Huh? Isn't this an adventure kingdom building game?!-Chapter 686 - 670: Is It Reasonable? Is It Possible?
"Senior Bai, are you leaving?"
Yun Mo listened in confusion, scratching the feathers on his head with his wings, and asked puzzledly, "Why? Mr. exerted a secret technique for us, and everyone advanced a realm. We haven’t even celebrated yet, why are you suddenly..."
Hu Zhile sensed something amiss and quickly asked, "Senior Bai, are you still recovering from serious injuries? Too many things have happened in a short time, making it hard to distinguish between illusion and reality?" 𝗳𝗿𝐞𝕖𝘄𝗲𝕓𝗻𝚘𝚟𝕖𝐥.𝚌𝕠𝕞
She stepped forward and flicked her fingers gently, releasing some pale pink powder. The fragrant aroma instantly cleared everyone’s minds.
"Can you tell the difference now?" Hu Zhile covered her mouth with a smile and said, "The Venerable Family’s secret technique is indeed incredibly amazing, but it’s definitely not an illusion. Look, we have all just advanced to a new realm."
Bai Yunqi was even more bewildered.
Indeed, even Yun Mo, who had the lowest strength, had a significantly increased aura, becoming a Wisdom Realm Demon Cultivator.
"Did you... also not cross the Thunder Tribulation?" he asked urgently, mainly because everything happening now was far beyond his perception, making it impossible not to overthink.
Seeing Hu Zhile and others nod in response, Bai Yunqi was full of disbelief, questioning if this was reasonable or possible.
He knew the Venerable Family was not an ordinary cultivator, and they previously tacitly agreed with his speculation that the sudden surge in strength was due to self-sealing, waiting for the layers of seals to be lifted to reveal formidable power.
But no matter how powerful, it’s impossible for other cultivators to advance a realm without crossing the Thunder Tribulation!
Under the heavens, is there any absurd situation like this?
Yet it was happening to him; Bai Yunqi still felt like he was dreaming in daylight. Could there be some kind of hallucinatory aura in the underground palace’s secret passage, creating such a convincing illusion to confuse invaders?
"I thought something had happened, turns out you, the snake, got beaten so your brain stopped working." Qing Niao yawned upon hearing this, lazily stretched her bare feet, turned, and headed to the mushroom house, "Don’t waste everyone’s cultivation time, hurry and thank my brother? His techniques are beyond what a little white snake like you can guess?"
She pressed her head higher proudly—hey! You don’t know, but I’m well aware my brother is the Celestial Fire incarnate!
Is it strange for him to wield Immortal techniques contemplated by legends of the mysterious Celestial Fire?
It would be odd if he didn’t!
Jiang Yuan breathed a sigh of relief once he found out the truth; he thought it was too easy to increase levels and felt like dreaming—it scared him; he almost thought the massive pet was gone.
Could it be simplicity? System-provided upgrade cards, just a click and it’s done, having cheats is truly absurd!
"It’s as real as it gets. I happened upon a chance to collectively uplift your strength this one time only. Next time such an easy realm advancement might not be possible."
He patted the shoulder of his confused-looking contract pet and laughed, "You two bravely fought the Flood Dragon zombie, carried the treasure, and escaped smoothly, now absorbing dragon blood; Daoist Xie received the Life Origin gift from me; you advanced to the peak of the Demon Pill Realm, all true."
"After a while, once your body can bear the second infusion, I’ll provide more Life Origin, resolving completely the troublesome matter you’ve always been pondering."
"Zhile, Yun Mo, Qing Niao, and you have all successfully advanced, it’s a great occasion, let’s do nothing tonight but celebrate!"
"I’ve brewed some fruit wine, though ordinary, it tastes really good, let’s all enjoy it until we’re happily drunk. Additionally, you should tell the stories of your mysterious encounters within the Flood Dragon Tomb; I’m fond of hearing tales of tomb raiding."
With heart pounding audibly, Bai Yunqi swallowed to moisten his slightly dry throat, and hoarsely said: "Thank you, Venerable Family, for nurturing me; I will certainly strive diligently to repay you by even risking my life!"
