Only at the Mahayana Stage Does the Reversal System Appear - Chapter 96

Chapter 96: The Visualization Method of the Dharmakaya Sect

“Are you Commander Zhang of the Human Emperor Palace?”

“Are you a current Dharmakaya Sect member?”

Zhang Konghu and Li Nian’er were each surprised by the other’s identities, expressing mutual respect for each other’s power.

However, Li Nian’er was more surprised. The Human Emperor Palace and the Dharmakaya Sect had always had a good relationship, and Zhang Konghu was considered her elder.

“Boss, one of the Earth-class rooms, please.” Zhang Konghu slammed the spirit stones on the table with a very generous gesture, but the spirit stones he offered were only enough for one room per night, no more, no less.

“Look at what you said. How dare I take your money?” The innkeeper rubbed his hands and smiled. “Do you want a Heaven-class room? I’ll make it available for you right away.”

The innkeeper knew that the commander of the Human Emperor Palace was at least a powerful master in the Fusion Stage, and a lesser figure like him in the Qi Condensation Stage could only admire him.

This inn once housed a cultivator in the Divine Transformation stage. He had done his best to treat him with the best room and the best hospitality, but because he hadn’t offered to pay, he became displeased and, after a minor disciplinary action, had to spend three months in bed recuperating from his injuries.

He’d learned his lesson this time and offered to ask for no money, lest he further upset the innkeeper.

“How can you ask for no money? Opening an inn isn’t charity,” Zhang Konghu frowned, forcing a spirit stone into the innkeeper’s hand. “And isn’t the Tian-level room a room?”

“Yes, right away!” The innkeeper, seeing Jiang Li standing by the door eating a candied haws, approached, offering to move him to a Di-level room.

In fact, had Zhang Konghu and Li Nian’er not intervened, scaring off a servant from an unknown household, the innkeeper would have also chosen to let Jiang Li vacate his room.

Jiang Li had changed his appearance, and Zhang Konghu didn’t recognize him, but he still grabbed the innkeeper and stopped him from looking for Jiang Li. “If we follow the first-come, first-served principle, how can we kick people out who’ve already checked in? What do you think of our Human Emperor Palace? A tyrannical force that bullies others with its power?”

“If you keep doing this, I’ll move somewhere else.”

Jiang Li walked in while eating a candied haws. “It’s not that our Human Emperor Palace is bad in others’ eyes, but the innkeeper is afraid of being bullied by high-level cultivators.”

“Don’t move, just stay here.” Jiang Li took out some spirit stones. “Boss, two first-class rooms, these two people are on my bill.”

From the way he spoke, Zhang Konghu knew the man eating the candied haws was Brother Jiang.

“Konghu, niece Li, come up.”

Li Nian’er didn’t know this was Jiang Renhuang, but Zhang Konghu still pulled her to the newly opened room.

“Are you Li Er’s daughter?”

“Yes, my father is Li Er, the head of the Dharmakaya Sect.” Li Nian’er felt an inexplicable pressure when facing Jiang Li, even greater than when facing her own father.

Li Er wasn’t a derogatory term or nickname; the head of the Dharmakaya Sect was Li Er.

“When did Li Er get married?” Zhang Konghu also knew Li Er, but he had never heard that he had a family.

“Maybe he felt embarrassed.” Jiang Li only learned of Li Er’s marriage today after meeting Li Nian’er.

“There are no outsiders here. You should know me. My name is Jiang Li.” Jiang Li revealed his true face, causing Li Nian’er’s beautiful eyes to widen slightly.

“Jiang, Jiang Renhuang.”

Li Nian’er removed the protective jade pendant and removed the illusion that had been cast on her.

The once-beautiful girl transformed into a stunningly charming woman, with blonde hair, blue eyes, and a slender, curvaceous figure. Most striking of all, the pair of small dragon horns atop her head.

Dragon Girl.

“I wonder why Li Er didn’t tell us…” Zhang Konghu was about to speak when Jiang Li glared at him, interrupting him with the following line, “So she’s married to a real dragon.”

He immediately realized his mistake. He could tease Li Er with that, but he couldn’t say it to his daughter.

Human-demon unions aren’t new in Jiuzhou, but many still find it uncomfortable, or rather, unaccustomed to them. Just like Zhang Konghu’s reaction, they don’t laugh, but still tease the parties involved.

If people were accustomed to it, they wouldn’t tease, but would simply nod calmly, dismissing it as nothing.

“Did your mother give you the jade pendant?”

“Yes,” Li Nian’er nodded. She rarely revealed her true face to outsiders, and she felt a little uncomfortable. “

No wonder I didn’t notice the illusion,” Zhang Konghu thought. A real dragon had painstakingly crafted a magic jade pendant for his daughter, but even a physical cultivator like Zhang Konghu couldn’t detect it at first glance.

Jiang Li happened to know of a real dragon who was extremely skilled in illusions: the sister of the Dragon King of the West Sea.

“Kong Hu, have you found any places that meet the requirements?”

“I’ve found quite a few.” Zhang Kong Hu displayed a map with a dozen red dots marked on it. These were all places with burial sites for Divine Transformation cultivators at the bottom of cliffs.

Jiang Li wanted to ask, why do you Divine Transformation cultivators like to bury yourselves at the bottom of cliffs? Is the feng shui there good?

This was just one commander’s find; the others had found just as many as Zhang Kong Hu’s.

Fortunately, Jiuzhou is vast and has many cliffs, otherwise Jiang Li would have been worried about where future Divine Transformation cultivators would be buried.

Jiang Li could already imagine how future Divine Transformation cultivators would find their own burial sites.

Brother Dao, your burial site is great, at the bottom of the cliff, quiet and secluded. I’ll build one next to yours. Do you mind? If you don’t say anything, I’ll take that as your agreement.

“Hey, I was just about to go there,” Li Nian’er said, pointing to a red dot. It was only a little over two hundred miles away.

Zhang Konghu had just returned from there. “There’s only a tomb of a Divine Transformation cultivator there. What are you doing there?”

For ordinary cultivators, a Divine Transformation cultivator’s tomb represents endless dangers and opportunities. But for Li Nian’er, a member of the Dharmakaya Sect, such a cemetery is like chicken ribs.

“Hey, Senior Zhang, you don’t know, that Divine Transformation cultivator is from the Beast Taming Sect. He has a copy of the ‘Illustrated Guide to Immortal Beasts’. By flipping through it, one can perceive the form and majesty of immortal beasts. This might not be very useful to other sects, but it’s a valuable resource for us in the Dharmakaya Sect.”

“I just heard about this recently.”

“I see.”

Zhang Konghu understood that the cultivation methods of the Dharmakaya sect’s disciples differed from those of ordinary cultivators. Their goal was to forge a Dharmakaya. To this end, they observed all things, learned from their strengths, and combined their own characteristics to forge a Dharmakaya that was uniquely their own.

However, they could not visualize beings too different from themselves. Li Er often visualized Jiang Li, trying to see if he could create a Dharmakaya as powerful as Jiang Li.

So far, the image of Jiang Li that Li Er had visualized was still difficult to associate with “human.”

The images of the immortal beasts in the “Illustrated Book of Immortal Beasts” were less than one-tenth of their power, making them perfect for visualization.

The Dharmakaya sect also had something similar to the Immortal Beast Atlas, but it didn’t include all the immortal beasts. Li Nian’er wanted to visit the tomb of the Divine Transformation cultivator to see if he could fill in the blanks.

(End of this chapter)