Chapter 767
Obtaining the Shennong Staff
Above Mount Dahei, the weather suddenly changed, the Tai Chi symbol dissipated, and the giant handprint disappeared, as if everything had returned to its starting point.
Looking at everything before him, Chen Jie regained his composure. He hadn't yet fully grasped the Dao; the incident just now had almost interrupted his enlightenment.
The same thing happened in Jinling, where Zhu Chongba also fell into enlightenment once again.
Both of them entered into a long period of enlightenment, comprehending the ways of heaven and earth and the essence of the sun and moon.
He didn't know how much time had passed when Chen Jie suddenly sat up. The next moment, the four gods appeared behind him: Jumang, the god of spring; Zhurong, the god of summer; Houtu, the god of autumn; and Xuanming, the god of winter.
The four gods appeared, and after a moment, they suddenly began to merge. In the blink of an eye, they merged back together. Then, a huge statue appeared behind Chen Jie. It was a bull-headed human god with eyes full of light, which was love for heaven and earth!
I love the heavens and the earth, and I have great love for Shennong!
That's right, this is Shennong, and also the true trump card of the Four Seasons Celestial Phenomena Technique: the four gods unite, ascend to godhood, Shennong!
As the Shennong phantom behind Chen Jie stabilized, Chen Jie's strength also stabilized completely. That's right, it was the fifth level of the Fusion God Realm, completely transcending the shackles of heaven and earth on ordinary people.
He instantly rose to the status of a demigod!
At this moment, Chen Jie looked up at the sky and felt that the world had suddenly become vast, and time flowed by without being tainted by any cause and effect.
The cycle of the four seasons, the myriad things in heaven and earth—this is Shennong, this is the highest realm of the Four Seasons Celestial Phenomena Technique!
Chen Jie opened his eyes, looked at the scepter in front of him, and said, "Senior, am I now qualified to use you?"
The scepter before him asked, "How do you know it's me, and not Lord Shennong?"
Chen Jie said, "If Shennong were alive, the world would not be in this state. Thank you for passing on Shennong's legacy to me, senior."
"Heh, you're not bad, kid!"
At this moment, the Shennong Scepter spoke, and Chen Jie looked at it in surprise and asked, "Senior, what exactly is it that you can speak?"
The Shennong Scepter said, "I am a celestial being, naturally I came from heaven."
"The sky?"
Chen Jie was puzzled, but then Shennong's scepter said, "This world is just a small lower realm. Above this realm, there is the Immortal Realm!"
Chen Jie then realized that there was a fairy cave underground in the South China Sea, and the fairy blood he used was not from this world at all.
Chen Jie asked, "Senior, what kind of place is the Immortal Realm?"
Shennong Staff remained silent for a long time before saying, "I don't know either. What I can remember is that immortals are extremely powerful, and they can live forever!"
Immortality!
Upon hearing this, Chen Jie frowned slightly and said with the Shennong Staff, "Hmm, I do remember that immortals can live forever, but as for the rest, I don't know!"
Chen Jie asked, "What kind of person was Shennong?"
Shennong paused with his staff and said, "He is someone even more powerful than an immortal."
Chen Jie looked at the Shennong Staff and said, "More powerful than an immortal?"
Shennong said with his staff, "Shennong is a surname, a great clan in the immortal realm, whose patriarch is called the Azure Emperor."
"My master is just an ordinary member of the Shennong clan, who came to this world to help the people of this world establish civilization."
After hearing Shennong's words, Chen Jie fell into deep thought. He asked, "Senior, do you know anything about terrestrial immortals?"
Shennong said with his staff, "I know. The people of this world have severed the path to ascension, yet they possess the power to ascend. Those who remain in this world are terrestrial immortals, which they obtained themselves."
Chen Jie asked, "The path to ascension is cut off? What happened?"
Shennong Staff shook its head and said, "I don't know. I only know that when my master was the Human Emperor, cultivators could ascend to the Immortal Realm and become immortals. But later, fewer and fewer people ascended. By the time of your Song Dynasty, there were basically no people who ascended!"
"It seems the passage between heaven and earth has been severed."
Shennong's staff.
After hearing Shennong Staff's words, Chen Jie fell into deep thought, then looked at Shennong Staff and asked, "Then does Senior know where the ascension passage is?"
Shennong Staff said, "Then I don't know. I'm just a spirit of a weapon, not a cultivator from the mortal realm. How could I possibly know so much!"
Upon hearing this, Chen Jie stopped asking questions. Asking too many questions now would only be a burden. Chen Jie's most important task now was the great battle with Zhu Chongba and the decision on who would become the emperor. Everything else was just a mirage.
Thinking this, Chen Jie said to the Shennong Staff, "Senior, can I become your new master now?"
