XIAO SHUXIANG'S

230 - Lan Gaozu II

One of Lan Gaozu's eyes was green, a grin was visible on her face.

From the look in Grandfather's eyes of this Thick Beard, Xiao Shuxiang felt Lan Gaozu had a relationship with the Scarlet Shadow.

At the headquarters of the Sun Drowning Emperor, Meng Yaoya was seen stroking her hair slowly, a smile etched on her beautiful face.

"The wait was so long, the elder finally succeeded.."

"Come, it's time to make the final attack,"

Zhe Eryu, a man dressed in all black with a sun emblem on his back, masked in a blood red fox invites his three comrades to go to the battlefield.

All this time they had only controlled cultivators and emperor warriors from a distance. Now it's time to end the war and begin their grand plan.

The Sinking Sun Emperor who was sitting on his seat of greatness said nothing as the four upper pillars of the Scarlet Shadow left. His face was not clearly visible because the light in this room was too minimal, only his lips formed a thin smile.

His eyes continued to look at the wisp of water floating in front of him, seeing how Lan Gaozu was grinning in front of a young man whose corner of his lips was draining blood.

"So this is your plan,"

Xiao Shuxiang pushed hard on Lan Gaozu and leaped back, he almost fell down as his foot was treading on the ground, lucky Ling Lang Tian immediately held back his body.

Xiao Shuxiang spewed out thick blood, his face was extremely pale, it was aching as if his life had just been plucked out.

He forced himself not to let out a groan of pain, so imposing that a vein formed on the side of his forehead.

Now Xiao Shuxiang understood, Scarlet Shadow was not aiming for his life to be made into sword-making materials, but what they were after was his Rooted Dantian.

"I've waited a long time like this,"

Lan Gaozu's voice was very different, it sounded echoing and somewhat horrifying. His speech made all the controlled humans suddenly just stop moving.

!!

Dai Chen, his soldiers as well as cultivators from the three streams gasped. Their eye gazes all pointed at one point, it was the place where Lan Gaozu stood.

Only Lai Kuan Ye, Bao Yu, Li Qian Xie, and the few cultivators around Xiao Shuxiang saw Lan Gaozu's sudden attack. Others were far enough away to see clearly what was going on.

Nor do they recognize that echoing sound, but uncontrollable humans can sense a greater and more frightening danger than this.

?!

Ling Lang Tian felt Xiao Shuxiang's body tremble and grow heavier, he then embraced the young man's arm so as not to fall.

Xiao Shuxiang spewed blood again, his right hand holding Yinng xiong seemed to press against his stomach, where his Rooted Dantian had once been.

If he had no other dantian, perhaps Xiao Shuxiang had breathed his last. He was completely caught off guard over that shocking attack.

Lan Gaozu with her echoing voice praised Xiao Shuxiang for still being able to breathe. He then noticed the clear dantian in his hand, the dantian within which was filled with a blackish-blue Qi with thin fibrous roots.

Immediately, he flowed his Qi at the dantian and made all the existing roots disappear. He then put the dantian into his own body. Smiling, Lan Gaozu said it was not wrong to wait for such a long time.

".. With this power, my goal can be fulfilled..!"

!!

The rumbling sound of thunderous lightening greeted the cry of Lan Gaozu. Simultaneously, the four upper pillars of the Scarlet Shadow appeared beside him.

The previously ownerless Moon Slash Sword, had now re-emerged the top pillar that Xiao Shuxiang had previously defeated.

!!

The upper pillar that looked like Shouxing turned into a puff of smoke and entered Lan Gaozu's body.

The Moon Slash Sword was thrown and received smoothly by Zhe Eryu, the upper pillar of the Scarlet Shadow that occupied the second seat.

The ground suddenly shook, some people fell because they were unable to hold their balance. The earth tremor even reached the three empires.

Lan Guan Zhi who had just transferred his fellow disciple, Nian Grandma, Duan De, including all the citizens of the Rising Sun Empire who had taken refuge in his sect also felt this tremor. He then darted to the location of the war with a very high speed.

A huge root appeared in the ground, right in front of Lan Gaozu. The roots grew towering and quickly formed a tree that was recognizable to Dai Chen, his father, and Xiao Shuxiang himself.

This tree was similar to a banyan, yet there were many lotus flowers on its small branches. Looks glowing in the heavy rain. The tree is none other than the Jade Lotus Tree or the so-called Demon Lotus Tree.

This plant should be in the Lotus Root Valley, where Dai Chen's origin and the location of his sect stand. But how could that extremely old tree be able to appear suddenly in front of them?!

"What is really going on in your continent?"

Ling Lang Tian originally wanted to return to the Middle Continent, but instead he entered into a war between two empires and this was how it ended.

"I.. Also ti.. Don't know,"

Xiao Shuxiang clucked in annoyance as his body regeneration was suddenly so slow. He was not even able to support his own body due to the pain he was suffering from.

Not until there was their shock, six pieces of lightning suddenly came out from the Devil Lotus Tree, appearing to pierce through the black clouds.

