Chapter Fifty-two: Blood Python Silver Centipede

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  As for Huoyun Lao's eccentric behavior, Chuyi had long been accustomed to it. However, the words Huoyun Lao spoke before leaving left Chuyi somewhat perplexed. What did he mean by "something unexpected happened" and "being trapped"? Could it be that this old ghost had left behind a living dragon for himself?

  Chu Yu opened the door of the sunroom, and at that moment, he was stunned for a long time. As expected, Huo Yun Lao Dao had indeed left behind a living young dragon...

  In the center of the Heaven-Conquering Spirit-Gathering Array, a "small snake" about three feet long was swimming back and forth in a piece of fiery red light, occasionally letting out one or two sharp cries that sounded like an infant's wail.

  "Even if it's a five-hundred-year-old Daoist infant dragon, its body can't possibly be this small!"

  After the initial shock, Chu Yu began to examine this small dragon, whose body was only about two fingers wide. A silver horn protruded from its forehead, and its eyes gleamed with a bloody red light. Its scales were densely packed, each about the size of a fingernail cover, and shone like molten silver. On its fine scales, a faint reddish glow seemed to flow. The dragon's body had no claws, and if not for its head resembling that of a dragon, with a single horn on its forehead, it would have been mistaken for a small snake.

  "Throughout the ages, there seems to be only one kind of dragon that can produce dragon horns and scales at the same time...". Chu Yu suddenly spat out a few words from his mouth, having already memorized the entire "Million Demon Records", "Blood Python Silver Dragon."

  The Blood Python Silver Jiao should be classified as being between snakes and jiaos. It is the offspring of a thousand-year-old Blood Python and a lone-horned Silver Jiao that is about to transform into a dragon, inheriting the characteristics of both spiritual beasts. At birth, it already possesses the abilities of a first-class Xuan-level demon, making it an exceptionally powerful spiritual beast. No wonder Huoyun Old Dao once said that he was unable to capture it, and this time it took him over ten days to finally subdue it. It's all thanks to Huoyun Old Dao's cultivation being only one step away from entering the Tribulation period as a late-stage cultivator of combined bodies. If someone with slightly weaker cultivation were to try, they might not have succeeded in capturing the Jiao, and their life might have been forfeit instead.

  "The Qiantang River is indeed worthy of its reputation as a spiritual water that once nurtured the ancient species, and in this era, it's still possible to catch such a rare and precious blood python silver dragon. Although it's not yet mature, it's already quite extraordinary." Chu Yuxin silently sighed in her heart, understanding why Huoyun didn't directly take the dragon tendon for himself but instead spent effort bringing it back alive.

  There is only one reason, if it's for refining a dragon-binding rope and taking its tendon, taking its life, it's really too wasteful and extravagant. You should know that if you can tame this young blood python silver python, once the nourishing demon is successful, making it cultivate internal alchemy, the help of this blood python silver python will not be inferior to any top-grade magic treasure! This difficult choice, it seems Fire Cloud Old Dao directly left it for Chu Yu to weigh himself.

  However, Huoyun Lao Dao did not know that Chu Yu had already obtained the 9,000-year-old Jiaolong tendon from the "Jibao Conference". He himself no longer needed the Jiaolong tendon, and he had also mastered the "Yao Xiu" technique in the "Wan Yao Secret Record"... After a moment's thought, Chu Yu's mouth was already curled up in a smile, looking at the Blood Python Silver Jiao trapped in the array. "Raising demons is so much fun, I should try it too."

  Due to the innate spiritual species, the Blood Python Silver Jiao differs from ordinary jiao dragons that require 3,000 years of Taoist practice to change size, and only needs 500 years of weather to possess divine skills comparable to those of a 3,000-year-old jiao dragon.

  It is now trapped in the "Du Tian Ju Ling Da Zhen" slightly modified by Huo Yun Lao Dao, and has lost most of its divine powers. As long as Chu Yu is willing, it can do whatever he wants to it, and even peeling off its skin is not a problem.

  However, Chu Yu had already completely abandoned this idea, and suddenly released a thread of divine sense to probe into the array. The Blood Python Silver Centipede instantly had a reaction, initially still strongly rejecting the exchange between Chu Yu's divine sense and it, continuing for nearly half an hour. The Blood Python Silver Centipede seemed to be trapped in the array for a long time, starting to get tired, finally giving Chu Yu a response.

  Accompanied by a long, mournful cry like the wailing of an infant, Chu Yu's divine sense that had entered the formation clearly sensed the fear and terror of the Blood Python Silver Dragon.

  "Calculating it, this little guy's age is actually equivalent to a six-year-old human child." Chu Yu slowed down the pace of his spiritual connection with the Blood Python Silver Horn as much as possible, conveying comforting spiritual signals to it.

  After another ten or so minutes, the little guy's emotions seemed to calm down under Chu Yu's soothing gaze. It then let out a pitiful cry and stuck its body tightly to the flame-red light that had condensed into an array wall. A pair of eyes shining with a bloody glow stared unwaveringly at Chu Yu outside the array, looking utterly pitiful.

  "Don't worry, you can't come out yet." Chu Yuwei smiled slightly as he pinched a series of decisive seals with his hand, and then spat out the numerical mantra from his mouth. As soon as the last word "合" was spoken, the divine consciousness that Chu Yuwei had released earlier to comfort the little guy split off a thread and probed into the depths of the Blood Python Silver Dragon's sea of consciousness.

