Chapter 225

The earth dragon's soul was attacked, and it cried out "Ao" in pain, and its soul reflexively stood up.

But its eyes only opened a slit, and its body was also swaying, as if it had not yet fully awakened from sleep.

Ye Liuyun took advantage of it not being fully awake and slashed its neck again; this time he directly cut off three-quarters of its head. Moreover, with the Nether Ghost Fire present, its soul could not heal, and the wound would only burn larger.

This stimulated the earth dragon's eyes to open halfway, and it gazed at Ye Liuyun in a dazed manner.

Ye Liuyun kept attacking, slashing again at its front claw. The earth dragon instinctively raised its claw to block, managing to stop the blade, but the Nether Ghost Fire also burned its claw.

It also dazedly looked at its own painful claw.

At this moment, he gradually came to his senses, but the Nether Ghost Fire on his chest and neck had already begun to burn more fiercely.

After discovering it, it first busily rolled and slapped, trying to extinguish the Nether Ghost Fire.

Rolling to extinguish fire is an instinct of animals, and this earth dragon is no exception.

Ye Liuyun's Divine Sense took the opportunity to flee from its Sea of Consciousness, leaving a strand of Divine Sense to monitor it from afar while the rest returned to Ye Liuyun's Sea of Consciousness.

The monitoring Divine Sense saw the earth dragon's massive body constantly trembling; the ice seal on it had not yet broken, so its body could not move at all.

But as the earth dragon struggled violently, cracks appeared in the ice surrounding it, and small ice fragments at the cracks began to fall off one after another.

Ye Liuyun now only hopes that the Nether Ghost Fire burns a bit faster, lest the earth dragon break the seal, rush out all at once, and destroy this place.

Suddenly, Ye Liuyun's Divine Sense discovered that the earth dragon had stopped moving, and its vital blood aura was rapidly weakening.

"What is it doing?" Ye Liuyun curiously sized up the earth dragon.

At this moment, the earth dragon's defensive Divine Sense was already very weak. Ye Liuyun finally saw that beneath the earth dragon lay an egg, into which the dragon was pouring all its bloodline power.

He seemed to know he could not hold on much longer, so he drew out his own bloodline power and transferred it into the egg.

"Is this the earth dragon's egg?" Ye Liuyun's heart was also filled with astonishment.

At this moment, the earth dragon exhausted the last bit of strength in its soul, begging Ye Liuyun to spare its child's life.

Ye Liuyun also felt the earth dragon was quite unfortunate; originally hiding nicely in the cave, it had suffered an undeserved disaster! As for its desire to exterminate them, Ye Liuyun could understand, after all, they had seized things first.

Thus Ye Liuyun immediately agreed and even swore an oath that he could take the earth dragon's egg outside to hatch it.

Immediately, the earth dragon fell silent, exerting all its strength to transfer its bloodline, demon qi, and true essence as much as possible into the egg.

In fact, its current strength could still clash head-on with Ye Liuyun, resulting in mutual loss; but it still needed Ye Liuyun's help to hatch the egg, so it could not act further and could only resign itself to bad luck.

Suddenly, the ice seal surrounding the earth dragon began to collapse. Even Lei Ming and the others outside felt that the entire sealed ice region was rapidly shrinking.

This indicates that the ice seal has begun to fail.

The earth dragon then immediately stood up, but instead of coming out to fight Ye Liuyun to the death, it shifted its body, revealing the egg. It licked the egg, then retreated to the side and closed its eyes.

Until it finally exhaled a breath, after which there was no further movement.

Ye Liuyun hurriedly used his Divine Sense to investigate; within its Sea of Consciousness, the Divine Sense had been completely incinerated by the Nether Ghost Fire.

He also used his Divine Sense to examine the egg and found that it contained none of the earth dragon's lingering thoughts or the like.

Only then did he feel at ease walking back into the cave, storing the egg, the earth dragon's corpse, and everything else the dragon had left behind.

Immediately, he activated the Lingkong Art, appearing beside the bloodline crystal stone, and then slashed sharply at one corner.

With a "Boom", he indeed chopped off a corner.

Ye Liuyun hesitated not at all; with a gesture, he directly stored the cut-off corner into his storage ring, and without lingering, he ran straight out of the hall.

Fortunately he ran fast; the hall immediately began to close, and then the formation started operating, with massive energy scattering everywhere in disorder.

Ye Liuyun patted his chest, "Good thing I ran fast!" Such an attack, even the Ice Maiden and the earth dragon could hardly withstand. It must be that the earth dragon feared the bloodline crystal stone being snatched by a strong one, so it specially left it to deal with strong ones, hence its tremendous power.

Immediately, Ye Liuyun discovered that the outside altar was also beginning to slowly close; likely this formation is linked to the altar, and the whole thing is about to be sealed shut.

Thus he activated the Lingkong Art, flashed his body out of the cave, and rendezvoused with Lei Ming and the others.

After the altar fully closed, the ice-sealed area completely disappeared, and this place returned to its original appearance.

Due to Ye Liuyun's premature attack on the earth dragon, the ice-sealed area was unsealed about two shichen earlier.

Therefore, there is still some time before they are transmitted out of the secret realm.

Lei Ming, Wu Qingcheng, and the others, seeing Ye Liuyun come out unharmed, finally relaxed.

"How is the earth dragon?" Lei Ming asked curiously.

Never mind him! People from the Ancient Demon Sect and the Blood Demon Cult are coming to search us. We'll withdraw first, avoid the Ancient Demon Sect, then deal with the Blood Demon Cult!

Ye Liuyun said, and immediately led them away from here, lest they be targeted by both groups at once.

Their distance was not too far. The Ancient Demon Sect and the Blood Demon Cult also discovered Ye Liuyun and company. However, they did not think Ye Liuyun had the ability to cause such a great ice seal, nor did they believe he practiced ice-attribute techniques, so they merely assumed he had come to scout.

Thus, the Ancient Demon Sect did not seek trouble with him. They still had many unexplored places where they could find more treasures, so it was not in vain for them to have come.

Even Mo Ya, who wanted to fight Ye Liuyun, now had no inclination to seek him out. Seeing that there was nothing to find here, he immediately joined the Ancient Demon Sect members and continued searching for treasures.

The Xuemo Sect's Qitian Helmsman Shen Peng, upon seeing that Ye Liuyun had no fire elder beside him, immediately led people in pursuit.

He felt this was an excellent opportunity to kill Ye Liuyun; otherwise, once Ye Liuyun returned to the Holy Martial Academy, he would have even less chance.

Ye Liuyun's Divine Sense discovered that the Ancient Demon Sect's people were not pursuing; instead, he felt relieved. Thus he led a group of Blood Demon Cult members farther away.

At this moment, Lei Ming had already transformed into a spirit beast, lying on Ye Liuyun's shoulder, appearing harmless to humans and animals.

Actually, she was delighted inside. Her true essence had not only gained ice power, but her bloodline strength had also increased; she was looking for someone to practice with, hoping to give Ye Liuyun a big surprise.

She possessed a treasure that concealed her cultivation level, and Ye Liuyun had not used his Golden Pupil to probe her, so he did not know at the moment that her realm had already risen to the second level of the Yuan Dan.

Ye Liuyun only knew that Wu Qingcheng's cultivation had risen to the third level of the Sea Transformation realm, and Yu Er's to the eighth level of True Essence. Lei Ming, he had not yet gotten around to asking.

However, he had confidence that if he joined forces with Lei Ming, they could easily defeat Shen Peng.