God of Pets

Chapter 653 Iron-Blooded Veteran
Secret Technique: Xuanwu Shield (Unique Item)
Energy consumption: 24.

Skill level: 1.

After killing the Nine Rocks Old Turtle King, a secret core was dropped. At first glance, Chen Guan thought it was the Xuanwu True Skill, but upon closer inspection, he realized it was not, but a secret technique.

After studying it, Chen Guan concluded that it was a secret technique that involved releasing vital energy to form a protective shield.

Chen Guan's protective divine skill was already highly developed, so there was no need to add another secret technique like this. Therefore, he put it away for the time being.

After returning, Chen Guan told Ji Nanhong about his plan to search for the Five Senses Treasure.

Ji Nanhong's expression was one of utter disbelief. She could hardly believe that Chen Guan, with such strong abilities, was only at the fourth level of perception.

But in the end, one cannot deny the fact that Chen Guan truly possessed the Four Senses.

“I’ve heard many legends of peerless geniuses among the ten great families, but I’ve never heard of anything so outrageous. You, a mere fourth-level cultivator, actually managed to defeat Huang Tianming and slay the Nine Rocks Old Turtle King. This kind of strength is probably comparable to those old guys used by the ten great families to suppress the cave heavens. If you had more achievements, you might be able to compete with the currently popular Zi Donglai for the strongest position among the younger generation,” Ji Nanhong exclaimed.

Because the cave heavens are the main sphere of influence of mankind, some of the top elders of the ten great families were left in the cave heavens and were not allowed to enter the great cave heavens.

Most of these old guys were invincible in their youth, but for various reasons, they were unable to go to the Great Cave Heaven, or they were demoted from the Great Cave Heaven and returned to guard the Cave Heaven.

They have accumulated hundreds, even thousands of years of experience, possessing incredibly profound inner energy and countless secret and combined techniques, making them extremely enigmatic.

They are the truly terrifying beings who suppress the cave heavens, incomparable to those newly emerging geniuses. Compared to them, the newly emerging geniuses are as green as newborn eggs, and there is no comparison.

Just like in this Heavenly Pillar Treasure Extreme Profound Heaven, there is an old man from the Qin family who has lived for more than two thousand years and once shone brightly in the era of the Emperor Ancestor. It is said that even King Qin is a junior of this old man, and his strength is unfathomable.

Chen Guan hadn't paid attention to this issue before, but after he received the map from Ji Nanhong and figured out the location of the Sky Treasure Tree Leaf, he couldn't help but frown.

The location of that leaf was actually Ironblood Mountain, where that old Qin family patriarch lived.

"What a coincidence! Could it be that the Qin family patriarch was there because of that leaf?" Chen Guan could only rush there to check before making any further plans.

When Chen Guan arrived at Iron Blood Mountain, he indeed found that Iron Blood Mountain was the place where the leaves were suppressed, and the Qin family's house was actually built on the entrance.

Upon seeing this, Chen Guan knew that the reason why the old man from the Qin family was here must be related to that leaf.

With things having come to this point, Chen Guan could only take it one step at a time and first visit the old man from the Qin family.

The house wasn't very big; it was built halfway up the mountain, perfectly covering the hole that had been created by falling leaves.

Chen Guan knocked on the door, and soon he heard footsteps coming from inside.

Soon, an elderly man with gray hair opened the door from the inside, looked Chen Guan up and down, and asked, "Young man, who are you looking for?"

Chen Guan saw that the old man was wearing a hemp cloth coat, barefoot, with his trouser legs rolled up, his small feet and legs covered in mud, and he was wearing a straw hat on his head. His hands were also covered in mud, and he looked like a farmer who did farm work.

"I'm looking for Mr. Qin," Chen Guan quickly explained his purpose.

"No one here has the surname Qin," the old man said, and was about to close the door.

Chen Guan quickly reached out and pressed the door shut, looking at the old man and saying, "I've been looking for you, sir." He hadn't realized it before, but the aura that the old man had just displayed was not something an ordinary person could possess; it was the unique aura of a veteran of the battlefield, which Chen Guan had seen in some veterans of the Heavenly Court Army.

Moreover, Chen Guan saw many old scars on his legs and arms, beneath the mud.

"Do you recognize me?" the old man asked, looking Chen Guan up and down.

"I don't know you. I'm here to talk to you about what's under Ironblood Mountain," Chen Guan said directly, without beating around the bush.

The old man looked Chen Guan up and down again, then opened the door and said, "Come in."

Chen Guan followed the old man into the house and found that there were many vegetables planted in the yard, and there were hoes and watering tools next to them, indicating that the old man had just been working.

There was no one else here except for the elderly.

"You said you came here for something from down this mountain, do you know what it is?" The old man brought over a broken teapot, poured two bowls of tea, drank one himself, and gave the other bowl to Chen Guan, but he didn't say anything more.

Chen Guan picked up his teacup, took a sip, and put it down before saying, "A secret treasure."

"What secret treasure?" the old man asked again.

“A leaf,” Chen Guan replied.

The old man nodded upon hearing this and said, "It seems you do indeed know, and you're not lying to me. However, it's a pity that I've been researching here for hundreds of years, but I still haven't been able to figure out how to extract the treasure from that leaf. Your coming here is just a waste of your time."

"I can give it a try." Chen Guan was naturally not going to go back just because of his few words.

"There's no need for that. If I can't produce it, no one in the world can," the old man said with certainty.

"The way you're talking makes it sound like you're the best person in the world." Chen Guan felt that the old man was unwilling to give up the secret treasure, so he was trying to stop him from taking the leaves, which was why he said that.

“That’s right, I am the number one in the world. Back then, I was a member of the Qin Iron Cavalry. Would you say I was once the number one in the world?” the old man said calmly.

"The Qin Iron Cavalry? Which Qin Iron Cavalry?" Chen Guan asked, startled.

"The Qin cavalry that stormed into the Sky Realm." The old man revealed his origins.

"Ah!" Chen Guan felt a little horrified.

The Qin cavalry, whose members were all experts of the Great Cave Heaven realm, although the vast majority of them stormed into the Sky Secret Realm, a small portion remained behind.

If this old man is indeed a member of that Qin cavalry, then he has lived for thousands of years. Even if he fell into the cave heaven, his cultivation and abilities are still incredibly powerful.

The old man looked at Chen Guan and said, "Do you think I said this to stop you from taking the treasure from that leaf? Actually, I just don't want you to waste your time here. If you see that treasure, you will definitely not want to leave, but you will not be able to take it out. From then on, you will be like me, forever wasting your time here."

“I’m an old relic who could be buried at any moment. It’s one thing for me to waste my time here, but you are so young. It would be a real pity if you were to squander your youth here.”

(End of this chapter)