"The Golden Bell possessed high resistance to the five-element arts. With ordinary water Dao techniques, it would likely be difficult to break."
Chen Huai'an's gaze swept across every area of the Golden Bell's inner wall before finally settling on the center of its highest point.
Through the faint fluctuations produced by the Golden Bell itself, Chen Huai'an determined that this was the weakest point of the entire technique.
After staring at the top of the Golden Bell for a while, Chen Huai'an made up his mind. If I'm going to win, I should win beautifully. I'll have to reveal some real skill.
With a thought, scales slowly began to grow across his body, gradually taking on the form of Dragon Body Manifestation.
Yet upon closer inspection, it was obvious that the scales appearing on Chen Huai'an's body were no longer his innate azure dragon scales. Instead, they were an exceedingly rare blackish-purple.
Such a strange dragon-body coloration could not find a second example even in the records spanning thousands of years of the ancient and modern history of the Canglan Continent.
"Hmm? Why is the form of these sound waves so... strange?"
Outside, Wen Hui was using the Way of Knowing Through Hearing, carefully distinguishing the various faint sounds within the two Golden Bells.
The moment Chen Huai'an manifested his blackish-purple dragon body, Wen Hui immediately sensed that something was unusual.
From the fellow disciple who had entered the Water Dao Secret Realm, Wen Hui knew that Chen Huai'an possessed a dragon body and was exceptionally skilled in water Dao arts.
Yet the vibrations produced by the Golden Bell containing him sounded, to Wen Hui, as though they had nothing whatsoever to do with water Dao arts.
"How could this be? Could it be that, aside from water arts, this