by Dragon King
It was an ancient sacred item no less than the ten godly items stored in the Nine Dragon Palace! However, since it wasn’t a real dharma treasure and must be used to suppress the devil essence in the East Ocean Dragon Palace, it hadn’t been taken into the Nine Dragon Palace!
Without any superpowers, the Ocean-Pacifying Godly Pillar was only a massive pillar that emitted primitive nature essence and could pacify the ocean!
It was more of a giant ancient pillar than a dharma treasure; it was the perfect material for making dharma treasures since no other treasures could break it!
Xie Yujia was more surprised than Hao Ren since this famous legendary treasure had landed in Hao Ren’s hands. Lady Zhen even suggested Hao Ren refine it into his natal dharma treasure!
This legendary weapon didn’t have any unique powers except for changing its size. The only other feature was its great weight.
In terms of superpowers, it was no match for the Kunlun Godly Lamp which was once used by Duan Yao!
“Withdraw!”
Hao Ren released a violent wave of nature essence from his arm, but the Ocean-Pacifying Godly Pillar remained motionless as if the nature essence had sunk into the ocean without a trace. Aside from pulling it up, Hao Ren couldn’t do anything with it.
Thinking back to his grandma who was still in danger and the vortex of devil essence in East Ocean, Hao Ren got anxious and activated all of his nature essence!
However, as a godly metal pillar which was on par as the ten ancient godly items, it was more than what a Four-Petal Realm cultivator could use.
It would be easy if he just moved it to the East Ocean Dragon Palace and returned it to its original position. However, it was wishful thinking if Hao Ren wanted to tame it and turn it into his natal dharma treasure!
Thousands of years ago, it had been used by that Monkey King for a while, but not as a natal dharma treasure. Instead, it was like the kind of partnership similar to the relationship between Hao Ren and the golden shield!
Not able to keep the Ocean-Pacifying Godly Pillar in control, Hao Ren was dragged toward the sea by it.
“Hao Ren!” Worried, Xie Yujia followed him.
If Lu Linlin and Lu Lili were with him, they would surely find a way for him to refine the Ocean-Pacifying Godly Pillar. But now, he had to tame this treasure with his own will and strength!
If he failed, this treasure wouldn’t fly away due to its firm character.
“Go! Go…”
Hao Ren shot out many sword energies.
The dense sword energies surrounded the Ocean-Pacifying Godly Pillar!
Hao Ren had never thought about battling this treasure before, but Lady Zhen’s words piqued his interest!
Since the Ocean-Pacifying Godly Pillar didn’t have any superpower except its toughness, Hao Ren had a chance to tame it!
If it were a treasure like the Kunlun Godly Lamp, Hao Ren would have his soul sucked out by before he could tame it!
However, if the Ocean-Pacifying Godly Pillar struggled with him, the worst that it could do was hit him, and Hao Ren was sure that he could withstand it since his body had been tempered by heavenly lightning.
“Tiangang!”
Hao Ren brought his palms together.
The many sword energies formed a giant lightning array formation.
It could even trap a Five-Petal Realm cultivator.
With his Light Splitting Sword Shadow Scroll and the power of sword array formations, Hao Ren could defeat cultivators who were in higher realms. He could even kill Five-Petal Realm cultivators if everything were aligned!
The book on sword array formation that Old Grandma gave him had stunning power!
The Ocean-Pacifying Godly Pillar stood firmly in the ocean and released waves of suppression, blocking Hao Ren’s sword energies.
“Go!”
Xie Yujia shot out two Life-Death Notes and held the top and the bottom of the Ocean-Pacifying Godly Pillar.
They were the original Life-Death Runes that Qingfeng Hermit gave to her, and they could transform nature.
Hum… The golden shield hesitated for a moment and released many golden lights. Despite its fear of the Ocean-Pacifying Godly Pillar, it must do its share at this moment!
If Hao Ren could tame the Ocean-Pacifying Godly Pillar, it would become this ancient treasure’s senior since it had been with Hao Ren longer!
Hua! Hua…
Suddenly, the Ocean-Pacifying Godly Pillar turned horizontal and began to spin like the propellers of a helicopter.
