Chapter 49: Blood Dragon

  Everyone in the hall took a deep breath at the same time. The Wan Nian Blood Dragon under the starry sky of Da Jiao Xing, this is a notorious fierce creature in the cultivation world, and even in ancient times, not many people dared to provoke it, let alone today's cultivators? However, in order to save Qing Yi and Qing Chu, this Wan Nian Blood Dragon must be captured alive!

  Gu Weng, Jin Zun and Hua Shen's faces twitched, they exchanged a glance and nodded simultaneously.

  Xuanyuan Daoren also stamped his foot and shouted in a deep voice, "Enough! It's just a beast that has lived for ten thousand years. Let's go meet it, what can it do?"

  Lin Xiao nodded slightly, his hands behind his back, and said lightly: "If we can find the Drunken Dragon Grass, then capturing a thousand-year-old Blood Dragon alive is not that difficult!" Lin Xiao chuckled and said: "As for the Drunken Dragon Grass, it's actually not hard to find."

  Inside the grand hall, nearly a hundred Yuanzong cultivators' gazes simultaneously turned extremely strange as they stared at Lin Xiao, their minds all thinking: This little guy, how can he speak with such big breaths that are scary?

  However, at least Qingyi and Qingchu seem to be saved, which is enough.

  As Lin Xiao said, it's not difficult to get Drunken Dragon Grass.

  The place where the Drunken Dragon Grass grows is nothing but a desolate land covered with dark sand and strong winds. Next to the cliff where the Drunken Dragon Grass grows, there just happens to be a group of about fifty Sky Fire Eagles with cultivation equivalent to that of a mid-stage Yuan Shen period cultivator. In the cave below the cliff, there are unfortunately a nest of extremely poisonous Black Scorpions, which even a Void Realm expert would spit blood for three to five years if stung.

  Finally, the six masters of the Void Realm, Gu Weng, Jin Zun, Hua Shen, Xuan Yuan, Xuan Hong, and Xuan Luo, were able to subdue it at the cost of thirty-seven high-ranking cultivators being heavily injured. Finally, they obtained the Drunken Dragon Grass. The Drunken Dragon Grass has seven leaves on one stem, with a transparent stem and crimson red leaves. On the tip of each leaf grows a thumb-sized red fruit that emits a strong wine fragrance. If a human consumes the Drunken Dragon Grass, there will be no adverse effects, at most they will just get drunk for three to five days, and after waking up, they will feel refreshed and energized. However, if a dragon of the Jiao Long species eats the Drunken Dragon Grass, it will at least become drunk for seven days and seven nights. Even after sobering up, its entire body will be numb and weak, unable to move freely for two or three months.

  In the cultivation world, such heavenly materials and earthly treasures were once abundant, but now they are becoming increasingly scarce. Lin Xiao followed the records of the Great Luo Dan Jing and led Gu Weng and others to search for the seven places where the spiritual veins converged, where the Drunken Dragon Grass grew, and only found a mature Drunken Dragon Grass in the last place. The other dozen or so Drunken Dragon Grasses were short and withered, without any luster on their bodies, apparently because of the depletion of spiritual energy, these Drunken Dragon Grasses had lost the opportunity to mature.

  "It's possible that this is the last mature Drunken Dragon Grass in the cultivation world." Lin Xiao held the foot-long Drunken Dragon Grass in both hands, sighing with a tinge of emotion: "Thinking about it, the heavenly and earthly spiritual medicines recorded in the Great Luo Dan Jing must have also become extinct by now?" Shaking his head, Lin Xiao placed the Drunken Dragon Grass into a jade box, then tossed the box into his storage ring. Only then did he say to Gu Weng: "Elder Gu, with the Drunken Dragon Grass in hand, capturing the Blood Dragon will be effortless. Let's hurry and capture a ten-thousand-year-old Blood Dragon so we can refine the elixir as soon as possible."

  The old man nodded repeatedly and said in a hurry: "That's right. Only..."

  "Senior, what is it?" asked a tense Xuan Yuan from the side.

