signingbooks Chapter 165 The Earth Dragon King's Purpose
Chapter 165 The Earth Dragon King's Purpose
Song Chen suddenly woke up, realizing why the Earth Dragon King had been coming here repeatedly.
It is using this as a breakthrough point. No, it is very likely that it has been growing here all along, staying for many years, until it could no longer suppress its aura and was discovered when it leaked out.
The fragments cannot leave the river, and the river cannot leave the underground cave, so even if it is exposed, it can only return here again and again.
Each time I dive down, I absorb the energy for a period of time before leaving before losing control of my breathing.
Come back once your breathing has stabilized.
After the second exposure, Lu Chenzhou arrived and spent ten days squatting in the ruins of Changqing City.
The Earth Dragon King sensed the Grandmaster's aura and dared not come again.
After Lu Chenzhou left, it did not return immediately. The Beast King was far more cautious than ordinary beasts; it would wait until it was absolutely safe.
Song Chen tapped the handle of the Tianjun Blade lightly with his finger.
and then?
Now he knows the secret of the Earth Dragon King, why it appeared on the outskirts of Anning City, what it is doing here, and that it will return sooner or later.
But what's the use of knowing all this?
He couldn't take the fragments with him; they would lose their effectiveness once they left the river.
He can't move the underground river; it's 500 meters underground.
The Earth Dragon King didn't know if he could win.
Song Chen sat cross-legged on the edge of the cave, with a dark blue river flowing beneath his feet. The blue crystal on his chest was still glowing, pulsating in sync with the fragments at the bottom of the river.
He was silent for a long time.
Then reopen the system panel.
Upgrading the Eye of Illusion cost two million, leaving me with 120,000. I'm still 1.68 million short of upgrading to the Nine Heavens Thunder, and over four million short of reaching the Grandmaster level of the Seven Heavenly Thunder Slashes.
Regardless of which path you choose, you'll need kill points.
Song Chen stood up, slung the Heavenly Blade over his back, and used the Eye of Truth to scan the underground cave one last time.
The fragments at the bottom of the river lay there quietly, with blue light spots continuously seeping into the river water.
He memorized the location of the cave, then leaped up and glided upwards along the passage he had dug.
ground.
Song Chen looked at the crystal on his chest; it had stopped glowing.
Once you're a certain distance away from the underground river, it returns to its silence. The unreadable characters on its gray surface disappear back into the depths of the crystals, as if nothing had ever happened.
He sat down at the edge of the ruins, looking southeast towards Anning City, where his parents lived.
This distance is less than half an hour for a peak fifth-tier beast king.
Song Chen closed his eyes and went through the whole thing again from the beginning.
The Earth Dragon King revealed his location twice because he couldn't suppress his aura when he was trying to break through to the sixth rank.
It came to the underground river in the ruins of Evergreen City to absorb the energy from the debris at the bottom of the river.
The fragments cannot leave the river, and the river cannot leave the cave, so it must come back again and again.
Lu Chenzhou's appearance disrupted its rhythm, but it will return sooner or later. It cannot give up a resource point that can help it reach the sixth tier.
His parents live hundreds of kilometers away.
Song Chen opened his eyes and made up his mind that he had to deal with this damned beast king, otherwise he wouldn't be able to sleep.
He took out his phone from his pocket and dialed Zhou Wangyue's number.
This is the only solution he can think of right now.
The waiting tone for the encrypted frequency band is a low-frequency pulse sound, one after another, like a heartbeat.
The communication was established on the seventh ring.
"Song Chen, is something the matter?"
Zhou Wangyue's voice was still the same as before. In the background, there was the sound of wind and the low hum of some kind of large machinery. He should not be at Tianhai University, but in the wild.
Song Chen skipped the pleasantries and went straight to the point.
"Teacher, in the ruins of Changqing City near Anning City, 500 meters underground, I discovered an underground river that emits a blue light."
"There are a lot of fragments at the bottom of the river, and the material is exactly the same as a blue crystal on my body. The Earth Dragon King appeared twice on the outskirts of Anning City in order to dive into the underground river to absorb the energy of the fragments and break through to the sixth level."
