“Not good! The formation has been activated!” Jiang Yong immediately ran towards where the exit was originally located, but a spatial rift instantly flashed at his side, swallowing half of his coat.



Jiang Yong just wanted to call Su Yuan for help, but once he turned around, he saw Su Yuan frozen in place, staring straight at Jiang Qian’s corpse with an extremely horrible expression.

“Why are you still frozen there? Daoist Su Yuan, this is a critical moment we have to……” Jiang Yong’s words have not finished when he saw Su Yuan step stiffly towards Jiang Qian’s corpse. He stretched out his hand and took out the magic weapon that fell out of Jiang Qian’s space.

Jiang Yong saw what he was holding and immediately explained, “Fellow Daoist Su, this is just a magic weapon that Jiang Qian got by chance!”

But Su Yuan clearly ignored him. Instead, he chanted a spell to himself and then forced out a drop of his own blood to Jiang Qian’s corpse. All of a sudden, a red aura flashed out, and Su Yuan’s eyes immediately reddened.

Revenge? Revenge! This enemy was right next to him, but he was blind and could not see the truth at all!

Jiang Yong took a look at Su Yuan’s expression and has already used a magic spell to disappear. In this crisis-ridden formation, if there is still an enemy after him, the situation will be very bad.

With the opening of the Hidden Cloud Valley, outside cultivators scrambled to enter. After the last person above the Nascent Soul stage entered the Hidden Cloud Valley, the entrance to the Hidden Cloud Valley was closed off. At this time, the formation was activated, and both Foundation Establishment cultivators and the great powers at the Tribulation stage were firmly locked in the cage of the Hidden Cloud Valley. Even the token issued by the Sacred Dao Sect was disabled.

On the other side, after bathing, Qing Yun walked out of the inner room. Without any kindness, he stepped on the man who was lying on the ground and turned into a sword, pretending to be dead.

He changed into a new outer robe, with the collar slightly open, coupled with his loose dark hair, making people feel that the coldness in his body has dissipated a little, revealing a bit of warmth instead.

“Cen~” Ming Yan let out a sword chant, which was obviously an undifferentiated metallic sound, but Qing Yun heard the man’s pitiful begging voice from it.

“Get lost.” Qing Yun reprimanded him. Then, with a wave of his sleeve, the wall completely presented the entire scene of the Hidden Cloud Valley, whether it was the juniors struggling with those formations at the periphery or the great powers who had already entered the interior of the Hidden Cloud Valley frantically searching for items with Qing Yun’s aura.

As the internal formation has been activated, many people have long fallen under the formation.

Glancing at the figure of the woman covering her abdomen, Qing Yun subconsciously zoomed in on the scene over there.

He remembered that when he was traveling outside, he came across a woman who had placed her already-born baby in her Dantian to nurture it and went through a lot of trouble to find the medicine that could save her child.

Qing Yun’s medical skills were outstanding. At that time, he did not know whether it was the woman’s eyes that touched him or the dying child in her Dantian that made Qing Yun think of himself, so Qing Yun personally stepped in to save the baby with the secret method of letting it die before it could live.

The woman was unexpectedly the daughter of the head of the Su family, who was later exterminated. Although Qing Yun saved the baby, because of the secret method used, it was equivalent to taking the child’s life on his hands, which happened to be detected by the inherited magic of the Su family. Therefore, he carried the blame for the extermination of the Su family.

Thinking of this, the corner of Qing Yun’s mouth showed a touch of self-deprecation. He did not expect that the kindness he could not easily give out would cause trouble for himself.

Completely unaware that her every move was being clearly watched, Hong Yan got into an argument with her husband, Chang Ling.

“What are you saying? Now that we’ve reached this place, the medicine garden of the Hidden Cloud Valley is ahead of us. How can I possibly go back at this time!” Hong Yan gritted her teeth and looked ahead. Her arm holding the magic weapon was already revealing its white bones, while the other hand was in a protective posture, carefully shielding the baby in her Dantian.



“Hong Yan, be sensible. This space is extremely dangerous. If it wasn’t for me just now, you would have been swallowed by the spatial rift! We should just head back.” Chang Ling shook Hong Yan’s shoulders, “And this is just a newborn, it may not have even opened its spiritual wisdom since it has no connection with us……”

“Shut up!” Hong Yan hissed almost hysterically. Her expression now was completely devoid of the look she had in front of outsiders, but rather the toughness that belonged to a mother.

“This is my child. How can I give him up!” Hong Yan gasped and took one step forward. The child’s vitality in her Dantian was already extremely weak, but even if there was only a glimmer of hope, Hong Yan would not give up.

