Chapter 126: Tang Monk’s Flesh? Cruel Flower Thief!
“This is truly abnormal!”
Looking at Zhou Chen, who was undergoing Lightning Body Tempering and bathing in the Sea of Tribulation, Li Chang Feng’s mouth twitched, filled with a myriad of emotions.
In just two short years, the cautious little guy from Qing He County has now become an existence that surpasses him.
Cultivating both immortality and martial arts, achieving the Golden Core.
“Young Master is truly gifted, not only is his martial arts talent monstrous, but his immortal path is also not far behind. Looking at this lightning tribulation, it’s at least a High-Grade Golden Core!”
Hong Zhu’s beautiful eyes shone brightly. A Perfect Golden Core is too difficult to achieve; ninety-nine percent of cultivators only form Low-Grade Golden Cores, and a Middle-Grade Golden Core is already considered a genius.
A High-Grade Golden Core can be called a prodigy.
A Perfect Golden Core, that’s a monster, encountered only once in a hundred years.
“Comfortable!”
Bathing in the sea of lightning, his entire body felt tingly and numb, a kind of exhilaration that couldn’t be described with any words, utterly refreshing.
It was even more exhilarating than when Zhou Chen first practiced dual cultivation with the Sect Master Senior Aunt!
Within his dantian, the golden light of the Golden Core shone brightly, the patterns on its surface resembling the flow of the Great Dao, emitting an immortal Dao rhyme under the tempering of the lightning.
Zhou Chen’s already perfect and powerful physical body was cleansed by the lightning tribulation, becoming spotless and emitting a faint fragrance.
He might not be comparable to Tang Monk’s flesh, which could grant immortality with a single bite, but eating a bite of his flesh would definitely be a great tonic, a true heavenly treasure.
All living beings are born of nature. Humans eating rare and exotic beasts can increase their cultivation level and strengthen their physique.
The same applies to demons eating humans.
Someone like Zhou Chen, to demons, is like a rare and exotic beast compared to humans.
Buzz!
Tempered by the lightning tribulation, the Golden Core was finally formed.
At this moment.
Zhou Chen had overcome the lightning tribulation, truly becoming a Golden Core cultivator.
An invisible aura spread out, soaring into the sky.
Boom!
Thunder roared, and the sound of the Dao echoed endlessly!
Golden lights pierced through the sky, dyeing the clouds for millions of miles into a golden expanse!
Purple Qi came from the east for thirty thousand li.
Amidst these countless extraordinary phenomena and the sound of the Great Dao, from the nine heavens above, countless spiritual energies gathered and transformed into spiritual rain, falling down!
As the spiritual rain fell, on the sand-covered land, countless plants and vegetation grew wildly, countless beasts gained spirituality, and countless heavenly treasures sprouted from the ground, growing rapidly!
“This… This is…”
Li Chang Feng widened his eyes, dumbfounded. It was just a breakthrough to the Golden Core Realm, how could it cause such a huge commotion?
Those who didn’t know would think he had attained immortality!
“Flowers raining from the sky, golden lotuses sprouting from the earth…”
Hong Zhu’s beautiful eyes shone brightly, her body trembling, as she looked at the extraordinary phenomena between heaven and earth with shock and delight, her heart in turmoil.
She already had an idea of what this was.
“Spiritual energy raining down like rain, all things flourishing, once the Golden Core is formed, heaven and earth celebrate together. This is a Great Dao Golden Core!?”
Qing Yu Yao couldn’t believe her eyes. Even if her Immortal Spiritual Root hadn’t been stolen, she might not have been able to condense a Great Dao Golden Core, only that the possibility was high.
Theoretically, Zhou Chen’s Five Elements Spiritual Root could condense a Great Dao Golden Core, but it was extremely difficult, requiring an incredibly profound foundation and opportunities.
But Zhou Chen spent all day playing with women, and she hadn’t seen him encounter any great opportunities, nor did he have any peerless heavenly treasures to assist him, yet he had actually condensed a Great Dao Golden Core?
He was even with her, not separated from her, before he broke through.
It was absurd that he could still form a Great Dao Golden Core!
“Could it be that Zhou Chen’s seemingly frivolous special talent is actually a Supreme Talent?”
Qing Yu Yao secretly speculated, both surprised and delighted, filled with shock amidst envy.
Whether it was martial arts or the immortal path, Zhou Chen seemed to have reached the extreme, the most perfect step.
His future achievements were unimaginable. If that special talent of his could truly continue to assist his cultivation like this, he might even become an immortal and an ancestor in the future!
“It’s not suitable to stay here for long, let’s go!”
Zhou Chen stepped down, looking at the shocked Li Chang Feng, Qing Yu Yao, and Hong Zhu, and using his Concealing One’s Tracks ability, he quickly left with them.
