From a martial arts disciple to a god through countless trials and tribulations

Chapter 151 Dragon in the Well

The courtyard was overgrown with weeds. There was a crudely made old well in the clean yard, and some sword-shaped weeds grew between the bricks.

Five monks from the Demon Suppression Division, their bodies covered in blood, walked into the courtyard, built a fire on the ground, and sat around it.

"General Xiao Hou refined some marching pills to distribute to the various cities. There aren't many left. Let's divide them up."

The middle-aged man in the lead, with a beard, poured out a few red pills from the gourd on his waist and generously distributed them to everyone.

This person's name is Xu Chang, a high-level Taoist priest, a casual cultivator following the Jiang family. Now he is a young demon-suppressing general in the Demon Suppression Division, and the deputy.

After Luoyue City was broken, Lieutenant General Xu met four monks from the Demon Suppression Division, including Shen Lingfeng, and fled together.

"Where are the reinforcements? The Zhi Kingdom's spirit race has been acting strangely since the beginning of the year, and now they're fighting tooth and nail! Where are our reinforcements? Princess Jiang, a mere female commander of the western front, has to watch Luoyue City fall? Zhi Kingdom is going to devour all the cultivators here!"

A cultivator sneered as he chewed a red pill, then muttered, "The pill is pretty good. Xiao Hou, an outsider, can't refine a treasure, but he's an expert at refining pills."

Deputy General Xu's face was solemn. He sighed and said:
"The battle against the State of Zhi on the western front of the State of Chu is likely to be a complete defeat. Not only Luoyue City, but other large cities nearby should have fallen as well. The Jiang family is powerless."

"Why?"

Some people asked in confusion, since the Shangyang Dongtian incident last year, the State of Zhi took the opportunity to capture several cities on the border, but then in the second half of the year, it became quiet and there were no major moves.

Deputy General Xu whispered a piece of news that was only known to the higher-ups of the Demon Suppression Division:
"It's related to the 'Saint Son of the Southern Wasteland' Chen Xuan."

Everyone looked at each other in surprise when they heard the sound, and Shen Lingfeng's pupils shrank in the crowd.

"The Holy Son of the Southern Wilderness? Chen Xuan? The lawless and unparalleled demon who snatched the Human Emperor Banner from a thousand-year-old aristocratic family and a small plague mansion in the outer realm, killed the descendants of True Lord Fu Long of the Rain Country, and nearly wiped out the two thousand-year-old aristocratic families of Cui and Zheng?"

Someone said with a trembling voice the name that caused a huge stir in Chu last year.

Chen Xuan is famous and notorious. Now, everyone in the Qi training world in Chu knows him.

"Didn't they say that Chen Xuan was detained by a powerful foreign force last year? Is he really an evil villain sent from heaven, helping the spiritual people of Zhi Kingdom to attack their fellow tribesmen in Chu?" Someone said with hatred, his eyes bloodshot.

Upon hearing this, Deputy General Xu shook his head and explained:

"That's not the case. In fact, the peace that Chu enjoyed in the second half of last year was entirely due to Chen Xuan. Chu owes him a debt of gratitude."

"Why?" everyone was surprised.

Deputy General Xu looked at everyone and said slowly:

"Last August, a group of great ghosts from the Southern Wilderness emerged from the mountains. After intercepting the small plague palace from the border of Chu, they headed eastward with overwhelming force, sweeping across 40,000 to 50,000 miles, and directly attacked the capital of the Rain Kingdom."

"It is said that the great ghosts in the Southern Wilderness are looking for a place to fight with Chen Xuan. They have trapped dozens of brutal dragon sons and daughters in the royal city, and they fight and battle with each other every day."

"The Rain Kingdom, which should have been the most hostile, therefore missed the best opportunity and attacked the Chu Kingdom from the east."

"The country of Zhi is cautious and remains silent."

Everyone held their breath upon hearing this. "To think this had happened! No wonder the Zhi Nation's Spiritual Tribe suddenly halted their overwhelming offensive in the second half of last year... The Chu Nation truly benefited from the Southern Wasteland Saint."

