nycdaug Chapter 194 The Zhou Family's Secret
Chapter 194 The Zhou Family's Secret
"Ding-dong chicken! Ding-dong chicken!"
The childlike ringing of the bell interrupted Jiang Cheng's outburst, and Jiang Cheng's tiger's mouth trembled slightly.
"Who?" Jiang Cheng, Zhou Zhenyin, and Zhou Zhenyang all turned their heads to look into the pavilion at the same time.
Through the carved wooden window, a figure could be vaguely seen.
He sat in a solid nanmu chair, facing south, observing the three people locked in combat outside the window.
The two brothers, Zhou Zhenyin and Zhou Zhenyang, were intimidated by this aura that made them remain unfazed even if Mount Tai collapsed before them.
The two brothers looked at each other, and even in their dragon form, they managed to regain a sliver of their rationality.
Zhou Zhenyang: "Brother, when did our ancestor leave the ancestral coffin?"
Zhou Zhenyin: "I don't know, I haven't received any related information. It's probably the head of the family who went to inform them!"
Sitting in a chair in the room, Ying Zheng casually took out his phone, answered a call, and walked out of the room.
Once exposed, there's no longer any need to hide.
Ying Zheng: "Hello? Who is it?"
Xia Mi: "Boss! Chen Motong and Jiu Deya, the two senior students, have arrived at the house at the same time!"
Now sit on the sofa!
How to do? "
Ying Zheng frowned: "What brings them here?"
Xia Mi: "I don't know! They didn't tell me anything, they just said they were looking for you!"
Ying Zheng: "Alright, I understand. Tell them to wait. I have things to do. Bye!"
Xia Mi: "Oh, okay, boss!"
Ying Zheng hung up Xia Mi's call and walked up to Jiang Cheng, Zhou Zhenyin, and Zhou Zhenyang.
Jiang Cheng glanced at Ying Zheng but didn't say anything more.
Zhou Zhenyang: "Who are you? How dare you trespass on the Zhou family property?!"
Zhou Zhenyin silently gripped the snake venom dagger, staring coldly at Ying Zheng, thinking to himself, "So it's not the ancestor, then who is this guy?"
Ying Zheng ignored Zhou Zhenyang, that brute, glanced at Jiang Cheng, and asked calmly:
"Can you resolve this?"
Jiang Cheng swung his four-meter-long God-Slaying Whip, glancing gratefully at Ying Zhengdao:
"can."
"That's good, you may leave." Ying Zheng nodded.
"Word of Power: Heaven and Earth as Furnace!" Jiang Cheng raised his hand and swung the fishing rod, and purple flames instantly ignited on the rod!
The originally invisible flames instantly formed an enormous purple alchemy furnace in the air!
The furnace is decorated with carvings of bronze and fire.
The bronze-carved door suddenly shattered into dust, and the purple alchemy furnace plummeted through the air with the force of a thunderbolt.
The attack swept towards the two guardians of the Zhou family.
After Zhou Zhenyang transformed into a dragon, his scales curled and turned black under the high temperature. His eight-foot-tall body was forced to kneel on one knee by the pressure, and the blue stone slab ground was crushed and cracked like a black spider web.
"Heaven and earth as a furnace? Little Grandfather actually used this trick on us two brothers!" Zhou Zhenyin's fangs clenched so tightly they made a grinding sound.
The snake venom dagger he held suddenly burst forth with eerie green phosphorescent light.
A muscle in the right arm grew out of the dragon scales, squeezed through the scales, and twisted into a strange spiral shape.
Zhou Zhenyin pressed the button on the hilt of the snake venom dagger, which contained an alchemical array.
It contains a set of extremely insidious attacks.
In an instant!
Suddenly, the blade of the snake venom dagger detached from the hilt and flew towards Jiang Cheng!
It transformed into a nine-headed serpent shadow, piercing straight at the weak point of the Purple Flame Alchemy Furnace!
