Nine Yang Sword Saint
chapter-73

Chapter 73: Obtaining Four Demon Nuclei

Translator: Exodus Tales Editor: Exodus Tales

Although he had passed the period of enlightenment and had also cleaned three layers of his marrow and veins, it was still very difficult to walk dragging a thousand-Jin weight. Fortunately, the ground was all ice so he could drag it behind it.

“Crakk….” Suddenly, a cracking sound echoed out as the Bloody Black Gold was dragged across the ground. He took a closer look and saw a crack in the thick ice that opened up to another deep cave.

Yang Dingtian thought the ice had been broken by the Bloody Black Gold and did not care much.

But then, the sound of brittle cracks continued endlessly, and the cracks got bigger and bigger. It was not merely the surface layer of ice that cracked but the solid rock ground beneath it as well.

“Crakk…crakk..” The ground began to crack even faster.

Not good. Yang Dingtian grabbed his bag of Bloody Black Gold and tried to run, but it was already too late.

“Bang…” A loud noise sounded out, and a huge monster rushed out from the split ground, blocking Yang Dingtian’s path.

This monster was four to five meters long. Its limbs were thick. It had a fire red body covered with spiked fur and countless feet. Yang Dingtian knew about this kind of monster. It was called the Fiery Earth Dragon.

Of course, it had in common with a real dragon. It had no draconic bloodline. This kind of monster usually likes to live deep in the soil to swallow the residue of metallic minerals. Under normal circumstances, it would not leave the soil, but this bag of Bloody Black Gold was too attractive. Even though it was a dozen meters deep in the ground, it was still drawn to the treasure. Although the name of this monster suggested a fire affinity, it was actually a gold-eating beast.

“Ohh….” The Fiery Earth Dragon stood up with its four-to-five-meter tall body and opened its mouth towards Yang Dingtian.

It had a disgusting and ugly face. It only had a pair of green eyes. The rest of the face was one large mouth. When its mouth was closed, it was only one finger-sized hole, but when it was opened, it was the size of a basketball with countless teeth within. It could be said that its mouth contained nothing but teeth. A drop of red saliva dripped onto the ground, immediately melting the ice into a large pit.

Yang Dingtian had goosebumps as this rank two demon beast was much more powerful than to the rank two lizard he fought earlier. It was not merely a rank two supreme demonic beast, but its entire body was also a deadly weapon. No matter which part you touched, it would only cause fatal injuries.

He would lose half of his head if it licks him. If he were touched by it, there would be at least tens of thousands of poisonous stingers penetrating into the body. These poisonous stingers would come alive after entering the body and will voraciously consume your blood while penetrating deeper into the body. After a few hours, countless blood-sucking worms would exit the victim.

The worst part, though, would be its highly acidic blood. As soon as it splashes even a little onto your body, it will immediately corrode into a huge hole. Even if a sword was stabbed into its body, only the sword handle would be left after the rest of the sword was corroded.

Therefore, even strong elites were not willing to confront this thing as it was insanely dangerous. Although Yang Dingtian needed a gold-type demon nucleus, he was not willing to face such an insane demonic beast.

Yang Dingtian felt bitter deep down. It really was a close call.

“Hong…” After the Fiery Earth Dragon roared, it immediately rushed over with its huge body.

“Whoosh Whoosh Whoosh…” Yang Dingtian quickly struck out with the flame feather in his hand and backed off.

“Bang Bang Bang…” The Fiery Earth Dragon was instantly cut into four pieces, spurting large amounts of blood. Although Yang Dingtian had retreated quickly, he was still splashed with a few drops of blood, which burned a few holes into his shirt. Fortunately, he had the Deep Sea Xuan Shirt. Otherwise, his heart would have melted and dropped into the soil.

The flame feather was truly a treasure. Not only was it not damaged, but there also wasn’t even a drop of blood on it.

It seemed like everything was over as the Fiery Earth Dragon had been cut into four pieces. This demonic wasn’t that scary after all. Also, it was a gold-type demonic beast and had a nucleus that Yang Dingtian needed. However, he did not try to dig it out and instead ran quickly in the direction of the unfreezing pond.

This was because the Fiery Earth Dragon that had been dismembered roared. Its four pieces were violently thrashing against the ground and moved individually to chase after Yang Dingtian.

Yes, it not only didn’t die after being chopped into four pieces, but it instead became four of them and continued hunting him. However, there was only one brain. The other three mindless parts could only follow the main body in the chase. Its speed was extremely fast, even faster than Yang Dingtian because of its many feet.

Insane! This was the reason many top elites didn’t want to face this thing because it could not be killed. It wouldn’t die even after being chopped into dozens of pieces. This was not all. The four pieces would eventually meld back together later on to form a completely new Fiery Earth Dragon.

Yang Dingtian escaped as fast as he could towards the unfreezing pond and didn’t even bother about the bag of Bloody Black Gold. He had to run away before the Fiery Earth Dragon reformed. Otherwise, it would be too late.

True enough, the four pieces of the Fiery Earth Dragon merged as they were running, merging piece by piece and forming the complete Fiery Earth Dragon half a minute later. In an instant, its speed became much faster.

Yang Dingtian was merely twenty over meters ahead and was about to be overtaken. He clenched his teeth and ran forward with all he had.

When he reached the end of the mine, he jumped forward into a huge cave a dozen meters below and rushed towards the unfreezing pond.

The Fiery Earth Dragon descended the mine rapidly. When it was two to three meters away from Yang Dingtian, it opened its mouth.

