Dragon Elephant Power

Bai Yunfei left.

He left with the Feather Ascension Scripture.

Watching his retreating figure, Lin Jiufeng finally realized that the young boy who had once idled away his days with him in the Scripture Pavilion had silently supported the Feather Transformation Sect for decades. Under pressure and sanctions from all sides, he had stabilized the situation and cultivated all the way to the Seventh Restriction.

His talent was no worse than Zhou Sheng's.

But he bore far more responsibility than Zhou Sheng.

Zhou Sheng had dared to leave the Feather Transformation Sect and, under the pressure of life and death, comprehend the Feather Ascension Scripture.

Bai Yunfei could not.

He was the Sect Master of the Feather Transformation Sect. He could not abandon it; that was his responsibility. That was why he had kept struggling like a trapped beast.

That morning, he had come to the Scripture Pavilion and taken away a powerful cultivation technique. His departing back had been resolute—he knew the Feather Transformation Sect was about to fall, and he wanted to make one final gamble.

Naturally, Lin Jiufeng could not allow such a thing to happen.

If the Feather Transformation Sect fell, where would he go?

Having come to this world more than a hundred years ago, the Feather Transformation Sect was his home in this world.

Naturally, he would not let this home collapse.

"With the Feather Ascension Scripture, Bai Yunfei has a great chance of breaking through to the Eighth Restriction. Then he will be at the Dao Ancestor level, one of the top experts in the Human World. Unless the Ninth Restriction Ancestor of the Supreme Dao Sect emerges from Secluded Cultivation—but I hear the Supreme Dao Ancestor has been in Secluded Cultivation all along, seeking to see through the nine restrictions, and has not appeared for a hundred years," Lin Jiufeng pondered silently.

As long as Bai Yunfei did not go too far, the Feather Transformation Sect would be safe.

Standing by the window, Lin Jiufeng looked upon the autumn scenery in the mountains and smiled faintly.

He would leave the Feather Transformation Sect's troubles to Bai Yunfei. He would continue cultivating quietly.

After all, he was only a minor cultivator at the Second Restriction.

The next day.

The great sun rose, and dawn clouds filled the sky.

After cultivating the Feather Ascension Scripture for an entire night, Lin Jiufeng exhaled a breath of turbid air, rose, and washed up.

He drank a mouthful of the sweet dew from the mountain stream, gathered the morning's vital breath, and with every inhalation and exhalation expelled the impurities within his body.

Afterward, he lit a stick of sandalwood incense, brewed a pot of clear tea, picked up a scripture, and quietly turned its pages, contemplating its meaning.

The book recorded that in ancient times, Divine Elephants had trampled the earth apart, while True Dragons had roamed across the Sky Dome.

Divine Elephants and True Dragons possessed boundless strength, heights beyond the reach of human power.

Later, outstanding figures contemplated Divine Elephants and True Dragons, creating countless cultivation techniques and opening a Cultivation Golden Age.

That era was called the Dragon Elephant Era.

As Lin Jiufeng read, he gradually became absorbed.

Divine Elephants trampling the earth apart, True Dragons tearing open the heavens, rampaging through sky and land, invincible beneath heaven—how powerful and terrifying that was.

If one took Divine Elephants and True Dragons as the foundation, fused their two traits, and created a body cultivation method, then upon cultivating it to the peak, one could completely shatter the limits of the human body.

"Cultivation is, by nature, a process of constantly breaking one's limits." Lin Jiufeng's eyes gradually lit up.

He carefully studied the traits of Divine Elephants and True Dragons, consulting other books as well, and inspiration gradually came to him.

Those flashes of inspiration gathered together, collided in his mind, and burst into sparks.

At last, a line of words appeared before Lin Jiufeng's eyes.

You carefully studied the ancient Dragon Elephants, activated Heaven-Defying Comprehension, and comprehended Dragon Elephant Power.

A memory surged into Lin Jiufeng's mind.

Dragon Elephant Power treated the fleshly body as an ancient Divine Elephant and True Dragon, cultivating it until Dragon Elephant Power was born within the body and broke through its limits.

