Two days later, Wang Qiu'er also finished absorbing the Dragon Cloud elemental attribute energy, and she and Xu Zihuang tacitly advanced together toward the interior of the Dragon Valley.
Unlike the indifference on her face, Wang Qiu'er, who had become increasingly certain about the origin of this Dragon Valley space, felt a few more layers of heaviness and oppression in her heart.
Xu Zihuang, however, did not have so many emotional fluctuations. As a human, the rise and fall of the Dragon Clan had nothing to do with him. He entered the Dragon Valley space only to obtain what he wanted.
For example, true dragon soul bones and dragon cores, as well as the energy crystal containing the last remnant soul of the Dragon God…
Arriving at the plain area, the view became wide open. The Dragon Clouds floating above this plain region had almost all passed through Xu Zihuang and Wang Qiu'er's bodies earlier, thereby staining them with a trace of their bloodline aura.
These Dragon Clouds that had already been absorbed once could no longer be absorbed again.
On the plain, there were occasionally some weak wandering Earth Dragon souls, but they posed no threat at all to the two of them. As long as Xu Zihuang and Wang Qiu'er stimulated the power of their bloodlines, those dragon souls would be suppressed, exploding into clumps of energy that they absorbed.
However, the effect of Earth Dragon soul energy on improving their physical qualities was actually far inferior to the earlier Dragon Cloud body tempering.
With the energy provided by Dragon Clouds and dragon souls, Xu Zihuang and Wang Qiu'er no longer needed to eat to replenish energy in this Dragon Valley space.
"Boom—"
Wang Qiu'er used her Golden Dragon Spear to pierce through a massive dragon soul covered entirely in crimson-red scales. Relying on her bloodline aura and the intimidation of the Golden Dragon Spear, this Crimson Armored Earth Dragon soul instantly exploded into pure energy, which flowed into her body through the Golden Dragon Spear as the medium without any loss.
Although the Crimson Armored Earth Dragon was not as high in status among Earth Dragons as the Tyrant Dragon, it was still a considerably powerful existence.
The dragon souls they encountered were growing stronger and stronger; the direction they were heading should be correct.
Xu Zihuang, who had been silently observing this, continued walking deeper into the forest. Not long ago, after crossing the vast plain, they had entered this forest.
After absorbing the energy of that Crimson Armored Earth Dragon soul, Wang Qiu'er held her Golden Dragon Spear and followed behind Xu Zihuang. After a moment of silence, she could no longer hold back and voiced the doubt in her heart.
"This small world should be the Dragon Tomb where the Dragon Clan buried the remains of their clansmen. Why do you know about the existence of the Dragon Tomb?"
"Because I can know the past and the future, and I can also see through fate." Xu Zihuang stopped in his tracks, turned back to look at Wang Qiu'er, and said calmly.
"When we return to the continent after this, if you don't want to be manipulated and schemed against by those with ulterior motives, then return to the Star Dou Great Forest. At least there, it will be safer than in the human world."
These were Xu Zihuang's sincere thoughts. Although he didn't feel that his relationship with Wang Qiu'er was particularly close, after spending time together day and night during this period, they could at least be called friends and companions.
He did not want to see Wang Qiu'er being toyed with like a puppet by some selfless God King.
Wang Qiu'er was instantly stunned in place. It wasn't just the shock from Xu Zihuang's earlier words; even more, she felt the sincerity in them.
She unconsciously gripped the Golden Dragon Spear tighter, then raised her head and met Xu Zihuang's gaze with burning eyes, her red lips parting slightly.
But just as she was about to say something, a high-pitched dragon roar suddenly resounded through the sky.
Above the forest, a blue-purple dragon soul hovered there. This dragon soul was over twenty meters long, with wings spread behind it, its entire body flashing with blue-purple lightning. Its ferocious and domineering tail dragged behind, and its pair of dragon claws were incomparably sharp.
Wherever it passed, electric arcs leaped about. Countless towering trees had their branches and leaves rapidly blackened and turned to ash.
Xu Zihuang raised an eyebrow in surprise.
"Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon?"
The Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon, as a powerful true dragon-type soul beast, had already gone extinct on the Douluo Continent. However, it was reasonable for its dragon soul to exist within the Dragon Valley.
This Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon soul had already discovered them. Its wings flapped, and it dove toward them. A blue-purple afterimage trailed behind it; its speed was astonishingly fast.
Lightning-attribute soul beasts were renowned for their destructive power and explosive force. The Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon was undoubtedly one of the pinnacles among lightning-attribute soul beasts. While possessing formidable attack and defense capabilities, its speed had no obvious weaknesses either.
