Donghuang Ziji

Chapter 145 Heavenly Craftsmanship

The dragon's golden scales reflect brilliant light in the sunlight, its eye sockets are inlaid with sun gold and moon jade respectively, its claws are shining coldly, and it is made of some kind of gold essence. Its horn is like a stone tablet, full of simplicity and wear and tear. If you look closely, you can see the inscription composed of tiny words.

One could vaguely see white clouds pouring out from the gaps between the scales as the tail swung at the joints, swirling around the body. Tiny electric currents were jumping through them, preventing the clouds from dispersing. When the dragon unfolded its body in mid-air, a large shadow cast down, covering the capital.

“Is this the imperial court’s trump card?”

"Wait, this dragon is a mechanical device?"

"So that's how it is. The imperial court is a place where people gather together, and mechanical arts can be passed down from generation to generation. The product of the culmination of mechanical arts is indeed suitable to be the imperial court's trump card!"

"Who is that person in front? Could he be a master of mechanical engineering? From the looks of it, has he transformed himself into a mechanical man? Or is he also a master of mechanical engineering?"

Words came out of the mouths of the cultivators in the capital, full of shock, staring at the golden dragon in amazement.

The opinions expressed by some people who thought they understood the reason were also somewhat laughable, especially the last guess. When someone said it, everyone around took two steps back and kept a certain distance from that person.

In contrast, the head of Lingbao Sect and the head of Shangqing Sect looked solemnly at the young man in front of them who looked neither human nor human.

"Did you feel it? Judging from the aura of that guy and his attire, he seems to be a cultivator from the Temple of Heaven, and he seems to be a chief monk there."

The Lingbao Sect's headmaster spoke in a low voice, and the Shangqing Sect's headmaster beside him also had an ugly look on his face, with disbelief in his eyes.

"Of course I can feel it. I didn't expect that there would be a land immortal in the court, and he is also the chief minister of heaven and earth. It is really unexpected. But there seems to be something wrong with that dragon. Your lineage is more familiar with this kind of existence. Can you see the problem?"

The Lingbao Sect's headmaster thought for a moment and said uncertainly, "It seems that this person's immortality has been divided? Is it because he gained the Tao through mechanical arts, so part of the Tao fruit is in the mechanical dragon?"

Taoist Ruo Que felt something was wrong with the exchange between the two sect leaders, so he asked, "What kind of riddle are you two talking about?"

The head of the Lingbao sect and the head of the Shangqing sect looked at each other, seemingly struggling over whether to tell each other some of the sect's secret information.

Fortunately, Taoist Ruoque was not the type of person who would force others. After waiting for a moment, the one-horned dragon had already met Chu Tai, attracting everyone's attention.

"Roar!"

With a roar, red flame patterns appeared on the golden scales.

Then the dragon opened its mouth towards Chu Tai, and the air around it immediately became extremely hot, and golden-red fan-shaped flames spewed out of the dragon's mouth.

Moreover, this flame was very strange. After it burst out from the dragon's mouth, it quickly spread in all directions. The overwhelming raging fire seemed to burn everything clean. Even the air was distorted by the burning, and some strange illusions emerged.

At the same time, tiny electric currents in the white clouds surrounding the dragon quickly spread in all directions as the heat wave rolled.

Chu Tai's gaze fell, and he did not see any movement. The strange beast that looked like a dragon and a snake in front of the cloud chariot also lowered its head. The clouds gathered and turned into dark clouds. As the beast opened its mouth, a torrent of lightning spewed out.

Water and fire collided in mid-air, causing a large amount of mist to rise up, in which electric arcs jumped back and forth, making crackling sounds.

The crowd watching felt as if there was electricity running through the air. Their bodies felt numb and they were startled and stepped back.

'wrong……'

Chu Tai, standing on the cloud chariot, looked at the dragon and the man below with a strange expression.

In his eyes, the problems of the man below, who was wearing Si Zheng's uniform and had wood-like skin, were the result of being infected by the Dao Fruit fragments.

But as soon as Chu Tai came into contact with the mechanical dragon, he discovered that the dragon also had power similar to that of the Dao Fruit fragments, and that it was not in the same system as Si Zheng's power, and the Dao Fruit fragments of the two were not the same.

