I have the best bloodline

That old woman may not do anything normally, but when the container is in mortal danger, she will definitely step in to save Su Yan from his life-threatening situation.

Su Yan can be considered a kind of insurance, right?

If it weren't for the Empress Dowager being there to keep things in order, Grand Tutor Jin would have preferred Ao Renlin to wait for his return before discussing the acquisition of the Five Elements Qilin's essence blood. However, Grand Tutor Jin genuinely didn't know how long his trip would take.

Although Emperor Wusheng did not say what he was going out to do, Grand Tutor Jin could roughly guess what had happened.

It must be the mess left by King Xuan.

The Xuan King is gradually retiring due to poor health, but the Xuan King's Palace cannot be without a vassal king to oversee it. Currently, Princess Luanming is not strong enough to succeed the Xuan King, but the Xuan King's Palace needs a regent to manage its affairs.

Emperor Wusheng's trip was likely to the territory of the Xuanwang Mansion to appoint a regent. Otherwise, the Xuanwang Mansion's inability to make a decision might have led to a surge in mineral prices in the Xia Yu Dynasty in another six months.

A significant portion of the spirit ore in the Xia Yu Dynasty was mined by the Xuanwang Mansion in the northern border.

"Is the little fox favored by the old woman?"

As Long Ba watched Grand Tutor Jin leave, he murmured a question in confusion. Suddenly, his gaze sharpened as he recalled what had happened more than half a year ago.

At that time, Grand Tutor Jin personally approached me and said he was going to make a deal, asking me to punch Old Man Black Dragon so hard that he would be bedridden for three to five days.

Old Man Black Dragon came to Xia Yu not to attend Xia Yu's New Year celebration, but because he was assigned by the Black Dragon King to come to Xia Yu to repair the seal that suppressed the seal.

So why did Grand Tutor Jin send him to delay the Black Dragon Father's actions? It couldn't possibly be because he wanted to watch the demonized Emperor Xia Yu escape again, could it?

Clearly, Grand Tutor Jin had his eye on Empress Dowager Yousu, who had been sealed away along with Emperor Yu of Xia.

"Possession? Impossible. The little fox's physique could not withstand such a powerful celestial soul. If it really intended to possess the body, that old dragon would not have told me what happened to the little fox."

Father Long frowned slightly, unable to understand why Empress Dowager Xia Yu would choose to live with Su Yan.

"So you're the one who needs a helping hand, right? Grand Tutor Jin sent me here to assist you in succeeding."

Sitting on the terrace of Luohe Residence, half an hour after Grand Tutor Jin left, a tall man teleported from Xia Yu's main city. After looking around, he looked at Long Ba and asked.

"Fellow Daoist, you may call me Dao Hua Wan Ling Zhen Jun. May I ask your name?" Dao Hua Zhen Jun smiled and bowed, inquiring about the dragon father's name.

"Did he say anything else?" Dragon Father didn't reveal his name, but instead asked Hua Zhenjun a question.

"He really did ask me to deliver a message. He said not to think about the fox. It's harmless; it's just temporarily being rented inside his body for a while."

Dao Hua Zhenjun shrugged and uttered a sentence that Grand Tutor Jin had instructed him to convey to the dragon clan in front of him.

Upon hearing this, Dragon's father's brows twitched slightly.

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The next morning.

Long Ba, who hadn't returned home all night, went back to Xia Yu's official residence just as he had said before leaving the night before.

Su Yan finished washing up early in the morning and sat in the backyard of the government office waiting for her father, Long, to return.

"Up so early?"

When Long's father saw Su Yan lying on the lawn, legs crossed, looking very bored, he smiled and teased Su Yan.

Su Yan is a typical early riser and late riser. Back when she was at home, she wouldn't get up until 10 a.m.

It's not even eight o'clock yet, and he's already awake. The little fox who's suffered is really different now.

"It's alright, isn't it? The dorm was too hot, I was all sweaty and sticky, so I got up and took a shower." Su Yan sprang up like a fox, her eyes shining as she looked at her father and said:

"Father, when you teach me magic, do you guarantee it's genuine?"

"Things have come to this point, it's no longer up to me to decide."

(End of this chapter)

Chapter 349 Gathering Water with Spirit and Transforming Water with Spirit

"Originally, I wasn't planning to teach you. Although all the dragon clans of the four seas possess the ability to control water, only the North Sea dragon clan truly uses water control as their primary means. The other dragon clans use water control as a secondary method."

Father Long took Su Yan out of the government office and led him to the market to eat something to fill his stomach. Afterward, they set off for the wilderness of the flower region to prepare to teach Su Yan.

