Chapter 401: Chapter 265 I Shall Become the Dragon King_2
But watching the other party lie down, Small Knife felt a slight relief in his heart and continued without stopping toward the depths of the Dragon Cave.
With the exploration of the Dragon Pattern Beetle, he was familiar with the path and rushed straight to the deepest part.
Feeling the special Giant Dragon aura of the Gold Attribute in his body rapidly depleting, Small Knife had no time to pause and rushed in one breath.
Behind him, within the range slightly far from Long Wei, the adult Dragon-man bore the pressure and followed closely.
However, upon reaching here, he could only stay outside the core area.
Looking at the dragon scale-shaped patterns on the ground and walls, his expression was complex, still not recovered from the shock.
His age was already not low, and as the guardian here, he clearly felt something was amiss.
Was this a hybrid Giant Dragon he had never seen before?
But he was only a Dragon-man and couldn’t get any closer, or else he would die and become a sacrifice.
Only a Giant Dragon could enter.
Small Knife went in, feeling an incomparable comfort throughout his body.
The aura emitted by countless treasures made his heart rejoice.
The energy dispersed into his body, and his Experience began to increase, at a decent speed.
Just sleeping here would greatly enhance his strength.
Damn!
Don’t let instinct assimilate you.
Seeing the corpses of other Giant Dragons, Small Knife was startled and quickly sobered up, secretly cautious.
Almost followed his instinct to fall asleep because, after all, he was only a juvenile dragon.
At this moment, his whole body started to tremble instinctively.
An aura locked onto him, both dangerous and intimate.
Small Knife subconsciously looked over, and that aura was also looking at him.
It was a small, illusory Giant Dragon, lying on that solitary horn.
It had been asleep, but now it was startled awake.
Gazing at Small Knife felt incredibly familiar.
This was the Artifact Spirit of that horn.
It inherently had no combat power and was illusory.
According to the division of the Five Elements Sword Control Sect, it was a Spiritual Artifact surpassing the Magic Treasure Level, and further, the Artifact Spirit possessed powerful combat abilities, able to transition between illusion and reality to directly control the main body, making it a Spiritual Treasure.
At that time, if it cooperated with the horn to form a body, the explosive combat power could battle the Eight Realms Integration, and if the master was strong enough, fighting a Tribulation Crosser wasn’t out of the question.
Unfortunately, because the method of fusion by the Giant Dragon wasn’t very refined, reaching the limit of a Spiritual Artifact with little to no further progression.
An Innate Treasure, however, coming from a special treasure produced during the world’s birth, held high value in the Five Elements Sword Control Sect.
Although initially stopped at Spiritual Artifact, perhaps even without the power of this horn, its potential was limitless.
Nurtured further, reaching the level of a Spiritual Treasure wasn’t a problem, and even future prospects as an Immortal Artifact.
Thus, the Giant Dragon’s way of using such an Innate Treasure was indeed squandering it.
Whoosh!
The Dragon Soul couldn’t resist that intimate feeling any longer, suddenly darting and disappearing into Small Knife’s forehead, startling him and dispelling unspecific thoughts.
Instantly, a powerful force surged in his forehead, crude yet intimate.
This was the power of the Metallic Giant Dragon.
Under the resonance of his bloodline, Small Knife directly merged with it, inseparable, indistinguishable between you and me.
Originally, the countdown for Small Knife’s Gold Attribute Giant Dragon bloodline would end, and when it did, this aura would be fully consumed, causing him to devolve into a Half-Dragon, unable even to maintain Dragon-man Level bloodline.
But now, the countdown stopped, allowing him to maintain the Giant Dragon form indefinitely.
As long as this Spiritual Artifact stayed with him, Small Knife would always keep this Giant Dragon state, even solidifying it.
As the Artifact Spirit merged into Small Knife’s body, certain ancestral memories of Giant Dragons flooded in.
This Golden Dragon King’s Horn represented the identity of the King of the Dragons in this world, now affirmed upon him.
Recognized as its master so easily, a Spiritual Artifact like this acknowledging its master surpassed any Magic Treasure Level existence.
And the Artifact Spirit joyfully integrated into Small Knife’s body, peaceful, without self.
It was not a life form by nature, perhaps it once was, but now had returned to its destiny.
Originally, this Artifact Spirit, this Dragon Soul came from the King of the Dragons in this world, but with time, the memories had long dissipated, leaving only the instincts of the Artifact Spirit.
Other Giant Dragons had tried to make it recognize them as its master to retrieve the honor of the Giant Dragons.
