Zhu Tian: A journey of spiritual practice starting from Joy of Life

Chapter 289 Cracking the Black Dragon Scroll on the Mysterious Island
"Then there's no need to worry!"

Leng Feibai breathed a sigh of relief and continued to transmit his voice, "Even if that guy is on par with the Sweeping Monk, he'll just be a bit of a hassle to kill. It's not a big deal!"

You're mistaken!

The clone asked, puzzled, "Even if it were the Sweeping Monk, with your current strength, killing him would only take twenty or so moves. Why is it so troublesome!"

"If you can't kill in one move, then you're just wasting time!"

Just as Leng Feibai finished speaking and was about to disconnect, his clone suddenly screamed, catching his attention.

"Holy crap, are you crazy?!"

The clone's voice suddenly came through, "Main body, there's been an explosion here. Wait a moment, I'll go check what happened?"

Upon hearing this, Leng Feibai raised an eyebrow and turned back into the room.

But not long after, Dao Zhi's aura suddenly appeared in Leng Feibai's perception.

"Ok!"

Leng Feibai's expression changed, and the world lost its color as the explosion erupted, engulfing the entire courtyard.

The next moment, Leng Feibai left a clone here to impersonate himself, and then used the technique of blending with the world to instantly teleport to a tree in the courtyard.

At this moment, the bandit Zhi, who had just sneaked into the tree, was completely dumbfounded.

He couldn't understand why he suddenly couldn't move.

The next moment, a hand reached out from behind him and landed on Dao Zhi's shoulder.

With a flash of light, the two arrived directly on a deserted hilltop near the villa.

"Robber Zhi!"

Leng Feibai said irritably, "You've got some nerve, coming all the way here to find me. There are Qin soldiers all around. If you're exposed, you'll be in trouble."

"hey-hey!"

Dao Zhi chuckled awkwardly, but still said confidently, "Master Qingyang underestimates me. With my lightness skill and stealth ability, most people might not be able to find me!"

"Anyway, the people from Luo Wang are already outside the city. If you don't change your ways, my brother will be the one with a headache!"

Leng Feibai stared intently at Dao Zhi and asked directly, "Speak, what do you want from me?"

"Big Hammer and I robbed the scroll that Qin sent to Fusu. The Grand Prince asked me to invite you over to see if you can break the scroll!"

As soon as he finished speaking, Leng Feibai's lips twitched involuntarily, and he raised his hand to put it on Dao Zhi's shoulder.

"What are you doing?"

Before Dao Zhi could finish speaking, the surrounding scenery suddenly changed, and the two were back in the small village where the Mo family was hiding.

"elder brother!"

Leng Feibai pulled Dao Zhi into the house. Inside, Ji Yan, along with several leaders of the Mo family, were gathered around a table.

In the very center of the table, there was a uniquely shaped scroll.

"younger brother!"

Ji Yan waved for Leng Feibai to sit down, then pointed to the scroll on the table and said, "This is the Black Dragon Scroll researched by the Gongshu family, containing powerful..."

"No need to say it!"

Leng Feibai released Dao Zhi and said, "I've heard everything from Dao Zhi. Brother, did you call me here to ask me to help you crack this thing?"

After saying that, Leng Feibai looked at the Black Dragon Scroll and said, "Six Paths of the Jiazi Lock, 100,000 variations, even Master Ban would have a headache for several days before he could unlock this thing!"

"You actually managed to tell that this is a six-year cycle lock!"

Master Ban was taken aback, but Leng Feibai said calmly, "The Yin-Yang School and the Gongshu School have a long-standing partnership. Most of the mechanisms and tools used by the Yin-Yang School were made by the Gongshu School. Especially these Six Jiazi Locks. My apprentice, Xiao Ling, almost lost her life because of these broken locks back then!"

After saying that, Leng Feibai raised his hand and released a burst of true qi that immediately enveloped the black dragon scroll.

"What are you doing!"

"Excuse me, please be quiet."

Leng Feibai said calmly, "Otherwise, I can't guarantee that I can take the contents out intact!"

As soon as he finished speaking, a golden light flashed in Leng Feibai's eyes, and the true qi enveloping the black dragon scroll began to work.

The next moment, the distinctive smell of strong acid appeared in the air.

To everyone's astonishment, streaks of acidic liquid flew out from the edge of the black dragon scroll, gathering in mid-air and condensing into a ball of acidic liquid.

"This, this, this!"

Master Ban looked at the changes before him, his jaw so big it almost dislocated.

The others were also surprised. Even Ji Yan, who had called Leng Feibai to handle the situation, did not expect that Leng Feibai could extract the strong acid from the Black Dragon Scroll so easily.

