Cultivation Begins From The Desert-Chapter 675 - 659: Double Kill! [Please Subscribe]

The upper-grade spirit stones are filled with abundant spiritual power and of high quality. If they were solely for the use of Golden Core Stage Cultivators, one upper-grade spirit stone would be enough to fully restore the magical power of an early-stage Golden Core Cultivator with some to spare.

However, for Nascent Soul Stage Cultivators, the spiritual power contained within upper-grade spirit stones is somewhat insufficient.

Zhouyang held two upper-grade spirit stones in his hand, and within less than half a quarter of an hour, seven-tenths of their spiritual power had been consumed, but the magical power replenished to Zhouyang was less than one-tenth of his total magical power.

Meanwhile, during this period, Dragon Star River was still unable to break free from the binding of the Vermilion Bird Firebird and continued to be trapped within the Law Fire Net, unable to escape.

After such prolonged burning, Dragon Star River's nine-zhang-long dragon body was already covered in scorch marks, having suffered severe burn injuries.

Turning his gaze, Zhouyang involuntarily looked towards Li Fufeng.

Li Fufeng was still continuously casting spells, controlling the sixteen cyan banners to gather the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi. Over time, after absorbing an extensive amount of Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi, the banners had more golden script on their surfaces, even manifesting lines of silver lightning, radiating a three-colored gold, cyan, and silver halo, indicating their extraordinary nature.

"Roar! Zhouyang, even if I die and my soul is extinguished today, I will surely make you disappear forever!"

Seeing the changes on the sixteen cyan banners, Dragon Star River seemed to sense something, and a trace of madness appeared in his eyes.

His eyes crazily glared at Zhouyang with a roar of fury, suddenly his flesh appeared to be drained of its essence, rapidly shriveling.

At the same time, his aura surged once more, forcefully repelling the Law Fire Net that had constricted his skin and flesh!

This is bad!

Zhouyang's expression changed, quickly channeling his barely recovered magical power into the Vermilion Bird Firebird.

But for the Vermilion Bird Firebird, this bit of magical power was a mere drop in the bucket and had no significant effect.

The five-clawed True Dragon, originally restrained by the Law Fire Net, fiercely tore it apart, and the net, already at its limit, shattered into countless tiny flashes of fire right then and there.

With the Law Fire Net's constraint gone, the five-clawed True Dragon paid no further attention to the drastically weakened Vermilion Bird Firebird, and directly charged towards Zhouyang.

"Fellow Daoist Li!"

Zhouyang, with a drastic change in expression, looked towards Li Fufeng, who was now his only hope.

"Halt, arrogant demon dragon, behold how this humble Daoist will slay it!"

With an exclamation, Li Fufeng formed a Dharma Seal with his hands, and the sixteen cyan banners immediately responded, releasing three-colored lightning bolts aimed at the five-clawed True Dragon.

The sixteen cyan banners had absorbed a great deal of Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi, towering over ten feet high, but the released three-colored lightning was only as thick as a baby's arm, seemingly unimpressive.

Yet, upon being struck by these three-colored lightning bolts, the five-clawed True Dragon's body suddenly exploded with gaping wounds, its body enduring unprecedented severe injuries in an instant.

"Ahhh, damned Taoist, I will kill you, I will kill you!"

Dragon Star River roared repeatedly, his hatred for Li Fufeng soared to its peak.

Facing his turmoil, Li Fufeng merely chuckled, "Hehe, I've lived for over two thousand two hundred years. The number of those who've wanted to kill me is countless; you probably wouldn't even rank in the top ten!"

As his laughter faded, with a swift seal, sixteen more three-colored lightning bolts sprang forth from the sixteen cyan banners, repeatedly striking the five-clawed True Dragon, sending its already tattered body flying with blood scales, looking utterly miserable.

"Damn, despicable Taoist, I will eat you alive, I will tear you to pieces!"

Dragon Star River was completely frantic, seemingly losing his sanity, staring with bloodshot eyes at Li Fufeng, screaming crazily trying to rush forward and tear him apart.

But what greeted him was yet another merciless assault of sixteen three-colored lightning bolts.

