49: True Dragon Corpse

Inside the palace.

As soon as Xu Jinhuan stepped inside, a majestic Dragon Might rushed toward him.

It was ancient and wild, incomparably tyrannical, like the Dominator of the world overlooking all spirits, its King's Aura soaring straight into the sky!

This aura was distinctly different from the impure Flood Dragon Might emanating from Ao Haotian.

The two were fundamentally not beings on the same level!

If Ao Haotian felt like a crawling insect in a ditch.

Then the owner of this palace was a True Dragon, soaring in the Nine Heavens and commanding the wind and clouds!

"It seems that Little Loach claiming this is his ancestor was just him trying to elevate himself."

Xu Jinhuan muttered.

"But that works out perfectly. I need true dragon essence blood and divine soul."

After settling The Three Women, Xu Jinhuan wasted no time. Golden light circulated in his eyes, and the Double Pupils Divine Ability operated at full power.

The golden light penetrated everything, dispelling falsehoods, and revealing all things.

The secrets of the entire palace complex surfaced in Xu Jinhuan's eyes.

Immediately afterward, his figure flickered like lightning, quickly moving between the halls. One deeply hidden secret chamber after another was opened, and the treasures sealed within were casually placed into his Storage Space. His movements were smooth and flowing, without the slightest delay.

In half a day, the previously empty Storage Space now contained dozens of types of Saint Realm Divine Beast blood, as well as countless glistening treasures.

Among them were quite a few exquisite and gorgeous female accessories, sparkling and dazzling.

"As expected of a True Dragon. And judging by the look of it, she was a Female Dragon, so fond of glistening things."

Xu Jinhuan was not surprised by these gains.

True Dragons are fond of wealth and enjoy hoarding.

They especially love shiny things and stones.

The legendary Dragon Palace was constructed from the endless rare treasures collected by True Dragons, allowing it to be magnificent, dazzling, beautiful, and renowned across The Heavens.

In addition, the secret chambers also stored a large amount of half-saint medicine, and God Realm and Saint Realm Medicinal Pills.

Bottles and jars piled up like mountains, all Cultivation resources that were difficult to obtain in the outside world.

To Xu Jinhuan, these were merely low-to-mid-tier goods; he had no shortage of them.

Although his Eternal Chaos Body required immortal beast essence blood to accelerate its Awakening, resources below the level of immortal beast essence blood were practically useless to him.

The Cultivation speed of the Eternal Chaos Body was simply too fast!

If he didn't worry about his Foundation and let loose with his Cultivation, he would advance almost one minor Realm every day, and one major Realm every ten days.

This speed was faster than increasing one's cultivation level by consuming Medicinal Pills.

It could be said that consuming Medicinal Pills was purely a negative gain for Xu Jinhuan!

"Only those with insufficient talent choose to use Medicinal Pills to improve themselves, consuming the resources of ten Saint Realms just to crush a bunch of God Realm ants."

"A true Prodigy like me cannot be caught up to, even if others rely on drugs!"

"As for these half-saint medicine and Divine Pills, I'll leave them for Qingyao and the others."

Xu Jinhuan shook his head and walked into the deepest part of the palace.

At the end of the palace was an already withered True Dragon corpse, obscuring the sky and sun, emitting ancient silence.

It turned out that True Dragons were not the golden, brilliant, and sacred beings described in legends.

Instead, they were hideous cyan-black.

The corpse spanned a million zhang, its skeleton scarred and battered. Countless claw marks, deep enough to reach the bone, covered its entire body, and there were terrifying fissures piercing its torso, the edges of which retained the unique sharp aura of the Golden-Winged Great Peng.

The fatal injury was located at the center of the True Dragon's forehead—a hideous hole dozens of zhang wide, penetrating the skull and completely destroying its Sea of Consciousness and Divine Soul.

Even after eons, the wound still exuded a terrifying, ferocious power.

Causing anyone who looked upon it to tremble with fear.

Furthermore, even as a withered skeleton, the True Dragon corpse still emitted a life-level pressure that crushed all beings—a supreme Law originating from the Bloodline Origin, like Heavenly Dao shackles, towering above all spirits.

If an ordinary Human Race member stood here, they would likely be utterly terrified and soil themselves on the spot.

This had nothing to do with courage, but was a pure fear stemming from the life-level and genetic instinct.

Just like an ant fears an elephant, or a rabbit fears a tiger.

Deeply ingrained in the marrow, impossible to resist.

Of course, Xu Jinhuan was different.

Thanks to the Eternal Chaos Body, his life-level had been elevated almost infinitely, reaching an unimaginable height.

A mere True Dragon, and a corpse at that, was completely insufficient to instill fear in him.

"The only thing that can make me feel afraid or anxious now is my own lack of strength."