Finishing speaking still somewhat incredulous, wanting to check the underground palace again to ensure the Flood Dragon zombie is truly there, meanwhile dragon blood is a precious treasure and wasting it would be regrettable.
Seeing the sun setting with some time before the wilderness arrival, Bai Yunqi hurriedly requested: "The Flood Dragon zombie surely has a lot of fresh blood inside, let me retrieve it, everyone can have a share!"
"Dragon blood?!" Qing Niao paused her entrance movement, turned back full of delight, and announced: "I want to go too! I still want to eat dragon meat!"
Eat dragon meat?
Upon hearing her three words, Leng Yutang’s heart beat heavily several times, filled with intense envy.
Who doesn’t want to taste dragon meat’s flavor? As a demon cultivator, the most revered are divine beasts; although the Flood Dragon is not a True Dragon, it is somewhat connected; drinking a sip of Flood Dragon blood or eating its meat greatly benefits body and soul!
Yet in Jiang Yuan’s ears, those three words automatically translated to two others—ingredients.
Demon beast meat can be cooked and eaten, isn’t the Flood Dragon a type of demon beast so isn’t it normal to consume it?
The old saying is "Dragon meat in the sky, donkey meat on the ground," and the term "Dragon liver and Phoenix brain" shows that dragons are likely edible.
"The underground palace is dangerous, you shouldn’t go," Jiang Yuan waved to stop Qing Niao’s chirping desire to leave, "We’ll go together, if there really is blood or meat to share, naturally we’ll bring it back everyone will receive a portion."
Unable to go personally, Qing Niao couldn’t help but feel disappointed. She pouted and tugged at his sleeve, acting coy, "Dear Brother, could you save me some materials like dragon horns, dragon claws, dragon scales, and the like to create weaponry, and craft me an even larger and sharper axe?"
His body swayed as she tugged at him, and Jiang Yuan looked helpless, thinking to himself, you’re a reincarnated big shot, lived god knows how many tens of thousands of years, acting all coy like Old Dog, could it be that all you old monsters are adept at pretending to be young?
"Sure, sure, if there are benefits, you won’t miss out," he replied offhandedly, mentally adding: nor will anyone else, it’s only fair to keep the distribution even.
"Hehe, I knew you were the best brother ever, you’re the best brother in the world!" Qing Niao happily jumped and shouted, watching as the three of them disappeared before finally whistling her way back to her mushroom house to continue meditating and cultivating.
"Phew!"
Instantly transitioning from the small courtyard into the underground palace inside the instance, a gust of thickly blood-scented, humid misty wind blew through.
Jiang Yuan was the first to see the black and white scales scattered across the ground, each over a meter in diameter. Clearly, there had been a fierce battle here not long ago, no wonder Xiao Bai was so severely injured.
[Flood Dragon Undead: Having died over a thousand years ago, the Li Hai Flood Dragon clan was placed in the Resurrection Pool, nourished by lunar sea water, absorbing concentrated Life Origin energy, gradually becoming undead from corpses, with new flood dragons already condensing inside, waiting quietly for nine hundred and eighty years, nourished by two treasures before shedding skin and rebirth]
[Pseudo-Flood Dragon Blood: The blood within the body of an unreincarnated flood dragon, containing energy incomparable to true flood dragon blood, yet still an exceedingly rare cultivation supreme treasure for cultivators. Can be directly ingested for absorption refinement, can be made into delicacy at the kitchen with other ingredient enhancements for vastly increased absorption efficiency; can be used as medicine]
[Unreincarnated Flood Dragon Body: Tender meat texture, fresh flavor, free of small bones, large bones and spine are crispy and edible. Can be slaughtered, processed, and made into delicacy at the kitchen, greatly improving absorption efficiency through cooking refinement]
[Lunar Sea Water: Water from the sea eye in the deepest part of Li Hai, formed under the power of the moon. When consumed by poultry and livestock, can increase production by 10%, can accumulate effects with other production increment items]
[Li Hai Stone Pillar: Sea yellow stone mined from the depths of Li Hai after thousands of years of wave grinding, crafted by top-tier artifact refiners. Supports the pool, protects the remaining flood dragon soul, forms the underground palace resurrection array’s key pillar, if damaged, holds risk of palace collapse...]
