Five Loaches in One Hand

"What?" Still immersed in grief, Jiang Wen glanced at the Flood Dragon within the Jiang Family territory.

His brows had even relaxed blankly from excessive shock as he hesitated before asking again, "The Jiang Family can't even deal with a mere Great Sage now?"

After receiving the old man's affirmative answer, his expression turned ugly.

He shot another fierce glare at the old man standing respectfully before him like a grandson. Looking at the token hanging at his waist, Jiang Wen frowned again and barely held back a curse:

"Damn it, what era is this? Even someone at Immortal Platform First Heaven can become a Jiang Family elder now!"

"Where is the current family head? What cultivation does he have, that you had to wake me up over a mere Great Sage-level loach?"

Jiang Wen's face was stern. For someone whose lifespan was nearly exhausted, every time he emerged from his Divine Source seal after being awakened meant his remaining life would drain away even faster.

He cursed, "What a bunch of useless fools! Even if the family head were only at the Four Extremes realm, with the incomplete Imperial Formation protecting the Jiang Family territory, how could you possibly let a mere Great Sage-level demon enter?"

Then he could no longer be bothered to lecture these useless descendants. If he did not act soon, the Flood Dragon outside would cause casualties.

With a sigh of disappointment, he extended his massive hand outward.

In an instant, light burst from that wrinkled, withered palm. It was the faint circulation of Divine Power within his body.

Dense divine markings of Dao principles coiled around his arm, transforming the old man's shriveled hand into a golden canopy that covered the sky.

Viewed from space above Beidou, one could see a powerful golden arm whose palm alone spanned over ten thousand kilometers—large enough to hold a planet like Earth in its grasp. Like pinching an earthworm, two fingers clamped down on the enormous Flood Dragon, over a thousand kilometers long, holding it utterly motionless.

The atmosphere spanning hundreds of thousands of kilometers was simply ignored. As the immense arm, moving at over fifty percent the speed of light, extended into the sky, it casually suppressed the devastating shockwaves that should have erupted through the atmosphere.

Upon Beidou, an Ancient Life Star so enormous that it spanned dozens of solar diameters and was terrifying beyond imagination—

More than half of the Northern Region, including countless mortal kingdoms, sects, and clans, could see the horrifying golden canopy that occupied the entire sky.

Across innumerable mortal dynasties, wars immediately ceased. Countless mortals dropped to their knees and kowtowed toward this miracle in the heavens.

The cultivators of the Northern Region also stared in shock at the giant hand extending from the Jiang Family territory, discussing it among themselves.

An ancient relic who had been unsealed from Divine Source murmured, "What is happening? Ever since the unrest in the restricted zones of life a few days ago, has the Jiang Family also activated its reserves?"

An elder from another Great Emperor clan frowned deeply. "The Great Emperor Hengyu once quelled the Dark Turmoil, and the Jiang Family Imperial Son had long since died while suppressing the Dark Turmoil. This time, are they awakening their reserves again to face the Dark Turmoil, preparing to blood-sacrifice their Emperor Weapon at any moment?"

"If the Jiang Family's Quasi-Emperor cultivators have sufficiently pure bloodlines, then after blood-sacrificing the Emperor Weapon, they should already be able to contend with Supremes for a short while, shouldn't they?"

There were also experts from the restricted zones of life who cast a disdainful glance over and snorted. "Just old blood-food about to crumble into dust."

Awooo...

The dragon's roar, already savage and agonized from its injuries, instantly turned into a dying wail under the crushing force of the huge hand.

Pitch-black dragon blood containing incomparably dense yin baleful energy was squeezed out through the gaps between the fingers, erupting downward from the sky like an overturned tsunami.

If left unchecked, every drop of this Great Sage-level Flood Dragon blood, enough to pierce through stars, falling to the ground would likely leave millions of kilometers of the Northern Region barren, exterminating all life and forming an underground yin baleful Sea of Blood that stretched for tens of thousands of kilometers.

"Hm?" As he drew his hand back, Jiang Wen, its owner, sensed the results of his Divine Sense scan and let out a surprised cry.

"It isn't a manifestation, but its physical body? And this cold Flood Dragon... has actually never cultivated?!"

The results of the Divine Sense scan made him realize in utter disbelief that this Flood Dragon attacking the Jiang Family territory did not possess even the slightest trace of cultivation within its body!

It had not opened the five great cultivation Secret Realms of the Sea of Wheels, Dao Palace, Four Extremes, Transforming Dragon, and Immortal Platform. Neither did it bear any trace of the minor cultivation systems circulating among the stars.

This cold Flood Dragon's body was pure and flawless. Relying solely on its vigorous blood and vitality, along with the innate yin baleful power of its cold Flood Dragon lineage, it had reached the terrifying Great Sage level!

One had to know that within these Nine Heavens and Ten Lands, all the billions of living beings needed cultivation to surpass their limits and become stronger.

Having traveled the stars for over a thousand years in his youth, Jiang Wen possessed extraordinary knowledge. He knew that some special innate bloodlines existed in the depths of the starry sky.

Those savage beasts and special lifeforms could become terrifyingly strong simply by constantly feeding and naturally reaching adulthood, even if they had never cultivated for a single day.

For example, Star Devourers existed in the starry sky, using blazing suns as their nests. Their population was extremely sparse, and they were said to be extinct, but once they reached adulthood, even the weakest among them would attain Saint King level.

However, only through cultivation and continuously developing the five great Secret Realms could one break the limits of one's bloodline and exceed its innate boundaries.

Yet if one could reach Great Sage level merely through the physical body and Primordial Spirit granted by an innate bloodline without ever cultivating, such talent was simply monstrous beyond belief!

Moreover, this Flood Dragon's blood and vitality as well as its soul were far too pure!

Pure enough...

That it was like a hatchling that had only just broken out of its eggshell!

"It has reached Great Sage level without cultivation. If it cultivated even slightly, wouldn't that be extraordinary?"

"With such a pure bloodline, it is practically comparable to a True Dragon, isn't it?"

Realizing what he had caught, the giant hand suddenly became gentle. Jiang Wen hurriedly circulated a secret technique to heal the cold Flood Dragon on the verge of death and gathered back all the blood scattered across the sky.

He had only managed to awaken once, yet he still needed to prepare for the crises ahead. Jiang Wen likely did not have much longer to live.

Already old, he could not continue breaking through to extend his lifespan without some heaven-defying opportunity. He needed to think more about the Jiang Family's descendants.

Jiang Wen planned to imprison this Flood Dragon with its incomparably pure bloodline and extract its Essence Blood, seeing whether he could refine it into pills to thoroughly temper the foundations of the Jiang Family's new generation of geniuses. At least then, this awakening would not have been wasted.

Even if a demon race expert came seeking this peerless genius with its extremely pure bloodline that had never cultivated, he would have to squeeze them for a good price.

Was that the end?

Not even close.

In Minecraft, the Monster Spawner mechanic activated when a player came within sixteen blocks of it.

By default, it attempted to spawn a batch of monsters approximately every ten to forty seconds, spawning up to four at a time. If a total of six monsters already existed within its spawning range, it stopped spawning.

Just as Jiang Wen's giant hand withdrew, Fang Zheng had only just reacted to how the sky had suddenly flashed bright and dark. He was still wondering what kind of super monster the scales within the dark clouds overhead belonged to—

After the ten-second cooldown since the first spawn had passed, the Monster Spawner began spawning monsters again.

Only, there had been just one before. This time, it spawned the maximum number of monsters possible in a single cycle—four!