In the blink of an eye, this Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon soul arrived in front of Xu Zihuang and Wang Qiu'er. Its huge mouth opened, and a clear, crystal-blue orb like a blue gemstone was spat out.
Blue Lightning Dragon Breath is the most powerful innate soul skill of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon clan. It compressed violent thunder power to achieve an extremely terrifying, destructive force. It bore some similarities to the ten-thousand-year soul ring skill Thunderfire Glow that the Thunder Beast had once given Xu Zihuang.
Xu Zihuang and Wang Qiu'er flashed aside at the same time, narrowly avoiding the translucent blue orb.
An explosion rang out. Terrifying thunder power raged wildly, distorting the space within dozens of meters. The spot where they had just stood was blasted into a giant crater more than five meters deep and over fifty meters wide. All plants, soil, and rocks were melted away in the blue-purple lightning arcs.
This Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon soul possessed less than one percent of its peak-period strength. One could imagine how powerful an adult Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon at its peak must have been.
Xu Zihuang steadied himself calmly. His right hand reached out into the empty air. Golden-silver tentacles engraved with strange patterns drilled out from the void and bound the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon's movements. Golden-silver light flowed and flickered along the tentacles, devouring the energy of this Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon's soul.
Ten-thousand-year soul skill, Soul Touch!
Even a true dragon soul was, in essence, a pure energy body attached to a strand of soul power.
And Xu Zihuang's sixth soul skill, Soul Touch, was precisely the natural counter to soul power.
The Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon's body gradually became illusory. As the user of Soul Touch, the energy of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon soul began feeding back into Xu Zihuang's body.
It took a full quarter of an hour before the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon soul completely disappeared.
Blue-purple lightning flickered across Xu Zihuang's body as he rapidly absorbed the dragon soul's energy and fused it into his bloodline.
The effect of a true dragon soul was far better. Merely absorbing the energy of this Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon soul was comparable to dozens of Dragon Cloud body tempering sessions.
Moreover, because this Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon soul shared the same origin as Xu Zihuang's second martial soul, the energy fit him perfectly.
While Xu Zihuang was absorbing the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon's soul energy, Wang Qiu'er had already come to his side to stand guard for him. This was the tacit understanding and reliance they had developed during their time sailing at sea.
But even after Xu Zihuang finished absorbing it, she still did not say the words she had wanted to say earlier. She only gazed blankly into the distance.
Many times it was like this: once a certain moment was missed, some words could never be spoken again.
"Let's go." Xu Zihuang reminded Wang Qiu'er beside him, then continued advancing toward the core area of the Dragon Valley. He had said all he needed to say earlier; the choice was ultimately up to Wang Qiu'er herself.
As they ventured deeper, the number of dragon souls they encountered actually decreased significantly. However, every one they did encounter was, without exception, a true dragon soul.
There were fire-attribute Blazing Fire Dragons, the superior true dragon form of the Crimson Armored Earth Dragon, the Crimson Armored Dragon, light-attribute Bright Holy Dragons, and so on.
But no matter what attribute the true dragon soul possessed, they were all suppressed by the dragon scale bloodline aura at Xu Zihuang's brow and were countered by his Soul Touch soul skill. The journey was unusually smooth without any real obstacles.
Nourished by the dragon soul energy, Xu Zihuang and Wang Qiu'er received tremendous benefits. Of course, the majority of the dragon soul power was still absorbed by Xu Zihuang.
When they had absorbed the tenth true dragon soul, they arrived at the side peak of a mountain valley.
The valley was concave inward. Though called a valley, it was actually more like an enormous basin, somewhat similar to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
The valley below stretched out of sight, with distant misty haze and faint fog lingering.
And in that valley several thousand meters deep, countless enormous skeletons covered every corner.
Even Xu Zihuang couldn't help but have his pupils contract sharply when he saw the scene before him.
Wang Qiu'er felt as though an indescribable sorrow surged into her heart in an instant. The golden dragon bloodline in her body was uncontrollably aroused; golden dragon scales emerged from her skin one after another, and her delicate body trembled slightly.
The Dragon Clan, which had once flourished at its peak, had now fallen to such a state.
Sensing the abnormality in Wang Qiu'er's emotions, Xu Zihuang tactfully did not speak to disturb her. He stepped off the edge of the cliff, and a golden-silver tentacle carried his body as he descended toward the valley below.
Only after truly entering the interior of the valley could one feel how shocking it was to have so many gigantic dragon bones piled together.
Each enormous dragon skeleton, even the smaller ones, was hundreds of meters long, while the largest exceeded a thousand meters, even reaching several thousand meters. All these dragon bones emanated faint, barely perceptible energy fluctuations.
