Chapter 774

Whether Wu Tie is satisfied or agrees, in short, Qing Feng and the others' chips are these three items.

Nine Heavens' Living Soil.

True Buddha's Relic.

Holy Sword Fragment.

Wu Tie's gaze swept over the chips produced by Qing Feng and the two others.

He could sense that the Five Elements Daoist hiding far away had an urgent craving for the Nine Heavens' Living Soil. As long as the Five Elements Daoist absorbs and integrates the Nine Heavens' Living Soil, not only will his own foundation skyrocket, enabling his Five Elements body to be pushed to an extremely terrifying level, but even Wu Tie himself, as well as the Yin-Yang Daoist and the Sea Daoist, will consequently obtain great benefits.

The Nine Heavens' Living Soil is a primordial chaos spiritual object; even a single thread possesses boundless creative power.

And the White Deer who produced the Nine Heavens' Living Soil likely actually does not know its true preciousness.

As for the True Buddha's Relic, it is actually of little use to Wu Tie. The True Buddha's Relic has endless wonderful uses for Buddhist cultivators.

However, Wu Tie is not a Buddhist disciple; from this True Buddha's Relic he can gain little benefit. At most it can make Wu Tie's soul and spirit somewhat more vast, or allow him to comprehend a few Buddhist secret supreme divine abilities, and that's it.

However, holding the True Buddha's Relic also has one advantage: when facing extraterritorial demons like Xiyi later, it will have an extremely strong restraining effect.

Compared to the previous two treasures, when Wu Tie looked at that Holy Sword fragment, the lotus flower bud that had once swallowed the Fu Cha sword, projected on the jade disc in his sea of consciousness and after his divine fetus, began to violently tremble.

An urgent longing surged from the flower bud; faint rosy light appeared on the jade disc, and countless strands of sword qi and sword intent were spewing from that flower bud.

This is a fragment of a supreme Dao slaughter holy weapon wielded by a paramount sage in the primordial mythic era.

Its material is unfathomable.

Its power is unfathomable.

Its foundation is unfathomable.

Though this palm-sized fragment is small and broken, it records all the profound mysteries and secrets that the holy sword's true form should possess. Moreover, due to the connection among the four slaughter holy weapons, via their mutual resonance...

Wu Tie's bold speculation suggests that this fragment likely still retains the supreme Dao mysteries corresponding to the other three slaughter holy weapons.

With this fragment, Wu Tie should be able to elevate the Sword Dao, as well as the corresponding Slaughter Grand Dao and all related Grand Daos, just as he did with the Profound Darkness Grand Dao before, to the pinnacle of the Divine Sovereign realm.

At the same time, using that lotus bud on the jade disc to swallow this fragment is likely to...

An extremely bold idea arose in Wu Tie's mind.

Clenching his teeth, Wu Tie glanced at Qing Feng, then at Fan Kun and Bai Lu and the others, and said in a low voice: 'We must gamble!'

Qingfeng looked at Wu Tie with a smile and said: 'Otherwise, Martial King, what can you do? I, the poor Daoist, can stay out of it, but I fear the Martial King will not only lose Wuguo, but even himself will be devoured to the bone by the Red Lotus Temple and the White Lotus Palace.'

Fan Kun and Bai Lu simultaneously glared at Qingfeng.

Wu Tie let out a soft sigh: 'Well, we still have to gamble… Hmm, I, the king, also don't know whether these three treasures are worth the entire Wuguo… but… such a vast Wuguo, such vast territory, so many people, to gamble on just three isolated items, I feel it's not worth it for the countless people of Wuguo.'

Wu Tie deliberately emphasized the words 'countless people'.

Qingfeng laughed, Bai Lu remained calm and composed; only Fan Kun's true form, being a Kun-Peng aberration, had a much rougher temperament than Qingfeng and Bai Lu. Upon hearing the four words 'countless people', Fan Kun couldn't help shouting: 'What does the Martial King mean?'

'Let's add some stakes, however much we can add.' Wu Tie, like a haggling old lady at the market, shouted likewise: 'Don't just offer these three paltry items; they're too few, too shabby, for my vast Wuguo.'

