64: Chapter 64 Low-grade Profound Rank [Dragon-Devouring Gu Qi]!

Huoyun City, the main hall of the Imperial Palace.

"Riding on the remaining might of seven generations and exhausting one hundred and seventy-three years of time, I have finally reached this step..."

Huoyun Country monarch Song Chengshan wore a nostalgic look in his eyes, sighing in his heart for the endurance of over one hundred and seventy years.

He was the founding monarch of Huoyun Country, having once led numerous subordinate generals to carve out a path of survival in the troubled times and established Huoyun Country.

However, as his age grew older and older, the subordinate generals by his side grew old and passed away one by one.

Song Chengshan's fear of dying of old age had also reached its Peak.

Fortunately, right in his later years, due to a fortuitous coincidence, he scavenged a [Puppet Body-Double Secret Art] Alchemist technique from the common folk.

The so-called Alchemist technique was a secret art that an Alchemist could cast.

An Alchemist was a Mortal who had failed to bring Spiritual Qi into their body, absorb Spiritual Qi, and advance into a Qi-Refining Immortal Cultivator.

Relying on this Puppet Body-Double Secret Art, Song Chengshan borrowed the body of his own Bloodline descendants, maintaining his own spiritual intelligence through the method of transferring and blending his Soul with his Bloodline descendants.

In the one hundred and seventy-three years since the founding of Huoyun Country, the upper echelons of Huoyun Country had changed seven monarchs.

Every single monarch had an extremely short lifespan, unexpectedly passing away in their early twenties.

This was precisely because of the influence of the Puppet Body-Double Secret Art.

But to Song Chengshan, this was of little consequence.

Anyway, the first thing he did after replacing his body was to appoint a queen and concubines.

As long as he desperately gave birth and desperately created people, his descendants would be endless, and there would be plenty of bodies for him to replace.

Furthermore, not only could the newly appointed queen and concubines bear children for him.

Because the previous monarch's lifespan was too short, the previous queen and concubines could also become targets for Song Chengshan's reproduction.

However, because Song Chengshan discovered that when the crown prince's body united with the queen, the offspring born by the queen would mostly carry deformities or some kind of problems.

Coupled with the fact that the queen was quite familiar with every move of Song Chengshan, some smart queens could even deduce from Song Chengshan's sudden death and the crown prince's sudden massive transformation—

—to perceive some anomalies.

Therefore, starting one hundred and twenty years ago, when Song Chengshan transferred his Soul into the crown prince's body, the very first thing he did was to order people to secretly kill the queen.

This was to prevent the Puppet Body-Double Secret Art he mastered from being exposed.

"Using the Puppet Body-Double Secret Art like this to operate for over a century, the Dragon-Swallowing Gu Qi... is finally going to condense!"

Song Chengshan's heart was uplifted.

He sat back up on the dragon throne, his eyes slightly closed, as if merging into one with the shadows of the century-old court.

Subsequently, his hands slowly raised, his ten fingers like hooks and claws, crossing and forming seals in front of his chest, while his mouth began to chant a low and distant incantation:

"Bloodline flows through the profound abyss, the Soul inherits seven generations."

"Dragon insects lurk in hibernation, devouring veins to form a fetus."

"A hundred years of mornings and dusks, all transform into firewood."

"Today the sacrificial altar is opened, offering all skeletons."

"I take dragon blood as the catalyst and national fortune as firewood—"

The incantation reverberated within the spacious grand hall, causing the candles in the hall to sway without wind. Amidst the flickering light and shadows, it was as if a dragon shadow rose up, only to be swallowed by a ferocious Gu insect.

Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!

A violent hurricane suddenly poured from outside the hall into the grand hall.

At the same time, the clear weather outside suddenly darkened at this moment, and dark clouds pressed heavily upon the city above the vault of heaven, as if a violent storm was about to be whipped up.

Outside the Imperial Palace Area, the clamor and screams of the common folk in Huoyun City rose and fell one after another.

Strands of scarlet blood, like rivers converging into the sea, soared up from the city and rapidly converged into the grand hall of the Imperial Palace.

As soon as these scarlet blood currents passed through the front of the grand hall, they were like undergoing a rebirth, changing from a scarlet color to a reddish-gold color.

