Mysterious Yellow Dragon Qi Technique, Comprehending a Divine Ability

After Li Ya left, Gu An threw himself into the development of Mystic Valley. His days of leisure began to dwindle, as those young Sheep Demons were quite the handful.

At four months old, they ran through the mountain forests as if on flat ground, moving as fast as cheetahs from his past life on Earth. If not for the fact that everyone in the valley was a cultivator, they would have long since run away.

Gu An had no choice but to study the Ziwei Array Record left behind by Jiang Qiong, learning some low-level restrictions to seal the sheep pen.

When the half-year mark arrived, Gu An had Wuxin take Xiao Chuan to the Outer Sect to recruit two more servant disciples, named Chen Hong and Zhen Xiao'er respectively. Their aptitude was mediocre, a fact that actually satisfied him quite well.

The number of servant disciples in Mystic Valley reached ten, making every day quite lively.

Time flies like an arrow, like a white horse galloping past a crevice, never to return.

Three years passed in the blink of an eye.

It was autumn once again.

Xiao Chuan was currently inspecting the various garden plots, followed by rows of ducks behind him, moving in a grand, bustling procession.

On the mountain peaks surrounding Medicine Valley, disciples were sitting in meditation to absorb qi, while the mountain forests shook from time to time—that was the commotion caused by Tang Yu and Su Han chasing the Sheep Demons.

Gu An walked out from the western forest with a smile on his face.

He had just harvested another batch of medicinal herbs, gaining several hundred years of lifespan; he was getting closer and closer to a lifespan of one hundred thousand years.

His current lifespan had already reached eighty thousand years.

In the past three years, he had earned nearly fifty thousand years of lifespan, mainly because the medicinal herbs he had planted for years were reaching maturity. Ten thousand of those years came from helping Outer Sect disciples manage their grotto-heavens.

The petite Zhen Qin ran out of the woods with a bamboo basket on her back. She hurried to Gu An's side and said, "Master, can you teach me alchemy today?"

There was a withered leaf on her head, and the hair on both sides of her cheeks was slightly messy.

Gu An chuckled and said, "Naturally, but you must use your own herbs so that you will be more cautious."

Zhen Qin had once heard Gu An mention taking a Youth-Preserving Pill, which immediately sparked her interest in alchemy. She began to pester him relentlessly, and this went on for nearly half a year.

"I've already prepared everything!" Zhen Qin said excitedly, hopping around beside Gu An like a girl who would never grow up.

Whoosh—

A sound of something piercing through the air swept over Mystic Valley. Gu An looked up, habitually casting a lifespan inspection.

Another Nascent Soul Realm cultivator!

The number of Nascent Soul Realm cultivators passing over Mystic Valley this year had already exceeded ten, which made Gu An feel vaguely uneasy; he always felt that something big was about to happen.

Even the World Outer Sect Assembly back then hadn't attracted this many Nascent Soul Realm cultivators.

No!

I need to step up the Dragon Force Divine Origin Technique. What if a great cultivator far beyond the Nascent Soul Realm appears and sees through my cultivation?

Gu An decided inwardly.

Years had passed, and the lifespan boost from the Dragon Force Divine Origin Technique was becoming less and less. It was good if he could gain one year of lifespan every six months now. He estimated that in another ten years, this technique would no longer be able to increase his lifespan.

Afterward, Gu An took Zhen Qin back to his pavilion and began to teach her the art of alchemy.

Late into the night, Gu An quietly entered the Eight Sceneries Grotto-Heaven.

Ever since Jiang Qiong left, Gu An had explored the other six cave passages. The ends of the passages were filled with corpses just like Meng Lang, all refined by Cheng Xuandan and Jiang Qiong using different Gu techniques from the Myriad Gu Profound Technique.

Gu An had no intention of disturbing these Gu corpses for the time being.

He walked all the way to the Azure Vine Tree, hitched up his robes, and sat down to meditate.

At this moment, a black shadow fell from the tree and burrowed into his arms.

A small black dragon!

Its body was slender, about two feet long, with a pair of dragon horns and dragon whiskers by its mouth. Its body was covered in tiny black dragon scales, and its four claws were sharp. It looked very much like the dragons from ancient Chinese legends, only the color was different.

This was the holy beast of the Ancient Hao Sect, the Hao Dragon!

