Fang Yun opened his mouth and inhaled. The Crystal Ascending Dragon flew into his mouth as though it were alive.
Then Fang Yun's aura climbed steadily. In the blink of an eye, it actually leaped straight past Literary Ancestor and reached the Emperor Realm.
But the aura emanating from Fang Yun was not that of a human Literary Grandmaster. It was that of a Dragon Emperor of the Dragon Race, and it was still rising.
Three breaths later, Fang Yun's aura surged again, reaching the level of a Half-Sage Incarnation.
Another five breaths passed, and Fang Yun's aura underwent another qualitative leap. It actually advanced to that of a Half-Sage!
Soon, the aura surrounding Fang Yun stabilized at the Half-Sage level.
From the instant he swallowed the Crystal Ascending Dragon, Fang Yun had kept his eyes tightly shut.
As his aura grew stronger, Fang Yun also "saw" and experienced how a True Dragon's power increased, how it progressed from the Fourth Realm to the Fifth Realm, then to Dragon Emperor, Void Dragon Saint, and finally Half-Sage.
Although Fang Yun had not truly undergone the cultivation of the Dragon Race, his mind and memories had undergone that cultivation once. Apart from his not gaining the power of Dragon Race cultivation himself, every other aspect was exactly the same as the normal cultivation process of the Dragon Race.
During this process, Fang Yun experienced what it felt like to stand at the pinnacle of the Emperor Realm. More importantly, he experienced how the Dragon Race forged a sacred way foundation and became Half-Sages.
Fang Yun's body did not change in the slightest, but his divine sense and literary guts seemed to have undergone the most powerful tempering. Their realms did not rise, but their power became more condensed, as though raw iron