[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-the-dao-dust-pearl":3,"chapter-the-dao-dust-pearl-the-dao-dust-pearl-chapter-976":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","The Dao Dust Pearl",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},2360477,4614,"Chapter 976","the-dao-dust-pearl-chapter-976",976,"\u003Cp>Du Xiaoling had no time to adjust; he urgently poured the contents of a porcelain vial into his mouth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Heavenly King Subduing Tiger Elixir, a secret Buddhist remedy, focuses on controlling blood and qi, consolidating the root and nurturing the origin—it is the secret elixir of the Zhigou Wushu Hall’s Great Chan Fist.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Great Chan Fist begins with the Shaolin Arhat Fist, whose foundation is most stable; its secret lies in taking the Heavenly King Subduing Tiger Elixir after completing the form, restraining the blood and qi stirred by training, thus easily gaining control over them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Only after mastering the Arhat Fist can one proceed to train the Great Chan Fist, which requires the entire body’s blood and qi to surge like a rampaging tiger, while the practitioner himself remains an Arhat pinning down the ferocious energy—this makes the fist technique ferocious yet exquisitely precise, culminating in the Arhat Subduing Tiger Fist.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After swallowing the entire vial, the overwhelming blood and qi from the Nine Ox, Two Tiger Power Pills were abruptly suppressed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But with his weak spiritual sense, he could not fully harness the drug’s power to control the blood and qi, now like a caged tiger.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then came three vials of Dragon Elephant Power Pills.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All the previous steps were merely to prevent the Nine Ox, Two Tiger Power Pills from exploding violently upon encountering the three vials of Dragon Elephant Power Pills, which would have torn Du Xiaoling’s body apart…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In that instant, Du Xiaoling’s body surged upward by another three feet, transforming from his original stunted height of one meter sixty into a giant nearly two meters tall; his neck swelled to the thickness of a thigh, his trachea and blood vessels thick as an ordinary man’s wrist.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Had it not been for the strange skin covering his body…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A tattoo of a rampaging tiger suddenly surfaced on his back, instantly suppressing the out-of-control blood and qi, bringing it back under Du Xiaoling’s command.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Du Xiaoling chanted a single hand seal, swaying his head as he recited the sect’s secret Bone Demon Great Strength Spell, then burned his blood to unleash the Devil’s Body Disintegration Technique; bumps the size of ping-pong balls writhed across his chest.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His skin continuously erupted with muscle knots the size of bowls, then rapidly sank inward, rising and falling as if his entire flesh were boiling.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Muscles crushed bones, forcing shattered fragments to writhe within his body; bone shards occasionally pierced his skin, leaving speckled bloodstains that soon formed a Bone Demon Great Strength Pattern across his chest.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A fearsome Bone Demon Great Strength subdued an Arhat, one hand pressing down on the Arhat’s neck, the other kneeling upon a white elephant.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dragons and serpents coiled around his waist; strings of white bone skulls hung all over his body, as if violently suppressing gods and buddhas, as if dancing madly into demonic frenzy…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Du Xiaoling barely held onto his sanity, reached out, and swallowed another pill.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The pill was entirely blood-red, crafted from the blood of the Nine-Curve Dragon Eel from beyond the frontier—the Nine Orifices Curved Dragon Blood Pill, a secret elixir for breaking through the third realm of the True Martial Path, using the eel’s essence to pierce all orifices and achieve perfect internal qi.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The blood vessels on Du Xiaoling’s body writhed like thumb-thick eels, burrowing wildly across his flesh.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The violent blood and qi forcibly drilled into his hundred orifices, transforming into a vast torrent of true qi.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He ingested the Manichaeans’ Blood-Burning Soul-Scorching Secret Elixir—a western secret remedy brought from the Persian headquarters, a martyr’s holy elixir wherein the sect’s holy maidens would consume it to walk through fire as offerings to the Lord of Light.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Its effect burned flesh and soul into spiritual essence, turning the entire soul into a blazing holy flame.