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Chapter 185 Zhou Chun's Third Spirit Pet [Please Subscribe]

Including the Golden Dragon Hall, the Hualong Sect now has six major halls: the Azure Dragon Hall, the Crimson Dragon Hall, the Black Dragon Hall, the White Dragon Hall, the Blood Dragon Hall, and the Golden Dragon Hall.

The names of these temples all correspond to certain dragons.

For example, when the followers of the Azure Dragon Hall practiced the "Dragon Transformation Secret Technique," they all drew blood from the Azure Dragon.

The Crimson Dragon Hall obtains blood from the Crimson Fire Dragon.

The Golden Dragon Hall obtains blood from the Golden Dragon.

The strength of the dragons also varies. Under the same level, the Golden Dragon is stronger than the Azure Dragon and the Black Dragon.

Therefore, Jinlongtang actually has great potential.

However, the golden dragon in the Golden Dragon Hall was only at the third level of cultivation, which was significantly different from the fourth-level dragons in other halls.

It's important to know that the cultivation speed in the later stages of the "Dragon Transformation Secret Manual" is also closely related to the strength of the dragon from which the blood is drawn.

Using the dragon blood of a third-tier golden dragon to cultivate the "Dragon Transformation Secret Technique" will make it very difficult to progress further once you reach the third level.

Therefore, Li Tianxing, the head of the Golden Dragon Hall, and Ma Biao, the deputy head, actually cultivated using the spiritual blood of the Azure Dragon and the Crimson Fire Dragon.

Only the Great Protector Guan Cheng truly used the dragon's spiritual blood of a third-tier golden dragon to complete the secret technique transformation.

This is another major feature of "The Secret of Dragon Transformation".

Even if you previously used other dragon blood to lay the foundation for cultivation, you can later replace it with new dragon blood to lay the foundation for cultivation.

However, this method of cultivation transformation is never taught to ordinary instructors or protectors; only elders at the Golden Core stage can master it.

Guan Cheng was able to complete the transfer of the secret technique because the newly built Golden Dragon Hall needed manpower; otherwise, he would never have had the chance to master this secret technique.

At this moment, Zhou Chun sat down cross-legged in the secret room, pulled out the stopper of the blood-red jade gourd in his hand, and probed it with his divine sense. He found that the jade gourd, which was only the size of a palm, was filled with half a vat of dragon spirit blood.

After examining the dragon's spiritual blood inside for a while, he put the gourd mouth to his mouth and drank the dragon's spiritual blood in large gulps!

The dragon's blood is extremely domineering. Even if you just drink it, it will be as hot as boiling water and will begin to erode and assimilate the human body after entering the stomach.

At this moment, Zhou Chun slowly began to refine the dragon's spiritual blood according to the cultivation method of the "Dragon Transformation Secret Manual".

Just as he thought, with his powerful physique, he could completely withstand the discomfort caused by the transformation of his body by the dragon's spiritual blood.

His cultivation of the "Dragon Transformation Secret Technique" went very smoothly.

In just three days, he successfully completed the initial transformation and entered the first level of cultivation.

At this time, there were still 10-20% of the dragon's spiritual blood in the gourd that had not been used.

However, because several days have passed, the dragon's spiritual blood has lost its activity and can no longer be used as a foundation stone.

Zhou Chun did not linger any longer and immediately got up to go out and meet Guan Cheng.

"You've mastered the basics in just three days?"

When Guan Cheng learned that Zhou Chun had already mastered the basics of the "Dragon Transformation Secret Technique," he stared at him in disbelief, shocked by the result.

"Your subordinate has indeed successfully mastered the skill."

Zhou Chun nodded, then demonstrated the "Dragon Transformation Secret Technique" to Guan Cheng.

With a slight exertion of his internal energy, the five fingers of his right hand rapidly bent and transformed into a dragon's claw.

The first layer reveals claws, the second layer grows scales, and the third layer forms horns. These are the characteristics of the first three layers of the "Dragon Transformation Secret Manual".

Now that Zhou Chun has mastered the first level of the "Dragon Transformation Secret Technique," he can freely transform his claws into the claws of a dragon, gaining powerful close-combat attack capabilities. He can even use his claws to block attacks from second-tier magic weapons!

