Chapter Fifty-two: Drunken Dragon
A deafening roar, so many aggressive spells hit the motionless Blood Dragon at the same time. A blindingly bright light enveloped the Blood Dragon's body, and gradually, this intense light contracted inward, shrinking to only a few meters in size. Then, it suddenly burst open. A black aura erupted, forcing out a hundred-mile-sized pit on the sea surface below, and the pit revealed the seafloor clearly. The dark clouds and thunder in the sky were swept away, revealing a pale blue sky.
Xuan Yan, Xuan Heng, Xuan Luo and others didn't even have time to release their magical treasures or flying swords before they were blown away by the gale like a kite with its string cut off, over a hundred miles away. The elderly members of the Yi Heart Sect, including Yi Xian, spat out a mouthful of blood, having suffered severe internal injuries.
Gu Gong was even more disheveled, being blasted out of the area for over 200 miles. The strange armor on his body emitted a dense purple glow that tightly protected his body, preventing his old bones from being shattered by the blast. Gu Gong lay disheveled on a thin layer of cloud, shouting hoarsely at Hua Shen: "Little Flower! Take action!"
The storm dissipated, and in the strong light, the massive body of the blood dragon, covered in wounds, was revealed. A small river of golden red dragon's blood flowed out from the dragon's body, dripping into the sea, where countless fish and sea creatures swarmed to devour it, ignoring the risk of another great war that would shatter them into powder. Each fish and sea creature that managed to snatch a drop of dragon's blood and swallow it would immediately jump out of the water with excitement, creating a splash, before fleeing in all directions for their lives.
The two pupils of the Blood Dragon were shattered by the attack that was like a tidal wave just now, but the Blood Dragon still locked onto the Flower God who stood on the cloud head with its divine sense.
The Flower God gazed at the massive Blood Dragon and said faintly, "Alas, I have no choice but to kill you! Otherwise, how can I capture your kin and obtain the Heart's Core Blood to revive Qing Yi and Qing Chu?"
Fingers lightly tapped. Three orchids rose with three green lights, carrying a rich fragrance, as if slowly and hastily shooting towards the Blood Dragon. The Blood Dragon opened its big mouth, revealing a very humanized sneer, tilting its head with those two broken eyes that continuously flowed out black-red thick **gaze staring at the Flower God, and an almost identical smile to humans came out of its mouth.
A wave of water rose on the surface, and Lin Xiao's body was wrapped in a black light, swaying unsteadily as he emerged from the sea with a cloud-like aura. He glanced at the blood dragon with an eerie smile, then looked again at the three orchids emitted by Huashen, suddenly recalling a strange rumor recorded in the Dahua Danjing. Lin Xiao couldn't help but jump up and shout: "Stop! Don't do it!"
The Blood Dragon turned its head, gazing at Lin Xiao with a sinister gaze. The three lotus flowers had gently stuck to its body, and three points of spiritual light flashed by. The three lotus flowers suddenly burst open.
The power of this explosion seems to be even greater than the combined efforts of Yuan Zong and the other elders just now. Moreover, the explosive force is more concentrated. The blood dragon kept roaring towards the sky, large pieces of scales, flesh and blood, and even white bones were all blown up by the explosive force, falling into the sea in blocks.
The fish and sea beasts in the seawater were going crazy, they pounced on the fallen flesh and blood, swallowing them with big mouths. Some of the sea beasts swallowed too much flesh and blood, their bodies quickly swelled up. Thick scales grew under their skin, their bodies became more solid, and sharp horns even grew out on their heads.
The flower goddess drove the cloud to rush forward and retreat hastily, avoiding the powerful explosion of the three orchids. She looked at Lin Xiao in surprise, her hair disheveled and extremely wretched, and asked in a low voice: "Lin Xiao, my friend? You're not dead!"
The three orchids released by the Flower God were not real flowers, but rather a powerful artifact from the ancient ruins that had been transformed into a shock of thunder with the attribute of wood. Releasing three thunders in a row was already the limit of the Flower God's power. The power of this thunder was extremely great, and the Flower God had once achieved a record of completely annihilating a monster equivalent to the middle stage of the Void Realm with three consecutive thunders.
