Cultivation: Starting with Farming in the Spiritual Pivot Grotto

Chapter 92 Dragon Transformation

The current situation in Fallen Dragon Valley is very strange. Li Ya isn't exactly wandering around aimlessly. There are still five or six days until the thirty-day period ends, so it won't be too late for him to go out then.

Especially now that there are so many harvests in the cave, they are all waiting to be classified, cataloged, and stored.

Those hundreds of Sumeru artifacts had to be broken open one by one and carefully examined to identify which items would cause trouble and which could be sold.

Ling Pei, standing to the side, couldn't help but sigh inwardly:

"Could our lord be the illegitimate son of some True Lord? His luck is unbelievable. Not only does this grotto-heaven change every day, but we have also benefited greatly from it."

"Click!"

Another Sumeru magic artifact broke open, and only a few bottles of pills fell out. I reached out and picked them up. They were three bottles of Qi Gathering Pills.

Li Ya couldn't help but think back to the past, when even a single Qi Gathering Pill could make him overjoyed. Now, with the better Dragon Tiger Qi Strengthening Pills available every day, he no longer needed the Qi Gathering Pill.

Even if he didn't need it, Li Ya didn't complain. These were all "investments" from the nameless fellow Daoist. If he still complained, wouldn't he deserve to be struck by lightning?

"Ling Pei, all the unused pills have been properly stored in Pill Storage B!"

At the foot of the main peak of Ling Shu, Li Ya used the power of his cave to move earth and rocks to build a temporary warehouse to make do with as it was needed, and planned to build a proper warehouse later.

"Money will flow to those who need it through various means; the ancients were truly right!"

Unused pills can be sold for money, and surplus or unnecessary spiritual materials can also be put to use.

The Ling Shu had previously deduced a plan for setting up a grotto-heaven, but the reason for the delay was mainly because he was focused on his own cultivation. Now that he had extra materials, he could begin preparations.

The diagram had long been given to Ling Pei, and the mountain tortoise was also driven by her to open up underground tunnels according to the formation drawn in the diagram and fill them with the five elements spiritual materials.

All I ask is that in the future, the channels formed by the spiritual materials will be connected, the spiritual light of the five elements will flow, and the formation will operate on its own.

Li Ya planned to hide in his cave for five or six days. Most of the surviving cultivators had the same idea, but they had no caves to hide in.

Lingji has not yet woken up. Ever since he accidentally ate the Dragon Ball fragment, it feels like there are mice scurrying under his skin. A tremendous transformation is taking place inside his body.

Its body swayed with the current, like a rootless duckweed, drifting slowly down from the north side of Fallen Dragon Valley.

Phnom Penh was in a coma and was also in bad shape. His brows were furrowed, and he was trapped in a nightmare, completely cut off from all perception of the outside world.

Because of the remaining aura of the Dragon Ball fragments, no foolish giant fish or monsters dared to devour his body. He estimated that in another five or six days, he would be able to reach the south side of the Fallen Dragon Valley.

Now, his body is so full of vitality that he is unlike a human, but rather like a ferocious beast. Scale-like patterns are faintly visible on his body, and there are slight protrusions on his foreheads, truly a sign of someone with outstanding potential.

Such physical changes, coupled with occasional flashes of inspiration, were fortunately concealed by the mist and were not discovered by other cultivators.

Perhaps due to excessive energy expenditure during the transformation, the water within a radius of one zhang (approximately 3.3 meters) around Senior Brother Lingji was as if an invisible millstone was turning.

The pure spiritual energy of heaven and earth, drawn by an invisible force, frantically converged towards his body.

The physical body is like a bottomless pit, swallowing all spiritual energy and turning it into resources for growth.

Such abundant spiritual energy naturally attracts many aquatic creatures, and some greedy aquatic creatures chase after Senior Brother Lingji.

After falling into the lake from a waterfall, Senior Brother Lingji sank quietly into the water, and the spiritual energy gathered around him startled some spirit fish.

Countless colorful and uniquely shaped spirit fish swam in from all directions, densely gathering towards Senior Brother Lingji.

There are flame-scaled fish with fiery scales all over their bodies, green spirit fish with a bright green body like willow leaves, and dragon fish with a slender body and silver stripes on their backs.

These rare and precious fish were swimming around Brother Lingji in the waters around him.

The spirit fish had no intelligence; they simply sensed the rich spiritual energy here and instinctively gathered around, wanting to absorb and exhale the spiritual energy.

Countless spirit fish gently swayed their tails, creating ripples that spread across the water, making the surface appear as if it were boiling.

puff!

The first few dozen spirit fish that approached within a ten-foot radius had their bodies instantly torn apart by an invisible force.

Its body shattered instantly, its scales, flesh, and bones breaking apart and turning into wisps of fine blood mist that diffused into the water.

