132: Chapter 125: The Truth Behind Dragon Transformation!

132: Chapter 125: The Truth Behind Dragon Transformation!

“The records of the previous two Dragon Transformations are not plentiful…”

After the banquet had dispersed, Wang Ye went to visit Old Liu’s residence in the Shen Family.

In the innermost house, Shen Yixin took out some of his records.

“But it’s not as if there were no traces…” Shen Yixin handed the notebook to Wang Ye and said, “After all, every main family that the Old Ancestor propped up was among the top techniques in the world, and most were exchanged from outside.

Through the practice of marrying into the family, there are records of where these techniques came from.”

When Wang Ye took it and began to look it over closely, he was shocked after just a glance.

The Shen Family had collected so many techniques?

The sheer quantity was almost on par with the Yin Yang Academy!

“Why keep collecting new techniques?” Wang Ye asked curiously, “If the first Dragon Transformation was a success, doesn’t that mean that the nine main houses prepared at that time were correct?

Why then change to completely different techniques afterward?”

“That’s because…” Shen Yixin chuckled and said, “Every Dragon Transformation is actually a process of deception, so each time, you need to prepare new stuff.

The same trick won’t fool the heavenly tribulation twice!”

“Deception?

Heavenly tribulation?” Wang Ye was completely confused.

“The Nine Sons undergoing Dragon Transformation will face tribulation!” Shen Yixin explained patiently, “That is to say, the Dragon Transformation Tribulation.

According to ancient records, true dragons had lifespans like the ancient demons of yore, potentially tens of thousands of years.

Dragons are lustful by nature.

There are many demons with dragon blood in the world.

The so-called Dragon Transformation Technique’s original principle was reversion to ancestry!”

“By using demon’s bloodlines as a receptacle, activating it with various techniques related to dragons recorded in ancient books, ultimately causing the receptacle to revert, reshape its bloodline, trigger heavenly tribulation, and undergo an artificial Dragon Transformation.

That is what’s known as ‘Dragon Transformation’.”

“However…” Shen Yixin said, shaking his head, “the records are too sparse, making every attempt fall just short.

Even if they could trigger the heavenly tribulation, they would only produce a half-formed product of Dragon Transformation, extending life by only three hundred years.

To extend life again, they would need to replicate the previous method, and the techniques…

they couldn’t be the same as before.”

“I see…” Wang Ye nodded in understanding, once again marveling: truly, there is nothing under heaven that doesn’t exist.

“Then why did the problem occur ahead of schedule this time?” Wang Ye inquired curiously, “And you mentioned earlier that techniques cannot be repeated, so why did the Shen Family’s senior house use techniques that had already been used before?”

“This was also what my older brother couldn’t figure out…” Shen Yixin sighed and said, “At that time, my brother was nearing three hundred years of age, the limit for magicians.

Only then did he gather clues that his techniques were actually the same ones the Old Ancestor used in the last successful Dragon Transformation.

As for why the Old Ancestor would use the same techniques on him, he found it incomprehensible, and it troubled my brother, who was always so astute.”

“Moreover, at that time, the Shen Family’s ninth house was indefinitely delayed.

The Old Ancestor spent nearly a hundred years obsessively experimenting with the so-called Insect Sorcery on Dry Cloud Island, almost madly.

He refused to initiate the Dragon Transformation Ceremony even as my brother’s lifespan neared its end.

My brother married Murong Yunji, and she brought back the Divine Wind Technique, which had records of the ancient Feng Long, making it a very suitable candidate for the ninth house.

Moreover, the family also had suitable descendants to inherit this technique at that time.”

“But…”

“The Old Ancestor was unwilling?” Wang Ye’s heart stirred, and he quickly asked.

“Yes!” Shen Yixin nodded.

“The Old Ancestor was fixated on the Insect Sorcery, still conducting inhumane experiments with live humans on Dry Cloud Island.

The atrocities of combining countless gu insects and humans were in the tens of thousands.

Every time we went to the island, we were horrified.

The disappearance of such a large population, how could that be kept secret indefinitely?

Back then, my older brother couldn’t bear it anymore and went to the island to confront the Old Ancestor.

It was after that dispute…

that my brother died shortly afterward.”

“Insect Sorcery…” Wang Ye seemed to have thought of something.

Looking towards the direction outside the city, he lowered his voice and said, “In the recent grand mist formation, it is said that insects were also sealed within?”

“Yes!” Shen Yixin nodded.

“We realized that very early on.

Those living dead had a terrifyingly toxic insect within their bodies.

If the ninth house had been there, maybe they could have controlled these toxic insects.

That’s when we noticed something was amiss.”

“A month ago, the Old Ancestor took over my older brother’s body and went to the West Sea.

Now, with the fog enshrouding the river, all of Jiangnan has been sealed off, and the mist is filled with those terrifying toxic insects.

Considering the Old Ancestor’s past obsession with Insect Sorcerers…

we cannot help but suspect…”

“Is this mist formation related to the Shen Family’s Dragon Transformation?” Wang Ye quickly grasped the other’s meaning.

“There’s a high probability it’s related!” Shen Yixin said in a low voice: “But we can’t figure out the details or understand what the Old Ancestor is up to.

If all this is related to the Old Ancestor, what does it signify?

Indeed, the toxic insects in the mist are terrifying, but even if one could control them, what does that have to do with the Old Ancestor’s Dragon Transformation Technique?”

Wang Ye frowned upon hearing this, as the information given to him by Chen Qing was limited, and he couldn’t draw any inferences at the moment.

“May I ask, Elder Liu, when were the remaining three houses established?

And what are their techniques?”

This question was somewhat taboo, but under the current circumstances, there was no room for concern.

