After transmigrating, I made a name for myself through my culinary skills.

Things weren't so good in Jiangning. He had only been teleported to the Cloud Cave for a few days when he was constantly being hunted down.

When Jiang Ning was teleported to the Cloud Cave, he was struck by bad luck. He was teleported directly to the swamp. Just as Jiang Ning was about to land, the swamp churned up. Upon closer inspection, he saw that the swamp was full of three-eyed mud snakes. Fortunately, he reacted quickly and used his spiritual power to touch the surrounding vines to pull himself ashore.

These three-eyed mud snakes live in swamps and are venomous. They usually ambush monsters drinking water at the edge of the swamp, attacking them in groups until they die and then dismembering them. They are not high-level and only target weak monsters. Normally, large monsters will not go out of their way to provoke them because the three-eyed mud snakes are very agile in the swamp and are social monsters, making them very troublesome to deal with.

After Jiang Ning went ashore, he didn't rush to leave. He found a pheasant to lure the three-eyed mud snakes, tied the pheasant up with vines, and fished for the mud snakes like a fisherman. When the mud snakes attacked the pheasant, Jiang Ning activated his fire spirit root to attack. These low-level demonic beasts had poor defense against fire, and a small number of them died quickly.

The three-eyed mud snake's core is a good ingredient for refining medicine, and it can also be directly absorbed to replenish spiritual power. Jiang Ning did not let go of this good opportunity. He activated the vines to drag the three-eyed mud snake, which had been roasted to death by fire, ashore, quickly took the core, threw the body away, and dumped the corpse back into the swamp.

The three-eyed mud snakes, still in the swamp, divided up the corpses of their kind. Without their spirit cores, those corpses were no different from ordinary monsters in the eyes of their kind.

As the corpse fell, the living three-eyed mud snake thrashed about in the swamp, feasting on its own kind. Soon, a strong smell of blood spread. Jiang Ning stopped in time, not lingering, as the smell of blood would easily attract other monsters.

After leaving, Jiang Ning did not wander around. He followed the guidance of the Dragon Slayer Blade to search for the rarest treasures in the Cloud Cave.

He found the Dragon Slayer Blade in a cliff cave. At that time, Jiang Ning was on a mission and was training outside. In order to avoid falling off a cliff to avoid a monster, he accidentally broke a formation left by a senior. The senior had become a skeleton, but his gorgeous clothes had not decayed. There was also an eye-catching spatial ring on his hand bones, indicating that he was rich in wealth in his life. Jiang Ning felt that the clothes looked familiar, but he couldn't remember where he had seen them before.

Jiang Ning took the spatial ring. Logically speaking, the cultivator who could create this defensive array for so many years without being discovered must have a cultivation level no lower than that of a Nascent Soul cultivator. With Jiang Ning's current cultivation level, he couldn't open the spatial ring.

As it turned out, Jiang Ning gave up after two unsuccessful attempts to open it. Just as he was about to leave with the spatial ring, he sensed something inside the cave calling to him.

He followed the call and found a dagger under a large rock; the dagger had come to life.

The dagger told Jiang Ning that it was called the Dragon Slayer Blade, and that it was forged by the old man who had died. The old man had previously ambushed the Holy Dragon, breaking off one of its horns and trapping the Holy Dragon in a valley.

The old man crafted a dragon-slaying blade from the fallen horn of the sacred dragon, hoping to use it to slay the dragon and extract its tendons. However, the sacred dragon's resentment was too strong, and the old man went mad at the final stage of forging the blade. He died before he could make the blade recognize him as its master, bleeding from all seven orifices. Without a master, the dragon-slaying blade developed its own sentience.

It made a deal with Jiang Ning: if Jiang Ning could take it out to rescue the Holy Dragon, it would acknowledge Jiang Ning as its master and lead him to find all the treasures in the world. It's common knowledge that dragons are fond of treasures, and the Dragon-Slaying Blade was made from the Holy Dragon's horn, giving it a strong affinity for them.

