Chronicles of the Green Vine: A Mortal’s Path to Immortality

Seeing the change in Zhang Ling's expression, the old man snorted with disdain. "Don't be afraid to tell you, if you hadn't entered this place, in at most a hundred years, this divine sense incarnation of mine would have gradually lost its spirituality and eventually dissipated on its own. This old man doesn't have much time left."

"As long as you are willing to use your nascent soul to nourish this wisp of dragon soul for a period of time, I will immediately let you leave."

As the old man spoke, the gray little dragon coiled in his hand cried out.

Zhang Ling glanced at the gray dragon. He had long sensed that this gray dragon was also a spiritual body with independent consciousness. Although its aura was extremely similar to that of the old man, they were completely two independent existences.

It was not an illusion created by the old man through other means.

The condition the old man stated, asking him to nourish this gray dragon with his nascent soul, didn't sound like anything good.

The nascent soul is the cultivator's divine soul, the source of a person's being. How could it be used to nourish other spiritual bodies?

Not to mention that nourishing other spiritual bodies would inevitably consume one's own source. Incorporating other conscious spiritual bodies into the nascent soul is extremely dangerous.

It's like suddenly stuffing another person's consciousness into your brain. This is actually the first step in seizing someone else's body, entering another person's body.

Zhang Ling found it difficult to agree to this condition.

The old man stared at him intently, but after a moment, he sighed again. "Although nourishing the dragon soul will have some impact on you, it's not entirely without benefits. This is a wisp of true dragon soul power. While nourishing the dragon soul, the dragon soul will also temper your nascent soul, making your nascent soul more stable and thus easier to break through your cultivation realm."

Zhang Ling naturally didn't believe this easily. Even if it could really help him break through his cultivation realm, he wouldn't be willing to risk his nascent soul.

Zhang Ling frowned a few times, then shook his head and regained his composure. "I'm afraid I'll have to disappoint you, Senior. I'm not used to having another person's consciousness in my body."

He had already prepared himself for the old man to turn hostile. After some conversation, Zhang Ling had also seen through some of the truth. Although the old man's divine sense incarnation was several times stronger than him, it wasn't invincible.

As long as he didn't hesitate to pay the price, risking the collapse of his nascent soul, self-detonating his nascent soul magic weapon, the Azure Lotus, could definitely inflict damage on it.

Nascent soul magic weapons are originally hidden in the divine soul and nourished at all times. They can be used to protect the divine soul, and naturally they can also be used to attack. The power of the attack is specifically aimed at divine soul aspects of divine sense attacks.

The old man in front of him, after all, is just a divine sense incarnation.

Hearing his refusal, the old man's face darkened. However, he didn't immediately turn hostile and attack.

Zhang Ling was happy with this. Perhaps if he stalled for a little longer, his second nascent soul might be able to break open this blue treasure cauldron.

What Zhang Ling didn't know was that his second nascent soul was also looking gloomy at this moment.

The second nascent soul controlled the Xuanwu Turtle, the Nascent Soul puppet, the Corpse Demon, and the Void Worm, launching wave after wave of attacks, only dispersing the gray mist released by the treasure cauldron and those green faces.

It couldn't cause any substantial damage to the treasure cauldron's main body at all.

Several hissing sounds entered his ears, and the black and white light mist emanating from the Void Worm's body dissipated like bubbles. Its entire body swayed and flew to the Xuanwu Turtle.

In this state, the Void Worm's spiritual power had been exhausted again.

The Xuanwu Turtle didn't hesitate to flick out a white jade cup, filled with a cup of milky white liquid. The Void Worm pounced on it and devoured all the liquid, and its own spiritual power quickly recovered.

The Void Worm cried out strangely and once again used its divine power to attack.

This was a cup of diluted ten-thousand-year spiritual liquid, which allowed the Void Worm, which wasn't very strong, to safely devour it and restore its spiritual power.

