Surging into the Sealed Land

[ Ding! Consumed Life Creation Spring (large amount, highly refined). Soul injuries repaired by 90%; all hidden bodily injuries completely healed. Dragon Thunder Baleful Force fusion increased to 25%! Stability greatly improved; lifespan maintenance consumption reduced to 50 years per hour. Physical strength +25%, soul resilience +35%; resistance to Killing Intent and soul attacks significantly increased. ]

"Good!" Lu Chen's spirits soared.

With the fusion rate raised to 25% and the lifespan consumption reduced to fifty years per hour, the pressure on him plummeted! His body and soul had also been strengthened once more!

Only then did he have the time to look at the black dragon scale atop the jade platform.

The instant his finger touched it—

Buzz—!

A vast, mournful torrent of will, yet one carrying endless majesty, surged into his sea of consciousness!

In a daze, he "saw" shattered scenes flash before him:

A sunless battlefield in the void, where countless dragons slaughtered terrifying beings of every shape and form. Dragon blood rained down, and bones piled into mountains...

A colossal dark-golden dragon, wrapped in ominous black qi, roared madly at the heart of the battlefield. Its dragon eyes were crimson as it slaughtered its own kin and allies without restraint...

An even more immense Azure Dragon, green as jade from head to tail, let out a mournful cry. Joining forces with several beings whose auras towered to the heavens, it paid a terrible price before finally suppressing and sealing that fallen dark-golden dragon...

The Azure Dragon itself was grievously wounded, on the verge of falling. At its final moment, it resolutely tore off the hardest reverse scale from its chest, poured into it a lifetime of insight into sealing and a strand of its origin will, and transformed it into the core component of