Xu Zihuang did not linger here but continued deeper, searching for the target of his trip.
It didn't take long before an incomparably massive dragon skeleton caught his attention.
This skeleton was over a thousand meters tall, entirely brownish in color. Unlike the other dragon bones, it exuded an unparalleled heavy aura, causing the gravity in the surrounding thousands of meters to be noticeably greater than elsewhere.
It had no dragon wings, but its body was extremely robust. Its four limbs in particular were thick and sturdy like pillars holding up the heavens, standing between earth and sky.
"Mountain Dragon King."
Xu Zihuang's gaze focused. From the way this skeleton had clearly been severed in two by some sharp weapon and from its distinctive heavy aura, he instantly made the judgment.
This was one of the Nine Great Dragon Kings, the Mountain Dragon King. Among the Nine Great Dragon Kings, the Mountain Dragon King ranked near the top in power. It was known as the foremost among the Nine Great Dragon Kings that did not walk the world.
"Buzz!"
As if sensing Xu Zihuang's presence, a ball of yellow light condensed beside the Mountain Dragon King, precisely the Mountain Dragon King's dragon soul.
Though it possessed less than one percent of the Mountain Dragon King's original power, this dragon soul was still enormous, exceeding thirty meters. Its deep eyes were filled with wisdom as it looked down at Xu Zihuang from above.
And within the Mountain Dragon King's dragon soul, Xu Zihuang keenly noticed a completely transparent, peculiar bone. It resembled a vertebra, yet other bones were connected to it. It had countless cross-sections; even the slightest light would make it shine brilliantly.
This was the most precious of the conventional six soul bones, the torso soul bone, and it belonged to the Mountain Dragon King.
But in the next instant, the Mountain Dragon King's dragon soul suddenly raised its head and let out a roar filled with hostility.
"Roar—"
All the other dragon souls in the valley responded in kind.
Immediately afterward, from deep within the valley, a dragon soul even larger than the Mountain Dragon King's raised its proud head. Its entire body shimmered with seven-colored radiance; even its scales were seven-colored. The scales appeared irregular, each one different, yet they gave a perfect sense of harmony. It was as if they were inlaid with countless magnificent gemstones.
"Dragon God dragon soul?!"
Xu Zihuang's expression changed dramatically.
The Dragon God's dragon soul was indeed one of his targets, but the current development was clearly not good.
The dragon souls that had just been awakened by the Mountain Dragon King instantly sensed the Dragon God dragon soul's aura and prostrated themselves on the ground in an instant. All the dragon bones throughout the Dragon Valley began to tremble lightly, as if awakening.
The Dragon God's dragon soul's eyes seemed to contain boundless majesty. Then, a seven-colored dragon claw reached out from the void, enveloping Xu Zihuang's body.
Xu Zihuang's expression became grave, but he showed little panic. The reason he dared enter the Dragon Valley space was that he had sufficient confidence to leave safely.
Ever since he broke through to the Soul Saint realm, as long as he used the secondary awakening ability of his golden-rank body martial soul, he could erupt with god-level spiritual power for a short time. Although he could not yet perfectly control this power for combat at present, using it purely for self-preservation was more than enough.
At the very least, it would allow him to temporarily break free from the suppression within the Dragon Valley space and use his Golden Eyed martial soul true body ability to tear open space and escape completely.
Just as Xu Zihuang made up his mind to use the golden-rank body martial soul secondary awakening, a streak of golden light suddenly shot from behind him and collided with that seven-colored dragon claw.
It was the Golden Dragon Spear. In the next moment, Wang Qiu'er's figure also crossed through the void and appeared in front of Xu Zihuang.
The Golden Dragon Spear in Wang Qiu'er's hand trembled violently. The enormous Dragon God dragon soul seemed to come half alive; the seven-colored dragon claw froze in midair.
The Dragon God's dragon soul unleashed a majestic, impassioned roar that thundered through the entire Dragon Valley.
At the same time, from the space behind Xu Zihuang, a deep purple dragon head no smaller than the Dragon God dragon soul suddenly emerged and let out an angry, venomous roar toward the Dragon God dragon soul.
With a sudden instinctive feeling, Xu Zihuang reached out and pulled Wang Qiu'er into his arms.
The massive deep purple dragon head then opened its mouth, swallowed Xu Zihuang and Wang Qiu'er's bodies, and immediately vanished into the void.
The valley returned to calm once more, but Xu Zihuang and Wang Qiu'er's figures were nowhere to be seen.
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