I am a high-level martial arts master.

Inside the cold, grand hall.

Only one person and one dragon remained in the middle.

Ye Li sat cross-legged on the ground, gazing at the dragon girl before him, and said:

"Do we need to do some foreplay? Like, what should I do?"

"No need at all. Your obsession is gone. Leave the rest to me," the dragon girl said confidently.

Ye Li probed indirectly, "What if you fail if you just try to possess someone directly like this?"

"How could I possibly fail at possessing someone who has reached the late stage of acquired cultivation!"

The dragon girl chuckled and said, "If it were a normal method of possession, I could erase your memories and turn you into an idiot with a thought, and my soul would take over your body."

"But my method has endless uses. This entire Crimson Gold Hall is itself a grand formation set up for possession, connecting to the entire Grandmaster's Grotto-Heaven!"

"So strong!"

Ye Li asked curiously, "What are their wonderful uses?"

"Binding, going against the current, and possession!"

In the Dragon Girl's eyes, Ye Li was already a sitting duck, and she didn't hold back at all:

"Once the Heaven-Stealing and Sun-Changing Array is activated, everything within the entire cave will be imprisoned. At that time, the array in the main hall will connect with the entire Grandmaster Secret Realm, irrigating the Reverse Age Original Sand."

"What's this for?" Ye Li asked curiously.

"A thumb-sized amount of Rejuvenating Primordial Sand can reverse the flow of a martial artist's past. If so much Rejuvenating Primordial Sand were poured in, I'm afraid I would simply degenerate and disappear."

"Of course it's not for you, it's for me!"

The Dragon Girl rolled her eyes and said, "How can a soul acquired later in life like you reside in the soul of a grandmaster like me?"

"My possession is a method of deceiving Heaven, meant to make Heaven and Earth believe that you and I are one person. If I can't even deceive Heaven and Earth, how can I deceive the scriptures? Moreover, to control the grand formation, I need my full power at the Grandmaster level!"

"This Reverse Age Original Sand is a creation of a Martial Saint, defying the laws of heaven and earth. With its help, I can temporarily reverse my remnant soul back to my former glory as a Grandmaster." "After reaching the Grandmaster level, I will gradually regress from my peak state to the Innate, Acquired, and Body Tempering stages..."

"In this way, when I am weak, I can use the great formation to seize your body and deceive the will of heaven. Afterwards, as the effects of the anti-aging sand gradually dissipate, I can grow stronger with you inside your body. This is the true way to deceive the heavens and cross the sea."

At this point, a bottle of gas shimmering with golden light appeared in the Dragon Girl's hand.

"What is this now?"

"Your Xia Kingdom's humanitarian spirit!"

The dragon girl said calmly, "It's difficult to make someone create good affixes, but it's very easy to make someone create useless affixes."

"The accumulated fortune over the past century is being used at this moment to allow me to disguise myself as a Xia citizen in terms of status."

Looking at this golden aura, Ye Li remained indifferent.

The Xia Kingdom has been in decline for a century, and it turns out that a dragon was secretly causing trouble.

"Then you also designed the 'Azure Dragon Crossing Calamity Technique' that I cultivate?" Ye Li asked.

"When setting up the formation, leave behind some karmic consequences as well."

The Dragon Girl said calmly:

"Due to time constraints, I only managed to set up tens of thousands of similar cause-and-effect relationships within the universe."

"Over the years, countless geniuses from various countries have entered the Grandmaster Realm, but none of them have caught my eye. I don't know how many years it took before I finally found you after sifting through the sands of time."

"What a pity. If I had known about your entry earlier, I would have given up on the idea of ​​possessing someone else's body."

The dragon girl shook her head helplessly, but upon seeing Ye Li's eyes, she said in surprise:

"You're not afraid at all!"

"Looks like they're still not giving up, trying to make one last desperate attempt!"

"It's not that I'm not afraid, it's just that I'm out of options..."

Ye Li smiled wryly, "If it were a Xiantian (innate) cultivator, I could barely manage to reverse the situation."

The dragon girl smiled and nodded, and the next instant, an invisible pressure pressed down on Ye Li through the entire hall.

In an instant, an immeasurable weight pressed down.

An invisible restraint enveloped Ye Li's entire body, rendering him unable to move even a finger, leaving him frozen in place.

Even those born with innate abilities cannot break free from a grand formation set up by a grandmaster.

The Dragon Girl looked at Ye Li, who was standing there in a daze, and nodded in satisfaction.

Until the possession ends, this great formation will bind Ye Li's body. When he can move again, the interior will have already been secretly changed to a cold, silent bronze hall.

The invisible constraints were like the heaviest shackles, binding every inch of Ye Li's muscles and every wisp of his true energy firmly in place.

He couldn't even move his eyes; he could only maintain his seated posture, watching helplessly as the eight-foot-tall dragon shadow in front of him began her ritual with an air of complete control.

The playfulness and regret on the Dragon Girl's face had long since faded, replaced by an almost sacred focus.

She hovered in mid-air, her pink dragon tail moving without wind, exuding an ancient and majestic aura.

The dazzling glazed dragon horns shone brightly, like two small stars, echoing the mysterious array patterns that suddenly lit up the cold bronze floor beneath their feet, covering the entire hall.

"Stealing the sky and changing the sun, going against the current... Begin!"

