Beast Taming Ascension

Chapter 279 The Dragon Palace Reappears
Outside Lotus City, thunderous sounds filled the air.

The loud noise immediately alerted the cultivators in the city.

Within the city, a palace-dressed woman with the highest cultivation level opened her eyes and instantly teleported outside the cave.

Swish!Swish!Swish!
Immediately afterwards, several Nascent Soul cultivators appeared beside her.

"Elder..."

If Lin Jing were here, he would definitely recognize that these Nascent Soul cultivators were all teachers working at the academy.

Lin Jing had even taken classes with two of them.

As for the woman in palace attire, she was one of the Nascent Soul elders of the academy.

Whether it was the attack by the Demon King of Nanshan or the presiding over the Autumn Hunt, this academy elder was always present.

The academy's great relocation affected not only the Foundation Establishment stage students, but also the Nascent Soul stage teachers and the Deity Transformation stage elders, who were powerless against the teleportation treasures available at the time.

These powerful figures from the academy were academy cultivators who happened to have arrived in Qingzhou.

After arriving in Qingzhou, they did not rush to return to the ancient kingdom. Firstly, traversing the Misty Forest was extremely dangerous, and secondly, there were still too many students scattered in various places. As their teachers, their primary task was to find as many of the geniuses who had been affected and ended up in Qingzhou as possible, and then return to the ancient kingdom together.

This Lotus City of the Heavenly Path was the temporary place for everyone to stay. The academy teachers had already spread the word, asking the academy students who came to Qingzhou to gather here as much as possible.

“She is the little princess of the Thunder Dragon Clan,” a teacher from the academy said. “She has been challenging human prodigies of the same realm all over the place recently… I didn’t expect her to come to Lotus City as well.”

"It's accompanied by a Nascent Soul stage Thunder Dragon Prince. Just send a few students to fight her; there's no need to provoke her. We don't need to get involved..."

“I remember the Thunder Dragon Clan, they seem to be members of the Demon Court…” another gentleman hesitated, “The Beast Taming Sect and the Demon Court are entangled, could it be that my academy student Lin Jing has already been found by the Demon Court…”

"I wonder if this Thunder Dragon Princess knows anything. Should we ask her?"

“It’s almost impossible.” The woman in palace attire said, “The various races of the Demon Court are more like an alliance. The connections between each demon beast clan are not deep. Although Xu Qingyao, who came from the Beast Taming Sect, became the third Holy Maiden of the Demon Court, large clans like this, with the Void Profound Demon Ancestor in charge, have little to do with these Holy Maidens. Those who have deep connections with these Holy Maidens are more like Nascent Soul Demon Emperors and their races.”

"Only those demon beast races that do not have a 'Demon Ancestor' to guard them would choose to bet on the Holy Maiden in exchange for the opportunity for their race to rise. The Thunder Dragon Clan has always been isolated from the world, and it is even more impossible for them to have much contact with the Holy Maiden."

"We don't need to worry about Lin Jing's affairs; just leave it to the vice-principal..." As soon as the woman in palace attire finished speaking, some of the academy's geniuses, following the teachers' instructions, headed out of the city to meet Princess Lei Long.

In Qingzhou, besides the current group of academy experts, there is also a vice dean whose cultivation has reached the Void Profound stage who came to Qingzhou to find Lin Jing. It is not because of Lin Jing's status as an academy student or a genius of the ancient kingdom, but simply because he does not want the Yin Corpse Sect and the Gu God Sect to benefit.

Since the Yin Corpse Sect values ​​the Longevity Body so much, then we must resolutely prevent the Yin Corpse Sect from obtaining it. Finding and protecting the Forest Realm is also a way to stop the conspiracy of the enemies of the Ancient Kingdom and the Academy.

However, Lin Jing was too good at hiding. Even when the ancient kingdom dispatched the vice dean of the Void Profound stage academy, they were unable to find Lin Jing in Qingzhou.

Even though the academy invited experts from the Heavenly Mystery Pavilion, they could only deduce at the beginning that Lin Jing was located in Qingzhou.

The artifact that Senior Shensong gave Lin Jing before his departure, which concealed the secrets of heaven, truly helped Lin Jing a great deal.

"Are they here?!"

Meanwhile, outside Lotus City, Princess Leilong's eyes lit up as she watched more than a dozen ancient kingdom prodigies fly in.

