Chapter 179: War breaks out again

Viewed from afar, the thick, hoofed dragon-beast riding the clouds looked to be only a little over three feet from head to tail.

But Zhang Gui stretched out his hands with a solemn expression, his fingers forming an "eight" gesture.

After gesturing for a long time, he finally said with a strange expression:

"Old Song, you said you would bring me to see a wonder, but I didn't expect it to be a living creature.

But it can't be my uncle who overturned the Tiangang, right?

I once saw with my own eyes when my uncle transformed into a flood dragon on Giant Snake Head Island.

It was just an ordinary flood dragon, no more than ten zhang long and as thick as a well mouth.

It looked exactly like the flood dragon in the New Year paintings.

But the monster in the sky is at least nearly thirty zhang long.

Its thickness is incomparable to that flood dragon; even if it ate pig grass every day, it wouldn't become like this."

"The dragon of our East is a divine beast; it has both a 'divine' side and a 'beast' side.

The combination of the two is exactly 'human nature'!

And the 'Dragon Body' practiced in the upper reaches refers specifically to the sea dragon in the water, which has nothing to do with the fire dragon.

Its cultivation method is the simultaneous cultivation of Qi-blood and Primordial Spirit.

What is cultivated through the balance of the two is the ordinary dragon form, which is indeed almost the same as the New Year painting.

The practitioner's temperament is also almost the same as before, extremely upright, peaceful, and unhurried.

It looks like the 'right path,' so the most people choose it.

And when the cultivation of the Primordial Spirit exceeds the cultivation of Qi-blood, one will walk on the path of the 'Divine Dragon.'

One becomes adept at magic and naturally proficient in the ability to change size and the art of escaping through the five elements.

The practitioner will gradually become 'divine and long-lived,' the disadvantage being that the speed of cultivation becomes slower and slower.

The advantage is living a long life.

The change that is neither good nor bad is desire, especially the desire between men and women, which constantly decreases.

Some people who are naturally extremely cold and don't want to talk much even to their own parents;

or people who are so introverted that they don't want to be chatted up even when they see a peerless beauty or a handsome man, might choose this path.

Finally, when the cultivation of Qi-blood exceeds the cultivation of the Primordial Spirit, the beast nature of the person will gradually exceed the divine nature, transforming into a 'Dragon Beast.'

The advantage is that cultivation is simply thousands of miles a day.

And the more one indulges in beast nature, the faster the cultivation speed.

The disadvantage is that most practitioners of this method will become beasts that master dragon power.

In a sense, the 'human' self disappears, which is almost no different from death.

So unless one is naturally vicious and lecherous, few people choose it."

Guan Xihui's hoarse voice answered Zhang Gui's question:

"And I knew it during the 'small nation war' on the night of the first day of this year.

Yan Laoda changed his path of practicing the 'Dragon Body' from 'balance' to transforming into a dragon beast.

That night, he completely indulged his beast nature and tore and devoured hundreds of living people in front of me."

"Hiss, my uncle is so crazy that he committed such an inhuman act; isn't he afraid of being struck by heaven's lightning!"

If someone else had said this, Guan Xihui might have felt some agreement.

But hearing Zhang Gui say it, he felt it was incomparably absurd, and for a moment he had no words to respond.

"Old Guan, eating living people and making waste of dead corpses are two completely different things in nature.

One is extremely evil, the other is neither good nor evil; don't get them mixed up."

Zhang Gui saw Guan Xihui's strange expression, guessed his thoughts, and hurriedly explained.

And Guan Xihui, regardless of what he was thinking in his heart, nodded like a garlic press on the surface,

"Longhu misunderstood; I thought the same as you from the beginning.

Let's continue talking about Yan Laoda,

There is an ancient saying, 'Ten zhang makes a flood dragon, thirty makes a dragon.'

