Dragon Tamer - Chapter 979

Chapter 979: Chapter 983: Mountain and Sea World Chapter 979: Chapter 983: Mountain and Sea World “Bai Qi, wait a moment,” Zhu Minglang suddenly called out to the Moon Honoring, Star Responding White Dragon.

The White Dragon raised its wings, assuming the form of an emperor butterfly, and in the process of dashing through the sky, it came to an abrupt halt.

This meteor-chasing-the-moon speed came to an instantaneous pause, and the Moon Blessing White Dragon did not have the slightest inertia carrying it forward, nor did it stir up any disordered airflow; it simply stopped in place.

“Cai You, look at these trees. Don’t they resemble petrified trees?” Zhu Minglang asked, pointing to a group of tall, dark pines.

“Yes… Fossils, fossils, isn’t this due to the Fossil Eye of the Xuanlong!” Cai You exclaimed excitedly.

“Yes, those who captured it probably don’t know it possesses the Fossil Eye, but the Xuanlong used this power to immobilize me before; it knows that I would recognize these petrified trees–it’s asking me for help,” Zhu Minglang said with certainty.

“That’s wonderful, we can track down those dragon thieves following these petrified trees!” Cai You said.

Ancient Mountain was so vast that even a slight deviation in their pursuit could mean being tens of thousands of miles off the true target. The dragon thieves were very professional, leaving hardly any traces or scents along their path, which greatly increased the difficulty of tracking them. The Xuanlong fossilizing the trees it passed was like leaving marks along the way!

Continuing the pursuit westward, Zhu Minglang and Cai You soon came upon a second petrified forest.

However, this time the Xuanlong had fossilized a much smaller area of trees, indicating that its power was fading.

“Can we go any faster, Bai Qi?” Zhu Minglang asked.

“Yu~~~~”
The Moon Blessing White Dragon let out a long chant, it began to ascend and started flying toward the western moon.

The bright moonlight shone on the path of the Moon Blessing White Dragon’s flight, and suddenly, the White Dragon disappeared into the moonlight, as if it had traversed through a space-time rift, and when the Moon Blessing White Dragon appeared again, it had already reached another piece of land bathed in moonlight.

This instant spanned thousands of miles!

Zhu Minglang was also surprised, unsure how Bai Qi, who usually slept soundly every day, had managed to comprehend these powerful abilities.

The distance was significantly decreased, and even though the dragon thieves had a head start, it wouldn’t be long before they were caught.

The mountains began to proliferate, and the primeval forests gradually sank into the earth. Zhu Minglang searched for petrified objects amidst those continuous mountain ridges.

Finally, on the summit of a mountain, he saw a small patch of high mountain bamboo turn into fossils; they were on the right track, but it was evident the Xuanlong was running out of strength.

Zhu Minglang looked ahead and discovered not only continuous mountains but also a gray sea.

The seas were not interconnected; they swirled around the ancient high mountains, soaking the valleys, filling the spaces between the mountains.

Bai Qi rested for a while before taking off again, flying over the sea-surrounded mountains, only to find that the world beyond was made up of similar sea-surrounded mountains.

The sea-wrapped mountains stretched on endlessly, as if they had been that way for millions of years. Countless straits, bays, valleys, and lakes intertwined with winding mountain ranges, fairy islands, sacred isles, and giant reefs, forming a complex yet beautiful Mountain-Sea World, a landscape Zhu Minglang had never seen before, and it seemed to have no end…

In the beginning, there was fog, the Nothingness Fog.

The original sea was also gray, the Void Sea.

But as Zhu Minglang passed through this gray isolation zone, what unfolded before him was a colorful, magnificent mountain-sea landscape. Zhu Minglang was entirely unfamiliar with such a place, but he was certain it did not belong to Ancient Mountain, nor to the Tian Shu God Domain…
“We have left Ancient Mountain. This is a certain Star Frontier,” Cai You said.

Zhu Minglang nodded.

When leaving, Queen Xuan Wu had also mentioned that the Ancient Mountain they entered was connected to an unknown edge of a God Territory, so she had told Zhu Minglang to be mentally prepared.

Zhu Minglang had Bai Qi continue to fly, leaping over this desolate mountain-sea frontier, and finally saw a range of mountains tightly connected to each other, but surrounding this mountain range was an even more expansive sea and lakes.

Zhu Minglang used his Divine Sense to search and eventually detected the breath of people.

Directing Bai Qi to fly there, Zhu Minglang saw an island town, where the spiritual energy for cultivation was very sparse, probably just a group of ordinary island townsfolk.

Zhu Minglang had Bai Qi and Cai You search for clues in the air while he flew down to the island town to inquire about news.

…

Having entered the island town, Zhu Minglang concealed his God’s Light, walking through the town’s narrow streets like an ordinary traveler…
At the end of the street, there was an old man selling oil.

His oil was very fragrant, so fragrant that Zhu Minglang found the scent somewhat familiar; he had smelled something similar when inspecting those abandoned mechanisms and heavy machinery.

“Old man, how have your fragrance oils been selling lately?” Zhu Minglang asked with a smile.

“Haha, young man, if you want to know something, just speak directly. I, as an old man, don’t like beating around the bush,” the old man said with a chuckle.

“It’s like this, while I was exploring on the other side of the mountain, I saw some mechanisms and heavy machinery that had been discarded. They were emitting the same scent as your fragrance oil. That made me wonder, can those mechanisms actually consume oil?” Zhu Minglang asked.

“What?? Wasting good stuff, such a waste! Those little beasts, actually using my fragrance oil to feed their mechanical puppets. Can’t those mechanisms consume tree oil? My fragrance oils are meant to be paired with delicious food!” The old man fumed.

“Who are they, these people?” Zhu Minglang followed up.

“Who else can they be? Apart from the Ancestor of Appliances, Mo Shou, in our Tian Yuan, who else can create those monsters that consume tree oil? We humans don’t have enough to eat, yet we have to share with those creatures… Sigh!” The old elder clearly felt very dissatisfied with this god of Tian Yuan.

“Can I ask, where does this Mo Shou live?” Zhu Minglang inquired.

“Heavenly Pavilion City, of course. What don’t you know, young man? Surely you must have come from another God Territory. I, as an old man, hear that nowadays people from the various God Territories are interacting with each other…” the old man said.

“I come from the Tianshu,” Zhu Minglang didn’t hide it, saying bluntly.

“Oh, oh, oh, around one or two months ago, several young men, distinctly well-dressed, came to buy oil from me. They took a very large amount and were generous with their spending. I sold quite a lot to them. They really were from Heavenly Pavilion City and they must be important figures like God’s People or God’s Descendants. You better not go looking for trouble with them,” the elder said.

“No worries, no worries, I was just curiously asking. Thank you, old man. I have a small fruit here that can prolong life, I’ll give it to you,” Zhu Minglang said.

“Then I, as an old man, won’t stand on ceremony.” The old man wasn’t shy and accepted the fruit.