570: Chapter 405 570: Chapter 405 Jiang Tang patted his belly, full from his meal, feeling that he hadn’t eaten much but had become just like his pets, a real glutton.
Glancing at his two overfed pets, who had transformed into young lads, he marveled that they could eat so much without gaining weight.
If he were a breeder, encountering such creatures that could eat and never get fat would be quite troublesome!
Now, the sun began to set behind the mountains, in that brief period after its descent and before the moon’s rise.
Half an hour had passed, and people began to notice the changes happening to the mountain.
Not far from the seaside there was an island where some unidentified individuals resided on a mountain.
Those individuals had just received some people sent from overseas—people their organization sent to replace the warriors they knew were dead.
The leader, while receiving these newcomers, started arranging their assignments, slowly integrating them into Ancient Xia Country.
Even though this was a time for lying low and waiting for the women at the Imperial City to act, they needed to search for resources and quietly occupy some areas nearby.
No sooner had someone from the Observation Tower arrived than they reported:
“Leader, on a nearby mountain, there appears to be a faint shadow of a dragon, shimmering with golden light!”
The leader was surprised upon hearing this, thinking that dragons belonged to the great seas.
Could it be that a dragon from the Cultivation World had descended, and a dragon vein appeared, casting the dragon’s shadow on the mountain, possibly a dragon egg that had fallen from the skies?
In comparison to the cultivation spells of this country, the leader knew that the techniques of his own country fell short.
Despite their stealthy stealing, buying, or secret learning, they had not managed to acquire any powerful cultivation techniques from the Cultivation World.
Since they lacked Spiritual Roots, they could only learn Ancient Martial Arts, Qinggong, and their country’s own cultivation methods.
They never grasped the essence; hence for thousands of years, their agents in this country failed to take it over.
They had to rely on sly tricks to kill some people, but these victims were insignificant.
Their strategies and ambitions targeted the whole country, the entire Cultivation World.
They were after all the resources of the Cultivation World, its formidable cultivation spells, and desired to kill certain individuals.
After several failures, they knew they had been exposed; while they hid from direct confrontation, they still needed to make some moves.
Under the gaze of many eyes, the leader felt it was time to make a fortune.
If there truly was a treasure on that mountain, then their journey wouldn’t be in vain.
The newcomers were eager upon hearing about such a strange occurrence, all waiting to strike it big.
The leader examined a map and found that the mountain was uninhabited, a deep forest wilderness.
Common folks dared not enter, and his own people had also ventured there.
The mountain harbored dangerous prey, which they avoided using their invisibility skills.
Since they knew about the mountain’s fearsome beasts, they had not established a base there, and on more ordinary mountains, there would be peasant sightings.
Unable to choose a large city, they hid on this island, lying in wait for the right moment.
At the leader’s command, the new arrivals boarded the same ship they had come on and quietly approached the coast under cover of night.
Then they swiftly made their way to the mountain.
The dark forest at the mountain’s base emitted a white glow, as bright as moonlight.
The golden light atop the mountain in the dark of night further outlined the dragon’s shadow.
The surrounding mountains, particularly without the moon tonight, made this mountain all the more mysterious.
The peasants living nearby also noticed this anomaly from their homes in the dark, assuming it was the presence of an Immortal.
The peasants dared not venture into the deep forest in daylight, and now, witnessing this peculiar sight at night, they felt it could be either the work of an Immortal or the haunt of ghosts.
They didn’t dare seek out treasures on the mountain.
Even on normal hills, encountering a wild boar or a fearsome animal would mean certain death, let alone on this deep mountain, rumored to have claimed brave individuals who ventured into it during winter never to return.
A white energy merged with the golden energy on the mountain, illuminating the night with their brilliance.
Cultivators within a hundred or even several hundred miles could sense the appearance of a treasure.
There are only fearless cultivators, not cowardly ones; the latter typically lacking in strength.
Many people are greedy, noting that the significant mountain unclaimed by any sect or loose cultivator.
Sensing the possible presence of treasure, they rushed heedlessly to the mountain.
In the sky flew cultivators, across the land ran pirates, and other practitioners of various disciplines all converged on the mountain.
Less than half an hour into the night, cultivators had already reached the airspace above the mountain.
From this elevation, they could see more clearly the dragon’s shadow atop the mountain, though details remained hazy.
They felt the richness of energy, sensing two powerful types of energy, each more formidable than Spirit Stones.
Various cultivators could sense that these energies had the power to enhance their physical functions and couldn’t resist sitting in meditation in midair to absorb them.
Some, who were less brave, dared only to absorb the energy from high above, not venturing to be the first to descend.