After releasing this third round of lightning, the stored power within the sixteen cyan banners was completely depleted, swiftly transforming back into sixteen small banners of about a foot in length, along with the array plate, returning to Li Fufeng's hands.

In a short span, having endured fortyeight strokes of three-colored lightning, the five-clawed True Dragon was skinned alive, unable to reveal a patch of unmarred flesh anywhere, its aura dwindling to an extreme.

Despite this, its tone remained unyielding, and upon seeing the banners return to Li Fufeng, it couldn't help but laugh, "Haha, damned Taoist, you've run out of tricks, just watch how I will feast on you and shred you to pieces to quench my hatred!"

Upon hearing this, Li Fufeng looked at him with a hint of pity, shaking his head, "At death's door and still arguing, pathetic, lamentable, pitiable!"

"At death's door, are you referring to yourself? Watch how I..."

With a sudden flash of malice in Dragon Star River's eyes, about to state how he'd deal with Li Fufeng, a sudden sensation hit him, making him turn his head abruptly.

"No!"

A scream echoed alongside a "boom" explosion throughout the heavens.

Amidst the rising flames, a Vermilion Feather Fan returned to Zhouyang's hand.

It seemed to have exerted too much power, the feathers forming its surface now dimmed, losing their previous vibrant luster.

Zhouyang opened his mouth, taking it into his body for nurturing, intending to use it again another day.

Then his gaze fell upon the dispersing fiery light, seeing a charred dragon-shaped corpse swiftly plummeting to the ground, soon creating a large pit upon landing.

As expected, once the dragon-shaped corpse hit the ground, it quickly reverted to a charred human corpse.

The so-called "Dragon Transformation Technique" was merely a temporary conversion allowing Dragon Star River to assume the form of a True Dragon.

Once time passed, or the individual perished, the divine technique's effects naturally dissipated, reverting to a human form.

"Fellow Daoist Li, my magical power is overly drained, leaving me unable to continue fighting for a while. I hope you can help the other fellow Daoists and prevent these fanatics of the Dragon Taming Family from escaping!"

Withdrawing his gaze from the charred human corpse on the ground, Zhouyang solemnly cupped his hand towards Li Fufeng, indicating his current state.

Upon seeing this, Li Fufeng promptly agreed, "That's a good idea, Fellow Daoist Zhou, rest assured and recover your magical power. I'll go assist the other Daoists now!"

Saying so, he immediately flew towards the nearest battlefield where a cultivator from the Yuqing Daoist Sect was engaged.

At this point, due to Dragon Star River's demise, the other cultivators of the Dragon Taming Family on the battlefield were filled with grief and rage.

Dragon Star River held a very high status within the Dragon Taming Family, arguably only second to the Clan Leader Dragon Star Feather and a few others. The impact of his demise is far greater compared to the earlier losses of Dragon Taming Golden Radiance and Dragon Taming Xuan Yong.

"Die! All of you shall die! Accompany Star River in death!"

With boundless fury, Dragon Star Feather bellowed angrily, like Dragon Star River, swallowing a Golden Treasure Pearl, initiating the so-called "Dragon Transformation Technique."

Unlike Dragon Star River, with his cultivation at the Eighth-Layer Nascent Soul, he didn't need to undergo the stage of condensing a blood-colored cocoon. The length of the True Dragon he transformed into reached seventeen zhang and showed the true grace of a True Dragon, exhibiting several genuine divine techniques rather than the limited few performed by Dragon Star River.

Crash! Boom!

Lightning and thunder exploded in the sky, suddenly bringing a torrential wind and rain.

The True Dragon that Dragon Star Feather transformed into wreaked havoc in the storm, single-handedly suppressing the Nascent Soul Late-stage Cultivators: Wang Lingxiao and Master Yujing.

The golden dragon flame he spewed could melt anything below Tier Seven magical artifacts!

The golden lightning blasted from his dragon horns could rival the power of Celestial Tribulation Thunder, domineering and unmatched!

His flesh defenses were impenetrable even to Tier Six high-grade spiritual artifacts, and the sharpness of his dragon claws was comparable to a Tier Seven Immortal Artifact!

