Finally becoming a Dragonmen
The auras emitting from them is not something someone in essence gathering realm can match.
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A little while ago,
Long Chen has sealed his entire courtyard and arranged an array to swiftly hide everything.
Cultivating for a little bit, he has reached the peak of the Qi Condensation realm.
He then picks up a paste he made from nether fruits, profounder fruits, and some other herbs and directly swallows it.
'Swish'
Long Chen's body starts violently heaving, the energy is excessive making his skin turn blood red.
His demonic heart is violently pumping just greedily sucking everything it can.
His body is also absorbing as much energy as possible.
The dantian is glowing and the qi in his body is rampaging all over the place.
The amount of qi is ridiculous but it is slowly getting condensed into essence qi.
As the process accelerates Long Chen focuses on the drop of blood resting in his soul.
'Finally, it's time for this'
The drop of blood slides from his sea of consciousness and enters his body.
'Primordial Dragon Transformation Method
Dragonmen'
Immediately Long Chen is hit with so much pain that even his bones critter.
The qi which was rampaging previously is multiplying many folds.
Every inch of Long Chen's body is changing and evolving.
Eventually, his dark red blood starts turning paler then
Light blue
Sky blue
Blue…
Blue blood started flowing through Long Chen's body all his organs are also of that color except for the demonic heart that retains its nature and color.
Long Chen's exoskeleton also transforms.
New bones are being added and existing bones take a new color from pale to almost gold.
They are condensing and expanding at the same time.
After a while, Long Chen's height rises from 6 feet to 6 feet 4.
The qi has transformed into essence qi.
Almost completely icy and nature with a pang of darkish red asura nature and even less pure black dark nature.
'Boom''Boom'
Multiple explosions sound come as his transformation is complete.
Long Chen's current cultivation base is at the 2nd layer of essence gathering.
His essence qi is leaking out of his body freezing his surroundings.
From the outside, his nails(All limbs) have turned blue.
With his skin being as smooth as even except for the fact that there is some faint marking embedding inside his skin which are the embedded form of dragon scales.
Opening his eyes, Long Chen's golden eyes have a white predatory sclera visible.
Any high-level cultivator can easily tell that Long Chen is not human anymore.
He is now a fully-fledged Dragonmen with a lesser devil bloodline.
Standing up Long Chen inspects his body.
'perfect this is even better than before, I am confident I can jump 3 layers easily, without the blood 2 would have been my limit'
Long Chen also posses a lot of Dragonmen's traits like enhanced regeneration.
His body alone is comparable to a 4th layer essence gathering realm cultivator.
Of course, it will be much harder for it to proceed further.
While he is better off in some cases there are some disadvantages Long Chen's cultivation would be slower now.
His comprehension is reduced, His oneness with heaven and earth is also reduced making it hard to follow the path of sword, spear, or something along those lines.
The resources required for him to proceed further have also been increased manyfold by this point, but all in all Long Chen is completely satisfied.
Looking outside, the sky had already turned dark and Long Chen planned to have a long nap.
3 days later,
Long Chen walked groggily feeling some warmth in his neck.
Opening his eyes he saw that He Mao and Xiao Bai had wrapped their tails around his neck and were peacefully sleeping.
Long Chen just smiled seeing this and gently removed the tails wrapped around his neck, without waking them up, and went outside.
Walking outside he made his way towards his father's mansion.
On the way, the guards felt stifled whenever they looked at him.
He appeared a lot taller and stronger and as cultivators, they have good senses.
"what's up with young master"
"Did he make a breakthrough"
"How did his body change so much"
"Maybe he found some nice stuff in the nether realm"
Speaking of the nether realm, Long Chen's deeds have made their way all across the nation.
Countless powers are interested in his rapid growth, but sadly from their investigation, they found out that he may link to a powerful figure and he also has the support of the Huang Clan.
Currently, Long Chen was elevated to the position of 5 young masters of the imperial capital, with his title being Young Devil Long Chen.
Long Chen caught wind of this, through the gossiping maids and guards.
