Chapter 395: Chapter 364 Little One’s Transformation!
"Bring the Primordial Truth to him!"
The branches of the willow tree shook. Even without a face, one could almost guess its gritted teeth in anger.
"Alright!"
Shi Feifeng’s eyes brightened, and he quickly turned and entered the house. It wasn’t long before he returned with a red cloth-wrapped item.
Shi Feifeng walked up to Chen Zhixing, loosened the red cloth, and a bone book appeared in sight. The bone book was white and glossy, resembling a palm-sized piece of fine mutton fat jade, indescribably crystalline, white and translucent.
Despite its small size, it was densely covered with mysterious symbols, seemingly chiseled in countless layers, faintly echoing with the chants of gods and demons, stirring one’s heart and soul.
Its appearance was astounding, even though it was merely a bone, its revelation was surprisingly magnificent.
"Patriarch Chen, don’t stare at it. This bone book is peculiar; if you stare too long, you’ll pass out," the old patriarch quickly warned.
"Don’t worry, it’s just some Great Tao excerpts."
Chen Zhixing smiled faintly, received the bone book, and gently caressed it. The bone book felt smooth and cool, slightly uneven to the touch.
His divine thought, so vast and expansive, once entered the bone book, severed all connection as though a stone cow had plunged into the sea.
Chen Zhixing glanced briefly down at it. The script on the bone book belonged to no era of the current world; its styling somewhat resembled the mysterious characters on the stone bead.
"Be it the mysterious stone bead or this Primordial Truth, they do not originate from this era, do they?"
Thought flickered across Chen Zhixing’s eyes. He then beckoned to the Little One who was playing cheerfully with the children from Stone Village in the distance.
"Master Hu!"
The Little One was enthusiastic, relishing the rare chance to meet peers his age, playing joyfully.
"Take it, this is your cultivation technique."
Chen Zhixing handed the Primordial Truth he held to the Little One.
This "Primordial Truth" was remarkably powerful. According to the previous life "Great Cultivation" story, the Little One initiated an invincible era upon receiving this Primordial Truth!
However, Chen Zhixing was indifferent to cultivation since the Little One would cultivate anyway, which effectively meant he was cultivating too.
"Master Hu, I can’t understand these words..." The Little One looked at Chen Zhixing with large, pleading eyes.
"Ahem."
Chen Zhixing coughed into his fist, then turned to look at the willow tree with its single glistening branch, grinned, and said:
"Senior, I’m afraid I’ll need your help from here."
"Help me? You’re so capable, I can’t even defeat you, why don’t you teach him yourself? What do you need me for?"
A voice, deep and distant, spoke.
"Hahaha, just jesting, just jesting!" Chen Zhixing laughed awkwardly, waving his hand, before his expression turned solemn:
"Senior, you’ve heard about the Little One’s plight, such a pitiful child. Aren’t you really going to watch idly as this well-behaved, clever, and playful yet unfortunate child suffers fate’s injustices? As predecessors in cultivation, can we stand idly by?"
"The world is filthy enough; can we not cleanse it together, restoring clear skies and breezes, making the moon shine bright and the world pure?"
The tired voice fell silent for a moment.
Moments later.
"Shameless man!"
The willow tree uttered, and its glistening branch turned slightly to ’look’ at the Little One.
"Senior." The Little One spoke with childlike voice.
The willow tree branch did not reply but kept looking at the Little One.
Until the Little One felt a shiver in his heart, the voice, fatigued as it was, spoke again.
"I can teach you."
Upon hearing this.
The Little One jumped up joyfully, and a faint smile appeared at the corner of Chen Zhixing’s mouth.
"Don’t rejoice too soon!"
The willow tree branch interrupted the Little One’s excitement, continuing: "But this technique demands exceedingly high standards. Only one in ten thousand may succeed. Whether you can cultivate it depends on your own fate."
"That’s naturally true." Chen Zhixing nodded with a smile.
Then, that tired voice began to instruct the Little One on how to cultivate the Primordial Truth.
"To cultivate the Primordial Truth, you must build the firmest foundation at every realm!"
"The first step in cultivating this method is to enter the Treasure Body Realm in childhood, bearing the strength of ten thousand jin of divine iron with the body alone, much like a king beast cub among barbaric relic species! And to temper mental willpower harder than steel to be prepared for the subsequent Nourishing Spirit Realm!"
As these words fell from the willow tree.
Shi Feifeng and others nearby couldn’t help but gasp, showing astonishment.
Even Chen Zhixing felt his eyelid twitch.
In the Treasure Body Realm, one attains a thousand jin per level, and having ten thousand jin ordinarily means reaching the Treasure Body Ninth Layer Great Perfection!
Chen Zhixing, having broken the physical body limitations as a Limit Breaker, and possessing the Ox Demon Transformation Star Scripture, a heaven-defying technique that integrates countless physical strength techniques, barely reached ten thousand jin in the Treasure Body Realm.
And that was merely the basic requirement of the Primordial Truth!
One can imagine how arduous this method is to cultivate!
"I’ll try my best!" Determination flashed in the Little One’s eyes.
"Good."
The voice of the willow tree carried a trace of gratification. This little fellow neither retreated in fear nor boasted about guaranteed success, which was the response it desired most.
"I possess a pill formula here. Securing the items listed on it, you can brew a great potion that will enhance the Little One’s physical strength, laying a foundation."
An ancient pill formula drifted to float before the crowd’s eyes.
The patriarch of Stone Village, Shi Feifeng, looked down at the items listed in the pill formula and immediately showed a troubled expression.
"These... these materials demanded by the pill formula are all top-tier heavenly materials and earthly treasures; how can we possibly gather them..." Shi Feifeng lowered his head, lost in thought.
"No worries, I can provide a simplified version, using ordinary items as substitutes..." the willow tree opened its mouth.
"No need for simplification. Leave these heavenly materials and earthly treasures to me!"
Chen Zhixing glanced once at the items listed in the pill formula and laughed heartily.
The heavenly materials and earthly treasures mentioned in this pill formula were stacked in heaps on Ziwei Mountain, practically gathering dust!
To be honest, in the current Ziwei Chen Family, if anything abounds, it’s heavenly materials and earthly treasures!
Even if some items occasionally, such as the fresh blood of certain Great Demons, are missing from the Ziwei Chen Family, it can entirely be found in the Northern Plain.
With Chen Zhixing’s current strength, so long as he doesn’t venture into the Land of God and Demon Burial within the North Sea, he can traverse most places with leisurely grace.
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In the blink of an eye, two weeks passed.
Due to the limitations imposed by the distance of communication talismans, Chen Zhixing first traveled to Zichuan City, instructed the Celestial Secret Tower stationed there to convey a message to the family, requesting that the heavenly materials and earthly treasures on the pill formula be delivered by the Dark Division.
Afterward, Chen Zhixing ventured into the Northern Plain, slaying several Great Demons to extract their blood, thus completing the last required items of the pill formula.
Henceforth, the Little One’s transformation officially commenced!