The Crucial Step of Dragon Transformation

The Crucial Step of Dragon Transformation. A journey of several thousand li took time even for a Sixth Turn expert flying through the air.

Mu Xian and Zuo Qianshan became two streaks of flowing light, one before and one behind, sweeping across the sky. The earth raced backward below them, mountains and rivers shrinking into blurred patches of color beneath their feet.

Zuo Qianshan kept his head down as he traveled, but his mind was calculating rapidly.

On this trip to Prince Jing'an's Mansion, he had to preserve himself no matter what. He could not let either Cangwu Old Ancestor or Mu Xian use him as a chess piece.

Meanwhile, within the underground palace.

Prince Jing'an's body sat upright upon the stone platform, having completely become a withered corpse of skin stretched over bones.

That Sixth Turn imperial clansman who had once been high-spirited and shaken the Northern Border with his might was now left with only a thin layer of skin wrapped around a shriveled skeleton. His eye sockets were sunken, his cheekbones protruding, while the Essence Blood, True Qi, and Dragon Qi within him had nearly been devoured clean.

Yet his eyes remained open, and within his pupils lingered a faint light that refused to go out.

It was the final obsession of a Sixth Turn expert, struggling bitterly at the edge of death's abyss.

Cangwu Old Ancestor's true form had been fully revealed.

Its hundred-zhang centipede body coiled in the deepest part of the underground palace. Fine cracks covered its dark green carapace, and golden light seeped from those fissures, like magma flowing beneath the earth.

Scales were growing from the carapace one by one, dazzling gold and shimmering with flowing light. Upon every scale intertwined two utterly different auras: Dragon Qi and Buddha Qi.

Compassion and