Chapter 43: Creating the Dou Zhan Divine Power, Huang Rong's Invitation (2/7, please send flowers and evaluation votes)

Zhang Taixuan: "Sure. I'll tell the sect I'm heading out for a trip, and it'll be a good chance to visit your side."

Su Xiao: "Meeting Huang Rong? Hehe, what are you planning to do? 【Wicked grin】"

Yotsuya Miko: "Don't tell me Brother Zhang has some improper thoughts about Sister Huang Rong?"

Su Xiao: "You guys don't get it. Huang Rong—she's the dream girl of so many boys."

Huang Rong: "【Shy】 Really?"

Yotsuya Miko: "【Got it】 A 2D waifu, right!"

Su Xiao: "【Thumbs up】 Miko is also the 2D waifu of all the homebodies—happy about that?"

Yotsuya Miko: "Eww, that's gross!"

Su Xiao: "【Snicker】"

Lin Fengjiao: "【Lost】 I really must be getting old—I can't understand a word you youngsters are saying."

Yue Buqun: "I can't understand it either!"

Ying Zheng: "+1"

Huang Rong: "【Scratches head】"

Shaoshi Mountain.

Huang Rong's pretty face flushed with shyness, her heart a tangle of feelings.

She didn't understand the so-called "2D waifu" talk in the chat group, but she could still guess what it meant.

Doesn't this mean Brother Zhang might like me?

Thinking this, she felt her cheeks burning hot, and Huang Yaoshi watched her with a bitter look.

"Is my little cabbage about to be rooted out by a pig!"

Just as she was thinking this, she saw Huang Rong look up and say, "Daddy, Brother Zhang said he's coming to visit for the Wu Lin Assembly. Should we prepare anything?"

Huang Yaoshi's eyes lit up: "The immortal is coming?"

Huang Rong nodded, her eyes full of anticipation.

Huang Yaoshi: "We need to discuss this with Old Beggar and the Quanzhen Sect people. We absolutely must hold a proper ceremony—nothing shabby."

"Mm." Huang Rong nodded. "One more thing—shouldn't the Beggar Sect people take a bath? Otherwise, having them stand around at the Wu Lin Assembly just feels a bit too rude."

Huang Yaoshi straightened his expression: "I'll bring this up with Old Beggar."

In ancient times, when praying to the gods or worshipping the Buddha, one had to bathe and fast.

Now that a true immortal from another realm was descending, the beggar problem indeed had to be handled properly.

Divine Void Grotto-Heaven.

Zhang Taixuan claimed Huang Rong's red packet, and in the next instant, ten zhang-tall bronze Buddhas appeared in this world.

Fortunately, he had prepared in advance, setting the red packet's appearance location to be inside the Qiankun Cauldron.

"Shaolin really is richer than a nation. If these bronzes were melted down into coins, they'd feed a whole city for many years."

Magic power surged, and the bronze quickly melted.

A moment later.

The ten bronze Buddhas were refined into a head-sized lump of bronze essence.

The bronze essence was a deep crimson, like flowing blood.

If bronze is just scrap metal, then bronze essence is already an excellent material for refining treasures.

Magic treasures forged on the basis of bronze essence are sufficient for use up to the Dao Palace realm, and they're more than enough for refining elixirs.

Unfortunately, refining bronze into bronze essence isn't cost-effective.

Magic power circulated, and the bronze essence transformed into a Bagua Furnace, resembling the elixir-refining furnace of Taishang Laojun from the Journey to the West TV series.

Boom!

He took it out, branded it with a mark, and set it on the ground.

The furnace was extremely heavy; when it landed, the ground trembled several times.

"This furnace shall be called the Bagua Furnace."

After surveying the furnace with satisfaction, Zhang Taixuan turned his attention to the exchanged materials and cultivation arts.

He opened the Donghuang Records and read through them carefully.

"Cultivation is divided into Wheel Sea, Dao Palace, Four Extremes, Transforming Dragon, and Immortal Platform—pretty much what I already knew."

