My equipment is designed for cultivation; I started by slaughtering my way through a small world.

Chapter 138 The Four Seasons of the Dao

The Dragon Balls are the source of power for dragon-like creatures, and also their lifeline.

The shattering of the Dragon Ball is equivalent to the shattering of a Golden Core cultivator's Golden Core.

Seven or eight tenths of his cultivation level has been lost.

The venomous dragon, which had been mocking Gu Qing just moments before, suddenly lost its aura.

It looked at Gu Qing in disbelief.

"Pfft!"

The transparent sword energy that Gu Qing unleashed, after shattering the dragon pearl, continued its momentum and emerged from the other side of the poisonous dragon's reverse scale.

After flying over the lava sea for hundreds of meters, it disappeared silently and mysteriously.

far away.

The woman in red was initially somewhat desperate, thinking that Gu Qing's secret treasure attack had failed.

Unexpectedly, the situation took an unexpected turn.

In the blink of an eye, the aura of the poisonous dragon rapidly diminished, plummeting uncontrollably from the fifth level of the Golden Core stage.

Golden Core Stage 3, Golden Core Stage 1, Foundation Establishment Stage 9, Foundation Establishment Stage 7 —

The stalemate lasted for a moment.

She then saw a transparent sword aura emerge from the other side of the Poisonous Dragon Divine Power.

Looking at that colorless, transparent sword energy.

The woman in red trembled slightly, her phoenix eyes widening instantly, a look of disbelief flashing in them.

"It's actually a sword aura with spatial attributes!"

"The Poisonous Dragon was careless, no wonder it was severely injured in one move."

Watching Gu Qing's colorless and transparent sword energy slowly disappear under the repair of the laws of heaven and earth.

The woman in red then realized what was happening.

Gu Qing's previous hundred-meter-long sword aura was a feint, a tactic to paralyze the poisonous dragon.

"You have quite a few hidden thoughts."

The woman in red stared intently at Gu Qing above the lava sea, her beautiful eyes fixed on him, and she couldn't help but think to herself.

"Um?!"

"careful"

Above the lava sea.

The venomous dragon, its aura rapidly waning, looked at Gu Qing, who was standing almost within reach.

It channeled its limited spiritual power, opened its massive maw, and lunged at Gu Qing.

"Damn it."

The hundred-meter-long sword light had just drained all of Gu Qing's spiritual power. Seeing the venomous dragon's gaping maw rushing towards him, Gu Qing felt a sense of despair.

With no spiritual power left, he couldn't even use the most basic immortal martial arts lightness skill, and could only watch helplessly as he fell into the lava sea.

And the ever-approaching bite of the venomous dragon.

Just as Gu Qing was about to fall into the sea of ​​lava, a sword light suddenly shot out and blocked Gu Qing's path.

A flash of sword light.

The woman in red stretched out two jade-like arms, her palms glowing with a faint red spiritual light, supporting the venomous dragon's sharp teeth.

Are you alright?

Looking up, the woman in red revealed her curvaceous back and asked in a somewhat nervous tone.

"without----"

"Boom!"

Before Gu Qing could finish speaking, the venomous dragon's enormous body swept Gu Qing and the woman in red away, plunging them into the seabed of the lava sea.

hateful.

The venomous dragon, with its strong and sharp teeth, held onto Gu Qing and the other woman tightly, and a hint of anger flashed in the woman's eyes.

However, with the Dragon Pearl shattered, the Poisonous Flood Dragon's spiritual power cultivation had declined to the first level of Foundation Establishment.

Thinking of this, the woman in red gritted her teeth and persevered, her sword-like eyes spinning rapidly as she absorbed the surrounding spiritual energy to replenish herself.

A short while later.

The woman in red had accumulated enough spiritual power, and suddenly two crimson sword lights shot out from her eyes.

They struck the dragon's head and sea of ​​consciousness, as well as its heart.

After a while.

The venomous dragon completely lost its movement.

The two crawled out of the venomous dragon's mouth. The woman in red looked at the dragon and said with a hint of excitement, "This venomous dragon was killed by our combined efforts. Its body is made of precious materials."

"Dragon skin and scales are excellent materials for making armor, while sharp horns and claws are excellent materials for crafting magical treasures."

"Even broken dragon balls can be used to refine certain precious elixirs."

"Even flesh and blood can be used to cultivate other spirit pets, and even to cultivate certain secret techniques."

"How about we split the spoils equally?"

"Yes, either way is fine."

Gu Qing was already very satisfied with the result.

If they encountered a Golden Core cultivator who was even slightly greedy, they wouldn't be sharing the spoils right now.

The moment the venomous dragon dies, it will likely strike Gu Qing dead.

Gu Qing and the woman in red killed the poisonous dragon and divided the spoils.

Unbeknownst to the two, everything that happened in the underground lava sea was being observed by a mysterious being within the forbidden secret realm.

The four forbidden areas are centered around the four sacred mountains and are divided into four regions.

however.

