Chapter 255: Condensing the Myriad Laws Primordial Elixir, finally reaching the Primordial Elixir realm

Shen Qing returned to his room and took out the precious medicine. As for the method of the Myriad Laws Primordial Elixir, he had read it several times before the saint's return and already fully understood it.

Shen Qing opened two treasure boxes.

The two fruits looked just like ordinary apples, for this precious fruit had also attained the state of returning to simplicity and truth; its vast medicinal power, bursting forth, could not be hidden, and even a low-level martial practitioner might break through merely by inhaling its scent.

Shen Qing didn't think further, directly stuffing the precious fruit into his mouth.

Crack!

The sound was exceptionally clear.

Instantly a stream of refreshing, gentle yet vast medicinal power began to swell.

Shen Qing raised his eyebrows, no wonder even the Shen family's ancestor would praise this top-grade precious medicine.

The precious medicine's medicinal power was surging and abundant yet not at all violent; it even rushed toward his dantian's qi sea without needing Shen Qing's guidance.

Then Shen Qing was not polite either.

In a few bites, he directly ate the precious fruit clean.

Afterwards, a flash of spiritual light flickered in his eyes.

He formed hand seals and began to circulate the method of condensing the Myriad Laws Primordial Elixir.

Boom!!!

His aura instantly surged, and the boundless, bottomless qi sea rolled up towering waves.

At that moment, a glimmer of light appeared above the qi sea.

In an instant, fierce winds howled as countless water dragons surged from the depths of the qi sea, rushing toward that point of light.

At first they coiled and intertwined; the light of the point shone through the water dragons, emitting seven-colored light.

Next came condensation and fusion; the water dragons began to merge with the point of light, each fusion causing the point to expand a bit.

Finally came construction; following the Shen family ancestor's derivation of the Myriad Laws Primordial Elixir, nodes needed to be built.

For the ordinary Primordial Elixir method, condensing ninety-nine nodes counts as success, and the more nodes, the stronger the condensed elixir.

But for the Myriad Laws Primordial Elixir method, one must start with nine hundred ninety-nine nodes, otherwise it counts as failure.

One, two, ten... a hundred...

Until the nine hundred ninety-eighth node, Shen Qing changed his hand seal.

"Break!"

The nine hundred ninety-ninth node was successfully constructed.

In an instant, myriad rays of rosy light burst forth within his dantian, and a mysterious aura surged.

But this was not the end; this was merely the beginning!

Nodes were constructed at an ever faster pace.

One thousand... one thousand five hundred... two thousand...

Shen Qing kept his eyes tightly shut, merely shifting his hand seal and saying: "Rise!"

If he was going to condense, he would condense the finest Primordial Elixir.

As the rosy light grew brighter.

Shen Qing successfully constructed nine thousand nine hundred ninety-nine nodes.

Shen Qing gave a low shout: "Condense!"

The final node appeared at the center of the Primordial Elixir.

Myriad rays of rosy light blossomed, and when the light faded.

Only a seven-colored Primordial Elixir could be seen slowly hovering in the dim dantian, as if becoming the sole light in this dark world.

And Shen Qing slowly opened his eyes; Shen Qing now understood.

The strongest Primordial Elixir, the Myriad Laws Primordial Elixir, had been fully condensed.

Shen Qing only felt that he himself had become terrifyingly strong; with the Myriad Laws Primordial Elixir plus the Slaughter Domain plus Karmic Power, he now wanted to find a Martial Saint to test himself against.

After a brief rest, Shen Qing rose and left the room; condensing the Myriad Laws Primordial Elixir does not require consolidating a realm, for the Myriad Laws Primordial Elixir itself is the utmost stability.

As soon as Shen Qing stepped out of the room, he saw Shen Wendao and Zhu Wu guarding the doorway.

Zhu Wu turned his head, looked at Shen Qing, and said with a smile: "Shen Qing, you've finally come out of seclusion."

"I happen to have something to ask you."

Shen Qing spoke: "Looking for me?"

"Then the Martial Emperor, you speak."

Zhu Wu threw a token over to Shen Qing.

"I would like to ask you to leave the mountains and take the post of Grand Commander of the Embroidered Uniform Guard."

