Chapter 82: Fighting the Ancient Transformation Dragon

Chapter 82: Chapter 82: Fighting the Ancient Transformation Dragon

In the space beneath the well, torches ignited one by one of their own accord.

When Ancient Transformation Dragon saw clearly that the person who had come down was none other than Chen Sha, his face twisted in utter disbelief.

"How can it be you?"

He couldn’t believe the aura he sensed from Chen Sha.

It was an Innate Qi Mechanism, faintly perceptible on Chen Sha. This was the clear sign of someone on the verge of stepping into the highest realm of the Martial Arts Dao: First-Grade Great Innate.

’How long has it been?’

The last time the kid was here, he was clearly just a Grandmaster.

Zhou Santong saw Ancient Transformation Dragon’s expression and crowed with delight, "Aged Stone, the look on your face doesn’t disappoint! How about it? Shocked to your old bones, aren’t you? You never would have imagined that this generation of Dao Yi Mountain would produce someone like Little Chen Sha, right!"

In less than a year, he had successively leaped past the Grandmaster and Great Grandmaster realms, and was now infinitely close to the Great Innate Realm!

A rate of Martial Arts advancement like this... you’d be hard-pressed to find more than a few examples throughout all of history.

"Kid, have you really reached First Grade?"

Ancient Transformation Dragon looked at Chen Sha with shock and suspicion, then turned to Zhou Santong:

"You... what in the world... what Spirit Pills did you feed him?"

Zhou Santong smiled without speaking.

In reality, he also had no idea how Chen Sha had done it, but this didn’t stop him from showing off his pride in his junior in front of Ancient Transformation Dragon.

Chen Sha stood a short distance from Ancient Transformation Dragon and smiled faintly. "Senior, do you still remember what I said before? That it wouldn’t take many years before I came back to test my skills against yours."

A muscle in Ancient Transformation Dragon’s cheek twitched.

Back then, he had nearly laughed himself to death at those words. A mere Grandmaster, daring to boast that he would fight him in a few years.

"As expected of Dao Yi Mountain."

A crazed emotion appeared in Ancient Transformation Dragon’s eyes. He shook the chains all over his body like a madman and said:

"Excellent! Like father, like son. A punk like you makes me want to put you in your place even more than I wanted to with your father in his youth. Come! Let Us gauge this skyrocketing cultivation of yours and see just how you managed it."

The moment he spoke, the very air and Spiritual Mechanism in the space beneath the well seemed to flash-boil. Under the influence of the madman’s terrifying aura, the entire area began to tremble!

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

It was as if the very earth were about to turn over.

"This is precisely what I was hoping for."

Chen Sha gave a faint laugh. Facing the chain-rattling Ancient Transformation Dragon, he suddenly took a large step.

BOOM!

The roiling, tsunami-like pressure in the air was instantly suppressed by that single, heavy step. Then, with Chen Sha’s foot as the epicenter, the ground itself began to heave and quake violently.

Seizing the initiative!

With Chen Sha’s explosive move, clouds of dust, dirt, and even motes of grit were blasted skyward from the floor of the well.

Amidst the terrifying currents, Chen Sha’s body left a searing heat wave in his wake. With his elbow tucked to his chest and one hand clenched into a fist, he was like a furious dragon bursting from the sea. He ripped through the atmosphere with a piercing whine, appearing before Ancient Transformation Dragon in an instant...

He threw a punch!

Ancient Transformation Dragon’s eyelids twitched upward. He could clearly feel the immense, tyrannical power behind Chen Sha’s fist—a force like the ocean flooding in reverse, compressing the air until it rippled like the surface of water.

"You’re still a bit too green!"

His voice moved with his aura. Ancient Transformation Dragon let out a long roar as three hundred years of earth-shattering Cultivation Power exploded from him. The power surged onto every chain that bound him, wrapping around them until they resembled twelve fanged, clawed, primordial beasts lunging to tear Chen Sha apart!

As their auras collided, the airflow in the chamber was instantly crushed by their terrifying Qi Power and blasted outwards in all directions, expanding in roiling waves.

For an instant, all sound vanished.

’How can Little Chen Sha’s Fist Technique contain so many Martial Arts variations I’ve never seen before...’ Zhou Santong watched the battle erupt, his mind reeling with disbelief.

The Martial Arts contained within the Great Yellow Court, cultivated by both him and his senior brother, were primarily founded on the techniques of Dao Yi Mountain. But his senior brother, Chen Canxuan, was stronger because he had taken the Martial Arts of masters from all across the land as his nourishment. He’d innovated, discarded the old for the new, and forged his own invincible path.

And now, Chen Sha’s Great Yellow Court was no longer the original version from Dao Yi Mountain; he too was forging his own path!

In the blink of an eye, the figures of Chen Sha and Ancient Transformation Dragon had already broken through each other’s True Qi barriers, turning the fight into a true physical battle of colliding fists and feet.

BAM! BAM! BAM! BAM!!

Their strength was immense and their movements blindingly fast. They moved with such velocity within the chamber that the very air screamed with friction, a terrifying sound.

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!...

"To be able to produce such power without having reached First-Grade Great Innate... but this is as far as you go!"

Ancient Transformation Dragon let out a low roar:

"Seize!!"

At that single word, Chen Sha suddenly felt as if everything in the chamber—including the Natural Primordial Qi, the dust, and even the light—was uncontrollably being drawn into Ancient Transformation Dragon.