As the Dragon Maiden issued her clear yet supremely authoritative decree, the entire Crimson Gold Palace, and even the core of the entire Grandmaster Secret Realm, emitted a deep hum.

Outside the crimson-gold hall, in front of the massive, thousand-foot-tall gate.

Shen Fuyao was sitting cross-legged, her delicate brows furrowed, her mind completely absorbed in the profound texts of the cultivation technique floating in front of her.

After a difficult period of contemplation, she felt that she had touched the threshold, and was only one last spark of inspiration away from fully mastering it and passing the test of this giant gate.

A confident smile even crept onto her lips unconsciously.

The other three were also at crucial moments of enlightenment, some deep in thought, others beaming with joy.

However, at this moment when one's mind is most focused...

"What's going on?!"

"The ground...the ground is moving?!"

A violent tremor struck without warning!

Shen Fuyao suddenly opened her eyes, her beautiful eyes filled with astonishment and anger at being interrupted.

The other three were also instantly awakened, their faces filled with bewilderment and horror. They staggered to their feet, trying to steady themselves.

"Was it that kid who did this in there?"

One person looked at the tightly closed crimson-gold gate with surprise and uncertainty.

"No! Look...look at that sand!" Another person's voice trembled with disbelief as they pointed around.

Everyone's eyes followed the direction, and the scene before them made them gasp instantly, their scalps tingling!

The ageless primordial sand, which had once spread throughout the secret realm like a golden ocean, was now disappearing at a terrifying speed visible to the naked eye! It wasn't being blown away by the wind, nor sinking into the ground, but rather seemed to be being devoured by an invisible, extremely greedy maw!

The golden grains of sand transformed into fine golden streams of light, flowing like rivers into the sea, surging towards the tightly closed crimson-gold gate, or more precisely, towards the core hall behind the gate!

The sea of ​​sand is shrinking rapidly, revealing the unfathomable, previously unexplored secret realm beneath.

The speed at which it devoured something was so fast that a faint but unsettling hissing sound could be heard in the air, as if the space itself was being drained.

Even more terrifying changes followed!

As massive amounts of aged original sand were frantically extracted, the ground, deprived of sand support, began to collapse violently!

"Boom!"

As if its spine had been removed, the land surrounding the Crimson Gold Palace, centered on the giant gate, visibly sank downwards!

Hard rocks and frozen ice, under this overwhelming and irresistible suction force, became as fragile as rotten wood, crumbling and breaking apart, then being dragged by the invisible force into the all-consuming center.

The enormous crack, like a hideous wound, spread out instantly, emitting a deafening tearing sound.

The once flat ground quickly became fragmented, forming bottomless ravines and steep cliffs.

"Back off! Back off quickly!"

Shen Fuyao reacted the fastest, shouting sharply as her figure transformed into a streak of light and retreated rapidly.

The other three were also terrified and used all their skills to desperately escape the apocalyptic collapsed area.

They stared in horror at the crimson-gold hall that symbolized the lineage of the grandmasters, which seemed to have turned into a greedy black hole, mercilessly devouring the foundation of the entire secret realm!

The space outside the palace was rapidly shrinking and collapsing, creating a horrifying scene of the sky falling and the earth sinking.

Above the dome of the main hall, the space rippled violently like water, and a huge vortex appeared out of nowhere.

The center of the vortex was not dark, but flowed a viscous, heavy, dark golden quicksand that seemed to contain the very essence of time!

Like the Milky Way pouring down from the heavens, a torrent of dark gold sand crashed down, but its target was not Ye Li, but the remnant soul of the dragon girl suspended in the center of the array!

A mere thumb-sized amount of reversing-age sand can reverse the flow of an acquired martial artist's body.

But the amount of anti-aging sand flowing down at this moment is not just a thumb, but trillions of tons.

The moment the first wisp of youthful sand touched the dragon girl's phantom.

The illusory figure seemed to be infused with unparalleled power, instantly becoming solid and clear.

The dragon girl's original one-in-a-million remnant soul will begin to grow stronger, with invisible, terrifying fluctuations gathering from her soul.

A terrifying pressure belonging to a true grandmaster, vast as an abyss, causing space itself to distort and tremble, suddenly erupted!

The air inside the hall seemed to solidify, heavy enough to crush mountains.

Ye Li's soul trembled violently under this oppressive force, like a candle flame in a storm.

He felt his thoughts become sluggish, as if he were about to be crushed by this pure force.

This is the power of a grandmaster!

Moving mountains and filling seas, plucking stars and seizing the moon—it's all nothing to them!

The difference between the acquired realm and the acquired realm is like a firefly compared to the bright moon, or an ant compared to a divine dragon; it cannot be measured by reason.

The Dragon Girl closed her eyes, feeling the sensation of this body filled with supreme power, and a trace of nostalgia and intoxication appeared on her stunning face.

As time continued to reverse, her gauze dress crumbled, revealing a beautiful body that could eclipse the heavens and earth!

But she didn't have time to care about that.

The power she currently possesses is merely a fleeting moment of glory for the reversing-age Yuansha.

The effect of anti-aging essence is not enhancement, but reversal!

The moment the Grandmaster-level aura emanating from the Dragon Maiden reaches its peak, that immense power will visibly weaken and decline. Therefore, the entire grand formation must be activated before her cultivation level drops!