Dragon Tamer

Chapter 751: Chapter 755: It’s Good to Enjoy the Shade Under a Big Tree

Linghu Ling naturally didn’t make a move against Zhu Minglang, mainly because she wasn’t confident that she could take him down.

Before, like everyone else, Linghu Ling thought Zhu Minglang was a Sword Cultivator with a pretty high realm.

However, after several encounters, she found that Zhu Minglang was accompanied by a White Dragon, and it was of the Dragon God level…

Later on, when she accidentally saw Zhu Minglang handling a Violent God, and noticed he had several dragons with him, Linghu Ling realized that this guy was indeed very strong, at least a leading figure in the Dragon Gate.

“These despicable wretches, I’ve encountered them too. Seeing me walking alone and carrying the heavy Companion Tree, they surrounded me and tried to block my way. I beat them all and they ran off,” the tree-carrying youth said with a hint of disdain for these vermin.

Linghu Ling turned to look at Zhu Minglang and asked, “Did you do the same?”

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Zhu Minglang quickly shook his head and said, “I saw the four of them alone and went up to surround them. Sadly, their ability to escape is truly miraculous. In the end, I could only capture one and took their Spirit Root.”

“…”

Big villain!

Linghu Ling spat out the words in her mind.

“What do you want with me?” Linghu Ling asked.

“I’m fine, but he has something,” Zhu Minglang said, pointing at the tree-carrying youth beside him.

“Fairy of Yuheng Palace, we want to take down the Kui Dragon Divine Tree and wish to join forces with you. Would you be willing to join us?” the tree-carrying youth said.

“Aren’t you a loner?” Linghu Ling’s naturally alluring eyes drifted back to Zhu Minglang, whose demeanor seemed so cool and pure.

“He offered up three pine nuts and begged me to make a move. Seeing his sincerity and realizing that I’m still a person who practices good deeds, I reluctantly accepted his request. After the job is done, I get four, he gets three, and you get three,” Zhu Minglang said with a straight face.

Have you no shame at all!

The tree-carrying youth was on the brink of losing patience. It was clear he had been suffering under Zhu Minglang’s tyranny. Who knew who was the one whose eyes shone like light when they heard about the Kui Dragon Divine Tree!

“I take four,” Linghu Ling said directly, showing no sign of otherworldliness when it came to bargaining.

“I take four, you take four, and he takes two,” Zhu Minglang conceded.

“Deal.”

“Deal.”

“?????” The tree-carrying youth felt an extreme insult and offense!

This is too much, too bullying!

Nevertheless, being a cultivation base weaker, the tree-carrying youth could only gnash his teeth and swallow his tears, having no divine power and thus reluctantly choosing to accept!

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The Kui Dragon Divine Tree is a half-dragon, half-tree lifeform that likes to hang upside down on cliffs. Zhu Minglang once chased an Azure Snow Divine Beast. He had cornered it at the cliff edge, ready to take its Spirit Root, when suddenly an ancient and vigorous pine tree came to life. It used its huge branches like claws to firmly pin down the Azure Snow Divine Beast. After bounding it, it hung the creature outside the cliff to bake in the sun!

Just like drying a fish, Zhu Minglang witnessed the Azure Snow Divine Beast turn into a dried corpse. The Spirit Root contained within its body was absorbed during this violent sunbathing process, and soon the leaves and branches of the Kui Dragon Divine Tree grew even more lush.

Previously, Zhu Minglang had also entertained the idea of targeting this tree, but the creature was incredibly vigilant. The slightest approach would cause two of its main trunks to move, attacking the invaders of its territory like an old dragon gone mad. Its power was terrifying; one side was flame, the other ice. Without the strength of a Divine General, it was impossible to take it down.

The most eerie part was that each time the Kui Dragon Divine Tree consumed a living thing, it would change its location along the cliff. When completely still, lying on the cliffside, it looked no different from those ancient pines, even growing some Holy Pine Nuts to entice creatures of lesser wisdom.

Some greedy Divine Chosen probably ventured into its territory and ended up as sun-dried corpses.

“It’s just ahead between the two cliffs. Be careful, not long ago it captured a dim-witted god, and its strength has increased a bit,” the tree-carrying youth warned.

“By the way, I still don’t know your name,” Zhu Minglang inquired.

“Wu Xiao,” the tree-carrying youth said.

“Don’t you want to share where you’re from?” Zhu Minglang asked.

“Hmph, we just need to cooperate this one time; there’s no need to know each other’s background,” Wu Xiao, the tree-carrying youth, said, evidently not intending to become friends with Zhu Minglang!

Zhu Minglang smiled and shook his head.

Does this guy actually fear that I’ll cross over to his continent to bully him?

Even for a god, crossing a continent that doesn’t border one’s own carries great risk, or else the Sparrow Wolf God wouldn’t be so easy to kill.

Zhu Minglang focused his attention on the Kui Dragon Divine Tree.

In front of him were two tall cliffs rising high above, with Ten Thousand Feet Valley between them. A careless fall would shatter even the gods to pieces.

The two cliffs resembled a bridge, bordering each other, yet at their joining point, there was a gap as wide as a river. Few people at the heights of Mount Zhi Tian could fly freely, so crossing this terrifying gap in the cliff bridge required some courage.

Interestingly, at this cliff bridge location, there grew a huge, ancient pine.

