Chapter 686: Four Years
After selecting the cave dwelling, Qin Sang handed the bone sword and bone spear to the man in grey and the old woman, respectively. He then asked the remaining three for the artifacts they were most adept with.
Without holding back, Qin Sang directly refined the Jiao corpses they had previously hunted, enhancing the power of their artifacts.
If he wanted these people to help him search for beasts, he had to equip them with more means of survival. Only then could they explore wider regions. The Fuhu Sea lay at the very fringe of the area where cultivators from Duyan Island operated. It was a chaotic region. Although they weren’t expected to hunt beasts, scouting for the traces of great demons still posed significant danger.
Fortunately, very few cultivators operated within the Fuhu Sea. In this vast ocean, the chances of encountering others were almost nonexistent, so they didn’t need to be on guard against other immortal cultivators.
By sheer luck, less than a month after arriving in the Fuhu Sea, they helped Qin Sang locate a suitable Crimson Jiao.
With that, he finally completed the collection of nine Jiao spirits. The full power of the Nine-Dragon Heavenly Chariot Talisman was unleashed. The originally jade-tablet-like spirit talisman transformed into a palm-sized jade Jiao, coiled like a living creature, slumbering in Qin Sang’s Qihai.
Anyone unaware of its origin would never suspect this was actually a spirit talisman.
Once activated, a radiant shield formed around Qin Sang, its surface encircled by nine Jiao phantoms. Because five of them were Crimson Jiao spirits, the barrier glowed a fiery red, as if he had donned the legendary Divine Fire Shield of Nine Dragons—wondrous and awe-inspiring.
After its metamorphosis, the talisman’s fully awakened power exceeded Qin Sang’s expectations.
During the chaos between the two regions, Qin Sang had witnessed many Core Formation cultivators fighting and had secretly compared his strength. With the talisman and Sword Qi Thunderclap, his evasion speed was already slightly faster than most late-stage Golden Core cultivators.
Once he broke through to the middle stage of the Core Formation Realm, even late-stage cultivators would be left in the dust.
However, Qin Sang estimated that the talisman’s power had limits. Even if he reached the late stage and combined it with Sword Qi Thunderclap, there was no way he could match the evasion speed of a Spiritual Infant grandmaster.