Chapter 963
The Immortal Corpse Puppet Arrives on Earth
Xingfeng Gate, the cave dwelling behind the mountain.
Chen Feng has returned here, and the immortal corpse puppet is sitting cross-legged inside the cave.
Upon seeing Chen Feng enter, she opened her beautiful eyes and calmly gazed at him.
Chen Feng approached the immortal corpse puppet and sensed it.
After this period of cultivation, the immortal energy within the immortal corpse puppet has returned to its peak, and it has mastered all the immortal techniques it had previously acquired.
Meanwhile, the Immortal Corpse Puppet's Dao of Severance has also improved during this period, and it is not far from perfection.
To be honest, Chen Feng now looks down on the Dao of Severance.
The Great Perfection of the Dao of Severance is of great use to cultivators at the fifth step of the Dao Integration stage, but his current enemies are mostly at the Heavenly Venerable level.
These powerful beings, having mastered the power of the world, rarely use supernatural abilities or similar methods; they simply use the pure power of the world.
"I just don't know if the perfect Dao of Severance will be useful to a Heavenly Venerable-level expert."
Chen Feng thought to himself.
No one in the entire Three Saints Sect has ever mastered the Dao of Severance to perfection. Even the Heavenly Venerable Haotian, who is most skilled in the Dao of Severance, has only mastered it to the Great Perfection.
After examining the Immortal Corpse Puppet, Chen Feng discovered that apart from the Dao of Severance, there was currently no way to improve the Immortal Corpse Puppet.
The Immortal Corpse Puppet is merely an avatar; it cannot improve its own cultivation level, but can only cultivate supernatural powers and spells.
"My cultivation level can't be improved, but what about the star core inside my body?" Chen Feng suddenly thought of a possibility.
The immortal corpse puppet inherently possesses a star core, making it highly suitable for cultivating the Great Heavenly Circulation Star Refining Technique.
If we bring the immortal corpse puppet back to Earth and let her refine the planet, could she condense a new star core, thereby strengthening her physical body?
With that in mind, Chen Feng immediately decided to give it a try.
The Immortal Corpse Puppet is an inanimate object; the Moonflower Immortal Lord no longer exists, and now it is his divided soul that controls this physical body.
Therefore, the Immortal Corpse Puppet meets the conditions for traveling between the two worlds.
Just as Chen Feng was about to try, a voice rang out from outside: "Brother, are you there?"
Upon hearing this, Chen Feng immediately stopped what he was doing and looked outside the cave:
"Come in."
Before long, Yinyin came in with small, quick steps.
After entering the cave, Yin Yin only glanced at the Immortal Corpse Puppet before looking away. She already knew about the existence of the Immortal Corpse Puppet; it was just an avatar of her brother.
Yin Yin didn't think anything of Chen Feng creating a female clone.
It's just a puppet clone; as long as it can increase strength, that's fine.
Yinyin asked Chen Feng:
"I heard you were back, so I came to see you."
Chen Feng said:
"I have to come back temporarily for some business and will be leaving soon."
Chen Feng originally planned to cultivate in the modern world, but he encountered the Crimson Cloud Empire incident, so he temporarily put it aside.
Now that the troubles of the Crimson Cloud Empire have been temporarily resolved, he must hurry back to cultivate.
He couldn't stay in the world of the painting for long. He originally planned to cultivate in the modern world, but the matter of the Crimson Cloud Empire delayed him.
At this moment, Yinyin seemed to have noticed something, and she came to Chen Feng's side.
When Yin Yin saw the gruesome wound on Chen Feng's back, her face immediately turned cold:
"Brother, who did this?"
Seeing Yin Yin's icy gaze, Chen Feng reached out and patted her head:
"It's nothing, just a minor injury. It will heal with some time."
Yin Yin's face remained icy:
"This is no minor injury; there's a very strong force inside the wound!"
Yin Yin is now at the fourth step of the Dao Integration stage, so she can naturally see the terrifying power contained in Chen Feng's wound. She feels that if she were to face such power, her physical body would probably shatter on the spot.
From this, Yin Yin had already deduced that the person who injured Chen Feng was probably incredibly powerful.
At that moment, Yin Yin felt incredibly weak.
There was a time when she could protect Chen Feng, but now her cultivation level is no longer of any help to him.
Seeing Yin Yin's expression, Chen Feng naturally guessed what she was thinking.
"Don't overthink it. I don't need your help. I just want you to take care of yourself," Chen Feng said earnestly.
Yinyin nodded emphatically: "Brother, I understand."
Although she had agreed to Chen Feng's request, Yin Yin had already made up her mind that she had to improve her strength as soon as possible, because only by improving her strength could she help Chen Feng.