This old pine was clearly more than ordinary, its trunk growing along the slope beneath the cliff bridge, its branches and crown extending mostly into thin air. It had another trunk, however, that reached over to the other side of the bridge, growing along the opposite slope…

In other words, this very thoughtful old pine tree had filled the gap between the cliff bridges with its own body.

Had this been seen at a famous scenic spot, surely this old pine would have been praised as a Buddha Pine, using its own body to form a tree corridor, making it convenient for people on both sides of the high cliff to traverse.

“To climb higher, one must cross from that end to this one, but this Kui Dragon Pine is really too cunning, engaging in such bridge-building and ambushes,” Zhu Minglang said.

“Then let’s act on behalf of heaven!” Linghu Ling said coldly.

Having said that, Linghu Ling had already stepped onto her Flying Sword and soared out. She could control over two hundred Flying Swords, her realm far surpassing Yu Shanhan’s.

Her Flying Swords split into three streams, each targeting the crown, Dragon Branch, and trunk of the Kui Dragon Divine Tree. The azure Flying Swords dazzled as they flickered, now forming a torrential Sword Rain Formation, now piercing like a long river, now rotating like a disk…

Suddenly, the Kui Dragon Divine Tree opened its eyes, which were distributed on its trunk—dozens of tree pupils, with the ancient tree rings serving as their sockets. Its branches were thick and sturdy, swaying with the same power as the body of an Azure Dragon, while the smaller twigs resembled claws, evenly distributed on both sides of the Dragon Branch.

They were extremely agile, bending at will and changing form freely. Facing those Flying Swords, they managed to block a great many, the remainder, even when piercing into their bark, left no visible marks.

“This Kui Dragon Divine Tree’s primary characteristic is thick bark, Fairy Linghu, why the haste? Let me use my Divine Skills to weaken its bark before we move,” Wu Xiao, the young man with the tree on his back, said.

As he spoke these words, Wu Xiao had already untied the golden rope around him and planted the verdant Companion Tree he had been carrying on his back, forcing it into the ground as if planting it by force!

He let its roots take to the soil, and soon Zhu Minglang saw the Companion Tree’s roots extend like tentacles, instantly reaching the cliff bridge and entwining with the deep roots of the Kui Dragon Divine Tree!

Roots clashed with roots!

It might have been the most ludicrous and bizarre scene Zhu Minglang had ever witnessed, mainly because Wu Xiao himself was quite comical—shouldering a Giant Sword or a golden saber may be heroic, but who ever heard of carrying a tree across the world!

Wu Xiao’s Companion Tree was particularly formidable, shaking it could cause the earth to tremble and the surrounding space to shiver.

When still, it could ward off all aggressive assaults, Zhu Minglang had previously unleashed some of his strongest Swordsmanship moves, which failed to unsettle the Companion Tree…

“My Companion Tree has already deprived it of its root supply; next, it won’t be able to draw the power of solidity from the earth!” Wu Xiao said.

Zhu Minglang didn’t quite understand what that was, but he knew Wu Xiao had weakened the toughness of the Kui Dragon Divine Tree’s bark.

Then, Zhu Minglang took his turn. He stood with his Sword before him, his fingers swiftly sweeping over the blade, then pointing towards the location of the cliff bridge!

“Boom, boom, boom, boom, BOOM!!!!!!!!”

Shadows emerged in the sky, each falling with the fury of thunder, continuing to strike along the direction of the cliff bridge, each impact akin to a small mountain peak!

Sky Shadow Column Sword!

In the past, Zhu Minglang’s Sky Shadow Sword could only cast a single shadow, falling with mighty force. Now, after learning the lower-tier Sword arts from Yuheng Star Palace, Zhu Minglang understood how to replicate Sword moves, transforming the solitary Sky Shadow Sword into a series of shadows, each offering vastly increased coverage and impact strength!

A column of Sky Shadow Sword peaks plunged downwards, a great majority of them striking the body of the Kui Dragon Divine Tree.

The Kui Dragon Divine Tree was also enormous, resembling a terrifying deep-sea octopus king as its “tree feet” began moving, its body fully rising from below the cliff slope. Suddenly, the cliff bridge was overshadowed by an immense forest that appeared out of nowhere, the smallest branch equating to dozens of meters of python, not to mention the main branches, which were like ancient Azure Dragons coiling around the Divine Tree!

Kui Dragon!

It would be more fitting to say that rather than a Divine Tree that was half-dragon, half-tree, it was a Divine Tree adorned with Kui Dragons!

The Kui Dragon branches began to sway, with hundreds of them flying together, creating a terrifying sight. Zhu Minglang and Linghu Ling had to retreat backward, avoiding the attacking thrash of the Kui Dragon branches.

Half of the tree branch Kui Dragons emitted flames, the other half frost, and they too possessed Dragon Flame Breath.

As they spewed forth Dragon Breath and Dragon Flame together, Zhu Minglang and Linghu Ling were suddenly engulfed in a hell of ice and fire, enduring unbearable pain.

“Come over here, it’s cool under the big tree!” Wu Xiao called out to them.

“What the heck?” Zhu Minglang complained.

“It’s the name of my Divine Skill, this move to withstand is called—It’s Cool Under the Big Tree,” Wu Xiao said seriously, not seeing any issue with the name, and earnestly replied.