A thousand fathoms underground, an enormous dragon skeleton was indeed buried.
And it was a relatively complete dragon, not merely the bones of some single part.
The dragon bones lay buried there, absorbing the earth's energy, drying out the land for a thousand miles over time.
Yan Qianlie stroked a segment of dragon claw taller than himself with immense satisfaction. He could faintly sense the astonishing crimson flame aura contained within the bones, like raging waves hidden deep beneath the sea, ready to shatter heaven and earth upon erupting.
He thought that if he refined this into an embodied avatar, perhaps he really could raise his peak strength another notch. When that happened, who knew whether he could actually kill that damned Heavenly Dao...
Uh... no, wait. I can't just refine this thing casually.
Shielding Chu Ge beneath the dragon bones, he turned to ask Venerable Green Snake, "Since you knew the Crimson Flame Dragon Bone was here, Venerable, why didn't you take it for yourself?"
"The Gu God intended to use it to refine a Dragon Bone Corpse Puppet. It needs another hundred years underground to absorb enough of the earth's energy. For you, however, that isn't necessary."
"So this is a gift to me from the Gu God?"
"Heh heh." Venerable Green Snake chuckled. "Naturally. Otherwise, how would I dare casually give someone else something the Gu God had reserved?"
Yan Qianlie nodded and pressed a hand against the dragon bones, casting a technique to first remove their wild nature and make them his own. Refining them would require taking them back for careful study. Who knew what backdoors might be hidden inside...
Seeing Yan Qianlie's actions, Venerable Green Snake chuckled. "Since you're accepting the bones, you can hand this man over to me now, can't you?"
"Taking