Chapter 528: Red Cloud Python Flood Dragon (Bonus Chapter)
A fifth-rank savage beast’s strength is equivalent to a human Fish-Dragon realm cultivator.
Even if it is the weakest fifth-rank savage beast, after killing it, a Heavenly Extreme realm martial artist can obtain one thousand military merit points.
Without waiting until the next day, that very night, Zhang Ruochen and Huang Yanchen piloted the ship toward the central waters of the West Xuan Sea.
Thick black clouds obscured the bright moon, covering the entire world like a layer of black cloth, making it impossible to see one’s hand in front of one’s face.
On the sea surface, cold and fierce winds blew, their powerful force whipping up enormous waves. The ship was sometimes flung into the air by the water, reaching dozens of meters high, and sometimes sank into the trough of the waves, as if about to plunge into the seabed.
Huang Yanchen released her protective Heavenly Gang, hugged her sword, and leaned against the mast. A look of gravity appeared on her peerlessly beautiful face.
Her blue eyes stared at the pitch-black seawater. “No wonder no one dares to enter the depths of the West Xuan Sea. Even the natural environment in the middle of the sea is already this harsh. Martial artists below the Heavenly Extreme realm who come here simply cannot survive.”
Zhang Ruochen stood upright on the deck, his eyes closed, channeling his true qi to stabilize the ship’s balance.
“Hmm hmm!”
Suddenly, Zhang Ruochen’s ears twitched as he heard a low, strange cry coming from beneath the water.
Moreover, the sound was getting closer and closer, as if some massive creature was rapidly charging toward the ship.
“Clang!”
The Abyssal Ancient Sword on Zhang Ruochen’s back also sensed the dangerous aura, trembling violently and emitting a piercing sword cry.
With a “whoosh,” the Abyssal Ancient Sword flew out of its sheath, trailing a long streak of sword light, turning into a beam of light that plunged into the seawater.
The next moment.
“Boom!”
A giant crimson python burst out of the water, opening its bloody maw and letting out a deafening roar, making the wind and waves on the sea even more violent.
Its body was as thick as a millstone, and when it reared up, revealing half of its body, it was over a hundred meters long. Every scale on its body was the size of a palm leaf, emitting a crimson light, as if forged from red gold.
There was a bloody hole on the python’s body, a sword wound left by the Abyssal Ancient Sword piercing through it.
“Swish!”
The Abyssal Ancient Sword spun around above the sea surface, flew back, and landed in Zhang Ruochen’s hand.
Zhang Ruochen held the sword with one hand, gazing at the massive creature, his eyes fixed on its head.
On the python’s head grew a fleshy crown like a flame, resembling a demonic lamp in the darkness, casting a dim, reddish glow over the surrounding sea. The water below and the clouds above seemed to be the color of blood.
It was not a python, but a crimson flood dragon.
Zhang Ruochen’s expression turned serious. He said to Huang Yanchen, “Before coming to the Xuanwu Ruins Realm, I read a book that recorded a native savage beast called the Red Cloud Python Flood Dragon living in the West Xuan Sea. Their intelligence rivals that of humans, and they can summon clouds and rain, stir up wind and waves. They are fifth-rank mid-level savage beasts. Even the weakest Red Cloud Python Flood Dragon is comparable to a cultivator at the third transformation of the Fish-Dragon realm. Be careful later.”
Huang Yanchen drew her sword, holding it in her hand, fully mobilizing her true qi, ready for battle at any moment.
The Red Cloud Python Flood Dragon straightened its body and spoke in a booming voice, “Outsider humans, since you know the West Xuan Sea is the territory of our Red Cloud Python Flood Dragon clan, you still dare to barge in. Are you not deliberately seeking death?”
With that, the Red Cloud Python Flood Dragon lowered its body and extended a huge crimson claw, striking toward the ship.
If it had been any other ruins realm warrior squad on the ship, the Red Cloud Python Flood Dragon’s claw strike would have surely killed them all.
Unfortunately for this Red Cloud Python Flood Dragon, it had encountered Zhang Ruochen.
As its claw came down, golden dragon scales emerged on Zhang Ruochen’s body surface, and a pair of dragon wings grew from his back. He shot into the air, striking out with a Dragon-Elephant Prajna Palm to meet the flood dragon’s claw.
“Elephant Force Ninefold.”
“Boom!”
Compared to the Red Cloud Python Flood Dragon, Zhang Ruochen’s body was like an ant.
Yet, the power of his full-force palm strike was even greater than the flood dragon’s, sending it flying backward.
Zhang Ruochen pressed his advantage, holding the Abyssal Ancient Sword, unleashing the power of the sacred artifact. He swung the sword in a slash, striking the Red Cloud Python Flood Dragon’s neck.
How sharp was the Abyssal Ancient Sword? Even the flood dragon’s hard scales could not withstand it. The layer of tough scales was pierced in an instant, and blood gushed out.
“Splash!”
The Red Cloud Python Flood Dragon’s body was severed in two.
With a thunderous crash, the massive headless flood dragon body fell into the sea, blood pouring out endlessly.
Zhang Ruochen caught the huge flood dragon head with one hand, landed on the ship, took out the Wish-Fulfilling Treasure Vase, and tossed it to Huang Yanchen. “Senior Sister, collect the flood dragon blood.”
Huang Yanchen caught the Wish-Fulfilling Treasure Vase, lightly tapped the deck with her toe, and her slender, graceful figure flew up nimbly, landing on the Red Cloud Python Flood Dragon’s corpse on the sea surface to begin collecting the blood.
