The Great Wild God - Chapter 290
Chapter 290 Azure Dragon Ridge
At the southern foot of Python Teeth Ridge, there was no exceptionally lofty mountain peak. However, a mountain ridge between the mountains was incomparably magnificent, like a giant dragon lying horizontally, also known as the Azure Dragon Ridge.
To the south of the Azure Dragon Ridge was an extremely deep mountain lake with a radius of ten kilometers. It was rumored that it was left behind by the Heavenly Horses in the Ancient Desolate Era, just like the Heavenly Horse Lake at the northern foot.
This kind of legend sounded unbelievable in the past, but after the demonic dragon tore through the spatial rift and broke into Cloud Continent, everyone knew that these ancient legends that had been passed down from mouth to mouth were actually true.
The demonic dragon’s ferocious giant would be a thousand feet tall, but wouldn’t it be six to seven kilometers long?
The demonic dragon’s body was over ten thousand feet long, but it was capable of breaking through the heavens and earth?
The mountains and lakes converged on the streams flowing down from the Azure Dragon Ridge. In the past, there were two barbarian tribes that lived and reproduced nearby, but they both died in the last devastating disaster.
Six months ago, apart from the broken walls, the white bones, and the snow, there weren’t even many birds and beasts here.
Six months ago, Chen Xun issued a royal edict on the Azure Dragon Ridge, ordering the Azure Water Tribes to abandon their previous enmity, stop fighting, and go to the Demon Calamity together. All enlightened barbarian souls, tribal barbarian martial artists, and clan cultivators above the middle stage of the True Yang Realm had to gather at the Azure Dragon Ridge to serve the king’s orders through the White Wolf City.
Those who disobey the order will be expelled from Canglan and crippled by their clansmen. According to the stubborn guardians of the city stronghold, their families would be annihilated, and their clans would be taken over by other clans.
Tie Xintong, Gu Jianfeng, Zong Ya, and the others each led their troops. Imperial Profound Bombs, Mountains and Rivers Chariots, King Chuan Zhao Yu Canglan, broke through dozens of strongholds in half a year, and killed thousands of barbarian martial artists to threaten Canglan with tyrannical martial arts.
Apart from the hundreds of tribes that had moved to the Southern Ridge of Tu Mountain to seek protection from the Marquis Manor of Yuan Dynasty, the other tribes and clans were all subdued by the Azure Water King’s imperial edict for half a year.
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After the Su Clan moved southward, Su Junyuan continued to stay in White Wolf City. Only half a year later did he find time to personally arrive at the Azure Dragon Ridge, which was only three hundred miles away.
One hundred thousand barbarians, hundreds of thousands of barbarians, white-tailed yaks, and other herbivorous beasts would not shock Su Junyuan. This large amount of grain and Man Wu had gathered at the Azure Dragon Ridge through White Wolf City. This was his main job in White Wolf City for the past six months.
What truly shocked Su Junyuan was the abundance of spiritual energy in this place.
The Su Clan’s Su Martial Commandant Mansion had ruled the Azure Northern Wilderness and the southern foot of Python Teeth Ridge for a thousand years, and Su Junyuan had also ruled the Su Martial Commandant Mansion for sixty years. He could be said to be familiar with every inch of the southern foot of Python Teeth Ridge.
There were five or six rounds of searching for herbs and hunting beasts around the Azure Dragon Ridge. How could one not know that this was the Land of Desolate Spirit? Where did such abundant spiritual energy come from?
Su Junyuan recalled that the spiritual land of the Dragon Flood Pool had also appeared out of thin air. He thought to himself that there were really many secrets hidden in the secret cave of the Jade Pillar Peak.
Ordinary people were nowhere to be seen, but Chen Xun couldn’t disappear when Su Junyuan came over.
Seeing Zong Tu, Zuo Qingmu, and the others present, Su Junyuan confirmed that everyone in the Northern Mountain had completely abandoned the Dragon Pond and moved to the Azure Dragon Ridge.
The Lake Wilderness was a desolate area. Several years ago, it had been washed away by thousands of magical creatures, leaving few birds and beasts left. Naturally, no one lived there.
