Chapter 0191

Chapter 191: Seeing the Nameless Stele Again, Nine Dragons Nine Elephants Body!

“What is this thing?” Zhou Tong jolted. He sensed the emerald Gu was not simple and tried to pull away.

But the emerald Gu refused to let go, as if it had chosen him, and kept trying to parasitize him.

Zhou Tong struck a seal: “Balance of Life and Death!” The light hit, but the Gu smashed through it. It had no effect at all.

“How is that possible?” Even Zhou Tong was shocked. Then something even stranger happened. A towering figure appeared behind the Gu, vast enough to hold up the sky and the earth, faintly giving off an emperor’s dignity.

“A human emperor!” Zhou Tong cried out, stunned. He saw the truth. This was a dharma image. The Gu’s dharma image. But how could a Gu have a dharma image? It was not a cultivator.

“Get out!” He punched with power laced by Heavenly Sword and knocked it flying. [I don’t believe a little bug can force me.] He took a deep breath. His mental power surged without holding back and pinned the Gu in midair.

After a moment he murmured in wonder: “So that’s it…” It was not a Gu that had trained a dharma image. It was a dharma image that had turned into a Gu. The towering figure was the true body. If so, there was nothing to fear. The Form of No Phase restrains all dharma images.

Little White roared and shot out, slamming a heavy fist onto the emerald Gu. Violent ripples shook the water, and the Gu finally went quiet. Little White did not hesitate. He swallowed the Gu and sealed it inside.

Duan Li pointed at Little White with a trembling finger: “T-this… is that your dharma image?!” When the Gu showed its dharma image, he had been unable to move and nearly fainted, yet Little White sealed it with ease. That meant even Zhou Tong’s dharma image outclassed him.

“Stop thinking about things that don’t matter,” Zhou Tong said as he patted Duan Li’s shoulder. With his other hand he grabbed the blood essence of the three Heaven Gu brothers: “Come with me. I’ll send you a huge chance.”

Above the Dragon Transformation Pool, two figures dove and splashed into the water.

Zhou Tong laughed as he handed the blood essence to Zhang Chu Qiao: “Senior sister, I’m back!”

The senior sister smiled like a flower. She lifted her skirt and stepped barefoot into the pool. “Come with me, junior brother,” she said as she took Zhou Tong by the wrist and led him to the center. Together they sank beneath the water.

Zhou Tong held his breath at first, then realized he could breathe and even talk normally.

“Relax, junior brother,” she said. “Your great chance is here.”

Soon they reached the bottom of the Dragon Transformation Pool. To Zhou Tong’s surprise, an altar had appeared out of nowhere.

“Go up,” the senior sister urged. Zhou Tong stepped onto it without hesitation.

Zhang Chu Qiao formed seals and offered the blood essence to the altar. With a thunderous rumble, bright light poured out. A round hole opened at the center, and a stone stele rose up.

Zhou Tong’s spirit trembled. He recognized it at a glance: “The Nameless Stele.”

There were nine such steles under heaven. Each one held the source of a powerful physique. If you refined it, you would gain the matching body. The last stele had held the Dragon Marrow Phoenix Body, which the Empress of the Ling Xiao Empire had refined. It had not been long, and now they had met the second stele. Their luck was sky high. Even better, a Heavenly Dao Ranking was always near a Nameless Stele. That meant this secret realm must also have a ranking list. It was like getting it for free.

“Let me see what physique this stele holds.” His mental power surged straight into it.

A deafening chorus of dragon and elephant cries shook the pool and whipped up towering waves. Zhou Tong and Zhang Chu Qiao stood unmoved, as if nothing touched them.

“Nine Dragons Nine Elephants Body!” Joy could not be hidden on Zhou Tong’s face as dragons and elephants wheeled above. Since his rebirth, his only complaint had been his body’s raw toughness. Even after the tempering of the Heavenly Dao Lightning Tribulation again and again, it still had not met his standard. This physique would fill that gap.

In martial cultivation, the body is the foundation and the most important part. For Zhou Tong, it mattered even more. If his body grew strong enough, his mental power output would become even steadier. Then even a Half Saint would suffer under it.

“I’ll take it,” he said. He pressed both hands on the stele. Dao fire surged, and he entered meditation, clearly ready to refine it directly.

At once the dragons and elephants raged, stomping at his body as if to crush the rude intruder to dust. But Zhou Tong’s body was like a bottomless pit. He swallowed the dragons and elephants straight into himself and began refining them by force.

At the same time, the pool’s spiritual liquid was fully released and turned blood red, its energy thick to the extreme. Those above gained huge benefits, especially the most gifted.

Because of this, Shang Guan Wu Gou and Duan Li became the focus of everyone’s envy. The little girl had just obtained the Luo Shen Heart and stepped to the peak of the Heaven Slaying Realm. Now, with this chance, she easily broke into the Life and Death Realm. Duan Li was the same. His flesh was remade, and his cultivation soared, reaching the peak of the Life and Death Realm in the blink of an eye.

“So unfair!” Chu Ran and the others were green with envy. Their own improvement was not small, but compared to those two, it was hard to keep it together.

Chu Ran blurted to the Blood God Sect elder: “Old Ghost, what if I just drink this spiritual water? Wouldn’t I get even more?”

The elder nodded: “Makes sense.”

“Then I’ll drink first,” Chu Ran said. He took a sip, and his face turned dark.

“What’s wrong with you?” someone asked.

“I feel great. I miss my dad,” Chu Ran said.

“I’ll try too,” the elder muttered. He took a mouthful, then his face changed. “I also miss your dad… how did he have a rascal like you!”

At the bottom of the pool, when she saw Zhou Tong enter deep meditation, the senior sister tiptoed to the side and formed another set of seals at a second altar. A flash of gold lit the water, and a book woven with golden threads appeared out of thin air.

“The Royal Register!” she said with delight. “It’s exactly like the Mountain Ghost lady said.”

The rule of the Mountain Ghost Clan was this: the King received the inheritance, and the Princess Consort received the authority.

She pressed her palm to the golden book. A thread of golden light washed over her, and she felt wonderfully relaxed and clear.

“It’s done,” she whispered. In that moment she gained the authority and was officially recognized by the Mountain Ghost Clan as the Princess Consort.

A Mountain Ghost voice sounded in her mind: “Congratulations, Your Highness Princess Consort. This book is the membership roll of the royal clan. With it, you can add whoever you wish to the royal family. And…” The voice turned tempting: “It is also the King’s marriage register. If you write your name in the first Princess Consort slot, you may truly become the queen.”