C19 Eight Dragons

The winter's morning wind, with a hint of sharpness, blew onto Lei Yang's body, causing him to immediately sober up a lot. He no longer bothered with the complicated feeling in his heart, and strode to the Fire Demon Bear's corpse, using his palm as a blade, he sliced open the belly of the demon bear with a palm.

A black pearl the size of an infant's fist, which was half the size of crystal, half the size of a human's fist fell out, releasing waves after waves of dense Spirit Qi s.

This bead was a demonic beast's inner core. Every demonic beast had their own inner core, just like a human cultivator's Qi Sea. And this inner core was the demonic core that human cultivators called a demonic core.

It was said that if a cultivator cultivated Demonic Core well, not only could they heal injuries, but their cultivation would also increase by leaps and bounds. However, Demonic Beasts roamed all sorts of dangerous places in the world and they were all extremely powerful, so it was not easy to successfully obtain Demonic Cores if they encountered and killed them.

Even high-grade demonic cores were comparable to heavenly materials and earthly treasures. The great medicine of the world was regarded as an absolute non-sale item by many great clans and supreme sects.

Lei Yang held the beast core in his hand and felt the dense Spirit Qi inside, and was overjoyed.

This was a Spirit Demon Core that was comparable to the peak of the seventh floor of the Spirit Qi. Although it was not considered a rare medicine, to Lei Yang, who had been short on resources since he was young, this was a much more precious Spirit medicine than Spirit Gathering Pills.

He carefully kept the beast core in his bosom, turned around, and disappeared from the cliff.

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Among the mountain ranges around the Lei Family Garden, there were eight manors that were slightly smaller than the Lei Family Garden. They were distributed around the Lei Family Garden, and looked messy and disorderly, but if one looked carefully, they would realize that the locations of the mansions were actually extremely meticulous.

With the Lei Family Garden as the center, it covered an area of 100 miles. Other than the people in the town who knew of the relationship between the manors and the manors, no one would be able to tell that these manors were scattered within a 100 mile radius, they were actually closely related to the Lei Family Garden of the town.

However, if a person who knew about formations could take a bird's eye view from an extremely high altitude, they would realize that the villas and the central area of the Lei Family Garden had actually formed a gigantic Eight Trigram Formation Diagram, and the center of the Eight Trigram Formation was actually the largest plaza in the center of the Lei Family Garden, the Sun Moon Plaza.

However, after thousands of years, the entire Lei Family was constantly developing and reproducing. Eight large branches gradually formed each of the eight manors, and according to the location of the Eight Trigrams, the eight main branches guarded the entire manors in all directions. Gradually, the main manors were conferred the title of the current Eight Dragons Tribe.

The Eight Dragons Clan was partly as follows: South Sky Dragon Clan, North Earth Dragon Clan, East Thunder Clan, Canxi Wind Dragon Clan, East Thunder Clan, East Water Dragon Clan, East Water Dragon Clan, East Water Dragon Clan, East Water Dragon Clan, East Water Dragon Clan, South East Water Dragon Clan, South and South China.

At that time, the intention of the patriarch of Lei Family was to make the Eight Dragons Tribe and the main branch complement each other and protect the Lei Family Garden for generations.

However, with the passing of time, the Eight Dragons Tribe became more and more powerful as more talented people emerged. Furthermore, with the decline of the direct line of descent, the number of talented people decreased, and it became a trend of growth.

By now, the clan leaders of the various dragon clans were no longer obeying orders given by the clan leaders of the direct bloodline.

Although all the clan leaders would still appear in the main event of the clan, they all had their own ways of thinking and would not give advice to the direct descendants. In fact, they all had the intention to establish their own sects in the recent years, making the strength of the entire Lei Family much weaker than before.

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At this time, at the rear of the central plaza of Lei Family Garden, there was an ancient and grand house. The front door of the house had two thick stone pillars, and each of them had a sculpture of a soaring dragon.

