Above the Great Dao
Chapter 194 - 107: Copper Sword Slays the Demon Dragon_2

Chapter 194: Chapter 107: Copper Sword Slays the Demon Dragon_2

She was busy with her own affairs, and found it slightly odd that the Three Ghost Kings had not come to report, but she then put the matter out of her mind and continued to use the Sheep Horn Heavenly Spirit Lamp to search the underworld.

The villagers around Qianyang Mountain were somewhat surprised, these past days, as it seemed that there were far fewer evil spirits than before, even the usually frequent drifting skulls were rarely seen.

At night, they could walk from one village to another without encountering even a single evil spirit.

When they went out to work in the fields, they didn’t have to worry about being disturbed by evil spirits, which made things much easier.

As time passed, incidents involving evil spirits occurred less and less, with occasional encounters generally caused by passing evil spirits.

Later, even the evil spirits passing through Qianyang Mountain behaved themselves, not causing trouble in the area, but only beyond it. It was perhaps because they had heard of a major evil spirit in the area named Chen Shi, who would capture troublemaking spirits and lock them in a strange house, thus they behaved.

Chen Shi did a great deed, but despite Granny Wu Zhu’s expectant gaze, he showed no signs of ascending; instead, he seemed rather troubled.

His Golden Core had cultivated to the Second Transition, with his Dantian transforming into the Palace of Zhuling. ƒreeωebnovel.ƈom

As the saying goes, "In the Palace of Zhuling, cultivate the Golden Core; the innate furnace and wheel turn."

Inside his Dantian, a sea of fire formed a wheel-shaped furnace, with the Golden Core at the center, surrounded by Qi-Blood like flames, flowing into the Golden Core, which was as red as cinnabar and extremely vivid.

He had moved from the Golden Core First Transition to the Second Transition in just one month’s time, which was incredibly swift.

This speed could already compare to cultivators with top-tier Divine Embryos.

However, his grandfather had told him that as one’s cultivation deepened, the amount of medicine needed each day would increase, and the amount of herbal medicine required for medicinal baths would also need to double.

Naturally, the expenses would increase accordingly.

Chen Shi sighed, fewer evil spirits meant fewer stepmothers, leading to poorer business.

Nowadays, he often went to the county town to buy medicine; the daily cost was ten pieces of silver, which amounted to a hundred in ten days.

"In one year’s time, I’ll end up as poor as Tianqing, unable to marry Xiao Jin."

These days, as his expenses increased without income, he couldn’t help but worry, "Xiao Jin is also penniless. How can two penniless spouses support our child? What should we name the child of Xiao Jin and me? Should we make Tianqing the godfather?"

He took out three incense sticks, lit them, and placed them in front of him; just then, a green, ghostly hand reached out from the small temple behind him, snatched the three incense sticks, and retreated back.

Granny Sha’s Three Ghost Kings were currently sitting on the shrine in the temple, inserting the incense into the incense burner in front of the shrine and happily inhaling the aroma.

It was originally monitoring Chen Shi from afar, but for some unknown reason, it was discovered by Chen Shi’s black dog. Chen Shi then captured it in an encounter and confined it in the small temple to aid his cultivation.

The Three Ghost Kings struggled and resisted, but the abundance of incense that Chen Shi provided persuaded them, and they eventually assisted in his cultivation.

In the past few days, as Chen Shi cultivated, they also benefited greatly and no longer spoke of leaving.

"Watching over Chen Shi from afar or from inside the temple makes no difference."

The Three Ghost Kings, indulging in the scent of incense, thought to themselves, "Moreover, it’s clearer from inside the temple. Granny will definitely praise me for being smart!"

Fu Leisheng’s private school was in Bridge Bay Town and had already opened a few days earlier. The joyful teacher invited Chen Shi to visit and said to him, "I have achieved Nascent Soul, and I have not yet thanked you."

Chen Shi was happy for him and advised him, "When you reach Nascent Soul Emergence, avoid pregnant women and livestock about to give birth."

Fu Leisheng was perplexed and asked, "Why is that?"

Chen Shi then recounted his own experience where a student’s Nascent Soul mistakenly entered a pregnant woman, saying, "Whenever a Nascent Soul enters a mother, you will inevitably die no matter what. The Purple River Cart is the innate cushion, the umbilical cord is the Naihe Bridge, and the amniotic fluid is Meng Po Soup. Any carelessness will trap you in the mysteries of the womb. If you happen to enter a mother’s womb just as she’s giving birth, you might maintain your memories from a previous life, but if you cry out, a breath of Innate True Qi will be lost, and the memories from your past life will scatter. You must remain silent for five years to retain your memories."

Fu Leisheng was utterly astonished and said, "Is it really so? Isn’t achieving Nascent Soul fraught with dangers?"

"Besides that, there’s also Heavenly Thunder. Because the Nascent Soul is not Pure Yang, it attracts Heavenly Thunder. Do not have your soul emerge during thunderstorms. Since the Nascent Soul is unstable, it can also be scattered by the wind, so you should not stand in the wind for long, as it will weaken you."

Chen Shi explained the taboos of the Nascent Soul, puzzledly adding, "Didn’t you know this?"

Fu Leisheng laughed and said, "How would I know? We scholars, without a serendipitous encounter, would remain scholars for life, never able to become higher-degree holders. We simply cannot access superior cultivation methods, and even achieving the Golden Core would be an accomplishment. Let alone achieving the Nascent Soul, that’s often a privilege of noble families, what does that have to do with us poor folks? If you hadn’t told me, I surely would have died during my Nascent Soul Emergence."

He initially spoke in a refined manner, but having spent over a month in the countryside, he had adapted to local customs.

However, what Fu Leisheng mentioned was a common phenomenon.

Common family cultivators could not surpass the great medicine body tempering stage, were unaware of the processes of seven alterations and eight conversions to the ninth return, and even if they used Spirit Pills externally, spending a lifetime’s savings wouldn’t afford one, let alone possessing sufficiently high-ranking Cultivation Techniques. Thus, the Golden Core Realm remained the lifetime limit for cultivators from impoverished backgrounds, with no possibility of advancement!

Those who could advance were often like the earlier Mr. Zeng, who entered a powerful family as a slave or servant and with the patronage of a nobleman, had the possibility of achieving the Nascent Soul.

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