Chapter 80: Chapter 77: Becoming a Fish Dragon, Striking the Dragon Gate, Entering Epiphany! Jiangyin Shuipo Lake, Chaotic Heaven Righteous Army, Master’s Sect, Ancestral Master
As Ji Xiu sank into the boiling Copper Green Tripod.
He had thought that after drawing upon the Fish Dragon Transformation in advance, he could begin to absorb the medicinal potency. He would wash and purify his marrow over and over, replacing his blood six times, until his entire skeleton became Silver Bone and every drop of his Blood Marrow pulsed with Force...
But suddenly, it was as if he had fallen into a dream.
[Deducing the true form of the Fish Dragon Transformation, entering a state of ’Perfect Enlightenment’...]
In a trance.
The five words ’Mortal Transformation: Soaring Dragon Gate’ shimmered with brilliant golden light. In that instant, they seemed to transform into a true Dragon Ascending Celestial Palace, materializing before his eyes.
It towered into the heavens, radiating an indescribable brilliance as it stood above the boundless sky and sea.
And Ji Xiu was like a tiny ant submerged at the bottom of the sea, looking up at this Celestial Palace Dragon Gate.
His hands and feet transformed into fins, and his entire body seemed to swell, growing massive. Amidst the towering waves, he battled forward with all his might, intending to leap high and cross the Dragon Gate.
’I... I’ve become a Fish Dragon?’
He watched his own whale-like body beat against the churning waves again and again, drawing ever closer to the Dragon Gate, and his heart trembled with shock.
’So this is the power of the upgraded Primordial Daoist Talisman!’
’Perfect Enlightenment...’
’Does this mean that my cultivation of techniques and Martial Arts will be twice as effective now? That I’ll be able to reach my absolute limits with no waste or inefficiency whatsoever!?’
Carried by the waves, leaping into the air again and again, Ji Xiu felt that with every surge toward the Dragon Gate, his form underwent a complete Transformation.
Even...
He gradually began to metamorphose into the form of a True Flood Dragon!
...
「Meanwhile, in the outside world.」
Duan Chenzhou stared, momentarily stunned. Ji Xiu no longer needed him to personally channel his Force or beat on his bones until he fainted from the agony. He had simply lost consciousness. Duan Chenzhou’s first instinct was to rush over and slap him awake.
’After all, this cauldron of Great Medicine was no laughing matter. How could someone just fall asleep and complete their cultivation? Impossible...’
However, as soon as Duan Chenzhou approached the large bronze tripod.
He saw it.
His disciple’s breathing was long and profound, possessing an extreme rhythm that was nothing like ordinary sleep.
Not only that.
With every breath, Ji Xiu’s muscles and bones expanded and contracted. As twilight faded into night, a golden, jade-like luster began to shine from beneath his skin.
His muscles, bones, and blood Qi were circulating on their own, unconsciously washing and purifying his two hundred and six bones again and again. Getting closer, one could even faintly hear what sounded like the roar of a dragon and the surge of a great river!
Duan Chenzhou’s eyes widened as he watched Ji Xiu’s Mercury Blood and Blood Marrow unconsciously undergo a qualitative transformation.
Then, he slapped his thigh in agitation.
"Mind over matter, transcending the sea of dust, the external world cannot touch the spirit..."
"This is an epiphany! He’s glimpsed the true essence of the second volume of this Bone Tempering Technique, the Fish Dragon Transformation!"
"What a waste, what a terrible waste..."
Duan Chenzhou was beside himself with frustration!
A person is plagued by a thousand worldly troubles.
No matter how profound your techniques, it’s impossible to be completely single-minded in your cultivation. Therefore, whether practicing a training technique or a killing move, there will always be imperfections.
In the context of the Bone Tempering Technique, it means you can never perfectly absorb all of a medicine’s efficacy to strengthen your body.
But there is one exception: to fall completely into a state of being ’Formless and Selfless, to Reverse Innate’!
Those who follow the Outer Dao, with their Pure Land Cultivation Methods and Immortal Techniques, all have different names for it.
But in the system of the Great Xuan Martialist, this is an epiphany!
To practice a Refining Technique in this state...
Consider the normal progress for the Fish Dragon Transformation: it requires six blood exchanges and consumes the Heart Blood of a hundred-year-old Demon—or the blood of a heaven-and-earth-nurtured Spirit Monster—six separate times.
This fine disciple of his has made the progress of at least two sessions! It’s nothing short of perfect absorption!
But...
An opportunity like this comes by chance, not by choice.
If he had used this for cultivating a Secret Martial art, like when he learns the Crescent Celestial Saber... he might have grasped the fundamentals in a single step!
To use such a profound understanding on the Mortal Transformation: Soaring Dragon Gate is an absolute waste!
Because even if Ji Xiu cultivates this technique, his circumstances limit him. At the absolute most, he can only reach Great Success in Second Refinement, but never Mercury Blood Silver Marrow.
After all, he, the master, might be able to venture deep into the Earth Dragon Cave, find an Earth Treasure, and forge Golden Bone.
But the Great Limit barrier for Mercury Blood Silver Marrow...
It truly requires Dragon Species Essence Blood!
He, Duan Chenzhou, was ultimately just a Powerful Martial Artist. If he encountered a Thousand-Year-Old Flood Dragon, he’d give it a wide berth and walk the other way.
Let alone the Dragon Species from the Water Monarch’s Mansion of the True Daughter-in-law of the Water Race, at the far end of the vast eight-thousand-li East Canghai?
Unless he was like his master and used deception.
Or he’d have to be born one of the Noble Princes and Lords and trade for impure Dragon Species blood to temper his physique.
Otherwise...
He’d never be able to master it in this lifetime!
"My disciple, you’ve just missed out on a Great Opportunity!"
As Ji Xiu slowly opened his eyes, Duan Chenzhou saw the iron sheen beneath his Skin Membrane was already suffused with a faint silver light. He sighed endlessly, explaining with a pained expression just what a great chance his disciple had squandered.
But...
[Deducing the true form of the Fish Dragon Transformation, entering a state of ’Perfect Enlightenment.’ One blood exchange is equivalent to two! Progress advanced: +2!]
[Mortal Transformation: Soaring Dragon Gate, Volume II—Fish Dragon Transformation: (2/6)]
Looking at the notifications on the Primordial Daoist Talisman.
Ji Xiu let out a soft breath, a peculiar expression on his face. He looked at Duan Chenzhou, who was still slapping his thigh in agitation, and felt the strong urge to say something.
Master Duan.
’You...’
’...truly know nothing about what a real genius is.’
...
It was a moonless, windy night, with mountain shadows overlapping one another.
A lone lamp swayed, its candlelight flickering.
Outside Anning County, within the Eighteen Linked Mountain Towns, stood a place called the Sword Manor.
"Master Yang, that’s the long and short of it..."
"Today, Master Zhang from Lion Hall went to Zhao Jiu’s County Yamen in your stead."
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