Mortal Dust Continent, Wild Sea Province.
Within the Stone Spirit Grotto-Heaven, a streak of cold light raced through a spirit lake, then burst from the water, swallowing a mouthful of spirit fish.
It finally landed before a pavilion and transformed into a burly, dark-scaled man with a wide mouth.
His aura had also grown more substantial, as though he was about to break through to the peak sixth stage.
In the pavilion, a young man held a peculiar dragon-horn jade disk as he examined him.
"There really is a difference!" The young man was, of course, Ye Jingcheng.
After more than a decade, the Jade Qilin Dragon could now fully execute the Dragon-Luring Cicada Aperture Art contained within the Golden Cicada Cast-Off Shell Secret Art.
He drew his own true spirit aura into his Cicada Aperture.
The next moment, a dragon silhouette manifested in the sky out of the void, then instantly tore through space and appeared within the grotto-heaven, transforming into a man who bore some resemblance to Ye Jingcheng.
His face was full of curiosity, and he found the experience rather novel.
In the past, even the slightest movement in flight had stirred surging spiritual light and countless wondrous phenomena.
This time, everything was utterly ordinary, no different from a human cultivator.
"Master!" This man was, naturally, the Void Ancient Dragon.
Activating the Cicada Aperture Art made it easier to assume human form.
The Jade Qilin Dragon's true spirit bloodline was weak, so the art was much easier for him to perform. For the Void Ancient Dragon to completely conceal his Zen Aperture aura, however, he either had to expend large amounts of true essence to sustain it or assume human form before he could fully seal away his true spirit aura.
Thus, unless he was fighting or