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Chapter 168, Section 167: [Suihou Zhu Chilongniang]

Upon hearing Bai Longniang's words, Chen Sheng smiled.

"If I don't go to save your friend, can you help me get another purebred Five Elements Dragon Demon bloodline?"

"No."

Xiang Yu stared intently into Chen Sheng's eyes and shook his head.

"Dragons have extremely strong vitality. Since tens of thousands of dragon corpses descended into the world, every person in this world has at least several kinds of dragon demon bloodline in their body, and some even have dozens or hundreds of kinds."

Only a few individuals who miraculously revert to their ancestral lineage, or nobles of feudal states who have undergone generations of bloodline purification, have the possibility of possessing the purest dragon veins.

Among these few, even purebred Five Elements Dragon Veins are not particularly strong.

Compared to the nine-headed monster dragon of the Korean royal family, the calamity dragon of the Yan royal family, the plague dragon of the Zhao royal family, the blue water dragon of the Qin royal family, and the green-scaled wood dragon of the Qi royal family, they are all typical of the five elements of dragon species, but they do not have a clear advantage in battle.

Having no outstanding qualities means that not many people will pursue it passionately.

After the fall of the six kingdoms, with the royal families and nobles of each kingdom suffering heavy casualties, the number of people who possessed pure Five Elements Dragon Veins became even smaller.

Therefore, rescuing my friend is one of your rare opportunities to get what you want.

Chen Sheng nodded in agreement upon hearing this.

"That's settled then. Let me break into the prison. I can rescue your friend and obtain the Crimson Dragon bloodline at the same time. It's a win-win situation. Why are you stopping me?"

"Times have changed. I had no idea you were a born dragon king."

Inside the airship, Xiang Yu clenched his fists and spoke with a serious expression.

Do you know what a born dragon king is?

He is not the kind of Dragon King who relies on his profound cultivation to forcibly conquer others and then proclaims himself as such, but rather a noble being whose bloodline is inherently superior to others.

Don't be fooled by your current formidable strength; it's nothing compared to what you'll be like when you're an adult. At that time, a single dragon roar from you will be enough to make all the dragons in the world submit.

With such boundless potential, if you hide in a safe place and grow up to adulthood, you could go to Xianyang and take the First Emperor's head off. How can I let you go on an adventure to Yangcheng?

Moreover, any information related to you must be strictly kept under wraps, because if the tyrannical Qin dynasty finds out about you, they will definitely see you as a thorn in their side.

The county seat of Yangcheng County is extremely small, with the county government office and prison located in the same building. A prison break would definitely alarm the county magistrate.

The earth-penetrating weapons held by officials like county magistrates are far more powerful than those of ordinary soldiers. I'm afraid you'll die there.

Seeing Xiang Yu's concerned expression, Chen Sheng was taken aback, thinking that she might have some wonderful misunderstanding about him.

Chen Sheng knew his own situation. The job panel only gave him the talent of [Dragon King Budding Form], which was definitely not the invincible Dragon King bloodline that he could naturally grow up to be.

As someone who specializes in the "Ten Thousand Dragons Scripture," he can only advance to the fifth rank by gathering all 365 body spirits and constructing a complete cultivation body.

To achieve success in spiritual cultivation, one must seize every opportunity to acquire a physical body and spirit.

As for the risks involved in rescuing Xiang Yu's friend, Chen Sheng obtained many fragmented memories while obliterating the spirits of the soldiers, clearly knowing that there were at least thirty soldiers and a county magistrate guarding the county town.

He was a man who valued his life, and the reason he insisted on going was entirely because he felt confident enough to succeed.

However, Chen Sheng did not choose to explain this misunderstanding that was advantageous to him; instead, he calmly looked into Xiang Yu's eyes.

The two stared at each other silently for a while, until Xiang Yu was sure that Chen Sheng had made up his mind, then he lowered his head.

She sighed, looked up at Chen Sheng again, as if she had made up her mind, put her hand to her lips, spat out a transparent bead, and handed it over.

"This precious pearl fell to earth along with the dragon corpse hundreds of years ago. It was first obtained by the king of Sui and became the most precious treasure of Sui."

After the fall of the Sui state, it changed hands several times before falling into the hands of the King of Chu. When the Chu state was destroyed, it was obtained by the Xiang family by chance.

"You...feel it."

The beads in her fair, delicate hands shone brightly; they were clearly a treasure.

Seeing that there was a benefit to be had, Chen Sheng quickly reached out and touched it, and a message appeared in his mind.

