Red Flower Princess had drained Xie Ying of all her spirit and blood, then spent a long time drawing essence qi from Xie Shan. Her cultivation and divine powers were now far beyond what they had once been.
Although her body had been cut in two, she could still wield her transformations, her awesome might undiminished.
The three volumes of the Heavenly Book that Shi Feiyang had left the Young Emperor mainly concerned comprehending the Great Dao and the arts of governing a nation and nurturing its people. They also contained cultivation methods, but their upper limits were not particularly high.
The most powerful method within them involved erecting an altar and using Great Ming's national fortune to summon a dragon soul as the nation's guardian divine dragon. Temples would be built for it to receive incense offerings and worship, while dragon qi would nourish its cultivation. The sacrificial rites also included instructions on how the dragon soul could cultivate and grow stronger.
True dragons were already exceedingly rare in this world. This dragon soul had originally been a three-horned ink dragon with five thousand years of cultivation. During a magical battle long ago, someone had seized his bodily shell, leaving his primordial spirit unable to return to it. He could only hide in the Sea Eye within the ice caverns beneath Hollow Space Island.
Later, Ancestor Hollow Space prepared to move, intending to take all his possessions to Heaven Beyond Divine Mountain.
His Hollow Space Island, together with the immortal mansion beneath it, had already been moved there. All manner of exotic flowers and rare plants, along with the natural treasures he had accumulated over the years, had also been transported.
Only because Shi Feiyang had asked him to remain here and guard the northern gateway to Heaven Beyond