Chapter 159: Drawing Big Promises
“May I ask, who are you?”
Seeing the graceful, bright-eyed, fair-toothed matron before her, Huang Xiaoling was sowhat surprised.
If she had t such a noblewoman with such excellent bearing before, she should have rembered it deeply.
“Lu Danya. My daughter Li Jing is a classmate of your Beiwu.” Lu Danya smiled slightly, without the aloofness of a Foundation Establishnt cultivator.
Hearing this na, Huang Xiaoling showed little reaction, but the bald shopkeeper froze for a mont, and his tone changed. “You are the owner of Five Zhi Garden?”
Earlier, he had been unsure just by appearance, but once he heard the na, he imdiately realized that this noblewoman was the famous Tier Two Middle-Grade Pill Master of Yuan-Kong County.
Lu Danya nodded in acknowledgnt and took the initiative to invite Huang Xiaoling for tea.
Inside the quiet room.
As Huang Xiaoling listened to Lu Danya’s words, her face revealed shock.
What in the world?
Sudden enlightennt… heaven’s favored… Golden Core potential… marriage proposal!
Was this Chen Beiwu spoken of by the noblewoman truly her own child?
For a ti, Huang Xiaoling was utterly dumbfounded.
……
Fallen Dragon Manor, Spirit Beast Pavilion, Four Seas Lake.
Clouds and mist surged above the lake’s surface, as if it were a fairyland.
Many Qi Refining cultivators sought companion spirit beasts within the lakebed, but none were able to move the unique variant of the Subrgent Water Spirit Turtle.
Han Liangcai sat cross-legged atop the Mysterious Water Subrgent Turtle, expression calm, not sparing even a glance toward the Yin-Yang Reincarnation Realm.
Year after year, more than three years had passed, yet the peerless hidden dragon he sought still had not appeared.
‘Could it be that Master miscalculated this ti?’ Han Liangcai’s brows furrowed tightly.
The Mysterious Water Subrgent Turtle shook its head.
It trusted its master’s deduction of heavenly secrets, and also trusted the stirring of that trace of ancient bloodline within its body.
The peerless hidden dragon within Fallen Dragon Manor absolutely existed—it had either yet to appear, or had already appeared without their notice.
If it were the forr, it was not so grave, but if the latter… the Mysterious Water Subrgent Turtle’s eyes revealed difficulty.
Fate was a most unfathomable thing.
If they were destined to miss this opportunity, it would be powerless to change it, and could only seek another chance.
At that mont, Han Liangcai’s divine sense stirred as he overheard a familiar na from the mouths of cultivators at the lakebed.
“Enlightened by the Cleansing Spirit lody, breaking through two realms in succession—Yuan-Kong’s prodigy Chen Beiwu?” Han Liangcai’s expression turned doubtful.
He and the Mysterious Water Subrgent Turtle had both confird Chen Beiwu’s fate pattern, knowing his talent was ordinary, though his fortune was sowhat remarkable.
Could Chen Beiwu truly be the hidden dragon destined to rise?
At this thought, Han Liangcai activated the Yin-Yang Reincarnation Realm to once again trace the fate pattern.
After a long while, he opened his eyes and muttered, “Probably not. But to avoid missing anything, we must keep special watch on that boy during this Immortal Alliance Entrance Exam.”
Within one prefecture, surpassing the limit of Qi Refining was indeed rare, worthy of being called a peerless genius.
Yet, across an entire commandery, such a genius could only be deed a distinguished prodigy.
Rising higher still, across all sixty-three provinces of Sky Abyss Star, those who surpassed Qi Refining were only considered mid-tier talents, barely qualifying as geniuses.
Such a level was far from enough for the Five Great Grotto-Heavens or the Thirteen Immortal Sects to treat with particular regard.
It was only because Chen Beiwu’s situation was special, being from Fallen Dragon Manor’s Yuan-Kong County, that Han Liangcai had paid repeated attention.
‘Let us hope that hidden dragon surfaces from the abyss soon!’ Han Liangcai sighed, his figure vanishing into the clouds and mist.
He would rather pay a great price to contest other immortal sects for the hidden dragon, than blunder about blindly like a headless fly.
……
Pingchen Township, Yuan-Kong County.
On the second floor of his ho’s cultivation room.