It had been activated by Hao Ren due to his five-elemental nature essence that contained the Tiangang energy which was common in ancient times.
However, it wasn’t easy for Hao Ren to tame it at the mere Heavenly Dragon Realm!
The ocean water surged up violently, and the violent currents almost destroyed Hao Ren’s sword array formation.
Xie Yujia furrowed her eyebrows while she controlled the Death Note and Life Note, trying her best to steady the pillar.
If it were a godly item such as the Pangu Axe and the Nuwa Stone, the cultivators who tried to control its movements would have spat out blood.
However, the Ocean-Pacifying Godly Pillar didn’t have such superpowers; it was only a pillar of sacred iron from the ancient times, and it hadn’t even been forged.
Without exquisite adjustments made by immortals or any miraculous spells, it had gained some spirit intelligence by absorbing nature essence!
Compared with the ten godly items, it didn’t have an outstanding background or mysterious strength. Despite its age which was as old as the ten godly items, it was grassroots compared to its aristocratic counterparts. It had just stood in East Ocean while cultivating silently with its weak spiritual senses.
If that Monkey King hadn’t pulled it up, no one would have known about it.
That was why it didn’t want to be tamed by a random cultivator after it showed its radiance! Even the sages couldn’t tame this iron pillar!
Boom! The ocean waves surged toward Hao Ren.
The undercurrents beneath the surface of the ocean were more powerful than those energy surges above the ocean. Hao Ren moved his hands and tightened the sword array formation!
The sword energies let out humming noises while each of them was equivalent to a slim heavenly lightning bolt!
“I don’t care if you want to submit or not; I must tame you to save my grandma!” Hao Ren roared in rage, getting more furious while he pondered about the whole thing. “If the Queen Mother of the West refuses to save my grandma, I’ll battle my way up to the Heavenly Realm!”
“Battle my way to the Heavenly Realm!”
These words made the ocean waves surge up even more.
The Ocean-Pacifying Godly Pillar which had been tumbling violently in the ocean waves suddenly stopped moving.Ocean-Pacifying Godly Pillar was another name for Ruyi Jingu Bang, the magic staff of the Monkey King in the novel, Journey to the West. You may also know the Monkey King from Dota 2 or League of Legends.Da Yu, also known as Yu the Great, was a legendary ruler in ancient China famed for his introduction of flood control, inaugurating dynastic rule in China by establishing the Xia dynasty, and for his upright moral character.If you haven’t read the Journey to the West before, you might not get this reference. In the book, when the Monkey King first got his power, he had battled his way to the Heavenly Realm with his magical staff, making all the immortals submit to him before he fell to the conspiracy of Rulai Buddha and got locked under a mountain.
779 One Step Ahead
Hearing Hao Ren words, Xie Yujia was worried as well.
She was also concerned about Grandma’s safety but thought that the issue would be solved now that Qingfeng Hermit had gone up to the Heavenly Realm to speak for them.
“Move!”
The square-shaped sword array formation suddenly tightened up.
Although Grandma was temporarily safe, no one could ensure the same after one or two weeks.
No one could understand the
anxiety inside Hao Ren!
He remembered Grandma’s old face, the mooncakes that she made, and her expectant eyes when she stood at the door and waited for his return on the weekends.
How could Hao Ren bear to see her die like this without experiencing a lot of happiness?
“F*ck the Heavenly Dao and fates!” Hao Ren would never allow his grandma to be erased as easily as a grain of sand.
While the Heavenly Dao turned into the next cycle, it wouldn’t care about a mortal’s life. In the eyes of those powerful figures, the mortals were just ants, and saving them would break their rules!
Hao Ren could do nothing about it without great power!
Hum!
All the sword energies entangled with each other and trapped the Ocean-Pacifying Godly Pillar like a huge net.
“Hao Ren, be careful!” Xie Yujia reminded him.
Since these sword energies were connected to Hao Ren’s mind, if they were shattered by the Ocean-Pacifying Godly Pillar, he would be severely injured!
However, the Ocean-Pacifying Godly Pillar didn’t struggle this time. Instead, it rushed into Hao Ren’s chest following the sword energies!
