Dragon Marrow Pool, underground stone chamber.
Li Yuan rose from the pool, dragon marrow fluid sliding down his body.
The liquid level in the pool had dropped another notch. Seven days of soaking, followed by further cultivation, had consumed a considerable amount of dragon essence. His Flood Dragon Bloodline had stabilized at roughly fifty-five percent, his True Dragon Ninefold Tempering Art had reached entry level, and his Blackiron Essence Condensation Body had reached proficiency.
Time to visit the second cache.
The coordinates the Responding Dragon Remnant had imprinted in his sea of consciousness lay in the far west of the Demon Dragon Domain. The teleportation platform in the Shattered Isles Forbidden Zone connected to both caches, allowing him to travel there directly.
Li Yuan returned to the teleportation platform and infused spirit power into the node on the right.
A silvery-white ring of light lit up. Several breaths later, his feet touched solid ground.
The light dispersed.
An enormous underground stone chamber appeared before him.
The chamber measured at least two hundred zhang across, with a vaulted ceiling some fifty zhang high. Its four walls were smooth, their dark-gold rock surfaces carrying an exceedingly faint spiritual glow of the Dragon Clan.
From the floor to the vaulted ceiling, jade slips were densely embedded everywhere.
Each jade slip bore a label in Dragon Clan script. The permanent affix Nether Realm Knowledge activated on its own, translating the labels one by one.
Artifact refining; talisman making; arrays; alchemy; body tempering; cultivation methods; bloodlines; dragon script.
The Withered Dragon Secret Vault.
A stone platform stood in the center of the chamber, its surface carved with a line of large Dragon Clan characters.
This vault holds ten thousand years of the Dragon Clan's inherited arts. All who possess a Dragon Clan Bloodline may take