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Unbounded Sword Sect.
Within a celestial mountain cave dwelling, a plump figure in plain clothes, who had been cultivating in seclusion, suddenly opened her eyes. Her gaze was profound, as if countless mysteries were evolving within them.
Her gaze pierced through the void, looking towards the place where Zhou Chen had broken through:
“This extraordinary phenomenon… Someone has condensed a Great Dao Golden Core?”
“That’s Qingzhou, could it be the Great Zen Temple?”
“It doesn’t seem to be the location of the Great Zen Temple…”
“There are no immortal sects in Qingzhou, only a few martial arts sects, could it be a wild lone cultivator…”
Thinking of this, the plump figure in plain clothes felt a stir in her heart and disappeared from the cave dwelling.
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Great Zen Temple.
An old monk sweeping the floor outside the Scripture Depository suddenly raised his head, looking towards Quan Tian Prefecture, a strange glint flashing in his eyes:
“Someone has cultivated a Great Dao Golden Core…”
“That seems to be the territory of the Heavenly Sword Sect, and the Heavenly Sword Sect shouldn’t have any immortal cultivation geniuses, nor any inheritance…”
“Amitabha!”
The old monk clasped his hands together and disappeared. A few withered yellow leaves rolled with the gentle breeze.
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Heavenly Sword Sect.
“Eh, what a grand extraordinary phenomenon?”
“Could it be that a world-shaking treasure has appeared?”
Jian Ling Tian, the Sect Master of the Heavenly Sword Sect, felt a surge of excitement in his heart and rushed towards the location of the extraordinary phenomenon.
He wasn’t an immortal cultivator and usually didn’t have much contact with them. At most, he had only heard of the term Great Dao Golden Core.
He didn’t know about the extraordinary phenomenon accompanying a Great Dao Golden Core.
Not long after.
Jian Ling Tian arrived at the place where Zhou Chen had broken through. Within a radius of ten miles, there were countless rare flowers and herbs, as if a world-shaking treasure had brought great fortune to the surroundings.
“Where’s the treasure?”
Jian Ling Tian was both surprised and delighted, but he didn’t see the world-shaking treasure that had caused the changes in the surroundings.
Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!
One after another, Nascent Soul Realm experts from the Heavenly Sword Sect arrived, but they also didn’t find any treasures.
“Could it be that it wasn’t a world-shaking treasure?”
“Or has the treasure already run away? Or has someone else already gotten there first?”
Just as they were puzzled, an old monk suddenly appeared before them.
“Amitabha!”
The old monk chanted a Buddhist name and asked:
“Fellow benefactors, do you know which prodigy broke through here just now, condensing a Great Dao Golden Core?”
“What? This was caused by someone breaking through?”
Jian Ling Tian and the others widened their eyes. They had heard of people becoming immortals, blessing the land for ten thousand miles, and turning a barren desert into a blessed paradise. But those were all legends.
They didn’t expect that someone condensing a Golden Core could actually cause such a huge commotion.
Is a Great Dao Golden Core that awesome?
Seeing their surprise, the old monk’s eyes were filled with disappointment. These people clearly didn’t know anything, didn’t understand anything.
He pinched his Buddhist beads, wanting to deduce the identity of the person who had broken through.
Jian Ling Tian and the others didn’t recognize the old monk, but they could sense his terrifying aura. He was definitely not someone they could contend with.
Especially as the old monk continued his deduction, they felt a sense of dread, involuntarily taking a few steps back.
Buzz!
Suddenly, golden light burst forth from the old monk’s eyes.
The golden light pierced through the void, and a faint image appeared, but it was too blurry to make out.
The old monk bit the tip of his tongue, spitting out a mouthful of blood essence, which landed on the Buddhist beads in his hand.
The Buddhist beads glowed like jade, emerald green and flawless. As the mouthful of blood essence landed, boundless Buddha light burst forth, as if endless Sanskrit chants were resounding between heaven and earth.
Jian Ling Tian and the others’ faces flushed red, holding their breath, feeling as if their hearts were being tightly gripped by a giant hand, suffocating.
They widened their eyes and saw that as the Buddhist beads emitted light, the blurry image in the void gradually became clearer.
The old monk’s gaze was burning, and he was about to see the person who had condensed the Great Dao Golden Core, but suddenly an invisible aura attacked him.
The image in the void shattered, and the old monk spat out a mouthful of blood. His rosy cheeks instantly turned pale as paper, heavily injured.
“…Only for the sake of passionate love…”
At the last moment, he vaguely saw a supreme paradise that couldn’t be described with any words, with countless immortal fairies moving about, and the faint sound of their laughter reaching his ears.
