Chapter Fifty-One: Drunken Dragon

  Relying on the protection of the Xuanwu Ring, Lin Xiao walked to the edge of the black pond and peered at the old man sitting cross-legged on the jade slab. This time, Lin Xiao was thoroughly convinced that the old man was not a living person, as there was no breath or aura emanating from his body. It wasn't that he had used some secret method to conceal his breath, but rather because he was indeed already a dead person!

  No, saying he's dead isn't right either. This old man's body is empty. Lin Xiao's divine sense pierced through the past and discovered that this old man's body was just a thin layer of skin on the outside, with nothing but emptiness inside. And yet, this thin layer of skin was more than ten times stronger than gold steel. This was a relic, left behind by an ancient great deity who had cultivated a certain mysterious technique to transcend the mortal world and ascend to a higher realm.

  If those evil cultivators were here, they would be overjoyed. The remnants of the ancient divine technique could be refined into a wicked and poisonous treasure in their hands.

  However, the one who arrived here today is Lin Xiao. Lin Xiao respectfully tidied up his clothes and slightly disheveled long hair, and with great respect, he knocked nine loud heads on the ground in front of the old man's tomb, praying softly: "Congratulations to Senior for achieving the ultimate goal. I, Lin Xiao, mistakenly entered this place and had no intention of offending you, please forgive me and protect me, so that I can leave this place as soon as possible."

  "Good old man, I've been waiting for you today!" The widow suddenly opened her eyes, and two black lights shot out, just covering Lin Xiao.

  His entire body was in extreme pain, a terrible cold current surged into his body, forcibly transforming his body, even his golden core and his primordial spirit and soul!

  "Heaven has yin and yang, earth has yin and yang, man has yin and yang. The Supreme Ultimate gives birth to the two principles. Only when the two principles are present can the myriad things be generated. Yin and yang combine, water and fire produce each other. Water and fire produce, the myriad things nourish. This is the Way of generation!"

  A faint, ethereal sound escaped from the mouth of the withered being. Lin Xiao's eyes gradually changed color, his left eye turning a fiery red, while his right eye emitted an intense black light. In his mind, the two black and white fish that had appeared when he formed his golden elixir reappeared, moving in a mysterious trajectory, sometimes slow, sometimes fast. In that instant, Lin Xiao seemed to understand many things, yet at the same time, it was as if he understood nothing. The mysteries were too profound to be put into words.

  With a loud crash, all the clothes on Lin Xiao's body turned to dust, and even the storage bracelet he had used for so many years was blown open. The miscellaneous items inside were scattered all over the ground.

  The old man's legacy suddenly collapsed, turning into countless black powder that surged onto Lin Xiao's body and merged with his flesh. This legacy was the most refined energy condensed, a thread of eerie cold energy poured into Lin Xiao's body, making the final transformation to his physical body and golden elixir.

  Water and fire coexist! Lin Xiao's originally pure fire-based body was forcibly transformed into a water-fire coexisting flesh! Moreover, this newly born water-fire coexisting body is so overbearing, so powerful, with water and fire generating and restraining each other. Perfectly forming a cycle, no longer allowing any foreign energy to invade. Water and fire stimulate each other, thunderbolts burst forth. Lin Xiao's body naturally flashed out streaks of electric light. Lin Xiao casually pointed at a distant black rock, the electric light pierced through the black rock like an iron nail piercing tofu, leaving behind a smooth hole as wide as a bowl!

  This is the black stone that has been preserved for countless years under the extremely harsh environment of this trench, being washed away by countless dark currents, and its hardness can be imagined, but it was pierced by Lin Xiao's casual electric light.

  A surge of cold and warm energy was surging inside Lin Xiao's body, Lin Xiao's cultivation realm had not improved, he was still in the early stages of the Golden Elixir, but his foundation was completely different.

  Lin Xiao used to be a small water bowl, but now he has become a vast ocean! Unfortunately, the water in this vast ocean is still only these few drops.

  "I have fulfilled what I should have done, and this world has nothing to do with me anymore. Little friend, take care of yourself."

