"Roar!"
The roar of the sacred dragon echoed across the heavens. Wherever Long Chen stood, the mountains and rivers spanning tens of thousands of miles collapsed in an instant.
Space is collapsing, time is twisting, endless fragments of time and space fly, and the silent mountains turn into nothingness.
"Pfft" Long Chen's
entire body was covered in silver dragon scales, but those scales shattered in an instant, leaving him a bloody mess.
The powerful and domineering will of the golden dragon scales directly stripped the Azure Dragon essence blood from Long Chen's body, while the golden divine light within the scales slowly poured into his body.
While Long Chen was absorbing the essence blood of the Golden Dragon, a group of figures appeared in the distance. They watched him from the shadows, including Bai Shishi's mother, Bai Xiaole's mother, Bai Zhantang, and more than a dozen elderly men with white hair.
One of them had white hair and a youthful face, looking energetic. If Long Chen saw him, he would recognize him as the old man he had encountered the first time he entered the Divine Dao Scripture Pavilion, wiping books.
Aside from this old man, almost all the others had dim eyesight, wrinkles on their faces deeper than tree bark, so old they could barely open their eyes.
But Bai Zhantang and his wife, standing beside them, didn't even dare to breathe, filled with reverence for them.
"Is the spatial barrier set up?" said the white-haired, youthful elder.
"Reporting to the Dean, three layers of barriers have been set up. No one should be able to peek here." Bai Xiaole's mother hurriedly said.
This white-haired, youthful elder was Bai Letian, the current dean of Lingxiao Academy. If Long Chen knew it was him, he would surely be shocked.
"Go set up two more layers." Bai Letian pondered for a moment and said.
"Yes,"
Bai Xiaole's mother nodded and turned to disappear.
"Dad, do you not believe in Xiaoyu's strength?" Bai Zhantang asked in confusion.
Bai Xiaole's mother possessed the Three-Flower Eye Technique and possessed the strongest spatial power. The barrier she set up was impossible for others to see through, let alone three barriers. Now, being asked to add two more, he felt it was overreacting.
"Of course I trust her strength, but the matter of Long Chen is of great importance—there can be no room for carelessness." Bai Letian said.
Bai Zhantang was about to speak, but Bai Shishi's mother pulled him aside and glared at him, so Bai Zhantang finally shut up.
Bai Shishi's mother looked at Long Chen and sighed, "Long Chen is really impressive. He didn't even need to challenge the true dragon's will to gain recognition and started merging directly." "
This person has the aura of a dragon. If he weren't a Nine Star successor, I would think he was the reincarnation of a dragon clan powerhouse.
But how could a Nine-Star heir possibly be connected to the Dragon Clan? Moreover, his cultivation method had already gone beyond the scope of the Nine Stars, which was puzzling. An elder looked at Long Chen and couldn't help but ask curiously.
"Letian, you pulled out these old coffin ladles just for this kid?" Another elder spoke up.
His voice was dry, like the sound of wood scraping, extremely uncomfortable, as if he hadn't spoken for tens of thousands of years, and his tone was too strange.
"Letian dares not disturb the Immortal Elder; this is Lord Jingyuan's intention." Bai Letian said with a smile.
Upon hearing the name of Lord Jingyuan, the elders immediately fell silent and quietly watched Long Chen.
Long Chen had no idea that so many powerful figures outside were watching him from the shadows. Even if he knew, he couldn't care about any of it.
The will of the Golden Dragon Scales did not oppose him; when he absorbed the power of dragon blood, the blood merged into his body.
Long Chen didn't know if this dragon scale was related to the descendants of that mysterious dragon clan powerhouse, which was why he was given special favor.
But the moment the dragon blood merged into his body, he finally understood just how terrifying the Golden Divine Dragon truly was.
He was now at the peak of the twelfth level of Divine Fire, and with the blessing of the Divine Fire, his physical strength had reached its peak.
But even with such a terrifying body, a single drop of essence blood injected into his body instantly shattered his flesh and bones, shattering inch by inch. In front of that drop of Golden Dragon essence blood, he looked so weak.
The golden dragon blood entered his body, continuously shattering his tendons; after the meridians shattered, they recondensed, and after condensing, they shattered once more.
With each reunion after a breakup, the flexibility of the meridians increases several times, but even so, it's still not enough.
The shattered meridians caused unbearable pain, but for Long Chen, it did not affect his mind. He continued to concentrate and observe the changes in his body.
No one knew how much time had passed, but his meridians had been reshaped hundreds of times before finally stopping shattering. Long Chen knew that his meridians had finally been recognized by the dragon blood.
The meridians are the most important vessels in the human body. Only when the meridians are strong enough can they carry immense power and deliver it to every part of the body.
It not only had to withstand bloodline power, but also the impact of divine essence, divine fire, thunder, flames, and other forces. Therefore, its strength was the primary element of the body.
When his meridians became strong enough, dragon blood circulated within his body.
"Crack, crack... A
loud explosion rang inside Long Chen's body, then he collapsed to the ground like dough. All his bones shattered, and his skin split open, with fingernail-sized bone fragments emerging from the cut.
"Bone Transformation"—Long Chen's
forehead was already covered in sweat. The pain of bone replacement far surpassed meridian reconstruction, and just as Long Chen had predicted, bone replacement wasn't something that could be completed in one go.
After reshaping his muscles and bones, his bones became several times stronger, but still not meeting the requirements for golden dragon blood. As a result, Long Chen endured countless bone replacements in painful torment, and the bone fragments around him had piled up like a small mountain.
Finally, Long Chen's bones stopped shedding, and his flesh began to tear and reassemble again. But the pain of flesh and blood was no longer so unbearable for Long Chen.
Long Chen stood up, letting the flesh and blood peel away bit by bit, then gradually reborn. This cycle continued, blood staining the earth red, but Long Chen didn't care at all.
That bright red flesh was the remnant power of his body. To fully transform, he had to discard all his original flesh and blood.
Moreover, each time new flesh was born, it grew stronger and stronger, and within it, golden net-like objects began to appear. Although Long Chen could still move his body, he could already feel a power that even he himself would fear.
Time passed bit by bit, and the red blood flowing from Long Chen's body gradually diminished, gradually turning golden.
Within the golden dragon scales, dragon blood poured into Long Chen's body drop by drop, continuously transforming him. Golden dragon scale patterns gradually appeared on Long Chen's body, shining brilliantly as if forged from gold, making him appear clad in golden armor.
"Buzz!"
As the last drop of golden dragon blood surged from the golden dragon scales into Long Chen's body, the scales instantly turned to powder. The scales on Long Chen's body rapidly lit up, illuminating the sky, and a resonant dragon's roar echoed across the heavens.
Centered on Long Chen, a golden ripple burst forth. Wherever the ripple passed, the void shattered, myriad paths collapsed, and suddenly a light screen appeared—the first barrier. As soon as it appeared, it shattered instantly.
Ripples continued to bloom, crashing into another barrier. In an instant, the barrier was covered in cracks, and after just one breath, it exploded with a thunderous crash.
Bai Zhantang, watching from the shadows, couldn't help but gasp. He finally understood why Bai Letian had set up five barriers.
"Is this the sacred power of the True Dragon?" Bai Shishi's mother also looked shocked.