Chapter 455: Chapter 440: Dragon Blood Acquired!
The Tier Four High-Grade "Unihorned Thunder Eel" was definitely no match for Li Yuan, who had Fifth-Layer Golden Core Cultivation, even though it had just swallowed more than half of the Dragon Luring Pill from Zhouyang’s hand.
Under the attack of the black sharp cone Magical Artifact of Li Yuan, the "Unihorned Thunder Eel" could only withstand less than five moves before its head was pierced and it died beyond doubt.
However, just as Li Yuan was distracted by killing the "Unihorned Thunder Eel", the Ink Flood Dragon trapped by the "Five Elements Trapping Dragon Array" launched a desperate counterattack.
We saw the Ink Flood Dragon in the array open its mouth and spit out its demon pill, cultivated over many years, aiming at Li Yuan’s Lifebound Spiritual Artifact, the Golden Cauldron, pressing it, hitting it directly, causing the cauldron to buzz and fly out of the array.
Then the black light on the Jiao Dragon’s unihorn at the top of its head flashed, and it raised its head to fiercely ram the protective shield of the array.
Bang!
With a loud explosion, the "Five Elements Trapping Dragon Array" that trapped the Ink Flood Dragon was instantly broken.
No longer blocked by the array, the Ink Flood Dragon roared angrily, soaring directly up into the clouds.
It is said, dragons rise with clouds, and tigers ride the wind.
Although the Flood Dragon is not a True Dragon, it has inherited some of the True Dragon’s abilities to manipulate weather phenomena.
As soon as the Ink Flood Dragon flew into the clouds, the rain clouds formed by the abundant moisture above the Long River were instantly attracted by it, resulting in pouring rain.
In this pouring rain, the wounds on the Ink Flood Dragon inflicted by Li Yun visibly healed and recovered rapidly.
This is why the Jiao Dragon Race is known as the "King of Demon Beasts".
As long as they are in water, all kinds of Flood Dragons can absorb the essence of water rapidly to recover from injuries, so human cultivators often try to lure the Flood Dragon out of the water before attacking.
"Ah! Vile brat, damn you! You have wronged me!"
In the sky, Li Yuan, seeing the Flood Dragon he had finally trapped and wounded, suddenly break free and fully recover, was so angry that he almost exploded, almost spitting blood.
At this moment, Zhao Hao, who had been ready for a long time, suddenly launched a sword from the west, dramatically emerging from the clouds, shouting righteously, "Hey! Evil beast, cease your arrogance, behold my sword!"
Before his voice fell, a cyan Sword Light pierced the sky, swiftly shot into the dark clouds, like slicing the sky cloud, dispelling the clouds, striking heavily at the Ink Flood Dragon’s neck.
The neck is the weak spot and reverse scale of the Ink Flood Dragon. If injured here, it doesn’t recover as easily as other parts.
Zhao Hao’s sword cut through the Ink Flood Dragon’s neck, leaving a deep, bone-visible terrifying sword mark, and the crimson Flood Dragon Spirit Blood gushed down like a waterfall, staining half of the sky red.
"What a treasure!"
Also waiting for a long time, Zhouyang hastily took the opportunity to retrieve the Flood Dragon Spirit Blood with his Jade Bottle Spiritual Artifact that could hold large amounts of liquid.
Seeing their well-coordinated actions, Li Yuan and his several Purple Mansion Stage disciples were all furious, eyes almost popping out of their sockets.
"Kill! Even if we let the Flood Dragon escape today, we must not let these two scoundrels succeed!"
A shout full of killing intent came from Li Yuan’s mouth, he personally controlled his Magical Artifact and attacked Zhao Hao, to stop him from continuing to slash the severely wounded Ink Flood Dragon.
And seeing this, his several Purple Mansion Stage disciples also followed, surrounding Zhouyang, to capture him.
"Li Yuan, do not act rashly!"
"The Flood Dragon is already severely wounded by me, if you and I join forces to kill this creature, Zhao will only take the demon pill, all other things can belong to you!"
