Chapter 174: Imperial-Level Opportunity

Xu Qing watched this scene, even though he knew that the shadow's spirituality was dimmed by his own suppression, affecting its intellect, which was why it was being fooled by the Jin Gang Sect Ancestor.

But he still couldn't help but feel the urge to suppress it again.

But he was still a reasonable person after all, so he suppressed the thought of taking action and glared at the Jin Gang Sect Ancestor.

The Jin Gang Sect Ancestor hurriedly revealed a fawning expression and did not continue to induce the shadow to increase its malevolence toward Xu Qing.

Xu Qing looked at the shadow and suddenly spoke.

"Why can you attract the dragon chariot giant? What exactly are you? Are there many existences like you?"

The shadow shivered and tried hard to express its emotion.

"Pass... shadow..." After speaking, it hurriedly looked at the Jin Gang Sect Ancestor.

The Jin Gang Sect Ancestor squatted down and asked in a low voice. After the shadow blinked and nodded constantly, the Jin Gang Sect Ancestor bowed to Xu Qing and spoke respectfully.

"Master, Little Shadow means that it doesn't know what kind of existence it is. From the moment it had consciousness, it was a mass of shadow, able to parasitize in the host's shadow and sleep."

Speaking of this, the Jin Gang Sect Ancestor blinked. He had felt a hint of hidden killing intent when Xu Qing asked if there were many existences like the shadow.

So he spoke in a low voice.

"The shadow says that until now, it hasn't felt any existence like itself... However, I feel that there are few unique things in this world."

"As for the matter of attracting the dragon chariot giant, its meaning is also that it doesn't know why. It seems that when it sees the giant, it can instinctively make the other party's sound and summon it. My analysis is that perhaps its formation has some connection with the dragon chariot?"

Xu Qing's pupils shrank. He only believed a part of the shadow's statement, but for the other party to say this even when it had reached such a level, continuing to suppress and interrogate it was meaningless.

And the probability of it being true was also very high.

"It can attract the dragon chariot giant... If this is used well, it is also a trump card."

Xu Qing sat cross-legged on the magic ship, continuing to look at the ocean, pondering in his heart. It was afternoon now, and although the sunlight was still rich, it also had a feeling of passing away.

His mind constantly echoed with Elder Zhao's description of this giant dragon chariot. The more he pondered, the more Xu Qing was moved, and the desire grew stronger.

If it were just encountering it once, that would be fine. Now that he had encountered it for the second time, and clearly the shadow had a way to attract it, Xu Qing felt that if he planned it, it was not impossible to have the opportunity to obtain an imperial-level cultivation technique.

It was just that the difficulty of this matter was too great. Xu Qing recalled his feelings when he saw the dragon chariot giant before. The pressure from the other party made him, who was not very close, unable to withstand it in body and soul.

One could imagine that if the giant got closer, his flesh and blood would definitely collapse.

That kind of crushing formed by the difference in life levels, Xu Qing had had a similar feeling in the Mermaid Clan murals. Now, although his cultivation base was different from before, the level of this dragon chariot giant clearly surpassed the divine existence in the mural.

"Cannot get too close, so I cannot step onto the dragon chariot. And even if I use some methods to force my way in at all costs, as long as that giant turns its head to look, I will definitely be unable to withstand its might."

"I don't know how the General Alliance of the Seven Sects Alliance broke in back then..." Xu Qing sighed in his heart. He felt that unless the giant was asleep, otherwise, he had no possibility of entering the dragon chariot.

"Shadow, give you a chance to make up for your crimes. Summon the dragon chariot giant to come, then spread into it and imprint the imperial-level cultivation technique inside for me." Xu Qing lowered his head and looked at the shadow.

The shadow instantly radiated a clear fluctuation of terror, which was very intense.

"Limit... fear..."

The Jin Gang Sect Ancestor was full of spirit. Without needing Xu Qing to speak, he hurriedly went up to communicate, and soon turned to explain.

"Master, Little Shadow says that there is an eerie divine fluctuation on that giant, and it cannot get close, it will be restricted. And it feels that the giant has no shadow, so the shadow eye cannot be put in either."

"I also asked it why it summoned the giant to come just now if that was the case. Its meaning is that it wanted to use the dragon chariot's pressure to shake you to death, Master. It feels that it can persist longer under that pressure. As long as you are dead, Master, it can be free. Sigh, Little Shadow, how can you be so muddled."

Xu Qing heard this and glanced at the shadow. Recalling the shadow's backlash earlier, he raised his hand and suppressed it with a *bang*, making the shadow let out a shriek. After it recovered, the emotion it transmitted was all terror and begging for mercy.

Not looking at the shadow, Xu Qing looked at the gradually dusk sky, his mind rapidly turning various thoughts. Finally, at the moment the sky darkened, Xu Qing's mind recalled the scene he saw from the dragon chariot statue earlier, and... the Hundred Ghosts Night Walk he encountered when he first went to sea.

"There is strange music in the Forbidden Sea, mortals cannot hear it. Serving the Red Sun Jin Wu as a companion, a hundred sounds as a melody, called Heavenly Sounds Welcoming the Moon."

"The gods like it, eyes closed and gazing, the Forbidden Sea becomes a forbidden zone, a hundred sounds become shadows."

