Thorough Awakening Completion

Chan Zhaofu, possesses the profound Dao of Dragon Origin Essence, and has all sorts of treasures from the Entwined-Dragon Palace. It shouldn't be difficult for him to obtain a Cauldron Vessel.

But he was particularly interested in that one Cauldron Artifact Fortune...

What kind of Cauldron Vessel could it be that would warrant such painstaking accumulation by a Great Luo Heavenly Immortal?

Chen Lingxi's mind was churning with thoughts, and for a moment a vague and inexplicable premonition began to emerge.

At that moment, his expression suddenly changed, and he sent a wisp of his Divine Sense into his Hongdong Bag.

Deep within the Hongdong Bag, the Dao-Seizing Ancient Tree, which had been obtained from the Weiji Grotto-Heaven and remained dormant for the past two years, was now radiating an extremely mysterious and profound glow.

On the ancient tree trunk, among several gnarled branches, a brand-new Dao-Seizing Fruit hangs silently in the air!

The fruit was about the size of a fist, dark gold in color, and covered with a complex and mysterious pattern, faintly exuding an extremely ancient and primordial aura.

"This is..."

Chen Lingxi stared at the fruit, a sudden glint of light appearing in her eyes.

He had received two Dao-Seizing Fruit in total.

The first fruit is empty; one must let the aura of the Cauldron Vessel's owner fall into it... Chen Lingxi once let the aura of Emperor Daye fall into it and obtained the Mystery Mechanism of the [Weaving Delusion Golden Eyes] Cauldron Vessel.

The second fruit was the same; he absorbed the [Fate-Evolving Purple Radiance Qi] of True Person Xiang Shu. He had not yet used that Dao-Seizing Fruit.

However, this new Dao-Seizing Fruit is different from the previous two.

Chen Lingxi focused her attention and examined the fruit closely. She saw that the mysterious aura flowing on the fruit was intertwined and crisscrossed, and there was also a mysterious aura flowing around it, faintly revealing countless profound Daoist charms.

The aura it contained was extremely ancient and extremely unfamiliar.

It was as if this fruit did not need the nourishment of the aura of a certain Cauldron Vessel master, but rather it had gathered the Mystery Mechanism of a certain Cauldron Vessel from this world and from the vast Void, and quietly condensed within it!

Something's strange.

Chen Lingxi raised an eyebrow, suddenly recalling a few words that Emperor Daye had once said to him.

Not all Dao-Seizing Fruit grown on this Dao-Seizing Fruit are of the same kind.

Some Dao-Seizing Fruit are just empty shells; one can collect Cauldron Vessel from them and let it fall into them.

Some Dao-Seizing Fruit, from the day they grow, already carry a trace of the Mystery Mechanism of Cauldron Vessel.

"Randomly Cauldron Vessel power?"

Chen Lingxi looked at the fruit, and for a moment, she felt an indescribable sense of anticipation.

He slowly turned his palm over, and the dark golden fruit gently fell from the branch.

The fruit fell into his palm; it was slightly cool to the touch, yet not heavy at all, with only an ancient aura slowly flowing from it.

Chen Lingxi could clearly sense that the moment that ancient aura flowed by, the progress of Essence Replenishment vital energy on the line of golden tadpole-shaped characters that had been slowly flowing in his Divine Chamber suddenly surged from 96%!

Ninety percent, eighty percent, even pushing the previously incomplete Essence Replenishment to perfection in one fell swoop.

Ninety-eight percent, ninety-nine percent, one hundred percent!

Chen Lingxi's heart suddenly stirred.

"Thorough Awakening Divine Ability reached its perfection?"

He gazed at the now-perfect progress of the Essence Replenishment, a faint smile slowly appearing at the corner of his mouth.

The Thorough Awakening Divine Ability has indeed been Essence Replenishment and is now ready to be used.

"They've come at just the right time."

Chen Lingxi's mind was in turmoil, and she picked up the fruit again to examine it carefully.