Chen Xun called himself Azure Water King and built a second line of defense along the southern foot of Python Teeth Ridge. Naturally, he had to give up the Dragon Creek Lake at the northern foot and concentrate all of his limited strength on the southern foot of Python Teeth Ridge.
The Azure Dragon Ridge was located at the protruding part of the southeast foot of Python Teeth Ridge, less than three hundred kilometers away from White Wolf City, and the terrain was steep and solid.
More importantly, the seven spirit veins at the southeastern foot of Python Teeth Ridge gathered here. Like Tianma Lake, Shanhu was a rare spirit acupoint, a wondrous place for seven stars to arch the moon.
With the sealing array set up here, the abundance of spiritual energy was barely enough for Celestial Realm experts to cultivate here.
If he wanted to set up a Heaven and Earth Array in the future, this place could be used as the central array eye of the Heaven and Earth Array.
Old Kui had sealed the main spiritual veins in the Python Fang Ridge mountains ten thousand years ago. Naturally, it was not something that the Su Clan could peek through.
After removing the seal, Chen Xun moved the Void Origin Secret Palace from the Cold Pool Crypt and buried it directly into the mountain and lake on the south slope of the Azure Dragon Ridge. However, he destroyed several hills on the south slope and filled up the mountain and lake.
Right now, they wanted to build a city on the Void Origin Secret Hall and set up a formation.
No matter how strong the sealing formation was, once the restriction was too strong, its defense would be greatly reduced.
After absorbing the lessons of Azure Water City, Chen Xun and the others had built the city on the Azure Dragon Ridge. It was only two thousand feet deep, and it wasn’t even as large as the Su Wu Commandant’s Manor.
At this time, it was just a wooden village, and a simple tent camp had been built.
Walking into the tent camp, the continuous beast hide tent was like a lake and sea.
When the Black Python was at its peak, it once controlled thousands of brutal martial artists across the Azure Water.
In the past thousand years, Ding Zixi’s breath in the Azure Water Wilderness had increased tenfold. Naturally, this was also due to the Su Clan.
However, Su Junyuan did not expect that Chen Xun would actually use only half a year to gather the 100,000 Barbarian Martial Cultivators.
Indeed, once Tu Shan was unable to stop it, the thousands of Azure Water Tribes would be the first to be extinguished when billions of magical creatures poured into Cloud Continent. At this moment of monstrous calamity, Chen Xun had once again controlled Cang Lan with such a tyrannical posture. Those who could not yield could only move to the Southern Ridge to join the Marquis Yuan’s Manor.
Moreover, Chen Xun was one step earlier in the White Wolf River and had intercepted the three thousand disciples of the College.
The three thousand disciples of the Academy were all elite disciples from various tribes.
On the north side of the tent camp, there was a school field that was as wide as a thousand feet. It was all stone ground, and on its feet, it was no less hard than black sandstone.
It had been half a year since he had absorbed a bloodline of fire to refine it. In fact, the entire rock stratum was only twenty to thirty zhang thick. From afar, it was not strong enough to be broken through by a True Yang Realm cultivator.
It would take at least a hundred years for such a small place to form a solid rock formation that was two to three hundred zhang thick.
On the north side of the school grounds, a large number of barbarians were building barracks. In the middle of the school grounds, a hundred zhang tall azure stone pillar was erected, like a lonely cliff.
Su Junyuan didn’t know what kind of divine ability Chen Xun and the others used to move this huge rock that weighed more than ten million jin from the depths.
At the top of the stone pillar, there was an ancient seal with the words “Wu Shan” written on it.
“Mountain Parasol?” Su Junyuan was a little confused when he saw these two words and looked at Chen Xun.
“Python Fang Ridge was called Wu Shan in ancient times. We will build Wu Shan City here today.”
Su Junyuan also thought about it. Chen Xun called Wang Canglan and established his foundation here. It was inappropriate to call this place Python Fang Ridge anymore. It was to restore the ancient name of Mountain Parasol.
Apart from the word “Wu Shan”, there were more than a dozen people covering the giant pillar with a huge red copper plate, as if they wanted to wrap the pillar up with the red copper plate in its entirety.
As for the Scarlet Essence Copper Plate, it was not a smooth piece. It was engraved with countless profound talismans and secret seals. Close reading was actually the entire technique of the Kui Long Heavenly Note Technique.
