Using entries to cultivate immortality in chaotic times

"I..."

The old man looked around at the familiar scene with a desire to cry but no tears to shed, then glanced down at the storage rings on the ground and said with a trembling voice, "It's possible to break them, all these storage rings can be broken, but I can't break those few with the aura of golden cores in them."

"Those two storage rings with strong golden core auras usually have enchantments laid by a Golden Core Great Power, which ordinary people find difficult to unlock."

"As for the remaining seven... their golden core auras are weak, they belong to Old Thief Ning... but Old Thief Ning himself is extremely skilled at breaking the enchantments on storage rings, and he has set up many enchantments in his rings too, I can't break those either."

"I can break all the others, though."

"I see."

Chen Qiu's brows slightly furrowed. Is the second-ranked artifact cultivator in Fei City this incompetent? Back in Kai Mountain City, he randomly picked a shopkeeper, and that old man could even break Golden Core storage rings; it seemed like he might need to take a trip back to Kai Mountain City again.

Afterward, without saying much more, he simply gathered up the nine golden core-aura storage rings.

"Then leave these nine to me, and break the others."

"Okay..."

...

Three hours later.

The sky had darkened, and the stars above looked especially beautiful, getting brighter and seemingly closer, as if they were about to crash down at any moment.

On the grass beside him.

Chen Qiu was lying on the grass, using his arms as a pillow, gazing at the stars above with a distant look in his eyes. The view was truly captivating. In his previous life, he rarely had the chance to see so many stars. Under the starry sky, one often feels a sense of insignificance.

He wondered if one day his cultivation would advance enough for him to travel to those stars and take a closer look.

And at that moment—

The old man, whose hands were trembling from long hours of intense focus, finally set down all the storage rings and looked up at Chen Qiu, his voice trembling, "I've unlocked them all."

"Alright, then you can go."

Chen Qiu waved his hand, indicating the old man could go home, but just as the old man prepared to turn around and leave, Chen Qiu suddenly spoke up, "Fat Long, settle the old gentleman's account according to the rates for breaking storage ring enchantments in Kai Mountain City."

"We're not evil cultivators or demon cultivators or anything like that; we can't let him leave empty-handed. We can't even take one needle or thread from ordinary folks."

"Don't let them lose heart."

"Alrighty."

Fat Long stood up and walked briskly toward the old man, stuffing a storage bag into his embrace with a smile, "All the spirit stones are in here, thank you for your hard work."

...

"Not bad."

Although he didn't break the two Golden Cores' storage rings, he got what he wanted the most: two entry jade slips. Ning Wuping was a good man; he didn't crush the entry jade slips right away. It seemed he had been planning to find an auspicious day for it, which gave Chen Qiu an opportunity.

That's really good.

The rest was just a bunch of miscellaneous items, totaling more than 4,000 spirit stones, along with some pills, a forging furnace, and various materials for refining spiritual treasures. Most of them he didn't recognize.

But carelessly placed in the storage rings, not even packaged in boxes, they probably weren't very valuable materials.

He piled all of them in a corner of the small world he had set aside as storage.

These things won't sell for much, but it's better to keep them in case they come in handy one day.

After that, he turned his attention to his own stats panel.

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"Name": Chen Qiu.

"Cultivation": Foundation Establishment Stage Nine Layers (47.5%).

"Entries": Step by Step High, Resentful Spirit Summoning, Deficient One, Spiritual Energy Intimidating, Dantian Expansion (Unique), Self-Destruction Term, Every Plant and Tree, Alchemy Posture, Concentrated Power (Thunder Summoning Technique), Recovery Wind, Calculated Step by Step, Slippery, Resurrection, Capable of Toppling a Nation and a City, For My Use, Lunar Night Demon Wolf, Real and Illusion, Refining Technique, Artifact Refining God, Complements Each Other, Dual Casting, Ten Layers of Spellcasting.

"Cultivation Technique": Earth Tunneling Technique, Obfuscation Spell, Thunder Summoning Technique, Nine Poison Nether Soul Technique.

"Spirit Beast": None.

"Sect": Chao Tian Sect, Sect Master.

"Country": Da Xia Country.

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Total of 22 entries.

There are a few entries that are practically useless and can be used for self-destruction at any time, such as "Alchemy Posture," "Refining Technique," etc. These self-destructible entries are considered his last resort.

They can also be used as materials for core formation.

A ten-tier Golden Core requires ten entries of any kind as core formation materials.

There are also some that are useful, but not that significant, like "Deficient One," which can also be used as a self-destruction entry in a critical moment.

These 22 entries are currently his biggest trump cards.

If he was truly cornered...

Apart from some untouchable entries, a succession of more than a dozen all-out attacks from Golden Core nine-layer power, as long as the opponent isn't a Nascent Soul, he didn't believe anyone could withstand it. Of course, this was pretty much a mutual destruction tactic, and even if he survived, his future potential would drop significantly.

While Chen Qiu was examining his panel and thinking about what he might have missed, Fat Long suddenly said with a trembling voice, "Brother Qiu... It looks like the sky is falling."

"It's falling again?"

Chen Qiu sighed somewhat helplessly. His consciousness withdrew from his body, and he looked up following Fat Long's line of sight. The smile that was on his face slowly froze. The stars above, like a shower of meteors, were plummeting down with trails of red flame.

Not traveling across.

But... crashing down!

Visible to the naked eye, countless stars were getting closer to them, at least tens of thousands of stars falling from the sky.

"..."

Chen Qiu's mouth twitched slightly. He immediately got up and slapped the scholar, who had fallen asleep next to him, awake while saying anxiously, "Get up, time to run!"
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Yes, it was time to run again.

He had a feeling that if he didn't leave soon, he might end up getting swept up in it just like the Demon Race invasion.