How should it be put? Ever since setting foot on Dragon Island, Ye Zhen's Black Dragon Spirit Pillar had grown increasingly active. It felt like a fish returning to the sea, or a fierce tiger returning to the mountains. This Dragon Island seemed to carry an inexplicable sense of familiarity.
That inexplicable oppression in his heart actually stemmed from fear.
The very aura of Dragon Island inspired an instinctive terror from the depths of one's heart, making one feel as if facing a primordial beast.
With that feeling, Ye Zhen would bet everything that this Dragon Island was absolutely connected to the Black Dragon Legacy he had obtained.
Before long, Ye Zhen and the others reached the end of the chain. There lay a deep pool brimming with spiritual energy, enclosed by several lofty peaks in the innermost reaches of Dragon Island.
A moss-covered stone stele stood in the pool. The stele was dark black and looked utterly ordinary, but no one present who was qualified to enter would think so.
Because that incomparably ordinary iron chain emerged from within this stele.
"Great... Sage, look. This stone stele bears mysterious runes. If we take rubbings of them and forge talismans according to their forms, we can make that Nine-Headed Worm dare not act rashly in the slightest!"
Clearly, Shi Xing, the Dragon Alliance's highly esteemed Supreme Grand Elder, had not fully adjusted to his new role. His honorific for Ye Zhen still sounded somewhat stiff.
"Unfortunately, the Jade Talismans forged from the runes copied from this stele can at most make the Nine-Headed Worm fearful. They can only protect us and allow us to move freely by the Nine-Headed Worm's side, but they cannot command that Primordial Fierce Beast, the Nine-Headed Worm. Otherwise..."
Shi Xing's words brimmed with regret. The