Chapter 126: Valley of the Sleeping Dragon
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Xu Zhong slowly awoke.
He had slept wonderfully well that night.
Yet the instant he opened his eyes, every hair on his body stood on end. The Purple Jade Gourd raised a sword pellet and hurled it forward.
Before him, Yuan Yi pressed it down with one hand.
“You’re awake.”
With a casual flick of his finger, he sent the sword pellet flying. The Purple Jade Gourd spat out a streak of sword light, but in the next moment he caught it between two fingers and crushed it with a gentle squeeze.
“I saw that you were sleeping so soundly, so I didn’t have the heart to wake you.”
Xu Zhong recalled the sword pellet and the Purple Jade Gourd. Looking at Yuan Yi, who sat beside the bed, he asked, “Why are you here?”
As he spoke, he also recalled the Four Symbols Divine Banners from the four corners of the room.
“Why shouldn’t I be here?” Yuan Yi chuckled. “Your methods have improved tremendously. They are sharper and more powerful than when we met in the Thunder Ancestor’s Palace. If the you of today had been the one I encountered then, I’m afraid I would already be dead.”
If that damned Sima Nan had not used the Stellar Transposition Technique to switch their positions, you would be dead now as well.
That was what Xu Zhong thought to himself.
At the same time, he could not help remembering the Book of the Nail-Headed Seven Arrows.
By now, that treasure should be in Sima Nan’s hands.
The thought made Xu Zhong grind his teeth in hatred.
He regarded Yuan Yi warily. “You didn’t come here just to reminisce with me, did you?”
Although he knew that, so long as Yuan Yi did not violate the rules, Yuan Yi could not simply kill him, rules were merely lumps of dough for people like them to knead at will.
“Of course not.” Yuan Yi spoke softly. “I need you to do something for me. Once you’ve done it, all our past grievances will be wiped clean. You needn’t worry that I’ll harm you or set you up.”
Xu Zhong grew even more cautious. “Tell me first. Then I’ll decide whether I’m willing to do it.”
“You will.” Yuan Yi nodded, then handed him a list. “These are the outstanding young scions of the great families within Netherglow. They have all gone to Sleeping Dragon Valley. I want you to follow them and eliminate them for me.”
Xu Zhong accepted the list. It contained portraits, each rendered with lifelike precision, along with the person’s name, their strongest spells, and the weaknesses in their arts.
Every one of these qi refiners had reached at least the Riding Things realm.
But Xu Zhong was not afraid of them. He had killed cultivators of the Riding Things realm before.
“Sleeping Dragon Valley? What sort of place is that?” he asked.
“The place where Xifeng Lie’s heart fell.” Yuan Yi supplied the answer. “All of Xifeng Lie’s cultivation was contained within his heart. Great opportunities lie there, but so do great terrors. They have already gone.”
Xu Zhong did not understand. “Why seek out an outsider? As the Lord of Netherglow, you clearly have plenty of men under your command.”
“Even you know that I have people under me. Do you think they don’t know as well?” Yuan Yi shook his head. “Just as I gave you this list, they possess a list of my subordinates too.”
Their strength was practically displayed in plain sight.
This was especially true of a newcomer like Yuan Yi. He had little foundation, and his faction had been assembled from scratch.
Many of the cards in his hand had already been exposed. The few remaining ones had to be carefully protected, such as Azure Crane and Liu Song.
Those cards were the means by which he could turn defeat into victory.
That was why he needed an outsider.
And Xu Zhong was clearly that outsider.
“You choose the targets yourself.”
As Yuan Yi spoke, his body gradually became translucent. This was not his true form.
Within Netherglow, he was everywhere. Wherever light shone, he was there.
“One head is enough.” At this, he could not help smiling. “Still, I suspect you’ll kill more than one. Bring their heads to me, and from that moment on, all our grievances will be settled.”
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Xu Zhong sat atop the Purple Jade Gourd.
Sword qi streamed behind him, drawing clouds into a vast bridge that stretched across a thousand miles.
