Time Acceleration

Divine Lord Meng Zhang left quietly, just as he had come quietly. From beginning to end, Meng Chen never knew that his imperial father had come to Kunlun Mountain.

After transforming into a Primordial Saint, Meng Chen did not emerge from seclusion. He still needed to digest the Myriad Dragon Whip and the Great Dao Divine Script.

"Senior Brother, lend me a hand!"

At Meng Chen's call, Azure Dragon Lord Cangwu returned to human form and landed before him.

Azure Dragon Lord Cangwu first congratulated Meng Chen on becoming a Primordial Saint. Then, seeing the Myriad Dragon Whip in Meng Chen's hand, he understood what Meng Chen meant.

Meng Chen wanted his help refining the Myriad Dragon Whip!

Azure Dragon Lord Cangwu felt gratified. His junior brother truly valued loyalty and friendship; even after obtaining such a treasure, he had not forgotten him. Refining a peerless divine weapon like the Myriad Dragon Whip would also greatly benefit Azure Dragon Lord Cangwu's cultivation.

Meng Chen spread out his palm, and an opening split open in its center. A drop of essence blood containing his primordial spirit rose from within. Azure Dragon Lord Cangwu immediately understood. With a gesture of one hand, he drew Meng Chen's essence blood before him, formed a hand seal, and sent the blood into the Myriad Dragon Whip.

The two senior and junior brothers sat facing one another and worked together to refine the Myriad Dragon Whip.

Calling it joint effort was really giving Meng Chen too much credit. His meager mana was as weak as a fledgling before Azure Dragon Lord Cangwu. Throughout the entire refinement process, Azure Dragon Lord Cangwu took the lead. Meng Chen only needed to let his primordial spirit seep into the Myriad Dragon Whip.

Azure Dragon Lord Cangwu, who did the bulk of the work, did not lose out either. By helping Meng Chen refine the Myriad Dragon Whip, he gained many insights during the process. The Dao principles comprehended by the Archaic Dragon Clan and their combat experience all became nourishment for his cultivation.

With the help of a Hunyuan Golden Immortal, Meng Chen completely refined the Myriad Dragon Whip in only three hundred years, claiming this peerless divine weapon for himself.

Unfortunately, Meng Chen's cultivation was still too low. Even after refining the treasure, he could not bring out its wondrous and profound powers.

"Junior Brother, by my reckoning, there are still forty-eight thousand years until the Azure Radiance Grotto-Heaven opens. Do you still intend to cultivate during that time?"

Fearing that Meng Chen might forget the auspicious day when the Azure Radiance Grotto-Heaven opened, Azure Dragon Lord Cangwu reminded him.

Of course Meng Chen would not forget. He remembered every opportunity related to Pangu firmly.

Among the Azure Dragon, White Tiger, Vermilion Bird, and Black Tortoise clans, there was a legend passed down through the innate inheritance of the Four Primordial Spirits. Among the opportunities left behind by Pangu's incarnation, there might be Pangu's inheritance.

Meng Chen did not hope to obtain the entire inheritance. But even if he were fortunate enough to find only a few words left behind by Pangu, it would be of incomparably great help to his cultivation.

Divine Lord Meng Zhang had also told Meng Chen that the Qinghua Mystic Realm contained treasures Pangu had gathered during the Chaos era.

How could Meng Chen possibly fail to take it seriously?

After thinking for a moment, Meng Chen said, "Senior Brother, set up a Time Acceleration Formation for me! Wake me again in forty thousand years. At the last Dao Discussion Assembly, I obtained many Great Dao Divine Scripts. I want to carefully comprehend them all."

If one was cultivating, a Time Acceleration Formation was of little use. If time sped up by a thousandfold or ten-thousandfold, one's speed of absorbing spiritual energy and Dao charm would also increase by a thousandfold or ten-thousandfold.

The problem of spiritual energy was manageable. It could be resolved with a spirit-gathering formation or medicinal pills.

The problem of Dao charm was not so easily solved. Dao charm was a mysterious and profound thing emitted by heaven and earth themselves, and its rate of recovery was limited.

If the Dao charm could not keep up, the quality of one's mana would be greatly compromised. Refining spiritual energy could only produce ordinary mana. Only by refining Dao charm could mana contain the power of laws.