【Star Dragon Pearl】, a dragon pearl left behind after the fall of a fifth-tier Star Dragon, also known as the Suihou Pearl in this world. Its effects include:
1. Starlight: The precious light emitted by the Dragon Ball has the effect of purifying the bloodline of dragon demons and suppressing various conflicts of dragon veins.

II. Resurrection of the Dead Dragon: Cultivators below the fifth rank who possess dragon demon blood can leave their mark within the Dragon Pearl. Upon death within this realm, they can be slowly resurrected through the Dragon Pearl. (Resurrection opportunities refresh every hundred years.)
3. Dragon Bloodline: Swallowing the dragon pearl can greatly accelerate the cultivation speed of dragon-like supernatural powers.

IV. Dragon Ball Inheritance: When a fourth-tier dragon demon digests this ball upon breaking through to the fifth tier, it can achieve a fifth-tier Star Dragon Body and inherit the great supernatural powers left behind in the Dragon Ball.

While Chen Sheng was shocked that Xiang Yu actually possessed a secret treasure of the Yama River, the girl reached out and wiped the dragon pearl, removing a trace of bright red color from it, and handed it back to him.

"Although I don't understand why you are so obsessed with pure blood five elements dragon veins, I can tell that they must be very important to you."

I've already removed my mark from the Suihou Pearl. Put one of your marks inside; with it, you'll be guaranteed to survive.

This time, Chen Sheng was truly stunned.

He had been reincarnated several times and lived for hundreds of years, but no one had ever been so kind to him.

Although Xiang Yu must have been eyeing her non-existent dragon bloodline as an investment in his anti-Qin cause, Chen Sheng was still shocked by her generosity and decisiveness.

"This girl seems easy to fool. Maybe I can try to trick her into giving me the Dragon Balls another day."

If she brings it up later, I'll just suffer a loss and marry her after I conquer the world, making her my empress as a reward.

As soon as Chen Sheng had this thought in his mind, he saw Xiang Yu looking at him expectantly.

"What are you waiting for? If you're any later, I might change my mind."

Chen Sheng smiled and stretched out the hand of the warrior he had transformed into, squeezing out a drop of his life essence blood and letting it drip onto the dragon pearl. He watched as the blood seeped into it, forming a crimson mark.

Having successfully imprinted the mark, Xiang Yu hurriedly swallowed the dragon pearl back into his stomach, seemingly worried that Chen Sheng would steal his secret treasure of Yanfu.

Afterwards, watching Chen Sheng turn the airship around and fly towards Yangcheng, Xiang Yu gave him more instructions out of concern.

"If you can avoid dying, you'd better not die. Dragon Balls only give you one chance to revive once every hundred years, so don't waste it."

Let me tell you about the layout of Yangcheng County. This will make the prison break safer. All the county towns in the Qin Dynasty were pretty much the same..."

……

The weak sun hung high in the sky, and a sandstorm swept across the land.

Chen Sheng piloted the airship for hundreds of miles, and then a huge, square steel house without windows appeared in his sight, sitting on a reddish hillside.

Several miles south of the house, a colossal alchemical furnace stood, with molten lava flowing beneath it and dreamlike fluorescent light emanating from its mouth. This was Yangcheng County, a place where no ordinary people lived.

Although it's called a county town, it's actually just a building with a considerable floor area, two floors above ground and five floors below ground. It has more than 300 rooms that can be used for accommodation, as well as warehouses, offices, training rooms, courtyards, prisons and other areas. It can accommodate up to 500 or 600 people, but it's far from full now.

Normally, only the hundred or so workers from the nearby alchemy furnace and the sixty or so soldiers guarding the furnace live in the county town; it is a typical close-knit community.

Now, the alchemy furnace is in operation, and half of the soldiers have been sent out to search for Xiang Yu's whereabouts, leaving even fewer people in the county town.

Chen Sheng piloted the airship and landed directly on the helipad on the top floor of the county town. He jumped out of the cockpit and walked towards the county town gate.

Even from a distance, the soldiers on duty at the gate called out loudly.

"Ding Jiuwu 27, why are you the only one who came back?"

The soldiers that Chen Sheng transformed into had an inconspicuous scale on their shoulders engraved with the number "[Ding Jiu Wu Er Qi]". This was the code that the soldiers were given after they were born in the collective palace, and it was also their name.

"When the two of them heard that the alchemy furnace was going to produce a small batch of high-quality fire pills, they went there to wait and wanted to bring back a batch."

I was thinking about the girls in the county town, so I came back first.

Chen Sheng laughed and greeted the soldiers outside the door, then stuck his finger into a hole in the doorway.

