The snow rabbits living in the highland snowy lands have delicate meat that provides a certain nourishing effect to the souls of the soul masters' bodies.
The properly prepared snow rabbit meat sizzled with oil under the charcoal fire's roasting, emitting a rich, meaty aroma.
As usual, Xu Zihuang simply ate some roasted rabbit meat before beginning his meditative cultivation.
In the Dragon Valley, soul power and martial souls could not be used; one could only rely on the body's basic attributes and mental power. The reason he meditated and cultivated was mainly to restore his mental power to its optimal state.
Meanwhile, Wang Qiu'er kept her head lowered, silently chewing the crispy, oil-dripping roasted rabbit meat. From time to time, she glanced toward Xu Zihuang opposite her, her eyes dazed and lost in thought, unaware of what she was thinking.
In this serene mountain forest, only the crackling sounds like exploding beans from the burning bonfire could be heard. The young boy and girl sitting opposite each other around the bonfire formed a beautiful and picturesque scene.
An hour passed quickly.
Xu Zihuang, who had been sitting cross-legged in meditation, slowly opened his eyes and met Wang Qiu'er's gaze across the bonfire.
Wang Qiu'er, who had been in a daze, immediately refocused her pink-blue pupils, but her expression was slightly unnatural.
"Let's go." Xu Zihuang nodded calmly, then activated his soul power and flew toward the peak of the mountain ahead.
Wang Qiu'er did not hesitate much either. Stepping on golden flames, she closely followed behind.
Soon, Xu Zihuang landed on the edge of the cliff at the mountaintop. His deep purple eyes instantly transformed into brilliant gold. Surging soul power fluctuations erupted from his body.
Black, black, black, black, black, red, gold.
One after another soul rings, enough to shock anyone, rose from beneath his feet.
The bright golden million-year seventh soul ring shone brilliantly. A massive golden pupil seemed to emerge from the void behind Xu Zihuang. Obscure and strange patterns within the pupil bloomed with dazzling light halos. The surrounding space became distorted under the rendering of this brilliant golden light.
Golden Pupil True Body!
The light halos continued to spread outward, instantly expanding to a diameter of a hundred meters. The sense of spatial distortion grew increasingly intense.
Wang Qiu'er, standing behind Xu Zihuang, suddenly felt her heart race. This feeling was very strange, as if something was calling to her.
At that moment, a solid golden light pillar suddenly shot into the sky. The sky was torn open by the light pillar, revealing a huge rift. Seven-colored light spread outward from the rift.
"This is..." Sensing the aura within the seven-colored light, Wang Qiu'er felt as if the bloodline in her body had been ignited. The calling sensation grew even stronger. She stared dazedly at the extraordinarily mystical scene before her.
Xu Zihuang felt the same way. The gold-silver scale even emerged uncontrollably from between his brows. Seven-colored light halos flowed across the scale, faintly resonating with the seven-colored light from the rift.
"Go!"
However, through memories from his previous life, he already had some understanding of the situation inside the Dragon Valley. Without hesitation, he grabbed Wang Qiu'er's hand and rushed into the black rift. Moments later, the rift closed, and the two figures disappeared.
Afterward, Xu Zihuang and Wang Qiu'er felt the world spinning around them; everything around them became blurred. It seemed an invisible pulling force was dragging their bodies.
Wang Qiu'er almost instinctively reached back and grabbed Xu Zihuang's wrist. The two maintained their wrist-locked position, falling downward like free-fall.
At the same time, an invisible, strange energy drilled into their bodies, causing their martial souls and soul power to fall silent. Even the gold sun earring, transformed from the Skydream Iceworm, turned into a stream of light and merged into Xu Zihuang's sea of consciousness. And they were already very close to the ground.
Although Wang Qiu'er felt somewhat surprised and uncertain, she did not lose her composure. Her true form was the Emperor Auspicious Beast, the Three-Eyed Golden Lion, and she possessed the Golden Dragon bloodline. In the instant of landing, she used her body's strength to neutralize most of the impact.
Xu Zihuang appeared even more composed. He even had spare capacity to use his tangible and qualitative mental power to help stabilize both himself and Wang Qiu'er.
Looking up, the sky was a clear blue, almost no different from the main Douluo world. This was the Dragon Valley space.
There were no nights in the Dragon Valley space, and the flow of time was the same as outside. It only felt slower due to the special nature of this world.
Coming back to her senses, Wang Qiu'er belatedly withdrew her right hand and returned to her usual cold demeanor, her delicate body turned sideways to Xu Zihuang. But judging from her flickering gaze, it somehow seemed like an attempt to cover up something.
Toward Xu Zihuang, a hard-to-hide sense of dependence had already arisen deep in her subconscious.
Xu Zihuang paid no attention to this and instead observed the surroundings. They were in a hilly area with vegetation growing around.
Standing on the small hill beneath their feet and looking into the distance, mist filled the air, and vision could not reach far.
