With a loud thud, the giant dragon's huge body dug into the hot magma in an awkward position. The red magma instantly splashed up. Brandon dived deeper into the magma, and felt violently hot all over his body, but this temperature was still bearable, just like taking a sauna in his previous life.
Brandon rolled in the magma and instantly spat out a mouthful of fire. The rich earth fire qi surged towards him. The energy in his body automatically operated, sucking in these hot streams one by one in a circle. The energy grew at a hasty rate.
After swimming a few laps in that lava lake, his body seemed to gradually adapt to the high temperatures here, and he began to dive downwards. The outermost layers tended to be areas of low temperature. It was in the depths of the magma that was the true sanctuary of cultivation.
His giant head sank into the magma and his body slowly dived downwards, the further down he went, the brighter red the colour of the magma became, and the texture became much softer, and of course the temperature became higher and higher.
Diving down ten metres, he found that he had reached the limit of tolerance, the body temperature rose rapidly, as if there was a fire burning inside his flesh. His body was hot.
The energy in his body was running rapidly, but the temperature was still slowly rising, it seemed that he could only dive up to here at the most, and he couldn't stay for long, or else he might have burnt himself to death.
In the lava, the eyes were useless, although his own eyes, for some reason, didn't seem to be afraid of the heat, but in such a thick place, you couldn't see your surroundings even if your eyes were sharp. Brandon swam upwards for about a metre or so, and the temperature of his body rose before he stopped.
His mental qi was slowly released. However, in the magma, he found that the resistance for his spiritual and mental qi was very large, and with all his strength, he could only release it up to a radius of about ten metres.
Brandon slowly swam forward and finally found a place to land next to the wall of the volcano. It was a reddish rock. The rock extended out from the inner wall of the volcano like a natural terrace. It was unknown what material the rock was made of, it actually didn't melt under such high temperatures.
Slowly Brandon's body landed on top of this fiery rock, and that was when he felt the difference in this boulder. The temperature of this boulder was not very high, about a hundred degrees or so, and there was a big difference with the surrounding temperature. At first contact, Brandon still almost jumped. The temperature difference was just too great.
After swimming in the lava for such a long time, Brandon didn't see the Qilin's figure, it seemed that it was still diving in the depths of the lava. Brandon couldn't help but secretly admire the Qilin's ability to withstand the temperature, it was really grown up in a volcano, and the high-temperature lava was just like the surrounding air to it.
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His body lay on the fire rock, and his mind was suddenly quiet. The fire rock seemed to emanate a mind-quieting aura, making this initiation of Brandon very swift. The rich earth fire energy came rushing in as if it was poured
directly into his body. The energy in his body operated more rapidly under the guidance of Brandon's spiritual power. Gradually, the energy in his body slowly turned from a small river into a raging river, and the energy kept on running in a vast manner.
The time for advancement has come. Brandon secretly thought. He carefully guided his internal energy towards an unfamiliar meridian pulse. Suddenly a sharp pain that drilled through his heart came and he convulsed.
After a while Brandon's tightly locked eyebrows, and then stretched, the Golden Bell Shield finally entered the eighth layer. And the Dragon qi also rose up into the sixth layer. If he recalled the Dragon’s stages of life, he would be now considered a sixth-stage dragon.
The energy from the advancement continuously rinsed the flesh, and the energy was slowly absorbed by the flesh. Under the stimulation of the higher level energy, the cells rapidly split and compressed, further increasing in strength, but the energy in the body didn't see a decrease. With the support of the huge Earth Fire Qi, the energy slowly increased instead.
The energy in his body ran round and round, and he lost the sense of time. Brandon slowly opened his eyes. His own body had already reached the edge of the fire rock without realising it.
He never thought that the effect of practising in the volcano would be so good. He thought that it would take a few more days to advance, but did not expect that after only one practice, he had advanced. The process was so smooth that it almost made him think he was dreaming.
Brandon looked at this piece of fire rock, this boulder was made of something. It was actually a treasure. Cultivating on it, he felt as if it was much easier to get into meditation, and it kept his mind as still as water during cultivation. Thinking of this Brandon's eyes couldn't help but shine with golden light.
He immediately took action, but he did not know what it was made of, hard and seemed to be firmly combined with the inner wall of the volcano. No matter what methods Brandon used, or failed to pry up even a piece of debris from above.
Brandon couldn't help but sigh slightly, the most painful thing in a dragon's life was to meet a treasure but not be able to take it for himself.
He began to hang his head a bit, even the joy of his recent advancement washed away. However, immediately thinking that this territory appeared to be his own, and placing it here was like placing it in his own home, Brandon's mood couldn't help but be soothed again.
He rushed out of the lava with a happy mood, and a mouthful of red flames erupted from his oral orifice. The fire here was just a bit too much, so much so that it was not possible to avoid spitting some fire all over his own body.
Standing on the rock at the mouth of the fire, Brandon surveyed himself. He realised that he had grown a lot more, but Brandon was not surprised by such things anymore.
In his current form, his whole body had grown 15 metres long, and his dragon horn seemed to have grown a lot more all of a sudden, the horn that was only a dozen or so centimetres in the past was actually more than half a metre long now, and the dragon horn was very sharp and in the shape of a spiral. It seemed to be densely engraved with mysterious patterns.
As the hardest part of the entire body, the dragon horn was also one of the powerful weapons of any dragon.
Brandon glanced back at the volcanic lava. He still didn't know when Qilin would come out. It's better to go back to the sub-dragon's lair first, and I don't know how long I've been practising, Skyler doesn't know how it's going. Brandon planned to make a trip to Snake Valley recently. And those Flame Fruits would help Vajra and the Five Serpents in their cultivation.