93: It desperately wants to ascend!

"Ang—"

The furious dragon roar shook the surroundings for a hundred miles. Yu Xuzi saw a black flood dragon raise its head and burst from the sea, charging straight towards the high heavens, its ink-jade-like straight horn pointing diagonally at the sky.

Its head was rugged and majestic, and its dragon body, over a hundred zhang long, was entirely covered in mysterious black dragon scales the size of a zhang. Their sharp edges reflected a netherworld-like halo as its muscles rippled.

Its powerful limbs were like pillars supporting the heavens, each foot possessing three curved dark iron claws. The mane on its back rose and fell like mountain ranges, and the water vapor around it condensed into persistent, ink-colored clouds.

"Rumble!!!"

The flood dragon spiraled and wound its way up into the sky.

Dark clouds gathered, and countless white lightning pythons rolled and roared in the sea of clouds. Violent winds mixed with water vapor, forming a towering storm on the sea's surface!

Summoning wind and rain!

This was a talent etched into the very bones of the Dragon Clan!

Even for a flood dragon with mottled Bloodlines, it was the same.

"Who are you? How dare you disturb this king's slumber!!"

A heavy dragon pressure swept out, covering the sky and the earth.

Thousands of zhang high in the sky, a dragon head as large as a palace hall rose up, its golden vertical pupils staring at the metal Puppet that had spoken.

It did not attack immediately.

This was partly due to confidence in its own strength!

And also because it instantly saw that the opponent was merely a Human Race Puppet creation, with only faint fluctuations of a Divine Sense.

The true person behind the scenes was certainly not here; smashing this Puppet would be useless.

The dragon pressure closing in from all directions was vast and mighty, causing Yu Xuzi's Divided Soul, residing within the Xuan Sha Heavenly Tiger, to tremble and flicker.

Like a small boat drifting in a storm at sea, it seemed it would be completely destroyed in the next instant!

"This humble Daoist is Taiyin. Although disturbing the Dragon King is very abrupt and presumptuous, it is to make a grand deal with the Dragon King and offer an Opportunity!"

A mechanical, cold voice came from the tiger's head.

"Hiding your head and showing your tail!"

The black flood dragon sneered, its Demon soul and Divine Sense instantly covering a hundred-mile radius in an attempt to find the hidden person.

A Human Race Dao Foundation Cultivator who didn't even dare to show his face—how was he worthy of discussing a deal with it?

"The Dragon King need not waste his strength."

"This humble Daoist only has a Dao Foundation cultivation. Since I dared to come and meet the Dragon King, I have naturally made full preparations. Right now, I am ten thousand miles away; the Dragon King will not find me!"

Wrapped tightly by the vast dragon pressure.

Even though the Puppet body of the Xuan Sha Heavenly Tiger emitted creaking noises from the pressure, Yu Xuzi's voice remained steady and calm.

"Truly not here?"

The Black Flood Dragon Demon King refused to believe it and searched the hundred-mile radius carefully once more. Only after finding nothing did it reluctantly confirm the claim.

It looked at Yu Xuzi, and interest suddenly piqued in its heart, causing the terrifying dragon pressure to recede.

It wanted to see what this person actually intended to do!

Its massive dragon mouth suddenly split open: "Taiyin, is it?"

"This king knows of you!"

"That grand-disciple of Fellow Daoist Yanling mentioned you to me. Speak, what deal do you want to make?"

"Hmm??"

Yu Xuzi was stunned for a moment.

Immediately afterward, he sentenced Venerable Weiyun of the Qingyuan Sect to death in his heart.

This old fellow had no good intentions; he was truly wicked!

I'll destroy him sooner or later!

However, it seemed this flood dragon's relationship with the Qingyuan Sect was indeed unusual; at the very least, it should be on good terms with True Person Yanling.

"Since the Dragon King has heard of me, then I shall get straight to the point."

The red light in the tiger-headed Puppet's eyes suddenly flared, and a few words drifted lightly from its mouth:

"May I ask the Dragon King, do you wish for Ascension?"

As soon as the word 'Ascension' left his mouth, the flood dragon's coiled body suddenly tensed, and it said in a cold tone: "What do you mean?"

"I can help the Dragon King achieve Ascension. How about this deal?"

It was stunned for a moment, then burst into a wild, loud laugh. The resonant dragon roar shattered countless dark clouds and lightning, stirring up towering waves on the sea.

