Chapter 1700: Hongyou's Assistance

When Zhen Linshuang's furious voice reached his ears, Li Luo's figure had already plunged into the bottomless Dragon Abyss, where he could sense the thick aura permeating the surroundings.

The Dragon Abyss was not entirely dark; instead, faint glimmers of light kept drifting about, imbued with spirituality, swimming through the abyss like fish.

Li Luo reached out and caught one of those glimmers in his hand. After a brief probe, his eyes suddenly blazed with heat.

For he discovered that these wondrous glimmers within the Dragon Abyss actually contained energy identical to the Ancestral Blood—in other words, these glimmers were themselves transformed Ancestral Blood.

"So much of it... no wonder that Zhen Linshuang didn't want me entering the third layer of the Blood Sacrifice."

Li Luo marveled. In the first two layers of the Blood Sacrifice, even relying on the advantage of his Heavenly Dragon bloodline, he still had to expend considerable effort to find a single wisp of Ancestral Blood. Yet here in the third layer, energy imbued with Ancestral Blood drifted freely everywhere.

Li Luo had just been about to gather them when he sensed a powerful surge of energy approaching. His gaze swept across, and he caught sight of Zhen Linshuang's tall, shapely, and domineering figure.

So his body stirred, and he instantly split into several hundred afterimages that scattered in all directions.

Zhen Linshuang saw this and immediately let out a cold snort, about to give chase. But at that moment a figure appeared behind her and spoke: "Clan Leader, you should focus on gathering Ancestral Blood. Li Luo seems to possess an illusion technique and is extremely hard to hunt. Even though he can't beat you head-on, if he truly resolves to flee, it will waste a great deal of your time."

That figure was Ao Yan.

"Damnable!"

Zhen Linshuang stared in the direction Li Luo had vanished, her chest heaving with fury, but she also understood that what Ao Yan said was true—Li Luo was far too slippery, and capturing him would waste too much time.

Yet she, who had always been domineering and overbearing, had repeatedly suffered setbacks at Li Luo's hands, which left her feeling somewhat aggrieved.

But in the end, she still clung to a sliver of reason. Paying no more attention to Li Luo, she turned and darted toward another direction, where the largest sacrificial altar in the Dragon Abyss lay—a place that could serve as a blood-gathering site.

Ao Yan, meanwhile, followed leisurely behind Zhen Linshuang. He gazed at her figure, a cold glint flashing in the depths of his eyes, then turned his head to glance at the spot where Li Luo had disappeared, his brow furrowing slightly.

He had schemed for a long time for this day, but Li Luo's sudden intrusion had become an unexpected variable.

However, things had already come to this; there was no reason to retreat.

With that thought, the look in Ao Yan's eyes returned to indifference as he followed after Zhen Linshuang.

As for Li Luo, he had dived deep into the Dragon Abyss, his gaze constantly warily scanning behind him. Only after failing to detect any energy fluctuation from Zhen Linshuang did he secretly breathe a sigh of relief.

He was also worried that Zhen Linshuang, that "mother tyrant dragon," might lose her temper and truly chase him down, wasting both their time for nothing.

Fortunately, she had ultimately retained a shred of reason.

Without Zhen Linshuang's interference, Li Luo no longer dawdled and immediately began collecting the mysterious yellow light points within the Dragon Abyss. His breathing thundered, and a terrifying suction radiated from within him, drawing forth a massive vortex.

But immediately afterward, his brow furrowed slightly, for he discovered that these mysterious yellow light points were unimaginably heavy. Even with his method of drawing them in, he could only gather the surrounding ones at an extremely sluggish pace.

At this rate, how much time would he need to obtain a satisfactory amount of Ancestral Blood?

"Li Luo, the Ancestral Blood within the Dragon Abyss is extremely heavy. Your clumsy method will never gather blood." Just as Li Luo was at a loss, a familiar voice suddenly rang out from thin air.

It was Li Hongyou!

"Senior Sister Hongyou?" Li Luo exclaimed joyfully.

"I am the presiding ritual master of the Myriad Dragon Ancestral Return Blood Sacrifice, so I can sense everything within the sacrifice." Li Hongyou's light laughter drifted out from the empty air before him.

