At this moment, Xiao Hua had intended to call Fu Zhiwen and the others out, but when he saw the Dragon Qi all around him—enough to burst the shells of ordinary Demon Race beings—he abandoned the thought.
"Forget it, I'll just wander around for now!" After pondering for a moment, Xiao Hua made his decision. "I can't just stand here without moving, can I?"
Unfortunately, Xiao Hua had only walked a few miles and had not yet stepped out of the mountain range when his attention fell upon a valley once more! The valley was roughly a thousand zhang tall and several thousand zhang across, filled with boulders of every size. Xiao Hua's gaze seemed to pierce through the rocks and see the Dragon Crystals within!
"Hahaha..." Xiao Hua laughed loudly, throwing the matter of finding Ao Sheng to the back of his mind. He strode into the valley and began smashing rocks in search of crystals again. After smashing away for the time it took to eat a meal, "Whoosh..." a divine sense swept over from afar. After falling upon Xiao Hua, it swept across the entire valley before withdrawing without lingering.
"Oh? Is that Ao Sheng?" Xiao Hua put away the As-You-Wish Staff, straightened up, and looked beyond the valley. Yet after only the time it took to drink half a cup of tea, a roaring voice came from the sky. "Human, get the hell out of here!"
Along with that nauseating voice, an earth-yellow giant dragon fully a thousand zhang long swayed its tail and descended from midair. The dragon's outer appearance was different from how it had been on Dragon Island. It seemed clad in a thick suit of armor, while dense Dragon Qi wrapped its dragon body tightly and completely. Vortices covered that Dragon Qi,