Chapter 30: No Dragon Sovereign in the Worldi
“Dragons can be large or small, ascend or hide; large ones stir clouds and breathe fog, small ones hide their form; ascend to roam between the universe, or keep hidden within the waves. Now that it’s deep spring, dragons change ’ with the season.”
Since ancient times, the Dragon Tribe has been an extremely powerful race, occupying a significant position in both the Upper World and Primal Chaos Realm.
The so-called True Dragons, referred to as Dragon Sovereigns, are the direct descendants of the Dragon Tribe with the purest bloodline and are the elites of the Dragon Tribe.
With the Dragon Sovereign’s influence, the Dragon Tribe founded an aquatic aystem centering around the Four Sea Dragon Kings and River God Dragon Kings, dominating numerous aquatic creatures in river, sea and lake.
Besides this, the Dragon Tribe has also bred many pseudo-dragons with their bloodlines, which occupy important positions in the aquatic system.
They claim themselves as the Dragon Tribe, occupying numerous remote lakes, ponds, and even wells, controlling countless aquatic regions of different sizes. Thus, the stories of local King Dragons in lakes, ponds and wells derive their names from this.
Relying on the aquatic system, the Dragon Tribe defeated River God, the ancient local deity who once ruled the water system, securing their dominance over aquatic creatures.
A so-called natural Spirit Pool is born in the water, which is a pool of spirit water gathering the essence of spirit energy from an entire water area.
The purity of this liquid spirit energy supports and maintains the vitality and reproduction of a massive water area, it can almost be considered as the Spirit Vein within the water.
Although terrestrial spirit veins extend over tens of miles and are much bigger, the Natural Spirit Pools in the water areas are much smaller. However, they possess one quality that the spirit veins cannot compete with.
The liquid spirit energy from the Natural Spirit Pool is easier to absorb for cultivation purposes, compared to the spirit stones produced by spirit veins. It can be considered an invaluable treasure for cultivators during breakthroughs. Even facing such temptation, major sects still consume a lot of resources to construct formations. The reason lay in almost all Natural Spirit Pools emerging from large water areas are the lifeblood of all Dragon Sovereigns. Only by protecting these Natural Spirit Pools can they maintain the stability of the spirit energy in a certain water area, and make it continuously produce enlightened aquatic creatures.
If you dare challenge a Dragon Sovereign, the aquatic creatures may not intervene.
Yet, as soon as you try to seize the Natural Spirit Pool, it means you are declaring war on the entire aquatic system. No one under the heavens would dare to do so.
Therefore, even though Shen Yuan is aware of the Natural Spirit Pools, he never initially considered them.
It wasn’t until a casual snub that Shen Yuan realized a very subtle issue.
After experiencing the Last Method era of Spirit Energy depletion that lasted for three thousand years, do dragon sovereigns really still exist?
Shen Yuan believes that the Four Sea Dragon Kings and River God Dragon Kings must have similar grotto heavens sacred ground methods, allowing a part of the dragon tribe to avoid the Spirit Energy depletion era.
But even now with the return of the Spirit Energy Tidal Surge, the Spirit Energy richness in the Primal Chaos Realm is still unable to support the existence of a True Dragon. Not to mention the best amongst True Dragons who rule the water areas – The Dragon Sovereigns.
If that’s the case, the answer seems rather obvious.
There are no Dragon Sovereigns existing in the present!
And under the influence of the Spirit Energy Tidal Surge, the large water areas, which have experienced Spirit Energy depletion for thousands of years, are eligible to give birth to Natural Spirit Pools.
These Natural Spirit Pools are not under the control of the aquatic Dragon Sovereigns. They are still in a state of ownerlessness!
In an instant, Shen Yuan’s thought process was suddenly enlightened. “What do you need a formation to construct a sect spirit pool for? Such an artificial thing is too mundane, how could it fit the status of me, the Falling Clouds Sect Master?