Yet even though they didn’t share the same attribute, it was still a Giant Dragon treasure, and although the Artifact Spirit remained masterless for long, it wasn’t hard to subdue. However, they weren’t Gold Attribute.
Daring not to forcibly subdue it, requiring time, which would cause problems for the Dragon King’s arrangements here, leading to a great disaster.
Causing the only hiding sanctuary, the Secret Realm, to undergo changes.
So now, it was to Small Knife’s benefit.
Subduing it in an instant caused only a slight tremor in the arrangement here.
Opening his eyes, Small Knife looked over there.
The largest dragon corpse’s horn had already connected with Small Knife’s mind, as if part of his body.
But he couldn’t take it away, for it would cause the Earth Vein Extreme Point to shift, altering the Secret Realm.
The Master of the Goblin World had always wanted to reclaim this Earth Vein Extreme Point to complete his master authority.
Small Knife reached out, and the Lock-Polarized Dragon Pool flew out, only palm-sized, with a few cracks on it.
Immediately the Lock-Polarized Dragon Pool fell into the blood pool below.
The horn flashed, resonating with the Dragon Blood Pool, which was also the key to this arrangement.
At this point, it cooperated with the enemy.
Dragon blood seeped into the Lock-Polarized Dragon Pool.
The worst of this was still Giant Dragon blood.
Not much consumption, yet the cracks on the Lock-Polarized Dragon Pool disappeared.
But the dragon blood still swarmed in, along with those seemingly alive Giant Dragon Essence Blood, occasionally transforming from dragon blood back into dragon forms, came from the heart of a Giant Dragon, and not much Essence Blood was present, also merging in.
Hence, the original blood pool quickly dried up.
At this moment, the dragon scale-shaped patterns above shimmered, starting to form cracks.
Causing the horn’s light to flash intermittently.
The ground also trembled, revealing the issue with retaining this region’s Earth Vein Extreme Point.
Assuredly, the Master of the Goblin World had noticed and would exert power, intending to retake this point.
Even moving it away, leading to the natural collapse of the Secret Realm.
But how would Small Knife give him this chance?
Having absorbed the dragon blood fully restored, the Lock-Polarized Dragon Pool immediately expanded, replacing the original spot, with the patterns flashing, exercising the lock function.
Utilizing its function, securing this world’s Earth Vein Extreme Point.
The effect was even stronger than the original, no longer needing the horn as the suppressing core.
But it led to consuming dragon blood.
When dragon blood depleted, the effect would naturally vanish.
Nevertheless, the consumption wasn’t much.
Seeing this, Small Knife had a thought, and the enormous dragon corpse’s horn detached, vanishing into Small Knife’s heart, unseen.
The main body returned, Small Knife’s body slightly trembled, beginning to inherit the position of Dragon King.
Within the Spiritual Artifact horn was stored Essence Blood, the Essence Blood of the previous Dragon King, which replenished into Small Knife’s body, along with some ancestral memories.
Particularly, there was a bloodline curse, which was to overthrow the Master of the Goblin World and stand atop the world again.
Only then, could the bloodline curse be contacted.
Otherwise, under the bloodline curse, even in death, the soul would find no peace, becoming part of the Spiritual Artifact, unable to transcend.
Ding: System prompt, immediately leave and abandon the Dragon King’s Treasure, or default to the curse merging into the soul.
Notice: Without dispelling the curse, after death, the Soul Fragment cannot depart, absorbed by the Dragon King’s Treasure, enhancing the Artifact Spirit’s foundation.
Depart countdown: 59 seconds, when time is up, it cannot be departed.
Moreover, Small Knife discovered, through this absorbing soul method, one generation after another, the Spiritual Artifact horn would gradually upgrade, evolving into a Spiritual Treasure.
The original so-called Spiritual Artifact’s inability to evolve wasn’t absolute, only by conventional means; clearly, this soul sacrifice method wasn’t a normal method.
Since, after all, by piling on all kinds of supreme treasures, even a piece of shit could be refined into an Immortal Artifact, though that wasn’t a conventional method.
At this moment, Small Knife naturally wouldn’t give up, leaping directly into the Lock-Polarized Dragon Pool.
He couldn’t help but let out a sound of contentment.
If not for having rationality and setting a system prompt.
Awakened under the prompt, perhaps sleeping for several years would already be short.
Under the system prompt, Small Knife opened his eyes.
Languidly, still wanting to sleep.
As for other things, whatever, the heavens and earth are vast, but sleep is supreme.