Chapter 217: Water Dragon

"Blatant boasting—first find the exit, then talk big." The dragon soul, hearing their conversation as if they were alone, couldn't help but speak out.

Jiang Tu showed no weakness, saying, "You wait; we will surely take the palace. When that happens, you'll be inside too, and I will decide your life or death."

"Hmph, a dragon soul with only five or six levels of strength left, actually pretending to be a ninth-level great demon to scare people."

Jiang Tu decided that once he caught it, he must give it a harsh lesson.

"Do you know whose palace this is?"

"Our goals are the same; there's no need to fight each other. How about sincere cooperation? I guarantee I'll take you with me when we leave the cave heaven."

Jiang Yu, holding the purple gold thunder bamboo and swaying it lightly, sought cooperation with her mouth, while also needing thunderous means in her hand to suppress the opponent.

The dragon soul stared at a tree with crackling arcs, shivered, and said, "I actually proposed cooperation from the start."

Jiang Tu waved his claws in midair; if there were no golden light blocking in front of the pillar, he would surely claw the other's dragon face, saying, "Pah, you call possession cooperation?!"

"Tch, I'm a male dragon; what's the point of possessing a female dragon?"

"Really brainless." The dragon soul felt that the two could do nothing to him, and his tone instantly hardened.

"Yaya!" Upon hearing that, Jiang Tu shot water arrows whizzing toward the coiling dragon pillar, but unfortunately the layer of golden light shield was unaffected at all.

"Hehe." The dragon soul smugly hopped sideways repeatedly on the dragon's head, deliberately trying to anger them.

Jiang Yu grabbed the angry Jiang Tu back, and said solemnly, "You really want to nurture a soul; I can lend you my sea of consciousness to nurture it."

But the premise is that we make a contract, and dissolve it after leaving the cave heaven.

The dragon soul looked at her with some doubt, "Aren't you afraid that nurturing my soul will hurt you?"

"This is my sincerity." Jiang Yu thought, she had the chaos primordial talisman, the dragon soul dwelling in her sea of consciousness couldn't become a demon, "Of course, if you still have doubts, you can think again."

Seeing the dragon soul indeed fall into silent contemplation, she shouldered the purple gold thunder bamboo and strolled around, while transmitting sound to Jiang Tu on her shoulder: "Watch it."

Jiang Tu understood: "You said that on purpose so it wouldn't disturb us, right?"

Jiang Yu nodded, then began probing the tilted palace; since the door couldn't be exited, she used a spell to strike the window.

As expected, this obvious exit actually had a stronger restriction; the spell striking it was instantly dissolved.

Meanwhile, the hall interior was empty; the original partitions dividing the front hall were all damaged remnants, allowing one to see everything at a glance.

In the middle, only two coiling dragon pillars stood left and right, made of ten-thousand-year-old ironwood, and one of them was occupied by the dragon soul.

On the hall ceiling, there were two or three holes punched through, protected by a restriction so the outside couldn't be seen clearly.

Jiang Yu flew to the hall ceiling, her feet commanding the thunder bamboo fan, sending one water spell after another against the beams; Jiang Tu likewise unleashed a water curtain rushing toward the roof tiles.

"Hey, are you trying to clean the hall?" the dragon soul shouted, puzzled.

Jiang Tu turned and glared at it: "Stupid, we're looking for the formation hub."

Before his words even finished, he also sprayed out a water dragon, rushing down from above toward the coiling dragon pillar where the dragon soul was.

The dragon soul thought its shield was solid, but unexpectedly, this water dragon surged down from the hall ceiling, and the golden light shield emitted cracking sounds.

It exclaimed in alarm, "Oh no, quick, quick, stop!"

Yet how could that be? Jiang Tu increased the water dragon's force, and Jiang Yu timely poured a huge water stream onto the other coiling dragon pillar, triggering the golden light shield on that pillar.

"As it turns out, as long as the coiling dragon pillar is attacked, it will self-protect." Jiang Tu watched the dragon soul jump about, and it became happy, especially since his water dragon was about to shatter the golden light.

In the blink of an eye, two sonorous dragon roars rang out, each coming from the dragon heads of the two pillars.