Once the Purple Fire Alchemy Furnace is breached, Jiang Cheng can be hit.
Unfortunately, such a fine dagger was rendered useless after being used in such a secret technique.
Zhou Zhenyang naturally knew the power of this snake venom dagger. He had noticed that his elder brother treasured it like a precious gem. Today, however, he had actually used the dagger's deadly move against the young master. Even this rough man couldn't help but feel a pang of regret. "Alas!"
For a fleeting moment, the two brothers, after transforming into dragons, forgot about the purple flames generated by Jiang Cheng's Word of Power: Heaven and Earth as a Furnace!
Even though the dragon scales on its body were burned black and smoking.
"Oh? This dagger can actually avoid the influence of heaven and earth being a furnace?" Jiang Cheng asked in surprise.
He watched as the dagger, which released the phantom image of the nine-headed hydra Xiangliu, passed straight through the Purple Fire Cauldron!
Jiang Cheng then lightly tapped the bronze compass at his waist with his fingertips, and seven starlight suddenly lit up—this was the "Ancient Dragon Skull Compass," made from the skull of a pure-blooded dragon, which was knocked off, cast in bronze, and then crafted with alchemical techniques and inscribed talismans.
Jiang Cheng's Qi Refining Technique Killer Move, "Heaven and Earth Compass," was comprehended through this ancient dragon bone compass.
As the future leader of the Jiang family, on whom high hopes are placed, Jiang Cheng is not lacking in old objects and treasures.
Caesar: "..."
“I’m not envious, I have the hunting knife Victor.”
Even a random bronze ring that fell from Jiang Cheng's person would be enough to make the bloggers exclaim in some treasure appraisal live streams—
"Wow! Bro! This thing is old! It's so rare! Could you pass it around?"
Just as Jiang Cheng was about to make a move, he suddenly caught sight of the dragon-patterned chains wrapped around the bronze coffin deep inside the pavilion.
It's dissolving silently!
The dissolved bronze liquid was able to drip like water onto the bluish-gray stone slab in the room, making a "drip-drip-drip" sound!
This room was not the room Ying Zheng had just been in. Rather than a room, it was more like a cage that housed an even more terrifying being.
"No!" Ying Zheng exclaimed. He sensed an aura very similar to that of the Dragon King Norton. His pupils contracted sharply, and his nameless sword instantly drew three inches from its sheath.
Ying Zheng's inner monologue: "Isn't Norton in my living room in Beiping?"
In order not to reveal his namelessness, Ying Zheng deliberately did not use "Netherfire".
The nameless figure moved with incredible speed, so fast that even high-definition cameras struggled to capture it.
With a clang of a sword, Ying Zheng vanished from his spot, rushing towards the room from which the sound of dripping bronze solution could be heard…
The dragon blood within the entire Zhou family compound, including all the clansmen and mixed-race individuals, became chaotic like boiling water under the influence of the dripping bronze solution!
Their faces flushed red, veins bulged on their foreheads, and they all began to transform into dragons.
The lower the bloodline of a hybrid, the more severe the dragonification!
Inside the Zhou family mansion, bronze bells under the eaves of each house simultaneously exploded, shattering into purple powder!
Jiang Cheng's fishing rod suddenly let out a mournful cry of being unable to bear the weight, and broke into two pieces. This was one of his favorite fishing rods.
Inside the Purple Fire Furnace formed by "Word Spirit - Heaven and Earth as Furnace", the illusory image of the nine-headed serpent actually abandoned the blade of the dagger, which was the vessel of the illusory self.
The hydra opened its mouth menacingly, revealing its fangs, and climbed back along the white causal lines towards Jiang Cheng's wrist.
They attempted to etch a bluish-black totem onto Jiang Cheng's skin.
However, it did not succeed. The venomous fangs did not even pierce the protective layer on Jiang Cheng's skin, but merely rubbed against the purple protective layer a few times.