'Add some, add some, however much we can add.' Wu Tie looked at Fan Kun: 'Whatever spirit pills, precious jewels, or even beauties that could topple a city, as long as they're good things, add however much.'

Wu Tie softly sighed: 'In that case, I, the king, would also feel a bit more at ease; no matter which side wins among the three of you, you'd also gain some extra benefits, right?'

Qingfeng merely smiled and said nothing.

Bai Lu's eyes flickered slightly as he looked at Wu Tie with a smile: 'Martial King, you should know that your chance of winning… is impossible for you to win.'

Fan Kun also nodded repeatedly, pointing at Wu Tie and saying: 'Martial King, you are indeed impossible to win… so it seems rather interesting as well. I have already produced the True Buddha's Relic; well, I don't owe you that much either.'

Fan Kun reached into his sleeve, rummaged for a moment, and then took out several items one after another.

'Here, this is the Red Lotus Temple's secret "Karmic Fire Reincarnation Pill"; it has tremendous effect on all body cultivation methods. Even if a body cultivator at the tenth heaven of the Divine Sovereign realm takes one, it can double his physique.'

'This is the "Ten Directions Pestle" I usually use; one strike shatters the ten directions. It is a genuine ancient treasure, an ancient relic formed when Mu Dalu reconverged in the boundless void, when heaven and earth underwent drastic changes and gave birth to it; it cannot compare to the spiritual weapons born from the newly blessed grotto-heavens of present-day Mu Dalu.'

'Also, this is the Pure Glazed Bowl I use daily for begging; within this bowl lies a realm of pure glazed glass, likewise a genuine ancient treasure. The world inside the bowl spans hundreds of millions of miles in each direction, and the heavenly and earthly primordial energy within is abundantly plentiful; over the years I have painstakingly opened eight hundred spirit fields and medicinal gardens within it.'

'I, Fan Kun, have an epithet in the Red Lotus Temple: "Ox Monk". The reason is that over the years I have often opened medicinal fields in this Pure Glazed Bowl, cultivating various spirit herbs, and they mock me as an old farmer who tills the soil.'

There are instant-effect supreme precious pills, immensely powerful innate spiritual treasures, and even cave-heaven secret treasures that can serve as the foundation of a power.

Fan Kun, as if possessed, took out several of his most valuable treasures and casually placed them beside the sea bowl.

Bai Lu also refused to be outdone; he smiled and took out a bottle said to enhance cultivators' wisdom, allowing one to enter the marvelous realm of Dao comprehension, to perceive the utmost profundity of heaven and earth, and which has a powerful effect on the fusion of divine fetus and divine body for Divine Sovereign realm cultivators: the "Pure Heart White Lotus Core".

This is an incense; merely lighting a little of it during cultivation can increase the fusion speed of divine fetus and divine body by a hundredfold, and it also provides cultivators with immense power to consume.

Then Bai Lu also took out a fist-sized, egg-shaped "Sword Gallbladder".

Disciples of the White Lotus Palace favor using swords, because the sword is the gentleman among all weapons; the scholars of the White Lotus Palace naturally hold themselves to the standard of a gentleman.

This Sword Gallbladder was forged over three thousand long years by Bai Lu's family behind him, expending countless resources, as a secret weapon tailor-made for Bai Lu.

This is a sword embryo that can advance infinitely as Bai Lu grows.

Bai Lu has possessed this Sword Gallbladder for only a few years; he is still in the stage of nurturing it with his own essence, energy, and spirit, and the Sword Gallbladder has not yet gestated and manifested.

The value of this Sword Gallbladder cannot be estimated, for it holds infinite possibilities.

Bai Lu's family behind him is a lineage of state lords that existed since the founding of the Sui dynasty; generation after generation, a royal deity has presided over this state lord household.

Such a fiefdom household must spend three thousand years to forge such a Sword Gallbladder; one can imagine how much material it consumed and how strong its foundation is.

Besides that, Bai Lu also produced several other precious treasures with remarkable uses, all being his most valuable possessions; each is priceless, rare wonders unheard of by outsiders.

For example, among them is a scroll titled 'Collapse of the Heavenly Pillar', painted by an ancestor of the White Lotus Palace using an innate spiritual treasure as a rough sketch, exhausting painting techniques to depict the scene of the battle between the water god and fire god in the primordial mythic era.

