Chapter 395 - 393: Condensing Ten Thousand Layers of Water

Chapter 395: Chapter 393: Condensing Ten Thousand Layers of Water

"Hold on."

"Do me a favor and take him to rest."

A golden-haired woman with amber eyes approached the member of the Mechanical Race and spoke.

The Mechanical Race member immediately ceased its calculations.

It placed the golden-haired man on the ground.

"Identity confirmed... Taichu Daoist Palace student, Rong Can."

"Regarding the dispute... owner of the Taichu Daoist Palace Seal, Su Qing."

"You need to reach an agreement before I can determine the next step," the Mechanical Race member concluded.

It stood frozen in place.

Su Qing frowned.

A woman had appeared out of nowhere.

’She seems to have some strength, too.’

The woman approached Su Qing with a smile.

"How about you do me a favor, prospective student who hasn’t yet joined the Daoist Palace?"

Her amber eyes seemed to radiate confidence.

At the same time, a solidifying power appeared in the surroundings. It wasn’t the Power of Time, just some kind of solidifying force.

Su Qing let out a snort of laughter.

"If you eat everything on my table, I’ll do you a favor."

"If you want others to give you face, you shouldn’t cause them to lose face. Such a cheap trick."

"It’s very annoying, ma’am."

Su Qing wasn’t afraid of her in the slightest, because he knew her power was not as great as his.

’Making your way in the Star Sea...’

’You need backing... but we’re all from the same faction.’

’You need a background? I am my own background.’

’Power? My power right now is greater than hers.’

The golden-haired woman suddenly laughed. She gave Su Qing a meaningful look. "Are you sure?"

"Of course I’m sure. If you can’t eat it, then have him eat it. One of you two has to finish it."

Su Qing pointed at the food on the table. With a light wave of his hand, the solidifying power in the air dissipated.

The woman’s amber eyes finally widened.

It seemed she had finally run into someone not to be trifled with.

"That’s not a Dao Path Power."

"Are you a student from the Immortal Palace faction?"

The words tumbled out of the woman’s mouth, but then she froze, her expression souring as her face tightened.

Within the Taichu Daoist Palace, there were two major factions: the Daoist Palace faction and the Immortal Palace faction.

The Daoist Palace faction generally consisted of Cultivators on the Dao Path, while the Immortal Palace faction used a different Cultivation Technique to slowly acquire power.

Generally speaking, the two factions didn’t get along well due to issues with resource allocation.

But asking someone who hadn’t even joined the Taichu Daoist Palace yet... she knew she had been foolish.

"This time, I’ll give you face."

"This person is just a cousin of mine. You can deal with him as you see fit." She spoke with a hint of indifference in her amber eyes and strode away from Su Qing.

As for the several dishes on the table, they were destined to be wasted.

When the dispute began, a few hidden onlookers had gathered.

However, they didn’t dare get closer to watch the spectacle, fearing that if they watched for too long, they might become part of it themselves.

The farce ended with the other party’s departure.

The restaurant’s server hurried over, apologizing profusely.

They offered to replace the dishes for Su Qing.

Su Qing shook his head. "No need."

"I’ve lost my appetite."

Su Qing stood up and left.

’How annoying. To run into this kind of petty trouble right after coming out of seclusion. Another fool courting death, someone who doesn’t know who I am.’

All they knew was that Su Qing possessed the Taichu Daoist Palace’s Seal.

It was probably Tuya’s appearance back then that caused many observant people to remember Su Qing.

’That golden-haired woman probably just arrived during the year I was in seclusion.’

’Can’t even have a peaceful meal.’

Erasing the man’s power was already letting him off easy.

If he hadn’t been let off easy, Su Qing would have used the World-Purifying Immortal Technique.

Even if his opponent were to be reincarnated, as long as his soul had undergone such a baptism, he would be an idiot for all future lives.

’So, I was being very merciful.’

"It’s so irritating just coming out once," Su Qing said, shaking his head.

