Chapter 389: True Dragon Enters the Nest, Divine Art Emerges
Dragon Qilin wanted to spit out the Fire Element Divine Origin Pills from his cheeks, but Qin Mu showed a friendly smile, scaring him into gulping them all down his stomach.
"Too bad, he could have been served on the table during New Year's." Qin Mu muttered softly.
Dragon Qilin shivered several times and obediently followed behind them as they ran, while Fox Ling'er stood on his big head, constantly cheering him on: "Fatty Dragon, if you run too slow, you'll be killed for New Year's!"
Qin Mu relaxed. Mishui Pass was not too far from Xianglong City, and according to the Great Wasteland Geography Map, the Star Sea was located in the Heavenly Dragon Star Palace north of Xianglong City, about two hundred li away. On the map, it was called Star Sea, but the people near Xianglong City called it the Star Sea.
Many geographical names in the Great Wasteland differed between ancient and modern times, likely caused by the cultural fault line of the Kaicheng Era.
From the information Qin Mu had gathered, after the Kaicheng Era ended, human history experienced a major fault line spanning about a thousand years. Very few records of what happened during that millennium survived. Apart from scattered records in the Three Holy Lands and Little Jade Capital, no other sects or nations had memories of that period.
Qin Mu summoned the Ink Flood Dragon. The docile creature opened its mouth, revealing the True Dragon Nest that Dragon Lord had refined to only five feet square.
Relatively speaking, the True Dragon Nest was still quite large. A deity like Dragon Lord could only refine it to the size of a round table. To make it smaller would require even greater power.
With Dragon Lord's cultivation, he couldn't achieve that.
"And yet, the True Dragon Master was refined into something like a jade pendant. Doesn't that mean the person who refined it into the Emperor Disc had cultivation far surpassing Dragon Lord's?"
Qin Mu was stunned. Who had taken the True Dragon Master and refined it into the Emperor Disc? Why had it been given to the Ling family? What was that person's purpose?
The Ink Flood Dragon spat out the True Dragon Nest. Just as Qin Mu reached out to catch it, he immediately felt an incredibly heavy pressure and quickly said, "Take it back..."
Bang.
The two girls saw the Great Cultivator's arms dislocate as he was pinned to the dragon's back by the nest, both of them shocked and uncertain.
"This big basin with a rockery is even heavier than the Great Cultivator's sword orb." Si Yunxiang stuck out her tongue, recalling how she had used Xuan Gold Essence to forge a sword for Qin Mu, only to crush him into the ground. She whispered.
Qin Mu grunted, struggling to pull his bloodied fingers out from under the nest. Dragon Qilin quickly trotted over, flattering: "Cultivator, I can lick your hands for you."
"No need."
Qin Mu's arms hung limply. He circulated his primal energy, forcibly reattaching his arms, enduring the pain as he took out a bottle of dragon saliva and applied it to his fingers, then let out a sigh.
As the True Dragon Nest appeared, the Emperor Disc on his chest began to stir again, growing hot and burning. The disc also started to stretch its "body" like a small dragon squirming, trying to fly out from his chest and return to the nest.
This had happened once before. When Qin Mu was almost killed by the group of flood dragons, the Emperor Disc had revealed a small dragon head, forcing them to submit.
But the True Dragon Master had already been refined into the Emperor Disc, and Dragon Lord had said it could no longer become a true dragon.
True dragons were born from qi, conceived by fortune. Qi and fortune gave birth to true dragons, which then derived their physical bodies. The True Dragon Master was essentially a main dragon vein, refined into a treasure, making it impossible for it to evolve into a true dragon.
Qin Mu took the Emperor Disc from his neck. As soon as he let go, the disc flew up, slowly unfolding in the air, automatically growing larger but only reaching about a foot in length. Then, with a whoosh, it fell into the True Dragon Nest!
Qin Mu looked into the nest and saw the Emperor Disc land inside, coiling like a dragon at the center of the ninth layer, perfectly filling the gap in the nest!
As the True Dragon Master entered the nest, a terrifying dragon might erupted. The flood dragons around Qin Mu all went limp, prostrating on the ground. Even the dragon carrying them immediately lay down, motionless!
Even Dragon Qilin stopped instantly, his fur and scales standing on end, but he couldn't resist the terrifying dragon might from the nest and was pressed to the ground, not daring to lift his head!
Qin Mu didn't have time to think. He saw countless runes jumping on the nest—dragon script characters, bizarre and ever-changing, with not a single repeated character!
Different characters contained different information. The characters appearing on the True Dragon Nest were actually an incredibly complex cultivation technique!
True dragons were born from qi and fortune, and fortune came from the way of heaven and earth. Thus, true dragons were close to the Dao. Every dragon born naturally mastered the dragon language without needing to learn it.
Since there was no need to learn dragon language, there was no need for repetition. Dragons could use one character to represent a word's meaning, one character to represent a sentence, or even one character to represent a lengthy article of tens of thousands of words!
Because of this, other races found learning dragon language unimaginably difficult.
Dragon Lord had extremely high bloodline, but he was still a flood dragon, not a true dragon. Although he had taught Qin Mu a lot of dragon language, there were still many characters on the True Dragon Nest that Qin Mu didn't recognize.
Among the dragon language Dragon Lord had taught Qin Mu, some characters had extremely complex meanings. A single character, if expressed in human language, would require tens of thousands of words to explain. Some characters couldn't even be expressed in human language at all!
Qin Mu focused on memorizing, recording all the dragon script on the True Dragon Nest.
Ling Yuxiu and Si Yunxiang also came closer. Si Yunxiang asked curiously, "What kind of script is this?"
"Dragon script."
Ling Yuxiu said in surprise, "These are all dragon script. I've learned some, taught by my father, but I don't recognize much—only a few scattered characters."