In the water‑fire war, the water god suffered defeat; in his fury he rammed headfirst into the heaven‑supporting pillar, breaking it and causing a cataclysmic heaven‑collapsing, earth‑sinking disaster.

Such mythic legends are unheard of by ordinary folk; even in the vast Wuguo and the Fuxi Divine Kingdom, only scattered fragments in the royal archives hint at them.

When this scroll is activated, a terrifying force erupts as the water god smashes the heavenly pillar, shooting forth to attack the enemy.

Even a royal deity at the pinnacle of the tenth heaven of the Divine Sovereign realm, if carelessly struck squarely, would be badly wounded.

Such a heavy treasure would be sufficient to become a clan's deterrent weapon even in the Sui dynasty, yet Bai Lu somehow produced this secret treasure.

Fan Kun and Bai Lu being so generous caused Wu Tie's heart to flutter anxiously.

Qingfeng, meanwhile, clapped and praised, continually lauding Fan Kun and Bai Lu as extraordinarily generous. Consequently, Qingfeng also produced his additional stakes, and these treasures made Fan Kun and Bai Lu involuntarily change color.

What Qing Feng produced were three chapters of the Azure Lotus Observatory's core orthodox transmission: the Great Dao Divine Ability and the Supreme Dao Law.

- Name: Qing Feng – a person (possibly the protagonist). This is a name, so it should be written as Qing Feng in pinyin.

- Azure Lotus Observatory – a sect name; per rules, sect/faction names must be translated by meaning, so we render it as Azure Lotus Observatory.

- Great Dao Divine Ability – this is a technique/ability term; per rules, it should be translated by meaning, so we render it as Great Dao Divine Ability.

- Supreme Dao Law – this is a term; per rules, translate by meaning, so we render it as Supreme Dao Law.

Each of these three Supreme Dao Laws is sufficient to match Wu Tie's Severing Three Corpses secret technique.

- Name: Wu Tie – as given in the glossary, the exact English form is Wu Tie.

- Severing Three Corpses – this is a secret technique name; per rules, translate by meaning, so we render it as Severing Three Corpses.

The Pan Gu Classic is a Dao law that swiftly enhances physical strength and grants a hint of the might of the Primordial Heaven-Opening Pan Gu Sage.

- Name: Pan Gu Classic – this is a scripture title; per rules, translate by meaning, so we render it as Pan Gu Classic. The term means Primordial Heaven-Opening Pan Gu Sage.

Once this law is unleashed, strength increases by more than a hundredfold in a short time, almost possessing the power to overturn battlefields and destroy heaven and earth; its might is absolutely terrifying.

- No names.

Unlike many demonic path secret arts such as Heavenly Demon Disintegration, after employing the Pan Gu Classic there is only a brief period of weakness, with no harm whatsoever to one's Dao foundation, body, or soul; it is a supreme Dao law that can serve as a regular combat technique. Hence, its preciousness is evident.

- Name: Heavenly Demon Disintegration – this is a technique/scripture; per rules, translate by meaning, so we render it as Heavenly Demon Disintegration.

The Myriad Transformations Classic is another overbearing, unreasonable supreme Dao law of the Azure Lotus Observatory.

- Name: Myriad Transformations Classic – this is a scripture title; per rules, translate by meaning, so we render it as Myriad Transformations Classic. (Azure Lotus Observatory already translated as Azure Lotus Observatory.)

By cultivating the Myriad Transformations Classic, one can eventually achieve a pair of Myriad Calamity Hands; as the name suggests, in battle a single palm strike can reduce any divine ability or Dao law to mere drifting clouds.

- Name: Myriad Calamity Hands – this is a technique name; per rules, translate by meaning, so we render it as Myriad Calamity Hands.

A single bolt of lightning, a palm strike, and it's gone.

- No names.

A single electric strike, a palm strike, and it's gone.

- No names.

A single burst of flames, a palm strike, and it's gone.

- No names.

A single great mountain smashed down, a palm strike, and it's gone.

- No names.

