Above the Great Dao
Chapter 389 - 192: Luring the Snake Out of the Hole_2

Chapter 389: Chapter 192: Luring the Snake Out of the Hole_2

"Where exactly is the problem?"

Chen Shi was pondering when Li Tianqing curiously asked, "Little Ten, how many years of life do you have?"

Chen Shi replied nonchalantly, "Four hundred and eighty-seven years."

Li Tianqing froze as if he hadn’t heard clearly and hastily asked, "How many?"

"Four hundred and eighty-seven years remaining," Chen Shi said.

Li Tianqing was dumbstruck; suddenly, realization dawned on him, "This can’t be possible! Absolutely impossible! You must have seen it wrong!"

After a long while, he dejectedly accepted the reality.

"When you’re old, I’ll have been dead for four hundred years," he said with a hint of melancholy.

Chen Shi’s eyes sparkled, "Where do you think the problem lies? Why do I have a lifespan of five hundred years while you only have one hundred?"

Li Tianqing pondered, "Let’s list out what you have that I don’t. The cultivation technique, you’re practicing the Three Light Righteous Qi Technique, which I don’t have."

He immediately thought of the cultivation technique, "What are the three lights?"

"The sun, the moon, and the stars."

As Chen Shi reached this point, his body shook slightly, and he exclaimed, "I understand now, I understand! When I first started to practice the Righteous Qi Technique, what I absorbed was starlight!"

Li Tianqing was puzzled, "Starlight? But there are no stars in the sky..."

"That’s right! The naked eye can’t see the stars, but they do exist!"

Chen Shi hastily said, "When I activated this technique, I felt the starlight from beyond the heavens falling down and merging into my body. Later, when I practiced in the temple that emerged from underground, I sensed sunlight and moonlight coming from the ancestral lands, completing the trio of lights, to cultivate the Holy Embryo Dharma Body. I’ve never cultivated with the sunlight or moonlight of the West Bull New Continent!"

Li Tianqing paced back and forth. He was well-read, having basically seen all the cultivation techniques collected by the Li Family, and was thoroughly familiar with various methods of cultivation.

Among these techniques, some extracted the essence qi of the sun, some extracted the essence qi of the Taiyin, and others gathered natural qi from the surroundings or cultivated their own Righteous Qi—there was a multitude of methods.

The most dangerous among them was the extraction of Taiyin essence qi. Even a normal person cultivating it risked being tainted by the evil qi within the moonlight and turning into an Evil Spirit.

However, this concern did not exist when cultivating with solar essence qi.

"Could it really be that there’s something wrong with both the sun and the moon?"

Li Tianqing looked up at the sun and the moon in the sky; although it was daytime, the moon was already visible.

It was common knowledge that things touched by moonlight could potentially turn into evil spirits.

The fact that cultivating with Taiyin Qi could eventually turn someone into an Evil Spirit was known to few.

Even the sunlight had problems!

Li Tianqing considered this possibility and felt like he was being immensely blasphemous.

The True God is selfless, using his eyes as the sun and moon, allowing day and night to alternate on the West Bull New Continent, enabling crops to grow, and humans to live and thrive. How could he say that the sunlight was toxic?

"Little Ten, can you share the Righteous Qi Technique with me?"

Li Tianqing hesitated, "I want to test it, to see for myself."

Chen Shi looked into his eyes and asked, "Do you want to abandon your Golden Core?"

Li Tianqing hesitated for a moment, then nodded.

To abandon the Golden Core, to discard the results of years of arduous cultivation, certainly required tremendous courage, but he was resolute in his determination to abandon the Golden Core to verify his suspicions!

"I can pass on the Righteous Qi Technique to you."

Chen Shi thought for a moment and said, "However, there are no such temples nearby anymore. Without a temple to connect to the ancestral lands, you can only gather starlight for cultivation, which is much slower than entering an ancient temple to gather all three celestial lights."

He had a small temple that contained the light of the sun, the moon, and the stars, but the temple only accommodated spiritual bodies, and Li Tianqing had a physical body, which meant he could not enter it.

Li Tianqing said with a smile, "There are many such temples across the fifty provinces of the West Bull New Continent. I will find a similar temple to complete my arduous cultivation. By next April, I will have caught up with you!"

Chen Shi spoke solemnly, "Your courage is commendable. Tianqing, this is where I fall short compared to you. You are already a qualified Independent. In that case, I will pass it on to you."

He copied the Righteous Qi Technique and handed it over to Li Tianqing.

Li Tianqing did not leave immediately. It took him another two days to finish refining the remaining Resurrection Pills, fulfilling his promise of a hundred spirit pills, and then he was ready to set out in search of the lost ancient temples.

