Legendary Clan Chief
Chapter 397 - 386: Earth Core Stone Milk! (Third update of the day)_1

Chapter 397: Chapter 386: Earth Core Stone Milk! (Third update of the day)_1

As the aura of destiny enveloped around Xiao Chen, the purple and green luster in his eyes flourished, and this strange sensation became more lucid. The previously vague perception of the deep mountain range became extraordinarily clear at this moment.

Three hundred feet away, a hundred feet under the ground, a large bloodsucking rat was gnawing at the roots of an ancient tree. Five hundred feet farther, in the crevice of a giant stone in the mountainous area, a purple scaly python, ten feet long, had swallowed its prey whole. At this moment, Xiao Chen looked indifferently on, like a spiritual being, observing the vivacity of these creatures.

In addition, there were endless mysterious trajectories operating within the boundless Heaven and Earth. Despite being able to sense them, they were as elusive as a flower seen through the mist for Xiao Chen, utterly incomprehensible.

Without any hesitation, Xiao Chen turned his full attention back to the colossal mountain that covered several miles. Taking advantage of this supreme moment when the aura of destiny came upon him, he began to search for the Earth Core Stone Marrow.

The Stone Marrow was a spiritual offspring bred by Heaven and Earth, Xiao Chen had no way of knowing where it might appear. Hence, he resorted to the crudest method, wandering aimlessly across the whole ancient mountain from its peak down. Despite his efforts, he found nothing. At the very base of the ancient mountain, a thousand feet underground and even far below, where the Earth Fire magma billowed, he still found nothing.

Xiao Chen wasn’t disappointed. After all, spirit items of Heaven and Earth needed endless fate to be conceived. If they were ubiquitous, they would be nothing more than weeds in the Great Wasteland. According to the information left by Purple Snake Venerable, countless spirit items scattered across the endless territory of the Desolate Wilds were ranked in a Great Wasteland Ten Thousand Spirits List. This was not a random prophecy from any human bloodline, but a cataloged spirit item hierarchy put together by all clans of the Great Wasteland.

Earth Core Stone Marrow, capturing the essence of an entire Earth Mountain Range, comes into existence. In the Great Wasteland Ten Thousand Spirits List, it has its place among the top thousand. The Great Wasteland is teeming with spirit items, and those that can be ranked within top ten thousand are extraordinarily precious. It’s been rumored in the Great Wasteland that the Heaven and Earth spiritual items ranking within the top hundred in the Great Wasteland Ten Thousand Spirits List are unique and rarely appear throughout the ages. Even the top ten seldom appear in the same era.

At a ridge of the ancient mountain, Xiao Chen discovered an ancient tree with annual rings that spanned a hundred thousand years. The ancient tree’s diameter was a hundred feet, and its lush branches and leaves covered several miles of the Earth. This indicated that the mountain range was at least a hundred thousand years old and yet, there were still no signs of Earth Core Stone Marrow.

Buzz!

At this moment, Xiao Chen abruptly sensed that the human clan’s vital energy emanating from him had decreased a tiny bit, vanishing out of the blue without a trace.

"What’s this?"

Suppressing his excitement, Xiao Chen didn’t know the reason, but all along the way, he had traversed more than ten mountains of the ancient mountain range. None exhibited the slightest sign of abnormalities, let alone any trace of the Earth Core Stone Marrow.

Buzz, Buzz, Buzz!

This bewitching fluctuation merged continuously. Xiao Chen felt his human clan’s vital energy dissipating once again, disappearing as if into thin air, without leaving any traces.

One wisp....two wisps...five wisps...

Xiao Chen focused his mind and continued to sense the location of the disappearing traces of vital energy. Eventually, he noticed a peculiarity. The human clan’s vital energy that erupted from his body and spread in all directions from him as its center didn’t cover one of the ancient mountains.

When the invisible vital energy flows reached this ancient mountain, they disappeared mysteriously. Immediately, Xiao Chen descended from the air and in no more than a few moments, arrived at the ancient mountain. The mountain, shaped like a sharp sword, pierced the sky, and was surrounded by steep cliffs.

Buzz, Buzz, Buzz!

The purple vital energy spread continuously towards this mountain, and in a short while, enveloped it entirely in a hint of purple Qi.

Eventually, at a cliff wall facing south in the ancient mountain, Xiao Chen noticed that the widespread purple Qi had a random gap, akin to a bite mark. Although the dissipating purple Qi filled it back instantaneously, it couldn’t escape Xiao Chen’s vigilant eyes.

According to the Great Wasteland Ten Thousand Spirits List, the Earth Core Stone Marrow, ranked within the top thousand, is bred out of the essence of the Shan Chuan Earth. Its origin is pure, thus it’s capable of absorbing the strength of the Qi. Its form constanly metamorphoses.

At this moment, Xiao Chen was almost certain that the place where the purple Qi disappeared was perhaps where the Earth Core Stone Marrow was conceived. However, Xiao Chen was not in a hurry to dig into and enter it.

As a spirit item fed by Heaven and Earth’s essence, it bears extraordinary traits. Being naturally nurtured, some have even developed a trace of intelligence, most sensitive to the slightest signs of Heaven and Earth. At this point, Xiao Chen, after a series of relentless battles, had a frightful killing intent that lingered on his body, a major taboo for these things.

Seated on an Alpine stone at the foot of the ancient mountain, Xiao Chen sat cross-legged in silence. He incessantly operated his Techniques, suppressing the fluctuations within his heart to a minimum while subtlely hiding his killing intent.

The human clan, reigning supreme since antiquity, gathered ancestral fortune to explore new territories, established its fate via the Clan Stele. They obtained the Stone Marrow to inscribe the seals of all clans on the Clan Stele, prompting all nations to pay homage. These people already had a complete method on how to subdue the Earth Core Stone Marrow.

After a long while, Xiao Chen got up and approached the cliff wall. An intense azure-purple light flashed abruptly across his body, *** onto the cliff wall. The cliff wall opened up silently to reveal a crevice.

Buzz!

The opening on the rocky wall didn’t show any signs of darkness, emitting a gentle glow. As Xiao Chen stepped in, it felt as if he had entered a vacuum tunnel. All his perceptions around him became blurry. Even at his incredible speed, he ran for a quarter of an hour. At this moment, Xiao Chen even felt as though he had left Lion Camel Ridge Mountain Range and reached another space-time domain.

Upon reaching the end of the crevice, he saw an enormous cavern inside the belly of the mountain covering several miles of land. The cavern was filled with delicate yellow soil which was extremely fertile. Xiao Chen could pinch some and squeeze out an oil-like substance. Numerous kinds of medicinal herbs grew densely on this yellow soil. Even at a quick glance, Xiao Chen noticed that none of these medicinal herbs were less than a thousand years old.

Besides an impressive lifespan, these spirit drugs were especially rare. Among them, not one plant was a common thousand-year-old spirit herb that grows in the Desolate Ancient Forest.

However, what stood out was not these medicinal herbs, but the gigantic pond in the center of the cavern with an area several hundred feet large.

The pond was filled with a pasty yellow liquid emitting a dense atmosphere. It gave off a rich Heaven and Earth’s Vital Energy, as the liquid kept gushing out.

This was the Earth Core Stone Milk!

An entire hundred feet pond filled with Earth Core Stone Milk!

Xiao Chen couldn’t even begin to speculate how many centuries it took to accumulate such a pond full of Earth Core Stone Milk. He sensed a remarkably pure breath concealed under the surface of the pond. It assessed him with an aura full of timidity but also brimming with endless curiosity.