Jiang Ning didn't want to risk his life for a Holy Dragon he didn't know, so he bargained and eventually reached an agreement with the Dragon Slayer Blade: the Dragon Slayer Blade would not acknowledge Jiang Ning as its master, but it would submit to Jiang Ning and help him find treasure. After Jiang Ning's cultivation reached the Nascent Soul stage, he would help the Dragon Slayer Blade find the Holy Dragon and rescue it. Of course, all of this was on the condition that Jiang Ning's life was safe and that the Holy Dragon did not do anything evil.

They signed a temporary contract without directly pledging allegiance to a master. Jiang Ning also swore an oath using his inner demons to ensure the benefits of the Dragon Slayer Blade.

The first thing the Dragon Slayer Blade did for Jiang Ning was to break open the old man's spatial ring. The old man was extremely wealthy, with his space filled with pills and treasures. What was most surprising was the cultivation technique inside.

Jiang Ning found a scroll inside, a fragment of which contained a cultivation technique for quickly absorbing spiritual energy, allowing one to absorb spiritual energy and cultivate even while sleeping.

This is why Ye Lan later saw Jiang Ning absorbing spiritual energy even while sleeping.

He also found the old man's token inside.

“Jade Sword Master? Isn’t that the missing elder of the Heavenly Sword Sect?” Jiang Ning instantly remembered where he had seen that outfit before. It was at the sect competition he attended when he was a child. His father took him there to broaden his horizons, but he was scolded by his mother when they came back.

The Heavenly Sword Sect is the wealthiest sect in the Southern Continent, so it's no wonder that Jade Sword Master is so rich.

Years ago, they had been eyeing Jiang Ning's father's position as leader of the alliance and had secretly tried to sabotage him. This time, when his brother was injured, Jiang Ning suspected the Heavenly Sword Sect, but unfortunately, he had no evidence.

After learning the old man's identity, Jiang Ning took the spatial ring without any qualms.

With the help of the Dragon Slayer Blade, Jiang Ning also found many treasures and quickly reached the late Nascent Soul stage with the help of the newly acquired cultivation technique. He rushed over to find his sect partners just before the Cloud Cave was about to open. Fortunately, the place where the Cloud Cave was opening was not far from his training location, so it didn't take much time.

Back inside the Cloud Cave, Jiang Ning followed the guidance of the Dragon Slayer Blade and arrived at a dead pool. Along the way, he encountered rare medicinal herbs but failed to collect many. The Dragon Slayer Blade urged him to find this treasure.

The dead pool in front of him was bottomless, and he wondered what treasures lay beneath that made the Dragon Slayer Blade value it so much. After all, it hadn't bothered to give Jiang Ning any hints about the smaller treasures he had found along the way.

"There are three people behind you, their cultivation is no lower than yours, and they have quite a few treasures on them." Zhanlong Blade reminded Jiang Ning that the three people were hiding in the shadows and had arrived earlier than them, so they were not easily spotted by ordinary people.

"They've also come for this treasure. Can you sense whether it's in the pool or somewhere else?" Jiang Ning didn't move, pretending not to notice them, and communicated with the Dragon Slayer Blade through his divine sense.

"At the bottom of the pool is chalcedony, which has the effect of regenerating tendons and bones. If you can consume it, unless you die, your tendons and bones will grow back no matter how broken they are."

"so smart?"

"Yes, don't forget to leave some for me, to help the Holy Dragon restore its horns."

"Then how do I take it?"

"You jump directly into the pool and use an invisibility talisman to conceal your presence. I'll take you to find the chalcedony. Once we find it, put it in a jade bottle. This chalcedony can only be contained in jade; otherwise, it will become a stagnant pool."

"Was the invisibility talisman Ye Lan gave me useful?"

"It works. It's no problem dealing with opponents at your level."

"Then I'll have to thank him properly when I see him." With that, Jiang Ning quickly activated his invisibility talisman and jumped into the pool. The three people behind him didn't expect him to be so direct, so they quickly followed.