  That piece of jade slipped from the old man's sleeve and flashed, transforming into a storage ring that floated in front of Lin Xiao. Lin Xiao grasped the ring, staring blankly at the spot where the old man had been as a faint, ethereal glow rose up, a light that seemed to have no color yet contained all the colors of the world, slowly rising into the sky and disappearing into the unknown.

  The Black Tortoise let out an excited long cry, it flew to the pond and sucked up all the black water plants with a loud "gulp". Finally, the Black Tortoise's illusion flew above the black willow tree, opened its big mouth and swallowed the entire tree in one bite. It was unknown how its small body could swallow such a large tree.

  Lin Xiao gazed at the gradually disappearing spiritual light with a distracted expression, and said faintly: "It's time to go. Xuan Luo, what's the hurry?"

  Suddenly, countless water flows rolled around Lin Xiao's body, and the water flows wrapped around him like a clever cat, supporting him to slowly rise towards the sea surface.

  Above the dark reef, six masters of the virtual realm, Gu Weng, Jin Zun, Hua Shen, Xuan Yuan, Xuan Hong, and Xuan Luo, stood on the cloud layer, their eyes fixed on the seemingly calm but actually turbulent sea surface. Gu Weng, Hua Shen, and Xuan Luo looked relatively calm, with a hint of killing intent on their faces, but still appeared peaceful and serene. Jin Zun, however, was surrounded by a thick, almost palpable aura of bloodlust, his body trembling slightly beneath his armor, his muscles tensed to the extreme, as an explosive power raged wildly within him.

  The old man looked at Jin Zun with a pair of red eyes and said in a cold voice, "Not enough killing yet?"

  Jin Zun licked his lips and laughed maniacally, "The Blood God Ancestor escaped, but the ones we killed were just a bunch of small fries, naturally not enough to satisfy us." A sharp, knife-like aura shot out from Jin Zun's body, and his entire being was covered in a dense layer of golden, icy thorns. He looked like a giant porcupine. With an impatient expression, he swung his fists wildly, laughing eerily, "After spending so many years of hard work in that ancient ruin, it seems our efforts weren't wasted after all! The fragments of the ancient Dao techniques we obtained may be incomplete, but their power is indeed formidable!"

  The Flower Goddess let out a soft sigh, patted her small mouth with her hand, and lazily said: "Jin Zun, you like to fight so much, when the big snake wakes up later, you can take the lead! Hmm... The essence of the Blood Dragon's heart, which has been tempered for 100,000 years, is certainly stronger than a 10,000-year-old medicine. Using it to make medicine would be even better. It's just a pity about Lin Xiao..." The Flower Goddess's eyes flowed with thoughts, her face slightly dimmed, and the light on her skin flashed by, as countless flower petals appeared out of thin air, wrapping her up. A thick fragrance of flowers spread out, and sparkling flower powder rotated and scattered, slowly covering the sea surface for dozens of miles around. As the Flower Goddess's hand seal changed, more flower petals fell from the sky with a faint light, sealing off the surrounding space.

  Xuan Yan, Xuan Heng, and Xuan Luo were all staring at the Flower Goddess with a mixture of shock and admiration. As for this move by the Flower Goddess, each of them could have done it themselves. They could sense that within these delicate flower petals lay an extremely mysterious and powerful force, as if every single petal was its own small world, and countless petals had come together to form a vast universe. This boundless world, spanning tens of miles, had become a mere plaything in the palm of the Flower Goddess's hand. One palm could hold a country, one grain of sand could contain a world - this was an ability that only certain ancient cultivators with extremely high spiritual powers possessed!

  Huā Shén Miào Móu yī zhuǎn. Wàng zhe yǒu diǎn shǎ lèng lèng de Xuán Yuán děng rén wēi xiào dào: "Wǒ zhè zhǐ dé le nà zhǒng shén tōng de xiē móu, kě méi yǒu nǐ men xiǎng xiàng de nà bān lì hài."

  The old man shook his head and sighed softly, "Lin Xiao, my young friend! He doesn't seem to be the type to die prematurely. Maybe he's still alive?" With a long sigh, the purple light on the old man's fishing rod suddenly grew longer and thicker, from the size of a thumb to the size of a large bowl, over a hundred feet long. The old man lightly tapped the rod with his finger, and the fishing line emitted a sharp whistling sound, shooting down towards the dark depths of the sea. The golden light descended at an incredible speed, reaching the seafloor in the blink of an eye, as if it had come to life, finding a blood dragon lazily swimming across the seafloor, and fiercely striking its body.