This time, the extremely powerful giant blood dragon's massive body was also blown to pieces. Only a small mountain-like giant dragon head floated in mid-air. Strands of golden essence wrapped around that skull, and strands of purple-golden spiritual light continuously gushed out from the wound on the dragon's forehead, which had been split open by the Golden Vessel. The light gathered into a ball of light with a diameter of several meters.
A dozen or so blood dragons that were crazily attacking the Golden Venerable simultaneously let out a loud and clear cry, their cries filled with an air of madness. They pushed open the distance between them, each one raising its head to look towards that enormous dragon head.
Jin Zun, who was dizzy from being beaten by a group of Blood Dragons, gasped for breath and was about to chase after them. However, he saw the Blood Dragons simultaneously open their mouths and spit out Dragon Dan, which were surrounded by swirling blood mist. Jin Zun was startled and hastily retreated dozens of miles, but found that the Dragon Dan did not explode towards him. Instead, a small crack appeared on each Dragon Dan, from which the essence of the Dragon Dan shot out with a hissing sound, transforming into streaks of bloody light that traversed the sky and merged into the glowing orb floating above the forehead of the gigantic Blood Dragon.
Lin Xiao sighed and said, "Hua Shen, I was lucky enough not to die. But Hua Shen's three divine thunderbolts helped this beast shed its shell, and it's about to transform. Let's retreat quickly! The Blood Dragon is an outcast of the dragon clan, and when it transforms, the heavenly tribulation will be severe, affecting everything within a hundred miles. It's best for us to leave."
When Lin Xiao spoke, the sky had already undergone a strange transformation. The sky within a radius of thousands of miles turned into a deep purple hue, without a single cloud in sight, and countless stars appeared in broad daylight, emitting a sharp silver light. Just above the dragon's head, hundreds of miles high up, a small, basket-sized cloud cluster suddenly materialized out of thin air, slowly descending towards the sea surface.
A sense of oppression that made Lin Xiao's calf muscles twitch descended upon him, and he was completely unable to resist this massive pressure. Fear instinctively arose from the bottom of his heart, and Lin Xiao let out a startled roar, almost falling headfirst into the sea.
The Flower God stepped on the white cloud and flashed to Lin Xiao, grabbing him with one hand. In an instant, they had already flown out of a hundred miles. When they heard Lin Xiao's cry for help, Jin Zun, Gu Weng, and Yuan Zong, along with other elderly people, flew away in all directions, gradually gathering together to ask about Lin Xiao's situation over the past few days. It was only then that Lin Xiao realized he had been falling into the sea for seven days. The mysterious old man's transformation of Lin Xiao's body seemed like a short while to him, but it actually took several days. However, Lin Xiao also thought his experience was unbelievable and feared that if he spoke out, it would be too astonishing, so he just casually responded with a few words, using some empty phrases to gloss over the situation.
Xuanyuan and the others didn't ask Lin Xiao what had happened to him over the past few days. In their opinion, as long as Lin Xiao could return alive, it was enough to make them happy. Other things were not important. Even if Huashen slightly noticed that there was something unclear in Lin Xiao's words, she also didn't covet any treasures he might have obtained from his adventures. She just smiled lightly and treated the matter as if it had never happened, letting it pass.
Lin Xiao gazed at the dragon head and the dark purple cloud hovering above it, saying in a low voice: "The Blood Dragon's transformation requires external force to shed its shell, revealing its true spirit outside, and borrowing the power of the heavenly tribulation to reforge its body. Once the transformation is successful, the Blood Dragon's body will be equivalent to that of an immortal who has ascended to heaven. In the cultivation world, there is only one thing that can control it, and no one else can."
"Immortal?" Gu Weng, Jin Zun and Hua Shen's faces twitched. In today's cultivation world, the Void Realm was already the absolute peak of power, but what difference did a Void Realm expert have compared to an ant in front of an Immortal? If that Blood Dragon True Body succeeded in transforming, not one of them would be able to escape the Heavenly Tribulation today.
