Chapter 62

"Jiang Yu, put away the formation; from now on Ao Ze will live with me in the space." Jiang Tu was very happy.

Jiang Yu began to collect the formation and sent a voice transmission: "Are you signing the blood contract because you want to save him but fear a backstab?"

"Hmm, his dragon claws are red and white interlaced, his dragon belly and tail also have black; though his bloodline is mixed, his dragon scales and horns bear a hint of azure, so he has a trace of azure dragon bloodline." Jiang Tu himself is a son of the Azure Dragon.

"There's no need to expose the space either."

"He already has a strong Dragon Pearl aura on him; relax, the Dragon God blood contract's binding force is very strong—I wrote on it that the space must not be exposed, otherwise the soul will be destroyed."

"Besides, his injuries are quite severe, and there's nowhere outside to heal."

"How many years?"

"Fifty years; it will automatically dissolve upon expiration."

"Not bad; Jiang Yu sped up the dismantling, occasionally glancing at Ao Ze."

Ao Ze resumed his human form here, looked around and shook his head: "I don't like living in the Dragon Pearl Space."

Jiang Tu: "Why? To undo your seal we still need to find a few auxiliary items; if you don't stay here, do you want to live in the Spirit Beast Bag?"

"Be careful when moving outside; the old dragon might sense the seal on your monster core."

Ao Ze: "I can live in the Spirit Beast Bag."

"Then go in. I and Jiang Tu often come and go in the space." Jiang Yu tossed the Spirit Beast Bag to him.

Ao Ze hesitated while grabbing it, his eyes showing struggle; he had never been a spirit beast, the bag was pitch black: "Set up the formation, I'll still stay inside the formation."

"I still need to use my formation plate."

"What smell?"

"Oh no, I burnt the fish I was frying." Jiang Yu rushed back to the kitchen of the wooden house with a swoosh; the pot of small fish was ruined.

She pinched several cleansing spells repeatedly before finally dispersing the burnt smell completely.

When half an hour later she had finished a table of dishes, she discovered Ao Ze and Jiang Tu sitting side by side, quietly staring at the Dragon Stele while looking at the snow outside.

"The snow actually has red and black—what place is this exactly?" Jiang Yu flashed out of the space; the tip of her nose was instantly filled with a bloody smell, and the sound of the ground trembling came to her ears.

Unexpectedly, as soon as she stood firm in the snow cave and wanted to extend her divine sense to see what was moving, the cave ceiling was smashed by a heavy object.

The several pieces of iron wood she had previously fixed to the cave ceiling, along with the Minor Five Elements Formation inside the cave, shattered with a crack.

"Jiang Yu is back." Jiang Tu swiftly scooped the person into the space, and the snow cave collapsed thereafter.

But what really smashed it wasn't a heavy object, but a crimson snowman ten feet tall.

Only see it taking heavy steps, walking opposite a black snowman several zhang away.

In less than a moment, boom boom boom, the two snowmen clashed; for a moment, red and black snowflakes accelerated downwards in the air.

Within a radius of a hundred zhang, the few scattered white snowflakes were also submerged at this time.

Jiang Yu stared at the scene, watching the snowflakes in the air; as the snowman's fists stirred, it was continuously replenishing energy for the snowman.

After the red snowman's chest was pierced by a punch from the black snowman and it scattered, the black snowflakes instantly engulfed all the red snow.

In the blink of an eye, outside was drifting with nothing but black snow.

But strangely, the ground remained a white snow surface; where did the black snow blow to?

One big and two small treasures, almost lying on the Dragon Stele searching, finally discovered that these black snowflakes were wrapped by a wind mass, turning into a huge furious ghost face.

Amid the roars, another black snowman, sculpted from the wind mass entangled together, emerged, identical to the one that had just fought.

And the snowman that had just won did not turn back to look at the newcomer following behind; it continued forward, seemingly seeking the next target.

Thud thud thud, the two snowmen walked in unison, neither hurried nor slow.

Jiang Tu controlled the Dragon Stele to follow, until the boundary of capturing the real image, yet no other snowman appeared.

"No wonder I can't see people or demon beasts; they're probably avoiding them."

