The dragon clan murals originated from ancient times, obscure and difficult to understand, with complex scenes. The three of them had seen many, but could only decipher the general life of the Azure Dragon, the rest of the vast plot was impossible to interpret. So when they saw it later, they just took a quick glance.

During this period, Chu Liang was also distracted to do another thing.

He sank part of his divine consciousness into the space of the white tower, preparing to refine the nearly a hundred blood bat dragons he had just harvested. Because the current situation is full of crises, if he could produce some useful things, any additional help would be good.

After advancing to the Golden Elixir realm, his divine consciousness was strong enough to multitask, walking without changing his face while refining marks in the white tower.

However, he was more accustomed to refining in a safe and quiet environment before, so he felt a bit strange to reward himself while walking.

Inside the space of the white tower, the marks of the blood bat dragons had already lined up in the cage, waiting for him to open the box. Time was pressing, and Chu Liang stepped forward without hesitation.

Refine!

Boom——

The long-lost light flashed by, and a white light floated in front of Chu Liang.

It was a red-gold diamond-shaped ice crystal-like object, with flames flickering faintly inside.

【Dragon Blood Crystal】: The essence of dragon blood condensed, melting this object into the bloodstream can greatly boost vitality, enhance blood regeneration speed, increase bloodthirsty battle intent, last for a quarter of an hour, effects do not stack.

Feeling the thoughts in his mind, Chu Liang roughly understood the function of this object.

It’s not complicated, just melt one into the bloodstream during battle, and all-round abilities can be greatly improved. There are a few such auxiliary battle drugs in the cultivation world, which are sometimes really useful. Experts often differ by a hair’s breadth.

Boosting vitality is to increase true qi and strength, allowing oneself to burst out with more powerful output; enhancing blood regeneration speed is to increase the ability to recover blood, if there is damage, it recovers faster; increasing bloodthirsty battle intent, this is a bit more mysterious… it should be a strengthening on the spiritual level.

How strong the effect is, he still needs to try it out, but anything that helps to enhance combat power is a good thing.

Chu Liang simply went all the way down, opening all the marks.

As a result, the time to reward himself this time was exceptionally long, and after hundreds of times back and forth, his arm was a bit sore before it finally ended.

After accumulating a large pile of Dragon Blood Crystals, Chu Liang wanted to melt one to try the effect. Although there was no battle at this time, the simple amplification effect didn’t matter… he had a lot of them and wasn’t afraid to waste.

It’s better to use it after knowing the effect.

He withdrew his divine consciousness, took out a Dragon Blood Crystal with a flip of his hand, and immediately melted it into his bloodstream with a roll of true qi.

Boom——

The effect was more intense than he thought.

In an instant, it was as if a thunderbolt had been thrown into his bloodstream, causing a tumultuous wave, a heat wave went up to the heavenly spirit and down to the earth’s heart, as if an invisible flame was enveloping his body.

“Huh…” Chu Liang exhaled a hot breath.

The drug was really strong.

He only felt that the battle intent in his heart was uncontrollable, and there was a tremendous force in his body that he couldn’t exert, which was simply heart-wrenching. He wished a demon would jump out in front of him, so he could kill them all with one punch!

But his mind was still clear, knowing that this was the change brought about by the Dragon Blood Crystal, and he couldn’t let this heat wave confuse his mind. So he mobilized his true qi to slowly suppress it, trying to return to normal.

At this moment, the monk Pǔ Shàn next to him noticed something was wrong and turned his head to ask with concern, “What’s wrong with you?”

“I’m fine!” Chu Liang retorted.

Monk Pǔ Shàn: “?”

……

“I had some problems with my true qi circulation, I just need to adjust my breath a little and I’ll be fine.”

Chu Liang said again, quickly sat down on the spot to adjust his breath, slowly suppressing this restlessness.

Although Monk Pǔ Shàn and Luo Yao found it strange, they had been finding Chu Liang strange for more than a day or two, and certainly more than once or twice.

When a person is strange many times, when he makes you feel strange again, you won’t find it strange.

Just as Chu Liang was adjusting his breath, he noticed that there was another movement in the space of the white tower.

It turned out that the golden cocoon that Silkworm Baby had spun earlier suddenly began to stir restlessly, buzzing and shaking.

It might be about to break out of the cocoon.

Chu Liang muttered to himself, the Sword of Righteousness was shaking inside, and you were also shaking inside, do you all want to disturb my peace?