“Is that the Immortal Realm?”
The old monk whispered in his heart, not daring to probe further, sensing great terror.
“Holy Monk, what did you see?”
A cold and pleasant voice rang out, and Jian Ling Tian and the others saw an immortal fairy, dressed plainly but with a plump figure and an imposing bosom, walking towards them.
Even though she didn’t deliberately release any aura, the invisible pressure made them understand that this woman, who looked like a fairy descending to the mortal world, was a figure with unfathomable power and terrifying might.
“Amitabha! So it’s Fairy Zi Qing.”
The old monk looked at the newcomer and shook his head slightly, sighing:
“This old monk’s magical power is meager. I only glimpsed a corner, a scene resembling a paradise on earth, with fairies frolicking within, filled with laughter and passionate love!”
“Holy Monk is too modest. To be able to see this much is already remarkable!”
Fairy Zi Qing swept her gaze over the surroundings, briefly spoke with the old monk, and then vanished from the spot.
The old monk also didn’t stay long.
“Phew!”
As the two left, Jian Ling Tian and the others let out a long breath, their backs already drenched in cold sweat.
“That Holy Monk was probably an enlightened master from the Great Zen Temple!”
Jian Ling Tian mused:
“It’s not suitable to stay here for long, let’s go!”
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Azure Cloud Sect.
Zhou Chen returned with the others, unaware of the commotion he had caused. However, he had just felt a sense of being spied on.
Fortunately, the Wind and Moon Mirror trembled, and that feeling disappeared.
“There are always treacherous subjects who want to harm me!”
Although Zhou Chen didn’t know who was spying on him, he had this feeling right after his breakthrough, so it was highly likely that his breakthrough’s extraordinary phenomenon had attracted the attention of powerful individuals.
And since that feeling of being spied on had passed for fifteen minutes now, and no powerful individuals had found him, it meant his identity hadn’t been exposed.
“I’m still not strong enough!”
Zhou Chen decided to cultivate even more diligently.
Li Chang Feng quietly returned to Divine Arrow Peak, but Zhou Chen didn’t go back.
He quietly returned to Azure Cloud Peak with Hong Zhu and the Sect Master.
As soon as he arrived at Azure Cloud Peak, Zhou Chen picked up the Sect Master and Hong Zhu: “Sect Master Senior Aunt, Hong Zhu, I need your help with my cultivation!”
“You little rascal!”
Qing Yu Yao’s cheeks flushed red, and she gave Zhou Chen a playful glare, but she didn’t resist, allowing Zhou Chen to carry her and Hong Zhu into the room.
“Sect Master Senior Aunt, you are so beautiful…”
Zhou Chen directly barged into the Sect Master’s most private boudoir, a place that only he had ever set foot in.
Unlike in his previous life, where he had spent several generations’ worth of wealth to buy a house.
Countless people had gone in and out of that house, looking at it but ultimately not buying it, even spitting on the floor before leaving.
What’s more, that house had not only been lived in, but people had even died in it. It was already riddled with problems, yet it was still sold as a new house.
After an honest person took over, they still had to spend their own money to patch up the house, and in the end, it might be so dilapidated that people couldn’t even live in it.
【Romance Points +69】
【Romance Points +69】
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Several days passed in a flash.
Zhou Chen didn’t leave his residence, but he was always paying attention to the news outside.
The extraordinary phenomenon caused by his breakthrough had now become one of the hottest topics, and the term “Great Dao Golden Core” had become a household phrase.
In this year’s trending words, “Great Dao Golden Core” could probably make it onto the list.
This day.
The weather was fine, and Zhou Chen looked at the Sect Master, who was embracing him in her arms, feeling content and intoxicated, experiencing their mutual warmth and connection.
“There’s news that a flower thief has appeared in Qing He County. This person is lawless, his methods cruel and tyrannical. Even the daughter of the County Magistrate of Qing He County has suffered at his hands, raped and murdered, and he even exterminated the Magistrate’s entire family.”
Qing Yu Yao’s red lips parted slightly as she slowly spoke of the news she had recently received.
“The Prefect is furious and has dispatched his subordinates to capture the flower thief. However, not only did they fail to catch him, but they were also killed by the flower thief and their bodies hung at the city gate. It’s said that their hearts were even gouged out, and the flower thief continues to commit crimes!”
“For such a vile criminal, I have already dispatched a Divine Sea Realm elder to eliminate him. I believe there will be news soon!”
Normally, Azure Cloud Sect wouldn’t pay attention to news from a place like Qing He County.
But Qing He County was Zhou Chen’s hometown, so it was different.
“Flower thief?”
Zhou Chen frowned. Before he could speak, he suddenly sensed a new soul figure appearing in the Wind and Moon Mirror space!
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