"One foot stomped and cracked the Elementary Minor Five Elements Formation; its strength is comparable to early Foundation Establishment." Jiang Yu had never heard such rumors, and even in the travel notes she had browsed in the library, she had not seen anything like it.

"Are we perhaps no longer on the Heavenly Origin Continent?"

"The transmission power of the Five Elements Void-Breaking Pearl is equivalent to a teleportation formation between ancient continents."

But it can only transmit once in one direction, and I don't know where it ends up." Ao Ze raised his wrist, letting them see the gold bracelet, on which a multicolored small ball had cracked into countless fissures.

Don't worry, cultivation is possible anywhere." Jiang Tu lightly scratched Jiang Yu, sending her a mental message: "The Grand Luo Cave Heaven can lead us back to Tianyuan."

Let's eat." Jiang Yu wanted to go back quickly to figure out clearly whether her older brother had been possessed.

Ao Ze, however, said, "If it were another overseas continent, that would be better."

The Dragon Court would then no longer be able to capture me back to serve as an artifact spirit.

Jiang Yu filled a bowl of top-grade spirit rice for him, saying, "Dragon clan, let your young dragons properly serve as artifact spirits in the Dragon Pearl space."

How many young dragons would that take to be enough?

You think the Dragon Pearl is Chinese cabbage? From ancient times to now, only a few have been passed down.

For the Dragon Court to have even one or two is already the accumulation of ancestral virtue." Jiang Tu finished speaking and buried his head in drinking fish soup.

Ao Ze also nodded, "Just one, after the space was mined to exhaustion, I don't know which generation of elder learned this blood sacrifice formation."

Every three thousand years, a seventh-stage young dragon is sent to serve as an artifact spirit.

Using dragon blood and dragon souls to nourish that special spirit field in the space, it cultivates the legendary dragon-scale fruit that can enable ascension, the dragon-nurturing fruit that breeds the next generation, and several kinds of spirit medicines that enhance ninth-stage cultivation.

Hmph, heretical ways, the Tianyuan Dragon Court, is just slandering our dragon clan, one of the four noble spirits, wanting to become an evil dragon?

How long has this been going on? Have no dragons suffered backlash? Didn't those of you who were sacrificed earlier resist?" Jiang Tu lost interest in drinking the soup.

Thirty or forty thousand years, I don't know if there has been any backlash.

Those who resisted either died or were captured back to have their souls and spirits stripped and placed into an artifact.

Last year, before the ritual, I fled together with the Dragon Pearl, intending to find a safe place to destroy it, but it couldn't be broken.

Later I was captured back, my cultivation realm was struck down, and after I recovered from my injuries and returned to the seventh stage, I was slaughtered.

This time, it was after my mother left seclusion and learned I had been selected; she stole the Void-Breaking Pearl, sacrificing her life to help me escape." Ao Ze finished speaking, as if the heavy weight on his heart had lightened, and instead he took big bites of meat.

But the large drops of tears fell onto the table, turning into bouncing pearls.

Sigh… the two Jiangs expressed deep sympathy.

But wait, last year?

Jiang Yu and Jiang Tu exchanged a glance, wondering if last year the two Dragon Kings had visited, looking for Ao Ze's trail.

The two companions tacitly sent vegetable stew to Ao Ze.

After a long while, Ao Ze stopped crying and asked Jiang Yu, "Dragon tears, don't you want them? I heard they're valuable among humans."

"Take some, leave some." Jiang Yu used a jade box to collect a handful of dragon tears and handed it to him.

"Your mother, knowing you escaped successfully, must be relieved.

Jiang Tu, Ao You's space is spotless; we only plant low‑level spirit herbs, raise cattle and sheep, and can live at ease.

After settling the rear, Jiang Yu waited three days, watching the snowmen duel three times before the wind and snow finally ceased.

Until the fourth day, when the sky cleared, she walked the snow mountain again.

After sprinting dozens of li, she discovered an area of red‑black interlaced, soil not covered by ice and snow.

She suspected it was the red‑black snow of night and quickly moved away.

After running for most of the day, she finally saw monsters roaming, but they were three‑headed, fifth‑tier ice bears searching for food.

The moment they saw Jiang Yu, they swooped down at once.

Ao Ze, having been genuinely cared for three days, today voluntarily told Jiang Tu, "I'll go out to help her."