Chapter 109: Three Birds with One Stone

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After scavenging for good items in the Zhuoyuan North Corner for another two days, seeing more and more Mage teams crossing the Sha Wang River, Lv Cheng and his group decided to quit while they were ahead and prepare to end this journey.

After many days, the group arrived before the Sha Wang River once again. Unlike before, the Sha Wang River was now restless and uneasy; the slightest carelessness could provoke a large number of White Sand Demon Soldiers, or even awaken the overlord of this place, the Sha Wang Bone-Winding Dragon.

"What a coincidence."

Just as Lv Cheng's group was preparing to cross the Sha Wang River, the group led by Nan Jue, whom they had parted ways with at Fire Pillar Mountain, also arrived at the riverbank.

"I thought you all had already gone back," Lv Cheng said.

Nan Jue looked somewhat helpless. "Having taken such a big risk to come here, it would be somewhat inappropriate if we didn't bring anything back."

"In other words, you went scavenging too?" Mo Fan said.

Nan Jue's face darkened, and she glared at Mo Fan.

Was it her wish to scavenge!

Since the Fire Calamity Fruit couldn't be obtained, they had to bring something else back, right?

At the very least, she had to make up for the losses incurred during this operation.

But after searching for half a day, the Zhuoyuan, which should have been filled with treasures, was like a wheat field ravaged by locusts—only scraps remained!

Mo Fan, being glared at, averted his gaze with a guilty conscience.

During their few days in the Zhuoyuan, they had practically dug three feet deep, scraping up everything they could!

It would be a miracle if these Military Mages could find any treasures.

"Since we've met, let's go together." Lv Cheng walked to the front of the team to lead the way.

Shendu had already successfully subdued the Sha Wang Bone-Winding Dragon; next, there needed to be some accidents.

He had to make arrangements for Mo Fan's Contract Beast.

He had already prepared one of the Dragon Egg Embryos that the blade dragon had given him, then handed it to the blade dragon, having him fuse the research results of the Yan Ji bloodline into it.

A Flame Sub-Dragon capable of possession!

It would pair perfectly with Mo Fan's Demonization; with the wolf's bloodline fused with the dragon's bloodline, he would see if he could fuse the legendary Yazi.

Mo Fan, in fact, could be considered a pioneer in his experiments regarding the Demon Bloodline.

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Soon, the group arrived safely at the middle section of the Sha Wang River.

Suddenly, the calm sand surface began to riot, and an extremely terrifying aura surged up from the bottom of the river.

Seeing this, Xiaotian and Jingyun instantly restored their massive bodies of over a hundred meters, and immediately after, Lv Cheng threw the people beside him onto Jingyun's back.

"Run!"

Boom!!!

The moment Jingyun soared high, a massive bone dragon rushed out from the sand river. The Flame Enchantress Jiang Feng hurriedly rushed into Lv Cheng's body, completing the fusion with him, and blocked the first surprise attack of the Sha Wang Bone-Winding Dragon.

"Brother A-Cheng!"

High in the air, Xinxia and the others, having just regained their senses, looked nervously at Lv Cheng, who was confronting the giant bone dragon below.

"I'm fine." Lv Cheng, appearing like a burning man of fire, hung in the air, blocking the path of the Sha Wang Bone-Winding Dragon.

"It must be the Flame Enchantress's aura that disturbed this thing. I'll hold it off; you all go ahead."

As the words fell, Jingyun flew rapidly toward the other side of the Sha Wang River, while Xiaotian blocked those Warrior-level, and even Commander-level, White Sand demon creatures that suddenly flew out from the sand river in the lower air.

"Don't be nervous. Although the Sha Wang Bone-Winding Dragon is powerful, the Flame Enchantress is also an overlord of the Zhuoyuan North Corner. With her help, Brother A-Cheng will be fine," Lingling said calmly.

"If we stay there, we will only add to his trouble."

"I really didn't expect that the one with the most leadership style in this team is you, little girl," Nan Jue said with admiration.

More important than strength is self-awareness; when it is time to run, one must never have the slightest hesitation. Dawdling will only bring greater trouble.

Emotions cannot solve any problems. If being sentimental could make one stronger, there wouldn't be so much helplessness in this world.

"They've gone down!" Ai Tutu exclaimed.

Just then, a massive hollow vortex appeared on the restless sand surface, and the Sha Wang Bone-Winding Dragon leaped up, dragging Lv Cheng directly into the sand pit.

"A-Cheng!!"

"Brother! Hurry and go help!"

"Don't be anxious!" Lingling said.

"Jingyun and Xiaotian are both still fine; he will be alright."

If a Summoning Element Mage dies, the summoned creatures will lose control or even return directly to the Summoning Plane.

Jingyun and Xiaotian showed no signs of abnormality, which meant Lv Cheng was fine.

"He is a High-level Mage, and he has now completed the fusion with the Flame Enchantress; he won't die so easily," Lingling said.

As soon as the words fell, a pillar of fire reaching the sky erupted from the abyss-like sand pit; it was clearly the Flame Enchantress's Jie Yan Domain.

The collision of flames and wild sand soon formed a massive mixed tornado, sucking in all the White Sand Demon Soldiers on the sand surface.

