Chapter 1209: Contemplating a Countermeasure

Ye Liuyun shook his head. He hadn't seen the Evil Dragon, and now he couldn't think of any solution.

But he knew that ordinary methods would certainly not work.

Even if the Evil Dragon had no realm, its sheer size alone made it hard to deal with.

If the Evil Dragon had a realm, it would be even harder to handle.

"Then why don't you stay here with us and wait for an opportunity!" the Village Chief suggested.

Ye Liuyun thanked the Village Chief for his kindness, but could not agree to stay long-term.

He at least wanted to go see the Evil Dragon, and if he couldn't defeat it, he'd run. In any case, he wouldn't stay here.

The Village Chief sighed, "You're just like those six before you!"

Knowing he couldn't persuade Ye Liuyun, he had someone bring a basin of meat to entertain Ye Liuyun.

"I won't leave immediately; I can teach you how to make some hunting tools!" Ye Liuyun offered proactively.

"Then thank you so much! The tools we have now were taught to us by those who came before! We used to use stones and wooden sticks. With these new tools, hunting is much more effective!"

That huge basin of meat was actually the giants' dining bowl, but in front of Ye Liuyun and the others it became a large basin.

Lei Ming and the Ice Demon were unabashed, reaching out to grab it and eat!

"Mm, delicious!" Lei Ming said while eating, continuously praising.

"Not bad! The meat's energy is abundant!" the Ice Demon added.

Ye Liuyun also tried a few pieces and found them indeed good. However, he couldn't tell which beast the meat came from.

"Haha, this is the meat of that Evil Dragon!" the Village Chief laughed.

"Evil Dragon? More than one?" Ye Liuyun asked, holding a piece of meat and forgetting to put it in his mouth.

"Yes!" the Village Chief replied calmly.

"This Evil Dragon fought a beast, both were wounded, and we took advantage. We stored its meat to serve guests, and you happened to arrive—what a feast!"

While speaking, the Village Chief also produced a sphere.

"This is what you called the Evil Dragon's Yuan Dan."

Ye Liuyun stared and saw that the Yuan Dan was only at the True Essence Realm, and it had already absorbed a lot of energy. It seemed the Village Chief used this energy for cultivation.

"How many of these Evil Dragons are there?" Ye Liuyun asked hurriedly.

"Not many, maybe a dozen! The biggest one is rare. These smaller ones are often seen!" the Village Chief replied.

"May I go see the Evil Dragon's corpse?" Ye Liuyun requested.

"Of course!" the Village Chief called Tai Yong, and led Ye Liuyun and the others to their food storage basement to see the Evil Dragon's corpse.

The giants stored the food underground to lower the temperature.

Ye Liuyun and his party followed Tai Yong for a long time before reaching the basement.

The basement was as large as hundreds of palaces, its expanse endless to the eye, and it housed many beast corpses.

Ye Liuyun immediately spotted the Evil Dragon's corpse. Although half its meat had been eaten, it could still be studied.

Ye Liuyun promptly went with Lei Ming and the others to examine the Evil Dragon closely.

"This is the smallest among the Evil Dragons! It fought a giant python and both were wounded."

Tai Yong pointed to a giant python on the other side. The python was almost completely eaten, but even its skeleton showed how massive it was!

"Oh my god! These ferocious beasts are enormous!" Lei Ming stood beneath the Evil Dragon's body, looking up and exclaiming.

Ye Liuyun and his companions truly weren't even as big as a single toe of a giant dragon!

The Evil Dragon lay before them like a mountain.

Ye Liuyun used the Demon Slaying Sword to try cutting the Evil Dragon's scales. It could be cut, but it was laborious.

Moreover, this was a dead Evil Dragon; if it were alive and had a realm, it might not be cut open at all!

"How do we fight this?"

The Ice Demon was also a bit stunned.

"With a body this big, you can't even freeze it!"

He estimated that even if he exhausted his True Essence, he could only barely freeze this massive Evil Dragon to about seventy or eighty percent, and the process would be slow.

Unless the Evil Dragon stayed completely still for him to freeze, it couldn't be frozen.

Within the Space World, a clone also transmitted the Evil Dragon's information they saw to others.

Upon seeing it, everyone felt a pang of anxiety. Even the highest-ranked Xiao Lan Ice had no confidence to freeze the Evil Dragon in one go.

"Don't worry, I have a treasure!" Lei Ming comforted Ye Liuyun.

Ye Liuyun knew she possessed Dragon Bone, capable of unleashing three Divine Rank attacks.

But even with Long Nv, the two of them could at most slay six Evil Dragons. If the Evil Dragons swarmed or they missed, Ye Liuyun couldn't take that risk.

"Let's not rush; we'll think of a plan first!"

Ye Liuyun led the group out of the basement, returned to the Village Chief's residence, and learned about some Evil Dragon habits.

"Where do those Evil Dragons drink water?" Ye Liuyun asked the Village Chief, considering poisoning.

"There are springs on the mountains!" the Village Chief replied: "We've had people venture to investigate before; they didn't dare approach, but they saw the Evil Dragons drinking mountain spring water."

Ye Liuyun asked for detailed locations of the mountain springs.

He also learned the times when Evil Dragons roamed and hunted.

"Since they're so few, if one is killed, wouldn't the other Evil Dragons look for it?" Ye Liuyun asked again.

"Of course! But if you act quickly and hide the corpse, they can't find it and will give up, assuming other beasts will eat it! That's the one we picked up!" the Village Chief answered.

Ye Liuyun chatted with the Village Chief a while longer; after Lei Ming and the Ice Demon ate their fill, he went to teach Tai Yong how to make tools.

What they needed most to craft were bows and arrows.

As for swords and spears, the giants don't smelt iron; they use tools made of stone.

Ye Liuyun didn't rush to act; he planned to first observe the Evil Dragon that had come out to hunt, so while he had free time he helped the giants forge a greatsword, a long spear, a large bow, and twenty arrows.

The iron ore here is indeed abundant.

However, refining the iron ore is very time‑consuming. Fortunately, Ye Liuyun has the Nine Dragon River Mountain Cauldron, which does the work for him.

The finished products thrilled Tai Yong and the others. Moreover, they can now make templates to craft tools from stone or wood.

However, the bows and arrows were forged, but there were no bowstrings.

"We could use the Evil Dragon's tendon!" Ye Liuyun suggested to Tai Yong. Dragon tendons are usually the best material for bowstrings.

"No! If those Evil Dragons find out, we'll be dead!"

Tai Yong firmly disagreed. In the end they could only use tendons from other beasts, which was still usable.