Chapter 218 - Soaring Dragon Hundred Forms
The dragon-headed celestial being returned back to the Dragon City. It transformed into a huge dragon with an imposing manner, and guarded over the city of dragons at the bottom of the sea.
This dragon ancestor spirit had been dormant before this. It was only when the Kun Peng Race expert ambushed the city, that the dragon race then performed their rituals to awaken him from his deep slumber. And now, as the chaos had yet to subside, the ancestor spirit also had no intention to go into slumber again; but instead, the strong and vibrant ancestor spirit coiled himself above the Dragon City, closely watching over the perimeter, preventing any more ambushes from their enemies.
Zhong Yue stood on the highest tip of the Earth Courtyard, he glanced around only to see the Dragon City plunged into a terrible state of chaos and disorder. Both the dragon and sea races were struck with fear and panic and they frantically gathered together and activated the defense array formations in the city.
It had been a long time since the dragon race had been faced with such a fiasco, although they nearly killed that Kun Peng, severely injuring him, the morale of the dragon race was still heavily affected. After all, the enemy had managed to infiltrate the core of their city, the Dragon Palace, and steal away a treasure even under the attacks of the ancestor spirit.
One could infer how huge a blow this was to the dragon race!
Many dragons triggered the totem pillars, notifying the incident to the dragon experts that were waging war on the outside.
Zhong Yue mumbled lowly, “The Kun Peng Race has gotten their saint weapon, I’m afraid the dragon experts will suffer a huge decrease in number. This Kun Peng Race expert is too strong, and with the support of the Divine Wing Saber, who can win against him? If he decides to hunt for the dragon experts, the dragon race will have to suffer a heavy price.”
“Well then, you are wrong. Although that Kun Peng Race expert managed to escape, he was severely injured by that Sword Qi, it is still uncertain whether or not he can survive those wounds.”
In his psyche ocean, Xin Huo shook his head and said, “The Ao Clan’s saint weapon is not something fun to be tampered with, not to mention that the saint weapon was wielded by the Ao Clan’s ancestor spirit himself! This Kun Peng Race expert is dying, the power of the Coiling Dragon Sword has already entered his body; the longer the amount of time that passes, the weaker his body will get. Even his Yuan Shen start to erode, crumbling and collapsing until it becomes nothing. Look at it, how is the other part of that Kun Peng’s mortal body looking now?”
Zhong Yue quickly cast his divine third eye and look over. The Kun Peng Race’s mortal body was slashed into half, one part having already escaped while the other slammed into the sea. Logically speaking, it should be floating on the sea surface, a thousand mile long mortal body would be difficult to not notice.
However, there was no such body in his sights; only blood, a sea of blood that spanned a thousand miles!
The other half of the mortal body was completely pulverized by the power of the Coiling Dragon Sword into a fine blend of minced flesh and blood that became the sea of blood that he was now seeing before his eyes!
The saint weapon of the dragon race is so strong! But, the dragon race itself is already a strong and vibrant race, it is only to be expected that their divine weapon would be appropriately powerful.
The dragon race resides in the vast sea, but they could also soar in the high skies; while the Kun Peng race is the overlord of the ocean in the form of the Kun, and the ruler of the sky in the form of the Peng. The long-standing feud between these two races have existed since ancient times – they were natural rivals with perennially conflicting agendas.
Xin Huo was surprised, “I never expected that in the times when I was slumbering, the dragon has banished the Kun Peng to the Wood Celestial Star. But there is nothing left in the Ancestral Star anymore, even the Wood Celestial Star is more valuable than it; why would the Kun Peng race try to come back here?”
Zhong Yue pondered earnestly and said, “Isn’t the dragon race also the same? All the efforts they have poured in to banish the Kun Peng Race was so that they could continue to dominate over the sea and sky of the Ancestral Star. Similarly, there is also the celestial race in the East Barren. It seems like there is an earth-shaking secret residing within the Ancestral Star!”
The ambush left a huge hole on the Dragon Barrier where a torrent of sea water flood through, the scene was like what the myths had described; a void hole in the sky. The dragon experts in the city soared into the air and started patching up the hole, reducing the area of the hole to a smaller and smaller radius. The torrent of water that was rushing was also slowing.
Zhong Yue watched as the dragons soared around the hole, blasting blazing fire from their mouths to refine various kind of marvelous materials for repairing the hole.
The Dragon Barrier was a hemisphere that covered the Dragon City. It was the sky and heaven to the livings in the city; and it was an utterly marvelous scene as the dragon experts were patching up the hole in their sky.