If he could use the abilities of the Golden Pupil martial soul, these mists naturally would not obstruct Xu Zihuang.
But unfortunately, his martial soul and soul power were now sealed. He could only mobilize mental power, and using mental power in this Dragon Valley space consumed nearly twice as much as outside. Considering all aspects, he did not choose to release his mental power to sense the situation inside the Dragon Valley.
The restrictions here were indeed significant, but with his tangible and qualitative mental power combined with his powerful physical abilities, even facing true dragon souls, he had absolute confidence in killing them.
After all, those dragon souls only possessed less than one percent of their peak strength, while his Golden Pupil martial soul's fifth and sixth soul skills, purely mental attributes, could be used relying on mental power.
"Is this perhaps the dragons' burial ground?" Wang Qiu'er, whose emotions had calmed, also looked around and murmured, deeply moved.
With the Golden Dragon bloodline, she was originally of legitimate dragon lineage. Since her birth, Ditian had told her the history of the dragon race.
Back when the dragon race was at its peak, to bury the corpses of numerous kin and prevent desecration by other races, they specially opened up a small world. But later, with the decline of the dragon race, this small world also disappeared into the spatial turbulence.
Just as Wang Qiu'er murmured, a sudden change occurred.
Ahead of the hilly area where they were was an open plain. High in the sky above the plain, patches of clouds seemed to find a point of release, surging violently and then swarming toward their direction.
These clouds were extremely unusual, each of different colors: red, orange, yellow, green, cyan, blue, purple, and so on, all present.
In the blink of an eye, Xu Zihuang and Wang Qiu'er's bodies were already enveloped by these multicolored clouds.
Each color of cloud contained rich elemental attribute energy, each with its own characteristics nourishing the two's bodies.
For example, the scorching heat of red fire-attribute dragon clouds, the lightness of cyan wind-attribute dragon clouds, the gentleness of blue water-attribute dragon clouds, and so on.
However, most of these dragon clouds poured into Xu Zihuang's body, with Wang Qiu'er only receiving a portion.
The dragon scale at Xu Zihuang's brow possessed both Golden Dragon and Silver Dragon bloodlines, essentially a weakened version of the Dragon God bloodline. It was only natural that it could attract those dragon clouds.
Wang Qiu'er received the dragon clouds' favor because of the remnant Golden Dragon bloodline in her body.
But even absorbing only a smaller portion of the dragon cloud energy, Wang Qiu'er's meridians already felt bloated. She immediately sat cross-legged and entered a state of deep meditation.
Xu Zihuang's body had greater endurance, but after the last wisp of cloud passed through him, he too reached his limit.
Countless light points shuttled and flickered within his body, mainly energies of the seven major elemental attributes: water, fire, wind, earth, darkness, light, and space. Other elemental attribute energies were relatively fewer.
Among them, those most compatible with Xu Zihuang were naturally the lightning-attribute and mental-attribute dragon cloud energies.
As these elemental attribute energies shuttled through Xu Zihuang's body, they gradually fused with the bloodline within him.
Because soul power and martial soul were sealed, the elemental energies would not fuse with his soul power, but they could integrate into his body. It was like a great tonic nourishing the body.
Unknowingly, Xu Zihuang also entered a state of deep meditation.
After an unknown amount of time, Xu Zihuang finally awoke from meditation. The first thing he felt was that his body's affinity for various elemental energies had greatly increased; he could clearly see the multicolored elemental light points in the space.
Although it did not grant him the ability to control other attributes, it would allow him to reduce the damage received when facing various attribute soul skill attacks in the future.
Moreover, his mental power had also improved considerably. Although there were indeed a few dragon clouds originating from mental-attribute dragon clans, their quality was high. Many mental-attribute dragon clans were exceptionally powerful beings.
Then Xu Zihuang checked his internal condition and found that even his bones had gained a crystalline and translucent quality.
Without a doubt, his physical quality had once again received a tremendous boost. This would have self-evident benefits for his future absorption of high-tier soul rings and soul bones, and even for condensing his second and third soul cores. The effect of dragon cloud body nourishment was almost comparable to fusing a top-tier hundred-thousand-year soul bone.
Xu Zihuang stood up and looked ahead. If his senses were correct, most of the dragon clouds in the Dragon Valley had been attracted by the aura of the dragon scale between his brows. That was why even his already formidable physique had reached its limit.
Wang Qiu'er, beside him, was still cultivating; it seemed she would need more time to fully refine the attribute energies brought by those dragon clouds.
Xu Zihuang did not rush to advance into the core area of the Dragon Valley but instead stood guard by Wang Qiu'er's side. At the same time, he sensed the time flow in the Dragon Valley world.
Although his martial soul was sealed, even without using the Golden Pupil martial soul, his perception of time and space was extremely keen.
This deep meditation had actually lasted a full two months and more.
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