At that moment, the dozen or so students from the academy were also observing Princess Leilong with serious expressions.

The dragon's breathtaking form, tens of meters long, and its jewel-like scales crackling with lightning, utterly swayed them, making it impossible for them to muster the will to fight. "Gentlemen, you want us to confront this monster?"

Although these academy students had all received varying degrees of training due to their exile in Qingzhou, it was still far too much for them to face the Thunder Dragon Princess.

With Princess Leilong's bloodline at the peak of the royal level, looking across the ancient kingdom, unless one is among the top few on the list of geniuses, no one is qualified to fight her.

Before the academy's great relocation, there was only one person at the top of the list of outstanding talents.

That is Zhao Qingyue, the number one on the list of geniuses, the Zhao family's Taiyin Body. If Zhao Qingyue were here, there would be no problem in facing this Thunder Dragon Princess. But the problem is that Zhao Qingyue has not been teleported to Qingzhou.

Among the students from the academy who were sent to Qingzhou, the highest-ranked student on the list of prodigies was only "twenty-one".

Although 21st place is still quite high, it's worlds apart from the top.

Those ranked at the top can easily outperform those ranked ten or below.

All eyes turned to a young man in brocade robes who had reached the Great Perfection of Foundation Establishment.

"Let me have a go at you. I am Ji Changge from Wanjian City, and I was once ranked twenty-first on the Ancient Kingdom's list of geniuses!" This young man in brocade robes was a sword cultivator. At this moment, he was flying through the air on his sword, his hands behind his back, and the spiritual sword beneath him was of extraordinary quality.

"Twenty-one, that's so low?" Princess Leilong's eyes showed regret upon hearing this.

“That’s all in the past,” Ji Changge said. Indeed, he was once only ranked twenty-first on the list of geniuses, but after arriving in Qingzhou, he had a series of extraordinary encounters and was no longer the same person he used to be.

In recent years, his gains in Qingzhou have far exceeded those he gained from his secluded studies in Jiancheng and the academy.

hum.

A powerful sword intent rose from Ji Changge's body, and the sharp sword intent began to form materialized yellow flying swords around him. One, two, three... In an instant, one hundred and eight flying swords completely formed from sword intent gathered in the sword formation behind him.

Each flying sword exuded a chilling aura, its blade reflecting the image of withered yellow leaves...

"The Great Perfection of the Withering Sword Intent—this sword intent has the effect of weakening the enemy's spiritual power..."

The surrounding academy students were astonished to see that Ji Changge had actually mastered sword intent. The difficulty of mastering sword intent was no less than mastering some elemental spirit bodies.

However, even though Ji Changge displayed such powerful methods, the palace women and some gentlemen observing the situation behind the scenes still shook their heads. With just this sword intent, it would probably still be difficult to defeat the Thunder Dragon Princess. After all, they had heard that it had easily suppressed divine bodies in other places.

boom! ! !
Sure enough, a moment later, Princess Leilong was struck by countless perfected sword intents, but the sword intents did not even scratch her thunder scales.

Then, with a single claw strike, he sent Ji Changge flying.

"I told you, you're too weak. Are you really the strongest Foundation Establishment cultivator here? I doubt it." Princess Leilong had no interest in this sword cultivator. In the end, her gaze fell on the only two students who remained relatively calm among the dozen or so shocked academy students.

"There seems to be an incredible power dormant within you, far stronger than that guy's... Shall we have a fight?"

Following Princess Leilong's gaze, everyone turned to look at the brother and sister.

"The two palace masters of the Dragon Palace, Jiang Lin and Jiang Qi? This Thunder Dragon actually said they are stronger than Senior Brother Ji?" The other students were stunned. They knew that when they were in the academy, the brother and sister were only at the mid-Foundation Establishment stage and had never even made it onto the Heavenly Pride Ranking. Although they had now reached the peak of Foundation Establishment, it didn't necessarily mean they were stronger than Ji Changge.

Many people were puzzled as to why Lin Jing entrusted the Dragon Palace he had built to these two. Could it be that this brother and sister were not as simple as they seemed?
"How can it sense the Ice Soul Gu within our bodies..." The Jiang family twins exchanged a glance, feeling a bit troubled.

(End of this chapter)