Lan Gaozu let out a strange sound, her body slowly turning into an extremely long-tailed beast, horned like a deer, having a pair of legs, as well as hands that merged into one on its wings.

!!

"What's That?!"

Yi Wen and Hou Yong had only just seen such a large animal, with a body length that both had estimated to be almost 20 meters.

The body of the animal is dark green with the stomach part white. Xiao Shuxiang clearly knew this type of animal because he had seen it in the Demon World.

Lan Gaozu's current form is none other than a dragon, but his physical features are different from Xiao Shuxiang's adoptive uncle who although also a type of dragon, but he has no wings let alone legs.

!!

"Lan Gaozu?! How is this possible?"

Patriarch Lan was of course surprised, he knew well who Lan Gaozu was, there was nothing suspicious about the thick-bearded man, he was obviously a master full of prestige and discipline, he was clearly a teacher of great authority and discipline, so something must be wrong.

Patriarch Lan's guess was indeed correct. The key to this incident was none other than the Demon Lotus Tree. The tree actually sealed a creature named Wyvern, the oldest Demonic Beast in the Eastern Continent, which was close to 200 thousand years old.

This dragon had been sealed when he was a hundred thousand years old by the cultivators of the era, the humans as well as the Demonic Beasts who now inhabited the Eastern Continent were certainly not alive for that long.

As a result of the battles that always occurred in the world of cultivators without any peace in it, the seal on Wyvern weakened.

There are few historical records that discuss this creature. Even in the existing book, it was not clearly written the tree where Wyvern was sealed.

And either coincidentally or indeed had been planned in advance, the moment Xiao Shuxiang obtained his Rooted Dantian.. An unknown person came to the Demon Lotus Tree and removed the little seal that was restraining Wyvern.

The spirit from the dragon named Wyvern then controlled a portion of the roots of the Demon Lotus Tree to gather the energy from the decayed Demonic Beast's body.

When the energy he collected was enough, he began to form the first followers in the form of a 9-year-old child, he was Han Na.

Han Na then joins the Scarlet Shadow formed by the offender who weakens the seal on Wyvern. While Wyvern himself remained in the Demon Lotus Tree.

It takes a lot of power for Wyvern to be free. And when a child comes and eats a jade lotus seed is like eating an ordinary lotus seed.. He felt this was his chance!

So many Rooted Dantians were clearly considered curses, yet even spirits were aware that the child he saw was no ordinary human.

The child only needed help to become stronger until the roots on his dantian were no longer able to withstand the accumulated Qi.

With the dantian, Wyvern could not only be detached from the seal, but his strength would also return.

He actually wanted to make a child who was none other than Xiao Shuxiang as his container, but somehow he could not. It was as if the child was not from this world.

There was a conjecture that came to his mind regarding the child, Wyvern felt that Xiao Shuxiang resembled him, that the child was also a spirit. And certainly not the original spirit of the actual owner of the body.

It is difficult for two strong spirits to occupy a container, unless one of them melts and becomes food. Wyvern's strength was now clearly weakened, hence he could only wait and make plans.

Another reason that Wyvern cannot make the body of the rooted child as his container is because the spirit that occupies the body of the boy has been attached and cannot be separated again.

Wyvern's long wait paid off as the boy got stronger, he clearly observed the child's development during his stay in the Lotus Root Sect.

After Scarlet Shadow had many members and the child she had observed had grown into a youth as well as started to leave this sect, Wyvern also used the roots embedded underground to follow the human all the way to the Sky Sword Sect.

He was looking for someone worthy of his container, and his choice fell on Lan Gaozu. It was not an easy matter to possess the old man's body, as Lan Gaozu was routinely doing the Heart Demon Cleansing.

He then planned an attack by the Sky Pagoda Sect when the senior cultivators and patriarchs were not in the sect.

With such an impromptu attack, many cultivators were injured, including Lan Gaozu. This was the beginning of Wyvern making Lan Gaozu as the container as a whole.

From then on, Lan Gaozu's nature had softened somewhat to Xiao Shuxiang. No one suspects his movements because there is no strangeness. His role as a teacher was even perfect.

Making an enemy for Xiao Shuxiang was certainly to test the extent to which the young man increased his strength. It was unexpected that Xiao Shuxiang had been able to remove some of the roots on his dantian.

The long awaited seed Wyvern finally got. His strength was now gradually returning, now that he could control the Demon Lotus Tree.

The goal now is to give a lot of food in the form of corpses on this tree. That way, his strength would multiply even more.

".. And I'll be able to open the gates of my people's world,"

The world Wyvern meant was none other than the Demon World. If his goal succeeded, then not only was the Eastern Continent in deep trouble, but the other four continents as well.

!!

Ling Lang Tian gasped as more and more blood spewed out Xiao Shuxiang. The stomach of this young man also spits blood.

He tried to drain the Qi to stop his blood as well as treat the deep wounds of Xiao Shuxiang, but his efforts were in vain. The body of this young man rejected his Qi.

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