Longevity: Starting from Refining Gu
Chapter 508: 286: You Go Forth, Hunt the Number 10800_2

Chapter 508: Chapter 286: You Go Forth, Hunt the Number 10800_2

At this moment, Chen Qing finally finished cutting his laurel branch. After the exchange with the Nine Profound Temple, he carried two laurel branches and began his journey back to Haoran Temple with Dan Yunzi.

On the way, Chen Qing sat on the Flying Shuttle and suddenly felt a tremor in his divine soul, an inexplicable fear in his heart.

Dan Yunzi said leisurely, “Junior brother, your heavenly tribulation is coming.”

Chen Qing asked, “How is this tribulation?”

Dan Yunzi replied, “With your strength, there’s no need to worry about the tribulation at the Mystic Gate Realm. You can easily pass it.”

“Once you pass this tribulation, you’ll be at the mid-stage of the Mystic Gate Realm.”

“This tribulation might be a death sentence for others, but for you and me, it’s a rare opportunity.”

“Using the heavenly tribulation to temper your body can make your physique even stronger.”

Chen Qing waited for three days, and sure enough, the heavenly tribulation descended, but it was just a thunder tribulation.

Following Dan Yunzi’s guidance, Chen Qing didn’t resist at all, withstood it with his body. Although it left his skin and flesh ripped and torn, he clearly felt his flesh and blood becoming purer, removing many impurities.

After completing the tribulation, he felt his whole body light and airy, his control over his body reaching a new level.

“As expected, just like senior brother said!”

Dan Yunzi said, “The heavenly tribulation at the Mystic Gate Realm is a blessing for cultivators like us who possess a King Grade Power Gu.”

“But it’s completely different once you reach the Sky-reaching Realm.”

“At that time, the heavenly tribulation will be extremely fierce, and it will be the even more powerful Three Calamities Tribulation.”

“Yet, there’s no need to worry too much. With your strength, reaching the Sky-reaching Realm shouldn’t be difficult.”

“But the Feather Transformation Realm is different.”

“Your King Gu must be promoted to a high quality to ensure absolute success.”

“For cultivators with a King Gu, the heavenly tribulation is much fiercer than that of ordinary cultivators.”

Chen Qing nodded, no wonder the Water King, with just one King Gu, was only at the Sky-reaching Realm.

Returning to Haoran Temple, Haoran True Monarch wasn’t pleased with them. Dan Fengzi and Daoist Dan Yue were also tight-lipped and dared not say much.

Only a month later, Haoran True Monarch called them to him again, “The wilderness is becoming unstable again lately. You two take these two bows and go hunt to ensure no Desert Beasts head south for the next hundred years.”

“Bring back some precious Desert Beast scale armor as well.”

“Hmm, let’s set the number at one hundred and eight thousand!”

“Each of you bring back one hundred and eight thousand complete scale armor.”

Chen Qing asked, “Master, what are these Desert Beasts?”

Haoran True Monarch replied with displeasure, “And you call yourself Prince Wen, yet you don’t even know this!”

“You’ll know once you go!”

Chen Qing picked up a bow and set off again with Dan Yunzi.

Sitting on the Flying Shuttle, Chen Qing asked about it again. Dan Yunzi explained, “The wilderness is a place void of spiritual energy.”

“When cultivators enter, their mana will quickly deplete.”

“Only the two of us can go!”

Chen Qing remarked, “Master really knows how to find tasks for us, specifically choosing a place only senior brother and I can go.”

Dan Yunzi laughed heartily, “Do you really think Nanli’s stability is the work of the princes?”

“Isn’t it our four True Monarch Temples removing countless difficulties and crises at the periphery?”

“The wilderness just happens to fall under our Haoran Temple’s responsibility.”

“Of the four True Monarchs, only Nine Profound True Monarch and Evil Crossing True Monarch are truly above it all.”

“Our Haoran Temple’s duty is to eliminate any southern threats.”

“Demon Suppressing True Monarch patrols Nanli, suppressing evil spirits and northern invaders.”

Chen Qing asked, “So, Nine Profound True Monarch and Evil Crossing True Monarch are stronger?”

Dan Yunzi shook his head, “Not really. The only thing I know is that Demon Suppressing True Monarch is the slightly weaker among the four True Monarchs.”

“After all, he attained the rank of True Monarch only three thousand years ago.”

