245: Chapter 246 Black Mountain Dragon King

What did he see?

An eye!

A giant vertical pupil over a thousand meters in diameter, its surface covered by a layer of translucent, dark red membrane, resembling some kind of petrified horny layer.

Deep within the pupil, something was faintly rotating slowly.

Lin Ye subconsciously took half a step back, a fine layer of cold sweat seeping from his back.

What kind of evil thing is this?

The aura radiating from just this one eye caused the Qi and blood within his body, which had just completed their transformation, to tremble instinctively.

This fear did not merely come from a psychological level; it was more an absolute suppression originating from the level of life itself.

It was like an ant facing a giant elephant, giving him a feeling of looking up at a towering mountain.

"Crack!"

A faint cracking sound came from under his feet.

Lin Ye looked down; it was a rock on the edge of the fissure he had accidentally stepped on while retreating just now.

At this moment, tiny pebbles were rolling down from the break, falling into the darkness below.

There was no sound of them hitting the ground.

The pebbles turned into a cloud of powder while still in mid-air.

Lin Ye's gaze remained fixed on the direction where the powder dissipated, his pupils slightly constricted.

He saw the vibration frequency of that vertical pupil's membrane change.

It became more rapid.

Clearly, this unknown existence sleeping in the belly of the mountain was about to wake up.

Suddenly, a wave of heat surged from the depths of the fissure.

The heat wave carried a distinct, ancient scent, like underground magma sealed away for tens of thousands of years, mixed with the smell of metal and sulfur, stinging one's nasal cavity.

Lin Ye made an immediate decision, his Lightning Flash Movement erupting at full power as his figure instantly retreated dozens of zhang.

The very next instant after he left the edge of the cliff, the entire fissure suddenly erupted with a crimson pillar of Qi.

The pillar of Qi, carrying scorching magma, shot straight into the sky and exploded in the night air, like a blooming blood-colored firework.

The loud boom echoed through the mountains, causing birds and beasts within a hundred-mile radius to flee in terror.

Without the slightest hesitation, Lin Ye turned and ran.

This thing was absolutely not something he could deal with; he had to call for outside help.

However, at this moment, an old, hoarse voice suddenly echoed in his mind, forcing him to stop in his tracks.

"How many years has it been... Finally... someone has reached this step again."

The hair on Lin Ye's body stood on end.

The other party had actually bypassed all his defensive measures and projected their consciousness precisely into his Sea of Consciousness.

Such a feat, even with his current spirit attribute nearing a thousand, was absolutely impossible for him.

Clearly, that unknown existence had discovered him.

But the good news was that the other party possessed significant intelligence and was not one of those world-destroying beasts that would go on a killing spree the moment they emerged.

Moreover, from the voice just now, Lin Ye felt a certain amount of goodwill.

Taking a deep breath and forcibly suppressing the shock in his heart, Lin Ye transmitted his thoughts directly: "Who are you, Senior?"

It was quiet for a moment.

That voice echoed again, slightly clearer than before.

"Who am I?" The voice carried a trace of distant bewilderment.

"I have slept for too long and have long since forgotten my name. However, I vaguely remember that your Human Race once called me... Black Mountain Dragon Lord!"

Black Mountain Dragon Lord?

Lin Ye had never heard of it, but just by the name, he knew this was an incredible existence whose cultivation level had at least reached the Upper Three Grades, or perhaps even higher!

Honestly, Lin Ye felt a bit of scalp-tingling dread.

If not for the life-saving method of logging off, Lin Ye would have already bolted, and would never have stayed here to communicate with the other party.

Meanwhile, the ground began to shake again.

The crimson pillar of light rushing out from the fissure grew increasingly intense.

"Are... are you coming out?" Lin Ye's throat felt a bit dry.

Good heavens, if one eye is over a thousand meters long, how big must the actual body be?

Ten thousand meters? A hundred thousand meters?

A behemoth of this scale, even if it just stamped its foot slightly, would trigger a super earthquake; Lin Ye could not help but be nervous.

"Rest assured." The voice was very calm, carrying a sense of indifference born from the passage of time.

"The Seal is still intact; it is just that your recent Qi and blood Breakthrough caused a resonance between heaven and earth, which allowed a sliver of my consciousness to awaken."

Lin Ye was a bit dumbfounded.

So this whole situation was caused by me?

Seemingly guessing what was in Lin Ye's mind, the Black Mountain Dragon Lord's voice actually carried a hint of comfort: "Do not blame yourself. If you hadn't awakened me, once the thing inside me broke through the Seal, the consequences would have been even more severe!"

The Seal? The thing inside?

Lin Ye keenly captured a few keywords.

Why did it sound like they might be on the same side, based on what the other party said?

And what was it that was sealed inside it?

Just as Lin Ye was lost in confusion, that voice echoed again.

"I have slept for thousands of years; today, I have finally waited for the person I needed to wait for!"

Lin Ye frowned: "The person you were waiting for is me?"

"Indeed! But to be precise, I was waiting for someone like you." The Black Mountain Dragon Lord's voice suddenly became solemn.

"Qi and blood Breakthrough, leveraging the power of the Dao to pry open the might of heaven and earth. Those who can reach this step, even in my era, were as rare as phoenix feathers. Human Race Prodigy, I need you to do me a favor."

"What favor?" Lin Ye replied cautiously.

"I need you to help me Seal a piece of divine flesh!"

What the hell?

Lin Ye suspected he had misheard; how did this get involved with divine flesh?

And what exactly was divine flesh?

"Could Senior explain in detail?"

Hearing Lin Ye's request, the Black Mountain Dragon Lord did not refuse and recounted the ins and outs of the matter.

And this explanation took half an hour.

Lin Ye stood in place, unable to recover for a long time.

Nothing else, the amount of information revealed by the Black Mountain Dragon Lord was too astonishing; he couldn't fully digest it all at once.

Simply put, thousands of years ago, it had inadvertently swallowed a piece of mysterious flesh, and then things spiraled in an uncontrollable direction.

Not only was this flesh not digested, but it began to turn around and devour the Black Mountain Dragon Lord's life essence.

Fortunately, as a member of the Dragon Clan, its vitality was tenacious enough to hold on for the time being.

Furthermore, with the help of this divine flesh, its level of life began to constantly leap upward.

However, as the divine flesh devoured more and more vitality, its true power gradually revealed itself.

The Black Mountain Dragon Lord alone could no longer satisfy the devouring desires of this flesh.

Gradually, under the control of the divine flesh, the Black Mountain Dragon Lord became increasingly bloodthirsty, until it encountered a Human Race powerhouse.

That Human Race powerhouse helped it temporarily suppress its bloodthirsty desires and gave it a method to Seal the flesh within its body, at the cost of it falling into an eternal slumber.

And this slumber lasted for thousands of years, until it was awakened by the heaven and earth phenomenon caused by Lin Ye.

As for these exotic beasts in Heifeng Mountain, they had merely absorbed a sliver of the aura leaking from the divine flesh, which activated their Bloodline Power and thus gave birth to their intelligence.

In other words, this behemoth sleeping for thousands of years before him was the source of the Bloodline for all the exotic beasts in Heifeng Mountain.