Chapter 1061: Chapter 69: Heaven-bestowed Qi Fortune, Sealing the Dragon Egg, Forging the Divine Artifact!
Zhao Xing did not linger too long at the Black Dragon ’Zhi’s sleeping place and continued to explore the Dragon Prison.
Occasionally, he could see some prehistoric ancient dragon corpses:
A massive dragon turtle extending over a thousand kilometers, carrying a piece of land on its back, with hundreds of Dragon King’s skeletal remains scattered across the land.
Dragon heads, turtle shells, gigantic lands, Dragon King bones, chains spanning the sky.
The earth was utterly dry, completely desertified, with the Dragon Well buried deep under the yellow sand.
"Such a huge dragon turtle, it’s a shame it’s too big; otherwise, dragging it back as a turtle shell would make those Fate Officers kneel in awe."
Tortoise shells are the best divination material for Fate Officers, with the dragon turtle’s shell being the most prized among them.
"This is a [Prison Suppressing Dragon Turtle], at least of the Rule Realm, possibly even the Establishing Tao Realm. Its shell would surpass the Creation Plate in certain divination functions," Zhao Xing thought to himself.
Above the First Grade Life Palace Realm, there are the Rule Realm and the Establishing Tao Realm, though these realms only manifest when spiritual energy is revived.
The First Grade Life Palace Realm can change rules, but these changes are temporary, akin to the phrase "out of sight, out of mind."
The genuine Rule Realm can last much longer, though it still holds temporality.
Only the Establishing Tao Realm allows one’s Tao to become part of the Xuanhuang Realm rules, like Master Li Fire’s rule: ’Borrow fire to travel, return by walking.’
Or the Grand Ancestor’s rule: ’Do not enter without permission in a place with an owner.’
However, Master Li Fire has long died and only a statue remains, not even his Yin God. He was not of this era, while the Grand Ancestor’s Establishing Tao rule is primarily oriented towards protection.
When a person dies, their soul is gone, but their Tao remains, continuously influencing — this is the Establishing Tao Realm.
Yet, with the transformation of heaven and earth, the strength of established Tao will also fluctuate.
Zhao Xing speculates that the [Prison Suppressing Dragon Turtle] is of the Establishing Tao Realm, purely as a guess, without sensing anything definitive.
"Unfortunately, I can’t refine it. The turtle shell spans over a thousand kilometers, far beyond what I can refine now. It requires a team — Mechanical Masters, Forging Masters, Fate Officers, Martial Artists, collaborating with divine artifacts to refine it."
He observed it for a while but did not land on it to explore.
Those Dragon Kings had become skeletal remains, the land completely desertified, devoid of vitality; the Dragon Well must have been dry for ages, or it wouldn’t be like this.
Occasionally, he could see some unique spectacles:
Flames rippling like water, showcasing every event once occurred within the Dragon Prison.
Such as the scenes of dragons being imprisoned or taken to the Dragon Slayer Platform for execution.
"The Dragon Clan’s civilization is indeed advanced, showing warning cases to the guilty dragons, intending to have them amend their ways and become dragons anew?"
"As for the Dragon Slayer Platform, who knows where this divine artifact went — did the ancient Dragon Clan ascend and take away some divine artifacts?"
Here, Zhao Xing doesn’t need to worry about anything, freely indulging his imagination.
In his previous life, he never heard of any dragon-related matters linked to the Xuanhuang Realm in the cosmic version, though there were dragon-related bloodline races. However, he couldn’t confirm whether the ancient Dragon Clan ascended.
Even Fate Officers, when backtracking the past of Xuanhuang Realm’s Dragon Clan, have various opinions.
"History too remote to verify," Zhao Xing shook his head.
As he flew along, searching, his Life Soul within his sea of consciousness kept observing and summarizing in his imagination.
Time passed, quickly arriving in August of The Tenth Year of Da Zhi.
Deep within the Dragon Prison, before a stele towering over ten thousand meters, a five-clawed golden dragon, over twenty thousand meters long, floated as if asleep.
Suddenly, it opened its eyes, a flash of light breaking through the darkness of the Dragon Prison.
As the light intensified, its form rapidly shrank, eventually transforming into human shape.
Floating before the stele, Zhao Xing was like an ant compared to it, but its aura seemed to outscale even the giant stele.
"It’s already August of the 13th year of Da Zhi."
"Since June of the third year of Da Zhi, entering the Dragon Court Ancient Land, it’s been the tenth year. Except for the half year spent in Gu Ting Kingdom, I’ve spent nine and a half years mainly exploring the Dragon Prison."
"Time passes quickly," Zhao Xing mused, feeling that since reaching a high grade, time seemed to speed by.
At higher grades, even slightly extended seclusions are measured in years.
Zhao Xing felt as if in a blink, time had slipped away.
"The Dragon Prison is vast; it took me nine and a half years to explore most of it."
"And that’s just superficial exploration."
There were many places Zhao Xing passed by cautiously, fearing unexpected events, like entities alike the Great Dragon King ’Zhi’ or locations like the [Prison Suppressing Dragon Turtle], several such spots existed within the Dragon Prison.
"Nine and a half years, the harvest is immense."
"Firstly, during the collection of spiritual energy, due to the frequent use of the Xuanhuang Analysis Technique, this mysterious method exhibited new variations in my hands."
"Its purification efficiency improved significantly; just in terms of this Analysis Skill’s cultivation effect within the Four Methods of Self, it’s already close to top-tier methods."
"Perhaps Mi Fei’s method can be subject to further research," Zhao Xing pondered, "Maybe I can reverse-practice it to purify vital energy, advancing it to spiritual energy?"
In his past life, nobody considered advancing this method towards [Returning Vital Energy to Spirit], as then everyone lived in an era abundant with spiritual energy.
Back then, spiritual energy was everywhere, so even successful research wouldn’t be useful, purely a waste of effort.
"But in this era, the result would differ. This research direction will be one I pursue in the future." Zhao Xing mused.