Chapter 81: Chapter 80: Nation-Destroying Giant Beast, Heaven-Swallowing Flood Dragon

Cyan Mountain.

Swarms of martial artists surged forward, clustered densely around the hundred-zhang stone tablet, carefully studying the inscriptions upon it.

Zhao Wei, General Office of the Divine Martial Bureau of Qin Country, wearing a set of pitch-black full body armor, with a sharp battle blade slung across his back, hurriedly arrived.

"It’s the Absolute Saber King!"

Upon seeing him, the crowd instinctively parted, allowing Zhao Wei to pass smoothly.

"General Zhao, there’s a significant discovery! The writings on this hundred-zhang stone tablet are actually ancient scripts from the Spring and Autumn period." A scholar who was translating the tablet’s inscriptions looked up, saw Zhao Wei, and promptly reported.

During the Jin Country era, beneath Cyan Mountain, there was a female disciple who recorded history with ink and brush. Her surname is no longer traceable, but among three pages of remnants, she called herself "Spring." Within the lines, she frequently mentioned her childhood stories with her elder brother "Autumn": fertilizing fields together, catching fish and shrimp, and flying kites in the meadows.

"Autumn" was gifted since childhood, able to read at the age of eight, renowned throughout the countryside as a prodigy.

Later, "Autumn" left home with a white-bearded elder to become an apprentice under the Cyan Mountain Sect, during the era closest to the Cyan Mountain Immortal.

Many scholars surmise that this "Autumn" might be one of the sages whose name was lost in the Cyan Mountain Transmission during that celestial calamity three hundred years ago.

"Spring"’s disciples, inheriting her legacy, all considered recording the behaviors of Cyan Mountain as their duty. Later, scholars discovered in a lineage the great sage who "created the characters"—Cang.

He was actually the founder of modern writing.

It turns out the ancestors were so interesting in their youth. Thus, the matters of "Spring and Autumn" gradually became known online.

Hence, that romantic era when Qingzi lived and sages were abundant gradually came to be known as—"Spring and Autumn."

Zhao Wei’s expression was solemn as he nodded, his rough hand gently caressed the mirror-like smooth surface of the stone tablet:

"During the three hundred years of celestial calamities, the Cyan Mountain Ancestral Land suffered eight meteor strikes, over three hundred earthquakes, was set on fire by thieves, and was ultimately forced flat by people."

"After the sovereign unified the nation, the Cyan Mountain Temple was rebuilt here, enshrining Seven Saints and eighty-nine sages. Subsequent emperors held sacrificial ceremonies here, yet no one ever discovered this stone tablet."

"Its emergence at this timing..." Zhao Wei pondered, his brow furrowing.

The scholar, hearing this, also found it peculiar: "In the past, when the king intended to complete the Cyan Mountain Transmission, he dispatched thousands of scholars to investigate various parts of Cyan Mountain for decades, yet found nothing."

"Something this big in Cyan Mountain could not have gone undiscovered all this time."

Zhao Wei’s gaze was tightly fixed on the hundred-zhang stone tablet that loomed like a small mountain, his eyes deep as an abyss, "Why did that legendary Cyan Mountain Immortal choose to reveal traces at this moment?"

"General Zhao, the translation is complete."

At this time, another scholar respectfully presented the translated text to Zhao Wei, "This appears to be an extraordinary cultivation technique."

Zhao Wei accepted the translation, reading it aloud one word at a time: "Purple, Sky, Innate, Skill."

As he delved deeper into reading, Zhao Wei’s expression gradually turned thunderstruck, "This... this is actually a martial inheritance beyond the Innate Realm..."

In the thirty-ninth year of Qin Country during the Spiritual Energy Recovery, Innate Techniques sprouted up like bamboo shoots after rain.

However, even the strongest, hailed as the "pillar of the nation," could not cross the threshold of the Innate Realm. Along with many Innate Experts, he believed the path of martial arts had reached its end, thus seeking new paths, imagining that if humans could harness "Spiritual Qi" like giant beasts, they might reach greater realms.

