novelapdf Chapter 48 The Great World, Immortality is within Reach
Chapter 48 The Great World, Immortality is within Reach
Night was falling.
Chen Lingxi's consciousness sank into the divine chamber.
In the void, the musk-skin pouch hovered amidst the thick fog, its body gleaming with a faint blue light, casting a deep emerald hue upon the surrounding mist.
As soon as Chen Lingxi had a thought, the small musk pouch disappeared from the meditation room and appeared in Chen Lingxi's handwashing area.
The bag was no bigger than the palm of your hand, and its surface was warm and smooth to the touch. A bluish light flowed endlessly across its skin, like a pool of spring water confined within a small space.
Chen Lingxi held the bag in his hand and examined it for a few moments. With another thought, the bag disappeared from his palm and floated back into the void of the divine chamber.
"As expected, I can access the data freely." He thought to himself with delight, "This way, there are far fewer loopholes."
Overjoyed, he began to take stock of his spoils.
The first thing they took out was Qiu Chihu's Gold-Slaying Saber.
The blade felt heavy in my hand, more than a foot longer than an ordinary goose feather knife, with an extremely thick back but a blade as thin as a cicada's wing.
Moonlight fell on the blade, turning the silver patterns into pale gold, spreading from the hilt to the tip, like a golden snake coiled on it, emitting a cold, eerie light.
This precious sword is extraordinary, incredibly sharp, and far more powerful than the one he had seen in Qiu Chihu's hands.
Chen Lingxi infused his spiritual energy and carefully sensed it.
The moment his spiritual energy entered the blade, he clearly sensed two completely different forces lurking within it, one on the left and one on the right, like ice and charcoal in a furnace, neither interfering with the other, yet subtly repelling each other.
"These two powers should be bestowed by the Cauldron Venerable of the Beast Fighting Palace."
Chen Lingxi tried to unleash the first kind of power.
The moment the thought crossed his mind, a change occurred on the blade.
Tiny sparks escaped from the pale gold patterns, as delicate as fireflies, drifting slowly down into the night sky, landing on his shoulders, cuffs, and hem, but not scorching, only making his indigo short coat shimmer faintly.
The sparks gathered more and more, enveloping him in a hazy halo. From afar, he looked like an immortal descending to earth, surrounded by stars, exuding immense power.
Chen Lingxi looked down at the starlight halo around her and understood.
"This seems to be a kind of aura of authority." He withdrew his spiritual energy, and the layer of starlight slowly dissipated, returning to the blade: "This technique, while outlining power, does not possess actual killing power, but it can greatly increase one's aura and enhance one's authority."
"It could be used to intimidate others."
Chen Lingxi thought to himself, then turned his spiritual energy around and activated the second power.
This time, the blade reacted completely differently.
Suddenly, the pale gold patterns blazed brightly, and starting from the hilt, streaks of lightning as thin as hair shot out from the patterns, hissing and coiling along the blade.
In an instant, the entire blade was enveloped in a layer of leaping electric light, its blade humming incessantly, like a thunderous beast awakened and roaring in his palm.
Chen Lingxi's hand holding the knife felt slightly numb, as if the power within the knife was wild and violent, almost causing it to slip out of his grasp.
He took a deep breath and gently flicked the knife.
Several bolts of lightning crackled, and Chen Ling clearly sensed their destructive power.
"Such power... if it were to strike a person... the power bestowed by the Cauldron Master is indeed profound." He muttered to himself, already having a guess in his mind: "Chou Chihu entered the Beast Fighting Palace probably to take advantage of the cauldron's opportunity to strengthen this treasured sword."
However, Qiu Chihu died at his hands, and this precious sword became his spoils of war.
He looked down at the precious sword in his hand. The lightning on the blade had completely dissipated, and the pale gold patterns had returned to their original state, only gleaming with a faint, cold light under the moonlight.
