Chapter 737: Long Fu vs Zhu Gan

“Furthermore, we can’t deal with the Millenium Dragon Formation.” The dragonman youngster sighed to himself.

The survivors’ alchemy strength could never compete with the formation.

The Dragon Lion Mercenary Corps’ greatest alchemist was not Zi Di or Cang Xu, but the fishman magician Zhong Yong.

Although Bu Quan joined the Dragon Lion Mercenary Corps, she was nominally a member.

But after the dragonman youngster contacted Shuang Lian, he understood that Shuang Lian valued Bu Quan a lot and would never allow Bu Quan to truly join the Dragon Lion Mercenary Corps. Especially because the Dragon Lion Mercenary Corps’ backer was an “arms merchant”, and as outsiders, at most when their connection with the Ice Sculpture Royal Family deepened, they would only be “collaborators” or “allies”.

Shuang Lian was a powerful Alchemy Guild elder and belonged to the Ice Sculpture Royal Family’s faction.

With regards to Bu Quan’s personal growth, her brightest prospects lay with following Shuang Lian, and waiting to inherit Honey Snow Tower, the demiplane, and so on. Shuang Lian treated and cultivated Bu Quan as her sole successor.

Of course, this was what the masses saw as “bright prospects”.

If Bu Quan truly joined the survivors’ ranks, and got the dragonman youngster’s complete trust, she could benefit from a Bloodcore. Even if she didn’t get a Bloodcore, she could benefit from the Bloodline Purification Formation.

Through improving one’s bloodline, her future would naturally be greater, vaster, and brighter than being “Shuang Lian’s heir”.

This matter could not be advanced through force and depended on destiny.

From where Bu Quan stood, she was extremely willing and preferred the Dragon Lion Mercenary Corps, even willing to give up her own interests in consideration to the dragonman youngster.

But based on the current political situation, the survivors were unable to facilitate bringing in Bu Quan. 

Because they needed to maintain their relationship with Shuang Lian, and to keep the Bloodline Purification Formation as secret as possible. As of now, even though the dragonman youngster returned, the Bloodline Purification Formation had only been used on Zi Di, Cang Xu, and Lan Zao, it hadn’t been spread to Zong Ge, Tripleblade, or the others.

The dragonman youngster, Cang Xu, and Zi Di were well aware that spreading bloodline purification outside of their core three was extremely risky. The opportunity was still not yet ripe, so after careful deliberations, they chose to take the most reliable plan.

Afterwards.

The dragonman youngster and the other two were researching the two remaining treasures.

Cang Xu held the bone ring, saying, “This is a gold level carved bone ring. The holder can have fair dealings with the Undead Orthodoxy.” 

Cang Xu looked at Zi Di at that moment, “Based on this, the Wisteria Merchant Alliance is deeply involved with the undead force.”

The dragonman youngster was unconcerned, “With it, we can purchase a large quantity of undead materials. This will be very beneficial to your bloodline Cang Xu.”

“What about the cloak?”

The three studied it for a long time, Zi Di also used some alchemy methods, causing the cloak to leak a trace of devil aura.

Apart from that, the cloak looked ordinary, lacking any trace of transcendent aura.

But since it was one of the five treasures, it was certain to be extraordinary and at least on the same level as the Time Gold Purse.

Cang Xu guessed, “The alchemy technique is seamless, the cloak’s line style is totally different to those of the Main Plane, and it also has a trace of devil aura, perhaps it originates from Hell.”

That sentence caused the dragonman youngster to associate it with the new potion he had.

Mi Fang left behind the saint level devil transformation potion.

After Shuang Lian personally tested it, she confirmed this magic potion had no hidden dangers. When taken, it could temporarily transform the drinker into a saint level devil, with enormous repercussions, bloodline contamination.

But this repercussion wasn’t worth mentioning in front of the Bloodcore.

Bloodline pollution was even a good thing.

The Bloodcore could absorb it and give the dragonman youngster some saint level devil bloodline.

Of course, the devil bloodline from it was far less than could be gained from absorbing a saint level devil’s lifeblood. Anyways, a saint level devil’s bloodline served as the main material of this potion, and after taking it, one could reconstruct a portion of the saint level devil’s battle strength, something the dragonman youngster couldn’t achieve by simply absorbing the devil bloodline within the potion.

In short, this potion could serve as one of the dragonman youngster’s trump cards.

After the three studied the five treasures, Zi Di presented a set of silver metal cylinders.

Some were small, others large. Their walls were as thick as a man’s thumb, and both ends of it were wide open, and one could see right through them to the other side. 

There were about 16 cylinders, the transcendent auras in them were mixed, and disorderly, but the highest was gold level.

“This is the magnetic cylinder fishing rod we purchased from the Alchemy Guild.” Zi Di introduced their usage. 

The dragonman youngster opened his hand and imbued the cylinders with gold battle qi.

The cylinders floated into the air, then through magnetic links, rapidly merged together to become a metal fishing rod.

The fishing rod was three meters long, slender at the top, and thick at the bottom.

The gold battle qi in the cylinder fishing rod quickly changed into a crackle of electricity.

The electricity condensed and wrapped together forming a bundle of line, extending out beyond the top of the fishing rod, it was an electric fishing line.

“If you can’t hook the fish, you can electrocute it. This is positively handy.” The dragonman youngster threw the electric fishing line, noticing he had perfect command of it, wherever he aimed, it went.