As golden ripples surged, Chen Beiwu’s figure silently appeared.
“Gulu!” Gold Egg excitedly blew a bubble.
After one night of companion cultivation within the Southern Wastes cavern dwelling, not only had its Green Wood Spirit Seed returned, but it had begun to sprout into a Green Wood Shoot. Even the Clear Spring Spirit Seed within it faintly stirred toward transformation into Clear Spring Water, nourishing its body.
It was no exaggeration to say that, with the sa forty-nine years of Dao cultivation, if its mana had once been like a trickling brook, it was now like a surging river.
‘That’s nothing. As long as you follow
and cultivate diligently, not to ntion transforming into a flood dragon—even becoming a true dragon won’t be just a dream.’
While painting a grand vision, Chen Beiwu searched his phone for the Gold-Horned Flood Dragon and showed it to Gold Egg.
On the screen, golden-scaled dragons soared, clawing clouds and spitting lightning, their might suppressing the seas and dominating the skies. Gold Egg’s eyes brimd with longing.
“Gulu!”
‘What are you thinking?’ Chen Beiwu glanced at Gold Egg and encouraged, “Spineless fellow. To be satisfied with rely becoming a flood dragon? Before a true divine dragon, what is a flood dragon worth?”
With that thought, Chen Beiwu continued tapping on his phone. Regardless of whether the bloodline was related, he directly searched for the 【Ruins Emperor Dragon】—“Holder of the Black Emperor’s authority, source of all waters”—and showed the image.
“Gulu.”
Glancing at the terrifying being on the screen that chilled even fish gallbladders, Gold Egg swallowed hard, staring at Chen Beiwu in disbelief.
? Beco a Ruins Emperor Dragon?
That was the legendary true dragon capable of battling immortals!
Even in its dreams, it dared not imagine such grandeur.
‘Be bolder!’ Chen Beiwu poked Gold Egg’s forehead with a finger. ‘Fish can evolve into flood dragons, flood dragons can evolve into dragons, and dragons can transcend tribulation into true dragons. Am I wrong?’
Gold Egg obediently nodded. At first hearing, it did sound flawless.
‘In Immortal Alliance Year 11231, Immortal Xu Buluo of Jade-Flake Immortal Sect contracted a Frost-Sea Ice Flood Dragon as his companion beast.
Ten thousand years later, Immortal Xu created the thod of Dragon-Transformation through Shared Tribulation, allowing his companion beast to ascend from flood dragon to dragon, and transform into the Supre Vast Dragon, rembered in history.’
‘If we can pass the Immortal Alliance Entrance Exam and enter the Thirteen Immortal Sects, even the Five Great Grotto-Heavens, I may well exchange for this thod. Step by step, I’ll help you ascend—first from fish to flood dragon, then flood dragon to dragon, and finally grow into the mightiest true dragon the Immortal Alliance has ever known!’
“Slurp.”
At this, Gold Egg could not help but gulp, tailfin swaying, imagination running wild.
Such convincing words.
Since history already held such an inspiring dragon, why could it not take that place?
Seeing Gold Egg thoroughly persuaded, Chen Beiwu laughed inwardly.
Golden Core True Persons could not possibly possess lifespans of ten thousand years.
Only those above Soul Formation, at the level of Void Refining Dao Lords, held such longevity.
Figures of that realm stood at the very pinnacle of the Immortal Alliance. If willing to pay an imnse price, they naturally could raise a companion beast from flood dragon to dragon.
But Chen Beiwu had no intention of deceiving Gold Egg.
Though he painted grand promises, he truly had contingency plans.
That Immortal Alliance law forbade walking the path of flood dragons did not an it was impossible in the resource-rich Southern Wastes.
For example, the mysterious Spirit Lake he discovered was itself a dragon vein treasure land—why else would a Golden Core True Person covet it?
Unfortunately, the site already had a master, serving as a Golden Core True Person’s corpse-refining ground, unsuitable for dragon transformation.
Fortunately, the Southern Wastes were full of lakes where dragon veins converged.
If the opportunity arose and conditions were t, Chen Beiwu would exhaust every resource to let Gold Egg attempt flood dragon transformation.
After all, the higher Gold Egg’s ceiling, the stronger he would beco as a beast-taming cultivator.
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