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Chapter 543 The Demonic Dragon Appears
Nightmare Sea.

Streaks of demonic energy formed hurricanes, whipping up towering, dark waves.

A figure flew above the sea on a magical artifact.

Suddenly, a giant demonic claw emerged from the black waves, grabbed the man and his magical artifact, dragged them into the sea, and disappeared without a trace.

The once-in-a-century Nightmare Sea Demon Tide lasts for a year.

This year, demonic energy surged, condensing into powerful demons, making it extremely dangerous.

Every time, unsuspecting or ignorant cultivators venture into the Demon Nightmare Sea, they never return.

On this day, the turbulent Nightmare Sea finally calmed down.

The boundless, dark waters, the eerie whispers that stirred the souls of the people, and the illusions that abounded, still made the powerful cultivators gathered outside the edge of this sea area uneasy, hesitant, and reluctant to retreat.

"Fellow Daoist Xia, you go ahead and scout the way!" The young female cultivator flew up to Xia Daoming and ordered him around.

Xia Daoming glanced at the young female cultivator indifferently, raised his sword, and flew into the Demon Nightmare Sea.

"Let's go in too!" Yao Xi's icy voice came from inside the carriage.

Two snow-capped eagles flapped their wings and pulled the chariot into the Nightmare Sea.

The Nascent Soul cultivators surrounded the carriage and entered the Nightmare Sea together.

Seeing Yao Xi's group enter the Nightmare Sea, the cultivators who were initially hesitant quickly followed suit in groups of three or five.

The demonic energy in the Nightmare Sea was rampant and could bewitch the divine sense. Even someone as powerful as Yao Xi dared not release her divine sense to explore her surroundings. She only dared to circulate her true essence in her eyes and try her best to look around.

But the Nightmare Sea is boundless, so finding the trace of the demon dragon is no easy task.
However, everything has its own rules and patterns.

The dragons, unwilling to accept their fate after death, would subconsciously linger near the Dragon Palace or the palace below, their souls and essences reluctant to leave.

Even if the dragon soul essence is tainted by demonic energy, condenses into demonic power, and manifests as a demonic dragon, its instinctive consciousness still makes it unwilling to leave the dragon palace or the palace.

Therefore, it is easier to find traces of the demonic dragons that have already wreaked havoc on the seabed in the vicinity of the Dragon Palace or the Dragon Clan's palace.

People like Xia Daoming naturally didn't know about the Dragon Palace that he built when he dominated the Demon Nightmare Sea Dragon Group, let alone the locations of the various palaces beneath it.

However, as the deputy sect leader of the Xuanxue Dao Sect, one of the five major forces in Beizhenlu Mountain, Yao Xi possessed some secrets unknown to the cultivators of Beizhenhai, and knew the approximate sea areas where several palaces were located.

As for the Dragon Palace, it is said to have disappeared into ruins after the great battle.

Even Yao Xi couldn't find out more.

Commands were frequently issued from the carriage, guiding the group in the right direction.

Zuo Dongge and his apprentice were completely ignorant about the Nightmare Sea, and their information about the Demon Dragon was all hearsay. Naturally, they were not in a hurry to betray and kill, and were happy to follow Yao Xi's orders first.

Because no one dared to unleash their divine sense in the Nightmare Sea, and could only observe the surroundings with their eyes, their progress was not fast.

Half a year later, they finally arrived at the first palace sea area known to Yao Xi.

The group searched the surrounding area and waited in the same spot for dozens of days, but they still couldn't find any trace of the demonic dragon.

Left with no other choice, Yao Xi ordered her to leave this sea area and head to another palace sea area that she knew of.

However, upon reaching the next imperial palace area, they still found nothing.

They went to four of the palace sea areas that Yao Xi knew about, spending nearly two years, but still did not see any trace of the Demon Dragon.

Those accompanying them couldn't help but feel a little anxious.

After all, the Nightmare Sea is no ordinary place.

Along the way, they not only encountered spatial rifts, demonic hurricanes, and demons formed from the demonic energy corrupting sea creatures, but they also had to constantly use their magic to resist the corruption of demonic energy. Now, nearly two years have passed, and they still have gained nothing.

