“Dragon-Gazing Altar… this thing seems similar to a teleportation point.”
Lin Xun had obtained a Scale of the Origin Dragon Divine Palace from Yazi in Kunlun. Holding this scale allowed him to teleport from the Dragon-Gazing Altar to the Origin Dragon Divine Palace.
However, according to the information revealed by Lu Wu, after the divine war, all the Dragon-Gazing Altars in the world were destroyed. Finding one still intact was far too slim a hope.
He did not expect to actually find a clue to the Dragon-Gazing Altar in a hidden plot now.
Joy rose in Lin Xun’s heart, and he immediately pressed the ‘Yes’ option.
[Seeing you nod and agree, that voice smiles in relief, and the giant clam also opens, closes, and contracts along with it…]
[Each of our dragon children fears neither life nor death. With dragon children like this fighting in all directions for Dragon God, the yokai race will surely obtain the final victory and eliminate those despicable gods and Buddhas.]
[He will now teach you the art of building the Dragon-Gazing Altar…]
[The White Elephant Demon beside you cannot help opening its mouth as if wanting to say something, but you stop it with one hand.]
[As the weak thought pours into you, you soon learn the construction method…]
[Building the Dragon-Gazing Altar requires the Dharma body clam shell of the Mirage Dragon clan. A few fragments may be used, or a complete clam shell may be used. The larger the clam shell, the more yokai race members can be guided and teleported at once.]
[Using the Mirage Dragon clam shell as the main material, then adding supplementary materials Stone Treasure Molybdenum Gold, Blue Dawn Corundum, Black Sea Ice Soul Essence Crystal, Radiant Glazed Gold, and Vajra Void Sandstone, and finally applying yokai art secret methods, one can build a Dragon-Gazing Altar with a guiding effect.]
[After teaching you the secret construction method, that voice becomes weaker and weaker, as if it is about to dissipate and pass away…]
[The Mirage Dragon continues telling you that you can obtain Mirage Clan Clam Shell from the shed remains of His Dharma body, while He originally had already gathered the other five supplementary materials. Unfortunately, after He fell, the supplementary materials were seized and lost by the enemy.]
[However, you need not worry. These five supplementary materials are not particularly rare items. You can obtain them respectively from Xibo Stone Treasure Valley, Heavenly Dragon Grottoes, Black Sea Dragon Palace, Yangan Earth Vein, and Yongdong Dragon Cascade Mountain…]
[The more that voice speaks, the more powerless and weak it becomes. Using all His strength, He says one final sentence to you, Unfamiliar dragon child, may Father God protect you…]
[Then the giant clam no longer opens or closes and shuts tightly, as if all vitality has completely passed away, while the surrounding mirage also gradually becomes unstable.]
[You hurriedly step forward, wanting to remove a piece of supplementary material from the clam shell, but your hand passes straight through the illusory clam shell.]
[Very soon, the surrounding mirage violently twists and fluctuates, turning back into strands of mist that steam and dissipate under the blazing sun.]
[When you come back to your senses, you and the White Elephant Demon have already returned to the valley. Everything that happened just now seems like a dream.]
[You frown. Just now, the Mirage Dragon mentioned one main material and five supplementary materials, yet in the end, it did not even leave you a hair.]
[The main material for building the Dragon-Gazing Altar is Mirage Clan Clam Shell, and the Mirage Dragon you previously saw was an illusion. If you want to obtain this main material, you are probably going to have to dismantle Mighty Gate Pass.]
[Because when Mighty Gate Pass was built back then, the Mirage Dragon’s Dharma body remains were used as steel reinforcement and built into it.]
[As for the other five supplementary materials needed to build the Dragon-Gazing Altar, they are scattered across different places. Gathering them all will probably not be easy.]
[The White Elephant Demon knows about the Scale of the Origin Dragon Divine Palace you have already obtained, and also knows you intend to search for the Dragon-Gazing Altar. That is why you pretended to agree to the Mirage Dragon’s request.]
[It scratches its head and says, Junior brother, those place names the Mirage Dragon mentioned are so unfamiliar. I don’t think I have ever heard of them, and only that Black Sea Dragon Palace seems to have some clue.]
After Lin Xun cleared the fog of war, he had already memorized the place names of the various cities in Vermilion.
After the White Elephant Demon reminded him, he came back to his senses and clicked on Complete Map of Vermilion.
For example, the Xibo from Xibo Stone Treasure Valley and Yongdong from Yongdong Dragon Cascade Mountain were clearly definite place names, but these place names were not on Complete Map of Vermilion.
Lin Xun thought briefly and secretly pondered, “The places Mirage Dragon mentioned should be ancient place names from the time of the divine war. Now, time has passed and the world has changed. After the Vermilion Empire was established, the names of many places were changed.”
“I definitely won’t find them by looking at Complete Map of Vermilion. I have to carefully read Vermilion Geographical Records, and based on its records and local legends, I might be able to find some clues.”
“Damn! Looking at it this way, gathering all the materials to build the Dragon-Gazing Altar is truly extremely difficult.”
Lin Xun brought the White Elephant Demon back to Mighty Gate Pass while manifesting Vermilion Geographical Records in reality and using Analysis Authority to become a human scanner.
