Chapter 449 Ancestral Dragon's Essence Blood?!

If it were before...

At any other time...

When Liu Qingyun saw someone daring to step across the threshold of the Star Pavilion's seventh floor, even if it were a Prodigy of his own Liu Family, he wouldn't be able to help but shake his head.

He would have secretly thought they were aiming too high.

After all, that was the seventh floor.

The seven floors of the Star Pavilion progressed in sequence; the Rank and rarity of the treasures stored on each floor far exceeded the one below it.

And the seventh floor was the most precious floor in the entire Star Pavilion.

Each of the three treasures displayed inside was a rare gem, a peerless treasure.

They were the core foundation that the Ancestor had barely managed to preserve through hundreds of years of accumulation.

Furthermore, the challenge rules for the seventh floor...

Were harsh to a nearly perverse degree.

Crossing an entire major Realm.

An entire major Realm.

Not just a few minor stages, not nine minor stages, but an entire major Realm spanning ten Ranks.

Grand Tutor Dongxuan Jiang Yun's True Dragon Bloodline Beast was at Peak Gold Rank 9.

According to the rules of the seventh floor, the Vicious Beast phantom it would face would be at Peak Purple Gold Rank 9, or possibly even Diamond Rank.

Peak Gold Rank 9 versus Peak Purple Gold Rank 9—the gap between them was no longer something that Bloodline Power or extraordinary combat strength could bridge.

This wasn't the same thing at all.

This was a chasm of an entire major Realm.

The difference of a major Realm meant an absolute crushing in total spiritual power, a gap in the level of Law comprehension, and a fundamental disparity in the level of existence.

How could such a gap possibly be bridged?

If it were before...

Liu Qingyun would definitely have thought this way.

And he would have thought so with absolute certainty.

But now...

He didn't dare say it.

He didn't dare utter a single word.

It wasn't because Liu Qingyun had suddenly become cautious.

It was because he had been slapped in the face too many times, shocked too many times, and had his understanding repeatedly rubbed into the ground in a nearly brutal manner by that youth wearing the silver-white mask.

He had once vowed that Little Skylark would need ten rounds to take down a Peak Purple Crystal Second Stage, but the other party had killed it in one hit.

He had once been certain that two critically injured and dying Beasts couldn't recover within half an incense stick's time, but they had been resurrected at full health without even a scar left behind.

He had once thought the Purple Thunder Black-Armored Rhinoceros, which was eight minor stages higher, could at least force a mutual defeat, but it was suppressed and beaten from start to finish, and finally blasted into a sky full of light specks by a clean Dragon Flame Burst Kill.

Once is an accident.

Twice is a coincidence.

Three, four, five times—that is an ironclad fact.

By now, in Liu Qingyun's subconscious, he had silently accepted an understanding that he himself hadn't fully realized.

In front of Grand Tutor Dongxuan, nothing that happened could be considered absurd, and no miracle created could be considered Heaven-Defying; rather, it would be abnormal if he didn't cause some world-shaking commotion.

Once this thought took root...

It could no longer be pulled out.

So, when in the mystic light mirror...

Jiang Yun's figure followed the spiral staircase deep within the sixth floor step by step, walking toward that seventh-floor treasury that no one in the Liu Family had been able to set foot in for hundreds of years.

Liu Qingyun just stood there quietly.

His lips quivered for a long time.

In the end, he didn't say a single word.

Elder Liu Lan beside him glanced at him, a trace of a complex expression flashing in her eyes, but she didn't speak either.

The two of them just silently watched the calm back in the mirror, the same indefinable emotion churning in their hearts.

"Patriarch."

Elder Liu Lan finally spoke.

Her voice was kept very low.

"Those three items on the seventh floor, if he takes any one of them..."

"I know."

Liu Qingyun interrupted her.

"The seventh floor is the core foundation accumulated by my Liu Family for hundreds of years. The ancestral dragon essence blood, the nether phoenix divine feather, and the void seed—if any one of these three items were taken out, it would be enough to make the Radiant Sun or even Legendary experts of the entire Central State fight to the death over them. Back then, Ancestor Liu Tian Punishment left a final instruction that only capable descendants could take them, but in these hundreds of years, how many brilliant Prodigies has my Liu Family produced? Yet which one could take even a single treasure from the seventh floor?"

