7 Chapter 7: Dragon Mark
True, he had faked his death, and he had his reasons. He was too weak to fight the Flaming Red Gecko, the moment the Flaming Red Gecko had attacked him with that beam of crimson fire, he knew he couldn't block that attack easily and if he tried, he probably wouldn't come out in one piece.
It was at that exact moment that he formulated a not-so-fantastic plan, which was to let the attack hurt him and pretend to be dead, only with that the plan seemed simple and easy to make, but of course it wasn't quite like, as the perceptions of the profound beasts were very acute and the Flaming Red Gecko would probably notice his false death.
He had to be in an extremely critical situation to fool the Flaming Red Gecko's perception, setting up his ultra-fast regeneration to heal him slowly so as not to arouse the Flaming Red Gecko's suspicions.
Some might be wondering why he didn't let the attack hurt him, then regenerate and continue with his fight?
There was a logical explanation for this, which was simply that he was weaker than the Flaming Red Gecko and if he insisted on continuing the fight against the latter, he would end up in a lope of getting hurt and regenerating and he wasn't masochistic to try that.
Well, he couldn't kill the Flaming Red Gecko, but the Flaming Red Gecko could kill him, so if he insisted on fighting, he'd just be hurting himself and regenerating infinitely.
The only way he saw to be able to kill the Flaming Red Gecko, would be to let it hurt him, pretend to be dead and wait when the Flaming Red Gecko let its guard down to kill it in one blow.
Fight a 9th level profound beast because I wanted to fight a strong opponent? What nonsense!
Even having the opportunity to be reborn infinitely, Yuan Tianzhu didn't want to die again, everything was planned so that he could kill the profound beast and get its profound core. Even with his powerful martial arts, he could only fight a profound beast seven levels above himself.
As it was only way to get a profound beast's profound core in the 9th Level Elementary Profound Realm with his current abilities. Fighting an 8th level deep beast was already his limit, even if it was only one small level higher, the distance was still too devastating. And he would probably get killed if he tried to fight the Flaming Red Gecko face to face.
Yuan Tianzhu sat on the lawn before starting to restore energy and Profound Strength spent when fighting that profound beast. After a few minutes he had finished restoring all his energy and of course he didn't forget to take the dead profound beast's profound core by his own hands before returning again in the Primordial Spirit Ring.
Whoosh!
Immediately, Yuan Tianzhu's body appeared on the greensward of the Primordial Spirit Ring. Looking where he was, a smile bloomed on his face. Without further ado, he walked towards the pagoda, as it was time for him to enter the Nascent Profound Realm!
Come to think of it, he never knew the name of that pagoda, even, it wasn't that he never knew, it was more that the pagoda didn't even had a name. With that in mind, Yuan Tianzhu decided to name the pagoda that was situated inside the Primordial Spirit Ring. Since the pagoda was inside the Primordial Spirit Ring, Yuan Tianzhu decided to name it as Primordial Five-Story Pagoda, a good name isn't it? No need to praise me.
Entering the first floor of the Primordial Five-Story Pagoda, Yuan Tianzhu was faced with the same sight as always, there was a stack full of low level spiritual stones and some medium level ones. There were also several types of spiritual weapons he couldn't even use, held in the air like magic and not forgetting the Heavenly Flame. Promptly, Yuan Tianzhu headed towards the stack of spiritual stones, he took a dozen of them, retired to the training room, and sat in a lotus position.
He held all the spiritual stones in his hand, and broke them. Pure Profound Strength could be seen with the naked eye coming out of the halved spiritual stones. Seeing such an extraordinary phenomenon taking place before him, Yuan Tianzhu's eyes could not help but sparkle with excitement.
It soothed his heated nerves, he was about to make a breakthrough that would give him access to several things, inside the Primordial Five-Story Pagoda. Once seated, he began operating the "Dragon Transformation Skills". "Dragon Transformation Skills". Dragon Transformation Skills". The Dragon Transformation Skills was a cultivation method that Jiang Chen, the protagonist of Dragon Marked War God found in an ancient ruin during his previous life. The powerful Dragon Transformation ability was inherited from ancient times.
This mighty skill was very powerful. According to the scripts, after cultivating the Dragon Transformation skill, one could merge with any blood type in this world. It was possible to merge with thousands of blood types, and those benefits alone had already blew his mind.
