Pill Furnace Peak.

The surrounding clouds parted automatically under the guidance of the jade token at the waist of the White Crane Child, revealing a small path.

Chen Sheng followed him to the rear mountain.

A cave mansion was embedded in the rock wall, its door crafted from two pieces of profound iron, engraved with the ancient characters 'Hidden Dragon Cave', with strokes faintly circulating with fiery energy.

​"Please have a look, True Transmission."

The White Crane Child flicked his fingers lightly, and the spirit patterns on the profound iron door suddenly lit up, with the roar of rushing earth fire echoing from within the cave.

Chen Sheng stepped inside, and felt the spiritual energy of a Tier Three Spiritual Vein envelop him like a warm spring, only slightly inferior to Danxin Cave.

He was extremely satisfied!

He looked at the center, which held a purple copper earth fire stove a zhang high, with a ghostly blue flame dancing according to the Nine Palace positions from the stove's base.

The White Crane Child bowed and said:

"This earth fire is born from a residual vein of Pill Furnace Peak, capable of generating Nine Palace Li Fire Evil Qi, specialized for tempering the body, complementing the True Transmission's body refining technique."

"If you need to adjust the flames, you only need to use mana to activate the spirit pattern array disc at the stove's side."​

Chen Sheng traced his fingertip over the complex patterns on the array disc and nodded:

"This is the place!"

"Thank you for leading the way, Child."

The White Crane Child nodded gently:

"It's good that the True Transmission is satisfied."

Then transformed into a streak of white light and descended the mountain.

...

In Hidden Dragon Cave.

Chen Sheng sat cross-legged before the earth fire stove, taking out the purple jade scroll, which upon touching his palm, turned into a purple rainbow, entering his sea of consciousness.

The scriptures of "Sea Overturning Flood Dragon Technique" surged like a tide, causing his spiritual sense to buzz.

Chen Sheng focused his mind to comprehend.

After a long time, he slowly opened his eyes:

"Indeed, it's profound!"

This body refining technique is extremely advanced.

It aims to transform into a flood dragon!

The entry requirement is just one — the bloodline of a flood dragon, and naturally, a higher-level true dragon bloodline is better.

Each layer of the spell requires using one's bloodline as a guide for progression.

In total, there are seven layers.

The first three layers use one's bloodline as a guide, gradually condensing the reversed scale, the core of strength, to transform the sinews, bones, skin, and flesh.

The fourth and fifth layers give birth to dragon claws, dragon horns…

beginning the true transformation into a flood dragon.

Reaching the sixth layer perfection allows transforming the body into that of a flood dragon, comparable to an abnormal blood flood dragon.

Around this flood dragon body, several high-tier Tier Two Daoist skills are set; mastering them grants formidable divine techniques and combat strength unmatched by peers in the same tier.

"The cultivation technique is excellent, but its requirements are stringent."

"Not to mention various resource consumption, the basic dragon bloodline is possessed by very few."

Chen Sheng exhaled a breath of turbid air, also somewhat anxious— is [Dragon Spirit and Tiger Fierce] really a dragon bloodline?

"Worth a try!"

The thought flitted through his mind.

Chen Sheng immediately sat cross-legged on the ground.

Stir the qi and blood in his body.

A mass of pale golden blood qi rose in his dantian.

Suppressing the thrill in his heart, he followed the first-layer spell to circulate qi and blood.

Only to feel as if numerous small dragons were ramming around in his limbs and bones, which emitted crisp sounds like jade stones clashing.

Three days later.

The skin and flesh all over Chen Sheng took on faint dragon scale patterns.

He suddenly opened his eyes, with a slit-pupil phantasm flashing across his pupils, and the patterns on his body gradually dissipated.

Chen Sheng flicked his fingers, with the resultant wind leaving a half-inch deep claw mark on the copper wall of the earth fire stove.

He couldn't help but chuckle lowly:

"The bloodline guiding was very smooth; it seems my bloodline purity is quite good."

"Right, the reversed scale."

He remembered the mention of the reversed scale in the cultivation technique.

Immediately introspecting his dantian, he indeed saw a mass of golden light faintly appearing at the life gate.

"The reversed scale hasn't fully formed yet but has initially surfaced. I wonder how many claws I can develop?"

