Chapter 46: The Great Gift

After Qian Renxue finished speaking, she took out a gorgeously decorated small box from her Storage Soul Guidance Device.

Subsequently, Qian Renxue handed this small box toward Zhou Heng, who was sitting opposite her.

Zhou Heng looked at the small box pushed in front of him, raised his eyebrows slightly, and asked, "Senior Sister, what is this?"

"Junior Brother, this is a treasure that Emperor Xue Ye had me select from the imperial palace treasury in order for me to win you over; I will just hand it over to you directly," Qian Renxue said, fiddling with her hair, looking bored.

Upon hearing this, Zhou Heng said nothing more and opened the small box in front of him.

He saw that inside the small box, a "pill" was lying quietly.

"Just a medicinal pill?" Zhou Heng said in confusion.

Zhou Heng raised his hand to pick up the pill, and the moment the pill was in his hand, Zhou Heng discovered that this was not a medicinal pill at all, but a Dragon Pill.

Zhou Heng gripped the Dragon Pill, released his spiritual power slightly, and felt the numerous powers contained within this Dragon Pill.

After sensing it carefully, Zhou Heng confirmed what these powers were: life, thunder, earth, and water.

"What kind of Spirit Beast's Dragon Pill is this? How could the attributes within it be so complex?" Zhou Heng looked at Qian Renxue, who had brought this Dragon Pill.

"I don't know the origin of this thing either; I only know that it was placed into the treasury over a hundred years ago. I sent people to find some clues in the treasury.

This Dragon Pill is actually the Dragon Pill of a Earth Profound Water Brilliant Dragon with cultivation approaching one hundred thousand years; this Earth Profound Water Brilliant Dragon could even be said to be the last Earth Profound Water Brilliant Dragon.

Back then, this Earth Profound Water Brilliant Dragon was about to step into one hundred thousand years of cultivation, and in order to survive the lightning tribulation, this Earth Profound Water Brilliant Dragon actually charged into the core area of the Star Dou Great Forest.

It is unknown what kind of Spirit Beasts it slaughtered inside, which caused the Spirit Beasts of the Star Dou Great Forest to riot, and also led to several towns around the Star Dou Great Forest being destroyed by Spirit Beasts.

Afterward, this Earth Profound Water Brilliant Dragon charged out of the Star Dou Great Forest and arrived at a dangerous location. There, it accepted the lightning tribulation, and in the end, it did not survive the lightning tribulation; only this Dragon Pill remained.

It has already been in the treasury for over a hundred years, and the Heaven Dou Empire has not found a way to use this Dragon Pill.

Emperor Xue Ye gave this Dragon Pill to you, likely intending to make use of waste; you shouldn't bother trying to use this Dragon Pill."

Zhou Heng looked at this Dragon Pill with a look of regret, unable to think of a way to use this item.

With no other choice, he had to put it back into his Storage Soul Guidance Device.

Qian Renxue came this time because of the order given by Emperor Xue Ye to win over Zhou Heng, but since Zhou Heng was her own Junior Brother, there was no need to win him over.

After Qian Renxue chatted with Zhou Heng for a while longer, she parted ways with him.

Zhou Huan left the restaurant, not knowing where to go, and subsequently returned to the Heaven Dou Imperial Academy to practice in the Mimicry Cultivation Field.

The Mimicry Cultivation Field that Zhou Heng arrived at was a forest, and in the center of the forest, there was a small lake; the air was filled with the energy of wood-attribute elements.

The area of this Mimicry Cultivation Field was not large, and after Zhou Heng searched a circle within the Mimicry Cultivation Field and found no one else, he felt relieved.

Zhou Heng summoned his Battle Instrument martial soul and released the Evergreen Jade Lotus and the Dream Water Fish.

In the small lake, a lotus flower with the color of green grass and the texture of jade was blooming, releasing its refreshing fragrance.

Zhou Heng watched the Evergreen Jade Lotus blooming in the lake water, feeling the Evergreen Jade Lotus's affection for its surroundings, while the Dream Water Fish swam freely in the lake water; he lay quietly by the lake, looking at the sky to relax his mood.

After lying there for a while, Zhou Heng thought of that Dragon Pill again, so he took the Dragon Pill out from his Storage Soul Guidance Device and played with it in his hand.

While Zhou Heng was playing with the Dragon Pill, he unknowingly injected a wisp of soul power into the Dragon Pill; the next moment, an aura of life was released from the Dragon Pill.

The moment this aura of life was released, it was sensed by Zhou Heng.

Zhou Heng looked at the Dragon Pill in his hand that was emitting a wisp of life aura, his eyes revealing suspicion and uncertainty; wasn't this Dragon Pill useless? How could it still emit an aura of life?

Zhou Heng gripped the Dragon Pill, hope rising in his heart, and began to inject elemental power and Heavenly Stem Power into the Dragon Pill, experimenting with the Dragon Pill's function.

Finally, after injecting all his energies one by one, Zhou Heng reached a conclusion: this Dragon Pill could absorb various energies; after elemental energy was injected into the Dragon Pill, it could only be converted into Water Element and Earth Element;

After injecting Heavenly Stem Power, the Dragon Pill would decompose the injected Heavenly Stem Power, breaking the Heavenly Stem Power down into the elements that composed it;

And after soul power was injected into it, it would be converted into pure Life Energy and life aura; a small amount of soul power could only convert into life aura, while a large amount of soul power could convert into Life Energy;

Zhou Heng injected these Life Energies into the Evergreen Jade Lotus, and the Evergreen Jade Lotus's cultivation improved rapidly; in the end, the Evergreen Jade Lotus's cultivation increased from twelve thousand years to fifteen thousand years.

