Chapter 0078: Six Years
Silver Moon Howling Wolf weakly opened its eyes and raised its head, seeing the human figure under the silver moon in the sky. Fear was evident in its gaze.
What kind of combat technique was that just now!
Thinking back to those terrifying sound waves that sounded like thousands of dragons roaring at once, it felt its soul tremble. It had heard of a near-divine-level forbidden curse called “Dragon Shock,” used when more than a dozen dragon elders joined forces—its power could also cause earth and sky to shake, but it probably wasn’t this terrifying.
As Howling Wolf was filled with doubt, the Yellow Dragon’s brow flashed, and he trapped Silver Moon Howling Wolf beneath the rocks inside the Great Yan Divine Thunder Array of the Immortal Pavilion.
After putting Silver Moon Howling Wolf away, the Yellow Dragon and his group headed to the cold pond in the north.
The pond wasn’t large, only a few miles in circumference, but the Yellow Dragon’s divine vision allowed him to see clearly. The world at the bottom of the pond was no smaller than the territory of the Nine-Eyed Demon Tiger.
The Purple-Ringed Flying Python, like the Cave Dragon, belonged to the sub-race of dragons. But unlike the Cave Dragon’s bulky and fat body, the Purple-Ringed Flying Python had a thick, slender body. When its head was raised above the pond’s surface, it could reach over ten zhang high. Its body was purplish-blue, somewhat resembling a dragon, with wings on its back and two short, sturdy claws beneath its belly.
Unlike Silver Moon Howling Wolf’s aloofness, this Purple-Ringed Flying Python appeared cautious and wary. When it saw the Yellow Dragon and his group approaching aggressively, it dived deep into the bottom of the pond.
The Yellow Dragon stood above the pond and said to the Nine-Eyed Demon Tiger with a faint smile, “This flying python is much less brave than you.”
Hearing this, the Nine-Eyed Demon Tiger chuckled foolishly, feeling ashamed of his reckless behavior a month earlier when he had foolishly gone to his master’s immortal estate and roared.
“Since you’ve hidden at the bottom of the pond, I’ll make you come out.” The Yellow Dragon stood in midair, pressed his palms downward, and the pond gradually froze over inch by inch.
It wasn’t just the surface that froze; even the bottom was frozen as well.
Tianqing Python Ox and the others, standing hundreds of meters above the pond, could also feel the intense cold radiating from it.
As the pond froze, suddenly, an angry roar came from the bottom. It seemed the Purple-Ringed Flying Python could no longer bear it and decided to emerge.
Pop! The ice on the pond’s surface shattered, and the Purple-Ringed Flying Python shot up from the water, spreading its wings as it flew high into the sky, glaring angrily at the Yellow Dragon and his group.
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More than an hour later, the Purple-Ringed Flying Python, just like Silver Moon Howling Wolf, was suppressed by the Yellow Dragon and trapped inside the Great Yan Divine Thunder Array of the Immortal Pavilion. After capturing it, the Yellow Dragon then headed to the swampland in the west.
Unlike the territory of the Nine-Eyed Demon Tiger and the others, the swampland was filled with a suffocating stench.
Even from several miles away, the Yellow Dragon and his group could smell the nauseating odor carried by the wind.
