The moment the Dragon Corpse collapsed, you stored the Dragon Pearl in your Storage Treasure. But immediately afterward, you discovered something intact amid the dust. Looking over, you saw that it was a Dragon Scale.
That was right. Dragons had Reverse Scales—touch one, and death was certain. This was also the hardest thing in the entire Dragon Corpse aside from the Dragon Pearl. When Ye Chen saw you looking at the Dragon Scale, he picked it up and handed it to you. After lightly rubbing the Dragon Scale Ye Chen had passed over, you realized that due to the passage of time, this scale had perhaps once been a Sacred Item-grade material. Now, it only retained Half-Saint Grade power. It was an ideal material for crafting a Treasure Artifact. Compared to a weapon, however, this Reverse Scale was more suitable for making a defensive Treasure Artifact. After breaking through to the Spirit Condensation Realm, you planned to ask someone to forge it into a Heartguard Mirror. Its defensive power would surely be extraordinary.
After putting away the Dragon Scale, you and Ye Chen continued exploring. In the end, you discovered an Underground Cave within the cavern. It held a vast quantity of treasure—items bearing metallic luster, as well as weapons and armor belonging to Martial Artists.
Unfortunately, most of the weapons and armor could no longer be used. They could only be melted down for materials. The small portion that had endured the corrosion of time were all relatively high-grade items.
You knew that the things in this Underground Cave were the Giant Dragon's treasure hoard. Before long, you and Ye Chen packed everything into your Storage Treasures and left the Secret Realm.
After returning to the Snow Mountain Sect, you took out the Dragon Pearl once more. According to ancient records, the Dragon Pearl had many uses. The choice most people made was to forge it into a weapon. Yet you knew that the energy within this Dragon Pearl, if made into a weapon, might directly produce a Sacred Artifact. You did not intend to do that—not only because you could not find an Artifact Refiner capable of creating a Sacred Artifact, but also because you wanted to use another method. Even if you had found such an Artifact Refiner, you would not have had it forged into a weapon.
You planned to refine this Dragon Pearl and make it part of your body. Though there was some danger, your physical constitution was also extremely strong. Compared to the gains you stood to receive, this risk was worth taking.
After all, once you successfully refined this Dragon Pearl, you would possess a Dragon Bloodline. It would greatly enhance your talent. The allure of a Yao Saint Level Dragon Bloodline was simply too great. Even if it meant walking a knife's edge, you were willing to give it a try. Soon, you used Primal Force to shrink the Dragon Pearl, then swallowed it in one gulp. The moment it entered your body, the Dragon Pearl was guided by your Primal Force into your dantian.
You then officially began refining the Dragon Pearl. As you did so, it immediately unleashed a force of resistance and struggled against you. You felt agonizing pain throughout your entire body, as if someone were slicing apart your flesh with a blade. Even with your steadfast will, you could not help letting out low, muffled roars.
Yet you did not stop refining the Dragon Pearl. Your Primal Force continued guiding your consciousness into contact with it. As time passed, three months went by before you finally completed the refinement. By then, your appearance had undergone tremendous changes. Fine scales had appeared across your body, two Dragon Horns had grown from your forehead, and your nails had become narrow and sharp. Looking closely into your eyes, one would find that your pupils had turned vertical. Your Charm Points had also reached the human limit. If you could see the Status Panel, it would now have reached one hundred.
You were not surprised in the slightest by the changes in your body. As you gained control over it, you quickly withdrew all the Dragon Scales, Dragon Horns, and other transformations, returning to your original appearance. Yet your face now seemed perfect from every angle.
Although your temperament was refined and elegant, any woman who saw you would feel the most primal desire, like a man beholding a succubus. This was an irresistible temptation beyond control. Even if you had no intention of seducing anyone, others would still see you as the very embodiment of allure.
At the same time, these changes were not limited to your appearance. You could clearly feel that with every breath, you were growing stronger. This rate of improvement was much faster than even when you had possessed exceptional talent in the past.