This was why, although great experts were as numerous as clouds in the Primordial Wilderness, very few used time formations to cultivate.

"Only comprehending the Great Dao Divine Script? Then that will work. But why should I wake you?"

Azure Dragon Lord Cangwu asked in confusion.

Meng Chen said frankly, "For the remaining eight thousand years, I plan to make a trip to Mount Wuyi to search for a treasure."

At this point, he paused before continuing, "This junior brother is now a disciple of the Chan Sect. Since an opportunity has appeared within our own family, I cannot forget the Teaching of Humanity and Intercepting Teaching. I must invite disciples from the Teaching of Humanity and Intercepting Teaching to enter the Azure Radiance Grotto-Heaven together."

They said the Three Teachings were One Family. Even if he had to put on an act, he needed to make it look like he was closer to the Teaching of Humanity and Intercepting Teaching.

Whenever the Three Pure Ones had benefits, they always thought of him. If he encountered an opportunity yet thought only of himself, leaving his fellow disciples of the Chan Sect and the disciples of the Teaching of Humanity and Intercepting Teaching behind, what kind of behavior would that be?

As a disciple of the Chan Sect, he had to establish a proper image for himself.

Hearing this, Azure Dragon Lord Cangwu gave Meng Chen an admiring look. "Junior Brother, you have thought this through thoroughly!"

When he mentioned the Azure Radiance Grotto-Heaven, he had not even realized this. He had only thought of taking Meng Chen back to the Eastern Celestial Pole alone. Without needing his reminder, Meng Chen had thought of his fellow disciples in the Chan Sect, as well as the Teaching of Humanity and Intercepting Teaching. He considered matters even more comprehensively than Azure Dragon Lord Cangwu did.

Meng Chen smiled faintly, closed his eyes, and began comprehending.

He did not believe Azure Dragon Lord Cangwu had failed to think of it. It was merely that one did not concern oneself with matters outside one's position. Azure Dragon Lord Cangwu was not a disciple of Xuanmen, so he could not consider matters from the perspective of a Xuanmen disciple.

Seeing Great Dao Divine Scripts surge from Meng Chen's body, Azure Dragon Lord Cangwu immediately cast a spell and set up a Time Acceleration Formation. One day outside equaled one hundred years within the formation.

Azure Dragon Lord Cangwu had his concerns as well. He feared Meng Chen's mind would be eroded by the long passage of time. Or perhaps Meng Chen would become so immersed in comprehension that his primordial spirit would merge with the Dao.

Within the formation, Meng Chen immersed himself in the ocean of Great Dao Divine Scripts and began a long period of comprehension.

He was only comprehending, not cultivating.

The Great Dao Divine Script was profoundly mysterious and wondrous beyond measure. Every character was a scripture, Pangu's exposition of the Great Dao. The more Meng Chen comprehended, the higher his state of mind became, and the more unfathomable his Daoist arts grew.

The Great Dao Divine Script could not raise one's cultivation, but it could raise one's limits, allowing one's Daoist arts and divine abilities to surpass their peak.

Time turned, and he did not know how many years had passed within the great formation. Azure Dragon Lord Cangwu remained worried and came to check on Meng Chen every few thousand years.

Meng Chen's condition was excellent—better than ever.

He felt that he was drawing ever closer to creating a divine ability of his own. He lacked only an opportunity, a catalyst.

The divine abilities he cultivated now were all of the highest grade. To surpass them, he needed to come into contact with even higher-level divine abilities and obtain the principles behind them.

Only with such principles could his own divine ability be born.

The Primordial Nine Seals were divine abilities created by Yuanshi Tianzun. How could Meng Chen possibly create a divine ability capable of suppressing the Primordial Nine Seals by himself?

"It seems this trip to the Azure Radiance Grotto-Heaven is imperative. Only Pangu's inheritance can help me suppress divine abilities on the level of the Primordial Nine Seals and the Great Zhou Heavenly Stars Formation."

With a crack, the time formation around Meng Chen exploded. He emerged from the great formation a thousand years early. At that moment, an aura of age had appeared around him, making him seem like an ancient monster who had stepped out of a primordial era.

Meng Chen took a deep breath and merged with the heaven and earth of the Primordial Wilderness. The air of ancient vicissitudes around him gradually faded, and he returned to the era that belonged to him.