Outside the cave, the protective dragon, raising its little head, watched the outside, occasionally looking up at the Nine Dragons Red Flame Cauldron inside the cave. Its small eyes were filled with immense nervousness, as if it could feel the torment and intense pain its master was enduring at this moment.
"Kid, it's almost over, you must hold on," the old servant, Uncle Jiang, muttered as his hand seals changed, aware of the intense pain and risk involved. A slight mishap would turn the person inside the Nine Dragons Red Flame Cauldron into a dead man.
"Thump!"
Several hours later, within the space enveloped by the red flame, a faint sound suddenly emerged. Then, a drop of essence blood dripped from Li Lin's finger onto the ten-thousand-year-old red copper.
"We've succeeded." At this moment, Uncle Jiang suddenly burst into great joy, his hands forming seals like lightning, slicing through the space with invisible energy waves.
"Come out, kid." Just then, a figure burst out from within the Nine Dragons Red Flame Cauldron, and Uncle Jiang shouted loudly, his energy continuously pouring into the cauldron.
"Shh!"
Simultaneously, a ray of light fell inside the cave, revealing a much thinner Li Lin, naked, with a weak vitality and a pale face.
Li Lin instantly opened his eyes, which still shone brightly despite everything. He stuffed a pill into his mouth, quickly dressed, and started cultivating immediately after changing his hand seals.
At this moment, Uncle Jiang heaved a sigh of relief, his hands forming seals like lightning again, shooting invisible energy into the Nine Dragons Red Flame Cauldron.
"Whoosh whoosh!"
As Uncle Jiang injected energy into the cauldron, the red flames boiled fiercely, with waves of fire tumultuously rising. Meanwhile, the most bizarre part was the ten-thousand-year-old red copper.
The red copper had turned completely blood-red, resembling a solution filled in a glass container, with strands of blood smoothly flowing and a mysterious aura spreading out.
"Bang bang!"
Within this terrifying flame, a burst sound suddenly echoed, and the ten-thousand-year-old red copper weirdly melted, transforming into a blood-colored energy liquid, with a powerful energy spreading out.
This energy spread so fast that even the red flames in the space were instantly pushed back, unable to envelop this terrifying blood-red energy.
"Truly a divine material," Uncle Jiang remarked solemnly, his hand seals changing like lightning again.
"Awoo awoo awoo..."
Suddenly, several beastly roars echoed through the space, resembling dragon chants, followed by nine fire columns rising to the sky. Nine streams of red flame shot out, wrapping around the solution formed from the ten-thousand-year-old red copper, gradually enclosing it.
Uncle Jiang's face turned pale as he formed mysterious and bizarre seals...
Inside the cave, silence prevailed, only the howling of the red flames and the sound of energy fluctuations from Uncle Jiang echoed, merging together and resonating within the cave. In this silence, time flew by rapidly.
Unknowingly, the solution formed from the ten-thousand-year-old red copper within the Nine Dragons Red Flame Cauldron began to change. The energy started to condense and compress, but strands of blood could still be seen flowing within the solution, emanating a mysterious energy aura around it.
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Inside the cave, Li Lin was meditating, his pale face slowly regaining some color, and his body was recovering at an extremely slow rate.
Outside the Li family, a huge fourth-tier flying beast circled down, carrying Li ShaoHu, Zhao QingTian, and Zhao QingHai.
"Swish swish!" The three figures descended, and the flying beast shrank into a twenty-centimeter-long eagle-like creature, landing on Zhao QingHai's shoulder.
"So, this is the Li family, just average," Zhao QingTian observed.
"Cousin, the Li family can't compare to the Zhao family, but it's still quite good in Qingyun Town," Li ShaoHu said.
"I wonder why aunt stayed with the Li family. It's much more comfortable back at the Zhao family," Zhao QingTian said.
"I wonder if that bastard Li Lin has been killed by the Third Protector," Li ShaoHu said, feeling a heaviness in his steps looking at the Li family.
