The palace was completely silent and dark, with only the fluorescent light emitted by the building itself.
As soon as Jiang Yuebai stepped in, he immediately took out the storage bag from the main body, took out the Turtle Breath Talisman, activated it, and disappeared.
Two jade talismans are needed every time to become invisible. Jiang Yuebai has long wanted to combine the two into one, but he couldn't find a way to do it before. Recently, he has been studying the talisman method of the Qinglong Realm and gradually has some ideas.
"If the main body can come in, we can ask the little demons to help search."
Jiang Yuebai's spiritual power was limited by Qi An's body, and the range of his spiritual awareness was limited. He could only explore from the outside of the palace to the inside, layer by layer, room by room.
The entire palace is divided into three floors, and the outer floor seems to be where the menial disciples who are responsible for looking after the palace live.
Jiang Yuebai quickly looked through it and found nothing.
The middle level is mostly martial arts arenas, and supporting facilities for refining equipment and alchemy. Jiang Yuebai collected some less valuable refining and alchemy materials, as well as some pills for feeding dragons.
There is another large formation in the inner layer. The key jade talisman in Jiang Yuebai's hand works again, allowing her to enter effortlessly.
If nothing unexpected happens, this inner courtyard is where Ning Zhiyuan actually lives.
Walking past an abandoned corridor and pond, Jiang Yuebai saw through the blue brick and white walls a three-story tower standing in a maple forest in the distance.
The tower is the only building in this maple forest. It is also the highest point on the entire side peak. Under the cover of night, Jiang Yuebai feels as if he is standing on a dangerous building a hundred feet high, with the stars within his reach.
The maple tree on one side of the tower was tall and majestic. It was spring now, and the other maple trees had just grown green tender leaves, but that maple tree was deep red, and the leaves were as hot as fire, allowing Jiang Yuebai to feel the inexplicable hot breath even from a distance.
Thick chains with yellow charms hanging from them were wrapped around the maple tree, swaying in the wind.
Jiang Yuebai took a step forward, and a pair of dark green vertical pupils suddenly appeared in the crown of the maple tree.
Crash!
The sound of chains rang out, maple leaves fluttered in the air, and turned into balls of fire that suddenly rushed towards Jiang Yue Baimianmen.
Qi An's body was fragile, Jiang Yuebai could only try his best to dodge and did not dare to face it head-on.
The flames hit the wall behind and exploded, and Jiang Yuebai was immediately caught in a bright red flame. When she looked up, she saw the "maple tree" soaring into the sky. It had branch-like horns and was covered with scales like red maple. Its dark green vertical pupils were looking in the direction of Jiang Yuebai.
There are dragon-imprisoning nails nailed all over its body, and chains connecting it to the ground. A bright red circular array is faintly visible on the ground, as if some power is rushing into its body from underground.
Jiang Yuebai recognized it from outside as a mutated tree dragon.
Ordinary tree dragons can transform into any kind of tree according to the environment. They are dragons with wood attributes. But the one in front of him has fire in the wood, and his dragon power has reached the peak of the Golden Core Stage. He is imprisoned by the Dragon Prison Nail and cannot break through.
Looking at the array plate below it, there may be something underground that is constantly injecting alien power into its body, causing it to mutate.
As expected, this dragon belongs to Ning Zhiyuan, the dragon he has been carefully nurturing.
Perhaps it was to avoid revealing his identity, or perhaps it was to continue nurturing the dragon, so he did not bring the dragon with him when he went to the Earth Spirit Realm.
Jiang Yuebai removed his invisibility and spoke to Shulong in dragon language.
"Ning Zhiyuan is dead."
Shulong paused, his eyes alert.
"In fact, you should have sensed something decades ago. The connection between you and him was cut off. I don't know if you have heard about the events in the West Sea. Yinglong was born and is fighting for a place for the dragon clan to survive."
"If you are willing, you can follow me in the future. I will not treat you like they did. If you don't want to, I can also take you to the West Sea. You can make your own choice then."
