Chapter 81: Seeing the Ancient Transformation Dragon Again

Chapter 81: Chapter 81: Seeing the Ancient Transformation Dragon Again

The Throat God has reached Great Success!

The God bows to me!

Chen Sha slowly opened his eyes. He could feel the Throat God, ’Hundred Exiles’, in his throat. Although it was just a nine-colored divine light, it felt as if a true deity was sitting cross-legged there.

The deity was breathing!

With each inhalation and exhalation, the Innate Qi Mechanism between heaven and earth began to pour endlessly into Chen Sha’s body.

When he first reached the Seeing God stage and breathed in Innate Qi, less than a tenth of each breath consisted of it.

But now that the Throat God had reached Great Success...

...ninety-nine percent of the air he drew in was Innate Qi.

EXHALE!

INHALE!

Chen Sha had only been performing his breathing exercises in the Sect Leader’s room for half an hour when he suddenly felt the area within a hundred-zhang radius become completely empty...

It was as if he had sucked dry all the Innate Qi in the surrounding hundred-zhang radius in just half an hour!

A realization dawned on Chen Sha.

’Is the Innate Qi in the world really this scarce?’

Or was it that his breathing ability, empowered by the Great Success of his Throat God and the Eleven-Layer Jade Emperor Tower, had become too powerful?

’No, no matter how strong my Cultivation Technique is, I’m still just one person breathing. It seems...’

Chen Sha thought to himself,

’The celestial secrets I discovered in Zhang Daoxuan’s Chapter are subtly connected to the Divine Land World. The amount of Qi in the world is indeed insufficient for high-level Cultivators.’

He slowly stood up.

He tried breathing again and could feel the Innate Qi Mechanism in the air slowly recovering, but the process was very slow...

It was like a tide pool by the sea that he had drained completely.

For the pool to be refilled, he would have to wait for the world’s tides of Innate Qi to slowly wash back in.

’No wonder the ancient Daoist Scriptures say that for a Cultivator to achieve anything, they must first find a famous mountain, a great river, or a top-tier Grotto Heaven Blessed Land.’

Chen Sha clasped his hands behind his back, walked outside, and muttered to himself,

"My Dao Yi Mountain is a famed mountain, one of the Daoist Sacred Realms. There must be a ’Holy Land’ somewhere on it that is perfect for cultivation and meditation."

That place was definitely not his Sect Leader’s room.

A thought flashed through Chen Sha’s mind.

’The place in the back mountains where Ancient Transformation Dragon is imprisoned... it seems rather unusual, doesn’t it?’

He remembered his Little Martial Uncle saying that his father, Chen Canxuan, had forged a True Qi Cage at the bottom of that well. Even though his father was long dead, the cage was still able to imprison Ancient Transformation Dragon.

Thinking about it carefully now, how could this so-called ’True Qi Cage’ have imprisoned a First-Grade Great Innate master like Ancient Transformation Dragon for thirty years without a continuous source of power?

’Could it be that the bottom of the well is the location of a superb Qi vein?’

Chen Sha’s mind raced.

He muttered to himself,

"My Cultivation is now infinitely close to the First-Grade Great Innate. I reckon that even if I can’t defeat Ancient Transformation Dragon, he can’t do anything to me either. I might as well go find him to test my strength, and while I’m at it..."

Once this idea took root,

Chen Sha clasped his hands behind his back and headed for the back mountains.

At the same time, he hadn’t forgotten the reward he received after clearing the three Dugu Qiubai Chapters: another Cosmic Light Fragment.

Three cleared Chapters, three Cosmic Light Fragments. They could now be combined into a complete one.

’Ancient Transformation Dragon’s Qi Stealing Technique is a First-Grade Martial Scripture, just like the Great Yellow Court and the Jade Emperor Tower...’

Now that Chen Sha was strong enough and possessed a miraculous treasure like the Cosmic Light Fragments, he couldn’t help but covet the First-Grade Martial Scripture right in his own backyard.

Based on the information he had gleaned from Zhang Daoxuan’s Chapter and his own long experience with cultivation,

’any Cultivation Technique that can be called a First-Grade Martial Scripture must be a Divine Skill that allows one to perceive Innate Qi. This means the foundation of Ancient Transformation Dragon’s Qi Stealing Technique must also enhance the body’s ability for Heavenly Understanding in some way.’

Chen Sha’s Great Yellow Court contained a total of Twenty-four Gods, symbolizing twenty-four treasure troves within the human body. With his Throat God at Great Success, he needed to continue cultivating the next God and further unlock his body’s potential.

If he could obtain Ancient Transformation Dragon’s Qi Stealing Technique and integrate it into his Great Yellow Court, he might be able to accelerate the process of finding the true form of another of the body’s Gods, allowing him to cultivate the Twenty-four Gods even faster!