"Don't worry, cousin. Shi YunSheng dealing with Li Lin is more than enough to kill him," Zhao QingHai sneered.
"Let's go then," Li ShaoHu said gravely, and the three headed towards the Li family.
Half a month passed in the cave in a distant valley hundreds of miles from the Li family.
"Boom!"
A deep explosion sounded from within the Nine Dragons Red Flame Cauldron, flames splattering everywhere, and a blood-red light weirdly spread from inside, its power extremely violent, shaking the entire cauldron.
Li Lin suddenly opened his eyes, looking towards the cauldron, surprised by the majestic energy inside, which seemed terrifying but somehow connected to him.
"Li Lin, separate a strand of soul power and inject it into the Nine Dragons Red Flame Cauldron," Uncle Jiang said, his face extremely pale, urgently instructing Li Lin. As soon as he finished speaking, he added, "You and the dragon share a blood pact, so the dragon's soul power won't resist you. Let the dragon also separate a strand of soul power and merge it with yours before injecting it."
"Uncle Jiang, why do we need the dragon's soul power?" Li Lin asked.
"The dragon is a Spirit Emperor Beast. Merging its soul power to form the blade will undoubtedly increase its might, even incorporating some of the dragon's power, which will be unexpectedly useful against the beast and spirit beast clans' powerhouses," Uncle Jiang explained. "However, this is just my speculation; no one has tried it before, to my knowledge. You share a blood pact with the dragon, and there's no resistance in your soul powers. In my opinion, it should be successful."
"Dragon," Li Lin didn't hesitate and immediately called out to the dragon guarding the cave entrance, believing in Uncle Jiang's ability to enhance the blade's power.
"Boss," the dragon's figure instantly appeared in front of Li Lin.
"Give me some of your soul power," Li Lin said, changing his hand seals, quickly forming several unique seals. With the final seal, his soul pill rotated in his mind, and a strand of white energy emerged from his forehead.
"Shh."
The dragon stood tall, its body instantly expanding to twenty meters in length, spiraling together. As it grew, its body emitted a yellow glow with golden flames, and from its third eye, a strand of golden energy with traces of flame emerged, falling into Li Lin's hands.
"Merge," Li Lin commanded softly. The soul powers of Li Lin and the dragon instantly merged without any resistance, overlapping in an instant.
"Go."
With a low shout from Li Lin, the merged soul powers were injected into the Nine Dragons Red Flame Cauldron.
"Whoosh whoosh!" As the combined soul powers entered, the flames within the cauldron churned violently, a ferocious energy rising from within.
Uncle Jiang, with a solemn gaze towards the cauldron, formed seals like lightning, shouting, "Gather the blade with soul and blood spirit!"
Following Uncle Jiang's shout, the flames within the cauldron rapidly spun, howling ceaselessly without any flames spilling out. At that moment, a huge mysterious energy rapidly spread...
As the strange energy within the cauldron intensified, a blood-red light instantly spread from within.
"Shh!"
At that moment, the merged soul power of Li Lin and the dragon formed a golden-white energy sphere within the cauldron. The sphere shot out rapidly, breaking through the red flames and quickly merging into the solution formed from the ten-thousand-year-old red copper.
At that instant, the solution violently trembled. Strands of blinding light continuously shot out from the solution, instantly shining brightly.
Then, Uncle Jiang took a deep breath, his seals changing again, casting complex and mysterious seals, continuously injecting secret patterns into the cauldron.
"Such powerful strength," Li Lin felt shocked watching Uncle Jiang. The seals he formed seemed to draw invisible cosmic energy into the cauldron.
This gathering of cosmic energy made Li Lin feel a tremendous force, causing his entire body to tremble.
"At least a Spirit King, or even higher," Li Lin, now of a certain cultivation level and having seen many strong individuals, immediately judged Uncle Jiang's energy to be at least that of a Spirit King, which was the minimum.
"Whoosh whoosh!"
Inside the cave, the cosmic energy grew stronger, reaching a terrifying level.
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