The mortal's candle dragon opens the sky

Chapter 78 Something has grown (Subscription required)

Ang~
There was a soft humming sound on the spot, and purple dragon flame emerged. The purple-armored figure disappeared, and was replaced by a huge monster that shook its head and tail. It only flashed in the air for a moment, and then the monster's body shrank several times, and a slender five-clawed dragon appeared.

Xuyang, who had practiced the bone-shrinking technique, was now connected head to tail. A ferocious dragon head with a pair of black horns was lying at the mouth of the well. A pair of deep eyes flashed, and the dragon's tail, like a phantom, reached into the well.

Zhengzheng~
The two giant five-toed claws penetrated deeply into the wall of the well, and the dragon's tail stretched out rapidly, like a thick rope, and quickly circled the small tripod under the ice flame, tightly clamped it, and lifted it up with all its strength.

buzz~
The Xu Tian Ding was instantly lifted up ten feet, and suddenly a blue light became brighter. The dry blue ice flame increased several times and instantly spread to nearly half of the body of the purple dragon in the well, trying to completely freeze everything in the well.

But then a raging purple flame emerged from the dragon's tail, which rudely repelled the blue flame and suppressed it again. There was a sudden explosion in the wall of the well, illuminating the inside of the well into a wildly changing purple and blue color.

At this time Xuyang could already see the Xutian Ding clearly.

The body of the tripod is short and flat, with two ears and three legs. It is about four feet high and about ten feet in diameter. There is a three-foot square round tripod cover on the top. There are carvings of insects, fish, animals, mountains, rivers and trees around it. Although simple and rough, it is lifelike and has a certain ancient and wild charm.

With one lift, the Xutian Ding was pulled up half the distance. Xuyang was just about to use his giant strength to prepare to lift it up in one go.

The Xutian Ding suddenly shook violently all over, accompanied by a sound like a dragon's roar. The round lid opened slightly, and several rays of light rushed out from the cauldron. One of the rays of light was the most conspicuous, and it turned into a seven-foot-tall, two-headed silver wolf with a red and yellow head.

Flames billowed from its silver body, and it hovered and attached itself to the wall of the well, then stood suspended in the air. Its four strange eyes looked around in a human-like manner with a look of surprise, and then it kicked its hind legs and turned into a streak of fire, appearing at the mouth of the well like lightning, trying to escape from the gap beside Xuyang.

In a flash, Xuyang and the demon wolf looked at each other, and he could see a hint of curiosity and excitement of escaping from the demon wolf's eyes.

"Linglong! Where are you going?"

Xuyang couldn't help but laugh. Above the black horns of the dragon head, a green mirror suddenly appeared, and lightning and white frost were faintly visible behind it.

Hearing this, the demon wolf couldn't help but pause and stopped above the wellhead, with a look of confusion and painful struggle in its eyes.

"Eh? Linglong! Why do I feel so familiar with this name? You are a five-clawed dragon! Are you from the spirit world? Hmm? Where is the spirit world? I..."

But then a flash of lightning passed by, instantly making the silver two-headed demon wolf become illusory. Then the red and yellow light faded, and a wolf-headed jade ruyi appeared in the air.

Then a smile flashed across the ferocious dragon head's eyes, and it raised its front paws to hold it tightly in its hands. The next moment, it was put into the storage bag along with the other two frozen ancient treasures.

"Stay here for now. I don't have time to deal with you now."

Xuyang withdrew his gaze, looked down and pondered slightly. Frost runes behind the green mirror surged out, gathered into a milky white cold current, and rushed into the well.

The purple flame that had originally suppressed the Qianlan Ice Flame instantly transformed into a miniature purple fire dragon and made way.

stab~
The blue flame and the cold current collided head-on and intertwined in an instant. A huge blue and white ice that looked like a burning flame solidified in the well. The next moment, the Xu Tian Ding was grabbed out of the deep well by the dragon's tail and fell heavily on the high platform.

Xuyang spat out a thick red spiritual light onto the cauldron, and with a buzzing sound, it quickly shrank into a fist-sized miniature cauldron.

With a thunderclap, the purple dragon disappeared and the young man appeared, gently picking up the small tripod with one hand.

Gently stroking the small tripod, the slightly cool and warm touch made Xuyang feel happy, and then he looked down.

I saw an exceptionally beautiful and enchanting giant ice flower in the well, with purple and blue light flowing, and blue light surging in its depths, still looking restless.

Xuyang silently chanted a spell, and several streams of extremely cold air came out from the green mirror and added to the ice flowers. Then, several green lights followed.

slap~
The ice flowers first swelled up, then quickly shrank and condensed. A milky white sphere about a foot in size appeared in its place, and the dry blue ice flame had been trapped inside it.

"Perfect!"

To control the Tongtian Lingbao, one needs the magic power of the middle stage of the Nascent Soul or the ninth level, plus the complete refinement of the Qianlan Ice Flame, which can be achieved through the practice of the Tongbao Jue. One can only do so after getting out.

After sticking prohibition talismans on the sphere and the small tripod and carefully putting them away in a black jade box, a scroll appeared in Xuyang's hand.

"I have gained the understanding of the realm of illusion this time. After eating those Nascent Souls, I should be able to reach level nine!"

Following the red line, after several twists and turns, Xuyang came to a seemingly no-show high wall and snapped his fingers.

thump~
Sure enough, there was another secret setting. With a light stroke of his palm, a round hole was made. After a quick scan with his mind to make sure there was nothing unusual, Xuyang easily crawled in.

"Why is this? I've only heard that when building the tombs of human emperors, the craftsmen knew they would die and would leave a way out. Could it be that this is also the case with the Xutian Palace? Unfortunately, time has buried all the secrets."