The Purple Jade Gourd flew swiftly. Jiankang City had already dwindled into a tiny island, isolated beside the Dushu River.
The countless sails moving along the Dushu River formed a ribbon of white clouds drifting across the water.
Not long after leaving Jiankang City, Xu Zhong sensed an immense aura awakening. A gaze rose from the Dushu River and settled upon the Purple Jade Gourd, then upon him.
In an instant, that gaze transformed into a violent gale, blocking the Purple Jade Gourd’s path. A breath became thunder, appearing within the storm and hiding among the white clouds.
Xu Zhong reached out and pressed down on the gale. Then he exhaled a stream of Threefold True Fire. Clouds and thunder burned together, turning into ashes that scattered across the sky.
He, too, glanced down into the Dushu River.
Opening his mouth slightly, he stirred the hidden treasury within his body, summoned the God of the Thunder Marsh, and roared out countless bolts of lightning. They plunged downward, churning the river into towering waves.
The sailors at the helms of the ships on the Dushu River maneuvered them with ease, passing through the lightning and surging water like swords cleaving the sea, opening a channel through the waves.
“Are you still planning to hide?” Xu Zhong spoke, his voice rolling with thunder.
He halted the Purple Jade Gourd above the Dushu River. Behind him, he summoned the sword pellet, the Rattle Drum, and the Azure Lotus Lamp.
From beneath the river came the sound of metal dragging across the riverbed, each scrape as loud as thunder.
A colossal shadow appeared below the surface. A pair of blood-red pupils stared fixedly at Xu Zhong atop the Purple Jade Gourd.
The shadow was enormous—so enormous that even seeing a portion of it revealed nothing of its full form.
“So it’s a serpent?”
Beneath the Dushu River, a true dragon’s body was gliding through the water.
This true dragon was six hundred miles long, truly gigantic.
Then, in the next instant, it emerged from the Dushu River in the form of a dragon-headed deity. It pointed its long spear at Xu Zhong and asked, “Are you going to Sleeping Dragon Valley?”
“What of it?” Xu Zhong gave a cold laugh. “Am I not allowed to go?”
“You are not!”
The dragon-headed deity’s gaze was fierce. Cold light flashed from its spear, casting a hundred-yard beam of divine radiance. It drew a line before Xu Zhong’s feet.
“This is the forbidden boundary marked out by my Li family. If you take even one step across it, you will die.”
The dragon-headed deity possessed formidable cultivation and had reached the Riding Things realm.
These great clans and aristocratic houses guarded the Dushu River so that other qi refiners could not cross it and compete with them for the opportunities beyond.
The Outer Scenery realm was the dividing line.
Cultivators who reached the Outer Scenery realm were almost impossible to kill completely.
Either they had to be slain in a single strike, or failing that, killing them would only invite endless trouble.
Therefore, these families targeted only qi refiners below the Outer Scenery realm.
Once Xu Zhong understood all this, he raised his hand. The Cloud-Swallowing Sword fell into his grasp.
“Then I’ll cross this boundary and see what you can do about it.”
He took one step forward.
The next moment, the long spear was already following the space between his brows, striking toward his Mud Pill Palace.
Xu Zhong opened his mouth and exhaled Threefold True Fire.
The true fire coiled and spiraled, expanding in every direction. Faintly, it seemed capable of setting even the cloud layer ablaze.
The instant the dragon-headed deity’s spear touched the Threefold True Fire, it melted into drops of silver liquid that fell into the Dushu River.
It held the spear. Its cultivation was clearly superior to Xu Zhong’s, yet at that moment it could not advance even an inch.
Then it opened its mouth and inhaled. The spiritual energy within six hundred miles was sucked dry. Its cheeks swelled, its whiskers writhed, and yin and yang were divided.
Whoosh—
It opened its mouth and exhaled. Wind roared, driving thunder before it.
In an instant, a Six-Line Astral Gale swept forth.
