Blew Up One or Two, No Difference

Meanwhile.

On the other side of the peak of Crane Mountain, an elder clad in blue robes sat quietly meditating in a chair, eyes closed, surrounded by the power of lightning.

What shocked Duan Yu was that the terrifying power of lightning was actually coursing through the house toward Crane Mountain.

"Little Ye, he hasn't discovered us, has he?" Duan Yu asked uneasily.

"Discovered my foot."

Seven-Leaf Spatial Orchid retorted irritably, "Unless a powerhouse at the Title Douluo level appears here, don't even think about getting a chance to find us."

"You brat are such a coward, just a single bolt of lightning patrolling and it scared you like this?"

Hearing this, Duan Yu also realized he had made a fuss over nothing, and sheepishly said, "I was just worried about suddenly being discovered."

With the guarantee of Seven-Leaf Spatial Orchid, Duan Yu no longer took the crackling, putting-on-airs lightning flashing above seriously.

Duan Yu released his martial soul, and the Spatial Dragon King manifested behind him, accelerating the severing of the power of space.

Little by little, dragon aura was slowly severed, yet it failed to alert the other party.

Even with one hundred thousand years of cultivation, Seven-Leaf Spatial Orchid had never seen Duan Yu's severing method, and couldn't help praising him:

"Kid, not bad. Anyone can tell this isn't your first time doing this sort of thing, experienced and seasoned."

"Of course. When I was snatching things, you were still stuck in the mud pile."

On Crane Mountain, Duan Yu climbed the stairs step by step, accelerating the severing of the power of space.

In about half an hour, the dragon aura inside Crane Mountain was stolen away by Duan Yu.

Only the top of Crane Mountain, which concealed the dragon bone fragments, still contained dragon aura.

"Kid, have you decided?"

Seven-Leaf Spatial Orchid glanced at Duan Yu and asked, "Once we make a move here, the commotion caused definitely won't be concealable."

"Of course. If it can't be concealed, we won't conceal it, and we'll just frame Spirit Hall when the time comes."

As his words fell, Duan Yu's four soul rings collided and fused with one another, wisps of spatial power emerging from the void and manifesting the phantom of the Dragon King.

Accompanied by a clear and soaring dragon cry, the Spatial Dragon King flew toward Duan Yu, transforming into a long sword grasped in his hand.

Duan Yu took the long sword, glanced at Seven-Leaf Spatial Orchid, and the silver light on the sword in his hand burst forth with vastly increased might, directly slashing toward those final dragon bone fragments at the top of Crane Mountain.

The instant the long sword swept past, under the amplification of Seven-Leaf Spatial Orchid, the sword Qi surged like a rainbow straight into the sky, and countless forces of space were instantly detonated at that moment.

With a bang, Crane Mountain instantly blew apart.

After emerging from within, the dragon bone fragment was about to fly directly toward Yu Yuanzhen, but upon sensing the True Dragon Bloodline that compelled it to submit, it flew back instead, landing in Duan Yu's hand.

"Kid, run quickly, I can sense that person from True Dragon Mountain has rushed over too."

Hearing the reminder from Seven-Leaf Spatial Orchid, Duan Yu didn't hesitate at all; spatial ripples appeared all around him, and a flash of silver light vanished right where he stood.

The moment Duan Yu vanished from the spot, the next instant, a blue-robed figure appeared, instantly arriving at Crane Mountain.

Then a ninety-fifth-rank soul power erupted abruptly, slamming down with an unreserved palm strike. With a bang, dust filled the air and broken stones covered the ground, making the already-destroyed Crane Mountain even more tattered.

Under this palm strike, not only Duan Yu, but even a radius of a hundred miles around Crane Mountain was affected by this lingering might.

Yet inside Crane Mountain, aside from a single leaf of Seven-Star Spatial Orchid, nothing else was left behind.

Yu Yuanzhen looked at the fallen leaf on the ground, his expression unspeakably gloomy.

Spatial laws came to him as easily as turning a hand, and the only person capable of escaping right under his nose—barring Bone Douluo Gu Rong of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect—he couldn't think of a second.

Yet his Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect and the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect kept to their own wells and rivers; logically speaking, the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect had no reason to make a move against them.

Inside Crane Mountain, the palm strike Yu Yuanzhen had just landed instantly helped the lord of Crane Mountain break free from the spatial barrier Duan Yu had set up.

The lord of Crane Mountain hurried over in a rush, and before he even reacted, he locked gazes with the dark-faced Yu Yuanzhen.

Yu Yuanzhen looked at Crane Mountain, blown to smithereens and littered with rocks, his face carrying an unspeakable gloom.

As a mountain lord, he hadn't even known when an outsider snuck in; he really was growing more incompetent by the day.

Yu Yuanzhen glared at the lord of Crane Mountain, venting all his anger upon him as the pressure of a ninety-fifth-rank Title Douluo bore down upon him.

"That was close."

A few breaths later, in a secluded spot on another peak.

Duan Yu's figure appeared out of thin air, and with a lingering fear on his face, he said, "That nearly scared me to death just now."

Just a fraction more, and Yu Yuanzhen would have locked onto his aura and blasted him dead with a single palm strike.

His current strength simply couldn't withstand a full-force strike from an enraged Title Douluo.

Within the sea of consciousness, Seven-Leaf Spatial Orchid looked at the rather meager amount of dragon aura and said indifferently, "That's about it."

"There's not much dragon aura either, and the dragon bone fragment is just so-so. I really don't know what that old thing was agonizing over just now."

Duan Yu: "..."

Even more piercing than him; if Yu Yuanzhen heard him say this, wouldn't he slap this brat to death?

Yet Duan Yu looked at the glowing dragon bone fragment before him and fell into thought.

Aside from containing a trace of dragon aura and a dragon soul within, there was nothing different about it. Could it be that all nine dragon bone fragments needed to fuse together to be useful?

The more he thought, the more his head ached, so Duan Yu simply found a secluded spot, knocked out a passerby on the roadside, and went to sleep himself.

When he woke up the next morning, Duan Yu kept his expression unperturbed as he disguised himself to look like the disciple he had knocked out last night, pretending smoothly as he blended into the main force.

"Did you hear? Just last night, Crane Mountain was burglarized."

"Burglarized? How is that possible? Who has a death wish and dares to come steal things from us?"

"Why would I lie to you? This is what a friend of mine over at Crane Mountain told me last night. I heard the thief blew Crane Mountain into nothingness just to steal things."

"What?! Blew Crane Mountain into nothingness? Did Sect Master catch the culprit then?"

"I heard the scoundrel got away, so they're searching the whole sect right now."

Overnight, everyone up and down the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect learned of the stolen goods and the destruction of Crane Mountain.

Even within the troop Duan Yu had infiltrated, people were whispering among themselves.

With the items in hand, what remained was none of Duan Yu's concern; the only thing on his mind right now was how to also get his hands on the remaining dragon bone fragments.

Following yesterday's commotion, the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect would definitely step up patrols from here on out, and it would likely be rather difficult to make a move.

"Kid."

Seven-Leaf Spatial Orchid in the sea of consciousness looked at Duan Yu, who had fallen deep into thought, and asked incomprehensibly, "Why aren't you hurrying away right now? What excitement are you trying to join in here?"

"What's wrong with joining the excitement? If I don't join in on a bit more excitement, how am I supposed to get intelligence?"

Duan Yu said flatly, "Besides, it's already blown up anyway. Since we've already offended them to death, blowing up one or two doesn't make any difference."