Above the Great Dao
Chapter 589 - 271 Both Heaven and Earth Reflect My Image

Chapter 589: Chapter 271 Both Heaven and Earth Reflect My Image

Granny Sha and others didn’t take much, they took seven iron thorns as tall as a man, moved five baskets of iron thorns the size of fists, and didn’t touch the medium-sized ones. They also took some flintlocks and equipped sub-caliber bullets, twelve rockets, and several fire sickles and large-mouth blunderbusses.

"Zhuge Jian likes these blunderbusses, I’ll take a few more for him."

Situ Wen said, "Instructor, I want to take some of these firearms to study."

Chen Shi gave him several wooden boxes he made himself to pack them.

Situ Wen was both surprised and pleased. He packed some of everything, whether it was the General Cannon, the fire sickles, or various bullets, big and small.

He didn’t take much, just three or four of each type.

Hu Xiaoliang asked doubtfully, "Heavenly Mechanism, what do you need these firearms for?"

Situ Wen smiled, "Since I am the Heavenly Mechanism of the Heavenly Court, I naturally cannot rely on others, I will take them apart and study them, then we’ll make our own."

Hu Xiaoliang was startled and quickly pulled him aside, "Making these things is a capital offense!"

Situ Wen looked surprised, "Isn’t everything we’re doing nowadays a capital offense?"

Hu Xiaoliang looked around. They were in the Guangji Storehouse at the court, moving the court’s firearms. Wasn’t that a capital offense?

"I have blacksmiths in Lu Ban’s group, Talisman Masters at Red Mountain Hall, and plenty of helpers. We can definitely make it work."

Situ Wen said, "Let’s start researching and manufacturing now so that it won’t be too late when it’s needed."

Hu Xiaoliang blinked. Needed for what? When would it be needed? Why would it be needed?

Situ Wen, carrying the wooden box, left excitedly.

Granny Sha and the green sheep also had their gains and were satisfied.

"Little Ten, aren’t you taking some?" Granny Sha asked.

Chen Shi shook his head, "Keeping it here is no different from keeping it at home, and it would just take up space at home."

Granny Sha asked, "Is Chen Tang treating you well?"

Chen Shi said, "Neither cold nor warm."

Granny Sha said, "If he bullies you, tell your sister, and I’ll stand up for you. But indeed, old Chen head has wronged him... though it’s not you who wronged him, he shouldn’t take it out on you! By the way, are we taking all these firearms to kill all the traitors in the court?"

The green sheep excitedly said, "Is it to throw iron thorns inside while they are holding court?"

Chen Shi shook his head, "We are going to capture a reincarnated underworld figure named Zhong Kui, who is said to have committed crimes in the underworld and reincarnated around the region of Du County."

He spoke of the incident where the boat girl, her daughter, and his mother’s soul were trapped in the underworld. Granny Sha was surprised, "Your mother’s soul went to the underworld and found you?"

Chen Shi said, "That’s what the boat girl said."

Granny Sha was silent for a moment and said, "Before your mother’s soul went missing, she was insane for over a year and then lost her soul. I didn’t expect that she would find you in the underworld. Chen Tang asked me several times to summon her soul, but I never succeeded. It seems that she had already found you by then, how could she bear to part from you?"

She sighed deeply.

She had experienced those events firsthand, thinking Chen Shi’s mother was too grief-stricken, resulting in her soul wandering off due to the pain. Now it appeared that Chen Shi’s mother indeed had wandered off, but the reason she hadn’t returned was that she had found Chen Shi and didn’t want to return to the separation of life and death in the mortal world.

"Those two underworld figures are not good people, the one they mentioned named Zhong Kui, is certainly not easy to deal with."

Granny Sha smiled, "But with me here, it will surely be easy to capture him."

Chen Shi felt relieved, cheered up, and quietly waited for news from Zhuge Jian.

Du County was quite far, requiring a round trip of two days. He served during the day in the Guangji Storehouse. When someone was ordered to retrieve weapons, he let the Vice Envoy check the procedures while he focused on his cultivation.

During the days he had been in the Western Capital, he hadn’t had much chance to fully delve into cultivation. Now, he finally had some spare time to quietly practice Xiaolang’s Emperor Chapter Skill.

Xiaolang’s Emperor Chapter Skill and the Eight Extremes Golden Palace Divine Chapter had similarities, seeming like an extension of the Jinque Divine Chapter.

The Jinque Divine Chapter established the Eight Extremes, spread out when activated, forming a field space of about half an acre, with eight Divine Gates at the locations of the Extremes, where Divine Power converged to forge the body and Nascent Soul, enhancing cultivation.

Being in the field, being half an acre in size, it was a Grand Circulation, naturally connected to heaven and earth.

This Circulation was much larger than the internal circulation of the human body, hence the speed of cultivation was also faster.

Xiaolang’s Emperor Chapter Skill treated the Jinque Divine Chapter, a Grand Circulation, as one Layer of Heaven. In the Nascent Soul Realm, it aimed to refine Nine Heavens, nine layers of Circulation, thus the speed of cultivation was extremely fast, and the forging of the body was even more vigorous.

The cultivation technique stated that the refined Taoist Body would remain indestructible through ancient and modern times. This meant that the Taoist Body cultivated through this technique would appear lifelike after death, and would not decay for a long time.

After these days of trials, Chen Shi was 70 to 80 percent confident that he could practice this skill without any flaws, and thus he activated Xiaolang’s Emperor Chapter Skill.

He still dared not be negligent, so he used the Stone Rock Lady as the first Divine Embryo, Fu Shen Tianji who was insanely divine as the second Divine Embryo, and then placed all the ginseng babies on the third divine niche. With three layers of Divine Embryos supporting him, even if a mistake occurred, he had the capacity to correct it.

After all, Xiaolang’s Emperor Chapter Skill was an Immortal Level Technique from the True King’s Tomb. If there were any mistakes, the consequences of falling into devilish ways could be extremely terrible, so he had to be extremely careful.

Chen Shi found an empty warehouse in the Guangji Storehouse to practice this skill. With his experience from the Eight Extremes Golden Que, the first layer of Heaven quickly developed, and the second and third layers of Heaven were not too difficult. By the time he reached the Fourth Layer of Heaven, Chen Shi found it difficult to maintain the four layers of Circulation.

He persisted until reaching the Fifth Layer of Heaven, but both in spirit and Qi-Blood, it became difficult to continue.