Xie Yujia blinked, wondering how it got in.
“Back!”
The real battle began inside Hao Ren’s body!
All the sword energies entered his body and chased after the Ocean-Pacifying Godly Pillar!
The 100,000-year Seven-Core Five-Color Lotus released waves of signals, propelling the five-elemental nature essence to track down the Ocean-Pacifying Godly Pillar.
After thousands of years’ deprivation of pure five-elemental nature essence, the Ocean-Pacifying Godly Pillar began absorbing the nature essence from Hao Ren’s mystic crystal like a fish in water, traveling along his hands, feet, chest, and neck.
Astonished, Xie Yujia saw waves of golden light moving along Hao Ren’s skin as if a small fish were moving inside his body.
Suddenly, the golden light stopped at one position in his right hand, showing a distinct shape of a stick in his palm.
Hao Ren tamed it!
The golden shield hovered around Hao Ren, hoping that he would take it as well. Even if it couldn’t become his natal dharma treasure, it would like to take him as its master!
“Let’s go!”
However, Hao Ren ignored it and took Xie Yujia’s arm before rushing out of the sea.
When Lady Zhen advised Hao Ren to take the Ocean-Pacifying Godly Pillar as his natal dharma treasure, she had implied that Hao Ren had the potential of accomplishing this goal.
Sure enough, after the Ocean-Pacifying Godly Pillar entered his body and realized that this was a little world full of five-elemental nature essence, it settled down!
While Hao Ren and Xie Yujia flew out of the sea, their clothes were already dry.
Dejected, the golden shield could do nothing but follow Hao Ren obediently.
The best five-elemental mystic crystal and the best natal dharma treasure in the world were a perfect match, and Hao Ren had both!
Seeing the confidence on his face, Xie Yujia finally smiled in relaxation, knowing that his personality would help him get through difficulties.
Boom! Despite their slower speed than Lady Zhen and Kui, it took them only an instant to return to East Ocean City.
The vortex above the East Ocean Dragon Palace became bigger compared with four days ago while the black mist looked even thicker.
This weird vortex had attracted the attention of the world, and dozens of helicopters had been hovering in the high sky during this period.
The edge of the vortex was now less than ten kilometers from East Ocean City’s harbor. All the ships docked at the harbor had evacuated while all the police and military vehicles stationed at the coastline showed that no results came out of the detecting devices.
Due to the huge suction force of the vortex, the submarine had to retreat immediately before it could get close to it.
Since the situation was getting out of control, the government was considering the evacuation of the residents in East Ocean City. However, with tens of millions of people living in the city, it wasn’t an easy task!
“Yujia, go to Grandma first,” Hao Ren said while releasing Xie Yujia’s arm.
“Hao Ren…” She looked at him in concern.
“I’ll be fine. You must guard Grandma,” Hao Ren said.
Then, he looked up and seemed to see a dragon flying by in disguise.
“Go!”
Hao Ren circulated his nature essence and shot out the Ocean-Pacifying Godly Pillar from his palm!
Meanwhile, he created a gust of strong wind and sweep up a lot of seawater, forming a storm!
The helicopters hovering in the air got the order and left one by one, and the police officers guarding the coastline couldn’t keep their balance and had to get into the cars.
Vaguely, people saw a flash of golden light in the storm.
Boom!
The Ocean-Pacifying Godly Pillar entered the center of the vortex and sealed the ancient devil eye at the dragon cemetery of the East Ocean Dragon Palace!
When this pillar was shoot out from Hao Ren’s palm, it had been as tiny as about a dozen millimeters, but its width grew to tens of meters when it sank into the ocean.
Pacifying the ocean!
All the currents in the ocean settled down suddenly.
The violent devil essence was instantly suppressed.
With his mind connected with the Ocean-Pacifying Godly Pillar, Hao Ren sensed that the devil essence under the East Ocean Dragon Palace had a depth of thousands of meters, and it would cause more trouble in the future.
“Withdraw!”
