Nine Dragons Saint Ancestor

Chapter 284: 284 Shocking Everyone

”Hey, if you don’t make a move now, the Dragon Summoning Tree won’t last!”

Despite the critical situation outside, Yun Xiao’s body remained motionless as if he had given up resisting. However, no one knew that a urgent voice was resonating in his mind.

”Tsk tsk, if the Dragon Summoning Tree is gone, your little life won’t be saved either, right?”

As Yun Xiao focused his thoughts, a voice containing a peculiar tone echoed in the depths of his mind, coming from the Golden Snake Worm. It seemed to smartly realize that Yun Xiao’s plea for help was not just for the Dragon Summoning Tree, but for his own life.

”Enough talk, you promised to help, you can’t go back on your word!”

At this moment, Yun Xiao had no mood to jest with this creature. Seeing the Meridian Qi Crescent speeding towards him, he knew that any further delay could lead to a dire outcome, which made his voice finally take on a hint of urgency.

”My power is too great, your frail body definitely can’t bear it, think it through!”

At this point, the Golden Snake Worm’s snake eyes also flashed a serious look. The warning in its words was profound, although it seemed to have mentioned this before.

”If I’m going to lose my life anyway, does it matter if I can bear it or not? Hurry up!”

Yun Xiao retorted irritably. As he said, he knew he couldn’t withstand under the Meridian Qi Crescent. If his life and cultivation were extinguished, what use would any methods be?

”Okay, run the Ancient Dragon Taming Technique, activate the power of your two Ancestor Veins, then relax your entire body and let me control it!”

Getting the answer it wanted, the Golden Snake Worm wasted no further words. Before it could finish speaking, a powerful aura had already arisen, causing a subtle thrill to pass through its snake eyes.

Yun Xiao knew this was his last chance, so without any hesitation, he activated the Ancient Dragon Taming Technique and unleashed the power of the two Ancestor Veins on both his arms.

Hmm... Hmm...

It was as though the Heaven and Earth Energy in the core area of this Meridian Treasure was drawn to something at this moment, swarming toward Yun Xiao and finally pouring into his body.

”Hmph, activating the Ancestor Vein Power at this time, does it even matter?”

Upon witnessing this scene, many talents from the Jade Pot Sect who were familiar with Yun Xiao knew what was happening, while the Third Prince, Xuan Zhi, let out a cold sneer, seemingly in disdain.

Xuan Zhi indeed knew that Yun Xiao possessed two Ancestor Veins at least at the low level of Spiritual Rank, but even with low-level Spiritual Rank Ancestor Veins, how high could he elevate his Meridian Qi Cultivation?

Even if Yun Xiao miraculously activated the power of two Ancestor Veins and boosted his Meridian Qi Cultivation to the Middle Stage of Meridian Rushing Realm, it was already an impressive feat, but was it useful?

In front of a Mid Stage Meridian Union Realm cultivator, whether it was Early Stage, Middle Stage, or even Late Stage of Meridian Rushing Realm, it was no different than ants. Didn’t they see the Second Prince, Xuan Jing from the Empire, a cultivator in the Early Stage of Meridian Union, being unable to move under his master’s strike?

Just like what Xuan Zhi thought, nobody believed that Yun Xiao activating his two Ancestor Veins would change the present situation, they all thought it was his last-ditch effort to improve whatever little it might.

Unlike these Jade Pot Sect’s talents, when the master sensed the activation of Yun Xiao’s Ancestor Vein Power for the first time, the murderous intent in his eyes intensified to an unprecedented level.

”To think he has two Spiritual Rank Ancestor Veins, this kid, he must not be left alive!”

It had to be said that the master was indeed experienced and knowledgeable. Briefly sensing, he realized the remarkable Ancestor Veins on Yun Xiao’s arms, which even the Crown Prince had not owned during his time in the Meridian Rushing Realm stage.

Thinking of this boy from the Shang Family in Moon Bow City, whose talents might even surpass those of the Crown Prince, how could the master allow him to live?

Loyally devoted to the Crown Prince, the master, upon contemplating these potentials, instantly intensified the aura in his hands, and the speed of the Meridian Qi Crescent also nearly doubled.

”Shadow of Mystic Moon, explode!”

A deep shout emerged from the master’s mouth, and everyone who thought he would use the Crescent Moon Meridian Technique to slice Yun Xiao’s body clearly saw that the Meridian Qi Crescent burst upon command, releasing an immensely terrifying energy surge.

Boom!

The explosion of a Mid Stage Meridian Union Realm cultivator’s Meridian Technique unleashed such formidable energy that it instilled fear in everyone’s hearts, involuntarily making them retreat several steps.

While Yue Qi and Mo Qing were originally locked in an inextricable battle, they both stopped at this moment, but their expressions were decidedly different.

