Journey to the West: I have Nine Golden Crows Inside Me
Chapter 493 - 445: Endless Troubles, The Essence of Ancient Martial Arts_3

Chapter 493: Chapter 445: Endless Troubles, The Essence of Ancient Martial Arts_3

And because of this, Jiang Chen’s perception of the Seven Fairies changed. Previously, he saw them as spoiled, unruly young ladies. But now, he saw the Seven Fairies as understanding.

After setting things up for the Seven Fairies, Jiang Chen left the Creation Pagoda of the heaven-like realm for the secret place of the Five Elements.

With a movement of his figure, Jiang Chen descended from the sky, planning to find a place to thoroughly understand the terrain here.

Not underestimating the Five Elements’ secret area after his earlier experiences, Jiang Chen decided to first slay some fierce beasts to enhance his strength before venturing into the heart of the secret location.

Despite how great the treasures were, what mattered the most for Jiang Chen was increasing his level of practice. Everything else was secondary.

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"I must take some time to understand this place."

Jiang Chen concealed his divine aura with a secret method and began to descend. He kept his defenses up, fearing ambushes. He now understood how dangerous and relentless the Five Elements’ secret area could be.

Just as he touched the ground,

There was a "boom"!

Many spring waters emerged from the ground and immediately formed into hundreds of strange, sharp-toothed, fierce fish that lunged towards Jiang Chen.

Some of them even spat out water arrows, and others spat out big bubbles of water. When these bubbles reached Jiang Chen, they exploded!

At this moment, the voice of the Seven Fairies came from the pagoda, "Look out! Those are fierce fish created from the innate Kui water, they are extremely violent. Their water can dissolve anything. Be careful, Jiang Chen, don’t let that water touch you."

It turned out that they had been observing the outside situation through the Pagoda of Creation the moment Jiang Chen had left. Now that they saw him under attack, they immediately cautioned him.

However, before they finished speaking, the Kui water spat out by the strange fish had already landed on Jiang Chen.

To the surprise of the Seven Fairies, Jiang Chen, expressionless, flicked his sleeve, causing the Kui water to turn into sharp swords. These swords then shot towards the fish at a faster speed than they came, easily piercing and killing the fish ahead.

"Innate spiritual treasure?"

Only now did the Seven Fairies realize that the clothing Jiang Chen wore was an innate spiritual treasure.

Jiang Chen remained silent, as if trying to conserve his mental energy. He then displayed a supreme divine ability.

His hands slowly circling, the law energy within his body began to resonate and gush out, forming streams of water circling around his body.

As time went on, more and more streams of water gathered around Jiang Chen, forming many streams around him. Attacks from the fierce fish were swallowed by these streams before they even reached Jiang Chen, adding to his strength.

Gradually, an austere figure wearing a crown and a black robe emerged behind Jiang Chen, surrounded by countless streams. It was as if he was the lord of all waters, the Emperor of water, emitting an overwhelming aura.

If an ancient powerhouse were present, they would certainly recognize the figure behind Jiang Chen as the second Emperor among the Human Race’s five Emperors - Emperor Zhuan Xu.

Concurrently, he was the last Tiandi of the Human Race, the northern Black Emperor Zhuan Xu amongst the Five Elements’ Tiandis.

At this moment, the figure displayed by Jiang Chen was the image of Zhuan Xu in his role as the Black Emperor. Zhuan Xu is the Water Virtue Heavenly Emperor, and the Black Emperor denotes Water Emperor. In other words, Zhuan Xu is the King of Water, controlling all the waters in the world.

The divine ability passed down by this old man had a strong restraining effect on water-based forces. Now the divine power that Jiang Chen was displaying was a divine ability created after Zhuan Xu became the Black Emperor.

"All rivers return to the sea, all paths converge!"

As this thought passed through his mind, all of the streams around him suddenly converged into one, rushing forward.

Rumble!

The flood, formed from the convergence of countless waters, swept forward with a momentum capable of crushing anything in its path, grinding the fierce fish to dust before then dissolving it, becoming a part of itself.

The so-called "all rivers return to the sea, all paths converge" was to condense all forces in the world into one, then explode it, shattering everything, annihilating, and finally using the characteristics of water to dissolve and assimilate it to strengthen oneself.

Zhuan Xu regarded water as the source of all things, everything in the world hatched from water, so water possessed the power of swallowing everything. The divine power of "all rivers return to the sea, all paths converge" was created based on this concept.

This divine ability closely follows the characteristic of ancient martial arts - pushing a single path to its extreme.

Strictly speaking, practicing dozens of Supreme Grand Divine Powers at the same time like Jiang Chen was not the orthodox path of Ancient Martial Arts, it was somewhat undesirable.

Every Supreme Divine Ability embodies the profound principles of heaven and earth, and is the achievement of a supreme path. It’s very elusive and fully understanding them requires a great deal of time.

Ancient Martial Artists lack nothing but time. They simply don’t have the energy to understanding the principles of several Grand Divine Powers. They don’t dare to divert too much energy fearing it may hamper their practice.

That’s why the traditional Ancient Martial Arts seems to focus on one divine ability and practice it to an extreme level, reaching and even breaking its limit.

Even though only knowing one divine power would legitimate drawbacks when dealing with others, if this divine ability was practiced to an extreme level, exceeding its original definition and breaking its limit, the power that this divine ability could unleash would undoubtedly be astonishing. It could sweep most other divine abilities, achieving unmatched power in the same realm.

This is known as "one force breaking a thousand laws".

One divine ability breaking all divine abilities in the world.

The essence of Ancient Martial Arts lies in "extreme", in achieving ultra-pureness, pushing one’s Dao to the extreme, breaking new heights, and redefining the Dao they practice.

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