Dragon Martial Emperor
chapter-164-30041322

Later that night.

Long Yu was sitting in his bamboo hut, located inside the bamboo grove restricted area, and was ready to absorb the various immortality pills that the Elders had bestowed upon him.

Presently, all the sects of the Tang kingdom, apart from Qiansi Sect, had their hopes rested on Zhentian Sect and the Zhentian sect Elders had invested all their resources in Long Yu!

During the seven sects competition, if he wouldn’t defeat Yu Qianning due to any reason, he would cause great disappointment to Zhentian sect as well as the other sects!

“Old Black has bestowed upon me a top-grade spiritual level immortality pill, Elder Yu Shengshi has gifted me four spiritual level immortality pills, Elder Li Bufan has rewarded me with a top-grade spiritual level immortality pill…..”

Long Yu was counting the immortality pills that he had received from the Elders and was quite content in his heart.

Long Yu couldn’t afford to disappoint Zhentian sect during the upcoming seven sects competition. After all, he had always considered them as his family!

The immortality pills rewarded by the Elders, along with the neidans and immortality pills that he had brought from Hun Yin City and the Demon valley were more than sufficient for Long Yu to break through and enter the Zhenling third layer!

“While stepping up from Zhenling second layer into Zhenling third layer, one doesn’t have to go through a bottleneck. As long as one can meet the need of the xuan qi, he can promote himself to the next layer. With this increased xuan qi level, one needs to quench his meridians as well as the Zhenling in his Dantian…..”

Long Yu wondered at the presence of the second nine hidden dragon Zhenling in his Dantian.

Long Yu refrained from using the powers imparted to him by the nine hidden dragon mark and limited himself to only two techniques of the nine hidden dragon mark – intoxicated hell and the awakening palm samsara. He didn’t dare to release the nine hidden dragon Zhenling as he was well aware of the tyrannical power that it contained.

Since he could not release the Zhenling but had to quench it in order to get promoted to the next layer, the process was going to be too painful for him.

Needless to say, the xuan qi needed to step into Zhenling fourth layer would be far more than the xuan qi needed to step into the third layer of Zhenling realm.

Quenching his Zhentian Sun wouldn’t be an issue for Long Yu.

But quenching the nine hidden dragon Zhenling, without congealing it, would cause him a lot of trouble, more than he could ever imagine!

“Fortunately, I do not have to comprehend the Lunar domain and the Thunder charm to the spiritual level. Otherwise, promoting me to the next layer would’ve been even more difficult.”

Long Yu thought to himself as he began to absorb several immortality pills at once to quench his heavenly arteries as well as his Zhenlings.

Soon afterward, his heartbeat resonated with his meridians as he started quenching his body as well as his heavenly arteries and was now about to enter the third layer of Zhenling realm.

He could clearly feel that there was just one more hurdle to pass after which he would be able to comprehend the laws of heaven and earth which could boost his strength to a great extent!

After clearing this hurdle, he would enter Zhenling 4th layer!

However, he felt that he needed to focus on his present cultivation right now.

“Zhentian Sun, condense!”

Since Long Yu had consumed several immortality pills and neidans at once, this had increased his xuan qi level to a great extent. As he continued quenching his Zhentian Sun Zhenling with this rich xuan qi, he noticed that the Zhenling was now consolidating its form, gradually stepping towards becoming an entity.

As the Zhenling became more and more consolidated, not only its brightness increased but its ability to release Zhentian domain pressure also increased manifold.

Finally, at the daybreak when Long Yu was done with quenching his Zhentian Sun to the level of Zhenling third layer, he prepared himself to start quenching his second Zhenling – the nine hidden dragon Zhenling.

He had half of the immortality pills and neidans left in his hand; these were going to help him in quenching his second Zhenling.

If he consumed the immortality pills under ordinary conditions, he would have been able to absorb only thirty percent of the xuan qi released by them. However, because of his nine hidden dragon mark, he could absorb these immortality pills and enhance his cultivation level at a faster rate than any ordinary martial expert.

Just like the Zhentian Sun, the nine hidden dragon Zhenling would also step towards becoming an entity by solidifying its figure. When Long Yu would be able to congeal Zhenling entities, his strength would grow by leaps and bounds!

“The enhancement of cultivation level and quenching the zhenlings to convert them into Zhenling entities would consume a great amount of xuan qi. Moreover, there is a bottleneck, which I wouldn’t be able to break through with my current strength… I have to resort to other methods to enhance my battle efficiency.”

As Long Yu recollected the lessons that had been imparted to him by the Elders last night, his eyes flashed fiercely.

It was just a month’s time that he had for practice before the seven sects competition commenced. During this time, he had to grasp as many martial skills as he could and comprehend them to perfection. He also had to enhance his comprehension of the Lunar mood and the Thunder charm.

Meanwhile, various Zhentian elders would also come and fight with him in order to simulate more practical knowledge of the seven sects competition, training him in choosing the right attacking technique at the right time during a combat.

So within three days, Long Yu had upgraded his first skill of the nine hidden dragon mark – the intoxicated hell.

The intoxicated hell technique had originally been at peak level. Using this technique, Long Yu could release a burst of nine hidden dragon qi and hence this technique was very powerful!

After practicing incessantly for three days, Long Yu had finally managed to upgrade his skill, which meant that this technique was now even more formidable than ever!

Although there was still a gap of two levels between Long Yu’s current comprehension level of this technique and the perfection level, but being a top grade martial skill, the skill imparted a terrific strength even if someone managed to comprehend it at the most basic level.

