"This ancient dragon turtle must have killed so many people."
Looking at the scattered items all around, Chu Fengmian couldn’t help but think.
However, upon reflection, this ancient dragon turtle has probably been on this deserted island for thousands of years. After all, this island has always been a testing ground for the Martial Victory College.
Moreover, disciples would come here from time to time for training and to slay demons and beasts.
There are always a few who do not see clearly and end up dying at the hands of this ancient dragon turtle.
These items must have belonged to those people.
Chu Fengmian glanced at those jade bottles and roughly estimated that there were over a hundred thousand Qi Gathering Pills inside them.
Aside from that, there were not many other items of great value.
But these hundred-thousand-plus Qi Gathering Pills were still a tremendous fortune. They were enough to satisfy the spiritual power that had been thirsting in Chu Fengmian’s bloodline all this time.
Ever since he began cultivating the Battle Dragon Technique, Chu Fengmian had felt an incessant craving for spiritual power in his body.
It was as though he was a person who could never be sated.
Chu Fengmian also understood why the Battle Dragon Technique required a martial artist with Divine Veins to cultivate.
Without the Divine Veins constantly replenishing spiritual power, he feared that the Battle Dragon Technique would have long since drained him dry; even so,
For Chu Fengmian, the Divine Veins could only maintain his body and not acquire spiritual power for cultivation.
To cultivate, he needed countless pills.
"Over a hundred thousand Qi Gathering Pills should be enough to barely set up a Spirit Gathering Array,"
Chu Fengmian murmured as he looked at the Qi Gathering Pills.
He then took them all out and opened them, placing them on the ground.
Arranged properly, these Qi Gathering Pills faintly formed the pattern of an array.
With a soft chant from Chu Fengmian, the Qi Gathering Pills suddenly burst into countless essence spiritual energies.
This spiritual energy coiled around Chu Fengmian, forming a long dragon made of spiritual power.
With a point of Chu Fengmian’s hand, the dragon of spiritual power merged into his body.
This Spirit Gathering Array was one of the prime arrays of Tianxu Hall, one of the seven major sects.
Once the Spirit Gathering Array was set up, it could extract the spiritual power from the pills and transform it into a dragon of spiritual energy, which was exceedingly pure.
Typically, Tianxu Hall would use the Spirit Gathering Array to assist their disciples in their cultivation. Compared to refining pills individually, the speed was much faster.
However, at the very least, more than a hundred thousand Gathering Spirit Pills were needed to set up such an array, so it was only set up when hundreds of Tianxu Hall disciples would cultivate together.
Otherwise, the robust spiritual power in the spiritual power dragon might be enough to burst the martial artist’s body.
But this was for ordinary martial artists, not for Chu Fengmian. He was now cultivating the Battle Dragon Technique, and it was like he had a huge appetite hidden in his body.
No matter how much spiritual power came, Chu Fengmian wasn’t afraid; it would all be devoured by the Battle Dragon Technique and then used to condense the essence blood of the ancient battle dragon.
To condense the twelve thousand nine hundred and sixty droplets of ancient battle dragon’s essence blood, Chu Fengmian had only managed to condense three droplets so far.
No amount of spiritual power could burst him; no matter how much came, it was all needed by Chu Fengmian.
All the spiritual power dragon was engulfed into Chu Fengmian’s body, and suddenly all the pure spiritual power merged into the phantom of the ancient battle dragon within him.
Chu Fengmian felt that the fourth and fifth drops of essence blood were beginning to condense at the same time.
"Good, let’s take this opportunity to condense two drops of ancient Battle Dragon blood; with that, I’ll have even more power to protect myself within the Wusheng Academy!"
Chu Fengmian’s face beamed with joy.
This was an unexpected reward. Chu Fengmian did not know how long it would take to save up more than a hundred thousand Qi Gathering Pills, but now he had inherited the ancient Dragon Turtle’s collection all along.
In one go, he was able to condense two drops of ancient Battle Dragon blood.
Two enormous waves of Spiritual Power burst forth from Chu Fengmian’s body.
His realm also leapt up two levels, reaching the seventh level of the Body Tempering realm.
As Chu Fengmian’s realm rose higher and higher, the level lift that the ancient Battle Dragon blood could add to him became less and less significant.
However, Chu Fengmian could feel that his strength had actually increased more than tenfold compared to just now.
On Chu Fengmian’s body, there were now five drops of ancient Battle Dragon blood, all of which had been activated.
Chu Fengmian believed that even when facing a Martial Artist of the fifth or even sixth level of the Divine Seas realm, he would have the power to fight.
Such strength, at Chu Fengmian’s age, was terrifying to the extreme.
"It seems that satisfying this ancient Battle Dragon is not an easy task."
Chu Fengmian’s joy had not even subsided when he stood up and looked at the empty bottles; he could not help but smirk.
It took more than a hundred thousand Qi Gathering Pills for Chu Fengmian to condense two drops of ancient Battle Dragon blood.
If not for unexpectedly obtaining such huge wealth, Chu Fengmian’s breakthrough would probably require even more time.
But now, Chu Fengmian had already arrived at the Wusheng Academy, where acquiring resources was much easier than outside.
"The second assessment’s time should be coming to an end soon."
Chu Fengmian silently guessed.
If he remembered correctly, it was already the seventh day.
Looking at the outside world, less than two hours remained until the assessment ended.
"It’s time to leave."
Chu Fengmian muttered to himself.
He had come to the Wusheng Academy to participate in the assessment because he wanted to enter the academy.
He couldn’t afford to delay the assessment.
"Young Master, have you come out?"
The ancient Dragon Turtle had always been guarding outside the cave. Seeing Chu Fengmian coming out, it asked.
This ancient Dragon Turtle also knew that Chu Fengmian was cultivating inside the cave, so it was guarding outside, precisely to prevent anyone from disturbing Chu Fengmian.
"It seems that these drops of blood have also made your bloodline much purer."
Chu Fengmian glanced at the ancient Dragon Turtle and said with a smile.
Although this ancient Dragon Turtle was still awaiting its breakthrough, the power within its body was now more than twice as strong as before.
The breakthrough to the Divine Seas realm was no longer too far away.
Especially on the armor of the ancient Dragon Turtle, a dragon pattern mark was about to emerge.
This was the symbol of the purification of the ancient Dragon Turtle’s bloodline; its bloodline was becoming even closer to that of an ancient Battle Dragon.
If this purification process continued, perhaps this ancient Dragon Turtle really had the chance to ascend and become a dragon.