She turned her head with a sarcastic smile and looked at Chang Ling, “Go back? I think you want to go back to find that sword, right?”

When the sound of Jiang Qian’s alarm came from the sword room next door, the man who seemed to be looking for medicine rushed over almost instantly. If not for the fact that the medicine room and sword room were separated by a formation, this man would have been out of her side.

Hong Yan’s eyes were half cold and half soft, but ultimately presented at the most extreme firmness: “You go by yourself. I will save my child myself.”

She walked step by step towards the medicinal garden in front of her. She had already found the prescription that could save her child. It was enough as long as she could find that one special herb in the medicinal garden……

Chang Ling was silent behind Hong Yan for a long time but eventually looked at the spatial cracks that suddenly appeared on the passage and turned around to leave.

Hong Yan slowly walked forward. She was already in a mess, but kept gently caressing her abdomen. After walking in the passage for a while longer, Hong Yan found that the spatial cracks around her had slowly become thinner, and the passage began to brighten.

Just when Hong Yan thought she was about to find the location of the medicine garden, she ran into a wall in front of her. This wall was not only blocking Hong Yan’s path but also her hope.

“This is a dead-end? Impossible!” Hong Yan, who had insisted on walking all the way here, sat down on the ground in dismay, pounding hysterically on that wall.

“There’s a way, there’s a way, just open the path!”

She used all her strength and even took out all the magic weapons she had accumulated in half her life to smash the barrier in front of her. However, on her way to avoid the spatial rift, she had already used up all her spiritual energy. Now, the spiritual energy she had left could only be used to sustain the life of the baby in her Dantian.

Hong Yan leaned against the wall, looking blankly at the way she came from, as if thinking about whether her efforts were worth it.

But in the next second, sensing the child’s life fluctuation, Hong Yan still gritted her teeth and stood up, once again resolutely looking for other entrances. She could not give up. As a mother, she must not give up.

Just then, Hong Yan, who was almost desperate, heard a voice: “This medicine can save your child.”

With this voice, a jade bottle rolled towards her. At this moment, all of HongYan’s mind was focused on the jade bottle, and not even the defensiveness that comes with discovering the presence of a stranger rose.

After discovering that the medicine inside this jade bottle was exactly the medicine she was looking for, and it was still of an extremely high grade. Hong Yan sat down on the ground as if she had used up all her strength.

She looked up in the direction the jade bottle rolled from, only to see a blurred white figure behind the barrier in front of her. The figure was upright and elegant and seemed to be like the man her mother had told her about back then.



In an instant, the story that she had heard countless times in her childhood resounded in Hong Yan’s mind once again.

“Benefactor, stay!” Hong Yan pounced on the wall and called out, “May I ask if you are Venerable Qing Yun?”

The white-clothed figure did not linger and seemed about to dissipate. Hong Yan could not care about anything else. She knelt on the ground and untied the red ribbon around her neck, on which a fatal wound appeared.

“May I ask if senior used the life-saving method to save a baby girl who was about to die?” Seeing that the white-clothed figure paused, Hong Yan immediately understood the identity of this person. She directly knelt on the ground and kowtowed, “Thank you for senior’s kindness in saving my life back then. My mother left a message before she died, saying that she must tell senior: ‘The kindness of saving my daughter is unforgettable, but I am unable to turn the situation around, and I can only use my death to express my gratitude and apologies.\'”

“My mother spent her life running around to clarify the matter of the extermination of the Su family back then, and eventually died in the Sacred Dao Sect. I, Hong Yan, swear to follow my mother’s orders henceforth and will clarify the rumors about senior!”

Hearing her words, the figure did not respond at all. But on the side of Hong Yan, a bright passage slowly appeared, leading directly to the outer edge of the Hidden Cloud Valley.

Hong Yan once again looked up where the figure disappeared and kowtowed again before standing up and walking out along the passage.

Qing Yun silently watched Hong Yan leave. Ming Yan had appeared behind him at some point, looking at him with a smile in his eyes.

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He knew that his treasure was so dazzling that someone would eventually be able to discover his beauty, even with the layers of Heavenly Dao in the way.

At this time, because of the opening of the formation in the Hidden Cloud Valley, the disciples of various sects in the Hidden Cloud Valley have gathered around.

As soon as Hong Yan came out of the passage, she received questions from the disciples of the Persian Silk Tree Sect and the rest of the Nascent Soul stage cultivators: “Hong Yan came out of the sword room, did she get anything? Has that devil Qing Yun really come back to life?”

