Chapter 153 - 141: Sixteen Gods Mastered, Entering the Top 3 in the World!

Chapter 153: Chapter 141: Sixteen Gods Mastered, Entering the Top 3 in the World!

"I heard that Sect Leader Chen will be visiting our country soon, but do we have a specific date yet?"

Hearing this, the few people present couldn’t give an immediate answer. After all, the Sect Leader had gone to visit his mother and only mentioned he would arrive a few days after them, without specifying an exact date.

Seeing their hesitation, a hint of disappointment flashed deep in the Chief Eunuch’s eyes. He had come bearing the Emperor’s orders to ask this very question. There was only one reason for treating the Dao Yi Sect so generously: they desperately wanted to know when Chen Sha would arrive.

Since Yuu Miaolian and the others couldn’t provide a concrete answer, the Chief Eunuch had no choice but to return in disappointment.

However, just three days later, Yuu Miaolian received an eagle messenger letter from the Celestial Demon Sect. She announced happily, "Junior Brother said that he was delayed by some matters at the Celestial Demon Sect and might not arrive in Yuan Country until the fifteenth of next month."

When this news reached the Imperial Palace, Gu Xuanong murmured to himself, "The fifteenth of next month... The timing is perfect."

He immediately issued orders for all the troops and experts of Yuan Country to fully prepare for battle. The moment Chen Sha arrived, they would deploy their forces against the Water Moon Temple. At the same time, he commanded the Rituals Department to meticulously prepare the welcoming ceremonies for Chen Sha.

As the Daoist Sect Master who now had the hope of once again claiming the title of the world’s Venerable, his status and the corresponding reception standards would certainly be no lower than those of a Dynasty’s Emperor.

This was evident in how Zhao Country had enshrined Jade Emperor Mountain as the National Religion for generations and revered the Celestial Master as the National Preceptor. On this vast Divine Land, imperial power often had to bow to peerless individual Cultivation.

One man equating to an entire nation—this was no exaggeration.

Meanwhile.

Inside a mysterious altar at the Celestial Demon Sect.

A total of nineteen Demon Sect Elders sat cross-legged around the altar. Every one of them had a pale complexion, and upon closer inspection, bloody gashes could be seen on their wrists. It was one of the required rituals to activate the altar, using blood to awaken its ancient, dormant power.

A faint red glow had been shining upon the altar for seven days straight. Although the color resembled blood, it did not feel wicked or foul. Instead, it exuded an aura of sacredness and nobility into the air.

Under the protection of the nineteen Demon Sect Elders acting as Dharma Protectors, Chen Sha sat cross-legged in the center of the altar.

BUZZ!

The red runic lines covering the altar flickered and pulsed every three breaths, and in perfect synchronization...

THUMP! THUMP! THUMP!

In the silence of the altar, Chen Sha’s heart beat in resonance with the pulses. With every throb in this sacred ritual, his heart seemed to brim with even greater vitality.

THUMP!

THUMP!

Amidst this Holy Blood Awakening ritual, Chen Sha looked inward, observing the changes within his body.

Since his first day sitting here, there hadn’t been any major changes. Had Duanmu Ying not told him that the Holy Blood Awakening was a lengthy process—taking anywhere from ten to fifteen days for the mysterious Magic Power of the altar to gradually activate the Holy Blood’s vitality—Chen Sha might have thought he was simply unable to awaken this so-called Holy Blood.

It wasn’t until the seventh day that things began to shift.

Chen Sha finally felt it clearly. Through the daily "blood-mark resonance pulsing" between his heart and the altar, his entire body’s blood was undergoing a concentrated transformation right in his spleen—the organ responsible for storing blood.

BOOM!

It was an explosive sound born from within his blood vessels, one that only he could hear. It was as if every cell in his blood was shedding its ordinary shell, revealing the powerful, innate Life Force hidden deep within his lineage.

This majestic Life Force began to bloom from every drop of blood, slowly dyeing Chen Sha’s blood yellow, and then even deeper, until it transformed into liquid gold!

During this process, deep within his spleen, a yellow divine light—measuring exactly seven inches and eight fractions—suddenly sprouted out.

He felt a stir in his heart and thought, "Spleen God Bao Wuquan... To think it was instantly cultivated under these circumstances!"

Eighty percent of the human body’s blood flows through the meridians, while the remaining twenty percent is stored in the spleen. Thus, when Chen Sha’s Holy Blood awakened, his spleen was the first to experience this majestic and brilliant sacred Life Force, stimulating the Spleen God to emerge in an instant.

