CHAPTER 965: CHAPTER 101: DRAGON EXTRACTION (PART 2)

Chu Yin silently bit through five fingers, pressing them toward the seabed.

Chu Guo used the spring wind umbrella sword to cut a long gash in his palm.

Golden blood was scattered.

The sea roared.

With the spilling of the Imperial Blood, the "Beihai Dragon Vein" that extended straight to the Great Chu Imperial City responded at this moment. Chen Jingxuan clasped his hands together, silently forming seals. Billions of golden lines began to outline out of thin air, transforming into complex, obscure talismans. Finally, converging before the two princes and princesses were two slender, straight beams of light, like swords.

Chu Yin and Chu Guo exchanged a glance, and simultaneously extended their palms, grasping the slender golden light.

Their Imperial Blood flowed and spread, dyeing the golden light even more dazzling.

They looked towards Chen Jingxuan.

Eyes met.

No more words were needed.

Chu Yin and Chu Guo already understood what they had to do. In the next moment, the slender golden light pierced through heaven and earth, plunging into the Beihai seabed, into this century-hidden Imperial Blood Dragon Vein!

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"Clang!"

A painful scream erupted in the Moon Hidden Realm.

Yuan Huang’s pupils contracted, lowering her proud head in disbelief. From her chest, where the flying sword had pierced, came a heart-wrenching pain.

It was not a physical pain.

But... the pain of the soul.

As if something was about to be extracted!

The swaying long leaves of the Immortal Tree ignited with a fervent light at this moment, with a force coming from the distant north.

Xie Xuanyi felt something, gazing northward, as if lost in thought...

After parting ways with him at the reed marsh battle, Chen Jingxuan headed relentlessly northward.

At that time, although he did not ask much, he vaguely guessed that this guy must have something more important than returning to the Imperial City.

Perhaps, it was this matter.

Chen Jingxuan is a person who values "beginnings and endings" with dignity. The beginning of this dragon vein struggle began because of him.

Based on his understanding of him.

He would certainly find a way to... let this event come to an end in his hands.

"Mere ants, trying to strip the dragon vein!"

Yuan Huang sensed malice from Beihai.

She could no longer care about the pain.

The fierce side of the Holy Empress was fully exposed at this moment. After a low growl, she once again assumed her demon body.

A pure blood phoenix coiled around the gigantic Immortal Tree, struggling to climb upward, even if her chest was pierced by the flying sword imbued with Taoist Intent... The flying sword remained motionless, and she herself tore at the wound, elongating it, with searing golden blood endlessly spilling.

"Master."

Xie Xuanyi couldn’t help but speak.

"..."

Zhao Chunyang placed a hand on Xie Xuanyi’s shoulder, shaking his head.

The old man in the Lotus Robe only looked at this scene calmly, with neither sorrow nor joy, as if he had anticipated it all along.

Seeing this, Xie Xuanyi’s heart settled down.

Had Master already seen this scene during "Divine Travel"?

Over at Beihai, Chen Jingxuan had drawn the Imperial Blood Dragon Vein, likely using "Chu Guo" this Dark Child, perhaps with Chu Yin’s assistance... But it would be difficult for these two immature young heirs of Imperial Blood to take the dragon vein from the "Holy Empress." Although Yuan Huang was now severely injured, her strength reduced to a tenth, she remained a powerful force overlooking the world.

"There’s more."

Zhao Chunyang seemed to know what Xie Xuanyi was thinking, and said calmly, voicing two words.

"... There’s more?"

Xie Xuanyi was taken aback.

"The Heavenly Dao is equitable, and those who take risks are many. As rivers flow to the sea, so can a spark ignite a prairie fire."

With his hands behind his back, Zhao Chunyang said softly: "These four dragon veins... do not belong to her. Even if she forcibly claims them, she cannot hold them."

The words were hardly spoken.

Once again, a miserable, shrill scream came from the Immortal Tree.

The phoenix, covered in blood, looked towards the distance with a somber expression, no longer facing Beihai this time.

"Taoist..."

Xie Xuanyi’s eyes lit up.

No!

It’s not just the Tao, he sensed a third presence in the shadows.

A total of four dragon veins.

Over at Da Sui Sword Palace, Master had not yet exerted force... At this moment, someone was "guarding" each of the three dragon veins, even the Martial Fortune Dragon Vein of the Qin Ancestor had someone attempting to reclaim it!

"Extracting dragon veins is painstaking."

"Removing dragon veins requires only an opportunity."

Zhao Chunyang gazed at Yuan Huang, and said calmly: "You... have yet to concede defeat?"