Yao Xi was highly skilled and had a high-level magic-repelling treasure brought from Beizhenlu Mountain for protection, so she was not in any major danger. However, the most powerful person among her companions was only a second-stage Nascent Soul cultivator. In the past two years, apart from Zuo Dongge and his disciple, everyone else was somewhat exhausted and had also been tainted by demonic energy.

Most importantly, there has been no sign of the dragon so far, which is bound to cause anxiety.

When people are anxious, they are bound to become irritable.

Xia Daoming is a cannon fodder that everyone knows will be eliminated sooner or later.

Therefore, those people inevitably vented their anxiety and resentment on Xia Daoming, constantly ordering him to do this or that in a condescending manner.

Xia Daoming didn't care. After all, they were just a few dead people. He let them be arrogant for a while and endured everything along the way. Zuo Dongge was quite distressed and angry at this. Several times he almost had the urge to kill them, but he remembered that he still needed Yao Xi to guide him, so he held back in the end.

"The next palace is the last one I know of. If we find nothing else, let's head back!"

"We can't waste our time in this demonic Nightmare Sea, teeming with demonic energy, just for a few demonic dragons. We'd be better off venturing into the Netherworld Demon Refining Abyss; we might find some fortuitous opportunities there."

On this day, Yao Xi's slightly weary voice came from inside the carriage.

Clearly, after traveling around the Nightmare Sea for so long, she was getting tired and impatient.

Half a day later.

"Look! A dragon!"

Suddenly, the sea in the distance rose up, like a mountain made of water.

Seawater cascaded down from that ridge like a waterfall, revealing dark scales underneath—it wasn't a mountain, it was the back of some kind of creature!
Then two enormous horns, like black coral trees, emerged, followed by a dragon head the size of a small mountain, covered with thick black scales.

Each scale is the size of a palm-leaf fan.

Its edges gleamed with a chilling, eerie light, and the naturally formed demonic patterns on its scales were emanating demonic energy, manifesting layers of demonic shadows. A single glance at it would cause one's mind to tremble and illusions to reappear.

"Crash!"

Seawater rushes down its body, forming countless small waterfalls.

The dragon finally broke out of the sea and revealed its true form, which was over two hundred feet long.

Not to mention that Xia Daoming and his group appeared tiny in front of the massive body of the demonic dragon, even the two snow-capped eagles with wingspans of more than ten feet looked like small witches compared to the demonic dragon.

The dragon's innate domineering and majestic aura merged with the demon's bloodthirsty, ferocious, and eerie aura, and as the demon dragon appeared, it swept towards Xia Daoming and the others like a tidal wave.

All the cultivators' expressions changed, and even those cultivators who had undergone the first tribulation and reached the Nascent Soul stage couldn't help but reveal a hint of fear in their eyes.

This demonic dragon could crush their confidence with its sheer aura; they were not capable of resisting it!
"Indeed, the dragon soul essence on this demonic dragon should be quite strong! First, deplete its magic power, then suppress and kill it, and extract its dragon soul essence."

Inside the carriage, Yao Xi's voice rang out, and two cold gazes followed, falling on Xia Daoming through the curtain.

"Fellow Daoist Xia, go up! If you can deal with the demonic dragon properly and deplete its demonic power, our sect may consider sparing your life. Otherwise, we'll take your life right now!"

Yao Xi's voice rang out again.

Xia Daoming stood still, seemingly terrified by the appearance of the demonic dragon!
"Aren't you going up? Do you want us to take your dog's life right now?" The young female cultivator's eyebrows shot up and her almond-shaped eyes glared angrily when she saw that Xia Daoming was unmoved.

As soon as the young female cultivator finished speaking, a golden light flashed before her eyes, followed by a chill and a tightness throughout her body.

Her petite and beautiful body was completely gripped in a claw covered with golden dragon scales.

The icy chill seeped into her entire body through the golden dragon scales, freezing not only her true essence and magical power, but also her soul, as if it were frozen and imprisoned.

　That concludes today's update.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)