This also made you think of how most dragons were exceedingly lazy. Yet even so, they grew stronger merely by sleeping. Upon reaching adulthood, they stood at heights many humans could never attain in their entire lives.
Aside from your increased talent, gaining part of the Dragon Bloodline also brought quite a few drawbacks. For instance, you could now clearly feel that your mind had become somewhat unwilling to strive. Your passion for cultivation was far weaker than before. Fortunately, though these things affected you somewhat, you could still restrain them. After all, you were the one controlling the Dragon Pearl now; the Dragon Pearl was not controlling you.
At the same time, after refining the Dragon Pearl, you broke through to the Late Void God Realm and took a great step forward within it.
In the one hundred and tenth year, after absorbing your Bloodline Essence this time, the three children seemed to have received a slight increase in talent in addition to their cultivation.
At the same time, you discovered that ever since absorbing the Dragon Pearl, your desires had grown greater and greater. You spent increasingly more time with your wife, Jiang Wen. Fortunately, your wife had long since broken through to the Heavenly Origin Realm, and her physical constitution was exceptionally strong. Otherwise, she truly might not have been able to withstand your relentless ravaging.
Your wife also noticed your changes, but she was even happier. It was not only that your desires had become stronger—whenever Jiang Wen saw you, she too felt a strong pull. She did not think your changes were a bad thing at all.
But after absorbing the Dragon Pearl, one matter troubled you greatly. You had previously noticed that the way your daughter looked at you was somewhat wrong. Fortunately, you discovered it in time and prevented a great disaster. You had begun avoiding Ye Pingjing. If you could avoid meeting her, you did your best not to see her. Only then did your daughter finally return to normal.
In the one hundred and thirty-second year, despite the difficulty of condensing the Void God, you still broke through to the initial Spirit Condensation Realm.
That same year, you established the Ye Family Ancestral Land in Jiancheng once again and arranged for people to head to a Large Blessed Land that had not yet been discovered. After taking the Large Blessed Land, the Sky Domain Sect, just as you had expected, wanted to seize it. What you had not expected was that they had sent only two Spirit Condensation Realm Martial Artists and eight Void God Realm Martial Artists. Only then did you recall that among the Sky Domain Sect Inner Sect, there was actually still someone who had not broken through to the Spirit Condensation Realm.
Zhang Quanjian was somewhat surprised to see you already waiting for everyone within the blessed land. But just as he was about to threaten and persuade you, you interrupted him.
You did not want to hear any of his nonsense. You directly launched an attack on Zhang Quanjian. Although you had not cultivated a Martial Skill to the Return to Simplicity level this time, you possessed the boost of the Dragon Bloodline. With your current strength, dealing with these two old bastards from the Sky Domain Sect was more than easy.
Very quickly, you clashed with the ten high-level members of the Sky Domain Sect. In less than a few minutes, every Void God Realm martial artist from the Sky Domain Sect had fallen. Zhang Quanjian and the other initial Spirit Condensation Realm martial artist tried to flee, but you easily stopped them. They could not escape the graveyard you had chosen for them. Half of their attacks striking your body were absorbed by the Low-grade Heaven Grade Treasure Armor, while the remaining damage was unable to injure you.
Half a day later, you were the only person left on the battlefield. After taking all the treasures they carried, you arranged for their corpses to be burned.
When the Soul Guard Disciples of the Sky Domain Sect discovered that the life plaques of the sect's high-level members had all fallen, they immediately understood that the high-level members had been killed. They promptly informed the other disciples to prepare to flee once more, only to be blocked by the Ye Family disciples and Snow Mountain Sect disciples you had arranged in advance. Before long, these people were forced to swear Martial Oaths. However, not everyone could leave. Back in the Sky Domain Sect Inner Sect, you had seen quite a few disciples commit every evil imaginable. You had recorded their names on a list and handed it to the Elder overseeing this interception. Following your orders, that Elder killed every single person on the list, leaving none alive.
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