Divine Brilliance
chapter-386

Translator: Exodus Tales Editor: Exodus Tales

“This is tough…”

Without that grade 2 heaven quality external pill, he just had true qi that just entered the martial ancestor realm, his soul power had only just reached the Return to Sun realm.

Even the newly grasped sword soul couldn’t be used, how useless was that.

He could only consume an injuring healing pill and dissolve it, using his breathing to coordinate and adjust the true qi in his body to suppress the chaotic true qi in his body.

Who knows how many hours had passed. When his injuries started to turn for the better, Zong Shou suddenly felt something. He looked towards the distance only to see 2 gazes look over opposite him.

They were standing on the mountain top ten thousand feet away, roughly one could see 2 people standing there. One of them was wearing a white shirt and a white skirt, roughly half of it was dyed red, it was Xiong Yu. Her gaze was really quiet. There was not much hatred inside of her eyes.

The other person was 20 and stood with his hands by his side, looking a little like an elegant deity. He looked over with a slight interest his expression was like ten thousand years in the future when people looked at rare beasts in the zoos.

The moment they exchanged gazes, Xiong Yu instantly turned around and left. As for the other person he closed up his fan. Then he did a hand cutting throat action towards Zong Shou. Following which he snickered and left along with Xiong Yu.

As they were too far away, naturally the laugh couldn’t be heard. However just from his expression, one could see the provocation and disdain.

“Who is that person?”

Zong Shou was at a loss and felt extremely weird. He had never seen a unique person, he was dumb. He asked, “How long have they been looking over for?”

When Zong Yuan heard that he slightly shook his head, “These two people suddenly appeared there 4 hours ago. As for that person’s identity, I am unsure.”

“4 hours ago?”

Zong Shou’s heart sunk and then he looked into the sky. At that time, wasn’t it when his teacher’s intent had left?

These 2 people were probably spying on him all this time, not only did Dragon Shadow who was thousands of miles away not notice. Even after Su Chen, who had spoken to him, also didn’t notice.

But he couldn’t be bothered to care too much care much, asking curiously, “How did you and Gong Yue enter the upper layer?”

He had been really curious about this matter. With Yan Feibai and Ge Hanyun’s talent as well as the many treasures that they carried, they only entered the inner gate when the dragon gate cave was about to collapse.

Zong Yuan and Gong Yue were able to enter the inner gate several steps ahead of them, what a surprise.

Zong Yuan didn’t answer at first, he directly stabbed out with a spear. A dragon roar roared out from around his body, a giant lightning dragon shadow wrapped around his body.

Where the vast spear pointed to, millions of lightning glow exploded out. It had both the craziness of the maniac lightning spear intent and also the dominance of the lightning dragon spear. Pretty much merging the 2 of them.

When all the lightning was about to dissipate, Zong Yuan opened his mouth to explain, “To enter the upper layer, one doesn’t only have to comprehend all the nine types of true dragon intent. One can focus on one type of martial intent and perform it to the extreme, one can also do that. As for after I separated with the ruler, I and Gong Yue searched for tracks of the ruler and inadvertently found that entrance. Fortunately, I was able to pass it.”

Zong Yuan didn’t say much about the details and Zong Shou also didn’t ask about it. He knew that Zong Yuan obtained some sort of fortuitous encounter when he entered the upper layer.

That spear just now have the shadow of the nine dragon shadow sword and its killing intent was even above that of the lightning true dragon sword intent. It was probably the version formed after the dragon shadow old man split up the nine dragon shadow sword.

Looking at its strength, it was at least at the 8th grade, earth crushing grade martial technique, pretty much on the level of his six god defensive knife technique.

He also felt delighted for Zong Yuan. With this spear technique and also the insight mysterious lightning body training art as a body training technique, when he reached the ascended realm, his future would be limitless.

Just when Zong Shou used strength and successfully stood up, he still felt like his body was like ants biting, filled with extreme pain.

Oh right! Ants…

Zong Shou frowned as he looked below, only to see that around this place there were ant swarms, no different from normal ants, either foraging or building their nests below.

If it was usually there wasn’t anything wrong with it. But not long ago there was a huge battle here between Zong Shou, Long Ruo and the other 2 who nearly flattened the area…

Thinking carefully about it, Zong Shou said expressionlessly, “Zong Yuan, last time you comprehended a lot from when I was in front of that reflective wall. It seems like you need some time to silently solidify and comprehend it.”

Zong Yuan’s eyes shook suddenly as he also swept at the ant wave. Following which his expression turned back to normal and didn’t argue. He also needed some time to merge the lightning dragon sword into his spear technique.

…

Time passed in a flash and a blink of an eye, it was ten over days later.

At the peak of Dragon Gathering Mountain, Zong Shou was standing on a relatively clean giant stone, his body shifting slightly meticulously waving his fists.