"Then what should I do now?" Li Luo humbly asked for guidance.

"First, you must find an 'altar' within the Dragon Abyss and use it as a fulcrum. Then I will activate the ritual, and only then will the Ancestral Blood within the Dragon Abyss gather toward you for your use." Li Hongyou explained patiently and carefully.

"An altar?" Li Luo looked around. The deep, dim Dragon Abyss made it impossible even to tell direction. Searching for an altar in such an environment was undoubtedly like fishing for a needle in the ocean.

"Head toward your left side; there's an altar over there." Li Hongyou promptly provided guidance.

"Senior Sister Hongyou, you're really reliable." Li Luo couldn't help but sigh in admiration, then without hesitation rushed at full speed toward the direction Li Hongyou had indicated. After roughly several minutes, an altar about a hundred zhang tall indeed appeared in the dim surroundings.

The altar floated in the void, forged from massive stones inscribed with ancient patterns.

Li Luo landed at the center of the altar and asked the empty air: "Is this the altar? Then what?"

Li Hongyou chuckled lightly and said: "Activate your Heavenly Dragon bloodline. Leave the rest to me."

Li Luo agreed, sat cross-legged at the center of the altar, and the Heavenly Dragon bloodline within him thundered into motion. The cry of a Heavenly Dragon echoed and reverberated within his body, then gradually spread outward, causing even the void itself to tremble.

Meanwhile, in the skies above the outer perimeter of the Myriad Dragon Ruins.

The Apothecary Jade Dragon that Li Hongyou had transformed into opened its dragon eyes. She looked toward the other two, somewhat aged Apothecary Jade Dragons and spoke in a sweet, gentle voice: "Elders, regarding the Ancestral Blood in the altar region on the southwest side of the Dragon Abyss, would you two refrain from drawing it away?"

The two elderly Apothecary Jade Dragons looked helpless and said: "You're going to help that Li Luo? Aren't you afraid the Clan Leader will be furious?"

Li Hongyou replied: "It's only the Ancestral Blood in the southwest region; it won't affect the Clan Leader in any way. Moreover, it was Lord Zhen Fu who sent me to the Apothecary Jade Dragon clan precisely to assist Li Luo, so what I'm doing can also be considered Lord Zhen Fu's instruction."

The other two Apothecary Jade Dragons exchanged a glance and fell briefly silent. Their Apothecary Jade Dragon clan had not produced a new king for a very long time. Now Li Hongyou was the youngest and most promising new blood within the clan, so the entire Apothecary Jade Dragon clan valued her greatly, and naturally they were also deeply grateful to Zhen Fu for sending her.

So hearing Li Hongyou invoke Zhen Fu's name now, they naturally had no reason to refuse.

In the end, they nodded slightly, indicating their agreement with Li Hongyou's actions.

"Thank you, Elders!"

Li Hongyou gratefully thanked them joyfully, then without further hesitation directly invoked the ritual authority of the Myriad Dragon Ancestral Return Blood Sacrifice, beginning to fully activate the altar where Li Luo was located.

Boom!

Deep within the Dragon Abyss, Li Luo immediately sensed the altar beneath his feet suddenly thundering and trembling. The ancient patterns upon the altar began to radiate brilliant light, dazzling radiance weaving through the surroundings.

Then, to Li Luo's delighted surprise, he saw those mysterious yellow light points that he had previously been unable to budge despite exerting his full strength now seemingly drawn by some irresistible force, beginning to whistle toward the altar where he stood.

In their vast, surging momentum, they formed streams of light within the dim surroundings.

Li Luo couldn't help but grin broadly. As expected, having someone backing you up makes everything easier.

So he no longer hesitated and directly pushed his Heavenly Dragon bloodline to its limit. A domineering suction erupted from within him, drawing every single Ancestral Blood light point that surged into the altar into his body.

Boom!

Li Luo's physical body emitted a deafening roar as terrifying power climbed within him step by step. He could clearly feel that at this moment, the Dragon Blood Ancient Tracing Art was evolving at an astonishing speed.

At this rate of evolution, perhaps before long, the Dragon Blood Ancient Tracing Art would become the fifth Peerless Art that Li Luo had cultivated!