However, the snake venom managed to seep into Jiang Cheng's skin through the gaps in these protective layers.
Jiang Cheng felt the snake venom and immediately let out a muffled groan!
Silvery-white blood seeped from all seven orifices simultaneously—a unique sign of uncontrolled dragon blood in the Jiang family's mixed bloodline!
Jiang Taigong discovered the special methods of the "immortals" and tried to make some rational arrangements for his bloodline. In the end, he succeeded without any major incidents, and this special thing has been passed down in the bloodline of the Jiang family.
The method isn't anything special; dragon-blooded creatures, dragon kings, dragons, dragon servants, dead servants, hybrids, and even normal life forms are all quite afraid of mercury.
This silvery-white metallic liquid is now chemically known as mercury.
Jiang Ziya injected mercury into his own veins!
Injecting this metallic liquid, which is terrifying to both dragon blood and human blood!
Then, they gradually develop mercury resistance in their blood, eventually making it a unique talent of the Jiang family hybrid race.
At this moment, Zhou Zhenyin discovered that Jiang Cheng had not died from the snake venom and was still holding on. Taking advantage of the moment when Jiang Cheng was resisting the snake venom, he suddenly attacked!
"Brother, I'm going first. You must live well!"
As Zhou Zhenyin spoke, he turned his head to take one last look at Zhou Zhenyang!
Then, using its dragon claws, it tore open the scales on its chest, reached into its chest cavity, and pulled out a beating heart!
"I dedicate my heart and soul to the magnificent Ji clan of the Great Zhou Dynasty..."
Zhou Zhenyin muttered to himself as he crushed his own heart, and his golden eyes instantly went out.
The moment the heart shattered and blood gushed out!
The hearts of all the Zhou family half-bloods in the courtyard began to tremble and resonate!
"Dragon Heart Blood Sacrifice? You're insane!" Jiang Chenghan's usually stern face finally changed color!
He raised his left hand, formed a hand seal, pinched his fingers, and chanted:
"The Northern Dipper Demon-Subduing Technique!"
The blue stone slab shattered instantly, and from the crack rose seven coiled dragon stone pillars!
The dragon reliefs on the stone pillars spewed out pillars of purple fire, one after another connecting together to form a barrier!
The violent energy field caused by Zhou Zhenyin's "blood sacrifice" was forcibly divided.
While splitting the energy field of the "blood sacrifice," Jiang Cheng was also resisting the attack of snake venom, which was already rushing towards Jiang Cheng's brain along his spinal nerves.
At the critical moment, the bronze coffin in the pavilion suddenly exploded!
Ying Zheng, who was approaching, was also instantly pushed back a bit by the blast and raised his hand to protect his eyes.
Amidst the overwhelming dragon's might, twelve golden chains pierced through the air, each chain ending in a still-rotating crimson dragon eye.
The moment the chains intertwined to form a cage, time and space seemed to be paused.
"I see." Ying Zheng looked into the coffin.
The white king mark between his brows flickered, and the violent energy emanating from the coffin instantly became as docile as a lamb.
“What you’re worshipping isn’t a dragon at all, how interesting!” Ying Zheng raised his hand and stroked his chin, teasingly.
A flash of red light appeared in his left eye, and it transformed back into a black spatial distortion vortex, disappearing from the spot...
A monster crawled out of the coffin, so eerie that it was impossible to look directly at it.
On its human-shaped body, two "dragon" heads were perched on its shoulders!
One is the head of a dragon from Eastern mythology, with deer antlers, rabbit eyes, ox ears, camel head, snake neck, and fish scales.
The other one is a typical Western evil dragon head, with a wolf's head, lizard eyes, ram's horns, and snake's neck.
Its left hand is a tiger's paw and an eagle's claw, while its right hand is a lizard's claw covered in bluish-gray scales.
It has a pair of black bat wings on its back.
A long, slender crocodile tail with barbs at the tip!
The carved wooden window was suddenly pushed slightly open from the inside.
