Journey to the West: I have Nine Golden Crows Inside Me
Chapter 494: Four Four Six, firstly Five Directions Five Elements Emperor Sutra

Chapter 494: Four Four Six, firstly Five Directions Five Elements Emperor Sutra

The lineage of the ancient martial arts persists to this day, with the divine abilities handed down through the generations being the absolute manifestation of termination, extermination, slaughter, conquest, rupture...

Each one is an ultimate embodiment, purely unparalleled, excludes any redundant strength, pushing a single Dao to its limit, and displaying its power to the fullest.

If it is about killing, its expertise is killing;

If it is about protection, its expertise is protection.

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Nearly every ancient martial artist practices a fundamental divine ability to embody their own strength and interpret their own path of the Great Dao.

Even before the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors reached the Daoist Lord realm, they each specialized in one divine ability. For instance, Tiandi’s Heaven and Earth Seal, Land Emperor’s Bright Sun Seal, Human Emperor’s Seal of Suppression, Emperor Shaohao’s Undying Divine Phoenix Seal, Emperor Zhuan Xu’s Tenglong Seal...

A case like Jiang Chen who simultaneously cultivates multiple divine abilities, however, is relatively rare. In the ancient and remote eras, the likes of Jiang Chen were unanimously regarded as having lost their way.

Of course, Jiang Chen’s situation is rather special.

He could cultivate in the realm of the Chaos World, thus regardless of how many divine abilities he cultivates, he doesn’t have to worry about exhausting his energy.

More so, cultivating more divine abilities was more beneficial for him to comprehend the Great Dao and increase his cultivation level. That’s why Jiang Chen dared to cultivate so many divine abilities at once.

If there were no Chaos World, he would not have dared to do so, probably still struggling at the realm of Heavenly Men.

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With the power of the Black Emperor added to his body, Jiang Chen demonstrated the true essence of water in every move he made – sometimes hard, sometimes soft, sometimes calm, sometimes fierce... Torrential waves rolled out with his every movement, submerging the strange fish on the ground.

After an unknown period, Jiang Chen ceased his movements and the surging floodwaters began to recede, coalescing behind him into a silhouette of the Black Emperor.

This silhouette of the Black Emperor was more substantial than when Jiang Chen first manifested it.

Clearly, in this period of time, Jiang Chen had gained a deeper understanding of the Innate Water Element Dao.

In his body, more and more black energy began to circulate within his meridians. This was the Innate Water Element, the special energy produced after the cultivation of the Black Emperor Water Sutra; it possessed the power to devour all the real water in the world.

The Black Emperor Water Sutra was an innate spiritual scripture created by Emperor Zhuan Xu after he became an Emperor, bringing him closer to realization. It recorded his understanding of the Innate Water Element Dao, and it was the supreme spiritual scripture of the Dao of Water.

While Jiang Chen was aware of this Dao Scripture, he had not cultivated it yet. But at this moment, in the special surroundings of the Five Elements Secret Realm, after his battle with the strange fish spawned from the original source of the Innate Water Element, he naturally came to comprehend this top-level water Dao scripture.

"Judging by the current trend, by the time I’ve collected enough original source of the Five Elements to promote the Creation Pagoda, I guess I’ll also be able to simultaneously cultivate the Five Elements Dao scriptures of the Human Race to an extremely high level," mused Jiang Chen, feeling his own transformation.

This was good news. Once the Five Elements Dao scriptures have been cultivated, he would naturally comprehend the transformations of the Five Elements, not only enhancing his cultivation level but also helping to reforge the Creation Pagoda of the Thirty Three Heavens.

With this in mind, Jiang Chen waved his sleeve, and he sent the Innate Water Element Source he obtained from slaying the strange fish, as well as the Innate Fire Element source from slaying the Fire Raven into the Creation Pagoda of the Thirty Three Heavens.

Boom boom boom!

After absorbing the Innate Fire Element and Water Element sources, the thirty-three small worlds inside the tower had become more complete. Wisps of world energy descended, making the power of the Pagoda even stronger.

In this manner, while observing the changes in the Pagoda and confirmatory similarities with his own Dao, Jiang Chen quietly recovered his magic power and energy.

Despite the depth of Jiang Chen’s magic power, it was still finite. After several fierce battles in succession, it was inevitably depleted. He had to seize the time to recover, preparing for upcoming dangers.

Speaking of infinite magic power, the prospect of developing the Five Qi in his chest made Jiang Chen look forward to cultivating it all the more.

According to legacy teachings, once the Five Qi in the chest have been cultivated, making the Five Elements complete, the conversion between the Five Elements will continually generate the power of creation. From that point on, there would be no more need to worry about the depletion of magic power.

Once the five Qi converge in the chest, the creation will be born of its own accord, and the magic power can be considered inexhaustible. This is the advantage of the completeness of the Five Qi in the chest.

Of course, while it is said to be inexhaustible, it still has a limit. The limit depends on the quality of the Five Qi in the chest. That is to say, the higher the quality of the Five Qi gathered in the chest, the higher the limit will be.

In the case of Dao Progenitor, the Five Qi in the chest formed by the five high-grade Innate Spiritual Treasures far exceeded the quality of the Innate Five Elements Original Source. Therefore, the power of creation it generated was incomparable.

This is why they talk about the quality of the Five Qi in the chest affecting the foundation of the Dao. Your Five Qi in the chest may generate a unit of creative power; but someone else’s Five Qi in the chest may generate ten, a hundred units of creative power.

How can these be compared? Doesn’t this bring out the difference?

That’s why this time, under the Five Elements Secret Realm, Jiang Chen must obtain the five mid-grade Innate Spiritual Treasures to condense the Five Qi in the chest in order to build the supreme foundation.

Of course, if possible, Jiang Chen still hoped that, like the Dao Progenitor, he could use five high-grade Innate Spiritual Treasures to condense the Five Qi in the chest. Unfortunately, this is something he can only dream of.

In this modern age, finding five mid-grade Innate Spiritual Treasures of the Five Elements is a huge fortune. As for the dream of obtaining five high-grade Innate Spiritual Treasures, one should wake from it and stop dreaming.

Collecting five high-grade Innate Spiritual Treasures is not difficult. What is rare is those possessing the Five Elements attributes, and yet also being born from the same source. Even in the era of the ancient times, when Innate Spiritual Treasures were in abundance, very few people could collect such a set of treasures.