The power of ultimate ice continuously flowed into the fruit. The Ice Dragon King's dragon soul grew increasingly faint, while the energy within the fruit steadily became more abundant.
Several hours passed. The Ice Dragon King's dragon soul vanished, yet the energy inside the fruit had only been filled to nearly one-third.
The energy required by this seventh fruit had increased further, reaching four million. The Ice Dragon King's dragon soul had provided only a little over one million, leaving more than two million still needed. That energy could only be extracted from the Ice Dragon King's skeletal remains.
Having done this once before, he was somewhat practiced this time. He directly activated the Creation Holy Tree and began extracting the ice-attribute energy from the bones.
An endless stream of ice-attribute energy flowed into the seventh fruit. More than ten hours later, the seventh fruit was finally filled with ice-attribute energy. It had truly not been easy.
Nearly twenty hours of energy extraction had left Chen An somewhat exhausted, but his joy at being about to contemplate a new ferocious beast form outweighed it.
He had long had an idea of what creature he would contemplate after gaining ice-attribute energy: Xuanwu.
The Xuanwu of myth belonged to water, while the Xuanwu he intended to contemplate would possess an ice attribute. There was a difference between the two.
The main reason he had chosen Xuanwu was that it belonged to water and was, to some extent, related to ice. Contemplating its form as the mythological Divine Beast Xuanwu should allow it to become as powerful as possible.
He had ruled out forms such as an ice giant dragon or ice qilin. He already had the Death God Dragon and Zhu Long in dragon form, so adding another ice giant dragon would