Above the Great Dao -
Chapter 358 - 179: Offer Me the White Lotus
Chapter 358: Chapter 179: Offer Me the White Lotus
Chen Shi was deeply moved by these enthusiastic Independents. In the evening, the youth took his grandfather’s spirit tablet from the wooden cart, lit three sticks of incense, and silently thought, "Grandpa, I’ve found the organization of Independents. The people here treat me well, and they speak kindly. Although occasionally some are unkind to me, they treat me well after others give them a beating. Grandpa, are you doing well down there? You don’t need to worry about me."
He placed the incense in the small censer in front of the spirit tablet, took out the bedding, and prepared to sleep outdoors.
The Black Pot slept beside him.
Li Tianqing had disappeared, the Black Pot had cooked his meal, but he hadn’t come back to eat.
Chen Shi lay down, looking up at the sky.
Even at night, the Mist Ridge was as bright as the daytime, with towering Primordial Spirits seated in the air, only the far distance plunged into darkness.
Many Independents did not rest, exchanging their insights all night long.
Above Mist Ridge, the Void Great Realm, large and small, nestled like layers of the heavens, dazzlingly beautiful.
Within those Void Great Realms were suns, moons, and stars, emitting bright lights, forming worlds of their own.
Only those in the Returning Void Realm could cultivate such a Void Great Realm, a realm far beyond Chen Shi’s reach.
The gap was enormous.
Such beings, even among Independents, were rare and held in high regard.
Even for Independents, receiving guidance from such beings was a cause for overwhelming joy, seen as a serendipitous blessing earned by their ancestors.
Every Independent invited into a Void Great Realm felt honored and entered with a pilgrim’s heart.
Chen Shi had not initially realized how esteemed Cold Mountain Wanderer and Han Qian were until he saw the lofty status of those in the Returning Void Realm.
It was evident that the pointers from Cold Mountain Wanderer were worth far more than a few pieces of silver.
The existence of those in the Returning Void Realm was something to be proud of having been guided by them!
"Since Cold Mountain Wanderer is so powerful, why was he beaten until his nose was swollen and his face bruised? It seems like several of his bones were broken too."
Chen Shi was puzzled. No one had told him what had happened after he had died, so he didn’t know that Cold Mountain Wanderer’s disheveled state was thanks to him.
"I should first practice the Mind Control and Transformation Skill taught to me by Cold Mountain Wanderer and master these two skills."
Chen Shi did not underestimate these Independents but had been taught by his grandfather for the past two years. A casual pointer from his grandfather was something people outside would break their heads over to obtain.
Moreover, he was intimately familiar with a variety of talismans and had understood the mysterious aspects of skills through the talismans, feeling the skills the Independents had comprehended were of little merit.
Even, perhaps not even comparable to the Cultivation Techniques outside the True King’s Tomb!
Not to mention inside the True King’s Tomb, where there were many techniques comparable to the Water and Fire Refining Technique.
It didn’t really matter whether he learned the Independents’ techniques.
But the Mind Control and Transformation Skill instructed by Cold Mountain Wanderer, comparable to the talismans taught by his grandfather and the techniques in the True King’s Tomb, were worth studying.
Chen Shi sat up, took a piece of paper, and folded it into a paper crane, which he balanced in the palm of his hand.
He drew a breath of True Qi, circulating it three times within his chest, and with his other hand formed a sword finger. As he expelled the True Qi, his finger touched the paper crane, releasing the Transformation Skill.
The paper crane fluttered its wings in his palm and gradually began to fly.
Chen Shi’s consciousness clung to the paper crane, using it as his eyes, but he couldn’t see anything. It was then he realized, "I forgot to dot the eyes on the paper crane!"
There was a legend in the countryside about bringing a dragon to life by painting its eyes, which said that once the eyes of a well-painted dragon were dotted, the dragon would fly off the wall and become a real dragon amid thunder, breaking through the walls.
Merely folding a paper crane was not enough to complete this wondrous skill; the eyes needed to be dotted to bind a trace of consciousness and clearly see the surroundings.
Chen Shi took a vermilion pen and dotted a small red spot on the eyes of the paper crane.
As the paper crane flew, he indeed could see his surroundings through its eyes. As the paper crane flew higher, the Transformation Skill began to take effect, and the paper crane grew larger, sprouting feathers, flesh, and bones, its organs developing gradually into an Immortal Crane, emitting a resounding crane call!
This Immortal Crane was indistinguishable from a real one!
The Immortal Crane flapped its wings, weaving through the sea of clouds and the Void Great Realm, soaring around the towering Primordial Spirits.
Suddenly, the Immortal Crane soared higher, piercing the clouds. Beyond the clouds, moonlight poured down, and Chen Shi distinctly felt strands of Evil Spirit seeping into the crane’s body with the moonlight.
However, this transformation was not intense, unable to turn the crane into an Evil Spirit in a short time.
"It’s strange, combining Mind Control and Transformation Skill into one Skill seems odd; I always feel it’s missing something."
Chen Shi flew with the crane. Though the crane was only a result of a breath of True Qi, even after long flight, this breath of True Qi was hardly depleted.
Clearly, the purpose of the Transformation Skill was to conserve True Qi.
With any other skill, such extended flight would have long exhausted the energy, preventing far travel.
Experts of the Divinity Transformation Realm using skills to fly tens of miles were already impressive. Even significant figures in Gongzhou City, like Fei Tianzheng and General Xia, whose skills allowed them to fly hundreds of miles, would be exhausted.
But the Transformation Skill, turning True Qi and the paper crane into a living Immortal Crane, allowed the conservation of this breath of True Qi for a long time.
"There must be another change at the end!"
Chen Shi suddenly realized and thought, "If I reverse the process of the Transformation Skill, I could return the Immortal Crane back to a paper crane, and the True Qi would not dissipate! Now, what if this True Qi were transformed into Sword Qi instead?"
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