At this moment, he was naked, on the surface of his body one could see many dragon-shaped shadows which were swimming about.

It was ice blue, a total of 8 of them! It caused the skin to tear up before healing rapidly.

Along with Zong Shou’s first movement, the 8 dragon shadows all gathered at one place before spreading out.

The fist wind was suddenly domineering and hard, soft and floating, causing the stone around his body to raise in the air and rotate around him.

The heaven and earth spiritual energy around seemed to be led by some sort of unknown strength, gathering within Zong Shou’s body.

This wasn’t the heaven swallowing energy conversion technique but the effects of the fist technique itself.

Just 6 days ago Zong Shou’s injuries had healed. On that day Zong Shou didn’t hesitate to merge 2 spiritual veins into his body and step into the 4 meridian martial ancestor realm.

The first technique he was training in changed from the demon rhino fist art which trained the skin and tendons to the Five Round Enlightened King Fist.

He was going through the 5 yin and yang cycles to start to train the 5 major organs and 6 minor organs.

In the past, he used inner essence energy produced by his body to train the minor and major chakra meridians to strengthen them.

Right now, he was borrowing the spiritual energy from heaven and earth which was extremely pure to purify and strengthen.

Although it was said that the human body was formed from heaven and earth, forming its small world, after all, it was still limited. When compared to using the spiritual energy from heaven and earth to train, the effects were hugely different.

In recent days, Zong Shou’s body training was extremely swift, however, the more he felt that his foundations were getting unstable. He was progressing too quickly, from xiantian to martial ancestor he used less than 5 months. And him today had already planned to merge the 5th veins in. Probably in tens of days later he could merge once more.

If it wasn’t that Xuanyuan Yiren had given him so many pills, or that Dragon Shadow old man had merged those dragon essences into his body, he definitely wouldn’t dare to do that.

…Different from Zong Yuan, his sword technique, his world shocking spiritual art, before he managed to achieve hard and soft coexisting, it was too domineering and too fierce! If one didn’t have a strong body, one wouldn’t be able to handle it.

A dual meridian body could cause him to have many times the spiritual energy of normal people, however, its demands of the body were also several times that of ordinary people.

After training for a moment and using most of his stamina, Zong Shou pant and stop. He realized that not only did his stamina not increase after merging with the dragon essence, but it had also actually gotten weaker.

A fist punched out and using up all of his energy, there were actually 500 thousand kilograms of strength! If he utilized his dual meridians he could even reach 1 million kilograms, no weaker than Xuanwu ancestors. However, he could only remain at such a state for an hour.

A large portion of his stamina was consumed by the conflicting chakra meridians. Each time he practiced, his fists and his body would hurt.

At this moment, large amounts of sweat flowed down his body, the muscles in his 4 limbs were convulsing. However, Zong Shou forcefully suppressed it—that dizzy and wanting to sleep feeling—as he absorbed a drop of spiritual salamander blow into his body.

When he activated the insight mysterious lightning body training art, his body was instantly shocked by lightning.

He could feel that the cells in his body, after every time it resisted the shock of the lightning it would strengthen a little not long after.

The entire process was slow and a silent transformation, one was probably unable to notice it. Often a day or two later one could finally feel their body greatly increasing.

Especially after using the spirit salamander blood, the dragon essence the Dragon Shadow old man merged into his body was also being forced out and activated. It caused the effects of the insight mysterious lightning body training art to become more and more apparent.

“No wonder in the future people always said that those peak experts were all people who loved to torture and inflict pain on themselves. I can relate to those words now…”

He sighed, trying to find joy in the pain, after several hours when Zong Shou woke up from his sleep, he felt refreshed and carefree.

Although training the body was a pain, Zong Shou loved charging for the limits, after exercising, the feeling of sweating profusely.

It made him feel more comfortable when he cultivated spiritual arts, just sitting there and meditating.

However, he still had to train in this spiritual cultivation and it was the most important. He had tossed aside several true spiritual talismans and chose to focus on forming a ‘stack’ word.

Maybe because he had learned a lot from breaking that reflective wall. Following which Dragon Shadow old man spent half a day explaining to him the secrets of the nine dragon shadow sword, especially the mysteries of the stack word. Which was why when he formed true spiritual charms it was extremely quick.

In a short ten days, he had already formed tens of them. The rest were ones he had some comprehension on, making him feel really surprised.

This ‘stack’ word true spiritual talismans didn’t have much power and there probably wasn’t many spells in the world.

However, once it was formed he could think of ways to stack a few spells together.

At the same time, he wanted to borrow this talisman to comprehend the nine dragon shadow sword.

It was just like how he used the swallow and purify talismans to comprehend the heaven swallowing energy conversion technique.

However, at this moment Zong Shou temporarily didn’t have the mood to meditate as he focused at into the distance.

But he saw that on a relatively flat stone platform, there was a furnace. A special scent was wafting out from within.