Yue Qi already realized that nothing unexpected would happen to Yun Xiao’s fate. Such an energy impact, even he himself would probably suffer some serious injuries, let alone Yun Xiao who had only boosted his Meridian Qi to the Middle Stage of the Meridian Rushing Realm using the power of the Ancestor Vein.

Yue Qi had never liked Yun Xiao and after this journey to the Meridian Treasure, he was even more eager to kill Yun Xiao quickly, now taking advantage of someone else’s hand was naturally a cause for great joy.

On the other hand, Mo Qing’s expression was somewhat uncertain. She also felt heart-palpitating from such an energy impact, and even if she had faith in Yun Xiao, she did not believe that he could still have a chance to survive.

Everyone at the scene, whether enemy or friend of Yun Xiao, believed that this time he definitely could not escape from death. Some even thought that under the energy impact of the exploding Crescent Moon Meridian Techniques, his body might be shattered into pieces, not even a piece of intact flesh could be found.

”Hmm?”

However, a moment later, as the energy of the Meridian Qi Crescent gradually dissipated, including the person who performed the Crescent Moon Meridian Techniques, Yi Yan himself felt an unusual sensation.

”He actually... didn’t die?”

As the explosion’s energy became thinner, everyone stared blankly at the slim figure that gradually emerged, involuntarily gasping in a cold breath.

Because that figure clearly was Yun Xiao, but what everyone couldn’t understand was why, under such an energy attack that even a cultivator in the Early Stage of Meridian Union Realm couldn’t withstand, this boy possibly only in the Middle Stage of Meridian Rushing Realm was still standing so straight, as if not even his clothes were ruffled.

”No, this is impossible, this simply can’t be!”

Not to mention the shock and puzzlement of the spectators, Yi Yan, the person involved, had a face full of incredulity and a roar of disbelief came out of his mouth.

Yi Yan had encountered cultivators in the Meridian Rushing Realm before, and with his proud nature, just a slight annoyance would probably lead to fatal trouble.

But previously when killing those Meridian Rushing Realm cultivators, even those who reached the Peak of Meridian Rushing Realm, Yi Yan never used a second move, almost always killing them with one hit.

However, the encounter with Yun Xiao today had deeply shocked Yi Yan. The boy had only the cultivation of Middle Stage of Meridian Rushing Realm, and it was with the power of two Ancestor Veins that he had raised his Meridian Qi to this stage.

The Crescent Moon Meridian Technique Yi Yan used just now was not a low-class, Mortal Rank technique, but a technique of the Intermediate Spiritual Rank; from this point, he did not underestimate Yun Xiao at all.

This Meridian Technique, when exploded and hit Yun Xiao, which would have been disastrous for anyone who caught it, did not manage to kill the boy directly, which was simply beyond belief.

No, it was not about not directly killing him; looking at the figure emerging from that energy, it seemingly hadn’t even created a scratch. How did Yun Xiao, this kid, manage to do it?

”Do you... sense Yun Xiao’s energy?”

In this quiet space, from somewhere came a voice filled with extreme disbelief, even trembling as if uncovering some shocking secret.

After this unknown voice spoke out, everyone as if awakened from a dream, immediately focused and began carefully sensing the cultivation of the young cultivator still surrounded by rampant energy.

And with this sensing, it was not just the person who gasped earlier; the continuous gasps of astonishment filled the air because they all discovered an extremely shocking fact, a heavenly secret they had never conceived.

”Meridian... Meridian... Mid Stage of Meridian Union Realm?”

Cao Kong from Cao Family, the very cultivator in the Early Stage of Meridian Union Realm who had almost cornered Yun Xiao before, his face was blank, muttering three times successively the word ”Meridian,” before he could utter a complete sentence.

Cao Kong’s muttering, although not very loud, was extraordinarily clear in this quiet space. Even Yi Yan, the person involved, clearly sensed Yun Xiao’s current cultivation. But his heart was tumultuous with a hundred thousand whys.

”Why? Why is this?”

Yi Yan really wanted to roar out loud. Why did the ant-like boy who had just been in the Middle Stage of Meridian Rushing Realm suddenly rise to the same level of Meridian Qi Cultivation as him?

Everyone present had reason to believe that even some Ancestor Veins that had reached the Holy Rank would not be able to instantly elevate a cultivator from the Early Stage of Meridian Rushing Realm to the Mid Stage of Meridian Union Realm, would they?

Moreover, this is the Hidden Dragon Continent. As far as they remembered, no one had ever heard that anyone on the continent possesses a Holy or even a Heaven Rank Ancestor Vein.

Yet the aura on Yun Xiao, which was not at all concealed, was demonstrating to them that their sensing was not wrong, the young man who was previously only in the early stage of Meridian Rushing Realm had truly reached the genuine Mid Stage of Meridian Union Cultivation.

What the assembled crowd did not notice, while they were shocked by this strange, major progression of Yun Xiao, was that under the robes of this young man, streaks of blood appeared on his skin, seemingly unable to bear this violent power.