"Roar! Good..."
The Abyssal Sea Flood Dragon Beast suddenly let out a massive roar that shook the heavens, and Xiao Yan hurriedly withdrew his hand.
Jia Xing Tian stepped forward as well, his face tense as he asked anxiously,
"Old friend! What's wrong?!"
The Abyssal Sea Flood Dragon Beast shook its head, then slowly spat out the rest of its words.
"Good, so comfortable..."
Xiao Yan: ...
Jia Xing Tian: ...
The Abyssal Sea Flood Dragon Beast came to its senses and turned to look at Xiao Yan.
Its gaze was filled with anticipation and a trace of nervousness.
The murky beast eyes reflected the icy blue flame dancing in the young man's palm.
It exhaled heavily through its nostrils.
"Human. Can you really cure me?"
Xiao Yan's face darkened.
"Shut up. Don't move."
He flashed before the flood dragon beast again and raised his hand to press it down.
The Abyssal Sea Flood Dragon Beast immediately behaved itself.
Right now, it did not dare move in the slightest!
After all, its hope of recovering and galloping across the Jia Ma Empire once more—
Was entirely in the hands of this brat before it!
Xiao Yan pressed his palm against the scar on the Magical Beast's forehead!
His Spiritual Power spread out like a spiderweb.
The Abyssal Sea Flood Dragon Beast suddenly trembled all over, its dark golden scales clinking together with a pleasant ring!
Its damaged and blocked meridians slowly opened beneath the cleansing flow of Spiritual Power.
"Roar!"
A heaven-shaking dragon roar churned up the thousand-foot lake waters as the Abyssal Sea Flood Dragon Beast excitedly lashed its long tail.
"Three hundred years! I've never felt this unobstructed!"
It abruptly lowered its head near Xiao Yan, its narrow fangs right before him.
"Brat, if you can cure me!"
"I'll give you three of my Life Inverse Scales!"
Jia Xing Tian's expression tightened.
Life Inverse Scales were the Abyssal Sea Flood Dragon Beast's most precious treasures.
For snake-type Magical Beasts, they were supreme treasures capable of enhancing bloodline cultivation.
Still, it was nearly dead. There was little point keeping them.
Giving them to the master was only natural.
"Master, can you truly cure it?"
Jia Xing Tian asked Xiao Yan, his hand gripping the jade staircase railing tightly.
"Over the years, we tried seven kinds of Sixth-grade Pills."
"But they all..."
"They didn't know how to use fire."
Xiao Yan flicked away the strands of black blood staining his fingertips.
"His injuries can be cured, but..."
"We need a Bone-Growing Blood-Melting Pill, along with Heavenly Flames to guide the treatment."
He turned to the enormous beast, whose scales were trembling with excitement.
"The value of this Bone-Growing Blood-Melting Pill is no less than that of a Sect Breaking Pill!"
"The ingredients are exceptionally precious."
"Have you made up your minds?"
As he spoke, Xiao Yan tossed a list of medicinal ingredients into Jia Xing Tian's hand.
"Look it over. If there's no problem—"
"Then hurry and prepare the ingredients."
The moment Jia Xing Tian glanced at the list, his heart abruptly twisted with pain.
One Sect Breaking Pill plus one Bone-Growing Blood-Melting Pill!
That would practically strip away a layer of the Imperial Family's accumulated reserves.
But the Abyssal Sea Flood Dragon Beast was the Imperial Family's guardian and benefactor.
It had to be saved. Otherwise, who would be willing to serve the Jia Ma Imperial Family in the future?
Jia Xing Tian personally went to the treasury and gathered every ingredient.
At the center of the Forbidden Area:
Xiao Yan sat cross-legged beside the frigid pool where the Abyssal Sea Flood Dragon Beast dwelled!
The Green Lotus Core Flame rose from his palm.
It wrapped around the floating Ice Pure Jade Lotus and Blood Jade Cold Ginseng!
Slowly melting them into two masses of liquid.
With a flick of his finger, a wisp of Kirin Devouring Heaven Flame emerged from his palm.
In an instant, it melted the Deep Blue Crystal Stone retrieved from the bottom of the pool into liquid.
This was formed from scales shed by the Abyssal Sea Flood Dragon Beast and contained the purest water-element energy.
Under the control of his Spiritual Power, the three flames remained distinctly separated.
The Kirin Devouring Heaven Flame handled refinement, while the Fire Cloud Water Flame controlled the cold properties.
