Chapter 2785: Seven-Level Ice Dragon (None Today)

The Snow Cloud Fox possessed an acute sense of smell and excelled at finding rare treasures, but its defenses were not strong. It had been injured by a human-faced scorpion, and if they hadn't previously obtained some Seven-Colored Ganoderma, it would have already succumbed to the poison.

Liu Qingfeng looked at Wang Changsheng and said, "Junior Martial Brother Wang's Spirit Mouse should be able to help…"

Before he finished speaking, Wang Changsheng's expression turned cold. His right fist glowed with dazzling blue light, and he punched towards the void.

The void trembled and twisted, as a blue light shot out and disappeared.

Near a steep stone wall, ripples spread, and a giant blue fist shadow flashed out, smashing towards the wall.

The stone wall emitted a blinding yellow light, and a large yellow hand reached out, swatting at the blue fist shadow.

With a thunderous roar, the yellow hand was shattered by the blue fist shadow. The blue fist shadow struck the stone wall, causing it to split into pieces and dust to fly.

Niu Pan snorted coldly and formed a hand seal. A deafening thunderclap echoed from high above, and a massive golden thundercloud violently churned with lightning and thunder.

"Wait, Fellow Daoist Wang, we are on the same side."

A somewhat familiar male voice rang out.

Three streaks of light flew from afar and landed on the ground. One of them was Su Yuntao, along with a somewhat hunched green-robed old man and a beautiful woman in a golden dress.

The green-robed old man had a square face, small eyes, and a walrus mustache.

"Venerable Myriad Poisons!"

Wang Changsheng recognized the green-robed old man. There were many Integration-stage rogue cultivators in the Xuanling Continent, and Venerable Myriad Poisons was considered an outstanding figure among them.

Venerable Myriad Poisons was a poison cultivator, skilled in poison arts. During the last racial war, he had killed an Integration-stage Elite Fire Clan member and severely injured two Integration-stage Yaksha Clan members.

The woman in the golden dress was Lin Qingyu, from the Myriad Spirit Sect. She was at the early Integration stage. Wang Changsheng had seen her at Gongsun Yang's Integration ceremony.

"Fellow Daoist Su, what is the meaning of this?"

Liu Qingfeng frowned. It didn't seem like Su Yuntao was ambushing them, as Su Yuntao probably hadn't expected them to appear here. But if it was a coincidence, it was too much of one.

"Fellow Daoist Liu, please don't misunderstand. We just happened to be here and didn't expect you to suddenly appear. Lei'er, come out and apologize to all fellow daoists."

Su Yuntao explained, his expression grave.

Back in the Xuanling Grotto-heaven, Wang Changsheng and Wang Ruyan combined forces to contend with his clone. Now that they had advanced to the Integration stage, they were certainly even stronger.

A burly young man in a yellow shirt walked over. Yellow scales were visible on his face and arms. Judging by his aura, he was clearly a late Void Refinement cultivator.

"Could he be Fellow Daoist Su's Yellow-scaled Python? Has he transformed into human form?"

Liu Qingfeng asked in surprise.

"Yes, I made a trip to the Azure Glaze Sea Region and obtained a Nine-Light Dragon Whisker Fruit. After the Yellow-scaled Python consumed it, he transformed into human form. However, his bloodline isn't very pure, so he couldn't completely transform."

Su Yuntao explained.

The Nine Dragon Palace in the Azure Glaze Sea Region had two types of rare fruits. When consumed by demonic beasts of rank five or higher, they could increase the chance of transformation. The Nine-Light Dragon Whisker Fruit was one such fruit.

The Nine Dragon Palace rarely allowed these fruits to be spread externally. Su Yuntao had also put in great effort to obtain a Nine-Light Dragon Whisker Fruit.

"Nine-Light Dragon Whisker Fruit! Transformation!"

Wang Changsheng became interested.

Having traveled extensively over the years, Wang Changsheng had met many high-level cultivators. Through discussions with them, he had gained a general understanding of the conditions for demonic beasts to transform.

