54: Secret Book of Nine Tribulations
However, the Azure Scaled Flood Dragon in the cage wasn't so easy to kill.
As it struggled, Zhang Sheng's spiritual power was rapidly depleted!
Zhang Sheng simply let it struggle, no longer casting Spells. Inside the ice sculpture, the Azure Scaled Flood Dragon's massive mouth spewed black flames, rapidly melting the ice that trapped it.
Just as the Azure Scaled Flood Dragon was about to break free, Zhang Sheng gave an evil smile.
"Let you taste the flavor of ice and fire duality!"
After a brief control by a lightning bolt, four huge fireballs, three zhang in diameter, struck the Yao Flood Dragon from four directions.
"Let this fire burn even fiercer!"
Zhang Sheng cast Wood Prison Cage, trapping the Azure Scaled Yao Flood Dragon again. The wood fueled the flames, igniting a raging inferno.
The Azure Scaled Flood Dragon roared in agony, but Zhang Sheng's continuous control gave it no chance to counterattack!
Not only that, Zhang Sheng's only High Grade Tier 1 flying dagger was constantly searching for the Yao Flood Dragon's weak points.
As expected of a Divine Breath Realm Beast, Zhang Sheng had used almost all his means, yet still found it difficult to kill the Yao Flood Dragon. Its green scales, like Spiritual Artifacts, provided defense comparable to a High Grade Tier 1 Spiritual Artifact.
Its HP was shockingly high.
Zhang Sheng used Object Manipulation Art to control his only High Grade Tier 1 flying dagger, attempting to attack the Yao Flood Dragon's eyes and vital point, but all attempts failed; he couldn't break through its defenses at all.
"I've got it!"
A flash of inspiration struck Zhang Sheng!
The flying dagger changed direction, flying towards the Flood Dragon's excretory opening at its tail.
With spiritual power output maxed, the flying dagger began to spin at high speed, like a drill. At the same time, he cast an electric shock Spell, attaching a lightning bolt to the flying dagger!
"Whoosh!"
The Yao Flood Dragon only felt a sharp pain in its rear! At that moment, it even displayed a human-like expression of agony.
"It finally went in!"
Zhang Sheng immediately controlled the flying dagger to wreak havoc inside the Azure Scaled Flood Dragon. Although the Azure Flood Dragon's scales were like Spiritual Artifacts, its internal organs were still flesh and blood.
The powerful Divine Breath Realm Beast was now like a lamb waiting to be slaughtered!
As the flying dagger shredded the Yao Flood Dragon's heart, its massive body stopped struggling.
A blue jade plaque flew out from the corpse.
Zhang Sheng waved his arm, and the jade plaque landed in his palm!
The jade plaque shimmered with golden light, heavy as gold, emitting a rich blue glow.
"This might be the first blue jade plaque in the world." Zhang Sheng couldn't wait to learn the Cultivation Technique and Spells within it.
Divine Breath Realm Beasts were treasures from head to toe, but without the Divine Sense pressure of the Divine Breath Realm Beast, other Yao Beasts began to approach the swamp.
Zhang Sheng felt the dwindling spiritual power in his body. The Yao Beast's corpse was too difficult to carry away, so he could only choose a good spot, cast a Freeze Spell, Freeze the Yao Flood Dragon's corpse, sink it into the swamp, and retrieve it later.
After continuous battles, Zhang Sheng was unsure if he could safely exit the Secret Realm. He fully activated his Perfected State Breath Concealment Art and flew towards a small mountain.
Six flying daggers emerged simultaneously, forming a spinning silver wheel, like a tunnel boring machine, excavating an Immortal Cave in the blink of an eye.
Zhang Sheng entered the Immortal Cave and continued to dig deeper downwards.
He kept digging until he reached an underground river, and only after sealing all the openings he had dug did he let out a long sigh of relief.
The underground river was dark and eerie, but under Zhang Sheng's Spirit Eye, everything was clear down to the smallest detail.
First, restore the spiritual power in my body.
Zhang Sheng circulated his Cultivation Technique to restore spiritual power while checking his gains.
The spiritual power in the Secret Realm was dense, and spiritual power recovery was very rapid, even faster than using spiritual pearls to restore spiritual power outside.
