Flag Mountain Mountain Range's depths.
Cold River Valley.
The Icefrost Giant Dragon crouched on the ground and exhaled a breath of icy air.
When one stood beneath the mountain valley, one could not help but lower one's head.
When a dragon stood beneath the abyss, it could not help but bow.
Its enormous dragon maw slowly opened, and an obscure, ancient dragon-language spell flowed from its throat.
That voice was ancient and vast, like an ancient bell ringing across an icy plain.
As the incantation echoed, a blood-red six-pointed star formation slowly emerged beneath Lei Wen's feet.
Pale white light flowed through it, carrying bone-piercing cold, yet it was not painful.
Lei Wen did not move.
He merely watched quietly, his expression utterly calm, as though this had all been within his expectations.
Xiao Bai's heart began to pound.
This human was only a few decades old. How could his composure surpass that of a dragon who had lived for hundreds of years?
It bit the tip of its tongue.
A drop of golden-purple dragon blood flew out, hovering in midair and radiating a frightening magical fluctuation.
That was its source blood.
The formation suddenly shone brilliantly, swallowing the drop of essence blood. It then transformed into a stream of bloody light that shot straight into Lei Wen's brow.
There was no pain.
Only a strange sense of fullness that instantly spread through his entire body.
Lei Wen closed his eyes.
Within his sea of consciousness, there was an additional chain shaped like a contract.
At the other end of the chain was a gigantic yet faintly weak dragon soul.
That was Xiao Bai.
With a single thought from him, he could easily control the life and death of this Nine Peaks Giant Dragon.
This feeling was rather strange.
It was like holding a remote control that could be detonated at any moment.
"Mas... Master."
A trembling voice rose in his mind.
It was filled with utter unwillingness, yet also a trace of flattery.
Lei Wen opened his eyes, his gaze falling upon the enormous Giant Dragon before him.
It was done.
The Master-Servant Contract, the most sinister soul-binding technique in this world.
Unless Lei Wen took the initiative to dissolve it, Xiao Bai would only ever be a working dragon.
If Lei Wen suffered any accident and died, Xiao Bai would die alongside him.
"Good."
"Stop looking like your father just died."
"Follow me. From now on, you'll have plenty to eat and drink."
Lei Wen patted Xiao Bai's thick scales. They felt like he was touching a slab of ice that had endured countless winters.
Hearing Lei Wen's words,
Xiao Bai rolled its eyes.
It did want plenty to eat and drink, but right now, it only wanted to find somewhere safe to rest and recover.
That sword strike had nearly shattered all its dragon bones.
Just as Lei Wen was preparing to find a place to rest for a while and sort through the harvest from Luo Ye's ring,
Rumble!
The ground suddenly shook violently.
The terrifying tremor spread outward, making the towering ancient trees all around sway wildly. Leaves fell like rain.
Lei Wen's expression instantly sharpened.
It was not an earthquake.
It was the shockwave produced by a collision of power.
Immediately afterward,
Two terrifying auras, so oppressive they made breathing difficult, collided in the depths of the mountain range like surging seas.
That was pressure far beyond the Saint Domain.
Saint Domain!
And there were two of them!
Xiao Bai had originally been lying on the ground recovering.
Yet at this moment, it was like a cat whose fur had been stroked the wrong way. Its massive body stiffened, and its dragon head stared fixedly in that direction.
Its dragon eyes were full of fear.
There was even a hint of dread deep within them.
Although it was a Nine Peaks Giant Dragon, it was only a step away from the Saint Domain.
But that one step was a chasm between heaven and earth.
"What's going on?"
Lei Wen furrowed his brow, his voice calm to a frightening degree.
He had not been intimidated by those two auras. Instead, the battle intent in his bones began to boil.
That was a warrior's instinctive thirst for the strong.
"That's... that stupid bear's Earth Plate!"
Xiao Bai cried out in alarm.
"A bear?"
Lei Wen raised an eyebrow.
"The Earth Bear!"
"That fool is an old-established Saint Domain Flagrant Beast. Its temper is atrocious. Don't provoke it unless you want to die."
Xiao Bai swallowed, its enormous dragon face full of dread.
Earth Bear.
