As the two ventured deeper, a layer of protective divine light rose around the Sacred Academy Elder, shutting out the surrounding aura. Even someone as powerful as he was had been affected.
He glanced at Sun Stone Shi Yi and found him completely unaffected, which secretly astonished him.
At last, they reached their destination. Ahead, a thatched cottage was faintly visible within a bamboo grove.
"That is the First Elder's residence. I have told him everything about you, and he has asked you to go inside," the Sacred Academy Elder said.
Sun Stone Shi Yi nodded and stepped into the bamboo grove.
These bamboo plants were far from ordinary. They were a dull blood-red, their stalks marked with dragon patterns, and they radiated an astonishing aura.
Whether it was a True Dragon's dwelling, its cultivation ground, or the place where it fell, none could be ordinary. Plants growing nearby would transform into heavenly treasures.
"This is dragon blood bamboo. When that True Dragon fell all those years ago, its blood soaked into this soil. In the years that followed, the earth continually released dragon qi, and these bamboo plants became wondrous, no longer mundane." A strong, resonant voice came from the thatched cottage.
Without question, the speaker was the Sacred Academy First Elder, a man said to be as old as this epoch itself, and someone who had traveled an extraordinary distance along the path of the present age method.
Sun Stone Shi Yi swiftly passed through the dragon blood bamboo grove and arrived before the thatched cottage. An old man in hemp clothing sat there on a stone chair, watching him with a smile.
"Shi Yi pays his respects to the First Elder."
"Sit. Have some tea."
The Sacred Academy First Elder was very amiable. He gestured for Shi