<h4>Chapter 1989 (Raw 2086): Closed-Door Cultivation for Four Months</h4>


    Xiao Chen left the Third Pce Master’s secret realm with a smile.


    That secret realm was truly a massive treasure trove. The Heavenly Dragon Pce’s umtions were quite sizable.


    Unfortunately, Xiao Chen obtained only one Nine Heavens Profound Ice Fruit.


    If the Third Pce Master knew what Xiao Chen thought, he would definitely lecture Xiao Chen.


    When Xiao Chen returned to Cold Moon Cave, he made preparations to enter closed-door cultivation. Right now, he did notck resources,prehensions, or umtions.


    He needed to enter closed-door cultivation to consolidate everything, turning all these into practicalbat prowess, to prepare for thepetition between the seven outer pces.


    He wanted not only to enter Ancestor Dragon City but also to do so with the best ranking in the selection.


    Xiao Chen started from his Holy Venerate Will. The Second Pce Master said that the method was applicable in every way; hence, he did not teach Xiao Chen how to use his Holy Venerate Will offensively.


    Since the principle was the same, there should not be a significant hurdle when switching between defense and offense.


    Since Xiao Chen could bring the light of the sun and the moon into his body for defense, he definitely could use the zing sun and the bright moon tounch attacks.


    For example, he could crash the zing sun or the bright moon into the ground and create Soul Energy shock waves.


    Or perhaps, he could merge the sun and the moon and directly make them explode.


    The various methods used the same technique as bringing the light of the sun and the moon into the body, so the concept was not too difficult to grasp.


    Xiao Chen tried working on this. After spending half a month, he finally could switch the Sun and Moon Shining Together mysterious phenomenon between offense and defense smoothly and easily, manipting it as he pleased.


    At the same time, he grew even more interested in the Second Pce Master’s method for guiding another’s Soul Energy.


    Xiao Chen did his best to recall how it felt when the Second Pce Master ced a finger on his forehead to control his Soul Energy.


    Right now, Xiao Chen’s Soul Energy was much higher than his cultivation.


    His cultivation was only at the early-stage Holy Light Stage. However, his Soul Energy already reached the level of a Peak Holy Venerate’s, due to the divine characters.


    He could directly bring out the Sun and Moon Shining Together mysterious phenomenon. He could use this to catch his opponent off guard and render him helpless to retaliate.


    Putting aside his will of soul for now, Xiao Chen switched to Firmament’s Rage.


    The First Pce Master’s Firmament’s Rage was a great eye-opener for Xiao Chen. He recalled it as though it had just happened.


    Although Xiao Chen could aplish that, his execution was not very smooth, and the sess rate was not high.


    Raging without showing it, only showing the might. Aside from varying the technique, there was also a change in mentality.


    This was not something that one could seed in with just a few days of practice. It required long-term tempering of oneself.


    Xiao Chen trained in this for half a month. When he felt that there was no more scope for noticeable improvement, he stopped and switched to the most essential thing: tempering his physical body, cultivating the Divine Dragon Body Tempering Art.


    It would be too unbing if Xiao Chen did not make a breakthrough with the resources that the Third Pce Master provided.


    The days passed one by one. In the blink of an eye, Xiao Chen had already been in closed-door cultivation for four months.


    The white-d youth underwent dry cultivation in Cold Moon Cave. Sometimes he frowned, sometimes he felt confused, and sometimes he had doubts. asionally, he would ease his frown and smile sincerely; that was from happiness, due to solving a difficult problem.


    This was how the path of cultivation had always been; there was no shortcut. The ones who walked the road of sess and stood at the peak were always the people who understood how to persevere and endure. No one could improve casually and easily.


    “Explode!”


    In the cultivation room for practicalbat in Cold Moon Cave, Xiao Chen did his best to throw a punch.


    The Dragon Pattern Cauldron standing in front of Xiao Chen rang out one hundred times. The sound was ear-splitting, like thunder and dragon roars, echoing endlessly.


    One hundred Cauldron Force!


    After four months of bitter cultivation and using a vast number of resources, Xiao Chen’s Vital Qi finally reached a horrifying one hundred Cauldron Force.


    “Divine Dragon War Body!” Xiao Chen shouted again. His physical body swelled up, bringing him to two meters tall and looking like a tiny giant.


    Muscles bulged all over his body, full of explosive power. The Divine Dragon Might lingered without scattering, feeling corporeal as it swam about his body and turned into azure-colored Dragon Qi.


    Xiao Chen’s eyes filled with a suppressive light. Even if he faced a Sovereign Personage, he would not shrink back in fear.


    Back in the ancient city, he could only barely fight an Initial Perfection Sovereign Personage, nothing more.


    Now that he had strengthened his various aspects and foundations, he could hold his own against a Sovereign Personage; even winning might be possible.


    Furthermore, this would be without using any trump cards, like his Soul Tools or the Demonic Cloud Heaven Swallowing Art.


    Xiao Chen gently snapped his fingers, and manybat puppets appeared in the cultivation room.


    He had asked the Blood Dragon Guards’ Vice Hall Master Li for thesebat puppets. The Blood Dragon Guards usually used them to train in practicalbat.


    Each of thesebat puppets was as strong as an early-stage Holy Venerate. Compared to real cultivators, theycked some variation and intelligence.


    However, they all had the attacks and defense of a Holy Venerate.


    “Firmament’s Rage!”


    Xiao Chen extended his hand and swiped with his fingers bent, turning a palm into a w. Then, he pressed his hand on the head of abat puppet.


