As the Universe Turns - Chapter 38
Chapter 38 Dragon Roar
After an incense stick of time, Yi Chen arrived at the edge of a stream. However, when he saw the clear light shrouding it, Bo Han and Yue Ying, the water in the Tianshui Stream did not freeze at all, but it was already bone-chilling cold compared to the thousand-year-old ice.
Yi Chen walked closer. He immediately felt the cold energy invade his body. His entire body couldn’t help but tremble. Master had said that he needed at least the stage of “refining the Qi God” to enter the Tian Shui Stream to cultivate. Otherwise, the cold energy would be dangerous to his life. However, his current cultivation was at the early stage of “refining the Qi”, so he was afraid that it would be dangerous to rashly enter the water.
However, at this moment, he was still heading towards the water’s edge. Ordinary cultivation couldn’t deepen his cultivation, so he decided to take a different path and take a risk.
Thinking of this, Yi Chen did not hesitate and immediately circulated his Genuine energy protection. Step by step, he walked towards the water. As soon as he entered the water, Yi Chen felt his legs freeze. In the next moment, the cold energy in the water rose from the bottom, causing him to feel as if he had fallen into a 10,000-year-old ice cave.
In a short moment, the cold energy had already wrapped around him, and a layer of frost had gradually condensed from his legs to his waist, chest, neck, arms, and hair.
However, with the protection of Genuine energy, the cold energy could not enter his body for the time being. However, even so, it made him extremely painful. It was even more painful than falling into a pit of fire. Every moment was like a year had passed.
“Xiao Yichen … endure, endure!”
He gritted his teeth and kept telling himself that if he couldn’t withstand the pain, it would be better if he went home and cultivated, just like what Senior Monster had said back then. What kind of immortal would he cultivate?
A stick of incense later, Yi Chen’s entire body was covered in frost. It was white, like a person who had been frozen to death. Such a cold night, it looked terrifying. However, he seemed to be able to barely resist this cold energy. He couldn’t help but feel strange in his heart. Master said that he needed to refine the Qi God to resist the cold energy in the water, but why was he already able to resist it now? Could it be …
At this moment, a strange thought flashed through his mind, but he didn’t dare to be distracted. After another two hours of incense, he returned to the shore and felt incomparably warm and comfortable.
“With my current strength, I can resist for half an hour at the edge of the Tianshui River. If I want to resist for an hour, does that mean I need to double my strength?”
Yi Chen looked at the sparkling light in the stream and muttered to himself. At this moment, he seemed to have thought of something, but he did not quite understand it.
The night passed like this. The next day, he went to the Heavenly Lake Valley. As he had guessed, he was inevitably ridiculed. However, he was too lazy to pay attention to these people. These people were just jealous that he was Master’s only disciple.
However, there was only one month left before the trial, and he had already tossed out his words yesterday. What should he do next? Although his cultivation seemed to be slightly deeper than that of ordinary fellow Daoists, that Sword Master had already reached the early stage of Qi Refining Divine Realm, and was a full twenty to thirty years away from Dao Cultivation. Moreover, he didn’t know any Dao Arts, so how could he fight him?
Thinking of this, Yi Chen couldn’t help but worry. He went to the Immortal Burial Cliff in the afternoon. During this period of time, he would always come here to talk to the old man who swept the floor. He was familiar with the old man once and for all. However, the old man didn’t reveal his identity, so he naturally wouldn’t ask.
“You’re here again.”
Now that the old man could speak to him on his own initiative, Yi Chen walked over and looked at the fallen leaves on the ground. For some reason, he sighed.
“Young, why are you sighing?”
As the old man swept the floor, he slowly said, “Uncle, there’s something you don’t know. In another month, I will compete with someone, but that person is twenty to thirty years taller than me and knows so many profound dao techniques. I can’t defeat him.”
“If you know you’re going to lose, why bother agreeing to it? Just endure it for a moment, and then you’ll be there.”
‘”But there were so many people watching at that time. If I didn’t agree, wouldn’t I be teaching people to look down on me? How embarrassing!” Said Yi Chen.
“Isn’t it even more embarrassing for you to lose at that time?”
“I…”
Yi Chen was speechless when he said that. Finally, he let out a long sigh.
“Then.”
The old man flicked his sleeves and threw the broom over. Yi Chen reached out his hand to catch it and looked at the fallen leaves on the ground. He was puzzled, “In another month, when spring comes, these leaves will naturally disappear. Now, I can’t even finish sweeping them. Why does Uncle still have to sweep these fallen leaves every day?”
“Fallen leaves drift away, they must return to their roots in the end …”
“Huh?”
Yi Chen didn’t quite understand the meaning of his words. The old man didn’t say anything else. His hands slowly moved. The valley and even the fallen leaves on Lian Feng Tower’s side slowly began to revolve around him.
“This …”
Yi Chen couldn’t help but be stunned. What a strong anger! Originally, he had always thought that this old uncle’s cultivation might be inferior to the elders of the sect, but he never thought that he was actually an expert from the outside world!
The fallen leaves on the ground spun faster and faster. Gradually, they gathered around the old man. A faint dragon roar could be heard. Yi Chen was shocked again, “Dragon Roar Nine Styles!”
“How is it? Did they tell you that the Dragon Roar Nine Styles are useless Dao Arts?”
“Mm-hmm!”
