Chapter 1002: True Dragon Elixir

Roar!

That winged dragon cried miserably and fell from the sky.

At this moment, the clone also used poison to launch a surprise attack on the sea of consciousness of a Venerable Rank Second Layer winged dragon.

Two Venerable Rank Sixth Layer Yin souls also joined forces to attack that Venerable Rank Fifth Layer winged dragon. The Ice Demon Tiger and Ghost Butterfly cooperated, attacking a Venerable Rank Fourth Layer winged dragon.

Ye Liuyun's side gained an absolute advantage.

The two dragon eagles were virtually invincible among the winged dragon flock at this moment.

With one claw each, they could crush the brains of winged dragons of the same rank. The Green Wind Wolf and Barbarian Ox had no opponents.

Soon, this group of winged dragons was wiped out under the attacks of Ye Liuyun's Yin souls and the ferocious beasts.

Even the three winged dragons guarding the dragon's mouth were lured over and killed together.

Ye Liuyun collected the Yin souls with the Soul Banner, and also captured the souls of those winged dragons—about fifteen or sixteen, including one Venerable Rank Fifth Layer and two Venerable Rank Fourth Layer winged dragon Yin souls.

"Ice Demon Tiger, Ghost Butterfly, you two and the clone go check the dragon's mouth."

Ye Liuyun himself began searching at the location of the dragon's head's sea of consciousness.

Not long after, both Ye Liuyun and his clone made discoveries.

Indeed, at the base of this hill lay the corpse of a true dragon, with entrances and exits at both the dragon's mouth and the sea of consciousness.

"What a huge dragon! What realm must it have reached in life!" Ye Liuyun couldn't help but exclaim.

"This body is over a hundred times larger than Long Nv's." Ye Liuyun wondered in his mind, "Could it truly be of Divine Rank?"

"Enter the dragon's mouth first!"

Ye Liuyun felt that the sea of consciousness might contain that battle dragon's soul, and dared not rashly enter.

He also dared not separate from his clone; once separated, their strength would weaken further.

This time, Ye Liuyun first stored his clone away, fearing it might encounter danger.

Then he sent the Ghost Butterfly to scout ahead, the Ice Demon Tiger to guard the rear, and the Barbarian Ox and Green Wind Wolf to protect his flanks as they entered the dragon's mouth together.

The party proceeded cautiously along the cavern at the dragon's mouth.

Inside the dragon's mouth, it resembled a cavern filled with stalactites—damp and dark.

The dragon's teeth resembled thick stalactites, facing each other above and below.

If Ye Liuyun hadn't known beforehand that this was a dragon's body, he would truly have mistaken it for a cavern.

Due to its great age, many parts of this massive dragon's body had petrified, making it hard even with his Golden Pupil to distinguish stone from flesh.

Moreover, there was basically nothing left here that they could use.

Ye Liuyun took out the Divination Plate to check again, but it firmly pointed to the dragon's body.

"Could the True Dragon Elixir still be here?" Ye Liuyun felt a stir of excitement.

At the same time, his Divine Sense detected fluctuations of True Essence ahead.

"Huh, why would there be True Essence fluctuations ahead?" Ye Liuyun secretly wondered, "Could someone be fighting?"

Since entering the dragon's body, they had not yet found any trace of living beings; if anyone were inside, they must have entered long ago.

And as they drew closer to the elixir's location, the True Essence fluctuations became increasingly obvious.

"It should be the power seeping out from the elixir!" Ghost Butterfly sent a message to Ye Liuyun.

Ye Liuyun did not respond. He felt that the power was strange—similar to the elixir's seepage, yet somehow different.

"Be extra careful!"

Ye Liuyun warned the Ghost Butterfly at the front.

Soon, Ye Liuyun and his companions discovered that the true dragon's elixir was indeed still there, emitting a dazzling white light.

Before they even reached the elixir's position, the light shone upon them. The energy was abundant.

"It really exists!" Ye Liuyun's heart surged with excitement, and he quickened his pace.

He could now sense that the elixir was emitting True Essence fluctuations, identical to those they had felt earlier.

Only when they drew near did they see that the elixir was like a large white sphere, radiating light.

"This true dragon, before its death, must have been a Divine Rank powerhouse; otherwise, how could it have such a huge elixir!" Ye Liuyun couldn't help but exclaim. m.

Just this true dragon's elixir alone is already one size larger than Lei Ming's true form.

At this moment, they also happened to catch some True Essence seeping out from within the elixir.

Ghost Butterfly greedily rushed over, hoping to absorb that True Essence.

Unexpectedly, that True Essence suddenly condensed into a dragon shape and swallowed Ghost Butterfly whole in one gulp.

The whole process happened too quickly for Ye Liuyun to come to Ghost Butterfly's rescue.

Ghost Butterfly's soul was strong, but its physical body was too weak—this was also its fatal weakness.

Thus, after being swallowed, its physical body was instantly melted by that True Essence.

Meanwhile, that True Essence dispersed into a gaseous state, dragging the elixir back.

Ye Liuyun reacted the quickest, directly using Space Translocation to move Ghost Butterfly's elixir back into his Storage Ring.

"Retreat!"

Ye Liuyun also immediately had the other ferocious beasts fall back, lest they suffer retaliation from that True Essence.

Then, that True Essence did not transform into a dragon shape to pursue them again, but was directly absorbed back by the elixir.

Ye Liuyun and his companions dared not approach any closer, observing from a distance,

In the span of a moment, the elixir released several wisps of True Essence—some taking dragon form, some formless—each wandering around before returning.

Ice Demon Tiger used his Divine Sense to remind Ye Liuyun: "Could this petrified true dragon have become like this because the elixir absorbed all its energy?"

"That's also possible!"

Ye Liuyun's Golden Pupil had already detected that the elixir's interior was almost ninety percent full of True Essence.

Moreover, beneath that elemental core, it is connected to the earth veins, continuously transmitting energy. Only the transmission is relatively slow, not suitable for being noticed by people.

But Ye Liuyun could already be certain that this elemental core is undoubtedly the primordial power of this secret realm.

As for those manifested true essences just now, they should be similar to fire spirits born in flames, all being spiritual entities nurtured over a long time by that true essence.

"You wait here for me; I'll go try to see if I can absorb that energy!"

Ye Liuyun, relying on his courage, slowly approached that elemental core.

As soon as he neared the elemental core, it instantly released a wisp of true essence, which coiled toward him.

Ye Liuyun immediately activated the Primordial Spirit Secret Technique and began to absorb that true essence.

Initially that true essence struggled to escape back, but its strength was not as strong as the Primordial Spirit Secret Technique; after several pulls, Ye Liuyun gradually absorbed it.

"What pure energy!"

After Ye Liuyun finished absorbing that true essence, he hardly needed to transform it before immediately merging it into his own Mysterious Origin.

But that elemental core seemed to possess sentience, releasing another, stronger wisp of true essence; this time, the true essence took the form of a dragon and lunged at Ye Liuyun to bite him.

Ye Liuyun flashed aside and immediately retreated to a distance; the dragon-shaped true essence, after pursuing to a certain distance, ceased chasing and sought to return into the elemental core.