Chapter 78: Golden Core Nine Revolutions
After the Demonic Transformation incident, Chen Shi was wary of approaching the True King's Tomb.
After all, just the kiln factory that burned porcelain for the True King's Tomb was terrifying; the Tomb itself must be even fiercer. If he inadvertently triggered the arrangements in the True King's Tomb, causing a disaster, wouldn't he be a sinner for the ages?
However, this time, he had to venture into the True King's Tomb.
He had been cultivating the Three Lights Righteous Energy until now, always practicing a fragmented method. He could beat rats, and if he wore an iron hat, killing them would be even simpler.
But facing Granny Black Mountain's revenge with his current strength would be a dead end.
"I can't beat the Little Daoist of Luowei Town, and the Little Daoist was beaten half to death by Granny Black Mountain. That means, in front of Granny Black Mountain, I am absolutely not enough. Cultivating the full version of the Three Lights Righteous Energy might give me a chance of survival!"
It wasn't until the second half of the night that Chen Shi returned to Huangpo Village. The person and dog slept first.
When the sky turned bright the next day, Chen Shi came to pay respects to the Godmother, bowing and saying: "Godmother bless me, help me venture into the True King's Tomb this time and obtain the full version of the Three Lights Righteous Energy!"
He stepped forward to insert incense.
Scholar Zhu reminded: "Little Ten, begging Godmother to bless you might be useless, but if you take that jade seal into the True King's Tomb, it might have some effect." "That jade seal? The Fengtian Treasure Seal?"
Chen Shi was surprised. Could the Fengtian Treasure Seal protect him as he stepped safely into the True King's Tomb's Ghost God Domain?
Scholar Zhu said, "Just take it along, it's not heavy anyway."
Chen Shi returned to the village, took out the Fengtian Treasure Seal, and examined it. Suddenly his heart pounded. "Could this Fengtian Treasure Seal be the Western King Seal that Xiao Wangsun picked up from the Divine Mechanism Battalion?"
The reason Jin Hongying chased Xiao Wangsun was for the Western King Seal. Li Tianqing had also said that Xiao Wangsun stole this treasure for the purpose of opening the True King's Tomb!
"Haha, haha! Too absurd!"
Chen Shi couldn't help laughing and shaking his head. The Western King Seal was so precious; how could Xiao Wangsun casually hang this precious seal on the old willow tree?
"Besides, Scholar Zhu also said that the Fengtian Treasure Seal was a broken seal from his family's decline. If the Fengtian Treasure Seal is the Western King Seal, then what is Scholar Zhu?"
Chen Shi couldn't help laughing out loud, shaking his head. "Could Scholar Zhu be a descendant of the True King? That's too ridiculous. How could a descendant of the West King hang himself outside our village?"
He casually stuffed the Fengtian Treasure Seal into his sleeve pocket and walked towards the True King's Tomb.
The True King's Tomb that countless people dreamed of and spent countless time trying to find was just a grave next door to the village for Chen Shi. He could arrive in front of the True King's Tomb just by walking to digest his food after eating; it wasn't hard to find at all.
Outside the True King's Tomb, Tomb Guardians stood tall and majestic, solemn and respectful.
Chen Shi checked the Armored Horse Talismans on his legs, then roused his qi and blood, letting blood rapidly fill his body below the head. In an instant, he grew half a foot taller, almost as tall as an adult.
He prepared properly before stepping into the Ghost God Domain.
The surrounding trees shook, branches swaying, undergoing terrifying changes, like Evils growing twisted and coiled tentacles.
And those Tomb Guardians also became incomparably huge at this moment, transforming from stone to flesh and blood bodies, gradually awakening and emitting heaven-shaking auras.
Chen Shi increased his speed, striding forward quickly. His palm reached into his sleeve and took out the Fengtian Treasure Seal.
As soon as the precious seal came out, it seemed to resonate strangely with this Ghost God Domain. Rays of light actually shone from the seal, accelerating the recovery of the True King's Tomb's Ghost God Domain!
"The Fengtian Treasure Seal isn't protecting me, it's awakening the Ghost God Domain! Scholar Zhu misled me!"
Chen Shi cursed under his breath and immediately ran forward against the pressure.
A stone stele loomed before the tomb, entering his view. This was exactly the stele inscribed with the Three Lights Righteous Energy.
The pressure from the surroundings became heavier and heavier. While withstanding the pressure and moving forward, Chen Shi memorized the text and patterns on the stele.
Not contrary to his expectations, what was recorded behind this stele was indeed the method of the Big Dipper Refinement, only more detailed than what Xiao Wangsun had taught.