And faintly, it wasn’t just the Spleen God!

After the Holy Blood began awakening in the spleen, it flowed through his meridians into the Eight Extraordinary Meridians of his entire body. Chen Sha suddenly realized that this majestic Life Force was an Essence Qi of the human body, one even more fundamental than innate power.

He could absolutely use this awakening ritual to rapidly cultivate multiple Divine Spirits.

Without hesitation, Chen Sha circulated the Great Yellow Court. At the same time, he utilized the Roc Demon Scripture—derived within the Cosmic Light Locking Plate from Teng Zijing’s True Qi—to guide this majestic Essence Qi into stimulating his rib areas and the muscles on both sides of his spine.

These were the dwelling places of the Two Rib Gods Fake Horse and the Lv God Yili Fu.

When the majestic Life Force activated within the Holy Blood flowed through these two areas, two streams of divine light instantly emerged, just like the Spleen God. One was the color of jade, and the other was pure white.

Even after the Three Gods appeared in succession and paid their respects to Chen Sha, it wasn’t over.

Chen Sha vaguely sensed that the changes wrought by the power of the Holy Blood within his body were still ongoing. This force surged straight toward his chest, abdomen, and the center of his brow.

Suddenly, he felt an unbearable, intense itch in these areas, as if something was about to sprout from them.

He was shocked and thought, "Could it be..."

The words Duanmu Ying had spoken regarding the Holy Blood Awakening flashed through his mind: "Is this Holy Blood going to make a third Celestial Eye sprout from my brow, followed by the growth of Three Heads and Six Arms?"

Meanwhile, outside on the altar, the nineteen Elders—Duanmu Ying included—were completely dumbfounded. They stared at Chen Sha, who remained seated upright, watching as blood vitality and Qi Power faintly converged at the center of his brow, chest, abdomen, and shoulders.

It was a scene none of them had ever witnessed. After all, the last time a Holy Hero awakened the Holy Blood was over a century ago; there were no living elders from that era left to tell the tale.

"A Celestial Eye on the brow, Three Heads and Six Arms... It’s all real?" Duanmu Ying murmured, dumbstruck.

Although she kept insisting that the Demon Sect’s ancient records wouldn’t lie, she had never seen it with her own eyes.

However, mere breaths after she uttered those words...

WHOOSH!

The energy flows swirling around Chen Sha’s brow and the sides of his chest and abdomen weakened and collapsed, as if unable to sustain themselves. It seemed that under the current conditions of the world, there simply wasn’t enough worldly natural Qi to generate what they had envisioned.

Duanmu Ying and the others couldn’t help but feel a pang of disappointment.

But in the very next instant, sixteen beams of divine light shot out directly from Chen Sha’s body, faintly outlining the visage of the pantheon of gods residing within him.

These Sixteen Gods were:

Brain God Master Jueyuan, Hair God Xuanfu Hua, Eye God Ling Jian Sheng, Lv God Yili Fu, Nose God Zhongg Longyu, Tongue God Shi Liangzhi, Throat God Hundred Exiles, Lung God Suu Lingsheng, Heart Spirit Huan Yangchang, Liver God Kai Juntong, Left Kidney God Chun Yuanzhen, Right Kidney God Xiangta Yuan, Spleen God Bao Wuquan, Gastric God Tonglai Yu, Chest Diaphragm God Guang Hongzhai, and the Two Rib Gods Fake Horse.

A single Holy Blood Awakening had allowed Chen Sha to build upon his foundation of eleven Divine Spirits. He had directly cultivated the Two Rib Gods, the Lv God, the Spleen God, the Chest Diaphragm God, and most importantly... the Brain God!

Within the Yellow Court Scripture, the Brain God was the most difficult Divine Spirit to cultivate. It was said that upon reaching Great Success, it could allow one’s mental power to influence reality.

This time, the Holy Blood Awakening had attempted to open the Celestial Eye on Chen Sha’s brow, but it failed due to a lack of certain conditions. Unexpectedly, that energy had burrowed straight into the mud ball of his brain, awakening the Brain God ’Master Jueyuan’, who resided within the Mud Ball Palace.

Through a single awakening, the Sixteen Gods had been cultivated!

BOOM!

Chen Sha abruptly opened his eyes. His massive aura, majestic Life Force, terrifying Divine Power, Qi Power, and myriad other energies all reached an absolute Peak at this moment!

With the overlapping culmination of his vast foundations, he was now strong enough to rank among the top three in the world!