He slowly made his way to Outdoors Street.

From this street, one could see the scenery outside.

However, it was currently pitch-black outside.

A darkness so complete that nothing could be seen.

But Su Qing was no ordinary person.

He could see countless spatial structures, along with many distorted spatial constructs.

’This counts as scenery, I suppose.’

He watched for a while until the warp jump ended.

They arrived in a vast region where the technology was incredibly advanced, home to a dreamlike city.

This was the territory of the Mechanical Race, and it was also the final stop before reaching the Taichu Daoist Palace.

Only then did Su Qing return to his room.

"Time to continue my Enlightenment." Su Qing was speechless. He closed his eyes slightly and sat cross-legged to the side.

Su Qing himself didn’t realize that his cross-legged posture was increasingly resembling the bearing of an Immortal God on a high throne, filled with an aura that would inspire fear in the mortal world.

To be beheld, but not defiled.

Every time he took action, the growth of his fortune would halt.

He had to wait for a period of time for the impression he made to fade before his fortune could increase again.

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"Sister Rong, my power is gone!"

"My power is gone."

The golden-haired man was in a place of water immersion.

His entire body was submerged in a type of water; this was a punishment.

Water immersion, without food or drink for an entire Taichu Era.

This was the punishment for offending the owner of a Taichu Daoist Palace Seal.

The golden-haired man’s face was filled with terror and panic.

Because here, no member of the Mechanical Race would ever bring him food.

Without his Dao Path Power, how could he possibly resist starvation?

The golden-haired woman stood watching from the side, saying impatiently, "Feng Mu, you brought all this on yourself!"

"I always told you, possessing Dao Path Power doesn’t mean you’re above all other living beings."

"You even tried to steal a Taichu Seal? And by poisoning him, no less."

"Courting death."

"Losing your Dao Path Power might actually be a blessing for you."

"From now on, don’t call me ’sister,’ you ignorant and fearless fool."

"From now on, I have nothing to do with the Gilded Amber Clan. Helping you this much is the least I could do to answer to the clan."

"A pity. Who did the clan recommend? You?"

"Hmph." The golden-haired woman flicked her hair back with a look of disdain. "The Taichu Daoist Palace isn’t a place where you can become a true student just by having a seal. Even if you had it, you’d still be useless over there."

The golden-haired woman left.

Leaving the man alone in the water immersion.

Only his head remained above the surface, his face a mask of resentment.

But what could he do?

He fell into despair.

He would never believe it was his own fault. Even though Su Qing had let him live, he still hated Su Qing.

All because Su Qing had condemned him to the water immersion.

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...

「Another year passed.」

The spatial warp jump began again.

This time, the destination was the Taichu Daoist Palace.

Su Qing rose once more.

During that year, he had spent the first half completely focused on comprehending Space Dao Essence.

In the second half, he used a Pure Water Spirit Stone in one of his Micro Acupoints—one that refilled automatically through Standardization—to draw in Spiritual Qi and continuously practice a Divine Technique.

Ten Thousand Layers of Water.

This Divine Technique.

It was truly a bit too ferocious.

Su Qing spent half a year and only managed to reach Thousand Layers of Water.

The droplet of water he had compressed in his hand was almost impossibly hard and heavy.

This was a water droplet under Su Qing’s complete control.

It was even harder than his Golden Qi Sword.

The Thousand Layers of Water was the result of compressing the water sources of nearly tens of thousands of basic Small Thousand Worlds into this single drop.

This droplet could almost be called true Immortal Water.

It was fully functional. Inside Su Qing’s body, it was almost like a healing Magical Treasure, able to instantly use the power of water to heal him.

It could attack enemies and also defend.

It was simply incomparably powerful.

It was just a pity.

After the 300th layer, each subsequent layer was incredibly difficult.

It took two 300-layer droplets to merge into a single 301-layer droplet.

One can only imagine how terrifying that was.

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