In less than a moment, the golden light encircling the pillars flew off and merged into a golden dragon, baring fangs and brandishing claws as it soared and danced in the spacious hall.

Seeing this, Jiang Yu and Jiang Tu immediately flashed into the dragon pearl to avoid accidental injury.

Meanwhile, the dragon soul stood dazed on the dragon's head, muttering something under its breath.

At that moment, Jiang Yu, eyes fixed on the golden dragon's claws, shouted, "Jiang Tu, let's drive the golden dragon to ram the door."

"Okay!" Jiang Tu immediately flashed out of the dragon pearl with her, and with a "ha" sound sent spiritual fire smashing into the great golden dragon of light.

But that golden dragon flipped over, seemingly about to swallow the spiritual fire; fortunately Jiang Tu reacted quickly, swiftly controlling the spiritual fire to fly away.

Seeing this, Jiang Yu immediately gave up fire attacks, quickly changed hand seals to unleash a big water ball, "Still use the water dragon! Rush toward the gate."

Jiang Tu promptly withdrew the spiritual fire, his entire body's water spiritual power surged, and the water dragon reappeared, swooshing toward the golden dragon.

Metal gives rise to beautiful water; at the instant the two dragons met and collided, their forces were evenly matched.

However, the water dragon had Jiang Yu's bolstering water ball, and several water-system talismans, giving it a slight edge.

Jiang Tu added more force, literally slamming the golden dragon toward the gate.

With a crack, the golden dragon struck the restriction, instantly its dragon form scattered, turning into golden light that flew back to the two coiling dragon pillars.

And the restriction on the gate itself retreated in an instant, allowing water outside to rush in with a swish.

"Go!" Jiang Yu and Jiang Tu rushed out of the gate at full speed; that water posed no threat to the dragon turtle, and instead opened a path for Jiang Tu.

"Take me with you." The dragon soul also surged outward, but its light, airy body, upon reaching the gate, was swept back into the hall.

Jiang Tu stood at the gate laughing loudly, "Hahaha."

"Help me! I'll take you to rescue the underground cultivators; that demon race will soon dissipate as well."

"I can also take you to mine the geng gold ore, spirit stone ore, and tungsten stone ore." The dragon soul, each time it flew to the gate, would be swept back by the water.

To be precise, it has no physical form; it is being sucked inward by this hall.

Jiang Yu saw this, but she wasn't dazzled by the other's geng gold mine; instead she said to Jiang Tu, "Can we absorb it into your dragon pearl and keep it under control?"

"Its strength has greatly diminished; it's possible, but really want to bring it to save people?"

"Don't forget Yuan Zhen's past lessons." Jiang Tu feared she would soften her heart again.

"Saving people is secondary; securing the spiritual ore is primary. But the premise is that we can control it." Jiang Yu produced the soul banner of Junior Sister Bai; if it weren't necessary, she wouldn't want to use it.

Inside there are many banner ghosts; sending the dragon soul in might inadvertently give it nourishment.

"Fine, I'll go fetch it." Jiang Tu turned back, and just as the gate's restriction was about to close, he seized the dragon soul into the dragon pearl and flew outward with the water.

Then he himself flashed out of the dragon pearl, saying with particular delight, "That old brat I tossed into the ice cave won't freeze to death."

At the same time, the dragon soul inside the dragon pearl, in the ice cave that had once imprisoned Xuantang Xingjun, shivered from the cold, "I've been tricked, I've been tricked; I should have let that cultivator save me."

After thinking, it shouted loudly: "Ao You, let me out."

"Just stay foolish." Jiang Tu ignored it, instead raising a Water-Avoiding Light Shield, and with Jiang Yu circled the palace, hoping to draw it into the Dragon Pearl.

But its claw pressed against the palace gate, activating its magic yet unable to move the palace into the Dragon Pearl—"Looks like it won't work."

"Try the Moving Mountain Technique, I'll teach you." Jiang Yu formed hand seals.

But Jiang Tu pouted: "My claws can't make seals."

"Cough cough." This was rather embarrassing, so Jiang Yu hurriedly thought of another way.