Su Junyuan also knew that the Kuilong Heavenly Sound Skill and the first half of the Dragon Binding Skill were similar. They were all profound skills comprehended from the Kuilong Heavenly Diagram, but the Dragon Binding Skill was not something that direct descendants of the Su Clan could not cultivate. He did not expect Chen Xun to directly set up a monument to publicize all the techniques of the Kuilong Heavenly Sound Skill.
Su Junyuan followed Chen Xun and Zuo Qingmu to the north and circled to the left side of the pillar. This side had long been covered with red copper plates. There were densely packed Nine Qi Yang Refining Techniques, and at a closer look, it was several times more profound than the second half of the Dragon Binding Technique …
Seeing more than a thousand disciples of the Academy sitting in front of the giant stele and studying profound arts, Su Junyuan wanted to stop and study for three to five days. With his aptitude, if he had obtained this Nine Qi Yang Refining Art at the age of forty, he wouldn’t have cultivated for a hundred years and wouldn’t have been able to advance to the Heavenly Yuan Realm.
At this moment, he only had more than ten years of lifespan left, and his Qi, Blood, and True Yang had begun to retreat. Even if he adjusted his cultivation technique, it was absolutely impossible for him to advance to the Heaven Origin Realm. Thinking of this, Su Junyuan couldn’t help but feel a little sad.
He thought about it again, ten years ago, he didn’t know how many people could survive, so why would he want to do such a thing?
The three thousand disciples of the Academy who had been intercepted by Chen Xun in White Wolf City, if they could survive the demonic tribulation ten years later, their accomplishments would most likely surpass his, right?
Chen Xun invited Su Junyuan to sit down at the earliest stone hall and went straight to the main topic. “I invited you here this time because I want you to continue leading the Su Wu Lieutenant’s Manor …”
Chen Xun planned to directly follow the example of the Su Clan’s Three Commandments and Six Commandants Manor and establish an institutional system on the Azure Dragon Ridge to rule the vast area on both sides of the Wu Mountain.
The Su Clan had ruled the Azure Water Wilderness for a thousand years, and thousands of tribes had long since become familiar with this set. Chen Xun wanted to gather the greatest amount of manpower and material resources within ten years. Whatever was convenient, whatever was convenient, whatever was fast, whatever was convenient.
The only difference was that in the past, the direct descendants of the Su Clan firmly controlled the hereditary inheritance of the Three Commandments and Six Commandants Manor, and the disciples with different surnames had absolutely no chance to interfere. This actually greatly suppressed the potential of the Azure Water Wilderness.
Chen Xun wanted to change this point. The Sixth Commandant’s Manor was no longer inherited by a single disciple, and instead, it was changed to a tenure system, with the Elders’ Council discussing the candidates.
Chen Xun had only ten years to confer the title of Azure Water King on himself, and he had to gather all of Azure Water’s manpower and material resources as quickly as possible.
However, he was determined to cultivate and had no intention of secular power. Naturally, he would not hold the so-called “royal power” in his hands, and he did not have the time to do so.
Currently, the important matters of the Azure Dragon Ridge will be decided by the Council of Elders.
He hoped that this change would bring out Cang Lan’s full potential.
When the Su Clan ruled Cang Lan, only direct descendants of the Su Clan could cultivate profound arts like the Dragon Binding Art and the Cave Profound Scripture. Only direct descendants of the Su Clan could consume spirit pills like the Nine Orifices Nourishing Yuan Pill and the Nine Revolutions Golden Pill. Only direct descendants of the Su Clan could refine top-grade magical artifacts.
Although the Su clan firmly controlled Cang Lan’s ruling power, the most serious consequence was that the Su clan ruled over a 3,000 to 4,000 mile radius of land and controlled 30 to 50 million barbarian clansmen. In the end, the Cang Lan College only gathered over a hundred Reincarnation Realm experts.
The Su clansmen had reproduced for a thousand years, and at their greatest scale, there were only 300,000 people.
In terms of talent, there were only 30 Su Clan disciples per generation out of every 10,000 cultivating geniuses.
Putting this selection criterion into the entire Azure Water Wilderness, there were three to five thousand geniuses in every generation of Azure Water.