Sure enough, Shen Yixin didn’t take offense and replied without hesitation: “The last three houses were established swiftly after my older brother’s death.

Old Shi’er Shen Yiqing inherited the Divine Wind Technique from my sister-in-law Murong Yunji’s family, Old Shi’yi Shen Yisen inherited the Divine Wood Technique from the Murong family of Yunnan, and Old Shi’er Shen Yichen inherited the lost Divine Fire Technique from the Nangong family of Nanyang!”

He paused, then added, “Old Shi’er’s technique is the same as my older brother’s, a repetition.

The records show that the first successful Dragon Transformation was with this Divine Fire Technique, and at that time, the Old Ancestor took on the Fire Dragon Form!”

“Fire Dragon Form?” Wang Ye asked, puzzled, “There are different forms of dragons?”

“Of course!” Shen Yixin nodded.

“There are nine dragon sons, and naturally, the dragon forms they turn into vary.

The previous generation’s Dragon Transformation was with the Serpent Technique, and it resulted in the Black Dragon Form!”

“Nine different dragon forms, varying techniques…” Wang Ye’s brow furrowed; he felt like he was onto something.

Stay calm…

calm down, Wang Ye.

Think this through carefully…

Wang Ye closed his eyes, with all the information provided by Chen Qing flashing through his mind!

Including some seemingly unimportant words…

That’s it, the unimportant words!

Wang Ye suddenly remembered something, Chen Qing had mentioned during a chat that the misty formation was named Nine Heavens Mirror Valley, with the formation consisting of nine layers, the deeper one went, the more ferocious the sealed beings became, and within the innermost layer, there were nine poisonous creatures, each possessing terrifying abilities…

Nine poisonous creatures, nine Techniques, as the dragon has nine offspring!

Wang Ye abruptly stood up!

“Minister Shaoting, have you thought of something?” Shen Yixin’s eyes lit up as he watched Wang Ye’s expression.

“I think I’ve got it…” Wang Ye’s eyes also lit up as he figured out the thread of the issue.

“Old Ancestor Shen had long been aware of the existence of the Nine Heavens Mirror Valley, and might have even made contact with the things inside the mist, using the repeated Techniques because by coincidence, those are the very Techniques that the beings inside the mist require.”

“What do you mean?” Shen Yixin furrowed his brows, a sense of unease rising in his heart.

“The nine branches of your Shen family’s generation…” Wang Ye affirmed with conviction, “are vessels!!”

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“Are you Chen Qing?”

Deep beneath the sea, inside a massive shell, Chen Qing saw for the first time the woman whom Weichi Feihong was utterly obsessed with.

However, in Chen Qing’s eyes, through the power of Divine Path to see the otherwise invisible world, he saw clearly that this immensely beautiful woman was already rotting beyond recognition, and if she didn’t find a new vessel soon, she would have at most half a year left to live!

“Junior Chen Qing pays respects to the senior!”

“So young…” the woman chuckled softly.

“I’ve heard Fei Hong mention you.

He said you know everything?”

“I wouldn’t say I know everything,” Chen Qing replied modestly.

“Do you know what the consequences are for those who disturb my slumber?” The woman smiled faintly, but a terrifying chill spread as the black liquid around them began to creep forward.

The horrific cold tightened the body of the Ghost Doll standing next to Chen Qing, who fiercely guarded in front of him, glaring at the woman.

“Ghost Doll?” The woman paused, “Impressive, quite impressive, you can actually control such an ancient seed!”

“You give me too much praise, senior…” Chen Qing smiled, observing the spreading black liquid, and he became even more certain: “Shen family, Mystic Water Technique!”

As soon as he spoke, the entire space fell silent, and the smile on the woman’s face stiffened momentarily.

“It seems the junior isn’t wrong then…” Chen Qing said with a smile: “Third Elder Shen, Shen Yimiao, she must be the vessel you’ve had your eyes on, right?”

“It seems Fei Hong wasn’t wrong…” The woman’s tone became somber.

“You do know… quite a bit!”

“Then it looks like I’m correct…” Chen Qing sighed and shook his head.

“Where is there an Old Ancestor Shen?

The moment Old Ancestor Shen first opened the Nine Heavens Mirror Valley and was tricked inside by you, he was left not even in pieces.

You used the false dragon aura to fool the Nine Heavens Mirror Valley.

That is to say, decades ago, some of you had already escaped, right?”

Weichi Feihong trembled upon hearing this, his eyes filled with horror as he looked at the woman in the shell.

He had experienced the power of these beings and had always been grateful that they were controlled by the formation.

But, to think that some of them had already escaped?

“Aren’t I right here?” The woman said with a ghost of a smile.

“Senior just didn’t escape in time…” Chen Qing also replied with a smile.

“That’s why you risked so much this time the formation restarted, running to the perimeter of the formation, and even collaborated with General Weichi.

Apart from guarding against the few of your kind still in the formation, aren’t you also eager to find out about the situation of your fellow escapees outside?”

The woman could no longer smile, staring intently at Chen Qing: “Who exactly…

are you?”

How could this man know things as if he had seen them with his own eyes?

“Someone who can cooperate with the senior,” Chen Qing said with a smile.

“Look at how much risk I’m taking by coming here; you can tell I am a man of courage.

Moreover, I can move freely in and out of the Nine Heavens Mirror Valley, so, senior…

would you consider collaborating with me?”

“What do you want?” The woman watched Chen Qing warily.

“I want your help in taking over a few more Provincial Government Offices, and then I want some information,”

“I thought you knew everything,” said the woman with a laugh.

“What information could you possibly want from me?”

“I want to know…

which of your brothers and sisters were the ones that escaped?” Chen Qing spoke somberly.

“Of the Shen family heads… which ones have already been possessed?”