Within these reddish-gold blood currents carried all the national fortune of Huoyun City from its founding until now, over one hundred and seventy-some years, exuding an aura that shook one's mind and Soul.

A strong flash of wild joy flickered in Song Chengshan's eyes, and his fingertips flew like lightning, forming a complex hand seal.

Immediately after, this hand seal fiercely decreed towards that mass of reddish-gold blood of the ten thousand people in mid-air, shouting sternly:

"Blood of the ten thousand people, return entirely to my body!"

"Dragon-Swallowing Gu Qi—awaken!"

The decree was like thunder, reverberating within the grand hall.

The next second, that mass of reddish-gold blood of the ten thousand people trembled in response, beginning to drastically shrink and condense inwards.

The blood color gradually faded its reddish glow, transforming into a pure and dazzling golden color!

Finally condensing into a dazzling golden stream that slightly pulsed as if it had life—

Profound Rank Low Grade, [Dragon-Swallowing Gu Qi]!

"Hahaha! The path of the Immortal Cultivator, it is done!"

Song Chengshan burst out into unbridled, wild laughter.

This wild laughter, he had suppressed for a full one hundred and seventy-three years!

Thinking back, he, Song Chengshan, had already become an Alchemist at the young age of twenty.

However, to advance from an Alchemist to a Qi-Refining Immortal Cultivator, two thresholds were still required.

The first was Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi.

If one could not master a strand of Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi, there would be absolutely no possibility of stepping onto the path of the Immortal Cultivator in this lifetime.

But how precious was Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi?

Even the aristocratic clans of Daliang Country only had a portion of gifted clansmen who could harvest a strand of Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi, thereby drawing Qi into the body and becoming an Immortal Cultivator.

And the second was talent.

Even if there was Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi, if this strand of Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi was not compatible with oneself, it would still be very difficult to bring this Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi into the body.

If forced into the body, there was even the risk of exploding and dying.

To Song Chengshan, he could not cross a single one of these two thresholds.

Speaking of Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi, he originated from an even more difficult spirit-less land in the Southern Wilderness, making it hard to obtain.

Speaking of talent, his talent was mediocre; even with the most common Yellow Rank Low Grade Spiritual Qi like [Xiaoqing Spiritual Qi], he could not integrate it into himself.

Fortunately, his Opportunity was quite profound.

He was fortunate to obtain a [Puppet Body-Double Secret Art], which allowed him to gain at most over two hundred years of lifespan through substitute descendants.

And he obtained another [Dragon-Swallowing Gu Qi Refining Secret Technique], allowing him to refine this [Dragon-Swallowing Gu Qi] that was extremely compatible with the monarch's body by sacrificing national fortune!

With both items in hand, coupled with the slaughtering actions of Qin Muyuan, he, Song Chengshan... could finally set foot on the path of the Immortal Cultivator and vie for longevity!

"Qin Muyuan, you have done very well!"

A rare, nearly genuine look of gratitude flashed across Song Chengshan's eyes.

He had already secretly decided in his heart that after he successfully refined the Dragon-Swallowing Gu Qi and when Qin Muyuan stormed into the hall, he could grant him a chance to survive—

With the Martial Cultivator talent Qin Muyuan displayed, as long as he was willing to bow his head as a vassal and pledge allegiance to himself.

He, Song Chengshan, would be willing to give Qin Muyuan a chance to forge a warrior contract!

...

When the sound of battle outside the grand hall of the Imperial Palace and in Queqian Square subsided.

Song Chengshan, who had all along been sitting upright on the dragon throne, suddenly opened his eyes from his closed-eye state.

A bright piercing light flashed in his eyes, and an extremely tyrannical Immortal Cultivator aura emanated from his entire body.

"You have come."

Song Chengshan raised his eyes, looking at the youth slowly walking into the grand hall, his entire body stained with fresh blood, resembling a bloody person.

Song Chengshan could perceive that not a single trace of blood on this black-haired, black-eyed youth's body belonged to himself, but all came from the soldiers, Martial Masters, and Martial Artists slaughtered by the youth outside.

Moreover, the youth's state, after slaughtering thousands of enemies outside, not only did not decline, but instead became even more flourishing.

This flourishing state made Song Chengshan quite satisfied.

Only this kind of Martial Cultivator was qualified to serve as a warrior for him, who had now refined the [Dragon-Swallowing Gu Qi]!