Chapter 573 - 260: The Ever-Adaptive Celestial Secret Pavilion

"Are you sure?"

The Sword Venerable spoke, his voice laced with a deep chill, like the dead of winter.

Compared to his previous carefree demeanor, he now truly fit the image people imagined of a peerless swordsman.

"I’m not sure."

The middle-aged Confucian scholar shook his head and took out a crystal-clear stone from the Qiankun Bag.

After injecting a trace amount of spiritual power into it, the stone radiated brightly, projecting a three-dimensional hologram of Lu Wenwu.

"This is a memory crystal created from the thought and memory extraction by the Mo Lu True Venerable. The young man below is completely different from the Violent Dragon Demon Venerable."

"Could it be a blinding technique?" the white-bearded elder inquired.

The old monk attempting to repair the Buddhist beads also shook his head, "Amitabha Buddha, he hasn’t used any technique to cover himself. This is his true form; even his bones are different from the Violent Dragon Demon Venerable unless..."

"Unless what?" The Sword Venerable’s voice remained icy.

"Unless it’s the Bone Transformation Technique, but that seems highly unlikely."

The middle-aged scholar interjected once more, his forehead slightly furrowed as he stared unblinkingly at Lu Wenwu below, who was throwing around spirit stones.

"Not to mention that this demonic secret skill had been lost for over a thousand years. Even if he found the inheritance left by the Demon Monarch of Ten Thousand Transformations, the probability of learning it is exceedingly low."

"To cultivate the Bone Transformation Technique, one would need a Divinity Transformation cultivation and a large amount of flesh and blood, along with a ten-thousand-year-old spiritual material that only grows in the deep sea—the Profound Spirit Jade Bone Algae, to aid in cultivation."

"Everyone here are learned individuals with deep foundations. You should all know that when the Dragon Race was in their ruling era, all the spirit veins of the sea focused in the Dragon Palace City, leaving nearly nothing for the outside world."

"And since the Dragon Race and their clans vanished from the Cultivation Realm nearly ten thousand years ago, the supply of sea spiritual materials in the entire realm has almost ceased. How could the Violent Dragon Demon Venerable find the Dragon Race and obtain such precious spiritual materials from their medicine garden?"

"Even if we consider the extremely unlikely scenario where the Violent Dragon Demon Venerable truly mastered this technique, with the explosive power he could unleash in an instant, who among us could escape his assassination? He could easily disguise himself as any of us, so how could we sit here leisurely drinking tea and discussing Dao?"

The Sword Venerable also frowned, "The Violent Dragon Demon Venerable uses ’dragon’ in his title. According to Mo Lu, he can transform into a dragon and release pure dragon power. Couldn’t he have a connection to the Dragon Race?"

"If he truly had a connection with the Dragon Race, why would he practice demon cultivation?" the middle-aged scholar retorted helplessly, "The True Dragon Race is such a wealthy race; the sea could be said to be their private property. What could he want that he couldn’t get?"

After this statement, the Sword Venerable fell silent.

The middle-aged scholar made a good point.

The majority of demonic cultivators, apart from those born with a dark disposition and antisocial tendencies, or common folk born within the demonic domain, mostly turned to demon cultivation because they encountered insurmountable obstacles in their cultivation.

Whether it’s the lack of higher-level resources to break through, insufficient aptitude to overcome, or wrong paths taken in youth without priceless treasures to remedy them.

Ultimately, they are stuck.

In the short term, they could rely on their previously solidified Dao heart to hold on.

Over time, just like the Celestial Star Child, they start taking the wrong paths for the sake of longevity, eventually becoming a demonic cultivator.

But these problems simply don’t exist within the True Dragon Race.

The True Dragon Race has an extreme thirst for dragon-born and outstanding dragon talents, evident from the existence of the Transformed Dragon Sect.

Therefore, among cultivators of the Immortal Dao Alliance, if the Violent Dragon Demon Venerable truly had even the slightest bloodline connection with the True Dragon Race, would the Dragon Race ignore such a genius capable of transcending levels in battle?

Within the Dragon Race, issues of territoriality and social background are negligible. As long as one possesses the dragon bloodline and can fight well, that’s enough.

They are famously affluent, featuring wealth that could rival realms.

And are extremely protective.

Most of the time, the True Dragon Race entertains themselves within the Dragon Palace.

If any related dragon within their clan gets harmed outside, at the very least, they might exterminate the opposing clan, or at worst, they might extract and refine the souls of the entire clan.

In the Cultivation Realm, as long as you are strong enough, even if you say the sun is green, it’s correct, and it’s the truth.

Right or wrong?

Are you saying you want to talk right and wrong with a race that considers the ocean its backyard, can govern the world with ease, but is generally too lazy to move and stays home counting money?

In a world where the strong prey on the weak, there’s no right or wrong.

Within the Dragon Race, even less so.

If the Violent Dragon Demon Venerable truly had ties to the Dragon Race, the first thing the current Dragon Emperor would do upon ascending the throne would be to attack the Five Elements Array Sect and eradicate them entirely, then await an apology from the Immortal Dao Alliance or directly go to war.

Thus, after a brief discussion, the late-stage Divinity Transformation experts quickly removed Lu Wenwu from their list of suspects.

They just considered him an exceptionally lucky individual, unexpectedly acquiring a massive inheritance from some relic.

At the very least, that sounded more reasonable than the notion that the Violent Dragon Demon Venerable was of Dragon Race origin, considering there have been cases in the Cultivation Realm of overnight wealth growth.

However, he was remarkably confident, daring to show off in a grand auction amidst so many cultivators, seemingly afraid that others wouldn’t know about his abundance of spirit stones.