242: Chapter 242 A Dream Come True Again, An Earthquake?

Chu Sheng carried Yu Rumeng on his back, walking for a long time across the wasteland of the Demon Realm.

Yu Rumeng's injuries were not light; the backlash from the Inheritance of Wrath, coupled with the successive fierce battles in the Reverse Demon Tower, left her aura as weak as a lamp about to go out.

She buried her face in the crook of Chu Sheng's shoulder, saying nothing, her breathing very light.

Chu Sheng thought to himself: "This woman, she was so fierce when fighting three people at once in the Reverse Demon Tower, but now she is like a sick cat."

He couldn't help but chuckle.

Yu Rumeng felt the vibration of his shoulder, her voice muffled: "What are you laughing at?"

Chu Sheng said it was nothing, just that he felt she was as light as a feather.

Yu Rumeng didn't speak, but the arms wrapped around his neck tightened slightly.

Following the route in his memory, he climbed over a few hills and passed through a forest of black, withered trees, until a palace wall, not grand but quite exquisite, appeared ahead.

That was Yu Rumeng's sleeping quarters, an independent palace deep within the territory of the Nine Nether Palace, with no other Devil King fiefdoms nearby, quiet as an isolated island.

The palace gates were tightly shut.

Chu Sheng kicked the door open with a creak.

The interior of the palace was very dark, with only a few eternal lamps in the corners emitting a faint light.

Chu Sheng placed Yu Rumeng on the soft couch and turned to light the lamps.

One lamp, two lamps, three lamps; the palace gradually brightened.

He walked back, sat on the edge of the soft couch, and looked at Yu Rumeng's face.

Her complexion was pale, and her lips were chapped.

"Aren't you trying to refine the rumeng token?" Chu Sheng spoke, his voice not loud, but very serious.

"I will help you."

Yu Rumeng was stunned for a moment.

She leaned back on the soft couch, her hair loose over her shoulders, her clothes still stained with dust and blood from the Reverse Demon Tower.

She looked at Chu Sheng, a flash of complex emotion crossing her sparkling eyes.

"There is no need."

"You saved me; I owe you my life. I will find a way for the rumeng token myself."

Chu Sheng looked at her and suddenly laughed.

"Find a way yourself? How long have you been thinking about it? Decades? Centuries?"

Yu Rumeng did not speak.

Chu Sheng continued: "The rumeng token requires the heart of a lover; where are you going to find that? Are you going to just pick someone to fall in love with, and then dig out his heart?"

Yu Rumeng frowned, but did not refute him.

She knew Chu Sheng was right; the reason she had never successfully refined the rumeng token was because she couldn't bring herself to do it.

It wasn't that she couldn't find a person, but that she couldn't find that "lover."

Chu Sheng reached out and gently lifted her chin, making her look into his eyes.

"Who told you that the rumeng token can only be refined with the heart of a lover?"

Yu Rumeng's eyes widened slightly.

"What do you mean?"

Chu Sheng fished out a Jade Slip from his Storage Pouch and tossed it beside her hand.

"I found this in the Reverse Demon Tower. It was written by an ancient almighty, and it contains the complete method for refining the rumeng token. When Greed was scouring the world back then, he didn't even let this go."

Yu Rumeng picked up the Jade Slip, probed it with her Divine Sense, and scanned it quickly.

Her expression changed.

It wasn't surprise, but confusion.

"What is written here... is different from what I have seen."

Chu Sheng nodded: "What you saw was an incomplete copy. There are two paths to refine the complete rumeng token. One is the heart of a lover, which produces a Heaven Rank High Grade. The other..."

Yu Rumeng: "But this Jade Slip seems a bit wrong..."

"Don't worry about those details..."

The ancient almighty was actually written by himself.

He paused, the corners of his mouth curling up.

"It is refined using the supreme Artifact Refining Dao, combined with the lust Devilish Qi of the Heavenly Demon Body."

Yu Rumeng's hand paused, and the Jade Slip nearly slipped from her grasp.

She looked up at Chu Sheng, her eyes full of disbelief.

"A Magical Artifact? The rumeng token can be refined into a Magical Artifact?"

Chu Sheng said yes, he had seen it.

Yu Rumeng asked him where he had seen it.

Chu Sheng was stunned for a moment, then smiled and said it was in a dream.

Yu Rumeng thought he was joking and didn't press further.

Chu Sheng thought to himself: In the last simulation, the rumeng token that Yu Rumeng refined was a Heaven Rank High Grade, not a Magical Artifact.

But this time, he had the complete Heavenly Venerable Duobao, the Path of Desire of the Heavenly Demon Body, the Luck protection from the Wendao Palace, and those Heaven And Earth Treasure brought out from the Reverse Demon Tower.