After the Big Dipper Refinement, there were no cultivation methods for the Divine Shrine or Divine Embryo. It went directly to condensing qi and blood, moving magical power, and cultivating the Golden Core!
Chen Shi was stunned.
"Where are the Divine Shrine Realm and Divine Embryo Realm? Where did the techniques for these two realms go?"
His mind went blank. His purpose for coming here was for the subsequent techniques, yet the Three Lights Righteous Energy carved on the stele skipped the Divine Shrine and Divine Embryo after the Big Dipper Refinement and directly entered the Golden Core Realm. It was clearly a fragmented technique!
He couldn't help but feel disheartened. Without two realms, how could one cultivate a Golden Core?
"No wonder this technique was carved outside the tomb by the True King. The True King harbored malicious intentions and wanted to use this technique to harm people! The True King misled me!"
Just as Chen Shi thought of this, several more stone steles came into his view.
Only then did he notice that outside the True King's Tomb, steles were like a forest. These steles were covered with text, recording various techniques!
The Three Lights Righteous Energy was just one of them!
Chen Shi browsed rapidly.
"Heaven Canopy Demonic Suppression Grand Technique... no Divine Shrine or Divine Embryo!"
"Thunder Crystal Hidden Book... no Divine Shrine or Divine Embryo!"
"Pure Yang One Qi Technique... no Divine Shrine or Divine Embryo!"
"Cavern Spirit Primal Change Technique... also no Divine Shrine or Divine Embryo!"
Chen Shi's skin crawled. All the techniques carved outside the True King's Tomb were missing the two realms of Divine Shrine and Divine Embryo!
"Fortunately, these techniques haven't been spread, otherwise the legacy of harm would be significant! Retreat quickly!"
Chen Shi retreated rapidly. The surrounding heaven, earth, time, and space twisted. Mountains were like waves, swaying up and down. The Tomb Guardians had already revived, standing upright and supporting the heaven, obscuring the sky, emitting heaven-shaking auras!
Before, he didn't understand things, but now that he had seen a lot of the world, he felt that the aura emitted by every single Tomb Guardian here was no less than that of the Evil Bodhisattva!
"Did Grandpa really break through here back then, fight his way into the tomb, and obtain the Water and Fire Purification Method?"
Chen Shi ran outwards with all his might, marveling inwardly.
It takes time to tell, but it happened fast. Before the True King's Tomb's Ghost God Domain completely activated, he finally rushed out of the True King's Tomb and escaped to the outside.
He looked back and saw the anomalies disappear. The True King's Tomb's Ghost God Domain did not erupt or evolve into a Demonic Domain or a disaster.
He let out a breath and hurriedly returned to Huangpo Village.
In front of the True King's Tomb, the Tomb Guardians revealed their true forms. Watching Chen Shi leave in a hurry, they were all uncertain and suspicious.
"Big Brother, the Holy Envoy held the Western King Seal and came to awaken us, why did he leave again without saying a word?" A dragon-headed, horse-bodied divine beast covered in green scales asked in confusion.
The goat-headed Tomb Guardian was also bewildered. Chen Shi holding the Western King Seal represented the supreme authority of the True King. As guards guarding the True King's Tomb, they naturally should revive to pay respects. Unexpectedly, before they fully revived, Chen Shi ran out again.
"Perhaps the Holy Envoy has urgent business?"
The goat-headed Guardian also dared not be sure, "I once heard people say, humans have three urgencies. He left so urgently, it must be very urgent."
"What do we do now?"
Another Tomb Guardian asked, "If the Holy Envoy comes again next time, should we still welcome him?"
The goat-headed Guardian hesitated for a moment and said, "Let's welcome him. Who told him to hold the Western King Seal?"
"Can we kill him?"
A Tomb Guardian proposed, "His grandfather is no longer in the world. If we kill him, no one will come to trouble us. Then we collect the Western King Seal again. Wouldn't that be the best of both worlds?"
The goat-headed Guardian shook his head. "Holding the Western King Seal makes one the Holy Envoy. How can there be logic in killing the True King's envoy?"
The group of incomparably tyrannical Tomb Guardians sighed one after another, turning to stone one by one, once again becoming statues guarding the tomb.
"This brat was a mischievous brat before. Now that he has the Western King Seal, who knows how he will torment us!"
Chen Shi returned home, threw the Western King Seal into the book box, tossing it together with the stone box, and said angrily, "Broken seal is useless, damn near got me killed!"
