Chapter 4: Another Upgrade
Yeah. This is it.
This is the place. The entire place is devoid of Heavenly Energy, but for some reason, there are a lot of treasures growing around here.
"What is this place? How can all those ginseng grow in this place?"
Elder Qin walks toward one of the ginseng and plucks it out of the ground. He examines the ginseng and says.
"This is a seven hundred-year-old ginseng, but from the look of its leaves, it is not a ginseng that grows naturally to this stage."
There are two ways plants reach the title of 'Hundreds of Years.' The first one is through the natural way, growing for hundreds of years. The second one is growing them in a place where Heavenly Energy is so dense that it accelerates growth.
"How? The area is devoid of Heavenly Energy, but the plants here are so rich with Heavenly Energy."
"That is because the one causing this phenomenon makes sure all the plants grow while absorbing the heavenly energy. Come on. I will show you the reason."
Following the instructions from the books I once read, we arrive in front of a small opening underneath the mountain. I punch through the wall and create an opening for us to walk through. After a few seconds, we arrive in front of a massive dragon skeleton.
"T-This is!"
"The corpse of a dragon, yes. This is the reason why they are around us devoid of Heavenly Energy. This thing struggles to continue to find someone worthy to carry the legacy of itself."
Elder Qin looks at me and says.
"And you think you are worthy of this dragon, young master?"
"Yes."
Without hesitation, I walk toward the bones and touch the dragon's skull in front of me. After I touch the skull, an image of a massive black dragon appears from the bones. The dragon roared at me, and I could feel the entire area shake.
"Young master!"
"Don't! Let me handle this!"
Elder Qin stops after hesitating for a second and watches me do whatever I want with this skull.
I continued to look at the dragon who roared at me. Without my meta knowledge, I would have already run away because my entire body and soul told me to run away and hide. Even though the dragon's presence in front of me makes Elder Qin sweat, it has one big weakness.
It cannot enter the physical realm. It cannot physically harm me and only shows its power to affect my soul and mind. As long as I can endure, I can receive the legacy of the dragon in front of me.
The more the pressure increases, the more I grin at the dragon in front of me.
'What? You think you can defeat me, snake?! You are nothing! I will survive and have a great life! I will beat fate as the villain!'
I continue to face the dragon, and after a few minutes, the dragon nods its head and flies toward me. I can feel my entire body get so hot that it feels like my blood is lava. I grit my teeth as the process continues for a minute before the feeling is gone, and now a warm feeling replaces it.
I release a sigh, and I can see Elder Qin standing next to me while looking at me in worry.
"Are you okay, young master?"
"I am fine, Elder Qin. In fact, I feel great. Can I test something first?"
He nods, and I take out a spear from my ring. I take a deep breath and thrust my spear at the empty space.
"Soaring Dragon Reach the Heaven!"
A golden dragon appears from my thrust and drills through the wall in front of it. I smile a little because I just got a very powerful technique.
"Elder Qin! I need to test my new power! Let's go."
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|Lu Qin – Hidden Guardian from Wu Clan|
In my life, I never once encountered something as bizarre as this. I watch Young Master Xu Chen go on a killing spree, and he kills all the spirit beasts in this forest with ease.
And I know the reason why he can beat beasts in the Core Condensation stage. It is because he absorbed the legacy of the dragon in that cave. From the look of it, that dragon is a beast that fails to break through to the higher stage and reaches the higher realm. The result is getting killed from the attempt.
I don't know how Young Master Chen knows that place; his only explanation is that he knew it from a dream. What makes it even weirder is that I cannot sense any lie in his words. That means he truly knows that place from a dream.
That can only mean that heaven blesses him. He is the chosen one, and Wu Clan will continue to rule the entire continent.
There is also the thing that he will show me after he is done with the hunt. I am curious about how he will take us from our Azure Dragon continent to the Vermillion Flame continent. There are two ways to take a person from one continent to another. The first one is using the Flying Boat. Moving from the Azure Dragon continent to the Vermillion Flame continent will take a month using this method. The second one is to use a talisman that will teleport the individual. However, this requires a high-ranking Talisman Master, and they are rare even in this continent. The Wu Clan has one, but he will never be able to create a talisman strong enough to transport a group of people and their goods to another continent.
That is impossible.
I am eager to see what kind of technique or items young master Chen has to make the impossible possible.
I blink for a moment, and I feel a spike of Heavenly Energy. I smile when I see young master Chen entering the Qi Gathering stage. A six-year-old Qi Gathering cultivator. He is truly a genius among geniuses. I still remember reaching Qi Gathering at the age of ten and was already granted the title of Genius among Genius. How foolish I was.
I cannot wait to see this small dragon turn into a real dragon. I will make sure to see him reach that height and kill anyone who dares to prevent him from reaching that height. It is no longer a duty from my mistress. It is now for my own personal curiosity.
I want to see the person I take care of to grow into a tyrant that will rule this world.