A lake, a thatched hut, a table made of dried grass, a futon made of dried grass, and a book that seemed to be made of dried grass.
Chen Zong walked out slowly, walked to the table, and sat down on the futon.
The moment he sat down, the seemingly unremarkable praying mat was unexpectedly soft beyond imagination. It was as if his entire body was about to sink into it. It was extremely comfortable, but that kind of softness was not limitless. It also had an astonishing toughness that supported his body.
It was both flexible and tough, extremely comfortable, and extremely fitting.
As soon as he sat down, Chen Zong felt as if he had let go of everything and removed all the pressure. He felt relaxed from the heart to the body, as if he had put down all the burdens.
But this kind of relaxation was not lax.
Slowly exhaling, Chen Zong felt as if all his distracting thoughts were blown away by the wind, and they instantly dissipated. He felt refreshed, refreshed, and his thoughts were incomparably clear. His soul was transparent and clear.
Looking calm and composed, Chen Zong calmly raised his hand and his fingers fell on the book on the table. The strange touch was like an electric current, which made Chen Zong's eyes light up slightly.
When he flipped open the cover, he saw six words that looked like dancing dragons and snakes.
The Picture of 24 Dragons and Snakes!
"The Picture of 24 Dragons and Snakes?" Chen Zong was a little confused and curious.
Immediately, he opened the paper that seemed to be made of dried grass again, and the first picture came into view.
It was a simple black stroke that outlined the outline of a dragon and a snake on the yellowish-white paper. It looked very simple, like simple lines, but Chen Zong could immediately tell which was the dragon and which was the snake at a glance.
Dragon in the sky!
Snake on the ground!
What did it mean?
Or, what did it mean?
For a moment, Chen Zong did not understand.
Immediately, he turned to the second page. It was still a very simple drawing of a dragon and a snake, but compared to the first picture, it seemed to be more lively. The dragon in the sky was in a diving posture, while the snake on the ground was coiled up and looking up at the sky.
But Chen Zong still did not understand. What did it mean?
The third picture was also a simple drawing of a dragon and a snake, but it was more lively. The dragon was about to dive down, and the snake was about to soar into the sky.
Chen Zong looked at the pictures one by one. For each picture, he would pause for more than ten breaths to think slowly, but he could not find any clues.
In the twenty-fourth painting, dragons and snakes were so lifelike that they looked as if they were about to leap out of the paper. They had already intertwined and danced, accompanied by the coexistence of water and fire, the true sun and the moon. It seemed to contain some kind of supreme mystery.
However, Chen Zong was unable to comprehend anything as he stared at it.
He only felt that it seemed to contain an incomparably profound profundity, but as for where the profundity lay, he was unable to comprehend it at all.
Was this the so-called opportunity?
It should be!
It must be!
It was just that he hadn't found the main point and was unable to comprehend the profundities contained within it.
Chen Zong was not discouraged.
No matter what, it was an opportunity and inheritance left by the Emperor Lingwu. If it was so easy to get, it would be too easy.
Calming himself down, Chen Zong slowly comprehended and continued to comprehend.
He started from the first picture again, looking at and comprehending it one by one.
He looked at it slowly and flipped through it quickly.
Chen Zong used all kinds of methods to comprehend it, but he could not understand anything. He only felt that it was unfathomable.
It felt like he knew that there was a lot of wealth in a certain place, but he could not get there no matter how hard he tried.
Calm down!
Concentrate!
Comprehend!
Chen Zong did not let go of any details.
The dragon and snake pictures, from the initial simple picture on the paper to the end, were vivid and seemed to jump out. It was a gradual process. In addition, the water and fire, sun and moon did not appear at the beginning. They also appeared one after another later.
After observing it over and over again, Chen Zong felt that he had almost turned the whole book to mush. Only then did he find a trace of pattern.
The fire seemed to be accompanied by the dragon.
The water seemed to be accompanied by the snake.
What was the connection?
Or what was the mystery?
The sun seemed to be closely related to the fire and the dragon.
The moon seemed to be closely related to the water and the snake.
What was the mystery behind it?
Dragon and snake, water and fire, sun and moon!
Chen Zong vaguely felt that the mystery of the twenty-four pictures lay in the third or sixth.
If he could understand the key, he could understand the mystery of the twenty-four pictures of dragons and snakes and obtain the so-called opportunity or inheritance.
The Second Heaven!
The Third Heaven!
…
The Tenth Heaven!
One by one, the peerless geniuses found the opportunity and began the assessment.
Generally speaking, anyone could pass the assessment and obtain the opportunity. However, it was not clear whether they could obtain the best part of the opportunity.
Emperor Lingwu seemed to have divided the levels according to the level of the assessment.
However, this assessment was not so easy to pass.
Some were at a loss at the beginning, like Chen Zong, and did not know how to comprehend it.
Some assessments were very straightforward, and that was to defeat a strong enemy. However, the enemy's strength was too strong.
Time passed slowly. Chen Zong stayed in the straw hut every day to comprehend the twenty-four pictures of dragons and snakes. Day after day passed, but he still could not get the hang of it.
Chen Zong was not anxious or discouraged. When he was comprehending, he would walk out of the straw hut and stand on the small island outside the straw hut, facing the lake, and draw his sword to practice his sword technique.
Unorganized!
Irregular!
Following his heart!
Dancing at will!
With his Saint Realm cultivation, Chen Zong did not have to worry about food and drink. Although the World's Qi here was not rich, it was quite pure, enough to sustain all his consumption.
