Chapter 539: Taking Risks

"Rest assured—"

Li Mochen saw through Angela's little thoughts: "Do you think the Supreme Dragon God would care about such a trivial matter? If it did, would it not know our purpose here?"

Angela thought he might be right, but as she followed Li Mochen through the Dragon Tomb world, she still couldn't fully set aside her worries.

Not until he led her before an enormous blue dragon skeleton, fully four hundred and fifty meters long.

—Judging solely by the skeleton's length, this dragon had undoubtedly been an ancient dragon in life.

Throughout the entire Dragon Tomb, there were no more than one hundred and fifty skeletons of this grade. The key point was that it was relatively recent, no more than six hundred years old; the ancient dragon's scales, claws, flesh, and organs were all intact. If these were sold, they should fetch about twenty billion gold shields.

Every part of an ancient dragon was a myth-grade material. Using this corpse as the main component, one could even directly forge four powerful myth-grade equipment pieces.

Crucially, the brain region of the skeleton still retained a trace of spirituality—the dragon's soul had not completely perished. When it arrived at the Dragon Tomb, it was clearly unwilling to accept its death.

If such a dragon corpse fell into the hands of the Dragon Lich Cult, it would drive them wild with joy. They could use this skeleton to directly create a dragon lich of lesser god level.

After all, its soul had indeed mostly dissipated. This meant that the former ancient dragon had lost most of the divine authority laws it held in life, leaving only a body still at the ancient dragon level, only slightly inferior to the latter.

Correspondingly, the residual spirituality of this ancient dragon could greatly reduce the pressure on Angela to manifest her true dragon form.

"A-Mo—"

Angela could no longer move; she looked at Li Mochen with eyes full of hope and anxiety. After seeing this giant dragon corpse, no other dragon skeleton could catch her eye.

Li Mochen frowned deeply, thinking that he had spent several hundred merits to wish for 'the dragon corpse most suitable for Angela,' and this was what he got?

This giant dragon corpse was suitable enough, but the problem was that obtaining this ancient dragon skeleton would likely not be easy.

Their location was in the central area of the entire Dragon Tomb, surrounded by at least seven 'Dragon Tomb Guardians.'

The slightest disturbance here would draw their lethal attacks. Their structure was also unique, existing by relying on the Dragon Tomb world. Li Mochen knew that his 'North-South Pole Life-Death Divine Light' probably couldn't disrupt their balance of life and death.

Moreover, with Angela's current mana and mental strength, she couldn't control an ancient dragon.

"I think we can give it a try."

Hazel was supporting Angela: "Rather than switching later, it's better to go all in one go. Angela can focus on studying the blue dragon. I recall the bloodline origin of the Dream Dragon is also the blue dragon, right? Also, we might not be able to enter here again. Mana is a problem, but brother, aren't you planning to make a demigod-level external elixir? Make one for Angela too."

Li Mochen glanced sidelong at Hazel, thinking that a demigod-level external elixir was something he could just make as he pleased? Even with the help of merit energy, it would be tough.

Moreover, even if successful, Angela wouldn't be able to control it. He, Li Mochen, relied on his past life's accumulation to have such capability.

Of course, Angela's soul power was very strong, and her knowledge was rich, comparable to a legendary mage, so it wasn't entirely impossible.

Using an ancient dragon to create a new Fantasy Dragon Armor, with some effort put into materials and the magic energy array, the usage requirements could be lowered.

He couldn't do it himself, but he could seek help from Anthony and his cheap teacher.

He could also try to seal part of the ancient dragon's abilities, keeping it at a demigod level.

Thinking of this, Li Mochen's mind stirred, and he began to plan carefully.

"We can give it a try, but I'm not sure if we'll succeed. First, we need to find a way to lure these 'Dragon Tomb Guardians' away. Then, Angela, are you sure the spatial container you brought can hold it?"

After all, their original plan was to be satisfied with obtaining an old dragon skeleton. An old dragon was at most three hundred meters long, only a few exceptions like 'Astral Dragons' exceeded that—these dragons living in the astral plane were not affected by gravity, so their bodies were unusually massive. They rarely entered the material world because its gravity would put immense pressure on their huge bodies.

An hour and a half later, a huge explosion suddenly sounded at the edge of the Dragon Tomb, its shockwave covering the entire Dragon Tomb world.

Then three different life auras, like bright lamps, attracted the attention of all the 'Dragon Tomb Guardians.'

—These were clones made from Li Mochen's own flesh and blood; the best among them he selected as his own secondary body. The discarded ones he did not give up on either. Thinking he might need them later, he kept them, always carrying them with him.

This lured away five of the seven nearby 'Dragon Tomb Guardians.' The remaining two also had their attention diverted.

Li Mochen and the other two dared not delay; they immediately began to work, first separating the dragon skeleton from the Dragon Tomb. The former had been resting in peace here, its body integrated with the entire Dragon Tomb through a special magical ritual, becoming part of the latter.

So to take this skeleton away, they first had to detach it from the Dragon Tomb.

This was not too difficult; the ancient dragon had perished only a short time ago—six hundred years was not enough for its bones to truly merge into the Dragon Tomb.

The key was still the 'Dragon Tomb Guardians' with lesser god combat power—fortunately, they were mainly melee fighters, not adept at spells.

At that moment, the two 'Dragon Tomb Guardians' had already arrived before them, exactly as when they attacked the Calamity Flame Dragon Lady Adrianna: both dragon claws struck down, tearing through time and space, with overwhelming momentum.

Li Mochen's expression turned stern; he activated the layers of defensive spells he had prepared, placing them before him. But these spells, at least of legendary rank, were easily torn apart by the huge bone claws. Only two demigod-level scroll spells, 'Force Shield' and 'Guardian of the Plane Spirit,' barely held off the 'Dragon Tomb Guardian' for a thousandth of an instant.

Li Mochen's face changed slightly; he dared not use his newly acquired time-space divine ability before this being. Instead, he covered the Light Demon No. 8 with the 'Ice Dragon Armor' and a layer of source power, then placed a fourth-grade holy artifact shield, 'Lionheart Shield,' before his chest.

The next moment, Li Mochen heard a crackling sound beside his ear; the parts of the Light Demon No. 8 groaned under the heavy blow.

But the 'Ice Dragon Armor,' which had evolved into a divine authority power, ultimately played its role, helping him withstand this heavy strike.

Li Mochen spat blood, his entire body uncontrollably flung a kilometer away.

Hazel suffered the same fate, in even worse condition—one of her arms had been shattered into blood powder.

But Angela had succeeded, completely storing the ancient blue dragon skeleton into a specially made void bag—whether due to some spiritual premonition, this void bag happened to be just the right size to hold it.

The moment Angela put away the dragon skeleton, all three of them simultaneously used the void rift torn by the small dragon vein to leave the Dragon Tomb world.