This time, he wanted to try if he could refine a Magical Artifact, though he wasn't very confident.

Chu Sheng stood up and began to pull things out of his Storage Pouch.

A piece of star sand the size of a fist, shimmering with a silver-white light.

A piece of ten-thousand-year warm jade the length of an arm, warm to the touch and emitting a faint medicinal fragrance.

A piece of Heaven Fire Gold Crystal the size of a dragon's eye, entirely crimson, like a solidified ball of flame.

And all sorts of Heaven And Earth Treasure he had pilfered from Sloth, brought out from the Reverse Demon Tower, and even borrowed from the Wendao Palace, piling up a whole table.

Yu Rumeng looked at the pile of items, opened her mouth, wanting to say something, but nothing came out.

The value of these items was enough to buy half of the Nine Nether Palace.

Yet Chu Sheng had laid them out without blinking an eye.

"You... where did you get so many things?"

Chu Sheng said: "I found them."

Yu Rumeng fell silent.

Chu Sheng began to set up an array in the palace.

He used the zhu xian sword to trace array patterns on the ground, stroke by stroke, as serious as if he were painting.

The array patterns spread outward from around the soft couch, covering the entire palace hall.

He arranged the Heaven And Earth Treasure according to their positions, embedding each piece into the nodes of the array pattern.

Finally, he sat cross-legged at the center of the array and beckoned to Yu Rumeng.

"Come here."

Yu Rumeng hesitated for a moment, but still walked over and sat down opposite him.

The two sat face to face, their knees almost touching.

Chu Sheng reached out and took her hands in his.

Her hands were very cold, and trembling slightly.

"Next, I will coordinate with your Artifact Refining techniques to jointly refine the rumeng token. You only need to circulate your spiritual power according to the method on the Jade Slip; leave the rest to me."

Yu Rumeng looked at him, and her sparkling eyes held something more.

She nodded and closed her eyes.

Chu Sheng also closed his eyes.

The light of the Heavenly Venerable Duobao surged from within his body, gentle and soft, caressing every Heaven And Earth Treasure on the array pattern like a mother's hand.

Those Materials began to melt, slowly converging under the guidance of the array patterns to form the prototype of a rumeng token.

This process lasted for a long time.

One day, two days, three days...

Chu Sheng did not sleep or rest, and the light of the Heavenly Venerable Duobao never went out.

Yu Rumeng circulated her spiritual power according to the method on the Jade Slip, injecting the power of the Inheritance of Wrath into the rumeng token as well.

This was something that hadn't happened in the last simulation... the blessing of Wrath gave the rumeng token a scorching, inviolable aura.

On the ninth day, a crisp ringing sound suddenly echoed through the palace.

That was the moment the rumeng token took shape.

A snow-white jade token hovered between the two, emitting a soft light.

It was not a Heaven Rank High Grade.

It was a Heaven Rank top grade, only a step away from being a Magical Artifact.

Chu Sheng opened his eyes, looked at the jade token, and the corners of his mouth curled up.

Originally, he had just intended to try his Luck, not really expecting to be able to refine a Magical Artifact.

"It's done." His voice was a bit hoarse, but carried an irrepressible pride.

Yu Rumeng also opened her eyes and reached out to gently touch the jade token.

The moment her fingertips touched the jade token, a warm aura, carrying the Path of Desire and the Inheritance of Wrath, surged into her body, and her cultivation base vibrated slightly.

Yu Rumeng held the rumeng token, remaining silent for a long time.

Then she looked up at Chu Sheng.

"Thank you," she said.

Chu Sheng shook his head, and just as he was about to say something, Yu Rumeng suddenly leaned in.

Her lips pressed against his ear, her voice very soft: "Don't speak."

With a wave of her hand, she extinguished the eternal lamps in the palace.

In the darkness, only the soft light of the rumeng token remained, flickering between the two.

On the wasteland of the Demon Realm outside the palace, several patrolling demon generals suddenly stopped in their tracks.

"What is that sound?"

A young demon general pricked up his ears and listened carefully for a moment.

The ground was vibrating slightly, as if something was rolling beneath it.

"Is there an earthquake?"

The older demon general shook his head, glanced in the direction of Yu Rumeng's palace, and his expression became somewhat strange.

"Forget it, let's go further away."

The young demon general still wanted to ask why, but was dragged away by the older one.

The two walked quickly away from the area, not daring to even look back.

The vibration in the palace lasted for the entire night.

It wasn't until the horizon turned grayish-white that the wasteland returned to calm.

Outside Yu Rumeng's palace, a few loose stone slabs fell from the wall, hitting the ground with a dull thud.

That was the only trace left behind by the "earthquake."