This passage was the Sea Chronicle's description of the Hundred Ghosts Night Walk. At this moment, it surfaced in Xu Qing's heart. His heart beat slightly rapidly, and thoughts rose in his mind quickly.

"Elder Zhao said the dragon chariot is the sun's carriage, so the youth in the mural carved outside the dragon chariot should be the sun, and the mural also describes the scene of him changing into the sun."

"This point is consistent with the Sea Chronicle's description. The sun is the Jin Wu, usually in the form of a youth. At sunrise, he rides the dragon chariot to the sky and transforms into the sun. At sunset, he returns by the dragon chariot and listens to the Heavenly Sounds Welcoming the Moon melody formed by a hundred sounds in his bedchamber."

"If it is true, then the giant must have accompanied the sun to listen to the Heavenly Sounds Welcoming the Moon melody many times before its death. Even if it has fallen now, being able to pull the carriage under the Forbidden Sea clearly still has some instincts. If it hears the Heavenly Sounds Welcoming the Moon melody again, will it lose its mind..."

Xu Qing thought of this, his breathing slightly rapid, and his eyes revealed sharp light.

To complete this matter, first, he needs to find the Hundred Ghosts Night Walk. Second, he must have something to store the music in his hand, and the quality of this object is extremely important. Xu Qing lowered his head and looked at his storage bag; he had a Sound-Catching Bottle.

Besides these conditions, he also needs to find the dragon chariot giant.

The Forbidden Sea is too big. The other party is usually in the deep sea and can only be seen by people occasionally. Basically, wanting to actively find it is not very possible.

"If my judgment is feasible, then I can think of it, and others should be able to think of it too. Perhaps the General Alliance of the Seven Sects Alliance achieved it this way back then."

"It's just that I have one more ability than them. Even if they thought of this method, they could only passively seek the opportunity of a chance encounter, but the shadow here can actively summon."

"The probability gap between this active and passive is huge."

Xu Qing was moved. He felt that he should speed up. Even if the probability gap between active and passive is huge, as long as he has the heart, he can still do it.

It is even very likely that someone is already prepared now, looking for the dragon chariot.

And Xu Qing clearly remembered Elder Zhao saying that every time the dragon chariot goes out to find an inheritor, as long as the imperial-level cultivation technique carved inside is comprehended and completed, it will dim on its own, and the giant will return to the seabed to sleep and wait for many years. Only after accumulating the power to inherit again will it appear again.

"This also indirectly shows that that level of cultivation technique may only be obtained through inheritance and is difficult to teach to others on its own, but whether it is true or not, it will only be known after confirmation in the future."

After pondering, Xu Qing felt that what he thought should be feasible, and he planned to try it.

"Then first, I must go find the Hundred Ghosts Night Walk!" Xu Qing took a deep breath. He knew that the Hundred Ghosts Night Walk only appeared at night, and its existence time was not very long. Whether he could find it depended on opportunity.

So Xu Qing did not hesitate, his perception spread out with all his might, controlling the magic boat to move rapidly on this Forbidden Sea, and began to search for the Hundred Ghosts Night Walk.

Just like this, days passed. Xu Qing's search was not very smooth. After all, the Forbidden Sea was too big. The difficulty of finding the Hundred Ghosts Night Walk, although not like finding a needle in a haystack, was not much different. It depended on luck.

However, Xu Qing was not in a hurry. In this month, he was also familiarizing himself with the changes in the black iron skewer. After the Jin Gang Sect Ancestor inside became a thunder spirit, the speed and lethality of the iron skewer became astonishing.

Especially after the lightning runes formed by the black iron skewer's tempering all shone, the momentum erupted made Xu Qing quite surprised. That kind of speed had completely surpassed a Foundation Establishment cultivator with one Life Fire, comparable to two.

Although slightly inferior, it was enough to cooperate with Xu Qing's current cultivation base, which could make his combat power soar. At the same time, Xu Qing had also clearly felt the shadow's ability.

That ability to control after swallowing other people's shadows, Xu Qing tested on a giant-toothed shark. He watched as the shadow swallowed the other party's shadow, controlled the giant-toothed shark's huge head to twist fiercely, and with a *click*, it broke it directly.

This scene was extremely eerie, making the Jin Gang Sect Ancestor feel terrified, rejoicing that he was an artifact spirit and had no shadow.

Only the swallowing process was a bit slow.

Besides this, the shadow's other ability, shadow eye, also gave Xu Qing a big surprise. He controlled the shadow to release all hundred-plus shadow eyes, dispersing them on many sea beasts. As these sea beasts spread out in an unordered way, it was equivalent to Xu Qing having countless eyes.

And the sea beasts he placed the shadow eyes on were all those that liked to travel at night and jump and move on the sea surface, so it was a great help in finding the Hundred Ghosts Night Walk.

Just like this, another month passed.

This night, Xu Qing, who was observing through the shadow eyes, suddenly felt his heart move and locked onto one of the shadow eyes.

Through the shadow, Xu Qing clearly used that shadow eye to see... in that sea area, groups of ghost shadows were rising into the sky at this moment.

"Hundred Ghosts Night Walk!" ===== CHAPTER 175 =====