Chapter 128: Chapter 97: Clan Leader’s Plan, Unfortunate Senior Envoy [2 more for subscription]_2

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Additionally, “Dragon Blood Grass”, “Dragon Blood Stones”, “Dragon Blood Fruit”, and other spiritual objects are mostly formed in this way.

In the Cultivation World, there was once someone who found a Flood Dragon’s nest that had been inhabited for hundreds of years, and took advantage of the Flood Dragon’s absence to plunder the entire nest.

As a result, just the various spiritual objects brought out from that nest were worth more than killing any other two fourth-tier Demon Beasts.

This is why the value of a Flood Dragon nest is so well known.

However, the Flood Dragon nest near Flying Horse Mountain had only been recently constructed, and both Flood Dragons were below fourth tier; even if there were some Dragon Blood Spirit Items inside, their quality was expected to be low.

Otherwise, other Purple Mansion Phase Cultivators would have certainly taken action themselves.

Yet, even so, the great reputation of a Flood Dragon nest was enough to attract some Foundation Establishment Cultivators willing to work as laborers to excavate it.

Zhou Chun did indeed want a share of the loot, but alas, he truly lacked the strength.

All he could do now was to sigh and shake his head, preparing to descend the mountain and return to Lanzhou on his own.

Although this trip to Yunzhou did not yield Dragon Blood Spirit Items as he had hoped,

he had witnessed the divine skills of a real Flood Dragon, the methods of a Purple Mansion Phase Cultivator, and seen the unique and sinister secret techniques of the Dragon Transformation Sect, broadening his horizons significantly.

Furthermore, although he had not obtained any Dragon Blood Spirit Items for the time being, that did not mean he wouldn’t have a chance to obtain them later.

Whether the Green Lotus Temple Cultivator slew the Flood Dragon or if Clan Leader Zhou Daoyi truly “stole the chicken successfully”, he should have a way to obtain some Dragon Blood Spirit Items.

It was precisely because he still held this expectation that Zhou Chun wasn’t particularly averse to leaving Yunzhou to return to his family.

He had been away for quite some time, after all, and it was time to go back.

But not long after Zhou Chun started down the mountain, he was stopped by someone.

“Remove your hat immediately for inspection, or you will be treated like the remnants of the Dragon Transformation Sect without exception!”

In the forest, a Foundation Establishment Cultivator from the Green Lotus Temple was floating in mid-air, intercepting Zhou Chun and coldly gazing at him to undergo inspection.

At this moment, he was still wearing the hat given to him by Clan Leader Zhou Daoyi, so it’s no wonder his attire would arouse suspicion.

Zhou Chun also didn’t expect the Green Lotus Temple to act so swiftly and start searching for the remnants of the Dragon Transformation Sect already.

Being watched by a Foundation Establishment Cultivator, he was also quite nervous.

He hurriedly removed the hat from his head, revealing his true face and said, “Senior, please see clearly, I am a cultivator from the Spirit Beast Zhou Family in Lanzhou, not some remnant of the Dragon Transformation Sect.”

Seeing his age at around thirty and his Qi Refinement Realm tenth level cultivation, the Foundation Establishment Cultivator knew he must have stopped the wrong person.

But since he had already intercepted him, he had to continue asking, “Since you’re a cultivator from Lanzhou, why come to Yunzhou to join the commotion? Where are your elders?”

The question was indeed far-fetched, and Zhou Chun found it rather absurd.

But he had to answer it.

He could only respectfully reply, “My family specializes in the Beast Taming Technique, and we have elders who have tamed Demon Beasts with the Flood Dragon Bloodline. Therefore, upon hearing the news, I came to see if I could purchase some Dragon Blood Spirit Items for the elders.”

“Is that so?”

The Foundation Establishment Cultivator glanced at the Spirit Beast Pouch hanging from Zhou Chun’s waist and seemed to believe his words.

He quickly waved his hand and said, “In that case, you may leave.”

“Thank you, senior!”

Zhou Chun expressed his thanks and dared not put his hat back on, instead travelling with his true face from then on.

Since the Green Lotus Temple had already started the search for remnants of the Dragon Transformation Sect, the ones who should be panicked were those remnants, and he assumed they wouldn’t have the time to bother him anymore.

And before Zhou Chun left the domain of Flying Horse Mountain, he saw several cases of Dragon Transformation Sect members being discovered and killed.

It looked like the entire marketplace of Yunzhou’s Cultivation World, as well as various families and loose cultivator organizations, would soon be checking the cultivators who had entered them for cultivation.

With this, after leaving Flying Horse Mountain, Zhou Chun identified the direction and began to travel using his Flying Artifact.

Knowing that Yunzhou had become a place of trouble, he naturally wanted to leave as soon as possible.

However, having flown less than three hundred miles, he saw frequent strange sounds and flashes of spiritual light behind him in the sky—there were people engaging in spell battles and pursuits amidst the clouds.