“But Uncle Demon Suppressing has a very full life span, and he’s in his prime now, extremely active, so other Great Sects generally don’t dare provoke him.”

After flying for three months, they finally reached the wilderness.

Just upon reaching the wilderness, Chen Qing felt the mana inside him start to dissipate. Seeing Dan Yunzi activate the Heavenly Earth Transformation, Chen Qing followed suit and also initiated the Heavenly Earth Transformation Skill.

Dan Yunzi swung his Daoist robe and said, “Shrink to normal size. You’re like a mountain now; those Desert Beasts will run away upon seeing that.”

Chen Qing shrank to normal size and looked at Dan Yunzi, who also reduced to a normal human form, realizing Dan Yunzi also had the Big and Small Ruyi Skills.

There was nothing strange about that.

He had the skill, and as the leader of the Nanli Nine Sons, Dan Yunzi surely found a way over the years to obtain a Gu that let him shrink as well.

Landing, even with a Yin Yang Separating Water Pearl, Chen Qing felt extremely hot all over, only feeling a bit cooler after pulling out the bow given by Haoran True Monarch.

Chen Qing carefully examined the bow. The patterns on it felt very familiar.

“Is this a bow made from a laurel branch?”

Dan Yunzi nodded, “It should be crafted by Master himself. Although it serves no other purpose, its tenacity is enough to bear our strength. It can be considered a useful weapon.”

“We used to only hunt when coming here, but this time we need to bring back complete scale armor. Perhaps Master is letting us practice archery here.”

Everywhere he looked was desolate.

The ground was red, and the wind blew up countless iron sands.

The mountains were formed of bronze, majestic and barren.

After walking for half a day, they reached a cave.

Chen Qing ventured inside and saw a bizarre beast about ten zhang long.

Covered in black scale armor and exposing only its eyes, it resembled a dragon but had only one black horn on its head.

Dan Yunzi held a long bow, “Junior brother, this is our target.”

Dan Yunzi bent the bow, set an arrow, and shot it straight into the Desert Beast’s eye socket, through its head.

“Damn, too much force!”

“This skin is useless now. Come, let’s find another one.”

Chen Qing watched, feeling the never-ending cycle of hard cultivation, needing to shoot precisely through the eye socket and not penetrate it.

Fortunately, after trying, Chen Qing found that his strength wasn’t as great as Dan Yunzi’s, making him more suitable.

The shot held mountain-piercing power, but when it hit the Desert Beast’s eye socket, it didn’t penetrate. The scale armor was truly tough.

In the continuous hunting, Chen Qing progressed from missing his shots to hitting them, eventually becoming precise at hitting the eye sockets.

His archery improved rapidly.

The one who felt Chen Qing’s archery improvement most was the King of Qi.

The King of Qi suddenly noticed that this white-bone skeleton pursuing him had picked up a bow and started shooting at him from afar whenever he ran too far.

An arrow hit him, causing grave injuries.

In the desolate Death Realm, the King of Qi constantly struggled at the brink of death.

His battle of wits and courage with the skeleton possessing Chen Qing deepened his understanding of the Sky Splitting Skills.

And this chase went on for another three years.

After escaping Chen Qing’s hunt one day, the King of Qi sat to heal his wounds, “That white-bone skeleton has grown fiercer.”

“And those strange creatures, who knows where they came from. This Death Realm is so perilous. How did Master quell the Death Realm before!”

Chen Qing didn’t notice this, because his targets for hunting had grown to seven, becoming very fierce now, attacking fiercely right from the start.

Several other small followers also entered the Death Realm. Chen Qing even dispatched two Divine Images to possess so he could attend to all seven.

Those few unruly individuals in the human realm suddenly realized how close the danger of the cultivation world was to them.

They understood the saying “there is always someone better,” with a single skeleton, chasing them with no escape.

That night, Chen Qing hunted 32 Desert Beasts and prepared to attend today’s morning council.

Just arriving at the gathering, Su Yi reported, “According to Young Master Wushang’s information, the Water King is preparing to break through to the Feather Transformation Realm.”

Chen Qing asked, “Him? Just him? He can also break through to the Feather Transformation Realm?”

Su Yi replied, “That’s the intelligence we’ve gathered. Additionally, it seems the land of the Water Country has come to life, with writhing flesh lumps beneath the surface.”

Li Changqing exclaimed, “Are they worshipping Tai Sui or what?”