And this was already the fifth time the Void Worm had devoured spiritual liquid to restore its spiritual power. Although there were no major problems for the time being, the spirit worm's body had already turned slightly red, obviously also affected.

At most, after a few more times, the Void Worm would have to stop.

Unfortunately, this treasure cauldron was extremely sturdy, and many methods were ineffective. Only the Void Worm's spatial divine power could cause a limited amount of damage.

At this moment, on the body of the blue treasure cauldron, the Void Worm had used its spatial divine power to carve out a shallow white mark. But if he wanted to rely on this to cut open a crack, it was far from enough.

Zhang Ling's second nascent soul also had no confidence. Judging from this, it would take at least a month or even several years.

Such a long time, he didn't know if the main nascent soul could hold on.

Continuing to consume like this wasn't a good thing. The longer it dragged on, the more disadvantageous it would be to the main nascent soul.

Zhang Ling's second nascent soul thought to himself. Suddenly, his mind turned, and he thought of a method that might work.

He stopped attacking, his figure flickered, and he arrived next to his physical body. Controlling the Xuanwu Turtle, he grabbed with one hand and pulled out two things from Zhang Ling's sleeve.

A round-edged triangular stone like a pebble, and a scroll embroidered with dragon and phoenix patterns.

These two things were the space treasures in Zhang Ling's hands, the Sumeru Grotto.

"Since only spatial divine power might cut this thing open, then let's do something big." The method Zhang Ling's second nascent soul thought of was very simple, which was to directly blow up these two space treasures. Creating a large area of space cracks to cut the blue treasure cauldron. Using this extreme method to break open this treasure.

The Void Worm wasn't strong, and using its spatial divine power could only create a few space cracks, which was its limit.

But once space treasures were destroyed, it would definitely create a space crack.

Space treasures were naturally not so easy to destroy. But the Void Worm was by his side, and with the help of this spirit worm, it wasn't difficult to destroy these two space treasures.

He saw the Xuanwu Turtle's face flash fiercely, first offering the Dragon and Phoenix Diagram. A mass of essence blood was sprayed on it, and suddenly, the restrictions he had previously sealed on the Dragon and Phoenix Diagram were unsealed one by one.

Golden light flashed on the Dragon and Phoenix Diagram, and a low dragon roar and phoenix cry were heard.

The Xuanwu Turtle shook his hand and directly unfolded the Dragon and Phoenix Diagram. The Void Worm also flew over under his control, spewing out a piece of black and white spiritual light with spatial fluctuations, wrapping the Dragon and Phoenix Diagram.

Suddenly, the entire Dragon and Phoenix Diagram seemed to sense danger and emitted a strong dragon roar and phoenix cry, wanting to fly out of the range of the black and white spiritual light.

But the artifact spirit of this diagram had been sealed. Even if it was full of spirituality, it was now difficult to escape control.

Under his control, the Void Worm wrapped the Dragon and Phoenix Diagram and arrived above the blue treasure cauldron. The entire Dragon and Phoenix Diagram was like a long scroll, wrapped around the treasure cauldron.

At the same time, Zhang Ling's second nascent soul also stopped the Nascent Soul puppet and the Corpse Demon from attacking, and took his physical body out of the valley.

Once the Dragon and Phoenix Diagram was destroyed, this valley would become extremely dangerous. After all, it was difficult for him to predict exactly how much commotion it would cause.

He saw that under the interference of the Void Worm's spatial divine power, the space in the Dragon and Phoenix Diagram became unstable, and an even stronger dragon roar and phoenix cry erupted.

This scene lasted for a while. Under the second nascent soul's nervous attention, the dragon roar and phoenix cry emitted by the Dragon and Phoenix Diagram finally became wails.

The Dragon and Phoenix Diagram rustled and shook, like a long piece of paper. As it shook, the space in front of him appeared to be distorted like the surface of water.

Countless white light lines and black light lines intertwined, and there were also mottled black and white light spot small vortexes that were twisting and changing.

