Blind Spot
Chapter 541 - 497 was founded in the third year

Chapter 541: 497 was founded in the third year

Two days later.

The originally scheduled hot springs trip was postponed by a day because the Faceless Sword Sect had an urgent task for Kui Ling.

Fengling Mountain.

Located at least hundreds of thousands of kilometers away from the Faceless Sword Sect, in the Outer Domain far from the border, there lies a unique mountain range belonging solely to the Spiritual Beasts of the Phoenix Blood Clan, known as Fengling Mountain.

All creatures with phoenix bloodlines would gather here to avoid the covetous gaze of external forces.

Over time, the initial phoenix blood spiritual beasts became revered elders and established themselves here.

The undulating snowy highlands are a common sight in this area.

The temperature of this mountain range can drop to as low as negative ten degrees, and that’s after the improvement from the habitation of the Phoenix Blood Clan.

Deep within the snowy mountains.

Three blurry figures suddenly appeared, materializing out of thin air in the snowy forest.

They were led by a tall woman in a green dress, followed by two other women and a boy.

"This is the place," said Kui Ling, looking up at the cave entrance partially veiled by the falling snow.

"This place is quite hidden, only accessible to new visitors brought by regulars. They don’t entertain general cultivators, so once you register this time, you’ll be able to come and go freely in the future."

Kui Ling said with a smile, now wearing a light and thin green gauze dress that made her full chest sway with each step.

When it came to figure, she was almost the strongest chested fighter Li Chengyi had ever seen!

She was about 1.5 times the size of Zhuang Yijing, bordering on defying the laws of physics.

But for a cultivator, the physical laws here could be very different from those on Earth-Moon.

Yun Chen, who was one step behind, appeared much more normal. It was hardly noticeable, even though she only wore a bathrobe-like white dress; if you don’t have it, you just don’t have it...

If it weren’t for that face, probably no one could tell she was a woman.

Li Chengyi sighed as he saw Yun Chen’s sister timidly covering her chest, suddenly reminded of Rainbow Candy.

He wondered how the team was doing and was still unsure about the flow of time here. If he stayed too long, he might miss the Blind Spot period back home, and it wouldn’t be worth returning.

Therefore, he must improve his own strength as much as possible before finding a way out. The Holy Spirit Technique and Faceless Sword Technique of the Faceless Sword Sect were the best pathways.

"Let’s go."

Yun Chen’s voice brought him back to the present.

"All right."

Li Chengyi quickly followed the two who were already heading inside.

They entered the cave, winding their way through for several minutes,

before finally reaching a spacious and brightly lit hall entrance.

Within a desolate and untidy primitive cave, suddenly a door appeared ahead.

A three-meter tall white door stood open, adorned with magnificent phoenix patterns, emanating a faint warmth.

Inside was a hall as grand as a European salon.

Past the door, directly ahead, were two inverted V-shaped red staircases.

About a dozen figures, some sparse, some clustered, had already arrived in the pure white hall.

Half of these figures were purely human in form, while the rest mostly bore various beastly characteristics.

As Kui Ling entered with her group, several people greeted her warmly.

"Kui Ling, it’s been a long time since we last met at Jushan, over a decade has flashed by."

"Sister Kui Ling is still so beautiful, you look almost the same as us on the surface, I’m envious."

"You promised this time, after soaking in the bath, no running away, it’s not fair to win and then just leave!"

One by one, beautiful women of various appearances chatted familiarly with Kui Ling.

Li Chengyi, however, wasn’t paying attention to the socializing; his gaze was involuntarily drawn to the corner of the second floor where a large figure stood prominently on a spacious platform.

The unique hot steam of the hot springs filled the hall, mingled with a faint hint of sulfur.

But all of it paled in comparison to the eye-catching creature Li Chengyi was observing.

On that white marble-like corner platform stood a pale golden, incredibly elongated dragon!

Not a winged lizard, but a legitimate long serpentine dragon of Eastern tradition!

Pale golden scales, slender whiskers, and fierce horns on its head—all unequivocally declaring that this creature was a genuine, bona fide dragon!

"What’s the matter? Is this your first time seeing a dragon?" Yun Chen quietly asked from behind.

"...Indeed, this is the first time I’m seeing such a purebred dragon..." Li Chengyi nodded, staring intently at the creature.

The dragons he had seen before were nothing like Shadow Dragons when compared to this classically authentic Eastern Divine Dragon.

"That’s Mr. Jin Wuxi, the manager of the hot springs here," Yun Chen introduced.

"He’s a true golden dragon with a pure Ocean Divine Dragon lineage, one capable of cloud gathering and rain making. He’s been working here for over a thousand years. Anyhow, my teacher told me before that he’s been working here for a very long time.

Since his scales can spread out into many hooks, he’s always taken on the role of hanging up clothes and towels for customers.

Every time a customer passes by, he sincerely blesses them. A blessing from an Ocean Divine Dragon has a certain chance of affecting one’s actual luck.

But it’s all down to probability, so... many people see it just as a simple well-wishing phrase, best if effective, but if not, at least it’s comforting."

"Can it be done like this?" Li Chengyi was at a loss for words.

At that moment, the godly dragon Jin Wuxi seemed to notice his gaze and turned its head to nod at him slightly.

Li Chengyi nodded back in response.

