After giving Shang Xuelian some guidance and enough pills, Chen Lin returned to his Divine Snail Shell immortal cave to continue studying the Dragon Controlling Art.
He unrolled the bamboo scroll, revealing the dragon-shaped mark beneath it.
He had no idea what material these bamboo scrolls were made from. Not only could they endure ten thousand years without decaying, they could also seal away all sorts of high-grade energy.
The jade slip that had recorded the method for refining the Scholar had contained a true spirit remnant soul, while this one held ancestral dragon qi. The resources of the Ancient Cultivation Era were truly beyond imagining.
There was another possibility: these bamboo scrolls came from the Upper Primal Domain, which was why the inheritances recorded on them were so wondrous. To cultivators of the Upper Primal Domain, lower-realm cultivators like them were merely frogs at the bottom of a well, no matter how powerful their cultivation became.
After imagining the splendor of a higher plane for a moment, Chen Lin focused on the dragon-shaped mark. He released a wisp of innate power and swept it over the mark, stripping away a thread of ancestral dragon qi and drawing it into his body.
Then he began refining it according to the Dragon Controlling Art.
Once he finished refining one thread, he took another.
Three years passed in a flash.
Chen Lin had never expected ancestral dragon qi to be so difficult to refine.
Even with innate power suppressing it, each thread took a month or two to digest. It took him three full years to absorb all the ancestral dragon qi within the mark.
But the benefits were equally obvious.
The origin essence of his true body had increased considerably, and his physical strength had grown severalfold, surpassing the level he