Of course, the Su Clan had used all sorts of cruel trial mechanisms to select the best disciples of Canglan to cultivate in Canglan College.
However, the Su Clan’s main purpose in doing so was to control and restrict them.
Half a year ago, Chen Xun didn’t hesitate to tear his face apart, or even wash away the Su Clan’s blood. He went to the White Wolf River alone to seal the passage for the Su Clan’s southward migration in order to cut off the three thousand disciples of the Academy.
If he missed this opportunity, even if he became the true Azure Water King, it would still take another ten to twenty years before he could select two to three thousand disciples with ten thousand talents from the next generation of Wildlands Clansmen.
He didn’t have more than ten or twenty years.
These three thousand disciples of the Academy could be said to be the true essence and elites of this generation in the Azure Water Wilderness. Their cultivation talent was not even slightly inferior to Gu Jianfeng, Zong Ya, and Qing Xuan.
At this moment, most of them were around twenty years old. When their Qi and Blood True Yang were at their peak, they had almost all reached the peak of the True Yang Realm.
If they continued to be controlled by the Su Clan, most of them would never be able to break through the profound apertures in their lifetime.
It wasn’t that their aptitude wasn’t enough, but that the Su Clan had intentionally controlled them. Not to mention other resources, the cultivation techniques they cultivated were not only shallow, they were even flawed.
Ten years later, Chen Xun hoped that they would become the mainstay and elite of Azure Water.
Disclosure of the Kui Long Yang Refining Technique, Lightning Sound Sword Technique, Azure Origin Sword Technique, and other related profound Dao techniques was secondary, and Chen Xun’s main task was to change the way the Su Clan controlled Cang Lan.
Su Junyuan did not refuse. He knew that commanding the new Su Wu Lieutenant’s Mansion had nothing to do with power or influence. More importantly, it was a responsibility. It meant that billions of magical creatures would surge in ten years. If others were able to escape, he would have to use his death to attack and defend.
At this moment, Zhou Yang walked over and said to Chen Xun,
“The Lightning Seal is still one last step away, and I’m not fully confident that you will come.”
Zhou Yang was originally a disciple of Gu Yang Peak, but he had left a few years ago to establish a clan in Hundred Lions Ridge.
Ten years ago, billions of magical creatures poured into Cloud Continent, and Hundred Lions Ridge was situated prominently on the second line of defense. Apart from Zhou Yang, the Zhou Clan only had seven or eight Reincarnation Realm disciples, so it was impossible for them to defend Hundred Lions Ridge.
The Divine Night Sect was shattered. Even if the Grand Heavenly Dao did not show any signs, Zhou Yang still disdained to follow Gu Yangzi to join the Yuanwu Marquis’ Manor. However, he did not have the will to follow Master Crimson Pine into Tu Mountain.
Zhou Yang handed over the Hundred Lions Ridge to the Thousand Swords Sect to guard, so he led his relatives to move into Azure Water and join Chen Xun.
Zhou Yang’s Heavenly Yuan Realm cultivation was not good at fighting, while Yu Weaponry Refining was considered a half-Grandmaster Realm figure.
Gu Wentian and Ji Lie also intended to gather all the people and things that were skilled in artifact forging on Chen Xun’s side.
At this time, the Azure Dragon Ridge Reincarnation Realm cultivators had gathered a hundred people, and there were 40 artificers gathered in the Kui Dragon Pavilion. As for the three hundred disciples who had roughly mastered metaphysics from the Three Thousand Learning Academies and possessed slight talent for forging weapons, they all asked Chen Xun to directly enter the Kui Dragon Pavilion to cultivate the Mysterious Evolution Technique.
The Kui Long Pavilion was presided over by Zhou Yang and Zuo Qingmu, while Old Monster Chang Zhen presided over it secretly.
Chang Zhen’s divine soul was weak. Chen Xun could count on him and Old Kui to live for a few more years. All the hard work that consumed his divine soul was exhausting. Zhou Yang and Zuo Qingmu couldn’t do it. He was the one who personally went on the battlefield.
When Zhou Yang came looking for him, Chen Xun invited Su Junyuan to follow them down to the artifact forging room of the underground palace.
