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Chapter 530 Advancement Successful, Naval Battle Begins!
Sitting cross-legged, Chen Jie slowly closed his eyes, trying to calm himself down, but his mind was racing.

At this moment, countless images flashed through his mind, but Chen Jie accurately found the information he needed among these images.

He didn't rush to digest the Dao Fruit, but instead began to reflect on his experiences and gains along the way. He had encountered many things, including the crisis in the Hidden Dragon Abyss.

However, the gains were also enormous. First, in the Hidden Dragon Abyss, he obtained three drops of divine blood. Although the side effects of this divine blood were terrifying, its effects were also top-notch. After all, being able to temporarily obtain energy at the level of a terrestrial immortal was enough to solve 99% of the crises in the world. Wasn't it only right to pay a price?
Therefore, Chen Jie's biggest gain so far is [three drops of divine blood (-1), two drops remaining].

Secondly, by killing King Wuping, Chen Jie obtained King Wuping's Innate Dao Fruit. With this Innate Dao Fruit, Chen Jie can match it with the Innate Dao Fruit given to him by his father-in-law. Thus, Chen Jie has the foundation to break through to the second stage of the Fusion God realm.

Therefore, Chen Jie's second major gain was [one Innate Dao Fruit!]

Besides these two, Chen Jie's biggest desire was for the complete version of the Winter God Technique. He originally had a chance to obtain it, but unfortunately, something went wrong. The captain's first mate sacrificed his life to ruin his plans, preventing him from acquiring the manual.

This is a pity, but it's not without a way. At least the guard of King Wuping provided a very valuable piece of information: the old man Baisun, who knows the Winter God Technique, left behind a daughter named Xue Nu, but it seems that she is currently the wife of the Siamese national teacher Basong.

The specifics are unclear, but this Snow Maiden is very important. First, she may know the complete technique of the Winter God's Manual.

Secondly, she might know the number of the Siamese royal preceptor's substitute straw figures, and even which person these straw figures were placed on. It would be difficult to kill the Siamese royal preceptor multiple times, but it would not be difficult to kill his substitutes multiple times.

After all, these substitutes couldn't possibly have the strength of a second-stage Molten God.

Therefore, Chen Jie's third major recovery consisted of two pieces of information: first, the whereabouts of the Winter God Technique; and second, the secret of the Basong Substitute Straw Man.

Besides these three major gains, Chen Jie also had some smaller gains, which we will now review.

Firstly, in terms of equipment, Chen Jie obtained several [Dragon Scales].

Following closely was the matter of technique. During his battle with the dragon, Chen Jie gained new insights into the "Dragon Tail Swing" move in the Eighteen Palms of Dragon Capture, which deepened his understanding of the Eighteen Palms of Dragon Capture and allowed him to take his palm technique to a new level.

[My cultivation technique has been slightly improved.]

Then there's something that isn't directly his own gain, but he can still enjoy it: his most capable subordinate, Zhang Dingbian, has successfully made a name for himself in Southeast Asia. The title of "God of War" is already well-known in Southeast Asia, which has a profound impact on his future plans in the region. In fact, it could be said to be far more important than acquiring two dragon scales or mastering the Eighteen Dragon-Capturing Palms.

It has to be said that Zhang Dingbian was truly his chosen general!
May your good fortune last forever.

Thinking about Chen Jie made him feel much better, and he also thought about what he needed to do next.

Actually, it's quite simple. There are only two things, or even they can be combined into one. The two things are: first, to save his third brother, Fang Guozhen, the Dragon King of the Sea, from his predicament.

The second purpose is to change the landscape of the South China Sea and prepare for its future conquest of the South China Sea.

These two things can actually be combined into one, because whether it's saving his brother Fang Guozhen or changing the South China Sea landscape so that he can have a say in the future, he is determined to achieve this.

One of the key points, and the biggest obstacle, was the royal advisor of Siam, Pasong.

