Wandering Gods of Day and Night-Chapter 375 - 216: Mingjiang Dragon Disaster

Zhou Xuan felt as if he had stumbled into this by sheer luck.

He came to the Guan Mountain Wood Pile to track down "Hunger," but after all the chaos, he had unwittingly uncovered the mystery of the Mingjiang Ancestor Dragon’s weakness.

As he shared his findings from within the pit with the Painter and Music Master, the Painter was utterly stunned.

Initially, the Painter believed "Hunger" was just committing random acts of terror,

but when Zhou Xuan and Yun Ziliang unraveled the mystery behind Hunger’s crime scenes—locations that coincidentally aligned with the thirty-six Dragon Acupoints of Mingjiang Prefecture’s Dragon Tail—he finally realized: "Hunger" was trying to cultivate using Dragon Qi.

Now,

the nature of the incident took yet another dramatic turn. It turned out Hunger’s ultimate goal was to contaminate the Ancestor Dragon.

The Ancestor Dragon’s form was vast, sprawling across the entire Mingjiang Prefecture. Given Hunger’s capabilities, it could only manage to contaminate the Dragon Tail.

"Hunger is just one piece of the puzzle to pollute the Ancestor Dragon. ’Time’ said so—Hunger has brothers, sisters, and a whole family of them."

"Motherfucker, I knew something strange was happening in Mingjiang Prefecture, but I didn’t expect anything this shocking."

The Painter, flustered, angrily tugged at his own tie.

"Old Hua, I know you’re frustrated, but don’t lose your cool just yet. I have a question: the decline of the Ancestor Dragon isn’t a matter of ten or twenty years—it’s been close to two centuries. In all this time, did the Bone Elder Association really notice nothing?" Zhou Xuan asked.

"Young Master, our Mingjiang Prefecture once had two Ancestor Trees in its prime. But three hundred years ago, they disappeared without a trace. Without the Ancestor Trees, many abnormalities can’t be monitored,"

the Painter explained. In a single prefecture, without the Ancestor Trees, the only monitoring artifact left was the God Traveling Department’s lantern.

But that Divine Lantern could barely maintain order among the Ghosts and Gods in the prefecture. Events that were more profound and sinister couldn’t be monitored at all.

Upon hearing this, Zhou Xuan recalled the Lantern Bride within the Divine Revelation Secret Realm.

That night, the Lantern Bride had entered Zhou Xuan’s secret realm undetected by Yuan Buyu or Zhou Lingyi,

and even the Night Patrol Lantern from Ping Shui Prefecture’s God Traveling Department had failed to perceive her presence,

only the Zhou Family’s Ancestor Tree had sensed it and briefly awakened.

This was the marvel of the Ancestor Tree. Though it slumbered most of the time, when faced with momentous events, it truly stepped in.

"The monitoring system in Mingjiang Prefecture is practically useless when it comes to major mysteries. Take this instance, for example: if it weren’t for the Young Master’s brilliant calculations, we would’ve known nothing about Hunger contaminating the Dragon Tail in Mingjiang," the Painter admitted candidly.

The Painter, upright by nature, didn’t shy away from acknowledging Mingjiang Prefecture’s shortcomings.

According to the Bone Elder Association and City God’s style of handling cases, they’d likely still have been holding meetings and deliberating,

even after Hunger completed its attack, unlocking all thirty-six Dragon Acupoints and five Dragon-locking Caves.

By the time the meetings were wrapped up and the deliberations concluded, Hunger would’ve completely succeeded, performing some eerie ritual to merge its entire Life Force into the Ancestor Dragon’s Tail.

From that moment on, the string of cannibalistic murders caused by Hunger would cease,

and the City God and Bone Elder officials would see the crimes cease and assume that peace had returned to the world.

They assumed "Hunger" was just a pustule on the surface, so their solution was to locate that pustule and dig it out.

Little did they know that Hunger was actually an uncontrollably growing tumor that had infiltrated Mingjiang Prefecture’s body, multiplying without restraint.

"Now that the Ancestor Dragon has already been contaminated, the extent of the contamination and its consequences are questions you all need to consider," Zhou Xuan declared.

Zhou Xuan was now boldly teaching the Painter and Music Master how to approach the situation.

Whoever solves the mystery gets the voice of authority. It was Zhou Xuan who cracked the secret of the Mingjiang Ancestor Dragon’s weakness.

Moreover, the Painter and Music Master had already viewed Zhou Xuan as the linchpin of the case—within just one night, Zhou Xuan had first slain the Liu God, then unravelled the Evil God "Time"’s audacious scheme, and finally unearthed Hunger’s contamination of the Mingjiang Ancestor Dragon.

A series of feats like this had left the Painter and Music Master deeply impressed by his ability to uncover secrets and track down the truth in murder cases.

"As for the consequences of the contamination, further investigation and prediction are required. When it comes to the exact extent of the contamination, neither the Music Master nor I have the ability to verify it. We’ll have to rely on the Dragon Seeking Heavenly Masters for assistance,"

the Painter said, looking toward Yun Ziliang.

Yun Ziliang shook his head and said, "Don’t look at me. The contamination of an Ancestor Dragon—this hasn’t happened in Jing Country for hundreds of years. We’re just as inexperienced."

Such an incident had never occurred in Jing Country. After all, the Ancestor Dragon itself exuded an overwhelming presence, capable of purging minor instances of contamination on its own.

"In the past, the worst we’d see were one or two Evil People using the Dragon Locking Technique to absorb the Ancestor Dragon’s Qi for cultivation. But with the Ancestor Dragon’s boundless aura, it could easily recover that bit of lost Dragon Qi by drawing from the terrain, the great rivers, and mountains. It wasn’t a big deal.

But what Hunger has done this time is beyond comprehension. As Divine’s offspring, it singlehandedly opened the Acupoints, pinned the Dragon Tail, and finally sacrificed itself to contaminate the Ancestor Dragon with its own Life Force.

We’ve never seen such a bizarre and sinister method before."

Hearing Yun Ziliang’s explanation, the Painter and Music Master also lost confidence.

Ultimately, the Painter sighed and said, "The contamination of the Ancestor Dragon is a grave matter. I’ll immediately contact the other state prefectures overnight to request their support."

Jing Country consists of nine prefectures, each ruled by its own God,

but the Gods of Jing Country have long been at odds with one another. As a result, cooperation and support between state prefectures are anything but easy.

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