Translator: Seventh Peril Editor: Anuvrat
Mo Fanlong directed his gloomy gaze at the frozen lake. At this moment, there were still a lot of powerhouses constantly skimming over. Above the frozen lake, there were countless Black Striped Pythons writhing around. From the looks of it, it was as though they wanted to pull all the powerhouses that appeared on the surface of the frozen lake to the bottom.
After staring at the surface of the lake for a while, Mo Fanlong sneered and prepared to rush out.
“Young Lord, I’m afraid we don’t have that much time left. The Innate Temple’s inheritance is the most important thing. What we should do now is to gather together with the other Elders and then enter the Inheritance Grounds.” Behind Mo Fanlong, a powerhouse quickly rushed over and said in a low voice.
It was obvious that even though he was not sure if Ye Zhong was dead or alive right now, it was as his subordinates had said, the most important thing was the Innate Temple’s inheritance. If he could obtain it, even if a mere Ye Zhong was still alive, how big is the wave he could make?
“*Whoosh— Whoosh— Whoosh—*”
As Mo Fanlong and his men left, the surrounding powerhouses all revealed strange expressions one by one. But very quickly, these powerhouses also moved out to collect the Purple Frost Profound Lotus. Obviously, without a way to obtain the Purple Wood Spirit Root, these Purple Frost Profound Lotuses were pretty good items.
Following the moves of these people, the fight over the lake’s surface became increasingly intense.
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While the fight over the lake was reaching the climax, Ye Zhong’s body floated on the surface of the frozen lake and looked up at the sky, deep in thought.
When he was struck back by Mo Fanlong, the moment he was near the surface of the frozen lake, the Secret Art of Six Grave Swords in his body sent out a strange reaction, which gave Ye Zhong a hunch that the Purple Wood Spirit Root was mostly at the bottom of the lake. As he dropped in the lake, the Heavenly Circuit of Spiritual Qi within his body began to circulate. Even though he could not breathe, he did not get the slightest feeling of suffocation.
In all directions, there were many Black Striped Pythons pouncing towards the lake. Each and every one of the powerhouse was wrapped around all over their body by the Black Striped Pythons, sinking into the bottom of the lake like a black ball of wool. Strangely enough, the Black Striped Pythons did not attack Ye Zhong.
“Could it be that these Black Striped Pythons are guarding only the stone platform and not the Purple Frost Profound Lotuses? I have no intention of going up to the stone platform, so they aren’t interested in me?” Ye Zhong pondered for a moment before putting the question aside. His gaze fell directly to the depth of the lake. As long as he could find the Purple Wood Spirit Root, he would be able to give Mo Fanlong a big surprise for the next encounter.
“That is……”
Ye Zhong looked at the bottom of the lake for a second before his vision focused on a spot directly below the stone platform. From Ye Zhong’s perspective, he could see that the foundation of the stone platform had been corroded long ago, but the countless roots of the Purple Frost Profound Lotus were intertwined together, like a huge tree trunk, spreading from the bottom of the lake to the bottom of the collapsed stone platform and supporting it.
In the middle of the trunk; made up of these densely twisted roots, about 200 meters away from Ye Zhong, there was a small purple glow, slightly flickering.
Within the purple glow, it was possible to see clearly that there was a palm-sized purple spirit root. A strange aura that was extremely hot and cold at the same time flowed out from the spirit root, and at the same time an enormous amount of Spiritual Qi of Heaven and Earth was spreading out. It was as if the purple spirit root was a general spot where the Spiritual Qi of Heaven and Earth in the frozen lake converged.
“*Clang——*”
Ye Zhong activated the Secret Art of Six Grave Swords within his body, as if it was also craving for the purple spirit root.
The reaction of the Six Grave Swords excited Ye Zhong. It looked like this thing must be the Purple Wood Spirit Root that he had been searching for!
After a moment of excitement, Ye Zhong did not hesitate any longer. He immediately dived down into the depths beneath.
Compared to the chaotic situation up above, the location of the Purple Wood Spirit Root could be said to be tranquil. When Ye Zhong got closer, he realized that the area within a few meters of the Purple Wood Spirit Root was a vacuum zone, even the lake water was repelled.
“It’s at least a thousand years old!”
Ye Zhong stared at the Purple Wood Spirit Root that seemed to have gained more or less intelligence, and without any further delay he moved to the side of the root and sat down cross-legged. He started channeling the Secret Art of Six Grave Swords within his body.
“*Whizz— Whizz— Whizz—*”
When Ye Zhong began to refine the Purple Wood Spirit Root, the originally stable vacuum zone started to fluctuate, and the surrounding Spiritual Qi of Heaven and Earth also began to dissipate gradually. The strange scenery of the Purple Wood Spirit Root also began to disappear.
However, at the same time, the fluctuation of Energy contained within the Purple Wood Spiritual Root turned into a purple twilight mist that wrapped around the surface of Ye Zhong’s body at an extremely fast speed, and then was continuously drawn into the body with his slow inhaling.
The Heavenly Circuit of Spiritual Qi in Ye Zhong’s body began to circulate slowly, and under his skin, the cyan meridians that were initially faintly discernible suddenly became apparent. It was as if Ye Zhong had turned transparent, allowing people to clearly see the meridians in his body.
At this moment, these meridians were squirming as Ye Zhong was cultivating, as if they were searching for the most suitable position for their existence!
