Divine Brilliance

Xuanyuan Yiren’s eyes shone with a surprised light, “Then how did you know that? Don’t tell me you read about such a place from the books?”

Zong Shou felt his headache right away, he knew that Xuanyuan Yiren would ask that. However, luckily now he wasn’t like before when he had feared Zong Weiran badly.

His position as Gantian Mountain monster king was settled. As for Zong Weiran, he was a problem for another day. Since he had already joined the common people path and gained the books and collections of their treasury then he would be able to complete the one origin sword to a certain level.

“I did see it from books.”

As he said that Zong Shou shook his head and smiled, “The year of Canyang, spirit salamander went up against Xi Zi. It wasn’t his opponent and broke its tail to live, its tail landing at where the saints fell. Actually, this mist was what the blood of the spiritual salamander transformed into. It was one of the ancestors of the beast race which is why its blood is the most effective for the beasts and monsters. However, it was poisonous too. There are also many other things. Do you want me to recite them for you?”

Xuanyuan Yiren scoffed and turned around. She thought to herself that she had read a lot of books, but why hadn’t she seen things like that? In the future, she needed to flip the book depositories of Linhai College and Gantian Mountain to see whether or not what Zong Shou said was real or fake.

Thinking that since it was related to the common people path founder Xi Zi, then the matter of this place was most probably found out from his saint realm senior brother.

“Actually this place isn’t totally without danger, it is just because we came at a good time.”

Zong Shou cast another spell and blew away the mist, following which they could see numerous beast corpses buried in the ground.

“Every midnight when the Ying energy of heaven and earth is at its highest, the poison mist will become stronger. At that time even grade 5 experts will be unable to take it and have to find a place to avoid it.”

Following which he looked around, “This canyon is roughly 400 miles around and the more we go down the lower the land will get, the mist will also get stronger. Which is why there shouldn’t be over 7 thousand beasts here. However, it is said that there is an abyss connected to the bottom of it where many beasts and evil spirits will be attracted by the power of the mist and enter this land…”

Yiren instantly felt regretful when she heard that. With a small number of elite beasts here, it meant that she wouldn’t be able to have a large scale use of it. Even if new beasts entered this place, if they weren’t here for a long time they wouldn’t be able to accumulate too much of such essence blood.

Shi Dan was slightly touched. Even if she knew that this place wouldn’t be too useful, but to see that Zong Shou didn’t hide news about this place, even that spiritual salamander tail from them showed that he trusted them.

With such a ruler, it was worth it for her to go against orders from her sect and stay and pledge loyalty to Zong Shou.

“Speaking of which, during this period of time, will we all have to hunt these poison beasts here?”

Xuanyuan Yiren was slightly curious as she asked that, “Zong Shou you aren’t going to go for the opening of the dragon gate?”

“It is you all, not me. The dragon gate is a martial saint remnant image, how can I not go for that?”

Zong Shou smiled and looked at everyone who stood stunned, “what are all of you all standing there for? Do you want me to personally act and send the essence blood into your mouths?”

…

2 grade 4 dragon horned winged horses crossed the swamp land. They were 4 elite beasts and their own combat strength was extremely strong, having dragon blood in their bodies. The people sitting on it gave off an unusual aura which was why there was no beast with eyes who came to find trouble with them in the samp land.

The person in front was Zong Yuan who looked around and beneath his feet warily whilst the horse galloped forwards.

This swamp land was most dangerous in its mud where all kinds of beasts could hide within.

If one was unlucky, one might even meet a grade 7 beast.

His personality was just like that. Even if he knew that Zong Shou’s strength was far above his, he still put in all his effort.

The one sitting on the dragon horned winged beast behind him was naturally Zong Shou who was currently in a half-awake state.

He only left a bit of consciousness which was on alert against the surroundings, whilst he focused on the changes within his soul ocean.

He had to do that since he had advanced to the Return to Sun realm he had never had a good sleep.

All of that was because of the swallow and purify word talismans which caused his soul ocean to change.

In the past, this whirlpool had its limits and even when it was swallowing spiritual energy of heaven and earth it did so at small amounts.

However ever since he had formed these 2 true spiritual talismans the whirlpool had its core and the suction force was more than 10 times.

It didn’t just swallow the basic 5 elements spiritual energy but it directly swallowed origin spiritual energy which was the source which produced that spiritual energy.

Even when his soul ocean formed 7 complete spiritual veins, it still didn’t stop. It caused the whirlpool to continue to strengthen whilst successively suppressing and constricting.

In terms of soul power, he should be no weaker than Zong Ling who had already entered the Return to Sun realm 15 years ago and was close to forming 9 spiritual talismans. He was 6 times more than spirit masters of the same grade.

This made Zong Shou worry every moment about what changes would happen to this soul ocean, which might make him die in his sleep without knowing anything.

