Chapter 74: Searching for Garaga
"Draconic Sage Mode: Upon activation, your strength, speed, and ninjutsu power will be greatly enhanced!"
Li Jiexuan gently clenched his fist. The immense power dragged the airflow in his palm into a tight mass, which then exploded violently…
"This level of power far surpasses the Gate of Injury of the Eight Gates Technique!"
Thinking of this, a thought stirred in Li Jiexuan's mind. "Sage Mode alone already grants such terrifying strength—if I add the Eight Gates on top of that…"
"Danzo, the humiliation you gave me that day—I'll repay it to you tenfold!" Li Jiexuan ground his teeth, wishing he could return to the camp immediately.
But the curse mark hadn't been left behind yet. It still wasn't time to leave…
"Why are you still here?"
The White Snake Sage stared at Li Jiexuan with lingering fear. "You almost drained me dry…"
"I want to leave something behind."
As he spoke, Li Jiexuan took out the secret technique of the curse mark. "I need to borrow the power of Ryūchi Cave!"
Li Jiexuan didn't just want to siphon off the White Snake Sage's natural energy for himself—through the curse mark, he also intended to guide natural energy to those branded with it.
"You really are insatiable…"
The White Snake Sage shook its head in irritation. "By the rules, I'm only obligated to grant you power. This kind of thing isn't within my responsibilities!"
"Oh? Are you sure?"
Li Jiexuan raised an eyebrow, an unmistakably malicious smile spreading across his face.
Though Li Jiexuan's gaze made its scales crawl, the White Snake Sage still insisted: it was a sage, after all—it had dignity!
"I'm sure!"
"Well… I feel like I haven't fully mastered Sage Mode yet. How about giving me a little more?"
Li Jiexuan smiled faintly.
The White Snake Sage dropped to its knees on the spot. In all its long life, it had never seen a monster like Li Jiexuan.
Among the sage powers of the Three Great Sacred Lands, Ryūchi Cave was the most dangerous and extreme. With the other two, even if cultivation failed, there was usually no great danger.
But Ryūchi Cave was different!
Cold-blooded snakes didn't waste time. Life or death was decided in a single bite—sage power was brutally injected directly. If you lived, that was your own ability; if you died, it wasn't a loss…
The White Snake Sage had taken that approach countless times!
Ryūchi Cave wasn't lacking in formidable figures, but none had ever done what Li Jiexuan did—draining the White Snake Sage dry by force.
Most terrifying of all, he even seemed to enjoy it!
"Fine, fine, I give up."
In the end, the White Snake Sage conceded, but it set a condition. "Deep within Ryūchi Cave lives a great snake named Garaga. If you bring me his reverse scale, I'll allow you to leave behind your curse mark!"
"Garaga!?"
That great snake was no easy opponent. Its massive body rivaled Manda's, and it could even spew petrifying venom.
But that was perfect!
Li Jiexuan slowly clenched his fist. "With my current strength, I just need a proper whetstone!"
"I just don't know if this Garaga is heavy enough to qualify!" Li Jiexuan sneered, then turned and walked out of the Ryūchi Cave temple.
The moment he stepped outside, Li Jiexuan headed straight toward the depths of Ryūchi Cave. After only a few steps, a vast, pitch-black tunnel blocked his path.
The tunnel, dozens of people tall, gaped open like a massive maw. Cold, foul-smelling winds poured out endlessly, accompanied by the occasional hiss-hiss of flicking snake tongues…
The most violent great snakes of all Ryūchi Cave lived deep within this tunnel. A dangerous aura saturated the air without pause…
"Interesting!"
Li Jiexuan widened his eyes as a strange sense of exhilaration surged through him uncontrollably. This was the first time he had ever felt so intensely excited!
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