Then Xuyang looked at this extremely simple secret room and the equally crude teleportation array inside the secret room, and couldn't help but feel a little puzzled.

Unlike other teleportation arrays in the Xutian Palace, the array in front of him was not only irregular in orientation, but also had crooked runes. It was obvious that someone had no idea about array formations, and the result was a poor imitation. Even when facing Bian Xiling, Xuyang was not so nervous, because the teleportation array in front of him was too crude.

"The one that Old Demon Han rode on should be fine."

However, after Xuyang replaced the spirit stone with a new one, he finally felt relieved when he saw the teleportation array humming and operating normally. He stepped into the teleportation array, and before he activated it with the hand gesture, he looked at the hole in the stone wall and raised his eyebrows.

He raised his hand and sent out a ray of spiritual light. The scattered gravel flew up and blocked the round hole again, returning to its original state. With a flash of white light, he arrived at a damp and warm place. A strange and refreshing fragrance filled his nose, which lifted Xuyang's spirits. He immediately began to look around curiously.

This is a huge sealed stone chamber with a stone door on each side. One is tightly closed and flashing with white light, and the other is wide open and unguarded, with no one knowing where it leads to.

Directly opposite is a circular pool with a light mist floating on the milky white water, and the fragrance comes from this.

Not far from the pool, there is a dragon head statue made of white jade. There is a guide hole on one side of the dragon head. On the pier below, a long green bottle is placed under the guide hole, as if it is receiving something.

"The layout is the same as in the original novel, but unfortunately, the scene of the beauty emerging from the bath is missing."

Xuyang smiled inexplicably. The spiritual spring and spiritual milk were right in front of him and could not escape. Xuyang rummaged through a pile of storage bags for a while, took out several magical bottles that could seal spiritual energy, and began to fill them with spring water.

Gudong Gudong~
A quarter of an hour later, the water in the pool had dried up, revealing a spring underneath from which small streams of spiritual spring water continuously gurgled. The spring, which was several feet in size, was inlaid with whole pieces of beautiful jade, and countless array patterns were faintly visible. It seemed that this top-notch spiritual spring, together with the spiritual vein below, had long since been refined into one by Bingpo using his great magical powers.

Xuyang thought about it and decided that if he refined the spiritual spring now, he would most likely suffer from the backlash of the restriction. It would be better to do it at the last moment before leaving. He walked to the dragon head statue, picked up the green bottle, sniffed it, nodded with satisfaction and put it away.

Then he looked around the stone chamber. Of the two stone doors, the open one led to the outer maze. Xuyang then passed through a secret room that was also covered up, opened the hole and looked outside.

He discovered that this was the second floor of the inner hall. He could vaguely sense a few cold spirits lurking on the first floor. He ordered them to return here, then returned to Lingquan and came to the closed stone door.

Looking at the stone gate shrouded in white mist, he raised his fist and prepared to force his way in, but suddenly found that a certain snowflake symbol on the stone gate was somewhat familiar. After a moment of shock, he took out the 'Xu Qian' token obtained before the illusion and compared it with the token.

Sure enough, there was an identical snowflake logo on the back of the token. He input spiritual power into it and stuck it on the stone gate.

rumbling~
The white mist on the stone gate rolled back into the gap, and the stone gate opened automatically with a sound.

Xuyang stood still for a moment, then walked in.

I saw that it was a rectangular corridor with a spiritual spring in the middle, which was larger than the pool outside. The sound was like thunder and the momentum was like boiling water. The corridor was filled with curling vapor and mist. The spiritual energy was even more abundant than that in the stone chamber outside.

"Is this the main body of the Spirit Eye Spring? It's so huge?" Xuyang was overjoyed.

In the spring, I saw a strange black tree about a foot long floating up and down in the spiritual spring, with pits and holes all over it. It looked really ugly, and it could be said to be a perfect match for the Nine-bend Spiritual Ginseng.

From one side of the spiritual spring, there extends a ten-foot-long headless white jade dragon statue, with the dragon's body sunk into the wall. This is probably the passage outside the stone chamber that leads to the "Ten Thousand Years Spiritual Milk".

Xuyang took a step towards the spiritual spring, picked up the strange black wood and put it away, then pressed it on the spiritual spring with full of expectation.

"Refining!"

Along with the movement of Xuyang, the water surface of the spring began to shake violently, as if there was a huge mouth out of thin air that was constantly swallowing and sucking. The spring water kept floating up to mid-air and disappeared, but the spiritual spring below kept replenishing it, but it was obviously not enough, until it turned into a bottomless deep black hole.

As the Eye of the Spiritual Spring disappeared, the forbidden light in the corridor began to emerge, and the stone walls rumbled as they could not bear the weight.

At the same time, veins on Xuyang's face were exposed, purple scales appeared involuntarily under his robe, the true blood deep in his blood vessels surged, and severe pain deep in his bone marrow broke out.

Peng!
Although he tried his best to endure it, he couldn't help but reveal his true form. A huge monster swung its body back and forth in the corridor, roaring in a suppressed manner.

"Why does it hurt so much this time?!"

In the severe pain, Xuyang vaguely felt that there seemed to be two small bulges on the upper palate above his nose, as if something was about to break out!

As the bulge grew, a strange sense of control came to my mind. It was a sense of control over the scarce but existing vital energy of heaven and earth in the void.

With a thought, he followed that feeling and with a slight push, bits of colorful light emerged from the void with difficulty. However, the vitality of heaven and earth here was too little. After a moment, the colorful light dissipated and disappeared!
Although it is a bit blurry, the magical scene just now really exists and it is not an illusion.

“Is this bulge a dragon’s beard?”

In a trance, Xuyang immersed his mind in the jade pendant.

(End of this chapter)