Chapter 933: Chapter 933: First Encounter with the Sky Secret Spirit
When Chen Guan returned to the Immortal Mountain Sect, he was dumbfounded. It hadn’t been long since his last visit, yet the few people he knew were nowhere to be seen.
Chen Guan immediately realized something was wrong; those individuals must have already left the Immortal Mountain Sect.
He had originally thought that given their personalities, the four of them wouldn’t make the decision to leave the Immortal Mountain Sect so easily and would hesitate for a while longer.
Yet they departed quietly, leaving Chen Guan not knowing what to do.
"I better go out and check, regardless of whether they’re dead or alive, they should serve some purpose," Chen Guan quickly activated the array of the Immortal Mountain Sect.
Previously, during his time at the Immortal Mountain Sect, he had figured out how to open the portals there, so he wasn’t in a hurry.
As a space-time vortex appeared in the sky, Chen Guan, after making preparations, rushed out with the Thunderbolt golden monkey, naturally letting the monkey go first while he followed behind.
After passing through the space-time vortex, the sight before him surprised Chen Guan somewhat.
What he saw was a massive belt of meteorites hovering in the void, its length immeasurable, with bluish glowing meteorites resembling a blue galaxy, filling the view with nothing but these meteorites.
Chen Guan found himself on a mountain-shaped meteorite within this endless sea of meteorites, not particularly noticeable.
Even if someone were to discover this belt of meteorites, locating the particular meteorite housing the Immortal Mountain Sect would be extremely difficult.
"These meteorites... why do they look so much like Biluojing..." Chen Guan reached out to draw a fist-sized fragment into his hand, examining it carefully; indeed, it was Biluojing.
Biluojing is considered an exceptional material in the human world.
Biluojing inherently contains primordial energy, and it’s exceptionally pure, but because Biluojing is an extremely rare material in the human world, using it as a primordial energy supplement is wasteful.
The true purpose of Biluojing is for forging. Many Secret Spirit materials are difficult to smelt, but during the smelting process, adding Biluojing powder can easily smelt those Secret Spirit materials and separate impurities.
Ordinary forgers rarely get the chance to use such a material due to its rarity.
But here, a meteorite belt full of Biluojing is beyond measure, even with the Thousand Eyes, Chen Guan couldn’t see the end of this Biluojing star belt.
The mountain-shaped Biluojing where the Immortal Mountain Sect was located differed slightly from ordinary Biluojing, though Chen Guan couldn’t quite tell what exactly was different.
"If I were to take these Biluojing back, the wealth could rival that of the Ten Great Families," Chen Guan mused.
He understood the principle that scarcity increases value, and if it were to be brought back in large quantities, Biluojing would soon become worthless.
Carrying some back for sale was feasible, but large-scale transportation would be pointless.
But that’s a merchant’s view, and Chen Guan had another plan; he intended to bring a large amount of Biluojing back and crash its price.
To forge high-level equipment, refinement is essential, and only when forgers can use Biluojing in large quantities can the refining industry quickly advance, producing more equipment capable of rivaling Secret Treasures.
Chen Guan currently lacked equipment because he pondered a problem.
Comparing the Secret Treasures he possessed, it was evident that Celestial Secret Treasures, due to their higher level compared to ordinary Secret Treasures, generally had greater strength and capabilities.
With the same quality, higher-level Secret Treasures were definitely advantageous.
However, it was difficult to obtain Celestial Secret Treasures in the human world, and only a few Earth Secret Treasures could rival Celestial Secret Treasures.
When the Celestial Secret Realm descends, only a small portion of Earth Secret Treasures may be able to contend with Celestial Secret Treasures.
To solve this problem, one must start from forging equipment.
Using a single Secret Treasures’ materials doesn’t match Celestial Secret Treasures, but with composite materials, the result might differ.
Chen Guan planned to find an opportunity soon to bring back large quantities of Biluojing, elevating human forging technology to a higher level.
Then Chen Guan hoped to forge a suitable equipment set for himself, as the available equipment was becoming increasingly unsuitable for his use.
"Later on, I’ll test if these Biluojing can evolve the Evil Spirit Blood Sword." While flying, Chen Guan utilized the Secret Realm Beads to store some Biluojing inside.
He constantly surveyed his surroundings but didn’t notice any traces of the Sky Secret Spirit, nor the four from the Immortal Mountain Sect.
However, it was visible that there were many freshly shattered Biluojing meteorites in the Biluojing meteorite belt, suggesting a recent battle had occurred.
Chen Guan traveled along the broken meteorite belt with the golden monkey, summoning the Returning Soul Cloud as his steed, allowing him to conceal his presence.
After an unknown amount of time flying, Chen Guan finally spotted a living creature.
A humanoid Secret Spirit with dragon horns atop its head resembling a human form, even wearing armor.
Yet, the dragon-man Secret Spirit’s armor was riddled with sword marks, tattered, stained with blood, and one of its dragon horns was partially severed, lying weakly on a football field-sized Biluojing.
Judging from the wounds, Chen Guan immediately realized this must be Miao Shan’s doing, as Miao Shan specialized in sword skills.
This Secret Spirit wasn’t dead, but Miao Shan and the other three were missing. Could it be that the four of them were killed by this Secret Spirit?
But after reconsidering, he felt differently.
Since Miao Shan could injure this being, and the other three shared Miao Shan’s strength, it made no sense that only Miao Shan could harm it.
Thinking along those lines, Chen Guan realized that of the four from the Immortal Mountain Sect, probably only Miao Shan struck, severely injuring this Secret Spirit.
"It seems weakened to the point of lacking combat strength; let’s inquire about the situation." Chen Guan, accompanied by the golden monkey, saw no threat from a frail Secret Spirit.
He withdrew the Returning Soul Cloud and observed the Secret Spirit from afar, concentrating primordial energy to speak: "Are you still alive? If you are, answer a few questions for me, and I’ll give you an elixir to save your life."
The Secret Spirit, who had closed its eyes waiting for death, opened its eyes when hearing Chen Guan, and upon seeing him, its eyes widened with a murderous glow.
"Human... die..." Giving Chen Guan no opportunity to speak further, the dragon-man Secret Spirit lunged at him in attack.
With a single punch, nearby meteorites shattered under its force, the power incredibly formidable.
The golden monkey, seeing someone attack Chen Guan, didn’t need instructions. It unleashed its lightning, flicking its tail to send out a lightning ball that reduced the dragon-man Secret Spirit to ashes.
As the dragon-man Secret Spirit died, a mysterious object resembling a thousand-faced crystal core fell from its body, untouched by the golden monkey’s lightning power.
