Chapter 72: Nascent Soul Stage Flood Dragon.
This is truly outrageous, bringing outrage to your doorstep.
Can shapeshifting make clothes disappear?
Lin Mo wasn’t exactly a saintly gentleman, and he didn’t turn away. Instead, he boldly took a good look at Ruoyan Qu.
After all, if his own Spirit Pet didn’t care, why should he?
“I came in after shapeshifting, and my clothes were left outside the Secret Realm,” Ruoyan Qu said, not minding the situation at all, and prepared to jump into the spring.
“Wait…” Lin Mo quickly stopped her.
The delicate softness in his hands made his heart flutter.
He quickly took out a set of clothes that Ruoyan Qu could fit from his storage ring. “Hurry and change. If others see you like this, they’ll think I’m a pervert.”
Ruoyan Qu tilted her head. “Master, what is a pervert?”
The word “Master,” combined with the current scene, made Lin Mo seem even more like a pervert.
“Why change how you address me out of the blue?”
“I saw other Spirit Beasts call their masters that before. Am I not supposed to?” Ruoyan Qu asked with confused little eyes, then changed into the clothes.
Lin Mo was a bit speechless. “Yes, but calling me Senior Brother like before is fine.”
Sometimes he really wondered if Ruoyan Qu’s natural airheadedness was an act.
She always managed to come up with something.
After entering the spring, the two discovered a cave.
Inside the cave, a black flood dragon was resting.
Behind the flood dragon was a multicolored stone.
Lin Mo immediately confirmed that this stone was the reason for the extremely dense spiritual energy in the spiritual spring.
“Senior Brother…” Ruoyan Qu tugged Lin Mo’s sleeve, swallowing. “That thing looks like trouble…”
“Can you have some spirit? You’re a descendant of the Ancient Ferocious Beast Taotie, and you’re afraid of a slippery snake?” Lin Mo said with a look of disappointment.
“Senior Brother, it… it seems to have heard you calling it a slippery snake and is angry…” Ruoyan Qu pointed towards the flood dragon, trembling.
Turning around, Lin Mo was met with a dark dragon face, which startled him.
He instinctively slapped the flood dragon’s nose. “What the heck, you scared me.”
This action completely enraged the flood dragon. Its massive body moved, unleashing a Dragon Tail Sweep.
A strong wind surged. Seeing the dark tail whip towards him, Lin Mo didn’t dare to hesitate and summoned his Liuli Sword to block it.
With a “clang,” Lin Mo was surprised by how hard the flood dragon’s tail was. The powerful force sent him flying backward.
After stabilizing himself, he unleashed a move, ‘Three Thousand Sword Art.’ He had already cultivated this Cultivation Technique to perfection, and its power had reached the Earth-grade Cultivation Technique.
However, with this attack, the flood dragon only suffered a superficial wound, losing a few scales.
“This flood dragon should be at least at the Nascent Soul Stage.”
Demonic Beasts are naturally physically strong, far more powerful than human Cultivators at the same level.
Without an immortal artifact or a Heaven-grade Cultivation Technique, it’s rare for a human Nascent Soul Cultivator to kill a Nascent Soul-level Demonic Beast alone.
The flood dragon let out a roar, clearly very angry. Lin Mo quickly told Ruoyan Qu to step back.
The Liuli Sword in his hand called out, “M-Master, why don’t you use that sword art from last time?”
Its “Master” sounded extremely awkward.
But Lin Mo also knew that after Zhu Shiyao completely bid farewell to it last time, the Liuli Sword should have acknowledged him as its master.
With that in mind, Lin Mo decided not to hold back his trump cards.
It was already a Golden Core fighting a Nascent Soul, let alone a Nascent Soul-stage flood dragon.
Demonic Energy in his Golden Core circulated wildly, and black mist began to emanate from Lin Mo’s body, his eyes turning scarlet red.
The Liuli Sword in his hand was dyed a layer of red.
He saw the karma surrounding this flood dragon, with quite a few wandering souls of Cultivators and Demonic Beasts around it.
A massive red sword energy descended from the sky and struck the flood dragon.
Similar to when he killed the Poison Eyebrow Old Man last time, this time the red sword energy pierced the flood dragon’s body and began to absorb its blood essence.
As its blood essence disappeared, the flood dragon let out a wail and completely ceased to breathe.
Finally, the red sword energy returned to Lin Mo.
In an instant, Lin Mo felt his meridians burning again.
The blood essence was tempering his physical body.
Only after the blood essence completely merged into his body did Lin Mo’s eyes return to their normal color from scarlet red.
After sensing the changes throughout his body, although his cultivation level hadn’t improved, he was surprised to find that his body and strength had become more than a little bit more powerful.
“This Cultivation Technique is truly mystical. Not only is its power terrifying, but it can also absorb the target’s blood essence to temper one’s own body,” Lin Mo sighed.
“Senior Brother, you’re so amazing! You actually beat this flood dragon,” Ruoyan Qu ran over, looking at the flood dragon’s corpse on the ground, her eyes shining like little stars, full of admiration.
“You are a descendant of Taotie. As long as you cultivate properly, even facing a True Dragon won’t be your match in the future.”
“Am I that powerful?” Ruoyan Qu looked surprised, clearly not believing she could possess such ability.
Lin Mo sighed, not knowing how long it would take to see Ruoyan Qu grow.
He took out the Demonic Core from the flood dragon and stared at its corpse, pondering how to deal with it.
