Cursed Mountains and Seas

Chapter 115 Sister Axiao, I Want You
A burst of lightning crackled through the sleeves of his dragon robe, the energy surging outwards and nearly tearing the cuffs open.

It's clear they really like this name.

Wang Cheng leaped up from the "puzzling" door panel, rising ten feet as lightly as a leaf.

It seems that a spark of spirituality has already broken free from the heavy shackles of the body through the "bridge between heaven and earth," becoming free and unrestrained, a world apart from the past.

Even though his physical strength remained almost unchanged, the sheer power of this divinely inspired "unity of man and nature" allowed him to easily defeat three opponents and completely overcome his past self.

He didn't fall when he reached the highest point of his jump.

Instead, like the magical skill of "Fairy Rope," it uses its hands and feet to quickly climb into the sky, following the clouds, rain, and breeze around it.

In the blink of an eye, he had climbed higher than the three-story pavilion in Fenglinzhai where the "first birthday ceremony" was held.

Wang Cheng discovered that by combining Bai Shuilang's "Gathering Beasts and Taming Birds, Enlightening All Kinds of Beings" and Chao Fenglang's "Summoning Wind and Rain, Commanding Lightning and Listening to Thunder," he could temporarily enlighten the various soldiers and generals around him.

Wind, rain, thunder, lightning, fish, turtles, shrimp, crabs, and even grass and trees are all potential threats!
Although it is not as strong as permanent enchantment, it is very convenient to use anytime.

Just like at this moment, it seemed as if countless hands were surrounding him, allowing him to easily gain leverage in mid-air.

In the end, one day, the Three Realms will be at their service, and the Five Emperors will welcome them. All the gods will pay homage, and commanding thunder and lightning may not even be a dream.

In addition, when permanently enlightening several guardian spirits, one could only use a large number of bricks to violently enlighten them, knowing only how but not why.

Now, however, one can use [Listening to Thunder] to follow the inner voice of all things and find gaps to enter, enlightening the mind, achieving far greater effects than before with less than half the consumption of the past.

The upper limit of one's own spiritual capacity to bear the guardian spirits has also been greatly increased.

If he wanted, he could easily enlighten a monster like Shui Rou, the clam maiden from Huang Yuanzhou's family.

And unlike Huang Yuanzhou, you don't have to suffer from numbness in your feet.

Of course, the basic spiritual abilities of officials are only the most basic skills. Without in-depth exploration of unique skills, extraordinary techniques, and secret orthodox methods, they are not enough to defeat the enemy.

What Wang Cheng was most concerned about was how much his combat power would increase after reaching the sixth rank, given the amplification of his own inner light and rank on the secret orthodox technique, "Crossing the Ocean Star-Tracing Technique."

He chanted the incantation: "Eight mighty gods, divine strategies and jade inscriptions. Summon dragons to bring rain, gather qi and smoke. By command!"

The dragon robe and python robe, which could only be effective on the surface of the body when he was at the seventh rank, suddenly burrowed into his body.

Wang Cheng's eyes suddenly turned into sharp vertical pupils, a dragon tail with green scales appeared behind his buttocks, and sharp claws with a cold glint grew from his hands and feet.

With a slight release of the wind and thunder energies, he instantly soared into the air.

Under the cover of the clouds and rain, his body swelled up to twice its original size, and he clenched his fists and punched them hard into the sky.

Boom! ! !

Like a giant beating a drum, it smashed a huge hole in the rain curtain overhead, and raindrops within a radius of ten feet followed this blow, causing the Milky Way to hang upside down and surge upwards.

The dragon robe, crafted using the "Overseas Star-Traveling Technique," is clearly of a higher quality.

With the natal star deity entering the body, from skin to flesh, it can already exert power far exceeding that of a human body, showing a bit of the divine power of Pu Shouying's [Eight Gates Golden Lock Formation].

Wang Cheng exhaled a long breath of white air while in mid-air, and his body fell straight backward.

The two children, Qingfeng and Honglonghonglong, reappeared and carried him lightly to the ground.

With these two guardian spirits, Wang Cheng no longer had to worry about falling to his death from masts that were dozens of meters high.

