High Martial World: I Gain Passive Skills Daily-Chapter 181 - 122: The Xielongzi Transformation Diagram, The Way to Prosperity (2-in-1)

Chapter 181: Chapter 122: The Xielongzi Transformation Diagram, The Way to Prosperity (2-in-1)

"Xie Longzi Sutra-Transforming Picture."

This name seems odd for a cultivation technique. Though it’s called a cultivation technique, it’s actually a visualization map that holds the technique within it. It will automatically appear in one’s mind after the awakening of the bloodline.

It’s truly something that can only be understood but not conveyed through words.

Such a visualization map, even if perfectly replicated, couldn’t capture the same essence. It’s a skill only learnable by those from the bloodline.

The segmentation should be—"Xie Longzi, Sutra-Transforming Picture."

The so-called "Sutra-Transforming Picture" is indeed an illustration depicting the content of Buddhist scriptures or stories of Buddha’s teachings, usually appearing either in silk illustrations or as murals in Buddhist temples and caves.

In other words, seeing this suffix indicates that this cultivation technique likely has some connection with the Buddhist Family.

In fact, that is indeed the case.

The content of this Sutra-Transforming Picture is very simple, recording a story of Buddha and a mythical creature.

Yet, in this tale, the Buddha is not against the mythical creature but is instead rescued by it during adversity.

At that time, Buddha had not yet attained enlightenment, was confined by arduous practice, physically exhausted, and had forgotten to eat due to losing himself in the pursuit of the Dao. He fainted when passing by a pool beneath a cliff.

Upon waking up, he found that a Merfolk from the pool had fed him flesh and blood, reviving him.

Regaining life energy, Buddha was about to thank the creature, but upon closer inspection, he was shocked.

It turned out that this Merfolk had become almost nothing but a skeleton. Her arms, cheeks, back, and even her tail had been hollowed out. Yet her belly remained round and was on the verge of giving birth.

The Merfolk claimed she had been harmed by wind and waves, stranded there for two hundred years.

During these two centuries, travelers would occasionally fall in and be trapped in the pool. She would cut flesh and spill blood to revive them and send them out, hoping they would return to take her back to the sea.

But for two hundred years, not a single person had returned.

Now, the Merfolk was exhausted and near death, no longer hoping to survive, but hoping that Buddha would cut open her belly to take her child back to the sea.

Buddha agreed, and indeed, after the Merfolk passed away, he cut open her belly.

Only to discover that what she carried was a Black Dragon!

The Black Dragon was born, saw its dead mother, wailed in sorrow, and licked a tear from its mother’s eye—sent back to the sea by Buddha, becoming the guardian deity of the Merfolk Race.

And this Mermaid’s Tear naturally reborn as a new Merfolk, forever becoming the real power among the Merfolk Race.

Logically speaking, such a symbolically significant and revered Mermaid’s Tear ought to be well-preserved and then reborn with a Secret Technique to form a new life.

But who knows what went wrong this time for it to end up in the market of beast traders, acquired by the two brothers from Jiangning Commerce Association.

Now, it was gifted to Chen Kuang by the brothers.

After reading, Chen Kuang couldn’t help but doubt.

Could it be... do I truly share a fate with Buddha? Born destined to be the Buddha’s Son?

If not, how come even gaining a mythical inheritance led me to encounter something related to Buddha...

"But this Buddha merely makes a brief appearance in the story, the core purpose seems to highlight the Dragon Mother’s benevolence and the legitimate authority of the guardian deity."

Chen Kuang felt this Sutra-Transforming Picture seemed more like something drawn by the Merfolk of this lineage to maintain their status.

Moreover, the cultivation technique contained within further confirmed his guess.

The so-called "Xie Longzi" is actually the method for nurturing pseudo-dragons!

Although Cangyuan is a High Martial World, the Dragons, especially the true dragons formed from the essence of mountains and seas, capable of moving mountains and filling seas, possess a very high status.

Otherwise, Senior Brother Wensi, that "Dragon King," wouldn’t have been feared by all in the eastern realm back then.

The True Dragon, the essence of mountains and seas, a creation of heaven and earth, takes form through the cycle of day and night, seasonal changes, adapting with the ebb and flow of time, impossible to grow or diminish.

The pseudo-dragon requires being nurtured with blood essence, shaped through virtuous deeds, along with a suitable form.

Imitating the benevolent deeds of the Dragon Mother cutting her flesh to save lives over two hundred years as depicted in the story.

The reward is treating the nurturer as its biological parent—a pseudo-dragon.

Though a pseudo-dragon, it equates to the descendant of the Merfolk Race’s guardian deity, possessing great abilities that can absorb heaven and earth’s essence at any moment, feeding it back to the nurturer.

Moreover, the most significant aspect of this cultivation technique is that it must be nurtured with the blood essence of this lineage of Merfolk.

Otherwise, even using the same methodology won’t yield results.

Chen Kuang suddenly felt this body he crafted was a bit "hot-handed."

No wonder...

No wonder the Merfolk Race lives in seclusion, typically retreating to the Extreme Abyss Sea, rarely interacting with the Human Race, with few being captured—almost only isolated Merfolk are hunted, leaving behind Mermaid’s Tears as proof of their existence.

If someone knew the Merfolk Race could nurture pseudo-dragons, wouldn’t they be attacked as a whole...

"It’s said that demons feed on humans, their crimes as numerous as the bamboo in the forest, fundamentally opposed to the Human Race."

"But don’t humans also use the heavens and earth’s creatures as food? Aren’t they the mortal enemy of all creatures?"

Chen Kuang sighed twice.

Yet he has no intention of criticizing, since he never stands from a human’s perspective nor from that of demons or mythical creatures, but solely from his own perspective.

Whoever opposes him is his enemy, that’s all.

Moreover, in this matter, Chen Kuang is a beneficiary; he has seized the opportunity for the Mermaid’s Tear to transform, almost equivalent to taking over.

Just not knowing how this Mermaid’s Tear’s predecessor allowed such an important item to drift away outside.

"This method of nurturing dragons can be experimented with immediately and will be less challenging for me..."