"Therefore, you only need to use it, and other cultivators with a keen eye will easily see through your origins. But now that you've learned the method of condensing dragon pearls, there's naturally no need for dragon clan techniques to hide from you."

Previously, when Dragon Father was still searching for the Five Elements Qilin, whether he could find it was still unknown. Naturally, he wouldn't casually teach Su Yan dragon techniques. In this way, even if something unexpected happened in the future, as long as Su Yan kept his mouth shut, he could still move freely in the cultivation world.

They will not be captured by the dragons, nor will they be harassed by the nine-tailed fox clan.

Now that the Five Elements Qilin has been found, and Su Yan has long since begun cultivating the Dragon Pearl condensation method, there is naturally no need for him to keep his dragon clan's water control abilities hidden any longer.

"Before I teach you magic, you need to understand one concept: how does the dragon race's ability to control water differ from other water-related attributes?"

Dragon's father sat down on a tree stump, stretched out both hands in front of Su Yan, and beckoned two balls of the same azure water droplets to his left and right hands respectively. Then he asked Su Yan, "What did you feel?"

"Feel."

After pondering for a moment, Su Yan said, "The water spheres in the left and right hands are condensed in different ways?"

The water ball on Dragon Dad's left palm condensed from the outside in, while the water ball on his right palm emerged from the top of his hand.

"Um"

Dragon Father nodded in affirmation of Su Yan's answer. Through the comparative experiment, Su Yan could more clearly understand that the dragon race's ability to control water was different from the way water cultivators summoned water.

One method involves gathering water with spiritual energy, requiring very little mana to attract a trickle of water. The closer to a water source, the larger the trickle becomes, but the mana consumption is not significantly different.

Water-based cultivators, on the other hand, use their spiritual energy to transform into water, using their own magical power to create water currents for defense and spellcasting.

It is precisely because of the transformation of spiritual energy into water that water-based cultivators are actually very weak in direct combat before they reach the Nascent Soul stage. The limited amount of mana reserves in their bodies means that water-based cultivators can only play a supporting role and do not have the ability to summon towering waves.

"The transformation technique that your aunt taught you follows the logic of transforming water with spirit, creating an alternative method. If quantity is insufficient, quality prevails. By injecting magical power into the water, ordinary water is transformed into water with the characteristics of spiritual water."

"Therefore, you will feel that the energy consumption is particularly high." The dragon father pointed out the characteristics of the water form of his aunt, and also pointed out the pain point of the water form, which is that it consumes a lot of energy.

This is an unconventional method that allows water-element cultivators to gain considerable combat power even at a low level, preventing them from being unable to survive even after trying to transform their spirit into water for a long time.

However, to unleash the full power of the Water Illusion, one actually needs to reach the Nascent Soul stage.

A cultivator at the Nascent Soul stage can use their magic power to create an area that can manipulate the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, and can use a small amount of magic power to manipulate the spiritual energy of heaven and earth to cast spells.

This is why cultivators below the Nascent Soul stage usually carry weapons with them, rather than creating a spell bombardment zone and destroying an area as soon as they make a move.

It's not that cultivators don't want to, but rather that there's a limit to the amount of mana they possess. Once the consumption exceeds the recovery, the rate at which the golden core regenerates will slow down.

The lower the spiritual energy in the body, the slower the recovery speed. Unless you stop outputting magic power, calm down and meditate to control the continuous life of the golden core to accelerate the recovery of spiritual energy, so that the golden core that has faded due to being squeezed can regain its vitality.

"This is the drawback of using spirit to transform water. No matter how outstanding your talent is, if your cultivation level does not reach the Nascent Soul stage, there will be an insurmountable shackle. Therefore, you can only make up for it with spells. This is why so many water-element cultivators practice water-nourishing techniques in the early stages of cultivation to compete with wood-element cultivators."

"Our dragon race gathers water with spiritual energy, somewhat similar to water cultivators breaking through to the Nascent Soul stage. They use the magic power within their bodies to manipulate the water that exists in nature to cast spells."

Father Dragon raised his palm and moved it to the grassy area next to the tree stump. He slowly tightened his fingers, and the once lush green grass began to wither and die. Even the soil showed signs of drying and cracking.

Tiny droplets of water drifted slowly, all gathering in the palm of Dad's hand.

Long Ba raised his hand in front of Su Yan, the water ball in his hand was shaking violently, its volume gradually compressing until it finally compressed from a slightly emerald green water ball into a dark green water droplet.