Shennong asked with his staff, "Do you have any aspirations to become an immortal?"
Chen Jie said, "That's not necessarily a bad thing."
Shennong's staff said, "Then I will follow you. But after you have enjoyed the riches of the mortal world, if you are thinking of ascending to the immortal realm, please help me find my old master."
"Shennong, the Human Emperor?"
Shennong's staff nodded and said, "Yes."
Chen Jie said, "Alright, if one day I've had enough of this mortal realm, I'll ascend to the Immortal Realm and search for the Human Emperor Shennong with you!"
Shennong said with his staff, "In that case, extend your hand."
Chen Jie reached out his hand towards the Shennong Staff, and the next moment the Shennong Staff transformed into a stream of light, directly entering Chen Jie's arm. At this moment, a green grass pattern appeared on Chen Jie's arm.
At the same time, Chen Jie could feel a power lurking in his arm.
At this moment, Chen Jie reached out, and the Shennong Staff appeared in his hand the next instant. Holding the Shennong Staff, Chen Jie felt an extremely powerful increase in strength.
Chen Jie then spoke up, "Senior."
"Hmm, what am I doing? I'm going into hibernation. You can usually fight using my physical power. I wasted a lot of my power creating so many illusions for you earlier, so I need to repair myself."
"besides!"
Chen Jie remained silent, but then Shennong Staff suddenly spoke again: "From now on, don't call me senior, just call me Master Staff."
"Master Zhang!"
Chen Jie exclaimed, "What exactly are your functions?"
Shennong's staff said, "Using me will multiply the power of your Four Seasons Celestial Phenomena Technique. In addition, my more important function is to identify herbs and accelerate their ripening."
"Herbal ripening agents?"
Chen Jie was taken aback and looked at the Shennong Staff. This ability was extraordinary. You know, the last treasure that could accelerate the ripening of herbs was the little green bottle in the Legend of Mortal Cultivation. That treasure was incredible.
Chen Jie looked at the Shennong Staff and asked, "Is your function to absorb the essence of the sun and moon to produce spiritual liquid to accelerate the ripening of herbs?" The Shennong Staff replied, "No, my function is to convert the life force you cultivate into energy that the herbs can absorb, thus accelerating their ripening."
Chen Jie frowned and said, "The life force I cultivate is equivalent to me using my own power to accelerate the growth of herbs?"
Shennong's staff said, "That's right, it's the energy of the Four Seasons Celestial Phenomena Technique, specifically the Spring Technique."
Chen Jie said, "If I use my power to help you ripen the herbs, what about myself?"
Shennong's staff said, "You can cultivate yourself and recover!"
Chen Jie understood. So that's how it is. It really does follow the law of conservation of energy. This energy requires him to first cultivate his own Qi, then transform it into the life force of the Spring Word Technique for the Shennong Staff, and then use the Shennong Staff to ripen the herbs.
However, this function is indeed very powerful. If there is no need for high-intensity combat every day, one can convert the remaining Qi into energy to accelerate the growth of herbs.
As long as you work hard to cultivate back this vital energy that day, and also make sure you are in peak condition when you go out to do things, that will be fine.
Chen Jie thought about it and felt that the power of the Shennong Staff was already very strong.
At this moment, Shennong's staff said, "In addition, there is another function, which is that I can help you store some power within my body. If your Qi is exhausted, I can replenish it to you."
"You can do that?"
Chen Jie was surprised; this was indeed a very good use.
Shennong's staff said, "This power is the result of my research over the past few thousand years. If I had this power during the Battle of Banquan, my master might not have lost to the Xuanyuan clan."
"Losing control over this world."
Shennong Staff muttered to himself, "The Battle of Banquan, that was the name of the great battle between the Yan Emperor and the Yellow Emperor. It was a very large-scale battle that determined the final fate of the Yan and Yellow Emperor tribes."
Although the two tribes eventually achieved peaceful unification, that war was a major blow to Emperor Yan.
He had always been troubled by this, and as a weapon with a soul, the Shennong Staff, after sensing the Yan Emperor's lingering resentment, had been trying to make amends for a thousand years, so it began its self-evolution.
The biggest difference between the Shennong Staff and the Tiger Soul Blade and Xuanyuan Sword is that the Shennong Staff is alive and has unlimited potential for growth, while the Tiger Soul Blade and Xuanyuan Sword are inanimate objects. Although they are divine artifacts when forged, they have no potential for growth.
While Shennong's staff may not have been strong back then, it has grown over thousands of years and is gradually showing signs of overtaking others.
It has to be said that Chen Jie had some luck involved. The Shennong Staff of today is not the same as the one from five thousand years ago. Five thousand years of evolution have given it even greater power.