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One secret elixir after another was ingested, layer upon layer of buffs stacked: the Heavenly King Protecting Heart Pill from the Three Emperors Society, which could delay death by three days even for those dying of natural causes; the Five Ghosts Devouring Heart Pill of the White Lotus Sect, used to punish traitors; the Heartless Pill of the Daoist sect, severing emotion and desire to draw near the Dao; the Dyeing Emotion Six Extremes Worm of the Miao frontier, a sacred Gu  that devours the heart through emotion and shatters the Six Extremes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Hundred Poisons Heavenly Silkworm Pill, forged from a hundred deadly substances that mutually generate and counteract each other.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Nine Dragon Health Package, formulated and injected by the Changshu Martial Saint Arno using nine foreign hormone agents—Boldenone, Methenolone, Oxandrolone, Stanozolol, Methandienone, Turinabol, Trenbolone, Nandrolone Decanoate, Nandrolone Phenylpropionate.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nine gleaming silver needles were inserted one by one into Du Xiaoling’s nearly exploding flesh.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was said that foreign martial artists, whom they called fighters, had witnessed Saint Arno injecting his secret elixirs; upon learning the ingredients, they were terrified, trembling in fear. Only after foreign medical experts crossed the sea to study him was it revealed that Saint Arno possessed an innate drug-resistant holy body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ordinary fighters, even one Dragon’s strength was the limit; two Dragons was the peak of champion fighters; three Dragons could dominate the world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet the Changshu Martial Saint possessed nine Dragons within his body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now all nine Dragons had entered Du Xiaoling’s body—beyond the foreign Nine Dragons, the medicinal properties of hundreds of Chinese secret elixirs were stacked together.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Finally, when the crow burned the paper effigy, empowering Du Xiaoling with the Five Directional Ghost Generals, he had transformed into a monstrous figure two zhang tall, his muscles nearly demonic, bordering on non-human.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This mere beginner of the first realm, a novice of the supernatural, could now shatter a fourth-rank cultivator who had formed a Golden Core!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Hurry!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing this, even the crow was alarmed—Du Xiaoling’s condition made his body exploding the next second seem perfectly normal; every extra second was a challenge to the human body’s drug tolerance limit.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even though this nuclear-burst elixir formula was the painstaking result of an all-night study by the Xuanzhen Sect’s directors, who believed their pharmacology was sound.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet during Du Xiaoling’s ingestion, several unexpected pharmacological shifts had already occurred; now, only the tattoo on his skin was holding it all together!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On Du Xiaoling’s back was a monstrous tiger that devoured a drought demon, one paw crushing an Arhat Subduing Tiger, its mouth gnawing on a human head—the Fire Demon Corpse King Pill, crafted by the Xuanzhen Sect from the corpse poison of nine-eyed fire Ba , a miraculous elixir capable of turning ordinary humans into zombies.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet now this zombie body was suppressed; countless stacked medicinal forces had transformed into a divine tiger that devoured it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This also signaled that Du Xiaoling’s current blood and qi were so ferociously yang that even the nine-eyed fire Ba  Corpse King could not transform him into a zombie.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On Du Xiaoling’s chest was a Bone Demon, tearing apart a Bodhisattva, crushing an Arhat beneath his feet, coiling five ghosts around his waist, five arms gripping nine dragons.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It had subdued the foreign Nine Dragon elixirs, suppressed the Buddhist treasures, representing the ultimate terror of demonic secret spells…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Worm-like patterns crawled across Du Xiaoling’s face, golden lines resembling the supreme Miao sacred insect, the Hundred Poisons Golden Silkworm Gu ; his arms coiled with Dragon and Elephant—one hand bore a true dragon tattoo, the other an elephant’s trunk; his legs swelled like elephant feet, deep-sea abyssal energy forming fish-scale wrinkles that crawled up his insteps.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was the pinnacle of Chinese drug-resistance studies, the culmination of external alchemy…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this moment, Du Xiaoling’s flesh had become demonic, but no matter how his muscles, bones, vessels, nerves, or blood had mutated, the skin enveloping him—the Ten Thousand Ghosts Moon Demon Embroidered Skin Secret Scroll—could manifest the corresponding tattoo and suppress it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Stabilize!