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Chapter 116 Find It

The South China Sea is vast and deep.

The ocean is home to countless magical monsters, or rather, sea monsters.

They are as large as mountains and can roam freely between the deep and shallow seas, going up in the sky and down in the water, capable of anything.

The most unique of them all is the Jiaolong (蛟龙).

The Dragon King of the South China Sea is a dragon, an ancient and unusual species. In just a hundred years, he has become the dominant force in the South China Sea.

At this moment, he was perched in the crystal palace of the South China Sea Dragon Palace, his enormous body coiled together like a city wall, his scales emitting a cold, eerie blue light under the glowing pearls of the deep sea.

His head was held high, his whiskers swayed gently in the water, and his eyes were cold and ruthless, like two frozen stars.

Anyone who sees these eyes, whether they are a frog or a sea monster, will feel like a frog being stared at by a snake.

The Dragon King's eyes held no joy, anger, sorrow, or happiness.

Not only does it not see them, it does not even exist within itself. The seven emotions and six desires—joy, anger, sorrow, happiness, love, hate, and lust—are severed by it using a special method.

These emotions are useless for spiritual practice; they only interfere with judgment and slow down progress.

After cutting them down, the Dragon King's heart was left with only a cold, clean "reason".

Use ultimate rationality to manage everything, and use ultimate rationality to overcome the powerful yet stubborn instincts that have accumulated over countless years within the dragon's body and are etched into its bloodline.

Cultivation is much more difficult for demons than for humans.

Humans are naturally quick-witted, and almost all the theories about the true laws were proposed by humans, in a clear and comprehensive manner.

The demon race is different; it is inherently difficult for demons to gain intelligence.

One possible way to distinguish between a demon and a beast is to see if the demon is aware of "me". If it is not aware, it is still an ignorant beast; only if it is aware is it a demon.

Humans, on the other hand, usually become aware of "self" around the age of teenagers. The difference between them is obvious.

Even if they are aware of "self", the cultivation of the demon race is still fraught with difficulties, because what is more difficult than gaining wisdom is facing the "instinct" in their own bodies.

"Instinct" is something that has been inherited in the bloodline of the demon race for countless years, making demons strong and enabling them to survive, passed down from generation to generation, and endlessly.

The dragon can stir up storms, summon wind and rain, and has a body as strong as steel, impervious to swords and spears—these are all instincts.

Instinct makes them the rulers of the sea, but instinct also hinders their cultivation.

Throughout history, most dragons, or other demon races, have perished at the "tribulation" stage.

Tribulations, tribulations, tribulations arise from the heart.

The conflict between the body's instinctive impulses and the path of spiritual practice is as difficult as asking a 300-pound strong man to diet and exercise to lose weight.

No, it's a hundred times harder than that!

Like that two-headed beautiful python, it knew in its heart that eating people might prevent it from ever advancing further in its cultivation, but when it saw a living person walk by, it still couldn't help but open its mouth wide and swallow them whole.

For the demon race, the true law is like a poison coated in honey.

Swallow it, and you may become an immortal, live forever, or become a true power.

But more likely, they'll die even faster.

Spiritual practice is indeed this cruel.

The Dragon King did not die. He not only cultivated the true Dharma, but also successfully passed the "tribulation".

All of this was thanks to the ancient cultivation technique he practiced, "Slaying the Three Corpses".

He transformed all his emotions and desires into concrete existences, and then slashed them out, cutting out of the scope of "I".

Joy is it, anger is it, sorrow is it, happiness is it; those things are no longer part of "me," but rather discarded, irrelevant, and easily thrown away garbage.

He first slashed out the "evil corpse".

Greed, anger, ignorance, pride, doubt—all bad, dark, and negative things—can be cut away cleanly with one stroke.

From then on, he was no longer troubled by those things and could focus on his cultivation without distraction, easily stepping into the "Three Pure Ones" realm.

Then he cut out the "good corpse".

Kindness, benevolence, compassion, ideals, and beauty—these sound wonderful, but they are of no use in spiritual practice.

They can soften people's hearts, make them hesitate, prevent them from acting when they should, and make them less ruthless when they should.

After the second strike, only "profit" remained in his mind. Everything was about prioritizing cultivation and personal gain.

Do what is beneficial to spiritual practice; do not do what is detrimental to your practice. It's that simple.

Cultivation is a very difficult method. Not only did he cultivate it, but he also achieved a high level of mastery, which terrified his enemies.

Thus, he became the Dragon King of the South China Sea, a fearsome presence on the high seas.

But now, his cultivation has stalled.

The peak of the Three Pure Realms is the next step towards the unity of the Three Pure Ones and the completion of the Golden Core.

But he couldn't take that step. The cultivation of the Corpse-Slaying Technique had reached this stage, requiring him to find the "good and evil corpses" that had been severed years ago and reintegrate them into his own body in order to truly achieve "unity of the Three Pure Ones".

He has retrieved the good corpse and safely stored it deep within the Dragon Palace.

The monstrous corpse is quite troublesome.

Back then, his magical power was weak, and when he slashed out the evil corpse, he didn't control it well, and it escaped.

He didn't care then; if it ran away, so be it, it wasn't anything good anyway. But now he needs it, and he can't find it.

The Dragon King knew that the evil corpse was still in this sea.

Because the evil corpse possesses its instincts: greed, cunning, arrogance, and an inability to restrain itself.

These things won't disappear; they will drive the evil corpses to roam the seas, causing trouble and stirring up waves. As long as it remains, it will surely be found.

He opened his mouth wide, and an aura of majesty and holiness swept over the crystal palace, making him look incredibly majestic.

This is not the true Dharma, but a false Dharma.

They exploit the faith of sentient beings and sea monsters to generate illusory magical powers. Although these are illusory to the true Dharma, they are illusory to the ignorant masses.

This is true!

It is to make them worship, to make them willingly offer up their power and fear, and to make them call themselves the Dragon King!

Relying on this power, he could bestow blessings upon the ships of various merchant guilds, allowing him to win over some people and also to bestow magical power upon his subordinates to win them over.

As long as one can become stronger, true and false methods are merely means to an end.

Now, he is going to achieve the Golden Elixir and become the true master of the South China Sea!

Inside the Crystal Palace, the Seven Seas Guards and the Three Seas Guards knelt neatly before him, heads bowed, not daring to raise their heads or move.

"Go," the Dragon King said with boundless majesty, "find it. Even if you have to turn the South China Sea upside down, you must find it."

"If you don't find him, you'll all die!"

"Yes!" Ten voices rang out simultaneously, as uniformly as if they were all shouting.

From that moment on, the ocean began to surge with towering waves.

Countless sea monsters began searching for a source.