Although Nanhuang, who represented Chen Xuan, did not help the State of Chu.

However, the State of Chu did benefit greatly from the existence of Chen Xuan.

Deputy General Xu paused:
"But at the beginning of this year, when the snow melted, the Rain Country Dragon Clan requested the assistance of their fellows from the Four Seas [Little Dragon Palace]."

"In the end, the Southern Wasteland fought a fierce battle with the Rain Kingdom, flattened the Rain Kingdom's capital, smashed the Dragon Kingdom's palace, and then swaggered back to the mountains."

"A dragon son of the Rain Kingdom finally succeeded in ascending the throne as king in the dilapidated palace."

"Then, the Rain Nation intruded into the eastern frontier of the Chu Nation, and the Dragon War began."

"Zhi Guo must have heard the news, so he no longer hesitated and took the big action now."

Deputy General Xu looked miserable, and the others were also deeply moved.

The borders of Chu State, stretching for tens of thousands of miles to the east and west, are being attacked by the Yu State and the Zhi State, which are encroaching on its territory.

"If that's the case, there will be no reinforcements for the Chu State's war with the Zhi State on the western front..."

Zhiguo is cold and ruthless.

But how much better are dragons? They are even more brutal!

The State of Chu is about to perish.

"Chen Xuan..." Shen Lingfeng was in a corner of the crowd, silently reciting the name that had once brought him endless fear, recalling the stunning glimpse he had had in the Southern Wilderness.

"A humble cultivator who had reached the first level of enlightenment...became a nationally renowned figure."

Shen Lingfeng was filled with emotion, thankful that he had a clear mind and did not accept the deception of Wang Chan in the Yellow Millet Dream. "I saw that Chen Xuan was extraordinary. How could a small person like me be able to stop a chariot with a mantis arm?"

He is one of the top talents of the younger generation in Red Crow City.

But how could he be compared to a figure like Chen Xuan? No fewer than half a hundred Taoist monks had died at his hands!
Shen Lingfeng came to Luoyue City in the second half of last year and resolutely joined the Demon Suppression Division. At that time, he had reached the third level of enlightenment and was not even qualified to fight. He could only do some small logistical work such as healing injuries... At the beginning of the year, he got an opportunity on the battlefield and luckily became a Taoist monk.

Only after he left the remote Red Crow City did he realize how vast the world was. Over the past six months, he had seen too many true heroes.

Not to mention anything else, among the people present at this moment, who is worse than him?

When these people were young, they were all geniuses who amazed the whole city!

"Could a talented person like Chen Xuan really be captured by a powerful foreign force and die prematurely..." Shen Lingfeng felt a strange feeling in his heart that everything had changed.

The five monks from the Demon Suppression Division were refining the medicinal power of the Marching Pills while using breathing techniques to absorb the thin immortal energy in the air.

"Everyone, heal your wounds quickly. If you want to continue escaping, the monks from Zhi Country are overwhelming and are chasing us everywhere. We are walking treasure trees on land." said Deputy General Xu.

Heaven and earth are the furnace, and all living beings are the firewood.

Just as the old turtle in the Southern Wilderness said, those who practice Qi want to make rapid progress and do not want to fight among their own kind, so they can only fight outside.

The atmosphere at the scene seemed depressing.

Suddenly, someone laughed softly:
"Big guy, you must have been caught by a group of Zhiguo spirits."

"Which of the plants and trees in this world are not their eyes and ears? There is no way to escape."

"Ah……"

"..."

Deputy General Xu Chang, as the person with the highest status here, glanced at the monks from the garrison who all had somewhat sad faces. He felt helpless, but there was indeed no way out.

Everyone was silent. Suddenly, someone knocked on the bloody head and muttered in a low voice:
"I don't know if it's because the injury is too severe, but I always hear a low breathing sound in my ears..." "Breathing sound?"

"I, I heard it too. I heard it as soon as I entered the yard. It sounded like the breath of a dragon."

"..."

The yard was suddenly so quiet that you could hear a pin drop.

The five Daozang Realm cultivators' faces changed drastically, their hair standing on end in horror... What could that thing be? It easily evaded their Daozang Realm perception. If it weren't for its unobtrusive breathing, they wouldn't even have noticed the existence of this hidden object!