Leng Feibai's expression didn't change much. His fingers trembled slightly, and the Black Dragon Scroll reacted, with one component after another flying out of it.

Not long after, a piece of cloth fell from mid-air and covered the mechanical parts.

"okay!"

Leng Feibai said calmly, "I've dismantled the Black Dragon Scroll. You can handle the rest yourselves."

After saying that, Leng Feibai carried the blob of acid water outside. With a thought, he took out a bucket of quicklime that he had prepared in advance from the Twelve-Story Building and threw the strong acid into it.

Watching the reaction between the acid and quicklime, Leng Feibai twitched his fingers slightly, and a deep blue talisman appeared in his hand.

Tongtianlu - Decomposition Talisman
The talisman flew out, destroying the lime and strong acid completely.

After dealing with those things, Leng Feibai turned around and went back inside.

At this moment, everyone in the room was holding the piece of cloth and passing it around to read.

Although Leng Feibai used an unknown method to dismantle the Black Dragon Scroll, they still had no way of getting any information from the cloth.

"how's it going!"

As soon as Leng Feibai entered, Gao Jianli handed him the piece of cloth.

"This is a secret technique!"

Leng Feibai directly revealed what was written on the cloth: "The Thousand Secret Language Technique, the strongest secret language technique of the Yin-Yang School! It adds the principles of Yin-Yang, Five Elements, and Eight Trigrams to the original grammar, and the number of variations is ten times that of the Black Dragon Scroll!"

"ten times!"

Dao Zhi feigned surprise, counting on his fingers and exclaiming dramatically, "Doesn't that mean this secret language technique has a million variations?! How can we possibly unravel it?"

"That's all I can do to help you!"

Leng Feibai shrugged and said, "Perhaps you can have Tianming and the others bring Zhang Zifang here."

That guy's smarter than a monkey; he should have a way to help you!

After saying that, Leng Feibai turned into nothingness and disappeared from the room.

Seeing Leng Feibai's actions, the others' lips twitched for a moment, but they were used to his hurried personality.

Inside the courtyard, Leng Feibai, who had just sat down, also received a message from that clone.

The sound, resembling an explosion, that occurred around the clone was caused by Wei Zhuang and Sheng Qi's fight.

Furthermore, at the explosion site, the severely injured Mechanical Warrior was also discovered. His injuries were not much less severe than those he suffered when he was brutally beaten by the giant iron hammer in the Mechanical City in the original story.

Leng Feibai found it laughable. Was this the world's will gradually correcting the absurd plot?

"Don't worry about it. Since the timeline has already started to correct itself, he will definitely be Jing Tianming's test subject for researching mechanical arts in the future. We don't need to care about him at all."

After saying that, Leng Feibai returned to his bed and went to concentrate on practicing his meditation.

Time flies, and half a month has passed in no time.

During this period, the events that occurred were largely the same as those in the original story.

Leng Feibai, on the other hand, stayed in the villa and rarely went out except to chat with Fusu occasionally.

Even the assassins from the Luo Wang organization that Zhao Gao initially sent to monitor him couldn't help but complain to the Zhao state that Leng Feibai was an extremely boring guy who spent all day in the courtyard eating, sleeping, and going to the outhouse, and then just sat motionless in the house.

As time went on, even Zhao Gao stopped sending people to keep an eye on Leng Feibai.

Leng Feibai just smiled at this, while complaining inwardly about why Xiaomeng hadn't arrived in Sanghai City yet.

At the same time, the group of clones that Leng Feibai had sent overseas to search for the Seven Constellations of the Azure Dragon also sent a message to Leng Feibai.

After half a month, they finally found the large island marked on the map.

After hearing this, Leng Feibai focused his mind and used the eyes of one of his clones to carefully observe the island below.

The island is quite large, roughly estimated to be over 200,000 square kilometers.

The island is covered with lush vegetation and has crisscrossing mountain ranges.

Upon seeing this, the clones scattered in several directions, including the southeast, northwest, and southwest, while simultaneously releasing their Heavenly Vision and Earthly Hearing abilities to scan the entire island.

An hour later, the six clones gathered together and began to communicate.

"I don't sense any human presence over there, have you noticed?"

The other clones also shook their heads, indicating that they had not detected any human presence. Instead, they had discovered several strange beasts, one or two of which were quite powerful. The two strongest, giant pythons with the potential to transform into dragons, were no less powerful than Gai Nie and Wei Zhuang.

Leng Feibai wasn't surprised by this, after all, there were strange beasts in Qin's Moon.

For example, the Xuanhu cultivated in Guigu, the strange big bird Bai Fenghuang, and the Butterfly-winged Bird used for reconnaissance and tracking.