"With this treasured sword, if I can master a certain blood and qi sword technique, and supplement it with this spiritual energy and lightning, my combat power will be greatly enhanced." He placed the sword horizontally on his lap, his fingers slowly tracing the patterns on the blade: "At that time, I will be able to defeat those who have reached the peak of the Silver Bone realm... and even fight against those who have just entered the Golden Body realm!"
However, he had never studied swordsmanship.
"I still need to find a new sword technique." Chen Ling thought of Zhao Yong, a smile flashing in his eyes, and put the treasured sword into his Qiankun bag.
He then took out the stack of silver notes.
He had a thick stack of silver notes, ranging in denomination from fifty to one hundred taels. He counted them one by one by the moonlight, totaling a full twelve hundred taels.
One thousand two hundred taels.
The number silenced him for a few moments.
Liu Que, the steward of the west courtyard of the Marquis of Baosu's mansion, earns only 150 taels of silver a year.
For an ordinary family of five, the annual cost of food, clothing, and daily necessities is only twenty or thirty taels of silver.
The stack of papers in his hand was worth eight years of Liu Que's salary, and half a lifetime's expenses for an ordinary person.
"Chou Chihu truly lives up to his reputation as the son of the Commander of the Capital Guard." Chen Lingxi carefully put away the silver notes, already having made a plan in mind: "Although this silver won't buy anything good, it's enough to ensure I have no worries about medicinal baths and plenty of qi and blood pills."
He put the silver note back into his Qiankun bag and then took out a silver-white pill from the bag.
The pill was perfectly round like a pearl, with faint silver patterns flowing across its surface, gleaming with a cold, eerie light under the moonlight.
He had seen the five silver-white pills that Qiu Chihu had obtained in the Chejue Evolution, but had not had time to examine them closely.
As soon as he got his hands on the pill, he felt a rich medicinal fragrance wafting towards him. The fragrance was not overpowering, but rather extremely lingering. Once it entered his nose, it was like a thin thread that seeped into his chest and abdomen, reaching all his internal organs.
Stimulated by the medicinal fragrance, the green qi in his dantian began to circulate on its own, trembling slightly, like a hunting dog that had smelled blood.
"This silvery-white blood-and-energy pill also contains abundant spiritual energy."
Without further hesitation, Chen Lingxi put a pill into her mouth and swallowed it with warm water.
The moment the pill entered his stomach, a torrent of blood and qi exploded within him!
The blood and qi were so intense that Chen Lingxi felt as if a red-hot iron ball had been stuffed into her lower abdomen.
The burning sensation spread from the lower abdomen to the limbs and bones. Wherever it passed, the blood and qi in the meridians were drawn by this external force and surged wildly.
He quickly activated the Qi and Blood Transport Technique from the Seven Forms of Ceasefire, gathering and refining the violent essence of Qi and Blood, and incorporating it into his own Qi and Blood circulation.
Half an hour passed quietly.
When Chen Lingxi opened his eyes again, he felt his bones cracking and popping, and the silvery-white light under his skin was even brighter than before.
The originally thin silver marrow of the Silver Bone Realm now has a faint feeling of "overflowing", flowing slowly deep into the bones, and wherever it passes, the bones are coated with a layer of light silver.
"This elixir... can actually directly increase silver marrow."
Chen Lingxi was overjoyed. He roughly estimated that if he could refine all five silver pills, he would be able to achieve minor success in Silver Bone and master Silver Marrow Finger.
At that time, his ten fingers will be as white as silver, and he can easily pierce through iron and stone.
Chen Lingxi carefully put the remaining silver pills away from his body, then sat cross-legged, calmed his mind, and began to practice the Dragon's Roar Technique.
The Dragon's Roar Method is extremely complex, progressing from the most basic breath control in the throat to the profound thunderous rebukes, layer by layer.
The initial state of awareness emphasizes "qi rising from the dantian and sound coming from the throat," using spiritual qi to infuse the throat, vibrate the vocal cords, and produce a rebuking sound.
That shout, though seemingly ordinary, actually contained a unique rhythm of spiritual energy vibration, capable of intimidating people and shattering the enemy's life force.