The blood mist didn't have time to spread; it flowed into his body along with the spiritual energy.

The spirit fish in the pool continued to gather, and the fine blood-red color spread across the lake, turning it into a blood lake.

Before long, the thick blood water became clear at a speed visible to the naked eye, while Senior Brother Lingji sank completely to the bottom of the lake.

Although the strong smell of blood had disappeared, it had alerted some ferocious behemoths.

Downstream, in the dark, deep mud of the riverbed, an extremely thick black shadow slowly wriggled, churning the clear water.

The dark shape moved upstream and then revealed its true form: a giant black water python as thick as a water bucket.

Its entire body is covered in jet-black scales, each about the size of a fist. Each scale is hard and thick, gleaming with a metallic sheen in the dark water.

The black water python has a huge and ferocious head, which is rounded and inverted triangular in shape. It is obviously not a non-venomous creature, but a venomous python.

It usually lies dormant at the bottom of the pool, only leaving to hunt when it is hungry.

The rich blood energy and pure spiritual energy that had just permeated the entire lake was truly immense.

Two serpentine eyes, glowing with green light, shone like fierce ghosts in the dark water. The massive body of the Black Water Python suddenly stretched out, stirring up the dark currents at the bottom of the pool.

Its body darted through the river at incredible speed, cutting through layers of water and following the trail of the bloody spiritual energy, rapidly heading towards Senior Brother Lingji's location.

The massive body churned up the water along the way, creating two waves that crashed against the banks.

At this moment, Senior Brother Lingji was still unconscious and unaware of anything.

He sank to the bottom of the lake, surrounded by a warm aura of spiritual energy. His physical body was still being tempered instinctively by the stimulation of the Dragon Ball fragments.

For him, this moment of slumber is a good way to transform.

Half an incense stick later, the giant black water python leaped out of the pool and swam into the lake.

The enormous python's head looked down at the bottom of the lake, its dark green vertical pupils fixed on the cultivator who was submerged in the water.

This giant python was clearly not a completely mindless beast.

It was unusually cautious, circling the lakebed several times and deliberately stirring the water. Seeing that Lingji remained motionless, it slowly approached.

"hiss!"

Another violent screech rang out, but it couldn't be heard underwater.

The black water python could no longer suppress its greed. Its massive body twisted and suddenly accelerated, its huge mouth opening wide.

Its gaping maw, large enough to swallow a person whole, was covered with fine, sharp fangs. In one gulp, it swallowed the unconscious Senior Brother Lingji whole.

The water surface rippled gently, creating a huge wave, before returning to calm as if nothing had happened.

The giant python coiled its massive body at the bottom of the lake, slightly tightening its body and instinctively activating its blood and energy to quickly digest the prey in its belly.

The Dragon Ball fragments circulating within Lingji's body seemed to sense the changes outside.

The Blackwater Python's stomach acid, capable of corroding gold and iron, instantly corroded Lingji's blood and flesh upon contact with his skin, quickly revealing his pale bones.

Seemingly sensing that his life was in danger if he delayed any longer, Senior Brother Lingji instinctively began to twist his body.

The hidden ferocity of the Dragon Ball fragments was completely unleashed at this moment, and an extremely domineering devouring power emerged around them.

The massive body of the black water python trembled violently, and its scales stood up instantly.

An extreme fear originating from the depths of its blood instantly swept over its entire body.

Before the giant python could recover from its extreme fear, an overwhelming and domineering devouring force exploded inside its belly.

It's no longer the kind of thing that used to simply absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth and tear the spiritual realm apart.

Instead, it is the supernatural power to plunder all things, forge a dragon's body, and use the excess to make up for the deficiency.

Glug!

A bubble rose from the black water python's belly, and then the supple snake skin on its belly burst open, revealing a collapsed wound.

Immediately afterwards, the immense devouring power, like thousands of sharp blades, instantly pierced through the giant python's flesh, bones, and meridians.

The black water python writhed wildly in pain, its seven-zhang-long body tumbling violently in the water, creating towering waves.

Its head burst out of the water with a huge roar, a sound filled with immense pain.

In just a few breaths, the originally hard and thick dark scales shattered into countless tiny black powders, which mixed with blood and diffused into the water.

His thick, tough muscles crumbled layer by layer, transforming into hot, rich essence of blood and qi, which flowed into Senior Brother Lingji's body.

The hard spine shattered inch by inch, and the essence within the bones was plundered as the purest source.

The python's struggles grew weaker and weaker, its mournful hisses gradually faded, and its enormous body dissolved rapidly at a speed visible to the naked eye.

One breath...

Ten breaths...

Twenty breaths...

In just twenty breaths, the black water python, which had lived for a hundred years, completely disintegrated.

Its enormous body left not a single trace of remains, scales, or debris; it was completely transformed into a pure mass of blood energy that dissipated into the pool.

