Chapter 1010: Chapter 1009: A Bunch of Nutcases

A Jade Dragon, a Chi Dragon, the same kind of Demonic Qi characteristics... 𝙛𝒓𝓮𝒆𝔀𝒆𝙗𝓷𝒐𝙫𝒆𝙡.𝒄𝓸𝓶

The Fiery Fire Demon-Extinction Dragon Ascension Technique—just from the name it sounds like a Demonic Skill tailored for the Dragon Race?

Si Lingxi didn’t speak; clearly she’d never heard this Demonic Skill’s name either.

"Have there been Fallen dragons in the Dragon Race before?" Lu Zheng asked Ao Qi.

Ao Qi shook her head. "I don’t know. There’s no record in the clan."

Si Lingxi shook her head. "No need to ask her. She’s not even two hundred years old yet, and falling into demons is nothing glorious. Aside from the Dragon Race’s secret history, it basically won’t be spread. Even ordinary dragons wouldn’t know."

"Dragon Race secret history?"

Clearly, even Ao Qi and Ao Qian knew nothing of this.

"You know it?" Lu Zheng asked Si Lingxi.

"I don’t either. It’s not like I’ve ever read any Dragon Race’s secret history." Si Lingxi shook her head. "I just heard a dragon mention it once."

Ao Qi looked at Si Lingxi with some curiosity.

She herself didn’t know about any Dragon Race secret history, so just knowing such a thing existed should already put one among the old guard or top experts of the Dragon Race. Who was this woman who looked so powerful?

She might be a Cyan Dragon Maiden, but her experience was still limited; she hadn’t recognized Si Lingxi.

"Let’s go check out his cave dwelling first." Lu Zheng said, then turned to Ao Qi, Ao Qian and the group of Dragon Sons and Daughters. "When you go back, you can tell the elders of the Dragon Race about this. One Demon Dragon showing up might be coincidence; two appearing means you probably need to start paying attention."

Everyone nodded in unison.

Then, under Yan Hongxia’s lead, the group dove deeper into the sea and arrived at a steep area on the edge of the Golden Yuan Sea.

This place wasn’t far from the sea surface. The mountains were jagged; sunlight pierced the water and shone down, the golden rocks sparkling. In the low-lying area between seven or eight steep peaks lay a pitch-black cavern.

"This is it." Yan Hongxia introduced.

"Let’s go in and take a look." Lu Zheng said.

So Lu Zheng and Si Lingxi took the lead, drifting into the cave first. Ao Qi and Yan Hongxia were second. Shen Ying and Liu Qingyan flanked Lin Wan and the other three women behind them. Finally came Crab General, the Shark Guards and the rest of the Aquatic Race officers, bringing up the rear with the Dragon Sons and Daughters.

That Li Qian might have been a renowned Chi Dragon, but his Dao Practice was only average. Though stronger than Ao Qi, it wasn’t a crushing superiority.

So all the traps he set up in the cave dwelling couldn’t escape Lu Zheng’s eyes. As they advanced, he lifted a hand now and then, alternating between the Flying Cloud Evil-breaking Curse and the Flowing Cloud Demon-slaying Curse, eroding and clearing away the scattered Demon Curses laid along the path.

Very soon, a vast chamber dozens of zhang across and over ten zhang high appeared at the end of the cave passage.

"Buzz!"

A surge of Dragon’s Might stronger than that of the Chi Dragon Li Qian suddenly erupted, blended with Demonic Might.

Lu Zheng stood as steady as a mountain, while Si Lingxi raised her hand and blocked everyone behind her. "Don’t come in yet."

Lu Zheng looked up, and saw that on the rock walls of this hollowed-out mountainside, all kinds of strange characters and symbols had been painted. On the center of the rock wall directly opposite him was a mural of a strangely shaped dragon.

This dragon’s head bore two horns, sharp, straight and ridged with spirals. Its whiskers forked, flying like snakes. Bone spurs jutted from the scales along its body and the dragon ridge on its back. Most bizarre of all, this dragon actually had six legs.

The instant he looked at this dragon, Lu Zheng felt his mind go blank, his vision go dark, and then a six-legged Demon Dragon baring its fangs and brandishing its claws appeared deep within his Sea of Consciousness.

At the same time, the strange characters and symbols on the surrounding rock walls turned into a low murmur, whispering into his mind.

"What the—!?"