If it weren't for the fact that upon transforming into a True Dragon, Dragon Star Feather could no longer use lifebound spiritual artifacts besides the golden long spike, with his current divine techniques and means, Wang Lingxiao and Master Yujing might have fled for their lives.

Nonetheless, they and Zhouyang, observing from afar, realized why the Dragon Taming Family was untouchable in the Donghua Continent Cultivation Realm, and why even the Donghua Immortal Palace, with its two Nascent Soul Ninth-Layer "Half-Step True Immortals," treaded carefully, reluctant to become enemies.

Had they known of Dragon Star Feather's power upon performing the "Dragon Transformation Technique," Wang Lingxiao and Master Yujing likely wouldn't have agreed to Zhouyang's request.

Unfortunately, it was too late to change anything now.

The hatred from Dragon Star River's demise had already been pinned on them. At this point, any thought of retreating was nothing more than self-deception.

Dragon-Taming Star Feather would never forget this hatred because of their retreat, as if nothing had happened.

"That brat really screwed us over this time!"

Wang Lingxiao cursed inwardly and suddenly looked at Master Yujing, shouting, "Senior Brother Yujing, the demon dragon is fierce, please make a quick decision!"

He seemed to expect something from Master Yujing, hinting at his words.

Upon hearing this, Master Yujing's eye twitched slightly, letting out a long sigh, "Fine! I'll bleed a little today!"

Before the sound faded, he pinched a spell with his hands as if undoing some kind of seal, and his aura suddenly surged, instantly rising to the Ninth-Layer Nascent Soul "Half-Step True Immortal" Cultivator.

The Eighth-Layer Nascent Soul and the Ninth-Layer Nascent Soul seem only one layer apart, but they are entirely different realms.

In the Cultivation Realm, many late-stage Nascent Soul cultivators remain stuck at the Eighth-Layer Nascent Soul for life, unable to take that step forward successfully.

For instance, Dragon-Taming Star Feather has been trapped in this realm for over five hundred years and still sees no hope of breakthrough.

Many cultivators, unaware of the truth, believe that the term "Half-Step True Immortal" is merely an honorific, not realizing that it actually means what it implies, truly allowing a Ninth-Layer Nascent Soul Cultivator to possess some abilities of a Tribulation Crossing True Immortal.

For example, the Escape Technique known as "Shrinking Inches" can also be used by late-stage Nascent Soul cultivators, but absolutely not as smoothly and instinctively as a Ninth-Layer Nascent Soul "Half-Step True Immortal" Cultivator.

It seems that Master Yujing had long entered this realm but had to seal part of his cultivation for some reason, keeping his cultivation at the Eighth-Layer Nascent Soul.

At this moment, when he unsealed his cultivation, he immediately displayed far superior combat power than before.

His hands quickly formed seals, then he forcefully waved forward, a cyan wind blade resembling a moon blade sliced through the air, instantly slashing at the body of the Five-Clawed True Dragon.

Under the sweep of this cyan wind blade, the dragon scale defense that even a Tier Six High-Grade Flying Sword found hard to penetrate was directly sliced, exposing the bright red flesh inside, and dragon blood spilled across the sky.

Then, with a flash of white light on his body, he vanished from his original spot in the blink of an eye, reappearing in the sky dozens of miles away, allowing a golden bolt of lightning to strike empty space.

Following this, Master Yujing repeatedly attacked, leaving multiple hard-to-heal wounds on the body of the true dragon transformed from Dragon-Taming Star Feather using wind blades imbued with law power, finally managing to somewhat suppress the opponent's fierce might.

Meanwhile, Wang Lingxiao, while Dragon-Taming Star Feather was being restrained, infused over thirty percent of his magical power into the Red Sky Divine Spear at once, piercing through the head of Dragon-Taming Star Feather's Golden Flood Dragon Spirit Pet, nearly killing it on the spot.

After wasting Dragon-Taming Star Feather's most formidable assistant, he dared to go all out and joined Master Yujing in battling the dragon-transformed Dragon-Taming Star Feather.

