novelraw Chapter 547: Longevity Divine Power
Chapter 547: Longevity Divine Power
Shen Xuan sat cross-legged, gazing intently at the Essence Blood of the Mountain-Bearing Dragon Turtle in front of the Jade Table.
Its color was golden, exuding a majestic and ancient aura like the ocean.
The Essence Blood of the Mountain-Bearing Dragon Turtle was exceptionally unique.
Shen Xuan could sense a heaviness, permeated with a sense of primordial, resilience, and immortality.
He took a deep breath and activated the Mysterious Jade Talisman.
A golden light enveloped the Essence Blood of the Mountain-Bearing Dragon Turtle on the Jade Table.
Soon, the Essence Blood transformed into a blood mist and was introduced into the Dantian.
"Boom!"
The moment the blood mist entered the Dantian, Shen Xuan’s body trembled slightly.
Scenes ancient, age-old, and indistinct surged into his sea of consciousness.
He seemed to transform into a young Mountain-Bearing Dragon Turtle, born in the vast East Sea, naïvely inhaling and exhaling the water spirit energy, and in a blink, decades of time passed.
He saw himself carrying the first reef, slowly turning reefs into islands over the long years, islands birthing mountain ranges.
A thousand years of time flicked by like a finger snap.
He saw the seabed volcano erupt, the sky collapse, the earth crack, himself curled up in the turtle shell, unmoved by the changes of the world outside.
He saw himself battling natural enemies, not by biting or colliding, but by invoking the power of the earth veins, suppressing the enemy in the deep sea abyss, until their lifespan ended, turning into bones.
A rhythm of life that was long, serene, tenacious, and coexistent with the world imprinted deeply into Shen Xuan’s consciousness.
Within this rhythm, he vaguely captured a peculiar divine power to resist time and slow down decay.
It was a kind of ultimate delay and endurance.
Train the flesh body to a "flawless" realm, lock in essence, qi, and spirit, greatly delaying the aging of the flesh body.
"Is this the Longevity Dao Body of the Mountain-Bearing Dragon Turtle?"
Shen Xuan’s heart trembled suddenly, realizing the preciousness of this insight.
He held his breath, trying to grasp the fleeting spiritual light, delving deeper into the mysterious divine power.
However, the Essence Blood of the Mountain-Bearing Dragon Turtle he refined could not provide a complete inheritance.
The Longevity Dao Rhyme Shen Xuan touched was too vague and obscure, too short in time.
Shen Xuan slowly opened his eyes and exhaled a deep breath.
That trace of Longevity Dao Body insight was like flowers in a mirror, the moon in water.
He clearly felt that if comprehended thoroughly, it would surely be an extraordinary longevity divine power.
"It’s okay, I can still comprehend it over a hundred more times."
Shen Xuan murmured softly to himself.
"Though not yet comprehended, the path has appeared, knowing the direction ahead. This Essence Blood Demon Pill is enough for me to comprehend it a hundred times."
"This kind of Longevity Dao Body should be unique to the Dragon Turtle, yet it suits me as well."
Looking again at the golden small characters on the Mysterious Jade Talisman.
[Talent: Longevity Perfection (3200/3200)]
"So, I thought of the Divine Power Realm too simply!"
"Even if [Dragon Blood Boiling] is fully perfected, there will be a bottleneck, not so easy to break through to the Divine Power Realm."
After figuring this out, Shen Xuan instead felt a sense of tranquility.
The path of Dao is long, seeking high and low.
After condensing the Golden Core, the path ahead can only be explored by oneself.
...
A year later, Nie Wu Hen’s injuries were completely healed.
He had never seen Shen Xuan’s practice of the [Flowing Light Sword Technique] Sword Intent bear fruit.
For this, he felt a bit guilty in his heart.
"Having delayed him for four years. In the future, if the opportunity arises, return him a big favor, that’s it."
As a True Pill Sword Cultivator, Nie Wu Hen still had considerable confidence in his own strength.
Little did he know.
Shen Xuan had already cultivated the [Flowing Light Sword Technique] Sword Intent to the realm of Sword Qi Condensing Silk, integrating it into his own Ice Technique divine power.
At the Starlight Island dock.
Nie Wu Hen took out a sword talisman.
"This is a token of my Divine Sword Sect. Within it is a [Flowing Light Sword Intent], which can assist Fellow Daoist Profound Ice in a crucial moment. It can also, on the merit of this token, have Nie take action once."
This was a promise.