"Hahaha! Do you know what the Dharma Ending Age is? Do you know that only a Demon Emperor can ascend? Do you know that this realm has no qualification for Ascension at all?"

"You, a mere Human Race junior, claim you can help me ascend?"

Its laughter carried obvious sorrow and despair.

Then came anger!

The anger of feeling mocked and trifled with!

"You, junior Taiyin, have you come here today just to make fun of this king?"

Seeing the flood dragon's gaze grow increasingly dangerous, Yu Xuzi quickly used his Divine Sense to pull a large pile of things out of the several Storage Pouches hanging from the Xuan Sha Heavenly Tiger's waist to show the dragon.

"Dragon King, look!"

Those were several strangely-shaped corpses.

Demons!

And they were all kinds of Demons, both first-rank and second-rank. A dense demonic aura instantly spread out.

"What is this?"

The Black Flood Dragon Demon King was instantly intrigued.

Especially that strange aura being emitted, which made it instinctively feel a great deal of disgust.

"I heard the Dragon King is on good terms with True Person Yanling of the Qingyuan Sect. Have you heard him mention rumors of the Upper Realm? Shanhai Major Thousand Worlds? Taiqing Dao Lineage? Have you heard the word 'Demon'?"

"Shanhai? Taiqing? Demon?"

The Black Flood Dragon Demon King's pupils shrank suddenly.

"It seems the Dragon King knows; that makes things easier."

Yu Xuzi then quickly used the prestige of his Yu Xu Palace as a front, keeping his explanation brief. He laid out the details of the deal... A moment later.

The Black Flood Dragon Demon King's tone had become unusually calm, but the heart within its dragon body was beating faster and faster, and its dragon blood began to boil.

"Proof!"

It stared fixedly at the tiger-headed Puppet.

"Mere strangely-shaped corpses are not enough to support what you say about Yu Xu Palace and the Fei Chen Realm. This king has never seen a Demon; how do I know this isn't something you concocted yourself?"

"If the Dragon King does not believe me, I can go to the Fei Chen Realm and capture a few living Demons to bring back. These are things that absolutely do not exist in this realm!"

Yu Xuzi then took out another Jade Slip.

This was an Image-Recording Jade Slip that could store scenes from the outside world for viewing. Yu Xuzi had specifically gone to the Fei Chen Realm to record it.

"Dragon King, please look!"

Yu Xuzi's Divine Sense began to trigger the Jade Slip's Restriction, and a translucent light screen only a zhang wide appeared in the air.

Images began to flicker.

The landscape of the Fei Chen Realm, a living Hell on earth where Demons ran rampant, a completely different cultivation lineage... all of it indicated that this was a world entirely different from the Qingyuan Realm.

The Black Flood Dragon Demon King began to lean toward believing him.

Or perhaps from the very beginning, its subconscious had hoped it was true, and everything that followed was merely adding to its confidence.

It desperately wanted to ascend!

It dreamed of it!

It had already lived for over a thousand years and did not want to continue living ignobly, trapped to death in this realm!

As long as there was even a one-in-ten-thousand chance of credibility and hope, it was willing to take a gamble!

"If you dare to deceive this king, I swear that even if I have to turn the whole world upside down, I will never let you off!"

It warned one last time.

As the last Third-rank Being in this realm, it was qualified to make such a threat!

Yu Xuzi nodded without hesitation: "Rest assured, Dragon King, I naturally will not deceive you."

Yu Xuzi still had this much integrity when it came to deals.

"When shall we trade?"

"The Dragon King hasn't even asked clearly what I want, yet you've already agreed?"

"As long as I have it, you may take it!"

"Good! Straightforward!"

Yu Xuzi nodded decisively.

"In that case, I won't be polite. I want everything the Dragon King has!"

The Black Flood Dragon Demon King: "..."

"Including the Dragon King's scales, blood, and such—leave a 'little' bit for me."

Before Yu Xuzi's voice had even faded, the Black Flood Dragon Demon King directly turned its head and bit toward its own back.

"Ang— Rip—"

Accompanied by the heart-shuddering sound of tearing flesh, a chunk of flood dragon meat about seven or eight zhang in size fell from its back.

The Black Flood Dragon Demon King caught its own flesh with its front claw, endured the intense pain, and handed it directly to Yu Xuzi.

"For you!"

"Hiss—"

Now it was Yu Xuzi's turn to suck in a breath of cold air.

As expected of an old monster who had lived for who knows how many years; it was even this ruthless toward itself.