The Emperor of the Three Realms

chapter 63

Inside the palace, even the Duke of Soaring Dragon himself was shocked and troubled.    

The spiritual alchemists in the palace all advanced one by one, including the senior executives of the Pill King Garden who had just surrendered themselves, to go upstairs and see Long San's condition.    

As for the person the Duke of Soaring Dragon relied on the most, Court Chief Wang also did not know what to do.    

“Your Majesty, this is not simple. The poison has seeped through the pores and can be branded as a tyrant among poisons. that's my view.... uh, what is this?”    

Court Chief Wang was thinking of a way to forgive his incompetence when he suddenly discovered there was a small piece of cloth on the front of Long San's clothes.    

There are even four words in it – fight poison with poison.    

Posts as small as the head of a fly are also seen on the back of the cloth – Let the strongest poison masters in the palace try this poison.    

The Duke of Soaring Dragon was about to grab the piece of cloth when Court Chief Wang hurriedly stopped him, “Your Majesty, do not touch it. I'm worried there's poison.”    

The entire palace was similar to a bird that was struck by the twang of a bowstring. After hearing Court Chief Wang's words, the Duke of Soaring Dragon also withdrew his hand, and looked at the cloth with a frightening expression.    

Your Majesty, you sent this Long San to kill Jiang Chen, and this piece of cloth seemed to be insinuating something. Could this Long San have fallen into Jiang Chen's hands?” Court Chief Wang felt extremely scared when it came to Jiang Chen.    

"Impossible! How old was Jiang Chen? In terms of training, at most, he could only be in the advanced realms of true qi. How could he injure Long San to this degree?” Long Zhaofeng shook his head.    

“However, it is said 'fight poison with poison here. This clearly meant that he would not suffer any losses for more than one night. This must be revenge for the poison that Jiang Feng had fallen victim to, right?”    

Long Zhaofeng still shook his head. “I thoroughly investigate the inner secrets of the Jiang family. Be it Jiang Feng or Jiang Chen, neither of them possessed such strength. Long San was a true qi master, and not an ordinary qi master. I suspect someone is secretly helping the Jiang family. Moreover, it is very likely that it is someone from the Eastern family clan.”    

The Jiang family and the Eastern royal family clan were walking very close right now. It was not impossible to say that the royal family had sent powerful practitioners to secretly help him.    

It was not according to logic at all if Jiang Chen alone had the ability to harm Long San.    

“Wang Tua, you've been chatting for a long time. Do you have the ability to cure Long San of his poison or not?” The Duke of Soaring Dragon really appreciated Long San very much.    

“Your subordinates are only proficient in spirit medicine and really do not have much right to speak regarding the use of poison. We can now only wait for Master Violet to come out of training to gain a glimmer of hope.” Court Chief Wang knew more than anyone when he spoke that Long San couldn't possibly last long enough until Lord Violet came out of training.    

Not to mention, the poison was already about to attack the heart. Even if Lord Violet helped, Long San might not be able to be saved. Moreover, even though Master Violet was quite adept at using poison, she might still not be able to break through this poison mystery in such a short period of time and solve it in time.    

Long San's lights were clearly out of service due to running out of oil.    

“Family Jiang!” A terrifying light shone in Long Zhaofeng's eyes.    

“Your Majesty, what should we do about the wandering practitioner who sent Lord San back?” A palace core guard captain asked.    

“I don't want to hear wild rumors outside.” Long Zhaofeng said weakly.    

"Understood." The guard captain nodded, understanding Long Zhaofeng's intentions. The Duke apparently did not want the details of Long San's matter to be widespread.    

What kind of man is best at keeping secrets? Of course, people die.    

After returning to the capital, Jiang Chen dressed up a little and returned to the Jiang Han palace. This trip back and forth took exactly half a month.    

The first mission was completed perfectly.    

However, Jiang Chen was in no hurry to report the completion of his task. Instead, he first explained to his father, Jiang Feng, the matter of Long San.    

“Length San?” Jiang Feng's glaring eyes looked beyond his confidence after listening. “Chen’er, you mean you used poison to cripple Long San?”    

“More precisely, he should have died.” Jiang Chen was the alchemist of all the planes under the sky in his past life – such unorthodox branches of using poison were easy.    

He had naturally calculated exactly when he sent Long San back.    

He would absolutely not allow the possibility of others being able to save him!    

Jiang Chen was not one to hold grudges, but he was also not one to rely on the mercy of others. Today, Long San was only the first step in his counterattack over what the rank of a Soaring Dragon duke had done to his father last time. At most this can only be counted as interest. He will definitely present even more principals in the future!    

He deliberately put those words on a small piece of cloth to pierce the rank of a Soaring Dragon duke.    

As for the wandering practitioners, Jiang Chen would naturally not send an innocent person to their deaths. Those people were playing around together on the outskirts of the capital. They look like wandering practitioners on the surface, but in reality they raided the house and plundered the house secretly, committing an act of murder for personal gain.    

To be honest, they were a bunch of robbers and bandits.    

Jiang Chen had sent them to the Soaring Dragon palace because he was betting that the Soaring Dragon palace would kill anyone who might be an eyewitness against them.    

“Chen'er, Long Zhaofeng is a fierce and ambitious person who will take revenge for the smallest grievances. Long San was one of his most trusted confidants he relied on. Long San's strength could also truly rank within the top five ranks of a Soaring Dragon duke. If this person dies, then the duke of Soaring Dragon will definitely take a fiercer revenge on you.”    

Jiang Feng's tone of speech was wise. He's not using conventional vision to measure this kid.    

