Journey to the West: I have Nine Golden Crows Inside Me
Chapter 413: Three Nine Eight, The Ultimate Dragon Transforming Treasure

Chapter 413: Three Nine Eight, The Ultimate Dragon Transforming Treasure

Jiang Chen had gained sudden enlightenment, deepening his understanding of Martial Dao and his control of his body and strength. There were no longer any obstructions in the circulation of his mastery, it was flawless and smooth.

This change, reflected on his body, meant that Jiang Chen could use the smallest amount of strength to deal the greatest damage.

"This sudden enlightenment has saved me a hundred years of arduous cultivation, truly a pleasant surprise." The sudden enlightenment was an unexpected change for Jiang Chen, leading to great excitement and joy in his heart.

Enlightenment is an opportunity that cannot be sought, but only met. However, the amount of benefit that one can get from it depends entirely on one’s destiny.

Some people gain enlightenment can break through a minor bottleneck or dispel a doubt in their hearts. But some people, through enlightenment, can leap forward and ascend the heavens by a step.

As far as Jiang Chen knew, in the ancient times, there was a mortal who, after struggling for a hundred and ten years, gained sudden enlightenment and instantly achieved the Dao Fruit of Daluo, sharing the same lifespan as heaven and earth. This stunned countless people.

That was a shocking destiny. Compared with him, the benefits that Jiang Chen got from his enlightenment were somewhat less. However, even so, Jiang Chen was very satisfied.

Cultivation is for the self, doing good for oneself is enough. Constant comparison with others, having a worry of gain and loss, would lead to falling into inferior states, making it easy for external demons to take advantage, making progress difficult.

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Emerging from his enlightenment, Jiang Chen backhandedly collected the Dragon Pearl, didn’t rush to refine it, but rather, disappeared leaving the Cangtian Palace, headed for the sea area.

There was no hurry to refine the Dragon Pearl at the moment, but the Demon Palace in the sea area was waiting for Jiang to refine it. To prevent unforeseen circumstances, he thought it best to take the Demon Palace as soon as possible. Continuing to stay in the Eastern Sea could lead to unexpected incidents.

A treasure in hand is a true treasure.

Following a distortion in the void, Jiang Chen appeared again in front of the Demon Palace.

Because of the departure of the dragon corpse, the demonic energy in the palace was much thinner. It was estimated that in a few thousand years, without anyone doing anything, the demonic energy here would naturally disappear clean.

Moreover, that dragon corpse was the core of the Demon Palace. Inside and outside the palace, almost all arrays relied on the demonic energy emitted by the dragon corpse for operation.

At this moment, with the disappearance of the dragon corpse, those arrays lost their power supply, greatly reducing their previous power. It was not just about suppressing the Innate Dao Sovereign, even suppressing the Innate Dao Monarch was difficult.

And this was Jiang Chen’s opportunity.

Without the protection of the arrays, the Demon Palace could no longer resist Jiang Chen. He saw him use a Dao Mirror, transforming into tens of thousands of sizes, looming over the Demon Palace, clearly reflecting everything inside the palace.

"Seize!"

With a thought in his heart, Jiang Chen activated the Dao Mirror, dropping countless divine lights, engulfing the Demon Palace. Under the cover of the divine lights, the Demon Palace began to shrink quickly, soon becoming the size of a palm, wrapped by the divine light, it rolled back into the Dao Mirror.

"Let’s go!"

He casually activated a divine ability, obliterating all the demonic energy in this area, and Jiang Chen left without looking back. With the treasures in hand, he naturally rushed back to study them.

In the Dao Mirror, endless divine lights were surging, shuttling back and forth within the Demon Palace. As the divine lights passed through the palace, the once bright array patterns inside quickly dimmed, then lost their brilliance and completely fell silent.

By the time Jiang Chen returned to the Cangtian Palace, all the arrays and prohibitions inside the Demon Palace had been destroyed by the Dao Mirror, losing their rightful power.

Demon Dragon Palace!

That was the name of the Demon Palace, simple and straightforward!

When Jiang Chen branded his divine consciousness on the original source of this Demon Palace, he naturally knew everything about it.

The Demon Dragon Palace, made by a Demon Dragon Venerable from the Great Ancient era who collected hundreds of types of innate divine metals and ores, took a million years to build. It’s a top-grade acquired treasure endowed with forty-nine acquired divine prohibitions, encompassing both defense and suppression.

Theoretically, the Demon Dragon Palace at full power has the ability to suppress Innate Dao Sovereigns. Of course, there is a premise, it must be motivated by a Dao Sovereign for the Demon Dragon Palace to have this power.

However, as powerful as the Demon Dragon Palace is, in Jiang Chen’s view, it still has many areas for improvement.

In the Great Ancient era, when the Prehistoric world was just formed, there were innate spiritual things everywhere in the heaven and earth, and there were definitely no shortage of innate spiritual treasures.

The beings of that time had so many innate spiritual treasures that they didn’t even have to bother with acquired things. Therefore, during the Great Ancient era, the path of refining tools wasn’t really prosperous; no one wanted to work hard on acquired things.

This also resulted in the acquired treasures refined during that era being quite roughly made, and rather single-functioned. They did not maximize their value at all.

One could say that aside from the material, there was nothing commendable about the acquired treasures of the Great Ancient era. In the eyes of the master tool refiners of later generations, they could be described as a complete waste.

Such a pity!

How could such a good treasure be used to refine such a piece of trash?