The tactical backpack wasn't large. Zhang Sheng only kept the spoils dropped after killing Qi Sea Realm Beasts, and the most precious was undoubtedly the blue jade plaque dropped by the Azure Scaled Flood Dragon.
Zhang Sheng took out the jade plaque and placed it against his forehead. Immediately, a massive amount of ownerless Divine Sense, containing vast information, surged into his mind.
Dizziness!
He almost vomited!
Zhang Sheng incredulously sorted through the information flooding into his mind. Unlike the yellow jade plaque, this information was not only vast but also contained Divine Sense information!
"Nine Tribulations Secret Codex: The path of evolution that forges eternity through destruction."
"In the Primordial Era, ancient people observed the cycle of birth and death of all things in heaven and earth, comprehending the truth that 'life's evolution has no fixed form.' This Cultivation Technique uses the human body as a furnace, all things and spirits as fuel, and genes as a ladder to achieve a leap in life's essence. — The supreme Body Refining method!"
As all the information flooded into Zhang Sheng's mind, the blue jade plaque also shattered into ashes.
Nine Tribulations Secret Codex? A supreme Body Refining method?
For a moment, Zhang Sheng's mind was in a trance. When was the Primordial Era? And what level of method was this Nine Tribulations Secret Codex?
Everything was filled with unknown mysteries.
The information contained within this Cultivation Technique was astonishingly vast. Zhang Sheng continuously sorted through the information and found that, according to the outline of this Cultivation Technique, there were nine cultivation Realms.
However, in Zhang Sheng's mind, there were only the cultivation methods for the Foundation Establishment Realm, Qi Sea Realm, and Divine Breath Realm. The other six Realms were nowhere to be found.
Zhang Sheng shook his head. He was too greedy. Even if there were subsequent cultivation methods, they would probably burst his brain.
He hadn't expected that the Divine Breath Realm jade plaque would involve Divine Sense and couldn't be recorded through text.
This meant Zhang Sheng couldn't write down this Cultivation Technique and pass it on to others. At this moment, Zhang Sheng also realized that what everyone called a jade plaque was actually a Cultivation Technique Jade Slip.
A Jade Slip itself was a special Spiritual Artifact, one of the few items capable of holding a Cultivator's Divine Sense.
If someone wanted to pass on a Divine Breath Realm Cultivation Technique to others, besides possessing Divine Sense, they would also need to Cultivate this Cultivation Technique to at least the Proficient Realm and project the Divine Sense containing the Cultivation Technique's content into a blank Jade Slip.
And both refining a jade plaque and imprinting a Cultivation Technique required at least a Divine Breath Realm Cultivator to complete.
This also meant that Divine Breath Realm Cultivation Techniques and Spells could not be widely disseminated.
Zhang Sheng quickly realized, "Doesn't that mean every Divine Breath Realm Beast in the Secret Realm is a valuable resource!"
"Now, a new Blue-level Secret Realm appears every day globally. I wonder if anyone else knows about this, but I must act quickly!"
"Divine Breath Realm Beasts are not just Yao Beasts; they are also the threshold for Divine Breath Realm Cultivation!"
"Without a written method of dissemination, the only way to obtain Divine Breath Realm Cultivation Techniques now is to kill Yao Beasts."
"But how many people can defeat a Divine Breath Realm with a Qi Sea Realm cultivation?"
Zhang Sheng recalled another Divine Breath Realm Beast — the Silverback Azure Wolf!
Having suffered a self-detonation attack from Song Xian's Clone, that Silverback Azure Wolf was already severely injured. This might be a good opportunity.
Moreover, Zhang Sheng had already memorized its spiritual power aura... Meanwhile, elsewhere.
"What? You encountered a Wind Falcon again?" Song Xian looked at the two distraught individuals. "It's all my fault. If my main body had gone with you, something like this might not have happened."
In the underground cultivation hall, everyone looked solemn.
"Song Xian, Lin Jin, Tie Fan, why are only you back? Where is Zhang Sheng?" Yan Xueli asked anxiously.
Lin Jin explained everything that happened in the Secret Realm in detail.
"We didn't personally witness Zhang Sheng's demise. The military's battle has ended, and they are dispatching silent drones to search for Zhang Sheng's whereabouts."
"Dean Yan, Dean Hou, the failure of this operation is my responsibility. I request my main body to lead a team to bring Zhang Sheng back! I want to see him alive, or his corpse!"