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Daoist Xie Chenyuan, being a cultivator of the human race, hadn’t specially cultivated eyesight techniques, nor did he possess the demon cultivators’ inherent night vision. Thus, upon entering the dimly lit area, he needed the luminous pearl for added illumination.
The large pool and passage illuminated by his deliberately placed luminous pearl, the somewhat dim light made the tomb-robbing atmosphere even more intense.
Jiang Yuan glanced around, and the system identification details popped up.
It was exactly as he had anticipated—the new flood dragon parts within the undead body could be treated as ingredients, but the exterior "zombie" component was of little use.
On its head was merely a short and straight horn, small yet quite cute, though slightly damaged, deemed unrecognizable by the system’s treasure forging workshop; its chest and abdomen bore a pair of claws, also damaged, unable to be refined in the workshop.
Thinking there was still an artifact refiner at home, materials unrecognized by the system were just flawed, not unusable. First to cut up and bring back for Leng Yutang to have a look, maybe it can be utilized to craft Qing Niao a larger axe.
While at it, there were some dragon scales with a cold glow, all collected!
Originally drained of energy by Bai Yunqi’s relentless grinding, further drained by the blood-drinking neck wound, later robbed of vital treasure by Daoist Xie Chenyuan that blocked energy absorption and recovery, the gigantic undead flood dragon lay coiled in the passage as if lifeless.
"Pity my flying sword!" Daoist Xie Chenyuan exclaimed, landing and seeing the sword rushed into the undead’s eye in a hurry and couldn’t be retrieved, evidently clawed at by the undead, already broken in two.
The hilt part fell to the ground; the remaining half was still embedded in the eyeball, blood spurting outward.
Though not an expensive flying sword, nor his lifebound weapon, it had been with him for years and was very handy, seeing it shattered into two left Daoist Xie Chenyuan regretful.
"I’ll make you a new one someday," Jiang Yuan comforted upon seeing.
Anyway, he brought back quite a bit of bottom spring gold and cold jade from Cold Spring Temple, more than enough besides upgrading the Chaotic Heaven Bell and Dragon Roar Sword. He thought of the treasure forging workshop’s ready-made blueprints, to make standardized treasure swords for the courtyard members as a collective benefit, not lacking this one.
Besides, he’d earned the elder token from the Cloud Concealment Sect, officially speaking, Daoist Xie Chenyuan as a sect disciple was indeed a junior, occasionally offering care made everyone pleased.
"Thank you so much for your generosity, senior!" Daoist Xie Chenyuan perked up instantly, anticipating that the treasure sword crafted personally by Elder Jiang would certainly be supreme quality!
Bai Yunqi, without approaching recklessly, squinted slightly and hinted, "Venerable family, this big guy isn’t quite dead yet."
"It’s okay, soon it will be beyond dead," Jiang Yuan approached without action, selecting the undead flood dragon to click and store into the storage bag, the colossal creature vanished instantly, leaving a mess behind.
From the remaining stone carvings, the concentrated Life Origin was indeed deeply hidden, but it couldn’t withstand these two’s tacit cooperation and perseverance, breaking layer after layer of stone carvings to reveal the treasure within.
In the pool, waves surged, as Daoist Xie Chenyuan maneuvered a rigid little dragon undead entwined struggling, yet no treasure fueling power, obvious signs of exhaustion surfaced gradually.
Jiang Yuan wasted no time, jumping into the water using the Clear Wind Sword to sever its tail connection on the stone pillar before unifyingly storing it into the storage bag.
Not even five minutes had passed, he’d collected all he could, incidentally filled a few buckets of water to refill the water troughs in the aviary and livestock sheds upon returning.
"Let’s go, I’ll tidy up back home, and make you all something delicious tonight!"