"The Dao-Seizing Fruit, imbued with the Mystery Mechanism of Cauldron Vessel, is indeed far more precious than an empty shell fruit. At the very least, it has replenished my Essence Replenishment progress by 3%."

"If I could obtain a few more of these Dao-Seizing Fruit, wouldn't each time Total Perception Essence Replenishment my vital energy no longer require such a long period of time?"

"But now, who knows what kind of powerful Cauldron Vessel is hidden within this Dao-Seizing Fruit?"

Chen Lingxi immediately began to carefully comprehend the Dao-Seizing Fruit, and instantly sensed a surging Killing Power within it.

"Is it a Slaying-Force Cauldron?" Chen Lingxi the Cauldron Vessel closely, continuing to sense it. After a long while, he frowned again.

"This Cauldron Vessel seems to be related to the Dao of Killing Power Arrays... but I don't know how to set up Killing Power arrays... it seems the mystery of this Cauldron Vessel is Wondrous Fruit random."

He thought for a moment, then carefully put away the Dao-Seizing Fruit.

"Fortunately, I still have a lot of Great Luo Dark Qi, which I can exchange for an opportunity in the fortuitous opportunity of Killing Power Array."

Chen Lingxi was deep in thought.

Right at this moment...

Suddenly, another beam of Mystic Light descended from the sky.

That Mystic Light was completely different from the golden light that had just descended from the Great Luo Heaven and fallen into the depths of the Dragon-Offering Sect.

The golden light was vast and overwhelming, like a grand blessing poured down from the heavens!

This Mystic Light suddenly appeared out of nowhere from the highest point of the sea of clouds, piercing through the sky and breaking through the thin layer of spiritual mist on Deer-Sleeping Peak, and fell straight down towards the Water-Curtain Cave.

The Mystic Light was incredibly fast; in the blink of an eye, it had already passed through the cascading water curtain of the thousand-foot waterfall and entered the cave, where it suddenly solidified three feet in front of Chen Lingxi.

Condensed light into matter.

It is a token.

The token was about the size of a palm, and it exuded a heavy aura.

On the very center of the front of the token, some patterns were engraved in an extremely ancient style.

The patterns intertwined and connected with each other, eventually transforming into a coiled dragon pattern at the center of a perfectly round object.

Chen Lingxi's gaze fell on the token, and a profound Mystery Mechanism within it silently entered his Consciousness Sea with that glance.

He immediately understood the meaning of that dragon pattern.

It is precisely the word "Commander".

Chen Lingxi narrowed her eyes slightly.

"Commander?"

The moment those two words formed in his mind, a wisp of divine thought suddenly shone from the token.

The divine sense slowly surged out from the depths of the token like a tide, condensing into a hazy yet clear human figure in the Void.

In an instant!

A young man stood before the Water-Curtain Cave, tall and slender, wearing a Daoist robe in the style of the Sword-Illuminating Mystic Peak, with a dark longsword hanging at his waist.

The long sword was not yet drawn, but outside the scabbard, there was a continuous and incomparably sharp Sword Qi that was expanding and contracting with the man's breathing.

Like the Yangtze River, it flows on and on.

Chen Lingxi's expression shifted slightly at that moment.

"Qi Chuan."

He recognized the person in front of him.

It was during the Sight-Roaming just now that Chan Zhaofu personally appointed him as the top of the Second Profound lists of Sword-Illuminating Mystic Peak, the Nine Palaces Commander.

now.

The avatar stood before the Water-Curtain Cave, looking down at Chen Lingxi inside. It did not bow or pay its respects, but simply watched him silently.

Then he slowly opened his mouth, his voice clear and resonant, carrying an undeniable and authoritative aura.

"The Nine Palaces Commander has been ordered to act."

"Is the order given to your servant Chen Lingxi, the Entwined-Dragon Servant, to immediately take this order and proceed to Sword-Illuminating Mystic Peak to meet with the Nine Palaces Commander."

As soon as he finished speaking, the token floated down from the air and landed three feet in front of Chen Lingxi!