This was a flood dragon; its entire body was a treasure.
Suddenly, his eyes lit up, and he looked at Ruoyan Qu. “Can you eat this?”
Ruoyan Qu bit her finger and looked disdainfully at the flood dragon’s corpse on the ground. “I can eat it, but Senior Brother, this black thing looks unappetizing.”
Lin Mo chuckled, “I’ve heard that Flood Dragon meat tastes quite good.”
“Really, Senior Brother?”
“You’ll know after one bite?”
Isn’t a flood dragon just an evolved snake?
He’d heard snake meat tastes good, and its protein content is 1.5 times that of chicken.
This Flood Dragon meat shouldn’t be too bad.
Lin Mo used his Liuli Sword to shave off the flood dragon’s scales and pointed to its tail. “Start by gnawing on the tail.”
Ruoyan Qu still trusted Lin Mo’s words. Opening her mouth, she began to tear at the flood dragon’s tail.
Lin Mo watched curiously as Ruoyan Qu tore off pieces of meat and swallowed them.
She had to say, this girl had quite good teeth.
Tearing at the Flood Dragon meat was no effort at all.
“How does it taste?” Lin Mo asked with a smile.
“It’s a bit sour, but it tastes pretty good,” Ruoyan Qu said, then continued gnawing on the flood dragon’s tail.
Lin Mo also curiously cut off a piece of dragon meat, but he didn’t intend to eat it raw.
He cast a Fire-element spell, skewered the dragon meat with his Liuli Sword, and sat on the ground to roast it.
‘Hey, hey, hey, you’re treating Little Li like this again. Can’t you show some respect to a Spirit Sword?’
Lin Mo communicated with the Liuli Sword in his mind, “You always call yourself an immortal sword, but you’re just a Spirit Sword of the artifact quality.”
‘Little Li has lost part of its memory, but Little Li remembers fighting artifacts to a standstill.’
“Yes, yes, yes, you’re the most powerful.”
Lin Mo’s tone was dismissive.
Fighting against divine weapons to a standstill? This boastful sword might as well claim it has killed immortals.
In a short while, the aroma filled the air.
“Senior Brother, can I have a taste of yours?” Smelling the aroma, Ruoyan Qu’s lips dripped with saliva as she stared intently at the sizzling Flood Dragon meat Lin Mo was roasting.
“Alright, you little brat. You have hands and feet, can’t you learn from me and make your own roast meat?”
Though he said that, Lin Mo still split half of the roasted Flood Dragon meat for Ruoyan Qu.
Ruoyan Qu, not caring about the heat, eagerly began eating the roast meat.
From her silence and satisfied expression as she focused on eating, Lin Mo inferred that the roasted Flood Dragon meat must taste good.
As it turned out, he was right.
Not only was the Flood Dragon meat juicy and delicious, but it also lacked the sourness she mentioned earlier.
Furthermore, after eating the Flood Dragon meat, Lin Mo felt his internal spiritual energy become more concentrated.
After eating his fill, Lin Mo’s gaze returned to the multicolored stone.
The closer he got to the stone, the more he felt the surrounding spiritual energy intensify.
It was all converging towards this stone.
“Is this a Spirit Gathering Stone?” Lin Mo recognized it.
Spirit Gathering Stones are the core of Spirit Gathering Formations.
The Spirit Gathering Formations in his grandfather’s mansion used low-grade Spirit Gathering Stones.
However, even low-grade ones were extremely expensive on the market.
Especially slightly better ones, which were priceless.
“This Spirit Gathering Stone is truly terrifying.”
Lin Mo roughly estimated that the efficiency of this Spirit Gathering Stone in gathering surrounding spiritual energy was more than ten times greater than all of his grandfather’s Spirit Gathering Formations combined.
Such a treasure is truly a mobile mansion.
As long as Lin Mo finds a place with abundant spiritual energy, bringing out this Spirit Gathering Stone will significantly boost his cultivation efficiency.
After putting the Spirit Gathering Stone into his storage ring.
Lin Mo noticed that Ruoyan Qu was still eating the roasted Flood Dragon meat.
And she had already eaten a tenth of it.
This scene was unscientific and shattered Lin Mo’s worldview.
Considering that one-tenth of the Flood Dragon meat was several times larger than Ruoyan Qu herself.
“Wait, stop eating,” Lin Mo called out to her.
“What is it, Senior Brother?” Ruoyan Qu asked, confused, the Flood Dragon meat still in her mouth.
“This pile of meat is much bigger than you, how did you fit it in your stomach?” Looking at Ruoyan Qu’s slightly bulging stomach, Lin Mo found it incredible.
“I just ate it like this…” Ruoyan Qu looked puzzled, as if it were a normal occurrence.
Lin Mo suddenly remembered that Taotie was said to be a ferocious and gluttonous Ancient Ferocious Beast that could devour everything.
Seeing this now, Ruoyan Qu truly seemed to have inherited Taotie’s ability to eat voraciously.
“Um, Yanyan, Senior Brother has something to ask you.”
“What is it, Senior Brother?”
“Have you ever felt full?”
“No, I feel very hungry every day. It’s only by eating this Flood Dragon meat this time that I feel a slight sense of fullness.”
“About how much?”
“About five percent.”
Lin Mo sucked in a breath and retracted his previous thoughts. He felt his financial resources absolutely wouldn’t be able to feed this girl enough every day.
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