  The old man furrowed his brow, and the wrinkles on his face twisted in a puzzled expression: "But, I find it strange that if Jiang Ziyin is indeed the incarnation of Blood God's ancestor, why would he design Qingyi and Qingchu, two fellow Taoists, outside of Qiyuan Star? If his incarnation were to be destroyed, Blood God's ancestor would likely suffer greatly as well. Why would he pay such a great price?" Lin Xiang and the other Taoists around him exchanged a glance, no wonder Gu Weng, Jin Zun, and Hua Shen had been acting so strangely these past few days, looking worried and anxious. It seemed they were indeed concerned about this matter. But thinking about it, if Blood God's ancestor knew that Miao Xianren had been killed, why would he send his incarnation to Qiyuan Star? He should have guessed that Miao Xianren might have already revealed all of his plans! Why would he take the risk of losing his incarnation by doing so?

  Is it just because Ji Yeon's identity as a doppelganger has been exposed and she no longer has any use?

  Not necessarily!

  "Or perhaps he has already calculated that Qingyi and Qingchu, the two seniors, will be summoned back to Qiyuan Star?"

  The old man smiled lightly and said faintly, "Isn't he going to attack Qiyuan Star again? However, his clone was created using the Li Shen technique, which is vastly different from ordinary cloning techniques. A clone created by the Li Shen technique is almost equivalent to an independent person. If his clone is killed, he will be completely unaware of its fate. If he really wants to move against Qiyuan Star's mastermind, if he really thinks that Qingyi and Qingchu have already died at Jiang Zixin's hands, then..."

  The Flower God, laughing with a shaking flower branch, said with a smile: "So, since we have the Drunken Dragon Grass, it's not necessary for us to join forces to deal with the Blood Dragon. If three of our six people stay behind to guard the Qiyuan Star, and think that there is no longer a Void Realm expert among us, what would the Blood God Old Ancestor do?" The old masters Gu Weng, Jin Zun, Hua Shen, Xuan Yuan, Xuan Tong, and Xuan Luo gathered together, whispering and calculating the Blood God Old Ancestor's moves. Lin Xiao sat beside them, listening with relish. From their discussion, Lin Xiao learned many things, which were extremely valuable for his growth.

  The plan was set, and the three of them, along with the two elder members of the Xuan family, Xuan Yuan and Xuan Heng, as well as half of the Yuanshen period elders, returned to Qiyuan Star to quietly await the possible invasion of the Blood God Old Ancestor. Xuan Luo led the other half of the Yuanshen period experts, along with Lin Xiao, to Dajiao Star's Xunyao Ocean, where they captured a thousand-year-old blood dragon and brought it back to Qiyuan Star to refine the Xuansheng Dan.

  At this time, the crowd on a planet with a large teleportation array parted ways. A group of people returned to Qiyuan Star, while Lin Xiao and others went through three teleportation arrays and finally arrived at Da Jiao Xing, located on the edge of Xiudao Boundary.

  Dajiaoxing, because it has a strong light, the light extends in the void like a sharp horned sun. On Dajiaoxing, apart from a faint sea of clouds, there are two vast deserts without borders. In the desert, apart from some extremely ferocious poisonous insects, there are only some scattered cultivators who come to Dajiaoxing for tourism, bringing a little vitality to this barren planet.

  Xuan Luo led Lin Xiao and the others, treading on the clouds, flying high above, and passing by with a flourish. In the far distance, several cultivators who were hovering above the sea surface with faintly shining sword lights caught sight of Lin Xiao and his group from afar. They hastily flew away in the direction they had come from. The Big Dipper Star was indeed too desolate and remote, and it was impossible for a team of over a hundred people to visit the Big Dipper Star on ordinary days. It could be inferred that this was a powerful sect preparing to do something secretive on the Big Dipper Star. People with some experience were cautiously avoiding Lin Xiao's group.

  The deepest part of the ocean is the Black Rock Abyss, where the water depth exceeds 100 miles. The dark currents at the bottom are even more astonishing, with palm-sized ripples all over the surface, revealing how turbulent the deep underwater currents are below.

  Lin Xiao and Xuan Luo were standing on the clouds, floating above the Black Rock Abyss. Lin Xiao took out a fruit of Drunken Dragon Grass from his jade box and casually tossed it onto the Black Rock Abyss, saying lightly: "It's done."

  Xuan Luo shouted in surprise: "Little guy, is that all?" Xuan Luo turned around Lin Xiao with his hands behind his back, frowning and said: "You just lost a fruit and a thousand-year-old blood dragon will jump into the net? This is too ridiculous!"

