Chapter 167
Chen Jingzhai was by no means some pure and innocent individual. Even though he had been celibate in this life, his previous lives were colorful and interesting, in which he experienced love and lust alike.
If it weren’t for that, he would have never been able to withstand the test of the Luo Sheng Sword School. He passed the test of the twenty-eight and was finally listed as a direct disciple because he had the experience to see through the fluffs of this life. This was also the reason why his consciousness was more superior to the others.
But at this moment, when he was holding his beautiful senior sister in his arms, Chen Jingzhai felt that he had no more regrets to speak of in this lifetime. Following the scent of that soft sweetness, all he wanted to do was for her to be a part of him.
This feeling of mutual attraction was really too amazing. For Chen Jingzhai, who had lived in the past and present as a mere mortal, this was the first time he had this kind of strong reverberation. He did not reject it but reveled in it.
The same was true for Su Qinghuang. She had no objection to Chen Jingzhai’s possessive behavior as she instinctively took it as a matter of course. Therefore, she silently accepted everything he was doing.
The violent heartbeats and the feelings in her heart made her realize that everything was so real. It was not a dream nor was it a calculated pretense. This was why she accepted it so willingly.
Despite it all, she was a Golden Core Sage after all, and Chen Jingzhai could not push her so easily. Just as Chen Jingzhai reached out and intended on going further, Su Qinghuang refused him without any hesitation, and pushed him away.
“Senior sister!” Chen Jingzhai looked at her with a burning gaze.
“Sublimate and control yourself!” Su Qinghuang blushed, and let down the veil again to cover her beauty. “Before the breakthrough, both of us need to control ourselves. You, especially, need to control your mind.”
“All right!” Chen Jingzhai didn’t want to argue with her. He gave a slight smile, took her hand, and led her back inside.
The two of them ignored the curious gazes of Jiang Lin and the maids and went into Chen Jingzhai’s room.
Chen Jingzhai didn’t do anything other than lie down on the bed with his arms around Su Qinghuang.
The two of them embraced each other, as their breaths intertwined. Finally, even their heartbeats were in sync.
Su Qinghuang was the first to enter dreamland.
She had been through a great battle. Even with the top-quality spiritual stone to restore her cultivation, her mental exhaustion was not so easy to recover.
Chen Jingzhai watched her deep in sleep. He had an urge to take off her veil again, and do what he wanted with her.
In the end, the impulse in his heart was quelled. He restrained himself and quietly got off the bed.
As he sat cross-legged next to the bed, Chen Jingzhai reluctantly forced himself to calm down, as his divine mind entered the Primordial Essence World.
The Supreme Sky Master returned to the Primordial Essence World, and he was still sitting alone in the central palace.
Chen Jingzhai morphed into the Supreme Sky Master. With a turn of his mind, he created four Golden Core Sages.
The old physical bodies of these four Golden Core Sages had already been absorbed by the innate money tree. The four golden cores had become the materials for the new creations.
Unlike the creations that were made using the soul remnants of demonic beasts, the strengths of these four spirit deities were preserved very well.
Their entire bodies were made of flesh and blood, and they looked no different than they were when they were alive.
“Greetings to the Supreme Sky Master!”
The four Golden Core Sages knelt on the ground together, extremely respectful and devout.
“Are your memories damaged?” asked the Supreme Sky Master.
“No,” said the one in lead. He knelt down on the ground, not daring to look up. “My name was Wang Ju. When I was alive, I was a common carpenter. By chance, I embarked on the path of cultivation and reached the Core Plane in three hundred years.”
The leader of the four was Wang Ju.
The second in command was Niu Jiao.
Liu Huo was the third.
And then, Ma Qing.
The four Golden Core Sages perfectly preserved the memories of their lifetimes, and they were different from the other spirit deities that were formed by creations; they were spirit bodies shaped by their own golden cores.
It was similar to rogue immortals whose bodies were battle released.
It was a pity that their golden cores had not produced the Nascent Soul.
It was only with the help of the Supreme Sky Master, that the bodies of flesh and blood were created, centered around these golden cores.
They may have looked like beings of flesh and blood, but they were actually just spirit bodies inside.
These kinds of bodies were stronger than when they were alive, and could still cultivate.
However, no one had any idea what it would be like when they broke through to the Nascent Soul Plane.
Chen Jingzhai was not interested in their lives before.
With a wave of his hand, their belongings were brought over, including storage bags and magic items. These were returned to them.
Chen Jingzhai was very interested in the techniques and spells that they had mastered, however.
“Reporting to the Sky Master, the four of us brothers each had our own opportunities, and the techniques we cultivated were also different,” Wang Ju said. “I cultivated in the magic wheel technique, which is of the gold water attribute. This technique was cultivated both from without and within; the moment when the golden core is broken through, it can refine and process evil spirits in the gold water and improve its overall quality.”
After he finished, he presented the jade slip himself, which contained the magic wheel technique.
The full name of this technique was the Earth and Heaven Magic Wheel Technique.
With the golden water two-element spirit root as the guide, a magic wheel was thus formed in the core inside the body.
The body itself was also a magic wheel, as the two resonated with one another inside and out, stimulating and refining each other.