The disciples of the four major sword sects rarely venture into one important place: the place where the four seasons converge, which is the core location of the forbidden area's operation.

In the center of this area, there is a strangely shaped plant.

Its main trunk resembles bamboo but is not bamboo, and it is over two thousand meters tall, with a crystal-clear appearance throughout.

Each section of the bamboo stalk embodies the changes of the four seasons, recording the annual changes of the forbidden area.

At the very bottom of the main trunk, one can even see what the forbidden area looked like for thousands of years.

At the nodes of the green bamboo, bamboo branches sprouted, bearing leaves like orchids, and chrysanthemums of various colors bloomed on the trees, their flowers carrying the delicate fragrance of orchids.

Beside this strange tree, which is over two thousand meters tall, there is a white jade pavilion with a jade plaque on it that reads "Four Seasons Pavilion".

Inside the Four Seasons Pavilion sat a young monk with black hair and wearing a dark green robe.

Although this person looked like a young man, his eyes were filled with the vicissitudes of life.

It was as if a river of time flowed slowly in his eyes.

Beside him were four children, each dressed in clothes embroidered with bamboo, orchid, chrysanthemum and plum blossom.

The aura emanating from the four boys was much stronger than that of the poisonous dragon near the foot of Burning Heaven Peak.

"Ancestor!"

"The token inside the Li Huo Xuan Yuan Cave is the same token that Sword Lord used to use at the Immortal Law University."

"You let that kid take the token, were you sending him to find the Sword Lord's whereabouts?"

With a wave of his hand, the boy in the green bamboo sword robe conjured a water mirror, which projected the scene of Gu Qing and the woman in red killing the poisonous dragon.

"We have to go and look for it."

"Back then, Li Changsheng used the technology of the Immortal Kingdom to fuse his four natal swords—Bamboo, Orchid, Chrysanthemum, and Plum—into the Four Seasons Dao Roots."

"I took human form eight thousand years ago and have guarded the forbidden area for nearly ten thousand years."

"Now, I have reached the tenth level of the Purple Mansion."

"This world can hardly contain me anymore. I must find what Li Changsheng left behind before I leave this world."

"Otherwise, everything he left behind would be looted by those insects from the immortal kingdom."

"At that time, even you will become materials in the Immortal Kingdom's laboratory."

The young cultivator, dressed in a dark green robe, looked up at the area beyond the forbidden zone.

His voice was calm yet powerful, yet it made the four boys tremble.

They seemed to have imagined the horrors of the immortal realm.

Among the four children, the one wearing the Xia Lan sword robe looked at the Water Mirror Technique and said, "Ancestor, that boy is a mercenary from the Immortal Kingdom. He will inevitably travel through countless planes of the void in the future."

What if you give him the token and he doesn't come back?

It would be better to give it to that girl in red; at least she's a disciple and grand-disciple of the Sword Lord.

This little girl possesses the Crimson Lotus Sword Eyes and cultivates her sword body using the Li Huo technique.

With this talent, he could easily try his luck at the Immortal Arts University; he might even find clues left behind by the Sword Master.

The boy in the Xia Lan sword robe stared at Gu Qing, clearly not optimistic about him.

"You don't understand!"

"That mercenary from the Immortal Kingdom possesses extremely terrifying talent, even comparable to Li Changsheng."

"Give him the token!"

"Only then will it be possible to find crucial clues from the Immortal University."

"That little girl is not yet qualified to stand out among the many geniuses of the Immortal Kingdom."

"If someone is just an ordinary genius, even if they go to the Immortal University, they will just blend into the crowd."

"As for the mercenary kid not coming back, that's even easier to handle—"

At this point, the young cultivator in the dark green robe paused, then waved his hand, and a strange pill disappeared from the Four Seasons Pavilion.

"That kid is a bloodline cultivator. If we leave his bloodline here, he will surely come here when he establishes his own lineage in the future."

After the monk in the dark green robe finished speaking, he closed his eyes slightly and stopped looking at the sky outside the forbidden area. He remained silent.

His entire being transformed into a stream of light, merging into the Four Seasons Dao Root.

It seems like they're hiding from something.

the other side.

Burning Sky Peak, Lava Sea.

The woman in red was dissecting various materials from the venomous dragon's body when she unexpectedly discovered a pill when she cut open the dragon's head.

"strangeness!"

"How could a elixir grow in the brain of a poisonous dragon?"

The woman in red took out the strange pill from the venomous dragon's brain and looked at Gu Qing, who was meditating not far away.

"Gu Qing!"

"Come and take a look, what kind of pill is this?"

Gu Qing looked up at the woman in red, a hint of surprise flashing in his eyes.

Does the venomous dragon have a pill growing in its brain?

Gu Qing walked to the woman in red and examined the things in her hands.

Gu Qing asked curiously, "Let me see."

Gu Qing reached out to take the strange pill.

however.

Before Gu Qing could even pick it up...

With a snap, the strange pill transformed into a mirage before Gu Qing's astonished eyes, pulling Gu Qing and the woman in red into an illusory space.