There was silence on the other end of the communication.
A few seconds later, Song Chen could hear that Zhou Wangyue's breathing rhythm had changed.
Are you sure the materials are the same?
"Confirmed. I scanned it carefully; the crystal structure, psionic refractive index, and internal texture are completely consistent."
"The fragments will lose their effectiveness once they leave the river, but they will continuously release a blue light spot while in the river. The crystals on my body will glow when they approach the dark river, and their frequency is completely synchronized with the light spot released by the fragments."
"Has the Earth Dragon King's whereabouts been confirmed?"
"Confirmed, the residual mental traces are indeed from this."
Silence again, this time even longer.
Then Zhou Wangyue's voice came through, speaking a beat slower than usual: "Don't mention this over the phone, I'm coming right away."
"teacher."
"Wait for me at the location where you discovered the underground river for twenty hours. During this time, do not go down, do not touch the fragments, and do not do anything that might trigger the crystal reaction."
The call was disconnected.
Song Chen put down his phone, and Zhou Wangyue's reaction was more severe than he had expected.
There are very few things in the entire Great Xia Dynasty that could make a sixth-level Grandmaster say "don't say it over the phone".
He glanced down at the crystal on his chest; nothing seemed amiss.
We still have to wait twenty hours.
Song Chen stood up, and the Heavenly Blade was drawn.
With nothing else to do, the strange beasts within a 300-kilometer radius of the Changqing City ruins suffered a terrible misfortune.
He only did one thing: find the strange beasts, kill them, and find the next batch.
The upgraded Eye of Truth completely changed his field of vision. The scanning range of his S-level mental ability was three times that of before. Standing on a mountain ridge, he could see the distribution of strange beasts within a radius of tens of kilometers.
Second-order dots are gray, third-order dots are green, fourth-order dots are blue, and fifth-order dots are red.
There is only one red dot, located in the northwest direction, approximately 100 kilometers away, at the initial stage of the fifth level.
He started with the larger ones and immediately went to the fifth-tier beasts.
This is a fifth-tier demonic lizard, dwelling in a mountain cave.
When Song Chen arrived, it was devouring the carcass of a porcupine.
The moment it saw Song Chen, its throat sac swelled, and it sprayed a mouthful of corrosive mist.
Song Chen drew his sword and charged forward to meet the attack head-on.
One minute later, the battle ended.
[A Tier 5 alien beast has been killed, gaining 22700 kill points]
Song Chen wiped the blood off the knife and turned to look for his next target.
He fought from dusk till late at night, and from late at night till dawn.
The kill count on the system panel rose from 120,000 to 400,000, and the wilderness was littered with corpses from under the blade.
He didn't count how many heads he killed; it didn't matter.
As dawn once again painted the ruins of Changqing City red, Song Chen stood beside the collapsed ruins, his Tianjun Blade sheathed.
In the sky above, a spaceship painted with the emblem of Tianhai University is landing.
The psionic engine hummed deeply and steadily, and the vectoring nozzles on both sides of the ship adjusted their angles as it landed, the airflow swirling up debris from the ruins and sending it flying everywhere.
The spaceship landed on an open area outside the ruins. The hatch opened, the gangway was lowered, and Zhou Wangyue stepped out.
Song Chen took a step forward.
"teacher."
Zhou Wangyue nodded, his gaze lingering on Song Chen for two seconds.
In two seconds, I saw all the changes in him over the past few days.
"Not bad, you walk faster than I expected."
Where is the underground river?
"Over here."
Song Chen turned around and led the way. The two walked through the ruins one after the other and arrived at the side of the collapsed load-bearing wall of the building.
The entrance to the tunnel that Song Chen dug out on the ground is still there. It is a vertical well with a diameter of about 1.5 meters. The walls of the well are smooth and regular, and the traces of lightning-type spiritual energy burning are clearly visible.
Zhou Wangyue stood at the edge of the well, looked down, and then jumped in.
Song Chen followed behind him as the two plummeted at high speed through the narrow passage, with Zhou Wangyue in front and Song Chen behind.
With master-level movement control, he landed at the edge of the cave in less than ten seconds.