Chen Jie then examined the Shennong Staff in his hand. He had to admit that it had made such progress in just five thousand years. If another five thousand years passed, how powerful would it become?
Chen Jie felt the power of the Shennong Staff and was quite shocked.
Looking at the Shennong Staff in his hand, he said, "Master Staff, don't worry, I promise you, once I become the Human Emperor and save the people from their suffering, I will take you to the Immortal Realm to find your master."
Shennong Staff replied, "Then it's settled. Don't lie to me."
Do not worry.
After comforting Chen Jie, he could use the Shennong Staff at will. In the end, the Shennong Staff's auxiliary ability was much stronger than its offensive ability.
The ability to ripen herbs sounds incredibly powerful, especially considering that Chen Jie is a descendant of Changchun Valley, which uses alchemy to cultivate the Dao.
Therefore, Chen Jie's knowledge of alchemy has progressed rapidly over the years, and he now has his own ideas about alchemy.
What Chen Jie lacks now is good medicinal materials. If he had enough medicinal materials, he could mass-produce experts below the Fusion God Realm.
It should be noted that below the Fusion God Realm, as long as there are elixirs, one can improve rapidly.
It can be said that the Shennong Staff is a divine artifact, and is definitely worth more than its price.
As Chen Jie thought this to himself, he sensed his own formidable power—the fifth level of the Fusion God Realm. This power instantly made him feel stronger than ever before. Just then, a huge vortex of qi suddenly formed in front of him.
Feeling this powerful force, Chen Jie's eyes widened suddenly. He finally felt the terrifying power of the fifth level of the Fusion God.
Is this the fifth level of the Fusion God?
As Chen Jie felt the power within him, he felt that his understanding of heaven and earth was now more thorough and clearer. At this moment, Chen Jie felt that he was about to touch a corner of the sky!
"Is this the power of the fifth level of the Fusion God realm?"
Chen Jie raised his hand, then silently recited the Everlasting Spring Mantra, followed by the Four Seasons Celestial Phenomenon Mantra. In the next moment, life force instantly entered his body, and at this time, the Shennong Staff began to amplify Chen Jie's power.
The power of life is originally like a trickle, but after this magnified moment, it becomes like a flood bursting its banks.
It suddenly rushed into Chen Jie's body. At this moment, the power of the Xuanyuan Sword was still there in Chen Jie's heart meridian, constantly destroying Chen Jie's body. After continuous destruction, Chen Jie's heart meridian was constantly being destroyed and reorganized, and then destroyed again.
It just kept tearing, mending, mending, tearing.
If it were the old Chen Jie who had to constantly fight this injury, it would have taken at least three or four months to possibly erase it.
But now it's not necessary. After his life force surged into his heart like a flood, the Xuanyuan Sword Qi was instantly overwhelmed by the life force.
The powerful life force instantly entered his heart meridian, and a moment later, it completely dispersed the Xuanyuan Sword Qi!
The next moment, the torn wound in his heart meridian was instantly repaired under the infusion of life force, leaving no trace of injury.
Feeling his body fully healed, Chen Jie clenched his fist again, at which point he felt very close to the Dao.
At this moment, Chen Jie was filled with power. He looked at the patterns on the Shennong Staff on his arm, then leaped into the air and landed on the ground with a thud.
Upon seeing Chen Jie return, Yuan Sanjia was startled, and then, sensing the powerful force emanating from Chen Jie, exclaimed, "Fifth level of the Fusion God Realm! My lord, you have reached the fifth level of the Fusion God Realm!"
Chen Jie chuckled and said, "Yes, you've already entered the fifth stage of the Fusion God Realm."
Yuan Sanjia said, "Hehe, good, good, then it seems that you have obtained the Shennong Staff?"
Chen Jie nodded slightly and said, "Yes, I've got it."
Upon hearing this, Yuan Sanjia said, "Hehe, then everything is truly ready except for the east wind. When will we march south to attack Zhu Chongba?"
Upon hearing this, Chen Jie said, "It's not time to be happy yet. Zhu Chongba should have also entered the fifth stage of the Fusion God realm. Just now, I had a feeling that Zhu Chongba should have reached the same level as me."
Yuan Sanjia said, "Hehe, it seems you really are destined enemies!"
Chen Jie said, "It is the will of Heaven."
Chen Jie said, "Next, neither Zhu Chongba nor I should be in a hurry to make a move. The next battle should start with the army."
"army?"
Yuan Sanjia muttered something, and Chen Jie said, "We are only the decisive factor. In the end, it will depend on the army's conquest. Therefore, if we want to conquer the world, we need a powerful army. I think the battle should have already begun!" (End of this chapter)