Chapter 5

"Lu Li, the Spirit Dragon Pearl is too powerful, hand it over and let us destroy it. As long as you hand over the Spirit Dragon Pearl, we can spare your life!" In the void, an elder with a five-branched beard and a jade crown on his head spoke loudly.

"Lu Li, quickly hand over the Spirit Dragon Pearl. If this treasure remains in the world, our thousands of years of cultivation will be in vain."

"Lu Li, the Spirit Dragon Pearl is not tolerated by heaven and earth. Hand it over, and we will spare your life!" In the void, three terrifying beings surrounded Lu Li, who was covered in blood, and shouted angrily.

Lu Li, surrounded in the middle with his jade crown broken, his Dao robe torn, and his face covered in blood, burst into a tragic laugh, "What do you mean it is not tolerated by heaven and earth? Are you afraid?"

"Afraid that with this treasure, I will shake your positions, you three old villains?"

"Hand it over? Spare my life?"

"If I hand over this treasure, what difference does it make whether I live or die?"

"I, Lu Li, have roamed the world all my life. How can I let you control me, hahaha......"

In the midst of his mad laughter, Lu Li's body suddenly emitted an incredibly bright light.

"Bad, he is self-immolating his true body, he is trying to escape. Fellow Daoists, quickly lend me a hand, let us seal this beast." The elder with the five-branched beard and jade crown suddenly pointed out, and the void instantly burst into a thousand rays of golden light.

At the same time, the other two terrifying beings surrounding Lu Li also pointed out, and three beams of golden light converged, forming intricate divine patterns that pressed down on Lu Li.

"Escape? When have I, Lu Li, ever fled like a dog!"

"Are you not afraid that the Spirit Dragon Pearl will affect your status? I will plant a thorn in your hearts, a thorn that will never be removed!"

In the midst of his mad laughter, a pearl flew out from behind Lu Li's head, and the golden light bursting from his body instantly concentrated, enveloping the pearl.

"Chaos of all laws, Spirit Dragon Pearl, break!"

The void suddenly shook violently, and the Spirit Dragon Pearl, enveloped by Lu Li's full strength, broke through the golden light's suppression, piercing through layer after layer of the void, and fled.

"Stay! Seal!"

The elder with the five-branched beard and jade crown was furious, and his index finger spontaneously split, golden blood spurted out, and he pointed out, an endless golden light instantly transformed into a divine pattern dragon, shooting towards the light of the Spirit Dragon Pearl.

The divine pattern dragon moved extremely fast, and in an instant, it enveloped the Spirit Dragon Pearl.

But just as the divine pattern dragon was about to land, the space of the universe suddenly became chaotic, and the Spirit Dragon Pearl vanished into a void.

When the elder with the five-branched beard and jade crown searched again, the chaotic space instantly returned to normal, and there was no trace of the Spirit Dragon Pearl.

"Ha ha ha, the universe has countless worlds, Xuanhuang, I want to see how you will destroy the Spirit Dragon Pearl......"

In the midst of his mad laughter, Lu Li's body gradually turned into countless light points and dissipated, leaving only the three Xuanhuang with grim faces standing in the void, speechless for a long time......

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This scene disappeared, and the image before Ye Zhen changed. In a certain world, a powerful being accidentally discovered the Spirit Dragon Pearl, mistaking it for a treasure, and studied it day and night without success, until his death.

As the image changed, the Spirit Dragon Pearl changed hands several times, causing numerous bloody battles, and countless people died for it.

There were even world-class geniuses who, after obtaining the Spirit Dragon Pearl, gradually became ordinary.

With the Spirit Dragon Pearl changing hands several times, the few divine patterns sealed on it gradually dissipated, and the Spirit Dragon Pearl quietly absorbed the blood, true essence, and even higher-level powers of its owners.

In the final few scenes, Ye Zhen even saw the ancestors of his branch of the Ye family obtain the Spirit Dragon Pearl and pass it down as a family treasure from generation to generation.

And because of the absorption of power by the Spirit Dragon Pearl, the cultivation of the Ye family's descendants gradually slowed down, leading to their decline.

The last scene was Ye Zhen accidentally injuring himself and bleeding, and the Peace Pearl on his chest mysteriously absorbing his blood.

The bizarre and fantastic images disappeared, and a pearl divided into nine layers appeared before Ye Zhen, with only the first layer emitting a faint light, while the other eight layers were in a chaotic gray state.

Ye Zhen fell into deep thought.

The information contained in these bizarre and fantastic images was immense, especially the scenes of the battle between Lu Li and the Xuanhuang, which left Ye Zhen shocked.