    Boundless saber Qi and thousands of lightning bolts instantly encased thisbat puppet.


    With a thought, a crunch came from thebat puppet. The saber Qi cut thebat puppet into thousands of pieces flickering with crackling electricity.


    “Bang!”


    Then, Xiao Chen threw another palm strike, using Firmament’s Rage again. However, this time, he did not turn the palm strike into a w attack. He just thrust his palm out. Electricity mixed with his saber intent, turning into a storm of electric saber Qi that surged out with a howl.


    This knocked the ten-oddbat puppets in front of him into the air, their bodies riddled with thousands of holes.


    “Pa!”


    This time, Xiao Chen smashed his palm down. When the palmnded, a huge palm imprint appeared in the ground. All the damagedbat puppets immediately shattered, utterly destroyed.


    After that, a sense of danger came from behind. Xiao Chen turned into a lightning bolt to dodge.


    One finalbat puppet had survived. Thisbat puppet was stronger than the others, at the level of a Peak Holy Venerate.


    Thisbat puppet immediately chased after Xiao Chen, punching at him just as hended.


    “Bang! Bang! Bang!”


    Xiao Chen exchanged three punches with thisbat puppet before moving ten steps back, his momentum forcefully interrupted.


    The Veritable Essence Energy of a Peak Holy Venerate was extremely strong. Right now, Xiao Chen was a middle-stage Holy Venerate, and his Veritable Essence Energy was still somewhat inferior.


    Blood Dragon Chop!


    Thebat puppet pressed on after seizing the momentum. A scarlet me burned on its entire body. A blood dragon wound around its arm as itshed out with a powerful knifehand.


    “Firmament’s Rage!”


    Xiao Chen executed Firmament’s Rage again, but this time, he turned the palm into a fist. As he clenched his fist tightly, he infused the Thunder Dao, the Saber Dao, and the mysteries of a Great Deste Eon Ancestor Dragon into the fist.


    “Boom!”


    The two attacks met. This time, Xiao Chen knocked back thebat puppet without even moving a step.


    A terrifying might and pressure erupted from Xiao Chen’s body. Without showing rage, he showed might, shaking the sky with one punch.


    “Divine Dragon War Body!”


    Xiao Chen’s body swelled up again, and his Vital Qi surged. With a war cry, he charged over.


    He threw ten punches, each punch erupting with one hundred Cauldron Force. After ten punches, thebat puppet’s arm directly exploded.


    Faint cracks appeared on half of thebat puppet’s body.


    Xiao Chen raised his leg and hammered a kick on the Peak Holy Veneratebat puppet, causing it to explode. Its core crystal rolled away on the ground.


    Xiao Chen stretched his body, feeling rxed. However, he felt dissatisfied with this fight.


    After all, these were justbat puppets. They were far inferior to real cultivators.


    One could use thesebat puppets only to familiarize oneself with Movement Techniques and Martial Techniques when training. They could not be used to evaluate one’s strength.


    If one took a cultivator to be the same as abat puppet in realbat, one would not even know how one died.


    ——


    Four months quickly passed. The day of thepetition between the seven outer pces drew closer.


    Xiao Chen did not really feel anything about that. After four months of closed-door cultivation, his initially restless heart had quieted down.


    This was especially so when practicing Firmament’s Rage. As he altered his emotions to rage yet not rage, his mental state improved significantly.


    Xiao Chen picked up thebat puppets’ core crystals on the ground. At the same time, he thought about how to use the remaining time.


    There were still two months. Even if he had a fortuitous encounter, he might not be able to digest it.


    Xiao Chen wondered if he should go to the Blue Dragon Pce, the Red Dragon Pce, and the Golden Dragon Pce to seek out Murong Yan and the others. At the same time, he could check out the strength of the experts from the other outer pces.


    After some thought, he gave up on this idea. The other outer pces were biased against mixed-blood dragons.


    If Xiao Chen went over, he could not guarantee he could avoid simr trouble to what happened in the White Dragon Pce previously.


    “Heaven-ss core disciples, quickly gather at the Profound Dragon tform on the Heavenly Dragon Pce’s main peak!”


    Just at this moment, a message rang out from Xiao Chen’s identity token in the voice of Elder Tian Yun.


    Why are the heaven-ss core disciples being called over at this time?


    The Heavenly Dragon Pce has only four heaven-ss core disciples. Is there a need to gather all of us?


    Xiao Chen could not figure it out. Furthermore, he did not like Elder Tian Yun.


    However, Xiao Chen’s thoughts were wrong.


    There were more than four heaven-ss core disciples in the Heavenly Dragon Pce. It was just that all the heaven-ss core disciples that could climb to the top of the Heavenly Dragon statue had gone out on experiential training.


    The three people left behind were the weakest of them all, unable to climb to the top of the Heavenly Dragon.


    There were important things to discuss at this assembly.


    Xiao Chen collected all the core crystals on the ground and prepared to meet the Blood Dragon Guards’ Vice Hall Master Li.


    These two’s tempers matched each other. Xiao Chen was also very interested in hearing about the Blood Dragon Guards.


    “Senior Brother Xiao, this junior brother was just about to seek you out. Unexpectedly, Senior Brother came out before I could,” an outer pce disciple said respectfully after stopping Xiao Chen when Xiao Chen just stepped out of Cold Moon Cave.


    “What’s the matter?”


    “Elder Tian Yun feared that Senior Brother would not receive the message to gather at the Profound Dragon tform, so he sent this disciple toe and inform you.”


    It looks like I have no choice but to go.