Chen Shi saw him off, and before parting, he took out more than two thousand taels of silver notes and stuffed them into Li Tianqing’s hand, saying, "You can’t go without food and drink these days. Take these silver notes for your expenses."

Li Tianqing hesitated for a moment but did not refuse.

He planned to discard the Spirit Pill once he found the ancient temple and then seclude himself for quiet cultivation. By then, his Primordial Qi would likely be greatly depleted, and he would need to purchase some spiritual elixir to nourish his body. However, the monthly allowance from the Li Family was far from sufficient, not to mention that it was unlikely to reach him.

Indeed, he needed a substantial amount of money.

Chen Shi handed over another jar, smiling, "This is a snack I’m giving you. Don’t look at it now; have a look on the road."

Li Tianqing took it; the jar wasn’t heavy, and he didn’t know what it contained.

"Little Ten, till we meet again in Western Capital."

Li Tianqing hugged him and patted his back, chuckling, "Next April, during the Imperial Examination in Western Capital, don’t let me catch up to you!"

Chen Shi patted his back hard, laughing, "Well, you had better hurry. My recent cultivation can only be described as divinely swift. It won’t be too long before I fear I might reach the Nascent Soul Stage!"

The two waved goodbye. Chen Shi watched him leave until he was out of sight before returning to the village.

Li Tianqing activated the Godspeed Talisman on his foot, and in no time, he had traveled dozens of miles, far from Qianyang Mountain.

His journey was long; he would seek far and wide, searching for the truth of immortality.

When he tired from his travels, he stopped to rest and opened the jar Chen Shi had given him, only to find it brimming with Resurrection Pills—not a hundred, then eighty at least.

"This guy..."

Li Tianqing felt a warmth in his heart.

Chen Shi returned home and continued his cultivation for a few days. His Golden Core transformed from yellow to purple, becoming a Purple Golden Core!

Golden Core six revolutions!

With this speed, in just a month, he could reach Golden Core nine revolutions and enter the Nascent Soul Stage!

"The Eight Extremes Golden Palace Divine Chapter, coupled with the Divine Embryo fashioned by Stone Rock Lady, the cultivation is really too fast!" Chen Shi inwardly exclaimed.

He packed up the Resurrection Pills that Li Tianqing had refined these days, hitched his cart, and set off for Juxian Building in Xinxiang County.

Upon seeing him, Shao Jing exclaimed joyfully, "Brother Chen, you’ve come at the perfect time. The Resurrection Pills you consigned last time were bought by a customer from the provincial city. That customer also inquired about which Pill Master refined the pill, but I didn’t tell them your name. They said if there are any more Resurrection Pills in the future, they want them all."

After speaking, he pushed a stack of silver notes toward Chen Shi.

Chen Shi’s heart stirred slightly as he accepted the silver notes, asking, "Do you know anything about the customer?"

Shao Jing shook his head, "The provincial city’s powers have been cleaned out twice in just one year, and there have been three governors. If it were normal times, I might know them, but not now. You count the silver notes; they total one hundred twenty thousand taels."

Chen Shi pinched the stack’s thickness and laughed, "No need to count. Can’t I trust you?" freeωebnovēl.c૦m

He had set the price of the Resurrection Pills slightly cheaper than the normal rate, three hundred taels each, and sent a total of four hundred. He didn’t inquire how much Shao Jing sold them for per pill.

He hadn’t expected to sell them all at once, and unexpectedly, there was indeed a wealthy customer who bought all of them!

Chen Shi pushed the remaining over three hundred Resurrection Pills in front of Shao Jing, saying, "This is the last batch. There won’t be any more in the future."

Shao Jing seemed quite regretful, having made a fortune from Chen Shi’s consigned Resurrection Pills. Without a steady supply, he would lose a major source of income.

"I also have a residence in the provincial city, why not take a look?"

With the silver notes snug in his pocket, suddenly Chen Shi remembered the residence given by Governor Xu. Seeing the sky was still early, he thought about heading to the provincial city.

He left Juxian Building, drove his cart toward Xin Xiang Province.

Before long, the wooden cart left the county and reached the provincial city’s post road.

"Woof!" Black Pot barked.

"I know," Chen Shi said indifferently.

A few figures followed them, seemingly nonchalant, from behind the wooden cart.

"So many days of selling Resurrection Pills, the young master from Yudou has finally tracked down here."

Chen Shi didn’t look at these figures, thinking to himself, "His reach is indeed far!"

Above the cart, several birds flew, watching the movements of those people behind them.

His purpose in consigning Resurrection Pills at Juxian Building was to lure out this young master from Yudou!