507 Hunting the Venerable Subduing Dragon King

Venerable Subduing Dragon King was a peerless demon of the Abyssal Realm. In the farthest west of the Great Xiye Kingdom and across the Hanxia Grassland, he was a renowned figure, a "dragon king" known to all within the Great Xiye Kingdom—a divine being called the Lord of Thousand Mountains.

Yet ordinary mortals knew nothing of Venerable Subduing Dragon King's true origins. The herdsmen of the Hanxia Grassland only passed down a legend: west of Muqing Sacred Mountain lay a vast mountain range, and at the far end of that range, beyond an uninhabited wilderness rarely touched by human feet, stood a solitary peak towering high above all else. Upon its summit dwelled a mountain god known as the Tangla Yaxiu Mountain God.

This mountain god's true form was a real dragon, an incarnation of the upper realm's Banantuo Dragon King. Its head stretched to Helujia City, where the Great Xiye Kingdom met the northern lands, while its tail rested upon the White Banner Sect Sacred Lake of the Hanxia Grassland. Its endless coiling body became an enormous mountain range.

In the scriptures passed down by the herdsmen, this "Lord of Thousand Mountains" was the offspring of the divine roc Dupan Xiuqu and a spirit serpent. Deep in the mountains, it built a demon city and had once brought calamity upon the region, though it would also occasionally manifest as a god and display divine miracles.

Quite a few local natives and herdsmen worshipped this Lord of Thousand Mountains, regarding its deeds as divine signs.

Some folk tales claimed that, while Great Master Aihui Lotus-Born—the foremost figure of the western Buddhist sects—was spreading the Dharma from west to north, Venerable Subduing Dragon King had attempted to block this eminent monk's path.

In the tales of herdsmen and believers, Venerable Subduing