Chapter 1617

Before the Everlasting Pill Cauldron finished refining the alien's heart, Zi Chen had fully recovered his energy.

He swept his gaze across the twenty or so giant scorpion corpses in front of him before turning his gaze back to the boundless yellow sand.

This time, Zi Chen was here purely for the armor-piercing effect.

In order to enter the secluded forest and obtain more tree essences and grasp more of the edict of life, the black saber's sharpness alone was no longer enough.

Zi Chen wasn't sure if a weapon could have two special effects. But after seeing the soul devouring effect on the Dragon Soul Spear, Zi Chen knew that it was possible.

This time, Zi Chen hoped that the Cauldron Spirit would be able to condense the male scorpion's armor penetration effect and add it to the black saber.

With a tap of his foot, Zi Chen dashed towards the desert. This time, he advanced another five hundred meters.

As though they had been waiting for Zi Chen's arrival, Zi Chen was attacked by a group of giant scorpions as soon as he landed.

It was just that their realms were not high, so in front of Zi Chen, who was at full strength, they were no match for him.

As Zi Chen struck out, the giant scorpions were thrown out one by one.

Soon enough, Zi Chen had exhausted ninety percent of his energy. When Zi Chen returned, the group of giant scorpions emerged from the sand and glared at Zi Chen. However, they could do nothing to Zi Chen.

As for the secluded forest, Zi Chen had cleared out a large area. Even though the other saplings coveted the corpses, they could not extend their branches to this area.

By the time Zi Chen exhausted all his energy for the fifth time, there were more than a hundred giant scorpion corpses piled up on the ground.

It was at this moment that the Cauldron Spirit appeared. It spat out a dozen or so law chips from its mouth.

Zi Chen put away the law chips while the Cauldron Spirit sized up the giant scorpion corpses on the ground. Zi Chen pointed at a giant scorpion corpse and said, "This is a female scorpion. It specializes in soul attacks. This is a male scorpion. Its sting is poisonous and has the armor penetration effect."

The Cauldron Spirit nodded and gestured for Zi Chen to throw a female scorpion corpse in.

Two hours later, Cauldron Spirit appeared. Zi Chen immediately asked, "Senior, how was it?"

Cauldron Spirit replied, "It only contains some laws related to soul energy. It also has a special effect."

"What special effects?"

"Reduce energy consumption."

Everyone's energy would be depleted when they entered the desert. This was the rule of the desert, and Zi Chen had long been aware of the female scorpion's nature.

Pill Crucible had only refined one and yet he was able to sense this special effect. It was truly extraordinary.

However, for Zi Chen, who was only 055 meters deep, this special effect was really dispensable. Instead, it was the Soul Rule that attracted Zi Chen.

"Release another male scorpion," instructed Cauldron Spirit as he pointed at a three-meter long male scorpion.

Zi Chen nodded and consumed his soul power to release another male scorpion.

It also took Cauldron Spirit two hours to decipher one law and one special effect.

The rule was the poison in the Giant Scorpion's stinger. It was considered a type of rule, and its special effect was armor penetration.

Next, Cauldron Spirit asked Zi Chen which one he should refine first. After pondering for a moment, Zi Chen chose the male scorpion.

The armor penetration and poison of the male scorpion could immediately increase his combat strength. On the other hand, the Soul Rule of the female scorpion did not provide much of an improvement.

"Alright, let's refine the male scorpion first. But we need more of them."

The Desert of Death had a lot of twin scorpions. Therefore, Zi Chen spared no effort in slaughtering the male scorpions. As for the female scorpions, Zi Chen spared them.

While Zi Chen was doing his best to kill the male scorpions, Pill Crucible was refining the hearts of other alien races or the tree sap that Zi Chen had exchanged with him. In short, Pill Crucible was not idling around.

Zi Chen used a total of four days to hunt down nearly two hundred male scorpions and put them all into the pill cauldron at once.

On the other hand, Pill Crucible only used eight hours to completely refine the male scorpions after four days of hard work by Zi Chen.

Cauldron Spirit appeared after the refinement was completed. Zi Chen did not obtain the poison fragment. According to Cauldron Spirit, there were too few male scorpions and the Soul Rule of the Poison was too advanced.

However, the armor penetration effect had been refined significantly. Cauldron Spirit signaled Zi Chen to toss the black blade into the Pill Crucible.

This time, Zi Chen seemed to have triggered the rules once again. After putting the black blade into the Pill Crucible, he discovered that eighty percent of his soul power had been consumed in an instant. He had fallen into a weakened state even before the battle had begun.

The Pill Crucible seemed to be extremely unstable after the black blade entered. The Pill Crucible trembled from time to time as strands of energy vibrated outwards. Faintly, one could even hear the roars of beasts.

In addition, there was also the power of rules surging around the Pill Crucible as though it was trying to stop the Pill Crucible.

After two full days, the refinement of the Pill Crucible was finally completed. The black blade flew out of the Pill Crucible in a streak of black radiance. An awe-inspiring killing intent swept across the area.

Zi Chen caught the long saber that was flying toward him. After the black saber's transformation disappeared, he used his spiritual senses to investigate.

"Armor Penetration: 6% chance of triggering the armor penetration effect. There is a minuscule chance of triggering the poison effect."

Zi Chen was pleasantly surprised. Apart from that, the Pill Crucible's sharpness effect did not diminish. His only regret was that the armor penetration rate was too low.