Suddenly, a commotion came from outside the village. Chen Shi walked out of the courtyard and followed the sound. He saw many villagers gathered outside. Dead chickens bitten to death were everywhere.
Granny Wuzhu stamped her feet and said, "What kind of thing bit them to death? Killing them but not eating them! Committing a sin!"
At this moment, a voice called out from the field: "Killing Granny Black Mountain's obedient grandson deserves retribution. Killing your chickens today, killing your ducks tomorrow, slaughtering your whole kin the day after! Everyone in your village, just wait to die!"
Chen Shi chased over, only to see a grey-clothed rat running fast in the field.
Chen Shi exerted force with his legs, gaining on the creature. The rat stopped, turned around, formed sword fingers with both hands, inserted the left hand's sword fingers under the right hand's, stamped heavily, and roared: "Grandma, Grandma, possess my body, help me channel spirits and display divine power!"
As soon as its voice fell, its aura surged. Cyan smoke surrounded its body. With a shake of its sleeves, the cyan smoke turned into a large handprint more than three meters wide, slapping towards the rushing Chen Shi!
Chen Shi roused his qi and blood, stepped on the seven stars, and punched out with all his strength.
"Boom—"
His body shook violently, and his charging momentum was neutralized by the smoke palm force. His figure was bounced up and fell backward.
Chen Shi flew more than ten meters away before smashing onto the ground.
The rat sneered: "Now you know Grandma's power, right? Daring to kill Grandma's grandson."
It turned around, but a black shadow darted out from the side and bit its neck. It was Black Pot.
The dog and the rat fell down, rolling over and over.
Chen Shi flipped up, worried about Black Pot, and quickly arrived in front. He saw that the rat had already had its neck bitten through and died right there.
"Black Pot, good job!"
Chen Shi relaxed and praised, still having lingering fears.
Just now, this rat used some method to let Granny Black Mountain possess it, borrowing part of her mana to knock him flying. If he hadn't been constantly tempering his body, he would definitely have been injured.
Black Pot was very excited, dragging the carcass towards the village, preparing to gorge himself.
"Just possession, and the mana is so powerful. Granny Black Mountain's true body must be extraordinary."
Chen Shi cut off the tail tip and thought, "Since I didn't find the best method, I might as well start from the Heavenly Heart Righteous Energy Technique and practice the Midnight-Noon Evil-Slaying Sword first!"
Among the books Li Tianqing gave him before leaving was a volume of the Heavenly Heart Righteous Energy Technique. The Midnight-Noon Evil-Slaying Sword was a spell inside. Chen Shi could now keep a breath of true qi from dispersing, and the Divine Shrine could be maintained for half an hour. As long as the Divine Shrine was there and true qi remained, he could use spells.
The Midnight-Noon Evil-Slaying Sword had the greatest power and was easiest to get started with, so he planned to practice this spell first to save his life.
He came to the loess slope outside the village and concentrated on comprehending the Midnight-Noon Evil-Slaying Sword.
The Midnight-Noon Evil-Slaying Sword had six forms in total: Stab, Slash, Smear, Lift, Cloud, and Chop. It was extremely simple. In just a moment, Chen Shi got the hang of it and began to use the Divine Shrine to condense true qi.
His mind moved slightly, exercising his mental concentration. Inside the empty Divine Shrine, an invisible sword qi slowly formed.
Chen Shi stabbed out with sword fingers.
"Xiu!"
The air in front of him vibrated. Invisible sword qi whistled out, strong wind cutting tough grass, reaching straight to the surface of the Jade Belt River a hundred steps away.
The river surface exploded.
Chen Shi practiced the six moves continuously, becoming more and more proficient. When his qi and blood churned, he slowly withdrew his power.
His qi and blood fell, arriving at the Dantian. Unconsciously, he thought of the alchemy method of the Three Lights Righteous Energy on the stele. The qi, blood, and spirit in his body rotated and gathered in the same direction, condensing in the Dantian.
Inside his body, the sound of millstones grinding against each other echoed. Huge amounts of qi, blood, true qi, and spirit converged into a stream while rotating.
At this moment, it corresponded to what was said in the Three Lights Righteous Energy:
Using void as medicine, using righteous energy as fire, refining in the three fields, true qi does not disperse, shaped like a brooding egg. This is called the First Revolution of the Golden Core Nine Revolutions!
"Wrong, wrong!"
Chen Shi jolted awake. "Big mistake! Without cultivating the Divine Shrine Realm and Divine Embryo Realm, how is it possible to cultivate a Golden Core?"
(End of this chapter)