Therefore, Chen Jie's next goal should be to kill the Grand Preceptor Basong!
But if we want to get rid of the Grand Preceptor Basong, the problem returns: we need to deal with his immortality first, which means figuring out how many substitute straw men he has. It seems that now that my business is over, I need to find a way to talk to that Snow Woman. And it seems that only that Snow Woman has the information I need.

However, before searching for the Snow Maiden, Chen Jie must improve his strength, as his current strength is definitely not enough.

Having figured all this out, Chen Jie took a deep breath. Finally, his goal was clear, so the rest would be simple. He could now focus on seeking a breakthrough.

Thinking of this, Chen Jie closed his eyes, focused his energy in his dantian, and then calmed his mind and entered his dantian, circulating his energy throughout the dantian, feeling free and at ease.

As Chen Jie entered a meditative state, he began to look inward at his dantian, where he could see that his world was thriving.

A golden dragon coiled in the sky, stirring up the wind, climbing the clouds, soaring straight into the heavens, and roaming the nine heavens.

With a flick of its tail, the heavens and earth, sun and moon, hang upside down in the sky; it is truly a dragon of the heavens.

Looking down, there is a lush and verdant forest where small animals roam. A cowherd rides a cow, holding a willow whip, which he casually waves. With each lash, the plants below become even greener.

To his left was a volcano, inside which Zhu Rong was swimming freely with the two snakes in his hands, looking quite content.

Finally, there's the world on the right, a world of ice and snow. However, with snow falling from the sky, the figures inside are blurry and incomplete. This is the Winter God Technique that I haven't been able to complete.

Looking at the world again, the earth is black and the sky is white. The black and white intersect to form the universe. That's right, this is my own Universe Technique. All my martial arts are now materialized in my dantian.

Above this dantian, it seems as if two stars are twinkling. However, when you get closer, you will suddenly realize that they are not stars at all, but two suns filled with the laws of the Dao.

The bright sunshine gave Chen Jie an incredibly strong feeling, as if it were telling him what the true meaning of this world is.

Yes, these are the two innate Dao fruits that Chen Jie has integrated into his body.

At this moment, Chen Jie was sensing the Dao charm of the two innate Dao fruits. He did not feel the Dao charm of one of the fruits very deeply. This was the innate Dao fruit that Chen Jie had plundered from King Wuping.

Feeling the power of the innate Dao Fruit, Chen Jie calmed his mind and quietly sensed its power.

This Dao Fruit is mysterious and profound, but it seems that the power of the rules is biased towards ice. Chen Jie is now immersed in it, carefully sensing the power of the laws.

This kind of perception is slow. If one cannot continue to perceive it in this way, it would probably take several months to fully comprehend this bit of the power of the law.

Chen Jie couldn't wait a few months. At this moment, Chen Jie immediately began to silently recite the Quran in his mind. As he recited the Quran little by little, Chen Jie found that he had a deeper understanding of the power of the laws within the Dao Fruit.

What does this feeling feel like?

It seems like there's a very difficult book. If you try to read and understand it on your own, it might take a long time. But if you read the Quran, it's different. The Quran is like a teacher, explaining all the knowledge points you don't understand in the book. This way, your learning speed will be much faster.

Or to put it another way, this is a game where you absorb the fruits of enlightenment. The normal progress is 90 days, but the Quran is like a speed-up pack, helping you understand the knowledge within the fruits of enlightenment much faster.

It has to be said that this was a very amazing process, and Chen Jie was learning at a rapid pace.

At the same time, Chen Jie was also curious during the learning process: why could the Quran help him quickly digest the fruits of the path?

Chen Jie also expressed great curiosity about this, wondering what was so magical about the Quran.

Chen Jie pondered, not understanding. Perhaps he could only attribute it to the legendary Buddha. After all, the concept of ascension circulated in this world, and Buddha came from the celestial realm. In other words, there was a Buddha above the celestial realm, and the Quran was an ancient scripture studied by the Buddha.

It is even one of the oldest scriptures that humans can trace back to.

So some of the amazing things aren't so incredible anymore.