He paused, and a faint trace of weak hope involuntarily entered his voice, like a drowning person grabbing at the last straw.

"Ten minor stages... no, it's an entire major Realm. The leap from Gold Rank to Purple Gold Rank Peak—this kind of gap, even if it is Grand Tutor Dongxuan..."

Halfway through his sentence...

He swallowed the rest of his words.

Because he suddenly realized...

He had already said similar things too many times.

Every time he finished speaking, that youth in the mystic light mirror would use the most direct method to slap his face loudly.

"Forget it."

Liu Qingyun waved his hand weakly.

His voice was full of self-deprecation.

"Whatever this old man says today is wrong; I might as well shut up and watch. In any case, no matter what I say, the final result will be the opposite of what I said."

Hearing this, the corner of Elder Liu Lan's mouth couldn't help but twitch slightly.

As the newly promoted Grand Elder of the Liu Family, she was a person of high status and power, but at this moment, facing the Patriarch's nearly self-abandoning remarks, she was actually completely unable to refute.

Meanwhile, on the seventh floor of the Star Pavilion.

Jiang Yun stepped onto the final step.

The scene before him suddenly opened up.

Completely different from the circular corridor layout of the six floors below, the seventh floor was an extremely spacious circular hall.

The dome was dozens of feet high, and it was embedded with scattered moonstones arranged into a profound star map. Soft light poured down like liquid silver, illuminating the entire hall brightly but without being harsh on the eyes.

The floor of the hall was paved with solid slabs of Green Luminescent Stone; the surface was as smooth as a mirror, and one could vaguely see fine runic patterns slowly flowing within it.

The air was filled with an extremely ancient and heavy aura. This aura was different from the simple spiritual energy fluctuations of the treasures on the six floors below; it was mixed with a Family will that had been passed down for hundreds of years.

Steady, solemn, and inviolable.

And at the entrance of the hall...

There stood a massive plaque forged entirely from profound iron.

The plaque was over a zhang tall, its surface covered with mottled traces of time, and the profound iron at the edges had taken on a dull luster.

On the plaque, two lines of large characters were engraved in a vigorous and ancient font.

"The supreme treasures of the Liu clan through the generations, forged with the blood of the Ancestors."

"Descendants, those who are capable, shall possess them."

Every stroke revealed a sharp, piercing aura, clearly carved by the hand of a certain Liu Family Ancestor with extremely high cultivation; the Concept within the handwriting remained condensed and unscattered even after hundreds of years.

Jiang Yun stood before this plaque.

His gaze slowly swept over each stroke.

He couldn't help but nod slightly.

"So these are the Liu Family's bottom-drawer treasures."

His gaze moved past the plaque.

He looked toward the depths of the hall.

In the center of the hall...

Three independent display stands were arranged in a triangular Formation.

The volume of each display stand was several times larger than the display cases on the floors below. They were carved entirely from an unknown dark-gold stone material; the surface of the stone naturally possessed fine patterns that faintly glowed with a pale golden luster under the light of the moonstones, emitting an extremely deep energy fluctuation.

And the Formation Restriction enveloping the exterior of the display stands was more than one level higher than the Restrictions on the sixth floor.

The Restrictions on the sixth floor were set independently for each display case; although multiple layers of protection had been stacked on the Eclipsing Moon Rank treasure cases, the overall direction and node distribution of the Formation lines could still be seen.

But the Restrictions on these three display stands before him...

No longer showed any traces of a Formation.

They were like a layer of invisible spatial barriers, completely isolating the interior of the display stands from the outside world.

If not for the refraction of light forming a very subtle distorted trace on the surface of the stands, the naked eye would be unable to even detect the existence of the Restrictions.

The three display stands stood separately in a triangular Formation in the center of the hall.

On the left display stand...

A tiny drop of blood was suspended.

That drop of blood presented an extremely deep dark-gold color, its surface flowing with golden patterns like a living thing. Every time the patterns flowed, a ring of visible dragon-shaped phantoms would ripple out around the blood.

Even through that invisible Restriction barrier, Jiang Yun could still feel the extremely ancient pressure radiating from that drop of blood.

