Chapter 199: Dragon Blood Fruit

Chapter 199 Dragon Blood Fruit

Li Wei sensed the source of the pressure was underground.

He was not the first to know this.

Others who had entered the secret realm before him had already noticed this as well.

Some attempted to dig into the ground to find what lay beneath.

Li Wei took one look, then walked toward the depths of the secret realm.

The pressure, however, came from this very earth.

But this did not mean there must be some treasure below.

Rumor had it a dragon fell upon the hillside, smashing a great pit, forming Dragon Fall Slope.

The source of the pressure was likely dragon blood spilled upon the earth.

Dragon blood had already soaked through the soil for hundreds of years.

Dragon blood nourished this land, causing the ground to grow abundant lush vegetation.

Nurturing strange dragon-blood creatures.

Li Wei walked through the forest, seeing many animals within the realm bore scales.

This was not quite normal.

This meant creatures within the realm likely possessed traces of dragon bloodline.

"Even the trees have scales?"

Li Wei reached out to touch the scales on the tree beside him.

Suddenly, the tree moved.

Rustle rustle rustle!

Li Wei looked up, a huge emerald snake head extended from the canopy, staring at Li Wei.

Its pupils were golden vertical slits, giving a sense of majesty.

This was a dragon pupil.

Li Wei silently withdrew his hand, indicating it was unintentional.

The giant python would not care whether he meant it or not.

Seeing a living thing enter its territory, it automatically regarded Li Wei as prey.

"Hiss!"

The giant python opened its bloody maw, saliva splashing everywhere.

It snapped fiercely at Li Wei, intending to swallow him whole directly.

Whoosh! Boom!

A fireball exploded inside the giant python's mouth.

The python shrieked, smoke billowing from its mouth, blood dripping endlessly from its jaws.

Li Wei showed a look of surprise.

A Fireball Spell shot into the python's mouth yet failed to blast it to death.

Did this not mean the python before him was a tier-three magical beast?

How did he encounter such a formidable creature just upon entering?

Li Wei silently cursed his bad luck in his heart.

By rights, generally powerful monsters stayed in the depths of the secret realm.

There was another possibility.

It was a possibility Li Wei was unwilling to consider.

Then this secret realm was far too terrifying.

Rustle rustle rustle!

The giant python twisted its body, revealing its full form.

Roar!

The python roared, sound like thunder, wild winds whistling, blowing leaves to rustle.

Li Wei held his breath and focused his spirit.

"This breath is far too arrogant."

A fireball collided rapidly in his palm, extending and changing into a fire snake.

The fire snake pounced toward the python, whose body was several times larger than itself.

Fire snake battles giant python.

Boom boom boom!

The python's tail swept horizontally, instantly flattening a patch of surrounding trees.

The fire snake danced into the air, dodging the sweep.

The python's attack paused for a moment, the fire snake seized the chance to dive straight down.

Whoosh whoosh whoosh!

The fire snake coiled around the python several times, the python was scalded into roaring at the sky.

Li Wei's eyes narrowed, controlling the fire snake to shoot forth fiercely, drilling into the python's open maw.

The python instantly closed its mouth.

Sparks emerged from the corners of its mouth.

The next second.

Pain appeared in the python's eyes.

The twisting body instantly stalled, froze stiff.

Boom!

The fire snake exploded inside the python's body.

Instantly, the python's body was like a ball blown large.

Whoosh whoosh whoosh!

Heat and smoke surged out from the python's front and back.

The python fell to the ground, already dead.

After Li Wei approached, he showed a look of surprise.

Having endured such terrifying explosion damage, the python's skin had actually not shattered.

It was merely forced open by the force of the blast, splitting apart in several places. Levi realized that the pelt of this giant python was a treasure.

However, after enduring the devastation of the explosion, not much of the python skin remained intact.

Levi had the shadow servant harvest a few undamaged pieces of python skin, intending to take them back and fashion them into a mage robe.

He held a piece of the skin, observing it closely.

"This giant python possessed some dragon lineage; this skin already holds a trace of a dragon hide's magic resistance, no wonder it is so resilient."

The characteristics of dragon hide were resilience and exceptionally high magic resistance.

Though the python skin possessed only a faint trace of those traits, it already displayed astonishing defensive power.

Regrettably, the scales were just ordinary python scales.

If they were sub-dragon scales bearing draconic traits, they could absolutely be forged into a masterpiece tier-three scale armor.

A masterpiece scale armor was sufficient to fend off most attacks of the same tier.

If the python skin were crafted into a masterpiece mage robe, it could entirely withstand the strike of a tier-three spell.

The might of Levi's fireball spell was no weaker than that of a tier-three spell.

The shadow servant handed over a magic core the size of a baby's fist.

A look of satisfaction appeared on Levi's face.

"Not bad luck at all, harvesting a tier-three magic core."

Looking at the corpse of the giant python, he thought for a moment and had the shadow servant slice off a large piece of meat to pack into his spatial ring.

He would taste the flavor of a sub-dragon magical beast upon his return.

Levi raised his head and peered toward the depths of the secret realm.

He murmured in a low voice, "I hope it isn't what I think it is; I would rather my luck just be a little poor."

Levi walked forward, the shadow servant preceding him to scout the way.

He also manifested and sent out his phantom clone.

The phantom clone transformed into a bird and flew up toward the sky.

Just as it crossed the canopy, it lost all lift and plummeted down.

Returning beneath the canopy layer, it restored to normal.

A look of surprise surfaced on Levi's face.

"This is... an anti-flight domain?"

"What on earth is this place? Why would an anti-flight domain appear here?"

Levi felt that things seemed to be exceeding expectations.

He had initially thought it was an ordinary secret realm, merely coming over to reap some benefits.

Now that an anti-flight domain had appeared within the secret realm, it indicated this place was absolutely far from ordinary.

"An anti-flight domain is a tier-six magic array; who deployed such a massive magic array here?"

Levi's heart was filled with doubts.

"Does Teacher know about this?"

He wanted to know this point even more.

After all, it was Torresta who had told him to come here.

If it were said that Torresta knew nothing at all, Levi, on the contrary, found it hard to believe.

He found a safe spot to halt, relying on the phantom clone and the shadow servant to reconnoiter the secret realm.

Levi planned to map out this place clearly before doing anything else.

"Dragon Blood Fruit!"

The phantom clone had not gone far before hearing a cry of surprise.

Hearing this, Levi did not hesitate and controlled the phantom clone to walk toward the place the voice came from.

Before long, a massive ancient tree came into view.

The ancient tree grew scales, and this time it was not a tree disguised by a giant python.

This was a Dragon Scale Tree.

Levi looked up, and hanging upon the Dragon Scale Tree were three bright red fruits.

The fruits also bore fine patterns resembling scales.

These were Dragon Blood Fruits, incomparably precious Dragon Blood Fruits.

The first person to discover the Dragon Blood Fruits was a tier-two mage from the Mage Association.

The one who uttered the cry of surprise was a warrior extraordinary class professional from the Rheinstadt family.

Three members of the Rheinstadt family surrounded the mage, revealing hostile expressions.

Ordinarily, they would not dare to raise a hand against a mage.

However, the incomparably precious Dragon Blood Fruits were right before their eyes.

Greed ignited their courage.

"Step aside, we do not wish to lay a hand on you."

"I discovered this first."

Bang!

The mage suffered a sneak attack, the magic shield upon his body vibrating incessantly.

He revealed a look of astonishment as the silhouette of an assassin emerged behind him.

It turned out they were not just three people; there was a fourth person.

"Do it!"