Chapter 118: Dragon Tooth Rice is about to ripen, Mother is craving

The Hunyuan Dao Scripture is a profoundly mysterious cultivation method; the mystery it contains is enough for Chen Chuyang to comprehend for a lifetime. Just a single Hunyuan Golden Core is enough for Chen Chuyang to study for a long time. The Golden Core is named Hunyuan, which is actually a name Chen Chuyang came up with, capable of accommodating various Dao, like Hunyuan.

Many Dao reside within it, yet they do not affect the Golden Core's quality or his true qi; instead, the Dao he has comprehended increase, enhancing the Golden Core's power and quality, and his true qi becomes thicker and purer. This change was unexpected for Chen Chuyang; he originally thought that learning so many things would make a mess, ending up as something neither here nor there.

Or perhaps it would bring harm to his body and Golden Core, but instead, nothing happened—on the contrary, things became even better.

What is commonly known reasoning does not apply here; that Golden Core grows brighter and more Hunyuan, the Dao he has comprehended increase, making the Golden Core ever more formidable. Its core is Hunyuan, with other Dao revolving around the core, forming Hunyuan. The main core remains unchanged, while the rest become irrelevant.

Like planets orbiting the sun, which is already known, inside Chen Chuyang's dantian the Golden Core forms a picture like the solar system: an absolute core, with various Dao hovering around the Hunyuan core, creating a unique domain of the Hunyuan Golden Core; inside the Golden Core lies another world.

"Unearth the Golden Core, discover its mysteries; once I master all its power and secrets, I will become stronger and go further in the future."

Unlike other cultivators, who pile up their true qi to raise their cultivation, Chen Chuyang needs to comprehend, to comprehend various Dao—for example, the Sword Dao. After entering the door, he needs to condense more sword intent, with heart-sword intent as the foundation, using the heart as the basis, thereby revolving around heart-sword intent; this is the core, just like the internal structure of the Golden Core.

Constantly dispersing, various sword intents together constitute Chen Chuyang's Sword Dao; for instance, comprehending plants and trees gives rise to a plant-and-tree sword intent.

Observing mountains and rivers, he senses the mountain-and-river sword intent.

Gazing at the sky, he grasps the mysteries of heaven and earth, thereby comprehending the sky sword intent.

Between heaven and earth, sword intents are countless; flowers, grasses, trees—all possess countless sword intents, each different. Take flowers alone: the world is vast, with innumerable flower species, each representing a sword intent—how immense.

The same applies to thunder methods.

In spring, summer, autumn, and winter, the thunder and lightning of each season differ, as do the concepts of life and death, destruction and rebirth, etc.; they represent different things.

Heaven and earth hide myriad mysteries; a person cannot exhaust them in a lifetime.

Being able to reach the end of a path already marks one as a genius among geniuses; such people often become immortals and founding ancestors.

"Whoosh whoosh whoosh."

Chen Chuyang briefly contemplates; many thoughts arise in his mind, but he quickly shakes them off, for thinking too much easily disturbs the mind, giving rise to distracting thoughts, then random thoughts, wild thoughts, ultimately leading to deviation into demonic possession.

Take it slow; need planning, need to achieve goals one by one, rather than trying to leap to the heavens in a single step.

"First master the Dao you have currently comprehended, for example, the Sword Dao—thoroughly grasp heart-sword intent, then slowly expand to other sword intents. Master one sword technique and keep practicing it until you reach a profound level."

"The Way of Thunder and Lightning also needs to be strengthened; dealing with the Yin Gui Sect's yin ghosts is where it is most powerful and most effective."

"Those little rats of the Yin Gui Sect have noticed Longshe Shan; I will set up a few more formations."

Perhaps we can upgrade the formations on Longshe Shan, increasing the thunder and lightning that enter, thereby using it to exterminate the Yin Gui Sect's people.

This move might produce unexpected effects.

Combining formations with thunder and lightning is also a good approach.

All things can merge with each other; you contain me, I contain you.

Only now did he realize that there is far too much to learn; time seems insufficient.

"Whoosh, take it slow; cannot be overhasty—I am still too impatient."

"No Dao can be comprehended just by saying so; it requires time and insight."

Chen Chuyang finished his cultivation, stood up, and patted his clothes.

He walked out of the house, lowered his head to look at the fish pond; the baby carp had not yet awakened—this transformation has been a long time coming.

No other problems; he is still alive, his bloodline is still changing, the Dragon Blood Pill's effect is strong, but the bloodline awakening is not completing that quickly.

Looking again at the mountain, where the spiritual spring is, Chen Chuyang murmured, "I don't even know how things are down there."

It has been a long time since he last went underground to check.

The spiritual spring water continues to flow unchanged; everything is as usual, so Chen Chuyang is not in a hurry. He looks down the mountain and arrives where the Dragon Tooth Rice grows—these stalks have grown tall, bearing grain, just shy of ripening.

With abundant spiritual energy and sufficient water flow, the growth of these Dragon Tooth Rice is promising; Chen Chuyang estimates that he will soon be able to harvest the first batch, at which point he can try their flavor.

Next time, he can also expand the planting of the Spirit Field to increase the yield of Dragon Tooth Rice.

The Chen Clan needs Dragon Tooth Rice, and Chen Chuyang needs it too; whether its effects match the description remains unknown.

He stroked a stalk of Dragon Tooth Rice, and Chen Chuyang smiled.

"Hurry up and ripen; I've been waiting for this bowl of rice for a long time."

A mouthful of rice, a mouthful of spiritual fish—the ultimate flavor in the mortal world.

If another bowl of demon-beast braised pork came, I couldn't hold back—I'd be drooling.

After inspecting the Dragon Tooth Rice, Chen Chuyang's formation was triggered, and an uninvited guest arrived.

Mother Long Ming went up the mountain.

"How strange—why would Mother come up the mountain at this time? Could it be for a spiritual artifact?"

He hasn't even started refining yet; ever since his older sister promised last time, she vanished and has never returned.

The materials haven't been delivered either; I suppose they're still being gathered—gathering materials is never that easy.

Things need to be exchanged; the spiritual stones his younger sister holds are all with him now, and it will take at least a year or two.

Mother can't wait any longer, which is normal.

Long Ming passed through the formation, becoming confused by the situation inside—fruit trees had grown tall, the formation had also changed, she felt it was very dangerous; if not for the token her son gave her, …

"Huh, son, what is this?"

"Child pays respects to mother."

Chen Chuyang performed a salute, saying, "Child is inspecting the Dragon Tooth Rice; this batch is growing well and will soon be ready for harvest."

Only then did Long Ming notice these Dragon Tooth Rice; previously she hadn't realized they were Dragon Tooth Rice, thinking they were some other plant and hadn't paid much attention.

"Are these all Dragon Tooth Rice?"

"Yes."

"They're almost ripe."

"Eh?"

Watching his mother carefully touch a stalk of Dragon Tooth Rice, the corner of her mouth could no longer be held down—it rose.

Mother, watch your drool.

Just like Chen Chuyang, this mother is also craving.

These Dragon Tooth Rice seedlings need to be kept for planting; at the very least, we have to wait until the second batch before we can give Mother some to taste.

These Dragon Tooth Rice are not many; they are all meant to be used as seeds, so we can't eat them.

After expanding the scale, the next batch will be edible.

Long Ming sounded a bit disappointed: "Like this, we still can't eat it? With so much Dragon Tooth Rice, we should be able to have a meal, right?"

That gaze, fixed on Chen Chuyang, seemed to say, "If you don't let Mother have a meal, I'll get angry."