Chen Lingxi frowned.

He gazed at the incarnation standing silently before the Water-Curtain Cave, and for a moment felt a strange sense of absurdity.

He then shook his head slightly.

"The Nine Palaces Commander must have made a mistake. I haven't yet agreed to become that Great Luo Heavenly Immortal 'Entwined-Dragon Servant."

As he spoke, he gently flicked the token hanging in front of him and was about to turn and enter the cave.

Chen Lingxi had no intention of paying attention to this inexplicable summons.

The avatar of Qi Chuan standing before the Water-Curtain Cave frowned when he saw that Qi Chuan remained unmoved and unwilling to accept the order.

Then, he slowly descended from the Void and landed in front of the Water-Curtain Cave.

His eyes slowly swept over Chen Lingxi, and then he slowly spoke.

"From this day forward, we are colleagues, both under the command of the Entwined-Dragon Palace."

He paused, then said:

"The Entwined-Dragon Palace is one of the Nine Palaces palaces under the jurisdiction of the Great Luo Heaven."

Within the Nine Palaces, all those whose names are recorded by the Entwined-Dragon Palace, their life, death, advancement, retreat, officialdom, and seclusion are all governed by the orders of the Entwined-Dragon Palace.

"Uncle-Master... you must not disregard the orders of the Entwined-Dragon Palace."

"Otherwise, when disaster strikes, it will be beyond what a few of us can bear."

Qi Chuan spoke with an extremely calm gaze, but his tone was anything but polite.

He was clearly addressing Chen Lingxi as "Shishu" (a term of respect for a senior martial arts master), but the words "Shishu" came out of his mouth without any trace of reverence.

Instead, it was as if the top-ranked member of the Second Profound Ranking on the Sword-Illuminating Mystic Peak was giving instructions to his subordinates in a condescending manner.

Chen Lingxi understood the meaning behind Qi Chuan's words and frowned.

However, he did not get angry. Instead, he sent a wisp of his Divine Sense into the Consciousness Sea of that avatar and succinctly explained the misunderstanding that had occurred two years ago in the Dragon-Offering Main Hall, word by word.

That's right.

He spoke softly, "I have never agreed to this."

Qi Chuan listening...

He shook his head slightly.

"Uncle-Master is joking."

"How can Entwined-Dragon Servant be qualified to choose whether or not to?"

His voice remained calm.

Chen Lingxi remained expressionless.

But thoughts were racing through my mind.

"Qi Chuan's visit today is definitely not just for one official matter."

"The Entwined-Dragon Palace established regulations and appointed the Nine Palaces Commander..."

"If Qi Chuan of Sword-Illuminating Mystic Peak was merely ordered to convey the decree of investiture, why would he personally come in his divine sense form, and why waste his breath on this?"

"He just now used his divine sense to condense an avatar from that token, which was clearly intentional."

"There's some tension between Qi Chuan and Deer-Sleeping Peak."

"You've come here today with the intention of humiliating me."

As Chen Lingxi thought about this, her eyes grew even calmer.

"However... the dragon pattern on that token, the aura of the Entwined-Dragon Palace contained in that divine thought, and the ' Nine Palaces Commander Commander' seem genuine."

"This list of Entwined-Dragon Servant is probably genuine as well."

"Otherwise, even if Qi Chuan is the top-ranked member of the Second Profound List of Sword-Illuminating Mystic Peak, and even if the sword at his waist is the sharpest and most domineering, he would never have the audacity to fabricate a list out of thin air, to defy the authority of True Person Xiang Shu, and to come looking for trouble with the order of the Entwined-Dragon Palace in such a grand manner."

"Where did I go wrong...?"

"However, in any case..."

Thinking of this, Chen Lingxi slowly raised her head.

The Dao Origin within their bodies, Dragon-Stripping Dao Platform, trembled simultaneously at that moment.

On that Thunder Thunder-Prison Profound Root, the Weiji Thunderlight surged, and the Wondrous Fruit among the branches and leaves suddenly lit up.

