The two arrived at the fourth pavilion. Sure enough, there was another true dragon skeleton here. This true dragon had died earlier than those in the first two pavilions, and no dragonhide covered its body.
Yan Chihuo and Mo Han now knew that this was most likely the so-called tomb of true dragons. Since this was the Dragon Palace, these true dragons could not possibly have been killed here by someone else. Yet why were they all at the late Soul Nurturing Stage, on the verge of entering the Ascension Stage? Neither of them could fathom it.
Yan Chihuo put away the true dragon skeleton and hurried with Mo Han toward the fifth pavilion. As soon as they entered, they found yet another true dragon skeleton.
However, this skeleton was vastly different from the previous ones. It lay coiled upon the ground, its upper body sitting upright, its two foreclaws pressed together as though a monk with palms joined in prayer. Beneath its lower body was a lotus throne, and upon its foreclaws sat a storage ring.
"How strange this true dragon is," Mo Han said. "It seems to have cultivated a Buddhist technique. How could that be possible? A true dragon forsaking the Dragon Clan's perfectly good cultivation arts to practice some Buddhist technique instead?"
Yan Chihuo removed the storage ring and found that aside from two jade slips, there was nothing else inside. He took out the slips and poured spiritual power into them, only to discover that one recorded a Buddhist cultivation art called the Supreme Radiance Art.
The other jade slip briefly recorded the life of this true dragon. This true dragon was named Ao Ren. He had cultivated Dragon Clan techniques until he reached the late Soul Nurturing Stage, whereupon he found advancing into the