【Dragon Vein Teleportation (Exclusive to Dragon Clan): After learning, one can open a Dragon Vein passage and freely travel between interconnected Dragon Veins. (Can bring a dual cultivation partner.)】
This is too much! Too much!
What’s with this item description that’s full of crazy hints?
Jiang Ke’er gnashed her teeth in anger.
Are you insisting that I give this cultivation technique to Qiao Xiaoxian to use?
Are you two my systems or that evil dragon’s system?
“I want you to explain why I drew something that only the Dragon Clan can use,” Jiang Ke’er asked, glaring at the lottery interface of the righteous system, her voice filled with negative emotions.
【Host, didn’t you read the Cauldron cultivation manual?】
“Huh? What manual?” Jiang Ke’er was stunned. Was there such a thing?
【It’s that “Self-Cultivation of a Peerless Female Cauldron”! The terms and conditions that must be checked to proceed with the next step of cultivation… Did you not read it?】
“…”
Oh my goodness, was that a manual?
Who would read that stuff?!
All those “Must read before proceeding with installation” or “Read and agree to this agreement before continuing to register” things in the world… no normal person would read them, right?
Those verbose official clauses, probably not even the writers expected anyone to read them, they’re only brought out when there’s a legal dispute.
【The manual said that after you bind a dual cultivation partner, the system store and system prize pool will additionally include exclusive items suitable for your dual cultivation partner.】 The righteous little loli explained.
Jiang Ke’er’s head hurt.
Bah! Polluting the prize pool!
【At the same time, the Spirit Root enhancement effects you obtain from the Book of Spirit Roots, and other types of aptitude enhancement effects you may encounter in the future, will also be copied to your dual cultivation partner during dual cultivation, allowing them to also gain aptitude benefits… except for the enchanting bone enhancement effect.】
What are you doing? What are you doing? Is this still my cheat?
Jiang Ke’er grew angrier the more she thought about it.
Why isn’t someone else bringing a system to be her cauldron?
Now this is great, she gets stronger, and Qiao Xiaoxian also gets stronger while lying down… Is this not letting her take charge?
“Sigh—”
Jiang Ke’er sighed again.
This was the dozens of sighs she had made in three days.
There was nothing she could do, she was troubled.
Now she faced a difficult choice.
Should she give “Dragon Vein Teleportation” to Qiao Xiaoxian or not?
From a subjective emotional standpoint, she didn’t want to give it at all.
But from the perspective of objective benefits, giving it to her was undoubtedly the most rational approach at present.
If she didn’t give it to Qiao Xiaoxian, she would have to continue drawing lots to find that slim way out… maybe even drawing until she went bankrupt wouldn’t bring a turnaround.
That would not only be a huge waste of points at the Level 1 store, but in the end, she would still have to swallow her anger and inevitably hand over “Dragon Vein Teleportation” to Qiao Xiaoxian.
The outcome would be the same, but she would have lost over 20,000 points for nothing.
Or, should she take a gamble? What if she succeeded in one shot?
Forget it, before going bankrupt, every gambler thinks this way every single second.
Fine, a man can bend and stretch.
This fox won’t stoop to your level, evil dragon… anyway, you’ll die by my hand sooner or later!
After comforting herself mentally, Jiang Ke’er temporarily put “Dragon Vein Teleportation” into her inventory.
Give it, she definitely had to give it, but not for free!
“I have a way for us to escape danger,” Jiang Ke’er pondered for a moment, her eyes narrowing into cunning fox slits, and continued, “As long as you swear that after we get out, we’ll go our separate ways and never see each other again… I’ll give you the method to escape.”
Qiao Xiaoxian opened her eyes, coming out of her meditative state, her voice slightly ethereal: “You will die if you leave me.”
“Then you take me to Nanzhanbuzhou to detoxify first, and we’ll separate after I’m detoxified.”
Qiao Xiaoxian shook her head: “I’m not talking about poison. Some people want to kill you. They will hunt you down to the ends of the earth and won’t give up until they see your corpse.”
“You don’t need to worry about that! Anyway, we’ll separate once I’m detoxified!”
Qiao Xiaoxian thought for a moment and said, “Okay, as you wish.”
“You swear?”
