area51novel Chapter 22, Dragon-Transforming Spear [New book, please read!]
Chapter 22, Dragon-Transforming Spear [New book, please read!]
The thing sealing the palace gates wasn't some kind of formation.
Instead, it was a natural boulder that happened to be wedged at the entrance.
The boulder, completely covered by time and dust, blends seamlessly with the surrounding rock walls.
Su Ye struck out with his palm, using divine power to strike through the mountain, and the boulder shattered instantly.
The entrance to the stone hall was exposed, and foul air mixed with the stench of years emanated from the dark passage.
At the end of the passage was a square, secret room, no more than ten feet square.
The four walls were bare, without any inscriptions or murals.
In the center, only a skeleton sat cross-legged, its robes long since turned to ash.
A bronze spear lay fallen beside the skeleton.
The spear was broken in the middle, with jagged edges, as if it had been smashed by something.
The spear shaft was engraved with ancient demonic script that Su Ye did not recognize.
The writing is blurred, but it is still possible to discern the name of some kind of spear and the incantation used in its creation.
The complete spear shaft should have been nearly eight feet long before it broke, but now only a little over four feet of fragment remains.
What truly made Su Ye's pupils shrink was the lingering aura on the spear.
That was neither spiritual energy nor divine power, but an extremely condensed Daoist aura of slaughter.
The killing intent had long since faded with time, but the remaining trace still made Su Ye's skin tingle slightly.
The moment the divine sense touched it, a blurry image involuntarily flashed through the mind.
A figure clad in armor stood atop a mountain of corpses, spear in hand; the clouds on the horizon shattered wherever the spear pointed.
A Grand Cultivator at the Dragon Transformation Realm!
This is a spear forged by a cultivator at the Dragon Transformation Realm.
Although it has been broken for a long time and its power is less than one-tenth of what it once was, the killing aura remaining inside the spear has not completely dissipated.
If activated as a one-time event, it would be enough to unleash a killing aura at the level of a dragon transformation.
A cultivator in an ordinary Four Extremes Secret Realm would be killed with a single blow if they had no means of survival.
Su Ye carefully put the broken spear into the Sea of Bitterness.
Then his gaze fell on the skeleton in his arms.
There, he was holding a jade slip.
He took out the jade slip, immersed his consciousness into it, and rows of ancient characters entered his sea of consciousness.
"Blood Forging Battle Technique", a fragment of a body-refining technique at the Dragon Transformation level.
Using qi and blood as a furnace and killing intent as a hammer, the body and bones are repeatedly tempered.
Those who cultivate to the minor level can physically withstand the magical artifacts of cultivators from the four extreme realms.
Those who cultivate to the highest level possess a vibrant energy and blood, and a severed arm can regenerate in a matter of breaths.
Unfortunately, it is an incomplete text, containing only the cultivation methods for the first three levels, with the rest missing.
Su Ye took a deep breath, a rare and obvious look of joy appearing on his face.
From his time at the Taoist temple on Mount Tai until now, he has been primarily studying the "Nine Yang Scripture".
With the understanding of the Great Dao of Heaven and Earth as its core, and the innate Dao embryo being a physique naturally close to the Dao, the cultivation speed far exceeds that of ordinary people.
However, physical refinement has always been a weakness.
Although this volume of "Blood Forging Battle Manual" is an incomplete piece, its grade is genuinely Dragon Transformation level.
The highest level of skill he has achieved so far.
If you master the first three levels, it will be enough to get you through the window of opportunity when your physical body is at its weakest, between the Other Shore Realm and the Dao Palace Secret Realm.
Su Ye carefully put away the jade slip, then searched the secret room again to make sure nothing was left behind before getting up and leaving.
It was already dark when we left the Valley of the Burial Soldiers.
He was mentally planning his next steps.
First, return to the temporary cave dwelling and spend three to five days learning the basics of the "Blood Forging Battle Technique".
Body-refining techniques are different from cultivating divine power. They require nourishing the physical body with qi and blood. The process is slow, but once the foundation is solid, the benefits are long-lasting.