"It seems the so-called Dragon Transformation Technique must have significant limitations, not something every Nascent Soul Stage cultivator of the Dragon Taming Family can perform."

"Indeed, if every Nascent Soul Stage cultivator of the Dragon Taming Family could use this Dragon Transformation Technique, I wouldn't have never heard of this divine technique in the Donghua Continent Cultivation Realm!"

From a distance, Zhouyang shifted his gaze away from Dragon-Taming Star Feather, casting his eyes upon the other three Nascent Soul cultivators of the Dragon Taming Family, muttering softly to himself.

Before his death, Dragon Star River's words had already revealed quite a bit about the Dragon Transformation Technique: its usage results in loss of lifespan and cultivation.

Lifespan and cultivation are things cultivators care about most; when the price is these two things, even if the benefits of the Dragon Transformation Technique are so apparent, the cultivators of the Dragon Taming Family would surely be very cautious about using it.

This was evident when Jiang Fengxian killed Dragon Taming Xuan Yong, and Dragon-Taming Star Feather and Dragon Star River did not use this divine technique for revenge.

This time, if it weren't for finding themselves ambushed and their fear of Zhouyang's Vermilion Bird Fan, Dragon Star River might not have so easily decided to use this divine technique.

However, there is no invincible divine technique in the world; although the Dragon Transformation Technique is powerful, its weaknesses are evident. Once used, the cultivator will not only lose the divine techniques they originally mastered but also lose much ability to master their magical artifacts, influencing their temperament and wisdom, causing a change in personality influenced by animalistic instincts.

But this weakness was not obvious with Dragon-Taming Star Feather because after performing the Dragon Transformation Technique, his strength had almost reached the limit of Tier Six, so even relying only on his physical body and the obtained True Dragon Divine Techniques could fear no enemy.

Although Master Yujing could harm him now, in reality, those injuries were merely skin-deep, not affecting his core, and it was impossible to kill him.

In contrast, Dragon Star River, whose strength was much weaker, lost his life because of these weaknesses.

The great battle continues.

After Dragon-Taming Star Feather's outburst was contained, Li Fufeng made more achievements on another battlefield, teaming up with a fellow disciple to kill a Tier Six Lower Grade White-Scaled Water Flood Dragon.

Later, the two retrieved the body of the White-Scaled Water Flood Dragon, each heading off to aid other cultivators in their battles.

With the snowball effect, the Dragon Taming Clan side was inevitably defeated, and the downfall was already set.

"Clan Leader, our operation has failed this time. Now is not the time to act on impulse. The most urgent matter is to preserve our living strength and seek revenge for the Seventh Elder and others in the future!"

The owner of the White-Scaled Water Flood Dragon looked tearfully at the corpse of his beloved pet being taken away by the enemy, and expressed his opinion loudly to Dragon-Taming Star Feather across the distance with a face full of grief and indignation.

His outspokenness also seemed to give courage to the other two, who could not help but loudly shout, "Please reconsider, Clan Leader!"

In fierce combat with Master Yujing, Dragon-Taming Star Feather felt a shock throughout his body and involuntarily glanced at other battlefields, where he saw the Dragon Taming Clan cultivators and Flood Dragons being overwhelmingly surrounded and suppressed by dominant enemies, each injured and heavily bleeding.

Upon seeing this, his heart clenched tightly, a flash of grief and anger passing through his golden dragon eyes. He was forced to make an extremely painful decision, loudly replying, "Alright, you retreat first, I will cover you!"

Once the words fell, he disregarded the two troublesome adversaries, Master Yujing and Wang Lingxiao, and whether their attacks would fall upon him, crazily rushing towards Li Fufeng and a Profound Sun Immortal Sect cultivator.

If possible, he certainly wanted to kill Zhouyang, but Zhouyang was too far away, out of reach from the various battlefields. If he ignored everything to kill Zhouyang, Master Yujing and Wang Lingxiao could easily choose to attack two nearby Nascent Soul cultivators of the Dragon Taming Clan.

At that time, even if he could kill Zhouyang, it would cost two fellow clan cultivators' lives, or even the lives of all fellow clan cultivators except himself.