Even the True Qi inside his own body felt like it was breaking free, being tyrannically seized and pulled away by Ancient Transformation Dragon.

’The Qi Stealing Technique!’

Chen Sha’s heart leaped in shock. But this was exactly why he had come. Seeing Ancient Transformation Dragon transform into what looked like a Taotie in Human Form, he roared:

"Then let’s really put it to the test!"

He raised one palm high. Then, his five fingers collapsed inward like mountain peaks crushing down into his palm. With an incomparably tyrannical force, he began to wrench the very air currents being devoured by Ancient Transformation Dragon back under his own control...

As the air shrieked around him, his palm snapped shut into a fist. Like an axe splitting a mountain or parting the sea, it brutally smashed through the vortex of air before him, unleashing a howling, surging wave of Fist Power that shot straight forward!

It was...

The Dao Yi Seal!

BOOM!

Chen Sha’s fist slammed to a halt ten feet from Ancient Transformation Dragon’s body, unleashing a terrifying, dragon-like roar of Qi Power.

Inch by inch, it pushed forward...

"Insolent!"

But with a twitch of his eyebrow, Ancient Transformation Dragon sneered:

"Begone!"

Suddenly, the boundless, terrifying air currents that had been drawn to him seemed to erupt back out from some bottomless black hole with him at the center!

Chen Sha felt an overwhelming force rush back at him like a tsunami. A heavy blow struck his chest, and he was sent flying through the air!

With swift eyes and hands, Zhou Santong darted forward and placed a steadying hand on Chen Sha’s back. The two landed fifty feet in front of Ancient Transformation Dragon!

Huuu...

Chen Sha exhaled a ragged breath. He looked back at Ancient Transformation Dragon and couldn’t help but smile.

"It’s been a year. What does Senior think of my growth?"

Seeing that Chen Sha was completely unharmed after being blasted away, Ancient Transformation Dragon’s expression turned grim to the extreme:

"If not for my limbs being bound by this True Qi Cage and these chains, preventing me from unleashing my full power, do you really think you could have escaped from Us unscathed? If We were free, you wouldn’t be able to withstand a single blow!"

Zhou Santong scoffed. "Aged Stone, it’s true you’re trapped by my senior brother’s True Qi Cage and can only use seventy percent of your strength. But even in that state, you’re no ordinary First-Grade Innate—you’re strong enough to rank among the top ten in the world. If you can’t handle our Little Chen Sha, you just can’t handle him. Stop making excuses."

Ancient Transformation Dragon’s face was glacial, but he simply gave a cold laugh.

Chen Sha stood his ground, sensing the wisp of Ancient Transformation Dragon’s True Qi that he had successfully collected within his Cosmic Light Fragments.

His goal for this trip was accomplished. He turned to Zhou Santong. "Little Martial Uncle, that’s enough for today."

Before leaving, he turned to Ancient Transformation Dragon and said with a faint smile:

"Next time, I’ll let you out to fight me. If you can still beat me then, what’s the harm in letting you off the mountain?"

Leaving these words behind, Chen Sha and Zhou Santong leaped up and left the bottom of the well.

Beneath the well.

The torches extinguished once more.

Ancient Transformation Dragon’s eyes flickered in the darkness. Hearing the words Chen Sha had left behind, unlike last time when he nearly split his sides laughing...

This time, an indescribable emotion arose from the depths of his eyes:

’In that fight just now, that kid’s body contained at least a hundred years of Power, but it wasn’t from cultivating my Qi Stealing Technique. How did he do it?’

’Just as Zhou Santong said, he hasn’t even reached the true First-Grade Innate realm, yet he could take over a hundred of my blows. What a monstrous demon!’

"Next time..."

Finally, he chewed on Chen Sha’s words, a sinister smile appearing at the corners of his mouth:

"Let me out? Do you really dare?"

............

「After leaving the bottom of the well.」

Chen Sha briefly bid farewell to his Little Martial Uncle and went straight to another place on Dao Yi Mountain where a qi pulse was located.

This place was called Jade Void Cave.

After arriving, Chen Sha could feel that the ambient qi between heaven and earth was indeed several times richer than in his own room as Sect Leader.

He took an experimental breath and found that the ambient qi here also replenished itself much faster than elsewhere.

Just then, a sweet, coppery taste filled his mouth. The mouthful of blood he had been suppressing since the fight in the well finally burst forth uncontrollably.

’Even trapped and unable to use his full power, Ancient Transformation Dragon was still ranked ’tenth in the world’ and could fight Little Martial Uncle to a standstill.’

’I haven’t converted all my True Qi to the Innate Level yet. It’s only normal to cough up some blood after taking hundreds of his blows.’

Although he was coughing up blood, Chen Sha stared at the Cosmic Light Stone in his hand.

A white light flickered.

「A short while later.」

...

Chen Sha walked out of the Cosmic Light Fragments and couldn’t help but nod:

’Just as I thought. By inputting a wisp of Ancient Transformation Dragon’s True Qi into the Cosmic Light Fragments, I can manifest a projection of him inside. As long as I don’t attack it after entering, the projection just sits there rigidly, cultivating. Watching Ancient Transformation Dragon circulate his energy right in front of me is the same as having him teach me this Martial Art...’

Testing his strength against Ancient Transformation Dragon was just a pretense. The real goal was to acquire his Qi Stealing Technique.

And after this battle, he had finally succeeded!