The Fox Spirit heard what Zhang Chen said and was so angry that his teeth itched; this kid was truly too troublesome, extremely troublesome to the very end.
"I’m just confident, not entirely certain! If something goes wrong in the middle, won’t my physical body be destroyed?" The Fox Spirit’s voice was filled with helplessness. He couldn’t afford to lose his temper with Zhang Chen, fearing that Zhang Chen’s suspicious nature might lead to trouble.
"Forget it, you and I joining forces cannot possibly fail, at most I’ll just have to protect my physical body well." The Fox Spirit looked at Zhang Chen with a pair of eyes, and the next moment he directly grabbed Zhang Chen’s shoulder: "Let’s go!"
Then Zhang Chen only felt a blur before his eyes, and when he reappeared, they were already inside a stone chamber.
With the gentle glow of the Luminous Pearl in his hand, after seeing the scene in front of him clearly, his pupils couldn’t help but contract.
It was exactly like the burial chamber for the True Dragon in his memory, except this time the True Dragon was completely different from the one he had seen in his dream; by now the True Dragon’s body had already turned into stark white bones, gleaming like jade, shimmering with a gentle luster under the Luminous Pearl.
Though the skeleton was hollow, the dragon’s shape could still be discerned, especially the dragon head as large as a common house, with its horns soaring into the sky, glimmering with a faint light, seemingly with lightning swirling around it.
At this moment, the dragon called ’Ying’ had lost its flesh and tendons, leaving only a skeleton spanning dozens of meters, lying silently on the ground, surrounded by a large amount of experience points.
Zhang Chen’s eyes lit up upon seeing the experience points; if he could absorb such a large area of experience points, he would undoubtedly gain a tremendous harvest.
The Luminous Pearl in his hand emitted a gentle light, while Zhang Chen collected the experience points and surveyed the entire burial chamber, it looked no different from his dream, except for the terrifying and hideously deep fissures that covered the ground.
The fissures weren’t wide, some ten centimeters across, others thirty or forty centimeters, but they were so deep that their bottoms couldn’t be seen, like the gaping mouths of ferocious beasts, seemingly wanting to devour everything between Heaven and Earth.
At this moment, golden lights flickered in Zhang Chen’s eyes as he opened his Dharma Eye, where divine light flowed, yet he saw Qi Mechanics flickering in the void ahead, and the dragon bones before him had completely transformed into another appearance.
In Zhang Chen’s Dharma Eye, the previously glistening, jade-like white bones now gleamed with a terrifying, eerie green light, a black dragon-shaped phantom, overlapping with the True Dragon’s skeleton, was trapped in slumber, not moving.
"That black dragon-shaped gas, could it be the True Dragon Remnant Soul as the Fox Spirit said? It is a strange formation arising from the combination of the True Dragon’s resentment and obsession with Qi!" A hint of astonishment appeared in Zhang Chen’s eyes.
Moreover, the most crucial part was that he could see streams of golden airflow, completely imperceptible to the naked eye, continuously flowing from the True Dragon’s skeleton like dry ice mist, rolling and flowing into the crevices underground.
Those underground crevices seemed to have a unique pulling force, continuously drawing the Dragon Qi deep into the earth.
"Could it be that something deep within the earth, like the stone tablet, is absorbing the True Dragon’s essence?" Zhang Chen’s gaze rested on the fissures, feeling uncertain in his heart, and unable to deduce the truth. He wanted to ask the Fox Spirit, but feared alarming the enemy.
The black dragon gas seemed to struggle as if in a dream, emitting black mist to resist the pull from underground, but it was useless, unable to prevent the golden Qi Mechanism from flowing out of the True Dragon’s body.
"Be cautious, the True Dragon Remnant Soul hides within the True Dragon Skeleton, resisting the loss of Qi. As long as we touch the skeleton, we can awaken the True Dragon’s Remnant Soul." The Fox Spirit, noticing Zhang Chen’s nonchalant demeanor, reminded him: "Later, you just need to step forward and grasp the True Dragon Skeleton, infusing your Golden Light into it, and then you’ll be able to purify the True Dragon’s Remnant Soul."
"What about the True Dragon’s tendons? Its flesh?" Zhang Chen inquired. He recalled that the stone tablet in his dream also absorbed True Dragon Blood, and doesn’t the True Dragon have a Dragon Pearl?
"Do you know why people undergo the Walking Flood Dragon Transformation?" The Fox Spirit countered with a question instead of answering.
"Didn’t you say it’s because the True Dragon Essence here leaked out?" Zhang Chen voiced his understanding.
"That’s correct, hundreds of years ago, there was a great earthquake here, which cracked the Underground Palace, connecting it with the external Earth Veins. The True Dragon’s flesh turned into essence, absorbed by the Earth Veins, leading people buried in the Earth Veins to absorb the True Dragon’s flesh essence. Even the True Dragon Skeleton here has had nine-tenths of its essence drawn away by the Earth Veins, what you see now is just an empty shell propped up, and as long as we take the Dragon Soul, it’ll turn to ashes within an hour, disappearing between Heaven and Earth." The Fox Spirit’s gaze turned to Zhang Chen.
"I see." Zhang Chen suddenly understood.
Watching the golden airflow continuously flowing into the fissures on the ground, he came to realize the reason; it was the Earth Veins continuously drawing upon the Qi of the True Dragon’s body, that golden airflow could be the True Dragon Essence, or perhaps the True Dragon’s Qi Mechanics.
And that the True Dragon Obsession was born from the Qi Mechanics, attached to the True Dragon Skeleton, using it as a foundation to resist the devouring power of the Earth Veins.
"The Dragon Soul Obsession may possess some mystical power, wielding a strange force like the Fox Spirit, but in the face of such a Power of Heaven and Earth like the Earth Veins, it’s unable to resist, and once the Dragon Transformation is successful over there, the True Dragon Obsession here will be completely absorbed, dissipating between Heaven and Earth."