Wizards in the world of cultivation

Chapter 180 The Body of a True Dragon
There are too many dangers within the True Dragon Ruins; even Blood Shark had to proceed with extreme caution when exploring them.

Putting aside the other treasures within this ruin, the ruin itself is an extremely valuable site.

The entire ruins were filled with the aura of a true dragon, and the trees and flowers here had all undergone changes under the influence of the dragon's aura.

This is why the vegetation here is so lush; any tree can easily grow to a height of over a thousand meters.

The trees here have all transformed from ordinary trees into spirit trees, specifically dragon-attribute spirit trees. Although their grade is not high, they are quite valuable.

If all these spirit trees could be transplanted into the space inside the Wizard's Tower to raise creatures with dragon blood, they would definitely be able to transform these creatures.

Although Su You has been using wild beasts from the outside world as materials for bloodline potions, he still needs a base to cultivate them himself.

Creatures with dragon bloodlines, in particular, possess even greater abilities. If they were refined into bloodline potions, their combat power would be astonishing.

After just one glance at this vast and boundless area, Su You temporarily abandoned the idea.

If his bloodline cultivator legion were here, they could slowly relocate this place completely.

But he lives here alone now, and manpower is limited. It would be too troublesome and costly to gradually transport the spirit trees here.

We can only wait until the opportunity arises in the future, when the twin clones also come to this world, to return to this ruin and empty everything here.

"Little Shark, continue exploring along your original route," An Ling'er instructed.

Their main purpose in coming to this ruin was to search for treasure. As for the few cultivators who accidentally stumbled in, they could only wait and see if they would have a chance to meet them again later.

After all, the ruins were not small, and Blood Shark could not determine which direction they had set off in.

At An Ling'er's command, the Blood Shark opened its mouth and exhaled a blue smoke that completely enveloped its body before disappearing without a trace.

It left only a faint wisp of smoke in the same spot.

This is the Cloud and Mist Technique mastered by Blood Shark, which allows him to hide himself within the clouds and mist, making it impossible for others to detect what's inside.

A nearly transparent cloud of smoke drifted swiftly across the high sky, covering hundreds of miles in an instant.

As they flew, Su You and his companions observed everything around them from their vantage point in the ocean world.

This ruin truly lives up to its reputation as a relic left behind by a real dragon; the resources inside are incredibly abundant.

Spiritual herbs are everywhere, and some high-quality dragon-attribute spiritual herbs are hidden among the roots of the trees. Once there is any movement outside, these spiritual herbs will disappear.

Nourished by the aura of the true dragon, each of these spiritual herbs resembles a celestial dragon and possesses a spirituality unlike any other.

Su You hurriedly directed Blood Shark to capture several precious medicinal herbs.

For Su You, the greatest use of these dragon-shaped spiritual herbs was in refining pills for body tempering.

Over the years, Su You's progress in body refinement has not kept pace with the growth of his cultivation level.

His current body refinement cultivation is already at the peak of the fifth rank, but in terms of cultivation level, he is still at the late stage of the Nascent Soul realm, and is still some distance away from the peak of the Nascent Soul realm.

After all, no matter how effective dual cultivation is, it's impossible for it to increase his cultivation level rapidly. Moreover, the time they spent cultivating together was not long, so it's quite normal for his cultivation level to increase slowly.

However, even so, he was still far superior to other cultivators of the same level.

In just a few hundred years, his cultivation has improved so much that he is no less capable than those cultivators with top-tier aptitude.

However, the physical cultivation level improves faster than the cultivation level of one's immortality.

This is also due to its own innate ability, the powerful effect of the Heavenly Silkworm Life and Death Transformation.

Although he has always stayed in Yunhai Immortal City, he has basically never left Yunhai Immortal City.

However, he still managed to find a suitable place to exercise.

That is the miniature world inside the conch shell.

Although the ocean world here is only a small world, it has the ability to conquer him with ease.

Moreover, An Ling'er herself is able to control the use of the conch shell and can continuously adjust the pressure inside, which allows Su You to improve little by little without worrying about dying from severe injuries.

