Chapter 193: Heavenly Master Xu Beheads a Dragon in a Dream

Flooding, snake spirit, physician—is this triggering the "Flooding of Jin Shan" plot? But this monk is not very kind; he is a Dharma King of the Outer Path Buddhist sect, an extremely cruel existence among the secret ninja sects of the Longevity Sect.

Xu Jia shouted, "How did you find out?"

Liu Ruyan said, "The Mirror Lake Goddess told me; the Goddess and I are intimate friends. Those three flood dragons are a litter of three brothers. Back then, Heavenly Master Xu slaughtered the flood dragons, killing the entire nest, leaving only one small flood dragon that had just emerged from the flood dragon mother's belly. The Heavenly Master knew he would surely do evil in the future, so he severed one of his tails, making it impossible for him to transform into a dragon, and suppressed him within the Suolong Jing, only allowing him to fly out of the well every Qingming Festival to sweep the graves for his family."

"This small flood dragon gradually grew up, becoming an old flood dragon, and stopped strictly following the rules left by Heavenly Master Xu back then. He roamed everywhere, left offspring everywhere, and used Poyang as the great sea to establish a Flood Dragon Palace."

"The three dragons beneath Dexing were born from that old flood dragon and the Five Metal Mineral Vein. One is a copper flood dragon, one is a silver flood dragon, and one is a gold flood dragon. Among them, the copper flood dragon is the largest, and the gold and silver twin dragons are second."

"Now they want to stir up floods and waves, using gold to generate water, and using water to raise floods, to seize the Dexing Earth Treasure."

Afterwards, they would follow the Xin River all the way to the Gan River, then connect to Poyang, and offer the treasure to that tail-severed old flood dragon to help him transform into a dragon.

Upon hearing this, Xu Jia secretly thought, "Beheading a flood dragon? Isn't this my specialty? Does he not know that I am the Lushan Grand Master?"

Compared to facing the eerie and unpredictable Dharma King of the Longevity Sect with his complex methods, Xu Jia was more willing to face these flood dragons. Moreover, these flood dragons were top-tier wealthy flood dragons, born from gold, silver, and copper mines nurtured by Dragon Essence.

Xu Jia was worrying about money, but now there was no need for too much anxiety.

Earth dragons like gold, silver, copper, and iron are not like the flood dragons cultivated from flesh and blood bodies like Chang Yu, which can move around at will; they can only move by shifting slowly. Perhaps in the Dharma Realm, they can already move freely, but that is only equivalent to a "Primordial Spirit."

In the ancient Imperial Observatory, there were many who could behead dragons, and the ones they beheaded the most were these kinds of dragons.

In the Qian hexagram, the Nine Five is the most honorable. Why? Because of the Flying Dragon in the Sky.

Therefore, those who obtained the Nine Five Supreme throne had to be wary of other Submerged Dragons replacing their position, so they dispatched the Imperial Observatory to behead the dragons, lest they cultivate into such true dragons.

Hence the saying, "The true dragon is unique," and all others are "pythons," and even "flood dragons" are not allowed.

Pythons are further divided into four-clawed pythons and five-clawed pythons. Of course, these are all imperial regulations; how could ordinary people distinguish between a dragon and a python? Compared to a dragon, a python is only one position behind.

There is only one supreme position, and only one true dragon.

When there is a second true dragon in the world, it means the previous true dragon has begun to decline and is about to die.

Dexing, mountain and river earth treasures—only through virtue does one flourish.

It is normal for such an Earth Treasure to emerge here.

The Jiangnan West Circuit is full of good feng shui everywhere.

Taking advantage of Xu Jia's contemplation, Liu Ruyan gritted her teeth, severed her tail, and left, turning into a gust of wind without stopping.

Xu Jia did not kill them all, because he still needed to initiate Chen Liuxian into his sect to practice. There was still a Karmic Connection in this.

Otherwise, if he were to eliminate this snake demon now, it would likely become a "yellow moonlight" of Chen Liuxian's youth that he would never forget for the rest of his life.

