Chapter 401

My Dao Empyrean Bamboo is only a prototype immortal item . He never came close to figuring out how to evolve it, until now .

Immortal items are alive .

Chen Ming's item was even more special than common immortal weapons .

It needed to absorb all kinds of natural essences to grow . But this kind of place was a first for him .

Once in the Alldragon Mountains, the fiends' most mysterious area, Dao Empyrean Bamboo throbbed .

Allheaven had seen all kinds of dragons throughout time, En, this looks like the place where dragons were being quite liberal with their feelings . That has to be if, if not, there wouldn't be so many kinds of dragons here .

Our Immortal Master Chen was unlikely to go robbing, though .

Chen Ming followed the trail deeper into the hills of bones and felt an increase in power from them .

Birthed with vigorous stamina, and buried in the dragon range .

This was the dragon graveyard . Fiend dragons were lesser, unlike their counterpart, the innate dragons . Nature gave birth to them, also known as sacred beasts .

Fiend dragons were born in places filled with dragon bones like mountains, or dragon blood rivers .

Star Dragon was the only exception and the most precious, born amidst the stars .

As such, in places with bones such as this, there was also a mountain river . This was the fiend's graveyard .

Just as how the dragons gathered here, so did the fiends .

What Chen Ming felt from Dao Empyrean Bamboo was hunger, just like a starved child .

He walked into the depths of Alldragon Mountains and saw the Alldragon Stele towering above the other twenty-three steles at the sides .

Chen Ming spoke in his heart, "Comprehend all of them!"

Scriptures entered his mind and Chen Ming chose to learn them to the Transcending realm .

As for their entirety, he made sure to remember them .

Such pity I can't take them with .

Dao Palaces formed within him, 23 in number, as well as their respective Dao Seeds . Among them was even the Eight Heavenly Dragons . (1) These eight Dao Seeds were in sync with each other .

He felt his power growing, though not by a large margin .

However, this was a joyous occasion as he formed 23 Dao Seeds

It was worth coming here .

Time to grow Dao Empyrean Bamboo . He took it out and scanned the area . He found a place where power converged and stood before it, feeling all manifestations of nature .

Chen Ming planted Dao Empyrean Bamboo right in the middle . It began growing again, climbing ever higher .

It grew and grew, focusing on absorbing the dragon power in the area with all it had .

He could see the dragon power with the naked eye as it rose from the earth and was sucked inside it . It won't be conspicuous, no?

I am pretty much digging the fiends' graveyard .

Dao Empyrean Bamboo devoured dragon power with its insatiable appetite, and with it, its power grew .

I wonder how far will it grow when it absorbed everything .

After all, this was true dragon power, with each strand of it akin to a dragon vein!

A tribulation cloud overshadowed a hundred li, Dao Empyrean Bamboo's tribulation!

It was still gathering power and the lack of thunderclaps proved it so .

The good news was this place had dragon power all around for concealing effect . Dao Empyrean Bamboo sucked as much dragon power it could but it didn't exhaust it .

Constant absorption translated into constant growth .

The first lightning streaked from the clouds three months later, right on top of Dao Empyrean Bamboo .

Chen Ming gripped Dao Empyrean Bamboo and felt a new power coursing through it . He flicked it and thousands of dragons roamed the sky .

The tribulation cloud was ripped apart, torn to pieces, shredded to nothing .

Hot damn, it's strong!

It wiped the sky with the Heavenly Tribulation!

Worthy of being a weapon that restrained the Heavenly Dao .

Chen Ming sensed Dao Empyrean Bamboo's new effect – a power akin to a dragon's divine might .

It absorbed alldragon power and had the strength of ten thousand Dragon Veins .

Dao Empyrean Bamboo was a treasure, not just a mere weapon, but a magical item .

Chen Ming found it best since he himself walked the path of spiritual power .

What melee magic art user, that's travesty!

He'd try out its power in battle as now it was time to hightail it out of there .

He read the Alldragon Stele long ago and knew by now the main points of the Star Dragon cultivation method . His Star Dragon would only grow stronger from now on .

Chen Ming couldn't guarantee the same for his Limitless Dao Body, he just had no grounds to base it on .

If the fiend Immortal Kings found themselves duped, he reckoned they would publish a brand-new book entitled 18 Ways to Cook Chen Ming .

The more I think the worse I feel .

Time to bolt .

He took to his crow form and flapped his little wings towards the entrance, where Qing Long was still committed to his guarding duty . Sigh, leaving like this, Qing Long will get the full brunt of it .

However, I am anything but a Star Dragon .

He fled on his way . The talk in the Galaxy about this century war was that Headless Assembly held complete dominance . The stronger it became the more set were its members in enacting their plans . It meant the Headless Assembly held far too little territory .

A Headless Assembly's priest declared that he wanted to scry into the outcome between the Headless Assembly and the four Great Immortal Domains' war . If they won, it proved Heavenly Will was no longer on their side and they had to willingly cede a part of their territory over to Headless Assembly .

It was an excuse, obviously . To be honest, the Headless Assembly just wanted to stretch its borders . With the victory over this century war, it wanted a larger piece of the pie .

The Great Immortal Domains responded by sending their High Priests, who only came back in defeat .

(1) It is a reference to the Eight Legions, a group of Buddhist deities whose function is to protect the Dharma . The Eight Legions have their origins in ancient India as gods who belong to several domains . Many of these gods are among those spirits who are found in the lower heavens and the Asura realm . They are: Deva, Naga, Yaksa, Gandharva, Asura, Garuda, Kimnara and Mahoraga .

P . S . : this is also the name of Jin Yong's wuxia novel, Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils .