"True Dragon Spirit!"
Yuan Rong and the others' eyes lit up, their gazes turning scorching as they all looked toward the Flood Dragon King.
"You humans need not stare at me like that."
The Flood Dragon King roared. As its blood-filled maw opened and closed, its voice boomed like a great bell and Great Lu, tearing silk and piercing clouds.
"I do not mind telling you that the words I erased from that black stone slab recorded the treasures of the inner and outer halls, as well as the method for controlling that trapping formation."
"However, I fear I was deceived by the one who left behind the stone slab. There is no so-called inner hall at all. All for nothing—I even slaughtered every member of my own kind to open the inner hall's stone door."
The Flood Dragon King's voice made everyone's ears buzz, yet their fervor did not diminish in the slightest.
After passing through the inner hall's stone door, they had arrived in this region.
Perhaps the inner hall was somewhere within this area.
Only Song Wen looked somewhat lost.
"Gu Que, what is a True Dragon Spirit?" Song Wen secretly asked within his sea of consciousness.
"A trace of spiritual essence within a True Dragon's divine soul," Gu Que answered succinctly.
"What is it used for?" Song Wen asked again.
Gu Que said, "The most crucial step for cultivators advancing to the Tribulation Transcendence stage is nurturing an 'innate true spirit' within the Primordial Spirit. After advancing to the Tribulation Transcendence stage, this trace of true spirit undergoes tempering by lightning tribulations and gradually grows stronger. It is the foundation upon which cultivators transcend tribulations to become immortals, and their Primordial Spirits evolve into immortal souls."
"As a divine beast, however, a trace of spiritual essence