For a long period of time to come, the Dragon City would not be able to return to the peace and tranquility it once had. There were dragon experts that rushed back from the outside, armies standing guard in defense of the city in anticipation of another possible assault on their saint city, whether it be an ambush from the Kun Peng Race or any other forces.
“Seems like this would last for quite some time, the Ao Clan elders are busy settling the chaos on the outside. They won’t be able to see me in the meantime.”
Qing He was recuperating from her wounds, Long Qiu’er and the others were in the Million Spirit Pavilion trying manifesting their spirits to become the Qi Practitioners. All the while, Ao Fenglou had yet to return. Hence, Zhong Yue walked out from the Earth Courtyard and gave himself a tour around Dragon City. Suddenly, he spotted the young dragon experts all rushing towards the city center.
With a curious heart filled with questions, he followed behind them. Soon, the dragon ancestor spirit came into their view, the enormously huge dragon spirit was in a slumber but his body remained in form, coiled in the middle of the Dragon Palace.
Meanwhile, the young dragon experts crowded around the Dragon Palace, intently staring at the totem patterns around the dragon god ancestor spirit, trying to gain enlightenment from it.
“This is a once in a lifetime opportunity, it is extremely rare for the dragon god ancestor spirit to appear; but once it does, we can observe his spirit, his form, his charm and the totem patterns to attain some skills and techniques of the highest calibre!” Some dragon disciples were thrilled as they spoke.
“The totem patterns on the ancestor spirit contain innumerable skills and arts. Any one of the many techniques can heighten our abilities to a whole new level. Sadly, the totem patterns on the ancestor spirit are all god-level totem patterns, I can’t perceive anything from it!”
Zhong Yue heard them and thought to himself, It is indeed a rare opportunity to study the dragon race’s ancestor spirit! What Ao Fenglou had taught me was the skill of the Jiao Dragons. However, it is hard to comprehend it in its entirety, and difficult to understand its more abstruse aspects. Since I’m currently using the identity of Long Yue, how can I not unleash this skill to its maximum power?
Ao Fenglou had imparted him one hundred and forty-four skills of a Jiao Dragon technique that went by the name of【Soaring Dragon Hundred Forms】. It was extremely profound and abstruse. Zhong Yue had been studying it since then, but even now, he was still unable to enlighten himself on all the abstrusities of the one hundred and forty-four skills.
In the West Barren, he did not use the【Soaring Dragon Hundred Forms】as he had to conceal his alternate identity of ‘Long Yue’. Hence, he never dedicated much time to study it either.
He had only cast the movement skill of the【Soaring Dragon Hundred Forms】in his daily footwork regime. He only started studying and trying to understand the abstrusity of the【Soaring Dragon Hundred Forms】when he returned to the monster race. And it was then when he has grasped the art of the one hundred and forty-four skills.
However, he had never come across a dragon race spirit; although he had attained the dragon race totem patterns, it was nearly impossible to comprehend its essence without the spirit.
Zhong Yue’s comprehension of the art as it was now was merely superficial and shallow, but even so, the power he could unleash with this limited understanding could not be underestimated!
When he was hunted by Xi Qiao and the other Atman Body leveled monster experts, he had cast a defense skill in front of the Xian Kong Saint City – the【Thousand Dragon Wall】that fended off the attacks of Tu Shishan!
The【Thousand Dragon Wall】was formed by combining a thousand Jiao Dragons together into a wall of dragons that had incredibly strong defensive capability. Tu Shishan was an Atman Body Qi Practitioner, but even so, he was helpless against this impregnable defense!
Zhong Yue had created the【Thousand Dragon Wall】by merging the one hundred and forty-four Jiao Dragon skills together into a new defensive skill that was not detailed within the scope of the existing one hundred and forty-four skills of the【Soaring Dragon Hundred Forms】.
The specialty of the【Soaring Dragon Hundred Forms】was its ‘flexibility’, although there were a hundred and forty-four Jiao Dragon forms, one could derive a myriad of permutations and combinations of skills from that foundation of skills, creating increasingly more powerful and complex skills!
Studying the dragon race ancestor spirit can allow me to understand all of the abstrusity of the【Soaring Dragon Hundred Forms】, and when I’ve mastered all of the skills, I can then derive stronger skills!
Zhong Yue sat down in the lotus position and carefully studied the dragon before him, observing his charm and spirit, validating his attainments on the【Soaring Dragon Hundred Forms】with the dragon race ancestor spirit.
Immediately, his psyche ocean tumbled and stirred violently, one after another, Jiao Dragons emerged out from the lightning pool, undergoing a multitude of drastic changes and transformations. They were filled with the charm and spirit of the dragon race ancestor spirit, while Zhong Yue himself was lost in his contemplation of its abstrusities.
