Watching Xie Lingyun’s departing figure, Zhang Chen glanced at the rolling thunder in the clouds.
"Focusing only on the Divine Soul and not honing Magical Power, such a flaw is truly too great." Zhang Chen shook his head silently, donned a bamboo hat and raincoat, and quietly walked out of the inn into the rain.
With the thunder rumbling in the sky, it was the perfect time to slip away amidst the chaos.
The night was dead silent, the streets empty. Even though the people might cheer for the rain, no one dared to roam the streets recklessly, considering the curfews of this era were nothing to be taken lightly.
Zhang Chen didn’t want to cause any trouble, so he used the Invisibility Rune to walk down the street. When he reached the middle of the city, the rain in the sky abruptly stopped, and even the dark clouds dispersed rapidly.
Zhang Chen pulled off his bamboo hat and casually tossed it onto the street, wondering which passerby would benefit from it tomorrow. He looked at the clouds scattering quickly from the sky and mused, "That being said, if someone could control Summoning Wind and Rain, wouldn’t they be able to suppress all the Yin Spirit Cultivators in the world?"
To be precise, anyone below the Yang God could be restrained.
Zhang Chen stealthily made his way back to the cave to hide, then took out the jade box, scrutinizing the two brushes with a thoughtful expression.
"Can these two brushes be refined by my Five-Colored Divine Light, allowing it to evolve into a more powerful force?" A thought flickered secretly in Zhang Chen’s mind.
He began to set his sights on the two brushes, but they were not simple, and refining them would not be an easy task.
For now, he could only use the Qi Prohibition Technique to draw out the Yin Yang Qi within, but the Yin Yang Qi he could extract was merely a drop in the ocean compared to the entire Yin Yang System within the brushes.
Nor did Zhang Chen dare open the box to extract the Yin Yang Qi, fearing the brushes might escape, so he could only gaze covetously at the brushes inside the box from the outside.
After pondering for a long time without a solution, Zhang Chen could only put away the jade box, waiting for a future opportunity to refine the two brushes. As for returning them to Chen Xu?
What a joke, once a treasure is in my hand, there’s no reason to return it.
Just as Zhang Chen was stowing the box in his sleeve, a whistling sound suddenly erupted from the Alchemy Furnace. At this moment, the Golden Scissors within transformed into two illusory and transparent Divine Dragons, one black and one white, stirring up chaos inside the Alchemy Furnace, causing the entire Eight Trigrams Furnace to tremble.
"What’s going on?" Zhang Chen sensed the change within the Eight Trigrams Furnace and frowned. He saw the Golden Scissors spinning in the Eight Trigrams Furnace, churning up a sea of fire into constant boiling and roiling.
At this moment, a will rose within Zhang Chen’s heart, an inexplicable longing emerged, continually yearning for something from Zhang Chen. The will was hazy and indistinct, unable to convey its intention clearly because it was too weak.
But Zhang Chen was not a fool. Watching the restless black and white True Dragons, Zhang Chen recalled the origin of the Golden Scissors, which were the Supreme Treasure formed from the Innate Yin Yang embryo, and the two brushes he held seemed to be composed of Innate Yin Yang essence as well?
"Could it be that the Golden Scissors want to devour the two brushes to heal its injury?" Zhang Chen predicted in his heart, then took out the jade box from his sleeve again. Sure enough, as Zhang Chen brought out the jade box again, the two True Dragons formed by the Golden Scissors in the Alchemy Furnace began to tremble constantly, their urgent longing growing ever more intense.
After a moment’s hesitation, Zhang Chen directly threw the jade box into the Eight Trigrams Furnace. Instantly, the black and white True Dragons soared up, coiling around the jade box. As the two True Dragons intertwined and rubbed against each other, the Six-Word Mantra on the jade box was directly worn away by the Golden Scissors. Then the two brushes seized the opportunity to slip out of the jade box, trying to vanish into the void and escape. But unexpectedly, the black and white illusory True Dragons transformed by the Golden Scissors suddenly opened their mouths wide. The two brushes sensed danger and hurriedly dodged to the sides, but an inexplicable suction force seemed to exist within the True Dragons’ mouths, suppressing the void and preventing the two brushes from entering the void to escape.
Seeing themselves being trapped, the two brushes transformed into a swirling black and white air stream, attempting to flee. But unexpectedly, the two True Dragons sneezed directly onto the air stream, spraying it back from the state of Yin Yang Qi into the form of brushes. Before the brushes could react, the True Dragons stretched out their necks, opened their bottomless mouths, and swallowed them.
The black True Dragon devoured the black brush, while the white True Dragon devoured the white brush.
As the brushes were swallowed, the black and white illusory True Dragons began to shrink, transforming to about a meter long. They appeared incredibly vivid and solid, almost like real True Dragons.
Examining the meter-long True Dragons again, their bodies were covered in terrifying fractures that seemed horrifying, as if ready to shatter into countless fragments at any moment.
"The Golden Scissors has received some repair, and from now on, as long as I continuously find various Divine Objects in Heaven and Earth to nourish and repair the scars on the Golden Scissors, it can once again display its past Divine Power. But now, after devouring the brushes, it’s uncertain to what extent the Golden Scissors have been restored, as it will take some time to digest the two brushes." Zhang Chen knew clearly in his heart that the Golden Scissors was definitely alive, at least not the way it used to appear, ready to perish at any moment.