novelaction #388 - Mark of Death
#388 - Mark of Death
Chapter 385: Mark of Life and Death
The Five Zhuang Temple of today can be considered to be on the path of Earthly Immortality, following the road of Earthly Immortals.
And the Qi refining techniques of the Five Zhuang Temple are passed down from Immortals, and Immortals come from the thirty-third heaven of the spiritual world…
Zhang Chen seemed to grasp a trace of a connection. All of this pointed to the thirty-third heaven. Even the Peacock called the thirty-third heaven the Immortal Realm, which must be the origin of Qi refiners.
Could it be that Di created the Qi refining method after killing all the gods, and entered the thirty-third heaven to cultivate?
Zhang Chen didn't quite believe that the martial arts he taught Di had such heaven-defying abilities. If Di really comprehended Qi refining and mastered the Qi refining method, incorporating the power of thousands of gods into one body, such power could explain it.
Just as Zhang Chen was pondering, he heard that the Peacock wanted to use his innate Five Elements Source to restore the innate Five Elements Qi, and couldn't help but feel alert: "This old guy isn't trying to trick me, is he? Is this a meat bun thrown to a dog, never to return?"
"If you can lend me the Five Elements Source, I can quickly restore my strength. When the time comes, I can kill that Longevity Ancestor, make you a true disciple of the Daoist temple, and becoming an immortal and undying will not be difficult. What do you think?" The Innate Peacock's words were full of temptation at this time, his eyes fixed on Zhang Chen, his gaze extremely sincere.
Zhang Chen pondered slightly and chose to agree to the other party's request, because his Golden Finger already had a response. Along with the activation of the Soul Hooking skill, the ability to mark had begun to appear:
【Discover a markable target, do you want to mark it?】
Zhang Chen looked at the interface with joy on his face, his eyes filled with a hint of strangeness. Since he could mark the other party and seize their soul, was he still afraid that they would go back on their word?
If the other party dared to go back on their word, he would have to let them know why the flowers are so red.
Zhang Chen was indeed very envious of this Yin-Yang Reversal technique. If he could master this divine power, he would have many more methods to deal with enemies in the future.
"Alright, I agree to your conditions, this jade tablet belongs to me." Zhang Chen said with a smile.
After speaking, Zhang Chen opened his mouth, and then saw the Bashe space under Zhang Chen's tongue open, and he directly swallowed the jade tablet.
Even among the thirty-six Tiangang techniques, Yin-Yang Reversal could definitely rank in the top three. Zhang Chen felt that he had made a great profit.
"Boy, now that you have achieved your wish, how will you save me?" The Innate Peacock said, his eyes fixed on Zhang Chen.
Zhang Chen smiled upon hearing this: "It's simple."
In the next moment, the Golden Finger's Soul Hooking skill was directly activated. Before the Innate Peacock could recover, he felt something inexplicable in the depths of his true spirit.
"What is this thing? What did you do to me?" The Innate Peacock immediately sensed something was wrong, glaring at Zhang Chen, and at the same time wanting to use his divine power to expel the mark, but the mark was firmly imprinted in his true spirit, completely integrated with his true spirit, and he couldn't pull it out at all.
"Didn't I say I was going to rescue the old ancestor?" Zhang Chen said with a smile: "Old ancestor, don't be impatient, I will get you out later."
"Did I say you would save me? What's with the mark you left in my true spirit? It's simply inexplicable, it just suddenly appeared." The Innate Peacock was a little panicked.
And Da Zizai Tianmo in Zhang Chen's heart was shocked when he heard the Innate Peacock's words, and remembered the mark in the origin of his true spirit, and then began to gloat: "This bald chicken is done for! This mark is very evil, even I, the old ancestor, can't get rid of it, and he's even more trapped."
At this time, Da Zizai Tianmo's eyes were full of sympathy, and he felt so good to find someone else to be unlucky with him.
The Innate Peacock sensed something was wrong, but he was helpless. Zhang Chen had already gained the advantage and was too lazy to continue to pay attention to the Innate Peacock. His soul had been marked by him, so what other means could he have? What other storms could he cause?
Then, Zhang Chen's mana flowed, and he began to recover quickly. He pinched his fingers and manipulated the Heaven and Earth Treasure Mirror to sense the outside situation. After a moment, Zhang Chen was sure that Xu Erniu and the Ancestor had both left.
Zhang Chen looked at the Innate Peacock, and with a thought, the Soul Hooking skill was activated, and the Innate Peacock was directly pulled out of the cage and appeared in front of Zhang Chen.
If he were outside, he would not be able to break the Heaven and Earth Treasure Mirror's shielding to hook the Innate Peacock's three souls and seven spirits, because if the other party's soul was suppressed, his Soul Hooking skill would be powerless.
This place was inside the Heaven and Earth Treasure Mirror. The cage was almost non-existent to Zhang Chen, who had mastered the magic formula to control the Heaven and Earth Treasure Mirror.