Lu Zheng was startled; a Golden Palace instantly appeared in the depths of his Divine Soul. Under its blazing golden radiance, those murmuring whispers were directly driven out and scattered.

Only that Demon Dragon still stubbornly circled and flew within the golden light.

"Golden Palace Heart Sword—cut!"

With a light cracking sound, that Demon Dragon was cleaved apart by his sword stroke.

Leaving his Sea of Consciousness, Lu Zheng couldn’t help but exhale a long breath. "Damn, what was that?"

Si Lingxi’s eyes narrowed. "That’s the Fiery Fire Demon-Extinction Dragon Ascension Technique, and the Demon Dragon from the Demon Realm that passed this Technique to him."

Lu Zheng’s mouth twitched. "Luckily these runes were just copied down by Li Qian, and the Demon Dragon mural had form but no spirit. Otherwise I’d have been tainted by Demon Thought."

"Relax. This Demonic Skill only works on the Dragon Race. Anyone else who sees it, at worst they’ll just suffer qi deviation. They still can’t successfully cultivate this Demonic Skill."

"My thanks, really..."

Si Lingxi giggled softly. She knew this mural couldn’t do anything to Lu Zheng, so she hadn’t acted on her own—she had to leave a bit of face for her own man.

She waved her hand; Phoenix Divine Fire surged from her sleeve in a flash, instantly filling this hollowed-out space. As the fierce flames swept past, they melted and burned away all the murals, characters, and symbols on the rock walls.

In the next moment, the Dragon’s Might and Demonic Might that had been suffusing the place were wiped out and vanished.

"Alright, you can come in now."

Only then did Ao Qi and the others behind them walk in.

Ao Qian bounced in with a hop, asking in a girlish voice, "I felt a burst of Dragon’s Might in the tunnel just now. What was that about?"

"A Demon Dragon mural, depicting a Dragon from the Demon Realm." Lu Zheng said. "It can also attack the Sea of Consciousness of one’s Divine Soul. Lingxi stopped you just now because she was afraid you’d accidentally learn the Demonic Skill and be left with hidden dangers."

Those murmuring whispers in his mind from the mural just now were clearly the Demonic Skill of the Fiery Fire Demon-Extinction Dragon Ascension Technique. If Ao Qi, Ao Qian and the others had seen it and accidentally learned it, what would happen if, someday, they had a moment of weakness and fell into qi deviation?

"The fact that Chi Dragon just now could draw a Demon Dragon mural from the Demon Realm proves that he once received an Upper Realm Demon Dragon Dream Transmission." Si Lingxi said coolly.

"Dream Transmission Technique?"

Si Lingxi nodded. "That’s right. If he’d just stumbled upon the Demonic Skill by chance, there shouldn’t have been a mural passed down, at least."

Lu Zheng looked at Si Lingxi. "There was a Fallen dragon from the Jade Dragon Race before too."

"Looks like for a certain period of time, or rather recently, that Demon Dragon set its gaze on this world." Si Lingxi said in a deep voice.

"Hiss—"

Everyone drew in a sharp breath together.

Stories of Upper Realm Immortals using Dream Transmission Technique are as wondrous and envy-inducing as stories of Upper Realm Celestial Demons doing the same are terrifying and fearsome.

Isn’t it so? Just one True Spirit of the Great Black Heaven Heartless True Desire Demon Ancestor descending to the Lower Realm already turned the Central Plains and Southern Border upside down. Now if there’s also a Demon Dragon from the Demon Realm repeatedly using Dream Transmission Technique, even if its harm doesn’t match that of the Heartless True Desire Demon Ancestor, it won’t be much better.

Si Lingxi shook her head. "To draw the attention of an Upper Realm Demon Dragon to enter dreams, your inner obsession must be very deep, and it has to resonate with the Demonic Skill’s Cultivation as well. It’s nowhere near that simple. If it were easy to get a Celestial Demon’s Dream Transmission Technique, this world would’ve become the Demon Realm long ago."

"Phew—"

Everyone let out another collective sigh of relief, mainly scared by the sudden appearance of two Demon Dragons at once.

"But don’t relax either. Now that there’s a first and a second, there might well be a third and a fourth. Especially with a Heartless True Desire Demon Ancestor in the Lower Realm, there’s a good chance this Demon Dragon has recently set its mind on this place. In that case, using Divine Thought to enter dreams will definitely be easier than before."

"Hiss—"

Everyone couldn’t help but draw in another sharp breath together.