Chapter 330

Chen Ming laughed. There's no way an imperial prince would only have these trinkets. "Fetch the hog!"

The prince glared at Chen Ming, Haven't you had enough?

"Even if you're not content there's nothing I can do. I came to try my luck, not move my home. There's no way I would have everything on me. All I have is to face the dangers here."

In Chen Ming's mind, Makes sense. Yeah, he isn't moving so everything is back home. In other words, the best choice is to use him into asking the Heavenly Court for ransom.

Of course, Chen Ming's nerve wasn't that thick, Won't I die?

I can't handle a Celestial Immortal, not to mention a Supreme Gold Immortal!

Nothing good came from Jade Lake's side. The Heavenly Court brought fortune immortal fruits to make immortals, so why would the Jade Lake bring peaches? What could they do wit it?

Let me live a tad longer?

Moon Palace's Tree of Martyrs was a Moon Laurel. It drew on the power of the moon and allowed one to cultivate a Moon body underneath its branches.

Void's Tree of Martyrs was mystifying. Except for Void's people, no one knew what kind of Tree of Martyrs they had.

But Chen Ming was very much intrigued by all of these factions' cultivation methods.

Heavenly Court's resulting Dao Seed was called Fortune, holder of outstanding might. With Chen Ming forming so many Dao Seeds, he guessed the Fortune's power would match Dao Canon's Dao Seed.

But its name spoke volumes of this Dao Seed's power. He surmised that Fortune had a certain leeway in changing fate, bringing one in a much closer relation with the Dao.

Of course, this held no sway in Chen Ming's case. Only heaven knew how intimate he was with the Dao. He was, after all, supposed to understand three thousand of them.

Jade Lake's cultivation method formed a Dao Seed with the name of Ascend. Just from the line, The great Peng ascended the Nine Heavens, showed the power of Jade Lake's scripture.

Not to speak of Moon Palace's. It started off with the One of Three: one begot two, two begot three, and three begot the myriad creatures.(1) Moon Palace spoke of the Supreme(Taiji). From Supreme came Duality, of Yin and Yang. (2) And this Yin represented Moon Palace's Yin through the moon(3).

Void's Dao Seed was even queerer. It was likely for it to be Order, or maybe Chaos and even Infinite. The chances for Chaos was small since chaos was too strong to be among the Dao Seeds.

The most likely of them was Infinite, a Dao Seed belonging to space. World Leap Art, Blinking Art, and the Fate to Void Art were all Void's trademark skills.

Fiends' strongest Dao Seed was thanks to Star Dragon's appearance, called Dragon King. If he formed the Dragon King Dao Seed, he could change into a true dragon. Just that he felt a dragon's body was a tad weak for him.

Yan Shengxiao's Dao Seed was likely Dragon King. Such a pity, if I want to cultivate it, I need to pay the Alldragon Stele a visit.

That's too damn inconvenient. All these Dao Seeds are unsharable secrets from each Great Immortal Domain. Only core members have the right to go near them.

Blast it! This is too cruel!

Is it truly hopeless?

No, there's always a way.

Let's take it one step at a time.

Only alive will the way reveal itself.

Spending a month in this place earned him close to a hundred thousand scriptures. Chen Ming didn't sink into a reading spree, and let the system lady cross out the fakes. Reading in such a place was too much of a waste. With his limited time, he needed to make a plan for a speedy retreat.

With most things in his pocket, Chen Ming found the time to leave was soon approaching, Wonder how many did the Faceless sent to hunt me down. Faceless are the strongest and can't be belittled, or toyed with, like Jade Lake and Heavenly Court.

Chen Ming's thinking was simple. He'd play a little act of make-believe then fly away on a raven's wings.

But with Chen Ming's vigilant nature, in the off chance the Headless Assembly left something on their immortal equipment, he decided to search them with a keener eye. He couldn't just throw them away.

Chen Ming turned to the fiends, "I have now gathered many scriptures and shall enter seclusion. Do not disturb me!"

Chen Ming created a simple puppet under a small lamp, in a house built by fiends in front of the prison. He put an array inside it and let it roam around the house.

He took to his crow form, set Dao Canon's Dao Palace upfront, and flew away.

When he was before fatty's cell, he said, "Master will take his leave. On your travels back to me, remember to hide your trail."

Wan Baqian recognized him, "Be at ease, Master, disciple won't forget."

Chen Ming cawed and flapped his wings.

He arrived at the entrance where many flying boats still floated about.

No one seemed to mind a simple crow as each had their own matters to attend to.

Chen Ming didn't linger and left towards the Three-headed Dragon Constellation.

Only after a month did the fiends found something was off. They rushed to Chen Ming's seclusion house, but he was long gone.

The fiends lost their pillar at that moment. Panicking, they pried open Yan Shengxiao's cell with great effort in hopes she would handle this precarious situation.

The prison was filled with great figures, how could they deal with them on their own?

Yan Shengxiao sneered as she walked out, Now that Crown Prince Star Dragon ran, you remembered this sister? Those that crossed me will die!'

But Yan Shengxiao's temper seemed to stall as she didn't lash out just yet, "Let's get out first. There's no second to lose!"

Yan Shengxiao led them outside while explaining to them the situation.

The moment they were out, they were gone. With such strange behavior, the rest of the factions noticed them with ease and sent people inside the inheritance only to find a shocking discovery!

Fiend's Crown Prince Star Dragon was born, inhibiting the world and capturing all geniuses in the inheritance's place. He stole their immortal equipment and tortured them for scriptures!

It was a world-wide shock!

The entire immortal world trembled!

But the shock didn't come from all of them held imprisoned, but that the mastermind had a Star Dragon body!

(1) a quote from Lao Tzu's teachings on the Way chapter 42

(2) fundamentals of Daoism https://www.iep.utm.edu/daoism/

(3) the word moon is composed with the characters tai and yin