A Taoist then gazed at him with an unusual glow in his eyes and asked in a sharp voice: "Young friend, what can cure it?"
"Drunk Dragon Elixir!" Lin Xiao pointed with one finger, and a jade box flew out from the storage ring he had obtained at the bottom of the sea. He took out all the Drunk Dragon Grass from it. Then, looking at a Dan Dao person, he quickly blurted out a string of medicinal names. The Dan Dao person didn't hold back either. With twenty storage rings on his ten fingers and four more storage bracelets on his wrists, he swiftly pulled out all the medicinal materials Lin Xiao needed. Lin Xiao then took out a milk bottle, a furnace, and a medicine pot from the ring, and roughly used these tools to refine the Dan medicine.
One side was refining medicine. Lin Xiao said lightly, "The blood dragon of 100,000 years, the Drunken Dragon Grass has no effect at all. However, even if it's a transformed dragon clan, they can't resist the medicinal power of the Drunken Dragon Dan. Using the Drunken Dragon Grass as the main medicine, combined with ninety-seven kinds of seemingly useless Qi Men medicines, you can prepare the Drunken Dragon Dan. The conditions here are simple, and the decocted medicine may only have 30% of the Drunken Dragon Dan's medicinal power, but for a blood dragon that has just transformed, it also has a remarkable effect."
Jin Zun looked at the dragon head with a tense expression and shouted in a deep voice: "But he has transformed, how can we get him to drink this Drunken Dragon Dan?"
Lin Xiao glanced at Jin Zun and said in a low voice, "A drunkard would never refuse the fine wine in front of him. The Drunken Dragon Dan is to the dragon tribe what fine wine is to a drunkard; they can't resist its temptation." With a flick of his finger, he ignited the hundred-year-old silver ginkgo wood charcoal in the furnace and carefully poured the thick medicinal liquid from the milk bottle into the medicine pot, starting to refine the Drunken Dragon Dan, or rather, the Drunken Dragon Soup.
The sky suddenly darkened, and countless stars flashed in the void. From the four extremes of the sky, countless colorful light threads rushed to gather into that purple cloud cluster. A grayish-white lightning bolt, as thin as a hair, shot down from the cloud cluster and struck the light ball floating above the Blood Dragon's forehead. The fine lightning bolt made Lin Xiao and others' eyes ache violently, and even Gu Weng, who had the deepest cultivation, couldn't help but grunt and close his eyes tightly.
A deafening thunderclap resounded in Lin Xiao's mind, directly shaking his soul, causing a group of people to become disheveled and panicked. Several elderly members of the Yuan Sect's first generation were so shocked that they fell from the clouds. Lin Xiao let out a miserable cry, spitting out a column of blood from his seven orifices, almost knocking over the stove and medicine pot in front of him. Fortunately, Hua Shen and Jin Zun reacted quickly, hastily pressing one hand on Lin Xiao's back, using their powerful yuan to protect Lin Xiao's divine consciousness. Yi Xin, whose face was slightly pale, also hurriedly shot out a stream of spiritual light into Lin Xiao's body, gradually nourishing his body with cool mist. A few drops of congealed blood dripped from Lin Xiao's nose, and he took a deep breath, focusing his attention on the flames in the stove.
The huge dragon head was shattered by a lightning strike, countless fragments of flesh and blood splashed onto the sea surface, but this time there were no brave fish or sea beasts to scramble for the true dragon's flesh and blood. The previous thunder not only shattered the dragon head, but also split the Black Reef into a hundred feet deep, and all living things in the ocean within thirty miles were reduced to powder.
That spat out the dragon ball, using its own essence to help the giant dragon escape from the original spirit. More than a dozen blood dragons were frightened and scattered in all directions, constantly looking back at the purple-gold light ball that was rapidly rotating in mid-air, continuously emitting long howls.
Lin Xiao gazed at the flames in the furnace, muttering to himself: "The Blood Dragon's transformation, according to the records of our ancestor in the Great Luo Dan Scripture, should withstand ninety-nine heavenly lightning strikes. Even with its cultivation that reaches the heavens, after crossing the heavenly tribulation, it would still be severely injured and on the verge of death. If some senior were lucky enough, they might even be able to obtain a top-notch mount!"