The fishing rod was not for the dragonman youngster’s use, it was to be a gift.

A gift for Zhu Gan.

Zhu Gan was one of the duelists, but not part of the army faction. But he and Lin had a good close relationship as fishing friends.

With such a person, the dragonman youngster adopted a different negotiation method than the ones used with Mi Fang and He Gai Tou.

Not long after, Hun Tong took the magnetic fishing rod, and through teleportation, paid a visit to Zhu Gan’s home.

Hun Tong naturally had deception spells on him and was disguised as an unfamiliar person.

When Zhu Gan saw the strange gold level, Hun Tong, he instantly had a new perception of the Dragon Lion Mercenary Corps’ strength. 

Hun Tong produced both the dragonman youngster’s invitation to fight and gifted the magnetic cylinder fishing rod, hoping Zhu Gan could agree to a duel.

According to common sense, so long as Long Fu publicly declared a challenge, Zhu Gan would agree. On the one hand, Zu Gan and Lin had a close friendship. On the other hand, if Zhu Gan avoided battle, the masses would shame him, think of him as a coward, Zhu Gan’s renown would slump, and he would be widely disdained.

Of course, this was founded upon the idea that both sides were of similar strength.

If it were Long Meng who publicly challenged Zhu Gan, and Zhu Gan refused, the populace would feel that was reasonable. 

When Zhu Gan learned the dragonman youngster invited him to battle, he became furious. But when seeing the gift, his expression suddenly grew mixed.

After hearing Hun Tong’s entreaty, Zhu Gan sighed, thoroughly confirming that this was Long Fu wanting to ease their relationship, therefore, kindness and might were applied.

Zhu Gan thought about it, then agreed.

Zhu Gan was a wood elf, not a snow elf. Although he was an outsider, as an elf, it was easier for him to gain mass popularity in the Ice Sculpture Kingdom than it was for the dragonman youngster or Mi Fang.

Zhu Gan traveled all over the Ice Sculpture Kingdom and had a pleasant life.

When he ran out of money, he dueled to obtain travel funds. His greatest pleasure was looking for fishing spots across the country and going wild angling.

Zhu Gan wasn’t that interested in the National Ceremony Grand Duel, but since Long Fu had invited him to fight, then there was no harm in agreeing.

He was quite familiar with the dragonman youngster. He bought and perused each of the dragonman youngster’s battle recordings.

“I didn’t expect Commander Long Fu to want to duel again so quickly!”

“This time, he decided to send an invitation, choosing Zhu Gan as his target.”

“Although Zhu Gan doesn’t duel much, he is strong enough to be in consideration. He is a wood elf, has a very graceful fighting style, and has the demeanor of our elven kind.”

“I am very curious, how much has Long Fu grown this time?”

The dragonman youngster’s fight with Zhu Gan attracted the attention of many, triggering a nationwide conversation. The level of heated discussion was greater than the Mi Fang rematch.

It was because during his rematch with Mi Fang, the dragonman youngster revealed new things, causing many to become interested again.

In addition, it was because Zhu Gan was a famous duelist, whose racial identity ensured a stable popularity. He hadn’t fought many times, causing the spectators to be exuberantly interested in him.

The dragonman youngster chose him as his opponent not only to have a communication with the Dueling God’s holy warrior, but to simultaneously use his prestige to increase the amount of new traffic he had.

The dragonman youngster’s duel with Zhu Gan was quite marvelous.

Both sides held the upper hand for a time, both fought in their own ways. 

The dragonman youngster charged around, exploded dragon pearls, laughed in the thrill of battle, and practiced a heroic and straightforward persona. This persona was quite appealing, fit in with the Ice Sculpture Kingdom’s plucky personality, and was something the people naturally had many good opinions of.

Zhu Gan held a fishing rod as his main weapon and mainly fought at mid-range. He was actually similar to the whip wielding Teng Dong Lang in this aspect.

But his movement was more outstanding, able to advance or retreat accordingly, he moved like a blur and possessed the distinctly elven sense of beauty. 

His battle skills were very sharp, creating thin cracks in the ground several meters deep. However, the dragonman youngster’s defense greatly weakened these battle skills’ attack results.

In this battle, the dragonman youngster was mainly relying on Tenacity Force to protect himself impressively.

In the final phase, the dragonman youngster used Binding Force and won by a surprise move.

This brought back the disinterested spectators, and when many saw the dragonman youngster had learned another “force”, they discussed it enthusiastically.

“I didn’t expect Long Fu to use a new force!”

“Yes, Binding Force is amazing against an opponent like Zhu Gan.”

Binding Force could empower battle skills, binding enemies they hit and limiting their mobility. 

“Long Fu is learning more and more forces. He has proven himself worthy of Long Meng’s admiration, a man Long Meng couldn’t help but teach.”

“Currently, his defense has Tempering Force, Tenacity Force, and for attacks, he has Binding Force, Gravity Force, and Vibration Force. Look at how many forces he has.”

“In my opinion, I can feel the force even when he’s walking!”

Long Fu’s battle strength has grown too fast, it’s no wonder even Zhu Gan was defeated.”

“Alas, Zhu Gan rarely fights, he is the duelist I like the most. In this battle, despite losing, I still like him.”

“If Long Fu’s growth continues like this, what will he be able to achieve? He defeated Mi Fang and Zhu Gan, who will he challenge next?”