Gu An stroked it while checking its lifespan.

[Hao Dragon (Tier 1): 1/965/18000]

Its lifespan had increased again!

When the Hao Dragon was first born, it only had a lifespan of five hundred years. Only a year had passed, and its lifespan had nearly doubled.

It was truly worthy of being a beast with Tier 9 potential!

Gu An recalled the process of the Hao Dragon acknowledging him as its master last year and couldn't help but smile.

The newborn Hao Dragon had bitten him directly, which angered him enough to toss it aside, only for it to pitifully crawl over and nuzzle him.

Gu An felt that the Hao Dragon wasn't acknowledging a master, but rather using blood to determine who its kin was.

They had established a kind of soul resonance; he could understand its thoughts, but he could not directly manipulate its life or death.

The Hao Dragon only served one master in its life, which showed that although it was born with a violent nature, it was extremely loyal and sentimental.

"Good boy, go eat."

Gu An took a Sheep Demon he had killed from his Storage Bag. This was one he had killed just yesterday morning, which had only granted him three years of lifespan.

The Hao Dragon's eyes lit up, and it immediately grabbed the Sheep Demon's carcass and flew to the side.

The Sheep Demon's corpse was several times larger than the Hao Dragon, yet as it gripped the carcass with its dragon claws, it appeared exceptionally relaxed, as if the Sheep Demon had no weight at all.

Gu An pulled up his attribute panel, cast his gaze toward the cultivation technique column, and invested two thousand years of lifespan into the Dragon Force Divine Origin Technique.

The Dragon Force Divine Origin Technique could conceal his cultivation and aura; it was the foundation of his existence and his top priority. He even felt this technique was more important than the Divine Wood Pure Yang Technique.

[You have invested two thousand years of lifespan into the Dragon Force Divine Origin Technique for evolution and cultivation.]

[You cultivate the Dragon Force Divine Origin Technique for ten years; the spiritual energy of heaven and earth tempers your body, and your physical vitality increases.]

[You cultivate the Dragon Force Divine Origin Technique for one hundred years; the spiritual energy of heaven and earth tempers your body, and your physical vitality increases.]

[You cultivate the Dragon Force Divine Origin Technique for two hundred years; your Dragon Force Divine Origin Technique reaches the pinnacle of perfection.]

[You cultivate the Dragon Force Divine Origin Technique for four hundred years; on this day, you capture the true essence of the earth, and your Dragon Force Divine Origin Technique returns to its original simplicity, advancing into the Earth Vein Imperial Qi Technique.]

[You cultivate the Dragon Force Divine Origin Technique for one thousand five hundred years; you sense the aura of the earth's laws, and your Earth Vein Imperial Qi Technique breaks through its limits, advancing into the Mysterious Yellow Dragon Qi Technique.]

[You cultivate the Dragon Force Divine Origin Technique for one thousand eight hundred years; your understanding of the Mysterious Yellow Dragon Qi Technique improves and becomes fully integrated.]

[You cultivate the Dragon Force Divine Origin Technique for two thousand years; your understanding of the Mysterious Yellow Dragon Qi Technique reaches the pinnacle, and you comprehend the divine ability--Mysterious Yellow Dragon Might.]

Lines of prompts popped up before Gu An's eyes.

The Dragon Force Divine Origin Technique had advanced into the Earth Vein Imperial Qi Technique, and then further into the Mysterious Yellow Dragon Qi Technique!

It had even awakened a divine ability!

Gu An was overjoyed, feeling that his luck this time was exceptionally good.

A vast amount of memory surged into his mind, causing him to sink into a sea of profound Daoist information.

The Hao Dragon, currently gnawing on mutton, turned its head, its jewel-like eyes revealing a look of curiosity.

Wisps of green energy rose from the grass beneath Gu An, circling his body. With his eyes closed, he began to breathe unconsciously, and a faint sound of a dragon's roar echoed.

The Mysterious Yellow Dragon Qi Technique uses the Mysterious Yellow energy of the earth to temper the body, allowing the physical form to merge with the nature of heaven and earth. The so-called dragon roar was, in fact, the sound of the earth rumbling.

A full two hours passed before Gu An finally woke up.

He opened his eyes and looked around, his brows immediately furrowing.

