Immortality begins with becoming a master weapon refiner

Chapter 202 Seventy-Two Gale Winds Dragon Subduing Formation
"Good lad, you really went all out."

Tai Kangxuan muttered something, and his right hand grew to nearly thirty feet in a few breaths. It had blue skin and tiger stripes, which was a partial application of the [Fierce Tiger-Dragon Dharma Form].

With a powerful slam, all the water demons gathered in front of the Water Palace were reduced to dust, their blood staining the great river. The enormous commotion finally alerted the Black Dragon King that something was wrong.

"who?!!"

He roared angrily, then looked down at Leopard Rush and said.

"Butler Leopard, take your men to my bedside. There is a waterway below that leads directly to the Demon Realm. Don't get involved. I'll contact you again after this is over."

Leopard was startled and looked at the Black Dragon King with some pity.

"Thank you for your support, Your Majesty. I'll be taking my leave now."

"Ah."

Leopard Chong called out to Hu Meiniang, and without lingering, he entered the Black Dragon King's bedchamber and took away an ancient scroll containing the inscription "[Commentary on the Waterways Classic - Jinsha Water Vein]" in several demonic characters.

outside world.

Elder Jiang held the magic sword upside down and shook his head.

“Tai Kangxuan, you’re going too far. These water demons have their value; you shouldn’t have killed them all.”

"Don't worry, there's still a demon market down there. The Jinsha Water Vein Map will be drawn sooner or later."

Boom————

The gate to the Water Palace shattered, and the Black Flood Dragon King flew out with a cold expression. He was somewhat puzzled when he saw the three people and the blood-red water.

"Disciples of Baiyue Mountain..."

"How did you avoid the Shattered Gold Divine Sand?"

Gu Qing smiled.

"You'll find out later."

A burst of lightning flashed, and a thick bolt of lightning flew out as Gu Qing rubbed his hands together. This technique was called the [Thunder God's Seal], a treasure-level lightning technique, and also the resource Gu Qing had prepared for the Heavenly Demon Lightning Technique.

He hasn't mastered it yet. If he could achieve a deeper level of proficiency, a thunder seal would descend with a wave of his hand.

The blinding lightning caused the Black Dragon King to squint.

They understood each other implicitly.

Tai Kangxuan roared and transformed into a hundred-zhang-long tiger-dragon, occupying half of the underground river. Following the lightning, the tiger's claws, filled with ferocious energy, suddenly slammed down.

It's several times stronger than before.

hold head high---

With a dragon's roar, the Black Flood Dragon King revealed its true form, a black flood dragon a hundred feet long, with four legs and three toes, and a purple vertical pupil between its brows.

The dragon claw rose and collided with Tai Kangxuan.

Instantly, a vast expanse of waves was stirred up, and the already dim underground river became even more obscured by the muddy water.

Taking advantage of the moment when the two sides were engaged in hand-to-hand combat, Elder Jiang's sword light suddenly surged.

The giant sword, radiating brilliant golden light and possessing extreme sharpness, slashed fiercely upwards, striking the Black Dragon King's abdomen.

Clang!
The giant sword sent the Black Dragon King flying, slamming him against the rock wall. The ground shook violently, but it did not cause any fundamental damage. The toughness of his body was simply unbelievable.

Despite being outnumbered and outmatched, he didn't panic but instead fought back methodically.

The underwater world was sometimes shimmering with golden light, sometimes filled with menacing aura, and sometimes raging with thunder and lightning, causing even the surface of the Jinsha River to surge with waves.

The disorder in his spiritual energy attracted the attention of the guardian master of Jinsha Prefecture.

In mid-air, this sixth-grade patriarch took a step and arrived on the river surface. His eyes shone with a three-foot divine light, as if piercing through countless obstacles and penetrating deep into the underground water veins.

"The Flow of Broken Gold has disappeared?"

As the thought crossed his mind, he peered further down and reached the underground river, only to be blocked by a new stream of broken gold. He couldn't help but show a look of regret.

Battlefield in front of the Water Palace.

Gu Qing's use of lightning magic against the enemy was naturally ineffective, but he had already secretly begun to set up the Shattered Gold Stream, using the turbidity of the water to cover the entire area.