“Shut your dog mouth!” Hong Yan lashed a whip towards the one who asked, “How can you call the name of the venerable one?”

She now no longer hide cultivation and has broken through into the Tribulation period in the passage.

Hong Yan looked up, saw that Su Yuan also came out from the formation, and called out, “Uncle, I’ll call you uncle again. The words of my mother back then are true, the family tragedy has nothing to do with Qing Yun. The bloodline reaction in his body is the result of saving me back then.”

Su Yuan’s face was extremely ugly, but after hearing Hong Yan’s words, he nodded, “I believe it.”

As he said that, a man’s head rolled from his robe, hit the ground with a “bang” in the dust. It was Jiang Yong’s head.

“Jiang Yong and Jiang Qian have set up a big formation to destroy my Su family back then. I already know the truth through the secret method of soul search. There are shadows of the Sacred Daoist Sect everywhere after this matter, so I, Su Yuan, now announce that I will leave the Sacred Dao Sect.” Su Yuan said in a deep voice.

As one of the few powerful people in the world at the Tribulation stage, his words are extremely credible. It instantly made the disciples of the various sects on the periphery look at each other, completely unable to figure out how the case of the extermination of the Su family back then was suddenly reversed now.

Those young cultivators of the Su family who had said on the way that they would seek revenge against Qing Yun were even more bewildered.



Hong Yan laughed miserably: “My mother died in the Sacred Dao Sect. Now, here are my words, we will find out what the Sacred Dao Sect has to do with the destruction of my family. If anything happens to my uncle and me during this period, the Sacred Dao Sect will be the first to suffer. If your Sacred Dao Sect is shameless, then you can make a move on my Su family’s surviving members!”

Hong Yan and Su Yuan’s words pointed directly at the Sacred Dao Sect. The Sacred Dao Sect had suffered a great loss this time. They sent three strong people at the Tribulation stage, but two of them died and one left.

Now that the truth about the extermination of the family back then has been revealed, the remaining Su family members were exceptionally united. The Qing family, who had entered the Hidden Cloud Valley together, began to mutter at the sight.

“Tch, now that it is clear, our Qing family won’t be dragged into trouble, will it?”

“The blame is on the Qing family for producing a Qing Yun that brings our family into trouble for nothing……”

“Shut up!” At this moment, a teenage boy’s voice sounded. It was youthful and slightly majestic and stopped the gossiping of these people.

Qing Chen stepped forward and scanned over those Qing family’s descendants: “Back then, Qing Yun has long drawn his root bone, and also exhausted our Qing family’s bloodline, he has nothing to do with our Qing family, so how could he drag us down?”

Once these words came out, these young and vigorous disciples of various sects were all shocked. Drew their own root bone? How cruel was he to himself to do this?

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Yuzu: Hi! Sorry for the late upload, I’m just really busy right now with school. I also forgot to mention this last update but I have a new translation project I’m doing with Icecherry, and I hope you can check it out. ʕ ꈍᴥꈍʔ

The novel is called After the Abyssal Dragon Awakens

Shi An is the last Abyssal Dragon in the world.

Since he was too bored, he hugged his treasure and pleasantly fell into a deep sleep.

Fifty thousand years later, Shi An opened his eyes contentedly.

—— only to find himself transformed into a weak human form with short hands and feet.

He looked down at his inexplicably shrunken body and then looked up around his empty cave:

“……”

Where is my mighty and majestic body? Where’s my big tail?

And most importantly——where is my treasure??!!!



After tens of thousands of years of hard work, one sleep brought him back before liberation.*1

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In 2202, the conflict between humans and monsters has become more and more intense.

Although the monster camp is strong, the fantasy species that used to roam the continent have disappeared.

Shi An, the youngest son of the Shi family, is a well-known 0-magic power person of the Ability Academy.

The new semester started with the magic power re-test.

Shi An looked at the three testers that exploded in front of him with an innocent face:

“Eh? Are they not of good quality?”

During the practical training, the low-grade monsters fled before Shi An got close.

Shi An watched their backs with a pure expression as they took off:

“Yay, what good luck.”

Everyone: ……?

I must be dreaming.

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Mu Heng, the only one remaining of the noble dragon slayer bloodline, is the most powerful person.

“Dragon? Extinction is the best place for them to go.” He said coldly and arrogantly.

After a long time——

Mu Heng turned his head to look at the dragon cub lying behind him in the treasure pile, withdrew his gaze, and slowly said:

“Are there any more missions lately? One that pays well.”

Extinction is impossible. It is only possible to earn even more money to support the family so that he will not be kicked out of bed at night.