Upon witnessing this scene, Guan Cheng no longer harbored any doubts.

He looked at Zhou Chun with a complicated expression and nodded slightly, saying, "Alright, put it away."

"Yes."

Zhou Chun responded and immediately withdrew the secret technique; the dragon claw quickly returned to its original shape as a hand.

"Now that you have successfully mastered the fundamental secret technique of our sect, you can now contribute to the great cause of our sect. I will give you three days, and after three days I will assign you a task."

After saying this, Guan Cheng waved his hand, indicating that Zhou Chun could leave first.

"Yes, I'll take my leave."

Zhou Chun bowed respectfully and immediately withdrew from Guan Cheng's cave.

After he left, Guan Cheng looked at the blood-red jade gourd magic artifact he had returned and couldn't help but mutter to himself, "What a pity! If it weren't for your tainted background, based solely on your performance in these three days of training, you could have been groomed as a true disciple of our sect!"

After returning to his residence, Zhou Chun first teased the silver lightning python Bai Bai in the yard before going back inside to ponder what Guan Cheng had said.

Guan Cheng's words, and his previous speculations, undoubtedly confirmed the truth.

Given the suspicion surrounding his identity, the Hualong Sect will undoubtedly continue to assign him tasks.

It was both an exploitation of his power and a test.

This was to be expected.

If he weren't with the Golden Dragon Hall, the Green Lotus Temple would have even created opportunities for him to make meritorious contributions.

But where he is now is five or six thousand miles away from the border of Yunzhou, and Qinglian Temple has no way of reaching him.

Therefore, he needs to earn his own credit for everything.

After resting at his lodgings for half a day, Zhou Chun went to the library inside the Golden Dragon branch altar.

Each branch of the Hualong Sect is equivalent to the mountain gate of a sect, with all kinds of functional buildings inside.

Although the Jinlong branch altar was newly established and short of manpower, places like the library had already been built long ago.

This library not only houses various cultivation techniques and secret manuals brought from the main altar, but also various materials summarizing the Dragon Transformation Sect's exploration of the wilderness.

Those cultivation techniques and secret manuals require the payment of contribution points within the Dragon Transformation Sect to exchange for cultivation, but other common knowledge materials are free to missionaries like Zhou Chun.

After entering the library, Zhou Chun stayed there for two days.

When he came out, he not only had a much better understanding of the wilderness, but he also brought out a rudimentary map of the wilderness surrounding the Golden Dragon Branch Altar.

With half a day still remaining, he rushed to the Inner Affairs Hall inside the branch altar gate to visit the instructor who had escorted him to his residence that day, and inquired about the tasks that the Golden Dragon Hall instructors usually performed.

Because Guan Cheng openly favored Zhou Chun, and the instructor was also very enthusiastic towards Zhou Chun, he immediately told him everything he knew.

It turns out that the Golden Dragon Hall is currently facing a shortage of manpower, and all the instructors have heavy responsibilities.

The most common tasks they performed were clearing out monsters around the branch altars and exploring for resources. Some of the instructors were also sent out to develop new followers.

Zhou Chun knew that the task of developing new followers was definitely not going to fall to him at the moment.

Most of the things he needs to do are still fighting and killing.

Sure enough, after the three-day period had passed, he received an order from the Great Protector Guan Cheng, instructing him to accompany another envoy to sweep through a sacred mountain and seize the spiritual herbs guarded by demonic beasts on that mountain.

After receiving the task, he didn't dare to delay and quickly went to the meeting point near the mountain gate exit to meet up with the others.

When he arrived at a stone pavilion, he saw a middle-aged man with a fair complexion, dressed in the same silver robes as him, sitting inside. His cultivation level was mid-Foundation Establishment.

Upon seeing his arrival, the pale-faced middle-aged man immediately put away the scroll he was holding, then clasped his hands in a salute and said, "You must be Instructor Zhou Yuanyang. I am Qian Wenlong, and I have been waiting for Instructor Zhou for a long time."

"It is indeed Zhou. I apologize for keeping you waiting, Instructor Qian."

Zhou Chun returned the greeting with a cupped hand, then said softly, "This is my first mission since joining the sect. If I have done anything wrong, please give me your guidance, Instructor Qian."