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He had never encountered such a situation before and quickly descended to the ground to urgently seek shelter.

Once on the ground, Zhou Chun became curious about the identities of those fighting in the sky, so he hurriedly cast a spell to enhance his vision and looked towards the heavens.

High above the clouds, a daoist in green robes and a woman in a white dress were jointly attacking a black-clothed elder.

All three of them should be in the Foundation Establishment Stage.

“They are from the Green Lotus Temple’s cultivators in the Foundation Establishment Stage.”

As soon as Zhou Chun saw the familiar attire of the daoist in green robes, he immediately recognized the other’s background.

Then his mind raced, and he suddenly had some clarity about the identities of both parties.

If he wasn’t mistaken, the black-clothed elder was likely someone from the Dragon Transformation Sect.

According to the hierarchical structure of the Dragon Transformation Sect, Qi Refinement Realm cultivators are ordinary sect members, Foundation Establishment Stage cultivators are evangelists, Purple Mansion Phase cultivators are the sect’s protectors, Golden Core Stage cultivators are the sect’s elders, and Nascent Soul Stage cultivators are the sect leader or vice sect leader.

Since the black-clothed elder had reached the Foundation Establishment Stage, he would be an evangelist within the Dragon Transformation Sect.

As it appeared, the black-clothed elder was quite unlucky, having his true identity exposed and subsequently chased all the way here.

At this moment, the Green Lotus Temple daoist and the white-dressed woman had completely entangled the black-clothed elder, making it difficult for him to even think of escape.

After watching the three of them battle for about fifteen minutes, Zhou Chun saw that the black-clothed elder began to show signs of flagging, struggling to defend against the increasingly powerful attacks of the two opponents.

Then he witnessed the execution of the Dragon Transformation Secret Technique once again.

With the cultivation level and status of the black-clothed elder, the Secret of Dragon Transformation he practiced should have reached the second layer.

After using the secret technique, a layer of black dragon scales began to emerge on the surface of his body, underneath his clothing.

However, compared to the lifelike dragon scales on the protectors of the Dragon Transformation Sect he had seen previously, the black dragon scales on the black-clothed elder seemed somewhat illusory, as if they were merely a magical effect rather than tangible, textured objects.

Even so, the defensive strength provided by this layer of black dragon scales was equivalent to him wearing a second-tier inner armor artefact.

Additionally, the secret technique’s enhancement to his hands effectively gave him a pair of second-tier claw artefacts that didn’t require any extra expenditure of mana.

Thus, after executing the secret technique, the black-clothed elder’s battle style changed swiftly.

He continued to wield the Dragon Head Cane artefact and black Scaled Shield artefact he had been using before to defend against and block his opponents’ magical weapon attacks, but now his claws danced, tearing through spells cast by his adversaries with sharp blades of air, even pouncing toward their bodies like a Demon Beast.

The two opponents, faced with this change, were not flustered.

The Green Lotus Temple daoist quickly formed a seal with his hands, and a mass of green luminescence swiftly flew towards the charging black-clothed elder, transforming into a giant green lotus that trapped the elder within.

Soon after, the woman in the white dress also formed a seal, exhaling frost from her palm. She quickly conjured a White Ice Dragon that was several meters long in front of her body.

Then, pointing at the black-clothed elder, the Ice Dragon made of extreme coldness swished its tail and lunged towards him with teeth and claws bared.

The poor black-clothed elder had just clawed his way out of the trapping green lotus when the White Ice Dragon slammed into him!

The White Ice Dragon, being formed of extreme coldness, struck the black-clothed elder and instantly turned him into a massive block of solid white ice, plummeting him fiercely toward the ground.

At that time, the three were fighting thousands of feet in the air; if they allowed the block of ice to hit the ground, the black-clothed elder would undoubtedly not survive.

This was also crystal clear in the heart of the black-clothed elder himself.

So, during the time the block of white ice was falling, he used the self-harming method from the Dragon Transformation Secret Technique, in combination with another secret technique he had cultivated, to forcibly break the ice apart.

A loud “boom” resonated in the sky, followed by a shower of ice shards dancing in the air, plummeting down like a hailstorm.

The black-clothed elder, having freed himself from the ice, didn’t even bother to retrieve his two artefacts, and covered in blood, darted towards a small river miles away.

“Not good, he’s trying to escape through the water, stop him quick!”

The Green Lotus Temple daoist in the sky’s complexion changed, instantly realizing the black-clothed elder’s intention.

However, when they saw the black-clothed elder falling just a moment ago, he and the woman in white had both somewhat relaxed, thinking that the elder was as good as dead.

Now, in a rush, trying to stop a determined black-clothed elder from escaping was easier said than done.

The black-clothed elder, halfway to the river, endured several hastily cast early-stage spells from the two, and then plunged headfirst into the water.