Profound Strength started being absorbed from the dozen spiritual stones, the Profound Strength circulated in his body, passing through his meridians. Yuan Tianzhu immediately directed the Profound Strength through his body. The Profound Strength was also very cooperative, walking as he guided it.
Urgh!
After directing and circulating the Profound Strength through his body, an unbearable pain came out of nowhere, as if thousands of swords were being inserted into his body. The pain was insufferable, but it wasn't enough to bring down Yuan Tianzhu's willpower. Instead, he started circulating the "Dragon Transformation Skills" even faster, thus making the pain even more intolerable.
However, he ignored the suffering and continued to circulate "Dragon Transformation Skills". His breath was labored, his whole body was drenched in red wine, as his previously snow-white skin stained red.
The Profound Strenght began to refine his jade body over and over, he felt as if his skin, organs, bones, and meridians were being destroyed and rebuilt at the same time. The pain he was going through was unimaginable. Suddenly, a scorching heat surged through his body like an erupting volcano.
Bang!
A deafening sound like a dragon's roar and heavenly phoenix screams resonated within his body, as a great amount of Profound Strenght was directed into his lower body.
2nd Layer Elementary Profound Realm!
3rd Layer Elementary Profound Realm!
4th Layer Elementary Profound Realm!
5th Layer Elementary Profound Realm!
6th Layer Elementary Profound Realm!
7th Layer Elementary Profound Realm!
8th Layer Elementary Profound Realm!
9th Layer Elementary Profound Realm!
10th Layer Elementary Profound Realm!
1st Layer Nascent Profound Realm!
He could feel his Profound Strenght rapidly increasing, his body also became stronger than before, so his strength and defense improved a lot. During his cultivation with Dragon Transformation skill, Yuan Tianzhu had previously formed two separate eddies, which turned into a faint red Dragon Mark.
The Profound Strenght began to blend, thus condensing into two more separate transparent eddies. The Profound Strenght of the spiritual stones was still there, and with that, that Profound Strenght was absorbed in an exorbitant way. The more Profound Strenght was directed into the two separate transparent eddies, the more the two separate transparent eddies gained color.
With great speed, the two eddies began to flow toward his Dantian and began to form yet another blood-red Dragon Mark. With the large amount of Profound Strenght within the spiritual stones, the other Dragon Mark also benefited. The two Dragon Marks began to gain more color, becoming more vivid, and finally turning completely red, gaining dragon vivacity.
ROARRRRRRRRRRR!
A deafening sound like a dragon's roar resonated within his body, as a big pressure descended beneath the training room, everything began to shudder like a sheet of paper exposed to the wind. Yuan Tianzhu vomited a mouthfull of blood as the roar made his internal organs vibrate wildly. However, a smile couldn't not help but blossom in that situation, even with the hellish pain he was feeling.
He managed to form two Dragon Marks!
"There is!"
With a shout, Yuan Tianzhu punched hard, creating a thunderous sound in the air due to the friction. A gust of wind manifested in the training room, the blow seemed to want to break the void and rip the space.
Bam!
The blow was very powerful, far beyond the power anyone in 1st Layer Nascent Profound Realm should have in the same realm. He could feel that he could fight people eight levels above him without difficulty, and to top it all off, it was all without using a Profound Skill!
In other words, he could fight enemies on 9th Layer Nascent Profound Realm without a problem!
Yuan Tianzhu got up and walked towards the stairs in the center of the first floor. Since he had reached 1st Layer Nascent Profound Realm, he could enter the second floor without any problems, and he hadn't forgotten that and as soon as he made a breakthrough, he walked right towards the second floor. He climbed the stairs slowly, step by step, one reaching the bottom of the stairs, he came across a door full of symbols he couldn't understand. Without further ado, he put his hand on the door. A bright light immediately came out of the door, blinding him completely as the door began to shudder slightly.
When the light was dim, Yuan Tianzhu was again faced with a large golden room with various types of spiritual treasures. His heart warmed up, as he knew these treasures must be extraordinary, since they were on the second floor of the Primordial Five-Story Pagoda, not to mention that the first floor had a Heavenly Flame. The second floor was nothing different from the first floor, only the quality of the features that were better. There was a stack full of low-level and medium-level spiritual stones. There were also various types of weapons, herbs, spiritual fruits held in the air like magic.
