Both of them had reaped tremendous rewards from this journey into the Dragon-Phoenix Haven.
Zi Yan's strength had soared by two grades, and her Dragon-Phoenix Bloodline had reached perfection. Lin Ming had fused with true dragon and true phoenix blood essence, attained a dragon-phoenix body, and brought his spiritual energy conversion to forty percent.
In the outside world, these gains would have driven any top-tier faction mad with desire.
Lin Ming withdrew his gaze from Zi Yan and looked around. Having fulfilled its purpose, the Super Dragon Phoenix Pool had lost much of the richness of its once-brimming golden water, and its water level had fallen below thirty percent of its original height.
Most of the ancient luminous patterns that had flowed along the pool walls for ten thousand years had dimmed. Only a few still flickered feebly with faint golden light, as though they might go out completely at any moment.
Although the true dragon and true phoenix skulls that formed the bone pool still radiated a vast, ancient pressure, less than a tenth of the blood essence power within them remained.
The Super Dragon Phoenix Pool had nearly exhausted the essence it had accumulated over ten thousand years.
Yet Lin Ming's gaze did not linger on the nearly depleted pool. Instead, he looked past the water toward the angle where the dragon's teeth and phoenix's beak interlocked behind it.
There, the little golden tree still grew quietly, its trunk twisting and coiling like a gnarled dragon. Only two bare fruit stalks remained where they had plucked the Dragon-Phoenix Golden Fruits, but between those stalks, a small cluster of golden light still shone with a gentle, tenacious glow.
It was the flower bud that had yet to bloom, the third fruit the little golden tree was nurturing. Though it