Above the Great Dao
Chapter 706 - 315 Black Pot_2

Chapter 706: Chapter 315 Black Pot_2

Chen Shi heard this, turned his head to look at him: "Are you willing to give up the glory and wealth of the Western Capital? Give up the official rank of Lord of Honors?"

"What’s there to be unwilling about?"

Chen Tang shook his head and said, "Back then, I entered the Western Capital because I felt my power was insufficient. Cultivating in the countryside, I could never find the person who killed you, and even if I did, I would be powerless to take revenge. I needed to search for information, accumulate strength, and thus I had to enter the court as an official. In eleven years, I’ve achieved this."

His heart was flooded with hundreds of emotions, wanting to pour them out, but when the words reached his mouth, he merely smiled and said: "But now that you’ve returned, what do the glory and wealth of the Western Capital mean to me? Besides, I’m kind of homesick."

The father and son stopped in their tracks.

Chen Shi said: "The Western Capital Court might not want you to leave. In the Western Capital, you were a dragon trapped, but once you leave, you’d be a Jiao Long entering the sea, and they would be worried."

Chen Tang said leisurely: "I have a sword, a chest, who dares to stop me? But if you go to the underworld, can you manage without me?"

Chen Shi snorted: "I didn’t have you before, wasn’t I doing just fine?"

Chen Tang, unhappy, said: "Chen Shi, I am after all your birth father, you should speak more respectfully to me."

"Alright, I know. Take good care of my mother."

Chen Shi instructed, "Without these maids and servants, I’m afraid you won’t manage. And don’t skimp on expenses, when you need to spend money, be willing to spend it. If you need more, I’ll give it to you."

Chen Tang looked down, wanting to find a handy stick.

The old saying goes, under the rod, a filial son is born. An unfilial son, must not have been hit enough.

Seeing this, Chen Shi quickly put away the Black Iron Stick, hiding it in his little temple.

In the afternoon, Chen Shi went to the branch of Red Mountain Hall in Gaoshan County to look for Granny Sha, only to be told she and Xiang Tianyu had gone to the countryside. Chen Shi followed them there, finding Granny Sha performing a soul summoning for a rural family with Xiang Tianyu. Upon seeing Chen Shi, Xiang Tianyu quickly came forward smiling, "Brother Xiao Shi!"

"Don’t call me brother, call me Brother Xiao Shi!"

Granny Sha laughed, turning to look at Chen Shi, face darkening, "Call me Aunt!"

Chen Shi called her Aunt, observing Xiang Tianyu, and was surprised to find he had a body, no longer a ghost.

But this body was not like a physical body.

Granny Sha smiled and said: "Tianyu, go play with Black Pot, I’ll have a word with Xiao Shi."

Xiang Tianyu, taking Black Pot with him, went off to play.

Chen Shi watched Xiang Tianyu in the distance, only to see Black Pot teaching him how to fly a kite. He still had a child’s disposition and was very enthusiastic about toys like pinwheels and kites.

"Aunt, Tianyu was trapped in the Buddhist Hell for thirty years, he hasn’t interacted with others, so his temperament is still that of a child. But he will not always be childlike."

Chen Shi glanced at Granny Sha and said, "He will eventually grow up, and if his body remains that of an eight- or nine-year-old, it might not be a good thing."

Granny Sha was silent for a moment, then said: "I can’t bear for him to leave, we have been apart for thirty years. I will find a way to make his body grow."

The voice of Stone Rock Lady came from the small temple, coldly laughing: "I know a fellow who, after he died, his master made him a body out of lotus roots, and as a result, the kid never grew up his entire life!"

Hearing the voice of Stone Rock Lady, Granny Sha didn’t acknowledge it, she said: "Xiao Shi, what brings you to me?"

Chen Shi laid out his intentions and said: "I want to enter the underworld and go to Immortal City to retrieve my mother’s soul. Aunt, since I am also a wanted criminal in the underworld, is there any way to avoid being wanted?"

Granny Sha laughed and said: "I have the Transformation God Technique, which can turn you into a Yin God, allowing you to enter the underworld."

Feeling slightly relieved, Chen Shi continued: "Is there any way to bypass the ghosts and gods of the underworld and directly enter Yuan Chen Palace in Immortal City?"

Granny Sha shook her head and said: "Yuan Chen Palace is also known as the Life Palace, changing the layout of Yuan Chen Palace can change one’s fate. However, entering Yuan Chen Palace is not easy; only one’s soul can enter, no other person can. If entry were easy, saving you back then wouldn’t have been so difficult."

Chen Shi’s heart stirred slightly and he asked, "Can my Primordial Spirit enter it?"

"If you cultivate to the Unification Realm, and your Primordial Spirit and soul are stable and as one, you can let your Primordial Spirit enter."

