Yuantian Pidao

Chapter 145 A Companion of Spiritual Treasures
On Muyu Island, within the Spirit Cave, blood and fire rise, and within, the shadow of a dragon appears and disappears.

Having successfully caught the dragon, without any hesitation, after returning to Muyu Island, Jiang Chen instructed the Black and White Elders to secretly strengthen their defenses and prevent anyone from disturbing him, and immediately began refining the demon skin.

"Compared to ordinary demon skin, the refining of natal demon skin is more complicated, requiring blood refining and qi refining to be carried out simultaneously."

As the thought crossed his mind, looking at the nascent dragon skin, Jiang Chen dripped a drop of his heart's blood into the blood fire.

With a hum, as Jiang Chen's blood fell, the originally rising blood fire darkened and underwent a new change. At the same time, Jiang Chen also developed a vague connection with the dragon skin.

After confirming that the sensor had taken shape, Jiang Chen nodded.

"go with!"

Following this feeling, Jiang Chen sat cross-legged and continuously poured his true energy into the dragon's skin.

As time passed, under the constant cleansing of the Formless True Qi, the dragon skin gradually became stained with Jiang Chen's aura. At the same time, as the connection deepened, Jiang Chen also clearly sensed the tyranny of the remaining will within the dragon skin.

It lurks menacingly, waiting for its chance to retaliate.

"The more powerful a demon is, the greater the backlash when it refines its demon skin. Although this mist dragon is only one level stronger than me, its bloodline is powerful. It is precisely because of this that its backlash is particularly fierce. It is just holding back its attack now."

Knowing full well what was going on, Jiang Chen watched the dragon skin slowly change, and various thoughts flashed through his mind.

According to the records left by the White Crane Daoist, the safest way to refine demon skin is to personally fight the demon head-on and subdue it. This way, the demon will have the least backlash and the refinement will be the safest. However, the improvement that this kind of demon can bring is also extremely limited, since the cultivator can already fight it head-on.

"The Wuchang Sect does indeed have methods to help disciples with weaker cultivation levels refine and tame powerful demon skins, but these are not things I can obtain right now, since I don't even know where the Wuchang Sect's mountain gate is."

"To truly refine such a pure-blooded dragon skin, I must use my own methods."

Deeply aware of the tyranny of the dragon's lingering resentment, Jiang Chen's resolve grew even stronger.

His soul was powerful, and he was actually quite confident that he could refine the dragon skin directly. However, the possibility of failure was not low, after all, the bloodline power of a pure-blooded dragon was really strong.

Putting everything else aside, pure-blooded dragons have an absolute advantage in the very task of forging a foundation. In the cultivation world, whether they are human cultivators, ordinary dragons, or mixed-blooded dragons, they all need to obtain spiritual treasures to help them forge a foundation.

Unlike pure-blooded dragons, once their cultivation reaches the Qi Refining Perfection stage, their bloodline power will naturally condense into a dragon pearl. By gathering invisible willpower through methods such as dragon walking, and perfecting this dragon pearl, pure-blooded dragons can use this dragon pearl as a foundation to directly forge their Dao foundation.

To some extent, these pure-blooded dragons are born with a spiritual treasure, giving them a much higher starting point than ordinary demon beasts and human cultivators. It is precisely because of this that, as long as they grow normally, the probability of a pure-blooded dragon establishing its Dao foundation is almost 100%.

The reason why the Mist Dragon was not so powerful before was more because it had lost its intelligence. It was born in the Spirit Cave. Although the high spiritual pressure environment further stimulated its bloodline, allowing it to become a pure-blooded dragon after swallowing the Fish Dragon Pearl, the long-term high spiritual pressure environment also suppressed its soul, making it born with a lack of intelligence and acting according to its instincts.

Under these circumstances, in order to maximize the success rate of refining this dragon skin, Jiang Chen would have to use some auxiliary methods.

And so, time passed day by day. Except for necessary times, Jiang Chen rarely left the Spirit Cave, spending his days refining the dragon's skin with his blood and true energy. Meanwhile, in the outside world, with the complete disappearance of the mist dragon, Qinghe County returned to peace, and more and more people began to treat the dragon legend as a joke, since similar things had actually happened many times before.

True dragons are powerful, and there are many legends about dragons in folklore. Because of this, people often attribute many strange things to dragons. For example, if a fish demon is causing trouble in a certain place, it may eventually become a dragon.

However, as Qinghe County returned to peace, Liao Yonghuai, who had been secretly observing the Taiping Sect in the county government office, was disappointed.

"What exactly is going on? Why hasn't the Gao family reacted yet?"

"Given the grudge between the Corpse Daoist and the Gao family, the Gao family's reaction after learning of the Corpse Daoist's whereabouts should not have been so indifferent. They should have at least some suspicion about the source of the information and sent someone to investigate."

Liao Yonghuai paced back and forth in the backyard of the county government office, completely baffled.

He deliberately spread the news of the Corpse Daoist, originally intending to use the Gao family's knife to destroy the Taiping Sect and thus eliminate future troubles for himself. However, the Gao family's reaction was beyond his expectations, and they have not reacted at all so far.

Just as Liao Yonghuai was feeling a surge of anger and deep thought, a sharp pain shot through his brain, interrupting his train of thought.

"Damn it, here it comes again..."

With a splitting headache, Liao Yonghuai sat down shakily.

After a short while, the pain subsided, and Liao Yonghuai finally caught his breath. At this moment, he was covered in sweat, his face was as pale as paper, and his breathing was extremely weak.

The silver puppet was damaged, and its spirit was injured. Although its condition was initially stabilized under his suppression and was not fatal, it left behind great aftereffects.

"This can't go on any longer. I must find a spiritual object that can heal the soul and eliminate the hidden danger as soon as possible, otherwise my cultivation may be affected."

With the Taiping Sect still not eradicated and his injuries recurring, Liao Yonghuai was unwilling to wait any longer.

"As is customary, there should be another auction on Yan Hui Island in a while. Although spiritual items that can repair soul wounds are relatively rare, there is still a chance of them appearing at that time. Perhaps I should go and take a look."

With his thoughts in turmoil, Liao Yonghuai began to formulate a plan.

During this time, in order to avoid being discovered by the Taiping Sect, he had been keeping a low profile, but the troublesome injury to his soul made him unable to wait any longer.

"Jiang Chen, let you be smug for a while longer. I don't believe the Gao family can really hold back from taking action against you."

"Even if the Gao family doesn't make a move, once my soul injury heals, I will kill you at any cost."

Looking towards Muyu Island, a ferocious look flashed across Liao Yonghuai's large face. He had truly come to hate Jiang Chen after enduring so much pain during this period. Every time his head was throbbing with pain, his most burning thought was to kill Jiang Chen.

(End of this chapter)