Chapter 033: The Dragon Strength Moving Mountains Sutra

This Daoist nun was Zi Yuan.

When Zi Yuan had an audience with the Dragon Emperor, she told him that although she did not know the secret of immortality, she knew of a place where the secret of immortality must lie.

And that place was a Turpan temple located on the four borders of Great Qin.

This was the place with the most ancient books, and Zi Yuan believed the formula for immortality was there.

So the Dragon Emperor sent his trusted follower to go with Zi Yuan to the Turpan temple to search for answers. In the process of seeking immortality, the two gradually developed feelings for each other.

Thus General Guo Ming could not restrain himself, cuckolded the Dragon Emperor, and placed a brightly colored hat upon him.

Of course, in the end he was torn apart by five horses and died. After all, in those days, few who dared to cuckold the emperor met a good end, let alone when the emperor was no ordinary one.

But the Dragon Emperor.

Having witnessed her lover's death with her own eyes, Zi Yuan, in her fury, used the power of the strange book to curse the Dragon Emperor and his soldiers, causing the collapse of the Qin dynasty and chaos throughout the land.

Wang Bo had returned this time for the strange book.

Under the mighty power of the Moonlight Box, Wang Bo traveled through time and effortlessly returned to 215 BC.

At this time, the Dragon Emperor had not long unified the realm and was sending people everywhere to search for the secret of immortality; his men had not even found Zi Yuan yet.

After returning to this era, Wang Bo teleported from London back to the Central Plains.

Then, having asked for the direction of the western border, he sped off like the wind. In just one morning, he traveled from the heart of the Central Plains to the western frontier.

The Turpan temple was famous in that region; Wang Bo only had to ask a few people to determine its location.

That afternoon, Wang Bo arrived at the Turpan temple.

The monks in the temple were all thin in build, but their eyes held a hint of the extraordinary. When Wang Bo saw these monks, he found that they all had some magical power within them.

Wang Bo was not surprised by this.

This temple housed a large collection of ancient books, so it was not strange that they contained methods of cultivation. It was also not strange that the monks, who guarded the temple, were well-versed in cultivation methods.

Wang Bo explained his purpose to the temple abbot, wishing to view the temple's collection, and offered a large amount of gold and silver treasures, saying he wanted to build a golden statue for the Buddha.

The abbot looked at Wang Bo a few times, nodded in agreement, and assigned a monk to lead Wang Bo into the library.

After entering the library, Wang Bo did not rush to find the strange book made of oracle bones, but instead browsed other books.

He found that most were Buddhist scriptures, along with some knowledge of landscapes and humanities.

Knowledge related to spells and the supernatural was scarce.

Among tens of thousands of bamboo slips, Wang Bo found only a few hundred related to the supernatural and spells, most of which were about martial arts.

However, these martial arts were somewhat fantastical.

For instance, Wang Bo found a scroll called the Dragon Strength Moving Mountains Sutra. At the beginning, this supernatural knowledge told Wang Bo what the concept of dragon strength was.

The opening recorded: The strength of a hundred ordinary oxen equals the strength of one water buffalo. The strength of a hundred water buffalo equals the strength of one black ox. The strength of a hundred black oxen equals the strength of one yak. The strength of a hundred yaks equals the strength of one bamboo ox. The strength of a hundred bamboo oxen equals the strength of one grass elephant. The strength of a hundred grass elephants equals the strength of one common elephant.

The strength of a hundred common elephants equals the strength of one black elephant. The strength of a hundred black elephants equals the strength of one white elephant. The strength of a hundred white elephants equals the strength of one dragon.

In other words, the combined strength of a hundred ordinary oxen is equivalent to the strength of one water buffalo.

Clearly, this water buffalo was definitely not an ordinary water buffalo.

And the strength of a hundred water buffalo equals the strength of one black ox, and so on. Wang Bo calculated that an ordinary ox could carry about four hundred kilograms and pull about three hundred eighty kilograms.

That is, one ox could pull nearly eight hundred jin. The strength of a hundred oxen combined could pull eighty thousand jin.

And that was only the strength of one water buffalo.

The strength of one black ox was a hundred times that of a water buffalo, which was eight million jin. What did that mean? It meant a pulling force of four thousand tons.

Going further up, it reached four hundred thousand tons. By the time one reached the strength of a grass elephant, it reached four billion tons.

This sounded exaggerated. Even Wang Bo's current strength was only at the million-ton level, not yet reaching the ten-million-ton level.

But do not forget, this was only the grass elephant. Above the grass elephant was the common elephant, above the common elephant was the black elephant, above the black elephant was the white elephant, and above the white elephant was dragon strength.

Grass elephant: four billion; common elephant: four hundred billion; black elephant: forty trillion; white elephant: four quadrillion; and dragon strength: forty billion billion tons.

To be honest, when Wang Bo saw this, he felt quite unsettled.

This dragon strength was too terrifying.

Forty billion billion tons—what kind of concept was that? Wang Bo could hardly believe it.

But the next second, Wang Bo suddenly remembered something: the weight of the Earth was sixty trillion billion tons.

Well, comparing that, forty billion billion tons did not seem too exaggerated.

It was not even one percent of the Earth's weight—no, not one thousandth, nor even one ten-thousandth.

But a fully grown Superman could kick the Earth like a football. In comparison, the seemingly exaggerated Dragon Strength Moving Mountains Sutra did not seem like much.

In Wang Bo's view, the name Dragon Strength Moving Mountains Sutra was quite honest, without any exaggeration.

However, this Dragon Strength Moving Mountains Sutra had a huge flaw: the cultivation time was too long. An ordinary person might not be able to raise their strength to the black ox level in their entire lifetime.

Most people, after a lifetime of cultivation, could only reach the strength of a water buffalo.

That is, only eighty thousand jin.

Cultivating to the strength of a black ox was nearly impossible.

This Dragon Strength Moving Mountains Sutra had many manuscripts from predecessors, claiming that after decades of cultivation, they had only reached the water buffalo level.

The highest among them had only accumulated the strength of ten water buffalo, which was eight hundred thousand jin, or four hundred tons. The black ox strength of four thousand tons remained far out of reach.

Therefore, most people believed that this Dragon Strength Moving Mountains Sutra was completely deceptive and that dragon strength could never be cultivated.

But after reading this sutra, Wang Bo discovered that it was possible to cultivate dragon strength, but it required a slightly longer time.

An ordinary person could spend about a year to accumulate the strength of one ordinary ox, and then each year, they could add the strength of one ordinary ox.

That is, in about a hundred years, they could accumulate from ordinary ox to water buffalo.

Of course, those with exceptional talent could reduce the time somewhat, achieving water buffalo strength in several decades.