High Martial World: I Gain Passive Skills Daily-Chapter 191 - 126: The Mountain and Sea Demon Alliance, Karmic Deeds of Good and Evil (Three-in-One)
Chen Kuang now naturally cannot act under his true identity, so he casually gave himself a sufficiently intimidating title, fabricating the persona of a reclusive master to facilitate his deception.
This time, he finally managed to escape the pursuit, faking his death to break free, having an opportunity to lie low and live a stable, developing life, thus he must not easily expose his identity again and return to a life where he cannot guarantee seeing tomorrow.
Since he is in disguise and wants to protect himself, not inviting trouble, naturally there is a difference between pretending to be strong and pretending to be weak.
To avoid conflict, one must either make others feel you are not worth targeting, or make them feel unworthy of opposing you.
Both have risks, but relatively speaking, the former is somewhat easier.
However, he is not one to endure grievances easily — the last person who made him suffer had their spine broken by him, ending up as a heap of rotting flesh.
Especially when it was the other party who provoked first and their attitude was so unfriendly, it is more prudent to pretend to be strong to intimidate the other party.
With Chen Kuang’s current various passive skills and abilities, as long as it doesn’t come to actual combat, he can sufficiently disguise himself as being at the level of the Moon Embrace Realm without revealing flaws; if he bluffs well enough, making the other party mistake him for a Grandmaster is also possible.
And if things do come to a fight...
Then, even if the opponent is a Grandmaster, he would still try to kill them.
As to why he chose the title "White Dragon True Monarch," there was no particular reason.
Firstly, he recently acquired the "Transformative Illustrations of Accord with the Dragon’s Benefit," subconsciously thinking of dragons, and secondly, because he is fond of the color white.
By self-titling this way, he would likely be thought to be the transformed form of some creature like a flood dragon.
In this world, true dragons are rare, and anything associated with dragons is naturally powerful, inherently carrying intimidation.
However, if he successfully practices the "Transformative Illustrations of Accord with the Dragon’s Benefit" and nurtures a pseudo-dragon, this title may perhaps become justified.
Upon hearing this, Wu Man was indeed shocked, her face turning a shade paler.
Daring to use "dragon" in a title implies that even if one is not a true dragon, they must have some kinship or connection with dragons.
As a snake demon, her greatest aspiration is naturally the legendary transformation from serpent to dragon, of course feeling a natural reverence for dragons.
It was just unfortunate, she understood a long time ago that legends are only legends; a snake can never truly become a flood dragon, and can only lurk in dark corners, waiting for the chance to hunt and simply fill its belly.
This White Dragon True Monarch... Could he really be an extraordinary figure?!!
In this world, it is not only the Mystic God Daoist Sect and the Pure Land that are the dominant forces; reclusive Loose Cultivator experts are numerous, only they generally have a temperament disinclined to disturbance, rarely setting foot in the mortal world.
Did I really encounter one today?
"Th-thank you, elder, for sparing my life..."
Wu Man, having just walked the edge of life and death, her divine sense still somewhat scattered, stood up shakily in a state of shock, blood flowing out from her ears, eyes, nostrils, and mouth, dripping onto the ground.
Being able to utilize divine sense related magic and divine powers, this White Dragon True Monarch is undoubtedly of the Middle Three Grades.
Without having opened the Sea of Consciousness, one’s divine sense would be weak and unanchored; forcibly practicing divine sense magic would certainly result in death by backlash.
Divine Sense, the mental consciousness of the divine soul, is one-half of what constitutes a complete cultivator.
Before breaking through to the Sea Breaking Realm, cultivators only cultivate the physical body, not the divine sense.
Or rather, it is fundamentally impossible to cultivate.
Without the Sea of Consciousness, cultivated by the physical body, serving as a vessel and anchor point, divine sense is like a rootless duckweed, a dwindling candle in the wind, scattering at the slightest touch, extinguishing with a single blow.
Under such circumstances, if one forcibly practices divine sense type magic to strengthen the divine sense, it would be akin to an untethered balloon being continuously inflated and buoyed.
Growing lighter, soaring higher.
Ultimately, the divine sense would become completely untethered from the divine soul and physical body, vanishing into the shadowy realm between life and death.
In other words, at this point, the divine sense has essentially transformed into what mortals refer to as a "ghost."
Yet, in Cangyuan, ordinary people, and even everyday cultivators, have no notion of reincarnation.
Disappearing into the shadowy realm doesn’t mean Ox Head and Horse Face will come to take you to the Underworld; rather, it signifies... death.
The so-called shadowy realm is a unique dimension between life and death where only the divine soul can exist.
Once the divine soul leaves the body and enters the shadowy realm, without the flesh to sustain it, it equates to being blind in total darkness, soon becoming lost within, ultimately being eroded by the void, turning into nothingness.
The physical body would then become akin to a living corpse, unable to awaken ever again.
In due course, it too will perish.
Conversely, for those who have practiced divine sense magic, it’s a dimensional assault against those who haven’t; the latter has no means of defense whatsoever.
Therefore, someone of the Middle Three Grades can typically crush those of the Lower Three Grades.
Yet, someone like Chen Kuang, who doesn’t play by the rules, capable of using divine sense techniques to counteract and kill a Middle Three Grades opponent, perhaps doesn’t emerge once in thousands of years.
No one would bother guessing in such an absurd direction.
In her fright, Wu Man instantly concluded that the opponent’s power level was at least the Moon Embrace Realm!
As for what level this White Dragon True Monarch actually was, she couldn’t be certain since he remained hidden and unseen.
Chen Kuang spoke, "You said just now, you are a subordinate of the Chief Constable Uncle Wang Yang? But I remember, he’s a disciple of the Divine Farmer Bureau, supposed to be our enemy, how could he employ a demon as a subordinate?"
"We"... So this White Dragon True Monarch is also a demon!
Recalling that he mentioned earlier that friends from eight hundred years ago used to call him this, it would seem that Elder Bailong must have been secluded from the world for a very long time, and had only recently reemerged into the world.