[…]
[The White Elephant Demon once again manifests its massive Dharma body that hides the heavens and covers the sun. The huge Six-Tusked White Elephant Demon backs up several steps, lets out a fierce long roar, and charges violently toward the pass tower!]
[Every time the Six-Tusked White Elephant Demon stomps the ground, it causes the earth to shake violently, as if an earth dragon has turned over…]
[With a thunderous boom, Mighty Gate Pass, which had stood at the narrow pass for hundreds and thousands of years, collapses with a crash, raising countless clouds of dust!]
[The White Elephant Demon lets out a long trumpet. After knocking down the city tower, its momentum does not decrease as it continues charging into the pass city!]
[It charges back and forth several times, not stopping until it has crushed the entire Mighty Gate Pass into ruins, then changes back into human form.]
[When the smoke and dust disperse, the great pass has already turned into broken stones and rubble covering the ground…]
[You look around and see several thick broken bones and shell fragments sporadically buried among the ruins. These remains from the Mirage Dragon are unstained by dust and appear pure white, extremely eye-catching among the broken stones of the ruins.]
[You turn over the broken stones and pick up a relatively large shell fragment…]
[You have obtained Mirage Dragon Clam-Shaped Shell Fragment (Junk)!]
[Mirage Dragon Clam-Shaped Shell Fragment (Junk): A shell fragment half the size of a person, part of the remains of the Mirage Dragon clan’s clam-shaped Dharma body. The dense bloodline power originally contained within it has long since completely vanished after many years of refinement by the underground formation beneath Mighty Gate Pass, reducing it to useless junk.]
The corner of Lin Xun’s mouth twitched. So building the Mirage Dragon’s remains into Mighty Gate Pass was to wear away the bloodline power within?
The group of gods and Buddhas under Enma really did eradicate everything without mercy. It was one thing to create a Demon-Subduing Stele to deal with those direct dragon children, but they even dealt with one Mirage Dragon in this way to eliminate future trouble.
If all villains were this decisive and ruthless, how would there still be any cliched stories in movies and television where the protagonist fights monsters, levels up along the way, and finally turns the tables?
Lin Xun shook his head and continued searching for remains among the ruins.
The Mirage Clan Clam Shell Fragment he had just obtained belonged to the Junk category, not Material. It clearly did not qualify as suitable material for building the Dragon-Gazing Altar.
He and the White Elephant Demon busied themselves for most of the day, turning over the entire ruin. In the end, whether dragon bones or clam shell fragments, all of them were Junk with not a trace of dragon bloodline left.
[The White Elephant Demon wipes the dust off its face and spits, unable to help cursing, Damn it all… Junior brother, that Mirage Dragon tricked us. These broken bones and broken shells are all useless junk. If these things can be used to build the Dragon-Gazing Altar, then ghosts must be real.]
[With a forceful squeeze of its hand, it crushes a piece of dragon bone in its palm into powder, which spills through its fingers like gravel.]
Lin Xun narrowed his eyes.
If the Mirage Dragon shed remains had lost the effectiveness of becoming material because they had lost the power of the dragon bloodline, then all he needed to do was bestow dragon bloodline power upon them again.
With that thought, he began a wild operation.
[You activate Ancient Dragon Oath, and in the blink of an eye, transform into a huge ancient dragon. Emerald-green scales cover your entire body, filled with dense and vigorous life aura.]
[You reach out with a claw and dig out a shell fragment the size of a carriage from the ruins.]
[You use a sharp claw to cut open the scales on your chest. As dragon blood seeps out, you endure the pain and stuff the shell fragment into the wound…]
[You activate Hymn of Life!]
[Dots of emerald-green life light emerge and cover the wound that has just been torn open, not only stopping the dragon blood and causing the wound to heal, but also causing the inner flesh to quickly adhere and grow.]
[Under the deliberate control of Flesh Authority, the foreign object inside the wound is not expelled from the body due to the healing effect. Instead, as the flesh wound heals, it gradually becomes part of your body and receives the nourishment of the ancient dragon bloodline…]
Lin Xun used his own dragon bloodline to nourish the shell fragment. After a while, when he dug the fragment out, he discovered that its item description had slightly changed.
[Mirage Dragon Clam-Shaped Shell Fragment (Junk): …The dense bloodline originally contained within has been completely worn away, but for some unknown reason, dragon bloodline has once again been born from within the fragment remains. If this trend continues, perhaps before long, this fragment junk will become something useful.]
“Heh, hellish game, do you think this tiny little difficulty can leave me helpless?”
Lin Xun dealt with the main material, then continued scanning Vermilion Geographical Records.
But after scanning for a while, he was dumbfounded…
“Damn! hellish game, if you don’t intend to let me gather all the materials, just say so. There’s no need to make things this difficult for me!”
According to the information obtained through scanning, he had only found clues for two of the supplementary materials.
As for the ancient place names of the other three supplementary materials, there were absolutely no records in Vermilion Geographical Records.
As the palace of the main god, Chaotic Origin Dragon, Origin Dragon Divine Palace was definitely a good place hiding countless rewards. Now that the old dragon had been fully corrupted and was not at home, it just happened to give Lin Xun the opportunity to rob its home and get rich.
However, although the hellish game had provided some clues, it had fundamentally not provided all of them, making Origin Dragon Divine Palace a hidden map within sight but out of reach.