It was instantly absorbed and completely became the supreme resources for Senior Brother Lingji's transformation.

The water gradually calmed down. Lingji remained asleep with his eyes closed. His body floated up again and swayed gently with the current.

You could clearly feel that the vitality emanating from him was several times stronger than before.

But the transformation within him has reached a whole new level.

An ancient master once said: All things possess the nature of a dragon, and all things can transform into a dragon.

The Dragon Ball fragments stopped moving and remained steadily in his heart. Wisps of primordial dragon energy slowly seeped out from the fragments and flowed throughout his body with the pumped blood.

Like shattered stars, fragments of starlight permeated every part of the body, from the meridians and flesh to the bones and marrow.

Normally, human essence and blood are reddish and warm.

As the Dragon Ball's essence continued to permeate the blood, the crimson blood began to slowly transform.

A faint golden-red light quietly seeped into the blood, gradually staining the crimson essence blood.

The blood color changed from crimson to deep red, then diffused into a golden-red luster, with a flowing spiritual charm.

The newborn blood, every drop hotter than boiling water, slowly surges through the blood vessels and meridians, like a hot spring, transmitting the dragon's essence to every part of the body.

A crimson glow had begun to emanate from between the strands of black hair, and the roots of the black hair showed signs of turning red.

The dragon blood continued to seep inward, spreading deep into the bones.

The bones, already tempered to the point of being comparable to gold and iron, gradually lost their white color as they were washed away by the golden-red blood.

The hollow bone structure gradually fills with blood and qi, and the surface begins to show a jade-like luster, with the texture becoming increasingly delicate.

Now, his body is full of vitality, as deep as an abyss, his blood and qi are abundant and full, and a faint but powerful aura slowly spreads out, enveloping the entire water area.

The surrounding waters seemed to protect the king, embracing the newborn dragon bloodline.

……

But in the deepest part of the bottomless trench in the East China Sea, far from the sun and moon above the sea, there is no light or day, yet it is eternally bright.

Standing tall is the residence of the current ruler of the sea race—the Myriad Laws Dragon Palace, a colossal magical treasure that has become exceptionally powerful in this world after merging the Dragon Palaces of the South Sea, West Sea, and North Sea.

The entire deep sea was shrouded in a faint golden halo, and countless ancient Dao patterns flowed slowly in the water, flickering uncertainly.

Around the Dragon Palace stands an ancient dragon pillar, its surface engraved with obscure and ancient dragon script.

Originally, each of the four seas held one, but now the four dragon pillars have gathered together to form an unparalleled array.

At the deepest part of the Myriad Laws Dragon Palace, there are not palaces piled with gold and jade, but a golden pool. The entire pool of water looks like pure gold that has melted and flowed, and various dragon-like phantoms swim in the pool from time to time.

"hold head high!"

A faint, long roar of a dragon echoed from the depths of the pool.

Golden waves surged and crimson light spread, and a small, fiery dragon slowly took shape amidst the myriad shimmering golden waves.

The fiery red dragon was only three feet long, its form so refined that every detail was clearly visible.

Its head and horns were still immature, its claws were sharp, and its body was wreathed in faint crimson fire patterns.

Its long, powerful tail swept across the thick, golden pool of water, transforming into a long, crimson streak.

The tiny dragon's body broke through the golden waves, bringing with it countless tiny golden sparks.

Unlike the dull and stiff appearance of ordinary dragon shadows, the fiery red little dragon is vivid and lively, just like a real creature.

A giant stone dragon sculpture by the pool slowly opened its eyes. It had not moved for countless years, and the dust covering its body had solidified into a stone skin.

"Dragon Pool gains another member; may Heaven bless our clan!"

The voice was filled with the vicissitudes of time, as rough as the Gobi Desert, and then the giant dragon stone sculpture slowly closed its eyes again.

This Dragon Pool is a treasure of the dragon race's fortune, called the Dragon Transformation Pool. Only those with strong dragon blood can condense a phantom image in the Dragon Transformation Pool.

As for the mixed-blood dragon descendants, their bloodline phantoms are dim and blurry, fragmented and incomplete, and they can hardly even form a complete body.

The purer the bloodline and the more profound the foundation, the larger, clearer, and more dynamic the manifested phantom will be.

Only by getting close to the bloodline of a true dragon can one condense a lifelike and full-bodied phantom in this golden dragon pool.

Since true dragons no longer exist in this world, the Jiaolong (蛟龙) is now the closest thing to a true dragon.

The magnificent scene in the Dragon Transformation Pool ten thousand years ago is no more. Every additional phantom image is a momentous occasion for the sea race, a cause for celebration for the entire clan.

The old dragon attending him was shocked. He turned and left to inform the current master of the Dragon Palace, Ao Qin.