Soon, Kui Ling finished her idle chatter and led the two of them up the stairs.

The two staircases merged at a platform in the middle and then continued upward to the second floor where the hot springs were located.

It was on this platform that the godly dragon Jin Wuxi coiled itself.

Its body was draped in all manner of bath towels and clothes in a disarray.

Kui Ling went up, pulled off her long dress in one swift motion, revealing her undergarment, and proceeded upstairs with practiced ease.

"Be careful of slippery floors."

The majestic voice of the dragon lowered as it warned.

Then came Yun Chen, who also took off her outer skirt, revealing her underwear, and followed suit.

Li Chengyi walked up, took off his outer robe, carefully hung it on a piece of dragon scale, then craned his neck to get a closer look at Jin Wuxi.

A more than ten-meter-high golden dragon, it was indeed quite magnificent up close. It perfectly matched the description found in myths: majestic, beautiful, sacred.

Most importantly, wisps of white clouds naturally and seamlessly appeared around it.

The clouds spread around the great hall, effectively transforming it into an automatic fog-making machine.

"Be careful of slippery floors," the dragon extended one claw to hang Li Chengyi’s clothes on an even higher and more secure part of its scales, all with an air of business as usual.

Li Chengyi was at a loss for words once more. He turned his head to see that Kui Ling and Yun Chen had already moved quite far away, so he hurriedly followed them.

The hot springs were not of the public, open variety, but rather private individual rooms were provided to each person.

It was an indoor private spa.

On the second floor, Kui Ling walked straight to a counter marked "cashier," took out a crystal stone, and handed it in.

Behind the counter was a western red dragon, wearing a wig and light makeup.

She was not very big—only one meter and ninety centimeters tall. Her claws were quite adept as she took the crystal stone, licked it, and began to count.

Her two bat-like wings fluttered behind her, indicating her good mood.

"Anna, where’s your boss? I didn’t see her today," Kui Ling casually inquired.

"The boss? Oh, she’s gone on a business trip. We’ve run out of hot spring materials, and it’s been quite chaotic outside recently. There seems to be some big monster looking for something, very dangerous. Now it’s slightly safer, so she took the opportunity to go out shopping," replied the red dragon in an artificially sweet coquettish voice.

"...That’s tough," Kui Ling said with some sympathy, then turned to Li Chengyi, who looked incredulous, and said.

"It’s a pity you can’t see the boss, or you might have gained even more from this trip."

"Yes, yes, the owner here is an auspicious beast who can cleanse one’s heart and mind with just one look. Those who see her for the first time always benefit greatly," Yun Chen added with an approving expression.

"I myself broke through a longtime bottleneck and earned the qualification to practice the Thousand Face Sword Canon with just one glance," recalled Yun Chen.

Here are your room cards," the Miss Red Dragon efficiently gave each of the three a specially made black stone card inscribed with a line of small characters: Yunyun Elegant Room.

"Let’s go, let’s go! Quick, we’re being charged by the second!" Kui Ling took the cards and with a wave of her sleeve.

In an instant, a bright green light surged, enveloping the three of them before they vanished in the blink of an eye.

A moment later.

Inside a solo, rectangular bedroom.

The room was entirely gray, made of rugged rock walls, with the floor divided into two sections.

To the left of the entrance was a large, soft brown bed.

On the right was an oval hot spring pool, a generous five meters in diameter.

"Welcome, everything for eating and drinking is ready. Please enjoy."

From the steam arising from the hot spring, suddenly a host of tiny people, no bigger than fingernails, flew out.

They had dragonfly-like translucent wings, beautiful features, and wore only a thin layer of fine gauze, vaguely revealing beautiful curves that weren’t much different from humans.

"Thanks," Kui Ling briskly walked to the hot spring, tugged off her undergarment, and with a ’plop,’ jumped in completely naked.

"They are hot spring spirits. Because they’re constantly exposed to the aura of the hot springs, the nearby air and steam combine to give birth to these little fairies; they are here to serve us food and drink and later they will clean the hot spring pool as well," Yun Chen explained to Li Chengyi.

She then stealthily leaned in, her body pressing against Li Chengyi, and whispered in his ear.

"Actually, they are all lazy gluttons—the water in the hot spring is so dirty because they can’t be bothered to clean it. Don’t be fooled by their cheerful attitudes now—if you tip them too little later, they’ll curse a storm behind your back."

Li Chengyi was poked so sharply by her chest that he instinctively created a bit of distance between them.

Listening to Yun Chen’s explanation, he felt somewhat speechless in his heart.

"Come on, don’t waste time!" shouted Kui Ling from the hot spring, waving them over.

Yun Chen hurried, quickly stripping off her clothes and jumping into the spring, naked.

"Amazing!" she exclaimed, unable to keep from yelling. "Why does it smell like rabbit urine?"

"It’s definitely because a rabbit spirit stayed in this room last time!" Kui Ling said lazily. "Around here, the only one who can afford to stay here besides Elder Tu of Mount Suiyue, is a three-thousand-year-old Moon Rabbit Spirit Beast, touted as the most beautiful entity in Mount Suiyue. Rabbit urine can beautify and nourish the skin, so it’s okay."

"...I even heard that an elder from the Qingmu Sword Sect specifically buys her urine, one crystal stone per two ounces, but it has to be fresh," Kui Ling added.