"This body of mine was already decayed. Though cultivation has made me look somewhat younger now, its foundation is poor. It needs to be tempered properly, and Dragon Elephant Power happens to make up for this weakness," Lin Jiufeng said joyfully, immediately beginning to cultivate.

Once Dragon Elephant Power was born within his body, it would be equivalent to tempering his entire body. At that time, he could open the Human Body Great Dragon and enter the Third Restriction of cultivation.

The first three restrictions of cultivation were all related to the physical body. Only by forging the body to its peak could one step into the next level.

The sun rose and the moon set; day and night alternated.

Lin Jiufeng cultivated quietly within the Scripture Pavilion.

He was like withered wood, meditating every day as fortune and vitality rolled through his body. At first, they moved slowly, as though filled with lead, difficult to push forward.

Moreover, the meridians within his body had long since naturally aged, died, and withered. Reopening them was no easy task.

Thus, the initial circulation of his blood and qi went poorly.

But Lin Jiufeng did not give up. He continued meditating, persisting day after day without fail.

One day.

Two days.

Three days.

A month passed in the blink of an eye. Lin Jiufeng still sat motionless, his expression calm and serene, deaf to all and unmoved, like a living corpse.

Yet within his body, surging blood and qi rushed like a great river, roaring as they coursed through his meridians, circulating through his entire body and covering every inch of skin.

Endless power was born from within Lin Jiufeng, thread by thread gathering in his heart.

On this day, the bright moon hung high in the sky.

The clear moonlight adorned the cold and silent Feather Transformation Sect, coating the mountains in a layer of silver.

The forests were utterly still.

Yet rumbling sounds came from the Scripture Pavilion.

Low and resonant, shaking the air, like a Divine Elephant growling low and a True Dragon roaring.

Moonlight passed through the lattice window and fell slantwise over Lin Jiufeng, bathing his entire body in a red glow.

That was his blood and qi circulating. Under the moonlight's wash, a phantom image of a Divine Elephant suddenly rose behind him, its feet planted upon the earth as it roared toward the sky, incomparably valiant.

After the Divine Elephant roared, it immediately transformed. A True Dragon appeared, swimming around Lin Jiufeng's body with incomparable dominance.

Lin Jiufeng remained still as a mountain. Blood and qi surged through him like dragon roars and elephant bellows, evaporating the decayed aura and aged decline from his body.

Boom!

Boom!

Boom!

With every beat of Lin Jiufeng's heart came a sound like a tolling bell. Boundless blood burst forth and circulated throughout his body, replacing all the blood he had carried before.

During the blood replacement, Lin Jiufeng's spinal column shone, transparent and pristine, like a True Dragon raising its head to roar at the heavens.

The Third Restriction—Lin Jiufeng had entered it.

As the jade rabbit fled and the golden crow flew, a night passed in an instant.

The edge of the sky had only just begun to pale.

Inside the Scripture Pavilion, Lin Jiufeng rose to his full height and shook off a month's worth of dust.

"One month of Secluded Cultivation, circulating my blood and qi—I finally conditioned my body and gained the strength of one dragon and one elephant," Lin Jiufeng said joyfully.

At this moment, his complexion was like jade, his skin fair, his hair black, and his eyes bright. There was not a trace of old age left upon him.

Now, he instead resembled a Daoist in his thirties, elegant as jade, tall and straight, with sword-like brows and starry eyes.

"This month of Secluded Cultivation has brought enormous gains," Lin Jiufeng said with feeling.

He had gained the strength of one dragon and one elephant, condensed the Spinal Dragon, and entered the Third Restriction. His body had broken through its old shackles, returned to its peak, and ascended another level.

At the same time, he had laid a solid foundation for his future cultivation.

Next came cultivation from the Fourth Restriction to the Seventh Restriction.

The Fourth Restriction: tempering the five viscera.

The Fifth Restriction: opening the Primordial Spirit.

The Sixth Restriction: comprehending Dao resonance.

The Seventh Restriction: the Immortal Treasury of the Spiritual Platform.

Cultivating these restrictions meant gradually excavating deeper layers of the body. Every restriction was terrifying, requiring great perseverance, great courage, and great comprehension.

"The road of cultivation stretches long; I shall search high and low." Looking at the rising morning sun, Lin Jiufeng spoke with firm resolve.