The only thing that made him feel slightly happy was the one origin sword. Since he recovered the lost Gantian Mountain land and swallowed 3 more provinces, having ten over more cities under his direct rule, his population also increased by 50 million. The dragon energy in the sword continued to strengthen and grow, the dragon tattoo on the sword body was also becoming more and more apparent.

That emperor wind technique had easily reached the 6th level.

This was also with Zong Shou suppressing it and not purposely going to cultivate it. If he paid his full attention to it, charging to the 7th level was something he could achieve easily.

However that 9 story treasure pagoda was even stronger, suppressing over his soul ocean and not moving an inch. Thousand of threads of vapor splashed down.

It helped to repair his soul whilst also repressing the sword. The only surprising thing was that since he did that show in Zhengang Peak’s Tiegang Hall, the infection ability of this so called energy of the king path wasn’t that strong anymore, becoming much gentler and allowing him to be more at ease.

The sun started to slowly set, this swampland became darker and colder. This was the most dangerous period of this place.

However, the 2 of them didn’t stop, making the mounts under them to continue to gallop with all their energy. Roughly another 4 more hours passed and they could see a 30 thousand feet tall mountain in front of them.

“Ruler, we have arrived at the Dragon Gathering Mountain!”

Zong Yuan raised his head and looked carefully, only to see that apart from the mountain was tall and covered a large area. There wasn’t anything special about it. It was surrounded on 3 sides by swamp and the last by the ocean.

The only surprising thing was that the trees and grass in the mountains were unusually exuberant.

Zong Shou had also woke up. The moment he opened his eyes he smiled, “As expected from the name of dragon gathering…”

At the foot of the mountain, there were tens of spiritual veins which gathered. It was also where 7 large-sized ‘dragon veins’ started and ended at. The mountain’s path was also weird looking.

If it wasn’t for this place at a wrong position, surrounded by swamp where humans are unable to survive, it would be the best place to set up the capital of a city, nourishing the energy of the king.

However, even then, it was still the best burial place, a blessed land mentioned in Fengshui, a real top class place.

The truth was that 5 thousand years later, after the swamp dried up and solidified, a large city was indeed erected here and gave rise to a large country.

The 2 of them traveled until they reached the foot of the mountain and first found a dry and cooling spot to sit down. There were roughly 4 more days till the Dragon Gate opened up. The mountain was also laid strewn with restrictions left by that martial saint. There were said to be many beasts which were all strong who used it as their nest.

This was why the 2 of them weren’t in a rush to climb up the mountain.

Zong Yuan raised fire and sat down not far from the fire pile. He took out some silver-white liquid from a bottle and absorbed it into his body.

This was what the 2 of them got from their hunt inside the mist. During the few days, the group of them had hunted all about and gathered up roughly 400 drips which the 2 of them brought with them.

Zong Shou originally intended to come to this Dragon Gate alone. However, Zong Yuan wasn’t at ease and insisted on following along. Considering that the martial saint remnant image would be of much use to him, Zong Shou had no choice but to agree.

What surprised him was that Xuanyuan Yiren was unwilling to follow along. She said that Zong Shou could just teach her about it. This spiritual salamander blood was something that if she missed it who knows if she could get the same chance in the future. She didn’t care about the martial saint remnant image at all.

What this little clown was most interested in was still pill refining. It made Zong Shou, who was originally looking forward to having a couples date, feel heartbroken.

He also took out 2 drops of silver-white blood, one of which he let Little gold swallow whilst the other he sucked into his body through his palm.

The blood of the spiritual salamander could increase one’s strength whilst also strengthening their bloodline.

When beasts ate it they didn’t need to do anything and they would be able to awaken the abilities and memories that the ancestor had left.

Little Gold was just like that. Each time it ate the liquid, its body would change slightly.

The patterns on its surface became more and more mysterious like it was a natural spiritual formation. The veins its body didn’t increase by much, on the contrary, it became much simpler. However, the efficiency of its power flow greatly increased. In just a few days, its ability to copy items had raised by half a level.

As for Zong Shou, he used the essence blood to mainly strengthen his body and to comprehend the martial path.

After he consumed it and refined it, he used the insight mysterious lightning body training art to train his body.

Unfortunately, what this top-class bodily training technique of the common people path paid attention to was being of one heart and one mind.

Even Zong Shou couldn’t multitask when he used it. He could only continue to comprehend the maniac lightning sword intent. Doing so wasn’t considered being distracted and instead, he gained a lot of benefits from it.

After a few days, his comprehension of that sword intent had greatly increased. The lightning winged Yang snake also benefited due to that. A few times, it began to get restless and tried to break through but it was blocked by an invisible heaven barrier.

A drop of essence blood took Zong Shou an hour to completely consume. He only felt that he had used up a lot of energy, however, this body training had improved his body to a good extent.

“In just a few more days I can merge with the 7th and 8th earth veins…|

Within his body, he had already completed the merger of the dual 3rd meridians. With the foundations of the last life, his martial intent had reached a high level. The barrier of the martial ancestor realm was not an obstacle to him at all.