[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-the-dragon-lies-hidden":3,"chapter-the-dragon-lies-hidden-the-dragon-lies-hidden-chapter-942":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","The Dragon Lies Hidden",{"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},2290240,4477,"Chapter 942: What Trickery?","the-dragon-lies-hidden-chapter-942",942,"\u003Cp>Wei Yuan sat deep within the Water-Moon Hall, facing a massive jade wall where the true intent of the hall’s founding ancestor slowly flowed. In the past, when Wei Yuan contemplated the true meaning of the Ten Thousand Phases of Moonlight here, he always felt as if viewing flowers through mist—something essential always eluded him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But today, for reasons unknown, the Yin Moonlight energy became extraordinarily clear; Wei Yuan effortlessly grasped many secrets he had never before perceived, and his mastery over Moonlight energy surged directly upward.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wei Yuan was both startled and delighted—this was clearly a massive leap in his comprehension.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He calmed his mind and immersed himself once more in the Path of Moonlight’s Ten Thousand Phases. In some unseen realm, Wei Yuan seemed to stand beside the founding immortal, gazing up at the full moon together.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Moonlight energy grew ever clearer within Wei Yuan’s heart, until its flow and transformation could be perfectly reproduced in his mind. His confidence strengthened further, and he attempted to construct a model to analyze the patterns of Moonlight energy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>An hour later, Wei Yuan abandoned this childish notion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this moment, Wei Yuan faintly sensed an impending calamity; the human world grew strangely quiet, and countless mortals instinctively looked up at the heavens.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The sky had turned a dark purple, with bulges resembling pus-filled blisters appearing intermittently. This sight had appeared not long ago—and had abruptly ceased with the return of the Primordial Immortal. Yet now it reappeared.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the Battle Saint Pavilion, several individuals sensed it, but with their cultivation bases greatly enhanced, they were confident and awaited the coming upheaval in stillness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wei Yuan knew the heavenly tribulation was coming, though he did not know what form it would take. But he was within his sect’s mountain gate, seated deep in the Water-Moon Hall, facing the true intent of the Dao-creating immortal—feeling especially safe.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wei Yuan continued to contemplate the true essence of Moonlight, having long since forgotten the heavenly tribulation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Storm clouds formed in the sky, rapidly gathering, then a tribulation thunder struck down!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This tribulation thunder was merely the most ordinary kind—pure and singular in nature, moderate in power—the type most commonly encountered when a Law Form attempts to break through the Yu Jing realm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Its only distinguishing feature was speed: barely had the storm clouds formed when the thunder descended in an instant—this bolt struck directly at the Azure Heaven Stone!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The entire Azure Heaven instantly boiled; its domain force surged like a raging ocean, converging upon the stone, then transforming into a colossal tidal wave that finally blocked the tribulation thunder.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The violent surge of domain force in such a short time triggered violent winds across Azure Heaven, rivers overflowed their banks, and countless birds, beasts, and insects burst from their nests, fleeing in all directions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The makeshift huts built by farmers were ripped from the ground; fishermen on the lake capsized and fell into the water; those gathering firewood or hunting in the mountains tumbled into deep ravines; even the spirit-field pigs tending the cultivated fields suddenly went mad, biting and mauling numerous cultivation cultivators.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Inside the Water-Moon Hall, Wei Yuan leapt to his feet, startled and furious. Heaven clearly would not let him off—he had sought refuge from the tribulation within the Tai Chu Palace’s mountain gate, yet Heaven’s thunder struck directly at Azure Heaven!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Without time to think further, Wei Yuan dashed out of the Water-Moon Hall and flew at full speed toward Azure Heaven. As he exited the Tai Chu Palace’s mountain gate, he immediately retrieved his redesigned flying device and mounted it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was a missile-shaped craft, with only a pair of tiny wings and sixteen nozzles bundled together at the rear; when fully activated, it shot across the sky like a falling star toward Azure Heaven.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>While hurtling through the air, Wei Yuan grew calm. His ancestor’s divine thought had once said: “The Dao has its own temper.” That remark had clearly been meant for him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had used the Bronze Lotus Lamp as his third cavernous heaven, unknowingly assembling the Bodhi before the Buddha and the Green Lamp before the Buddha—yet something was still missing, a complete set of extraordinary Buddhist treasures. Such immense karmic ties—how could Heaven possibly overlook him?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Moreover, he had reactivated the Yellow Springs Cavernous Heaven. Once the Ancestral Witch awoke, he would never let this rest. And Azure Heaven lay within the Witch Domain’s heavens—how easy would it be for the Ancestral Witch to influence the heavenly tribulation?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It seemed he could no longer seek shortcuts.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this moment, another tribulation thunder crashed down from Azure Heaven’s sky, once again blocked by the roaring tidal wave. This thunder arrived precisely one ke after the previous one—this was normal heavenly tribulation timing. In past tribulations, Wei Yuan had endured over a hundred thunderbolts in the time between two.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wei Yuan relaxed slightly, then sneered. Heaven’s tribulation was indeed malicious, waiting in Azure Heaven for him to walk straight into its trap. Yet in every tribulation he had faced, had any not been vicious, ruthless, and beyond reason? And had he ever failed to survive one?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In a single breath, Dao energy flowed through Wei Yuan’s body; his skin faintly shimmered with lustrous glaze, beyond the dark gold, a pale red hue now surfaced. As his Dao energy surged, a third color of light would soon emerge. After his trials in the Wasteland Realm and achieving two and a half tones, Wei Yuan could now emit the most basic three-colored immortal radiance with his body alone.\u003C\u002Fp>",932,"2026-06-20T03:38:38.899Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","604f35f236b09f7c6770e835c8bc25ae572ce1ec4f3a45afd4321ae7e2908bd5","the-dragon-lies-hidden-chapter-943","the-dragon-lies-hidden-chapter-941",1000,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fthe-dragon-lies-hidden-cover.jpg"]