Dragon's Origin

Chapter 432: The Maps Align (Part 1)

Wang Sheng followed the advice and began cultivating. In just one night, Wang Sheng cultivated four times, catching up with the daily plan set in the Duke's mansion.

After four complete cultivations, the pool in Wang Sheng's Yuan Soul space was completely different. Previously, Wang Sheng's pool contained churning white mist, but now, it had turned a faint gray.

Others might not be clear, but Wang Sheng knew very well that this was obviously because the mist was too thick. Gray clouds in the sky meant they were thicker than white clouds, and could block the sunlight even more.

Wang Sheng was very satisfied with a large pool full of gray mist. This night's cultivation was equivalent to two months in the Duke's mansion.

The next morning, Wang Sheng and Old Daoist Ling Xu once again embarked on their surveying and mapping journey. The ice house was easily turned into snow water by the old Daoist, and then transformed into solid ice in the frigid wind, leaving no trace. The traces they left behind yesterday had long been blown away by the overnight gale.

Still circling around the edge of the icy basin, Wang Sheng and Old Daoist Ling Xu walked with a regular pace, thirty miles a day, no more, no less. At this rate, they would be able to circle the outer perimeter in half a month. By then, the two could enter the inner circle.

The two lived a very regular life every day. During the day, Wang Sheng was responsible for clearing the path and guiding the way, and for avoiding threatening demon beasts. If it was unavoidable, Old Daoist Ling Xu would take action, as he was there to practice killing and hardening his heart, which could be considered along the way.

However, the old Daoist was still an old Daoist. He would avoid what he could, and only act when it was unavoidable. In his words, those demon beasts that couldn't be avoided were destined to be with the old Daoist, and he should naturally follow the will of heaven.

Wang Sheng remained noncommittal about this. It didn't matter if he killed one less demon beast, the key was that those people inside couldn't be easily let go.

Thirty miles took Wang Sheng and the old Daoist about six or seven hours. Once they arrived, they would make an ice house, then rest comfortably and cultivate regularly.

Mainly Wang Sheng, as each of Wang Sheng's cultivations required more than twenty minutes. Unlike Old Daoist Ling Xu, twenty minutes was enough for him to complete nine cycles of cultivation more than ten times.

While Wang Sheng admired him, he didn't immediately try to learn from Old Daoist Ling Xu. He knew that Old Daoist Ling Xu had cultivated the Daoist Canon Heart Sutra for a full century, and had studied every meridian and acupoint in the technique down to the bone. Being able to achieve such a cultivation speed was the result of accumulated hard work, something Wang Sheng couldn't achieve just by envying.

Wang Sheng had only been exposed to the Daoist Canon Heart Sutra for a few months. Even with the help of the fighting consciousness little man to deduce and optimize, saving Wang Sheng a lot of time, Wang Sheng didn't dare to compare with Old Daoist Ling Xu's century of cultivation. It was simply not the same level, and trying to compare would be fatal.

As they walked, they didn't encounter any other experts. The two didn't care, as this wasn't the main purpose. Meeting them would be those guys' misfortune, not meeting them would be their luck.

But even so, on the twentieth day, Wang Sheng and Old Daoist Ling Xu encountered a lone expert.

This time it was an expert from the Song family, and his cultivation was much stronger than the one they encountered last time. Unfortunately, no matter how powerful an expert was, encountering Old Daoist Ling Xu could only have one result, and that was to die with regret. The only difference was that this expert, before his death, completely released his peak Legendary aura, activating two super demon beasts that were sealed in the ice mountain.

From the things on this expert, it could be judged that the expert had been in here for more than twenty days. However, he should have been like Wang Sheng and the others, exploring the periphery, and didn't dare to enter the deeper areas.

The poor guy, if he hadn't been so greedy and left earlier, he wouldn't have encountered Wang Sheng and Ling Xu. Because he had been lingering here, he became a target for Wang Sheng and Ling Xu.

Wang Sheng was determined to clear the field this time. No one was allowed to enter without Wang Sheng's permission. Not even Song Yan's subordinates.

As for the ten peak Legendary experts from the Gan and Shi families, they must be incredibly powerful now. They had been inside for a whole year, and in the inner circle, where the spiritual energy was richer and the martial will was clearer.

However, they would probably have the problem that Old Daoist Ling Xu mentioned, that their bodies couldn't withstand the imbalance caused by the rapid increase in cultivation, and there would inevitably be great damage. But what did that have to do with Wang Sheng? Wang Sheng was already doing them a favor by letting them stay inside.

In twenty days, the pool in Wang Sheng's Yuan Soul space was completely filled with churning black mist. Every moment, the transparent Yuan Soul of the Baxia was absorbing spiritual energy, adding a little bit of color to its body. In such a short time, one tail already had a complete color.

Now the two had gone more than ten miles deeper and started circling again. Wang Sheng had completely recorded the distribution of the outer formations. In particular, Wang Sheng focused on marking the areas of the two awakened super demon beasts.

Wang Sheng had asked two Grandmasters in Worry-Free City to make skis, but the snow here was too thick, more than a meter deep at waist level, and it was basically all flat ground, so the skis weren't very useful, but instead affected flexibility. Wang Sheng gave up after trying it once, and the two were walking.

Next time, he could consider making a spiritual energy-powered snowmobile with a large contact area to try. It should save a lot of energy. But it could only be used when Wang Sheng himself or Old Daoist Ling Xu came in. If others wanted to come in, they should honestly walk!

"Old Daoist, why can ordinary peak Legendary experts awaken the ice-sealed super demon beasts, but the super demon beasts themselves can't awaken their own kind?" Wang Sheng asked Old Daoist Ling Xu while panting as he walked in the snow.

"After careful consideration, we actually had some misunderstandings from the beginning. It's not that the super demon beasts are awakened by the aura of the peak Legendary," Old Daoist Ling Xu seemed to have thought about this question for a long time, and had also consulted some experts, answering with a slightly uncertain tone: "It's that the aura of the peak Legendary opened those sealing formations, and those super demon beasts were released."

This still didn't explain why human aura could, but demon beast aura couldn't. Wang Sheng didn't ask further, waiting for Old Daoist Ling Xu to answer.

"The formations were set up by humans, and there should have been such restrictions when the formations were set up," Old Daoist Ling Xu continued to explain: "The aura of human peak Legendaries is slightly different from the aura of super demon beasts, and it should be a condition of the formation. Otherwise, wouldn't those demon beasts be able to unseal themselves in the formation?"