The power of divine consciousness was greatly depleted.

This move served both to conceal the fluctuations of the formation set up by Master Lianfeng and as a covert tactic.

Besides its targeted suppression of divine consciousness, the Shattered Gold Divine Sand also has a destructive effect on metal-type objects in the earth's veins. The divine sand is born after being accumulated deep within the earth for countless years.

Its sturdiness is rarely matched even by magical artifacts.

After being transformed into Gu Qing's supernatural moves, its strength decreased somewhat, but it was still formidable.

A storm of shattered gold is brewing.

The Black Dragon King immediately realized something was wrong. He used fine divine sand to scrape off large patches of dragon scales, and his dragon blood spread, finally causing him to be injured.

"Damn human cultivator, so it was you who broke my Shattered Gold Flow technique."

He transformed back into human form, his hands forming a mudra.

A yellow gourd broke through the barrier and arrived beside the Black Dragon King, releasing beautiful fragments of golden divine sand that collided with the divine sand manipulated by Gu Qing.

Although the quantity is small, the quality is very high.

It perfectly withstood the effects of the Shattering Gold Storm, and the Black Flood Dragon King did not only possess this one magical artifact supported by the Demon Realm.

After the yellow gourd stabilized, he took out a demonic treasure that looked like a blue-gold bracelet. The moment he put it on, it transformed into an imperceptible stream of water and disappeared into the murky water.

Swish.

Gu Qing, Jiang Yuan, and Tai Kangxuan reunited, back to back, warily observing their surroundings.

"This is a low-grade demonic treasure, the Heavenly Light Water Concealment Bracelet, which is also the key to the opponent's repeated escapes from the pursuit of a sixth-grade patriarch. Be careful."

"Ah."

After waiting for a long time without any movement, Gu Qing frowned.

"He didn't run away, did he?"

"Watch out!" "Watch out!"

The moment Gu Qing spoke, the water converged, instantly binding him inside, and the Black Flood Dragon King revealed his form with a hearty laugh.

"Even Xia Liuyun, the Eight Capital Sword Immortal, couldn't capture me. How dare you few try? You're nothing but chickens and dogs."

With a squeeze of the dragon claw, Gu Qing immediately felt endless pressure trying to crush his body.

The Zhurong Spirit Armor was activated to its fullest extent.

This thing is just a standard low-grade spiritual weapon; the blueprint's maximum quality is limited to this level unless he improves it himself.

Therefore, it is still a low-grade spiritual artifact.

Under the pressure of the Black Dragon King's dragon power, it began to twist and deform almost immediately, rendering it useless.

As the Crimson Sky Tower was released again, and Gu Qing was preparing to defend with the Crimson Sky Divine Light, he suddenly felt a refreshing breeze blowing into his body, and immediately relaxed.

It dissipated into the wind.

"Who?"

However, Tai Kangxuan and Jiang Yuan also vanished into the wind, completely disappearing into the water.

It is the Seventy-Two Divine Winds Subduing Dragon Formation set up by Master Lianfeng that has taken shape.

The viewing angle is raised.

Lian Feng, who was somewhat exhausted, was sitting in the water to regulate his breathing. Below him, a blue array of light enveloped the water area within a radius of ten thousand meters, and the turbid water inside was being rapidly drained away.

Seventy-two Azure Wind Dragons fiercely sucked up water.

The three people, including Gu Qing, who had just disappeared, gathered here and breathed a sigh of relief.

"The overall situation has been decided."

"It's impossible to escape once it grows wings."

Hearing this, Gu Qing was a little curious. How did they come to that conclusion?
Elder Jiang explained.

"The Seventy-Two Gale Dragon Subduing Formation was created by the Immortal Lord of Baiyue. In the past, it once killed eight fourth-grade true dragons in a battle in the East Sea, and its restraint on dragon species was almost brought to the limit."

"Although Fellow Daoist Lianfeng's method was cleverly executed, its power is far less than that of an Immortal Lord. However, this Black Dragon King is not a true dragon, so he cannot escape."

Gu Qing's eyes lit up; this thing was pretty impressive.

What kind of background did Master Lianfeng have that allowed him to learn this technique?

"Let's see."

