True Dragon Nest, Dragon-Raising Plan

Xiao Yun heard Di Tian's words and could not help asking further, "Master, how can I continue increasing my strength?"

Di Tian explained, "Cultivating three super combat skills can increase your strength by 300,000 pounds. Then, if you deduce those three super combat skills to the realm of ultimate combat skills, you can gain another 300,000 pounds of strength."

Hearing this, Xiao Yun silently calculated for a moment before looking up at Di Tian again. "Master, even so, I would only have 700,000 pounds of strength. How can I gain the remaining 300,000 pounds?"

Di Tian fell silent for a moment before sighing. "This is already the limit an ordinary physique can reach. At this realm, the Chaos Great Emperor only achieved this much as well. The reason he possessed 1,000,000 pounds of strength was because 300,000 pounds of it came from his Chaos Body."

Xiao Yun was stunned. "Then doesn't that mean I have no way of reaching 1,000,000 pounds of strength in the Body Tempering realm?"

He did not possess any special physique!

He was merely an ordinary mortal!

Di Tian smiled faintly. "If you can reach 700,000 pounds of strength, that will already be enough. There is no need to obsess over reaching 1,000,000 pounds.

In truth, across the entire cultivation world, even among those monstrous geniuses with special physiques, very few can exceed 500,000 pounds in the Body Tempering realm. Those who can reach 700,000 are even rarer."

Di Tian was right. After all, not everyone could attain enlightenment at any moment like Xiao Yun. Even those peerless geniuses who could cultivate super combat skills would need several years, or even more than a decade, to master a single super combat skill.

Therefore, at most, they could cultivate one super combat skill. Adding their special physiques—even legendary physiques comparable to the Chaos Body, such as the Ancient Sacred Body and the Heaven Tyrant Body—the amplification from one super combat skill would only allow them to reach five or six hundred thousand pounds of strength in the Body Tempering realm.

Yet Xiao Yun was not satisfied with merely 700,000 pounds of strength. He looked up at Di Tian and asked with firm eyes, "Master, is there no other way for me to continue increasing my strength?"

Di Tian was silent for a while. He knew that his disciple's talent was extraordinary, and that he would certainly pursue the strongest possible limit. It would probably be difficult to persuade him to give up.

Thinking of this, Di Tian pondered for a moment before slowly saying to Xiao Yun, "It is not that there is no way. What ordinary physiques lack compared to special physiques is an innate foundation. As long as you make up for that innate foundation, an ordinary physique can catch up to a special physique."

"How can I make up for my innate foundation?" Xiao Yun hurriedly asked.

Di Tian sighed. "That will not be easy. To make up for your innate foundation, you must consume extremely rare heavenly treasures.

If you were still the Divine Son, then our Chaos Holy Land would certainly spare no expense to obtain those heavenly treasures for you. But now, you are no longer the Divine Son."

At this point, Di Tian said with a guilty expression, "In the end, it is because your master is too weak. If I possessed the strength of a Saint, I could venture into dangerous places and seize those heavenly treasures for you."

"Master, please do not say that. You have taught your disciple the path of cultivation. Your kindness toward me is as weighty as a mountain," Xiao Yun quickly said.

But Di Tian still blamed himself somewhat.

At that moment, Uncle Fu suddenly remembered something and said to Di Tian, "Master, doesn't the True Dragon Nest open in a year? Perhaps the young master can go in and give it a try!"

Di Tian's eyes lit up. "That's right, I nearly forgot about the True Dragon Nest. In the past, our Chaos Holy Land never sent anyone to the True Dragon Nest because few of us could enter the forbidden domain in the Body Tempering realm. Going into the True Dragon Nest would only mean certain death. But you are different, disciple."

Di Tian looked at Xiao Yun excitedly and continued, "If you can possess 700,000 pounds of strength within a year, then even in the True Dragon Nest, you will be among the strongest. At that time, you can rely on your own strength to obtain those heavenly treasures."

Xiao Yun asked in confusion, "Master, what kind of place is this True Dragon Nest?"

Di Tian smiled faintly. "The True Dragon Nest is a secret realm that opens once every hundred years. Only cultivators in the Body Tempering realm may enter it.

It is precisely because of this that the heavenly treasures within the True Dragon Nest have not been plundered clean by the cultivators of the world.

Therefore, if you can enter the True Dragon Nest, you will have a chance to seize the heavenly treasures that can help you make up for your innate foundation."

As he spoke, Di Tian took out a book and handed it to Xiao Yun.

Xiao Yun looked at the cover. The five words Secrets of the True Dragon Nest were written on it. He immediately opened it with a curious expression.

Afterward, Xiao Yun suddenly understood. It introduced the origins of the True Dragon Nest.

Legend had it that a True Dragon once lived in the True Dragon Nest. Later, the True Dragon ascended, but before doing so, it sealed the True Dragon Nest and allowed only cultivators in the Body Tempering realm to enter.

Over countless years, many cultivators had sought to uncover the secrets of the True Dragon Nest. But because of the True Dragon's seal, powerful cultivators simply could not enter.

As for Body Tempering realm cultivators, they were too weak, so they could not uncover many secrets concerning the True Dragon Nest.

However, one secret had been uncovered.

That was—the Dragon-Raising Plan!

This Dragon-Raising Plan was likely arranged by that ascended True Dragon. It had left behind many descendants within the True Dragon Nest, and every hundred years, ten descendants would be reborn.

Although each of these descendants was immensely powerful, they still needed tempering before they could evolve a True Dragon's body.

How were they to be tempered?

Naturally, through battle!

Only by being reborn through blood, tempering themselves through slaughter, surpassing their limits, and elevating the essence of their lives could they forge the body of a True Dragon.

But the True Dragon Nest held no danger, making it impossible for those descendants to fight. Yet if they were released, without a True Dragon's protection, they would still be far too weak and would surely be captured by powerful cultivators, bound by master-servant contracts, and turned into cultivators' slaves.

That was why the True Dragon had set up the True Dragon Seal, allowing only Body Tempering realm cultivators to enter.

This way, the cultivators who entered would be in the same realm as those descendants.

When both sides fought to the death, all they could rely on was talent.

The True Dragon wanted to use the cultivation world's geniuses to temper its descendants. That was the Dragon-Raising Plan.

The cultivation world also strongly supported this. Every hundred years, when the True Dragon Nest opened, all the major sects would send some geniuses inside to battle the True Dragon's descendants.

There were many benefits to doing so.

1: The True Dragon Nest contained many heavenly treasures that could allow these geniuses to evolve. They could also bring them out and benefit their sects.

2: Fighting the True Dragon's descendants and bathing in their blood could also allow these geniuses to evolve and surpass their own limits. The True Dragon wanted to use the cultivation world's geniuses to temper its descendants, while the major sects also wanted to use those descendants to temper their own geniuses.

3: Every descendant possessed immense potential, no less than those supreme geniuses with special physiques. If one could capture a descendant and form a master-servant contract, one would gain a super powerful fighter at one's side in the future.

It was precisely because of these many benefits that every opening of the True Dragon Nest became a grand event in the cultivation world.

There was exactly one year left until the next opening of the True Dragon Nest.