Seeing Li Yuan directly attacking him despite the situation, Zhao Hao’s expression changed, hurriedly shouting to stop him, and even willing to give up all rights to the Ink Flood Dragon’s corpse after slaying it.
However, Li Yuan was already furious and couldn’t listen to these words.
In Li Yuan’s heart, if it weren’t for Zhao Hao’s disruption, the entire Ink Flood Dragon would be his from start to finish, with no part for Zhao Hao.
Moreover, the most precious treasure on the Flood Dragon was its core, essential for refining special spirit pills like the Dragon Transformation Pill, and it was Li Yuan’s main purpose for slaying the Flood Dragon this time.
Zhao Hao did not know that Li Yuan himself was raising a Tier Four High-Grade Demon Beast, the "Silver-Scaled Thunder Python", possessing Jiao Dragon bloodline, and needed the Ink Flood Dragon’s core for refining a batch of Dragon Transformation Pills to help his "Silver-Scaled Thunder Python" pass the Celestial Thunder Tribulation and evolve into a real Flood Dragon.
Under such circumstances, how could he accept Zhao Hao’s demands and hand over the crucial core?
In his view, letting the Ink Flood Dragon escape was better than Zhao Hao slaying it and taking the core.
Anyway, even if the Ink Flood Dragon escaped, it would still reside in this water region within the Great Yun Country, and he would have another chance to hunt it down with more effort.
If Zhao Hao killed it and took the core, where could he find another just right Fifth-Level Flood Dragon to hunt?
Thus, he paid no attention to Zhao Hao’s words of alliance, only shouting angrily, "Less nonsense, let me see your Cyan Origin Sword Sect’s Divine Techniques and see if they are as powerful as the rumors say!"
After saying so, he urged his Lifebound Spiritual Artifact, the Golden Cauldron, to unleash a magnificent golden light sweeping towards Zhao Hao.
"Madman, you damned madman!"
Zhao Hao also became both angry and anxious, furiously jumping and cursing.
In desperation, he had to summon a cyan staff artifact to release a sky full of staff shadows toward that golden haze, temporarily holding off Li Yuan’s attack, while secretly using his lifebound flying sword to activate the sect’s secret Sword Control Divine Techniques, intensifying his offensive against the Ink Flood Dragon.
He saw his cyan flying sword suddenly bursting with sword qi, instantly transforming into a sword qi dragon which entangled with the Ink Flood Dragon, scraping off most of its dragon scales in a moment, causing a blood rain to fall directly from the sky.
Zhouyang, who originally had the intention to retreat, couldn’t move anymore upon witnessing this.
He cultivates the "Azure Dragon Body Refining Technique," which consumes a large amount of Flood Dragon Spirit Blood. Although he had collected some earlier, it was definitely not enough to progress the "Azure Dragon Body Refining Technique" to the second layer.
If he could collect all the Flood Dragon Spirit Blood scattered in the sky, he would have an eighty percent chance of cultivating the "Azure Dragon Body Refining Technique" to the second layer at once.
"Let’s go for it!"
A flash of determination appeared in his eyes; Zhouyang glanced at the Celestial Cauldron Sect cultivators attacking him with their magical artifacts and directly waved his hand, taking out a Tier Four Lower-Grade Spirit Talisman he crafted and activated it toward those people.
He didn’t need to defeat them, just delay a bit to collect the Flood Dragon Spirit Blood.
So after activating the spirit talisman, he simultaneously released the "Spirit Turtle Shield" to protect himself while fully employing the jade bottle artifact in his hand to collect the blood rain.
"Such a rampant kid!"
"Kill him!"
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Several Purple Mansion cultivators from Celestial Cauldron Sect were instantly enraged by Zhouyang’s dismissive attitude, launching a full-on assault with murderous intent.
Among them, although there wasn’t a Ninth-Layer Purple Mansion cultivator, there was an Eighth-Layer cultivator and two Seventh-Layer cultivators; moreover, all from the same sect, deeply familiar with each other’s techniques. With the cooperation of the five, they could still contend with an ordinary Early-Stage Golden Core cultivator.