Moreover, there was a lot of dry food in the Storage Ring.
Comprehend the twenty-four pictures of dragons and snakes!
Cultivate the cultivation method!
Practice the sword!
Drink wine in leisure.
Chen Zong forgot the passage of time. It was difficult to feel the passage of time here.
The more he comprehended, the more he felt that the mystery of the twenty-four pictures of dragons and snakes was right in front of him. However, it seemed to be separated by a layer of gauze, and his eyes were misty.
There was no hurry. Take it slow. More haste, less speed.
As long as he kept comprehending and accumulating, there would eventually be a time when the conditions were right.
What Chen Zong did not know was that the people who came here in the past to comprehend the twenty-four pictures of dragons and snakes had different final results.
This time, Chen Zong finished practicing his sword technique and started comprehending again.
"Dragons in the sky and snakes on the ground. Could it be that they symbolize the division between Heaven and Earth?" A trace of enlightenment emerged, but Chen Zong grasped the vague feeling.
This seemed to be the direction of comprehension.
However, what were water and fire, sun and moon?
For a moment, Chen Zong temporarily put down water and fire, sun and moon, and grasped the trace of enlightenment. He tried his best to comprehend, maximizing his superb comprehension ability to the extreme.
After comprehending some mysteries, Chen Zong suddenly had an idea. He walked out of the straw hut and drew his sword to practice.
For a moment, the sword technique changed drastically. When the sword was drawn, it was like a snake winding across the ground, over the grass, over the water, and into the cave.
It changed again. It was like a dragon soaring in the sky, riding the nine heavens and roaming the four seas, wandering in all directions.
Snake and dragon!
Dragon and snake!
In the sword light, there were sometimes snake shadows and sometimes heavenly dragons soaring.
Vaguely, one could hear the hissing sound of a snake sticking out its tongue, and also hear the resounding and earth-shattering roar of a dragon.
The dragon and snake intertwined in the sword light, as if dancing, giving birth to an indescribable beauty.
"Dragon and snake … hardness and softness …" The sword light paused, and a trace of enlightenment emerged in Chen Zong's mind, which he caught.
He quietly comprehended, standing still on the small island in the middle of the lake, as if he had become a statue.
He did not know the passage of time or the passage of time.
All of a sudden, Chen Zong drew his sword again.
This time, the sword was as agile and light as a snake, as domineering and fierce as a dragon, as strong and powerful as a dragon, as soft and pure as it could be.
Dragon and snake intertwined, hardness and softness combined.
When the sword was drawn, it seemed to shatter the void under the sword, creating a vacuum. It felt like a transparent brush had drawn across, leaving behind a sword trajectory that was difficult to see with the naked eye, which slowly dissipated.
It seemed like an ordinary sword, but Chen Zong felt that the power contained in it was very terrifying.
This sword seemed to have broken some kind of shackle and boundary, which made Chen Zong feel that his attainments in the Way of the Sword had improved further.
Immediately, in the Divine Sea, there seemed to be a fierce wind whistling, and the clouds and clouds gathered.
The Heart Sword Dao Will that had been slowly transforming after the Heavenly Wind Tribulation was evolving and transforming at an even more astonishing speed at this moment.
This was a qualitative improvement.
Standing in the same place, Chen Zong closed his eyes, and his aura was completely restrained and still, as if he had turned into a statue.
Abruptly, an extremely terrifying aura gushed out from Chen Zong's body. It was formless and incorporeal, yet extremely sharp. It soared up into the sky, as though it wanted to shatter the nine heavens, piercing through the skies of the 1st Heavenly Layer.
Endless invisible Sword Qi surrounded Chen Zong and quickly swept out, crazily strangling. Within a radius of dozens of meters, with Chen Zong as the center, everything was attacked by the Sword Qi, and the ground was cut and shattered one after another.
The Sword Qi was rampant!
Chen Zong's body naturally floated into the air, dozens of meters above the ground. Invisible Sword Qi surrounded an area of dozens of meters, covering the top, bottom, left, right, front, and back. It was like a ball of invisible Sword Qi with a diameter of dozens of meters, completely enveloping Chen Zong.
In the middle of it, Chen Zong seemed to be in control of everything, including the thousands of invisible Sword Qi.
After a short moment, the invisible Sword Qi dispersed and seemed to have concealed itself in the sky, vanishing without a trace. Chen Zong's body slowly descended and descended to the ground once more. His back was straight like a sword, and it was still suffused with a shocking sharpness that caused others to be unable to look directly at him.
His eyelids lightly trembled as his eyes slowly opened, and a wisp of extremely sharp bright light shot out like a material blade that pierced through everything.
This bright light seemed to have transformed into material form, and it possessed lethality as if it was a real Sword Qi. It was sufficient to shatter the mind and will of a weaker person with a single stare and cause the person to be terrified to death.
It was extremely terrifying!
"This … is the might of a top-grade Dao Will?" Chen Zong couldn't help but think in his heart, and there was indescribable shock in his heart.
Yes, the Heart Sword Dao Will had finally transformed from high-grade to top-grade. Even though it was still at the 6th revolution, its might had multiplied.
This sort of multiplication was comprehensive, and it was a multiplication from the root. It possessed immeasurable benefits, and it caused Chen Zong's strength to become even more powerful.
Since ancient times, it was extremely difficult to comprehend and grasp high-grade Dao Will, whereas top-grade Dao Will was even limited to legends to a certain extent.
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