Feeling the flesh and blood writhing, verifying his bloodline and identity, the door opened successfully, and he strode inside.

The town appears to be made of steel from the outside, but its interior is completely filled with flesh and blood. Walking in the corridors, you walk on slippery and elastic muscles, while the walls and ceiling are made of a hard tissue that secretes mucus, like walking through the intestines of a giant beast.

There is light even in the county town.

Every so often along the corridor, a wall lamp, resembling bait for anglerfish in the deep sea, would appear, emitting a soft glow.

In addition, there are often dragon eyes with vertical pupils growing next to the wall lamps, watching over every passerby.

Chen Sheng walked in the corridor for a while and saw a woman standing against the wall, wrapped only in a short blanket, under which were two plump legs with long scales.

Seeing Chen Sheng approach, the woman stood up, opened the blanket facing him, revealing her figure with only a few scales, and said listlessly.

"Officer, you must be tired from your official business. Would you like to do something privately with me?"

Soldiers are also human beings, and as such, they have desires and need outlets for them. So the imperial court built several courtyards in the county town, with three to five people stationed there to maintain the morale of the soldiers.

They receive subsidies for this job, and they can enjoy a decent service for very little money. Chen Sheng used this as an excuse to vent his frustrations when he tricked the gatekeeper.

"No need, I'm a little tired."

"hehe."

The woman smiled and continued to lean against the wall, waiting listlessly.

With few competitors in the county town, she had no shortage of business.

Chen Sheng shook off the woman's advances and continued walking forward, descending the stairs around the corner.

After passing through dormitories, warehouses, and restaurants, and greeting the few colleagues I had met, I arrived at a secluded corner on the second basement level.

He knocked on a small door that he didn't have permission to open and waited quietly.

After a while, the door opened, and a soldier stood behind it, asking in confusion.

"Ding Jiuwu 27, what are you doing here?"

Chen Sheng did not answer, but simply pointed his index finger at the soldiers.

呲!
A crimson [lava ray] jet shot out from the fingertip, instantly severing the soldier's neck.

For him, killing a cultivator with high attack but low defense, completely unprepared, and without even a weapon, was that simple.

Chen Sheng kicked the soldier's head into the room, then carried the headless corpse inside.

Then you see a fleshy, human-shaped groove covered with tentacles on the floor of the small room. Just by lying in it, you can see all the scenes in the Dragon Eyes of the county.

The soldier we just killed had been lying in the middle of the city, monitoring the entire county. Only by eliminating him could our next move remain undetected.

Chen Sheng threw the corpse in his hand, lay down in the groove, connected with a pile of fleshy tentacles, and began to examine the internal defenses through the dragon eyes that were spread throughout the county.

Fortunately, ordinary soldiers had no privacy, and even their dormitories were filled with dragon eyes. Chen Sheng quickly found thirty-six people in the county town, including thirty-three soldiers and three women in special professions.

Although he couldn't see the images inside the magistrate's room, he could deduce from the fact that several women were missing from the county that the magistrate was probably having fun in his room.

Having grasped the general situation, Chen Sheng got up from the recess, closed the door behind him, and headed towards the prison located on the fourth underground floor of the county town.

Before leaving, he saw the corpse on the ground, half of which had been digested and devoured by the blood and flesh of the room's floor.

……

The large, scaleless foot stomped on the fleshy ground, making a strange, creaking sound.

Two guards outside the prison heard the voice, turned around, looked at the figure coming up the stairs, and asked.

"Ding Jiuwu 27, how did you end up on the fourth floor? Did you capture a wanted criminal?"

"Hahaha, yes, we captured a beautiful white-haired dragon girl and were just about to lock her up in prison with that red-haired dragon girl!"

With a hearty laugh, two crimson jets shot out from Chen Sheng's fingers, piercing the heads of two soldiers who had no time to react.

While the [Lava Ray] is not as powerful as the jet gun, it is more stealthy and is well-suited for assassinations and sneak attacks.

Chen Sheng walked unhurriedly to the front of the prison, grabbed the still-active arms of two soldiers, and inserted them into two grooves in the fleshy wall.

Next, the walls made of flesh and blood began to writhe, and a cell door that had not been there before was opened with a whooshing sound.

The space inside the door is quite large.

A petite girl was suspended in mid-air, her limbs, waist, and head bound by black, fleshy tentacles, unable to move.

But her long, flowing crimson hair trembled like flames in the darkness, radiating a vibrant life force.

Hearing the door open, the girl opened her fiery red eyes, looked at Chen Sheng who had walked in, and actually spoke.

"You are not a member of the imperial court!"

(End of this chapter)