I don't know how many sins Yan Laoda committed while hiding, to progress from a third-grade cultivator who had just entered the 'Upper Yi' to just one step away from the second-grade 'Great Yi' in such a short time.

But from the moment I learned from Old He that he would appear in Hancheng Prefecture tonight, I knew.

The beginning of the second 'small nation war' between Prince Zhen's temporary palace and the Yuanshan Guard Army is at this moment."

As the words fell, the dragon beast in the distance soared and circled over Hancheng Prefecture.

Soon, horn sounds rang out one after another underground, and firelight lit up in patches.

The silent prefecture city became noisy.

At this time, overcast rain fell from the sky, and Zhang Gui looked down at the foot of the mountain and muttered:

"The unannounced war in the small nation war during the Spring Festival last time could still be called a 'sudden surprise attack.'

What is the meaning of doing the same thing this time? Constantly using surprise attacks makes them not surprising anymore."

At the same time, Prince Zhen's "temporary palace" in Hancheng Prefecture.

Mr. Yin looked up at the monster in the sky that looked like a dragon but not a dragon, like a beast but not a beast, and frowned.

He turned to look at his junior sister from the sect:

"Junior sister, Zhang Yan is the vanguard general of this 'small nation war.'

Since he has appeared so early, we should also set off."

The drifting Tao Yaoyao nodded,

"Senior brother, I have long been prepared.

This small nation war is just the right time to see if that Dragon Tiger General can still devour corpses without limit."

"I am also quite fond of him; not to mention the Spirit Cong derived from the ancient god Kuafu.

That shady and ghostly method of using bad luck as a sword to cut off people's luck and kill people invisibly is truly in line with the causal arts of our 'Dailuo Sect.'

At such a young age, to have two lines of ancient bloodline Spirit Cong that can transform into 'True Forms' is rare even among the inner sect disciples born in ancient sects."

"Senior brother, you also have your eye on him, that's great..."

"Junior sister Tao.

As the head of the true transmission walking in the human world, if we had discovered such a seedling when our 'Dailuo Sect' was flourishing,

I would have already let them enter 'Yin Dai Mountain' to begin trials.

But for tens of thousands of years, our 'Dailuo Sect' has risen and fallen nine times.

Now the sect has been in a trough for more than a thousand years."

Seeing his junior sister's excited appearance, Mr. Yin began to pour cold water,

"We can only take care of ourselves first; everything else must take its course."

Tao Yaoyao stopped speaking upon hearing this and attached herself to the shadow behind Mr. Yin.

And Mr. Yin's pupils enlarged, filling the entire eyeball, like a pitch-black round bead.

Inside the bead, countless dense, extremely small human figures were vaguely visible.

Mr. Yin accelerated his breathing a few times, exhaling strands of Yin Qi, which transformed into an illusory large sedan chair.

Then he rolled his eyes, squeezed out some of the human figures in his pupils, which grew larger in the wind, transforming into sixty-four ghostly sedan chair carriers.

They lifted the fake sedan chair.

When Mr. Yin climbed into the sedan chair and sat down, the original falsehood instantly became reality.

It's just that this reality is different from the reality of the real world, like two paintings drawn on two overlapping sheets of paper.

Both exist but will not intersect.

"Senior brother has truly good methods.

It seems that the 'Lotus-Like Evil Ghost Path' of the Yuanshan Guard Army on Xianrong Island might really be the treasure that is 'fated' for you to achieve the Dao."

Tao Yaoyao's voice came from nowhere.

Mr. Yin smiled faintly,

"Junior sister, don't just talk about me; has the 'Lotus-Like Evil Ghost Path' been of little benefit to you?

When we rescue hundreds of thousands of wronged ghosts who have fallen into reincarnation by the 'Lotus-Like Evil Ghost Path' in this 'small nation war,'

and subdue more evil ghosts who protect the 'Lotus-Like Evil Ghost Path' to serve as Dao soldiers,

it will be even more beautiful."

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 180 =====