The colossal dragon bared its fangs and brandished its claws. Its expression was fierce, and every scale was carved in an exquisite manner. It appeared vivid and lifelike.

Two huge dragon heads were facing the front door. They exuded an aura of eternal majesty. It was a strong deterrence to any newcomer.

This was the current patriarch of the Lei Family, Lei Yuntian's house, the Soaring Dragon Pavilion.

At this time, in the main hall of the Soaring Dragon Pavilion, a black-clothed masked man was kneeling on one knee. On the massive Dragon Throne in the middle of the main hall, a middle-aged man in his forties was secretly reporting something.

The middle-aged man's eyes shined brightly. Although his cultivation base was restrained and did not show the slightest hint of it, his entire body naturally gave off an irresistible majesty.

Although the black clothed man could not see his face clearly, his eyes still hid a sharp glint, it was likely that his cultivation was equal to the middle-aged man on the dragon throne, and that middle-aged man, was none other than the current Lei Family's Patriarch, Lei Yuntian.

"Patriarch, I have already found out that the Eight Dragons Tribe is divided into two families, and I have grasped some evidence, their people are getting more and more presumptuous, and do not even put our main branch in their eyes anymore. This subordinate thinks that it is time to kill them." The black clothed man looked at the Dragon Throne and spoke truthfully with Patriarch Lei Yuntian.

Lei Yuntian sank into a short period of silence. His eyes revealed an unfathomable depth, but his brows were knitted high and didn't disperse for a long time.

He had long known about the Eight Dragons Tribe, but with the passing of the direct line of descent, if he forced the other few to the corner, the entire direct line would not be able to hold on.

And the entire Lei Family would fall apart from this. He was not willing to see a huge clan get destroyed by him in such a way, which was why he had endured it so much, hoping that he could resolve the disaster that was the clan with his own strength.

However, things had gone against his wishes, causing him to lose his chance of winning. Now, he was becoming more and more passive. The rest of the two great clans of the Wuyuan Town were eyeing the Lei Family like a tiger at this critical moment. All of this made him, the Patriarch, fall into a dilemma as well, and there were even many times when he felt that he, the Patriarch, was rather useless.

After a long while, he finally let out a long sigh, slowly raised his head, and spoke to the black-clothed man in front of him: "Mo Feng, this matter must not be revealed.

"Patriarch, this ...!" This subordinate knows your worries. In this subordinate's opinion, patriarch is too merciful and does not want the clansmen to meet with swords or soldiers, but they have long thought of us as clansmen. If we continue to tolerate them, I'm afraid the consequences will be dire. Not mentioning starting a clan war, at the very least, you should take it a step further and hit on the side branches that are getting more and more fully-fledged! " The black-clothed man called Mo Feng said worriedly.

Lei Yuntian waved his hand: "Alright, Mo Feng, I have my plans. Do as I say, and do as I said." After he finished speaking, he took out an exquisite pill bottle from his bosom. With a wave of his hand, the pill bottle steadily landed in the hands of the black clothed man, Mo Feng.

"Patriarch, this ... This is something the old master left for you to break through ... This is your life, what are you doing? " Demon Feng looked at Lei Yuntian who was on the dragon throne in confusion.

"The one who sent it to the mountain at the back of the manor, say that he's been in depression for too long. Now that his family is in trouble, it's time for him to come out. I believe he knows what to do. Alright, go!" After Lei Yuntian finished speaking, he slowly closed his eyes, as if he was extremely exhausted.

"This... "Sigh!" Mo Feng hesitated for a while, seeing that Lei Yuntian had made his decision, he wanted to refute, but with his understanding of the Patriarch, he knew that it was useless. In the end, he let out a helpless sigh, turned around, and disappeared into the air.

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In the courtyard at the back of the Lei Family, when Lei Yang took out the Fire Demon Bear s' beast core that was equivalent to the peak of the seventh floor, huge waves suddenly surged in Lei Zhennan's heart.