Qin Mu thought for a moment, then suddenly said, "Sister Yuxiu, do you have the original Nine Dragons Emperor Emperor Art from your Ling family?"
The Nine Dragons Emperor Emperor Art hadn't been outstanding originally. It had been improved and perfected by successive experts of the Ling family to become a top-tier technique. But Qin Mu guessed that the original version should still be preserved. Otherwise, Emperor Yanfeng wouldn't have taught Ling Yuxiu dragon language.
Qin Mu suspected that the original Nine Dragons Emperor Emperor Art was written in dragon script, and Emperor Yanfeng had taught Ling Yuxiu dragon language so she could read the most primitive version.
"How do you know I've seen the most primitive Nine Dragons Emperor Emperor Art?"
Ling Yuxiu was shocked and said, "The oldest version of my Ling family's Nine Dragons Emperor Emperor Art is indeed written in dragon script. I have seen it. Father made me memorize it before teaching me his version."
Qin Mu smiled. "Recite the oldest Nine Dragons Emperor Emperor Art in dragon language for me. I'll give you a big benefit later."
Ling Yuxiu shook her head. "I can't say it, but I can write it."
Qin Mu took out paper and a brush. Ling Yuxiu wrote a few strange dragon script characters and said, "This is it. My Ling family's Nine Dragons Emperor Emperor Art was recorded on the Emperor Disc, but unfortunately, the disc disappeared, stolen by some despicable thief."
Qin Mu's face flushed slightly. He didn't respond but instead looked at the dragon script she had written.
"I see. The Nine Dragons Emperor Emperor Art is actually the opening chapter of the technique that appears on the True Dragon Nest and the True Dragon Master."
He read through the original Nine Dragons Emperor Emperor Art, then looked at the constantly flashing characters on the dragon nest, finally finding the thread of the True Dragon Master's technique.
With that thread, Qin Mu continued studying, and a grand, exquisite technique gradually became richer and more complete.
The Ling family's Nine Dragons Emperor Emperor Art only had the opening moves. It wasn't truly a divine technique, but the Ling family had been able to use those opening moves to perfect it into one of the best techniques in the world, rivaling the founding techniques of the Three Holy Lands. This showed just how astonishing the technique recorded on the True Dragon Nest was!
As he deciphered it bit by bit, his shock grew. This was the fortune-stealing technique Dragon Lord had mentioned, but it wasn't entirely about stealing fortune. By cultivating this technique and absorbing the dragon qi of the True Dragon Master, one would become the True Dragon Master themselves!
The power of this technique lay in the cultivator's incredibly vast dharma power and strength, like a true dragon. Looking back at all the techniques Qin Mu had seen before, the only one that could achieve such cultivation at the same realm was probably the Tyrant Body Three Dan Art.
But in terms of strength and physical body, this technique far surpassed the Tyrant Body Three Dan Art!
Although Qin Mu had also achieved considerable success in physical cultivation, the Tyrant Body Three Dan Art required powerful body-tempering methods to supplement it, and he didn't have such a technique. The body-tempering methods in the Great Cultivation Demon Scripture were not top-tier.
But the technique on the True Dragon Nest could refine the physical body into that of a dragon king!
"Excellent technique, truly excellent... Emperor Yanfeng is also remarkable!"
Qin Mu praised repeatedly. He had deciphered most of the technique but encountered many unfamiliar characters, so he finally looked up, exhaled a mouthful of turbid qi, and said admiringly, "The Emperor is truly remarkable! From a single opening move, he developed a peerless martial art. Such talent is not far behind the National Teacher! Sister Yuxiu, when did your Ling family obtain this technique?"
"About seven hundred years ago."
Ling Yuxiu recalled what Emperor Yanfeng had said and replied, "Father said that back then, the Ling family ancestor encountered a deity who gave him the Emperor Disc and taught him dragon language. But the ancestor was a free spirit and didn't take learning dragon language seriously. At the time, he was infatuated with a woman, and all his thoughts were on her—that woman became my Ling family's ancestress. By the time the ancestor wanted to learn, the deity had already left, and he had forgotten eighty to ninety percent of the dragon language the deity had taught him. In the end, he only managed to comprehend the initial Nine Dragons Emperor Emperor Art from the Emperor Disc."
"Deaf Grandpa wasn't lying!"
Qin Mu thought to himself, "No wonder Deaf Grandpa always said women are troublesome. Indeed! Butcher Grandpa also said that having a woman is too much trouble. Horse Grandpa doesn't get close to women either. There must be a reason! I must not be like the Ling family's ancestor, letting cultivation be delayed. But Sister Yuxiu is quite pretty, and Sister Xiang is a bit thin but also good-looking..."
He became alert and quickly erased the strange thoughts from his mind. He grabbed the True Dragon Master from the dragon nest, and the dragon-shaped dragon vein turned back into a jade pendant, head to tail.
Ling Yuxiu noticed this and looked suspicious. "This jade pendant looks a bit like my Ling family's Emperor Disc... but there are differences. I heard the Emperor Disc was a jade pendant, but this one is a jade jue with a notch."
Qin Mu smiled. "I said I'd give you a big benefit. Now I'll teach you the Nine Dragons Emperor Emperor Art I've comprehended."
Ling Yuxiu chuckled. "I have the Nine Dragons Emperor Emperor Art my father taught me. Can what you've comprehended be better than my father's?"
Qin Mu slowly recited the "Nine Dragons Emperor Emperor Art" he had comprehended. Gradually, Ling Yuxiu's expression grew more and more serious. She found that at the beginning, the technique was still the original version from the Ling family, but as it went on, it became increasingly profound, even surpassing the perfected version of Emperor Yanfeng, deeper and more powerful!
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