A burst of heavy breathing suddenly came from the bushes ahead, accompanied by ponderous footsteps and the rustling scrape of scales against the dirt.
Lu Mingfei abruptly stopped, staring warily toward the source of the sound.
A massive fire dragon slowly emerged from the depths of the forest.
The fire dragon was enormous, over ten meters long from head to tail. Its entire body was covered in thick crimson scales, each one glowing with searing light like red-hot iron.
Its head was broad and vicious, its fangs interlocked like an array of daggers. Two thick dragon horns extended backward from the top of its head, their tips quietly burning with crimson flames.
A pair of broad wings spread behind it, their membranes dark red like solidified lava.
When fully extended, its wingspan nearly blotted out the forest clearing wide enough for two people.
Its thick limbs stomped upon the ground, each step scorching and cracking the soil beneath its feet with sizzling sounds.
Lu Mingfei's pupils contracted slightly.
This fire dragon was definitely no low-level creature. Judging by the Soul Power fluctuations he sensed, it had cultivated for at least ten thousand years.
A Ten Thousand Year Soul Beast possessed combat strength comparable to that of a Soul King-level expert.
Under normal circumstances, with his current cultivation as a Soul Grandmaster in his twenties, there was only one word for facing an opponent of this level...
Run!
But Lu Mingfei did not run.
Because he had keenly sensed an aura surging within the fire dragon's body...
It was the bloodline aura of a true dragon. Though faint, it undeniably existed.
This fire dragon was a draconic sub-species with true dragon blood, far nobler than ordinary dragon beasts, and the energy within its body was much purer as well.
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