Roar!
Liang Zhaohuang had just sealed away and put up the fourth-order crimson flame light when he heard a dragon's roar.
At the center of the Red Flame Lion Clan's ancestral land, where the underground sea of fire surged up from below, vast swathes of subterranean flames erupted once more, blasting skyward like a volcanic eruption.
A fire dragon over a thousand zhang long burst up from underground amid the eruption, coiling above the sea of fire as though searching for and sensing something.
"Fire dragon!"
Liang Zhaohuang recognized it at once. This fire dragon was the flame elemental spirit that had once coiled near the Fire-Settling Pearl, treating it as a dragon pearl to breathe upon and refine.
Back then, the Red Flame Lion King had seized the Fire-Settling Pearl from this fire dragon's jaws.
Even now, the fire dragon still retained faint threads of connection and resonance with the Fire-Settling Pearl.
On one hand, the fire dragon had refined the Fire-Settling Pearl for who knew how many years. Even after more than a year of Liang Zhaohuang's cleansing and refinement, he found it difficult to eliminate every trace of that connection and resonance.
On the other hand, Liang Zhaohuang had deliberately preserved this sliver of connection and resonance.
He still intended to refine this fire dragon into the Fire-Settling Pearl and elevate the Fire-Settling Pearl to the rank of a superior-grade spirit treasure.
Naturally, he could not completely erase the connection and resonance between the fire dragon and the Fire-Settling Pearl.
Thus, although Liang Zhaohuang had only brought out the Fire-Settling Pearl for a brief moment, the fire dragon within the underground sea of fire had sensed it. It now burst through the ground, searching for the Fire-Settling Pearl by feel.
Before long, the fire dragon's pair of