Beside the throne forged from immortal crystals and gemstones, the young boy and girl sat on the floor with the Dragon Empress, who had regained her composure.
As the two women listened to Chen Luo's plan, disbelief flickered in their eyes.
Chen Luo, however, paid no mind to their expressions and continued, "Linglong's ascension tribulation, the problem lies in its excessive intensity. Furthermore, due to Linglong's innate talent, her growth has been too rapid, preventing her from accumulating sufficient strength, and even from resisting the arrival of the ascension tribulation."
"Dragon Empress, you cannot intervene because any intervention by beings other than the Heaven-Deceiving Furnace Cauldron will cause the immortal tribulation's power to surge. However, for the Heaven-Deceiving method, the bound furnace cauldron must not have a cultivation higher than Linglong's, but its talent must surpass hers."
"Therefore, Empress Dragon, you wish for Linglong to use me as the Heaven-Deceiving Furnace Cauldron, in exchange for Linglong's life."
The Dragon Empress nodded, while Linglong resolutely shook her head. The mother and daughter's attitudes towards Chen Luo represented the greatest divergence.
Chen Luo looked at the young girl Linglong with admiration. After all, not everyone could face certain death with equanimity. However, Chen Luo also understood the Dragon Empress's intentions. As a mother who loved her child, Chen Luo did not blame her for her thoughts.
Indeed, if Chen Luo were merely at the third stage of the Dao Path, the Dragon Empress would have truly been willing to pay a heavy price to make Linglong give up. In this world, there were likely too many cultivators willing to trade their lives for a chance to get close to the Dragon Empress.
Sighing inwardly once more at the madness of this true dragon mother, Chen Luo continued, "My idea is very simple. I am willing to be the Heaven-Deceiving Furnace Cauldron, and I will help Linglong overcome her True Dragon Tribulation!"
Looking at Chen Luo like this, the mother and daughter exchanged glances. The Dragon Empress truly wanted to blurt out, "Are you sick?"
But she held back, expressing herself in a more tactful manner:
"Young Master Chen, even ordinary ascendants would find it difficult to cope with the True Dragon Tribulation, let alone a True Dragon Tribulation that has been amplified by Heaven-Deceiving, which might force even me to temporarily avoid its edge."
"Although you possess great courage, do you perhaps overestimate your own abilities?"
"To be frank, with your current cultivation, if I were to unleash my immortal essence pressure, I could probably extinguish you with a single glance..."
"Mother!" Linglong grabbed the Dragon Empress's hand, stopping her from continuing.
Even though Young Master Chen was as weak as an ant! Mother, why must you say it so directly!!
Chen Luo rubbed his nose, observing the mother and daughter's interaction. He felt as though he might have been too good at pretending.
However, if it wasn't necessary, Chen Luo didn't intend to attract too much attention. Here, he would simply be an unprecedented genius in cultivation:
"Empress Dragon, I understand your meaning, but I think you've misunderstood something. My strength is not what you perceive it to be."
Linglong's eyes lit up upon hearing this: "I knew it! Someone like Young Master Chen, with such talent, how could he only be at the third stage of the Dao Path!"
But the Dragon Empress remained skeptical. Her Dragon Eyes of Insight could clearly see that the spiritual energy fluctuations around the young man had remained at the third stage of the Dao Path for the past seven days.
As the Lord of Ten Thousand Demons, the Dragon Empress did not believe that a cultivator of spiritual energy could perfectly conceal their spiritual energy fluctuations under her Dragon Eyes of Insight.
The next moment, under their gazes of either admiration or doubt, Chen Luo gently dispersed the spiritual energy he had condensed, spread his hands, and stated frankly, "Actually, I have never cultivated spiritual energy at all, so I haven't even reached the first stage!"
"Ah?"
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Following that, in Chen Luo's narration.
The story of a young boy who had just come into contact with the path of spiritual energy, who didn't know what the white light spots he saw were, and only learned about them when he arrived at Linxian City and met some elder sisters from the Divine Water Sect, was told.
The beautiful mother and daughter, who looked like sisters, listened to Chen Luo's story in stunned silence. Even Linglong, who secretly harbored a good impression of Chen Luo, felt that Chen Luo might be lying to her.
He claimed to have never come into contact with the path of spiritual energy, only to be able to see light spots in the air.
He claimed that because he was curious about the conversation of the Divine Water Sect women, he manipulated the light spots and simulated their spiritual energy fluctuations.
He claimed that because the elder sisters from the Divine Water Sect had enlightened him about cultivation and the Spring Fragrance Pavilion, he had decided to sell himself to cultivate.
The admiration in Linglong's eyes gradually receded, replaced by a deep disappointment.
She could not believe that the young man who had captured her heart had fabricated such a clumsy lie.
Now, the supposed lack of spiritual energy fluctuations was his deliberate disguise, wasn't it?
What was his purpose? To pretend to be unable to cultivate? Or to obtain more resources?
Fine, she would give him whatever he wanted! It was just that the faint pain in her heart made Linglong feel incredibly wronged.
But unlike Linglong, the Dragon Empress, whose eyes had been filled with disbelief, was now increasingly shocked!
It was not uncommon to have never heard of cultivation. In the original lands, any single kingdom had nearly ten billion civilians living within it.
Although the Nine Heavens and Nine Earths Great World was themed around a grand spiritual energy civilization, this spiritual energy civilization had little to do with mortals. In fact, many people never even saw a cultivator in their entire lives.
It was not impossible for a young man with a peculiar physique to be able to see spiritual energy light spots, although it was strange.
Even more so, being able to manipulate spiritual energy with a mortal body and simulate the disciples of the Divine Water Sect, pretending to be a cultivator of the Dao Path, sounded utterly absurd, but the Dragon Empress believed it!
Previously, due to the interference of spiritual energy fluctuations, the Dragon Empress could not see the true situation within Chen Luo's body. But when Chen Luo removed his spiritual energy, her Dragon Eyes saw through Chen Luo from within and without!
Within the young man before her, there were no residual spiritual energies at all! His body was so pure it didn't seem like a human from this world!
One must know that even captured prisoners from the Nine Heavens and Nine Earths Great World, once brought into this world, would have their bodies nourished by the omnipresent spiritual energy, resulting in residual spiritual energies.
But within the young man before her, there were no residual spiritual energies at all.
Regarding this matter, Chen Luo stated that when he saw the light spots, he didn't know what they were and didn't want them to enter his body, so he manipulated them to leave.
Hearing this explanation, the Dragon Empress was utterly dumbfounded. A being below the Ascension stage could not only see spiritual energy but also manipulate it. What kind of heaven-defying talent was this?
In Linglong's disappointed gaze,
Chen Luo smiled and looked at the Dragon Empress. He knew that his truth had earned the trust of this Ascension stage mighty figure.
Chen Luo had not spoken a single lie. He had never drawn any spiritual energy into his body in the first place. As for other energies within him.
I'm sorry, but at the Dragon Empress's level, she couldn't even observe them.
If a cultivator at the third stage of the Dao Path was like a weak ant that the Dragon Empress could extinguish with a single glance,
Then Chen Luo was an existence that even the Dragon Empress, a mighty figure at the sixth stage of Ascension, could not comprehend.