The Steward Demonic Emperor

telling you that I can raise a sect, the next second Xie Wuyue came telling me to do so.
Think I’m stupid? Telling you about my wealth will make you do everything to make me spend it all!”

“That means you have plenty to spare, ha-ha-ha.
Great!” Elder Yuan nodded and smiled like a weasel. 

Zhuo Fan’s mouth twitched, though he didn’t care that much.
He could keep up with the expenses for a long long time, but that didn’t mean he wanted to.
The faster he finished this plan, the faster he paid back Xie Wuyue’s favor and would be free.

He never once cared about the Demon Scheming Sect.
It was all for the sake of being able to leave.
If there was one place he’d rather spend his time at, it was that new little house.

Elder Yuan noticed it as well and sighed.
[The kid has no connection to the sect, even with his two disciples here…]

Elder Yuan smiled, “Steward Zhuo, you’ve gone to such lengths and spent so much for the sect and having received nothing in return must have put you in a bad mood.
Then let me tell you a secret rumor that might be of little help.”

“What rumor? Is it Xie Wuyue’s gossip? Next time I’ll smack that greedy little bugger and take out my resentment on him so that you never get another idea about my pockets, ha-ha-ha…”

Elder Yuan’s face twitched and he chuckled, “Steward Zhuo, please don’t joke.
I’m being honest here.
The rumor comes from the western lands and only the higher ups of the sects are privy to it.
I only got to hear about it by playing lackey to an alchemist.
It is about the secret of the Dragon Vein Soul…”

“Dragon Vein Soul?” That caught Zhuo Fan’s attention, “You mean that Nine Dragons Diamond Body?”

Elder Yuan smiled in disdain, “That’s just a waste of dragon soul’s power.”

“What do you mean?” Zhuo Fan turned serious.

Ethereal Stage experts say, “With the nine dragon souls in one’s body, anyone who can withstand their torture while under Ethereal Stage, will achieve the Nine Dragons Diamond Body and enter the Ethereal Stage on the spot.
But this path is a waste, because his soul would become that of an earth dragon soul.
No different than those other nine dragon souls.
So when meeting another Ethereal Stage expert, your body may be tough, but your soul will be weaker.” 

“The better way of using dragon souls is the ten dragon soul convergence.
Conjoining heaven and earth, activating the heaven vein and drawing the nine heaven dragon’s powers into yourself to form the heaven dragon soul! It is beyond anything the earth dragon soul can achieve.
This soul’s natural aura can quell another’s soul and make battles far easier.
Rumor has it that the earth dragon soul is a top soul, but lacks in both attack styles and one could only skip two layers while the heaven dragon soul can skip five!”

“What?!”

Zhuo Fan was astounded, having never heard of anything related to heaven dragon soul.

Closing his eyes, Zhuo Fan recalled the Nine Serenities Secret Records and its contents but nothing about it was mentioned.
[Not even the Nine Serenities Emperor knew?]

Though there was one thing that drew his attention, pertaining to the true dragon soul.

Sacred Domain’s dragon race had the Dragon Tomb where its generations were buried and the dragon power ran strong.
By using it to refine the soul, the strongest dragon soul would take shape. 

But that place was the dragon race’s restricted area, under tight guard.

Going there as anything but an Ethereal Stage was a death wish.

While after reaching the Ethereal Stage, one lost a crucial chance to form their soul so no one would think of going there to refine a true dragon soul.

[But from Elder Yuan’s words, this heaven dragon soul sounds like a soul formed by refinement of the Dragon Tomb’s dragon power.]

[I can’t steal it in the Sacred Domain but I can in the mortal domain?]

Elder Yuan knew he was puzzled and continued, “The ten dragons open the heavens and provide one with the timing to enter the Ethereal Stage.
Though lacking in the Nine Dragons Diamond Body’s toughness, it matters not when soul is all that counts in the Ethereal Stage.
In the western lands we are in, only Double Dragon Sect’s Exalted Double Dragon managed to achieve the heaven dragon soul!”