Chapter 1027: Dao Source Secret Treasure

On the unnamed island, the golden-haired monkey and Li Qing looked gravely at Shen Chongxu in front of them.

However, Shen Chongxu hung his head, not daring to meet the eyes of the two demons.

He knew well how serious it would be perceived by the two demons, who were unaware of the “Golden Nature Conspiracy,” for a cultivator’s golden nature to be taken away.

In their eyes, losing one’s golden nature would mean a complete halt in the path of cultivation, and that even if one spent a lifetime striving, they would at most reach the Pseudo Pill Realm without a chance to progress further.

In fact, the current situation of Shen Chongxu was not as optimistic as it seemed.

His condition was different from his third uncle Shen Wen’an and his brother Shen Chongming.

Shen Wen’an and Shen Chongming forcibly stripped away the Immortal Golden Nature from their bodies while achieving the Purple Mansion, with their dantian and Purple Mansion Dao Palace supporting them, so their realm was of no concern.

However, in his current dantian, there was only one Inner Core, and without a brand new Golden Core Technique, the Fake Inner Core couldn’t accomplish the Purple Mansion.

In such a state, he could only wait for Shen Yuan to comprehend the true Golden Core Cultivation Technique or find his own path to breakthrough.

“Master, disciple…”

Feeling the deep concern in the golden-haired monkey’s eyes, Shen Chongxu felt a surge of impulse, wanting to reveal the matter of the Golden Nature Conspiracy to it.

“It’s fine, for now, go back and stabilize your current realm properly.”

“As for the other matters, leave them to your master, there’s no need to worry.”

The golden-haired monkey didn’t show its usual cheerfulness, instead speaking with a tone heavy with worry.

Shen Chongxu pondered for a moment, slightly bowing his hands: “Yes, Master.”

In a rustic pavilion, after seeing Shen Chongxu and Wushi Qianrou off, Qiuming Water turned around to face the golden-haired monkey and bowed, saying: “Master, he is already ruined…”

Upon hearing this, the golden-haired monkey’s gaze turned slightly cold as it glanced at her.

“Who told you that?”

Qiuming Water’s expression tightened, and she dared not look into the golden-haired monkey’s eyes or speak further.

The golden-haired monkey looked at her, its voice low and resolute:

“Even if my apprentice has lost that Immortal Golden Nature, so what?”

“Since your senior brother knelt thrice and bowed nine times to take me as his master…”

“No matter how great the trouble is, I will bear it for him.”

Hearing these words, a complex expression appeared on Qiuming Water’s face, and a faint sense of jealousy and confusion arose in her heart.

Having grown up in the Fengshui Realm and later joining the Hunter Dao, everything she had witnessed in her life told her one thing:

No matter the relationship, whether between master and disciple or between family, the value of oneself is what sustains all relations.

Honestly asking herself, if she hadn’t betrayed Hunter Dao now and encountered problems in cultivation that made it impossible to reach the Nascent Soul True Monarch Realm in this life,

then in the eyes of the upper echelons of Hunter Dao and her former master, her value would drastically decrease, and all the resources and treatment she once had would be immediately stripped away.

Yet now, even with Shen Chongxu’s Immortal Golden Nature taken away, making him a cripple, the golden-haired monkey still wasn’t willing to give up on him.

Qiuming Water felt this was a form of favoritism.

“You too are the same.”

“In this life, I, the Old Ape, have only you and Chongxu as disciples. As long as you don’t betray your master, I will do everything to shield you from the storms, pave the roads and build the bridges for you…”

“Go now, cultivate well.”

The golden-haired monkey’s tone softened as it said, waving Qiuming Water away.

At this moment, the feelings inside Qiuming Water grew even more complex.

She had thought that her master’s persistence with Shen Chongxu was a form of favoritism, but the words “you too are the same” made her heart and spirit tremble!

In this world, is there truly such a pure and selfless master-disciple relationship?

After Qiuming Water left, only the golden-haired monkey and Li Qing were left in the rustic pavilion.

As the two demons watched Qiuming Water disappear at the end of the winding path, Li Qing slowly asked, “What are your plans, Brother Jin?”

The golden-haired monkey, shedding its previous benevolent and authoritative demeanor, angrily exclaimed, “That little brat! Always causing trouble for me!”

“Now with the Immortal Golden Nature taken, the cultivation path is severed…”

“Never mind!”

After angrily yelling a few words, it let out a heavy sigh, “I must trouble Brother Li to watch over the island, I need to go out for a while.”

Li Qing, hearing this, expressed concern, “Brother Jin, are you going to the Netherworld Domain?”

“Those guys won’t easily let things slide, will they?”

“Isn’t your journey a bit too risky?”

The golden-haired monkey shook its head with a faint smile, “No need to worry.”

“After all, we’ve been old acquaintances, even that old fool, the Lord of the Underworld, can’t strike at me, can he?”

“Rest assured, Brother Li, in a month at most, or perhaps just over ten days, I will definitely return.”

“With Mingwater and that Shen Family boy here on the island, there should be no issues.”

With that, the golden-haired monkey turned into a golden ray and disappeared from the pavilion.

…

On the island, within the small courtyard where Shen Chongming resided, Shen Chongxu and Wushi Qianrou entered and saw his brother Shen Chongming meditating in cultivation.

In the past, the Thunder Pool within his dantian would actively absorb the power of heaven and earth from the surrounding void, transforming it into Thunder Attribute Spiritual Power, so Shen Chongming rarely cultivated actively.

But now, needing to nurture Luo Tianxing’s Nascent Soul, the power of heaven and earth absorbed by the Thunder Pool was evidently insufficient.

Therefore, whenever he had time, Shen Chongming would also actively cultivate to ensure that while nurturing Luo Tianxing’s Nascent Soul without letting it dissipate, his own cultivation wouldn’t be delayed too much.

After running the Shenxiao Jade Mansion Five Thunder True Technique Secret Record through a cycle in his body, Shen Chongming ended his cultivation and opened his eyes to look at Shen Chongxu and Wushi Qianrou in front of him.

“When did you arrive, Brother Xu?”

Shen Chongxu slightly bowed and smiled, “I’ve been here for a while, seeing that Brother Ming was cultivating, I didn’t disturb you.”