Information about this Flagrant Beast quickly surfaced in Lei Wen's mind.
An earth-element Saint Domain Flagrant Beast, its defense was astonishing, while its strength was terrifying beyond measure. It could easily split mountains and shatter earth.
As long as it stood upon the ground, its power would be endless.
Lei Wen nodded slightly.
"What about the other one?"
Lei Wen sensed the restless lightning elements in the air.
Besides the heavy earth elements,
There was another violent and sharp aura that was wildly tearing through the air.
"Thunderwing White Serpent."
"That one is also a madman."
"It possesses a thunder-element bloodline. Its speed is so fast that it cannot be seen clearly, and its offensive power is equally astonishing."
"It is mortal enemies with that stupid bear. They fight every few hundred years, and every time they turn the heavens and earth upside down."
Xiao Bai's voice became even more panicked. It even tucked its wings beneath its body.
"Master, let's run!"
"When those two fight, they don't care whether anything around them lives or dies. Even the aftermath could crush us into mush."
As it spoke,
Xiao Bai retreated several steps.
Although the sword god had said to seek divine beasts,
That was only if one could stay alive.
Even the strongest divine beast was nothing but a weaker chicken before the Saint Domain.
Before the Saint Domain, Nine Peaks and one-star ranks were all ants.
Lei Wen ignored Xiao Bai's frantic retreat.
He stared at the mountain depths, where explosions rang out without end. The light in his eyes grew brighter and brighter.
Run?
Why should he run?
This was a once-in-a-thousand-years opportunity.
He had been stuck at the Nine Peaks for quite some time.
His strength, speed, and combat aura had all been tempered to perfection.
It was like a bottle filled with water.
No matter how much water was poured into it, it would only overflow. The bottle itself would not grow any larger.
What he lacked was not accumulation.
But an opportunity.
An opportunity to break the bottle and comprehend the power of heaven and earth!
The so-called "power" could not be seen or touched.
It was a special method used by Saint Domain Experts to harness fragments of heaven and earth's laws.
Some people sat silently beneath waterfalls for ten years before gaining enlightenment, while others comprehended it in an instant amid life-and-death slaughter.
Lei Wen had always felt that he was missing something.
Perhaps,
He was missing this very moment.
He wanted to see for himself how true Saint Domain Experts wielded the power of heaven and earth!
Luo Ye's Purple Blood Soft Sword was normally impossible to see.
If he missed this chance, even if he entered the Saint Domain in the future, he would regret it.
Wealth came only through risk.
Lei Wen had believed that without doubt in both his past and present lives.
"I'm going over."
Lei Wen suddenly spoke, his voice steady as a rock.
"Master, that's the Saint Domain!"
Xiao Bai was stunned.
It doubted whether its ears had malfunctioned, or whether the contract had damaged its brain.
"I know."
"Precisely because it is the Saint Domain, I have to go take a look."
"If I do not even have the courage to look at it, how can I talk about becoming a god?"
Lei Wen turned around and looked at the Giant Dragon, whose green eyes were filled with terror, revealing a blazing smile.
That smile carried wild arrogance.
Xiao Bai froze.
Looking at the tiny human before it, it suddenly felt that his aura had changed.
He was no longer that reckless human who only knew how to fight.
Instead, he seemed like a sword drawn from its sheath, its edge exposed, pointing toward the heavens.
Madman.
An utter madman.
That was Xiao Bai's only thought at that moment.
Yet for some reason, an inexplicable sense of awe rose in its heart.
Perhaps,
That was why he was the master, while it could only lie there trembling.
"You stay here."
"Find somewhere safe and recover. You were badly injured just now."
"If those two monsters come this way, run on your own. Don't worry about me."
Lei Wen glanced at the wounds covering Xiao Bai's body.
It was too badly injured. Going along would only mean death.
Moreover, Xiao Bai was too large and far too conspicuous.
If it was careless and got slapped to death by those two massive monsters,
After saying that,
Lei Wen ignored Xiao Bai's attempts to persuade him.
He stomped down.
Boom!
The ground exploded into a small crater.
His entire body shot forth like an arrow released from a bow, turning into a black blur as he raced straight toward the restless mountain depths.
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