“I swear.”
Jiang Ke’er then relaxed, suppressing the wild joy in her heart, and took out “Dragon Vein Teleportation.”
“Take it!”
Jiang Ke’er slapped the book heavily onto Qiao Xiaoxian’s face.
The hard book cover was blocked by an invisible energy fluctuation one centimeter from Qiao Xiaoxian’s nose, which greatly disappointed Jiang Ke’er.
Qiao Xiaoxian raised her hand and took the book.
There were no words on the book’s cover, so Qiao Xiaoxian opened it… As soon as she opened it, the book turned into a beam of light and drilled into Qiao Xiaoxian’s head.
Qiao Xiaoxian was startled but didn’t dodge.
“Inheritance book?” she murmured. After absorbing the knowledge in the book, she couldn’t help but be astonished, “Hmm… Dragon Vein Teleportation?!”
Seeing Qiao Xiaoxian’s astonished look, Jiang Ke’er was very pleased: “Tsk tsk tsk, how provincial, small-minded, long-haired and short-sighted, country bumpkin dragon… What’s so great about a mere Dragon Vein Teleportation? I have a whole warehouse of treasures better than this!”
Qiao Xiaoxian wasn’t annoyed: “Where did you get it? This is a secret Dragon Clan technique that has been lost since ancient times!”
“Stolen. Just use it, why so much talk…”
Jiang Ke’er pouted, feeling a bit unsure in her heart.
After all, Qiao Xiaoxian had become a salted dragon, uh… although she could beat her up, she was still a salted dragon!
She wasn’t sure if the current Qiao Xiaoxian could use Dragon Vein Summoning, and if it required something like the Bagua Realm to use, that would be an embarrassing blunder.
“Good stuff!”
A hint of joy flashed in Qiao Xiaoxian’s eyes: “All Dragon Veins in the world are connected. Although they were completely cut off by the Grand Master of Dongshengshenzhou, new young Dragon Veins have been nurtured over thousands of years… These young Dragon Veins may seem small and tender, but in reality, their aura is connected to a main vein. We can travel to the main vein through the young Dragon Veins, and then to various parts of the world through the main vein!”
“That powerful?” Jiang Ke’er was envious.
This really was a true teleportation technique! How did all the good things happen to Qiao Xiaoxian?
Her target class was Berserker, so how come she was growing up to look like a support?
That won’t do, it seems she needs to work harder on training herself!
“Get ready to go,” Qiao Xiaoxian wrapped her arm around Jiang Ke’er’s waist.
“Wait,” Jiang Ke’er looked at the cave entrance sealed by the formation and said, “You cast your spell first, I need to retract the formation.”
“No time,” Qiao Xiaoxian shook her head.
“Besides, that would make them sense the fluctuation of the Dragon Veins and know our whereabouts.”
“But we have to take one or two! After all, they were painstakingly stolen!” Jiang Ke’er said self-righteously.
Qiao Xiaoxian couldn’t argue with Jiang Ke’er and had no choice but to let Jiang Ke’er summon a few formation stones.
Jiang Ke’er also knew what was important and understood that now was not the time to be greedy.
So, while trying not to affect the formation’s isolation capabilities, she dug out three formation stones and put them into her inventory.
Then, Qiao Xiaoxian tightly wrapped her arm around Jiang Ke’er’s waist, transformed into a white light, and disappeared into the Dragon Vein.
“Rumble—”
Almost immediately after, the ground above the Dragon Vein suddenly collapsed, directly crushing the Dragon Vein cavern and utterly destroying the surrounding Dragon Vein structure.
“Where are they?”
The man expressionlessly retracted the magic artifact in his hand; it was merely a whisk.
It was this seemingly light whisk that had forcefully collapsed the Dragon Vein’s surface, utterly destroying the place.
“Reporting to Immortal, they jumped in here last night! It’s absolutely true, no lies!” The Sect Master of Wuji Sect quickly replied, his voice filled with extreme terror, even trembling.
“Useless!”
The man frowned, a dark cloud on his face, and turned to leave.
“Where is this place?” Jiang Ke’er shielded her eyes from the scorching sun with her hand.
It was only eight or nine in the morning, and the sunlight was already so dazzling.
