The beauty had left, and Zhao Sheng turned around and was about to return to the cave.
At this moment, he suddenly cried out in surprise and quickly walked to a stone wall next to the cave.
Zhao Sheng reached his right hand into the crack in the stone wall, pulled hard, and pulled out a huge claw as "like a knife" from it.
The lower half of the claw was connected to a bloody piece of flesh, with two pieces of broken scales hanging on it.
The upper half of the claw is a sharp claw half a person's height and as sharp as a knife.
Needless to say, this thing was left behind by the unlucky cloud dragon.
Zhao Sheng held up his paw and looked around.
Only then did he notice that Yun Jiao had actually left behind a lot of "good things".
On the slopes and nearby mountain walls, you can see patches of sticky, crimson, and fragrant dragon blood.
Small pieces of dragon flesh and blood of varying sizes hang between the rocks in the mountain crevices and on the slopes, and occasionally there are dragon scales that are either broken or intact.
Zhao Sheng was overjoyed when he saw this.
You should know that as one of the top true dragon species, the Jiaolong is full of treasures.
The dragon's inner elixir is a top-grade spiritual object used to refine the "golden elixir." Its flesh and blood can be used to refine elixirs and extract blood essence, while its scales, claws, and bones can be used to refine weapons. Even its dung can be used to deter lesser monsters.
One can imagine how valuable the flesh, blood, and scales dropped from a Jindan-level dragon are.
Zhao Sheng worked for most of the day before he finally cleaned the slope and the surrounding mountain walls.
Because there was no suitable container, he simply carved two large vats out of stone to hold the dragon's real blood and broken flesh and scales separately.
As for the claws, Zhao Sheng used his magic flying sword to cut them for nearly half an hour before he finally separated the claws from the bones and flesh underneath.
Only the four-foot-long dragon claw was left, which could barely fit into the storage bag.
After moving the two large vats into the cave and hiding them, Zhao Sheng's injuries, which he had been suppressing, finally flared up again.
His face changed. After barely sealing the entrance to the cave, he immediately took a healing pill, then sat cross-legged and circulated his spiritual power, starting to repair the cracks in his internal organs bit by bit.
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Time flies, and a month has passed in the blink of an eye.
At this time, Tianzhu Mountain was getting colder day by day, and cold waves broke out frequently, causing countless herbalists to complain bitterly. They had to go down the mountain early and wait for the thaw next year.
As a result, Tianzhu Mountain became deserted, and there were almost no people in the area between the first and second layers of sea of clouds.
In contrast, the area above the triple sea of clouds is very lively.
From time to time, one can see Jindan Zhenren either riding magic weapons, or riding on beasts, or simply riding on cloud boats to arrive at Tianzhu Mountain.
Most of the Jindan Zhenren flew directly into the three-layer sea of clouds when they arrived here.
A few people also went to Dongtian City to find acquaintances to inquire about the situation. After they were fully prepared, they headed towards a mysterious place.
Zhao Sheng was completely unaware of the disturbances in the outside world and was unwilling to pay attention to them.
In the passage, Zhao Sheng swung his pickaxe and chiseled off a piece of stone with each strike.
He was working hard at this time.
Since his internal organ injuries fully recovered twenty days ago, Zhao Sheng has devoted most of his energy to digging the tunnel.
After more than half a month, the channel was more than doubled in length.
The concentration of spiritual energy in the surrounding area also increased at an astonishing rate, far exceeding the highest level of the Longli Lake spiritual vein.
In the past two days, Zhao Sheng had a vague premonition that the tunnel was about to be dug to the end.
About two hours later, Zhao Sheng hit the stone wall with the head of his pickaxe and suddenly felt his hand lighten. He looked again and saw that most of the pickaxe had sunk into a dark hole.
"Haha, it finally got through!"
Zhao Sheng was so overjoyed that he quickly pulled out his pickaxe and chiseled more than ten times, expanding the hole in front of him into a large hole big enough for a person to enter.
Looking at the dark and unknown cave in front of him, Zhao Sheng took the lighting ball from the stone wall and threw it into the cave.
As the lighting ball fell inside, Zhao Sheng could see the scenery in the cave clearly with the help of the light.
To his surprise, the cave was very spacious, with a diameter of more than three meters.
The surrounding rock walls are very smooth except for the places where they are cracked by tree roots. The whole thing looks like a circular tunnel that can easily allow a heavy truck to drive inside.
"This is...!"
Seeing this strange sight, Zhao Sheng slowly frowned, and suddenly a secret story circulating in Dongtian City emerged in his mind.
"The spirit earthworms have a king, named the Mountain Dragon. The largest are as tall as mountains, and their Nascent Soul cannot be bullied. They live for thousands of years and yet remain immortal, transforming into a true dragon after a hundred calamities!"
Zhao Sheng muttered to himself, "Could it be that this tunnel was dug by a mountain dragon?"
He doesn't think the tunnel was formed naturally.
Moreover, apart from the mountain dragon, Zhao Sheng could not think of any other powerful monster that could move freely in a mountain more than two hundred feet deep and drill out such a huge tunnel.
After a moment, Zhao Sheng walked slowly along the tunnel with an extremely cautious expression.
He was fully armed, holding the Small Zhoutian Talisman Plate in his right hand and a small pale green arrow in his left hand. Three water swirling shields floated in front of him, and he was covered with two layers of golden armor.
The tunnel is not completely horizontal, but slopes downward at thirty degrees.
At this time, he discovered that the mysterious tree roots were the signposts. Not only did they grow along the tunnel, but their direction was also consistent with the direction of the spiritual vein.
After walking about three or four miles, Zhao Sheng felt that the view in front of him suddenly became clear, and an underground cave suddenly appeared in front of him.
This grotto covers an area of dozens of acres, and the concentration of spiritual energy inside is so high that he has never seen it in his life.
It is certain that the concentration of this spiritual energy is no less than that of the spiritual orifice of the second-level spiritual vein.
However, Zhao Sheng's mind was not on this.
At this moment he was shocked by the scene before him.
In the huge cave, countless python-like tree roots broke through the stone walls and hung down from all directions.
The ends of all the tree roots are embedded in the body of a huge snake-like creature that is coiled like a mountain in the center of the cave.
The Golden Core Cloud Dragon he had seen before was already a giant creature, but compared with the giant in front of him, it was just a small loach.
The moment he saw it for the first time, Zhao Sheng was 100% sure that this giant creature was undoubtedly a mountain dragon.
It's not just because its body looks like an earthworm magnified countless times, nor is it just because you can see nests of spiritual earthworms drilling in and out of its body.
The most important thing is that it exudes an aura very similar to that of the Yunjiao, just like the might of a dragon.
Even though this mountain dragon has been dead for countless years, the natural pressure unique to high-level dragon creatures has never dissipated and still shocks his mind at all times.
Zhao Sheng pushed aside the tree roots blocking the way and slowly walked towards the mountain dragon.
As he got closer, he was more and more shocked by the mountain dragon's enormous body. At the same time, he felt deeply saddened that a powerful creature like the mountain dragon, favored by heaven and earth, could not survive the catastrophe of dragon transformation.
"Live ten thousand years and still be immortal, transform into a true dragon after a hundred calamities!"
Looking at the remains of the mountain dragon, which had already turned to earth and stone, Zhao Sheng's expression was filled with regret. Finally, he murmured in an inaudible voice: "In which calamity did you die?"