Acknowledging that he owed a favor to Shen Xuan.
Shen Xuan did not decline, reaching to accept it.
"Fellow Daoist Wufeng, take care."
"Fellow Daoist Profound Ice, take care."
Nie Wu Hen said no more, transforming into a dazzling sword light, emitting a crisp sword cry, tearing through the sky, and disappeared into the firmament in the blink of an eye.
This was the sword escape technique unique to Sword Cultivators.
Shen Xuan stood at the dock with his hands behind his back, watching the direction Nie Wu Hen departed, and smiled slightly.
Treating Nie Wu Hen’s injuries was, for him, merely a trivial task.
What he gained far exceeded his output.
The sea breeze blew his robe, making a fierce rustling sound.
"In some time, the newly advanced True Masters from the Profound Celestial Sect will be coming. I wonder if it will be True Master Chishu, True Master Ling You, or both?"
"These are True Masters of the Profound Celestial Sect, what should I ask for as a reward?"
...
In the Practice Room, Shen Xuan continued refining the Essence Blood of the Mountain-Bearing Dragon Turtle.
Each refinement deepened his understanding of the Longevity Dao Body a bit more.
Even though he had not fully comprehended it yet.
As the number of refinements increased, Shen Xuan’s confidence grew.
"It’s just a divine power of the Tortoise’s longevity, a far cry from immortality and saintly flesh body!"
Though he said this.
Shen Xuan still greatly desired to master this longevity divine power.
The improvement of combat power is not achieved overnight.
The longer the lifespan, the brighter the Dao path.
Living well is better than anything else.
Besides, there are many forbidden cultivation techniques in the Cultivation Realm, all at the cost of burning lifespan.
[Dragon Blood Boiling] is also one of them.
If fully exerted, over time, it will deplete lifespan.
After finishing his practice, Shen Xuan began inspecting the Intelligence Jade Scroll.
The Yan Country’s sect’s offensive met strong resistance from Song Country.
The cultivator army of the True Meaning Sect was in a stalemate with the Cyan Cloud Sect in the Immortal City of Haoyue.
Both sides occasionally engage in small skirmishes.
Whether it’s a duel of True Pill True Masters.
Or battles of ten-man teams of Foundation Establishment Cultivators.
Or chaotic battles of hundred-man teams in the Late Stage of Qi Cultivation.
Both sides tacitly send corresponding personnel to fight in drawn-out battles under the Haoyue Immortal City.
Shen Xuan wasn’t wrong.
With Spirit Sword True Master present, Zhenyi Sect dares not attack Haiyue Immortal City with all its might.
If they did, even if Zhenyi Sect captured Haiyue Immortal City, it would come at a great cost.
And True Master Xian Yi has constantly been finding excuses, unwilling to duel Spirit Sword True Master.
"Therefore, the purpose of Zhenyi Sect cultivator’s army is to trap the Cyan Cloud Sect in Haiyue Immortal City, making it impossible for them to act."
"What exactly is their goal?"
The issue Shen Xuan could see, the high levels of Cyan Cloud Sect would definitely also see.
"Let Wan Meng investigate."
Shen Xuan wrote a secret letter, asking Wan Meng Demon Ruler to use connections from the Hehuan Sect to uncover the true purpose behind the Yan Country’s Five Sects initiation of war.
It’s definitely not as simple as seizing Spirit Veins.
Logically speaking, the Five Sects of Yan Country have already achieved their strategic goals.
There’s no reason to invade the core areas of Song Country’s Seven Sects.
...
Half a year later.
The Demon Core of the Mountain-carrying Dragon Turtle had been half-refined.
Inside the Practice Room.
Shen Xuan was somewhat excited.
He vaguely felt that he was just a step away from comprehending the Innate Divine Power of the Mountain-carrying Dragon Turtle.
The Demon Core’s effects exceeded that of Essence Blood.
The contained Demon Power was purer, and the understanding of innate divine laws was clearer.
A streak of golden light flashed from the Mysterious Jade Talisman.
A small piece of Demon Core transformed into pill mist, absorbed into Shen Xuan’s Dantian.
The Nine-colored Treasure Lotus gloriously bloomed, purifying the spiritual mist of the Dragon Turtle’s Demon Core, then turning into pure Spiritual Power, merging into his Ice Pill.
Shen Xuan’s consciousness once more submerged into the deep and profound rhythm of life.
This time, his insight was clearer.
It was as if he personally experienced the life of the Mountain-carrying Dragon Turtle.