Old Lady Sha shook her head and said, "Right now, you’re in the Divinity Transformation Realm, your Primordial Spirit isn’t that powerful... Wait a moment, raise your Primordial Spirit, let me take a look."

Chen Shi raised his Primordial Spirit, which had grown to about a yard in height, radiating divine light all around.

Old Lady Sha said, "When you call forth your Primordial Spirit, it seems like you’re raising it from your physical body, but in reality, you’re summoning it from the Yuan Chen Palace... Wait, there’s something unusual about your Primordial Spirit!"

She made a virtual grab, trying to pull out Chen Shi’s soul from the Primordial Spirit, but instead, his whole Primordial Spirit flew over.

Old Lady Sha exclaimed softly, gently tapping her palm on Chen Shi’s Primordial Spirit’s chest, causing his soul to shake and momentarily separate from the Primordial Spirit, before merging back in.

In that instant, Old Lady Sha saw a soul about a yard tall emitting an all-over white glow, seemingly solidly real, and she couldn’t help but be astonished.

"There’s something off about your soul!"

She circled around Chen Shi’s Primordial Spirit a few times, perplexed, "Your soul is too strong. With such a strong soul, your Three Corpse Gods must be terrifyingly powerful. When it comes to cutting the Three Corpses, you’re in for some suffering!"

She looked at Chen Shi with sympathy, "Cultivators, when cutting the Three Corpses, often get stuck in this realm because of too many sins, too many killings, making the Three Corpse Gods too strong to cut. You’ve already refined your Three Corpse Gods to be so strong in the Divinity Transformation Realm, eventually, the Three Corpse Gods will cut you down."

Chen Shi laughed, "I’m still far from the Three Corpses Realm... Wait a minute! Aunt Sha, are there any cases where the master of a Yuan Chen Palace dies, yet the Palace remains in the world?"

Old Lady Sha said, "When a person dies like a lamp extinguishing, after death, the Yuan Chen Palace also dissipates, leaving the soul with nothing to depend on, thus becoming a wandering ghost. However, I’ve heard that when immortals die, their Yuan Chen Palace remains in the world. Have you seen such a Yuan Chen Palace?"

Chen Shi nodded slightly.

Old Lady Sha exclaimed in surprise, "You’ve really seen it? Where did you see it? Could it be that there really are immortals in this world?"

Chen Shi had a peculiar expression: "The Black Pot obtained a few Ghostly Books from the Yuan Chen Palace. Back in Gongzhou, when I formed my Golden Core, I saw the Black Pot slip into the underworld from beneath the stove and enter a palace to retrieve the Ghostly Books..."

Old Lady Sha asked suspiciously, "Could it be the Black Pot’s own Yuan Chen Palace?"

Chen Shi shook his head, "How could there be Ghostly Books in the Black Pot’s own Yuan Chen Palace?"

Old Lady Sha pondered, "Could it be someone else’s Yuan Chen Palace? Did the dog go to steal the Ghostly Books from there?"

"If there were a Primordial Spirit in the Yuan Chen Palace, would they allow the Black Pot to steal the Ghostly Books? It shows that this Yuan Chen Palace is likely ownerless."

Chen Shi speculated, "Therefore I guess the master of the Yuan Chen Palace is dead, leaving these Ghostly Books."

Old Lady Sha looked at the dog playing with Xiang Tianyu and her eyes sparkled as she said, "When your grandfather brought that dog back from the underworld, I thought it was very strange. But at that time, it was only palm-sized, and your grandfather raised it from a pup, so there shouldn’t be a problem. But thinking about it now, could your grandfather have been bewitched by it to bring it home? Has this little creature been influencing your grandfather’s thoughts all along?"

The Black Pot twitched its ears, turned its head, and grinned, showing them an innocent and pure smile.

Old Lady Sha said, "It’s trying to influence me, to change my thoughts. But speaking of which, little Shi, you’ve watched the Black Pot grow up, how could it have any bad intentions?"

Chen Shi asked suspiciously, "Auntie, is that really your true thought?"

"Of course, it’s my true thought!" Old Lady Sha said with absolute certainty.

Chen Shi glared at the Black Pot, confirming that it was up to mischief, and shouted, "Black Pot, come back! Aunt Sha, we’re leaving now!"

The Black Pot had no choice but to hand the kite string to Xiang Tianyu and run over.

Old Lady Sha waved mechanically to them while holding Xiang Tianyu’s hand as they bid farewell.

Chen Shi left Gaoshan County, returned to the Western Capital, thinking, "The Black Pot’s abilities are growing stronger, but the one who could bewitch the boatman and his daughter, affect the thoughts of ghost gods, so that they were unaware they were falling into the underworld, is even more powerful than the Black Pot. To rescue my mother, I need to deal with another Black Pot... I must let the Black Pot quickly increase its power!"

——Zhai Zhu is still organizing the plot, updates will not be timely.

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