Jiang Yuebai used his distraction to emit a trace of Yinglong's essence and blood.
This breath cannot be detected by cultivators, but it cannot be ignored by the dragon clan. It is also an aura that is absolutely impossible to fake and can convince the dragon.
The tree dragon's power was restrained, and it seemed to be hesitating. Jiang Yuebai plucked up his courage, took out the dragon scale dagger and slowly approached the tree dragon.
"I can help you cut these chains and pull out the Dragon Prison Nail, but this is after all within the Fulong Sect. It's not easy to escape from their mountain protection formation. You can try to trust me. I have no ill will towards you."
Jiang Yuebai waved the dragon scale dagger, and the tree dragon tensed up.
With a crisp sound, one of the chains on the tree dragon broke.
It was as if a beam of light shone into the darkness, the tree dragon's pupils trembled, and it was completely stunned.
"Look, I really want to let you go."
Jiang Yuebai comforted her gently, and Shulong looked at her deeply. Through her body at this moment, he seemed to be able to see the beautiful smile deep in her soul.
Shulong has always known that if Ning Zhiyuan really died, what would be waiting for it would only be the next person to lock it up with chains. It would only be lingering on here, waiting for the next hell.
But it didn't expect that today there would be someone who would save it.
Jiang Yuebai raised his sword and quickly cut off all the chains on the tree dragon.
The tree dragon was so excited after escaping from the trap with one move that he raised his head and wanted to howl.
Jiang Yuebai hurriedly stopped them, "Don't shout, don't shout, be quiet, I just sneaked in, if we alert the people outside we won't be able to escape."
The tree dragon quickly held back the sound and burped, and all the bright red flames on its body burped out.
"It will be very painful to remove the Dragon Prison Nail from your body, and my body is not strong enough right now. Can you become smaller? I will help you remove it after we leave safely."
Woo~
The tree dragon nodded its huge dragon head, and a green light flashed on its body. Its entire body shrank rapidly, eventually becoming a dragon as thick as an arm.
"Once I have taken the things inside, we will leave immediately. You must hold your breath and don't expose me."
Oh~
Upon hearing this, Shu Long immediately led the way for Jiang Yuebai. After Jiang Yuebai used the key jade talisman to open the tower's barrier, Shu Long knocked open the two jade doors and led Jiang Yuebai in.
It has no good feelings or sense of belonging to the Fulong Sect.
Moreover, Jiang Yuebai discovered that Shulong looked a little anxious, as if he wanted to take her inside to find something.
The interior of the tower is arranged like a normal hall, with a main hall on the first floor and two side rooms for receiving guests. There is nothing valuable in it.
Jiang Yuebai wanted to go upstairs, but Shulong walked around the hollow carved jade couch in the center of the main hall and motioned Jiang Yuebai to go over.
Jiang Yuebai walked over, and Shulong used his head to push the heavy jade couch open little by little, revealing a staircase leading downwards.
"You have betrayed me too thoroughly."
Jiang Yuebai found it funny, so he let Shulong lead the way and followed behind him in.
In the dark octagonal underground space, Jiang Yuebai smelled a strong smell of blood. The tree dragon suddenly let out a mournful cry, and Jiang Yuebai looked over.
In a corner not far away, I saw a red dragon suspended in the air, with wounds all over its body. Each wound seemed to be carefully selected. Talismans were pasted next to it to prevent the wounds from healing and allow dragon blood to drip continuously below.
Beneath it is a circular array plate with grooves shaped like runes, filled with dragon blood.
Jiang Yuebai looked up and saw a corresponding formation plate above him. The chains on the red dragon penetrated through the top and the position was consistent with the chains on the tree dragon.
In other words, Ning Zhiyuan used the blood of this red dragon and, through a special formation, transformed the tree dragon bit by bit into its current appearance of wood with fire.
Jiang Yuebai didn't know what the relationship between the tree dragon and the red dragon was. The tree dragons surrounded the red dragon's head, wailing constantly and hitting the red dragon's eyebrows, trying to wake it up.
It’s a pity that the red dragon is already dead.
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