The Hundred-Thousand Mountains were a land of rare beauty and natural splendor. No one knew how many demons lurked within them, but thirty-three Demon Kings were known by name.
Setting aside those formidable demons, there was a ravine not far from the Azure Corpse Daoist's mountain stronghold where a great python had grasped the mysteries of Creation and was about to become a Flood Dragon.
For scaled creatures like it, transforming into a dragon step by step was a proper path of cultivation, one handed down from the Wilderness Demon Gods since the Ancient Era and the Primordial Era.
Serpent demons had a broad and legitimate road to follow in this world: the path known as "Ascending as a Flood Dragon, Transforming into a Dragon."
This method had evolved from the Primordial Demon Gods' Primordial Unity Saint-Annihilating Dao. As the blood essence of countless dragon breeds spread, the method had long since been branded deep into their bloodlines.
After attaining the Reverted Elixir, a serpent would "ascend as a Flood Dragon," rising into the sky to draw in the vital energy of heaven and earth and transform its bloodline, purifying the Dragon Clan blood within it until it became a Flood Dragon.
Azure Flood Dragons, Red Chi Dragons, White Chi, Huang Teng, Black Coiled Dragons, and their like were all Flood Dragons.
At that stage, they were the equals of great demons who had attained Void Step.
Afterward, they would accumulate power and seek out a waterway leading straight to the sea. This was "Following the Waters to Transform into a Dragon." Once a Flood Dragon survived the tribulation of following the waters, it could take on a dragon's body and draw in the vital energy of heaven and earth at an even higher level.
This great python had already