Chapter 51: Dragon Lion Arena!

  Mingluo City is located in the southwest corner of the Great Flame Empire. Qin Zheng and his party traveled for nearly a month before arriving at this place.

  As they journeyed on, they also discovered that the storm triggered by the Nine-Colored Lotus Sutra had subsided. Moreover, Qin Zheng found out that he himself was not as well-known as he had imagined due to the Nine-Colored Lotus Sutra. After all, he was only considered a guardian of the Jade Lotus Temple. Only those who were present at the time truly noticed him, but because he was sealed by the Demon Emperor, no one else paid attention to him or mentioned him again.

  Not being the focus, made Qin's politics feel unspeakably relieved.

  Don't worry all the time.

  As a true cultivator of the Nine-Colored Lotus Scripture, and possibly the only one on the Divine Martial Continent, he did not want to be constantly watched before he truly became powerful.

  "Right ahead is Ming Luo City, let's hurry up, it's going to rain."

  Qin Zheng and his companion rode their swift Wind Angle horses into the territory of Ling Luo City.

  The sky was overcast, and rain threads were already mixed in the wind. There were few people on the official road, so they galloped their horses.

  "It's finally here."

  As she passed through the city gate, Yan heard the rain in her heart with a wave of emotion.

  Finally able to get the heavy treasure left by the family, and start the journey of the first alchemist in the Divine Martial Continent.

  On the city gate tower, there were two people watching them.

  A man wearing a brocade robe, tall and elegant, with a smile on his face, watched Qin Zheng and the others enter the city. This person was none other than the Crown Prince of the Datong Empire, Lu Tianlang.

  Another one was a middle-aged big man, who looked like a guard at first glance. He was the captain of Lu Tianlang's guard, Nan Mingjun.

  "They've really come, the prince is indeed prescient." Nan Ming Jun's face was full of surprise as he saw Qin Zheng and the other arrive.

  "It's not that I'm prescient, but rather I know a legend about the Yan family." Lu Tianlang said with a gentle smile.

  Nan Ming Jun Dao said: "But I don't know how the prince knew that Yan Ting Yu was a member of the Yan family."

  Lu Tianlang chuckled and said, "I've seen her before, she was only seven or eight years old at the time, a delicate little girl. Now she's all grown up into a big miss. That day, Prince Hai Lingkong of the Hai Kingdom pressured the East Sea Royal Residence, Yan Tingyu and a person wearing a cloak passed by us, I felt a sense of familiarity, but it wasn't until later that I remembered, she was from the Yan family. I just didn't expect the person in the cloak to be Qin Zheng."

  "This Qin Zheng is also formidable, even the pattern of killing three emperors was broken, although it's said to be the method left by Old East Sea King, being able to contend with the verbal sparring of the Three Emperors isn't simple either. If it were me, I would have been stunned long ago." Nan Ming Jun had also been present at the scene and witnessed everything, thinking about it made him admire Qin Zheng's audacity.

  Lu Tianlang said calmly: "I think it's Qin Zheng's self-rescue and has nothing to do with Old Donghai Wang."

  "No way." Nan Ming Jun said disbelievingly.

  Lu Tianlang smiled but didn't speak, and instead looked up at the sky filled with thick dark clouds. "This rain has been brewing for so long, it's bound to be fierce when it comes."

  Qin Zheng and Yan Tingyu found an inn to stay in after entering the city.

  The two of them took a bath, ordered some dishes, and sat by the window in the room, eating while watching the rain outside.

  The wind is strong and the rain is heavy.

  They ate and chatted, and naturally Yan listened to the rain, using a special secret method of the Yan family to release a sound insulation technique that prevented outsiders from hearing, but the wind outside still seeped in, not completely isolating them from the outside, allowing them to enjoy the romance in the rain.

  About Yan's family staying in Mingluo City, the refining furnace is called the divine soldier furnace, which is said to be the number one furnace on the Divine Martial Continent.

