Chapter 47 - What about the Egg?

"To begin, there are 3 main sections to the Overbearing Tactics." Elder Canglong began his introduction with a demonstration. "There is a fist, claw, and sweep. It is upon these three fundamental moves that the Overbearing Tactics builds its offense and defense."

After that, Elder Canglong squatted just enough to get a sitting position. He explained, "Now, this position is very hard to maintain but you only need to be in this position to gather energy from your dantian and muscles easily. After some practice, you will not even need this posture to generate energy."

With that, he slid his left foot forward while his right arm moved back. Not long after, essence as thick as milk gathered around his fist in bulk.

Tian Longmeng shuddered from the pressure. "If that were to hit me, I think I would be done for." He couldn't bear to think of anyone taking such dense essence head-on; they would be pulverized. This level of strength further clarified in his head that Elder Canglong is in a completely different category of strength than him.

Elder Canglong saw Tian Longmeng's trembling and relaxed his fists, dispersing the built-up essence.

"I think you should be able to figure out the rest." Elder Canglong laughed.

"Yeah, sure. I will try it later." Tian Longmeng wryly smiled. He was definitely excited that he could learn such a powerful move, but at the same time, it looks like he would need a lot of essence to maximize its potential.

"Anyways," Tian Longmeng switched to a different argument. "You know I found this weird egg from the woods outside Tang Fei City. What's up with it?"

Elder Canglong raised an eyebrow. "Hmm, show me."

Tian Longmeng blanked. "What do you mean 'show me'? I am in this weird space zone, how the hell can I show you the egg."

Elder Canglong sighed deeply and face-palmed himself. "Are you that dumb? Then again, you don't even know one-thousandth of a percent of what this Ark can do so I could cut you some slack."

"What are you talking about?" Tian Longmeng's fists clenched, eager to meet Elder Canglong's face. It is obvious that Elder Canglong is right about him not knowing anything about the Ark of the Majesty; however, no one can simply swallow being called dumb to their face.

While Elder Canglong was thinking, Tian Longmeng shouted, "Hey, answer me!"

"Gee, can you not wait a while?" Elder Canglong gimmicked a bit before coughing it off. "Anywho, you can retrieve it and even store it in the Ark. All you have to do is to place it by your heart and visualize it entering the Ark space. When you become strong enough, you would only need a thought to store and release it."

Tian Longmeng, calming down, took out the egg and placed it against his chest. Before long, it successfully entered the Ark space.

Tian Longmeng was elated when he entered the Ark space afterwards. He finally had a means to store whatever he wanted. Plus, he has never been outside the white palace but with the Ark supposedly being as big as a universe or something, he could hold quite a lot. However, his expression changed to confusion upon seeing the heavy face of Elder Canglong.

"What is it now?" Tian Longmeng was still slightly irritated at Elder Canglong for earlier but he pushed it aside for now.

On the other hand, Elder Canglong began to twirl in circles while muttering incoherently. Tian Longmeng was at a loss for why he would behave this way. It is just an egg, it could not be that special, could it?

Even if it is something phenomenal like some archaic dragon egg or someone legendary Suan Ni, he would see the need for such deliberation from Elder Canglong. What made it worse is that Elder Canglong gave him some weak excuse and sent him on his way:

"Uhh, you see, it is my first time seeing an egg so bizarre so I need to study it a bit before I can say anything. I will tell you when you are ready. For now, just focus on the Overbearing Fist."

Tian Longmeng left feeling very confused but nonetheless began his training with the Overbearing Fist.

Meanwhile within the Ark Space, Elder Canglong squatted down to look at the egg up close. He spun it around and viewed every aspect of it. Cloud grey and coarse dirt-like texture with a couple jagged nicks here and there. Basically, it looked more like a stone than a beast egg.

Elder Canglong carried the egg outside the white palace that he and Tian Longmeng normally spent their meetings, into the vast open space. The outside was very odd; floating islands the size of planets and mountains of different treasures, monuments and landforms. Yet the place was filled with so much essence that even the water itself was just concentrated essence. It is almost bewitching, and any cultivator would surely fall under its spell.

Elder Canglong juggled the egg in one hand and straightway threw it into the distance. After the egg reached about 2 million miles, Elder Canglong rose into the air with thick streams of lightning seemingly coming from the nine heavens and decimated the egg with a mountain-sized thunderbolt.

Thunder God's Roar!

After some mild heavy breathing, he flew himself to the location of the strike. Several large craters remained of what was a bountiful landscape filled with waterfalls and mountains. Everything was grazed to the ground. Everything, except the egg which was perfectly intact. Not even the charred smell of ozone could be found on it.

Elder Canglong picked up the egg and gazed in admiration. "Wonderful, it truly is the incubator of gods."

In that onslaught of lighting, the egg seemed to have absorbed any and all strands that touched its shell and became supercharged, revealing some runic symbols not that different from the ones on the Ark of the Majesty - except that these are symbols and not lines.

"What do you think? Just like the rumours isn't it?" Elder Canglong raised the egg in the air. Another pair of hands grabbed the egg and gave it a fiery punch that could outshine a sun, yet nothing happened to the egg itself outside of even brighter symbols.

"True, if this was a material, it could even serve as a lovely main piece of a Transcendent weapon for the Emperor. Well giving it to this kid is not bad either, seeing that he could survive that." The trees and earth shook under this person's boisterous voice.

Elder Canglong plugged his ears with his fingers and sighed. "Voice is still as obnoxious as ever."

"Come on you girl*, back in the heyday you were an Empyrean. No, beyond that, an Overlord." The person laughed with the same boisterous voice. "What did they call you then? O' grand Thunder Lion Great Paragon, ruler of the province of Grand Lion?"

"Oh quit it mister Thousand Sun True God." Tian Longmeng would be so refreshed to see Elder Canglong's irritated face at this moment as he had to deal with this person.

"I just woke up after that big fight, cut me some slack. Ol' Chang is back for business!" He slammed his robust chest with the same fiery intensity as he did with the egg. Truly a formidable example of his sturdy build.

Elder Canglong sighed deeply and directly took off for the palace while rubbing his nose bridge. This new elder followed after while carrying the egg.

*It is basically the equivalent of calling a man "sissy" or a coward. It is basically saying that he lacks the courage of a man. Typical insult.