Under their full attack, Zhouyang couldn’t defend with just the "Spirit Turtle Shield," quickly breaking his defenses, forcing him to pause his collection of Flood Dragon Spirit Blood, deploying the flying sword and Thousand Blade Disc and other artifacts to fight back.
But in the situation against five opponents, unable to use the lethal "Qianyang True Flame" divine technique, Zhouyang, despite having a large number of spirit talismans as support, was utterly without a chance of victory.
"It’s you guys forcing me!"
Seeing the massive amount of Flood Dragon Spirit Blood wasted on the ground, Zhouyang was livid.
With a fierce look in his eyes, he secretly used the "Godslaying Needle" secret technique to launch a divine sense attack at a Fifth-Layer Purple Mansion cultivator.
Given his current divine sense, which far surpassed that of a Ninth-Layer Purple Mansion cultivator, how could a mere Fifth-Layer cultivator withstand his divine sense attack?
Struck by the "Godslaying Needle," that person immediately let out a scream, clutching his head with both hands and plummeting from his flying sword toward the ground.
"Fourth Junior Brother!"
A cry of alarm sounded, and the Purple Mansion cultivator with the same Eighth-Layer cultivation as Zhouyang immediately stopped attacking him, hastily releasing a sword light to enwrap and pull the fallen junior brother beside him to protect him, fearing Zhouyang might follow up with another strike.
But he was overthinking it; although Zhouyang resented them for disrupting his collection of Flood Dragon Spirit Blood, he didn’t actually want to offend the Celestial Cauldron Sect to the death.
So while rescuing, Zhouyang had secretly prepared the "Qianyang Divine Thunder," waving his hand to unleash a golden divine thunder at another Sixth-Layer Purple Mansion cultivator, frightening that person into hastily mobilizing all his defensive artifacts to defend.
Now those able to attack him were only two left.
Facing the attacks from the remaining two, Zhouyang took some risks. Besides using the "Qianyang Golden Body" divine technique to enhance his physical defense, he only activated the defensive divine technique "Celestial Spirit Shield" attached to the "Celestial Silkworm Treasure Robe," enduring their attacks while continuing to gather the Flood Dragon Spirit Blood.
Clang clang clang!
A series of metallic clashing sounds rang from Zhouyang’s body; it was the sound made by the enemy’s flying swords breaking through the defensive light shield attached to the "Celestial Silkworm Treasure Robe" and striking his body.
"Qianyang Golden Body" together with the powerful physical body he possessed after practicing the "Azure Dragon Body Refining Technique," had truly resisted the flying sword attacks from peers!
The sharp flying swords, after slicing through the "Celestial Silkworm Treasure Robe" layer, left only a white streak on his body before being bounced off, unable to harm him in the slightest.
"How could it be possible!"
"How can his physical body be so strong!"
"Could it be he’s actually a rare high-tier body cultivator?"
The results of the flying sword attacks greatly shocked the Purple Mansion cultivators from Celestial Cauldron Sect, even making them forget to continue the assault.
None of them had expected Zhouyang’s physical defense to reach such a freakish level, where even the flying swords of peers couldn’t inflict harm!
This was something even many demon beasts couldn’t achieve!
And just when they were shocked and distracted, forgetting to continue their attack, Zhouyang, having gathered enough Flood Dragon Spirit Blood, unexpectedly burst out laughing: "Hahaha, many thanks to the friends from Celestial Cauldron Sect for your help; we’ll meet again if fate allows, Zhouyang will surely repay you for today’s kindness!"
As the laughter faded, a golden light flashed on Zhouyang’s body. He directly activated the "Rainbow Light Gold Escape" divine technique, transforming into a golden rainbow, fleeing out of the battlefield.
Looking at his departing figure, the Purple Mansion cultivators from Celestial Cauldron Sect looked at each other, but none dared to mention pursuit!
Clearly, Zhouyang’s display of resisting the flying sword with his physical body had totally intimidated these Celestial Cauldron Sect cultivators, causing them to completely lose the courage to continue fighting with him.