If things continue like this, the future of these two energies, wind and thunder, might not be the expected wings of wind and thunder, but rather the wheels of wind and thunder?

That sounds even cooler!

"We were still held back by the molted skin of the money-colored white snake."

If we use the dragon molt left behind when Sister Axiao transformed into a human as a dragon robe, the effect would definitely be far more than this; it could even transform me directly into a fully-fledged dragon without any problem.

The matter of upgrading the dragon armor should also be put on the agenda.

Wang Cheng flipped over and landed on his feet. Yan Yunxiao was already gracefully approaching him in the misty rain, her jade-like feet gliding on the water.

"Little Chengzi, you're amazing! You broke through to the sixth rank in one go after just starting out as a part-time worker."

It was only a few days later than my human form.

While not a true genius like the one next door who's envied by the gods, nor a genius born of hard work, he can still be considered a genius with a powerful background, which is already quite remarkable.

He took Wang Cheng's hand and examined him from head to toe, even touching his dragon tail with affection to confirm that he had indeed successfully broken through and was much stronger than a normal sixth-grade.

If Tang Miaofu, the boatwoman from West Lake who was poisoned to death, were to stand here again, she would not need to poison anyone; she could easily win the battle.

After Yunxiao escaped her predicament, her dragon body and human body no longer hindered each other. Within two days, her human body, the pearl-diving girl, successfully broke through to the sixth rank, one step ahead of Wang Cheng.

During this period, the East Sea was in great turmoil, and that human body, which was not restricted by the local deities, was constantly putting out fires and carrying out many tasks that the dragon body could not directly show itself for.

When Wang Cheng was dividing the spoils, in order to obtain the two protective items, the Silver Servant and the Golden Evil Master, he specially recruited her into the Green Robe Gang and the Baoshan Thousand Household Office, and appointed her as the bow of the "Eight Treasures" sailing warship.

During this time, she sailed her warship across the East China Sea, showing off her power and suppressing the arrogance of many foreign pirates. At the same time, she also attracted many excellent soldiers to Wang Cheng.

Wang Cheng inwardly complained that she was as bad at praising people as ever, but remembering he still had important business to attend to, he didn't immediately make a wish. Instead, he first asked her about the doubts he had encountered when the merging of the two major official positions was interrupted:

"Sister Axiao, your family has a long history of learning. Have you ever met anyone who successfully integrated new professions before?"
I want to combine the two positions of Bai Shui Lang and Chao Feng Lang, but what's still missing?

Yunxiao pulled him into the pavilion in the courtyard and sat him down. She gently stomped her feet, and the soldiers in her body automatically materialized to serve them tea.

He took a sip of the fine Wuyi rock tea before saying:

"Speaking of examples of people successfully fusing with divine positions in the past, I do know one."

You should know that the establishment of every dynasty and country throughout history was essentially a grand religious ritual.

By using at least one national treasure-level "talismanic artifact" and the official rank system to correspond with celestial phenomena, the nation, as a replica of the universe, is infused with Daoist energy, making it a truly existing entity.

Over time, the official positions established by many ancient countries eventually became various official titles and ranks.

Many more official positions disappeared into the annals of history because they existed for too short a time or were replaced by other positions during reforms.

For example, there are records from the late Han Dynasty that Cao Cao specially appointed the General of Tomb Raiders and the Captain of Tomb Raiders, who destroyed and looted wherever they went, leaving no remains undiscovered.

Both of these official positions were short-lived and failed to become established official ranks that would be passed down through generations.

Wang Cheng took out several plates of pastries from the hole in the Four Seas Tongbao coin and placed them eagerly in front of Yun Xiao, then readily agreed, saying:

"And then what happened? There should still be a lineage of 'Tomb Raiders' in the world now, right?"
Although rarely seen, their protective talisman, the "Tomb Raider Talisman," is extremely famous.

Yunxiao took a delicious bite of the soft, sweet, and chewy nine-layer cake before continuing:

Have you heard of Yang Lianzhenjia, the infamous sorcerer of the Yunmeng Empire?

On the surface, he was a Buddhist monk from Tibet, but in reality, he was a tomb raider who plundered the six imperial tombs of the Song Dynasty and many other powerful and wealthy tombs.

