Lu Chenxing didn't have time to greet Bai Yuntian and Long Qifeng. He quickly deactivated the effect of "Riding the Wind," and his body began to fall due to air resistance and gravity.
The moment he landed on the ground, he immediately closed his eyes and entered his Source of Spirit.
At this moment, high above the East Victory Divine Continent within the Source of Spirit, a dragon and a spear seemed to be confused about what had happened. They temporarily stood in confrontation in the air, cautiously surveying their surroundings.
The spear shadow, which Lu Chenxing had initially thought had no consciousness, now displayed remarkable intelligence.
Extremely nervous, they noticed Lu Chenxing the moment he appeared on the top of Huaguo Mountain.
Lu Chenxing also noticed the two figures in the Source of Spirit at the same time and received a message from the immortal stone, roughly asking if he had refined it or if he wanted to keep the spear shadow.
"Leave the spear shadow for now. Since it's conscious, I still have things I want to ask it," Lu Chenxing replied.
The moment it received his reply, the immortal stone burst forth with a sky-full of radiant light, enveloping the entire sky. Then, like breathing, the radiant light retracted.
Before the dragon soul could say anything, it was directly swept up by the radiant light, dragging it towards the immortal stone!
On that massive dragon face, an expression of terror was evident, because he discovered that his dragon soul's immortal characteristic seemed to be useless here! There seemed to be a higher rule power here!
"What is this! Despicable human! Let go of me!"
"You ant! How dare you offend this King!"
Lu Chenxing couldn't be bothered to say a single word to its curses; he just watched coldly as its body twisted and struggled, but it was useless. As the radiant light converged, his size became smaller and smaller, until he was absorbed into the immortal stone like a small snake!
In front of "Source of Spirit," a top-tier rule of the spiritual system, the so-called immortal dragon soul was utterly useless.
Once the dragon soul was absorbed by the immortal stone, it was instantly refined, and pure spiritual energy fed back into Lu Chenxing's Source of Spirit, boosting his spiritual power by another notch. Unfortunately, it was still some distance from the late third stage.
After all, it was just a weakened dragon soul. Although it had the mass of a fifth-stage being, its quality was not as high as the world power contained within the World Tree branches. Lu Chenxing was already quite satisfied with this level of improvement.
The real benefit was not this, but rather that the previously ethereal dragon shadow in the Source of Spirit solidified at this moment, becoming lifelike! The solidified dragon soared from the sea, letting out an excited roar towards the sky, then plunged back into the sea!
It seemed that this dragon soul had provided the most crucial spiritual essence to the dragon shadow in the Source of Spirit, acting as the final touch. Although he still didn't know what its use was, Lu Chenxing could feel that his Source of Spirit seemed to have undergone some inexplicable changes, as if some things had been completed.
Then he looked at the spear shadow in mid-air and said loudly, "Senior, can you hear me? Would you be willing to come down for a talk?"
Perhaps it was the disappearance of the dragon soul, or perhaps it was the shock of the scene in this Source of Spirit, but the spear shadow was momentarily lost and stood still. Now, hearing Lu Chenxing's words, the spear shadow finally moved.
The spear shadow in mid-air distorted, and in an instant, it transformed into a black-haired woman wearing black and silver armor and a cloak. This woman was heroic and valiant, with a pair of red jade-like dragon horns on her forehead, and her eyes were also the color of red jade. Her phoenix eyes contained a battle intent that looked down upon the world!
Between her eyebrows, there was a golden divine pattern identical to Xiao Zhi's, though hers was complete and shaped like a flame.
However, her figure was dim at this moment, as if she could vanish at any time.
Facing Lu Chenxing's invitation, she smiled and said, "Since the master of this place invites me, I naturally have no reason to refuse."
As she spoke, her figure slowly floated down, landing on the platform where the immortal stone was located. Looking at Lu Chenxing in front of her, she couldn't help but exclaim, "Not bad. Even during the peak of the human race, you would be considered a Saint Child-level figure."
This made Lu Chenxing's heart stir. The peak of the human race? From the sound of it, this Senior Long seemed to know something?