'Perfect time to put my plan in motion
Long Aotian was doing some paperwork when Long Chen entered his estate and before he could even speak a word his eyes widened with surprise before he started laughing in glee.
"Hahaha chener you have finally entered the essence gathering realm, with this is you are guaranteed to join the sect."
"You're right but I will join a sect after the grand Xia competition."
"Chener, why should you wait, this competition is meaningless to you, joining a sect would provide you with protection"
Long Chen disapproved, but after a couple of minutes of back and forth and seeing how insistent Long Chen was, He backed off.
"Father I want you to announce a banquet, to be held 7 days later in celebration. It will be a great platform to meet some people, build influence and establish trade"
Long Chen spoke calmly.
Then he went on to explain the quality of pills he will be selling.
"Chener are you sure, we can deliver the number of pills required ?"
"Yes father it won't be a problem, don't forget to mention Uncle Yuan to invite mercenaries and rogue cultivators. They will be a big part of our business model"
"Damn brat, your old man hasn't gone senile yet"
Saying that he ruffled Long Chen's hair, the latter cringed a bit, but he did not remove the hand.
After finalizing a few details Long Chen took of for the dark forest.
He had been obsessing quite a bit about reaching the essence gathering realm, and now that he is finally there, He can't wait to finalize some things.
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The Wang Clan Council,
8 men were seated at a round table.
From their clothing, one can make out the symbol of a chariot.
On the highest seat sat was Wang Shengren.
He was a tall man, with wide shoulders and bulging muscles.
He had a bushy mustache and no beard, with a short set of hair.
He had a very masculine aura about him.
"What are your thoughts on Long Chen's matter"
"Patriarch although they had some conflict, him killing one of our men is stepping on us"
"Patriarch, the fault lies with our disciple, moreover the Long Clan had just been recently humiliated trying to deal with him."
"Patriarch he is a genius and he may have a negative feeling about our clan, we must nip him in the bud"
"3rd elder don't spout nonsense, we must build a relationship with them"
"Enough" Wang Shengren spoke in a light tone.
"I have just got the news that Long Chen ascended to essence gathering realm, we will be instructing some of our subordinate forces to send some gifts and reconcile. At the same time, we will be keeping an eye on the conflict development with them, the 2nd prince and the Long Clan. If the opportunity to deal with him arises we won't hesitate, but bear in mind that friendship with him will be a lot more fruitful, than any vengeance whatsoever"
The elders agreed upon the plan.
If this speech was heard by outsiders they would be surprised.
The royal clan has explicitly banned any clan to develop or vassalize any force in the top 8 cities, at most allowing spies and information gatherers, but the Wang Clan which is known as the most straightforward clan has managed to avoid the eyes and ears of the royals.
…
Before sorting through any battle arts, Long Chen first focused on circulating the nine-headed serpent method.
After cultivating for a while, sounds of hissing came from Long Chen's body.
There were no changes in his body except for a little egg that had been accumulated inside Long Chen's sea of consciousness.
This was his martial spirit seed, it will take time to nurture it before It could evolve into a real martial spirit.
After making sure the step was perfectly complete, Long Chen sat down in meditation to figure out how to use his innate abilities.
In about 30 minutes, his eyes opened, the Scelera of his blue eyes started shining, he opened his mouth wide and he let out a loud roar.
"GRAWWWWWWWWWWWWWW"
The roar shook the surroundings, the trees were madly heaving, a lot of flying demonic beasts fell from the sky, completely still deader than a doornail.
They were bleeding from some of their orifices. The nearby trees were almost destroyed.
'This is a mainly a soul-type attack which is used for intimidation and suppressing the opponent's intent. Its offensive power isn't much especially considering the power of my soul'.
Long Chen was very much satisfied with the prowess of his innate ability.
It was named [Dragon's Roar].
Long Chen then quickly exited the area and made his way to a more barren side of the forest to practice.
Among humans, he could use his innate ability and play it off as a unique battle art, but the demonic beasts would definitely realize that something is suspicious.