That’s what Jiang Chen thought when he saw the Demon Dragon Palace. The refining techniques of the Great Ancient Era were really too backward.

With an Innate Spiritual Treasure level eagles’ nest in his hand, Jiang Chen was thinking that he could attempt to merge it with the Demon Hall and refine it into a stronger magic treasure.

This idea sounded good and could be tried later. After mulling over it in his mind, Jiang Chen also felt that it was quite feasible. However, instead of acting immediately, he extracted a gigantic pillar from within Demon Dragon Hall.

The Coiling Dragon Pillar!

This item served as the dragon’s bed and chair.

When a dragon is tired, it does not rest on a chair like a human but coils itself around the Coiling Dragon Pillar.

Moreover, when a True Dragon sheds its scales, it rubs them off on the Coiling Dragon Pillar, making use of the pillar’s power.

It is safe to say that the Coiling Dragon Pillar is exceptionally important to the Dragon Clan. Every True Dragon crafts a Coiling Dragon Pillar after its birth.

As time elapses, they continuously seek to incorporate various treasures into the pillar to enhance its power, ensuring their comfort when coiled around it.

The pillar implies support and suppression. Jiang Chen had thought that the Coiling Dragon Pillar was obviously a treasure with the power of suppression. However, when he extended his divine sense to refine it, he discovered there weren’t any divine prohibitions within this object.

This indicates it isn’t a magic treasure but merely a pillar. The Demon Dragon had never refined it.

After some thought, Jiang Chen tried lifting the Coiling Dragon Pillar—the immense weight of it was even greater than Sun Wukong’s Golden Cudgel. If used as a weapon, it could probably annihilate a Great Luo Golden Immortal with a single blow.

However, using it this way would be somewhat a waste of its power. Although not a magic treasure, it served other purposes.

Leave alone the number of precious innate materials used by the Demon Dragon Taoist to craft the Coiling Dragon Pillar, the process of frequently shedding its scales on the pillar was enough to trigger astonishing transformations.

True Dragons bleed when shedding their scales. The Demon Dragon Taoist had shed scales on the pillar countless times. Over time, it naturally absorbed the Daoist Master-level dragon blood.

The blood of a Dragon Master is an incredible treasure that is difficult to come by. It holds the ability to transform any creature into a True Dragon form.

In other words, the greatest functional aspect of the Coiling Dragon Pillar was its ability to help myriad creatures transform into dragons—it was a true Dragon Transformation Treasure.

Without an exaggeration, if Jiang Chen now threw the Dragon Transformation Pillar into the lake at the foot of the mountain, a True Dragon would be born within a thousand years.

While this item was of significant use to the Dragon Clan, it didn’t seem to be of much use to Jiang Chen.

"Indeed, treasures left behind by masters of the Dragon Clan are basically useful only to their own clan. Though useful for other races, they can’t maximize their effects," Jiang Chen thought.

After organizing the spoils of his journey, he felt a little speechless. While all the treasures were generally valuable, not all were useful to him. Take the Coiling Dragon Pillar, it was essentially useless to him.

After all, Jiang Chen was human and not a dragon. He had no intention of transforming into a dragon. So, what use does the Coiling Dragon Pillar serve?

Wait a minute...

It wasn’t completely useless—it could be bartered for some benefits from the Dragon Clan.

Jiang Chen began to ponder over it. He initially assumed he could spare some time after rebuilding Cang Mountain. However, the appearance of the Demon Hall disrupted his plan.

The Demon Hall needed to be refined again, and the Dragon Pearl required digestion. All this would take time!

With a thought, Jiang Chen listed all his upcoming tasks, planning a schedule to prudently allocate his time.

Just when he was considering his options, Jiang Chen frowned and looked outside Cang Mountain. He saw a golden light shooting straight towards him.

Sun Wukong had arrived!

"This monkey is still restless, not afraid of being killed by the formation," Jiang Chen complained too himself. He quickly deactivated the Mountain Protection Array, fearing the monkey would get killed by the Star Array.

With the entire Cang Mountain as a backing, the power of the Thirty-Six Heavenly Ganges and Twenty-Eight Lunar Mansions could burst out at any time. Any Dao Monarch would get injured if they were in its range.

Let alone Sun Wukong, a Taiyi Golden Immortal. If the array’s power exploded, it could immediately obliterate him.

Jiang Chen shook his Dutian Divine Robe, and Five Elements energy erupted out, transforming into a rainbow light. It enveloped Sun Wukong and brought him into the Cangtian Hall.

The moment he entered the hall, Sun Wukong asked in surprise, "Brother, what kind of treasure do you own? How can its power be this great? I, Old Sun, was utterly powerless and was captured by you."

Ignoring Sun Wukong’s question, Jiang Chen instead asked, "Monkey, I let you go practice with Four Waste Star Lord. How is your practice going?"

At this, Sun Wukong became excited and said, "Four Waste Star Lord, even though he isn’t highly ranked, he really is powerful. I deeply respect him. After spending so many days with him, Old Sun has learned a few tricks. I’m no longer what I used to be."

It was apparent that Sun Wukong had made progress—even his use of idioms had improved. Jiang Chen gave a nod of approval and said, "Words alone are no proof, why don’t we give it a shot?"

Upon hearing this, Sun Wukong replied happily, "Let’s give it a shot!"

After saying this, without waiting for Jiang Chen to respond, he leaped out of Cangtian Hall and waited on a mountaintop.