Under such pressure, Su You's physical cultivation also rapidly evolved and improved.

Although passive evolution requires the consumption of rare and precious materials to allow the body to quickly absorb and evolve, it can accelerate the evolution process, making the cost well worth it.

Walking through the ruins, you can find treasures everywhere.

After all, this is a relic left behind by a true dragon. At the level of a true dragon, even a casual breath can cause plants and herbs to undergo transformation, or even acquire spirituality.

Anything tainted by the blood of a true dragon will be directly transformed into a high-level material.

The resources here are abundant. If Su You were allowed to mine them to his heart's content, it would definitely bring more profits than conquering dozens or even hundreds of worlds.

However, given the limited resources available now, we can only pick and choose some medicinal herbs that will work for him. The rest can only be left here, since the ruins won't disappear in the future. We can develop them in greater depth when we have the opportunity.

We traveled along the way, stopping frequently, until we arrived at a huge, blood-red lake.

As soon as Su You approached the crimson lake, he could sense the blood shark's trembling movements.

Clearly, this crimson lake is no ordinary lake; it even instilled fear in a seventh-tier peak blood shark.

An Ling'er also looked solemnly at the blood-red lake in front of her. "Brother You, there seems to be the aura of a true dragon in that blood-red lake."

She possesses the Sea Emperor Conch, giving her a greater understanding of the outside world. Moreover, the Sea Emperor Conch is a celestial artifact-level magic treasure, making her sensitivity to the outside world even stronger.

However, she did not sense any danger at the moment, so she did not plan to leave.

Moreover, Blood Shark has explored this place many times. If there really is a dragon, how could it possibly leave safely?

If it's just the residual power of a true dragon, then there's nothing to fear; the Sea King Conch can still block it.

This adventure is worth trying, after all, there is a high possibility that the remains of a true dragon exist here.

Even if it's just a remains, it's priceless. It's a celestial-grade material, and any ordinary material can fetch an astronomical price.

Moreover, the best use of treasures of this caliber is to exchange them with other people for other treasures.

After all, the higher the level of the treasure, the rarer it is, and the less likely it is to be auctioned off for spirit stones. High-level treasures are mostly obtained through barter.

Although Su You is not yet at this level, he will reach it sooner or later. Even if he doesn't need these treasures, he can store them temporarily.

If one could find the essence of a true dragon, it would be even more valuable. Just a single drop would be enough to transform the Blood Shark's bloodline, making advancement to the eighth rank within reach.

If Su You were to use it, it would greatly help his physical cultivation level.

Of course, Su You rarely used these rare and precious materials when it came to body tempering.

He sent most of the treasures that were effective for body tempering to his twin clones.

After all, it has the effect of innate supernatural powers, which is much better than most body-refining treasures.

The twin clones, however, do not possess such talent and naturally need to rely on external forces to train their physical bodies.

Given the requirements for the twin clones, Su You naturally wanted to prepare as many life-saving measures as possible, and his physical strength also needed to be increased.

As long as the twin clones don't perish, he won't truly die and will have endless chances to come back.

“Master, there is a terrifying Dragon Blood Vine in this Blood Lake. Its cultivation level is at least at the eighth level. Last time it came here, it only struck me once, and I was seriously injured,” Blood Shark explained.

Fortunately, it possessed a life-saving ability, otherwise it would have been left here.

"Eighth rank? That's worth a try." An Ling'er pondered for a moment and decided to test the waters.

She does possess eighth-tier combat power; at least her combined demon beast legion can rival eighth-tier combat power, and is even stronger than a typical eighth-tier warrior.

With a wave of her hand, An Ling'er summoned thousands of demonic beasts from the void, which then arranged themselves in a mysterious sequence.

The magical power of all the demonic beasts was linked together under the effect of the formation, evolving into a huge phantom of a Kunpeng in the air.

This phantom of the Kunpeng was three thousand miles long. With a gentle flap of its wings, it stirred up a massive wave ten thousand miles high in the blood lake.

This is the Kunpeng Sky-Piercing Formation that An Ling'er has mastered. It is a top-tier formation among combined formations, but she cannot fully unleash its power for the time being.