Flood dragon blood, though not as potent as dragon blood, was still a precious body-tempering medicine, and many sacred clans were willing to pay high prices for it.
Zhang Ruochen placed the huge flood dragon head on the deck and muttered to himself, “This Red Cloud Python Flood Dragon is roughly equivalent to a cultivator at the third transformation of the Fish-Dragon realm. Killing it should earn me one hundred thousand military merit points.”
For martial artists aiming for the Heavenly Ranking, the stronger the native creature they killed, the more military merit points they obtained.
Of course, the calculation of military merit points for those aiming for the Heavenly Ranking was quite different from that for other ruins realm warriors.
Generally speaking, a Heavenly Extreme realm martial artist who could kill a creature at the third transformation of the Fish-Dragon realm was already approaching the limit of human strength. If successful, they could obtain one hundred thousand military merit points.
Killing a native creature at the fourth transformation of the Fish-Dragon realm earned two hundred thousand military merit points.
Killing a native creature at the fifth transformation of the Fish-Dragon realm earned three hundred thousand military merit points.
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In the Heavenly Extreme realm, those who could kill a creature at the third transformation of the Fish-Dragon realm were almost always one-in-ten-thousand proud sons of heaven. Only those in the top fifty of the Heavenly Ranking could possibly achieve this.
But why did killing a native creature at the fourth transformation of the Fish-Dragon realm only earn two hundred thousand military merit points? That was merely double the points for killing a creature at the third transformation.
This was because the essence of striving for the Supreme Extreme Realm of the Heavenly Extreme realm was “sacrifice.”
Every native creature killed was an offering to the gods. Only when the number of sacrifices met the gods’ requirements could one attract the gods’ resonance and reach the Supreme Extreme Realm.
Of course, a martial artist aiming for the Supreme Extreme Realm of the Heavenly Extreme realm could choose to only kill native creatures at the third transformation of the Fish-Dragon realm, quickly accumulating military merit points.
However, this was the ruins realm battlefield, where the situation was ever-changing. You could not choose to only encounter creatures at the third transformation of the Fish-Dragon realm. With a slight misstep, you might encounter creatures above the seventh transformation of the Fish-Dragon realm, or even half-saint-level native creatures.
To reach the Supreme Extreme Realm of the Heavenly Extreme realm, one would have to slaughter countless beings, killing thousands of native experts, and offer their blood as a sacrifice to the gods, with only an extremely slim chance of success.
Zhang Ruochen was well aware that the obstacles to the Supreme Extreme Realm of the Heavenly Extreme realm came not only from native creatures but also from human forces in the Kunlun Realm.
Other humans would never allow him to reach the Supreme Extreme Realm. As he approached it, many would surely act to intercept and kill him.
Shaking off his myriad thoughts, Zhang Ruochen’s gaze fixed on the fleshy crown on the Red Cloud Python Flood Dragon’s head.
That crown emitted a scarlet light, looking from afar like a demonic ancient lamp.
Up close, he saw that the crown was enormous, four feet in diameter, like a three-petaled red flower, crystal clear, as if carved from blood jade.
This crown was called the “Red Crown Blood Mushroom.”
Its importance even surpassed the flood dragon’s brain.
The reason the Red Cloud Python Flood Dragon was so intelligent and could understand human speech was largely due to this crown.
If a martial artist consumed it, it could enhance their spiritual power.
Huang Yanchen had already collected the flood dragon’s blood, scales, and spiritual flesh, and returned to the ship.
Zhang Ruochen quickly said, “Senior Sister Yanchen, take the ‘Red Crown Blood Mushroom’ and consume it. It should allow your spiritual power to break through to the thirtieth rank.”
Zhang Ruochen could see that Huang Yanchen’s spiritual power was currently only at the twenty-eighth rank.
Huang Yanchen’s eyes looked at the crown on the flood dragon head. “The Red Crown Blood Mushroom is a spiritual medicine for enhancing spiritual power. You probably need it more than I do.”
Zhang Ruochen shook his head with a smile. “My spiritual power has already reached the forty-second rank. A mere Red Crown Blood Mushroom won’t increase my spiritual power much. This Red Crown Blood Mushroom should be more helpful to you.”
Zhang Ruochen had already calculated that to raise his spiritual power to the forty-third rank, he would need to consume at least thirty Red Crown Blood Mushrooms of this level.
In other words, he would have to kill at least thirty Red Cloud Python Flood Dragons at the third transformation of the Fish-Dragon realm for his spiritual power to increase by one rank.
In the vast sea, finding thirty such flood dragons was no easy task.
Huang Yanchen nodded, no longer refusing. “Alright! The Red Crown Blood Mushroom is mine, and the flood dragon pearl is yours.”
Huang Yanchen took out a fist-sized blood-red pearl and handed it to Zhang Ruochen.
The moment Zhang Ruochen’s fingers touched the flood dragon pearl, he felt a vast power emanating from within it.
Every part of the flood dragon was a medicinal treasure.
The Red Crown Blood Mushroom could enhance spiritual power, while the flood dragon pearl could strengthen the body and improve cultivation.
Zhang Ruochen was currently at the mid-stage of the Heavenly Extreme realm Great Perfection. Refining the flood dragon pearl might allow him to break through to the late stage of the Heavenly Extreme realm Great Perfection, further strengthening his power.
“Hmm hmm!”
Just as Zhang Ruochen was about to put away the flood dragon pearl, his arm paused slightly, and his expression changed. He listened carefully and heard that strange sound from before coming from the water again.
The cry of a flood dragon.
Moreover, this time, the cries were more numerous and louder, coming from all directions.
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