Little Benefactor, You Have a Destiny with My Buddha

Zhou Cheng swallowed the Marrow-Cleansing Pill.

Instantly, the pill transformed into a surging torrent of medicinal power.

"Due to the Marrow-Cleansing Pill cleansing the marrow and cutting the tendons, your aptitude has been improved."

"Your superior aptitude has increased to 25."

With a superior aptitude increase of 25, it meant that with just three more Marrow-Cleansing Pills, his aptitude could rise from superior to that of a centennial genius.

"Due to the surging medicinal power of the Marrow-Cleansing Pill, the cultivation progress of your Black Tortoise Divine Technique and Indestructible Vajra Divine Technique has skyrocketed."

"Black Tortoise Divine Technique cultivation progress increased by 1."

"Increased by 2."

"Increased by 3."

"Increased by 20."

The cultivation progress of the Indestructible Vajra Divine Technique increased at double the rate of the Black Tortoise Divine Technique, surging by 40 in one go.

Zhou Cheng checked his system character panel.

Host: Zhou Cheng

Black Tortoise Divine Technique: 6th Layer (Progress 86)

Indestructible Vajra Divine Technique: 7th Layer (Progress 40)

Originally, Zhou Cheng had worried that the effects of the Marrow-Cleansing Pill would diminish significantly after he broke through to the 7th layer, but it seemed his concerns were unnecessary.

Of course, it was also possible that because his aptitude was constantly rising, the efficiency of absorbing the medicinal power was increasing accordingly.

Unfortunately, he did not possess the formula for the Marrow-Cleansing Pill. If he could refine it himself, two more pills would allow his Indestructible Vajra Divine Technique to break through to the 8th layer.

Subsequently, Zhou Cheng released the Bronze-Armored Guard.

As soon as the Bronze-Armored Guard emerged, he bowed respectfully to Zhou Cheng: "Jiang Chen greets Master."

This Jiang Chen had a resolute face and a build similar to Lin Ru. However, while Qin Meng used a saber and Lin Ru used a sword, Jiang Chen used a bow!

Among martial artists, it was rare to find those who used bows as their primary weapon.

Zhou Cheng told him to rise and asked about his strength.

As expected, Jiang Chen, like Qin Meng and Lin Ru, was a Xiantian 7th-layer grandmaster.

Thus, Zhou Cheng now had three Xiantian 7th-layer grandmasters by his side.

"Three Xiantian 7th-layer grandmasters." Zhou Cheng looked at Qin Meng, Lin Ru, and Jiang Chen before him, feeling full of confidence. With their combined combat power, they should be able to contend against an ordinary Xiantian 10th-layer expert.

Although the Great Feng Dynasty had many Xiantian experts, those at the 10th layer were extremely rare.

Only a few forces, such as the Great Feng Imperial Clan, the Sun Moon Sword Sect, the Shaolin Temple, the Ten Thousand Stars Sect, the Demonic Cult, and the Saber Sect, possessed Xiantian 10th-layer experts.

Zhou Cheng then released the juvenile Black Tortoise Divine Beast.

The Ice Snow Phoenix had been complaining about having no playmates, and now it finally had a companion.

The juvenile Black Tortoise Divine Beast was also quite large, resembling a small hill on the ground.

The Black Tortoise Divine Beast was suffused with black light; a giant snake was coiled around its shell, looking ferocious. The surrounding space suddenly darkened, and the temperature plummeted.

It was currently July, and at high noon, the weather was scorching, yet Zhou Cheng felt waves of chilling cold.

When the Black Tortoise Divine Beast was released, Tianlong Mountain seemed to be struck by a massive mountain, shaking violently.

The Abbot of the Heavenly Dragon Temple had just seen off the Great Feng Emperor, Zhu Xuan, when the temple suddenly began to sway intensely. He was startled, and the monks of the Heavenly Dragon Temple scrambled out of their rooms in a panic.

Zhu Xuan, who had just left the temple, heard the tremor and turned back to see the Heavenly Dragon Temple shaking violently, leaving him dumbfounded.

Inside the vacant room, Zhou Cheng hurriedly ordered the Black Tortoise to shrink its body.

The hill-sized Black Tortoise shrank continuously until, like the Ice Snow Phoenix, it became the size of a palm.