Xu Jinhuan stepped onto the Dragon's head. His figure was like an ant before the million-zhang corpse, yet he advanced resolutely, unstoppable, heading straight for the massive hole in the forehead.

Under the erosion of time, the blood around the hole had long since solidified into a black-brown mass, emitting a faint aura of decay.

"Even with the dignity of a Great Saint and the body of a True Dragon, after tens of thousands of years of erosion, is the fate of decaying into ash unavoidable?

After sighing, Xu Jinhuan raised his hand, and a stream of Chaos Power swept out from his palm, sinking into the True Dragon's skull.

In an instant, the million-zhang Dragon's head violently shook, and the entire palace trembled, as if heaven and earth were about to collapse!

The Dragon's eyes, taller than dozens of stories, suddenly opened, their pupils locking onto Xu Jinhuan!

Even though it had been dead for tens of thousands of years, these eyes were still incredibly vibrant, like those of a living creature. It was as if the True Dragon had come back to life, its gaze piercing through the ages, watching him from the other end of the River of Time!

In fact, this was exactly the case.

Since the Golden-Winged Great Peng could split off a remnant soul to survive until now, this True Dragon naturally could as well.

Of course, she could also sense that this weak creature before her concealed an aura that she could not fully perceive.

That aura surpassed the limits of what she, a Great Saint, could understand, and surpassed the limits of the Three Thousand Dao Provinces.

Facing such an incomprehensible existence, the True Dragon's remnant soul felt colossal waves surging in its heart.

This person should fundamentally not exist in the Three Thousand Dao Provinces!

Confusion, incomprehension, curiosity, gratitude... countless complex emotions intertwined and circulated in the Dragon's eyes before quickly settling down.

It stared at Xu Jinhuan for a full quarter of an hour before finally closing its eyes slowly.

It seemed relieved, as if accepting its fate.

At the same time, a clear yet weak voice rang out in Xu Jinhuan's mind.

"Thank you."

The True Dragon's remnant soul was now relieved.

Her mortal enemy, the Golden-Winged Great Peng, had been slain. Since her Divine Soul was too damaged, even if she rebuilt her Physical Body, there was no possibility of returning to the Peak. It was better to fall into eternal slumber and find peace.

It was better to fall into eternal slumber and find peace.

Moreover, waking up one last time to see such a handsome man meant dying without regret... Even though she had been the True Dragon Great Saint renowned throughout an era, having seen countless Prodigies and worldly talents, no one had ever been as peerlessly handsome and exquisitely beautiful as the man before her.

Neither man nor woman could hope to compare.

This man was clearly a Banished Immortal who had mistakenly entered the mortal world—so beautiful that it felt unreal!

Accompanied by the dissipation of the True Dragon's remnant soul, a mass of blood the size of a human head floated out from the blood hole in the True Dragon's forehead, constantly surging and emitting intense Dragon Might.

It was true dragon essence blood.

Encased within the surging true dragon essence blood was a hexagonal cyan-black crystal, upon which a miniature True Dragon relief sculpture was carved, lifelike and vivid.

It was the True Dragon's divine soul.

"Thank you, Senior, for fulfilling this."

Xu Jinhuan raised his hand, placing the essence blood and divine soul into his possession, and solemnly bowed to the million-zhang True Dragon corpse.

A breeze stirred.

The million-zhang, boundless True Dragon corpse turned into dust and was swept up by the wind.

The dust outlined a portrait of a woman in mid-air—graceful and noble, breathtakingly beautiful, with an inherent King's nobility between her brows, her charm unparalleled, like the moon beyond the mountains or an Immortal from beyond the Heavens.

The portrait gave Xu Jinhuan a slight smile, then was dispersed by the wind, and the dust returned to heaven and earth.

Xu Jinhuan knew that was the True Dragon's transformed appearance; the other party was indeed a woman.

Looking at the clear sky that had returned, a wave of sorrow suddenly surged in his heart.

"Even a powerful being like the Great Saint True Dragon ultimately couldn't escape the fate of turning into dust?"

"To what height must one ascend to escape death, exist eternally, and hold onto everything one cherishes?"

"Great Emperor? Immortal King? Or an even higher existence?"

He had no way of knowing this answer now.

But he knew that finding the answer was only a matter of time.

Because in his mind, there existed something that fundamentally did not belong to this world: the System.

Moreover, just now, the System was triggered again.

[Ding! A qualifying beauty has been detected. Sign-in immediately?]

Xu Jinhuan was somewhat surprised by this.

"A corpse can also trigger Sign-in? It seems that as long as there is in-depth interaction with the other party, even physical heart-to-heart interaction works."

"And I didn't expect this True Dragon to have been a great beauty when she was alive."

Since she met the System's Sign-in requirements, there was no doubt that the True Dragon deserved the title 'beauty'.

Xu Jinhuan withdrew his thoughts and didn't hesitate.

"Sign-in!"