Chen Feng then asked:
"What's the situation in the star field lately?"
Although only a few days had passed, he also wanted to know the current situation in the star field.
Yinyin replied:
"The battle of geniuses has officially begun. The geniuses of the Blood Demon Palace and the Three Saints Sect are leading their respective forces to attack star fields. Jiang Bohan's side has also set off. According to the previous plan, their target is a small star field."
"Also, recently, due to the disappearance of Ling Xiaozhi and Haoyue Saint Master, a conflict broke out between Tianxuan Holy Land and Taiyi Sect. The two sides fought a battle in Huayang Star Region, and I heard that several river cultivators were seriously injured."
After listening to Yin Yin's words, Chen Feng nodded.
The reactions of Taiyi Dao Sect and Tianxuan Holy Land were within his expectations. With two Dao Integration Stage 5 cultivators missing, the only suspects they could have in the surrounding star fields were the other side, making a conflict inevitable.
He then asked, "What was the Blood Demon Palace's reaction to our surrender to the Three Saints Sect?"
Yinyin said, "The Taiyi Sect came over a while ago, but we drove them away. Apart from that, there hasn't been any other activity. They probably didn't dare to attack us because of the agreement on the competition of geniuses."
Yinyin then mentioned some other aspects of the star field, which were not significantly different from what Chen Feng had described before he left.
Xingfeng Sect is currently safe under the protection of the two top forces in the Xuanhuang Realm, but this situation will not last long.
Yinyin didn't stay with Chen Feng for long; she chatted with him for a while before leaving.
After Yinyin left, Chen Feng put the Immortal Corpse Puppet into the Mustard Seed Bead, and he also retrieved the divided soul within the Immortal Corpse Puppet.
Solar System, Lunar Base.
Chen Feng reappeared, releasing the immortal corpse puppet from the mustard seed bead.
The immortal corpse puppet, dressed in a plain white dress, stood quietly before him, her stunning beauty seemingly capable of eclipsing the starry sky.
However, at this moment, the immortal corpse puppet's eyes were empty, and it had not been possessed by a split soul.
The immortal corpse puppet is nothing more than an inanimate object.
Chen Feng put the divided soul back into the puppet's body, and soon, the immortal corpse puppet's eyes began to glow.
With the split soul of the immortal corpse puppet, he immediately began to activate the "Great Zhou Heavenly Refining Star Technique" without any hesitation.
In an instant, strands of starlight energy poured into the body of the immortal corpse puppet from all directions.
"It works!" Chen Feng's eyes lit up.
He could sense that the stellar energy had indeed been preserved within the immortal corpse puppet's body.
But Chen Feng soon discovered the problem.
Although the immortal corpse puppet can condense a star core, once its physical body is strengthened, its divided soul will become uncontrollable. This is similar to when it formed a new star array and was unable to perfectly control its physical body.
Moreover, the soul inside the immortal corpse puppet is a split soul, which is much weaker than the original soul.
"Never mind, let's just condense as many star cores as we can. It's always better for two people to cultivate together than one."
Chen Feng considered this shortcoming acceptable.
At worst, he can transplant the new star core condensed by the immortal corpse puppet into his own body.
Chen Feng immediately took the immortal corpse puppet to a starry sky dozens of light-years away from the solar system.
This is an unnamed galaxy containing a single star.
After surveying his surroundings and confirming that there were no unusual spacetime fluctuations, he sent the immortal corpse puppet directly into the star's interior to absorb its energy.
Chen Feng himself returned to the world of the painting.
He needs to go back to heal his injuries before he can return to cultivate with the immortal corpse puppet.
Time flies like an arrow, and three years have passed in the blink of an eye.
These three years were not three years in the modern world, but three years in the world of the scroll painting.
Only a few months have passed in the modern world.
In the cave behind Xingfeng Sect, Chen Feng ended his seclusion, and his wounds had now fully healed.
But his expression was not good.
He underestimated the terrifying power of that world force; it took him three whole years to completely eliminate it from his body.
One can imagine that if he were to fight those two armored men head-on, he would likely be at risk of death.
"They are both at the Heavenly Venerable realm, so why is there such a huge difference between them!"
Chen Feng felt that although Blood Fiend Heavenly Venerable and the others were also at the eighth level, they were not on the same level as the two armored men from the Crimson Cloud Empire.
The hierarchy among Celestial Venerables is probably even greater than the gap between minor realms of Dao Integration.
However, through expelling that power of the world, Chen Feng also gained a deeper understanding of powerhouses at this level.
The strength of the world's power is related to the amount of world's power that the other party can borrow.
According to his estimation, the world power wielded by those two armored men was at least dozens of times greater than that of Blood Fiend Heavenly Venerable and others.
