Chapter 392 — The Mystery of the Star River
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When Xue Hu'er saw the three of them vanish from the dragon's back, she hurried over in a series of hops and bounds, craned her head, and peered into the "potted landscape." Shen Mu and the other two were as tiny as ants, seeming to have become part of the potted landscape itself.
Yet the three of them were still moving and speaking, though their voices seemed to come from dozens of li away, faint and indistinct.
The three looked around, deeply curious about this place. Shen Mu had entered the dragon nest before, following the Dragon-Rearing Lord, but at that time most of the nest had been submerged in magma, and he had not seen it whole from the inside.
Only now could he take in the interior of the dragon nest at a single glance.
The nest was divided into nine levels, and each level held many glowing columns — some like stalactites, some like dragon teeth, some like pillars. On the ground and on the pillars, written characters and patterns flickered and shifted without cease, concealing some unfathomable mystery.
Ling Yuxiu drew a breath of air and immediately felt an incomparably rich dragon qi surging toward her, and she could not help but cry out in surprise.
The dragon qi of this True Dragon's Nest was richer than the dragon qi of the capital, and compared with the dragon qi here, the Nine Dragons qi of the capital was as earth to heaven — their quality could not be mentioned in the same breath!
The dragon qi here seemed of a higher order altogether, far surpassing the Nine Dragons qi. After all, the Nine Dragons qi was formed by the convergence of nine dragon veins, whereas the dragon qi here gathered the dragon qi of dozens of dragon veins from the Kingdom of Jingping and the Desolate Ruins, forming the dragon qi of the True Dragon Lord!
"Cultivating here is faster than in the capital!"
Ling Yuxiu activated the Nine Dragons Emperor's Art Shen Mu had taught her, and at once felt her cultivation advance by leaps and bounds, her vital essence growing purer still!
The Great Nurturing Nether Demon Sutra also contained methods for contemplating the divine dragon. Si Yunxiang made a tentative trial, and felt dragon qi pouring in without end; in but a short moment, this art had advanced as though she had cultivated bitterly for dozens of days, and she was badly startled.
If one could cultivate here for a dozen days or so, it would be the equivalent of decades of bitter cultivation in the outside world. Were it not for the limits of cultivation realms, the heights one could reach in arts and divine abilities would be beyond anything previously imaginable!
Of course, even with the limits of realm, it was no small matter — this was absolutely a holy land for cultivating dragon-type arts and divine abilities.
"A pity it is of little use to me." Si Yunxiang shook her head.
Her main cultivation was the Chapter of Creation within the Great Nurturing Nether Demon Sutra, transmitted to her by the Young Patriarch. The Young Patriarch had developed the seven chapters of Creation to their utmost as well, passing on to her all his various insights. And Shen Mu had poured out the whole of the Great Nurturing Nether Demon Sutra to her, though he had not taught her the Great Unification Art. Even so, Si Yunxiang counted among the handful of top experts of the younger generation.
Shen Mu was also drawing in true dragon qi. Unlike Ling Yuxiu, who cultivated the Nine Dragons Emperor's Art, he was trying to merge the body-tempering portion of the Nine Dragons Emperor's Art into the Mystic Body Three Elixirs Art.
The strength of the Nine Dragons Emperor's Art lay in its magic power, no less mighty than that of the Mystic Body Three Elixirs Art, and in its supremely overbearing body-tempering methods. The Mystic Body Three Elixirs Art happened to lack body-tempering methods, and the Nine Dragons Emperor's Art could make up for that flaw.