Dragon Realm Observations

One month later.

Boom!

As the dust filling the sky dispersed, a massive beast crashed to the ground in a daze. Behind it, a little girl casually held its tail.

With a bang, the beast transformed into specks of energy and flowed into the little girl's body. Feeling her physique grow stronger, Qian Renxue wore a comfortable expression.

"My physical strength has increased a little more."

Once the energy had faded, she clenched her tiny fists, her face full of satisfaction.

During this month in the Dragon Realm, she had roughly figured out its situation. Throughout the Dragon Realm, aside from the multicolored clouds drifting through the sky, there were giant beasts condensed from unknown energy, remnants left behind after dragon-type soul beasts died, and lingering souls left by all kinds of dragon-type soul beasts after death.

The clouds were not dangerous. Not only were they harmless, but they would actively descend and enter her body, take a stroll through it, and strengthen her physique along the way.

The giant beasts were dangerous, but not overly so. Only on the first day, when she had not understood the rules, had she been chased around in a sorry state by one for quite a while.

By the second day, nourished nonstop by the clouds in the sky, Qian Renxue was already able to confront the giant beasts head-on.

By the third day, she could gain a slight upper hand. By the fourth day, she could easily suppress them.

After a week, she could suppress the giant beasts that had once chased her into such a sorry state on the first day with a mere wave of her hand.

By Qian Renxue's own estimate, if she returned to the Douluo World now, then without using her martial soul, she could probably contend with a ten-thousand-year soul beast with nothing but her little fists.

No matter whether they were dragon scales, dragon horns, dragon marrow, or incomparably precious soul bones, Qian Renxue had never touched the remnants left behind by dragon-type soul beasts after their deaths.

Because Lord Heavenly Dao had said that after entering, she had to respect the dead. Even deceased soul beasts had to be respected!

Taking those dragon scales and soul bones was clearly within the scope of desecrating the dead.

In order not to violate Lord Heavenly Dao's words, she could only restrain the greed in her heart.

She kept comforting herself that the gains brought by the clouds and giant beasts were already immense. She could not covet those soul bones as well.

A snake trying to swallow an elephant would only choke itself!

She still had to help Lord Heavenly Dao complete Lord Heavenly Dao's mission. She could not commit some grave mistake because of a momentary greed!

As for dragon souls, Qian Renxue understood them to be another kind of dragon remnant. Using them should also count as desecrating the dead, but they differed from those dragon remnants in one respect.

These bad dragon souls would force her to absorb them!

Just like now...

Roar!

Several dragon souls of differing forms charged toward her. Then, without explanation or her consent, they turned themselves into nourishment and entered Qian Renxue's body, adding to her already formidable physique.

Feeling her physique strengthen, Qian Renxue was deeply troubled. During this period, she had specifically tried to avoid these dragon souls, but no matter how she hid, she could not escape them.

These dragon souls seemed to have grown noses. Even from hundreds of meters away, they could smell her aura, then rush over like they had lost their minds and offer themselves up while she looked on in horror.

It was giving her a headache.

Qian Renxue did not know whether this counted as desecrating the dead, or whether absorbing these dragon souls would delay Lord Heavenly Dao's grand plan!

She only knew that she could not refuse.

"Sigh, why are these dragon souls so bad?" Qian Renxue's little face was filled with distress. "If they make me fail the task Lord Heavenly Dao gave me, Lord Heavenly Dao won't abandon me, right?"

"But this is voluntary, so it shouldn't count as desecrating the dead, right? It shouldn't... sigh..."

Roar!

As it happened, another giant beast charged over. In her foul mood, Qian Renxue fiercely pummeled it before selecting a target and continuing onward.

But before she had gone very far, several more dragon souls appeared before her...

"No way? Again?"

After Qian Renxue accepted the dragon souls' sacrifice in despair, a crystalline True Dragon Soul Bone fell into her hand.

It made her already miserable mood even more sorrowful. She was happy when she hunted soul beasts outside and obtained soul bones!

But obtaining a soul bone in a place like this—one that had practically been delivered to her doorstep—did not make her happy at all!

Throwing it away was wrong, but keeping it was wrong too.

If she threw it away, that would definitely count as desecrating the dead. But if she put it away, did that not count as desecrating the dead as well?

After all, this soul bone was the incomplete remains of some dragon-type soul beast!

Qian Renxue could ignore soul bones lying by the roadside, but when one was delivered straight to her, she had no way to deal with it. No matter what she did, it was a problem...

Whenever this happened, she could only reluctantly place it into a small pouch she carried with her.

"One, two, three, four, five..."

"This is the fifth soul bone delivered to my doorstep this month. Judging by its quality, it should be a skull bone of around thirty thousand years. Not bad." Qian Renxue counted the soul bones in her pouch bitterly, casually commented on the newest one, then sealed the pouch.

Clink, clank. Eight soul bones packed inside a temporarily woven little ragged bag made crisp, pleasant sounds.

There was no helping it. Having lost her soul power, she could not use a soul tool at all and could only rely on this primitive little cloth bag. Life was so hard!

After tying the little bag around her waist, Qian Renxue picked a direction again and began her new journey!

Half a day later.

After arriving amidst a range of mountains, Qian Renxue suddenly felt a faint throb within her body. Her gaze could not help turning in that direction, confusion appearing in her eyes before it was replaced by delight!

"This feeling?" Her gaze passed through layer after layer of trees and mountains, seeming to reach the very center of the Dragon Realm.

"That should be the place Lord Heavenly Dao wants me to go. After spending so long, I finally found it! I thought it would take one or two years! I never expected to sense it after only one month!"

"With my current strength, I should be capable of dealing with the Myriad Dragon Cemetery Lord Heavenly Dao mentioned, right?"

At the outskirts of the Dragon Realm, her strength had already allowed her to roam without restraint. Now, she could finally take a look at its core.

She wanted to see what the core of this Dragon Realm was really like—whether the dragon clouds, giant beasts, and dragon souls there were stronger than those on the outskirts and offered even more abundant energy!

At the same time, she was also very curious about what exactly Lord Heavenly Dao wanted her to do there.

Qian Renxue lightly kicked off with her white-stockinged calves, leaped onto the top of a nearby tree, and used the trees to race toward the direction from which the throb had come.

Three days later.

When Qian Renxue arrived at a tall mountain, the two dragon souls within her body began to grow exceptionally active.

It was as though voices were ringing in her ears, telling her: here, here, it was here!

"I'm here!"

Qian Renxue swiftly leaped to the mountaintop. Standing on the peak and looking down, she saw an incredibly deep valley below. At the sight within it, the calm exhaustion in her eyes was swiftly replaced by shock.

What... kind of scene was this?