Chapter 973: Five True Dragon Fist

The bottleneck has stalled his cultivation.

He Pingsheng had once tried to break through the bottleneck by fusing the Five Elements’ true substances.

After all, he still possessed the [Dark Ming Heavy Water] given to him by the Dragon Clan!

But it didn’t work.

He fused the Dark Ming Heavy Water, yet this time it still failed to break the bottleneck!

As for why, He Pingsheng couldn’t figure it out, but he could roughly guess.

Probably, as his cultivation base grew higher, the difficulty of breaking through the bottleneck increased as well—so even fusing the Dark Ming Heavy Water couldn’t break it.

But there’s no rush!

If the Dark Ming Heavy Water won’t work, maybe I can ask the Witch Clan for a soil-element true substance—perhaps that’ll break it!

Tearing!

He Pingsheng directly tore through the void and arrived at the Witch Clan.

The Witch Clan’s Grand Elder, Gu Miaochen, received her.

“A soil-element true substance?” Gu Miaochen’s white teeth gleamed with cold light: “Brother He, we do have one—but you borrowed one of our clan’s treasured artifacts, promising to return it within ten years. It’s been many years already, and you still haven’t returned it?”

“I even went out of my way to find you once, but saw you were in seclusion and didn’t disturb you!”

“Oh!” He Pingsheng pulled out the golden sphere and handed it to Gu Miaochen: “Indeed, it was my oversight—I became so absorbed in seclusion that I forgot to return it!”

“Heh… sorry, sorry…”

Gu Miaochen lifted her sultry eyes, gazing at He Pingsheng with a seductive look: “Have you perfected it?”

He Pingsheng shook his head.

Gu Miaochen smiled: “Then you’ve been cheated… Sit down and talk!”

“We do possess a soil-element primordial true substance. Originally, our treasure vault held Siwu of them, but since our clan couldn’t fuse them, we released them back into heaven and earth!”

Fortunately, we kept one!”

“This one is called [Soft Yang True Jade]…”

“What do you think?”

As she spoke, Gu Miaochen flicked her narrow sleeve, and a three-foot-long pale green-and-white true substance shot out, hovering before He Pingsheng.

It was a piece of jade.

No—it was more accurate to say, a strand of jade.

Radiance shimmered across its surface, emitting gentle light, while warm energy drifted forth from the jade.

This was a strand of soft jade.

It could change shape at will.

Yet within it lay an extremely pure force of earth-elemental law.

If fused and cultivated to perfection, it could merge into the flesh, forming an invulnerable shell upon the body’s surface.

Unbeatable defense.

Of course, its energy could also be summoned for offense.

“But… Brother He, what will you offer in exchange for my Soft Yang True Jade?”

Gu Miaochen tilted her head, watching He Pingsheng.

He Pingsheng thought for a moment, then pulled out a strand of true poison, also a Five Elements true substance: “I have a strand of true poison—would that suffice?”

“No!” Gu Miaochen shook her head: “I have no need for poison!”

He Pingsheng was momentarily at a loss: “Then what do you want?”

Gu Miaochen leaned closer to He Pingsheng, her voice softening: “You, my lord, are the most outstanding man under heaven—if you father a child with me, he will surely become an unparalleled prodigy!”

“Stay here with me for three years—how about that?”

A faint blush colored Gu Miaochen’s face.

He Pingsheng shook his head: “No.”

Gu Miaochen said: “Don’t refuse so quickly!”

“Think it over for now!”

“And… don’t worry—I’ll keep this secret for life, and I won’t bother you afterward!”

“I only seek a witch-blooded descendant of an unparalleled prodigy!”

Her bright eyes fixed on He Pingsheng, so close her breath was sweet as orchid.

Yet He Pingsheng remained utterly unmoved, shaking his head: “If Sister Gu truly won’t give it to me, could I at least borrow it for a while?”

“If you agree, fine—if not, I won’t force you.”

Gu Miaochen instantly lost interest, waving her hand: “Take it.”

She sighed and floated away gracefully.

He Pingsheng didn’t leave. Instead, he tossed the [Soft Yang True Jade] into the Treasure Basin. After a night, it had been strengthened into an identical copy. He then fixed the original in the void, placing it inside Gu Miaochen’s hall, and quietly departed.

…

Back at Solitary Pine Mountain, He Pingsheng resumed his seclusion.

Because all reports indicated that the [Piaomiao Mountain] was about to open.

Less than a hundred years remained.

What was Piaomiao Mountain?

Jin Ku had already said—it was a fragment of the Immortal Realm.

He Pingsheng had also made his own calculations on this fragment.

Why didn’t this fragment open earlier or later, but precisely now?

Clearly, it had to do with the Jiazi Heavenly Blindness.

He Pingsheng believed that since Piaomiao Mountain belonged to the Immortal Realm, it shouldn’t appear in the Spiritual Realm—so normally, it wasn’t unopenable; it was merely hidden by the Dao of Heaven.

During the Jiazi Heavenly Blindness, the Dao of Heaven’s laws briefly malfunctioned.

At such a time, the Immortal Realm fragment might reveal itself.

This explanation was a reasonable guess.

So He Pingsheng must hurry—he must reach Mahayana Emperor Realm Level Twelve before Piaomiao Mountain opens.

At that level, he wouldn’t fear a Transcendent, right?

Thus, entering the Momentary Time Array, He Pingsheng began fusing the [Soft Yang True Jade].

It was a primordial earth-element true substance.

Thanks to prior fusion experience, within the Time Array, he fully refined it in just sixteen years.

But to his disappointment, the bottleneck still hadn’t broken.

Under these circumstances, He Pingsheng had no choice.

But he wasn’t deeply disheartened.

If it didn’t break, then it didn’t break.

“Huh…” He exhaled deeply, didn’t leave seclusion, and continued cultivating.

Now, he had fused five true substances of the Five Elements.

They were: [Formless True Poison], [Doushen True Thunder], [Dark Ming Heavy Water], [Nine Heavens Mystic Fire], [Soft Yang True Jade].

Metal, Wood, Water, Fire, Earth—all complete.

If that’s the case, then let’s study how to fuse these five true substances into a supreme strike!

Time slipped quietly by.

One year!

Two years!

Three years!

…

In a flash, seven hundred more years passed.

He Pingsheng stepped out of the Momentary Time Array.

Eight hundred years inside.

Only eighty years had passed outside!

Boom…

He Pingsheng’s body turned into a streak of light and shot into the void.

Then he roared, “Five True Dragon Fist!” and punched upward into the void.

Roar…

A dragon’s breath echoed through heaven and earth.

From He Pingsheng’s fist flew five colossal dragons—colorless, silver, blue, red, and white.

The five dragons merged in the void into a single five-colored true dragon.

The five-colored dragon let out a thunderous roar, its overwhelming pressure surging in all directions, forming a unique aura that swept across the entire Zhu Que Emperor Domain.

At that moment, countless beings within the Zhu Que Emperor Domain trembled in fear.

Some low-cultivation lifeforms dropped to their knees, bowing toward He Pingsheng’s direction.