As he listened to Lei Yang's description of how he killed the Fire Demon Bear, he took the beast core from Lei Yang's hands and examined it, his eyes revealing an inconceivable shock. However, the shock was gradually replaced by a complicated feeling that was difficult to understand.

As he watched his son grow up step by step, both disbelief and hope filled his heart. However, he felt even more guilty for his son.

As a father, he knew that what he had done to his son was far from enough. All sorts of emotions intertwined, eventually converging into the complicated look in his eyes.

After a long while, he finally looked at Lei Yang, his eyes were filled with a love unique to a father. He tried to open his mouth, but he didn't know what to say.

As if he had understood what Lei Zhennan was thinking, pain filled Lei Yang's eyes. His father's body was growing weaker and weaker, and in order to prevent him from harming more, Lei Yang hurriedly said: "Father, it is said that the Spirit Demon Core is a healing medicine. This child will give it to you as a form of respect, I hope it will be beneficial to your body."

His son had grown up and he had never given him anything in his life. Yet now, he was even being treated as a filial son by Lei Zhennan, how could he endure this?

However, it was definitely a good thing for his son to have a breakthrough and be able to cultivate. He knew that he must not reveal too much of his negative emotions in front of his son. The past was irrevocable, but in the future, he would be the guiding light on the path of his son's cultivation. Thinking about it like this made his heart feel a little better.

"Yang'er, you've grown up. Your father is truly happy for you. In the future, if you want to do anything, just do it according to your own wishes. You don't need to worry about me and your mother."

It's just that in this world filled with dangers and struggles, you have to be careful at every turn, know when to advance and when to retreat, understand when to retreat, know when to retreat, know how to conceal your strength and how to defend yourself, do you remember? " Lei Zhennan gently caressed Lei Yang's head and said with incomparable love.

"Dad, your son has remembered it!" Lei Yang nodded his head and unintentionally saw that there were already some silver threads appearing on both of Lei Zhennan's temples. He suddenly felt that the responsibility on his shoulders had become heavier.

Lei Zhennan returned the Spirit Demon Core back to Lei Yang and said: "Yang'er, father understands your intentions, but father's injuries are not something that can be cured with just a single Spirit Demon Pill. You should keep this Spirit Demon Pill properly, with Family Competition near at hand, you need it more than me.

However, he could not casually consume this Demonic Core. One could see that half of the crystal clear stone was black like ink, while the other half represented Spirit Qi, while the other half represented Demonic Qi.

The Spirit Qi being absorbed by the cultivators was a huge boon, but once the demonic qi was absorbed by the human body, it would cause huge harm to the human body. The light harm to the human body would cause cultivation degradation, and the heavy harm to the mind would cause the demons to turn into demons.

Therefore, the beast cores needed to be slowly refined with special techniques in order to not be corroded by the demonic energy in the beast cores.

However, this kind of cultivation technique is rarely seen in the world. However, you don't have to worry about it. Back then, Father went out on a tour and coincidentally obtained this kind of cultivation technique by chance.

This technique was called "Demonic Spirit Art". Even though it was only a fragment and could not be considered a high quality technique, it was not a problem to refine Demonic Cores below the Core Formation Realm.

Half a month later will be the clan's grand annual Family Competition. Father hopes to see an even stronger Yang'er at that time. "

Lei Zhennan explained everything in detail. After he finished speaking, he took out a jade slip and passed it to Lei Yang. After that, he coughed a few times, and his entire face became pale white.

Lei Yang received the jade slip, without saying a word, he only nodded his head seriously, then signaled his mother to let his father return to his room to rest, his eyes filled with heartache.

After Lei Zhennan left, Lei Yang looked at his gradually fading back, and felt his heart ache. However, at the same time, he was more clear about the goal of the Family Competition this time. If he wanted to change the position of their family in the clan, he had to do something.