“It stinks!” Feeling the foul odor pouring in from the ox’s nostrils, the Sky Blue Python Ox tightened its massive nostrils. When the Yellow Dragon forced the Nine-Headed Serpent out of the depths of the swamp, a monstrously ugly magical beast with nine heads and pitted skin, as if it had just crawled out of a dung pit, appeared before everyone. The Nine-Headed Serpent was actually rather pitiful; it wasn’t its fault for being ugly—the problem was that people had aesthetic standards, and its appearance made the Yellow Dragon lose interest in taming it, so it simply killed it on the spot. After the divine thunderstorms of Gui Water, Bing Fire, Yi Wood, Wu Earth, and Geng Metal swept across the area within several miles of the swamp, the Nine-Headed Serpent lay there, barely alive. Then, with a gesture of his finger, the Yellow Dragon used the Xuanqing Great Freedom Sword Qi to end its life. Finally, the Yellow Dragon stored the Nine-Headed Serpent’s corpse in the Five Prison Divine Cauldron. Although the Nine-Headed Serpent was ugly, it was indeed a sacred realm magical beast. For the people of the Hengyuan Continent, its entire body was full of treasures. Even more valuable were the nine magical beast cores in its nine heads, which added many materials to the Yellow Dragon’s crafting inventory. As for the Five Elements Flags, the Yellow Dragon had only crafted the Eastern Blue Lotus Treasure Flag so far; he planned to collect materials during this expedition to complete the other four flags. With the five flags for protection, even the strongest warriors from the sacred realm would find it difficult to break through the Yellow Dragon’s defenses. After killing the Nine-Headed Serpent, the Yellow Dragon didn’t search for other magical beasts but returned to the Magu Immortal Mansion to continue cultivating. Over these two months, the Yellow Dragon’s original spirit had been tempered by divine thunder and was gradually transforming into yang energy. Sitting in the immortal mansion, the Yellow Dragon’s original spirit and its physical body floated in mid-air, surrounded by lightning. More than two months ago, when the Yellow Dragon practiced the “Xuanqing Divine Thunder Body Tempering Technique,” it could only slowly draw in the lightning from heaven and earth—very faintly. But two months later, the lightning surrounding its original spirit had grown to the size of a little finger. With the crackling of lightning, from afar, the Yellow Dragon’s original spirit appeared to be enveloped in lightning, as if the Thunder God had emerged. In this way, the Yellow Dragon continued to cultivate in the Magical Beast Mountains while finding sacred realm magical beasts to train with. After dealing with some sacred realm magical beasts around the territory of the Nine-Eyed Demon Tiger, it began to expand further. The Magical Beast Mountains were vast, much larger than even the largest Orc Empire. Although there were fewer sacred realm magical beasts than human sacred realm warriors, in the central and peripheral areas of these mountains, there were already thirty or forty low-level sacred realm magical beasts. Yet the Yellow Dragon didn’t capture or kill all of them.
After all, these sacred realm magical beasts are not easy to raise. If they were all tamed or killed by the Yellow Dragon, there would likely be a long gap in the presence of low-level magical beasts in the Magical Beast Mountains for a long time. Moreover, these are just external factors; what’s most important for the Yellow Dragon now is to enhance its own strength. Once it reaches the Tribulation Phase in this realm of the Eternal Yuan Continent, it will be able to control everything at will. Therefore, after taming the Nine-Eyed Demon Tiger, the Silver Moon Howling Wolf, and the Purple-Ringed Flying Python, the Yellow Dragon would only occasionally emerge from seclusion to take everyone out for a stroll. Two years later, the Yellow Dragon reached the middle stage of Soul Departure and began to venture deeper into the core area of the Magical Beast Mountains. Flowers bloomed and withered, winters passed, snow melted, and spring arrived. Year after year. Six years had passed. The Yellow Dragon had been in the Magical Beast Mountains for six years. In those six years, it had grown from a young boy into a distinguished young man with a tall stature, star-like eyes, long hair flowing over its shoulders, exuding an air of confidence, ease, and grace. During these six years, in addition to the three sacred realm magical beasts—the Nine-Eyed Demon Tiger, the Silver Moon Howling Wolf, and the Purple-Ringed Flying Python—the Yellow Dragon also tamed four more sacred realm magical beasts: the Earth Bear, the Thunderflame Fire Lion, the Golden-Winged Sky Roc, and the Nine-Color Phoenix. After six years, the Yellow Dragon had reached the later stage of Soul Departure, close to achieving mastery in this state. Now, when its soul practiced the “Mystical Clear Thunder Body Tempering Technique,” it was no longer surrounded by lightning but by columns of lightning—purple columns resembling arms. As the Yellow Dragon’s physical body absorbed this energy, purple lightning could also be seen emanating from its pores. High above in the Magu Immortal Mansion, thunderclouds flickered. Within these clusters of thunderclouds, the Yellow Dragon’s faint physical form and soul could be discerned.