CHAPTER 750: CHAPTER 461 TAMING THE DRAGON

Ji Xinghuo jumped out of the void and landed on the back of the Ice Soul Dragon, only a few steps away from Cang Ya.

With such a close Star Realm Jump, with the destination within his sight, he could control the error to within ten meters.

"Let’s leave this place," Ji Xinghuo said.

Cang Ya did not hesitate, immediately having the Ice Soul Dragon turn around and fly full speed in another direction.

The Canglong beneath the sea also followed closely.

She looked back and saw that Cang Beiming and his group had not caught up nor continued to fight; instead, they were each scrambling for dragon scale fragments. Ji Xinghuo’s shot had shattered the dragon scale into dozens of pieces that scattered like petals blown from the heavens. Even those who had been watching from a distance couldn’t resist joining in the scramble.

At this moment, no one was stopping them from leaving.

Moments later.

The Ice Soul Dragon had already moved far from the battlefield. Dragon Lords were no longer visible in the sight, and Ji Xinghuo handed the largest fragment of the dragon scale to Cang Ya.

This was the largest fragment.

"Is it enough?"

Cang Ya nodded slightly, urgently saying, "It’s enough for tracking. We must lock onto the Cloud Sea Dragon before anyone else."

Ji Xinghuo could tell she wasn’t very confident.

In actuality, Cang Beiming and his group’s jostling for the dragon scales, yet restraining themselves from shattering them, stemmed from the fear of being preempted—wanting to monopolize the clue to tracking the Cloud Sea Dragon. Thus, a certain tacit understanding was maintained during the fight.

Ji Xinghuo took advantage of their psychology and directly shattered the dragon scale.

"No one can be faster than us," Ji Xinghuo calmly stated. "Point out the direction to me, and we’ll jump directly through Star Realm."

Cang Ya’s eyes lit up.

She had known about Ji Xinghuo mastering the Star Realm Jump when she had watched the Destructive Dragon Festival, but since the two had set out to sea together, Ji Xinghuo had never used it, leading her to believe his jump level wasn’t sufficient and that it could only allow him to jump individually.

"What about Shui Yun?" Cang Ya suddenly thought of a problem. "Can you take it along in the jump?"

"Yes."

Ji Xinghuo nodded.

Fourth Level Star Realm Jump could bring along anything as long as its size did not exceed a 200-meter range from him. No matter how large, it could be considered a single entity and thus brought along in the jump.

"That’s great!"

Cang Ya was overjoyed, immediately having the Ice Soul Dragon land on the back of the Canglong. She held the dragon scale fragment in her hand, her eyes slightly closed, carefully sensing the aura on it. A few seconds later, she pointed in a direction with her eyes open.

"It’s over there."

"Can you determine the distance?" Ji Xinghuo asked.

"It’s rather vague," Cang Ya shook her head, responding uncertainly, "I estimate between 2000 to 3000 dragon distances."

"We’ll make several jumps to adjust," Ji Xinghuo silently converted the distance into kilometers, triggered the Star Realm Jump, and roughly 20 seconds later, a burst of intense white light spread out, covering the two of them and both dragons, then disappeared in an instant.

The world twisted, shuttling through the void.

The massive Canglong landed on the ocean surface, stirring up waves. The surroundings were still an endless Sea Abyss, seemingly no different from before the jump.

However, Ji Xinghuo’s electromagnetic induction scanned out, and by the differences in the seabed terrain, confirmed the jump was successful.

Electromagnetic induction did not detect the Cloud Sea Dragon.

Cang Ya once again used the dragon scale fragment to track, and quickly her eyes showed delight, "I can feel it, it is very close now."

She pointed in a direction.

"No more than 500 dragon distances."

Ji Xinghuo nodded, taking her and both dragons into another Star Realm Jump.

This jump wasn’t far.

Upon emerging from the void, before Cang Ya needed to track, Ji Xinghuo’s electromagnetic induction had already detected the Cloud Sea Dragon. At approximately 160 kilometers deep on the seabed, a dark current surged rapidly, its speed extremely fast, starkly different from the calm deep sea.

"Found it."