The hundred and forty-four skills in the【Soaring Dragon Hundred Forms】were the foundation, and only by mastering all of the skills could he create superior skills!
Around him, the other young dragons were also busy studying the ancestor spirit, enthralled by the profundity that they found themselves lost in.
After a long time, Zhong Yue stood up and moved around to change to another angle of view, and was overjoyed as he found new and novel aspects he had yet to explore.
The more he observed, the greater his attainments. And the more he studied, the deeper his understandings towards the【Soaring Dragon Hundred Forms】grew. These few days, Zhong Yue had changed more than dozens of places, he even flew into the air to study the dragon god ancestor spirit from the sky.
He was enthralled in his study of the dragon god ancestor spirit, attaining the abstrusity of the【Soaring Dragon Hundred Forms】. He had slipped into an ethereal state of enlightenment and had forgotten everything else. All that was left in his mind was the different forms of Jiao Dragons that flickered through his psyche ocean, they looked life-life as if they were true-blue living Jiao Dragons!
After a few tens of days, when the Ao Clan’s two magnate cultivators had returned to Dragon City, the dragon god ancestor spirit slowly disappeared in the Dragon Palace and went into its usual deep slumber.
But Zhong Yue was still in his own world, he could not regain his thoughts from studying the attainments he had gleaned, and his senses were completely isolated from the outside world. He even nearly followed the dragon god ancestor spirit to slumber in the Dragon Palace. Fortunately, Xin Huo was there to wake him from his stupor, or otherwise, he would have fallen into an irreversible catastrophe!
The benefits from studying this dragon god ancestor spirit are too great!
Zhong Yue had awakened, shocked and overjoyed. With a thought, a thousand Jiao Dragons surged out and formed into the【Thousand Dragon Wall】, the Jiao Dragons interweaved one another while they move around; the wall of dragons could ward off any incoming attacks.
With a thought, he cast out a dragon spear that was cloaked in a domineering aura, the【Hundred Dragon Spear】!
【Thousand Dragon Art】!
Zhong Yue surged his psyche out, a thousand Jiao Dragons emerged and formed into the thousand Jiao Dragon art that covered the sky, forming into a Thousand Jiao Array. He stomped his leg, and two dragons carried him into the air – the【Million Miles The Dragon Soars】!
He then cast the skill of the【Jiao Dragon Breaking Water】, lunging out like a dreadful dragon; casting the skill of【Jiao Dragon Extricating Abyss】, he slashing towards his target; flipping his hand, he cast the skill of【Five Dragon Divine Fire Cage】, refining the five dragons!
【Nine Dragon Bell】!
Zhong Yue opened his arms and placed his hands together in the front while a large bell surrounded by nine dragons suddenly emerged before his chest. The bell was formed by countless Jiao Dragon totem patterns, the nine dragons’ tails appeared at the top of the bell while their dragon heads were at the bell opening.
Soon, he has finished casting all of the skills he had obtained from the【Soaring Dragon Hundred Forms】. Alighting down onto the ground, he was feeling a supreme sense of satisfaction and contentment.
“Nice skills!”
Just as he landed, a voice came into his ears. Quickly, he turned around and was startled to see a group of young male and female dragons gathered around him, their gazes that were directed toward him filled with respect and admiration.
Shit, I got so lost in my new skills that I’d forgotten there are still dragons around me.
Zhong Yue was about to thread his way out from through the crowds, when suddenly, a dragon general stood out and said laughingly, “This little brother, you skills are impressive! Countless disciples have practiced the【Soaring Dragon Hundred Forms】, but there aren’t many disciples in the whole Dragon City that could achieve what you did!”
“Brother, you are overpraising me,” Zhong Yue quickly answered.
The dragon general then smiled and said, “No, I’m definitely not overpraising you, there truly aren’t really many who can do it. Your understandings and attainments on it are no longer bound to the limitations of the hundred and forty-four skill permutations. There are a startling few that can say the same! My name is Ao Chuan, and you are?”
Zhong Yue clasped his hands and said, “Long Yue.”
“Long Yue? It seems like you are from a small clan; but I guess being being from a small clan doesn’t necessarily preclude one from becoming strong in their own right.”
Clearly, Ao Chuan was not in a position high enough to know of Zhong Yue’s name, he smiled and continued, “The Jiao Dragons are dragon masters proficient in the killing arts. They are renowned as the preeminent dragon race in terms of combat capability. The【Soaring Dragon Hundred Forms】is an abstruse technique of the highest caliber; there are countless disciples that have practiced this technique. But Junior Martial Brother Long Yue has attained the true quintessence of the【Soaring Dragon Hundred Forms】, why don’t you explain it to us and all of the dragon disciples?”