  Lin Xiao shrugged his shoulders, closed his eyes and said faintly: "It's indeed a child's play. Therefore, the Da Luo Dan Jing notes that only this method can be used to extract the essence of the Blood Dragon's heart, but it is not allowed to harm their lives. It is also because of this that hunting Blood Dragons has become too easy for my predecessors in the Da Luo Dan Dao. They have never mentioned to anyone the location of the seven Qiu Ling Caves where the Drunken Dragon Grass grows. Even among cultivators, there are no more than ten people who know about the existence of the Drunken Dragon Grass! What do you think, senior?"

  Xuan Luo was stunned. He scratched his scalp hard and nodded, "Indeed, it makes sense! Hmm, it makes sense!" He squatted on the cloud head, staring blankly at the waves below, muttering to himself, "But would a thousand-year-old Blood Dragon really be foolish enough to eat that fruit? Little guy, what if the one who ate that fruit wasn't a thousand-year-old Blood Dragon?"

  Lin Xiao confidently put his hands behind his back and smiled, "The Blood Dragon's lair is at the very bottom of this Black Abyssal Ground, over a hundred miles from top to bottom. Only the most powerful Blood Dragons are at the forefront. The most powerful Blood Dragon is naturally the Ten Thousand Year Blood Dragon. Is there any other question?"

  "Indeed! Indeed!" Xuan Luo nodded his head. He grinned, showing his teeth: "This fruit is so small, yet its flavor can drift over a hundred miles to entice those Blood Dragons to devour it - it's really interesting, interesting!"

  As soon as the words fell, a shocking dragon chant came from under the water, and the dragon chant shook up more than 100 feet high waves on the sea surface within a hundred miles. The huge wave heads rushed in all directions, and they seemed to be connected to the sky. After the dragon chant, the cloud layer in the sky was swept away, revealing a blue sky.

  Lin Xiao's eyes snapped open in shock and he shouted loudly: "No, according to the Da Luo Dan Jing, the Ten Thousand Year Blood Dragon absolutely does not have this kind of power!"

  The words were not finished, a huge black-red dragon head suddenly emerged from the sea floor, opening its big mouth and sucking in the fruit of the drunken dragon grass along with the surrounding seawater. The dark-colored blood dragon quickly flew out of the sea, its body as thick as nearly ten zhang, over a thousand zhang long, with a layer of mud, shells, seaweed and other objects covering its scales. As soon as the blood dragon flew into the sky, the sky flashed with lightning and thunder, and dark clouds suddenly appeared, wrapping around the blood dragon.

  Another dragon's roar, the sea surface within a thousand miles suddenly churned up, countless giant whirlpools appeared on the sea, and bolts of lightning as thick as water buckets crazily struck the sea surface, causing the sea to flash with intense light. The blood dragon excitedly rolled around in the dark clouds, wildly releasing its nearly infinite power. Suddenly, this blood dragon saw Lin Xiao and his group standing foolishly in front of it, and it immediately let out a cheer, rolling up layers of dark clouds to charge towards them.

  Lin Xiao shouted: "This is at least a 100,000-year-old Blood Dragon! This is equivalent to the peak of the Void Realm's ancient beast! Run away! The Drunken Dragon Grass has no effect on a Blood Dragon that is over 50,000 years old!" Lin Xiao yelled as he rose into the clouds and randomly chose a direction to escape.

  "Ahh!" Xuan Luo's eyes rolled back. He roared in a sorrowful tone: "The deeper the cultivation, the faster the Blood Dragon rushes over! Dammit, indeed the deepest cultivated Blood Dragon arrives the fastest! Heaven, a 100,000-year-cultivated Blood Dragon! Void Realm peak! Kids, escape!"

  With a wave of his large sleeve, Xuan Luo rolled up dozens of Yuan Zong sect members with the lowest cultivation around him. Their bodies transformed into a golden light and chased after Lin Xiao in the direction he was fleeing. Seeing Lin Xiao's clumsy Cloud Escaping Technique, Xuan Luo knew that he would definitely not be able to escape from this Blood Dragon's pursuit. Xuan Luo wanted to take Lin Xiao away with him together.

  However, Xuan Luo was still over a hundred zhang away from Lin Xiao. The Blood Dragon let out a triumphant roar and a bolt of purple lightning as thick as a water bucket crashed down, sending Lin Xiao tumbling through the air like a bird with broken wings, drifting gently downwards until he landed on the surface of the sea. He was then swept up by a massive whirlpool and his whereabouts became unknown.

