Zhang Chen maneuvered his small boat back to the Inspection and Supervision Department’s fleet, seeing Prince Pingbian’s army blockade from afar, he directly used Divine Techniques, making the small boat dive into the water. A Water-Repelling Shield appeared, enveloping the boat, allowing it to shuttle underwater without making any disturbance, silently emerging before the Inspection and Supervision Department’s fleet.
Then he used the Transportation Technique to move his beehive to the large ship, summoning Xie Lingyun over.
"You’re back? Did you gain anything on this trip?" Xie Lingyun asked, glancing at Zhang Chen seated in the cabin.
"I just transported some items, preparing to head south." Zhang Chen mentioned while pointing at the beehive beside him, "That box is filled with hornets, make sure no one disturbs it to avoid any accidental injuries."
Xie Lingyun glanced at the beehive and nodded, "I will instruct someone to take care of that later. By the way, Chengyu seems to be waking up. I can feel her breakthrough nearly successful; she’s now at the final stage. Do you want to take a look?"
"Let’s go and check it out." Zhang Chen, hearing this, got energized, stood, and walked out of the cabin.
On the way to Chengyu’s cabin, Zhang Chen stood outside the door and indeed felt Chengyu’s soul fluctuation. This girl had already broken through to the Exorcism realm and was now stabilizing her realm in the cabin.
"This girl is not simple; she seems to have secrets." Xie Lingyun whispered in Zhang Chen’s ear, "Even my father, encountering Celestial Master Zhenren from the Yellow Heaven Dao and getting into a deadly strife, has some connection to this girl."
Hearing this, Zhang Chen’s pupils contracted, and he turned to look at Xie Lingyun, not concealing, "Yellow Heaven Dao did some tricks on this girl."
With just one casual remark, Xie Lingyun understood the complexities, "So that’s how it is."
While the two were talking, the cabin door automatically opened, Xiaodouding, with hands tucked in sleeves, walked out of the cabin with an old-fashioned air, "I just heard someone whispering behind me in the room."
"Congratulations, your soul can now interfere with matter, truly stepping into the Mysterious Realm and mastering the Mysterious Power." Zhang Chen congratulated Xiaodouding with clasped fists.
With an old-fashioned air, Xiaodouding said, "I can cover for you now; stick with me, and I guarantee you’ll live lavishly."
At this, Xiaodouding gave Zhang Chen a once-over, "Where have you been running off to recently? You seem very different, but I can’t pin down exactly what changed."
Hearing Xiaodouding’s words, Zhang Chen smiled, "Went to handle something big." Then he switched the topic, "Since you’ve come out, we should celebrate well; I’ll treat everyone to a feast."
Zhang Chen remembered the dragon liver, heart, and other good things Zhou Chuan left him, right now perfect for a communal feast.
These were the organs of an Eleventh Tier expert, consuming them provides substantial nourishment. Even if Zhang Chen ate them alone with some benefits, he didn’t cultivate Martial Dao, making the dragon liver and heart’s nourishment minimal for him. Now everyone gathered together, perfect for communal consumption.
Hearing Zhang Chen’s words, Xie Lingyun couldn’t help but brighten; anything Zhang Chen called a delicacy must be a rarity.
So everyone gathered in Zhang Chen’s room, Zhang Chen asked Xie Lingyun to bring over a large pot, summoned Xie Xuan, Zhang Tuowei, Zhang Fei, Mrs. Zhang; everyone gathered in the room. Zhang Chen took out the True Dragon’s organs, revealing them to shimmer with dazzling divine glow, multicolored radiance circulating. Rich mysterious elements instantly filled the entire cabin, wanting to spread to the outside world, but Xie Xuan waved his hand to suppress the mysterious elements, disbelief in his eyes looking at the pile of organs: "These are the True Dragon’s organs..."
He had participated in the battle and naturally seen the True Dragon’s organs, though chased and targeted, in haste, he only obtained the dragon horn and Dragon Pearl, leaving him no time to fight for the True Dragon’s organs.
With so many experts vying for the True Dragon’s creation, how did Zhang Chen obtain parts of the True Dragon’s organs? Although only a portion, it was still extraordinary.
Xie Xuan found Zhang Chen increasingly unfathomable.
"Is this Zhang Shicheng’s organs?" Xie Lingyun exclaimed, hurriedly coming closer to observe, regarding that True Dragon battle, she had no qualification to partake; she could only covet the True Dragon organs, unaware of which lucky person acquired such creation.
Beside Xiaodouding heard and gulped, "Dragon liver? Really? Do you have the skill to acquire the True Dragon liver?"
Xiaodouding drooled.
Beside Mrs. Zhang appeared shocked, disbelief in gaze. Zhang Fei and Zhang Tuowei also approached, watching the glowing organs with drooling, shock in their eyes.
Hearing Xie Xuan’s words, Zhang Chen didn’t conceal, "I am close with Zhou Chuan, his benefits naturally include me."
Zhang Chen spoke while drawing the long knife at his waist, swiftly slicing on the chopping board, after cutting the organs, directly putting them into a pot with clear water to stew its original flavor.
