My Years in the Folklore World

Chapter 350: The Dragon's Reverse Scale
The negative energy in the big cave disappeared without a trace, but Jiang Xinghuo did not dare to be careless. Lightning flashed on his body and could burst out at any time.

A while passed.

When Jiang Xinghuo saw that there was no movement below, he took the two evil spirits, Silver Mother and Swallowing Dragon, back into the cave.

The situation just now was urgent, and no one knew where the evil spirit came from, so Jiang Xinghuo used all three of his most powerful methods at once.

At the same time, he was also prepared to escape. If things became unavoidable, he would immediately use his escape skills to escape.

Fortunately, it was just a false alarm. Although the evil energy came fiercely, it was weak. As long as you can get through the beginning, there will be almost no pressure afterwards.

Jiang Xinghuo guessed that perhaps too much evil energy had accumulated in the cave and had not been released for a long time, so it kept accumulating. It happened that he had moved the coffin away, giving the evil energy a chance to be released, and as a result, all of it rushed towards him.

This should just be a coincidence and not targeted at him, but to be on the safe side, Jiang Xinghuo still waited for a while.

The huge monster with ferocious scales was still squatting there, without any abnormality.

Jiang Xinghuo finally felt relieved and went to the niche shop to buy an oil-sealed lamp. The evil spirit just now was really terrifying. The oil ghost in the oil-sealed lamp had no strength to struggle and was killed instantly.

The oil lamp that carried its power also turned into ashes and dissipated, leaving no fragments or residue.

Jiang Xinghuo took a deep breath, holding the oil lamp in his hand, and jumped down into the cave. The light stretched his shadow infinitely on the stone wall.

Although there is no danger for the time being, Jiang Xinghuo is also prepared.

The Thunder Ancestor's precious scroll appeared and disappeared between his eyebrows, and the peach blossom lightning tattoo on his body also bloomed brightly. As long as there was something slightly abnormal, it would surely be a thunderous attack like a storm.

After making sure that there was no problem below, Jiang Xinghuo concentrated on observing the surroundings. This cave should be connected to an underground river. The accumulated water under his feet was clear and cold, and there was no feeling of stuffiness at all. He could even feel a cool breeze.

After taking a quick look at the environment, Jiang Xinghuo turned his attention to the big guy.

It wasn’t very clear from above just now, but after watching it up close, I felt a strong sense of oppression.

At this moment, the huge monster that appeared in front of him was almost as tall as him, and its hideous scales gleamed like pig iron in the firelight.

Jiang Xinghuo looked at the creature carefully, a divine light flickered in his small pupils, and dense text information immediately appeared on his retina.

"The remains of a disaster dragon (legendary material), a giant dragon that had survived two thunder disasters. When it was about to transform into a dragon, it was captured and its veins and tendons were severed. It was imprisoned here using the dragon-locking technique."

"But the essence in his body has been completely depleted, as if it was forcibly plundered by some force."

When Jiang Xinghuo saw the information appearing in the Tathagata storehouse, he immediately understood.

This Jiaolong should be the one mentioned on the stone tablet above. It was forcibly imprisoned by Zhang Tianshi during the Renzong period and became the cauldron of the "Jiaolong Changing Tire Technique".

Jiang Xinghuo walked forward along the dragon's body and soon saw the dragon-locking nails on the dragon's body. They were more than two meters long, nailed into the scales and deep into the flesh, fixing it firmly in place.

"Dragon Locking Nail (rare item), a dragon-locking nail made by a Taoist master using talismans and has a special effect on dragon-like monsters."

Tathagata Zang's vision read the information of the dragon-locking nail. Jiang Xinghuo held the oil lamp in his left hand, flew over the dragon's body, cut off the chain connected to the wall, and pulled out the dragon-locking nail.

The two-meter-long dragon-locking nail was comparable to a spear, and its surface was engraved with various talismans and scriptures. Jiang Xinghuo threw it directly into the magic bag. The body of this dragon was fifteen or sixteen meters long, and there was a dragon-locking nail almost every two meters.

However, Jiang Xinghuo noticed that the person who cast the spell was very careful and completely avoided the dragon's vital organs. He could only cause it to suffer severe pain and be unable to move, but would not take its life.

Moreover, Jiang Xinghuo also found a smooth cut on the dragon's lower abdomen. It was only about 50 centimeters wide, which was almost insignificant compared to its huge body of nearly 20 meters.

But this place is where snakes breed their offspring. Jiang Xinghuo held up an oil lamp and took a look, and found a lot of tiny bones inside.

When the Medical Identification System was opened, Jiang Xinghuo immediately recognized that those broken bones were from human babies.

"A dragon changes tires... the old is shed and the new is born..."

Jiang Xinghuo thought of the records on the stone tablet. These bones should be the old bones that had transformed.

Soon, Jiang Xinghuo arrived at the end of the underground cave, and a huge dragon head appeared in front of him. Its eyes were half-open, revealing turbid gray-white pupils, and its hair and beard had long since withered and lost its luster.

"Don't be surprised if there is something strange..."

Jiang Xinghuo sighed lightly and muttered a few words, then walked closer and found a crescent-shaped scale growing in the opposite direction at the dragon's throat. It was crystal clear and looked as if it was carved from ice.

The dragon's reverse scale!!
A hint of joy flashed in Jiang Xinghuo's eyes, and he was extremely excited. It was really a case of searching for something everywhere but finally finding it without any effort. The dragon's reverse scale that could not be found in the secular world was actually found here.

This is a crucial material for casting a Dharma image. With this scale of the dragon of disaster, he can start preparing other materials and begin casting the Dharma image of the angry river dragon.

"You have obtained the scales of the dragon of disaster."

Jiang Xinghuo stepped forward and took off the reverse scale. This was a dead dragon. If it was a living dragon, even if it was imprisoned here by the Dragon Locking Nail, he would not dare to get close to it.

In classical mythology, the dragon is a synonym for power. No matter if it is a flooded dragon or a real dragon, as long as it is related to a dragon, it is definitely powerful.

Of course, creatures like dragons are often the first choice for those masters to increase their reputation. From Lu Zu's flying sword to kill the yellow dragon, to Jingyang Patriarch killing the dragon with a single sword, to Yao Guangxiao imprisoning the dragon and calming the sea with the Eye, there are countless legends.

Now that the scales of the disaster dragon used to cast the Dharma image have been obtained, Jiang Xinghuo does not have too many ideas about how to deal with the dragon's corpse.

After thinking for a while, Jiang Xinghuo summoned Yunlong, and Yunlong's shadow appeared in the cave.

Jiang Xinghuo wanted to ask Yunlong whether the dragon's corpse was useful to him, but Yunlong murmured softly with a look of sorrow in his eyes.

Jiang Xinghuo was in tune with Yunlong and quickly understood what he meant.

Yunlong wanted him to bury the dragon, as he didn't want the remains of his fellow creatures to be harmed.

Jiang Xinghuo simply fulfilled its wish and used the method of capturing dragon veins to bury the dragon's body more than ten meters deep underground.

Theoretically speaking, as long as no subway is built in this area in the future, no one will be able to find the remains of this dragon.

(End of this chapter)