As for why it is not "white moonlight," it is because snake demons are lascivious by nature, and Xu Jia believed that this Liu Ruyan had not shed her snake nature either.

Having such a beautiful wife, with harmonious marital affection and a harmonious sex life, if she suddenly died and was gone, the lingering effect would likely be very strong.

Of course, Xu Jia did not absolutely need Chen Liuxian, but such a talented person belonged to the type that could be spotted at a glance in a crowd.

As for the little fatty Xiaopangdun Hui Zhuo, he was the type that one might have to look at a dozen times and still might not notice.

To establish a sect, how could one do it without a few good disciples? Although his sect was a pot of crooked melons and cracked dates, he still had to find a few pillars.

Xu Jian was still nursing and would need some years to be cultivated into an Earth Immortal True Person, and the little fatty was so timid.

Instead, his own parents were his fellow practitioners, possessing quite a bit of wisdom and able to uphold the Dharma gate.

But it was impossible to send his father and mother to fight; that would not be appropriate. As for the disciples and grandchildren of Shanju Guan, they could barely be counted as his sect, but they were not his own lineage.

Xu Jia directly dispatched the little mud doll Liu Yuanheng to go out. This little thing had been guarding the Ganoderma horse a few days ago and had secretly obtained some Ganoderma Qi; the injury from being beaten half to death by Xu Jia last time had already healed.

Being dispatched by Xu Jia to Dexing, he was one hundred percent unwilling, but unfortunately, he had no ability to bargain. Xu Jia had sealed his true name and written it into the book; now, not only could Xu Jia command him, but anyone in the Fox Immortal Hall could command him.

Because he was good at tunneling, he was often dispatched to find the direction of Earth Veins, looking for places with dense Ganoderma mycelium in Lan Shi Huo to serve the Ganoderma fields.

He also had to drive all kinds of earthworms together to take good care of this persimmon forest.

And earthworms actually didn't like Lan Shi Huo much—no, wait, this place is now called Xianzhi Valley; compared to pig manure, they prefer cow dung.

Speaking of cow dung, now only the Green Ox Spirit enslaved by the Golden Toad had a status below him.

The Golden Toad had people take him around to wander, going to the homes of wealthy cow owners to breed. For one breeding session, the price was five taels of silver.

One must know that an adult yellow ox in its prime only costs twenty or thirty taels of silver. Five taels of silver for one breeding session was already a sky-high price. But alas, the common people recognized that this was the ox spirit that had caused trouble in Jiujiegou, and secondly, this ox spirit had grown too burly; everyone who saw him felt he was a "Cow King."

The seed of a Cow King must be good.

Of course, a small heifer certainly could not withstand such a big, burly guy, so the Golden Toad even used the "artificial insemination" method for this.

……

Having dispatched the mud doll to gather intelligence, Xu Jia stayed in the small courtyard for the night.

In his sleep, he vaguely heard someone calling for help.

He then fell into a dream.

In the dream, everything was gray and gloomy, and an unusual restlessness surged between heaven and earth.

Dark clouds gathered, and the horizon seemed to be pressed down by heavy lead blocks, continuous and unending, obscuring the light of the past.

The wind began to rage across the vast land in a posture close to roaring, whipping up dust and withered leaves.

Suddenly, the sky split open, and a torrential downpour poured down like the Heavenly River flowing backward.

The river swelled rapidly, and the once gentle water surface became turbulent and surging, with waves rolling as if thousands of troops and horses were galloping within it.

The water level rose at an astonishing speed, submerging the riverbanks, swallowing the fields, and turning the dwellings of all living things into a vast ocean.

Villages and towns appeared small and helpless in this ruthless flood. People were panicked, carrying their families, trying to find high ground to take refuge, but the speed of the flood left people with almost nowhere to escape.

Houses tottered in the giant waves and finally collapsed with a boom, turning into bubbles in the water.