The most infamous atrocity was digging up the body of Emperor Lizong of Song, cutting off his head and making it into a wine vessel called the "Kapala Bowl," which was then presented to the Yunmeng Emperor and passed down through generations in the Golden Family.

Later, it seems to have become a talisman, and the head was only retrieved and reburied after the current dynasty captured Dadu.

It is said that among the assassins raised by Yang Lianzhenjia, some of them used the immense divine energy of the First Emperor of Han in the Yunmeng Empire to merge the earth-rank official titles of "Tufuzi" and "Ganshanke" into the long-lost "Mojin Xiaowei".

This is why they were able to successfully raid even the largest tombs.

My suggestion is to try to sense what that new official position actually is, and then look for talismans and protective objects strongly related to it, especially those representing official rank such as the Tomb Raider Seal, the Tomb Raider Talisman, and the Crouching Tiger Waist Token.

A single word awakened him from his dream, and Wang Cheng suddenly realized the truth:
"When holding the inauguration ceremony, the more closely the talisman and the talisman are related to the official position and rank, the better."

While talismans like gold, silver, and copper coins can be used interchangeably, they are of no help in matters of merging into auspicious positions.

This is exactly what's missing!

Moreover, I think it would be best to trace back to the source and find the earliest representative figure; only then can the success rate of the talisman be guaranteed.

Having found a solution, Wang Cheng was in high spirits and looked up intently at the stunningly beautiful Dragon Girl.

Why are you looking at me?

"Let me make this clear first, I'm extremely poor. I don't have any treasures that could represent an official's rank or status in ancient times, and um, I don't have any money either."

Yunxiao, who was happily eating her snacks, quickly covered her small purse embroidered with silver lotus flowers and looked at him warily.

"No, sister, you do!"

Wang Cheng leaned forward with absolute certainty, staring intently into her bright, evasive eyes, and said, word by word:

"As we agreed before, it's time to fulfill your promise. You can give me anything you have."

Anyone who goes back on their word is a puppy.

Seeing Wang Cheng's serious demeanor, Yun Xiao finally realized that his request was probably quite extraordinary.

Finding it difficult to maintain her usual aloofness, she nervously clutched her small purse and the hem of her clothes, stammering:
"Tell me, what do you want?"

I felt a little regretful; I shouldn't have spoken so confidently back then.

'What should we do? What should we do?'
What should I do if Xiao Chengzi asks for the 3,827,668 taels and 32 coins of dowry my father left me?

'That's fine, but if he also wants the seventy-two cabinets of precious palace dresses, phoenix coronet and embroidered robes, thirty chests of jewelry, two hundred pairs of silver-threaded cloud shoes, gold-embroidered shoes, and the 100,000 mu of fertile land in Minzhou that my mother left me...'
My elder brother left me 115 bushels of pearls, 12 treasuries of ancient coins from the Wei and Jin dynasties, and 200 swords, spears, and halberds used by famous figures in ancient times.
My second brother left me forty-five flawless jade discs, thirty-eight coral trees, twenty jade Buddhas, and five hundred and forty-three pieces of calligraphy and paintings by famous people.
My third brother left me eight hundred bolts of four-threaded silk gauze, two hundred bolts of silk fabric, eighty boxes of porcelain and jade, and an ivory-made canopy bed.
My inventory of Minzhou Zhijia character repositories is completely depleted!
No!

Wang Cheng, a poor man who had only been rich for one generation, could never imagine how impoverished it was for his father to give him 30,000 taels of pocket money a year, compared to the truly wealthy families of the Changsheng clan who raised their daughters in luxury.

Even with the limits of imagination, one would not realize that one's immense wealth is so great that even if one jumped, one could not reach other people's toes.

At this moment, his eyes were only on the silver blouse on the dragon girl's chest. Mustering his courage, he spoke each word with unwavering resolve:

"Sister Axiao, I want you!"

Before he could finish speaking, Yunxiao, as if struck by a sudden thought, was already filled with shock. A blush rose to her cheeks, and she awkwardly reached out her small hand and pushed hard against his chest.
"You want me? No way! Things are moving too fast!"

The power of a dragon erupted from within him, and with a loud "boom," a black shadow soared high into the air and flew out of the courtyard.

(End of this chapter)