The once bustling mountains were silent, with only peaks standing tall.
Half of the hundreds of Batwing Wyverns had already been tamed by the Flying Dragon Legionand were stationed with their knights in a military camp on another peak.
The remaining True Dragons were silently resting in the half-mountain Dragon Nest valley or quietly soaring around the mountains.
Although their calls would not affect the True Dragons sleeping in the Dragon Nest at the mountain peaks, do not disturb the sleeping True Dragons!
One by one, the Dragon Nest became more distant from the mortal realm due to the continuous growth of the mountain range.
The Black Dragon's Dragon Nest had transformed from its original swamp into a lake with a thick layer of mud piled up. The black mist that once permeated the mountaintop also became clearer.
Under the continuous wind blowing through the high mountains, it quickly dissipated completely, and the heavy black mist of the past was no longer seen.
But even in the former swamp, life and plants still grew and survived, but now it was like a desolate wasteland, seemingly calm, but life had vanished.
Rosani's sleeping place was not in this lake, but in another underground Dragon Nest dug beneath the lake.
The Black Dragon's body lay at this moment on the ground of the treasure-strewn Dragon Nest, sleeping peacefully. Aside from his black scales, his body was almost completely different from the former Black Dragon, strong and dangerous.
The Dragon Nest of the two young White Dragon were two adjacent peaks, but now the frost had frozen the connection between the two peaks, and even in the hottest season, the biting cold wind in the mountains could not melt it.
Trophies and collections were frozen into ice sculptures, standing in front of Germott's cave. Germott, sleeping deep in the cave, no longer had scales like his brother Camid's.
As his sleep deepened and his bloodline was unearthed, his scales became more like carvings of ice frozen on the cave's rock walls, with an almost transparent white, and the pair of True Dragon horns on his head seemed to be built from the ice beneath an eternal glacier.
As for his brother Camid, this White Dragon maintained the appearance of a normal White Dragon, growing during his sleep, and he buried his head in a small pile of gold coins and treasures.
But the bulge on Camid's neck grew robustly with the passage of time, as if another head was accumulating power, ready to break free and come into this world at any moment.
Dos's sleeping place, the area around his Dragon Nest, had long been completely desertified. The mountaintop, once a land of life, had now become a different ecological environment.
Only some plants capable of growing in the desert, occasionally brought by birds, could survive around the Blue Dragon's Dragon Nest.
A dense dark cloud, even on a clear day, still hung over Dos's Dragon Nest. The power accumulated in the dark cloud occasionally touched, producing a series of lightning sparks and rumbling thunder.
The Female True Dragon Klenaya's Dragon Nest was no less active than Dos's; with Kalon's help, a controllable branch was drawn from the magma layer deep underground, turning Klenaya's Dragon Nest into a small magma lake.
Klenaya finally got her wish, absorbing fire-attribute power to grow and develop faster, which is an instinct present in every Red Dragon.
Therefore, the sleeping Klenaya seemed insatiably absorbing energy from deep underground, turning her Dragon Nest into a small erupting volcano.
Fortunately, the territory had long been accustomed to the changes that occur in the Red Dragon's habitat, and a mature set of handling measures was already in place.
Dense volcanic ash would be dispersed and guided, becoming nutrients that benefited the surrounding ecological environment.
Only Green Dragon Antagena, the latest among the Dragon Lord of the Dragon clan to control dragon blood, had a relatively calm sleeping place, apart from the gradually expanding twisted jungle around her tree-nest palace.
But compared to the highest peak of the mountains, the movements of Kalon Kogmora, the Dragon Lord, the Red Dragon Monarch's sleeping place, the commotion caused by these young True Dragon could only be described as minor.
The once heavily guarded volcanic Dragon Nest, from the summit to the mid-slope, was now empty. Even the Imperial Guard, the most loyal and powerful among the Dragonkin, had retreated to the foot of the mountain due to the harsh environment and unbearable high temperatures.
The peak where the Dragon Lord slept was almost completely shrouded in flames and smoke, with magma jets soaring more than ten meters high, scorching and boiling, and rolling torrents impacting the magic array covering the Dragon Nest.
But the energy source of the magic array came from the geocentric core at the bottom of the entire Dragon Nest, so these magma could not break through the magic array reinforced layer by layer by the Red Dragon, only fruitlessly rushing into the air and then scattering everywhere.
Layer upon layer of magma and mountain ash accumulated on the summit, then spread down the slopes and rock walls, staining the entire peak reddish-gray.