With this in mind, Chen Jie stopped dwelling on the matter and began to wholeheartedly comprehend the Dao Fruit rules. As he gradually comprehended the Dao Fruit rules, Chen Jie quickly felt his strength slowly increasing. This feeling was wonderful, as if he were becoming more harmonious with the world.

At the same time, his own internal energy flowed more harmoniously in this world, as if a fish had finally found a suitable source of water.

How to describe this feeling?
Like a fish in water, that's right, like a fish in water. Moreover, in addition to feeling like a fish in water, Chen Jie also had a deeper understanding of the world.

This feeling was very mysterious. Just when Chen Jie's understanding of heaven and earth reached its most comfortable point, he suddenly felt that this feeling had come to an abrupt end. This made Chen Jie feel very uncomfortable. At this moment, Chen Jie looked up and realized that his feeling for this Dao Fruit had reached its peak.

However, he had not yet reached a breakthrough state, so Chen Jie needed to continue to attain another Dao Fruit at this time.

At this moment, Chen Jie flipped his hand and took out a Primordial Dao Fruit from his storage ring. With the Dao Fruit in hand, Chen Jie immediately swallowed it in one gulp.

The next moment, the fruit transformed into a blazing sun and rushed wildly into Chen Jie's dantian, like a wild horse that refused to be controlled. Its frantic struggle gave people a very unpleasant experience.

However, this was not the first time Chen Jie had absorbed a Dao Fruit. With the experience from the previous two times, he already knew how to subdue the Dao Fruit. At this time, he was not in a hurry to control the Dao Fruit, but let it play freely and do whatever it wanted.

And so, Dao Guo began to surge forward and backward, left and right, within his dantian at an extreme speed. Chen Jie, however, was not in a hurry. He simply watched it slowly until Dao Guo exhausted its initial power and entered a docile phase.

At this moment, Chen Jie waved his hand and saw the golden dragon in his dantian world suddenly rush towards the Dao Fruit. The Dao Fruit seemed to be threatened, and its trembling suddenly intensified. The next moment, it ran directly in one direction.

Sensing this terrifying power, Chen Jie raised his hand, and the next moment a ball of scorching flame appeared in front of the Dao Fruit. With a whoosh, the flame rose up and blocked the path to the Dao Fruit.

At this moment, Daoguo saw that its path was blocked. Without struggling, it suddenly changed direction and rushed in another direction. However, before it could rush over, its surface was covered with frost, and a broken goddess statue blocked its way.

Dao Guo was startled and suddenly darted off in another direction. But as soon as he moved, a willow whip lashed out at him. Dao Guo panicked and his speed faltered for a few seconds.

Suddenly, he found himself blocked from all sides. Dao Guo gritted his teeth and shot straight into the sky. Whoosh!
Just as it broke free of its restraints at top speed, a white Tai Chi disc suddenly appeared in the air. Dao Guo whizzed through the Tai Chi disc, but the next moment it suddenly burst out from the black Tai Chi disc on the ground.

Using black and white in combination, shifting the balance of heaven and earth—this is the Great Law of Heaven and Earth!

Dao Guo rushed to the very center of the pile of discs again. At that moment, Chen Jie suddenly reached out, and the Spring God's willow whip transformed into countless branches that wrapped around Dao Guo, while the Fire God's flames transformed into chains that also locked onto Dao Guo.

There was also the Winter God Xuanbing, who released ropes of ice to bind the Dao Fruit.

And then the divine dragon opened its mouth and spat out countless golden rays, all of which bombarded the Dao Fruit.

Dao Guo was attacked by so much power that he immediately fell into a brief state of rest. At this moment, Chen Jie suddenly reached out and made a Buddhist gesture. The next moment, he directly recited the Quran.

Ancient scriptures slowly emerged from Chen Jie's mouth, transforming into golden chains that locked the Dao Fruit within his dantian. The Dao Fruit initially struggled, but once bound by the Quranic scriptures, it ceased its efforts and began to hum softly with the Sanskrit chants.

The Dao Fruit began to vibrate, and as it vibrated, the laws of the Dao permeated the entire space, spreading out little by little.