The Myriad Transformations Classic is called the most disgusting supreme Dao law of the Flaming Dynasty, and indeed it has its reasons. Mastering it almost guarantees an invincible position; the reason Qing Feng makes Fan Kun, Bai Lu, and others so wary is that he has cultivated the Myriad Transformations Classic to perfection, leaving ordinary people unable to harm him at all.

- Name: Flaming Dynasty – this is a dynasty name; per rules, meaningful place names should be translated, so we render it as Flaming Dynasty.

- Name: Fan Kun – this is a person's name; per rules, use pinyin, so we render it as Fan Kun.

- Name: Bai Lu – this is a person's name; per rules, use pinyin, so we render it as Bai Lu.

- Name: Qing Feng – this is a person's name; per rules, use pinyin, so we render it as Qing Feng.

The Myriad Calamities Classic is even more exclusive within the Azure Lotus Observatory; only a handful of Dao Masters personally transmit it, and only they are qualified to cultivate this supreme secret art.

- Name: Myriad Calamities Classic – this is a scripture title; per rules, translate by meaning, so we render it as Myriad Calamities Classic. Azure Lotus Observatory already translated as Azure Lotus Observatory. Dao Master is a title, translated as Dao Master.

The Myriad Calamities Classic has a special effect: one cultivates the Dao through calamities. The more severe the disaster, as long as one's soul and spirit are not completely scattered, afterward one's cultivation surges and advances rapidly.

- No new names.

The Azure Lotus Observatory once had an eccentric Dao Master who could be called the first person in its history to court death.

- Azure Lotus Observatory already translated as Azure Lotus Observatory. Dao Master is a title, translated as Dao Master.

With merely a Life Pool Realm cultivation, he concealed his identity and, over seven years, repeatedly sneaked into the Flaming Dynasty Imperial Court at night, desperately attempting to assassinate the Flaming Dynasty Divine Emperor.

- Name: Life Pool Realm – this is a cultivation realm; per rules, translate by meaning, so we render it as Life Pool Realm.

- Flaming Dynasty Imperial Court – this is a place name; per rules, translate by meaning, so we render it as Flaming Dynasty Imperial Court.

- Flaming Dynasty Divine Emperor – this is a title; per rules, translate by meaning, so we render it as Flaming Dynasty Divine Emperor.

Over seven years, this Dao Master repeatedly brushed with death, and in just seven years he leapt from the Life Pool Realm to the pinnacle of the Divine Realm, having entered the Dao through three hundred Great Dao principles.

- Name: Divine Realm – this is a cultivation realm; per rules, translate by meaning, so we render it as Divine Realm.

With such a cultivation speed, the terror of the Myriad Calamities Classic is evident.

- No new.

After this Dao Master, the Azure Lotus Observatory had dozens of talented disciples who fortunately cultivated the Myriad Calamities Classic; they foolishly imitated their predecessors, and each ended up with their souls and spirits scattered, dying beyond redemption.

- Azure Lotus Observatory already translated as Azure Lotus Observatory. Talented disciple is a descriptive phrase, not a name.

Only afterward did the Azure Lotus Observatory begin to strictly manage the Myriad Calamities Classic and impose harsh restrictions on disciples who cultivated it.

- No new.

Even so, every few hundred years the Azure Lotus Observatory sees one or two disciples whose cultivation skyrockets like a rocket, growing at an unimaginable speed into a major power; people then know that another fearless, lucky Azure Lotus Observatory disciple has cultivated the Myriad Calamities Classic.

- Azure Lotus Observatory already translated as Azure Lotus Observatory.

The Pan Gu Classic, Myriad Transformations Classic, and Myriad Calamities Classic are the Azure Lotus Observatory's most core secret transmissions.

- Names: Pan Gu Classic, Myriad Transformations Classic, Myriad Calamities Classic, Azure Lotus Observatory – all translated per rules.

Qing Feng actually took out these three Dao laws as a wager; moreover, seeing the ancient, mottled jade tablets he produced, exuding a strong Dao aura, one knows these three stone slabs are definitely the authentic secret transmissions personally reproduced by the Azure Lotus Observatory's senior elders, not privately reproduced contraband by Qing Feng.

- Names: Qing Feng – person's name, pinyin; Azure Lotus Observatory – sect name, translated as Azure Lotus Observatory.