Chu Tai, realizing this, threw out the Liuhe Circle, wanting to test it out first so as to subdue the dragon.

Unexpectedly, the dragon suddenly raised its horn, and the carvings on it, which were similar to inscriptions on a stele, shone brightly. Dozens of illusory and uncertain spells emerged, and the falling six-in-one circle was uncontrollably wrapped around the horn. The spell closed inwards, turning into an invisible restraint that fixed the six-in-one circle on the horn.

"Ok?"

The onlookers immediately realized that the unicorn horn itself was also a magical weapon, and it was a magical weapon specifically designed to counter the Liuhe Circle and other magic weapons that could be used to capture objects from people.

Then, the dragon stretched out one claw, and lightning and fire merged in it, converging inward and transforming into a lightning ball that was shot out.

This time, even Taoist Ruo Que's face tightened. Even though he was watching from afar, he could feel the horrifying sense of destruction in the thunder and fire orb. He secretly wondered whether his Qing Heyi could withstand it.

While everyone was thinking about how to respond to such an attack, Chu Tai had already stretched out his hand and pointed at a long banner beside him. Seven evil spirits intertwined in the air and turned into water curtains that fell down, layer upon layer, like thousands of layers of gauze. The thunder and fire orbs hit them, and countless gauze flew and tore into pieces, steaming up heavy mist.

But the seven evil spirits above only shook slightly and were not broken, let alone hurt Chu Tai himself.

Instead, the dragon snake transformed by the Canglong Cone took the opportunity to approach the dragon, twisted it violently, and bumped into it with its head, trying to pierce its scales.

But at this moment, a stone brick flew out and hit the beast head hard. The stone brick collapsed, and the Canglong Cone inside appeared.

Immediately afterwards, a jade mirror rose into the air, reflecting the Canglong Cone and freezing it in mid-air.

The fixed Canglong Cone lost its ability to change under the mirror light, and the image of the dragon, snake and strange beast condensed by water vapor also collapsed instantly.

But many people don’t care about all this. They are just curious about what happened to the stone bricks before?

Yun Wei looked at the broken bricks and spoke dully.

"If I'm not mistaken, the stone brick just now is just an ordinary brick. How could someone refine such a thing into a magic weapon? No, should I say, this material can also be made into a magic weapon? Or am I wrong, and that is not a real stone brick, but was deliberately refined into this shape?"

"That thing was originally an ordinary stone brick. I saw a mud mark on it. It must have been instantly refined into a magic weapon..."

It was Yitai who said this, but his eyes were a little dull when he said the last sentence.

Renheng was also dumbfounded, while the head of Lingbao sect and the head of Shangqing sect fell into silence.

Seeing this, Ruo Que couldn't help but ask again: "My two Taoist friends, what is going on?"

"This is the fruit of the immortal family."

After a long silence, the head of Lingbao Sect spoke slowly.

"To ascend to heaven, all our ancestors had to condense their own immortal Dao fruit. The ability used by this Si Zheng in front of us should be the manifestation of his Dao fruit, or the innate magical power he obtained after becoming an immortal."

The head of the Shangqing Sect continued, "Just like the Dao Fruit that my predecessors of the Shangqing Sect left behind, the ability to draw talismans in mid-air, there is no need to open an altar or perform rituals, no need to look inward to observe the talismans, as long as you know how to change the talismans, you can use the void as paper and your magic power as ink to draw at will."

"So, his ability is to sacrifice and refine magic weapons at will?"

When Taoist Ruoque heard this, a trace of fear flashed in his eyes as he looked at the young man, trying to hide the pain in his heart.

The two sect leaders, who had not noticed the many distracting thoughts in Taoist Ruo Que's mind, nodded one after another. Among them, the leader of the Lingbao Sect even began to speculate on his foundation and Taoist achievements based on Si Zheng's methods.

"Just from this method, it seems that this Chief Justice's path is not the art of mechanical engineering, but the art of natural engineering, which is to dismantle all things, comprehend all things, and create all things."

Upon hearing this, the head of the Shangqing Sect was stunned for a moment and asked in confusion: "In this case, how do you explain the aura of the mechanical dragon?"

(End of this chapter)