  It's called the Divine Furnace because whatever is refined in it will always be a divine weapon. If ordinary materials are thrown into it, the furnace fire will directly incinerate and destroy them, making it impossible to shape them. Only the most exceptional materials can withstand being destroyed, so anything that comes out of the furnace is inevitably a divine weapon.

  "Enjoying the rain with beauty is a great pleasure." Qin Zheng held his wine cup and gazed at the rainy scene outside, somewhat intoxicated.

  "The Divine Furnace is not that easy to retrieve." Yan Lian Yu was not as carefree as Qin Zheng, retrieving the Divine Furnace was not only the beginning of her journey to become the first-rate armorer on the continent of Shenwu, but also the key to her revenge.

  Qin Zheng also understood her mood, put down his wine cup and said: "You said you come to Lingluo City twice a year to find the Divine Furnace, have you found any clues?"

  Yan Tingyu said: "Alright, the Divine Furnace should be at the Dragon Lion Arena."

  The dojo is a place similar to a family, but different from a family. In the continent of Shenwu, all dojos have the ability to develop into families, but the number of people in the family is greatly restricted, and they can't develop further, so they turn to form dojos, absorbing outsiders to grow together.

  In the continent of Shenwu, among the human race, there is a very large Taoist temple, becoming a local overlord. The master of the Taoist temple can even sit on an equal footing with the emperors of the three major empires. Sometimes, they may even influence many things in the empire by relying on their military power.

  "What is the strength of the Dragon and Lion Arena in Lingluo City?" Qin Zheng asked.

  "The leader of the Zhao family, Zhao Xi, is a mid-level expert in the Wu Jing realm and also the only high-ranking expert in the Dragon Lion Dao field." Yan Tingyu had already investigated the situation in Mingluo City long ago. This was the information she had been investigating twice a year when she came to Mingluo City. As for why she didn't live here, Yan Tingyu had also explained to Qin Zheng that there were some things left behind by the Yan family in the Da Yan Emperor's capital, and she had only recently fully grasped them. Originally intending to enter Mingluo City, but because of her blood recognition of Qin Zheng, she was attracted by Qin Zheng's blood and continued to stay in the Da Yan Emperor's capital.

  Qin Zheng smiled lightly and said: "In a small city like Mingluo City, there is actually a master of the Gao Wu boundary."

  Yan Tingyu said: "You may have the ability to kill someone in seconds, but you can't use it."

  "There are other ways to do it." Qin Zheng also knew that his situation was too special. In this city, unless it was a matter of life and death, he absolutely could not use the power of the Nine Turns Back Dragon Bone Body's divine dragon energy extending outwards. If he didn't use it, he would be destined to never be able to cross the great boundary and fight. "Right, do you know where the Divine Furnace is specifically located in the Dragon Lion Arena?"

  "Not very clear, can only confirm that it's somewhere in the Longshen Arena, I didn't dare to venture in and investigate." Yanyu shook her head.

  Qin Zheng pondered and said, "Anyway, we don't have anything to do. Why not try this? I'll go to the Longshi Martial Arts Arena to apply for a martial arts instructor position. At my age, with my actual strength at the Qi Wu boundary, it shouldn't be difficult to get in."

  "This is a good idea. Within the city of Lingluo, the three parties are in a delicate balance of power, each wanting to defeat the other two and dominate alone. They will all think of ways to recruit people, and with your cultivation base in the Qi Wu realm, you are definitely worth recruiting by the three parties, especially since you are still very young."

  "Who else besides Longshendao? " Qin Zheng asked.

  Yan listened to the rain and told everything she knew in detail.

  Inside the city of Lingluo, there are three forces: the City Master's Mansion, the Dragon Lion Arena, and the Zhou Family. Among them, what caught Qin Zheng's attention was that the City Master's Mansion was actually a branch of the Luo family, whose head, Luo Yunping, had been killed by him. As for the Dragon Lion Arena and the Zhou Family, there is no background information.