“Bo Dom!” Yang Dingtian felt a heat at his back and immediately jumped into the unfreezing pond.

The Fiery Earth Dragon stopped instantly as it was afraid of entering the pond. It stomped on the ground in anger, slammed the ground so that ice cracked and rocks fell from the ceiling. It furiously stared at Yang Dingtian, who was now in the water.

Yang Dingtian took a long breath as he had finally escaped this monster.

Staring at the Fiery Earth Dragon on the land, he laughed coldly and said, “You will be dead soon.”

A strike on the pond surface caused a bunch of water to instantly fly towards the Fiery Earth Dragon.

The Fiery Earth Dragon tried to avoid it but was still hit by some of the unfreezing water.

“SiSiSi…” A weird sound was heard, and the place where the Fiery Earth Dragon was hit froze and hardened.

The Fiery Earth Dragon roared, and its gaze became extremely scary. Then, it dug into the ground with its head, instantly creating a hole.

It was escaping through the hole it made.

Yang Dingtian began to splash water continuously while the Fiery Earth Dragon dug furiously.

After a mere ten seconds, a big hole was dug, and the Fiery Earth Dragon rushed into the hole. However, an inch of its tail that was hit by the unfreezing water hardened, and the Fiery Earth Dragon broke it and escaped into the ground.

How could Yang Dingtian let it escape so easily? He took a bag and filled it with dozens of jin of unfreezing water. Then, he took it to the hole that the Fiery Earth Dragon dug and poured it all in.

“SiSiSi….” Immediately, a scream and the sound of struggling emanated from the hole.

Yang Dingtian filled up another bag of water and poured it in.

“Bang Bang Bang…” The Fiery Earth Dragon kept painfully thrashing around, causing the entire ground to crack open.

Right as Yang Dingtian was about to return to get more water, the ground cracked open, and the Fiery Earth Dragon rushed out. It opened its mouth as wide as possible as it rushed towards Yang Dingtian.

However, the Fiery Earth Dragon that rushed over was only two meters long as it had to abandon the rest of its body, which was frozen.

However, the remainder of the Fiery Earth Dragon was still horrifying. It intended to die together with Yang Dingtian.

Yang Dingtian was stunned and didn’t try to escape because it was already too late. The speed of this Fiery Earth Dragon was too fast.

“Whoosh!” The flame feather sliced.

Instantly, the Fiery Earth Dragon’s brain was cut, but it rushed forward with its momentum towards the unfreezing pond.

Yang Dingtian avoided it as he ducked to the side.

“Bang Bang…”The Fiery Earth Dragon wanted to change direction but couldn’t do it with its injured brain. Hence, it watched itself drop into the unfreezing pond. Its other two-meter-long body struggled to avoid it as well but eventually also fell into the unfreezing pond.

Then, the Fiery Earth Dragon completely froze stiff at a visible rate and finally died.

Yang Dingtian jumped into the unfreezing pond and cut open the monster’s brain with the flame feather. The frozen brain was even harder than rock, but luckily, the flame feather was so powerful that he was able to easily dig out the demon nucleus within.

He washed the demon nucleus over and over again in the water, and then let out a long sigh.

Ximen Ningning never knew that there was this kind of insane demonic beast in this mine based on her information. Otherwise, she would have definitely not allowed Yang Dingtian to come here. However, thanks to this insane demonic beast, he managed to get a gold-type demon nucleus, even though it was a close one. Today’s mission could be considered a success.

He stowed away this gold-type demon nucleus with the ice-type demon nucleus. As for the fire and wind-type demon nuclei, they were placed in another bag.

Now, he has already obtained four demon nuclei, and the last one would be an electric-type demon nucleus. He has already gotten the clue that it one was at Horror Mountain Village.

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After climbing out of the unfreezing pond, Yang Dingtian climbed up to the mine cave, recovered the Bloody Black Gold, and walked forward.

“Kachak Kachak…..” Suddenly, the sound of the ground cracking was heard.

“Not again! Is there another Fiery Earth Dragon? That shouldn’t be the case as such an insane monster usually lives alone.” Yang Dingtian was surprised, but he still ran forward while dragging his treasure along.

“Hong Hong Hong…” Instantly, the crack on the ground began to collapse, and huge pieces of rock began to crash down from above. It was not a Fiery Earth Dragon. It was caused by the ground being hollow and starting to splinter apart after being slammed by the deceased monster.

Yang Dingtian pulled with all his strength, dragging the Bloody Black Gold as he quickly ran forward.

“Hong Hong Hong…” The mine continued to collapse and didn’t stop until after 100 meters.

When he was sure that the mine was no longer collapsing, Yang Dingtian stopped and took a deep breath. Looking at the entrance of the mine cave that was now completely blocked, he was a little happy deep down.

“It’s good that it collapsed! Anyone who comes to this abandoned mine afterward will leave after seeing the blockage. The secret Bloody Black Gold mine won’t be found out. Also, I’ve killed all of the demonic beasts here, so there won’t be any of them that are able to inform masters of beast language about the unfreezing pond. ”

As for the beast language master who had told Zhao Wuji about the unfreezing pond, based on Zhao Wuji’s character, he would’ve killed that individual right then.

It was getting dark on the outside, and Ningning must be worried. Immediately, Yang Dingtian found a place and hid his bag of Bloody Black Gold. After pondering for a moment, he quickly ran out.

He ran over a few thousand meters and reached the huge mine entrance.

“Sister Ningning…,” Yang Dingtian shouted loudly.