Could it be that she had arrived in Nanzhanbuzhou?
This evil dragon was quite chivalrous, not wasting a moment, and directly brought her here to detoxify.
“The Dragon Veins don’t connect to Nanzhanbuzhou. This is a small, remote country on the edge of Dongshengshenzhou, called Aolai,” Qiao Xiaoxian’s words shattered Jiang Ke’er’s joy.
“Doesn’t connect to Nanzhanbuzhou? Only a ghost would believe you! You cunning dragon, always trying to harm me!” Jiang Ke’er was furious and lifted her foot, intending to kick a crab on the beach into the sea.
As a result, her foot was clamped, and tears streamed down from the pain.
“What kind of divine crab is this? So fast?!”
The large crab held Jiang Ke’er’s big toe with one claw and provocatively waved the other claw at her, as if laughing triumphantly: Haha! Didn’t expect that, did you!
“The spiritual energy here is abundant, and it’s sparsely populated, so the creatures are generally very different from other places,” Qiao Xiaoxian held back her laughter, helped Jiang Ke’er remove the crab from her foot, and then threw it into the pot, “So it tastes better.”
Both the fox and the dragon were starving.
Although seafood was troublesome to eat and not very filling, it was the most suitable food to satisfy their hunger at the moment… After all, it was all over the beach.
Living off the mountain when by the mountain, and off the sea when by the sea, that’s efficient.
“When are you taking me to Nanzhanbuzhou?”
While the seafood was stewing in the pot, Jiang Ke’er salivated and asked Qiao Xiaoxian.
Qiao Xiaoxian lowered her head: “This place is a long way from Nanzhanbuzhou. With our current strength, it’s impossible to safely reach Nanzhanbuzhou on such a long journey…”
Jiang Ke’er looked at Qiao Xiaoxian suspiciously, always feeling that this girl was making excuses.
“Besides,” Qiao Xiaoxian continued, “those guys know you’re poisoned by the Cold Spirit Point-nosed Viper and will go to Nanzhanbuzhou to detoxify sooner or later… So they will definitely go to Nanzhanbuzhou to extensively search for you. I’m afraid it won’t be long before Nanzhanbuzhou is full of their informants. Going there with your current strength is just suicide.”
So what now? Can’t this poison be cured? Can she only be bound to this evil dragon?
But she had to admit that what Qiao Xiaoxian said made a lot of sense.
“Then how do we improve our strength?” Jiang Ke’er asked dejectedly, “If you’re going to say dual cultivation, then forget it.”
“You don’t need to be afraid, dual cultivation isn’t dual cultivation every night,” Qiao Xiaoxian was amused by Jiang Ke’er’s adorably worried expression, “Dual cultivation requires both parties to first accumulate internal cultivation, and after accumulating to a certain extent, then perform internal exchange, so that the internal cultivation can undergo a qualitative change and sublimation… allowing the same amount of cultivation to exert several times the power.”
“That’s good, that’s good!” Jiang Ke’er breathed a sigh of relief, but she seemed to have thought of something else and quickly added, “Please, old one, cultivate slowly! Don’t be too fast!”
“Hmm… I’ll try my best,” Qiao Xiaoxian replied ambiguously.
“What about now? What are your plans?” Jiang Ke’er asked, “Could it be… we’re going to find a deep mountain and old forest to go into seclusion? And come out after mastering divine skills?”
“Working behind closed doors, even if you have the realm, you won’t have combat ability,” Qiao Xiaoxian shook her head, “You need to interact more with the outside world, understand the most advanced cultivation ideas from various places, and engage in more battles to verify them, only then can you become a true strong person.”
In this regard, Qiao Xiaoxian clearly had more experience, so Jiang Ke’er decided not to interrupt and follow the big shot.
“Dongshengshenzhou is the most prosperous and vast continent. Strong individuals from the four continents gather here, either pledging allegiance to the imperial court for salary, or coming here to seek knowledge, or engaging in trade for cultivation resources… It can be said to be the most suitable place for cultivation and growth,” Qiao Xiaoxian stroked her chin, explaining to Jiang Ke’er while pondering.
Jiang Ke’er didn’t say much about things she didn’t understand, just nodded obediently.
