Chapter 5636 Core Heaven Vein
The devil bird was an enormous existence already, but this enormous scaled claw was even bigger than its whole body.
What shocked it the most was that it was flying at full speed, but this claw still silently caught up to it. Dragon might raged, causing its soul to shake. This attack was strong enough to kill it.
BOOM!
Just as this dragon claw was about to fall upon it, an enormous shield appeared that covered the devil bird. The dragon claw crashed into the shield and emitted an ear-piercing explosive sound.
However, the shield quivered a few times, and didn’t explode. It managed to block the dragon claw. Seeing this, the devil bird flapped its wings, and with a few flashes, it shot away.
At this time, the void split open, and an enormous figure appeared. Due to its enormous size, Long Chen could only vaguely see that it was a two-winged black dragon. A pair of icy eyes stared at him like two suns.
The devil bird shot away as fast as it could, vanishing without a trace.
“I didn’t think that a divine rune was capable of unleashing such power,” thought Long Chen. He had been in the midst of comprehending the Defense divine rune when he was suddenly sneak attacked. He had instinctively defended with this divine rune’s shield.
At the time, he had taken out Evilmoon and been prepared for the shield to break. However, the shield was actually incredibly powerful. The energy of heaven and earth was sucked into it, allowing it to block that dragon’s attack.
It had to be known that this divine rune was still not at full power. He had barely comprehended the barest superficial bit of it.
Long Chen knew that wielding this divine rune would require him merging his own power into it. He could use bloodline power or Spiritual Strength. But he had to unleash the rune’s power through his own power.
When the rune was unleashed, it instantly drew in the power of heaven and earth. That was the basic principle of magical arts and divine abilities.
A single person’s power was limited. But the power of heaven and earth was limitless. If a person’s skill was great enough, it was capable of unleashing hundreds or thousands of times their power.
This divine rune hadn’t even merged with his own power, and was thus only able to instinctively absorb the power of heaven and earth to strengthen itself.
However, even such a shield was both hard and soft enough to easily block that powerful expert’s attack.
It had to be known that the one to attack them was an extremely terrifying existence. Although they didn’t seem to be on par with Long Zaiye, they had reached that level.
“That fellow is terrifying. Should we split up?” asked the devil bird, its voice quivering with fear.
“That was a shadow evil dragon. It has a divine ability for concealing itself. It didn’t catch up to us, but just got irritated at being passed by you, so it launched a sneak attack. Ignore it. If it wasn’t so slow, I’d have already replaced you with it,” said Long Chen indifferently.
Although he hadn’t actually recognized this dragon back then, after thinking about it, it matched the description of the shadow evil dragon. This dragon was enormous, but could hide in the void, using the power of heaven and earth to travel instead of exhausting its own energy.
Due to its enormous body, it exhausted its own power rapidly. Thus, the majority of time it hid itself in the void to conserve energy.
Furthermore, with its power, it truly wasn’t able to enter Long Chen’s eyes. Although he wouldn’t say that it would be easy to kill it, it also wouldn’t take that much for him to kill it.
Hearing that, and considering that Long Chen had easily dealt with its sneak attack, the devil bird relaxed slightly.
“You shouldn’t underestimate that shadow evil dragon. Although it only condensed two core heaven veins, their race is famous for being foolish. When their explosive tempers are triggered, they will pay their own life as the price to temporarily increase their power by ten times,” warned the Earth Caudron.
“Ten times? That really is strong. Wait, you said core heaven veins?” asked Long Chen.
“Those core heaven veins are those strange heaven veins that you’ve seen. When cultivators reach the nine-vein Heaven Saint realm, they can use Heavenly Dao energy to excavate their core energy’s potential. However, ninety-nine percent of cultivators cannot endure the impact of having their core energy merged with their heaven vein dragon qi. Thus, they have to use karmic luck to support themselves. If they don’t have that support, then forcibly doing this will only result in them killing themselves, and their Dao coming to an end. Only an exceedingly small number of experts are capable of doing this. When their cores merge with their heaven vein dragon qi, their core energy becomes that which commands the heavens. Their heaven vein dragon qi mutates, becoming core heaven veins. Your human race also likes to call them karmic luck dragon veins. But however you call them, it’s just a name. You don’t need to bother with this. The likes of Long Zaiye and Jiang Yue’e immediately started merging their core heaven veins, becoming true experts,” explained the Earth Cauldron.
“Then does that mean that I’ve skipped the process of condensing nine veins first, and jumped to condensing core heaven veins?” asked Long Chen.
“You also can’t say that. Your merger has already deviated from the original path of the nine star line’s inheritance. You cannot judge yourself according to other people’s standards. You have gone down a path that no one else has walked. Branding three thousand divine runes into your starry sea has also produced more variables. No one can predict your path. Other than that, you also have three bloodlines, but curiously, there was no reaction from them as you condensed your heaven vein dragon qi. In theory, they could have also each taken a share of your heaven vein dragon qi in preparation for condensing core heaven veins. But it’s like they’re sleeping, and they’re not doing anything. It’s entirely against their survival instincts.”
Even the Earth Cauldron couldn’t understand what was going on with Long Chen’s triple bloodline.
“No matter what though, everything does seem to be going smoothly for now. You can just cultivate in peace. There’s also no rush. I am in the midst of rapidly recovering. As the seals on my runes are undone, my memories slowly awaken. I’ll figure out this problem,” said the Earth Cauldron.
“Your memories still haven’t awakened?” asked Long Chen.
“There are still some memories that are sealed. But I also don’t know what rune they are sealed in. Furthermore, I clearly recognize Evilmoon, and Evilmoon also definitely recognizes me. But we don’t have any of our memories relating to this. But I believe that as my runes are unsealed, I’ll find those memories,” said the Earth Cauldron.
They knew each other, but didn’t have memories of each other? Dragonbone Evilmoon was a weapon from the mortal world originally. How could the Earth Cauldron possibly recognize it?
Although Evilmoon had gained a new body in the immortal world, Long Chen’s soul told him that Evilmoon was still the same Evilmoon. Its soul hadn’t changed.
BOOM!
Suddenly, as the devil bird flew forward, a terrifying qi wave struck them. Both Long Chen and the devil bird grunted and were blasted back by this qi wave.