Been Looking for You All Day. You Went Back to the City?

A Border Defense Force soldier quietly took out his phone and called Bai Zhan, who was still on his way.

"Major General Bai, we found him..."

Those were the first words Bai Zhan heard after meeting up with Zhang Daosheng and putting the call on speaker.

Zhang Daosheng and Bai Zhan stared at each other.

"You found him? Where?"

"On... a dragon's head..." The guard sounded close to tears.

A dragon! It was a dragon!

How were they supposed to fight a Mutant Beast like that?

"A dragon? Bullshit! Where would a dragon come from in broad daylight?!" Bai Zhan erupted.

The guard switched to a video call.

"Major General, I'm not lying! It really is a dragon..."

Zhang Daosheng and Bai Zhan were stunned. They stared at the huge wooden dragon coiled above the forest before them, its four limbs each bearing three claws.

It lowered its head, staring down at something they couldn't make out.

Zhang Daosheng's scalp prickled. How were they supposed to rescue him?

"What... Teacher, what do we do now?" Bai Zhan swallowed.

Judging by its enormous size, the dragon was no weakling. But since neither of them was there in person,

They couldn't tell where this dragon had come from. If it really was a Mutant Beast...

A dragon? A creature of legend like that had to be at least in the Blazing Sun Realm, right?

And the kid was standing on its head.

"Whether it's a True Dragon or not... Ye Chen cannot die!"

Hidden in the shadows, Xu Shen laughed wildly. "Looks like I won't have to lift a finger. But that dragon... it would suit the Beast God Cult perfectly. If I caught one to serve as my guardian beast..."

An idea struck Xu Shen. If he reported the dragon to the Beast God Cult's headquarters, he was certain to rise through the ranks.

Becoming a black-robed envoy would be easy. He might even make it to the higher rank of red-robed envoy.

He snapped a few photos, then hurried out of Zanghai City and headed straight for the Beast God Cult's branch.

He wasn't foolish enough to report it to Zhou Zixuan. If he did, Zhou Zixuan would take all the credit.

Ye Chen looked at the Wood Dragon he had created beneath his feet and couldn't help feeling pleased.

"Good. At least the Wood Dragon I made isn't as ugly as the one Big Dummy made..."

To be fair, he couldn't blame the guy. It was a cultural difference.

The shape produced by a ninjutsu technique was, after all, a rough image from the user's mind.

It wasn't as though a particular set of hand signs could only produce one fixed technique. Otherwise, creating ninjutsu wouldn't be called creation. It would be called "discovering new ninjutsu."

Ye Chen gathered spiritual energy beneath his feet and stood firmly on the Wood Dragon's head. He waved a hand. "Go, Wood Dragon! Kill that little kitty for me!"

The Windchaser Leopard was on the verge of tears. Why go this far? It was just one little Windchaser Leopard...

It was so terrified it gave up resisting.

The Wood Dragon plunged straight down and struck with a claw.

It caught the Windchaser Leopard in its talons, then squeezed.

The Windchaser Leopard's blood sprayed everywhere.

Level-six demonic beast Windchaser Leopard killed. Points +60.

The Border Defense Force watched in disbelief.

Zhang Daosheng and Bai Zhan, watching the video, were stunned too.

A level-six Mutant Beast? Crushed to death, just like that?

Granted, both of them were at the peak of the Sea-Overturning Realm. Killing a level-six exotic beast would have been easy for them too...

With that done, Ye Chen guided the Wood Dragon deeper into the mountains.

"Major General Bai... Ye Chen's been taken away. Should we... keep following him?"

Bai Zhan took a deep breath. "Go back. Leave the rest to me."

He glanced at Zhang Daosheng beside him and nodded.

Then the two headed into the Lianhai Mountains.

Riding the Wood Dragon and racking up points along the way, Ye Chen couldn't stop grinning.

This was a fucking massacre. Who needed any other ninjutsu?

Wood Stockade Wall? Completely unnecessary!

"I was thinking too small. Yamato, you really are a scrub. Thousand Hands Big Dummy's ninjutsu is the best!"

Ye Chen checked the Spiritual Power in his body. Casting the Wood Dragon Technique had used up all the senjutsu energy he'd stored earlier.

The Wood Dragon now relied on its own Spiritual Power to remain active. Luckily, the Wood Dragon Technique worked just as it had in the original story.

As long as it made contact with an enemy, it could drain the enemy's Spiritual Power to sustain itself.

That was one reason Ye Chen kept killing beasts as he traveled.

Otherwise, once his chakra ran low, he would have no choice but to dismiss the Wood Dragon.

He checked his gains for the day. Mutant Beast corpses were worth plenty, but unfortunately, the Wood Dragon had crushed them all.

Besides, he had no way to bring the bodies back. His Spatial Ring couldn't hold that many.

But his points... had climbed past seven thousand.

Ye Chen looked toward the sun, which was about to set. The forest was even more dangerous at night.

Exotic beasts in the Mountain-Moving Realm or even the Sea-Overturning Realm might appear.

Whether the Wood Dragon could handle them... that was another question.

With that in mind, Ye Chen steered the Wood Dragon back the way he had come.

Several kilometers from the city gate, he dismissed the Wood Dragon Technique and strolled through the gate.

The guard on duty stared at Ye Chen, eyes wide and mouth hanging open.

"You... made it back alive?"

He had heard that a dragon had carried this kid off!

"Yeah, I'm back. Is there a problem?" Ye Chen looked puzzled.

He still didn't know that most people had already heard about him standing on the Wood Dragon.

"No... Go on in. Just don't wander off like that again..."

Ye Chen was speechless. Seriously, are you some long-lost relative of mine?

I'm not used to you suddenly caring so much.

"Oh. Well, I'm off."

After Ye Chen left, the guard made another call to the same number.

Meanwhile, Bai Zhan and Zhang Daosheng were frantic. They had been searching for hours without finding a trace of Ye Chen.

Just then, Bai Zhan's phone rang.

"Speak!" Bai Zhan snapped, the veins on his forehead bulging.

"Ye Chen went back to the city..."

Bai Zhan jolted. "What?! Are you sure?!"

"What is it?" Zhang Daosheng frowned. Finding Ye Chen was the priority. What could possibly make Bai Zhan react like that?

Bai Zhan broke into a grin. "Ye Chen's back in the city!"

"What?! Are you sure?!"

The two men had reacted in exactly the same way...

After confirming it several times, Zhang Daosheng finally breathed a sigh of relief. "That kid... he's got luck on his side."

They exchanged smiles. At last, they could go back and get some proper rest.

But they would have to report what had happened today—that dragon-like Mutant Beast...

to someone higher up.

Back at home, Ye Chen opened the Points Draw.

He rubbed his hands together. "System! I want to draw!"

"Mm."

"??? What do you mean, 'mm'? That's your reaction?" Ye Chen was thoroughly disappointed.

The system chose to ignore him, and Ye Chen fell silent too.

Looking at his 7,380 points, Ye Chen excitedly spent a hundred on a single draw!

One draw is all it takes for a miracle. I've always believed that!