Shen Qing was somewhat doubtful: "Grand Commander of the Embroidered Uniform Guard? When did this office exist?"

The Martial Emperor chuckled: "Originally there was none; today I just created this position for you."

"It can command the Embroidered Uniform Guard of the entire Great Wu."

As he spoke, the Martial Emperor threw another token over, engraved with a five-clawed golden dragon.

"This token allows all the armies of Great Wu to obey your dispatch."

Shen Qing narrowed his eyes; this move was indeed grand.

"Martial Emperor, speak; who do you want me to kill?"

The Martial Emperor clapped his hands: "I knew you were a smart person, far smarter than Old Shen."

Shen Wendao rolled his eyes.

Immediately afterward, the Martial Emperor began to explain: "Before I tell you about the mission, I need to talk about other matters first."

"The Martial Saints of our Great Wu, as well as I and Shen Wendao, are usually not present in Great Wu, you know that, right?"

This is because, since the founding of Great Martial a thousand years ago, we have been continuously fighting a strange kind of lifeform; we call them evil spirits.

Such things are hard to describe; in short, they are neither human nor ghost, and most of them are not strong.

However, they are hard to deal with; some can burrow into a person's body, and only the Martial Saint Realm can resist them, so Martial Saints are seldom in Great Martial year-round.

But we now suspect that a Martial Saint has defected, for example, that Shen Lin, and that the Heaven-Stealing Pill is something from the evil spirits' side.

Shen Qing looked at the Martial Emperor: "So, you want me to investigate those Martial Saints?"

The Martial Emperor nodded: "Yes, because I heard you can see through people's thoughts; that is very useful."

"One obvious trait of these evil spirits' methods is that their means are all sinister; such as forcibly seizing talent and seizing cultivation are characteristics of evil spirits' methods; after noticing these signs, you need not act yourself, just find me and Shen Wendao."

"There are a few people who are absolutely trustworthy; remember this: Shen Yun of the Shen Clan, Zhu Xuan of the Zhu Clan, and Lu Yun, the Hall Master of the Martial Fortune Hall; if you cannot handle it, we won't be there either, so go find them to deal with it."

Shen Qing narrowed his eyes; he seemed to have one such technique— the Moving Flowers and Joining Trees Great Method seized from the White Dragon Sect—and he had used this great method to raise those scholars to the Grandmaster Realm.

Shen Qing said: "I actually seem to have something similar to what you mentioned; let me tell you— it's called the Moving Flowers and Joining Trees Great Method."

Shen Qing began to recite the great method's content; at first the two paid no attention, but gradually Zhu Wu's and Shen Wendao's bodies slowly straightened.

They exchanged a glance: "Old Shen, I keep hearing that this sounds a lot like the Stealing Heaven and Replacing Sun Method."

"This is a simplified version of the Swallowing Heaven and Replacing Sun Method."

"Shen Qing, where did you find this cultivation method?"

Shen Qing said: "I seized it from an Earth Fiend Star of the White Dragon Sect, but I didn't pay attention at the time, so I didn't ask where he came from."

"However, after I studied it a bit, it doesn't seem particularly special; I also used this method to increase the cultivation of my four subordinates."

"Upon hearing this, Shen Wendao and Zhu Wu jumped up: 'What did you say? You've learned it?'"

Shen Qing nodded.

Zhu Wu took a deep breath: "Shen Qing, do you know what the Stealing Heaven and Replacing Sun Great Method is?"

"This is the supreme method of the evil spirits; all their techniques are derived from this Stealing Heaven and Replacing Sun Method."

"But none of us, including me and Shen Wendao, can learn it—not even the simplified version—we surmise it's because the evil spirits' Heavenly Dao is restricting us."

"Yet you actually learned it? Although we don't know why."

Shen Qing rubbed his nose; Heavenly Dao restriction? His own Heavenly Dao seems to still be being plundered for karma by himself.

The Martial Emperor continued speaking.

"But since you can learn it, there is hope; this shows something."

"You have a chance to learn that Stealing Heaven and Replacing Sun Method."

"Perhaps we can completely put an end to the evil spirits!"