The ancient dragon had been willing to repay Li Yan for saving her life just a moment ago, but now she was refusing his request?
Li Yan was so angry he laughed. He withdrew his Golden Body Dharma Aspect and returned to his original form. His tiny figure only made the giant dragon seem even more enormous.
"Who was it that said she'd repay me just now, but now won't? Why is that?"
The silver-white ancient dragon before him slowly explained, "A seal lies over the Abyss of the Netherworld. Only the Ancient Dragon Clan can go there."
"But you..."
"You're just a tiny human."
"You can't pass through that seal."
"Even if I wanted to take you there, you still couldn't get in."
The silver-white ancient dragon slowly explained the reason, but Li Yan wasn't one to take no for an answer.
"Look, you said just now that I couldn't touch the Goulong Rope, but didn't I pull it out for you?"
"You said I couldn't cure the poison inside you, but I did that too."
He just couldn't believe there was a seal that could stop him.
Seeing that Li Yan wouldn't take no for an answer, the ancient dragon snorted a plume of hot air through her nostrils.
"Fine. Since you don't believe me, I'll take you there and show you."
The enormous dragon shifted, and a bottomless black vortex appeared beneath her.
"What I'm guarding beneath me is the Abyss of the Netherworld."
"If you can get inside, I'll have nothing more to say!"
The ancient dragon didn't believe Li Yan could enter the Abyss of the Netherworld. A barrier covered the vortex, and only the Ancient Dragon Clan could pass through it.
The inside of the vortex rejected all intruders—except ancient dragons.
Unconvinced, Li Yan drifted up to the vortex and tried to sink into it, but an invisible barrier stopped him.
Seeing this, the silver-white giant dragon above him began to taunt him.
"Little Bean Sprout, do you see?"
"This barrier was placed by the Old Heavenly Court."
"If you're not an ancient dragon, you can't get inside! Even I can't take you in."
"It's not that I'm unwilling to help you. The restriction is right there."
Unwilling to give up, Li Yan circled the black vortex, but couldn't find an opening.
He could sense that whatever was inside didn't want outsiders to enter.
Just as the ancient dragon had said, outsiders truly couldn't enter the Abyss of the Netherworld.
The ancient dragon narrowed her eyes as she watched Li Yan circle the vortex over and over, secretly amused.
"Finally, there's something that can stump this Little Bean Sprout."
"Heh heh, it's quite entertaining to watch him hit a wall."
Li Yan's earlier display of seeming all-powerful had bruised the ancient dragon's pride a little.
Now that she'd seen a restriction even Li Yan couldn't break, she thought that if he asked her for help, she might be able to come up with a solution.
Entering the Abyss of the Netherworld came at a great cost. She wasn't entirely unwilling to help, but the process was fraught with danger and uncertainty.
Even she...
Wasn't a hundred percent certain she could bring Li Yan inside.
Just as the ancient dragon wondered how she might help him,
Li Yan stared down at the sealed Abyss of the Netherworld and fell into thought.
"Only the Ancient Dragon Clan can pass through this passage?"
"Then what if I transform into an ancient dragon?"
He'd just comprehended the Dragon Soul Golden Body. Perhaps it could break through this restriction?
No sooner had the thought crossed his mind than he acted. Li Yan floated cross-legged in the seawater, and a faint glow began to emanate from his body.
"Dragon Soul Golden Body, manifest!"
With a silent command, a translucent golden dragon shot up into the sky!
Though the Dragon Soul Golden Body Li Yan transformed into was only a thousand meters long, it was far smaller than the ancient dragon beside him.
But when Li Yan transformed into a golden dragon soul, the ancient dragon's eyes went wide.
"You!"
"You!!!"
When the ancient dragon saw Li Yan's dragon soul, she stared at him without blinking for a long, long time.
In her eyes, Li Yan's dragon soul shimmered with golden light and looked exceptionally handsome.
He might have been a little dragon who still had room to grow, but... but this child was just too handsome.
The ancient dragon swallowed, her gaze turning feverish.
"So you're of the Ancient Dragon Clan too?"
"Why didn't you give me your name? Why disguise yourself as a human?"
"My name is Ao Jiao, of the East Sea's Ancient Dragon Clan."
The moment she saw Li Yan's soul, the silver-white ancient dragon's tone changed.
She was no longer as haughty as before; a trace of gentleness entered her voice.
Thinking of all the extraordinary things Li Yan had done, Ao Jiao decided that Li Yan must be an ancient dragon descendant disguised as a human.
"Could you be the child of a human and an ancient dragon?"
"Are there still other ancient dragons alive in the cultivation world?"
Transformed into a dragon soul, Li Yan noticed the silver-white ancient dragon coiling around him.
Li Yan raised an eyebrow. "Ao Jiao? Just hearing your name, I'd say you really are proud and delicate."
As a golden dragon soul, Li Yan still wasn't used to his long, slender body.
His thousand-meter-long golden dragon soul rippled through the seawater like a wave.
After swimming around underwater, Li Yan gradually got used to his Dragon Soul Golden Body.
But the enormous white ancient dragon beside him, Ao Jiao, began following him.
"I'm asking you a question, Little Bean Sprout."
Compared with ancient dragon Ao Jiao, Li Yan's thousand-meter-long dragon soul really did look like a tiny sprout.
Li Yan had felt that the moment he transformed, Ao Jiao's gaze had changed.
Could it be that, by the Dragon Clan's standards of beauty, his Dragon Soul Golden Body was handsome?
Why did Ao Jiao seem like a resentful woman who'd spent her whole life locked away in a palace and had never seen a man?
With the silver-white giant dragon circling around him, Li Yan felt thoroughly uncomfortable.
"What are you doing?"
Ancient dragon Ao Jiao looked like a strange older sister staring at the child next door.
"I'm just curious. Are you really of the Dragon Clan?"
"But with your size, you must still be a hatchling."
"It's fine. Small is cute too."
The enormous ancient dragon circled Li Yan's thousand-meter-long golden dragon soul. "If you'd told me you were of the Dragon Clan, big sister would've helped you ages ago."
Seeing how Ao Jiao looked as though she wanted to gobble him up, Li Yan shuddered.
"Dragon lady, please behave yourself."
"I'm human, and you're of the Ancient Dragon Clan. We're not the same kind."
Suspicion shone in Ao Jiao's golden eyes. "I don't believe you. How could a human transform into such a handsome dragon soul?"
"What human powerhouse can transform into a dragon?"
No matter how much Li Yan tried to explain, the ancient dragon wouldn't believe him.
Her eyes kept sizing up Li Yan's dragon soul, as if she were looking at her future child husband.
That feverish gaze made her seem just like a resentful woman in a deep palace who'd never seen a man.
Li Yan didn't want to argue with her. Since she didn't believe him, he might as well make good use of her.
"Quit dawdling and lead the way. I'm going into the Abyss of the Netherworld."
A moment ago, ancient dragon Ao Jiao had been haughty and impatient.
Now she immediately agreed. "You're of the Dragon Clan, so getting into the Abyss of the Netherworld should be easy."
"Come along, big sister will take you there!"
The silver-white ancient dragon began to swim, her enormous body gliding forward.
Beside her, Li Yan's thousand-meter-long Dragon Soul Golden Body was as slender as a strand of hair.
One golden dragon and one white dragon swam toward the black vortex.
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