Fairy, help me cultivate.

Yun Li frowned.

Chen Yao didn't move, looking into her eyes.

Yun Li pushed him away, got up and walked to the bathtub: "You're tired too, get some rest..."

The steam from the bathtub concealed her flushed cheeks and pounding heart.

Chen Yao still respected and feared the young brute, and knew that even immortals had their share of troubles... let alone a young brute who was prone to such behavior.

It seems my senior sister still has some reservations, but it doesn't matter. Her initiative today is already a major victory...

"Call me if you need anything, senior sister."

He left Yun Li's room.

After feeling dizzy from the steam, Yun Li's face showed a hint of melancholy.

"I never imagined that after more than a hundred years, this place would still have such a strong influence on my instincts..."

……

……

Chen Yao was awakened in the middle of the night by a violent tremor.

He opened his eyes and saw the roof beam above him break, accompanied by a cascade of earth falling down.

He quickly got up, grabbed his clothes, and rushed out of the room, only to find the inn in complete chaos.

There was no sound from Yun Li's room.

Chen Yao burst through the door and found Yun Li fast asleep on the bed.

Something's not right. With her level of cultivation, how could she be sleeping so soundly?

"Senior Sister!"

He rushed to Yun Li's bedside and was suddenly overcome by a chilling terror. His whole body felt cold, as if he had fallen into a bottomless sea.

All around were terrifying giant shadows.

The source of this terrifying feeling was not elsewhere, but in Yun Li, who was fast asleep on the bed.

How is this going?

Chen Yao was terrified, but he still bit his tongue and reached out to grasp Yun Li's fair wrist.

The moment he grasped her fair, smooth wrist, it sprouted snow-white scales, sharp as knives.

Chen Yao quickly withdrew his hand, but drops of blood still dripped from his palm.

Fresh blood dripped onto the scales on Yun Li's wrist, and the scales quickly disappeared.

Yun Li opened her eyes blankly, saw Chen Yao's strange expression, and noticed the blood on her wrist.

"Junior brother...I..."

"Let's talk outside. It looks like there's an earthquake."

Chen Yao carefully took Yun Li's hand and helped her up. This time, everything was normal.

Yun Li quickly put on her dress and grabbed her stockings, and the two rushed out of the inn.

The entire town of Zhuguang was thrown into chaos.

In some places, flames reached the sky; in others, mountain peaks seemed to jut out from the ground.

“This isn’t an earthquake,” Yun Li frowned, “it’s an earth dragon turning over.”

"Earth dragon?"

“A formed dragon vein will want to break free from the constraints of the mountain root, turn over and transform into a dragon, and break out of the ground.”

Yun Li explained.

A dull rumble echoed from the ground where the two stood.

Yun Li grabbed Chen Yao's hand and flew into the sky.

With a cracking sound, the ground split open, and a rough, rudimentary blue stone dragon tail swept out.

The strong wind that rose up turned the inn upside down, scattering dust everywhere.

Several streaks of light flashed from various parts of the town and quickly approached.

As the light faded, several people dressed similarly appeared and bowed to Yun Li and Chen Yao.

"We are cultivators from the Mingyang Sect. May we ask who you two fellow Daoists are...?"

Yun Li didn't speak, but looked at Chen Yao.

Chen Yao never expected to encounter Mingyang Sect cultivators in such a faraway place. Just as he was about to speak to cover his tracks, he heard a woman among the cultivators call out, "Fellow Daoist Chen! Aunt, he is the one I told you about, the one who forcibly killed the Foundation Establishment Qi Refining cultivator in Qipanshan Market, Chen Yao of Kuanglu Sect."

Her shout made Chen Yao's teeth ache.

Yun Li raised an eyebrow, a murderous glint flashing in her beautiful eyes.

Among the cultivators, a mature woman stepped forward and sized up Chen Yao and Yun Li: "I am Ming Zhan, an outer-dispatch guide elder of the Mingyang Sect. I came to Bibo Pool to seek the Cold Heaven Jade. Unexpectedly, I encountered an earth dragon turning over here. The safety of the people is our responsibility as a righteous sect. I wonder if you two can help me?"

Yun Li nodded: "That's only right."

Mingzhan nodded and directed everyone to spread out and form a battle formation, while he himself remained high in the center of the formation, with Yun Li and Chen Yao providing mobile support.

The ground had been completely cracked, and the blue stone dragon had completely flipped up, its head and tail blurred, its limbs of varying lengths, as if it were covered with a layer of molten wax.

But every move it makes is bound to cause landslides and earthquakes.

It was clearly struggling to fly into the sky, but its belly was stuck tightly to the ground.