  The hundred-zhang-long Blood Dragon's body suddenly convulsed. It let out a long, pained screech as its body was torn open by the golden light, revealing a deep gash over a zhang long and half a chi wide. Large amounts of fresh blood spurted out, and scales and muscles were ripped off in large chunks. The pain drove it to frantically thrash about on the seafloor. As it let out its long screech, numerous black cave entrances in the surrounding area, near and far, had Blood Dragon heads poking out, staring over in shock. After a while, from a sea cave entrance over a hundred zhangs in diameter, a small mountain-like dragon head slowly emerged. The gigantic red-black sea dragon stared at its struggling kin on the other side, then suddenly let out a thunderous roar and transformed into a red light shooting towards the surface of the ocean.

  The blood dragon moved, and the sea surface suddenly rolled up with huge waves of over a dozen feet high. Layer upon layer of giant waves neatly and uniformly rolled over from the sea surface, like rows of soldiers emerging from formation, extremely intimidating. In the sky above, dark clouds gathered, lightning flashed in the clouds, and the thunder was as if the gods were driving war chariots across the sky, shaking the eardrums of Gu Gong and others to a buzzing sound. The strong winds blew from all directions, gradually growing stronger, finally bursting out with a terrifying whooshing sound, bringing forth flashes of white light that roughly traversed between the sea and sky.

  Jin Zun stared intently at the turbulent sea surface, his eyes shooting out a thread of fierce and overbearing light. His face was tense, his upper body slowly leaning forward, like a tiger about to pounce on its prey, with a hint of a cruel smile at the corner of his mouth. A golden flame burst forth from his body, swirling around him in a deafening vortex, like a molten gold solution constantly changing shape, looking bizarre and unparalleled yet exuding an extremely powerful and overbearing aura.

  The old man patted his waist with his right palm and said in a light tone, "Be careful, he's coming!"

  The Flower Goddess smiled lightly, her right palm flipped over, and a delicate flower stem suddenly grew out of the pure white palm, with leaves and buds unfolding rapidly. In an instant, three semi-transparent bell-shaped orchids bloomed. A faint auspicious aura surrounded these thumb-sized flowers. The Flower Goddess chuckled, her palm lightly flicked, and the three orchids floated away from the stem, slowly surrounding the Flower Goddess as they drifted upwards. A rich fragrance like strong wine suddenly wafted through the air, causing Xuan Yuan and the other senior members of the Primordial Sect to feel a sudden jolt in their spirits. As they were about to cast their strongest spells, it seemed that even their chanting speed had increased by thirty percent.

  On the surface of the sea, a huge water bag suddenly emerged, with a height of over 100 meters. A dragon's roar was faintly heard from within the water bag, and countless lightning bolts fell from the sky, heavily striking the water bag. The thick seawater exploded, and within a radius of 100 miles, there were only splashes of water everywhere after the explosion. A huge dragon head suddenly emerged from the exploded water bag, with countless lightning bolts entwining its skull. Two blood-red lights shot out from the giant dragon's eyes, and it opened its mouth wide, revealing a strong light flashing within, ready to attack the people floating in mid-air.

  Jin Zun burst out laughing and shouted towards the sky: "You wicked beast! Take a sword from me!"

  A loud, thunderous sound, the golden flames that wrapped around Jin Zun's body twisted and transformed, condensing into a giant executioner's sword over 10 feet long. Jin Zun grasped this magnificent blade radiating golden light. He plunged down from high altitude, bringing with him a fierce whirlwind, tearing through the air, ripping apart the void. In mid-air, he left behind a long, extremely thin black mark, and with one slash of his sword, struck the Blood Dragon's forehead.

  A gush of blood spurted up to a height of several dozen feet, and the black-red dragon scales on the Blood Dragon's forehead, each as large as a water tank, were cut into powder by a single knife. The sharp blade energy invaded its skull, tearing open its thick muscles, and the blade energy split open a long, deep gash on its solid skull bones, several feet long and several inches deep. Golden-red dragon blood spurted out of the wound like a waterfall.