Zhang Chen seemed to directly hook out the Innate Peacock's soul from the cage, but in fact, Zhang Chen had secretly activated the mantra in advance to reduce the suppression and restraint power of the cage.
"Since the old ancestor wants to borrow the innate Five Elements essence, just enter my Five-Colored Divine Light to rest. When we get outside, I will help you seize a body and be reborn." Zhang Chen's five-colored light flowed behind him, and he said to the Innate Peacock.
However, the Innate Peacock refused at this time, glaring at Zhang Chen: "Boy, explain the mark in my soul first, otherwise I'm not done with you."
"Wasn't the mark I cast to pull the old ancestor out of the cage? Now that you have been pulled out, why bother to dwell on it?" Zhang Chen said.
"Now that you have pulled me out, quickly remove the mark." The Innate Peacock said with a gloomy face.
"That mark was an accidental gain. I only know the method of applying the mark, as for how to dissipate and remove the mark, I really haven't learned it." Zhang Chen's face was full of apology: "Old ancestor, why bother so much? It's just a mark, what impact can it have on the old ancestor?"
"Nonsense, how can it have no impact? This method is imprinted in my soul, and there will definitely be unknown crises and restrictions. You quickly remove it, otherwise I'm not done with you." The Innate Peacock glared at Zhang Chen.
Zhang Chen smiled upon hearing this and directly changed the topic. The five-colored divine light behind him flashed: "Old ancestor, are you still lending me the Five Elements Source? If you don't lend it to me, I'm leaving, and you can be trapped in this Ruins of Return."
Seeing that Zhang Chen was about to act shamelessly, the Innate Peacock was so angry that his breathing became rapid. Knowing that he was now relying on others and had a request, he could only give up continuing to dwell on this issue:
"What do you mean by borrowing the innate Five Elements? The innate Five Elements on your body are mine in the first place!"
As he spoke, he rushed into the five-colored divine light behind Zhang Chen, entrusting himself to the five feathers. Then, Zhang Chen directly put away the five-colored divine light: "Old ancestor, you are wrong. These five feathers were picked up by me from the ground, what does it have to do with you? If you say it's yours, call it and see if it agrees with you?"
His five-colored divine light had been recorded by the Golden Finger interface and had become a skill on the Golden Finger interface. It was simply a dream for the Peacock to take it back, unless the other party's strength was stronger than his Golden Finger.
If the other party's strength was stronger than his Golden Finger, then what was he still doing? He would just kneel down and surrender, waiting for the other party to accept him.
Over there, the Connate Peacock entered his own five feathers, secretly rejoicing: "Good kid, still young, has to drink my ancestor's foot-washing water. How can you measure my ancestor's abilities? These five feathers are transformed from my origin and are one with me. As long as my essence, energy, and spirit fall into them, even if this treasure has already been refined by you, for me, it's just a matter of thought to take it back."
The Connate Peacock was overjoyed and hurriedly went to sense the five feathers, but the next moment, the Connate Peacock's expression changed drastically:
"Damn, what kind of method is this? These five feathers have completely lost contact with me, and there is no imprint of my essence, energy, and spirit at all? How could this be? How could this be?"
These five feathers, to him, were like a part of his own soul. As long as he touched them, he could directly take them back, but now someone was telling him that his soul no longer belonged to him. How was this possible?
"What the hell is going on?" The Connate Peacock felt like the sky was falling.
Taking back these five Connate feathers would at least save him hundreds of millions of years of cultivation, allowing him to return to his peak state within a thousand years. But what was happening now? His own origin no longer belonged to him. Could there be anything more outrageous than this in the world?
Let's say that after Zhang Chen sensed that there was no one outside the Treasure Mirror of Heaven and Earth, his figure flashed and he flew directly out of the Treasure Mirror of Heaven and Earth, landing on the ground.
In this world, there is no such thing as divine sense. If you want to explore, there are only two ways: one is to open the Heavenly Eye, and the other is to cultivate supernatural powers of the 'seeing through obstacles' type.
Zhang Chen turned his head to look at the Treasure Mirror of Heaven and Earth, and the greed in his heart grew like weeds. If he took the opportunity to steal the Treasure Mirror of Heaven and Earth at this time and put it into the Devouring Space, he would definitely not be noticed.
But thinking that Patriarch Changsheng refined the Grass Return Pill in order to use the Treasure Mirror of Heaven and Earth to overcome the tribulation, if he stole the Treasure Mirror of Heaven and Earth, what would happen to Xu Erniu? If the Grass Return Pill was useless, would Xu Erniu be in danger?
Thinking of this, Zhang Chen transformed into a drop of water and slipped out through the crack in the door, all the way to the room of the chubby Zou Wenlong, before revealing his own tracks.
With the Water Control Technique transforming into a stream of water, as long as one is not directly seen as a stream of water by someone with a higher cultivation level than oneself, no one can see through one's transformation.
