Yes, it was the vendor's words that suddenly made him think of something. This Yimu Azure Dragon had clearly lost all vitality, as though it had suffered a devastating blow.
Yet in truth, a wisp of life force had protected its most vital source from beginning to end. That in itself was unreasonable.
He suddenly understood. This was most likely because the Yimu Azure Dragon was transforming, preparing to ascend into a true dragon.
Although he had never seen how a Yimu Azure Dragon ascended into a dragon, successful Yimu Azure Dragons were too few in the Qingmu Era, and every one of them was a major figure. No one dared investigate them, so few people knew much about it.
But Ye Xiwen had indeed seen quite a few heavenly treasures like this. At the final moment, as they underwent their last transformation, they would gather all their life force into their source at the critical juncture, waiting for transformation, waiting to ascend into a dragon.
From the outside, it naturally looked no different from death. Even that vendor had failed to see through it, believing he had found a dead Yimu Azure Dragon. Who knew where he had found a method to rekindle the dragon's wood energy and disguise it as still alive, intending to swindle someone.
Yet he had never imagined that this was an act of buying the casket and returning the pearl.
The instant Ye Xiwen discovered a wisp of life force within the depths of the Yimu Azure Dragon's source, he immediately understood the key. This Yimu Azure Dragon's transformation had likely reached its final moment. It was about to ascend into a dragon, and a tiny crack had appeared in its formerly seamless source, exposing that wisp of life force.
In truth, this withered-wood