CHAPTER 475: CHAPTER 97_3

"Should I go now?" Chen Jiuge asked, his face skeptical.

"Off you go."

After leaving behind the ten Spiritual Rabbits, Chen Jiuge changed direction and continued forward, constantly probing the Spirit Grass, half-dead trees, and strangely-shaped rocks on the ground.

Nibbling on the delicious rabbit meat, Jiang Ming sensed the messages relayed by a strand of his Divine Soul attached to Chen Jiuge. He smiled silently, then retracted the Divine Soul. The consumption of immortal power here was significant, and its recovery was slow. Jiang Ming had no intention of wasting it.

In the past, the ancestors scraped this Secret Realm clean, collecting a great number of Dragon Blood Stones. Otherwise, where would the Jiang Family’s Flood Dragons have come from? Sigh, but after that event, this Secret Realm became like a dead place, without a single Dragon Blood Stone emerging again, Jiang Ming muttered to himself.

The current Jiang Family consisted only of descendants of the ancillary disciples from the original Jiang Family. They did not know which lake formed the core of the entire Secret Realm. For their ancestors, without control over the core, the only option had been its utter destruction. Therefore, those weaker ancestors from the ancillary lines had completely scavenged the Secret Realm, collecting a vast amount of Dragon Blood Stones to breed the Jiang Family’s few remaining Flood Dragons.

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Tossing aside the stone in his hand, Chen Jiuge estimated the time, thinking to himself, It’s been almost a day. Jiang Ming probably didn’t leave any tricks behind.

The Contract Order for Wufu within his Sea of Consciousness had relayed a message an hour earlier: new Dragon Blood had been unearthed.

After a thorough inspection of his entire body, Chen Jiuge still found nothing unusual. His eyes flickered as he muttered, He also just broke through to the True Immortal Level, and my physical body has also reached the True Immortal Level. Our strength shouldn’t be too different.

Returning to the lake, Chen Jiuge saw the filthy Wufu clutching a Dragon Blood Gemstone even larger than the previous one. Its sly little face was rubbing against it, clearly captivated by this grand treasure it could only admire but not consume.

Carefully setting up several concealed Arrays, Chen Jiuge pulled out the Purple Mist Nether Flower Spear and used the halberd to scrape the surface of the Dragon Blood Gemstone.

The Purple Mist Nether Flower Spear was a fearsome weapon. However, in the True Realm, there was no distinction between fearsome weapons and Magic Artifacts; they all fell under the category of Magic Artifacts. According to the Grade classification of the True Realm, the Purple Mist Nether Flower Spear was an Eighth Rank Magic Artifact, just shy of advancing to a Divine Weapon.

SCRAPE! SCRAPE!

The piercing, grating sounds echoed continuously. A quarter of an hour later, a small blue Dragon, even larger than before, plunged into Chen Jiuge’s body.

Intense pain wracked him as his body grew immensely powerful—another complete metamorphosis.

The powerful body brought with it even more robust Mana. Chen Jiuge estimated that with about three or four more such metamorphoses, his Mana Cultivation could also reach the True Immortal Level.

What an incredible opportunity!

Under Chen Jiuge’s expectant gaze, Wufu unearthed a large quantity of Dragon Blood Gemstones over the next three days.

Looking at the at least 1,000 Dragon Blood Gemstones before him, Chen Jiuge felt numb. Is this a place where True Dragons underwent metamorphosis, or where they perished? Isn’t this quantity of Dragon Blood a bit excessive?

After absorbing the Dragon Blood from hundreds of gemstones, Chen Jiuge’s physical body directly reached the Seventh Transition of the True Immortal Level, and his Cultivation also reached the Third Transition of the True Immortal Level. Now, True Dragon Blood offered him minimal benefit.

It seems I need to nurture a Flood Dragon, Chen Jiuge thought, a headache forming as he gazed at the large pile of Dragon Blood before him. These are all extraordinarily potent treasures. Unfortunately, neither the Netherworld Tiger nor Wufu can absorb them. There are some Dragon Species Spiritual Beasts in the treehouse, but they are all of the lowest grade, and I don’t want to waste these treasures on them.