"Next is to find a physical body for the Connate Peacock and help him seize the body and be reborn. But I don't know who in this Taoist temple is suitable for the Connate Peacock to seize." Zhang Chen was thinking about the next plan when suddenly the bell rang. The bell rang thirty-six times in a row, and Zhang Chen's expression was surprised. He had read all the books in the Taoist temple's library, so of course he knew what thirty-six bell rings represented. It represented the Patriarch summoning all the disciples of the temple to gather.
Zhang Chen hurriedly picked up the mop, walked out of Zou Wenlong's room, then stood in the corridor, wiped his hands, and quickly rushed to the front yard.
At this time, within Qingcheng Mountain, there were constantly powerful auras flowing, with tenth-order, eleventh-order, and twelfth-order disciples flying out from the depths of Qingcheng Mountain. Even if they tried their best to restrain the aura around them, Zhang Chen was still shocked.
"Those are the four great disciples of Wuzhuang Temple, all of whom have cultivated for countless years and have entered the twelfth order. There are also more than a dozen remaining tenth-order and eleventh-order disciples." Xu Erniu walked over from a distance and, seeing Zhang Chen looking at the figures in the sky in a daze, explained.
"Four great disciples?" Zhang Chen curiously asked.
"They are the four powerful cultivators who have followed the Patriarch since he attained enlightenment. Now their cultivation has already entered the twelfth order, but they have not yet entered the realm of 'Fruit'. The eldest brother is called Bailu. The second brother is called Qingming. The third brother is called Qingsong. The fourth brother is called Hongshi. These four senior brothers are the core of Wuzhuang Temple and also the pillars of Wuzhuang Temple. They usually cultivate in seclusion in the depths of Qingcheng Mountain, comprehending higher realms. I don't know why they came out of seclusion today." Xu Erniu's voice was full of curiosity.
Zhang Chen glanced at Xu Erniu. At this time, he could use the Orthodox God Golden Light. His Orthodox God Golden Light scanned Xu Erniu, and he saw Xu Erniu surrounded by clear air. In her dantian area, there was a fist-sized cyan air current rotating, like a bead, constantly absorbing some kind of mysterious aura from the heavens and earth.
"Xu Erniu has indeed been plotted against, but I don't know if there is a way to reverse it, so that Xu Erniu can turn around and seize the creation of Patriarch Changsheng." Zhang Chen secretly said.
He had thousands of words in his heart, but he didn't know how to open his mouth to Xu Erniu. Do you know why?
Could he tell Xu Erniu that Patriarch Changsheng was actually her biological father? And that her biological father actually wanted to refine her into a ginseng fruit and sacrifice her. How dare he say that?
If he said that, Xu Erniu would definitely not believe it.
No one knew better than him how much Xu Erniu was looking forward to seeing her father, and she had carried that little wooden sword for thousands of miles.
"Let's go, the Patriarch is summoning all the disciples to gather, we must not delay, lest we be punished by the Patriarch." Xu Erniu grabbed Zhang Chen's hand and quickly ran to the front yard: "I was just afraid that you didn't know the meaning of the bell ringing thirty-six times, so I came to remind you, lest you be punished by your Patriarch."
Zhang Chen was moved in his heart and quickly ran to the front yard with Xu Erniu. Zhang Chen said without showing any signs: "I say, have you ever seen your father?"
"Not yet, my father encountered a bottleneck in his cultivation, how easy is it to break through?" Xu Erniu said.
Zhang Chen's eyes turned when he heard this: "There is something, I don't know if I should tell you."
"What's the matter? What can't we two say?" Xu Erniu turned her head and gave Zhang Chen a surprised look.
"I had previously inquired several times in the Taoist temple, but I never heard of your father's name." Zhang Chen tentatively said: "Could you be mistaken? Your father is not in Qingcheng Mountain at all. Or has your father encountered some accident in Qingcheng Mountain?"
Xu Erniu smiled when she heard this: "I thought it was something, but you don't know, my father was a cultivator hundreds of years ago, how would the current disciples know my father's name."
Zhang Chen scratched his head when he heard this, with thousands of words stuck in his throat, unable to say a word.
What could he do?
That damned Changsheng thief actually had all the escape routes planned out, and everything was woven perfectly. Even if Zhang Chen wanted to find a flaw to remind Xu Erniu, he couldn't find an opportunity.
"Forget it, forget it, let me think about this matter carefully again. I will personally find a way to solve Patriarch Changsheng. It's better not to let Xu Erniu know about this matter. This little girl is still a child after all, and her mind is much worse than that of an adult. If Patriarch Changsheng accidentally sees something, it will be bad." Zhang Chen secretly said.
If he told Xu Erniu the truth, whether she believed it or not was another matter. If Xu Erniu believed it, could she hide anything with her temperament?
If Patriarch Changsheng saw something, then everyone would be in danger, and it was very likely that they would be wiped out by Patriarch Changsheng.