It turned out that martial artists could be so powerful, and Ye Zhen needed to digest this.

The Spirit Dragon Pearl must be an extraordinary treasure, as evidenced by the determination of the three Xuanhuang to destroy it.

However, after Lu Li used secret techniques to disrupt space and time, the Spirit Dragon Pearl escaped the clutches of the three Xuanhuang. But during its escape, a small part of the Xuanhuang's sealing divine patterns still fell.

Next came a long period of unsealing.

The passage of time made the first layer of sealing divine patterns on the Spirit Dragon Pearl begin to loosen, and the Spirit Dragon Pearl regained a negligible amount of its function.

It began to secretly absorb the power of its owners, and after generations of accumulation, by the time it reached Ye Zhen, it had finally broken through the first layer of sealing divine patterns and unsealed the first layer of the Spirit Dragon Pearl.

Ye Zhen calculated that before him, the Spirit Dragon Pearl had had ninety-two owners, and the process of breaking through the first layer of sealing had lasted for thousands of years.

Truly a case of water wearing away stone.

"Since the Spirit Dragon Pearl could cause three world-class beings to join forces to destroy it, what is its heaven-defying power?" This question had been lingering in Ye Zhen's mind from beginning to end.

Unfortunately, the bizarre and fantastic images did not mention how the Spirit Dragon Pearl was heaven-defying.

Ye Zhen discovered that the Spirit Dragon Pearl had completely fused with his chest at the Zhongshan point.

As long as his gaze fell on the imprint of the Spirit Dragon Pearl on his chest, or he focused his mind on the imprint, the Spirit Dragon Pearl, glowing faintly, would appear in Ye Zhen's consciousness.

But no matter how Ye Zhen tried or how he activated it, the Spirit Dragon Pearl on his chest remained completely still, let alone showing any heaven-defying power.

After the failed attempt, Ye Zhen could only put it aside for the moment.

"Perhaps I haven't discovered the mysterious power of the Spirit Dragon Pearl yet? Or maybe the ability to understand animal language, which is a small secret, is a power granted by the Spirit Dragon Pearl. I can only uncover it gradually." Ye Zhen consoled himself.

After tidying up his thoughts, Ye Zhen, without bothering to clean the dirt off his body, sat down in a cross-legged position again, activating the Blood Qi Technique and focusing his mind.

The heaven-defying power of the Spirit Dragon Pearl was too far from Ye Zhen, but the two drops of stone marrow spirit liquid he had taken earlier were tangible benefits.

Unfortunately, at the critical moment of his cultivation breakthrough, Ye Zhen had fainted.

Now, Ye Zhen was eager to know to what extent his cultivation had been enhanced by the stone marrow spirit liquid, to gauge its value.

The moment he activated the Blood Qi Technique to examine his internal state, Ye Zhen was stunned.

He was stunned by the blood qi in his meridians.

Indeed, Ye Zhen was stunned by the change in his blood qi cultivation.

But this change was not a significant increase in cultivation.

Instead, his cultivation had decreased, and the decrease was considerable.

Before taking the two drops of stone marrow spirit liquid, the blood qi in Ye Zhen's meridians had already reached the Blood Qi Filling Meridians stage.

According to Ye Zhen's estimate, with the help of the two drops of stone marrow spirit liquid, the blood qi in his meridians should have reached the Blood Qi Like Waves stage, approaching or even reaching the peak of the Blood Refinement First Stage.

But the fact was that the blood qi in Ye Zhen's meridians had inexplicably dropped to the thickness of a chopstick, the Blood Qi Like Chopsticks stage.

Faced with this unexpected result, Ye Zhen was so frustrated that he wanted to spit blood.

The annual assessment was approaching, and his cultivation was already far behind. Now it was even further behind.

With a chest full of frustration, Ye Zhen suddenly leaped up and punched the cave wall hard, trying to vent his anger.

Swoosh!

The punch tore through the air with a sudden sound.

Bang!

As the punch hit the stone wall, sending debris flying, Ye Zhen was stunned again.

Breaking the wind with a punch was something that could only be achieved when one's strength exceeded two thousand pounds and one's cultivation reached the peak of the Blood Refinement First Stage.

After a moment of shock, a surge of joy appeared on Ye Zhen's face, and he rushed out of the cave like a whirlwind.

Just as he reached the cave entrance, Ye Zhen suddenly stopped, covering the corpses of the giant rats and other rotten animal corpses to prevent wild beasts from smelling the blood and exposing the place.

Then, Ye Zhen dashed out, his face full of surprise, heading towards the training ground of Hundred Pine Peak.