Generally, demonic beasts were divided into pure-blooded and mixed-blooded. A Mirage Dragon was a pure-blooded demonic beast; its ancestors were Mirage Dragons, and its bloodline was pure. Its early cultivation speed was fast, but it required massive resources, which ordinary forces couldn't afford to provide. The more resources needed to advance to a higher level, the later pure-blooded demonic beasts would transform.

Mixed-blooded demonic beasts referred to those that had reproduced for many generations. For example, the Lion-Scale Beast raised by Wang Ruyan, after multiple generations of breeding, had a more mixed bloodline, somewhat similar to a five-element spirit root cultivator. Their cultivation speed was slow, and resource utilization was low. The more mixed a demonic beast's bloodline, the more resources it needed to advance to a higher level, and the more difficult its transformation would be.

Pure-blooded demonic beasts needed to grow to a certain realm to automatically transform, such as True Dragons and Heavenly Phoenixes. If they had rare treasures, the transformation time would be even earlier.

For mixed-blooded demonic beasts to transform, they either needed to consume rare treasures or the demon core essence blood of similar demonic beasts to purify their bloodline, or they needed to consume high-grade rare spirit herbs.

Demonic beasts with different bloodlines, of different ranks, required rare spirit medicines of different ages, and the difficulty varied.

Wang Qingxiao evolved from an Ice Wind Python. During its evolution, it consumed dragon essence blood, the inner core of a fourth-grade high-rank flood dragon, and many other rare treasures to purify its bloodline. After that, it could transform by taking a transformation pill.

The Yellow-scaled Python was a rank six spirit beast. Firstly, its bloodline was impure. Secondly, its rank was relatively high. Transformation pills had little effect on it. Only rare fruits like the Nine-Light Dragon Whisker Fruit could enable it to transform into human form.

Furthermore, the parents' rank was also very important. The offspring of a rank seven demonic beast and the offspring of a rank four demonic beast had different starting points and naturally different potentials.

Demonic beasts in the lower realms could transform either if both parents could transform into human form, having a good foundation, in which case their offspring would be born in human form; or if they grew to a certain realm and consumed spiritual elixirs like transformation pills.

Most demonic beasts in the Xuanyang Realm couldn't transform because their parents were inherently beasts, and their bloodlines were mixed. If the parents had transformed into human form, the offspring would have a higher starting point and naturally be in human form. It was not easy for a demon to transform into human form. Great demons who had transformed often captured human cultivators and combined with them. Their offspring were half-demons, half-human and half-demon, who could cultivate according to cultivation techniques, and it was only a matter of time before they completely transformed into human form.

Wang Qingxiao benefited from the family's development, which allowed him to advance to the Void Refinement stage. The Wang family didn't even have many rank five flood dragons, mainly because they couldn't obtain high-grade flood dragon essence blood and demon cores for them to refine. With impure bloodlines, even with transformation pills, they couldn't transform.

In terms of potential, the Yellow-scaled Python's potential was higher than Wang Qingxiao's. Compared to those rank six demonic beasts that hadn't yet transformed, they were immeasurably stronger.

Wang Qingxiao transforming early was good, but it also had drawbacks. If he wanted to advance to the Integration stage, the resources required would be an astronomical figure, far more than what an ordinary rank six demonic beast needed to advance to rank seven.

In contrast, the Yellow-scaled Python required far fewer resources than Wang Qingxiao to advance to the Integration stage, making it easier to reach rank seven.

"Fellow Daoist Liu, we've discovered a mid-grade rank seven Ice Flood Dragon. Are you interested?"

Su Yuntao got to the point.

"What? A rank seven Ice Flood Dragon? Fellow Daoist Su, are you serious?"

Liu Qingfeng frowned, his face showing an expression of disbelief.

"We were originally looking for something else and accidentally discovered a rank seven Ice Flood Dragon. The three of us are not its match, but with you, my confidence would be much greater."

Su Yuntao said confidently.

"Fellow Daoist Su, a rank seven Ice Flood Dragon is not comparable to an ordinary rank seven demonic beast. Even if all eight of us join forces, we might not be able to subdue this demon."

Xue Ji frowned and said, "Flood dragons are inherently difficult to deal with. Even if we manage to subdue the rank seven Ice Flood Dragon, we are sure to suffer casualties."