The Six-Line Astral Gale was unpredictable and tremendously powerful. It rolled up the Threefold True Fire Xu Zhong had breathed out, then drifted and twisted until it scattered the flames into the distant heavens.
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Seeing this, Xu Zhong reached forward and pressed down.
“Behold my Thunder Seal!”
The yin and yang hidden treasuries within his body surged with divine thunder. The Golden Elixir linked them together, and countless bolts of lightning erupted from his palm, condensing into a sea of thunderclouds.
In an instant, endless thunderclouds descended, carrying a terrifying force capable of destroying heaven and earth.
The dragon-headed deity sneered. “Nothing but the light of a firefly.”
Behind the dragon-headed deity’s head, a vast and magnificent sun suddenly rose. Terrifying fluctuations transformed into concentric halos, within which countless spell imprints flickered with dazzling spiritual light.
Borrowing the power of this sun, it suppressed Xu Zhong’s Thunder Seal.
A cold gleam flashed through Xu Zhong’s eyes. He had not expected his Thunder Seal to be broken so effortlessly.
He then pointed downward.
The sword pellet transformed into seven hundred and twenty flying swords, forming a sword formation.
Within the sword formation, a gigantic divine sword took shape.
The divine sword struck the dragon-headed deity.
It blocked three swords, but the next two drove straight through and surged into its body.
In the following instant, the dragon-headed deity’s head exploded. Its body toppled toward the great river.
Yet as it fell, its shattered flesh mingled and reassembled into a new head.
Although a qi refiner in the Riding Things realm could not resurrect as an Outer Scenery cultivator could, the vitality within its body was still immense. So long as its Mud Pill Palace and Wood Luminary hidden treasury remained intact, the Wood Luminary hidden treasury could restore its life.
After the sword formation came Xu Zhong’s other magical treasures.
The Rattle Drum trembled, causing the deity’s body to stiffen. Then came a second strike, followed by a third.
Its soul was blasted directly from its body.
The Azure Lotus Lamp released a rain of flowers that filled the heavens, transforming into golden-and-silver Dragon-Cutting Scissors. They snipped through both its soul and its flesh.
Its soul was severed into three souls and seven spirits, while its body was churned into a heap of sludge.
Threefold True Fire descended. Both soul and flesh were completely consumed by the flames, and even the ashes were scattered to the winds.
It was dead beyond any possibility of death.
Xu Zhong sat atop the Purple Jade Gourd and murmured softly, “The Li family… If I remember correctly, the list included a prodigy named Li Yuanhua, who is also in the Riding Things realm.”
The Li family’s cultivation art was called the Scripture of Divine Prison Suppressing Demons.
It treated the fleshly hidden treasury and the acupoints throughout the body as a prison, endlessly absorbing spiritual energy from heaven and earth and locking it firmly within the physical body.
Xu Zhong reviewed the information on Li Yuanhua and pondered it carefully for a moment.
“He may be worth targeting.”
The Li family was not the only one to plant watchers in the Dushu River. Other great families had also stationed qi refiners there to intercept intruders.
But after witnessing the fate of the dragon-headed deity, they did not dare to obstruct Xu Zhong. They could only let him pass.
“You’re certain you won’t stop me?” Xu Zhong sat atop the Purple Jade Gourd and taunted them from above. “I’m on my way to Sleeping Dragon Valley to kill your young masters and young ladies. This is your chance to stop me. Once this opportunity is gone, it will never come again.”
No one answered him.
Xu Zhong therefore continued forward without hesitation.
He traveled until he drew near Sleeping Dragon Valley.
There, the power of blood and qi surged with overwhelming force. From afar, crimson vitality twisted through heaven and earth like a roiling sea of scarlet flame.
The blood and qi within Xu Zhong’s body were stirred as well, igniting with fiery radiance.
He suppressed the turmoil within himself.
Then, unable to restrain himself any longer, he flew forward.
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Chapter 126: Sleeping Dragon Valley — Read Free
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