"Slowly! Slowly!" Xie Xuan saw Zhang Chen’s actions and hurriedly shouted, "Such a precious item, how can you just simmer it like this? I have dozens of powerful herbs that perfectly complement your liver to maximize its effects."
As he shouted, Xie Xuan’s figure disappeared from the room and soon reappeared in front of the big pot with a bundle. When he opened the bundle, it revealed a millennium ginseng, Shouwu Doll, and various unrecognizable spirit medicines, shimmering with mysterious power, which Xie Xuan tossed into the pot, "Only then can we brew a pot of potent spirit medicine."
Xie Xuan was also a generous person, and since Zhang Chen was so magnanimous, he couldn’t take advantage of him.
Zhang Chen covered the pot, and Xie Lingyun beside him said, "Such a precious pot of medicine, ordinary mundane flame cannot brew it. Fortunately, I had a serendipitous encounter the other day, and now I will brew this Divine Object."
While speaking, a fist-sized light flame flickered in Xie Lingyun’s hand; it emitted no discernible temperature, yet was completely controlled by Xie Lingyun, who placed it under the iron pot, and the simmering began.
Of course, that flame was not the Sun True Flame, but merely a flame with the Sun True Flame’s power. Xie Lingyun was only at the Yin Spirit realm now, and without the Sun Bloodline, she couldn’t possibly wield the true flame.
While Xie Lingyun brewed the dragon flesh, Mrs. Zhang helped out beside her, while the little ones went off to play; Zhang Chen and Xie Xuan sat on the side drinking tea.
Xie Xuan poured tea for Zhang Chen and then began, "You have quite a connection with Zhou Chuan, don’t you? Otherwise, how could that fellow have given you the True Dragon’s internal organs?"
"We do have some connection," Zhang Chen replied, then asked in return, "How is Zhou Chuan now?"
Since Zhou Chuan fled, he hadn’t heard anything about him.
"I heard that Zhou Chuan has made great strides in Martial Dao, having refined all his acupoints, and is now searching for mysterious objects to forge his foundation. Gong Family’s Gong Hei was once outsmarted and ambushed by Zhou Chuan, allowing Zhou Chuan to escape without a trace, later selecting seven strongholds of the Gong Family and killing over three hundred of their direct descendants, which enraged the Gong Family, who issued widespread notices to capture Zhou Chuan. Zhou Chuan and the Gong Family have formed a deep enmity, and now they are truly at the point of mutual destruction." Xie Xuan said.
Upon hearing this, Zhang Chen gently tapped his knee with his finger, a serious look in his eyes, "With Zhou Chuan’s current cultivation, taking down the Gong Family shouldn’t be an issue, right?"
"Difficult! Although Zhou Chuan’s Martial Dao cultivation can rival a Ninth Tier being, the Gong Family has an incomprehensibly deep heritage, having been around for thousands of years. I heard their bloodline is extremely sinister, capable of threatening even Tenth Tier powerhouses; even a Tenth Tier being would have to avoid confrontation. They wield this strange wind—what’s it called again? Bifeng or something, and anyone caught in it, even a Tenth Tier powerhouse, would face certain death. Even a Yang God expert couldn’t withstand a blow from Bifeng," Xie Xuan said.
Zhang Chen’s pupils constricted upon hearing this, "Bifeng?"
He had certainly heard of the Bifeng’s reputation, as he hadn’t watched Journey to the West in vain. It was known that the monkey survived through the Three Calamities to attain Dao, one of which was Bifeng, needing to be evaded with Transformation Technique rather than directly resisting.
Even the monkey with the mastery of Seventy-Two Transformations couldn’t avoid it, let alone ordinary cultivators?
Bifeng was undoubtedly a deadly calamity for all cultivators.
And the Gong Family actually possesses Bifeng? It’s no wonder they’ve been around for thousands of years!
Seeing Zhang Chen understand the danger of Bifeng, Xie Xuan said, "I have some connections; perhaps I could mediate a bit in your enmity with the Gong Family... "
"No need, I’ve already made a deadly feud with the Gong Family. Many of their direct descendants have died by my hand; there’s no turning back now!" Zhang Chen sighed softly.
Xie Xuan whispered in response, "Then you should be careful not to be cornered by the Gong Family’s experts, or your life might be in danger."
Zhang Chen seemed indifferent to the warning. If it were another ancient family, he might be cautious, but with the Wind Stabilizing Pill in hand, he didn’t regard the Gong Family as a threat.
Their Divine Superpower was nothing but a breeze before him.
"By the way, could I have a look at the Secret Technique of the Inspection and Supervision Department in the Northern Land, seeing as I’m now assisting them against Prince Pingbian’s army? We’re now family after all..." Zhang Chen’s eyes zealously fixed on Xie Xuan.
Xie Xuan nodded, "Of course."
Xie Xuan then swiftly moved, reappearing with a bundle in hand which he casually tossed in front of Zhang Chen, "Inside are books unearthed from an ancient tomb. No one in our department can decipher them. You may look through them, but they must be returned afterward, and you cannot take them out."
Upon hearing this, Zhang Chen’s eyes lit up as he opened the bundle, his eyes gleaming upon seeing the books.
These were treasures indeed. If he could find a cultivation technique to progress beyond Qi Cultivation, it would be perfect.