Go directly to find a Natural Spirit Pool, then divide it into the sect as the Falling Clouds Sect Master. Then, complete the Refining Essence to Qi Transformation in the Natural Spirit Pool.
With the help of the Natural Spirit Pool, the effect of generating mana after breaking through will be far superior to the Sect spirit pool.”
With that, the so-called beginner’s guide was no problem at all!” Finally having figured out a way to break the impasse, Shen Yuan couldn’t help but show his joy.
Although, at this point in time, finding a Natural Spirit Pool might not be easy, it was, after all, a method.
At worst, Shen Yuan would spend some time to search through the large rivers and lakes of Great Xia one by one, he could always find a suitable target.
Having made up his mind, Shen Yuan was preparing to leave the cultivation room.
Searching for the Natural Spirit Pool requires the action of a cultivator, and right now the Fu Family only had Old Master Fu, who clearly did not have this ability.
So Shen Yuan had to do it personally, he had to make preparations ahead of time.
Just as Shen Yuan was about to step out of the rest room, the smiling expression on his face instantly changed.
His Divine Sense, enhanced by the seed of Earth Fiend Sword Art, perceived a strand of very concealed demonic aura spreading within the courtyard.
This strand of demonic aura was extremely pure, far surpassing the small demons and monsters that had tried to invade the courtyard a few days ago, and its subtle aura even Shen Yuan didn’t notice at first.
“A Qi Transformation Monster!”
The moment the thought flashed through his mind, the Darkness-Light Sword in the cultivation room soared into the sky, turning into a beam of white light that broke open the door and aimed to cut down the Qi Transformation monster in the middle of the courtyard.
At this moment, the Maine Coon was looking at Bai Xue with a surprised face, about to ask about what happened in the past few days, but at this instant, an incredibly strong sense of crisis swept over its body.
“The king is in danger!”
The Maine Coon protected the shell-shocked Bai Xue behind it by force, its demonic energy surged, stirring up wild wind in the courtyard.
The Maine Coon, which was originally lying on the ground, stood up straight on its hind feet, its huge body manifested a cat-headed human posture, blocking the arms crossed in front of it, its yellowish white fur began to gleam metallically.
Extraordinary Divine Power: Bronze Head Iron Arm!
This is one of the most common Divine Skills among the monster tribe, but it’s also one of the most practical Divine Skills for the monster tribe at a low stage, once it’s activated it’s difficult for cultivators of the same level to break through its defense.
Once, a tiger pioneer under a Demon King became famous in one battle by killing thousands of demon monkeys with this Divine Skill.
However, after running this Divine Skill, the sense of crisis in the Maine Coon’s heart did not disappear with the manifestation of the Divine Skill, but it escalated.
A beam of white light sped past the demonic aura that covered the entire courtyard at a speed difficult to discern with the naked eye. The powerful demonic aura of Qi Transformation Stage that could shatter mountains and split rocks was disregarded by the white light, and the unparalleled sharpness was soaring towards the Maine Coon at a speed surpassing thought.
The Maine Coon, with all its strength, could only watch as a rusty Bronze Ancient Sword cut down towards it, its soul trembling and on the brink of collapse under the Ancient Sword.
The sword momentum gathered under the sword edge was like an invisible sword that breaks all techniques, the Bronze Head Iron Arm Divine Skill that the Maine Coon exerted with all its strength shattered instantly, the strong backlash making it spit out a mouthful of blood.
The Qi Transformation Stage cat monster was easily severely injured without any ability to resist at all.
The sword’s momentum didn’t decrease, the Maine Coon seemed to be able to see the scene of the flying sword piercing its skull, a great feeling of powerlessness constantly surged into its heart.
“As expected of Void Refining True Monarch, even after my breakthrough I still have no ability to resist.”
“After all, I still couldn’t save the king!”
The terrifying sword power fell, completely cutting off all of Maine Coon’s demonic aura.
The next moment all the sharpness was retracted, and the seemingly unremarkable Bronze Ancient Sword stopped in front of Maine Coon’s brow.