However, what drew the most attention was a white flame burning in a square of glass suspended in the air, the flames seemed to be quite strong, but even when he approached he didn't even feel heat, it was as if the golden flame had no temperature. However, of course this was not true as perhaps, it was that square of glass that was restraining the powerful scorching heat of the white flame. He was more surprised because he knew what kind of flame this was because of the memories of the Ancient Gods who reached the peak of cultivation.
It was a Ice and Fire Ghostly Flame!
A Ice and Fire Ghostly Flame, was the Flame of the Ice and Fire Ghostly Dragon, which could only be acquired when killing a Ice and Fire Ghostly Dragon. However, this was not something anyone could do, as a Ice and Fire Ghostly Dragon had terrifying strength and hardly one could kill it. This dragon's flame had two opposing attributes that would go against each other, but each Ice and Fire Ghostly Dragon were born with an innate ability to handle both elements at the same time, without suffering the consequences.
Yuan Tianzhu's eyes sparkled when he thought about it, he was a Primordial Being, and thanks to his Primordial Divine Source Veins he could handle all the elements existing in the world. And to control all elements of the world one needs to have the ability to restrict the opposition of certain elements. With that thought in mind, Yuan Tianzhu advanced towards the Ice and Fire Ghostly Flame, placing his hand on the square of glass, which surprisingly passed over the glass.
Yuan Tianzhu's eyes sparkled more intensely. That could only mean one thing, which was that he could get the Ice and Fire Ghostly Flame out of that square of glass!
So, when his hand came into contact with the Ice and Fire Ghostly Flame, he didn't feel anything, fire or ice, the feeling was neutral, even, it couldn't be called feeling because he didn't feel anything.
Shhhhhhhhhh!
Suddenly he heard a queer rustle, when he realized, his right hand was already frozen, only the ice was different, it was white instead of colorless. Seeing what had just happened, Yuan Tianzhu's eyes widened furiously. Looking to his left side, he noticed that his left arm was on fire, burning like never before, with a black flame.
"Amaterasu?"
It was the first thought that came into Yuan Tianzhu's head when he saw that black flame burning in his left arm. Before he could even process any information of what was going on, an unendurable pain surfaced. He felt hot and cold at the same time, it was insane the amount of pain he was feeling.
His internal organs were being frozen and burned simultaneously, his body was torn apart by fire and ice. At that moment he just wanted to die, the pain was insufferable, insupportable, it was insane...
All of his internal organs seemed to be being rebuilt after being destroyed, the same could be said for his entire body, which seemed to get stronger and stronger than before. Realizing this, Yuan Tianzhu stopped with suicidal thoughts and began to endure the pain he was feeling, it was not easy to do as much to say, but with his determination of the size of the universe, something that had no size, he managed to persevere.
Thousandths, seconds, minutes and hours have passed since Yuan Tianzhu was suffering from frostbite and burns. Surprisingly, his porcelain-white skin had not sustained any damage and remained the same, white and flawless. After so many hours of torture, Yuan Tianzhu couldn't take it anymore and passed out on the spot.
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[Name]: Yuan Tianzhu
[Race]: Primordial Being
[Age]: 16
[Profound Cultivation]: 1st Layer Nascent Profound Realm
[Body Cultivation]: 1st Layer Nascent Profound Realm
[Soul Cultivation]: none
[Others Bloodlines]: none
[Innate Abilities]: Primordial Soul (Lv. Max), Primordial Transformation (Lv. Max), Primordial Blood (Lv. Max), Primordial Pressure (Lv. Max),
[Profound Art]: Dragon Transformation Skill (Lv. Max)
[Profound Skill]: Cultivation Information (Lv. 5), Beast Encyclopedia of the World (Lv. 5), Memories of Ancient Gods (Lv. Max), Sword Cutting Through The Heavens (Lv. 4), Dragon-Elephant's Scalding Palm (Lv. 4), Steps of the Thunder Dragon (Lv.4)
[Profound Veins]: Primordial Divine Source Veins
[Flames]: Ice and Fire Ghostly Flame
[Inventory]: Primordial Spirit Ring, Infinite Clothes
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