Many of the naturally growing magic plants around the Dragon Nest had been harvested and circulated in auctions and markets, but the remaining plants, and the animals that grew or migrated there, had been completely destroyed at the moment of the volcanic eruption.
Even the half-finished golems this Red Dragon once created were turned to ash by the continuous erupting magma.
But these commotions did not affect Kalon, who was sleeping in the magma lake, as the magma flow from the volcanic eruption, caused by his forceful extraction of energy from the deep geocentric core, naturally avoided this Red Dragon floating in the magma.
However, due to prolonged sleep, with his body completely immersed in magma, Kalon's body surface and scale crevices had begun to condense a thin, dark red outer shell, and his wing membranes were also stained with a dark red leathery layer.
Once a True Dragon enters adolescence, not only will its body gradually enter its peak growth period, but its magical abilities and power will also experience a leap, like the rising sun, gradually ascending above the nine heavens.
And Kalon Kogmora, in his sleep, was ushering in his golden transformation period.
But unlike other sleeping True Dragons, this Red Dragon's physique had not yet begun to grow, yet he was extremely greedily absorbing more and more energy, accumulating it within his body.
He consciously pushed his bloodline growth to its current limit, and only then would he leap up to embrace a stronger transformation, which was also the result he obtained after studying the various monster bloodlines from the abyss and those of the same attribute as himself.
The rock walls around the volcanic lake had cracked into large fissures, and streams of magma and fire flowed out from these fissures.
This was a sub-fire elemental plane, attached to the Material Plane, that was torn open, attracted by the sleeping Red Dragon's talent, from an unknown location.
Fire-attribute energy, like an ocean, surged into the volcanic Dragon Nest, making the already boiling volcanic Dragon Nest feel like hell had descended, with unparalleled high temperatures, and the Red Dragon's domain growing as it absorbed this immense energy.
Occasionally, one or two curious low-level elemental spirits from the fire elemental plane on the other side of the fissure would peek through the cracks, wanting to cross these passages and descend into the Material Plane.
But the Red Dragon's domain actively invited these curious elemental spirits; once these elemental spirits accepted the summons, they would be pulled by the Red Dragon's domain, then shattered, becoming the source of his rising power.
In addition to the fire elemental plane, some fissures also emitted the aura of earth and metal elements, and vast elements were absorbed and drawn from the planes from which these auras came, being absorbed and digested by the Red Dragon's body.
The excess elemental energy, on the other hand, transformed the rocks around the Red Dragon Nest into minerals, and various minerals were born around the Red Dragon Nest.
And those layers of cooled magma and mountain ash gradually turned into fertile soil, emitting a strong earthy elemental aura.
Two layers of domains, somewhat similar to the Red Dragon's domain - All Things Turn to Ash - but with different attributes, gradually formed under the immense energy supply, enveloping the entire Dragon Nest, bringing a terrifying field suppression, conflicting and eroding with the Red Dragon's original domain, yet gradually harmonizing and merging under the Red Dragon's instinctive guidance.
Under these circumstances, the originally thick and long two three-pronged True Dragon horns on Kalon's head also underwent changes, replaced by six long horns growing from both sides of the skull, with a slight winding curve.
Among them, the central True Dragon horns on both sides of the skull were the thickest, and the other True Dragon horns were slightly shorter, but all possessed unparalleled sharpness.
While subtle changes appeared on the outside, a certain transformation was also occurring within Kalon's body. To welcome the impending transformation and to be able to bear and operate that terrifying bloodline and magic power, another heart was quietly nurturing within him.
Before sleeping, Kalon consumed several times his body weight in food, stored in a stomach that also possessed spatial attributes, and even his pre-stomach was filled with food rich in flesh, energy, and magic, which was now pulverized in large quantities.
These pulverized foods were rapidly dissolved, transforming into flesh, nutrients, and magical energy, which were then transmitted to Kalon's heart through the organ intestines and magic transmission organs connected to the stomach.
These energies and nutrients were rapidly digested, and bloodlines were born within the flesh, then rapidly developed, connecting to other organs of the body, after which a small red heart, like a bulge, quietly emerged at the center of the organ network, and grew rapidly.
Only when the newborn heart and its accessory organs had grown to maturity, almost the same size as the original heart, did Kalon's entire will quietly sink into the depths of his mental sea, entering a deep sleep, and ushering in true bloodline growth.