There was a legend that the human body was one of the most suitable forms for cultivation within the Three Thousand God Realms. As for the meridians in the human body, they were originally fixed in a profound position. Especially for infants in the mother’s body, their meridians would present the Innate Phenomena! [1]
However, only the Human Race had the process of growth to maturity, as their body shape changed, the position of the meridians within their body started to shift. And the Fourth Layer of Body Tempering Nine Layers, Tendon Altering Stage was to restore the meridians within the body to their original innate positions.
However, it was not easy to achieve such a feat. It was already good enough for a common Spiritual Secret Art of Body Tempering to be able to restore several main meridians to their innate positions! However, Ye Zhong was cultivating the most suitable for the Six Yin Meridians, the legendary Secret Art of Six Grave Swords! A Divine-rank Spiritual Secret Art of Body Tempering, the Secret Arts of this rank were rarely seen in the world. Even when Ye Zhong was in his prime back then, he had to pay a huge price to obtain it! This Secret Arts strength wasn’t imaginable !
Therefore, as Ye Zhong refined the thousand-year Purple Wood Spirit Root to break through to the Fourth Layer of Body Tempering – Tendon Altering Stage, all the meridians in his body, including some that ordinary people might not even notice for a lifetime, were slowly squirming and recovering to their innate positions.
A faint glimmer appeared on the surface of Ye Zhong’s skin, and a faint aura of Daoist Sword Qi was spreading out from his body, following the aura of Heavenly Circuit of Spiritual Qi extending over his entire body.
“*Phew——*”
After a long while, Ye Zhong let out a sigh of relief. His eyes opened, and all different phenomena surrounding his body vanished. The only difference was that the current aura emitting from his body had grown stronger, by several folds.
“Fourth Layer of Body Tempering – Tendon Altering Stage!”
Feeling the changes in his body, Ye Zhong muttered. The effects of the Purple Wood Spirit Root he had just refined, was good beyond his imagination. It could actually help him advance to the Tendon Altering Stage so smoothly.
“If I had a few more of them, I might be able to break through to the Fifth Layer of Body Tempering – The Pulse Opening Stage in one breath!” Ye Zhong scanned his surroundings and sighed.
It was a very rare chance for this amount of Purple Frost Profound Lotuses to grow even a single Purple Wood Spirit Root, yet he wanted a few more at the moment. It was wishful thinking.
Ye Zhong shook his head and closed his eyes, deep in thought. Speaking of which, the speed of his cultivation should be considered to be extremely fast after he reincarnated, but so far, his biggest weakness was that he did not have any suitable Spiritual Secret Art of Offensive Attack [2] to cultivate. Those Absolute Arts of his Master from back then, although he had a few that he could barely cultivate right now, it took up too much time. Ye Zhong, on the other hand, did not have any ordinary Spiritual Secret Art of Offensive Attack.
“I am wrong……”
As he was deep in thought, Ye Zhong’s mind suddenly moved a bit, and then a Spiritual Secret Art of Offensive Attack appeared in his mind.
Shura Sword Seal Seal! [3]
The appearance of this Spiritual Secret Art of Offensive Attack was extremely sudden. Even Ye Zhong had to ponder for a moment before he could remember that it was found in a Mysterious Ancient Cave along with the Secret Art of Six Grave Swords. Back then, after he had casually skimmed through it for a moment, he dismissed it as a low-grade Spirit-rank Spiritual Secret Art of Offensive Attack. Therefore, he had not tried to cultivate it.
However, from the looks of it, this Shura Sword Seal Seal might have some connection with the Secret Art of Six Grave Swords!
Thinking of this, Ye Zhong fell silent for a moment, and then began to cultivate it.
No matter what, this level of Spiritual Secret Art of Offensive Attack was the best for the current him. One had to know that the Xingxiang Sect probably didn’t have many low-grade Spirit-rank Spiritual Secret Arts of Offensive Attack.
“*Hand seals*”
As Ye Zhong’s hand seals changed slightly, a faint sword imprint appeared on the palm of his hand. The sword imprint was blood-red, and looked a little strange.
“Hmm?”
Ye Zhong stared at the imprint formed by the Shura Sword Seal, and his expression changed slightly because he discovered that the Shura Sword Seal Seal’s cultivation seemed to be different from ordinary Spiritual Secret Arts. If an ordinary Spiritual Secret Art of Offensive Attack was successfully cultivated, it would be able to unleash its power! However, the Shura Sword Seal Seal was not as great as imagined after successfully cultivating. However, it could actually be stacked repeatedly!
According to Ye Zhong’s conjecture, although a single imprint of Shura Sword Seal Seal was not very powerful, if he could cultivate a few more sword imprints, the power of this move would far beyond his imagination!
TL note(s):
[1] “Innate Phenomena” refers to the eight natural phenomena in the Eight Trigrams such as “Heaven and Earth, Mountain and River, Thunder and Wind, Water and Fire”, they are the balance through opposites and acceptance of change.
[2] Updating translation: this “Spiritual Secret Art of Offensive Attack” is the same as “Attack Spiritual Secret Art” — that was previously used in the old chapters.
[3] “Shura” or “Sura”, is the benevolent Devas (gods) in Hindu mythology, class of beings defined by their opposition to the more wicked Devas (Asuras).