Upon hearing this, Instructor Qian immediately smiled faintly and said, "Instructor Zhou, you're too kind. Apart from our sect's rules, we don't have any other messy regulations. As long as the mission is completed, the guardians generally don't care about the details!"

The implication is that one should only care about the result, not the process.

Zhou Chun had actually learned this from the instructor, and was just using it to test Instructor Qian.

He was fairly satisfied with the result of the test; at least the other party showed basic goodwill in cooperation, so this mission should not be difficult to complete.

After chatting for a few more minutes about mission-related topics, the two went to the Mountain Gate Beast Garden together to get a Crimson-Eyed Dragon Vulture mount, and then rode together to the mission location.

The Dragon Transformation Sect tames various kinds of dragons, and by relying on these dragons, it naturally cultivates many dragon-descended demon beasts.

The Red-eyed Dragon Vulture is one of them.

These flying monsters are extremely large and can carry three or four people for thousands of miles, making them excellent mounts for transportation.

When the leaders of the Dragon Transformation Sect leave their branch altars to carry out missions, they usually ride on a red-eyed dragon vulture to conserve their magical power.

The location of Zhou Chun and his team's mission was about 700 miles away from the Golden Dragon Branch. The Crimson-Eyed Dragon Vulture could take them there directly after they rested along the way.

The journey was far from peaceful.

The wilderness is teeming with monsters, and many powerful monsters dislike having other monsters flying overhead, let alone human cultivators.

Some flying monsters that consider the sky their territory will regard any monsters or cultivators that enter their airspace as intruders and will attack them relentlessly.

Therefore, Zhou Chun and Qian Wenlong were forced to take action many times along the way, which consumed a lot of their magical power.

When they finally arrived at their destination, both of them had only about 70% of their magical power left.

On a mountain peak, the Crimson-Eyed Vulture landed smoothly under Qian Wenlong's command.

Then Qian Wenlong fed it several large pieces of fresh meat and put it into the spirit beast bag.

Then he said to Zhou Chun, "The target of this mission is a mid-grade second-tier demonic beast, the Golden Sword Tiger. Outside its den grows a Blood Spirit Grass that is over nine hundred years old. This herb must be transplanted back to the branch altar intact!"

"Instructor Zhou, although your cultivation is a small realm lower than mine, your strength is greater than mine. I suggest that you lure the Golden Sword Tiger out of its lair, and then I will go up to transplant the spiritual herbs."

In fact, it was Qian Wenlong who first discovered the Blood Spirit Grass.

However, he alone did not have enough strength to obtain this item, and he failed several times.

However, if you ask someone for help privately, then you'll have to deal with the issue of how to allocate the money.

So he reported the matter to the Grand Protector Guan Cheng, offering to donate the item to the sect.

Upon learning of this, Guan Cheng decided to transplant the Blood Spirit Grass back to the mountain gate branch altar and harvest it after it had become a thousand-year-old spiritual medicine.

This task fell to Zhou Chun and Qian Wenlong.

Upon hearing Qian Wenlong's words, Zhou Chun looked at him and pondered for a moment before nodding slightly and saying, "Alright, then let's do as Instructor Qian says."

"Thank you for your understanding, Instructor Zhou."

Qian Wenlong's face lit up with joy, and he immediately clasped his hands in thanks to Zhou Chun.

Following his instructions, Zhou Chun concealed his aura and walked forward, heading towards the tiger's den dozens of miles ahead.

Although demonic beasts do not possess divine consciousness, their spiritual perception, hearing, and sense of smell are extremely keen, enabling them to detect enemies from a great distance.

When Zhou Chun arrived at the foot of the mountain where the tiger's den was located, a tiger's roar echoed from the mountain.

Roar--

A fierce tiger roar echoed from the mountain, and Zhou Chun's extended divine sense instantly locked onto the target.

It was a giant golden tiger, four or five zhang long, with two long, sharp golden fangs, like a saber-toothed tiger, and was extremely fierce.

It stood atop a boulder, looking down at Zhou Chun's location, clearly having discovered him as an intruder.

What made Zhou Chun's expression change slightly was that he did not find the Blood Spirit Grass that Qian Wenlong had mentioned outside the tiger's den.