Yi Chen nodded his head continuously. Not only did everyone else say that, even he thought that this Dragon Roar Nine Styles was nothing more than an act. Therefore, even if he couldn’t cultivate those high-grade Dao Arts, he wouldn’t cultivate this useless Dragon Roar Nine Styles, so as to avoid being laughed at in the future.
“Then watch carefully.”
As soon as the old man finished speaking, he waved his palms, and a powerful aura enveloped the world. The fallen leaves in the sky immediately gathered into a hundred zhang dragon, and the dragon’s roar shook the clouds in the nine heavens!
So strong!
Yi Chen had already stopped breathing. His eyes were wide open, and he felt as if a huge wave had surged in his heart. The “Azure Dragon Chant” Elder Song had demonstrated last time was simply incomparable to the Dragon Chant Palm that Old Uncle was currently using!
With the old man’s palms, the hundred foot withered leaf dragon instantly broke through the air, as if it was competing with the duke of heaven. It was also like a ten thousand meter tsunami that was unstoppable. Even an entire mountain peak would instantly turn into nothingness under the hundred foot withered leaf!
Thousands of kilometers of clouds instantly dissipated!
Just as the hundred foot withered leaf dragon was about to charge out, the old man pressed his palm, and the “dragon” turned into falling leaves that filled the sky. The palm power dispersed, and pieces of withered leaves circled down again.
Yi Chen had been stunned for a long time before he regained his senses. However, he saw that none of the fallen leaves on the ground had shattered. These withered leaves were originally extremely fragile and could be shattered at the touch of an eye, but they had not shattered at all under the power of the old uncle just now. In that case, the old uncle’s control of profound energy was already at its peak!
“Senior … Senior …”
Only at this moment did Yi Chen suddenly realize that this, this was not an old uncle sweeping the floor. This senior’s cultivation was probably even higher than the Seven Paragons!
“Sigh.” The old man waved his hand and retrieved the broom from his hand. “Young man, why did you suddenly change your address?” He said.
“Yes, yes … Uncle.”
This time, when he called him “Uncle”, Yi Chen was a little panicked. The old man said, “How is it? Did you see it clearly just now?”
“Mm-hmm!”
Yi Chen kept nodding his head. It turned out that Old Uncle was actually going to pass on this palm technique to him. However, with such a powerful palm technique, could he cultivate it? Of course I can cultivate! The Dragon’s Roar Nine Styles was an introductory Dao Art, and it didn’t have high requirements for Dao Cultivation. Wasn’t it suitable for him?
Thinking of this, Yi Chen was both shocked and delighted. He had been excited for several days, either talking to himself or suddenly laughing. Others thought that he was stupid.
Half a month passed quickly, During the past half month, Yi Chen’s time had become even more tight. He had to go to the Heavenly Lake Valley to listen to the elders’ lectures every day. Although he didn’t want to go, he didn’t dare to disobey his master’s request. Therefore, he could only spend the evening on the Immortal Burial Cliff. The sweeper instructed him to cultivate the Dragon’s Cry Nine Styles. After returning to Purple Night Peak at night, he cultivated alone.
Moon was hanging high that night. Yi Chen couldn’t sleep again and again. After sleeping for a long time, he suddenly sat up again. In the past half month, his cultivation hadn’t grown, but his cultivation seemed to be getting deeper and deeper. He could barely last two incense sticks in the Tianshui River for a while longer. The Dragon’s Roar Palm also made him more and more mature. Could it be …
Suddenly, a bold idea occurred to him. In the past three years, he had not been able to cultivate for much longer, so where had he gone with his cultivation in the past three years? It’s impossible for him to disappear for nothing, right? Could it be …
If one were to compare cultivation to stuffing cotton into a bag, this cotton would be considered a Dao Cultivator. Ordinary people would continuously cultivate and stuffed more and more cotton into a bag. If they stuffed a bag, they would stuffed an even larger bag. This would be considered a breakthrough, but they would not be like this …
He not only stuffed the cotton in, but also pressed the cotton tighter and tighter. That was why his cultivation seemed to have grown so slowly, but in reality, his cultivation had unknowingly far surpassed that of everyone in the same field! Once it erupted, no one in the same cultivation realm would be able to defeat it!
Was this really the case? But why was it like this?
Yi Chen was confused again. He was clearly cultivating the same profound arts. Even though Xuanqing Sect had seven meridians, all the techniques were the same as his sect. Why was he different from others? Could it be because he had cultivated two profound arts at the same time?
No, that’s not the case. Even if someone cultivated two profound arts at the same time, it wouldn’t be as strange as him. Moreover, even if he only cultivated one of the profound arts, his breakthrough in the Dao Cultivation Realm was still very slow, because his Dao Cultivation Realm was being pressed tighter and tighter layer after layer!
What exactly was going on? Wait, something’s wrong, something must be wrong!
At this moment, Yi Chen tried his best to recall, From the beginning, Everything began to recall in detail, At first, Yang Xiaoran didn’t teach him profound arts, so he couldn’t cultivate. However, after meeting Senior Monster, his Dao Cultivation had improved by leaps and bounds that month. In other words, his talent wasn’t bad. If he continued to follow this situation, his Dao Cultivation realm would have broken through faster than everyone else’s. But what about the past three years …
“Wait!”
Suddenly, he finally remembered that his Dao Cultivation realm had suddenly slowed down. It was at that time that he started! It was the last time I saw Senior Monster. That night, I fell asleep in a daze. Senior Monster helped me sort out my meridians!
