Wang Daoyuan transformed into his dragon form and burrowed into the spring eye.
The spring did not contain much water, so it posed no real obstruction.
Only, the waterway beneath the spring was narrow. Wang Daoyuan shrank his dragon body to a little over a foot long and drilled downward through the cracks in the stone.
After diving more than a li, the waterway widened again.
Scattered dragon scales lay embedded in the surrounding rock walls.
These dragon scales did not come from a single Dragon Seed; their colors and shapes varied.
Although all of them had fallen to top-grade Fourth-order, judging by their material, their original grades had definitely been quite high.
With his habit of raking in the grass and catching rabbits along the way, Wang Daoyuan casually stored all the dragon scales in the Spirit Pearl Space.
Nourished by high-grade spiritual power, these dragon scales would improve greatly in grade in the future.
Even if they could not recover their former grades, they could at least be used as Fifth-order Materials.
As he ventured deeper, the dragon scales around him became increasingly numerous, and their shapes grew ever closer to those of true dragons.
It was clear that the owners of these dragon scales had possessed denser dragon blood.
After diving more than ten li, he finally reached the deepest part of the spring eye.
This was a semicircular space with a radius of four or five zhang. At its center floated a water sphere over a foot in diameter.
Beneath the water sphere was an area carrying fluctuations of Spatial Laws, from which spiritual power continuously seeped out.
This was also a fundamental characteristic of a secret realm core: it could connect with the outside world.
The water sphere absorbed the spiritual power leaking from it,