86: Anchor point changes

"What could be happening at the school to make Xiao Sheng so nervous? Unless... something happened to the anchor point!"

This terrifying guess startled Su Ze. If something happened to the anchor point leading to an invasion from the Monster Beast World, it would involve Divine Beast level combat power!

Although Su Ze had the system's help, he hadn't grown enough to handle that yet.

"No, not necessarily. There's more than one anchor point. Even if the one under the school has an issue, it won't immediately lead to an invasion from the Monster Beast World."

"I should still go see what exactly happened. Even if they really come, I'll need to wake up Feng Qingyi to survive."

Su Ze followed closely behind Xiao Sheng, running toward the school's location.

But he had just started when Xiao Sheng, on the other side, opened the secret passage entrance with practiced ease and stepped inside.

Although the vibrations had subsided by now, he remained highly tense, and Azure Cloud had already transformed into the azure dragon halberd in his hand.

Until he seemed to sense something, smiled bitterly, and a layer of azure light rippled around him.

Wherever the light passed, all darkness and shadows were exposed, and a black figure was forced out as a result.

"Teacher, at a time like this, please stop messing with me."

Lin Xi walked out from the shadows while drinking wine and said, "Tsk, you've grown up and become powerful. Teacher can't joke with you like I used to."

Xiao Sheng breathed a sigh of relief seeing that Lin Xi seemed to be fine.

Lin Xi smiled at his prize pupil, but as soon as he took a step, he suddenly hissed in pain, as if a wound had been pulled.

Then he spat out the wine; it was bright red, mixed with blood.

Xiao Sheng was shocked and stepped forward to support Lin Xi. He noticed mottled patches of bloodstains on the clothes over Lin Xi's chest and hurriedly asked, "Teacher, Azure Cloud and I just felt its aura. What exactly happened?"

Lin Xi calmed himself, swallowed the bloody wine, and said, "What else could it be? The corpse rose."

"Luckily I only left for a moment and didn't give it a chance to develop further."

With Xiao Sheng's support, Lin Xi walked through the corridor and returned to the underground space.

This was exactly where he had just fought the Dragon Corpse on the wall!

To be precise, it was just a piece of a corpse.

This was the reason he had to keep watch here, because a dragon whose body had already turned to bone actually hadn't died yet!

Just after he had left to help Su Ze, in that brief interval, the Dragon Corpse's flesh suddenly spread from the other world and began to cling to the empty skeleton on this side, attempting to fill it completely.

No one knew if the dragon would actually be resurrected after being completed, let alone what kind of impact that would have.

So Lin Xi, who had rushed back in time, immediately took action to stop it once he realized something was wrong.

However, more than half of his Nightmare's ability lay on the mental level, which had no effect on a piece of mindless flesh.

He could only rely on raw power to suppress it. Sensing resistance, the flesh transformed into a small, bright red flesh dragon to attack Lin Xi.

It was during this clash that Lin Xi was injured.

Fortunately, Feng Qingyi, who was undergoing Nirvana nearby, took action. Although her power wasn't strong enough, she controlled a wisp of Dragon Flame from the furnace, repelling the flesh dragon body.

Unexpectedly, it was afraid of her flames, so Feng Qingyi worked with Lin Xi to redouble their efforts and completely suppress it.

However, they were unable to destroy it in the end, and the flesh pulled the skeleton back into the Monster Beast World, causing the skeleton on the Human World side to be a good deal shorter.

The distance between the two worlds seemed to have narrowed by another fraction because of this.

This was also the point that puzzled Lin Xi the most: "If the Dragon Corpse revived and didn't want to continue serving as an anchor point, its loosening should have pushed the two worlds further apart, but now it's the opposite..."

He couldn't figure it out. The ones who had researched anchor points the most were Su Ze's parents.

Even most of the research materials were destroyed back then, so he had no way of knowing what this truly meant.

After Lin Xi finished his explanation, he opened his palm while Xiao Sheng was deep in thought, revealing a drop of restless golden blood lying within.

"The only benefit brought by this incident is that I obtained another drop of Divine Beast Essence Blood from the flesh. How about it? Do you want to give it to your Biyun Flood Dragon?" Lin Xi asked.

Ordinary demonic beasts couldn't withstand the power of Divine Beast Essence Blood, but the Biyun Flood Dragon had succeeded before, which had allowed her to advance into a Diamond-rank Demonic Beast.

However, this time Xiao Sheng shook his head for the Biyun Flood Dragon and said, "No need. Dragon blood has no effect on Azure Cloud now. We've already reached our limit; it's not something a drop of dragon blood can solve."

Then he thought for a moment and said, "How about... let that guy take this drop of blood as a token of allegiance?"

Lin Xi shook his head and said, "Just one drop of blood is far from enough. Since you don't need it, I'll give it to my savior. If it wasn't for her just now, I might have been finished."

He then flicked the drop of dragon blood into the furnace where Feng Qingyi was undergoing Nirvana, and Feng Qingyi was overjoyed.

But as a result, her Nirvana, which had reached its limit and was about to end, was forcibly extended.

She closed her eyes and fell into a deep sleep once more.

Before falling asleep, she seemed to hear Lin Xi whisper a sentence: "She is the..."

She couldn't hear what followed because she had completely collapsed.

Soon, Su Ze also arrived at Beast Taming University.

He ran all the way, panting, but continued without pause to the Breeding Area. After glancing around to make sure no one was there, he opened the secret passage and stepped inside.

Su Ze's nerves were on edge the entire time, fearing that a swarm of demonic beasts would suddenly pour through from the other end of the passage.

Fortunately, that didn't happen. Before long, he reached the underground space and saw Lin Xi and Xiao Sheng standing before the dragon bones.

"Phew... Teacher, Senior Brother, what happened her—" Su Ze's words trailed off.

Because he saw at a single glance that the dragon bones on this side had become shorter!

The marks left by Su Ze's parents were in the middle of the Dragon Corpse, at the position dividing the two worlds, so they were easy to remember.

But looking at it now, the marks left by his parents were gone!

He couldn't see them looking forward either, and behind was the other half of the flesh Dragon Corpse from the Monster Beast World.

"What... exactly happened here?!"