Before he could ask, the woman cupped her hands and said earnestly, "Long Qianqian of the Dragon Slaughtering Clan, thank you, fellow Daoist, for helping my clan's junior awaken. I thank you here! I bow in gratitude!"
After speaking, she bowed down, but Lu Chenxing quickly stopped her, "Senior Long, there's no need to be so polite. Xiao Zhi is my daughter, so it's only natural for me to help."
"Hmm?" Long Qianqian frowned slightly. "You are that little one's father? But you don't seem to have the bloodline of my Dragon Slaughtering Clan!"
"It's like this..." Lu Chenxing recounted how he met Xiao Zhi and took her in as his daughter. Long Qianqian listened with tightly pursed lips, her expression constantly changing.
But in the end, she let out a soft sigh: "I never thought that my Dragon Slaughtering Clan could still survive until now after that great tribulation, but to allow our clansmen to wander outside, and for no one among the human race to recognize our own people, shows that the Dragon Slaughtering Clan must now only be barely clinging to life. How lamentable, how sorrowful."
Then she turned to Lu Chenxing and thanked him again: "Thank you, fellow Daoist, for your compassionate heart in saving my clan's junior. Unfortunately, I am now just a wisp of remnant thought and cannot give you anything as a gift."
Lu Chenxing didn't expect that after learning of this matter, Long Qianqian would become so melancholic. At the same time, her entire being seemed to become even more ethereal and flickered.
So he quickly said, "Senior, there's no need for this. If you want to give a gift... then could Senior please tell me more about the Dragon Slaughtering Clan and that great tribulation?"
"Of course," Long Qianqian smiled kindly at him. Perhaps because of Long Zhi, she spoke almost without reservation, recounting everything she knew.
According to her, the Dragon Slaughtering Clan possessed a special bloodline ability: they could seize power from dragons and pass this power down through their bloodline to their descendants. Whether it was true dragons, wyverns, or sub-dragons, they could all undergo power stripping.
However, the price was that they could only strip power from dragons. If it wasn't a dragon, their talent would be completely useless, and overall, they would be no different from ordinary martial artists.
But the ancestors of their Dragon Slaughtering Clan, with very ordinary talent, achieved success in cultivation. After accidentally killing a flood dragon, they awakened their bloodline, and thereafter their cultivation progressed by leaps and bounds.
As his strength grew, he began to kill wyverns, and finally true dragons, establishing a great reputation! The Dragon Slaughtering Clan also began to rise and become known to the world from that time.
After that, it was passed down from generation to generation, becoming a large family in the Eastern Wilds. Juniors in the clan had to bathe in dragon blood and absorb dragon bones at a very young age to awaken their bloodline. The power brought by the awakened bloodline would also awaken corresponding physiques in them, which was a gift from their ancestors through the ages.
And every clan member whose lifespan was nearing its end would choose to go out and kill dragons, seizing their power to preserve it within the bloodline for continued inheritance. For them, death was not the end; the bloodline would record and pass down everything about them.
Afterwards, they would leave behind a teleportation stone and a remnant thought at the original location. The remnant thought would guard there until a clan member came to collect the dragon blood and dragon bones, or until a clan member directly came to awaken, only then would the remnant thought disappear.
"As for that great tribulation, I know very little. After all, I am just a wisp of remnant thought with my own mission, unable to leave this place," Long Qianqian shook her head slightly.
"I only know that while I was waiting in place, my main body left her weapon and departed. Her lifespan was already short, and her old wounds had recurred. This Dragon King was the last one she killed. She had no strength left to fight, so she probably went to find a place to pass away."
"Soon after she left, the sky collapsed and the earth split, the sun and moon lost their light, the Great Dao shattered, and everything seemed to be returning to chaos!"
"I only felt the surrounding spiritual energy constantly decreasing, and countless foreign races covered the sky like a tide, obscuring the heavens!"
"To fulfill my mission, I sealed myself within the weapon left by my main body and sank underground. Only by relying on the energy within the weapon could I barely survive until today, until this little one arrived, and I awakened."