"The point where they are stuck together is the root of the mountain. If it breaks free, the root of the mountain will be completely destroyed, and not only Zhuguang Town, but probably the surrounding fifty miles will be affected."

Mingzhan held his palm up in front of his chest, with a green willow leaf-shaped object between his slender fingers, as a reminder to everyone.

The earth dragon seemed to sense that they were hunting it, so it struggled even more violently, its rough tail thrashing wildly, sending sand and stones flying.

At the dragon's tail, a female disciple of the Mingyang Sect who was protecting the people was caught off guard and had her head smashed open by a stone that shot like an arrow, her brains splattering everywhere.

Chen Yao looked closely and realized that she was the female cultivator who had just revealed her identity.

"Gentlemen, that crucial spot cannot be left unattended!"

Mingzhan said to the two of them.

"I'll go!"

Chen Yao flew away on his sword.

"Junior brother, be careful," Yun Li instructed.

As soon as Chen Yao landed at the formation location, the dragon's tail struck him head-on.

He took out the Xuan Yu Cloud Scale Armor from his hand and put it on. When the flying stones came, they made a "clanging" sound, but they didn't leave a single mark on the armor.

The cultivators couldn't help but feel envious when they saw him standing there in armor and holding a sword, looking like a majestic deity.

Yun Li looked at Chen Yao, her beautiful eyes filled with pride and admiration.

Even the aloof Ming Zhan's eyes flashed with surprise, as he was astonished that Chen Yao, a mere Qi Refining cultivator, could use such a high-grade armor.

The flying stones did not harm Chen Yao, but the thick, dragon tail, as thick as a mountain peak, immediately followed and slammed down on his head.

"Oh no, this dragon tail is going to destroy everything!" Ming Zhan exclaimed, throwing out a green willow leaf from his hand. The leaf flashed through the air with a green light, which was quite fast, but still much slower than the dragon tail that was already not far from Chen Yao.

The cultivators gasped in surprise and all looked toward Yun Li.

They noticed that Yun Li didn't make any move, seemingly very confident that Chen Yao wouldn't be killed by the dragon's tail.

They couldn't understand how someone at the Qi Refining stage could possibly have any means to withstand a full-force attack from the Earth Dragon.

Chen Yao dared not fight head-on. He used blood as a shield while chanting incantations to dispel the Golden Treasure Chain Lock.

A golden thread burst forth in front of him, followed by thousands of golden threads crisscrossing, as if cutting space into tiny grids, and netting the downward-pressing dragon's tail.

The dragon's tail was completely immobilized.

The monks exclaimed in surprise.

Chen Yao then unleashed the Glazed Jade Bone Blade, a streak of lightning flashing through the air.

The earth dragon roared, its tail splitting in two, from which jade-white marrow gushed forth.

Everyone was dumbfounded.

A Qi Refining stage cultivator, single-handedly severed a dragon's tail?

He's covered in treasures... Whose spoiled brat is this?

Chapter Seventy-Seven: Earth Dragon Inner Core

With Chen Yao's preemptive strike, the disciples of Mingyang Sect unleashed their best skills.

The earth dragon's tail was broken, damaging its vital energy, making it even more unable to break free from the mountain's base. Once trapped in the formation, it was also unable to burrow underground to hide.

In the air, Mingzhan recalled the emerald green willow leaf. With a flick of her slender finger, the willow leaf trailed a straight green light that flashed into the earth dragon's brow. After struggling and twisting for a while, the earth dragon finally calmed down.

She glanced at the ruined town and, seeing that the casualties among the people were not significant, breathed a sigh of relief, her embroidered skirt fluttering to the ground.

The disciples of the Mingyang Sect bowed to her.

She nodded, walked directly to Yun Li and Chen Yao, and bowed to them: "Thank you both for your help. If it weren't for your preemptive strike, I'm afraid the earth dragon would have caused even greater casualties."

Upon getting closer, Chen Yao discovered that the mature woman was voluptuous, with a beautiful face, an undisguised haughtiness in the depths of her eyes, and a melancholy between her brows.

At the same time, extremely faint white light spots flickered in his dantian.

Mingzhan's attribute panel appeared before my eyes:

Combat Attributes: Constitution (60), Spiritual Power (358680), Comprehension (75)

[Technique Aptitude: Knife (56), Sword (86), Fist (43)]

[Skill Qualifications: Alchemy (20), Weapon Forging (65), Beast Taming (45), Talismans (53)]

[Special Attribute: Water Virtue Body]

Yun Li didn't stand on ceremony with her and said directly, "Since the credit was given to my junior brother, then the inner core formed by this Earth Dragon Formation naturally belongs to my junior brother."