Roads and bridges were washed away, becoming a marshy land, leaving only sporadic rooftops and treetops to prove that there had once been human habitation.

Thunder and lightning intertwined. Xu Jia suddenly flew up, flying above the clouds. Looking with his eyes, there was actually a black dragon above the clouds, struggling to gather dark clouds, its whole body covered in electric light, emitting sounds that were like a cow or some other animal.

Xu Jia then immediately pounced on it and started fighting the dragon…

The dragon resisted very fiercely, but Xu Jia was even more ruthless. After fighting for a while, the black dragon fell into a disadvantage and was held down by the Heavenly Soldiers and Generals summoned by Xu Jia. One of the heavenly generals holding the dragon's head anxiously said to Xu Jia, "Heavenly Master Xu! Quick! Quick, behead it! If the time passes, it cannot be beheaded!"

At this moment, Xu Jia looked down and saw that he did not know when a sword had appeared in his hand. The sword was ancient in shape, with unrecognizable inscriptions on it.

And the dragon being held down was also clearly seen by Xu Jia in its appearance.

The dragon's body was massive, a full seven or eight zhang long, with four claws like eagle talons, a ferocious head with sharp deer-like antlers, and black, messy, bristling manes, with long whiskers by its nose; although the scales on its body were black, a closer look revealed they shimmered with five-colored light, and only its tail was missing a section.

But whether it was because he was too close, a fishy, foul stench rushed toward his face, making him feel nauseated.

Seeing the precious sword in Xu Jia's hand, this black dragon's body twisted and struggled incessantly.

The Heavenly General, however, pressed down firmly and used large iron nails to pin the dragon's claws; dragon blood flowed out, and the stench became even stronger.

One of the Heavenly Generals kept urging: "Hurry up and do it! If the time passes, it will be troublesome!"

Xu Jia was agitated by the urging, and with a raise of his hand, the sword fell.

A dragon head was severed, and dragon blood flowed gurgling from the wound.

That dragon head stared fixedly at Xu Jia, not yet fully dead: "I will haunt you!"

Xu Jia then woke up in a start; this dream was a precognitive dream, a so-called sudden inspiration of the heart.

That black dragon was surely the evil dragon sealed by Heavenly Master Xu many years ago, now roaming free in Poyang Lake.

The three gold, silver, and copper Flood Dragons beneath Dexing were all formed by his Dragon Essence infecting the underground mineral veins; now they were flooding and traveling, heading to Nanchang to pay homage to the evil dragon.

Xu Jia dreamed of himself slaying the Nanchang evil dragon, which surely meant that in the future, he would imitate Heavenly Master Xu Xun to complete a piece of Cause and Effect left behind by the Heavenly Master back then.

And in the dream, the Heavenly General summoned by Xu Jia called Xu Jia "Heavenly Master," indicating that Xu Jia had already received the Celestial Master Register and was a legitimate Taoism Heavenly Master; a Heavenly Master must at least attain the cultivation of an Earth Immortal, although the Heavenly Master of Longhu Mountain is a hereditary position, and the person might not have cultivation themselves, only beginning to practice after becoming the Heavenly Master.

"I must find a way to completely acquire my past-life cultivation; although it may not be as pure as my current Dharma Power, if it can be transformed into an 'External Elixir,' there would be no problem."

The old woman who guarded the courtyard got up early, but seeing Xu Jia already inhaling the Purple Qi of the Morning Sun to practice and strengthen his body, she stopped, watched with a smile, and made some gestures.

Xu Jia remembered the blind old man from before and knew these people were all suffering souls, so he took note of her, thinking he could have Hu Jinhua pass on the Dharma to her and teach her some skills; people with innate disabilities, such as a mute, would be invincible practicing "Closed Mouth Zen," and if one is deaf and cannot hear outside sounds, practicing "Pure Sitting and Forgetting" would be even more marvelous.

Leaving the small courtyard, Xu Jia headed toward Yushan to see how their preparations for the altar rites were coming along.

(End of this chapter)