Shattered Isles Forbidden Zone, teleportation platform.
Li Yuan stood before the silver-white ring of light and examined his body from within.
The tremors left by the three Spirit Transformation-level impacts had subsided, and the scales on his chest had been restored.
The ring of light on the teleportation platform revolved steadily. Among the array patterns recorded by Myriad Image Retrospection, two sets of coordinates stood on the left and right. The inscription said the first cache held dragon marrow, while the second held techniques.
Li Yuan chose the first.
He infused spiritual power into the Teleportation Node on the platform's left side. Silver-white light suddenly flared, enveloping his entire body. The walls of space twisted.
Several breaths later, his feet touched solid ground.
The silver-white light dispersed.
Around him lay an underground stone chamber roughly thirty zhang across, with an extremely low ceiling. A natural stone pool stood at its center, its edges covered in spirit patterns.
The pool was filled with dark-gold liquid, thick as honey, with a faint Dragon Clan spiritual radiance flowing across its surface. Pure dragon essence steamed upward, filling the entire chamber.
Dragon Marrow Fluid.
The flood dragon bloodline within Li Yuan immediately surged, as though it had scented something of the same origin.
Remnant spirit patterns were carved into the chamber's four walls. Most were shattered and indistinct; the recognizable portions were Dragon Clan Body Tempering spirit patterns. Myriad Image Retrospection recorded them one by one.
He walked to the pool's edge.
A pale-gold membrane of spiritual power covered the rim, with two sets of verification spirit patterns on its surface. The first checked bloodline, the second Body Tempering foundations.
Li Yuan activated his flood dragon bloodline, releasing the aura of a Dragon Clan bloodline at fifty percent concentration. The first set of spirit