  The blood dragon was in agony, letting out a loud roar as its massive body suddenly emerged from the seawater. The gigantic dragon's body, over a thousand feet long, thrashed about wildly, and Jin Zun barely dodged the dragon's horn twice and its claws thirty-seven times, but ultimately couldn't avoid the blood dragon's massive tail. As he was avoiding the dragon's claw attacks, the blood dragon swung its tail with great force, striking him squarely on the body. A deafening crash echoed through the air as Jin Zun was sent flying tens of miles away, his body completely out of control, and he landed awkwardly in the seawater.

  Jin Zun let out a loud roar, steadying his body as he burst out of the seawater, ready to pounce on the blood dragon that was shaking its head and wagging its tail in fury. Suddenly, hundreds of lightning bolts of varying thickness fell from the sky, all landing on Jin Zun's body, making him shine with a dazzling light, his body becoming like transparent crystal. Seventeen large and small blood dragons rose into the air from the seawater, their feet treading on dark clouds, their bodies wrapped in lightning, as they wildly surrounded Jin Zun and launched wave after wave of attacks. The dragon claws and horns brought forth flashes of cold light, striking Jin Zun with a loud clanging sound, his armor ringing out in chaos. Even with Jin Zun's deep cultivation, he was caught off guard by this sudden attack, his footing thrown into disarray.

  The old man's eyes rolled over, and he saw that the golden vessel was being entwined by seventeen blood dragons dozens of miles away. He immediately knew that it would be impossible for the golden vessel to come and confront the giant blood dragon in front of him anytime soon. He let out a cold snort, and the fish basket tied to his waistband emitted a faint purple glow as it rose into the air. The fish basket suddenly disintegrated, and countless fine purple bamboo strips whizzed towards the old man, forming a suit of strange-looking purple armor on his body. The straw raincoat on the old man's body also disintegrated at the same time, and strands of extremely thin brown silk shot out, carrying a trail of yellow light, rapidly stabbing towards the blood dragon. His bamboo hat also rose into the air with a strange humming noise, and it suddenly expanded to hundreds of meters in diameter. A green light burst out from the hat, firmly pinning down the blood dragon's head.

  That pale light looked hazy and dim, but in reality it was several times heavier than a large mountain. The dragon's head was pressed down by the pale light, and its body fell heavily to the ground. The dragon struggled to twist its body, but the pale light tightly controlled its skull, how could it move?

  Hiss, hiss, hiss, countless threads with a yellow glow pierced the Blood Dragon's body, and numerous extremely fine sparks splashed on its scales. For a moment, the Blood Dragon was completely covered by those fine sparks, making it look more like a Fire Dragon than a Blood Dragon. Gu Weng shouted in surprise: "This fellow has incredibly hard scales! My Town God Seal can only hold out for a short while, you must hurry up!" With a long exhalation of breath, Gu Weng's face turned pale.

  This transformed umbrella-shaped Town God Seal was an extraordinary treasure that Gu Gong had obtained while exploring the ancient ruins, possessing incredible and mysterious abilities. However, even with Gu Gong's nearly peak-level Void Boundary strength, he could only barely activate the Town God Seal for about the time it takes to drink a cup of tea. Gu Gong felt his true yuan surging towards the Town God Seal like a tidal wave, leaving his body feeling empty and trembling uncontrollably. In haste, Gu Gong hastily pulled out several pellets of elixir and swallowed them, which quickly transformed into true yuan to replenish the nearly depleted dantian.

  Xuan Yan, Xuan Heng, and Xuan Luo, along with nearly a hundred elders of the Xuan and Yi generations, joined forces to launch a fierce attack. Their long-planned assault was unleashed, as countless heavenly winds, thunderfires, golden blades, giant trees, and even small burning mountains and raindrop-like five-element divine thunders descended upon the massive body of Blood Dragon. The sheer number of spells released by them illuminated the sky within a hundred-mile radius with a dazzling array of colors, making it shine like a sheet of snow.

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