According to the cultivation technique, achieving the fourth layer begins the growth of dragon claws; the more the number, the better the aptitude.

Ultimately, the strength and combat power when fully forming the flood dragon body are nearly comprehensively strengthened.

"But this seventh layer is indeed arduous, no wonder even Master failed in the end!"

The seventh layer is the technique's core — condensing the dragon bead, akin to a cultivator forming a Golden Core.

Once the dragon bead is condensed, it can trigger the bloodline divine technique, possessing true power to overturn rivers and seas!

Chen Sheng shook his head:

"To master the seventh layer, I need Netherworld Dragon Spirit, Deep Sea Nine-Colored Crystal, and Ten Thousand Years Dragon Marrow Spring."

"Each is a Tier Three treasure, exceptionally rare, practically legendary in the entire Chu Kingdom cultivation realm, making it extremely challenging to seek out!"

"Well, Core Formation is inherently difficult, taking it step by step; compared to ordinary cultivators, I'm much more fortunate."

Once the thought settled.

Chen Sheng continued to comprehend the first three layers:

"Cultivating the first three layers requires Dragon Blood Fruit and Flood Dragon Saliva Juice. With my foundation of the Body Refining Fourth Layer and supporting these resources, I should be able to complete it quickly."

...

The next morning.

Chen Sheng went to the Dharma Transmission Pavilion.

This five-storied building floated amidst the cloud sea.

Each floor was constructed with different kinds of spirit wood, with the spiritual energy becoming denser as one goes up, and by the fifth floor, faint spirit crystals had formed on the beams and pillars.

"Chen Zhenchuan, please enter."

The gray-robed elder guarding the pavilion, seeing the token at his waist, hurriedly opened the jade ladder leading to the higher floors.

"Thank you!"

This time, with the identity of a true transmission from the Pill Hall, all five floors were opened to Chen Sheng without reservation.

He stepped inside.

Saw hundreds of jade shelves floating in mid-air, and the jade scrolls on the shelves sealed with "Sealing Spirit Talismans," only viewable by injecting mana corresponding to one's identity. ​

He traced his fingertip over the jade shelves, his eyes quickly scanning over the jade scrolls:

"'Nine Techniques of Locking Spirit', Tier Two Top Grade, with subsequent Tier Three linking cultivation technique, nine thousand contribution points, not bad."

"'Five Revolutions Condensing Pill Secret Technique', Tier Three Middle Grade, seventy thousand contribution points, too expensive."

"This 'Three Revolutions Condensing Pill Secret Technique', Tier Two Top Grade, is a prerequisite for this cultivation technique and only costs twelve thousand; it's also doable."

"As my cultivation progresses with 'Circulation Star Melting Furnace', it also needs to be gradually phased out. I remember there is its subsequent cultivation technique on the fifth floor, seemingly called 'Heaven-Encompassing Fire Technique'."

On the fifth floor, turning to the fire technique area.

Chen Sheng gazed at a red jade scroll, his brow slightly moving.

"'Heaven-Encompassing Fire Technique', Tier Three Lower Grade, thirty-six thousand contribution points,"

"Fire technique counts as my specialty, my foundation, the Circulation Star Melting Furnace among Tier Two Alchemists, lacks advantage, it must be acquired."

He gritted his teeth and finally decided to acquire it.

Before long.

Chen Sheng acquired all three cultivation techniques.

In total, costing fifty-seven thousand contribution points, equivalent to three Foundation Establishment Pills.

"Truly spending money like flowing water."

"Regrettably, I haven't found a spiritual sense cultivation technique."

Chen Sheng still remembered the benefits a strong spiritual sense offers to pill refining.

"Not only for pill refining, but a strong spiritual sense also benefits magical combat and ascending to the upper realm… the further the cultivation progresses, the higher the requirements for spiritual sense."

"My aptitude is average; if I could also cultivate a spiritual sense cultivation technique, the future path may become smoother."

"But I've searched the entire pavilion and haven't found any."

"Could it be the sect doesn't have a spiritual sense cultivation technique?"

Upon reconsidering, Chen Sheng thought:

"Perhaps it exists, but this kind of secret technique is exceedingly precious, and I don't have sufficient clearance."

"I can inquire with my master; if he also says it doesn't exist, then there really is no way."

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