Dragon Eye

Hu Mang had absolutely no desire to participate in the righteous schemes here.

The only righteous person he had ever met was that Yang Spirit elder brother from the Old Thunder Lineage, and that person had given him a divine thunder gift upon their first meeting, which almost roasted him alive.

Although other righteous people may not be as hot-tempered and may not follow the path of the forum users, a wise man does not stand under a dangerous wall, especially a wise man with Demon Race blood.

As the saying goes, to slay demons and eliminate evil, one must first slay the demons, then eliminate the evil ones. His kill count is even higher than that of the demonic cultivators.

Moreover, he has also mastered two demonic arts, making him proficient in both demonic and supernatural techniques, which means he has accumulated a maximum of negative buffs.

So no matter how much Rogue Person Yunxiu tried to persuade him, Hu Mang insisted on not commenting, not participating, and not discussing.

Moreover, he wasn't entirely without any knowledge of the evolution of calamities.

As night fell, the dark clouds over the Demon-Subduing City grew even darker. The rain had only paused briefly during dinner, but now the downpour outside was even more terrifying, as if it would completely engulf the city.

If it weren't for the fact that a thousand years have passed and this Demon-Subduing City hasn't been flooded yet, Hu Mang would actually be a little worried about how well the waterproofing of the infrastructure here is done.

At this moment, the door to the room where the screen had been was wide open, and a large spear was stuck in the threshold.

Unidentified footsteps occasionally swept past the door. With each step closer, a gun would fire a clear, resonant blast, like the roar of a dragon or the howl of a tiger. The footsteps seemed to be erased by an invisible hand, vanishing instantly into the wind and rain, leaving no trace.

However, some unidentified footprints appeared in the rain, and then were washed away again.

The room was dark, except for a pair of murky, eerie eyes that gleamed with a yellowish light.

Hu Mang held a primary school notebook in his hand, from Zhengyang Immortal School, the best primary school in Zhongshan Holy Land.

On the notebook, the characters were written in neat and orderly Heavenly Gate script, each stroke square and precise. Many characters also had pinyin on them. This was most likely not prepared for him, but rather something that his friend Duanmu didn't recognize, so he wrote the pinyin first and then looked it up in the dictionary.

To be honest, this is much better than I imagined a translation would be; at least it's not made up of typos and pinyin.

Otherwise, Hu Mang wouldn't even bother to watch it, let alone practice it.

There was nothing he could do; he'd already been tricked by the ancient methods once, and if he were to be tricked by High Antiquity Cultivation Method again, Hu Mang would really start to doubt his own intelligence.

After all, based on his understanding of the ancient Spiritual Qi environment, the Five Dynasties period was a standard low- Spiritual Qi world.

Before the Five Dynasties, in High Antiquity times, it was a standard environment devoid of Spiritual Qi. Turbid Qi sank to the bottom, and neither Tribulation Qi nor Tribulation Oil had yet formed. It was a standard environment of Turbid Qi, where Spiritual Qi had not yet been conceived or born.

It is precisely because of these geological discoveries that most High Antiquity legends have become targets of debunking, including records of High Antiquity immortals.

"The Immortal Shen Yan, the On Tribulation Dao Qi Meridians."

"... Use calamity to control calamity, Transform Tribulation with Tribulation."

"... The Tribulation Fortune, like a vein, eventually transformed into a dragon, guiding all calamities back to Return to the Ruins."

The Hu Mang muttered to itself.

Regarding the so-called "Tribulation Eye," "heavenly tribulation," and "heavenly secrets," the only thing Hu Mang possessed that could be connected to them was this book, "On the On Tribulation Dao Qi Meridians."

Hu Mang pondered this celestial book several times and discovered that although it contained few words, it was profound and mysterious, even more unfathomable than some of the Cultivation Method in the Azure Mysterious Realm.

For Hu Mang, who had been learning the Plain Language Secret Manual and taking the Plain Language Exam since childhood, studying the Azure Mysterious Realm Secret Manual was already quite difficult; this was even more challenging.

