It's the Dongming Sect!

There are even Yin God powerhouses here. A mere zombie rising would probably be killed again in minutes!

Lu Chen subtly moved forward for a moment. In that instant, he saw the appearance of the Senior apprentice-brother at the front of the queue. His face was ordinary, with a black mole in his left eyebrow, and it was indeed 'Senior Brother Xin Xiang Sheng'!

"He's alive again? Brought back to life?!"