Seeing this, Jingyun burst into high speed again, broke away from the attack range of the tornado storm, and arrived at the opposite side of the Sha Wang River.

Landing safely, the group looked nervously at the flames and the wild sand tornado in the center of the Sha Wang River.

And at the center of the tornado, unlike the fierce battle everyone had imagined, the Sha Wang Bone-Winding Dragon was obediently squatting on the sand. Opposite it were Lv Cheng and the Flame Enchantress Jiang Feng, who couldn't understand the situation.

"What is this situation?" Jiang Feng asked in confusion.

"It is the security guard I mentioned," Lv Cheng said.

"From now on, it will be responsible for guarding the Zhuoyuan North Corner and won't let anyone too strong pass. As for Fire Pillar Mountain, the security guards in the Fire Cloud Forest are already enough."

"Security guard?" Jiang Feng was stunned.

The Sha Wang Bone-Winding Dragon was even more powerful than her; it was an Orthodox Monarch. Moreover, in the Sha Wang River, this bone dragon had endless servants. Even the old Yan Ji of the past would not have been confident in starting a war with this guy in the Sha Wang River.

Lv Cheng, you subdued this thing?

"I'll tell you the specific details later." Lv Cheng took out the Dragon Egg that the Little Fire Dragon had just prepared.

"Now, the show is about over."

"Mm." Jiang Feng didn't ask further, merged with Lv Cheng once again, and rushed out of the Sha Wang River abyss.

Outside, seeing the little fire person flying out from the firestorm, Xinxia and the others breathed a sigh of relief.

With a few consecutive Teleportations, Lv Cheng arrived at the shore, and Jiang Feng separated from him.

"Couldn't beat it, so I slipped away." Lv Cheng shrugged.

The corners of everyone's eyes twitched wildly.

A Monarch-level demon—it was already impressive enough to be able to slip away!

"What is this?" Mo Fan pointed at something in Lv Cheng's arms that looked a bit like an egg.

"A Dragon Egg," Lv Cheng said.

"..."

"You didn't go and swipe the egg of the Sha Wang Bone-Winding Dragon, did you?" Mo Fan looked completely bewildered.

Lv Cheng wore an expression of looking at an idiot, and the others nearby also cast suspicious gazes at Mo Fan one after another.

"Brother Mo Fan, the Sha Wang Bone-Winding Dragon belongs to the earth Elemental Demon category and is also an Undead; it cannot produce offspring," Xinxia whispered a reminder.

Mo Fan looked embarrassed.

However, everyone seemed to have gotten used to this illiterate person, so they didn't continue to mock him, instead focusing their gazes on the Dragon Egg in Lv Cheng's hands.

"This is a Fire Dragon egg, right?" Zhao Manyan guessed.

It had a rich fire-attribute aura, and judging by the egg patterns, the bloodline grade was quite high.

"The Sha Wang River is the activity range for earth Elemental Demons; how could there be something like a Fire Dragon egg here?" Nan Jue asked in confusion.

There had never been any rumors of Fire Dragons in the Zhuoyuan North Corner, and even that Sha Wang Bone-Winding Dragon in the river had existed for a very long time—it was a creature at least a thousand years old.

"It might have been left behind a long time ago," Lv Cheng said.

"The hatching of a Dragon Egg requires a massive amount of energy. This egg has been in the Sha Wang River without sufficient Fire Energy, so it must have fallen into a deep slumber."

"A slumber?" Mo Fan looked bewildered.

"Won't a Dragon Egg die?"

As soon as these words were spoken, everyone cast looks of disdain at Mo Fan once again.

"Brother Mo Fan, Dragon Eggs with powerful bloodlines can remain in a deep slumber as long as there is no special interference, provided there is insufficient energy for hatching," Xinxia whispered a reminder.

"These are all things covered in the demon information course. Did you... not attend the class?"

"..."

"Illiterate," Nan Jue said with a look of disgust.

"Being illiterate isn't scary; knowing you are illiterate and still being content to remain illiterate is what's truly scary," Lingling shook her head.

Ever since Mo Fan joined the Qingtian Hunting Office, she had tried very hard to help him so that this tool person could complete more missions for her, but there was no helping it.

Mo Fan's brain only had room for fighting!

He would say today that he would definitely study hard when he got down.

He'd wake up from a sleep, and hey, he'd forgotten!

Being stared at by everyone's burning gazes, Mo Fan really wanted to find a crack in the ground to crawl into.

But he was either busy cultivating or busy doing missions; where would he find the time to read books?

"Have you thought about your Contract Beast yet?" Lv Cheng asked.

"Huh?" Mo Fan was stunned.

"Not yet."

Any slightly stronger Contract Beast was expensive as hell; he couldn't afford one at all.

He didn't fancy ordinary Contract Beasts either. He had originally thought about trying his luck in the Zhuoyuan North Corner this time, but along the way he hadn't...

"Then this egg is yours."

Lv Cheng casually tossed the Dragon Egg into Mo Fan's arms.

Giving away the egg solved Mo Fan's Contract Beast problem, allowed for Demon Bloodline improvement experiments to be conducted at any time, and his Little Fire Dragon would also have someone to raise it.

Three birds with one stone—everyone was happy!

(End of chapter)