"The ancient methods have my mother's oral instruction and personal example, the Azure Mysterious Realm Cultivation Method have my father who translates them, could this High Antiquity Cultivation Method also randomly come with an old man as a bonus?"

"A family of three, three generations, how wonderful."

The Hu Mang muttered to itself, feeling a slight headache.

Even though there was a local elderly man right next to him.

But he didn't trust the other person, because he knew without a doubt that the other person was hiding a lot of secrets.

Only someone with a screw loose would share their own secrets with another person.

"How do we do it?"

Hu Mang gritted his teeth and took out a scroll of silk map from his Storage Bag. If it weren't for the "Transmigration Fragment," this would have been the most valuable item from that overseas tomb raiding trip.

Dragon-Shaped Meridian Diagram

Shake the silk painting.

A bizarre dragon-shaped creature, without claws, scales, whiskers, head, or eyes, appeared before the Hu Mang.

Hu Mang's heart skipped a beat.

"Transform Tribulation with Tribulation, Transform Meridians with Tribulation —could this 'vein' be the vein of Dragon Vein?"

It should be noted that before the explosive development of cultivation technology at the New Heavenly Gate, "Human Dao Dragon Vein Evolution" was the New Heavenly Gate's signature skill and a powerful weapon used to defeat the Old Celestial Person Human Class.

It is by following this path that we have achieved the current situation where everyone cultivates and the Heavenly Gate is like a furnace.

"Could the 'Human Dao Dragon Vein Evolution,' which only the Ten Lords are qualified to master, also have been discovered through archaeological research?"

"It doesn't quite look like it."

Judging from its appearance alone, this crippled dragon is ferocious and Sha Qi, bearing no resemblance whatsoever to the path of Human Dao Dragon Vein.

Hu Mang held a "Dragon-Shaped Meridian Diagram" in his left hand and an elementary school notebook in his right, and began to look at it.

I don't know how much time passed--

"Boom!"

A sudden clap of thunder boomed, completely drowning out the roar of the torrential rain.

The lightning flashed like daylight, illuminating the entire room in an instant.

In that blinding white light, the Hu Mang's demonic pupils suddenly contracted, and the fierce light in its eyes surged, almost identical to the ferocious dragon in the picture.

"Did that dragon's eyeballs just move slightly?"

The Hu Mang's eyes suddenly shone brightly, and the Yin-Suppressing Mark and Devil-Subduing Pattern burst forth simultaneously, flowing like a cascading galaxy.

However, the "Dragon Eye" area on the silk painting remained empty and desolate.

"Wait, Dragon Eye, Tribulation Eye."

Hu Mang had a sudden inspiration and immediately took the "Elementary School Student's Secret Manual". Then, holding the "Dragon-Shaped Meridian Diagram", he waded through the rain and rushed out the door, heading straight for the center of the compound where the "Lightning Puppet" was located.

Sensing the intruder, terrifying Qi and Blood Sha Qi energy erupted from Lightning Puppet's body once again, sweeping across the surroundings like a raging tide.

This time, however, the Qi and Blood that were powerful enough to crush ordinary cultivators vanished without a trace the moment they touched the Hu Mang's body.

More accurately, it was silently swallowed up by the Dragon-Shaped Meridian Diagram in front of him.

Earlier in the day, in order to entice the Hu Mang to help him rescue people, Rogue Person Yunxiu talked on and on about many things.

This includes the origin of this "Lightning Puppet".

This object represents the pinnacle of mechanical engineering from the Jade Firmament Divine Dynasty, truly overcoming a hurdle that High Antiquity mechanical engineering had never broken through before—the ability to replicate the body of an immortal.

That's right, when this Lightning Puppet was still "alive," it possessed some of the physical abilities of an immortal.

For ordinary cultivators, even a fraction of it is as great as the heavens.

Therefore, even in close combat, Hu Mang would employ both Buddhist and demonic methods.

But now, as Hu Mang fought his way to his opponent, he didn't sense even the slightest terrifying fluctuation of Qi and Blood.

