Dragon and Tiger

Chasing the Wind ran back and forth on Dan Peak several times looking for the "enemy" that had invaded Dan Peak, but he did not find them. He was very unhappy and ran to Sword Washing Lake to find Qin Ran. He blamed himself, saying, "Dad, I can't find that bad guy."

The water in Sword Washing Lake had been taken away by Qin Ran, and the water in the river was gurgling into the lake.

It's just that the water in the lake can be refilled, but what about the fish and shrimp in it?

Qin Ran was checking by the lakeside whether the trees he had planted had any chance of surviving, while pondering this problem.

Although fish and shrimp can be bought again, they won't be the original fish and shrimp. ...For example, the dragon pattern carp that Li Shiyin had worked so hard to get.

He didn't know where to find a dragon pattern carp for Li Shiyin for the moment.

Hearing Chasing the Wind's self-blame, he paid no attention and casually pointed outside Dan Peak, saying, "Maybe the bad guy ran outside."

Chasing the Wind's eyes lit up. That's right! If the bad guy was not inside Dan Peak, then he could only be outside Dan Peak. Thinking of this, he immediately ran out.

After sending Chasing the Wind away, Qin Ran continued to check the trees by the lake. But the more he looked, the more restless he felt. After all, the creatures in the lake were the main point.

What if Li Shiyin comes back and can't find her dragon pattern carp? Wouldn't she suspect him of foul play? Where would he put his master's face then?

If Long Qiqi finds out that he has also refined poison pills, then he would lose face completely and die directly.

The more he thought about it, the more he felt something was going to happen. Qin Ran hurriedly put down the trees by the lake and headed straight for the main peak to deal with the fish in the lake first.

When he arrived at the main peak, he went to the butler elder of Butler Hall to discuss and finally issued a "high price purchase of dragon pattern carp" mission, even a level two mission.

Level two missions match level two demonic beasts, and the strength of level two demonic beasts matches Qi-building late-stage cultivators. Dao Sword Sect then recommends that disciples take on missions one level below their own. That meant Qin Ran had to find a Gold Core cultivator for this dragon pattern carp.

Chasing the Wind circled Dan Peak from the Guardian Mountain Formation, and got Dan Peak's underlings to help him search around. After circling several times and bullying several innocent people, he still did not find the culprit who had poisoned the sect.

He was a competitive tiger. Since there was none in Dan Peak, he would look outside Dan Peak.

On such a sunny spring day, Chasing the Wind trampled on shallow grass and wild flowers in Dao Sword Sect, running around madly looking for that extremely evil poisoner.

Suddenly at one point...

"Xuanming!"

He heard an old voice calling out this name.

But he paid no attention, because that was not his name and he did not know anyone called Xuanming.

But then, that voice appeared again and again, right next to his ears.

"Xuanming."

"Xuanming?"

"Xuanming..."

He realized that the voice was probably calling him, so he stopped and pricked up his ears to listen.

"Xuanming, come to me."

Chasing the Wind hesitated, but still asked the air: "Are you calling me?"

"You silly child, of course it's you!"

Chasing the Wind was puzzled: "But my name is not Xuanming, it's Chasing the Wind."

This rendered the old voice speechless.

The voice didn't speak again. Chasing the Wind felt doubtful in his heart, sensing something wrong with this person. He was not going to bother with him but continue looking for the poisoner.

"Chasing the Wind?"

At this moment, the voice rang out again.

"Yeah!" Chasing the Wind opened his mouth wide and roared impatiently, "What do you want?"

"Come to me!"

"No!" Chasing the Wind directly refused.

This silenced the voice again.

Chasing the Wind waited a while longer, determined that this person was really crazy, and decided to ignore him. He continued walking forward.

But...

At his next step, his vision swirled, and the scenic spring mountain view before him changed into a strangely colored space.

In this space, there was no up or down, left or right, no tangible substances. At first glance, there was only a colorful blackness that could describe it. Although it was pitch black everywhere paradoxically it revealed many gorgeous colors.

Chasing the Wind was stunned, not knowing why he had suddenly come to this place. He looked back at himself and found that his four paws were treading on the colorful black emptiness, but it felt as substantial as treading on firm ground.

He looked around again, his claws silently extending as his demonic power circulated within him.

As a level 7 demonic beast with the qualifications to advance to level 8, Chasing the Wind's cultivation resources were actually not inferior to Li Shiyin’s. Like Li Shiyin, under Qin Ran's abundant theoretical guidance, his strength had grown rapidly. Moreover, Qin Ran raised him with the attitude of raising his own son, and had never stinted on any resources for him.

In fact... Chasing the Wind was even stronger than Li Shiyin.

If Chasing the Wind fought desperately, even level 5 demonic beasts would not fare well under his claws.

"Who are you?" he asked the air.

He knew it must have been the earlier voice that had brought him here, but he did not recognize the other party or know their purpose.

"Relax child, don't be so aggressive," the voice rang out again.

But this time, Chasing the Wind heard movement. His black-gold tiger eyes glanced sharply in that direction...

Only to see in the near distance ahead, a giant snake emerging from the darkness?

The snake looked a bit strange with a horn on its head, four legs on its belly, completely black, eagle eyes but a fish tail.

Chasing the Wind had never seen such a creature before, but had seen similar ones, so he asked doubtfully: "Four-legged snake?"

The creature was taken aback. Why was he being insulted as soon as they met? Fortunately he knew the cub before him was a silly young Xuanming Spirit Tiger, so this was likely just an innocent question.

He threw back his head and guffawed, laughing until his whiskers shook. After a good while he finally stopped and said to Chasing the Wind: "I'm no snake, but a flood dragon. This old flood dragon lords over Dao Sword Sect, the guardian deity of Dao Sword Sect. I have been here for over three thousand years since Dao Sword Sect was founded.

"My name is Ao Yi, I'm from the Demonic Beast Realm. I'm much older than you, just call me Big Brother Ao."

Flood dragon?

Chasing the Wind hurriedly asked: "So you're a dragon?"

"Dragon?" Ao Yi shook his head. "True dragons are naturally born divine beasts, how could I claim to be a dragon?"

"Oh..." Chasing the Wind was rather disappointed.

He remembered Long Qiqi's dream was to become a dragon, he had wanted to ask how to become one!

Seeing no malice from this flood dragon, Chasing the Wind also retracted his claws. Then he asked doubtfully: "But why did you bring me here? Oh, where exactly is this place?"

"This is within the Guardian Mountain Formation of Dao Sword Sect," Ao Yi replied. "As for why I brought you here... It's rare to see a demonic beast with bloodline purity like yours wandering Dao Sword Sect every day. I wanted to make friends on purpose. "

"Make friends?" Chasing the Wind looked Ao Yi up and down. Ao Yi was over 30 meters long, but he was fearless as he asked: "So are you more powerful than me?"

If they weren't more powerful than him, then they could only be his underling... although they could still be called friends.

"I should be a little bit more powerful than you," Ao Yi stretched out a dragon claw and pinched to indicate a little bit.

Chasing the Wind's eyes lit up and he quickly said: "Then let's fight!"

"Fight?" Ao Yi laughed. "Alright!!"

He was bored to death anyway.