Yet the human body’s limitations made "Spiritual Qi" difficult to retain; they were secretly exploring the mysteries of absorbing "Spiritual Qi."

And now, a complete martial inheritance had appeared before them, proving that as early as five thousand years ago, sages had already walked before them.

Zhao Wei read every single word to the end.

"Those who comprehend this diagram shall inherit my Martial Arts Will, left by the Cyan Mountain Daoist Master as the Cyan Mountain True Inheritance."

Zhao Wei slowly lifted his head, focusing on the two faintly discernible volumes—Divine Monkey Fighting the Sun and Daoist Pulling Sword and Cutting Heaven map. Although the diagrams were imposing, he felt only their form, not their spirit.

He gazed at the martial artists present, inquiring one by one if any could understand the mysteries within, only met with silence and shaking heads in response.

"Zi Xia."

A scholar adjusted his glasses and stepped forward, "This name was mentioned in a record of Qingfeng Sword Saint, a peak in Cyan Mountain named Zi Xia, the former residence of an Immortal."

Another scholar added, "Zi Xia also appeared in the records of the Cyan Mountain Sword Holder. This Purple Sky Innate Skill was the original ’Innate Technique’ for martial artists during the Spring and Autumn period, certainly an Immortal’s martial arts!"

[Zhao Wei decisively entrusted this volume of Purple Sky Innate Skill back to Qin Country’s First Pavilion; after meticulous study by Grandmasters, they discovered this cultivation technique not only cultivates ’Purple Sky Qi’ but also prolongs life.]

[It can compatibly integrate with all ’Innate Techniques.’]

[Moreover, it possesses an astounding effect—it can enhance a practitioner’s aptitude, even enabling one to return to the Innate Realm.] 𝙛𝒓𝓮𝒆𝔀𝒆𝙗𝓷𝒐𝙫𝒆𝙡.𝒄𝓸𝓶

[Quickly, within nine years of martial arts education, an additional subject of Purple Sky Innate Skill was introduced, with this cultivation technique, most effective for six-year-old children, significantly enhancing their aptitude and comprehension, paving a wide and smooth road for their future martial journey.]

[After three years, Qin Country embarked on its first hunt of the country-level giant beast, Heaven-Swallowing Flood Dragon, in the coastal city of Weicheng. After a bloody and unparalleled slaughter, one king and seven marquises fell heroically, with the remaining princes also severely injured, while the Heaven-Swallowing Flood Dragon was similarly deeply wounded, its tail severed and horns broken, fleeing into the deep sea, vanishing without a trace.]

[Afterward, Qin Country was marked by the Heaven-Swallowing Flood Dragon, returning from time to time.]

[Ten years later.]

[With the profound foundation of Purple Sky Innate Skill, Qin Country nurtured dozens of ’King’ level powerhouses during crises.]

[Confrontation resumed, and the Heaven-Swallowing Flood Dragon’s former might was entirely gone, driven into a frantic retreat.]

[Fifty years later, clouds gathered anew.]

[That Heaven-Swallowing Flood Dragon, on other islands, ran rampant, devouring human races from several countries, completing another evolution, astonishingly gaining the power to wield the ’Power of Wind and Rain.’

It summoned towering waves, akin to a ferocious beast’s rampage, submerging vast coastal cities, causing untold destruction, cries everywhere.]

[Under its command, many giant beasts were gathered, composing a formidable force, launching a fierce counterattack on Qin Country, resulting in significant territorial losses, the situation perilous.]

[In the face of the Heaven-Swallowing Flood Dragon’s astounding transformation, at Qin Country’s First Pavilion, all were grave, brows furrowed. The Heaven-Swallowing Flood Dragon not only dramatically increased in strength, acquired wisdom, but could also command the power of wind and rain.]

[At this moment, it could no longer be viewed simply as a giant beast, but should be known as—a Demon!]

[Great Demon!!]

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