He saw that all the flowers and grass around him had withered. He hurriedly stood up and scanned the medicinal herbs in the Eight Sceneries Grotto-Heaven. After a quick look, he finally let out a sigh of relief.

Only the weeds had withered; the spiritual flowers and herbs had not been significantly affected.

He couldn't be so reckless in the future!

Whether it was upgrading techniques or breaking through, he had to leave the Eight Sceneries Grotto-Heaven to avoid draining the spiritual energy here.

Gu An sat back down and began to review the Mysterious Yellow Dragon Qi Technique, simultaneously circulating his energy according to the method.

Condensing a breath of Mysterious Yellow Dragon Qi, his body merged with nature!

The Hao Dragon was already full and lay down to sleep beside the sheep carcass; only the sound of the wind remained within the Eight Sceneries Grotto-Heaven.

At dawn.

Gu An walked down from the pavilion. He had changed into a green robe, his black hair tied loosely behind his head with two long strands left by his ears, fully displaying the elegant and ethereal temperament of a cultivator.

His body had not yet fully adapted to the Mysterious Yellow Dragon Qi Technique, but he was not in a hurry. By practicing every night, he would be able to produce the Mysterious Yellow Dragon Qi within a month at most.

As for the divine ability that came with the Mysterious Yellow Dragon Qi Technique, the Mysterious Yellow Dragon Might, it did not require separate cultivation; once the Mysterious Yellow Dragon Qi was born, the dragon might would form naturally.

The so-called dragon might was, in reality, the might of heaven and earth, capable of intimidating all living beings.

Gu An began to call the disciples to practice their exercises. Once everyone had gathered and the session began, they could all feel that Gu An was in a good mood today.

Zhen Qin curiously asked her master what had made him so happy.

"It's nothing. I read a book last night called Investiture of the Gods. You can all go to the Library Pavilion to borrow it when you have time," Gu An said with a smile while doing his exercises.

Xiao Chuan's eyes lit up and he said, "I know Investiture of the Gods. Almost everyone in the Outer Sect has a copy. It is said to record the ancient secrets of the cultivation world."

The other disciples became interested and began to pester Xiao Chuan, asking what Investiture of the Gods was about.

Gu An did not interject again, his mind still pondering the Mysterious Yellow Dragon Qi Technique.

Over the next month, he practiced the Mysterious Yellow Dragon Qi Technique every night, eventually succeeding in condensing a breath of Mysterious Yellow Dragon Qi in his abdomen. His concealment of his cultivation and aura reached a new level.

Gu An felt a sense of relief; he could now continue to lay low with peace of mind.

This year passed as plainly as the previous ones. For Gu An, plainness was the best outcome.

The winter snow had just begun to melt, and the Mystic Valley welcomed the new spring once again. All the disciples were preparing for the Spring Festival.

Gu An was reading Travels of the Green Hero under a tree, completely absorbed.

Zhen Qin suddenly walked over, her hands behind her back, and leaned down to ask, "Master, what would you like to eat tomorrow night? I'll make it for you."

Gu An did not look away and replied, "Anything is fine. Whatever you make, I will eat."

Zhen Qin was curious and leaned in to see what book he was reading, but he stopped her.

"Hurry up and go prepare the dishes. If you delay tomorrow night's festival, be careful or I won't teach you alchemy anymore!" Gu An said, feigning severity.

Zhen Qin curled her lip the moment she heard this, having no choice but to turn and leave.

Gu An vaguely heard her muttering, "Reading those improper books again."

The corners of his mouth twitched involuntarily; who exactly had spread this rumor?

It was ruining his reputation!

Now, every disciple in Medicine Valley knew he enjoyed reading Travels of the Green Hero, and while they dared not mention it to his face, they often teased him about it in private.

Gu An stood up and tucked the copy of Travels of the Green Hero into his robes.

Starting today, he was quitting!

Gu An walked out of the courtyard, intending to inspect the grounds, when his gaze was suddenly drawn to the valley entrance, causing his brows to furrow.

He saw a man in white robes strolling toward him, appearing to be in his thirties with a handsome face and an extraordinary bearing.

What made Gu An frown was that he could not sense the man's aura at all.

He immediately cast a lifespan inspection on the stranger.

[Li Xuandao (Spirit Transmutation Realm, 8th Layer): 230/899/3020]