Following the instructions, Chen Lingxi slowly activated the azure energy in her dantian, guiding it up the Du meridian and into her throat.
A burning sensation in my throat, as if charcoal were burning there.
He held his breath, waiting for the burning sensation to reach its peak, before opening his mouth.
"Oh!"
A soft shout escaped from his throat.
At the same time, he used the Dragon's Wrath technique to suppress the sound within a radius of three zhang around himself.
The sound was not loud, but extremely deep, like a sleeping young dragon being awakened, letting out a dissatisfied gurgle from deep in its throat.
As the sound passed, the air trembled slightly, and several loose pieces of plaster fell from the courtyard wall. The branches and leaves of the old locust tree in the corner of the courtyard rustled, as if blown by an invisible wind.
Chen Lingxi frowned slightly, dissatisfied.
He tried several more times, each time achieving a greater degree of smoothness than the last.
After many repetitions, the roar finally took on the rudiments of a "dragon's roar," though the volume was small, it carried an indescribable penetrating power.
Chen Lingxi fell silent, exhaled a breath of stale air, and a hint of understanding appeared in her eyes.
This is only the tip of the iceberg of the initial perception.
The true extraordinary aspect of the Dragon's Roar Technique lies in the fact that it can not only shake the enemy's blood, qi, bones, and internal organs, but also use the roar as a medium to envelop spiritual energy in sound waves, directly attacking the enemy's mind, will, and spirit.
Chen Lingxi practiced for another half an hour until her throat began to ache slightly, at which point she stopped to rest.
"The Dragon's Breath Technique is even more profound than the Azure Edge Technique. I have only just begun to understand it, and there is still a long way to go."
Chen Lingxi found the Dragon's Breath Technique increasingly mysterious and became more curious about the Southern Heaven Domain mentioned by Crown Prince Yingchi.
He sat in the courtyard to rest, gathering various clues under the moonlight.
"Firstly, when Lin Su made his deal with Guangyin Zhu, Ding Zun mentioned the words 'Great World'." He sat cross-legged under the locust tree, drawing the first shallow horizontal line on the ground with his finger.
"Secondly, Lin Suri spoke with the black-clad cultivator surnamed Chao. The cultivator surnamed Chao came to the Baosu Marquis's residence, but said to Lin Suri, 'I don't know your background.'" He drew a second horizontal line on the ground.
"Thirdly, the swordsman who assassinated Crown Prince Ying Chi once said, 'There are also demons from beyond the borders in the palace.'"
"Fourth, Ying Chi said that his memory has not yet been restored, and in his words he mentioned the Golden Core, the Nascent Soul, the E'hai, the Southern Heaven Domain, the Daoist Master of the Dao Xia Academy, and the Jia Tian Zhen Jun of the E'hai."
Fifthly, the Golden Elixir and the Nascent Soul.
The Heaven-Determining Brush can determine a person's destiny.
Marrying into the Heavenly Ladder allows one to transfer their own karmic burdens and misfortunes to others.
He drew five horizontal lines side by side on the ground, looked down at them for a long time, and then added a vertical line to string them together.
"The Great World, the Beyond Realms... these are probably places where immortals gather."
Daoxia Academy, Ehai, Nantianyu... these names are like tightly closed doors, and he has no way of knowing what lies behind them.
But he knew that those people behind the door could determine destiny, impose karma, shout like a dragon's roar, and hover like immortals.
Chen Lingxi felt as if a brand new world was slowly dispelling the fog.
He guessed that in that so-called great world, spiritual energy was abundant, cultivation was not lacking in spiritual energy, and there were many opportunities to achieve immortality.
"If one can go to such a place, circulating qi and ascending to the tower will no longer be difficult, and longevity will be within reach."
He muttered to himself, the flame in his eyes flickering silently, growing brighter and brighter, almost overflowing from the depths of his pupils.
In his previous life, he died young; in this life, he desires immortality.