The Green Lotus Core Flame served as a bridge, harmonizing the medicinal effects!
As dozens of supplementary ingredients fused at once, a blood-red pill embryo gradually formed inside the cauldron.
Yet its surface rippled with patterns like ice crystals.
"Flood dragon beasts are water-aligned. We should accommodate its nature."
"We need to add something."
Xiao Yan murmured, his Soul Perception penetrating the pill's surface.
He slowly blended the violent Flood Dragon Beast Essence Blood with the mild Ice Spirit Saliva.
When the final medicinal energy was sealed into the pill body—
"Buzz!"
The pill suddenly quivered, unleashing energy ripples like a tidal wave.
But Xiao Yan, already prepared, firmly contained them within a small space using a battle qi barrier.
The Abyssal Sea Flood Dragon Beast poked its head out of the pool.
Usually wild and violent, it now examined with utmost caution—
That pill, which was incomparably tiny to it.
Its beast eyes reflected the round pellet flowing with a blood-jade radiance.
This was the Sixth-grade Bone-Growing Blood-Melting Pill capable of rebuilding its shattered meridians and Hidden Injuries!
"It's done."
Xiao Yan murmured softly.
Seven-colored radiant light instantly spread through the air.
Inside the ring, Old Yao watched the naturally formed flood dragon patterns on the pill's surface and silently praised its ingenuity.
Compared with the Eighth-grade Pill he had refined in the past, this Sixth-grade Pill lacked world-shaking Pill Lightning.
Yet because it perfectly matched the Abyssal Sea Flood Dragon Beast's bloodline, it glimmered with a deep-sea radiance.
To refine a pill with properties unique to its intended user—
Even a Seventh-grade Alchemist might not necessarily accomplish it!
The heavens were practically spoon-feeding him!
"Open your mouth!"
Xiao Yan rose to his feet and shot the pill, flowing with seven-colored light, into the beast's mouth.
The medicinal energy instantly dissolved and spread through its limbs and bones!
Every inch of scales and muscle was repaired as the medicinal energy coursed through it!
In an instant, the frigid pool boiled violently, while the severed meridians let out sounds of rebirth amid blue light!
"Roar!"
A roar like surging magma thundered from the Abyssal Sea Flood Dragon Beast's throat!
The scales across its body suddenly flared open.
Before Jia Xing Tian's stunned eyes, its enormous body began cracking apart inch by inch!
"Crack!"
The sound of old scales falling away was like clashing metal and stone.
New azure scales shone with a starlike luster.
"ROAR!!!"
The Abyssal Sea Flood Dragon Beast raised its head and roared into the sky, its dragon roar shattering the dark clouds gathered above the Forbidden Area.
Its figure shot into the heavens!
"Hahaha!"
"I'm back!"
The pressure of a Sixth Tier Magical Beast swept across the imperial palace!
Every guard stationed there looked toward the sky!
A dragon-shaped shadow flickered in and out among the clouds, radiating terrifying might!
Yao Ye lowered the spear in his hand, her voice full of shock.
"This presence is no weaker than Imperial Grandfather's!"
A thousand meters beneath the imperial palace:
"The third level of the treasury is open for Master to choose from as he pleases!"
Jia Xing Tian waved grandly, and the barrier opened in response.
Medicinal ingredients and magic cores were piled into mountains.
There were also cultivation methods, gleaming with treasures of every color!
On the crystal platform at the very center, glowing Jade Slips were arranged neatly.
Xiao Yan was about to reach for medicinal ingredients, but his steps paused as he walked toward several battle skills instead.
Let's see what good things are here first.
This was already his second time entering the treasury since coming to the imperial city.
He could not choose medicinal ingredients every time, could he?
What he wanted was to smash apart the world, not refine pills all day.
Pill refinement was merely one step on his path to greater strength!
Xiao Yan arrived before the jade platform, and his Spiritual Power swept over it lightly.
Dense ancient characters leaped into his mind like swimming fish.
"Soaring Dragon Instant Shadow Body..."
"Earth Tier Low-grade?!"
"Master has a sharp eye!"
Jia Xing Tian's mouth twitched painfully.
"This was obtained from some ruins when the Imperial Family had just been established."
"However, it is simply too difficult to cultivate."
"No one has ever mastered it, but because it is so precious, it has remained stored in the treasury."
"Master may take it!"
Xiao Yan nodded and reached out.
But just as his hand was about to touch that Jade Slip, it abruptly turned.
Toward the one beside it...
Before you continue