"If that fragment absorbed lightning power, then this Dragon-Shaped Meridian Diagram related to 'calamity' must be absorbing calamity power."

This Lightning Puppet is indeed not the Tribulation Eye, but it is the key point of the formation.

And beyond the array's core... lies the Tribulation Eye!

Hu Mang raised his hand and placed the Dragon-Shaped Meridian Diagram directly onto Lightning Puppet's eye socket.

Dragon Eye versus Thunder Eye!

In an instant, both the person and the painting vanished into thin air amidst the wind and rain.

The next instant, what appeared before Hu Mang's eyes was—

Tribulation Eye!!

The moment the Tribulation Eye appeared, it was as if a piece of the world had been forcibly ripped out.

Beneath the Hu Mang's feet was not solid ground, but a broken platform suspended in the void. There was no wind or rain, no thunder, only a deathly silence that seemed to have been abandoned by heaven and earth.

Ahead, a gigantic vertical pupil hovered silently in mid-air.

It was not an eye of flesh and blood, but a void formed by countless interwoven patterns of calamity power, as if all the disasters, destructions and misfortunes in the world had been forcibly twisted into a bundle and condensed here.

Deep within his pupils, flashes of thunder and lightning would appear intermittently, followed by streams of blood-red fire like molten lava. Each faint glimmer seemed to be a countdown, foreshadowing the arrival of a great calamity.

Standing before it, the Hu Mang even had a strange feeling:

I am not looking at one eye, but facing the cruelest side of the Way of Heavenly Dao itself.

It does not discriminate between good and evil, nor does it consider cause and effect; it only evolves the calamities of heaven and earth that overturn all living beings at the right time and in the right way.

Even more bizarrely, the Dragon-Shaped Meridian Diagram unfolded on its own the moment he stepped into this place, and the incomplete dragon shape on the diagram even twisted slightly, as if it was greedily "sniffing" the aura in the Tribulation Eye.

Hu Mang felt a chill run down his spine.

This thing wasn't trying to avoid the Tribulation Eye, but rather it wanted to devour it.

A tremendous force erupted from his palm, as if something was trying to break free from the Hu Mang's grasp.

The veins on the back of Hu Mang's hand, which was gripping the picture, bulged, and his knuckles were white from clenching his fist.

The unfurled Dragon-Shaped Meridian Diagram moved without wind, the silk taut like a bowstring, and the originally broken and incomplete lines began to wildly wander and recombine.

The next moment--

The monstrous dragon, without claws, scales, head, or eyes, suddenly opened its enormous, non-existent maw.

A dark rift seemed to be torn open in the void. The patterns around the Tribulation Eye, which flowed with the aura of destruction, were forcibly pulled away from the main body like rivers flowing into the sea, twisting into thin streams of light that filled the dragon's mouth.

The Tribulation Eye is trembling!

His pupils contracted, lightning and fire scattered, and the previously lifeless calamity power now struggled wildly like a trapped beast, trying to sever its connection with the dragon form.

But it was all in vain.

The dragon-shaped creature swelled with each swallow, its mutilated body expanding and congesting with blood at a visible rate, as if countless new blood vessels were growing wildly under its skin, each pulsating with the sharp edge of calamity.

Its outline was no longer illusory, but gradually solidified, and scale-like patterns of calamity "grew" out on their own. Even though it still had no head or eyes, it already exuded a ferocious power that was more ancient and violent than the Tribulation Eye.

Standing at the eye of the storm, Hu Mang felt as if the entire Tribulation Eye was collapsing inward.

Finally, at the moment when the "Tribulation Eye" was devoured.

Hu Mang's vision went black.

The muscles in his eyes twitched, and the dragon patterns transformed, actually growing Dragon Eye that were not found on the Dragon-Shaped Meridian Diagram.

And the last thought in my mind was--

"Damn it, so this 'On Tribulation Dao Qi Meridians' isn't Cultivation Method Secret Manual, but just an instruction manual!"

Instructions for using the Dragon-Shaped Meridian Diagram!!