A Sect from a Spirit Vein

Chapter 613: Chapter 486: Meng Chi

Deep within the mountain, in the blood pool, a seductive woman rolled in the viscous blood and stretched lazily.

Not a thread covered her body, and where the mountain peaks and valleys rose, the blood was pushed away, making her white, silky skin stand out even more vividly.

Her gaze swept across the sides of the blood pool: ”It’s almost done. Hehe, thank you, thank you all.”

There, the entire underground space was packed, densely piled into hills of serpent corpses!

From small snakes the length of chopsticks to giant pythons as thick as water barrels, from venomous snakes needing only one bite to kill, to monstrous anacondas powerful enough to crush steel... Swirling scale armor in various colors, snakes and pythons of different shapes, packed tightly from the ground all the way to the cave’s ceiling, numbering in the millions.

The Snake Race of Hidden Dragon Stream was all here!

At this moment, their vitality had long ceased, their eyes were white, and all their blood had flowed into the blood pool.

”You should feel privileged beyond compare.” A fanatic expression appeared on the woman’s face, ”You worthless reptiles can contribute to the master’s return!”

Her voice became increasingly loud, her demeanor more frenzied: ”Once the master returns, we, the Scale Kin, can reclaim authority. This world will no longer belong to the Human Race!”

”Just a little more...” Her slender fingers sliced through the blood pool, then suddenly stopped, raising her head abruptly.

”What’s going on?”

The blood flow had stopped. At this crucial moment, the thin stream that should have continued to merge into the blood pool was suddenly interrupted.

The woman, with a gloomy face, dove back into the blood pool, moments later she burst out with a splash.

”We’ve got enough of the Snake Race’s blood, now we just need a little Human Cultivator Spirit Blood as a catalyst...”

”This shouldn’t be happening, the Jade Flood Dragon was sent, it should have been able to gather that last bit.”

Waiting for a moment, confirming the outside streams of blood had definitively stopped, the woman’s once enchanting face filled with rage.

”A bunch of useless fools, worthless!”

”Never mind, let me complete the initial steps, then personally acquire some human cultivator’s blood...”

The center of her brow shone brightly, her hands formed seals, her mouth chanted incantations, and in the next instant, the huge fifty-zhang-wide blood pool trembled violently!

The once calm, viscous surface of the blood began to churn fiercely.

Gushing torrents of blood qi ascended into the air as if the thousand gallons of blood were boiling. The woman raised her head, chanting continuously, her eyes emitting silver, dreamy light. The blood qi above her head compressed, condensed, and collapsed inward relentlessly.

The blood pool churned, the blood qi rose, rolling and gathering, the essence within the blood started to focus at a single point.

In the intersection of the woman’s sight, a tiny, minuscule blood pearl slowly formed.

An ancient, grand, and incredibly powerful aura began to leak out, accelerating the blood’s ascension and condensation, the woman slowly showing a satisfied expression.

...

Upon Hidden Dragon Stream, White Tiger pressed down with both palms, Jade Flood Dragon’s blood mist scattered, its spine creaked in agony and fear.

The Jade Flood Dragon wailed like a slaughtered pig, tears gushed forth, causing the watching cultivators to shake their heads.

”I surrender, spare my life, sir! I’m still so young, please be generous—”

”Reversed Scale!” Lu Qian interrupted, ”I don’t want to say it again.”

Thus, the Jade Flood Dragon sobbed, whimpered, and reluctantly raised its head, revealing its neck at the seven-inch spot. There, layer upon layer of scale armor wriggled and parted to expose a crystalline white scale. Most peculiar was that the scale contained strands of blood, gently pulsating in sync with its heartbeat.

This was the Reversed Scale of the Flood Dragon kin.

Directly connected to its heart, the Reversed Scale is the most precious and private existence on a Flood Dragon’s body; anyone daring to touch it will incur the dragon’s wrath. This is the original meaning of ”A dragon has its reversed scale, touch it and you die.”

The Celestial Dao is the way of cyclic balance, ups and downs, strength opposing weakness. The Flood Dragon kin, with robust bodies, possess Cloud-Swallowing and Smoke-Exhaling, and Thunderbolt summoning Divine Techniques, making them the leaders among scales, yet they possess a vulnerable Reversed Scale that needs careful protection.

If unfortunate enough to be captured and swiftly pierced through the Reversed Scale, death is a minor matter, but if encountering someone knowledgeable in the Reversed Scale Blood Seal—

Lu Qian had already bitten his tongue, spiritual power surged, spraying a mouthful of essence blood, his complexion slightly pale. Then, he pointed and drew with fingers, forming a series of obscure and ancient seal scripts in mid-air with the blood mist.

Seeing these seal scripts, any last sliver of hope in the Jade Flood Dragon vanished into ash.

”Come on, be gentle, I’m afraid of pain...”

With a wave of Lu Qian’s hand, the flash of brilliance from the scripts of essence blood imprinted onto the Jade Flood Dragon’s Reversed Scale, blood light twisted, and in an instant it seeped in, like chains twisting, tightly binding the Reversed Scale.

”Ah!!!” The Jade Flood Dragon struggled madly, Lu Qian’s Divine Sense shifted, White Tiger let out a soft roar before dissipating, granting the Jade Flood Dragon its freedom, letting it roll chaotically on the mountainside.

”Ah! So painful—” After twisting a while, the Jade Flood Dragon suddenly stopped, ”Eh... It seems not painful anymore...”

Even Jiang Qingfeng couldn’t help but roll his eyes, so what was that whole affair earlier, simply frightened?

”Not painful, because I haven’t activated it yet.” Lu Qian lightly grasped his hand, ”If like this—”

Blood light flashed, the chain of seal scripts on the Reversed Scale tightened instantly!

The Jade Flood Dragon convulsed all over, sweeping its tail, crashing heavily against the mountain wall, large rocks immediately crumbled.

Painful beyond bearing any sound!

This is the Reversed Scale Blood Seal, once marked, controlled thereafter by others.