Floating on the sea surface, Hao Ren yelled without hesitation, knowing that the Ocean-Pacifying Godly Pillar which could suppress devil essence should be able to absorb it!
In ancient times, there was no division between immortals and devils, and the Ocean-Pacifying Godly Pillar absorbed the nature essence and devil essence to get to where it was. Even though the devil essence was beyond the control of the five elements, it couldn’t escape from this pillar’s suppression.
Coming from the ancient times, the Ocean-Pacifying Godly Pillar was also a hundun treasure and could absorb this ancient devil essence.
In fact, if Da Yu hadn’t placed it here to control the flood, it wouldn’t have the opportunity to obtain both nature essence and devil essence to grow this fast.
With its mind connected to Hao Ren’s, the Ocean-Pacifying Godly Pillar got Hao Ren’s order and began to suck in the devil essence like crazy. After resting in the Dragon God Shrine for hundreds of years, it needed abundant energy to replenish the stock, and the devil essence was an elixir to this pillar.
While the devil essence diminished gradually, Hao Ren could see that the East Ocean Dragon Place had received little damage.
Except for the destroyed dragon cemetery and the few collapsed palaces that were close to the back mountain, the remaining palaces were intact.
Pu… After taking in the last trace of devil essence, the Ocean-Pacifying Godly Pillar returned to Hao Ren’s palm. Without any concept of justice and evil, it didn’t distinguish between right and wrong, which meant that it didn’t care if it would battle its way to the Heaven Realm or the Devil Realm.
Seeing that Xie Yujia wasn’t by the sea, Hao Ren knew that she had gone back to the hospital. After stopping the violent storm, he created an energy sphere and flew toward Eastern Hospital.
The people who were staying by the coastline were astonished when they saw that the ocean had returned to normal with the end of the storm.
In a flash, Hao Ren arrived at Eastern Hospital which was now in chaos since people here got the news that they might have to evacuate. It would be easy for ordinary residents to move, but it was a complicated issue for the many patients in the hospital.
When Hao Ren walked into the ward, he saw his parents, Zhao Yanzi, and Zhao Baibai were in there. Xie Yujia had returned and
was talking with Grandma.
He noticed that the golden shield had followed Xie Yujia here and was resting on Zhao Baibai’s hair as a small hairpin.
Lady Zhen was also in the ward, taking Grandma’s wrist in her hand like a daughter. Zhen Congming stood by her side, looking at Grandma with a silly smile on his face.
Hao Ren could see that Lady Zhen was injecting connate vital essence into Grandma’s body by holding her hand.
This connate vital essence was extremely precious to cultivators, and probably only Lady Zhen, who was the Phoenix who could resurrect, dared to use her connate vital essence this way.
“You two silly kids. Since this is my fate, you didn’t have to travel so far to burn incense sticks for me in the ancient temple. Ay, there was no cell phone connection in the mountains…” Grandma looked at Xie Yujia and said, “I’m happy as long as you are here with me.”
Her tone was filled with sadness.
Yue Yang and Hao Zhonghua looked at Hao Ren and sighed lightly, thinking that he had taken Xie Yujia to the mountains and prayed for Grandma by burning incense sticks.
They didn’t believe in such stuff but felt dejected that Grandma had little chance of recovering. The central government at Beijing had sent several medical experts to see Grandma, but none of them could find the cause of the illness while Grandma’s health deteriorated quickly.
Ding! Yue Yang’s cell phone rang suddenly.
She answered it and nodded. “It’s solved? Did it settle down by itself? That’s strange. Wait for a while before probing the area again. I’m busy now, and I’ve got to go.”
She put away her cell phone and whispered to Hao Zhonghua who nodded in surprise after hearing her words.
“If you have work to do, go ahead. I’m fine,” Grandma said.
“Mom, it’s not a big deal. It’s solved now,” Yue Yang answered immediately.
Since the vortex in East Ocean had gotten out of control, she and Hao Zhonghua had been taken to the site by a helicopter for investigation. Now hearing the news that the vortex had disappeared, they were relieved despite having questions on their minds.
“Zhen, for some reason, I feel better after you came to see me,” Grandma took Lady Zhen’s slim hand and said happily.