  Because of the sufficient preparation beforehand, the little guy only resisted slightly before allowing Chu Yu's divine sense to enter its sea of consciousness. However, the main reason was that this young Blood Python Silver Dragon was still in its youth and had not yet opened its spiritual wisdom, which allowed Chu Yu to successfully imprint his divine sense deep within the little guy's sea of consciousness. If it were an adult Blood Python Silver Dragon, with Chu Yu's current level of divine sense strength, he probably wouldn't even have the confidence to try.

  In just a few short minutes, Chu Yu quickly completed the most critical step of the "Nourishing Demon" technique - merging his consciousness with that of the demon he wanted to nourish.

  Of course, the demon is the passive party, and the practitioner only needs to separate one ten-millionth of the recognition imprint from the demon's deep sea of consciousness. From this moment on, the demon with the recognition imprint in its sea of consciousness will completely obey the practitioner, regarding the practitioner as the master, unless it loses all its recognition, even if the practitioner wants it to commit suicide, it won't hesitate for a moment. To say that this technique is somewhat similar to the soul contract between demons and masters often written about in many other worlds.

  In the depths of the sea, the blood python and silver dragon, who had been branded with a mark, let out a series of "Woo-ha, woo-ha..." sounds. Due to their spiritual connection, although Chu Yu wasn't very clear about what they wanted to express, he could tell that this series of "woo-ha" sounds was not due to fear or panic, but rather carried a hint of spoiled and intimate meaning.

  "This little guy..." As Chu Yu activated the decisive seal again, the fiery red array that had trapped the Blood Python Silver Jiao instantly dissipated into nothingness. The three-foot-long Blood Python Silver Jiao darted out like lightning, its movements so fast that even Chu Yu's sharp eyes couldn't catch its trajectory. All he felt was a cool sensation on his neck and a faint itch on his left cheek. It turned out that the little guy had actually hung itself on Chu Yu's neck, proudly raising its triangular head and enthusiastically licking Chu Yu's face with its tongue.

  "Alright, stop messing around." Chu Yu didn't expect this little guy to be so clingy either, and smiled: "It's about time I gave you a name. Since you're following me, in the future you'll definitely transform from a jiao to a dragon. Let's just call you Little Dragon then."

  "Wah wah..." The baby's cry echoed, this little guy was quite spirited, his small head nodded randomly, apparently satisfied with the new name given by his master.

  "Little dragon." Chu Yu also found it quite amusing, and after calling out, the little guy's body, which had been hanging from Chu Yu's neck, suddenly stretched out and actually used its tail to prop up its entire body, like a thin stick, proudly holding up its single-horned head, rhythmically swaying on Chu Yu's shoulder.

  "If you were a bit smaller, I could have kept you by my side all the time..." Chu Yu muttered to himself as he turned his head to look at the small white creature excitedly twisting on his left shoulder.

  Unexpectedly, Chu Yu's words had just fallen when a burst of "crackling" sounds came from the collision between bones, and upon looking at the little dragon again, this little guy had shrunk from its original three feet in length and two fingers in width to less than one foot in length and one finger in width, becoming a miniature version of the Blood Python Silver Dragon.

  "Not bad, not bad, you're quite considerate. This demon is pretty good." Chu Yu secretly praised in her heart, then followed with a serious tone: "Since I've taken you in, I'll naturally raise you into a proper demon. Let me think... what do Blood Pythons and Silver Crocodiles usually eat..."

  In his mind, the words from "The Secret Record of Ten Thousand Demons" floated up - the Blood Python Silver Jiao was a mutated species of jiao, revered as the leader of all jiaos. Its diet was extremely varied, including heavenly treasures and earthly gems, rare herbs and strange fruits, but mainly it fed on fierce aquatic beasts. A single adult Blood Python Silver Jiao's daily food intake required at least one thirty-meter-long blue whale...

  At this point, even Chu Yu, a super-rich man worth tens of billions of euros, couldn't help but wipe away a cold sweat from his forehead. "You little scoundrel, you're lucky to have met me. If it were someone else, they wouldn't be able to afford pants after being taken advantage of by you!"

  Vaguely remembered that there were still many top-grade medicinal materials in the storage room, Chu Yu flipped out a thousand-year-old ginseng, cut it into small pieces and threw it aside, turned his head to the little guy hanging on his arm and said: "You eat it while playing."

  Although the thousand-year-old ginseng can't be considered a rare treasure, it's still a hard-to-come-by good thing. For a spiritual beast like Blood Python Silver Centipede, it's indeed a decent snack. The little guy seemed to have caught wind of the thousand-year-old ginseng's scent early on. As soon as Chu Yu's voice fell, a silver light suddenly darted out and pounced on the small pile of minced ginseng slices.

  Chu Yu made another phone call, instructing Bai Cen to send 200 kilograms of whale meat here every week, which should be enough for the little guy's food intake during its juvenile period.

  He glanced at the time and found that it was almost time for school to be over. He remembered that he had promised Su Jingyi to walk home together after school, and also had to pick up Tang Keying, his "cousin", so Chu Yu immediately communicated with the little guy who was eating ginseng slices with his divine consciousness, reminding him to stay in the house before rushing out to school.

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