Chapter 404: Chapter 182: Dragon Form

His massive frame was sent flying over a hundred feet in an instant, snapping countless boulders and large trees before gouging a foot-deep crater in the ground.

A curtain of soil and shredded leaves erupted ten feet into the air, and the entire valley seemed to tremble for a moment.

"How... How is this possible?"

Dong Chuo slumped to the ground, his arms wracked with excruciating pain. They trembled violently from shoulder to fingertip, and he could barely clench his hands, unable even to support the weight of the Profound Iron Fist Armor, which threatened to slip off.

"The Secret Six Harmonies... You—you can actually use the ’Six Harmonies Return to Truth’!?"

Dong Chuo’s eyes were filled with horror, his voice and body trembling.

Before one reached the Divine Storage Realm, the most notable characteristic of Secret Martial Arts was their ability to enhance a Martial Artist’s practical combat abilities.

The degree of this enhancement was directly proportional to the grade of the Secret Martial Arts itself.

The enhancement effect of an Upper Secret Transmission was naturally far superior to that of a Lower Secret Transmission.

And the Secret Six Harmonies Spear could be considered the most powerful Secret Martial Arts of the Mountain and Sea Sect.

To be precise, its name was the Six Harmonies Returning to Purity Technique. Its cultivation method was similar to the Four Gods Profound Body, involving the internal refining of Blood Qi and its Circulation through the body.

The spear techniques were included to cultivate both the internal and external, simultaneously tempering the physical body.

The self stands without, the Divine Treasure is hidden within.

The Acquired Self must be established, making the tempering of the physical body indispensable.

For this reason, the true difficulty of this Secret Martial Arts lay not in its Spear Technique, but in its Inner Cultivation Technique.

The ’Six Harmonies Return to Truth’ that Dong Chuo spoke of was precisely the most profound Blood Circulation Technique within the Six Harmonies Returning to Purity Technique.

By circulating Blood Qi through the body, one could unleash power far surpassing others of the Same Tier.

Coupled with its numerous Traits and the brand-new Tai Chi Instant Burst...

The Chen Cheng of today could already be called an invincible existence beneath the Divine Storage Realm.

"Why!? Why were you able to learn the Secret Six Harmonies... Who was it!? Who the hell is guiding you from the shadows!?"

Dong Chuo stared at Chen Cheng, his eyes nearly splitting from their sockets. His completely twisted expression showed that he simply could not believe, could not comprehend, and certainly could not accept the cruel truth before him.

"...No one guided me."

Chen Cheng held his spear with both hands. Before his words had even faded, he flashed forward, lunging straight for Dong Chuo and giving him no chance to catch his breath.

"No... Don’t kill me! Chen Cheng... I’m begging you, don’t kill me! I can give you money! Resources! Status! Anything you want... Spare me! Spare my life!!"

Dong Chuo shrieked hysterically, but the Long Spear in Chen Cheng’s hands showed no sign of stopping.

The spear was raised high, then brought crashing down.

Chen Cheng gripped the butt of the spear with both hands, pressing down with all his might. The tip lagged behind, pulled back by inertia, and for an instant, the Profound Iron Spear Shaft was bent into a terrifying arc.

Dong Chuo’s pleas for mercy came to an abrupt halt.

In his shrinking pupils, the descending Profound Iron Long Spear was like a bolt of black lightning striking from the heavens, rapidly growing larger as it fell.

He subconsciously raised his arms, crossing them to block.

BOOM—!!

In the next instant, the spearhead smashed violently against the Profound Iron Fist Armor.

The Fist Armor remained undamaged, but Dong Chuo’s arms were snapped clean through. They bent backward at a ninety-degree angle along the armor’s edge, hanging limply.

The spear’s momentum did not diminish.

The sharpened edge of the spearhead crashed down on Dong Chuo’s forehead, splitting his head clean in two.

Chen Cheng coiled his arms back and to the right, still gripping the butt of the spear. He yanked the Long Spear back from between the two halves of the cleaved head, then followed with a thrust, a pull, and another thrust.

The spear tip pierced Dong Chuo’s heart and throat in quick succession.

Immediately after, Chen Cheng quickly moved from corpse to corpse, looting every one.

Finally, Chen Cheng gathered all the bodies, along with anything that could identify them, inside the stone cave where the campfire still burned.

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

Without the slightest hesitation, Chen Cheng tossed three Divine Fire Thunders into the cave.

This not only completely obliterated the bodies and erased all traces, but also caused the cave to collapse, burying the mangled remains under tons of earth and rock.

Afterward, neither the Dong Family nor the Mountain and Sea Sect would be able to find a single clue.

「Some time later.」

Chen Cheng placed the unconscious Ning Chong and the two infants together inside a cavern far from the valley.

Then, Chen Cheng left the cavern alone and hurried downstream along a clear creek outside.

Behind a pre-arranged boulder, Chen Cheng successfully rendezvoused with the Tiger Monarch, Huang Feng.

Although today’s battle was entirely planned and orchestrated by Chen Cheng, no small part of the credit belonged to Huang Feng.

If he hadn’t pretended to be the Golden-eyed Mutant Tiger to lure away Cui Zifeng, the battle would not have gone so smoothly.

Finally, Chen Cheng leaped onto the tiger’s back and had him wade through the river to leave Feidang Mountain, completely eliminating any possibility of leaving behind footprints or scents.

...

「The next morning, at first light.」

The streets of Yunlei Prefecture City had not yet fully awakened. A thin mist, like gauze, shrouded the bluestone paths and the staggered eaves of the buildings.

In the main courtyard of Zhang’s Trading Company.

A ferocious tiger of unusually large size was burying its head in a small mountain of fresh beef and mutton.

It ate at a leisurely pace, occasionally lifting its head to flick its tail. The morning light reflected in its amber pupils, making them appear almost golden.

It was Huang Feng.

Inside the main hall.

Zhang Wenhui and his daughter, Zhang Yu, were thanking Chen Cheng profusely. They had bowed and clasped their hands in gratitude countless times, bending lower with each bow, stopping just short of kneeling and kowtowing.

"That’s enough. If you two continue to be so polite, these Silver Notes will start to burn my hands."

Chen Cheng sat in the host’s seat, holding the six thousand taels in Silver Notes that Zhang Wenhui had just presented to him with both hands.

"Young Master Chen, it would have been better if you hadn’t mentioned the Silver Notes. Now that you have, I feel I’ve treated you even more shabbily..."

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