These visions quickly spread to the surroundings. In the blink of an eye, the space within several hundred feet centered on the blue treasure cauldron appeared distorted spatial fluctuations.

The blue treasure cauldron also emitted more gray mist to wrap itself.

This was a sign that the space in front was about to collapse. Once the space collapsed, it would cause a large area of space cracks.

In the human world, with strength alone, it was difficult to shatter space in a stable space region.

But Zhang Ling's second nascent soul was now using the most ingenious method, directly making the space inside a space treasure unstable, thereby affecting the space outside.

This was the only way to make such a commotion.

However, what he didn't know was that at the same time, an amazing scene also appeared on the Greenwood Stone abandoned mine side.

Two thousand-foot-high stone mountains collapsed into countless rubble in a loud noise.

A huge blood dragon with a sky full of blood-colored sword light and a golden dragon surrounded by seven-colored spiritual light soared into the sky.

Half of the sky was dyed golden yellow, and half of the sky was a blood-colored.

The seven-colored mirage poison shrouded in the Green Shade Mountains was stirred into gusts of wind by the fight between the two giant dragons, rolling around everywhere.

"Who is fighting in front, actually making such a big commotion."

He saw two cultivators flying in a gust of wind, an old man wearing flowery green robes and a Confucian scholar carrying a scarlet long sword.

The spiritual light shields on their bodies were blown flickering in the wind. They looked in horror at the fight between the two giant dragons a dozen miles away.

Looking at the aura on these two, they were both nascent soul early-stage cultivators. They had sensed the spiritual power fluctuations here, so they rushed over to check.

Suddenly, the sword-carrying Confucian scholar glanced and saw a white light flying in from the left in the distance. His face sank and he snorted. "Old Monster Lu."

His voice was very small, barely audible. But the cultivator in the white escape light was very sensitive and seemed to hear it, and immediately let out a sneer. "Hehe, so it's Fellow Daoist Ge. You were also attracted by the commotion here."

"Old Monster Lu, we should also settle the score for the thousand-year-old spiritual medicine you snatched from me three days ago." Seeing the white escape light fly in, the long sword behind the sword-carrying Confucian scholar chirped and turned into a red light, shooting out. Impolitely attacking.

"Fellow Daoist Ge's temper is still so great. That silver jade grass is obtained by those who are capable. Fellow Daoist's skills are inferior to others. It's better to go back to the house, lest you lose your life." The white light wrapped a black-robed cultivator with half his shoulders. Looking closely, there were two green centipedes coiled around his waist.

He saw one of the centipedes open its mouth and spit out a green light.

With a muffled bang, the green light collided with the scarlet fire sword light, and a green smoke exploded in the air. The sword light was blown back.

"Old Monster Lu, don't be proud." The sword-carrying Confucian scholar showed a look of shock and anger, and instantly hit a piece of red magic seal, intending to use some powerful means to fight.

"Hey hey, afraid you won't succeed." The two centipedes on the black-robed cultivator flew up and spit out a piece of green smoke. He was not afraid of the war at all.

"You two, have you not discovered that the cultivators fighting in front are from the Dragon family? And more fellow Daoists are rushing over. It's not appropriate to start a war now." Seeing that the two seemed to be on the verge of fighting at the slightest disagreement, the old man who was following the Confucian scholar said expressionlessly.

Hearing this, the sword-carrying Confucian scholar's anger immediately dissipated a bit, and he snorted and recalled the flying sword.

The black-robed cultivator also laughed strangely and took back the two centipede spirit worms, seeming unwilling to entangle any further. He raised his eyes and looked at the two giant dragons fighting in front.

The old man glanced at the other side, a golden light speeding towards him.

The golden light wrapped a yellow-robed bald youth. This person's face was white and clean, and he looked young. He was stepping on a golden lotus and wearing a string of black beads around his neck. He looked like a Buddhist monk. But his cultivation had reached the middle stage of Nascent Soul.

The young monk smiled and put his hands together in a Buddhist salute. "Little monk Pule, have met all benefactors."