All Heavenly destiny reduced to ashes
Chapter 380 - 28: True Martial Spine (1/3)

Chapter 380: Chapter 28: True Martial Spine (1/3)

"Ruohui, what is this..."

At the Martial Arts Field, Jin Yanhua, who was instructing You Ruhui, was somewhat puzzled. She did not know why the usually diligent girl had suddenly stopped moving.

But soon, she realized that the aura emanating from You Ruhui was abruptly growing, leaping upwards.

"A breakthrough?!" The Dragon Lady exclaimed, "How are you suddenly advancing to the Inner Strength stage?!"

You Ruhui couldn’t speak at that moment; her whole body, from her meridians to her limbs, was exceedingly joyful, like a fish returning to the river after being away from fresh water for a long time, or like a small beast returning to the forest after being trapped in a cage, feeling a moisturization akin to rain after a long drought soaking every bit of her flesh and blood and meridians.

Threads of Dragon Qi—not the Dragon Qi that only members of the Imperial Court, marked by the stamp of the Da Chen Dynasty, could summon, but a free and unbounded Dragon Qi that even someone like her, expelled from the Imperial Clan’s rolls, could summon—were coming from An Jing, slowly overflowing around her.

The foundation of You Ruhui’s strength had actually already reached Inner Strength and even far exceeded it.

Da Chen’s Emperor’s Blood naturally has several ’Divine Abnormalities’ which are extremely powerful, allowing them to possess the strength comparable to a Martial Artist at the Inner Strength stage when they reach the pinnacle of Inner Breath like Tide, categorized as ’Level 93 to 95’ in the distinctions of the Da Chen True Martial Platform.

Theoretically, the strongest Emperor’s Blood naturally needs to possess five Divine Abnormalities, specifically [Mysterious Yang Eye][Huaxian Sound][Sinking Gold][True Martial Spine]and [Supreme Qi]which regard viewing all things, settling tunes, laying foundations, raising the Heavenly Pillar, and forging the Soul and Spirit.

Of course, this is just theoretical. For most members of the Xuan family, having one Divine Abnormality can get them a place in the Imperial Clan, and possessing two Abnormalities could possibly get them selected by the Imperial Court to become [Emperor’s Blood], receiving many privileges and Dragon Qi nourishment from Da Chen. If they advance further in the future, they could even compete for the title of Martial King.

Having three Divine Abnormalities is enough to be considered a seed for a national Martial King, to compete for the position of Emperor in the future.

As for four or five Abnormalities, even the Imperial Court rarely sees them; perhaps one might appear every few thousand years, and such a true Emperor’s Blood Heaven’s Chosen, once appeared, will certainly become the next [Mysterious Heaven Imperial Lord]!

You Ruhui, blessed with two Divine Abnormalities, possesses [Mysterious Yang Eye]and [Huaxian Sound], and has a complete chance to inherit the position of her father, King Jing.

However, the higher the talent of the Emperor’s Blood, the more Dragon Qi it needs—these five Emperor’s Blood Divine Abnormalities all need Dragon Qi to grow strong, thus unless they break away from the Imperial Court, even the most talented Emperor’s Blood is unable to break through, and the Martial Meridian is their limit, with no possibility of reaching Divine Repository.

You Ruhui is no exception.

If it was not for King Jing being suddenly suppressed, You Ruhui should have been seeking a state in Northern Border as her base, beginning to gradually cultivate her abilities to govern, and then with the help of the Earth Vein Formation, she would collect Dragon Qi for Cultivation.

She defected from Da Chen, lost the orthodox path, but obtained the Dragon Jade instead.

According to King Jing, the Dragon Jade could provide Dragon Qi.

This indeed was true; the Dragon Jade would slowly produce threads of Dragon Qi, but she still needed to govern in an area, becoming the leader who holds many lives, leading people to live and settle in a domain, just without needing the Earth Vein Formation and Divine Weapons.

You Ruhui originally planned to follow Jin Yanhua in conquering the islands of the Heavenly Sea, then find a small island to clear and establish, gaining some Dragon Qi to help her break through to Inner Strength.

Because she is currently only at the Inner Breath realm, the island she can obtain isn’t very large, but You Ruhui was prepared to spend time to slowly manage it.

But now, You Ruhui was suddenly astonished to discover that she had nearly obtained a large city-level supply of Dragon Qi!

"How can this be? How can An Jing have obtained Dragon Qi?"

"And moreover, it’s unclaimed Dragon Qi?"

——How could this be possible!

Within the Northern Border, all Dragon Qi has its master. The Spirit Qi of the Heavenly Sea and Earth Veins, and the will of the people, all belong to the Imperial Court. As Dragon Qi is the Supreme Qi of Triple Qi Unification, how could it possibly be masterless?