"The Crimson Cloud Empire." Chen Feng was now even more wary of this civilization that could dominate the Orion Arm.
Not only does it possess various advanced technologies, but it also has incredibly powerful eighth-tier experts, making it undoubtedly the strongest force he has ever encountered.
Chen Feng could imagine what would have happened if he hadn't had the scroll's teleportation ability to save his life.
Faced with the Crimson Cloud Empire, even protecting himself would become difficult for him.
"The Ninety-Six Star Array must be completed as soon as possible; this will be a qualitative change for me!" Chen Feng felt a sense of urgency.
He did not linger in the cave, and his figure quickly disappeared from the spot.
Chen Feng did not return directly to the modern world to cultivate; instead, he first went to the nuclear factory.
Three years have passed, and he wants to see if Yue Yao has cracked the Star Domain-class warship.
After arriving at the nuclear plant.
Chen Feng immediately found Yue Yao.
At this moment, Yue Yao was not working at the factory, but in her room.
A computer was placed in front of her, playing a video, which she was watching intently.
Just then, a knock sounded at the door.
Yue Yao was startled and quickly switched the computer screen: "Who is it?!"
"It's me!" Chen Feng's voice rang out from outside the door.
Although Chen Feng could teleport directly into Yue Yao's room, that would be too disrespectful to her privacy, so Chen Feng chose to teleport outside the door.
Soon, Yue Yao opened the door, her face still flushed:
"Sect Leader, what brings you here?"
Chen Feng glanced at Yue Yao: "Can't I come over? What are you doing in the room?"
Yue Yao quickly shook her head:
"It's nothing, I was just watching a movie. Please come in, Sect Leader!"
Yue Yao politely welcomed Chen Feng in and poured him a cup of tea.
Chen Feng didn't dwell too much on what movie Yue Yao was watching, but instead asked, "How's the cracking of that warship going?"
Hearing Chen Feng bring up serious matters, Yue Yao's expression returned to normal, and she immediately spoke:
"Sect Master, the encryption technology of that warship is too complex. We have tried tens of thousands of cracking methods, but none of them can completely control the warship."
Yue Yao was clearly somewhat disheartened, as the current technical staff of Xingfengmen had all undergone extensive training.
They were all top talents, but when faced with this star-level warship, they found themselves as if they were just learning modern knowledge back then, filled with many things they couldn't understand.
"You said it's not completely under control, so there's a part that can be controlled?" Chen Feng looked at Yue Yao.
Yue Yao nodded: "Yes, we've cracked part of it and can now control most of the hatches on the spaceship. As for the weapon system and energy system, the encryption level is too high, and we can't control them yet."
Chen Feng asked, "Is it possible to block the spaceship's signals to the outside world?"
Yue Yao shook her head upon hearing this: "No, we've never seen that kind of signal transmission method before. But don't worry, Sect Leader, give us some more time, and we'll definitely be able to crack it within ten years!"
"Give me the research data you've compiled over the years." Chen Feng had already realized that it was unlikely he could rely on Yue Yao and her people to crack the warship.
Now the only option is to bring the data back to Earth and see if Lin Wei makes any progress. If that doesn't work, he'll have no choice but to dismantle the warship.
This situation was within Chen Feng's expectations.
The core technology of the Crimson Cloud Empire's Starfield-class warships is that if they were so easy to crack, the Crimson Cloud Empire would not have been able to monopolize the Orion Arm and would have been wiped out by other civilizations long ago.
“I have all the data here. Sect Master, are you planning to study it yourself, or have your friend do it?” Yue Yao asked.
"Yes, I plan to show it to her." Chen Feng naturally knew who Yue Yao was referring to.
He had mentioned Lin Wei to Yue Yao years ago, but he didn't say who Lin Wei was.
Yue Yao quickly said, "Sect Leader, you should still remember what you promised me back then, right?"
Upon hearing this, Chen Feng's expression froze.
"I remember, but not now."
"Isn't it enough? It's been so many years. You said back then that you would introduce me to someone." Yue Yao was immediately filled with disappointment.
The person she wanted to see was naturally Lin Wei.
She had been very curious about Lin Wei for a long time, and she believed that all the warships and weapons of the Xingfeng Sect were made by Lin Wei. Chen Feng had also mentioned this to Yue Yao.
"There will be an opportunity. Go and organize the data and bring it to me," Chen Feng said calmly.
Previously, Chen Feng thought that the fusion of the Xuanhuang Realm and the Scroll World meant that the two realms were about to merge together.
But after the Xuanhuang Realm truly merged into the scroll world, he realized that the scroll world and the modern world were likely two completely different universes.
Chen Feng himself doesn't know whether the two realms will merge in the future. (End of Chapter)