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With Luo Chen's return, Moon-Inviting Island became lively once again. Alchemists and medicine apprentices moved about the island, handling the many ingredients Luo Chen required. The enormous alchemical cauldron also appeared from time to time. Yet far fewer cultivators dared to gather and watch this time.
Within the ten-li lake, a vicious black flood dragon lay in slumber. From time to time, massive demonic energy leaked uncontrollably. Without Luo Chen's protection, ordinary Qi Refinement cultivators and even low-level Initiates could not withstand that demonic energy at all.
Most people assumed the flood dragon guarded the island, barring outsiders from approaching. Luo Chen didn't bother telling them otherwise, but that was actually a misunderstanding. After Black King devoured the Cliff Serpent that had failed its tribulation, he began refining the creature's essence earnestly. Because he was devoting all his attention to that refinement, he had fallen into a state of slumber. He couldn't prevent anyone from approaching; in fact, he couldn't even prevent his own demonic energy from leaking.
When Black King awakened, his strength would almost certainly surge, and there was every chance his foundation would improve as well. The only uncertainty lay in whether the Black-Scaled Giant Python clan had Cliff Serpent blood in their ancestry, and whether the two bloodlines could merge smoothly.
The island's bustling alchemy work affected many people, and many also benefited from it. Xu Muxian was one of the latter. Twelve years ago, he had been nothing more than a random member of his clan whom no one valued. Twelve years later, he had reached the seventh stage of Qi Refinement. He had also married into the Cheng family and established a lineage of his own.
Whenever he walked across the islands, people treated...
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