Chapter 222: Chapter 49 - Great Progress in Skills_3
"Yes, Great Ancestor." Ah Dai picked up Sheng Xie and quickly walked into the stone cave. Sheng Xie seemed very tired and had already fallen asleep when Ah Dai picked him up.
The Fruit of Past Life Transformation is divided into seven changes, each change causes the solid-state energy emitted by the cultivator to change colors. The first change solidifies the True Qi in the body. As long as the solid-state energy can be maintained, the first change is successful, starting with white. As the energy deepens, the white solid-state energy gradually becomes yellow, then light green, light blue, light purple, silver, and finally gold. The Sword Saint of the Tian Gang has now reached the realm of the sixth change. Although the Fruit of Past Life Transformation was his creation, he hadn’t reached the highest state he had envisioned. The first two changes could gradually be achieved after practicing the Life Discipline to the sixth layer. However, starting from the third change, a more powerful Life Qi is necessary. It would only gradually transform after reaching the ninth realm. The Sword Saint of the Tian Gang had an exceptional talent and, as a youth, he had learned the method to practice the Life Discipline. After nearly seventy years of hard work, he reached the ninth realm. Without the Sword Saint’s guidance and instruction, even with the energy from the Fruit of Past Life, Ah Dai would not be able to reach the ninth realm by the age of sixty, no matter how hard he worked.
Over the past six months, under the guidance of the Sword Saint of the Tian Gang, Ah Dai’s abilities have improved greatly. The Sword Saint transferred 10% of his power to Ah Dai, allowing him to successfully break through to the seventh realm of the Life Discipline, greatly increasing his power. Ah Dai’s Fruit of Past Life Transformation has now reached the realm of the second change; he could create illusions of various things and control them more skillfully with almost no mistakes. The Sword Saint once said to him that when martial arts reach a certain level, tactics are no longer important; only powerful energy becomes the most reliable thing. However, it is not to say that tactics are not important. Good tactics can save more physical strength. The Sword Saint originally wanted to teach Ah Dai some complex swordsmanship, but he found that Ah Dai wasn’t adept in learning techniques; for every technique learned, he’d have forgotten the previous one. Ah Dai could not remember the everchanging moves. After less than a week, the Sword Saint gave up. He understood that Ah Dai could never become a skilled expert in his lifetime. Instead, he lengthened Ah Dai’s meditation time to fourteen hours a day in order to deepen his power. Now, with Ah Dai successfully operating the energy in his body for 980 cycles a day, with the effects of the Fruit of Past Life and the power input from the Sword Saint of the Tian Gang, his progress could be described as going thousands of miles in a single day. Reaching the eighth level of the Life Discipline is just a matter of time.
Starting from the second month, the first thing Ah Dai did every morning after waking up from a deep state of meditation was to run downhill from the top of the mountain to the foot of the mountain, and then climb back up. The Sword Saint of Tian Gang only allowed him one hour for the 6000-meter-altitude run. At first, no matter it was an hour or even three hours, Ah Dai could not return within the time limit. Upon managing to return, the energy in his body was exhausted and he could not practice anything else. The Sword Saint made him climb the mountain for a simple reason: Ah Dai was too dull and would easily be at a disadvantage when fighting with others. Now that his power wasn’t high, he had to learn to master the art of escape first. Although Ah Dai was clumsy, he was an obedient child. No matter how hard the practice was, he never complained about being tired. After the Sword Saint transferred 10% of his own power to him again in the fourth month, Ah Dai could barely do a round trip on Tian Gang Mountain within an hour. Now, the speed of his movement technique has reached the satisfactory level of the Sword Saint of the Tian Gang.
Having reached the second change of the Fruit of Past Life Transformation, Ah Dai could now successfully create an illusion of a three-foot-long sword as his weapon. He was deeply attracted by the endless possibilities of the Fruit of Past Life Transformation. Whenever he wasn’t in meditation, he was almost always studying how to bring more changes and effects into his Fruit of Past Life Transformation.
During the past six months, the young dragon Sheng Xie’s body grew at a surprising speed. Although there wasn’t much energy-rich food for him, during half a year, he had grown to over three meters long. With his relentless effort, the huge dragon wings that are almost as long as his body can now carry him to fly, albeit not for long. After six months of growth, Sheng Xie had begun to take on the shape of a dragon. The seven protrusions on his back had each grown a golden horn. Despite being in their juvenile state and looking tender like bamboo shoots, they looked extremely majestic. His body was covered by grey scales that were extraordinarily resilient. Even the Sword Saint of the Tian Gang could not stop praising its defensive ability. Besides the ability to exhale grey Dragon Flame, Sheng Xie had not shown other abilities. But even so, he currently possessed powerful physical attack power. Ordinary warrior strength could not harm his body covered with scales.
After half a year of bonding, Ah Dai and Sheng Xie were closer than ever. Sheng Xie hardly left Ah Dai’s side; he slept when Ah Dai meditated, and played around when Ah Dai practiced the Fruit of Past Life Transformation. He often flapped his dragon wings to cause sandstorms on the top of the mountain to test Ah Dai’s defensive ability created by the Fruit of Past Life Transformation. Ever since he became capable of flying, Sheng Xie would flap his wings and accompany Ah Dai downhill each morning. Since he could fly, his speed was much faster than Ah Dai when going downhill. However, when climbing the mountain, he often fell behind Ah Dai. His dragon wings were yet unable to support his heavy body to six thousand meters in altitude. He often had to rest several times before he could fly back to the top of the mountain. If there had been any humans in the back mountain of Tian Gang, who knows what their reaction would have been had they seen this shocking sight of a flying dragon...