Facing outwards, half of the withered tiger's paw and eagle's claw were exposed!
The three circles of jade beads wrapped around the curtains gleamed with a cold, eerie light under the moonlight, reflecting the four golden eyes!
The moment the bronze bell on the eaves of the pavilion shattered into dust, Ying Zheng, hiding in the shadows, smelled the decaying scent of time.
Jiang Cheng also smelled this scent!
It was a sweet, fishy smell mixed with houttuynia cordata and copper rust, much like the bronze city he had seen at the bottom of Poyang Lake when he was a child.
At that time, the white-haired elders of the Jiang family rowed their awning boats, with white lanterns at the bow illuminating the water thousands of feet below. Suddenly, the merman corpses entangled among the bronze branches opened their golden eyes, startling the entire body of water into a ghostly blue phosphorescence.
"The Great Void Mysterious Mirror." Jiang Cheng used his God-Slaying Whip to dip into the silvery-white blood between his eyebrows and drew the Nine Palaces and Eight Trigrams on the Purple Fire Alchemy Furnace.
The purple dragon tendons of the God-Slaying Whip trembled and emitted a dragon's roar!
At the handle of the whip, there are pairs of deformed golden eyes—the left pupil is filled with golden dragon patterns, while the right pupil is cracked into a Byzantine rose window.
The sound of chains snapping rang out abruptly!
Zhou Zhenyang suddenly let out a beast-like wail, and blood-red runes appeared on his dragon-scale-covered chest.
That was the character "饲" (sì), engraved in oracle bone script from the Shang Dynasty, and it was pounding wildly in sync with the rhythm of his brother's exploding heart.
At the same time, the clothes of all the Zhou family members in the courtyard burst open, and the same blood-red totem lit up on the chest of each of them.
"So it wasn't a blood sacrifice after all..." Jiang Cheng coughed up silvery-white blood, and the fragments of the God-Slaying Whip reformed into a bronze compass in his palm. "It's the Dragon-Feeding Curse! Your Zhou family actually dared to keep them captive..."
There was an ancient clan that raised dragons, and their ancestral book was called "The Dragon-Raising Incantation".
As soon as he finished speaking, the twelve golden chains suddenly contracted.
The dragon head in the east slowly turned, and the antlers cast fine, spiderweb-like shadows under the moonlight, enveloping the entire courtyard.
Hiding in the shadows, Ying Zheng, aided by the White King's Mark, clearly saw countless bronze snakes swimming in the shadows, each with a translucent thread tied to its tail—the thread of cause and effect, the most taboo "spindle of destiny" in alchemy!
The Western dragon head suddenly opened its blood-red maw, but instead of flames, it spewed out viscous black asphalt.
The asphalt turned into human shapes as soon as it hit the ground, and it was actually the appearance of Zhou Zhenyin, who had just exploded his heart!
At this moment, however, his entire body was covered in bronze patterns, half-meter-long bone spurs grew from his ten fingers, and a strange two-colored halo flowed in his golden eyes.
"Watch out!" Jiang Cheng flung out his compass, and purple flames lit up at the location of the Big Dipper. "These are living puppets, bound by the threads of fate..."
The sound of something cutting through the air interrupted his warning.
Zhou Zhenyin's bone spurs had pierced three inches into Jiang Cheng's throat, but they disintegrated inch by inch the moment they touched the God-Slaying Whip.
As Jiang Cheng gazed at the distorted human figure reflected in his pupils, he suddenly realized a terrifying truth—it was not a puppet at all, but the remnant consciousness of Zhou Zhenyin after his dragon transformation!
The nameless sword, controlled by Ying Zheng, is wielded with the power of "Word of Power: Sword Control," requiring no further explanation.
At the same time, under the blessing of "Word of Power: Moment", the end of the sword hilt seemed to drag a long afterimage.
Countless bronze snakes were severed, and the threads of the spindle of destiny stretched into a mournful arc on the blade...