Chapter 218 - Soaring Dragon Hundred Forms (1/2)
The dragon-headed celestial being returned back to the Dragon City. It transformed into a huge dragon with an imposing manner, and guarded over the city of dragons at the bottom of the sea.
This dragon ancestor spirit had been dormant before this. It was only when the Kun Peng Race expert ambushed the city, that the dragon race then performed their rituals to awaken him from his deep slumber. And now, as the chaos had yet to subside, the ancestor spirit also had no intention to go into slumber again; but instead, the strong and vibrant ancestor spirit coiled himself above the Dragon City, closely watching over the perimeter, preventing any more ambushes from their enemies.
Zhong Yue stood on the highest tip of the Earth Courtyard, he glanced around only to see the Dragon City plunged into a terrible state of chaos and disorder. Both the dragon and sea races were struck with fear and panic and they frantically gathered together and activated the defense array formations in the city.
It had been a long time since the dragon race had been faced with such a fiasco, although they nearly killed that Kun Peng, severely injuring him, the morale of the dragon race was still heavily affected. After all, the enemy had managed to infiltrate the core of their city, the Dragon Palace, and steal away a treasure even under the attacks of the ancestor spirit.
One could infer how huge a blow this was to the dragon race!
Many dragons triggered the totem pillars, notifying the incident to the dragon experts that were waging war on the outside.
Zhong Yue mumbled lowly, "The Kun Peng Race has gotten their saint weapon, I'm afraid the dragon experts will suffer a huge decrease in number. This Kun Peng Race expert is too strong, and with the support of the Divine Wing Saber, who can win against him? If he decides to hunt for the dragon experts, the dragon race will have to suffer a heavy price."
"Well then, you are wrong. Although that Kun Peng Race expert managed to escape, he was severely injured by that Sword Qi, it is still uncertain whether or not he can survive those wounds."
In his psyche ocean, Xin Huo shook his head and said, "The Ao Clan's saint weapon is not something fun to be tampered with, not to mention that the saint weapon was wielded by the Ao Clan's ancestor spirit himself! This Kun Peng Race expert is dying, the power of the Coiling Dragon Sword has already entered his body; the longer the amount of time that passes, the weaker his body will get. Even his Yuan Shen start to erode, crumbling and collapsing until it becomes nothing. Look at it, how is the other part of that Kun Peng's mortal body looking now?"
Zhong Yue quickly cast his divine third eye and look over. The Kun Peng Race's mortal body was slashed into half, one part having already escaped while the other slammed into the sea. Logically speaking, it should be floating on the sea surface, a thousand mile long mortal body would be difficult to not notice.
However, there was no such body in his sights; only blood, a sea of blood that spanned a thousand miles!
The other half of the mortal body was completely pulverized by the power of the Coiling Dragon Sword into a fine blend of minced flesh and blood that became the sea of blood that he was now seeing before his eyes!
The saint weapon of the dragon race is so strong! But, the dragon race itself is already a strong and vibrant race, it is only to be expected that their divine weapon would be appropriately powerful.
The dragon race resides in the vast sea, but they could also soar in the high skies; while the Kun Peng race is the overlord of the ocean in the form of the Kun, and the ruler of the sky in the form of the Peng. The long-standing feud between these two races have existed since ancient times – they were natural rivals with perennially conflicting agendas.
Xin Huo was surprised, "I never expected that in the times when I was slumbering, the dragon has banished the Kun Peng to the Celestial Wood Star. But there is nothing left in the Ancestral Star anymore, even the Celestial Wood Star is more valuable than it; why would the Kun Peng race try to come back here?"
Zhong Yue pondered earnestly and said, "Isn't the dragon race also the same? All the efforts they have poured in to banish the Kun Peng Race was so that they could continue to dominate over the sea and sky of the Ancestral Star. Similarly, there is also the celestial race in the East Barren. It seems like there is an earth-shaking secret residing within the Ancestral Star!"
The ambush left a huge hole on the Dragon Barrier where a torrent of seawater flood through, the scene was like what the myths had described; a void hole in the sky. The dragon experts in the city soared into the air and started patching up the hole, reducing the area of the hole to a smaller and smaller radius. The torrent of water that was rushing was also slowing.
Zhong Yue watched as the dragons soared around the hole, blasting blazing fire from their mouths to refine various kind of marvelous materials for repairing the hole.
The Dragon Barrier was a hemisphere that covered the Dragon City. It was the sky and heaven to the livings in the city; and it was an utterly marvelous scene as the dragon experts were patching up the hole in their sky.
For a long period of time to come, the Dragon City would not be able to return to the peace and tranquility it once had. There were dragon experts that rushed back from the outside, armies standing guard in defense of the city in anticipation of another possible assault on their saint city, whether it be an ambush from the Kun Peng Race or any other forces.
Seems like this would last for quite some time, the Ao Clan elders are busy settling the chaos on the outside. They won't be able to see me in the meantime.
Qing He was recuperating from her wounds, Long Qiu'er and the others were in the Million Spirit Pavilion trying manifesting their spirits to become the Qi Practitioners. All the while, Ao Fenglou had yet to return. Hence, Zhong Yue walked out from the Earth Courtyard and gave himself a tour around Dragon City. Suddenly, he spotted the young dragon experts all rushing towards the city center.
With a curious heart filled with questions, he followed behind them. Soon, the dragon ancestor spirit came into their view, the enormously huge dragon spirit was in a slumber but his body remained in form, coiled in the middle of the Dragon Palace.
Meanwhile, the young dragon experts crowded around the Dragon Palace, intently staring at the totem patterns around the dragon god ancestor spirit, trying to gain enlightenment from it.
"This is a once in a lifetime opportunity, it is extremely rare for the dragon god ancestor spirit to appear; but once it does, we can observe his spirit, his form, his charm and the totem patterns to attain some skills and techniques of the highest calibre!" Some dragon disciples were thrilled as they spoke.
"The totem patterns on the ancestor spirit contain innumerable skills and arts. Any one of the many techniques can heighten our abilities to a whole new level. Sadly, the totem patterns on the ancestor spirit are all god-level totem patterns, I can't perceive anything from it!"
Zhong Yue heard them and thought to himself, It is indeed a rare opportunity to study the dragon race's ancestor spirit! What Ao Fenglou had taught me was the skill of the Jiao Dragons. However, it is hard to comprehend it in its entirety, and difficult to understand its more abstruse aspects. Since I'm currently using the identity of Long Yue, how can I not unleash this skill to its maximum power?
Ao Fenglou had imparted him one hundred and forty-four skills of a Jiao Dragon technique that went by the name of [Soaring Dragon Hundred Forms]. It was extremely profound and abstruse. Zhong Yue had been studying it since then, but even now, he was still unable to enlighten himself on all the abstrusities of the one hundred and forty-four skills.
In the West Barren, he did not use the [Soaring Dragon Hundred Forms] as he had to conceal his alternate identity of 'Long Yue'. Hence, he never dedicated much time to study it either.
He had only cast the movement skill of the [Soaring Dragon Hundred Forms] in his daily footwork regime. He only started studying and trying to understand the abstrusity of the [Soaring Dragon Hundred Forms] when he returned to the monster race. And it was then when he has grasped the art of the one hundred and forty-four skills.
However, he had never come across a dragon race spirit; although he had attained the dragon race totem patterns, it was nearly impossible to comprehend its essence without the spirit.
Zhong Yue's comprehension of the art as it was now was merely superficial and shallow, but even so, the power he could unleash with this limited understanding could not be underestimated!