He couldn’t help with this kind of thing, so he didn’t pay attention to it, letting Silkworm Baby break out of the cocoon in the white tower by itself.

A moment later, he stood up, his eyes returning to calm: “Sorry, let’s go.”

The three of them continued on their way.Walking through this massive corridor, the mural also came to an end, and an open platform appeared ahead. At the forefront of the platform, various skulls were hung. They were so old that their spiritual essence had long since dissipated. However, it was evident that they were once formidable beasts.

This must be the spoils of the Azure Dragon.

Among these displayed skulls, there was a path leading forward, but the path had become extremely narrow.

And in front of the path, a corpse was hanging.

Unlike the spoils, this corpse was dressed in ancient robes, which had not decayed after these long years, indicating the excellent quality of the material. It had a dragon’s head but a human body, covered in blue scales. Around its neck hung a golden rope, clearly a suicide!

Endless years had passed, and even those once formidable beings had lost all their spiritual essence in death. However, this corpse showed no signs of decay, and even seemed alive at a glance.

It was inevitably a bit eerie.

Luo Yao said, “Its body is immortal and indestructible, probably because it was refined with a soul technique. Be careful.”

Pǔ Shàn said, “This dragon-headed human body is like the ‘Ji Meng’ clan in the legends.”

Chu Liang said, “The clothes on its body are undecayed after thousands of years, they must be quite valuable…”

The three of them each murmured a comment, then Luo Yao and Pǔ Shàn both looked at Chu Liang. Chu Liang quickly said, “I was just saying, let’s discuss.”

Without wasting words, Luo Yao immediately said, “Judging by the time of the murals, the Azure Dragon has fallen for an immeasurable amount of time. Yet this body has not decayed at all, something even a great power cannot achieve. Unless it used some soul technique before death, and its living soul is still in this same space, only then could its body remain undecayed.”

“The living soul is still here…” Chu Liang frowned.

Was there another presence in this cold and silent palace besides them? Was there a pair of eyes always watching the three of them somewhere?

This thought made his spine slightly cold.

Luo Yao looked at Pǔ Shàn again, “What do you think this person’s identity is?”

Pǔ Shàn said, “During the heyday of the Dragon Clan, the Dragon descendants included all races, naturally including those of mixed human blood. Among them, the main body of the human-dragon hybrids was a human body with a dragon head, the most intelligent branch of the Dragon descendants, contributing greatly to the Dragon Clan. The Dragon God named this clan ‘Ji Meng’.”

“At that time, the true dragons would recruit Dragon descendants as their attendants, which was a great honor for the Dragon descendants. The Ji Meng clan was the most popular dragon attendant, often accompanying each true Dragon King.”

He looked at the corpse in front of him and said, “This is undoubtedly a pure Ji Meng clansman, probably the Azure Dragon’s attendant.”

“I see…” Chu Liang nodded, “But we’ve come this far, we can’t retreat now. Even if there is a Ji Meng living soul guarding here, we have to move forward.”

“Right.” Luo Yao agreed with him, “We’ll play it by ear.”

With that, the three of them respectfully saluted the corpse of the dragon attendant, then bypassed it and entered the narrow passage.

There were no murals on either side this time, just smooth and warm black jade walls. Because the passage was so narrow, the three of them had to line up. Chu Liang led the way, Luo Yao was in the middle, and Pǔ Shàn brought up the rear.

They moved forward in a “teasing” formation.

The passage was extremely quiet, without even a hint of wind, only the sound of their somewhat orderly footsteps.

There were no anomalies.

The passage was very long, they walked for a long time, so long that Chu Liang felt that when they came out, they would be able to see Shu Mountain just by looking up.

But all three of them remained patient.

Patience is an important quality, especially in times of crisis.

Suddenly!

Chu Liang noticed something wrong.

The walls on both sides were like black jade, like a blurry mirror, faintly reflecting the figures of the three of them… Although they were just three blurry shadows, the number was still clear.

But just now, when he glanced sideways, he clearly saw four shadows on the right wall.

His heart couldn’t help but thump.

He didn’t know how long this shadow had been trailing them, completely silent. All three of them had spread their divine senses and hadn’t noticed anything, which showed how strange it was.

There was no presence in their divine senses, it could only be seen with the naked eye. But if Chu Liang suddenly turned around to look, he might startle the snake in the grass. So he turned his eyes to the left wall and quickly counted again.

There were only three shadows reflected.

Huh?

What was going on?

(End of Chapter)