It was a suppression coming from the very source of the Bloodline, as if the first True Dragon's roar toward the heavens at the beginning of time was still faintly echoing within this drop of blood after endless ages.

This item was clearly the ancestral dragon essence blood.

On the middle display stand...

A feather was suspended.

The feather was about three feet long, its entire body pitch-black as ink, but within the blackness, there was a layer of dark purple radiance, like an aurora in the deep night flowing silently.

The edges of the feather were as sharp as a blade. Every time the radiance flowed, the space around the feather would slightly distort, and one could vaguely see countless tiny dark shadows circling and dancing around it, emitting silent screeches.

Judging by the aura, the energy intensity contained within this feather was on par with the drop of ancestral dragon essence blood, but the attribute was completely different—cold, dark, and carrying a faint, ethereal Nether Qi.

It was indeed the nether phoenix divine feather.

On the right display stand...

A fist-sized ball of light was suspended.

The light ball itself was a nearly transparent pale silver, with countless tiny specks of light slowly rotating inside. The path of the light specks' rotation actually faintly formed a constantly changing three-dimensional spatial structure diagram.

At times it was a folded void rift, at others an infinitely extending spatial tunnel, and at others it transformed into a multi-layered spatial maze.

Even through the Restriction barrier, Jiang Yun could still feel the space around that light ball fluctuating in an extremely eerie manner.

That fluctuation did not belong to any attribute of spiritual power, but was the pure, essential space Law itself breathing.

Needless to say...

This item was the void seed.

The three treasures hung quietly above their respective display stands, emitting completely different yet equally suffocating energy fluctuations.

Jiang Yun took a deep breath, the blue light in his eyes suddenly surging as his Entry Manifestation talent was fully activated without reservation.

[void seed]

[Rank]: Sun-Level Top Grade

[Attribute]: Space

[Description]: A Law Seed formed from the condensation of the entire space Law Origin after the fall of an ancient Void Divine Beast.

The Void Divine Beast was a top-tier Divine Beast that mastered space Laws during the ancient period. An adult could freely travel through the voids of ten thousand worlds, with strength comparable to a Legendary-Rank Beast.

This item is the essence of its lifelong space Laws condensed after its fall, containing the complete power of the space Law Origin, and possessing the Heaven-Defying ability to allow a space attribute Beast to directly complete an evolution.

[Core Ability · Void Evolution]: Any space attribute Beast, after devouring the void seed, can ignore current Realm, Aptitude, and Bloodline Restrictions to directly trigger an evolution. The evolution direction will lean toward the Void Divine Beast Bloodline, and the quality after evolution will jump by one major Rank.

This ability is only effective for space attribute Beasts, and a single Beast can only trigger it once in its lifetime.

[Special Effect · Space Affinity]: After the evolution is completed, the Beast will obtain the highest level of space Law affinity. The power of all space attribute skills is increased by 300%, and the consumption of space-type skills is reduced by 50%.

[Potential Gift]: During the evolution process, there is a chance to awaken the Void Divine Beast's innate Divine Ability, Void Shuttle. This Divine Ability can perform a Space Jump while ignoring any blockades in any Restrictions, Formations, or barriers, and can be called a supreme Divine Ability for escape and surprise attacks.

[Challenge Condition]: Defeat the Void Guardian phantom projected by the Ten Thousand Beast Battle Formation. The phantom's Realm will be ten levels higher than the highest-Rank Beast summoned by the Beast Tamer.

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This challenge is an exclusive trial for a Sun-Level Top Grade treasure; external help cannot be used.

Jiang Yun stared at the data entries.

His pupils couldn't help but shrink slightly at the words 'directly complete an evolution'.

This wasn't the first time he had seen a treasure that could allow a Beast to directly complete an evolution.

Back in the C4 Misty Forest, the magic core that Ye Si had snatched from the cult, after Little Fire and Little Skylark fused and absorbed it, not only allowed them to complete an evolution, but their Realms were also greatly enhanced.

He still remembered that Heaven-Defying effect vividly.

The Rank of the void seed before him was countless times higher than that magic core; its evolution effect would surely be even more Heaven-Defying.

But it was only effective for space attribute Beasts.

Jiang Yun slowly shook his head.