He clearly perceived that each breath of the Mountain-carrying Dragon Turtle harmonized with a fundamental truth of heaven and earth, incorporating spirals of Spiritual Qi into its turtle body, merging into every inch of flesh, blood, and bone.
When resting, the life fluctuations of the Mountain-carrying Dragon Turtle would diminish to an almost imperceptible degree, its Divine Soul withdrawing, resembling an unyielding stone, with its lifespan hardly diminishing.
The flesh body "flawless", conserving energy, vitality, and spirit, delaying aging, with various insights flooding into his consciousness like tidal waves.
Finally, in a certain moment.
An awakening.
A grand and ancient, eternal, all-encompassing profound essence emerged upon his body.
[Turtle’s Breath Eternal Body]
This is the longevity divine power of the Mountain-carrying Dragon Turtle.
At that moment, Shen Xuan finally entered the entry level of this longevity divine power.
Transforming the flesh body into the most resilient existence within heaven and earth.
Sealing the essence, solidifying energy and blood, focusing the Divine Soul, cultivating the flesh body.
Adjusting one’s life form to the most "energy-efficient" state, resisting the long river of time to the greatest extent.
At the moment of comprehending divine power, Shen Xuan’s body trembled intensely.
He clearly felt his lifespan soaring rapidly at an alarming speed.
808, 809, 810...
All the way until 1088, only then did it stop.
[Lifespan: 170/1088]
A thousand years lifespan!
Comparable to a Nascent Soul True Monarch!
This is only the beginning!
On the Mysterious Jade Talisman.
[Divine Power: Turtle’s Breath Eternal Body Entry Level (2/100)]
"It’s just the entry level. With the elevation of divine power realm, life span can further increase!"
Shen Xuan slowly opened his eyes, immensely excited.
Feeling the unprecedentedly abundant vitality within, he couldn’t help but laugh out loud.
With a thousand-year lifespan at hand, it makes condensing Fire Technique Golden Core and pursuing the Nascent Soul Great Dao much more leisurely.
"From now on, lifespan is no longer an obstacle on my path."
"[Dragon Blood Boiling], I can use it whenever I wish!"
Shen Xuan murmured to himself, red light flickering in his eyes.
...
A month later.
True Master Chishu of Profound Celestial Sect and True Master Ling You came to visit together.
After Shen Xuan received them, he checked their injuries.
To his surprise, their injuries were much less severe than he imagined.
After inquiring, he found out.
True Master Chishu and True Master Ling You had taken the Nine Revolutions Jade Returning Pill refined by Profound Celestial Sect’s Pill Master, suppressing the Primordial Magnetic Evil Light, preventing their injuries from worsening.
Ordinarily, they were no different from regular True Masters, not affecting the exertion of Pill Essence Power or cultivation.
But in their Inner Core, there were still remnants of Primordial Magnetic Evil Light, like a thorn in their throat, hindering cultivation effects.
Understanding this, Shen Xuan suddenly realized.
Why Nie Wu Hen ranked ahead of these two.
"The foundation of a major sect cannot be underestimated."
Shen Xuan advised himself cautiously.
Profound Celestial Sect’s methods were sophisticated as the Primordial Magnetic Evil Light had been largely eliminated.
Shen Xuan assured, the two’s injuries were not severe and could definitely be healed.
Moreover, the difficulty was far lower compared to Wen Ru Yu and Nie Wu Hen.
Upon hearing this, both True Master Chishu and True Master Ling You felt much more relieved.
"Thank you, Fellow Daoist Profound Ice. As for the treatment costs, how should we settle them?"
True Master Chishu asked.
Shen Xuan thought for a moment.
"The two fellow Daoists’ injuries are not severe. We are all from the Song Country’s Seven Sects, and this is a critical time."
"For the treatment costs, let’s not mention it for now. The two of you owe Profound Ice a favor, to be repaid later, how about that?"
The two exchanged glances and nodded.
"Then thank you very much, Fellow Daoist Profound Ice."
Shen Xuan allowed them to stay temporarily on Starlight Island.
He simultaneously healed the two, within two years or at most three, they should be fully recovered.
Completely cure the residual Primordial Magnetic Evil Light within their Inner Core, preventing future troubles.
The two readily agreed.
"Since this is the case, may I ask the two fellow Daoists to follow me into the secret chamber, today we’ll proceed with our first evil-light purification treatment."
Shen Xuan stood up, leading True Master Chishu and True Master Ling You into the secret chamber.
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