At this moment, Long Yu launched his fist and condensed nine hidden dragon qi, summoning the intoxicated hell!

The intoxicated hell technique condensed the nine hidden dragon qi in such a way that no one could detect it. The nine hidden dragon qi would then seep into the enemy’s body, corroding all his meridians and incapacitating him.

Long Yu had just enhanced his comprehension of intoxicated hell technique, so he decided to use this new found strength during his combat with Elder Yu Shengshi. As soon as he released intoxicated hell, the nine hidden dragon qi seeped through Elder Yu Shengshi’s body and started corroding his meridians, making him unable to launch any counterattack.

If Long Yu hadn’t withdrawn the attack willingly, this technique could have killed Elder Yu Shengshi there and then!

He had just returned to the sect a few days ago, and within three to five days, his battle efficiency had increased by leaps and bounds and he was on his way to becoming a formidable powerhouse of the Zhentian sect.

It was evident that this wouldn’t have been possible without the special attention and care that he had been receiving from the Elders of the sect.

After stepping into Zhenling third layer and enhancing his comprehension of the intoxicated hell skill, Long Yu’s strength had indeed gone through a drastic change.

Defeating Long Yu was not an easy task for any of the Elders; even the strongest Elder of the Zhentian sect, Old Black, who had a cultivation level of Zhenling fifth layer, had a tough time fighting with Long Yu.

Clearly, if Long Yu ever had to face a Zhenling fifth layer powerhouse in a combat, it would not be an easy feat for the opponent.

Long Yu didn’t regard a Zhenling fourth layer powerhouse to be his opponent now as there was no way a Zhenling 4th layer powerhouse could defeat him. Unless the person resorted to some evil techniques, Long Yu’s victory was assured. Moreover, such people were very less in the entire Tang Kingdom.

“It’s been almost five days since I returned to the Sect, I haven’t visited the Feng Clan members yet…”

With this thought, Long Yu immediately opened his eyes, stood up and rushed towards the disciple’s residence of the Zhentian sect.

He had just made a breakthrough in his comprehension of intoxicated hell technique which had consumed a lot of his energy. Due to this reason, it would have been impossible for him to enhance his comprehension of some other technique for now. He decided to utilize this spare time to visit the Feng Clan members who had joined the Zhentian sect.

Taking a break from the closed-door practice, Long Yu felt quite refreshed.

He had already inquired – most of the members of the Feng clan had returned back to Yu Guan city upon Feng Longsong’s return to the Feng Clan mansion. After all, Feng Longsong was the head of the new Feng clan and could provide some security to its members.

However, three members of the new Feng clan had chosen to stay and were now disciples of the Zhentian sect.

One of them, Feng Yuxin, was now a disciple of Old White and was learning the art of alchemy from him.

Besides Feng Yuxin, two other members of the new Feng clan, named Feng Hao and Feng Xiaofei had also joined the Zhentian sect.

These two had joined the Zhentian sect to accompany Feng Yuxin.

Long Yu didn’t know much about Feng Yuxin and Feng Hao, but he remembered Feng Xiaofei and was greatly touched by his compassion and righteousness.

Feng Hao had earlier been at Wudao eighth layer. However, Long Yu had no idea of his present cultivation level.

As for Feng Xiaofei, Long Yu was certain that he would have become a core disciple by now.

Long Yu thought to himself – it was not a difficult task for a Wudao eighth layer disciple to become a core disciple of Zhentian sect, and if the boys had really progressed in compliance with his expectations, then he could easily find them in the core disciples’ residential area.

When Long Yu reached the core disciples’ residential area, he couldn’t find Feng Hao and Feng Xiaofei there!

But then someone told Long Yu about him.

“Brother Long Yu, not long ago, Feng Hao and Feng Xiaofei had planned to challenge a core disciple in order to defeat him and become core disciples themselves. But they ended up being provoked by a core disciple named Su Biaoxin.”

The disciple was a little nervous while talking to Long Yu and continued talking in a low tone: “Although they had already reached Wudao ninth layer, but how could they possibly defeat Su Biaoxin who was a Zhenling realm expert?”

“You mean to say that after getting provoked by Su Biaoxin, both of them chose to challenge him?”

Long Yu wrinkled his brows.

Feng Hao and Feng Xiaofei were quite intelligent boys; they could differentiate between what was right and what was wrong. But if they had really done anything like that, they had been too impulsive.

“Yes, Brother Long Yu. Therefore, Feng Hao and Feng Xiaofei must be residing at the outer disciples’ residence. They do not reside here…”

The disciple continued informing Long Yu: “Moreover, before losing to Su Biaoxin, they had made a bet with him and hence were forced to hand over their battle weapons as well as the rewards they had received from the sect during those three months to Su Biaoxin!”

“This is absurd!”

Long Yu said coldly.

Although he had not known Feng Hao and Feng Xiaofei too well, but he was sure that these boys wouldn’t do anything that would stir up some unnecessary trouble.

While provoking them, Su Biaoxin would definitely have used some evil technique which made them lose their minds!

Long Yu immediately rushed inside the core disciples’ residence without any hesitation.

He must clear the matter with Su Biaoxin.

No matter what had happened earlier, he couldn’t let any of the disciples from the Feng clan to suffer any injustice inside Zhentian sect!

Although Su Biaoxin had been able to provoke Feng Hao and Feng Xiaofie, Long Yu couldn’t be provoked by anyone so easily!