Easy Way of Cultivation: Power Harvesting-Chapter 301 - 161: Black Lake Jiao Venerable’s Schemes, Rescuing Long Jianying

The Black Lake is located several hundred miles outside Tongzhou City. Although called a lake, it is vast and boundless.

The city of Tongzhou was originally built with the primary purpose of suppressing this area.

The expansive lake surface, deep and pitch-black, instills dread, and the bone-chilling cold gives the Black Lake an appearance devoid of life.

This is a wasteland where common creatures cannot survive. Not only within the lake, but even the vicinity surrounding the Black Lake for several kilometers is devoid of life, everything frozen by the ice.

Of course, any creature that does exist in such a place is certainly a remarkable being.

Deep within the bottomless depths of the Black Lake, a massive Flood Dragon, hundreds of meters long, is diving downward. On its body, one can see scars crisscrossing and scale armor covered in cracks.

These are left from previous battles with the Demon Suppression Bureau and Divine Sword Sect.

The giant Flood Dragon continues to dive deeper, and gradually the surrounding temperature reaches a level that could easily freeze an ordinary Concentrated Spirit Demon Fiend to death. Even though this Flood Dragon has lived here since birth, it must shrink its massive form to reduce contact with the cold.

It dives further, but the extremely low temperature causes the Flood Dragon to tremble all over. However, it endures, continuing to dive deeper.

Finally, a view of a valley at the bottom of the lake comes into sight, a glimmer of light emerges.

The Flood Dragon has now become encased in a thick layer of ice and quickly speeds up to the source of the light, bowing and saying, "Child Ao Qiang seeks an audience with Father King!"

From the center of the light, the sonorous yet slightly weak voice of Black Lake Jiao Venerable echoes, "Come in!"

A rumbling sound occurs as a hole appears at the center of the light.

The imposing figure of Black Lake Jiao Venerable sits within, dense hair cascading, his body covered in dazzling dragon scales, exuding overwhelming might.

Just like humans, demons also cultivate their Golden Body at the Demon Venerable realm.

Ao Qiang swims over and enters through the hole.

A wave of warmth sweeps over, shattering the ice on him, and within the cave, not a single drop of water is present.

It’s unimaginable what kind of means could carve out a water-free cave at the bottom of the Black Lake.

Only after Ao Qiang dealt with the ice on him did Black Lake Jiao Venerable speak: "Did you bring the corpse of the Horizontal Cultivation of Innate?"

The plan to hunt the Horizontal Cultivation of Innate in Su City was set personally by him, involving a battle with Pei Shinan and Qi Zhicun. He sustained severe injuries, and the only way to recover quickly is with a genuine Great Medicine.

Ao Qiang’s face showed sorrow: "Reporting to Father King, the hunt failed; Third Brother is already annihilated in spirit."

Black Lake Jiao Venerable’s brows furrowed slightly, a look of heartache passing by.

Throughout a thousand years, although he sired many offspring, after two years of conflict with the Demon Suppression Bureau, not many remain.

"Explain, how did it fail?"

Black Lake Jiao Venerable’s voice carried Evil Qi.

This was a plan he set personally, with absolute certainty of hunting the supreme medicine of the Horizontal Cultivation of Innate, the Water God Banner, the Trident, aided by three Spirit Concentration Demon Monarchs. Even if Huo Celestial appeared, failure would be impossible.

Yet not only did it fail, but even his third son died.

Ao Qiang said: "Neither Huo Tianzheng nor Long Jianying showed up; it was just Wei Fan alone who killed Third Brother and the White Tiger Demon Monarch. I consulted with the Golden Eagle Demon Monarch and discovered that Wei Fan likely possesses a Divine Soldier of high or possibly top level."

Black Lake Jiao Venerable shook his head: "Our Black Lake Flood Dragon lineage is strong in bloodline, surpassing human Horizontal Cultivation of Innate. Ao Jin was at Late-stage Spirit Condensation Cultivation and had the Water God Banner and Trident. Even if Wei Fan wielded a top-level Divine Soldier, it should have been impossible to give your Third Brother no chance to escape. Unless there were errors in the intelligence gathered."

Having lived for over a thousand years, he has encountered countless Horizontal Cultivation of Innate. On this matter, he knows them even better than the Human Race.

If Wei Fan was only Mid-Divine Realm, even wielding a top-level Divine Soldier, he shouldn’t have been able to kill his bloodline descendant.

However, he was mistaken. Wei Fan’s top-level Divine Soldier is not just an ordinary top-level, but an Invincible Artifact refined with Profound Yellow Stone.

Ao Qiang nodded, saying: "Child thinks the same, so before coming to see Father King, I collected more information on Wei Fan. After Cyan Cloud Mountain was broken, Fu Shizheng had attempted to assassinate him, but after that, Fu Shizheng never appeared.

The Suzhou Demon Suppression Bureau also never pursued Fu Shizheng. Child boldly speculates that Fu Shizheng might have been killed by Wei Fan, and Wei Fan obtained the Celestial Roc Body Cleansing Skill from Fu Shizheng, possibly mastering it!"

Only such unparalleled martial arts as the Celestial Roc Body Cleansing Skill could explain Wei Fan’s ability to kill Ao Jin with Mid-Divine Realm cultivation. 𝚏𝕣𝐞𝗲𝐰𝕖𝐛𝐧𝕠𝕧𝚎𝚕.𝐜𝚘𝗺

And with Wei Fan’s extraordinary comprehension, mastering the Celestial Roc Body Cleansing Skill in such a short time to elevate his physical aptitude to the peak of Divine Realm is not impossible.

"Fu Shizheng, this useless fellow, thought he could create trouble for the Human Race, but ended up benefiting Wei Fan!"

With Horizontal Cultivation of Innate combined with the Celestial Roc Body Cleansing Skill, Black Lake Jiao Venerable’s expression turned exceedingly grim.

This kind of demon will be a threat even at the Martial Venerable Realm, and such a demon owes half of its accomplishment to him.

Because persuading Fu Shizheng with the Celestial Roc Body Cleansing Skill was his doing, and in fact, the skill possessed by the Human Race was personally taken from his treasure vault and gifted out.

He had personally created a demon that could threaten other humans!

At this moment, Black Lake Jiao Venerable is sure that Wei Fan has mastered the Celestial Roc Body Cleansing Skill, otherwise a typical Mid-Divine Realm Horizontal Cultivation of Innate would never fully wield a top-level Divine Soldier.

He utterly ignored that Wei Fan’s top-level Divine Soldier was refined by himself, easily capable of unleashing its full power.