Chen Jie immediately fell into that state of enlightenment again, and countless laws of heaven and earth crashed into his mind. This Dao Fruit is the transformation of the will of this world, and mastering the Dao Fruit means mastering a part of the power of heaven and earth.

Chen Jie roamed among the laws of heaven and earth, experiencing the changes of heaven and earth and the impermanence of the sun and moon.

Only at this moment did he realize his own insignificance. In the face of nature in this world, let alone a mere Molten God Realm cultivator, even a terrestrial immortal or a true immortal is nothing more than a mayfly.

The heavens and the immortals are constantly changing, but the heavens are still the heavens, and the earth is still the earth; they have never changed. What changes are only the creatures that appear between heaven and earth, whether they are humans, immortals, or anything else.

As Chen Jie sensed the changes in the power of the rules and comprehended the location of his own universe, he was deeply moved. As his understanding deepened, he felt how obviously the world had changed.

At the same time, I have a clearer understanding of what Qiankun (heaven and earth) and Tiandi (heaven and earth) are.

As Chen Jie gained a deeper understanding of the universe, he discovered that his dantian was also changing rapidly. As the power of the rules within the Dao Fruit was released little by little, the various cultivation techniques within Chen Jie's body seemed to be nourished.

At this moment, the golden dragon devoured a mouthful of Dao Fruit power, and its entire body instantly doubled in size.

At this moment, the Spring God whipped up a large amount of Dao Fruit power, and casually scattered it, causing precious trees and flowers to bloom all over the ground.

The fire god Zhurong suddenly swallowed a mouthful of Dao fruit, and the next moment various flames appeared behind him, rising straight into the sky. The fire god also evolved.

The Winter God was not complete, but under the nourishment of the Dao Fruit, it began to solidify.

At this moment, the remaining power of the Dao Fruit was suddenly absorbed by the black and white Tai Chi wheels on both sides of the sky. After absorbing this power of the Dao Fruit, the two Tai Chi wheels also began to evolve.

As these techniques evolved, Chen Jie felt his strength was improving rapidly.

The process was so wonderful that Chen Jie was so engrossed in it that he lost track of time.

And so, Chen Jie closed his eyes, enjoying the thrill of his increased strength, and before he knew it, it was already the second day.

At this time, there were not many people left on Conch Island. Apart from some logistics personnel who were still cleaning up the island, all the other people had disappeared. Almost all the warships had sailed out of the port, and only a few small boats were moored there.

Early this morning, Zhang Dingbian led all the Nanyang Allied Forces to the Jialuo Sea to ambush the Siamese National Preceptor's fleet. The preparations were already in place in the Jialuo Sea.

At this moment in the Jialuo Sea, Libona looked at Zhang Dingbian, who was looking at the nautical chart, and said, "God of War, won't we miss the Siamese navy if we ambush them here?"

Upon hearing this, Zhang Dingbian pointed to the nautical chart and said, "It's impossible to avoid it. Look at this nautical chart. The only safe sea area to reach Conch Island is the Jialuo Sea. Other places are either too far away or full of reefs. Only the Jialuo Sea is an excellent place to go."

"Since it's an inevitable route, surely the Siamese wouldn't fail to realize that this is also the best place to ambush them?"

Zhang Dingbian chuckled and said, "So what if you figured it out? We're not just going to use a sneak attack to decide the outcome."

"In a moment, the Grand Preceptor and I will lead eighty main ships to meet the enemy head-on here."

"The remaining forty warships are divided into two groups, lying in ambush behind the two islands on the left and right. Once we engage in battle, they will launch a surprise attack from both flanks and then only destroy the rear supply ships of the Siamese army. They must make a scene."

"As for the battlefield ahead, I will use the Two Dragons Playing with a Pearl Formation, forming a double trap inside and out. As long as the Imperial Advisor is in the middle, with the army giving you a boost, you can temporarily gain the power to fight against a second-stage Molten God."

"The rest depends on the combined efforts of all armies to strive for a decisive victory against the enemy!"

