Shi Feiyang let out a dragon's roar, which resonated across the Western Continent's ten thousand mountains. Because Qian Kang had built the Sleepless City in the Eastern Main Road and expelled some spiritual and strange creatures, most of those who had achieved a certain Dao Level were cultivating on the Western Continent. Upon hearing the earth-shattering dragon chant, all of them emerged from their dormant caves to investigate the source.

Deep in the nearby sea lived an ancient Poison Dragon that also possessed almost ten thousand years of Dao Level. Over the years, it had been training hard to fend off the increasingly powerful Myriad Cold Centipede.

It was in the process of refining the Purple Lightning Dragon Ball, its temper flaring and its blood boiling, when suddenly it heard an unfamiliar dragon chant. Knowing that a powerful foreign dragon had arrived, it felt displeased. It roared in anger and shot up from the water like a missile, blasting through the surface and flying into the air, bellowing, "What worm dares to make such a racket here!"

Shi Feiyang saw a purple cloud, seething with speed, coming from hundreds of miles away. Standing within was a monstrous figure with a human body and dragon's head, nearly sixty feet tall, with facial features morphing into a human-like appearance, horns on its head, a mouth full of sharp teeth, and a body covered in fine purple scales, it charged directly at him like a shooting star.

Shi Feiyang still maintained his dragon body of about ninety feet. The opponent immediately spotted him, and without a word, expelled a stream of purple elixir Qi from its mouth. With a few rapid movements of its hands, it mixed the surrounding air moisture with its own elixir Qi, instantly forming a purple cloud several tens of acres in size. Within the cloud, countless hailstones the size of grinding stones formed, accompanied by thousands of purple lightning bolts, which it fiercely hurled at Shi Feiyang.

Shi Feiyang opened his mouth and spat out two inner cores that smashed directly into the opponent's dark cloud. The twin cores began to rotate, instantly scattering the cloud.

The Poison Dragon was quite surprised to see the two inner cores Shi Feiyang spat out and subsequently thought of killing the dragon to seize the treasures. If it could take these two inner cores and devour them, it would undoubtedly increase its Dao Level by several thousand years and perhaps no longer fear the Cold Centipede. Thus, it manipulated the purple cloud and lightning to contract inward, attempting to trap the two inner cores, while it turned a dragon scale into an illusion to stay in its original place. Its real body used the Water Escape technique to rush into the fading mist, also expelling its own Dragon Ball.

The Dragon Ball, the size of a bowl, looked like purple crystal filled with clear water. As it rotated, streaks of purple lightning appeared and moved within it. As soon as the Dragon Ball was released, it drove a great surge of purple Qi upwards, wrapping around Shi Feiyang's Water and Fire Inner Cores, attempting to forcibly snatch them away.

This use of a substitute was quite crude, leaving behind only an illusion that might fool others, but not Shi Feiyang, who had already turned the two inner cores into a state resembling a chaotic star cluster that generated an immense gravitational pull. It first absorbed all the electrically charged purple Qi emitted by the Dragon Ball, and then captured the Dragon Ball as well.

The Poison Dragon was shocked and desperately circulated its essence blood, trying with all its might to retract the Dragon Ball. But the Dragon Ball continued to be forcibly sucked away, flying backwards.

Sensing its painstakingly cultivated Dragon Ball drifting further away, the Poison Dragon panicked and lunged forward, shooting two beams of purple lightning from between its fingers. Shi Feiyang, in turn, released countless Fire Birds, Fire Beasts, and Fire Snakes from his inner cores to meet the purple lightning, sparking and scattering, with purple light swirling and fiery sparks raining down like a storm.

Despite having cultivated for eight or nine thousand years, the dragon merged the two lightning bolts into one, extending them instantly to strike several miles away, hitting its own Dragon Pillar, causing the Dragon Ball to brighten brilliantly.

Shi Feiyang watched the brightly shining Dragon Ball approaching him and momentarily stopped it. The other side was still desperately casting spells to pull it back, but he directly reached out with his Dragon Claw and seized the Dragon Ball, forcibly sealing it with a spell.

The Poison Dragon saw its life-essential Dragon Ball lose its luster and connection, becoming unresponsive to any spells he cast, which infuriated him to the point that his eyes reddened. He enveloped himself in purple elixir Qi, then continually sprayed essence blood, wanting to fight Shi Feiyang to the death. Shi Feiyang didn't wait for him to fully cast his spell and immediately ejected a Divine Fire Inner Core, piercing through the purple Qi and brutally striking the dragon.

The Poison Dragon, as if hit by a cannonball, let out a scream, spewed blood, and flew backward through the air, dropping into the water hundreds of miles away only to crash down.

The battle of the two dragons over the Pearl ended in an extremely short time.

Shi Sheng was the first to clap his hands in approval, "Master, I want to become a dragon too! Teach me the transformation technique."

Shi Feiyang looked down at him, "Of all my disciples, perhaps only you will eventually be able to become a dragon. Well then, these were just slight distractions, not worth dwelling on. You all should return to your caves and continue your cultivation diligently. This time I was here to protect you, but in the future when swarms of demons attack, you'll need to contribute significantly more."

Everyone returned to their caves to continue the sacrificial refinement of their Magical Treasures. Shi Feiyang looked once more in the direction where the Poison Dragon had fallen into the sea, then reverted to his human form and entered his own cave in the main peak.