Once the Qi was successfully introduced, one could enter the Meditation Plane and forge an extremely sharp and tenacious spiritual power.
At this time, even the physical body could be mitigated, which was the reason why Wang Ju looked so tall and massive.
For cultivators who cultivated this technique, the most suitable magic item was the wheel-shaped instrument.
The giant gear in Wang Ju’s hand was formed by the golden essence that he gathered and tempered using the spiritual power of his body. It was the product of exclusive restriction.
The other three also presented jade slips of their own.
Niu Jiao, the second in command, cultivated the Mad Cow Sky Tripod Technique, which was of pure earth attribute. It, too, was a double cultivation from within and without.
Once the Qi was successfully introduced, one’s own physical strength could be increased and the body size of the cultivator would be altered greatly.
This technique was most useful for improving one’s physique and strength.
This allowed Niu Jiao to resist the magic treasure without perishing, even though he was just in the Foundation Establishment Plane.
And the sound spell that he used before was the cow-mooing technique as part of this technique. It had the ability to greatly shock and injure the soul.
His own weapon was a khaki-colored rod.
The third person, Liu Huo, cultivated the Fire-changing Kraken Technique, which was of pure fire attribute.
This method simply cultivated the fire attribute spiritual power, discovering the power of the fire spirit root one step at a time.
The most intricate part was its control of the fire attribute spiritual power and its spells.
Liu Huo was fortunate enough to hunt down demonic beasts of the dragon species and extract from them a bloodline of the species.
This bloodline was then integrated into Liu Huo’s body by him. With the help of this bloodline, he was able to break through into the Golden Core Plane.
This was also the reason why his fire spells contained the attribute of the dragon species, which had a unique advantage in shaping the outward appearance of his flame.
Ma Qing, the fourth among them, cultivated something called the Poisonous Frog Drumming Technique and was an expert in producing poison pills.
If it wasn’t for Chen Jingzhai being too fast for him, he would have been able to reverse the course of the battle with the power of the poison pills.
Among the four of them, Ma Qing’s method was the most sinister and secretive.
With the help of the poison pills, they had pulled through many dangerous situations, and they had also been able to hunt down many Golden Core Sages.
This Poisonous Frog Drumming Technique was the best in poison spells and sound spells.
Ma Qing was particularly fond of sound spells and used poison spells and poison pills as his secret weapons.
For this reason, the four of them developed the Four-Symptom Sound Attack Formation.
This consisted of the sounds of the cow mooing, frog quacking, and the sound of the giant gear as wielded by Wang Ju.
In fact, it was not complete until it included the technique of the dragon chanting from Liu Huo.
Apart from the techniques, these four brothers were also rich in wealth.
There were many spiritual items, magic treasures, as well as spiritual stones and pearls of various qualities. In addition, there were also some poisonous herbs, spirit plants, and so on.
Chen Jingzhai picked and chose, planting useful poisonous herbs and spirit plants in the lower realm.
He recorded the four techniques, as well as the spell jade slips that they offered.
These four techniques were extraordinary and could be cultivated to the Nascent Plane.
Amongst rogue cultivators, this was considered supreme.
Then Chen Jingzhai asked the most crucial question: “Where did you guys come from?”
“We came from the opposite side of the Tempest Corridor,” Wang Ju replied. “The Tempest Corridor is how we addressed the entire region of Tempest Ocean; there is a much wider world on the opposite side.”
“Tell me more,” Chen Jingzhai said with much interest.
“Yes!” Wang Ju responded as he explained slowly.
The reason why the region of the Tempest Ocean was called the Tempest Corridor was that its entire region was twisted and meandering. Furthermore, there was an invisible force of destruction, creating an extreme weather pattern that was chaotic and unstoppable.
But that was not all. The point was that the Tempest Corridor also contained spatial turbulence. Occasionally, a severe storm would cause people to get lost in the region, with no trace to be found.
Because the Tempest Corridor was fraught with danger, it was enough to cause the cultivation world great alarm whenever it was mentioned. As a result, many cultivators loathed approaching this region. Wang Ju and his three brothers were forced to hide out in the Tempest Corridor because they had no other choice.
According to him, the other side of the Tempest Ocean was called the Multitudinous Mountains Territory, which was one of the nine major territories of Heaven Essence Realm. The Heaven Essence Realm was the name of this world, and the nine major territories were in nine different parts of this world.
Each of the nine territories was vast beyond imagination. Taking the Multitudinous Mountains Territory as an example, there were more than 200 mountain ranges in just 100,000 miles; the kingdoms of the mortals were in the thousands, if not hundreds of thousands.
There were countless of mortals and demons, and the celestial clans and principalities were even more complex and diverse, and this was just inside the Multitudinous Mountains Territory. No one had any idea what the other eight territories might look like!
“The four of us mainly hunted down Golden Core cultivators and other rogue cultivators. About a hundred years ago, we set our sights on a sage who crossed our paths, but unexpectedly at the moment of interception, we found the other man had the talisman of Nascent Zhenjun on his person.”
“That Golden Core Sage lost his body, but his golden core was sheltered. We were injured considerably during the exchange. After we escaped by sheer luck, we fled into the Tempest Corridor immediately to avoid being tracked by the others,” Wang Ju said.
