Zhang Chen heard Zhou Chuan’s question and shook his head, "I am not from the Zhang Family in Shangjing, just an ordinary citizen."
Upon hearing this, Zhou Chuan scrutinized Zhang Chen’s face carefully, then sighed with emotion, "Incredible! Truly incredible! To find such a True Dragon in an ordinary household is simply too amazing."
He then politely said, "Little brother, I’d like to discuss something with you. Since you can extract the essence of the Ba Snake’s flesh, could you spare me some, allowing me to use the Ba Snake’s flesh and blood to temper my muscles and cleanse my acupoints? Of course, I wouldn’t expect you to help for free. I’m willing to exchange my insights into Martial Dao and the technique involving the 565 acupoints calculated around my body. I know the acupoint technique might hold limited value for you since you don’t seem to follow the Martial Dao. Thus, I’m willing to promise you one thing, anything that doesn’t violate morality. As long as you ask, I will definitely help."
Zhou Chuan’s words were sincere, his eyes eagerly looking at Zhang Chen. After all, this was the blood of a Divine Object from the legendary tales of the ’Immortal Realm,’ which to him was extremely precious. This kind of Creation wasn’t something that Liu Feng, that mediocre Divine Spirit, could compare to.
Zhang Chen, upon hearing Zhou Chuan’s words, couldn’t help but smile lightly, "Sir, you speak too seriously. It’s merely a bit of the Ba Snake’s essence blood. This Ba Snake is thousands of miles long; I can’t absorb it all, so giving you some is just a small favor."
As he spoke, Zhang Chen activated the mouthparts of the Innate Mosquito, and the next moment saw them drawing a tube full of blood. Then, the mouthparts suddenly shrank to a size of ten centimeters. Zhang Chen raised his hand, the Innate Mosquito’s mouthparts withdrew, although the wound showed no blood flow. Now, the mouthparts stored a full tube of Ba Snake Blood. Zhang Chen then looked at Zhou Chuan, "Do you have a jade bottle?"
"No!" Zhou Chuan shook his head. Who would carry a jade bottle on them?
"Then how do you plan to store the Ba Snake Blood?" Zhang Chen asked.
"I’ll just apply it directly on myself. Using the Mysterious Techniques of the Martial Dao, I can absorb the essence of the Ba Snake Blood," Zhou Chuan replied.
"Then be ready," Zhang Chen advised, and then aimed the Innate Mosquito’s mouthparts at Zhou Chuan. The next moment, the blood poured out like a great basin of water, drenching Zhou Chuan completely.
Do not be fooled by the mouthparts being only ten centimeters; within them lies another world; after all, this is Innate Mosquito Blood, quite different from ordinary Magical Artifacts.
"Goodness! You’re really swift!" Zhou Chuan, soaked all over, was overjoyed but saw his skin vibrating at an incredible high frequency, and from the positions of the corresponding acupoints, a strong suction force emerged, drawing all the blood absorbed in completely.
Zhou Chuan cupped his hands in a salute to Zhang Chen, "Little brother, I need to retreat to digest this Creation. In future, if you wish to find me, just spread the word in any escort agency in the Martial World, and I will naturally come to find you. From today, you are my brother! Blood brother!"
With that, Zhou Chuan left with excitement, disappearing into the primeval forest, and the remnant soul of the Ba Snake glanced at Zhou Chuan’s departing figure but ultimately did not deliver a fatal strike. Zhou Chuan had swallowed the Ba Snake’s egg and become parasitized by it; henceforth, he was considered a member of the Ba Snake lineage, one of its descendants. Naturally, the Ba Snake spirit had no reason to kill him.
Zhang Chen saw Zhou Chuan leave and continued to absorb the Ba Snake essence, irritating the Ba Snake to circle angrily around Zhang Chen’s body, though it couldn’t harm him in the slightest.
Meanwhilst, as Zhang Chen’s physical body entered the Spiritual World First Heaven, in a courtyard in the Two Realms Mountain of the Earth Realm, a Big Black Dog suddenly twitched its nose, then lifted its head to gaze into the distance, eyes full of anger, baring its teeth, and roaring at the void, "You little ant, I’ve found your scent. This time, you can’t hide? Watch how I deal with you."
It had never suffered such humiliation!
That day, after awakening from a deep sleep, the Big Black Dog immediately sensed something was amiss. How did the stench of urine get on its own head?
The Big Black Dog sniffed the stench on its head and immediately retched. After all, it’s a dog, how sensitive its nose is! The stench almost made it gag.
Then the Big Black Dog was furious, its eyes scanned the room but saw no trace of Zhang Chen, quickly rushing out of the house, realizing something was wrong with the medicine garden - a herb was missing from the yard.
That herb, planted by its owner, had actually been stolen by a thief, how outrageous! Once the owner returns, wouldn’t that make it seem utterly incompetent? Look neglectful?
Especially not long after, it discovered the tag on its body was gone, and the Big Black Dog felt as if the sky had fallen! That tag was the Cultivation Technique left by its owner, meant to be passed down to later generations, and now it was missing, how outrageous!
The Big Black Dog then twitched its nose, starting to track Zhang Chen’s scent.
Back then, it had urinated on Zhang Chen’s body, and the urine had penetrated his soul. Even across thousands of mountains and rivers, no matter how Zhang Chen transformed, he couldn’t hide from its search. But who knew that just when it was confidently about to trace Zhang Chen’s whereabouts, that little thief’s scent utterly vanished from the universe; no matter what Innate Divine Techniques it used, it couldn’t find any trace of Zhang Chen. The Big Black Dog immediately fell into self-doubt, "Has it been so many years that my Cultivation skills have deteriorated? Or has there been a mishap in my Cultivation Technique, causing my Innate Divine Techniques to fail?"