Chen Shi retracted the Heaven Measuring Iron Ruler, finally letting out a sigh.
Zhuang Wujiu, having suffered setbacks at Wuwan Slope, maintained a superior appearance outside, seeking a sense of superiority from him, how could he tolerate it?
"This time, if he’s not dead, then he’s seriously injured!"
Chen Shi examined the Heaven Measuring Iron Ruler. This thing was indeed very useful, but unfortunately, it could only be summoned once each time, and had to be retracted before the mana was exhausted, otherwise, it would fall.
"Zhuang Wujiu wasn’t wrong; my cultivation is still too shallow. If I could continuously summon this item, even the Void Realm would be within reach!"
He felt a strong sense of crisis from Zhuang Wujiu of Wuwan Slope. Eleven years ago, he was just a little kid playing with Zhang You; eleven years later, he cultivated to the God Refining Realm!
The next realm after the God Refining Realm is the Returning Void Realm!
Chen Tang, who exists at the Returning Void Realm, can be considered one of the youngest masters of the Returning Void Realm in the world!
While Zhuang Wujiu took only eleven years to approach this realm.
This time Zhuang Wujiu was caught off guard by Chen Shi. Although he seemed embarrassed, judging from the progress of his cultivation, he truly lived up to the genius name!
His achievements are enough to make people look up to him, even the children of the Thirteen Families!
"And Zhuang Wujiu, being oppressed at Despair Slope, had to walk out of Despair Slope, seeking a sense of superiority from me. The person he needs to look up to is the one who took away my Innate Dao Embryo. Eleven years have passed; at what stage is this person’s realm now?"
Chen Shi whispered, "Returning Void? Mahayana? I fear even these two realms are not enough to make people look up to. Could it be the untouchable Tribulation Crossing Realm..."
Chen Tang, without any guidance from Chen Tang and support from family heritage, broke through to the Returning Void in middle age. He is an unparalleled genius who can rival the core children of the Thirteen Families and even the Sect Master. Zhuang Wujiu, backed by the mysterious lineage of Despair Slope, achieved God Refining at twenty, and amazed the world.
However, compared to that person, both pale in comparison.
Chen Shi is determined to regain his Innate Dao Embryo and seek revenge for himself; sooner or later, he will face this person!
He now does not have a Divine Embryo, taking Stone Rock Lady and White-Clad Fairy as his Divine Embryo, using his own Primordial Spirit as the Divine Embryo. Can he really catch up to this person?
Chen Shi whispered: "In three years of cultivation, today I am already in the Divinity Transformation Realm, having cultivated a ten-foot Primordial Spirit. In eleven years... within eleven years, I must break through to Mahayana, stand alongside you, or even surpass you!"
In the following days, Chen Shi carried the Black Pot into the mountains outside West Capital City to seek exotic beasts, intending to hunt and feed the Black Pot with a few. The West Capital is surrounded by mountains on three sides. Theoretically, the exotic beasts in the mountains should be as plentiful as those on Qianyang Mountain, but here they have long been captured by the Talisman Master Sect. He searched for days, finding nothing.
Chen Shi had no choice but to buy Exotic Beast Meat at the market, purchasing several hundred pounds at a time to feed the Black Pot.
However, the Black Pot could only eat three to five pounds at a time, any more and it could not digest.
Chen Shi was troubled, so he fed the remaining Exotic Beast Meat to the carriage.
"Perhaps I could consult Zhong Kui; he is formidable and might know how to enhance Black Pot’s strength." Chen Shi thought.
But Zhong Kui and Tie Chi, along with their families, accompanied Hu Tanhua and Young King Yan to Xinxiang; they were not in the Western Capital.
Hu Feifei, the Gold Medal Scholar, was also appointed as the County Magistrate of Xinxiang County, and the original County Magistrate was transferred elsewhere. Hu Feifei, along with Nannan, took office, returning home to be a grandmother, and Zhong Kui and Tie Chi went along.
Chen Shi, carrying the Black Pot, went to the Hanlin Academy, a place gathering the world’s books and the most scholarly atmosphere in the West Bull New Continent.
The Hanlin Scholars here are historically individuals of great learning who excel in the imperial examinations. Often, those who achieve top ranks have to serve in the Hanlin Academy for several years. Annually during the Grand Banquet, grand scholars hold forums, lecturing on the classics of Confucius, Mencius, and others.
The library encompasses a wide range of books, richly stored, filling various Academic Palace libraries.
Chen Shi arrived at Hanlin Academy and summoned a clerk, inquiring about books related to ghost and spirit records.
The clerk promptly said: "Compiler, for records of ghosts and spirits, there are both fiction and chronicles. Fiction is in the Miscellaneous Studies Palace, and chronicles are in our History Palace."
He led Chen Shi to the History Palace, the largest Academic Palace in Hanlin Academy, where the books were as numerous as cattle, and countless, with several white-haired old gentlemen reading ancient texts, transcribing and excerpting.
These are scholarly people, immersed in classics for years, and yet, with profound scholarship and substantial cultivation, refining Righteous Qi, which ghosts and spirits dare not approach.
As the Black Pot followed Chen Shi past them, it involuntarily shivered several times; they appeared like majestic Heavenly Gods, upright and imposing, intimidating it not to misbehave.
Chen Shi also noticed the extraordinary nature of these old gentlemen and quietly asked the clerk, "Who are they?"
"Clerks, just like me."
The clerk looked at these white-haired gentlemen and said, "We were originally Advanced Scholars, Scholars, and after the imperial examinations, sent to Hanlin Academy to be clerks."
Chen Shi was surprised and said: "Have they never been promoted?"
The clerk shook his head: "Without someone outside, they can only stay in Hanlin Academy studying for a lifetime. I fear I will end up the same."
Chen Shi looked at these old gentlemen. Though they were old, their cultivation was truly extraordinary, their Primordial Spirit incredibly pure, and their expansive Righteous Qi far more powerful than those high-ranking officials!
The clerk led him to the Ghost and God Department of the History Palace. Chen Shi examined these catalogs and saw that the bookcases were labeled and categorized by era. Starting six thousand years ago, one volume for every hundred years, one tome for every thousand years.
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