When the river was drained, the seventy-two Azure Wind Dragons launched an attack on the Black Flood Dragon King. Strangely enough, the dragon scales that should have been indestructible were no different from tofu under the claws and teeth of these Azure Wind Dragons.

The name Fulong is truly fitting.

Gu Qing still couldn't understand why, if it had such a powerful suppressive effect on dragons, the True Dragon Clan didn't destroy this inheritance; it made no sense.

Just as Gu Qing thought, the Black Dragon King also felt it made no sense.

"Why? Why does a mere formation have such a powerful restraining effect on dragons? This is unreasonable and does not conform to the laws of nature."

"Do not!!!"

Years of peaceful life and repeated escapes from the pursuit of sixth-grade cultivators gave the Black Flood Dragon King the illusion that he was very strong, strong enough to fight against a sixth-grade great cultivator.

Therefore, when they encountered Gu Qing and the other two, they still had a playful attitude.

They relied heavily on their two demonic treasures, never expecting that their previously advantageous situation would suddenly turn sour.

In less than half a moment, it was completely torn apart by the seventy-two Azure Wind Dragons, leaving only its head standing alone in the mud...

The matter was resolved rather easily.

At this moment, Master Lianfeng stood up and said to Gu Qing.

"It's not the formation that's strong, but the Heavenly Dragon Qi that's powerful."

"Why?"

"Before the Four Nine Immortal Paths were opened, and before the Ancient Demon Court was established, the True Dragon was the true king of the Cangwu Immortal Cultivation World. He once founded the Supreme Dragon Court, and the Dragon Emperor's power overwhelmed all ages. This is also the earliest recorded history."

"At that time, there was no concept of the [Path of Ascension]. Every true dragon was a long-lived race. If the bloodline was pure, it had a lifespan of 30,000 years and would continue to grow longer as its strength increased."

"Legend has it that at its peak, the Cangwu cultivation world had a million true dragons and trillions of dragon blood seeds, which could reproduce new offspring every five hundred years. Their cultivation mainly absorbed the spiritual energy of the Cangwu cultivation world."

"There are too many immortal beings; the Cangwu Realm cannot afford to support them."

"Thus, Heaven saved itself by unleashing the power to slay dragons from the heavens, a cataclysmic calamity that killed ninety percent of the dragon race. From then on, the dragon race struggled to reproduce, and it was difficult for them to give birth to a child even once every thousand years."

"The dragons have gone into seclusion in the four seas and no longer participate in the cultivation world."

Such secrets were not recorded in the historical records of Baiyue Mountain. Gu Qing was eager to hear them, but was also shocked by the power of the Heavenly Dao.

"and after?"

"Later, the Demon Court rose to power and prohibited living beings from absorbing the spiritual energy of heaven and earth in large quantities, so as to hone their bodies and advance through bloodlines. Only the high-ranking members of the demon race were qualified to absorb spiritual energy."

"Later, the five ancestors created the Four Nine Immortal Paths, and by returning to the world after death, they were favored by the Heavenly Dao. The human race began to be born extraordinary, and everyone had the aptitude for cultivation. It was at that time that the seeds of cultivation techniques were sown."

"After the Nine Heavens Dragon-Slaying Qi dissipated, a portion of it transformed into the [Heavenly Gang Dragon Qi], one of the Thirty-Six Heavenly Gang Qi. This is the root of its ability to restrain dragon species."

"The Immortal Lord of Baiyue used this energy to condense the Dragon-Slaying Immortal Body. Many of his descendants inherited this talent and were born with the ability to control the Heavenly Dragon Energy."

At this point, Gu Qing also realized what was going on.

So, it seems Lianfeng Zhenren is a direct descendant of Baiyue Immortal Lord? He inherited some of the abilities of the Dragon-Slaying Immortal Body. This background is simply breathtaking; he thought Lianfeng Zhenren was a rogue cultivator like him…

Simply.

Seeing the students' strange looks, Lian Feng sighed.

"Don't overthink it. The Immortal Lord bloodline was affected by the True Dragon Blood Curse and has declined. It's just that its name is more prestigious."

"We, the descendants, owe our rise to our ancestors, yet we also decline at their hands."

"This is the cycle of cause and effect..."

(End of this chapter)