He moved his gaze away from the void seed.

Of his three Beasts, Little Fire was dual water/fire attribute, Little Skylark was dual wind/thunder attribute, and Nether Abyss was dark attribute. Not one of them was space attribute.

No matter how Heaven-Defying this item was, it had no use for him.

Selling it could fetch an astronomical sum, but he had no such intention at the moment.

Moreover, the challenge difficulty was too great.

Rashly attempting it would likely lead to losses outweighing the gains.

He stepped toward the second display stand.

That dark nether phoenix divine feather.

[nether phoenix divine feather]

[Rank]: Legendary Rank

[Attribute]: Dark/Wind

[Description]: The innate true feather condensed with lifelong essence by the Nine Nether Underworld Phoenix under the Liu Family Ancestor Liu Tianxing before its fall.

This feather contains 100% of the Nine Nether Underworld Phoenix's Origin Bloodline Power and a wisp of residual innate Soul fire. It has a natural resonance with the Liu Family Bloodline; Liu Family descendants fusing with this feather can trigger a Bloodline atavism of the Nether Phoenix.

For Beasts without the Liu Family Bloodline, although they can forcibly refine it, the effect will be greatly reduced, and there is a risk of Soul fire backlash.

[Core Ability · Nether Phoenix Nirvana]: After a dark attribute Beast refines this feather, it will obtain one chance for a Nether Phoenix Nirvana. In a near-death state, it can trigger a full-status Rebirth, with all attributes increased by 50% for the duration of one incense stick.

This ability can only be triggered once in a lifetime; after triggering, the innate Soul fire in the divine feather will completely dissipate.

[Special Effect · Nether Fire Body Tempering]: During the refining process, the 100% Origin Bloodline Power of the Nether Phoenix will perform a double tempering of the Beast's Physical Body and Soul. The physical constitution will be greatly enhanced, Divine Sense resistance will increase by a full level, and affinity and resistance to dark attribute attacks will simultaneously double.

[Restriction Note]: When refined by a Beast without the Liu Family Bloodline, the 50% all-attribute increase during Nirvana will be reduced to 2%, and an additional 30% of Soul fire burning pain must be endured during the Nether Fire Body Tempering process.

This item has a natural contract binding with the Bloodline of Liu Family members; outsiders find it difficult to fully exert its true power.

[Challenge Condition]: Defeat the Nine Nether Underworld Phoenix phantom projected by the Ten Thousand Beast Battle Formation. The phantom's Realm will be ten levels higher than the highest-Rank Beast summoned by the Beast Tamer.

This challenge is an exclusive trial for a Low Grade Legendary treasure; external help cannot be used.

Jiang Yun finished reading the data entries.

He shook his head with a calm expression.

The nether phoenix divine feather, Low Grade Legendary, with core abilities of near-death Rebirth and attribute amplification.

For a dark attribute Beast...

This was indeed a rare and precious treasure.

But it was bound too deeply to the Liu Family Bloodline; an outsider refining it would not only see the effects halved but also have to endure additional Soul fire burning pain.

Nether Abyss had already obtained the dark-attribute origin law crystal condensed when the Nine Nether Underworld Phoenix passed away. That Law Crystal was a pure Origin Law Dao seed without any Bloodline binding; after Nether Abyss refined it, its dark attribute Law would directly upgrade to an Origin Law.

Compared to the Law Crystal...

The attraction of this nether phoenix divine feather seemed somewhat redundant.

Moreover...

The challenge condition was to cross ten levels of Realm.

In other words, even if Little Fire broke through to Purple Gold Rank 1, it would have to face a Vicious Beast phantom of Diamond Rank 1 or even Rank 2.

With the crushing force of an entire major Realm, plus an unreasonable near-death Rebirth ability like Nether Phoenix Nirvana, the odds of winning this battle were appallingly low.

It wasn't worth taking such a risk for something that wasn't very useful to Nether Abyss.

He turned his gaze to the final display stand, toward that dark-gold blood suspended above the dark-gold base, with dragon-shaped phantoms flowing throughout it.

At the same time he saw the data entry information for this drop of blood...

Jiang Yun showed a rare look of shock!!!

It's actually?!!

ancestral dragon essence blood!!