  Although the city lord's mansion was a branch of the Luo family, it had never received much support from the Luo family. Although the Luo family seemed weak in Qin Zheng's memory, in fact, in the Great Flame Empire, they were also a second-rate family with many branches scattered all over the place. Their main focus was on developing their power within the big city, and small cities like Mingluo City were not of much concern to them, nor did they have the energy to pay attention to it.

  Of course, the Luo family is a second-rate family. The head of the Luo family, Luo Yunping, is not outstanding in terms of personal combat power. The Luo family has more than a dozen high-ranking masters who have surpassed the Wu Jing boundary and reached the Yi Wu boundary, and there is even an old master at the Tian Wu boundary. This is the Luo family that Qin Zheng understands. It's just that Luo Yunping has an older sister named Luo Yunhong, which is why he became the head of the Luo family. Therefore, even if the City Lord's Mansion in Lingyao City doesn't pay attention to the Luo family, Qin Zheng still needs to be careful, lest he provoke the arrival of a true master from the Luo family.

  Having a general understanding of Ming Luo City, Qin Zheng asked a question that had been weighing on his mind for a long time.

  Why is Shenbing furnace in Mingluo City?

  The once glorious Yan family was not in this city of Ling Luo.

  "Have you heard of the Róng Tiān Lú?" said Yàn Tīng Yǔ.

  "It's said that in ancient times, the Solitary Heaven Furnace was known as the number one divine furnace. Someone had once used the Refining Soldier Technique to break through the human and divine shackles with the Solitary Heaven Furnace, but then disappeared. The last time it appeared was probably a few hundred years ago." Qin Zheng recalled for a moment, there wasn't much in his memory about the Solitary Heaven Furnace.

  Yan listened to the rain and was somewhat surprised, "The old East Sea King told you a lot of secrets."

  Qin Zheng also nodded with emotion.

  He possessed a lot of knowledge, apart from the memories left by the Five Dynasties' Evil Emperor, mainly what Old East Sea King told him.

  Yan listened to the rain and detailed everything about the Divine Furnace, "Breaking the shackles of human gods is extremely difficult. The only person in my Yan family who has records is the one who completed it through the Solitary Heaven Furnace. It's said that many marks of wonder were left on the Solitary Heaven Furnace, but later countless alchemists and even pure warriors competed for it, causing the Solitary Heaven Furnace to suffer devastating destruction. Later, it was my Yan family's third generation who found it under the city of Lingluo, and discovered that the Solitary Heaven Furnace had not been completely destroyed because the underground of Lingluo City hid the Liyuan Divine Fire."

  So, with the help of the divine fire of Liyuan, I rebuilt the melting furnace in Mingluo City and incorporated some special techniques for refining and forging furnaces from my family, Yan. This is how the divine furnace was created, which was once taken out as a treasure of my family, Yan, to establish its reputation. However, after the divine furnace was damaged while refining a heavenly-grade divine weapon, it was put back in Mingluo City, where it was repaired using the remaining Liyuan divine fire underground.

  "I know that's all I can say. As for whether the divine furnace has been repaired or if it was discovered by the people of Longshen Taoist temple, I'm not clear about that."

  "Is there a record of some secret methods of the Yan family in the Divine Furnace that can help you restore the glory of the Yan family?" Qin Zheng asked.

  "Uh, all the top-level Yan family's refining techniques are recorded on it, but only the blood of the Yan family can make these techniques appear from the divine furnace. Oh, right, besides this, there are some secrets that might be the reason for the downfall of my Yan family, and also a martial skill."

  "What martial arts."

  Yan Tingyu laughed and said: "It can be confirmed that it is more brilliant than the divine soldier domain created by Huang Long Ye Tian Qin, and naturally stronger than Dou Hu's momentum."

  "This sounds like a cat scratching its heart," Qin Zheng asked, "What kind of martial skill is it?"