Ji Xinghuo said, continuing the Star Realm Jump, appearing above the area of the dark current.

"It’s right below," he pointed at the sea.

The sea is the home field for a Water Element Dragon Lord, and even if Ji Xinghuo said nothing, Cang Ya had also noticed the anomaly on the seabed.

"It’s that one!"

Cang Ya was extremely happy, then her expression turned serious, "The Cloud Sea Dragon, also known as the Sea-covering Dragon, is nearly invincible in the sea. We must force it out of the ocean and defeat it in the sky!"

"You’ve fought it before, you should be prepared, right?" Ji Xinghuo asked.

"Of course."

Cang Ya smiled.

When she last realized she had no means of taking on the Cloud Sea Dragon, she decisively returned to Donghuang Island, both to look for help and more importantly to find a way to defeat it.

"I will drive it from the sea to the sky, you get ready for the fight," Cang Ya said after seeing Ji Xinghuo agree, and together with Canglong, she dived into the sea.

The Cloud Sea Dragon moved very quickly in the sea.

Even the Ice Soul Dragon had to fly at full speed to keep up in the sky.

However, Cang Ya and Canglong suddenly burst forth with extreme speed, faster than the Cloud Sea Dragon, diving and pursuing at the same time, quickly closing the distance.

Only then did the Cloud Sea Dragon realize it had been exposed. Yet, it didn’t flee but instead turned around and charged directly at Cang Ya, the dark current rapidly expanding and driving a massive amount of seawater to form a water tornado more than a hundred meters in diameter, sweeping towards her.

The Canglong, not to be outdone, transformed into a giant wave to meet the assault.

The two waves collided.

They tore at each other, mixing and transforming, creating an effect like an underwater earthquake. Seconds later, the disturbance reached the surface and whipped up hundreds of meters high waves.

Boom...

The tsunami triggered a storm.

Two dragons entangled for a few seconds before quickly determining who was superior.

Cang Ya’s Canglong was at Earthquake Level, while the Cloud Sea Dragon was at Meteor Level, and the Cloud Sea Dragon’s water control ability was clearly stronger than Canglong’s.

Both belonging to the Sea Dragon Species, their control over the sea and water differed; the Cloud Sea Dragon was considered the best, and although Canglong’s water control ability was also strong, it excelled more in close combat and struggled to compete with the Cloud Sea Dragon in the high-pressure deep sea.

In the blink of an eye, Canglong was bound by a volume of seawater many times its own size, forced to reveal its true form underwater, enduring tremendous water pressure.

However, Canglong wasn’t fighting alone; there was also Cang Ya.

She didn’t take direct action.

Instead, she used the waves created by Canglong to protect herself and took out a large metal barrel and opened the valve.

A pure black liquid flowed out from the barrel. In the dim depths of the sea, one couldn’t make out what it was; Cang Ya controlled the black liquid to spread through the seawater at high speed, completely mixing with the seawater within kilometers in a matter of seconds.

The Cloud Sea Dragon immediately sensed the anomaly, its dark currents churning wildly, abandoning its attack on Canglong and fleeing into the distance.

Canglong, unaffected, immediately gave chase.

One after the other.

The distance between the two dragons never widened; Cang Ya continued to release the black liquid from the metal barrel, attacking the Cloud Sea Dragon ahead, which, no matter which direction it fled to, was soaked by the seawater mixed with the black liquid.

"Brilliant!"

Ji Xinghuo exclaimed in admiration.

Although he didn’t know what the black liquid was, he guessed it was either a poison or a potion specially targeting the Cloud Sea Dragon. This move completely restrained the Cloud Sea Dragon, leaving it with no choice but to escape to the surface.

"When dealing with the Sea Dragon Species, it’s still the water element Dragon Lord who has the methods," Ji Xinghuo said as he watched the situation underwater, ready to intervene.

The two dragons, one fleeing and the other pursuing, traveled more than two hundred kilometers, causing tsunamis wherever they passed.

Yet, the Cloud Sea Dragon was never able to shake off its pursuer.

Its aura had significantly weakened, and any further delay would only make it weaker.

"Here it comes!"

Ji Xinghuo’s spirits lifted.

