Li Muwan tidied the stray hair beside her cheek and smiled, saying, "I can help Senior Brother stabilize the formation, allowing it to possess greater power, and it can also be used for attack."
As a transmigrator, Lin Che naturally understood that Li Muwan not only excelled in alchemy but also had profound attainments in formations. The formations she set up in the Foundation Establishment Stage could even withstand the attacks of Core Formation stage experts.
"Does Senior Brother have any special beast bones? If so, they would be very useful for creating formations. Moreover, the stronger the demonic beast was in life, the stronger the energy it provides."
Li Muwan clasped her small hands behind her back, smiled sweetly in front of Lin Che, and said, "I have set up formations before, but they were made with formation flags. The formation Senior Brother just set up used spirit stones. Those things seem indestructible, but they can be broken through if they encounter cultivators of the same realm."
He did indeed have some demonic beasts here, and they were all ones he had killed in the Ancient God Land. Each one's strength was above the Spirit Transformation Stage.
Lin Che thought for a moment, then waved his sleeve forward. Instantly, all the demonic beast corpses he had previously killed in his storage ring appeared here. Among them were even Desolate Beasts and extremely precious Ancient Ferocious Beasts.
"This is… the Desolate Beast Thunder Frog… Senior Brother, you even have the corpse of such a ferocious beast."
Li Muwan looked at the Thunder Frog, which had already lost all vitality, and was also somewhat surprised. Moreover, the Thunder Frog in front of her had already reached the Desolate Beast class, and its cultivation had long been comparable to that of Infant Transformation Realm experts.
Lin Che calmly replied, "This is a Desolate Beast I killed when I left the Ancient God Land. However, the Thunder Frog is not the strongest. My previous mount was also a Desolate Beast, and it was a Bloodfiend Azure Dragon with an incredibly pure bloodline."
As Lin Che's thoughts stirred, a Bloodfiend Azure Dragon covered in bloodfiend aura suddenly flew out from his storage ring.
Lin Che's mount was incredibly massive, a thousand meters long, with a slender and agile body, like a flowing river, winding and coiling.
Its entire body was covered in shimmering scales, each scale like a meticulously polished gem. Under the moonlight, the scales reflected a blood-red light.
The scales were tightly arranged, forming an impenetrable armor. As the dragon moved, the scales rubbed against each other, emitting a faint rustling sound, like the collision of fine metal.
Li Muwan's face was filled with shock. This was her first time encountering a Desolate Beast class Azure Dragon up close, and the oppressive feeling this Azure Dragon brought was even almost on par with Senior Brother Lin Che.
With a thought from Lin Che, the thousand-meter Azure Dragon transformed into the size of a palm, then steadily landed on the table, letting out a low roar towards the Desolate Beast carcasses on the ground.
"The bones of this Thunder Frog should be useful for the formation you're setting up. However, your cultivation is still shallow, and you cannot control the formation's energy. I'll help you make it."
Li Muwan nodded happily, then took out a dagger and a jade bottle from her storage ring, walked to the Thunder Frog, and said, "Senior Brother doesn't know, but the inner core of a demonic beast is extremely precious, especially the inner core of a demonic beast in the Desolate Beast realm; it's truly a rare find."
"Moreover, this Thunder Frog also contains lightning-attribute energy. If one can absorb it, it will be of great benefit to future cultivation."
Li Muwan skillfully extracted the inner core from the demonic beast's body, then used a special technique to extract the lightning-attribute energy from the Thunder Frog's body and put it into a jade bottle, giving it all to Lin Che.
Lin Che only took the Thunder Frog's lightning-attribute energy. As for the inner core, he had no use for it, so he gave it to Li Muwan for her future alchemy ingredients.
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Unconsciously, four years passed in a flash.
Relying on the combined efforts of Lin Che and Li Muwan, the surrounding formations were basically completed. Relying on the bones of the Thunder Frog and other sub-desolate level demonic beasts, the formations here were incredibly indestructible.
A Nascent Soul Stage cultivator could be trapped for several months, and even an Ascension Stage expert could be resisted for a while.
For mortals, four years is a long time, but for cultivators, four years is but a flick of a finger, almost without any concept.
After all, there has been a saying passed down from ancient times, which is also a metaphor used by mortals for cultivators:
A day in the mountains, a thousand years in the world.
Li Muwan wiped the sweat from her face. In these two years, her cultivation had also broken through from the initial Foundation Establishment Stage to the middle Foundation Establishment Stage. If she were to break through to the Foundation Establishment late stage in the future, she could directly take the Heavenly Separation Pill and attempt to break through to the Core Formation stage.
Lin Che's cultivation, however, had not improved. After all, the spiritual energy in Zhao Country was extremely thin, and coupled with the fact that he had already broken through to the Infant Transformation Realm, it would still take some time to break through to the middle stage.
"According to the original timeline, there are only a few months left until the Outer Battlefield opens."
Lin Che stood with one hand behind his back, looking at the verdant mountains and clear waters in front of him, thinking to himself.
Now that Teng Li had not appeared, Wang Lin should not be hunted down, and the situation where Wang Family Village was massacred should not occur.
"Lin Che."
Just then, Huang Long Zhenren, the Sect Master of Hengyue Sect, flew over from not far away. With his cultivation of Five Heavenly Declines, he was naturally able to safely pass through the formation that had been set up for four years.
Hearing the movement, Lin Che also turned around and bowed towards Huang Long Zhenren, saying, "Disciple Lin Che greets Master."
Huang Long Zhenren waved his hand, stroked his pale goatee, and said with a smile, "You and I, master and disciple, need not be so polite. I didn't expect that in these four years, you would actually be able to set up such a formation here. It's truly unexpected."
Lin Che chuckled lightly and said, "May I ask why Master has come this time?"
"There are less than a few months left until the Outer Battlefield opens. Not long ago, the Tongtian Tower Envoy issued a message, ordering all Nascent Soul Stage experts within Zhao Country to go."
Huang Long Zhenren slowly said, "Currently, Tongtian Tower Envoy Lin Yi has finished his seclusion, but he doesn't seem to know about your return. Now that our Hengyue Sect no longer has a Nascent Soul ancestor, this meeting will be left to you."
This time, their Hengyue Sect also had the qualification to participate in the Outer Battlefield cleanup. The sect naturally did not want to miss such a good opportunity.
Moreover, treasures and pills were very likely to appear in the Outer Battlefield. If they could be obtained, they would all belong to the sect.
Lin Che nodded and asked, "Who will Hengyue Sect arrange to participate in this Outer Battlefield cleanup?"
"Each time the Outer Battlefield is cleaned up, the disciples' cultivation must be in the Foundation Establishment Stage, and they must enter Jue Ming Valley to snatch tokens. Back then, when you broke through to the False Core, you were listed as Foundation Establishment peak, which is why you were able to enter the Outer Battlefield, but who would have thought that such an incident would occur."
Huang Long Zhenren sighed, then patted Lin Che's shoulder.
But fortunately, Lin Che was able to return alive and well, otherwise his plan would have had to be redefined.