Zhang Dingbian said this, but Bona's face did not relax at all. On the contrary, it became more serious. It seemed that today was bound to be a tough battle!

Thinking this, Libona asked, "By the way, when will your lord be able to join the battle? He can't just hide in the back and not come out, can he?"

Upon hearing this, Zhang Dingbian frowned. What Li Bona said made perfect sense. Your war of national protection in the South Seas made my lord risk his life. What benefits would it bring to my lord if we won?
Therefore, it was a favor if my lord helped, and it wouldn't have been wrong if he didn't. But now this Li Bona is talking like this; he's truly an ungrateful person.

Thinking this, Zhang Dingbian did not show his displeasure, but instead said with a smile, "Don't worry, my lord is currently in seclusion cultivating. When he comes out of seclusion, he will definitely come to participate in the war."

After saying this, Libona said, "If we had done so earlier, we should have brought your lord with us when we came. Now, given the current situation, we don't know if your lord will be able to arrive in time!"

After saying this, Zhang Dingbian's face turned ugly. He was really taking advantage of their kindness.

Thinking this, Zhang Dingbian said, "Don't worry, our lord knows what he's doing."

Upon hearing this, Libona sighed and said, "Very well!"

He then walked back to his own large cabin. Once inside, the captains of the various ships of the Nanyang Allied Forces were already prepared. They looked at Li Bona and asked, "Grand Preceptor, what do you think?"

Li Bona said, "Don't worry, with my national teacher here, that Siamese national teacher can't cause any trouble. I can kill King Wuping, and I'm not much weaker than that Siamese national teacher."

Upon hearing this, everyone in the room was invigorated and filled with fighting spirit.

When he saw that many of the allied troops had left, Li Bona's face darkened. The Han people were indeed untrustworthy. They had promised to help, but they hadn't come. He hoped that Chen Jiu Si would arrive in time for the afternoon's battle.

Otherwise, our own master would not be able to withstand that Siamese Pasong!
Thinking this, Libona closed his eyes, his gaze filled with deep apprehension—apprehension towards the Siamese national teacher.

What he actually wanted was to gain something for nothing. Ideally, Chen Jie could also kill the Siamese national teacher, so that he could use Chen Jie's name to obtain even greater benefits.

King Wuping made a huge profit from this move. If he could add the achievement of killing the Siamese national teacher, he would become the number one person in the South China Sea.

Thinking of this, Li Bona felt a little emotional, but now that Chen Jiu Si hadn't come, he was quite unhappy.

But I can't say much; I'll see how things go first.

……

In the afternoon, a thin fog rose over the sea. Although it did not affect close-up viewing, it made it very difficult to see from a distance, which made it easier for Zhang Dingbian to ambush the enemy.

At this time, on the right side of the Jialuo Sea, there is an island shaped like a turtle's back, called Turtle Back Island. There is a newly built wooden frame on Turtle Back Island.

On the wooden frame, a sailor was observing, his eyes fixed on the sea. A thin mist hung over the sea, making it difficult to see the general outline but the details.

Just then, a colossal object suddenly burst forth from the depths of the mist. The lookout was startled, then immediately shouted to those behind him, "Quickly, spread the word! The Siamese warships are here!"

Indeed, it was a Siamese warship. At the bow of the ship stood a man gazing out to sea. This man was none other than the Siamese royal advisor, Pasom.

Behind him were thirty warships of the Holy Church, and following behind these thirty warships were more than thirty pirate ships flying various pirate flags.

Upon seeing this, the lookout was startled again and shouted, "Notify the God of War, we have spotted sixty enemy ships: thirty Siamese warships and thirty pirate ships."

"Yes!"

The messenger immediately relayed the order, and the message quickly reached Zhang Dingbian and Li Bona. Upon hearing this, Li Bona's expression changed, and he said, "Siam has actually gathered up pirate ships! What... what should we do?"

Upon hearing this, Zhang Dingbian's gaze sharpened, and he said, "Heh, what else can we do? Only a battle!"

(End of this chapter)