However, none of them had any intention of provoking those beasts; they were only thinking about completing the task assigned by their main body as quickly as possible.

Following the map they received from the Moon Goddess, the group flew directly to a mountain range on the island.

Perhaps it was the powerful aura emanating from the group that kept the strange beasts on the island quiet and none of them dared to cause them any trouble.

The group of clones wandered around the mountain range and soon found a stone platform carved with oracle bone script on a protruding cliff halfway up the mountain. There were more than a dozen grooves on the platform.

After exchanging glances, the several clones activated the Feng Hou Qi Men technique and disappeared underground.

The character "艮" (Gen) signifies the movement of the earth dragon.

Using the Earth Dragon's ability to burrow underground, the clones directly disappeared into an underground tunnel.

The air in the underground passage was extremely thin, and the clones had no choice but to use the Turtle Breathing Technique to temporarily suppress their urge to breathe.

Carefully observing everything inside the tunnel, the group split into two groups, one in front and one behind, using their clairvoyance to thoroughly investigate whether there were any self-destruct mechanisms or traps in the cave.

Soon, the three clones that had been exploring arrived at the end of the road.

After exploring the cave and confirming that there was no such thing, one of the clones suddenly swung out a palm, releasing a powerful burst of energy that shattered the stone wall in front of it.

The stone wall shattered, and a huge hole appeared in the eyes of the three clones.

Fresh air and sunlight immediately rushed into the cave from the entrance.

The three clones breathed a sigh of relief and looked around.

Then, on the cliff a hundred meters away, the stone platform they had seen before reappeared in their sight.

"It seems this is the entrance to the cave!"

One of the clones carefully looked around and said, "I thought there would be some kind of trap here. It seems that humans in ancient times did not develop such means."

"Let's go back and talk about it first!"

Another clone calmly said, "Perhaps the powerful thing isn't here, but deep inside the cave, which would be troublesome."

As soon as he finished speaking, a surge of powerful true energy erupted from the passageway behind the three of them and rushed straight towards them.

The three men's expressions changed, and they raised their hands to release an energy barrier, blocking the true qi.

The moment they received the true qi, the three of them changed their expressions simultaneously. This true qi was of the same origin as theirs, and it was clearly released by the three clones that had entered the depths of the cave.

The true qi dissipated, and the three rushed straight inside. The sheer force of true qi erupting from the cave clearly indicated that the three had engaged in a fierce battle.

After running for about a kilometer through the passageway, the three arrived at a stone chamber about twenty feet high.

Upon entering, the three of them felt a chill run down their spines.

There stood a colossal giant, about nine zhang tall, cast in bronze, in the center of the stone chamber. It was moving its clumsy body, fighting with all its might against the three figures that had entered the cave earlier.

"You are here!"

One of the clones shouted, "Hurry up and come help! This guy is incredibly resilient. No matter what..."

Before he could finish speaking about obtaining the clone, the bronze giant's body flashed with azure patterns, and its fist-sized eyes instantly turned crimson. Two blazing red beams of light burst forth from them, shooting straight at one of the clones.

Seeing this, the clone dodged, letting the beam of light hit the wall beside it.

But for some reason, at the same time the beam hit the wall, a large number of blue patterns appeared on the wall, absorbing the beam released by the bronze giant.

At the same time, blue light surged from the floor and poured into the bronze giant's body.

"Damn it!"

Upon seeing this, one of his clones leaped into the air, his entire body brimming with multicolored energy, which suddenly converged in his palm.

Five Elements and One Qi

With a single, powerful strike, the Five Elements Qi energy slammed directly into the giant's body.

The giant paused, but then many blue patterns appeared on his body, completely devouring and disintegrating the supreme yang attack released by the clone.

This time, everyone could see clearly that the bronze giant in front of them had runes engraved on its body. Whenever it was attacked, the corresponding runes on its body would be activated to resist and protect it.

Upon seeing this, the other clone rapidly circulated its true qi, flashed behind the bronze giant, raised its hand, and a multicolored mace appeared out of thin air in its hand.

Five Elements Killing Mace
The iron mace struck the bronze giant's back directly, but in an instant, more than a dozen talismans appeared on the bronze giant's back again.

"Defense, protection, absorption..."

The clone described the effects of the talismans, and a cold glint flashed in his eyes.

But at that moment, a cracking sound came from the bronze giant's body.

Suddenly, the bronze giant's back split open, revealing holes the size of bowls.

The next moment, more than a dozen special arrows, the kind used in ballistae, flew out and shot towards the clone.

Seeing this, the clone raised its hand and waved, causing the Five Elements Force Field to fall out of thin air, blocking all of the dozen or so arrows.

(End of this chapter)