The price was simply too great, unbearable for him, forcing him to choose Li Fufeng, who also participated in killing Dragon Star River, as the target of retaliation.

He really chose right!

Li Fufeng was the most promising cultivator within the Yuqing Daoist Sect to advance to the late-stage Nascent Soul, also a Tier Six Array Master. Master Yujing could not watch him encounter trouble.

And the Profound Sun Immortal Sect similarly could not afford any loss of Nascent Soul cultivators, Wang Lingxiao dared not exchange injuries with Dragon-Taming Star Feather.

The two moved in sync with Dragon-Taming Star Feather, giving their all to stop him from attacking others on their side.

Li Fufeng and that Profound Sun Immortal Sect Nascent Soul cultivator, facing the ferocious flood dragon that had crossed the river, dared not engage in battle directly, abandoning the opponent they were about to defeat, evading the enemy's sharpness and retreating from the battlefield.

Seeing his tactic work, Dragon-Taming Star Feather naturally pressed on, charging towards another battlefield where a Dragon Taming Clan cultivator was located.

"Damned Dragon Tamer Old Thief, if you dare to risk it all, do you think Zhouyang won't? I'll fight you to the end!"

Ruthlessness flashed in Zhouyang's eyes, entrusting the last Celestial Thunder Pearl to the silver-colored puppet, then his Nascent Soul emerged with the Heaven-Suppressing Azure Dragon Cauldron entering the puppet, causing it to use Thunder Escape Technique to swiftly rush to a battlefield a thousand miles away.

On that battlefield, Master Bai Lu and Liu Yunxiang were fiercely battling against a Second-Layer Nascent Soul cultivator from the Dragon Taming Clan.

Fortunately, before Zhouyang acted, he had temporarily lent Liu Yunxiang the Tier Six Lower-Grade Defense Spiritual Artifact Green Light Pearl from Shen Luoyan for protection; otherwise, she wouldn't have endured the fierce offensive from the Dragon Taming Clan Nascent Soul cultivator till now.

Master Bai Lu, with the Flame Dragon Whip and his lifebound spiritual artifact, barely struggled with the Tier Six Ink Flood Dragon. When Zhouyang intervened, he had already been poisoned by the Flood Dragon's Jiao poison, barely holding on.

It's worth noting that the Ink Flood Dragon battling Master Bai Lu was originally the spirit pet of Dragon Taming Xuan Yong.

This Ink Flood Dragon had come with the Second-Layer Nascent Soul cultivator from the Dragon Taming Clan, seemingly intending to avenge its former master.

At this point, Zhouyang emerged with his Nascent Soul manipulating the silver puppet, directly suppressing the Dragon Taming Clan Nascent Soul cultivator onto the ground using the Heaven-Suppressing Azure Dragon Cauldron at the cost of some recently recovered magical power and a mouthful of Nascent Soul's essence.

Then the puppet threw the purple Thunder Pearl, using the last Celestial Thunder Pearl refined from Tribulation Thunder power to throw beside the Dragon Taming Clan Second-Layer Nascent Soul cultivator.

Boom! 𝗳𝗿𝐞𝕖𝘄𝗲𝕓𝗻𝚘𝚟𝕖𝐥.𝚌𝕠𝕞

The explosion of the Celestial Thunder Pearl, equivalent to a full-force attack from a Sixth-Layer Nascent Soul cultivator, exploded close by, instantly inflicting severe injuries on the Dragon Taming Clan Second-Layer Nascent Soul cultivator.

With a flash of Thunder Light, the silver puppet had already used Thunder Escape Technique to appear beside him, slicing him in half and swiftly punching, dispersing the Nascent Soul he was preparing to escape with.

Thus, due to Zhouyang, the Dragon Taming Clan had already lost four direct lineage members, including three Nascent Soul stage cultivators!

"Wretched beast, last time you barely escaped, and now you dare deliver yourself here; Zhouyang will send you to reunite with your master today!"

Zhouyang manipulated the silver puppet, turning to look at the Ink Flood Dragon battling Master Bai Lu, its silver eyes devoid of emotion. His icy words made the Ink Flood Dragon shiver and flee in terror at just a mention.