Chapter 202: The Dragon That Is Not Dead

Chapter 202 The Undying Dragon

Li Wei looked back, seeing no one outside.

Looking forward again, a cave appeared ahead.

Here lay hidden a mountain peak.

It was unimaginable who had created such a vast magical barrier.

Li Wei walked while pondering.

He had nearly adapted to the dragon aura, able to think normally.

"The origin of Dragon Fall Slope is the legend of a fallen dragon, but why did it fall?"

"Could it be that the dragon was injured?"

Li Wei thought it very likely.

He glanced left and right.

Judging by the situation, the one who caused the dragon to fall here was likely an incomparably powerful mage.

Long ago, a mage hunted the dragon, killing it at Dragon Fall Slope.

Causing the dragon to crash upon the hillside, smashing out a great pit.

Later, for some unknown reason, the mage could only find a way to hide the dragon's corpse here.

He even crafted a secret realm specifically for this.

Within the realm, he arranged a no-flight array, and a vast hidden barrier to conceal the dragon's body.

These were the causes and effects Li Wei deduced.

Li Wei gazed into the cave.

What existed within the cave was obvious.

A dragon corpse.

Li Wei ignited a fireball, illuminating the path ahead.

He moved forward alone.

Affected by the draconic pressure, the Shadow Servant could no longer maintain its normal form.

Li Wei sent it back into the core.

After walking a while, the view suddenly opened up.

A huge cavern appeared before his eyes.

A dragon like a small hill lay prone upon the ground.

The dragon's eyes were tightly closed, with a large hole atop its head and chest.

The dragon crystal and heart had both been taken by someone.

Eighteen huge obsidian rock nails, six or seven meters long, pinned the dragon's corpse to the ground.

Dragon blood flowed from where the heart was dug out, forming a lake upon the ground.

No one knew how long the dragon had been dead, yet the blood lake still steamed with heat.

Li Wei looked at the dragon before him, feeling it was still alive.

"Is this a red dragon?"

From the bright red scales on the dragon, Li Wei inferred the dragon's race.

No wonder after eating the dragon blood fruit, he gained a sliver of dragon flame power.

Li Wei tried to pry off a scale from the dragon.

He found he could not pry it off at all.

The treasure mountain was before his eyes, yet Li Wei could do nothing.

He could not even get a piece of dragon meat.

He looked at the dragon blood lake on the ground.

This might be the only thing he could take away.

Li Wei took out a container from his space ring, intending to carry away dragon blood.

After the container scooped up the blood, its power dissipated quickly, soon becoming a pool of foul black blood.

Li Wei showed a look of surprise.

"What is happening?"

He poured out the black blood.

He looked at the ground, finding the entire cave covered in numerous magical runes.

It was these magical runes ensuring the dragon corpse did not rot for hundreds of years.

The dragon blood remained as it was hundreds of years ago.

Leaving the protection of these runes, the blood was as if experiencing hundreds of years, rotting and stinking immediately.

The power of the dragon blood was locked within the magical runes.

Crack!

The container just used to hold the dragon blood shattered.

The power of the corrupted blood was equally astonishing.

Li Wei hastily dropped the container in his hand, looking at the blood pool.

He understood nothing here could be taken away.

Unless he could move the entire cave away.

This seemed to be the original intention of the mage who hid the dragon corpse here.

All this was to prevent the dragon corpse from being stolen by others.

Li Wei lowered his head to look at the pool.

Now the only choice was to absorb the power within the blood on the spot. "The novel has come true."

In Li Wei's novel "Dragon Knight," the protagonist gained great power by bathing in dragon blood.

He never thought one day he would gain such an opportunity.

The dragon blood was scorching hot, enough to burn a piece of wood thrown in.

Li Wei pondered for a moment.

His right arm turned into a flame dragon claw, slowly extending into the dragon blood.

The elementalized right arm felt no heat from the blood.

Li Wei felt instead as if soaking in hot water, quite comfortable.

"Ah!"

Suddenly, he felt something burrowing into his arm, unable to suppress a cry of pain.

With that cry, he felt even more things drilling into his arm.

Li Wei forcibly restrained the impulse to pull his arm away.

The sensation was exceedingly unpleasant, as if countless parasites were breaking through his skin and burrowing into his body.

He knew this was not parasites.

What drilled in was entirely the residual power within the dragon blood.

After hundreds of years, even with the protection of magical runes.

Most of the power within the dragon blood had already dissipated.

The lush scenery within the secret realm was nurtured by the power lost from the dragon blood.

But even if only one percent of the residual power remained, it was not something Li Wei could easily absorb.

If he had not previously eaten the dragon blood fruit, enhancing his physique and adapting to the dragon blood's reinforcement in advance.

He feared he would have already been blown apart by now.

Even so, he felt he could barely control the violent power within his body.

"Enough!"

Li Wei pulled out his arm, wanting to terminate the process.

However, a force emanated from the dragon blood pool, firmly locking his arm in place.

Not only that, the more he struggled, the greater the power within the dragon blood pool became.

Bang!

Li Wei was yanked by a tremendous force, plunging headfirst into the dragon blood pool.

In an instant, he felt he was done for.

He could not yet elementize his entire body; plunging into dragon blood hundreds of degrees hot would surely scald him to death.

The next second, he discovered the temperature of the dragon blood pool had lowered.

Although still scorching, at least he would not be scalded to death.

But the increasingly violent power within him, on the verge of losing control, was imminent.

A single slip would cause his body to explode and perish.

In this critical moment, Li Wei had a flash of inspiration and hastily used the advancement ritual—Fire Spirit Ceremony.

He had not intended to complete the ritual.

He merely wanted to consume the excess power within his body through this method.

Under circumstances where neither ritual materials nor ritual arrays were prepared.

For Li Wei to complete the advancement ritual relying solely on the Fire Spirit Ceremony's ritual laws was impossible.

The result, however, exceeded his expectations.

After the Fire Spirit Ceremony began, the ritual actually proceeded smoothly.

Suddenly, the scene before Li Wei's eyes changed.

Originally, after the Fire Spirit Ceremony began, he would be immersed in an ocean of fire element spirits.

Li Wei, however, appeared within a pitch-black space.

A flame suddenly ignited, illuminating the space.

Li Wei subconsciously looked up, and a gigantic, burning dragon head of fire appeared before his eyes.

Its diameter was at least over a hundred meters.

The fire dragon head looked down upon Li Wei, his figure reflected within its majestic dragon pupils.

"Human."

Li Wei felt his mind shaken violently, as if his soul were about to be shattered.

It was a long while before he recovered his senses.

The fire dragon head did not seem to intend to target him.

It had even specifically left him time to catch his breath.

Li Wei gazed at the massive dragon head, hesitated for a moment, and asked, "Are you that deceased dragon?"

"I am not yet dead."

The fire dragon head said.

This time the voice was much quieter.

But for Li Wei, it still sounded like thunder shaking the ears, vibrating his eardrums until they ached.

Li Wei had no time to attend to the headache caused by the vibration; he looked at the fire dragon head in shock.

He felt incomparably shocked by what it had said.

(End of Chapter)