It was no wonder that the refinement process took two days and was hindered by the rules.

"This weapon of yours is pretty good. An ordinary weapon might not be able to withstand two special effects. If you want to increase the armor penetration rate, you will have to kill more male scorpions."

Upon hearing Cauldron Spirit's words, Zi Chen immediately nodded and said, "Alright. In the next twenty days or so, I will definitely increase the armor penetration rate to one hundred percent."

Actually, it was not difficult to increase the armor penetration rate to one hundred percent because every male scorpion's attack was already one hundred percent. Of course, this was relative to Zi Chen's current realm. If he were at the ninth stage, the armor penetration rate would be significantly lower.

For the next twenty days or so, Zi Chen charged into the Desert of Death and massacred the male scorpions as though he had gone mad.

Fortunately, the twin scorpions here were endless. They did not know fear at all. Even though Zi Chen was slaughtering non-stop, they still charged forward fearlessly.

During this period, the soul-devouring effect of the Dragon Soul Spear was also activated at one hundred percent. It continuously fed energy to Zi Chen. Of course, most of the energy was refined and absorbed by the dragon soul.

As Zi Chen had grown too quickly in the outside world, the level of the Dragon Soul Spear could not keep up with him. Now, it could only rely on soul-devouring to increase its level.

As long as a female scorpion was killed, the Dragon Soul Spear would completely devour it. If it was a male scorpion, the dragon soul would leave the most useful part of its tail.

During the continuous process of killing and devouring, the Dragon Soul Spear let out a cheerful dragon roar. The Dragon Soul Spear had grown by one level during this period.

But even so, there was still a huge gap between the Dragon Soul Spear and Zi Chen's current level. According to the dragon soul, the Dragon Soul Spear should be at the fourth stage of the king-class.

In just over twenty days, Zi Chen had killed more than two thousand twin scorpions and more than one thousand five hundred male scorpions.

After the Cauldron Spirit had completely refined and gathered all the items together and consumed eighty percent of his soul energy, Zi Chen once again placed the black blade into the cauldron. This time, it took three full days before the cauldron finished condensing and the black blade reappeared.

The black blade that reappeared trembled on its own. Waves of chilling killing intent surged in all directions. The sharpness and armor-piercing effects of the killing intent were fully displayed.

With nearly two thousand male scorpions, the black blade's armor-piercing effect was as high as one hundred percent. Even the probability of being poisoned had reached one hundred percent.

After more than twenty days without sleep and rest, the quality of the black blade could be said to be of the highest quality in this world. The price of this weapon was even much higher than the price of a storage pouch.

In the blink of an eye, the time for the transaction had arrived. The one-month journey in the desert had come to a perfect conclusion.

During this period, Zi Chen's strength, speed, agility, and instantaneous eruption of power had all increased significantly.

It could be said that with the assistance of the cauldron, Zi Chen's combat strength had been increasing every moment.

"Hmm," just as Zi Chen was about to return, a trace of surprise flashed in his eyes. Soon after, a joyful expression emerged on his face.

In his perception, his domain had finally grown to a limit. As a result, his body underwent a transformation. And this transformation was a breakthrough.

Zi Chen did not expect that he would be able to make a breakthrough in realm in less than two years after arriving in this world.

He quickly sensed that this breakthrough was of great significance to him. After taking out the Cauldron Spirit and the Dragonspear and signaling them to guard him, Zi Chen immersed himself in the breakthrough.

With the breakthrough in his domain, Zi Chen suddenly had a kind of enlightenment. This kind of enlightenment was like a sudden enlightenment or the opening of the Third Eye, allowing him to see through everything in the world.

There were laws everywhere in front of him. Some of these laws were familiar to Zi Chen, while others were unfamiliar to him. Some were simple, and some were profound.

Zi Chen knew that these were the laws of this world. He did not know why they would appear in such a situation.

Perhaps the opportunity was fleeting. Zi Chen's gaze immediately fell on one of the laws. It was a law that targeted spiritual senses. It would allow Zi Chen to have a deeper understanding of this law.

Without any hesitation, Zi Chen began to comprehend this law.

At the same time, Zi Chen discovered that he could also divide a second spiritual sense. After this spiritual sense swept past one law after another, it finally landed on the law of speed.

With three weapons in his possession, Zi Chen did not lack powerful offensive means. The only thing he lacked was speed.

It was said that speed was invincible. This was true for both attacks and footwork. Only by possessing extreme speed that others did not possess could one be invincible.

And this second law would allow Zi Chen to have a deeper understanding of the profound meaning of speed, thereby allowing him to move even faster in this world. Of course, it could also be said that it would allow Zi Chen to display more of the effects of extreme speed.

Just these two laws alone numbered no less than a hundred, from the simplest to the most complex.

Zi Chen spent an entire ten days to comprehend the simplest law. When Zi Chen opened his eyes again after ten days, he discovered that this world had returned to its original state.

He looked at this world and felt that it was covered in a layer of fog.

After calculating the time, Zi Chen suddenly discovered that he had missed the appointed time. Therefore, he hurriedly rushed to the outer perimeter.

After his strength had increased and he had comprehended two more laws, Zi Chen's perception and speed had greatly increased.

When he rushed to the outer perimeter as fast as he could, Zi Chen heard voices.

"Miu Si, it's already been ten days. Is the person you were talking about dead?"

"Let's wait a little longer. Master Zi Chen might have something to do."