FVN Chapter 627 Water Ripples! Map!
Chapter 627 Water Ripples! Map!
Chen Fan ignored this and simply accepted a few small tasks related to alchemy and array formation as usual, while casually flipping through the newly added content on the task jade wall.
A new task had been posted at the top of the jade disc, offering a high contribution point reward, but he only glanced at it before looking away.
Right now, he doesn't lack spirit stones, but he lacks contribution points.
Accumulating contribution points takes time and cannot be rushed.
His most important task now is to figure out the deep blue fragment he photographed last night and see what its secrets are that could cause the golden bowl to react so strongly.
For the next few days, Chen Fan stayed indoors and secluded himself in the Golden Bowl Space.
He took the deep blue fragment out of the jade box and carefully sensed it in his palm.
This was the fifth day since he obtained the fragment.
For five days, he tried to infuse the fragment with spiritual power, probe it with demonic energy, analyze it with the Word-Fixing Technique, and penetrate it with divine sense, but the fragment remained unmoved, neither rejecting nor responding.
The only change was that the golden bowl in his arms would always tremble slightly when he touched the fragments, but that tremor was always separated by an indescribable barrier, and could not truly reach the core of the fragments.
Chen Fan flipped the fragment over, his fingertips tracing the dark gold, broken patterns. It felt cool to the touch, just as it had when he first touched it.
He suddenly stopped moving.
wrong.
It wasn't that the golden bowl didn't want to devour the fragments; it was that he had used the wrong method from the very beginning. Every time he touched the fragments before, he suppressed the golden bowl's aura within his body, fearing that the bowl's unusual movements would be noticed by the outside world.
But this is the Golden Bowl Space, a world that belongs only to him, so why should it be hidden?
With this thought in mind, Chen Fan no longer tried to suppress it. He took the golden bowl out of his pocket, held it in his left palm, and slowly pressed the deep blue fragment against the bowl with his right hand.
When the two were still three inches apart, the golden bowl began to tremble violently. The ancient runes on the bowl, which had been dormant for a long time, lit up one by one, and pale golden light surged out from the bottom of the bowl like a tide, illuminating the entire quiet room as bright as day.
A gentle yet powerful suction force surged from the bowl. Unlike the voracious swallowing when retrieving the wooden staff, or the domineering force when devouring the earth's core fire essence, this suction force carried an almost thirsty urgency!
The moment the fragment touched the bowl, the deep blue fragment suddenly burst out with a dazzling blue light.
Immediately afterwards, a crisp cracking sound rang out.
It wasn't the golden bowl that broke, it was the shard that broke.
The dark gold patterns on the surface of the fragment crumbled inch by inch, and the deep blue body transformed into a dense, almost liquid light, which was swallowed into the mouth of the golden bowl at a speed visible to the naked eye.
The ball of blue light swirled around the rim of the bowl several times, as if struggling, or as if being repeatedly squeezed by some invisible force, before finally being completely absorbed into the bowl.
The light on the surface of the golden bowl gradually faded, and the runes on the bowl slowly returned to their original ancient dark gold from their dazzling gold color.
The powerful suction dissipated, and the quiet room fell silent once more.
Chen Fan held the golden bowl up to his eyes and examined it carefully.
Of the five elemental runes on the bowl—metal, wood, water, fire, and earth—only the wood, earth, and fire runes were lit; the water rune had not lit up as he had expected.
The spatial power contained in that Void Refinement level magic weapon fragment was so immense that the golden bowl failed to generate any new attribute runes after absorbing it, which made him frown slightly.
But soon, his brows relaxed.
Because something that had never appeared before appeared on the surface of the golden bowl.
It was a very faint ripple.
Water ripples are engraved in the middle of the bowl, just below the five attribute runes, forming a ring around the bowl.
The patterns were extremely shallow and faint; if Chen Fan hadn't possessed extraordinary eyesight, he would have been almost unable to detect them. Within the water ripples, a dark blue light swirled, mirroring the spatial fluctuations in the previous fragments, only gentler and more subdued.
Chen Fan reached out and touched the water ripple, feeling a cool, moist sensation on his fingertip. At the same time, a surge of information flowed into his mind from the water ripple.
The information was incomplete, fragmented, like a map that had been torn apart and pieced back together.
The map depicts an extremely large underground cavern, filled with dense, almost tangible demonic energy. Within this energy, dozens of spiritual herbs emitting various colors of light can be vaguely seen!
Inside, there are three thousand-year-old Earth Core Jade Marrow Mushrooms, five thousand-year-old Demon Marrow Flowers, and even a few exotic herbs whose names he couldn't even recall. Just by glancing at them through the map images, he felt a surge of pure spiritual energy wash over him.
Deep within the cave lies a winding, underground river. The river is no more than three feet wide, its water a dark green, with a thin layer of mist floating on its surface.
Even through the map, Chen Fan could sense the terrifying water elemental power contained in that underground river!
That was no ordinary underground river, but a genuine water-attribute spiritual vein! The quality of the spiritual vein was so high that it was even purer than any spiritual vein he had ever seen in the Great Yu Imperial City.
Natural water source.
Chen Fan's fingers paused slightly on the water ripples, a rare ripple flashing in his eyes.
His Five Elements Creation Classic has only completed the runes for wood, earth, and fire so far; water and metal are still missing.
Over the years, he traveled to places like Yu the Great, the Boundless Sea, and the State of Zhao, but he never found any clues about these two innate sources.
Now that the whereabouts of the water-attribute spiritual vein are right before his eyes, how could he not be tempted?
But despite his excitement, Chen Fan wasn't blinded by joy. He repeatedly explored the water ripples with his divine sense, imprinting every detail of the map into his mind, and then scrutinized it against his knowledge of the geography of Tiannan Star.
The underground cave on the map is located deep in a sea area with extremely dense demonic energy. The density of that demonic energy far exceeds that around Demon Abyss Island, and is even more violent than the mutated spiritual energy he sensed at the edge of the boundless sea.
The spatial structure of the entire sea area is extremely unstable. Several spatial rifts are marked on the edge of the map. The shape of those rifts is almost identical to the description of the chaotic sea area that he heard from the Fifth Prince Zhao Ying.
Chaotic Seas. The deepest and most dangerous forbidden zone of the boundless sea.
The Fifth Prince once said that ordinary Nascent Soul demon cultivators who step into the Chaotic Sea will never return, while only Deity Transformation demon cultivators can approach the outer perimeter, but only approach, not pass through.
That mid-stage Nascent Soul demon cultivator risked his life to bring the fragment out from the depths of the Chaotic Sea, but in the end, he died and his soul was destroyed. The fragment was eventually sold to the Jubao Auction House.
With Chen Fan's cultivation at the Great Perfection of the Nascent Soul stage, venturing into the Chaotic Sea now would be tantamount to courting death.
He put the golden bowl back into his pocket, and the slight ripple on his face returned to its usual calm.
Not urgent.
The water veins won't grow legs and run away on their own. The chaotic sea is there, and no one can move it.
He is currently at the peak of the Nascent Soul stage, but he is still one step away from entering the Divine Transformation stage. It is not too late to set off after taking the Divine Transformation Pill and breaking through.
Moreover, with the national assessment imminent, helping Zhao Yan secure the position of regent and using the teleportation array to travel to the Great Qin Star are the most pressing matters at present.