"Qing Feng, you featherbrain, are you insane?" Fan Kun and Bai Lu exclaimed in unison.

- Names: Qing Feng – person's name, pinyin; Fan Kun – person's name, pinyin; Bai Lu – person's name, pinyin.

Bai Lu stared at the Myriad Calamities Classic with fervent eyes: "Have you thought it through? If you wager this treasure and lose…… if we cultivate it……"

- Names: Bai Lu – person's name, pinyin; Myriad Calamities Classic – scripture title, translated as Myriad Calamities Classic.

Qing Feng waved his hand nonchalantly: "Bet, bet, I'm willing to wager and accept defeat; the elders of my Azure Lotus Observatory won't cause you trouble, and if they do, they'll only beat me… as long as the winner swears not to leak these three Dao laws, I, Qing Feng, am willing to wager and accept defeat."

- Names: Qing Feng – person's name, pinyin; Azure Lotus Observatory – sect name, translated as Azure Lotus Observatory. Elders is a title, not a name.

Wu Tie also stared, dumbfounded.

- Name: Wu Tie – person's name, pinyin.

When Qing Feng produced these three Dao scriptures, he introduced their power and profundity in detail.

- Name: Qing Feng – person's name, pinyin.

Wu Tie was simply stunned, mouth agape; this Qing Feng, could he be insane?

- Names: Wu Tie – person's name, pinyin; Qing Feng – person's name, pinyin.

The elders of the Azure Lotus Observatory, could they possibly be brain‑damaged? Actually letting Qing Feng run around with such a vital lifeblood treasure?

- Names: Azure Lotus Observatory – sect name, translated as Azure Lotus Observatory; Qing Feng – person's name, pinyin.

Beside him, Xi You suddenly gave a heavy cough, having withdrawn his presence‑erasing technique, he strode over to Wu Tie and the others and said: "Since we are using Wuguo as the wager, why don't I also join in?"

- Name: Xi You – person's name, pinyin.

- Name: Wuguo – as given in the glossary, the exact English form is Wuguo.

- this seat – a self‑referential term, not a name.

Qing Feng quickly glanced at Xi You and said: "Pauper, don't bother joining in; you don't have any worthwhile treasures on you."

- Names: Qing Feng – person's name, pinyin; Xi You – person's name, pinyin.

Xi You's face darkened instantly, and he said in a deep voice: "This seat has no treasures? Just watch!"

- Name: Xi You – person's name, pinyin.

Xi You flipped his palm, and out came one of the Supreme Divine Artifacts of the Dark Soul Divine Clan: the immensely powerful Skull Crown.

- Name: Dark Soul Divine Clan – this is a clan name; per rules, translate by meaning, so we render it as Dark Soul Divine Clan.

- Supreme Divine Artifact – this is a term; per rules, translate by meaning, so we render it as Supreme Divine Artifact.

- Skull Crown – this is a term; per rules, translate by meaning, so we render it as Skull Crown.

Qing Feng, Fan Kun, and Bai Lu all said in unison: "Not enough!"

- Names: Qing Feng – person's name, pinyin; Fan Kun – person's name, pinyin; Bai Lu – person's name, pinyin.

Xi You's face twitched slightly; after a moment's thought, he also produced that strangely shaped long‑handled sickle.

- Name: Xi You – person's name, pinyin.

Qing Feng, Fan Kun, and Bai Lu shook their heads and sighed in unison: "Still lacking somewhat…"

- Names: Qing Feng, Fan Kun, Bai Lu – all person's names, rendered in pinyin as Qing Feng, Fan Kun, Bai Lu.

Xi You furrowed his brows, flipped his palm again, and produced the last of his three Supreme Divine Artifacts: a pitch‑black, weird demonic mirror.

- Names: Xi You – person's name, pinyin; Supreme Divine Artifact – term, translated as Supreme Divine Artifact; Weird Demonic Mirror – term, translated as Weird Demonic Mirror.

Qingfeng slowly nodded: "Forget it, seeing you have nothing of value on you, let's leave it at that... Martial King, Baldy, Pale Face, and you heretical demonic things that don't know life or death... Listen up, my rules are very simple!"