The Cloud Sea Dragon, unable to endure any longer, struggled upwards and soon broke through the surface, revealing its true form.

It wasn’t until then that Ji Xinghuo really got a clear view of the Cloud Sea Dragon’s appearance, reminiscent at first glance of the flood dragons from Earth’s myths, with a dragon’s head and a serpentine body, a belly sporting four claws, and unlike typical dragons, lacking wings.

The Cloud Sea Dragon was about 130 meters long, with seaweed-like whiskers at its neck and bright deep blue scales patterned like white clouds.

Its posture was agile and graceful as it burst out of the water and soared into the air.

It could fly even without wings.

And its flight speed was very fast, surrounded by clouds and mist, flashing its teeth and claws as though walking on clouds, its scales quickly fading and its slender body dispersing, merging with the mist.

At the same time, a ten-kilometer radius of the sea surface was steaming, condensing countless clouds in the sky, obscuring both vision and sensors.

Cloud Flipping and Sea Covering!

This was one of the Cloud Sea Dragon’s most powerful abilities, combining water control, fog transformation, and cloud control to create an environment beneficial to itself — a large range, excellent for hiding and avoiding physical damage, and also for attacking enemies from the shadows, forming an integrated offense and defense.

Cloud Flipping and Sea Covering was a Star Fall Ability, which is why the dragon was named after it.

"Roar..."

A high-pitched dragon roar.

The Ice Soul Dragon, having prepared well, roared, releasing cold air completely, freezing the spreading mist into ice.

A blast of Cold Ice Dragon Breath shot out, sweeping hundreds of meters across.

The Cloud Sea Dragon, in the midst of misting, was abruptly interrupted, its body encased in a thick layer of ice, uncontrollably falling down.

The sea surface was also frozen.

Boom!

The frozen Cloud Sea Dragon crashed onto the icy surface, creating a hole hundreds of meters in diameter. Before it could recover from the rigidity, it was struck by Canglong from below back into the sky, but it remisted in the air, suffering little damage.

What truly affected the Cloud Sea Dragon was the poison within it, greatly weakening its power, causing it to fall from Meteor Level to Earthquake Level.

At that moment, Ji Xinghuo also took action.

Above the high skies, a few hundred meters of thunderclouds formed, and with a thunderous sound, the first lightning struck down.

The winding lightning tore through the sky, instantly striking the Cloud Sea Dragon.

The recently misted Cloud Sea Dragon was once again interrupted, its body shaking, emitting a painful roar, but before it could finish, it was struck by the second lightning, and then the third, the fourth...

The sea surface was continuously flickering with light.

The roars of the Cloud Sea Dragon were drowned out by the tremendous thunder, no matter which direction it tried to flee to, or to what extent it misted, nearly every second a lightning bolt fell from the sky, striking its head.

Its misted state wasn’t vulnerable to physical damage, yet it couldn’t exempt electricity.

Instead, the conductivity made the agony even more intense.

Ji Xinghuo’s eyes flashed with electrical light, continuously unleashing thunder to bombard the Cloud Sea Dragon, quickly depleting his Star Power. After over twenty consecutive lightning strikes, the Cloud Sea Dragon finally couldn’t bear it and fell again onto the icy surface.

The Ice Soul Dragon took the opportunity to leap forward, spewing out Cold Ice Dragon Breath.

Cang Ya also controlled the seawater to surge up, freezing it onto the body of the Cloud Sea Dragon, transforming into ice.

Within seconds, the Cloud Sea Dragon was encased in a massive iceberg, isolated from the seawater, its body and claws immobile, with only a small part of its dragon head exposed outside the iceberg, unable to open its mouth.

Ji Xinghuo descended, placed his hand on the dragon head, and continuously released electricity to prevent it from misting and escaping.

"Finally caught you!"

Cang Ya was thrilled, but this was just the first step in taming the dragon; the crucial next step was to communicate and establish ownership.

Ji Xinghuo said, "Hurry up."

The noise from the battle was so loud that nearby Sea Abyss Hunters must have noticed, and some of the Dragon Lords with the ability to perform a Star Realm Jump might soon arrive as well.