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Du Xiaoling raised his right hand, transforming himself into a Golden Body, freezing in solidified spacetime.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At that moment, Wu Bonu stepped forward, extended his right hand, pressed his palm against Du Xiaoling’s palm—the one of the Eight Marvelous Seals, the Eighteen Nihilistic Hell Path, was seared directly onto Du Xiaoling’s palm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In that instant, he seemed to break through an invisible boundary; his surging blood qi abruptly transformed into a torrent of yin energy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As if demonic muscles relentlessly compressed his body, shattering bones and piercing his skin into bone spurs, his skeleton grew wildly, flesh turning into an evil spirit body—yet the moment Wu Bonu’s palm touched him…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Du Xiaoling became an evil spirit; the surging, deformed, demonic power within him plunged into the abyss, transforming into something even more terrifying.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The crow stared at this scene and whispered: “Asura.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Indeed, our essence is evil spirit; and among evil spirits, the most evil—when our non-human side, as humans, falls into destruction and truth, the non-human becomes not a ghost, but ‘Asura’!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wu Bonu murmured: “The human world is hell; all beings are evil spirits; thus, even those few who become immortals or buddhas, their true forms are merely Asuras!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Asura—that is ‘Not-Deity’!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chang Yan also arrived silently behind Du Xiaoling; watching this, her pupils contracted slightly as she whispered: “But our verification succeeded! The Great Primordial Golden Bell Immovable Seal can freeze spacetime, and the Eighteen Nihilistic Hell Path allows us to shift between false and true, human and ghost, yang world and hell. At the moment we transform from human to ghost, we completely alter our mode of existence—thus, once proven, it is eternally proven: the state frozen by the Great Primordial Golden Bell Immovable Seal, when transformed into an evil spirit, will remain forever.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“This must be what the Sect Master meant by ‘locking the panel’!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“He has already become a fourth-rank Asura… capable of rivaling seventh-rank spirit monsters!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The crow shook his head slightly: “Not enough! The Sect Master’s nuclear-burst method is profoundly mysterious; since he has transformed into an Asura, he can still accept further enhancement.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Then let’s follow the Sect Master’s instructions—add more buffs!” Chang Yan nodded: “But why did the Sect Master use foreign script?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Perhaps the Sect Master once studied abroad,” the crow replied, his eyes igniting tiny emerald flames as he flapped his wings: “Normal secret elixirs and methods cannot affect an Asura—it’s time to use the sect’s secret rites!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wu Bonu also nodded: “Only the power of the Celestial Steward can further amplify this!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Use the Daoist talisman to commune with the Great Lord of Yin-Yang, open the Mysterious Gate!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Reverse the Mysterious Gate—the Ascension Ritual becomes the Descent Ritual, empowering the Asura with the true, destructive power of the abyss!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Replace the Mysterious Gate with the Mysterious Mother Gate; the ten temples under our sect’s control have already channeled incense and vows—the Fifth Celestial Steward’s Lotus Ancestor’s Blessing, the Pure White Lotus Pure Land Scripture, is replaced with the Crimson Lotus Demonic Scripture; drive this high monk’s relic into his mind-sea, transform the Sixth Celestial Steward’s Bodhi Mother Tree’s Six Sense Vows into demonic mental force!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“This clay doll is from the Heavenly Empress Palace—it is Du Xiaoling’s older brother.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Good thing he’s from Zhigou, naturally favored by the Cauldron Mother Heavenly Empress—quickly tie them together with red thread, use the clay doll to perform the Ritual of Invoking the Heavenly Empress for Rebirth, transforming the clay brother back to the moment before his birth.”\u003C\u002Fp>",1901,"2026-06-21T05:40:02.617Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","d07fd2e8f1b88bab5702728dc8d6f89db102233ffeff1ef54a41495760edaed8","the-dao-dust-pearl-chapter-977","the-dao-dust-pearl-chapter-975",1000,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fthe-dao-dust-pearl-cover.jpg"]