The Phoenix let out a long cry to the heavens, wanting to flap its wings.

She wanted to fight desperately.

But alas, at this point in the battle, she had lost the qualification to "fight desperately."

In the end, she was left with only the privilege of "longevity," but ultimately even this privilege was to be completely stripped away...

Zhao Chunyang reached out his hand towards the Immortal Tree.

The Sword Origin River enveloped both the Phoenix and the giant tree together.

Faced with such a rarely seen "Quasi-Heavenly Person" in a thousand years, Yuan Huang simply could not evade, and the Dragon Vein Fortune within her, as solid as a fortress, suffered a tremendous shock at this moment... Zhao Chunyang’s action this time was not to kill her, but to strip out the "Sword Qi Dragon Vein" from this Immortal Tree.

"No..."

This time, the voice from Yuan Huang, rather than a sharp rebuke, sounded more like a mournful plea.

Zhao Chunyang did not hesitate.

The life force flame from the falling leaves of the Immortal Tree quickly dimmed.

The "Great Power" of the four Dragon Veins combined was destroyed at this moment.

Da Sui Sword Palace was the first to reclaim the "Sword Qi Dragon Vein."

A majestic cyan dragon fell from the shell of the Divine Tree, plunging into the Sword Origin River, but after Zhao Chunyang held it in his palm, the cyan dragon quickly transformed, resembling a slender little snake.

Surprisingly.

After being absorbed by the Immortal Tree, this Sword Qi Cyan Dragon did not become weakened; instead, it became more lively.

Lifeforms connected to the Immortal Tree seemed to share a symbiotic relationship.

Perhaps.

The thoughts of the Grand Emperor and Emperor Chu were correct, that the union of the four Dragon Veins with the Immortal Tree could potentially create an unprecedented great era of Great Chu.

However...

These Dragon Veins now had to be extracted one by one.

As the "Sword Qi Dragon Vein" was stripped away, the Immortal Tree rapidly decayed, and Yuan Huang’s aura also plummeted quickly.

The wounds on her body no longer healed themselves, and the spilled blood no longer bore divinity.

The "Great Phoenix Cave Heaven," shattered by Xuan Ming, which previously showed signs of cohesion, now utterly fragmented into desolation.

In an instant.

The Holy Empress plummeted from the exalted "Heavenly Human Realm."

She could not accept this outcome.

But what she found even more unacceptable was... yet to come.

From the Immortal Tree, the second cyan dragon shadow streaked away; it belonged to the Taoist Sect’s "Taoist Vein Fortune."

Immediately following was the third, the Martial Vein Fortune!

And finally...

The fourth one.

It was the "Imperial Vein Fortune" that the Holy Empress had first grasped but was also the first to be pried away.

The giant Phoenix who had painstakingly climbed to the pinnacle of the Immortal Tree, at this moment seemed to have aged several hundred years.

The glorious Divine Feather became dull and colorless.

The light fire burning in Yuan Huang’s eyes also extinguished completely at this moment.

She knew.

She was utterly defeated.

Even her last hope, her greatest trump card, was completely destroyed at this moment.

The once towering and majestic Immortal Tree, in just a few dozen breaths, faced "withering."

Countless leaves fell like snow, drifting down and scattering across this Moon Hidden Realm.

The Immortal Tree did not perish as a result; having lost the nourishment of the Dragon Vein Fortune, unable to maintain its growth, it could only return to a "withered" state to prolong its life as much as possible.

The life force of the Immortal Tree was not completely severed.

For so many years.

It was Yuan Huang who fed the Immortal Tree with her own blood.

Though now without the Dragon Vein, there was still a Phoenix on the tree; it continued to absorb Phoenix Blood to "prolong its life."

The Immortal Tree, though a thousand years ago was called the "Divine Tree" by millions.

After all... it was just a tree.

For survival, absorbing Phoenix Blood was instinctual.

As for whether that Phoenix was dying.

To the Immortal Tree, it never mattered from start to finish.

Thus, a tragically beautiful and ironic scene appeared.

The Phoenix that climbed to the pinnacle of the Immortal Tree folded its feathers, but found no place to perch, for the Immortal Tree lost its branches and leaves, became like a straight, dry, sharp sword, piercing through her.

Layers of Phoenix Blood flowed down along the tree crown.

In the Moon Hidden Realm, which turned into a desolate and barren land after the great battle, a faint tide of bloody color surged up.

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(PS: The plot progress of the Moon Hidden Volume is at 90%, aside from filling the holes, there will soon be a new climax connecting. I need to think it through well, the next Chapter should be updated on August 1st.)