Once shrunk, the Black Tortoise looked like an ordinary small black turtle, even its head was black, with only its eyes glowing a deep, turtle-green. The giant snake coiled on its back transformed into a totem, adhering to its shell.

As the Black Tortoise shrank, the shaking of the Heavenly Dragon Temple stopped abruptly.

The Abbot of the Heavenly Dragon Temple, thousands of monks, and countless citizens were left in a daze.

Seeing that the temple had finally stopped shaking, Zhou Cheng breathed a sigh of relief.

"Congratulations to the host for obtaining the Black Tortoise Divine Beast."

"Due to the Black Tortoise Divine Technique being in constant daily contact with the Black Tortoise Divine Beast, it has been imbued with the Black Tortoise's divine nature. Future cultivation of the Black Tortoise Divine Technique will be greatly accelerated."

Hearing the system's voice, Zhou Cheng was stunned.

He checked the Black Tortoise Divine Technique, and indeed, its cultivation progress had surged significantly.

Previously, the cultivation speed of the Black Tortoise Divine Technique had always lagged behind the Indestructible Vajra Divine Technique, the premier body-refining art. But now, imbued with the Black Tortoise's divine nature, the progress of the Black Tortoise Divine Technique was fully comparable to the speed of the Indestructible Vajra Divine Technique while inside the Heavenly Dragon Temple.

Zhou Cheng estimated that at his current cultivation speed, his Black Tortoise Divine Technique would break through to the 7th layer by tonight.

By then, with two divine arts at the seventh level of body refinement, his combat power should make him invincible beneath the Qi Refinement stage!

Zhou Cheng did not linger at Heavenly Dragon Temple any longer. Taking Qin Meng, the other two, and the two beasts, he descended the mountain and headed back toward the Grand General's Mansion.

Along the way, the Capital Defense Army was visible everywhere, as were the guards of the Grand Tutor Mansion patrolling the streets.

On both sides of the road, the passing commoners were pointing and whispering about the affairs of the Grand Tutor Mansion.

Zhou Cheng knew that the Grand Tutor Mansion must have already discovered Gao Jun's corpse.

Just as Zhou Cheng was hurrying back to the Grand General's Mansion, a group of monks sat inside a teahouse by the roadside. These monks were high-ranking masters from the Shaolin Temple, having come for the sake of the Phoenix divine beast.

Leading them was Abbot Huineng, the head of Shaolin.

Abbot Huineng and the others had traveled day and night, having only just arrived in the capital. As Abbot Huineng and the Shaolin masters were drinking tea, the Buddhist prayer beads at his chest suddenly began to shimmer.

They actually emitted a faint, golden Buddhist radiance.

Abbot Huineng was startled, then shocked and stirred: "This is?!"

The string of prayer beads on his chest was a Shaolin heirloom, worn only by the Shaolin Abbot. It had been passed down for over a thousand years; the beads possessed a spirit, yet they had never displayed such an anomaly before.

The other Shaolin masters also noticed the strangeness of the beads and were all taken aback.

Abbot Huineng scanned his surroundings. Suddenly, he saw a thin, lean youth of about thirteen or fourteen years old walking past outside the teahouse, followed by three guards.

As this youth walked by, the Buddhist light from the beads on his chest surged even more intensely, and faint Sanskrit chants even began to resonate. Others could not hear these chants, but Huineng heard them clearly.

Abbot Huineng stood up abruptly, staring fixedly at the passing youth, trembling with excitement.

Seeing that the youth was about to walk away, he dashed out of the teahouse, flickered, and utilized the Shaolin ultimate technique Crossing the River on a Reed to block the youth's path.

The head of the Shaolin Martial Monk Courtyard and the others were surprised to see their Abbot so agitated and uncomposed, so they quickly followed.

Zhou Cheng, seeing an old monk suddenly emerge from a teahouse to block his path while he was on his way, was just about to speak when the old monk raised a palm and said, "Amitabha."

Then, staring at Zhou Cheng with an excited expression, he said: "Little benefactor, you have a predestined affinity with our Buddha."

"This old monk wishes to take you as a personal disciple. Would you be willing?"

Would he be willing?

The group of high-ranking Shaolin monks were stunned to see their Abbot suddenly rush out, offer to take this thin youth as a personal disciple, and even ask the other party if he was willing in such a pleading tone.