......

「The Back Mountains.」

The sky was blue with white clouds, the lake water was clear, and reeds swayed by the roadside. Domesticated pheasants and wild ducks, without a care in the world, foraged by the lake’s edge.

Zhou Santong was tilling the soil with a hoe in hand, seemingly preparing another vegetable patch.

A voice reached the old man’s ears.

"Little Martial Uncle, what are you planning to plant this time?"

He looked up in surprise, stunned for a moment. Then his eyes fell on Chen Sha, and he looked him up and down in amazement.

As Chen Sha slowly approached,

Zhou Santong dropped his hoe and scurried over with a joyful cry. He began patting and prodding Chen Sha all over, squeezing his bones one moment and patting his chest the next.

"Little Chen Sha, you’re incredible! You’re about to enter the First Grade Great Innate Realm!"

Even with his innocent, childlike nature, the little old man was shocked by the changes in Chen Sha in less than a year.

"Not even your father, or me, your Little Martial Uncle, progressed this quickly when we cultivated the Great Yellow Court!"

Chen Sha didn’t hide anything from his Little Martial Uncle. He smiled and said, "Little Martial Uncle, I’ve come to ask for your guidance on cultivation again."

Zhou Santong laughed and scolded him good-naturedly, "I knew it. You never come to see me unless you need something."

After his jest, he added, "What, are you planning to watch me fight that old thing in the well again?"

Chen Sha shook his head. "I won’t need to trouble you to act this time, Uncle."

Stroking his beard, Zhou Santong understood Chen Sha’s meaning and nodded.

"Your entire aura is already transforming toward the Innate. You do indeed have the strength to fight that old thing now. Although you won’t be able to hurt that old monster, he’s trapped by the True Qi Cage your father built, so he won’t be able to do anything to you either."

Since his Little Martial Uncle had mentioned the True Qi Cage,

Chen Sha decided to get straight to the point and ask about the distribution of the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Mechanism on Dao Yi Mountain.

Zhou Santong slapped his forehead. "You’re about to enter the Great Innate Realm, so it’s not surprising you can sense the density of the world’s Qi. That’s right, we have a few Upper Grade Qi Veins on Dao Yi Mountain. This is one of them. The others are at the Jade Void Cave, Sacrifice Cliff, and Scripture Cliff..."

After speaking, he said, "Little Chen Sha, why don’t you start meditating and cultivating here with me, your uncle, from today onward?"

Chen Sha thought for a moment but declined. "I should still leave the back mountains for you to watch over, Uncle. Ever since that group attacked our gate, we need people guarding both the front and back of the mountain."

Zhou Santong stroked his beard. "Ah, I forgot about that."

He fell silent and carefully studied the Chen Sha before him.

He hadn’t seen him in over half a year, and the young man seemed to have grown taller. In Zhou Santong’s eyes, although Chen Sha’s appearance increasingly resembled the previous Sect Leader, the auras of their cultivation techniques were distinctly different.

The old innocent scratched his head, unable to figure it out.

’We all cultivated the same Great Yellow Court and integrated the Martial Arts of the mountain, so why is it that I can’t quite see through Little Chen Sha’s aura?’

He even detected a faint trace of the aura from the cultivation techniques of the old Daoists of Jade Emperor Mountain on him.

’How strange.’

However, Zhou Santong had a childlike heart, and he quickly cast these thoughts aside. He thought about how Chen Sha was going down the well again to personally challenge Ancient Transformation Dragon.

He couldn’t help but get excited.

"I can’t wait to see the look on that Aged Stone’s face when he sees the Power you possess now."

With that, the two arrived at the wellhead in the courtyard and leaped down.

This time, Chen Sha no longer needed his Little Martial Uncle’s True Qi to protect him. His own True Qi, mixed with Innate Qi, formed a soft, protective barrier around his body.

He leaped down from a height of a hundred meters without feeling the slightest jolt.

The moment the two reached the bottom of the well,

CLANG~~

Ancient Transformation Dragon, who was bound by the iron chains at the bottom, had already looked up. A hint of confusion appeared in his slightly crazed eyes.

’Two First-Grade Innates? Besides Zhou Santong, is there another Great Innate on Dao Yi Mountain who cultivates the Great Yellow Court?’

A possibility came to mind. His eyes widened as he roared,

"Chen Canxuan, you old bastard! I knew you weren’t dead!"

WHOOSH~~

But as the torches at the bottom of the well flared to life, illuminating the area, Ancient Transformation Dragon’s gaze fell on a familiar young man standing in the distance.

The young Sect Leader was smiling at him.

"How could..."

When Ancient Transformation Dragon saw clearly that the newcomer was Chen Sha, his pupils constricted.

"How could it be you!"