Zhou Heng also tried injecting fifty percent of his total soul power into the Dragon Pill, and the resulting massive Life Energy directly allowed the Evergreen Jade Lotus to increase its cultivation age by two thousand years, giving the Evergreen Jade Lotus significant progress.

After testing all these energies, Zhou Heng thought of spiritual power.

To guard against danger within the Dragon Pill, Zhou Heng only injected a very small amount of spiritual power into the Dragon Pill.

As soon as Zhou Heng's spiritual power was injected, a piece of information was transmitted from the Dragon Pill to the outside.

As soon as the information was transmitted, Zhou Heng made contact with this information using his spiritual power.

Within the information, an image of a yellow and black bicolored Earth Dragon Spirit Beast appeared in Zhou Heng's mind.

Zhou Heng saw at a glance that this Spirit Beast was the Earth Profound Water Brilliant Dragon, a top-tier dragon-type Spirit Beast that had already gone extinct.

The Earth Profound Water Brilliant Dragon in the image was still very young, growing in its birthplace for a long period of time; it was not until it reached a thousand years of cultivation that the Earth Profound Water Brilliant Dragon left its birthplace.

Just as Zhou Heng continued to watch the image, the image came to an abrupt end, stopping at the scene of it leaving its birthplace.

After Zhou Heng sensed it for a while, he realized that the transmitted information ended there.

Zhou Heng injected a wisp of spiritual power into it.

Soon, another piece of information was transmitted from the Dragon Pill.

Zhou Heng continued to watch this information; just like that, after finishing the information, Zhou Heng would inject spiritual power, and then watch the information again.

After three hours, Zhou Heng finally finished watching the information remaining in this Dragon Pill.

Zhou Heng also confirmed from the information left in the Dragon Pill that the owner of this Dragon Pill was indeed the last Earth Profound Water Brilliant Dragon.

After this Earth Profound Water Brilliant Dragon possessed a thousand years of cultivation and left its birthplace, it arrived at the gathering place of the Earth Profound Water Brilliant Dragon race, where there was a god-level dragon corpse.

According to the inheritance memory of this Earth Profound Water Brilliant Dragon, all Earth Profound Water Brilliant Dragons were born after absorbing the bloodline of this dragon corpse.

After arriving there, it accidentally caused the dragon corpse to resonate; it absorbed the bloodline of the dragon corpse around the dragon corpse, which also allowed it to grow rapidly.

In just twenty thousand years, it became a Spirit Beast with cultivation approaching one hundred thousand years.

However, it also felt the lightning tribulation that threatened its life.

In order to survive the lightning tribulation, it headed to the Star Dou Great Forest; afterward, it had a great battle with Di Tian, was easily injured by Di Tian, and did not obtain a method for how to survive the lightning tribulation.

However, it found a group of Spirit Beasts containing massive Life Energy—the Emerald Swans; it found an opportunity and hunted down more than a dozen Emerald Swans with cultivation approaching one hundred thousand years.

It used the Life Energy of these Emerald Swans to cultivate a Dragon Pill, and subsequently, it fled back to the gathering place of the Earth Profound Water Brilliant Dragons.

However, even with the Dragon Pill, it had no certainty of surviving the lightning tribulation; in order to survive under the lightning tribulation, it made a choice.

It slaughtered all the Earth Profound Water Brilliant Dragons in the gathering place, collected their bloodlines, and nourished the Dragon Pill within its body.

However, these were still not enough to let it survive the lightning tribulation, and in the end, it set its sights on that dragon corpse.

It swallowed that dragon corpse into its belly, and only then did it discover that this dragon corpse was the corpse of an Azure Dragon, and within the Azure Dragon corpse, there was also a fragmented Dragon Pill.

As soon as the Azure Dragon corpse was swallowed into its belly, the lightning tribulation gathered in the sky, and endless thunderbolts descended, striking its body without interruption.

These thunderbolts did not at all resemble the power that a normal Ten Thousand Year Soul Beast's lightning tribulation should have; the thunderbolts landed on its body and easily broke through its defenses.

However, the two Dragon Pills within its body provided it with formidable recovery power.

But these thunderbolts became stronger and stronger, and finally, a lightning pillar flickering with golden light descended from the sky, suppressing it to the ground.

The thunderbolts tore its body apart bit by bit, and in the end, its body was turned into dust by the thunderbolts, and the two Dragon Pills within its body were melted by the power of the thunderbolts and fused together.

Finally, the two fused into a single special Dragon Pill.

After being found by someone, it changed hands many times, until a hundred years ago, it was sent into the treasury of the Heaven Dou Imperial Palace, and subsequently, it had been gathering dust in the treasury ever since.

Zhou Heng finished reading the information inside the Dragon Pill and was filled with many emotions; an Earth Profound Water Brilliant Dragon with ten thousand years of cultivation had actually personally exterminated its own kind just to survive.

Zhou Heng could not empathize with such an existence.

However, this Dragon Pill gave Zhou Heng an idea.