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Chapter 147, Section 146: [The Emperor's Dragon-like Appearance]

The jade rabbit falls in the west and the golden crow rises in the east.

A brilliant sunrise rose from the east, illuminating the ravaged land.

In this remote wilderness, there are collapsed mountains, withered grass and trees, and bottomless abyssal fissures everywhere.

In the distance, a newly branched tributary of the Huai River formed a small lake in a low-lying area, which then overflowed and flowed into a nearby crevice.

The spherical array shield was teetering on the verge of collapse, scattering countless tiny starlight particles.

The master of the great formation, Liu Hunkang, coughed up blood and collapsed to the ground the moment the Star Killing Sword shattered.

When he climbed out of the crater he had created, he glanced at the battlefield with a look of fear on his face, then quickly made a hand seal and cast a spell. With a stomp of his foot, he transformed into a beam of yellow light and vanished into the earth.

call!
Unexpectedly, a giant golden handprint burst through the air, piercing deep into the earth and capturing him.

Then, they quickly flew several miles and arrived at the edge of a cliff.

Even from a distance, Liu Hunkang saw Chen Sheng standing on the cliff and shouted anxiously.

“Buddha’s disciple, we had a small misunderstanding before, which led to this situation.”

Don't rush to kill anyone. All misunderstandings can be cleared up. Let's talk this out..."

Before he could finish his sentence, Chen Sheng, taking a deep breath, sealed him inside the lungs of the Pot Heaven to keep company with the Dragon King of the East Sea.

"Don't worry, this Buddhist disciple will not kill you."

A fourth-tier cultivator's life is precious; killing them like this would be such a waste.

A thought flashed through Chen Sheng's mind, and he immediately focused all his attention on inhaling.

He took a long breath, enough to draw in all the spiritual energy within a mile radius into his lungs. Then, with the blessing of the Buddha statue, he transformed that spiritual energy into a golden light, slowly repairing the sword wound that pierced through his chest.

[Hidden Yin Appearance]: In the appearance of all Buddhas, it represents vigorous vitality.

The sword wound inflicted by the Starry Sky Killing Sword looked serious, but the Yin Spirit has no vital points. Wang Wenqing's Yin Spirit was damaged by 30% before, yet his combat power remained undiminished. Chen Sheng's injury was nothing.

He didn't look down at Wang Wenqing, who was lying at the foot of the cliff, until he had completely healed the wounds on Yin Shen.

Under the attack of the Sea-Stabilizing Needle, the Yin Spirit of this fourth-level Taoist priest was completely shattered, and the [Size Ruyi] that had been placed on him also dissipated, returning him to the appearance of an ordinary person.

Chen Sheng had clearly seen that at the last moment when Wang Wenqing's Yin spirit shattered, several fragments of his soul returned to his body.

He is currently in a coma only because his shattered soul has failed to be pieced back together.

If healing techniques are used promptly, the person can still be saved.

But why save him?
Wang Wenqing, whose Yin spirit was shattered, was now useless. To regain his fourth-order cultivation, he would need to consume at least three strands of Qi and several decades of time, which drastically reduced the value of this fourth-order cultivator.

Chen Sheng clearly had no intention of making a long-term investment. After thinking for a while, he flicked his finger and extracted strands of Wang Wenqing's soul.

He formed a pale purple ball of energy in his hand and used the Myriad Paths of the Forest Technique, which he hadn't used in a long time, to replicate the memories in the soul. "Even if the Yin Spirit is shattered, the cultivation memories of a fourth-level cultivator still have some value."

Perhaps because his soul was shattered, the memories Chen Sheng glimpsed this time were extremely chaotic.

Like a complete roll of film being cut and then haphazardly pieced back together, a chaotic tide of memories, composed of fragmented scenes and characters, rushed towards Chen Sheng.

The cultivation experience of surviving the tribulation of lightning, the beautiful memories of playing with friends in childhood, the open and covert struggles with the court officials, the secrets of the palace that he accidentally learned, the daily life with the emperor, the chance encounter with the immortal in his youth... all of these turned into fragmented scenes presented to Chen Sheng. The valuable ones were collected, and the useless ones were discarded.

This process only stopped when Chen Sheng saw a particular scene.

It was a figure sitting upright on a golden dragon throne: a dragon's head and a human body, with deer antlers and white mane, its whole body covered with white dragon scales, its hands shaped like sharp claws, and a long dragon tail trailing behind it, its upright pupils majestic yet lively.

The appearance of the dragon people is somewhat similar to that of the Dragon King of the East Sea, but there are also obvious differences. One is nakedly wild, greedy and domineering; the other is elegant and noble, with a refined and dignified temperament.

"Wait, is this what the emperor looks like?"

In Wang Wenqing's memory, this was a scene of a secret conversation with the emperor.

After one court session, Emperor Huizong of the time asked him directly whether the elixir of immortality he had concocted was a scam.

Under the oppressive aura of the nation, Wang Wenqing could only admit in fear that the elixir of immortality was an ancient formula, and because no one had ever successfully refined it, it was difficult to distinguish its authenticity.

However, Emperor Huizong generously pardoned his crime of deceiving the emperor and said that he would still allow the Taoist sect to flourish and would support the Taoists in refining the Qi and Sha.

Afterwards, Zhao Ji revealed his current appearance and told Wang Wenqing that the purpose of collecting Qi Sha in the future would no longer be to refine longevity pills, but to serve to enlighten the spirits in the acupoints of his body.

Whether it's the 108 Heavenly Generals and Earthly Fiends of Taoism or the 99 Buddhist Generals and Fiends of Buddhism, the emperor would not share even one with anyone.

Instead, he wanted to monopolize everything, creating a Taoist Heavenly Court and a Buddhist Spirit Mountain within his physical body, aiming to advance to the fifth rank.

From then on, with the support of the imperial court, the Taoist sect began to collect ancient books from all over the world and compile the Longevity Taoist Canon. Wang Wenqing organized the cultivation experience and concepts of his predecessors and assisted the emperor in deducing the divine structure of the Heavenly Court and the spiritual mountain acupoints, constantly improving this martial art that could potentially advance to the fifth level.

Later, the imperial court launched the Flower and Stone Tribute, collecting rare flowers, exotic plants, and rare stones from all over the world, also in order to create auspicious sites to aid in promotion.

In order to ensure that the Taoist priests would serve him wholeheartedly, Emperor Huizong of Tang also spread a lie that once the evil spirits were fully formed, they would bestow evil energy upon the priests according to their merits.

Zhao Ji's dragon-like appearance and subsequent actions filled Wang Wenqing with dread.

He was always worried that the emperor would one day discard him after he had served his purpose, but a mental restraint had been planted in his mind that would be triggered if he revealed Zhao Ji's secrets or fled...

Upon seeing this in his memory, Chen Sheng was suddenly startled.

Is there a mental constraint on Wang Wenqing?

Realizing this, Chen Sheng saw Zhao Ji, the dragon-headed man in the memory image before him, blink his dragon eyes, look around, and then turn his dragon head thoughtfully to look at Chen Sheng, and say with a smile.

"Did you kill my beloved minister?"

Goodness, after the restriction was triggered, he directly descended into someone else's consciousness through a memory. Zhao Ji is truly skilled.

(End of this chapter)