"Strange? This was rather odd!" Jade Slip Xiao Hua watched as the Dragon Essence settled back into calm after the dragon might passed, with no unusual change and no complete Dragon Transformation Art appearing. He could not help but feel perplexed. "Previously, this poor Daoist could easily see the Dragon Transformation Art. Why did it not work this time?"
"Oh, could it be that it also required dragon blood?" After giving it some thought, Jade Slip Xiao Hua raised a hand and summoned a drop of dragon blood from the Dragon Clan corpse he had previously stored in the space. As the drop fell into that rune, the rune melted and disintegrated within the dragon blood. In the end, tens of thousands of Dragon Scripts surged out from the blood, like swarms of ants pouring into the Dragon Essence. Then, five-colored radiance blazed from the entire Dragon Essence. Segments of halos wound around its surface, dividing the Dragon Essence into six portions like a stalk of bamboo!
Once the radiance began to settle, Jade Slip Xiao Hua raised his hand and touched the tail end of the Dragon Essence with a finger. "Buzz..." The Dragon Essence let out a rumble. Even more Dragon Scripts than before transformed into threads of crystalline light and fell into Jade Slip Xiao Hua's hand. As the crystalline threads increased, Jade Slip Xiao Hua's form gradually changed, until he too became the image of an enormous dragon! Yet this great dragon had its eyes tightly shut, halos growing over its scales and flashing in echo with the Dragon Essence.
Who knew how long passed before the dragon form shuddered. Jade Slip Xiao Hua's figure emerged from within it, while the halos around the Dragon Essence withdrew inside. The vanished rune rushed into the dragon head