“Mm. One cannot live without a careful heart.” Jiang Chen nodded. “However, we can't stop doubting just because they want revenge, right? I will practice for a few days first and struggle to break through the eight meridians of true qi this time around, thus taking a step forward to increase my strength!    

In martial dao training, one would sometimes encounter obstacles if he only relied on training behind closed doors.    

Traveling to the outside world and bracing yourself from the experience will often lead to new inspiration and understanding, which is an important turning point for a breakthrough.    

This trip to the outside world to carry out missions also resulted in a greater improvement step for Jiang Chen, both in terms of mentality and experience. The knowledge and experience he had encountered during his journey had all been filtered down to his essence for him to absorb, providing great benefits, becoming the catalyst for his martial dao breakthrough.    

After breaking through, Jiang Chen had the ability of eight meridians true qi. He could clearly sense that his strength had increased by one more level.    

After entering the realm of true qi advanced, the difference between increasing each meridian of true qi and improving each personal level would become increasingly clear. One will be able to feel the increasing distance with each additional step taken.    

Along with Jiang Chen breaking through the eight meridians of true qi, he also indistinctly grasped the many mysteries of the technique he practiced by drawing parallels of inference.    

Of course, Jiang Chen was still training up to the second form “Sea Flow Breaker Luas”. It took some time of contemplation and an important turning point for him to practice to the third form.    

As for “Divine Aeons Fist”, Jiang Chen still stopped at the third level of reincarnation, in the third cycle of blooming and withering. However he had a better understanding of the true meaning of this fist technique.    

If this understanding and progress were used in actual combat, it would greatly improve his personal fighting abilities.    

That day when Jiang Chen was on his way back to the capital and faced the first wave of ambush, Jiang Chen had not even unsheathed the nameless sword when he beheaded his opponent.    

This is the true meaning of the martial dao contained within, and also the amazing mystery of “Sea Flow Breaker Luas”.    

And now that he had eight meridians true qi, Jiang Chen was sure that even if he were to come face to face with Long San right now, he would absolutely not be afraid of the others.    

Whether it is “Sea Flow Breaker Luas” or using “Divine Aeon Boxing”, both will be enough to compete directly with Long San, someone with a true qi master training level.    

The benefits Jiang Chen had obtained from breaking through the eight meridians were quite obvious.    

“God”'s eyes and “Zephyr” ears both managed to break through the fourth level smoothly. Since the previous “Boulder's Heart” was developing at a slow level, it also showed signs of slackening at the second level, allowing greater possibilities to advance to the third level.    

Jiang Chen absolutely would not be negligent with these three abilities. These three abilities are not only very useful in actual combat, but are also a prerequisite for the training of “Moonshatter” Flying Swords.    

Jiang Chen had basically fully comprehended the initial step of “Moonshatter” Flying Daggers by now.    

However, the power of “Moonshatter” Flying Daggers lay in the mystery of unpredictable and ever-changing movements, and Jiang Chen was currently only practicing a few basic moves.    

As of now, he did not even have the qualifications to start practicing and understand the profound meaning of that truly powerful move.    

To train the first movement of “Cattle Flying Destroyer Moon”, he must train “Eye Dewa” and “Ear Zephyr” to the seventh level.    

“Boulder's Heart” should also be at least at the fourth level.    

Most profound ability “Psychic” Head must be trained to the second level.    

The current Jiang Chen was still a long way off with his four abilities. Especially “Psychic Head”, he hasn't even started it yet.    

When he reviewed his personal strength, Jiang Chen felt a sense of urgency.    

“It seems that in order to receive the qualification to train the mystery of the 'Moonshatter Flying Dagger' movement, I first have to train these four companion abilities to a satisfactory level.”    

Although Jiang Chen felt a certain urgent need, he would also not do anything beyond himself, such as forcing a duck to roost.    

On the path of martial dao training, doing things steadily and surely was the only proper way to progress.    

The next day, Jiang Chen went to the Hidden Dragon Trial testing site to hand over his first mission.    

“Jiang Chen, first rank mission, to kill rapist Lotus Harvester in Tianhu.” region The Hidden Dragon Trial Organizer began verifying his mission.    

“According to verification, this head does belong to the cruel and evil Lotus Harvester. These short swords and personal items are all authentication tokens that meet the standard.”    

The organizer nodded and declared, “Jiang Chen, the first mission of the first rank, is done!”    

After this organizer announcement, Jiang Chen's first mission had been completed.    

“Jiang Chen, according to the rules, you still have to complete two more first rank missions to be able to enter the first rank. The two remaining missions have both been repaired.”    

This was an old rule and Jiang Chen did not need to worry too much. He easily retrieved the scroll for a second mission and prepared to leave.    

"Jiang Chen, hold on."    

Jiang Chen did not even need to turn his head to know that Princess Gouyu had arrived.    

In reality, her “Zephyr” Ear had caught Princess Gouyu's unique breath when she first set foot onto the Hidden Dragon Trials testing site.    

Across the entire testing site, this was the only unique breathing that a true qi master of eleven meridians true qi possessed.    

“Your Highness, what instructions do you have?”    

"Come with me." Princess Gouyu acted with a little more caution in front of others.    

After she followed Princess Gouyu to a private secret room, a beam of extraordinary splendor radiated from her phoenix eyes. “Jiang Chen, I've heard something happened to Long San?”    

"Is that so? What does that have to do with me? Who's Long San?” Jiang Chen replied with three questions in a row and put on a face of no interest at all.    

“Ai!” Princess Gouyu was a little disappointed. He really wanted Jiang Chen to smash his chest and acknowledge the matter.