There were still more than a dozen Great Demons with power similar to the Poison Dragon in the Outer Heaven Divine Mountain. If he hadn't come, they would all have been killed by the Cold Centipede in the decades to come. Since he had come and intended to be the Sect Ancestor of all demons, he couldn't kill them all, lest he became the sole Demon Emperor with no subordinates. It would be better to choose those who were capable and find a way to subdue them. Conveniently, he let the Poison Dragon gather all the demons together while he used the four Heavenly Treasures obtained from Shaqing Immortal Mansion to refine them all together, saving both time and effort.

As he expected, the Poison Dragon, having lost its Dragon Ball and bearing deep hatred towards Shi Feiyang, clenched its teeth so hard they squeaked. Instead of returning to its own lair, it turned and swam towards another Great Demon in a place thousands of miles away.

The Great Demon he was looking for was called Wu Longzi, also a Primordial Species, its original form was between a centipede and a cave weta, with a thousand legs, six wings on its back, and three hundred and sixty sharp claws aligned in rows on its abdomen, all modified by him to resemble human hands—famous for being both venomous and ruthless.

Poison Dragon had found him and said that a Black Dragon had appeared outside the Outer Heaven Divine Mountain, fierce and overbearing, with great strength, having just forcibly taken the Dragon Ball from him, and he asked Wu Longzi to help him to slay the Black Dragon.

Wu Longzi was quite indifferent, while intricately stroking his antennae, he said vaguely, "In this Divine Mountain and Holy Sea, the east is occupied by Qian Kang of the Nevernight City, not allowing us species to land in such a great place. The west side's Bright Realm originally belonged to all, but now the Cold Centipede is growing stronger, seemingly inclined to take over the entire territory. Once, nine of us joined forces to suppress the Cold Centipede, and what happened? She divided and conquered us, swallowing and chewing up the first, second, and fifth elders after sucking them dry. Soon it will be our turn..."

Enraged, Poison Dragon blasted purple lightning from his nostrils, "At this point, why bother saying all this? Are you coming with me to take revenge or not?"

Wu Longzi chuckled, "Brother Long Meng, you're still so impulsive! I mean, the Cold Centipede's nature is lascivious and ruthlessly poisonous, and that Black Dragon is more robust than you, bound to lure him in shortly. When those two strong forces clash, we just have to sit back and watch from our lair, no need for us to show off our ferocity, right?"

"That makes some sense," Long Meng said impatiently, "but how can we make that Demon Centipede clash with that Black Dragon as soon as possible?"

Wu Longzi, somewhat impatient, still pondered for a moment, then suddenly had an idea, "It all depends on your willingness to make a sacrifice. If you want them to fight as soon as possible, you could pledge allegiance to the Demon Centipede and incite them from close by. The challenging part is, that lascivious creature, upon seeing a male, must mate first before attending to anything else; I'm afraid, Brother Long Meng, you might have to sacrifice some of your essence energy."

Long Meng was very wary of the Cold Centipede, not afraid of mating but scared that she might suddenly turn on him and decide to devour him.

Seeing his hesitation, Wu Longzi suddenly said, "If you're afraid, Brother, I can go with you."

Overjoyed and surprised, Long Meng responded, "You're willing to go with me?"

Wu Longzi said, "I recently refined a new Divine Skill. If the Cold Centipede dares to mate with me, I can implant millions of offspring in her belly, harvest her Lifebound Elixir Qi, and before she notices, my children would have latched onto the channels and flesh within her womb. No matter how powerful her mana, she wouldn't be able to do anything. Then, I'll have my children drink her blood, eat her flesh, and move upwards to enter her brain, turning her into my puppet. With her, we could then dominate the entire Bright Realm."

Long Meng thought to himself that this plan was indeed very cunning, but he worried, "Her Millennial Elixir Qi is extraordinarily potent; once affected by the Elixir Poison, one would fall under her control, making it hard to break free..."

"That's not a problem. I've already thought of a countermeasure. In the lake in front of the palace where the Cold Centipede resides, grows a Heavenly Jade Lotus. Its seeds mature every three hundred and sixty-five years. Though it's not the season now, the Jade Lotus Root and lotus leaves are Spiritual Medicines and rare treasures not found in the Human World capable of detoxifying worldly poisons. When the time comes, we can collect some, so we don't have to fear her."

Wu Longzi asked, "Are you going or not? I have this plan, but I still don't want to meet the Demon Centipede alone. If she suddenly turns hostile, without support, if you come with me, we will have each other's backs."

After much hesitation, Long Meng finally gritted his teeth, "Let's go! As long as we make her and that Black Dragon start fighting soon, that's fine. I need to retrieve the Dragon Ball. Without the Dragon Ball, I always feel uneasy, as if disaster could strike at any moment. I must take it back soon."

After making some preparations, Wu Longzi set out to the Bright Realm on land with Long Meng to meet the Cold Centipede.

Upon their arrival, the Cold Centipede was dining.

On a white jade platform several acres in size, one side facing the lake with a Heavenly Jade Lotus larger than trees, and the other side bordering mountains with many palaces and towers built.

Several cultivators and demons knelt on the platform in two rows, silently, and in front of them, a continuously surging green poison cloud formed from the Myriad Cold Centipede's Elixir Qi.

The Myriad Cold Centipede resembled a snail without a shell, but with six heads, nine bodies, and forty-eight legs, all fused together, its heads shaped like Ruyi with thin centers and large ends, and particularly long necks topped with a flat large mouth, its body stretching several dozen zhang long.

Within the cloud of Elixir Qi, she absorbed nine males for mating, including both humans and demons, using her nine bodies to draw out their Primordial Essence, and after squeezing them dry, she then chewed and swallowed their crushed bodies—currently holding the bodies of nine in her mouth, crunching bones and splattering blood, making squeaking noises.

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