The three Flame Pearls will be kept as a last resort, while the broken spear will be used only when truly in danger.
The killing aura at the Dragon Transformation level is a one-time use; it's gone after just one use.
As for finding a Yin-attribute cultivation technique for Little Fairy Doctor, we need to go to places with many people.
The news spread quickly in the markets and hamlets of the Yan Kingdom.
Su Ye spent the night recuperating in the temporary cave dwelling.
The rhombus-shaped crystal within his dantian slowly rotated, filling it with battle qi.
A divine bridge spans the sea of suffering, connecting to the other shore. I feel that my divine power is limitless and my magical abilities are boundless.
The two forces proceeded independently, without interfering with each other, and their condition had returned to its peak.
He took out the jade slip containing the "Blood Forging Battle Manual" and read it through.
The introductory methods for the first three levels are not complicated.
Using one's own Qi and blood as a guide, and following a specific meridian route, one tempers the mortal body layer by layer towards a "battle body".
However, this technique requires a relatively stable environment and the assistance of rare and precious materials; it is not advisable to practice it hastily in the wild.
As dawn broke, Su Ye rose, her feet barely touching the ground, and soared into the air.
Flying in the Other Shore Realm no longer required any external aids; divine power lifted his body more than ten feet off the ground.
A flash of pale golden divine power passed beneath his feet, and he had already traversed several miles away.
He deliberately kept his altitude low, flying almost along the outline of the mountain ridge.
The mountains slowly shifted beneath him.
After flying for about a hundred miles, Su Ye's thoughts stirred slightly.
A faint fluctuation of spiritual energy was detected at the edge of his divine sense.
It was neither the aura of a cultivator nor the residual spiritual power of a magic weapon, but rather the spiritual energy of some kind of naturally generated spiritual object.
It was so faint that an ordinary cultivator's divine sense wouldn't even notice it.
Su Ye turned and descended from low altitude into a mountain hollow.
The valley was small, and its walls were covered with knee-high wild grass.
There is a secluded spring in the very center.
A few short, pale purple grass blades grow obliquely among the pebbles by the spring.
Su Ye squatted down, pinched a leaf between two fingers, and examined it.
The blades of grass were no more than the length of a palm, with fine silver veins on them, shimmering faintly in the lingering morning mist.
The veins of the leaves are translucent, and when you put them to your nose, you can smell a cool scent that is not strong but can give you a slight boost of energy.
"Purple-veined silverleaf grass...approximately three hundred years old."
Su Ye recognized him.
This thing isn't considered a rare treasure in Beidou, unlike the thousand-year-old treasures in the sacred medicinal fields, but it's pure and unclaimed.
The medicinal properties of the purple-veined silverleaf herb are mild, and it has a slight benefit in nourishing the mind.
It has limited use for a cultivator like him who is at the Other Shore Realm, but it's better than nothing.
He uprooted the three purple-veined silverleaf grasses, roots and all, and put them into the Bitter Sea.
Just as Su Ye was about to get up and leave, he suddenly stopped.
The moment his divine sense swept across the surface of the secluded spring, he touched upon a faint ripple deep beneath the water.
The ripples were so faint that the aquatic plants and silt covering them almost completely masked them.
His ability to perceive this was entirely due to the fact that his divine sense at the Other Shore Realm was far more acute than that of others at the same level.
Without hesitation, Su Ye activated his divine power and leaped into the spring.
He descended along the direction his divine sense had locked onto.
The next moment, his divine sense had clearly imprinted the structure of that area in his mind.
The bottom of the spring is about four zhang deep.
A stone carving array covered with layers of silt and aquatic plants.
Su Ye came to the edge of the array diagram and reached out to brush away the silt on the surface.
The carvings on the stone surface were badly worn, and most of the array patterns had collapsed.
However, its essence can be vaguely discerned from the remaining lines.
A very ancient "Gathering Spirit and Sealing Source" formation.
The array pattern extends outward from the spring, consisting of nine main patterns, each ending at the same core.
The core should have originally contained a key to the array, but it has long since shattered, leaving only an empty groove.