For a moment, You Ruhui’s mind flashed through many possibilities, each so bizarre that she couldn’t think through them... but she quickly calmed down, closed her eyes for meditation, and began to regulate her Inner Breath for a breakthrough.

The Mysterious Yang Eye and Huaxian Sound were not Divine Abnormalities used in conquest. If she still had been the Commandery Princess, that would have been inconsequential. The Mysterious Yang Eye would allow her to see the direction of the Earth Veins clearly, and the Huaxian Sound could command the spirits of heaven and earth with mere words, hastening her ability to mobilize various Skills and increase the speed of setting up the altar and performing the ceremonies.

However, now that You Ruhui had turned to the path of Martial Arts, she naturally needed a Divine Abnormality that could enhance Martial Arts and, through it, achieve a breakthrough in Inner Strength.

And the Divine Abnormality she chose for herself was the "True Martial Spine"!

The human body is like a great dragon; the spinal column is the core of the limbs and hundreds of bones and the source of countless meridians and Martial Meridians. It connects to the Divine Sea at the Purple Mansion above, and reaches down to the Qi Sea at the Dantian. Its grand aspects could support the entire skeletal structure, while its finer aspects could extend through the fingertips.

It could nourish the Soul and Spirit, and invigorate the organs; it could temper sinew and bone, and clear the meridians. Any high-level Martial Arts Cultivation Technique surely involves tempering the spine of the great dragon as a Divine Abnormality. If not, it should be classified under the Divine Categories of "Bones" and "Bone Marrow". Although these are not the main focus, they still require tempering.

You Ruhui originally only used her own Inner Breath to nurture and control the many bones and meridians extending from her spine.

She had already gathered much foundation, but without Dragon Qi, it was like drawing a dragon without dotting the eyes, never able to breakthrough at the critical point.

But now, as the Dragon Qi transported by An Jing arrived, a halo with the base of mysterious darkness and the edge of Sinking Gold arose around You Ruhui, enveloping the entire Martial Arts Field.

The abundantly rich Spirit Qi of the Ancestral Dragon Hall poured into the Martial Arts Field, continuously absorbed by You Ruhui, converting it into nourishment for that spinal great dragon. A mysterious gold glow faintly lit up behind her, shining through her body, resembling a divine dragon lurking beneath the Dark Sea!

[Oh?]

In the grand hall of the Ancestral Dragon Hall during this era, the Current Dragon King, Jin Shiqin, turned his head, curious to look at the Martial Arts Field: [Another surprise? That young girl... actually received Dragon Qi?]

[How strange and curious! What has happened now? How could Da Chen let the Divinely Commanded An Jing obtain Dragon Qi?]

He curiously propped his elbow on his knee, resting his chin on his palm, watching with great interest as You Ruhui advanced: [True Martial Spine... after all, it is also a legacy of my Ancestral Dragon Hall.]

The master of the YuanLong Sea, the elder brother of the fourth-generation ’Dragon King of Eternal Demise,’ dissatisfied with the passing of the Dragon King title to his younger brother, battled with him fiercely and, in anger, left to establish the YuanLong Sea in the Northern Sea of the North Mysterious Sacrifice Continent.

During the last epochal catastrophe, the Divine Court of North Mysterious Sacrifice Continent collapsed amidst a chaos of Ghost Gods, and the first Holy Ancestor of the Northern Star Dynasty, in the Mysterious Heaven Imperial Lord, attended the Dragon Master in FuLi and received the True Transmission of the Great Dao, crafting a path out of the Emperor’s Blood and Imperial Court.

Among these, the "True Martial Spine" was the human version of the ancient "True Dragon Spine" legacy of the Ancestral Dragon Hall, regarded as the most potent spine tempering method during the Era of Embracing the Void.

The Mysterious Heaven Imperial Lord, gifted beyond compare, having no True Dragon bloodline, used Dragon Qi as a substitute to dot the eyes of the dragon, transforming True Dragon into True Martial, and ascended to heaven in one fell swoop.

And now, a descendant of Mysterious Heaven Imperial Lord, a seemingly ordinary little human girl, had come to his Ancestral Dragon Hall and obtained Dragon Qi, cultivating the "True Martial Spine"...

[Interesting.]

Jin Shiqin lifted his head, flicking his fingers in the void: [Send my command, bring over the relics related to the True Dragon Spine, give them to that little girl of mine.]

There was no response, but the entire Ancestral Dragon Hall slightly shifted, and in the transmission through the Great Void, Jin Yanhua seemed to sense it, raising his hand to receive several Jade Volume Booklets.