Special ghost?
Or... Dinglu?
Lieutenant General Xu's pupils contracted and soybean-sized beads of cold sweat oozed from his forehead.

"call."

"call……"

It seemed like the breathing of the heaven and earth, or the heartbeat of some huge creature, echoing faintly in the quiet courtyard, like the ringing of bells in the distant mountains after the rain, one after another, resounding into everyone's heart.

Deputy General Xu, Shen Lingfeng and others slowly turned their horrified gazes to the ancient well in the courtyard.

"Wow!"

Deputy General Xu slowly raised his arm, and the other four men immediately stood up, forming a siege posture, leaving them room to either escape or attack.

Lieutenant General Xu gritted his teeth and approached the crudely crafted ancient well silently like a breeze.

He slowly leaned his head forward.

"..."

The sunlight from above shone into the well, illuminating the dark bottom of the well a little. The space under the well was larger than one could imagine, and it was probably connected to the underground of the entire village. Lieutenant General Xu caught a glimpse of huge black-gold scales sliding at the bottom of the well!

It was a huge body.

Snake python?

Or some ghost?
Deputy General Xu swallowed subconsciously and looked at it carefully.

Suddenly, the black and gold scales stopped moving and moved to both sides.

In the pitch-black well, a pale golden eye with a vertical pupil lit up, filling the bottom of the well, and stared at him dimly.

Thousands of majestic and crazy voices, like the collapse of heaven and earth, filled Lieutenant General Xu's entire mind, making him feel desperate and want to kneel down in an instant.

All living things in the world should submit and kneel before this superior ancient life.

A real one——

Black dragon!

……

Not a dragon or python.

A real dragon.

Deputy General Xu felt as if he had fallen into an ice cellar, his legs were trembling. According to legend, every ancient true dragon, when it grows up, will at least become a legendary creature that hides in the mortal world!
"This ancient beast lurks in the territory of Luoyue City..."

Deputy General Xu's scalp tingled and he was filled with fear.

At this moment, he was at a loss. They had mistakenly entered the forbidden area and awakened the sleeping ancient beast... The breath of the real dragon almost suffocated him, a high-level Taoist monk.

He could only move slowly, trying to get out of the sight of that pale golden vertical pupil.

"Wow!"

The other four monks from the Demon Suppression Division stared at Deputy General Xu, who was drenched in sweat, in confusion, and had no idea what was going on.

"tread!"

Just then, footsteps were heard outside the yard.

The Zhiguo elves who were chasing nearby surrounded this place.

"This is the place. A few rats from the Chu State are hiding in this human village."

"Kill them and take them to the newly opened Two Worlds Market to exchange for the necessary Wood Deity spiritual objects..."

"The Lord of Luoyue City, who was at the Dinglu Realm, has already perished. Where can these scumbags escape to?"

"..."

Several imposing figures from Zhiguo stepped into the village, and the sound of their undisguised conversations entered the courtyard with an eerie atmosphere.

"Deputy General Xu, what should we do?"

A monk from the Demon Suppression Division asked nervously in a low voice, "Hurry up and make a decision!"

"..."

Deputy General Xu said nothing, bent his body, and carefully backed away from the wellhead. He had a lot of grievances to express.

Black Dragon in the Well.

The Zhiguo elves.

Attack from both sides.

Deputy General Xu looked like he was in a daze and didn't make any big movements. The other four monks from the Demon Suppression Division were anxious, but they could only stand in the yard with him.

Several figures of the Zhiguo elves quickly came to the outside of the courtyard and saw a strange scene in the courtyard through the low wall.

"The Chu monks were cowardly and were frightened by us..."

A Qi practitioner from Zhiguo sneered and looked at him with disdain.

His whole body was emitting green light, and he took the lead in walking towards the courtyard. With every step he took, various precious herbs such as Ganoderma lucidum and Snow Lotus grew out from under his feet.

"call!"

In a trance, he heard a faint breathing sound in his ears, but he didn't pay attention to it.

(End of this chapter)