Ye Qingyan watched the true dragon fly out of the volcano, her mouth agape, speechless.
The true dragon's aura relentlessly assaulted her senses.
After emerging from the volcano, the true dragon, its body wreathed in flames, quickly discovered Ye Ling and the other two standing at the edge of the small island. Endless killing intent surged into its eyes.
This was its territory, and any creature that trespassed into its domain would die!
"Roar—!"
With a dragon's roar, the true dragon hurtled towards Ye Ling and the other two. The flames swirling around its body caused the very ground to ignite!
Zhao Fugui felt the scorching heat wash over him, his face contorted in terror as he cried out in panic, "It's coming! It's here!"
Not only Zhao Fugui, but Ye Qingyan also felt a flicker of fear in her eyes as she saw the roaring true dragon. If Ye Ling hadn't been beside her, offering reassurance, she would have already turned and fled!
The pressure emanating from the true dragon was simply too immense!
However, Ye Ling remained calm. He merely raised a hand as the true dragon charged, unleashing a demonic blade.
*Ching!*
A flash of black light streaked past, and the colossal true dragon was directly cleaved in two by the demonic blade. The two halves crashed heavily onto the ground, causing the entire island to tremble twice!
The light in the true dragon's eyes vanished, golden blood splattered across the land, and a golden core flew out from its corpse, hovering in mid-air!
Ye Qingyan and Zhao Fugui stared blankly at the two sections of the dragon's corpse lying on the ground, their minds a complete blank, unable to comprehend what had just happened.
The true dragon's appearance to its death had taken less than a minute!
The two looked at Ye Ling in unison, utterly at a loss for words to describe their feelings.
The scene was simply too shocking!
"Qingyan, wait here. I'm going to get a treasure," Ye Ling said to Ye Qingyan after dealing with the guardian beast of this place. He then leaped towards the volcano's crater in the center of the island, disappearing into the volcanic opening in the blink of an eye.
Soon, Ye Ling flew back from the lava, holding a burning lingzhi mushroom in his hand.
Seeing Ye Ling return with the fiery lingzhi, Ye Qingyan asked curiously, "What is this?"
Ye Ling tossed the burning lingzhi into Ye Qingyan's hand and said, "This is a top-tier secret treasure of this world, the Skyfire Lingzhi. Consuming it can change your physique and cause your cultivation to surge. Eat it quickly."
Ye Qingyan held the scorching Skyfire Lingzhi, looking at Ye Ling with disbelief, "Such a supreme treasure for me?"
Ye Ling smiled, "This thing is useless to me. Your strength is too weak. Use these heavenly materials and earthly treasures to consolidate your foundation first."
Although Ye Ling could directly share his cultivation with Ye Qingyan, boosting her strength, that kind of power was ultimately external, not something she cultivated herself.
Such accelerated growth might not show any flaws in the early stages, but once cultivation progressed further, the drawbacks would emerge.
Her cultivation ceiling would not be very high.
Therefore, Ye Ling intended to use the heavenly materials and earthly treasures of this world to build a strong foundation for Ye Qingyan before infusing her with cultivation to help her break through. With this cycle, Ye Qingyan should be able to reach the Emperor Realm!
Ye Qingyan was unaware of the immense fortune Ye Ling was preparing to bestow upon her, but since Ye Ling had said so, she no longer hesitated and took a bite of the Skyfire Lingzhi!
The lingzhi melted in her mouth, and a massive amount of spiritual energy surged into her meridians, causing her aura to skyrocket.
The boundless spiritual energy poured into her body uncontrollably, purging impurities and improving her physique!
Soon, Ye Qingyan reached the limit of absorption. Her meridians began to ache, and her head throbbed with pain!
"It hurts so much!"
Just as Ye Qingyan felt she was about to explode, a trace of cool spiritual energy flowed into her body, helping to calm the restless spiritual energy within and accelerating her absorption.
Ye Ling said, "Don't be afraid. I'm here for you. Just absorb it."
"Mmm..."
Ye Qingyan calmed down, swallowed the remaining Skyfire Lingzhi, and sat down to cultivate.
Zhao Fugui, standing beside her, couldn't help but swallow his saliva as he watched Ye Qingyan's aura continuously ascend, his eyes filled with envy.
He didn't even dare to imagine how much benefit Ye Qingyan would gain here!
Just by smelling the medicinal properties emanating from the Skyfire Lingzhi, his long-stagnant cultivation had increased by a notch!
Ye Ling glanced at Zhao Fugui, who was watching enviously from the side. He retrieved the dragon core hovering in the air nearby, shattered it into powder with spiritual energy, and then took out a pot from his spatial ring. He brought both items to Zhao Fugui, instructing him, "Go and collect some dragon blood, boil this dragon core powder into a medicinal soup, and give it to Qingyan when she wakes up."
"After the medicinal soup is ready, you may take one-tenth of it."
Upon hearing Ye Ling's words, Zhao Fugui's face lit up with excitement, and he quickly thanked Ye Ling, "Thank you, Emperor! I'll go and prepare the soup right away!"
Even though he would only receive one-tenth of the medicinal soup, the dragon core and dragon blood were clearly supreme treasures. He didn't need to think about how much he would be replenished if he drank the soup!
Zhao Fugui placed the dragon core powder into the pot, hugged the pot with both hands, and trotted towards the true dragon's corpse to collect dragon blood for the soup.
Soon, smoke began to rise from beside the dragon corpse, and a rich medicinal fragrance spread outwards, even attracting many exotic beasts from the sea!
Before long, a Xuan Turtle, larger than a mountain, surfaced from the seabed, intending to step onto the island and devour the dragon corpse on it.
However, before the Xuan Turtle could even approach the coastline, Ye Ling glanced at it. The Xuan Turtle, which was larger than a mountain, met Ye Ling's gaze and instantly became timid, sinking back into the depths of the sea.
While Ye Qingyan absorbed the Skyfire Lingzhi and Zhao Fugui prepared the medicine, numerous fierce beasts appeared from the sea one after another. Many of them were at the Saint rank, and some were even ancient beasts at the Emperor Realm.
Any one of these fierce beasts, if brought to Earth, could likely wreak havoc across the three realms. Yet, here, they appeared in succession, endlessly.
After scaring away another ancient beast, Ye Ling glanced at Ye Qingyan, who was still absorbing the Skyfire Lingzhi, and muttered, "It takes this girl so long to absorb one Skyfire Lingzhi. There are still many heavenly materials and earthly treasures to collect. If I go to get them one by one, who knows how long it will take to absorb them all..."
Ye Ling did not want to wait that long. He immediately split off dozens of divine senses and flew in all directions, searching for islands in the sea that contained heavenly materials and earthly treasures.
After this world took shape, countless top-tier treasures existed in the boundless sea. However, with fierce beasts rampant in the sea and each heavenly material guarded by divine beasts, the cultivators of this world were simply incapable of venturing into this mysterious domain.
Thus, over countless ages, these heavenly materials and earthly treasures had remained untouched, accumulating supreme medicinal properties.
Ye Ling's arrival was akin to a dimensional reduction attack for this world. Neither the fierce beasts in the sea nor the guardian divine beasts on the islands were a match for Ye Ling.
Ye Ling's divine senses swept across the entire sea area, and in a very short period, they collected countless heavenly materials, earthly treasures, and divine beast golden cores that would drive cultivators mad.
Zhao Fugui also transitioned from initially boiling the dragon core medicinal soup to boiling the blood cores of numerous demonic beasts...
The essence of countless divine beasts gathered in one pot, causing the pot of medicinal soup to emit a seven-colored divine radiance, triggering a celestial phenomenon!