The old man and the flower god simultaneously curled up their lips, taking in a mount with strength equivalent to that of an immortal? Don't joke!
Jin Zun was excitedly waving his arm, and he laughed loudly: "Wonderful! This method is not bad!"
The Flower God's eyes gleamed with a hint of gold. Just as he was about to speak, the dark purple clouds of heavenly tribulation in the sky suddenly dispersed.
"Huh?" Jin Zun pointed in surprise and exclaimed: "Didn't they say it was the 99th strike of heavenly thunder? Why is there only one heavenly tribulation?"
Huashen, Guweng and others exclaimed in unison, why did this heavenly calamity only bring down one bolt of heavenly lightning? Could it be that the Blood Dragon had already been struck dead by the heavenly calamity? However, that orb of light was still rotating in the sky, without any change whatsoever! A terrifying and frightening killing aura was also quietly emanating from that orb, making people feel as if a huge boulder was pressing down on their hearts, extremely unbearable.
A Taoist practitioner stomped his foot and sighed: "The spiritual energy of the cultivation world is weakening. Even this Heavenly Tribulation has been reduced in scale, hasn't it?"
"Huh?" A group of people all looked at a Taoist priest. Then, they nodded in unison!
The old man looked up at the sky and sighed: "Forget it, it's cheaper for this beast! Let's just hurry up and escape!"
The light ball transformed by the Blood Dragon's Yuan Shen burst out a strong light, vaguely visible that the light ball condensed into an egg shape, and a human figure faintly appeared inside. Everyone was shocked, if this Blood Dragon could so easily avoid the heavenly tribulation and transform, a Blood Dragon with the power of an immortal would be enough to sweep through the current cultivation world. No matter how many cultivators went up, they would only have a fate of being crushed to powder!
At this time, Lin Xiao suddenly let out a triumphant long laugh. He grabbed the medicine jar that had been roasted bright red with one hand and laughed loudly: "The Drunken Dragon Dan has been refined! Although the medicinal power may only be two or three tenths of the real Drunken Dragon Dan, it's enough!" With a few loud laughs, Lin Xiao casually threw the medicine jar at the ball of light. At the same time, he shouted loudly: "Seniors, please help me out!"
The flower god hummed softly and casually pointed out a cluster of flowers, which gently surrounded the medicine jar and flew directly to the light ball.
The figure inside the light ball became clearer and clearer, and the outer wall of the light ball also became thinner and thinner. Suddenly, there was a loud "crack" sound, and the light ball exploded. A naked girl with a height of about eight feet, a robust and powerful physique, emerged from the light ball. The girl narrowed her eyes, slowly turned her head around, and revealed a sly smile to Lin Xiao and his group.
The medicine bottle flew right in front of the girl at just the right time.
A strange and exotic fragrance wafted out of the medicine jar, and as soon as the newly transformed Blood Dragon caught a whiff of it, his face changed color, and green light shone through his eyes.
Without a single word of nonsense, the girl transformed from the Blood Dragon grabbed the medicine jar and poured in several catties of Drunken Dragon Soup with a gurgling sound.
Lin Xiao slapped his palm and shouted: "Down! Down! Down!"
As soon as her voice fell, the girl let out a cry of despair and dove headfirst into the sea.
Gu Weng and others cheered loudly, while setting up a teleportation array to chase after the girl. Meanwhile, the dozen or so Blood Dragons that had fled in the distance let out urgent cries, crazily flying back this way.
The starry sky twinkled, under the dark purple sky, a dozen or so furious blood dragons spewed out bloody flames and swarmed in.
One line of equals, Yuan Zong's elders simultaneously took action and released the most lethal thunder method against alien creatures. The sky was filled with lightning and electricity as more than a dozen blood dragons rushed forward, amidst the deafening thunderclap, more than a dozen blood dragons were blasted, their bodies momentarily stunned. They opened their large mouths to let out angry dragon roars, and more than a dozen bloody lights shot out from their mouths, simultaneously spitting out dragon pills.
