Chapter 1182: Longevity: My Farming-Style Cultivation Is Too Steady Chapter 1182: Petrified Dragon Heart!

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Protagonist:

Xu Zhangqing

Every time those threads of light circled, a faint ripple would stir in the surrounding dragon Qi.

The ripple transmitted into his sea of consciousness, bringing a refreshing sensation.

"This is a Dragon Soul Crystal."

Zhao Ziyue's voice carried excitement he could not suppress: "Dig inward along that central vein; the deeper we go, the higher the crystal's purity."

Last time I came here, I only managed to knock off a few pieces at the cave entrance before being discovered by the dragon souls outside the fissure.

This time, with your Creation Return to Ruins Seal holding the field, we'll dig straight into the main vein."

Xu Zhangqing's gaze looked forward.

Besides the Dragon Soul Crystals, a thin layer of silver moss clung to them, its surface covered in fine patterns.

He recognized this thing: Dragon Silk Moss.

A common auxiliary ingredient in alchemy.

It can temper the harsh nature of medicinal herbs, making pills easier to absorb.

Seeing this, Xu Zhangqing, as a Top-tier Alchemist, immediately scraped off several large pieces into his Fangcun Ring, then pressed his palm against the root of the vein.

Yuan power seeped downward along the vein.

But the feedback information made him raise an eyebrow.

This vein is deeper than I estimated, at least thirty or forty zhang.

And the deeper down, the higher the purity of the Dragon Soul Crystals.

No, it's not just a matter of purity.

Xu Zhangqing's Yuan Dao sensed an extremely condensed mass of energy at the deepest part of the vein.

The energy's fluctuation was very peculiar—not a single crystal like the Dragon Soul Crystals, but something more complex and ancient.

It seems there must be something unknown at the deepest part.

Just like the Fallen Dragon Abyss before, perhaps something is hidden there.

Afterward, Xu Zhangqing spoke his discovery: "Lao Zhao, there's something at the bottom of the vein."

At this moment, Zhao Ziyue was intently knocking on a fist-sized Dragon Soul Crystal; hearing this, he asked without turning his head: "What thing?"

Xu Zhangqing shook his head: "Hard to say for now, but it's definitely not a Dragon Soul Crystal."

Zhao Ziyue immediately perked up, stuffed the knocked-off Dragon Soul Crystal into his bosom, then came to Xu Zhangqing's side and said excitedly: "What are we waiting for?

Dig!"

The two smiled at each other and began mining deeper along the vein.

Zhao Ziyue took out a Bone Spade, inserted the tip into a crack, and with a light pry, peeled off a large chunk.

Xu Zhangqing, meanwhile, condensed Yuan power into a blade, shaving layer by layer along the vein's course.

The texture of the Dragon Soul Crystal was far harder than ordinary rock, but for a Nascent Soul cultivator, it was no obstacle.

They dug down about five zhang, and the vein began to branch.

One branch extended to the left, its crystals lighter in color, belonging to ordinary quality Dragon Soul Crystals.

The other main vein continued downward, its crystals growing darker, from pale gold to dark gold, and below ten zhang, simply turning into an extremely rare purple-gold color.

Each piece of purple-gold Dragon Soul Crystal seemed to breathe on its own; its light did not shine continuously, but brightened and dimmed rhythmically.

When Zhao Ziyue saw the purple-gold crystals, he was stunned, taking a long while to recover and say: "This is... top-grade Dragon Soul Crystals?

I'm afraid even the Auction House's appraisers may not have seen them."

Lao Xu, do you know how much one piece is worth?

Just one piece could make a late-stage Integration old monster lose face!"

However, Xu Zhangqing did not answer.

His attention was not on the top-grade Dragon Soul Crystals; he pressed his hand to the bottom of the vein again, permeating Yuan power fully downward, and finally probed the shape of that mass of energy.

That thing was not large, about the size of a human head, but its energy density was outrageously high.

It emitted no light, no heat, not even any fluctuation directly perceptible by Divine Sense, but itself was like a high-quality energy body.

At this moment, this thing weighed heavily at the deepest part of the entire vein; all the Dragon Soul Crystals before it were like roots growing around a seed.

"Keep digging."

"Got it!"

"This harvest is estimated to be bigger than the Fallen Dragon Abyss!"

Compared to Xu Zhangqing's calmness, Zhao Ziyue seemed especially excited.

No way, fishing in this place yields nothing; resources are too hard to gather.

Now that we finally have an opportunity, naturally we want to use every means to grab a haul.

Therefore, the two dug down another seven or eight zhang, and the top-grade Dragon Soul Crystals reached their end.

The next layer of the vein suddenly changed; no longer crystals, but an extremely dense bone layer.

The bone was deep black, its surface smooth.

One strike of the spade left only an extremely shallow white mark.

Zhao Ziyue tried several times, and the Bone Spade was chipped.

Even with Yuan power condensed into a blade, he could only scratch a few marks on it, unable to split it open at all.

Seeing this, Xu Zhangqing flipped his palm and took out the Creation Return to Ruins Seal once more.

Green Light flashed, and the bone layer seemed to have been awakened by something; the black color on its surface suddenly writhed, retreating from the middle toward both sides, revealing a very small hole.

From inside the hole, the aura that seeped out was extremely ancient.

So ancient that even Xu Zhangqing felt a slight dizziness.

He reached his hand into the hole, and his fingertip touched something.

The touch was icy cold; the surface had groove-like patterns, one after another, the shape extremely regular.

Xu Zhangqing gripped that thing and pulled outward, and the entire vein trembled along with it.

The next second, a heart was dragged out.

No, this is a heart that has already petrified.

The size is about the same as a human head; the surface is dark red, and the petrified outer shell is covered in dense golden patterns.

These patterns look like naturally formed blood-vessel-like veins.

The veins extend from the top of the heart all the way to the bottom.

Although the heart has petrified, when held in the hand, one can feel an extremely weak pulsing transmitted from inside.

Thump!

Thump-thump!

Thump-thump-thump!

The frequency is extremely slow, ten breaths per beat, yet every beat is extremely heavy.

Zhao Ziyue leaned over to take a look, his mouth opening and closing: "Petrified Dragon Heart?"

Xu Zhangqing nodded: "Probably."

If this thing still retains a trace of bloodline inside.

Perhaps I can absorb it through the Peeling Technique of Youlong Nine Transformations.

In that way, perhaps it can transform into an ancient dragon species comparable to a Dragon.

Afterward, he brought the Creation Return to Ruins Seal close to that petrified heart; the moment the green light shone upon it, all the golden patterns on the heart's surface lit up.

The entire heart became semi-transparent under the reflection of the light.

One could faintly see something curled up inside the heart.

The shape of that thing resembles a small dragon.

The dragon body is curled into a ball, the dragon tail coiled on the outermost layer, the dragon head buried in the exact center.

The dragon horns have just grown a little pointed tip, and the scales on its body have not yet fully unfurled.

It curls motionless in the exact center of the petrified heart, surrounded by a layer of extremely thin transparent membrane, the membrane filled with pale gold liquid.

The entire small dragon looks not like a corpse, nor like an embryo, but more like some state between the two.

It is dead, yet it possesses characteristics of life!