“And speaking of Dongshengshenzhou, the most unique place is undoubtedly the ‘Ancient Learning Realm’ of the Great Si Kingdom,” Qiao Xiaoxian said here, seeming to have cleared her thoughts, her eyes brightening.
Ancient Learning Realm?
“The Ancient Learning Realm is divided into the Beginner Realm, the No Regrets Realm, and the Return to Truth Realm. Only cultivators from no realm to the Three Talents Realm can enter the Beginner Realm, the No Regrets Realm is for those from Three Talents to Five Elements, and the Return to Truth Realm is for those from Five Elements to Seven Luminaries…”
“These three Ancient Learning Realms are three barrier areas passed down from ancient times, specifically for cultivators of different realms to cultivate and comprehend the Dao within them. Those without the heart to seek the Dao are not allowed to enter.”
“In the Ancient Learning Realm, ancient secret manuals that fit the current realm, or rare heavenly materials and earthly treasures that greatly aid the current cultivation realm, will often appear randomly.”
“There are also senior elders from various major sects who regularly give lectures and impart cultivation knowledge through projected avatars, as well as recruit disciples.”
“All in all… it’s a big hodgepodge, but it’s also a paradise for those seeking knowledge.”
Jiang Ke’er thought about it.
Isn’t this a combination of a dungeon and an academy?
There might be some other differences she wasn’t quite clear about yet, but at least she had a rough idea of what Qiao Xiaoxian was going to do.
“My cultivation is gone, and you’ve just embarked on the path of cultivation, so it’s perfectly suitable to enter the Ancient Learning Realm to recuperate or improve yourself.”
Qiao Xiaoxian broke open a ripe crab, blew on it to dissipate the heat, and then handed the crab body, full of crab roe and paste, to Jiang Ke’er.
Jiang Ke’er was not polite, directly dismembering the annoying crab and stuffing it into her belly, muttering while eating: “Thank you, Boss Crab, Boss Crab is really delicious.”
Qiao Xiaoxian apparently didn’t understand the extremely cold joke.
“Besides, it’s absolutely safe there. No higher-realm powerhouses can enter, and even those so-called immortals must obey the rules.”
When she mentioned the word “immortals,” Qiao Xiaoxian’s gaze grew cold.
She had already emerged from the shadow of failure.
What she was thinking about now was how to kill immortals.
In this regard, her goal was consistent with Jiang Ke’er’s.
And…
Listening to the sound of the waves at her ears, Qiao Xiaoxian looked out at the boundless sea.
The demon kingdom, the cold North Ju Luzhou, she had had enough.
The Dragon Clan needed a new country, a new dwelling place.
Dongshengshenzhou was good. If she could live to that day, she could bring her clansmen over.
But by then, she hoped the Dragon Clan would no longer be dependent on others, living in the shadows of those incompetent monarchs.
If that day came, she would welcome the arrival of the Dragon Clan under the gaze of the entire Dongshengshenzhou.
As a monarch.
…
“I’m full~”
Jiang Ke’er lay on the sun-drenched beach, hugging her little belly contentedly.
Although she knew it was full of seafood and would sooner or later cause an undignified upheaval, at least at this moment, she was satisfied and thoroughly enjoyed herself!
“If you’re full, get ready to move,” Qiao Xiaoxian took out a handkerchief, gracefully wiped the corners of her mouth, and then tried to wipe the crab roe from Jiang Ke’er’s mouth.
“Stay away from me! Evil dragon!”
Jiang Ke’er pushed away Qiao Xiaoxian’s hand and licked the corners of her mouth clean with her own tongue.
Qiao Xiaoxian smiled, washed her handkerchief, put it back into her storage bag, and set off on the journey first: “Let’s go, to the Ancient Learning Realm.”
Jiang Ke’er quickly followed, shouting as she ran: “You long-legged monster, why are you so tall? Walk slower! I can’t keep up!”
Qiao Xiaoxian took two steps, and Jiang Ke’er had to take three to keep up.
She was exhausted after only a few steps.
“You’ll be fine when you grow up.”
“I’m already very big!”
“Oh.”
“Oh what? Are you looking down on foxes?”
“No.”
“I’ll kill you one day!”
“Go for it, I’ll be waiting.”