Chapter 503: Chapter 69: Dual Attribute Black Dragon, Ji Xuechen
Informing everyone of Weiwei’s death, the small team fell into complete silence. The surprise of Yue Jinghua’s survival brought them great joy but Weiwei’s death...
For Weiwei, the members of the July Team didn’t originally value her much, after all, a healing mercenary who couldn’t perform group healing was seen as a burden to the small team.
Yet this time, it was Weiwei who saved the entire team.
Regarding the female assassin who appeared out of nowhere, the team members didn’t say much. Most of them knew, to some extent, that Yue Jinghua was a woman.
Even Qin Dongting, when catching a glimpse of that outstanding and extraordinary figure, had guessed something.
While the mercenaries and the Imperial Army were tallying the losses from this mission to the Sky Dragon Palace, the members of the July Team arrived at Spring Path.
Amidst a splendidly blooming pale green hops field, they buried Weiwei’s left behind clothing there.
"Weiwei was the sixth official member of our July Mercenary Team. As long as the July Team exists, her status won’t change," Yue Jinghua personally carved a tombstone and led everyone in bowing before the grave site.
After paying their respects to Weiwei, Yue Jinghua lifted her spirits and discussed the July Team’s gains from this mission with everyone.
Gaining two pieces of Dragon Slayer Holy Armor, and having captured the Black Flood Dragon that the Yunhu Commerce had asked them to find, from a profit perspective, this mission could be considered a full-fledged success for the July Team.
However, there were also many regrets. This was the most severe loss she had experienced as a team leader; due to her lack of adequate preparation, the departure of Yue Chen and Ye Zi, and losing Weiwei forever, were things that filled Yue Jinghua with self-reproach.
"Rawr rawr, I took advantage of the chaos earlier to search around the Sky Altar, but strangely, the Sea Suppressing Square Ring was gone," the Gold Eater Worm said, regretting that it loved to take advantage of such chaos.
It’s just that the Sea Suppressing Square Ring, a relic rumored to be left over from the God and Demon War, was gone.
"Perhaps, in the midst of the chaos, it fell into the Dragon Transformation Pond. It’s a shame that Lady Qingyan is dead, otherwise we might have been able to inquire where that Sea Suppressing Ring came from," the Pool Blood of the Dragon Transformation Pond had merged the blood of the three Holy Beasts and carried the mysterious spells of the Dragon Clan.
Even a Dark Practitioner with formidable cultivation would melt into blood water in just a moment if they fell into the Dragon Transformation Pond. Probably only members of the Jiaolong Clan with their robust physiques and Yue Jinghua, who had undergone Jiao Long tempering, could withstand such fierce Pool Blood.
This blood allowed a Juvenile Flood Dragon to instantly metamorphose into a mature Jiao Long, but most of the Dark Power in the Pool Blood was absorbed by Yue Jinghua or, to put it another way, by the Cannibal Small Qingpu.
The thousand-year foundation of the three Holy Beasts ended up being a cheap windfall for Yue Jinghua.
Black Flood Dragon merged with the ice and snow power of Jiao Lan, Yue Jinghua fused with the Nirvana Fire Power of Huo Fengyan, and the Cannibal Small Qingpu probably fused with the Earth Element power of the Earth Qilin.
After fusing with the Dark Power in the Dragon Transformation Pond, Qing Pu sealed away the Dark Power of the Black Flood Dragon and, along with Little Qingpu, entered a state of seclusion. Given time, they’re expected to recover back to their original state.
Before returning to Five Saints Town, Yue Jinghua interrogated the Black Flood Dragon whose Dark Power had been temporarily sealed.
An adult Black Flood Dragon, merely by lying down, was as tall as a building.
Black Flood Dragon clearly couldn’t accept being knocked out by three punches from Yue Jinghua.
Even with its Dark Power sealed, it still held its head high, as the pride of the Jiaolong Clan would not allow itself to bow to lowly humans.
"A female jiaolong? Quite a temper," as the Black Flood Dragon haughtily refused to answer any of Yue Jinghua’s questions, Yue Jinghua remained calm, and a Six-star Starlight Array emerged from the ground.
"Summoner?" The innate fear of summoners, deeply ingrained in the heart of every Dark Beast, made the Black Flood Dragon recoil, "I, I will never contract with you."
The Black Flood Dragon truly despised this young man before its eyes.
Even though she was dressed differently now, the keen sense of smell of the Dark Beast allowed it to recognize this young man as the girl who had attacked it earlier, and forcibly took away most of the Dragon Liquid from the Dragon Transformation Pond from its claws.
This juvenile flood dragon from Kalan Peak was so cunning that it might have even outmatched the several Holy Beasts that fell from the Five Saints Mountain.
Since hatching from its mother, it had been soaking in the Dragon Suppressing Coffin atop Kalan Peak, absorbing the Jiao Long Liquid formed from the cultivation of the female jiaolong.
While still inside the egg, it had already shown the talent of a jiaolong with the attribute of space-time. After fleeing from Kalan Peak, it accidentally fell into the hands of a mercenary group, hid its presence, and disguised the Jiao Long egg as a dormant egg.
When the dragon egg was entrusted to a mercenary team of "second-generation soldiers," it took advantage of the team’s carelessness to destroy the other Dark Beast eggs being transported and slipped into the Xuan Beast Ridge.
All these actions were executed flawlessly. Once it understood that it carried its parents’ deep-seated hatred, it made its way to the Ancient Hero Square and stealthily lurked in the shadows of the Sky Dragon Palace.
Since its own jiaolong aura was similar to that of the Dragon Palace, none of the people inside the palace noticed its presence.
It patiently lay in wait and finally seized the opportunity when Lady Qingyan subdued everyone, even the Chaos Mantis made its way to it.
It thought everything would go smoothly, but then Yue Jinghua appeared out of nowhere.
If it wasn’t for her, after absorbing all of the Holy Beast Blood, it could have possibly transformed into the first Eight-clawed Flood Dragon King in tens of thousands of years for the Jiaolong Clan. But the girl’s cunning move in the last moment thoroughly disrupted its grand plans.
Upon subduing the Black Flood Dragon, Yue Jinghua couldn’t help but raise her eyebrows. Possessing the attributes of space-time and the existence of a Ninth Rank Peak, it could look down upon the entire Eastern Continent. Having such an evil jiaolong as a Contracted Beast would undoubtedly take her power to the next level.
However, this Black Flood Dragon could not be contracted.
On the Canglong Continent, although summoners had long disappeared, whether it be the laws of the Empire or the statutes of the Federation, even the strict rules among several large organizations, the possessions of others cannot be taken, and violators were subject to universal condemnation.
Most of the Dark Beasts that Yue Jinghua contracted were wild Dark Beasts, like the Gold Eater Worm, which was directly hatched and cultivated. However, this Black Flood Dragon belonged to Yunhu Commerce.
And Yunhu Commerce was Yue Jinghua’s largest business partner at the moment. Before her strength was sufficiently strong, she had no intention of offending Yunhu Commerce.
Under the deterrence of the summoner’s aura, the Black Flood Dragon had no choice but to lower its noble head, "Noble Summoner Lord, I, Ji Xuechen, am a dual-attribute Jiaolong of space-time and ice-snow."