"Five thousand years after Swallowing Heaven Emperor's passing, the Heavenly Dao is suppressed by the Emperor's laws—cultivation is difficult!"

Difficult?

Zhang Taixuan was taken aback.

My cultivation is going pretty fast.

Wait, I've got cheats running—never mind then.

After flipping through the copy of Donghuang Records once, he finally had a rough understanding of the entire world.

In the world today, there aren't many at the Immortal Three realm on the surface, nor many who have severed their Dao to become Kings.

Many Holy Lands only have people at the Immortal Two realm walking about outside.

As for beyond the realms, the people of Divine Void Grotto-Heaven didn't know.

Still, with the Heavenly Dao suppressed by the Emperor's laws, other life starfields probably weren't doing much better.

After digesting this information, Zhang Taixuan turned his attention to cultivation.

Cultivation was the priority; elixir refining could naturally come later.

Anyway, he'd just handed over so many elixirs—slacking off for a month wouldn't be a problem.

【You have comprehended the "Yao Guang Scripture." I now have a clear understanding of the Four Extremes, Transforming Dragon, and Immortal Platform realms. You have formed your own insights into the path of cultivation in this world, and your Dao attainment has increased.】

【You have comprehended the "Clear Void Treasure Canon," and you now possess your own understanding of the essence of cultivation.】

【You have comprehended...】

Having comprehended dozens of techniques in a row, Zhang Taixuan felt nothing but countless wondrous ideas in his heart, with sparks of various thoughts surfacing.

【Drawing upon numerous classics and combining them with Daoist scriptures from myriad worlds, you have created a Great Sage-grade technique, "Dao Canon — Four Poles Chapter"】

【Drawing upon numerous classics and combining them with Daoist scriptures from myriad worlds, you have created a Great Sage-grade technique, "Dao Canon — Dragon Transformation Chapter"】

【Drawing upon numerous classics and combining them with Daoist scriptures from myriad worlds, you have created a Great Sage-grade technique, "Dao Canon — Immortal Platform Chapter"】

Dao Canon — Immortal Platform Chapter: This scripture is wondrous and Mo Ce, capable of cultivation to the Great Sage realm.

The Great Sage realm is no common cabbage; in an era when Great Emperors do not appear, Great Sages are the strongest combat power, sufficient to roam freely across the cosmic starry skies.

"Having only the realm without combat techniques won't do either."

Thinking this, Zhang Taixuan opened the chat Shangcheng and purchased all his newly added techniques.

【Drawing upon Fomen martial arts and combining them with Buddhist scriptures, you have created an Earthly Immortal-grade technique — "Tathagata Divine Palm"】

Tathagata Divine Palm: Contains palm techniques, mental techniques, lightness skills, and sound skills; when deployed, Sanskrit chants resound and Buddhist light fills the sky. This palm is supremely yang and rigid, its might astonishing, adept at subduing outer demons.

【Drawing upon the numerous characteristics of external martial arts and fusing them with the Dragon-Subduing Palm, you have created an Earthly Immortal-grade technique, "Dragon Divine Art."】

【Drawing upon numerous martial arts and the divine abilities of the Divine Void Grotto-Heaven, you have created a combat technique, "Star Creation Hand"!】

Star Creation Hand: Based on the Stellar Body, it can condense a pair of enormous palms wreathed in starlight; at great mastery, snatching stars and seizing the moon is mere child's play.

【Drawing upon numerous martial arts and the divine abilities of the Divine Void Grotto-Heaven, you have created a combat technique, "Starlight Divine Dragon Escape"】

Starlight Divine Dragon Escape: Body transforms into a starlight divine dragon, speed unmatched!

【... You have created "Boundless Star River Sword"!】

Having created several techniques in a row, Zhang Taixuan finally stopped.

In fact, he could still create a few more combat techniques, but there was no need.

A few combat techniques were more than enough!

As for the fundamental technique, it could only cultivate to the Great Sage realm, and he wasn't particularly worried about it.