Could it be that Qian Wenlong deceived him?

The thought had barely formed in Zhou Chun's mind when he extinguished it.

Qian Wenlong doesn't have that kind of guts!

After all, the Blood Spirit Grass was their target for this mission; whether Golden Sword Tiger was killed or released was unimportant.

Could it be that the Golden Sword Tiger has already eaten the Blood Spirit Grass?

Thinking of this, Zhou Chun decided to go back and discuss the situation with Qian Wenlong.

Before he could even make a move, the Golden Sword Tiger pounced down and charged at him.

Seeing this, Zhou Chun hurriedly took to the air and flew towards the outside of the mountain.

But the Golden Sword Tiger immediately took to the air and spat out a golden blade of light that slashed towards him.

In mid-air, Zhou Chun reached out and patted the storage bag at his waist. A dragon-scale golden shield magic weapon suddenly flew up and blocked the golden light blade.

This dragon scale shield magic weapon was a second-tier mid-grade defensive magic weapon that Li Tianxing, the leader of the Golden Dragon Hall, had previously rewarded Zhou Chun with. It was of very good quality.

But Jin Jianhu seemed determined to keep Zhou Chun, and soon opened his mouth wide again, golden light condensing inside, quickly forming a thick golden beam that blasted towards Zhou Chun.

The golden beam of light was extremely powerful, instantly blasting the dragon-scale golden shield magic weapon away, and then, with its remaining force, struck the "Golden Cauldron Profound Light" protective shield that Zhou Chun had erected.

Although Zhou Chun was not injured by this attack, he could no longer continue to flee.

After all, no matter how fast he ran, he couldn't outrun Jin Jianhu's magic.

He immediately released the Silver Lightning Python and engaged it in fierce combat with the Golden Sword Tiger.

When Qian Wenlong saw Zhou Chun lure Jin Jianhu out from afar, he assumed the plan had succeeded and immediately sneaked towards the tiger's den from the other side.

But when he arrived near the tiger's den, a quick scan with his divine sense caused his expression to change drastically.

"What happened? Where's the Blood Spirit Grass?"

His divine sense enveloped a rocky area not far from the tiger's den, where the ground was dark red, as if it had been stained with blood.

That's indeed the case!

The Blood Spirit Grass was able to grow normally for over nine hundred years because the Golden Sword Tiger would regularly water it with the blood of its prey.

But now that Blood Spirit Grass, which is over nine hundred years old, is gone!

Could it be that Zhou Chun stole the Blood Spirit Grass?

The thought immediately flashed through Qian Wenlong's mind.

But he soon realized that Zhou Chun couldn't possibly be so bold as to renege on the spiritual item that the Great Protector Guan Cheng had specified for him on his first mission.

Did Jin Jianhu eat the Blood Spirit Grass beforehand?

Qian Wenlong thought of this again.

But he quickly shook his head, denying it.

If the Golden Sword Tiger had eaten that Blood Spirit Grass, it would definitely be a second-tier high-grade demon beast now.

Where did the Blood Spirit Grass go?

Qian Wenlong panicked.

If he doesn't even know where the Blood Spirit Grass went, how can he possibly agree to Guan Cheng's demands?

In his haste, he rushed toward the tiger's den on the mountain, ready to enter and find out what was going on.

But just as he was about to approach the tiger's den, his expression suddenly changed. He hurriedly stopped, raised his hand, made a hand seal, and pointed forward, conjuring a golden shield in front of him.

Immediately, a foot-long cyan wind blade struck the golden shield, shattering along with it on the spot.

Then a flash of blue light appeared in the tiger's den, and another tiger demon appeared, a giant blue-haired tiger with two wings!

"Winged Tiger!"

Qian Wenlong's expression changed, and he instantly recognized the origin of the giant blue-haired tiger.

As the saying goes, it's like adding wings to a tiger.

It means that if a highly skilled person acquires a new skill, they become as powerful as a tiger with wings.

The winged tiger, a unique species among tigers, is one of the strongest among all types of tiger demons.

What terrified Qian Wenlong even more was that although the winged tiger's aura was somewhat weak, it still seemed to be a second-tier high-grade demon beast!

The second update is here.

(End of this chapter)