  Xuan Luo's eyes widened in anger, and he bellowed loudly: "Lin Xiao, you little friend, are doomed!"

  Xuan Luo chopped his hand and a sword light shot out, a hundred feet long golden light whizzing away, quickly wrapping around the blood dragon in a circle.

  In the midst of the clanging sound, countless sparks burst out from the scales of the blood dragon. The sword light of Xuan Luo barely cut off half a scale, but didn't even scratch a single thread of the blood dragon's skin.

  Blood Dragon's Fury. He targeted Xuan Luo, opened his big mouth and a stream of blood light shot out.

  Xuan Luo casually threw out a defensive treasure to block the Blood Light. A loud explosion, Xuan Luo's treasure was blown into powder by the Blood Light, Xuan Luo spat out blood and stumbled back, hastily calling out to his disciples. In a flurry, he mounted his sword and took to the air.

  The blood dragon let out a triumphant roar, stirring up the sea surface for thousands of miles around into a chaotic mess. Only then did it proudly lead several smaller blood dragons, each only one percent its size, back down to the ocean floor.

  The Black Reef Abyss is a hundred miles deep, with countless turbulent whirlpools and undercurrents beneath the water. Even the Blood Dragons that have lived in the Black Reef Abyss since ancient times cannot figure out what lies within its tens of thousands of square miles. Among them are some extremely perilous places that even these powerful Blood Dragons dare not approach or do not dare to get close to.

  Lin Xiao was struck down to the sea surface by that blood dragon's electric light, and a whirlpool suddenly appeared in the seawater, swallowing him up. Several dark currents stirred up like crazy dragons, and Lin Xiao, who had been electrocuted and was dizzy and disoriented, didn't have any strength to resist being swept towards the seabed. Fortunately, as a cultivator's instinct, and also because Lin Xiao had formed his golden elixir, he naturally switched to fetal breathing, relying on a mouthful of pure true yuan circulating within his body to barely preserve his life.

  That ten-thousand-year-old dragon's bloodline was struck by a single blow, and the power of that lightning bolt was comparable to the strongest attack of a cultivator at the peak of the Primordial Spirit stage. The violent lightning energy surged into his body, and Lin Xiao's golden elixir, which had long been familiar with the Thunderfire True Classic, immediately began to rotate frantically, devouring large amounts of lightning energy and converting it into true yuan that Lin Xiao possessed. However, the power of the lightning was too great, and Lin Xiao's golden elixir had only absorbed a few strands of lightning energy when his body was almost shattered by the lightning energy, leaving him on the verge of being blown to smithereens.

  It was that mysterious Xuanwu ring that saved Lin Xiao again. A thumb-sized Xuanwu shadow shot out of the ring, opened its small mouth and sucked in all the lightning energy covering Lin Xiao's body with a single inhale. The Xuanwu ring flashed a dense black light, countless tiny spiritual texts floated out from within the ring, and a faint long cry came from Lin Xiao's body. Afterwards, the Xuanwu ring returned to its usual dull and lifeless appearance. However, a very thin layer of black light had appeared on Lin Xiao's body, blocking the massive water pressure from outside, which was what kept Lin Xiao from being crushed to death while he was unconscious.

  Gradually, Lin Xiao was drawn into the dark current at the bottom of the sea. The black reef's seabed was filled with sharp black stone mountains like shark teeth, each one towering hundreds of feet high, covered in all sorts of shells and fish bones that had petrified over time. Their edges were polished to razor-sharpness by the dark currents, casting a faint, dull glow in the dark depths.

  Lin Xiao's body narrowly brushed past the black stone mountains, drifting with the aimless dark currents that were like giant hands. One hand had just manipulated Lin Xiao a few times, and then another hand took over his body, carrying him in another direction. After such chaotic movements for three or four hours, Lin Xiao was already thousands of miles away from where he fell into the sea. Lin Xiao let out a light hum, slowly opening his eyes. As soon as he regained consciousness, he instinctively took a breath, and the black glow outside his body fluctuated, extracting enough air from the seawater to form a sphere with a diameter of about three meters around him. Lin Xiao floated in this empty ball, looking around in surprise.