Dark Currents (Bonus Chapter-Please Vote for Monthly Tickets)

A flash of escaping light, and a young man in brocade robes entered Black Water Pavilion.

This Nascent Soul Cultivator had a youthful face and a slightly short build. His eyes darted about, giving people the impression of a man who was shrewd yet carried a chill in his demeanor.

He wore a golden crown. For some reason, Fang Xi felt that he looked like "a monkey wearing a man's cap."

"Fellow Daoist Liu, I've come to patronize your business again. Is Fellow Daoist Qing Hezi here as well?"

The cultivator smiled and clasped his hands, then slapped his storage pouch, causing the corpse of a several-zhang-long giant salamander to flop onto the ground.

This giant salamander had horns growing from its head and sharp claws on its feet. It looked like a flood dragon, yet it was sealed inside a block of crystal-clear ice.

"Hm?"

Steward Liu's eyes immediately lit up. He examined it carefully. "This Dragon Salamander has at least nine hundred years of cultivation... What a pity, what a pity. It was only a hundred years away from truly transforming into a dragon."

"If it had truly transformed into a dragon, I wouldn't have been able to take it down either."

The young cultivator smiled smugly.

"Fellow Daoist Wang Qiao, you're too modest. With your Matter Transformation Art, even a Humanoid Transformation Great Yao would be easy pickings for you." Steward Liu chuckled.

This "Wang Qiao" came from a nearby Cultivation Family—the Wang Family!

Over a thousand years ago, the entire Wang Family had migrated to the Profound Nether Abyss. Who knew how many of its descendants had been buried in the Xuan Ming Heavy Water?

After generation upon generation pressed forward without fear of death, their fortune finally erupted. The current Wang Family Old Ancestor had