However, even so, the combined Kunpeng still managed to unleash its powerful eighth-tier combat strength.

With this single swing, the surrounding land for thousands of miles was shattered, and countless lives perished in the blood lake in an instant.

goo goo...

A blood-red vine suddenly shot out from the blood lake.

It made a thunderous explosion in the air.

This attack seemed capable of shattering the very heavens of the world; the water in the blood lake was even split in two.

grumble!
The phantom of the Kunpeng let out a cry, and opened its mouth to spit out a black wind. The black wind was powerful enough to corrode everything, and it emitted a shrill sound like a vengeful ghost.

boom!
This strike was like a thunderbolt descending upon the world.

The black wind was pierced by the blood-red whip shadow and quickly fell towards the Kunpeng.

However, this is a phantom of the true spirit beast Kunpeng, which is the true spirit most skilled in speed.

As it exhaled the black wind, it instantly shifted its position.

Even now, with the blood vines following closely behind, it still can't keep up with Kunpeng's pace.

Instead, the black winds spewed by the Kunpeng caused its vines to be severely corroded.

Swish!
After spewing black winds dozens of times, the Kunpeng phantom stopped dodging and transformed into a bolt of lightning, instantly severing the branch of vine.

"Retract!" Upon seeing this, An Ling'er quickly used her supernatural powers remotely to capture the vine that was about to fall into the water and bring it back to the ocean world.

Although this vine was powerless against the Kunpeng phantom, its power was undeniable, and it was just a vine.

When this vine was brought here, Su You finally sensed the powerful life force contained within it.

If I hadn't taken it away before, I could have easily recovered from my injuries once the blood vine reappeared and I took it away.

This blood-red dragon blood vine must have absorbed a large amount of dragon blood essence to have such vigorous blood and energy even in its ordinary branches.

Seemingly because of the loss of a branch of vine, the entire blood lake slowly began to vibrate.

A gigantic vine, large enough to span the entire Blood Lake, slowly emerged from the water.

Su You suspected that even a full-force attack might not be able to cause any damage to that vast, ethereal blood and energy.

Such astonishing blood and energy definitely possess extremely powerful restorative abilities.

An Ling'er controlled the Kunpeng phantom to approach and attack for a moment, only causing a tiny bit of damage to the Dragon Blood Vine, which recovered quickly.

On the contrary, the Kunpeng phantom was hit several times during the attack, making the already ethereal shadow even fainter.

Although the Kunpeng is the most speed-oriented true spirit beast, it is facing the Dragon Blood Vine with countless tentacles. Even if it dodges one vine, it will be whipped by another.

Only now did An Ling'er realize that the Dragon Blood Vine was probably at the mid-eighth rank. Although it wasn't very high, combined with its powerful body, it was basically unmatched by anyone of the same rank.

After thinking for a moment, An Ling'er began to command Kunpeng to continue provoking the Dragon Blood Vine and lure it away from this area.

Their purpose in coming here was to explore for treasure, not to fight, so she didn't need to kill the Dragon Blood Vine.

All we need to do is lure it out. This Dragon Blood Vine is incredibly powerful, but its intelligence is extremely low.

This is a common problem for most plant-based monsters. Most plant-based monsters do not have their own intelligence; at most, they possess some spirituality.

Like the Tongtian Vine in the world, even though it is already a ninth-order spiritual root, it still has not developed its own intelligence, only a slight spirituality.

Perhaps it will take many years before this towering vine can truly develop intelligence.

The Dragon Blood Vine is in a similar situation. Although it has been growing by absorbing the essence of various dragon bloods, it has now reached its limit and has not developed true intelligence. Moreover, the side effects of absorbing a large amount of dragon blood essence have also appeared, namely, it is more prone to rage and more easily attracted.

As expected, under the guise of the Kunpeng phantom, the Dragon Blood Vine quickly chased after it in the south. Even the Kunpeng phantom maintained a certain level of speed control, otherwise, the massive Dragon Blood Vine would have been difficult to catch.

(End of this chapter)