Chapter 567: Chapter 110 Swallowing Heaven Leaves a Message

Familiar dark circles, familiar posture, familiar fur! All of these made Li Qingming feel as if he was in a dream.

“How can this be possible!” Li Qingming murmured incredulously as he looked at the scene before him.

“Swoosh!”

He soared into the air and began to closely examine the statue of the Swallowing Sky Bear.

It was sixty zhang long and nearly ten zhang high. Each strand of its bristled fur, sharp as steel needles, emitted an endlessly fierce aura. Its bloodthirsty eyes, filled with ferocity and coldness, were so impeccably carved that they resembled exquisite works of art.

Li Qingming’s eyes drifted down and suddenly, he noticed a row of tiny Tao Runes carved at the bottom right corner of the bear statue:

“Yu Tuntian, sought Xuanhuang Qi here. Yet the essence of Xuanhuang remains elusive, and I have only found a half piece of Xuanhuang Crystal and the Spirit of All Worlds. They lie within this lake, to be approached and taken with caution by those destined. Left by Swallowing Heaven Daoist!”

“Ancestor…” After reading this, Li Qingming felt an inexplicable throbbing in his heart.

“Master, master!” Heavenly Fire flew next to Li Qingming and said, “How is it? Is this statue useful to you?”

Li Qingming smiled and replied, “I don’t know if it’s useful. However, the Xuanhuang Crystal and the Spirit of All Worlds are indeed here!”

Heavenly Fire chirped joyfully, “That’s great, master! Let’s quickly retrieve them!”

Li Qingming nodded, thought for a moment, and then slimmed down the statue after all—it was his ancestor, a way of paying respects.

He hovered over the little lake and spoke, “Heavenly Fire, step aside a bit. According to the record on the statue, those two items should be in this lake. Let me retrieve them!”

With those words, Li Qingming released his Primordial Spirit into the lake.

“Boom boom boom!”

As soon as Li Qingming’s Primordial Spirit touched the surface of the lake, the entire lake transformed. Streaks of crimson and dark light intertwining appeared above the lake. Centered on the lake, they swiftly began to spin, forming a bizarre shield of giant blood-red and dark light that blocked Li Qingming’s Primordial Spirit.

“This, this barrier can actually block the Power of Primordial Spirit?” Li Qingming was dumbfounded.

“Whoosh! Whoosh!”

It was as if a Domain Gate had been opened. The red and black radiance transformed into two spinning Yin Yang Fish. Suddenly, streams of blood-red liquid emerged from the eyes of the fish. The pungent smell told Li Qingming that it was fresh blood.

Blood ceaselessly surged from the Yin Yang Fish, and the little lake was completely dyed blood-red, turning into a lake of blood.

“Could this be an illusion?” Li Qingming thought, his mind stirring.

However, with his extraordinary Primordial Spirit, everything appeared vividly real, with no hint of illusion.

Suddenly, a hearty voice echoed from all directions:

“Hahaha, young one! You think it will be that easy to obtain those two Supreme Treasures! This is a trial specifically set by this old man. If you can reach the middle of this lake within twenty breaths, the Xuanhuang Crystal and the Spirit of All Worlds are yours to take! If you cannot do so within twenty breaths, the Blood Sea will disperse, Sealing Heaven and Earth, instantly expelling you from this small world. You, fend for yourself!”

“Damn… no, screw this. My stingy ancestor is even more mischievous than that old Tao Yang Mei!” Li Qingming almost ran out of breath and grumbled resentfully.

“Gulp, gulp…”

Just as that voice fell, the red and black Yin Yang Fish had already drilled into the small lake, and the blood-red lake water seemed to be boiling, every drop of water bubbling furiously, producing bubbles that went ‘gudong gudong’ more and more intensely with time, even causing some water to splash around.

“What is happening here?” Unable to use his Primordial Spirit, Li Qingming could only fix his gaze intently on the changes happening in the small lake with his bare eyes.

“Roar!”

Suddenly, a massive dragon composed entirely of blood-red lake water burst forth from the small lake.

The giant dragon let out a dragon roar, then lightly slapped its tail on the surface of the lake, leaping towards Li Qingming, its sharp claws and teeth shimmering with a cold gleam, ready to choose someone to devour.

“You vile creature, you really think I can be kneaded at will?” Li Qingming swiftly dodged the impact from the Blood Dragon. At the same time, his right hand raised slightly, and a Yuqing Divine Thunder, resplendent with radiant light, appeared out of nowhere, striking towards the head of the giant dragon.

“Boom!”

The nearly sixty meters long giant dragon was completely obliterated by the Yuqing Divine Thunder.

“Roar!”

Another huge blood-colored giant dragon soared out from the red-tinted small lake. Li Qingming furrowed his brows, but before he could react, another blood dragon flew out…

One, and another, and yet another… in repetition!

The small lake seemed to have become a nest of giant dragons, as one blood-colored giant dragon after another emerged, and in just three breaths, there were already over a hundred dragons atop the small lake.

Watching the hundreds of blood-colored dragons writhing above the small lake, Li Qingming was somewhat baffled.

Another breath later, these dragons opened their giant mouths simultaneously, sucking into the lake below.

“Whoosh!”

The entire small lake’s water madly flew towards the mouths of the blood dragons, their gaping mouths resembling bottomless pits, and within two breaths, the small lake had completely disappeared.

“Roar!”

All the lake water had entered into the mouths of the Blood Dragons, and the hundreds of dragons let out a massive dragon roar simultaneously.

Killing intent, an overwhelming sense of killing intent completely permeated the void, vibrating the surrounding space into a series of ripples, like an endless wave rising from a calm sea.

Li Qingming’s complexion changed; he hadn’t expected such seemingly weak dragons to emit such terrifying killing intent after swallowing the lake water.

“Roar!”

After a chorus of dragon chants, bursts of blood-red radiance emerged from their bodies, extremely dazzling. Then, under Li Qingming’s incredulous gaze, the hundreds of giant dragons slowly merged…

Two breaths later, the hundreds of dragons had fused into a hundred meters long, nine-clawed Blood Dragon, exuding a strong bloody scent.

The nine-clawed Blood Dragon coldly stared at Li Qingming for a long while, then opened its gaping mouth and spoke in a bell-like tone, “Eight breaths have already passed. The master once said, if you can withstand a strike from me and survive, you would pass the test. Are you ready?”

Li Qingming sized him up for a long while and said, “What if I kill you instead?”

“Tch…” The blood-colored giant dragon, with a mocking smile flickering, scoffed, “Although this blood dragon avatar of mine here only has one-tenth of the main body’s strength, it’s not something a little guy like you can easily defeat! Don’t entertain foolish illusions!”

“I don’t have time to banter with you; another three breaths have passed, and within five breaths, I will take your life!” Li Qingming couldn’t be bothered with more words, suddenly leaped up, his body wrapped in the dazzling Yuqing True Essence, charging at the blood-colored giant dragon.

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