The invisible aura surrounding him, which had always been concealed by the Concealed Edge Method, seemed to be pushed open by a force from within, silently releasing an extremely sharp and domineering edge in the air in front of the Water-Curtain Cave.

Chen Lingxi didn't waste any more words.

As his Dao Origin circulated, a faint golden lightning suddenly lit up the air in front of the Water-Curtain Cave, which was cracked by Qi Chuan's Sword Qi!

Thunder-Prison Heaven, thus begins!

The next instant, that spark of lightning exploded, transforming into a surging torrent of thunder, like hundreds of pale golden lightning dragons breaking free of their shackles, instantly dyeing the entire sky a dazzling, almost blinding, golden hue!

In the deepest part of Thunder-Prison Heaven, the [Immortal-Calamity Thunder Pool] has already taken shape.

The Thunder Pool was only a few feet in diameter, yet the killing intent it contained was condensed to the extreme.

Within that Thunder Pool, countless streams of Immortal-Calamity Tribulation-Grinding Aura surged and churned, rubbing and intertwining with each other. Each friction unleashed countless fine lightning bolts, scorching the air with a crackling sound.

Above that Thunder Prison, an upright eye appeared out of nowhere.

The pupil was formed entirely of Unfinished Thunder. The moment it opened, all the lightning in that Thunder Prison suddenly intensified at the same time, like a thunderous eye that opened from the sky and peered into all things.

Qi Chuan's divine thought avatar stirred slightly, and the calm in his eyes froze slightly the moment Thunder-Prison Heaven unfolded.

But as the top-ranked Second Profound One on the Sword-Illuminating Mystic Peak, even though he was just a divine thought avatar, he did not flinch in the slightest when facing this suddenly descending Thunder Prison!

He reached out with his right hand and gently brushed it against the hilt of the dark, heavy longsword at his waist.

The longsword remained unsheathed.

But the sword intent that had been flowing around him suddenly withdrew at this moment.

The sword intent gathered entirely within a three-zhang radius around him, condensing between his fingers and palms, transforming into a sword aura as thin as a cicada's wing yet incomparably sharp.

On that sword aura, there was a faint white light flowing. That white light was not like ordinary Sword Qi, but rather like the clearest cold light in the vast sky condensed on that thin sword aura.

This is the sword intent of Sword-Illuminating Mystic Peak.

"How dare you!"

Chen Lingxi snorted coldly!

Thunder Prison's feet sank slightly beneath his feet.

The lightning surged like a tide from his body toward the avatar, with thunder dragons churning and lightning bolts crisscrossing, enveloping the avatar from all directions.

At the same moment, Chen Lingxi raised her right hand, her fingertips gently touching the center of the avatar's brow.

Palace-Knocking Finger!

The finger beam is incredibly domineering!

Qi Chuan's divine avatar raised his right hand, holding the sword energy horizontally in front of him.

The thin, cicada-wing-like sword energy lit up in that instant, a flash of white light transforming it into a horizontal, cold sword mark that slashed directly towards Chen Lingxi's finger beam.

The sword marks and the finger beams collided violently in mid-air.

All the clouds, all the water vapor, and all the air shattered by the Sword Qi under the sky dispersed in all directions at the same moment, revealing a clean and empty vacuum in front of the Water-Curtain Cave.

In that instant, Chen Lingxi's fingertip forcefully pierced through the sword mark!

Then, with undiminished momentum, it pierced straight into the brow of Qi Chuan's divine sense avatar.

Qi Chuan's avatar paused slightly at that moment!

Immediately, the humanoid outline formed by divine thought began to melt and dissipate inch by inch from the center of the forehead.

Chen Lingxi stood still and slowly withdrew his right hand.

Qi Chuan's avatar shattered suddenly!

"You dare to be so rude on Deer-Sleeping Peak, trying to humiliate me, a junior uncle with weak cultivation?"

"That's rather laughable."