With his index and middle fingers together, the water droplet in his palm broke open, and with a gentle flick of his wrist, the torrent cut a gash in the ground. The cut was small, but the depth of the gash could not be estimated by sight.

"While the ability to control water is an innate instinct, you probably haven't yet grasped the method of absorbing and condensing biological fluids, have you?" Dragon Father said with a smile, withdrawing his palm.

The move that Dragon Dad just made actually used two different water-gathering techniques. One was the method of gathering water with spirit at the beginning, which was used to draw water from the grass and the ground.

Secondly, when compressing the water mass, a small amount of spiritual power was injected into it using the method of transforming water with spiritual energy; otherwise, how could such a small amount of water droplet have cut through the land?

He added something to the water mass to make the water flow more substantial and further enhance its destructive power. Otherwise, the power of a normal trickle compressed and shot out would be limited, at most cutting some ordinary gold, silver, copper and iron, and it would not have the power to directly cut a cultivator of the same level into pieces.

"Go and capture some wild beasts now. Today you will begin practicing the method of absorbing condensed liquid, which is also the strongest water-based magic ability you can currently access."

"So, does that mean I can extract the fluid from an enemy's body simply by touching them?"

Su Yan thought for a moment and then asked.

"That's not entirely true. Whether it's a demon or a human cultivator, their blood actually contains spiritual energy. Unless your strength is greater than theirs, you can't forcibly extract the enemy's blood."

"You can influence the flow of blood in his body, and he can also use spiritual power to control and suppress the restlessness of his blood, but in doing so, he will be distracted from his combat power. Whether it is to seize the initiative in battle or to interfere with the enemy, it is a very powerful ability. As long as you buy a little time, you can kill the enemy by other means."

Su Yan's idea is feasible, but when implementing it, the possibility of the enemy fiercely resisting needs to be considered.

Dragons can only control water; they cannot control the spiritual energy within blood. Only those with greater physical strength than their opponent can directly extract blood.

Otherwise, the other party could also use spiritual power to suppress the restless blood in their body.

Before learning to run, Su Yan should focus on understanding the method of absorbing condensed liquid before thinking about anything else!

The method of extracting condensate is a delicate operation, and its difficulty is on a completely different level from the previous water control.

While using spirit to gather water breaks through some constraints, some checks and balances still exist, requiring skillful manipulation to overcome them.

The ability to control water is easy to understand but difficult to master. Anyone can perform the technique of flooding the area with water; you just need to pour in spiritual energy. But to perform it with precision requires a lot of hard work.

First, understand the concept of gathering water with spirit, and then combine it with the method of transforming water with spirit to enhance its destructive power.

(End of this chapter)

Chapter 350 Departure (Third Update)

Two weeks after Grand Tutor Jin returned to Xiayu City.

It was evening.

Another day of cultivation ended, and as soon as Su Yan arrived home, he saw a young man with long black hair, fair skin, and a smiling face. His gaze swept over Su Yan and then turned to Ao Renlin, saying with a slightly strange expression:

"Heh heh. So he's your son? Looks like we really are destined to meet!"

"The True Lord Who Transforms into All Spirits!"

Upon seeing the young man, Su Yan's face showed shock, his hair stood on end, and he instinctively assumed a defensive stance, looking at Dao Hua Zhenjun with a fierce expression.

Do you know each other?

Upon seeing Su Yan, Long Ba's expression changed drastically. He stepped slightly in front of Su Yan to block her view, then frowned and looked at Dao Hua Zhenjun, asking a question.

"Saying we know each other is too much. I only met him once at the ruins of the Beast Taming Sect in the Southern State." Dao Hua Zhenjun shook his head with a smile and said, "Our relationship is also a karmic entanglement. You probably wouldn't believe it if I told you. I first had your son pinned to the ground and gave him a good beating, and then he tricked me into having to self-destruct my soul to play dead and escape. To this day, my cultivation has not recovered to its peak state."

Back in the ruins of the Beast Taming Sect in Blackwater City, Empress Dowager Su lent her power to Su Yan to help him overcome his difficulties. Later, Empress Dowager Su devised a plan to force Dao Hua Zhenjun to jump into the pit.

This caused Dao Hua Zhenjun's soul to shatter, scattering across the world like falling stars, covering the ground.

Dao Hua Zhenjun had already died at that time, but there was actually a giant pig-dragon hidden underground. It was a monster created by Dao Hua Zhenjun through the method of creating animals, which was hidden deep underground and gradually collected Dao Hua Zhenjun's broken divine soul and pieced it back together.