Dragon Pearl

[Same year, after receiving your consent, your daughter Ye Pingjing married Zhang Tianhuo.

Watching that brat serve you tea, anger surged within you, yet you had nowhere to vent it. Before long, in the training that followed, you found an outlet for your frustrations—Zhang Tianhuo.]

[In the ninety-eighth year, your cultivation rose to the Mid Void God Realm.]

[In the one hundred and third year, adventure-loving Ye Chen returned home to find you. He told you that he had discovered a special Inheritance Secret Realm. He had entered it before, but the creatures within were far too powerful. Sensing great danger, he had left. Ye Chen wanted you to explore the Secret Realm with him. He could feel that it surely contained many good things.

Before long, you followed Ye Chen to the Secret Realm. After entering the valley and stepping into the teleportation array, you arrived within it. The Secret Realm was unexpectedly located deep inside something like a cave. It was pitch-black inside, without the slightest trace of light.

You immediately took out an Earth Grade treasure you carried with you. It was an Earth Grade Low-Rank Treasure Artifact in the form of a pearl. It emitted a blue radiance, illuminating the entire cave brightly. At the same time, you saw the scene within clearly. Several bat-like Demonic Beasts were rushing toward you. Their cultivation was not high, merely at the Essence Gathering Realm, but there were many of them. Still, this could not trouble you. You immediately released your Phantom Body, and the enormous Void God crushed those bats to pieces in an instant.

At the side, your youngest son Ye Chen watched you with what seemed like stars in his eyes. This was the father he had worshipped ever since childhood. No matter what realm he cultivated to, he always felt his father's strength was unfathomably deep.

Meeting Ye Chen's gaze, you made a fist and lightly rapped his forehead with it. "Don't space out. There are definitely more than just these Demonic Beasts in here. We need to keep moving forward. If a Demonic Beast appears that even I cannot fight, I hope you won't run around. Stay closer to me so I can protect you more easily. Understand?"

Faced with your instructions, Ye Chen immediately nodded and followed behind you as you continued deeper into the cave.

On the way into the depths of the cave, you encountered dozens of waves of Demonic Beast packs. Fortunately, all of it remained within your capabilities. You could still deal with these Demonic Beasts, though their sheer numbers were also a drain on you.

After finally dealing with another group of bats, you signaled for Ye Chen to sit down and rest with you. Once seated, you took out several Treasure Pills and swallowed them, beginning to recover your vital energy. Ye Chen, meanwhile, also ate several pills and began recuperating just as you did.

Two hours later, you had restored yourself to perfect condition and continued onward into the cave with Ye Chen. Before long, a massive Stone Gate appeared before you. Above it was an incomparably huge black dragon head. Though it was only a head, it showed no trace of decay and looked vividly lifelike, as if it were still alive. Its wide eyes stared ahead, making anyone who approached the Stone Gate feel as though it were watching them. Ye Chen felt fear rise in his heart merely from looking at the dragon head.

[Yes, the place you had now arrived at was a Dragon Tomb Ancient Grave, and the grave of a Demon Saint Level Dragon Clan at that. The enormous dragon head you saw above the Stone Gate belonged to a Half-Saint Grade Demon Dragon. When you saw it, your heart lurched. After all, your current strength had not even reached the Spirit Condensation Realm. Entering this Secret Realm now was somewhat too dangerous.

At that moment, you wanted to retreat and return after your realm had grown higher. Yet as fortune came knocking, you could sense that this expedition would not pose too great a danger and should be something you could handle. This premonition had appeared several times before, and every time it had proven remarkably accurate. You had never possessed such intuition before obtaining the Sacred Body Dao Embryo physique. You guessed that perhaps it was because this physique had increased your Fortune. Once you received that premonition, your previous unease immediately settled.]

[You walked toward the Stone Gate, but discovered that you could not open it with Barbarian Strength. You therefore guessed there must be some mechanism. You searched all around the Stone Gate and had Ye Chen help look for anything unusual. As time passed and Ye Chen was beginning to grow impatient, you found a groove. The instant you saw it, something seemed to occur to you. You took an item from your pocket, and it happened to match the groove perfectly. Understanding dawned upon you.]

[The jade seal you took from your pocket was one you had acquired at the Jiancheng Auction House. When it had been auctioned before, you had felt that its material was extraordinary. By your understanding, perhaps this Jade Seal held some secret. Moreover, its price had not been high for you. With money to burn, you had directly bought the Jade Seal.

Yet after buying it, you had tried many times without discovering its use. Thinking of this, a faint smile appeared on your face. It seemed that all things spoke of cause and effect. Perhaps this was precisely your blessed fortune.]

[After you placed the Jade Seal into the groove on the Stone Gate, it soon began to glow. Following the lines of the grooves on the gate, the light gradually spread until it finally formed an illuminated Dragon Body. Connected to the dragon head, it looked even more like a living black dragon.

As the black dragon's eyes lit up, the dragon head on the Stone Gate also released a majestic dragon's roar. Only after the roar faded did the great gate rumble open. At that moment, Ye Chen and you finally saw the sight within.]

[A thick stench of corpses rushed at you. Ye Chen immediately vomited. Though you too felt somewhat nauseated, you still forced down the urge to throw up. Before you lay a Dragon Corpse more than fifty zhang tall, roughly as high as a building of over fifty stories in your previous life.]

[Looking at this race that counted as legend across the entire continent, you, who had previously relaxed considerably, once again felt enormous pressure. The powerful Dragon Clan was far stronger than the Human Race from the moment of birth. If the Dragon Bloodline concentration was high, they could even reach the Yao Saint Level upon adulthood. They truly deserved their status as the peak beings among the Demon Race.]

[Though a Yao Saint's strength was exceedingly formidable, the Dragon Corpse before you had clearly been dead for a long time. Other than the Dragon Pearl, the entire corpse had lost its use. After sighing, you felt a wave of delight. After all, a Dragon Pearl remained that could still serve a purpose. This trip had not been in vain.

Just as you removed the Dragon Pearl, the entire Dragon Corpse suddenly collapsed with a thunderous crash. It then turned into dust, vanishing within the cave and disappearing from this world.]