Dragon Elephant Prajna Skill

The bell was over two meters tall, its body a simple, ancient gold with no patterns, looking quite old.

"Lord Shen, it's this bell," Wang Changshou pointed at the large bell. "This bell is incredibly strange and terrifyingly heavy. We sent four or five strong soldiers, and they couldn't even budge it."

Shen Che walked forward, extended a hand, and placed it on the large bell.

"Lift."

Under the dumbfounded gazes of Wang Changshou and the others, the golden bell, weighing over three thousand jin, was easily lifted by him with one hand.

Shen Che ignored their shock and laid the bell horizontally on the ground.

He looked into the bell's opening.

The inner wall of the bell was not smooth.

It was densely covered with tiny characters.

Shen Che froze after reading just the first few words.

Dragon Elephant Prajna Skill.

These five words exploded in his mind like five thunderclaps.

Did this thing actually exist?

It was rumored to be the supreme body-refining technique of Buddhist Esoteric Sects.

It was said that reaching great mastery would grant the strength of thirteen dragons and elephants, capable of overturning seas and shaking mountains.

This technique was never passed down externally. How could it be carved inside a golden bell and fall into the hands of the bandits of Iron Furnace Stronghold?

Shen Che's thoughts raced.

He remembered what Nangong Xue had said.

The three leaders of Iron Furnace Stronghold had massacred a wealthy merchant family in Beiliang City a year ago.

This bell, and this divine skill, were likely stolen from that merchant's home.

He really struck gold.

His own Golden Bell Shield and Iron Shirt had already broken through their limits, reaching the peak of their current realms. He was worried about not having a follow-up body-refining technique.

This Dragon Elephant Prajna Skill was like a pillow delivered when he was sleepy.

Shen Che stopped thinking and said to Wang Changshou, "I want this bell."

"Ah? Oh, alright, alright! Please, Lord, take it!"

Wang Changshou dared not utter a word of refusal. Let alone a bell, if Shen Che wanted to empty the entire treasury, he would have helped with a smile.

Shen Che placed the Demon Suppressing Token on the golden bell.

With a faint flash of light, the bell weighing over three thousand jin vanished into thin air.

Wang Changshou and the surrounding Prefectural Guards' eyes nearly popped out.

Immortal means, this was definitely immortal means!

"The rest is up to you."

Shen Che put away the Demon Suppressing Token and turned to leave without any hesitation.

After dawn, he did not travel with the main force of the Prefectural Guards, embarking on the road back to Cangyun City alone.

Three days later.

Cangyun City Demon Suppression Division.

Shen Che walked into the mission hall and went straight to Yan Xiu's counter.

"Supervisor Yan, mission complete."

He handed over his Demon Suppressing Token.

Yan Xiu took the Demon Suppressing Token and habitually glanced at it, preparing to verify the information.

But when he saw the mission content and completion time, his actions stopped.

"Iron Furnace Stronghold mission... completed?"

Yan Xiu looked up, his face full of disbelief.

Only a few days?

The round trip alone would take six days, and this kid had actually uprooted the tumor that had plagued Ping'an County for years?

This efficiency was too outrageous.

He carefully verified the evidence of the bandit leaders' corpses stored in the Demon Suppressing Token. After confirming it was correct, his expression towards Shen Che became complicated.

"Three hundred Contribution Points have already been deposited into your Demon Suppressing Token."

Yan Xiu's voice was a little dry.

He had initially thought this mission would give Shen Che a hard time, but he didn't expect the other party to complete it as easily as going out for a stroll.

"Thank you."

Shen Che took back the Demon Suppressing Token and turned to leave.

He went straight to the treasury of the Demon Suppression Division.

The treasury steward was a drowsy old man. Shen Che presented the Demon Suppressing Token and got straight to the point.

"I want to exchange for three Meridian Opening Pills."

One Meridian Opening Pill cost one hundred Contribution Points. It could assist martial artists in opening their true meridians and was a hard currency among True Meridian Realm martial artists.

What Shen Che earned from this mission was just enough to buy three.

The old man accepted the Contribution Points and took out three jade bottles from a medicine cabinet, handing them to him.

Shen Che took the pills, returned to his residence, and closed the door.

He sat down cross-legged and, without hesitation, swallowed all three Meridian Opening Pills in one go.

The pills entered his abdomen, transforming into a gentle medicinal power that spread throughout his body.

Shen Che immediately circulated his Horizontal Training True Qi, guiding this medicinal power towards the second main meridian in his body.

The process of opening meridians was originally a painstaking, dangerous, and lengthy endeavor.

But he had a cheat.

"System, consume Time Value to accelerate meridian nourishment."

[Consumed 200 Time Value, accelerating...]

Under his control, a warm current surged through his body, scouring and nourishing the brand-new meridian at an unimaginable speed, over and over again.

The steps that would have originally required months of hard work were compressed to the extreme by the power of time.

After an unknown amount of time, a muffled sound echoed from within Shen Che's body.

[Successfully opened the second true meridian: Foot Shaoyang Gallbladder Meridian.]

A power far more immense than before surged from the newly opened meridian, flowing throughout his entire body.

His bones, muscles, and fascia, nourished by this power, crackled and popped, undergoing a new round of strengthening.

Shen Che clenched his fists, feeling the explosive power within him.

His single-arm strength had surged by ten thousand jin, reaching a terrifying forty thousand jin!

He let out a long breath of stale air.

Opening the first true meridian had cost him a full five hundred Time Value.

This time, with the assistance of three Meridian Opening Pills, it only cost two hundred, greatly reducing the cost.

It was just that these Meridian Opening Pills were too expensive, and Contribution Points were too hard to earn.

It seemed he would have to take on more missions and kill more Demonic Beasts in the future.

After stabilizing his realm, Shen Che took out the golden great bell from the Demon Suppressing Token.

He spent some time memorizing the cultivation technique of the Dragon Elephant Prajna Skill inscribed on the inner wall of the bell, word for word.

After careful study, he understood why this divine skill was a secret art of Esoteric Buddhism.

The entry barrier was too high.

The first step of cultivation required the cultivation of the True Meridian Realm. One had to convert their own True Qi into "Dragon Elephant Qi" according to a specific method within their body, and then use this qi to temper their physical body.

This single requirement alone weeded out ninety-nine percent of martial artists.

Secondly, the difficulty was outrageous.

According to the skill description, it would take a normal True Meridian Realm martial artist at least two to three years of hard work to cultivate the first level.

Each subsequent level would require exponentially more time.

The second level would take four to five years, and the third level would take eight to ten years.

As for the legendary thirteenth level of completion, it was theoretically impossible for human power to achieve.

No wonder the Golden Bell Shield and Iron Shirt were widely circulated, but this Dragon Elephant Prajna Skill only existed in legends.

These cultivation conditions were practically a dead end for ordinary people.

But Shen Che smiled.

What others saw as an insurmountable chasm was, for him, a broad and smooth path.

His physical body was already far beyond that of ordinary people, and his Horizontal Training True Qi was incomparably vigorous. Opening meridians was far less difficult for him than for others.

The stronger the physical body, the more abundant the Horizontal Training True Qi, and the easier it was to open meridians.

The more true meridians opened, the greater the total amount of True Qi, the more "Dragon Elephant Qi" could be converted, and the better the effect of tempering the physical body.

This was simply a perfect closed loop tailor-made for him.