Chapter 901: Bubbles

Before them stood a massive stone door, carved with an enormous dragon.

The dragon exuded an ancient and weathered aura; even after countless years of erosion, its pressure made everyone present feel awed.

Beside the stone door was a small pool of water, its surface a verdant green.

“Lu Li, you go first.”

The Heavenly Caldera Lord spoke, and one of his generals stepped forward, approaching the pool.

Lu Li bit his finger, letting a drop of blood fall into the pool, where it quickly dissolved and vanished.

“Gurgle…”

From the pool began to rise a few cyan bubbles, no more than four or five in number.

One of the bubbles floated toward Lu Li. The moment it touched his body, instead of bursting, it spread over him, forming a pale cyan light shield!

Lu Li waved his hand, and the other bubbles flew toward the other generals of the Heavenly Caldera Divine King.

In the end, including Lu Li, four people received this light shield.

Witnessing this miraculous scene, Ye Yuan couldn't help but marvel.

Shao Kai leaned close to his ear and whispered, “Within the Dragon Emperor’s domain, there are extremely deadly killing arrays. Only this kind of light shield can prevent one from being annihilated by the formation. But it seems Lu Li’s dragon bloodline isn’t very strong—he only summoned four shields.”

Ye Yuan suddenly understood. So this was why the lords were all seeking people with dragon bloodlines.

After Lu Li, two more martial artists with dragon blood stepped forward to summon, but their bloodline concentrations seemed not very high. The best among them only summoned six bubbles.

The bubbles summoned by these three were too few; they couldn't even fill their own camp, let alone the camps of other sovereigns.

"Pfft... With such a level of dragon bloodline, they dare to show off? Aren't they afraid of embarrassment!"

A young man stepped forward; judging by his appearance, he should be under the command of the Gray Pupil Sovereign.

Lu Li and the other two darkened their faces and said displeasedly, "Long Yang, you're just relying on being a disciple of Tianlong Ridge. What's there to be arrogant about!"

Long Yang glanced at them indifferently and said scornfully, "I'm just relying on being a disciple of Tianlong Ridge. What can you do about it? If you have the ability, bring more people in!"

This Long Yang was very arrogant and quite proud of his background.

When Ye Yuan heard the name Tianlong Ridge, he also showed a slightly surprised expression.

The Long family of Tianlong Ridge were descendants of true dragon blood, intricately connected to the dragons of the Demon Domain, and were also an extremely powerful first-class sacred land.

However, because the Long family had violated the dragon clan's taboos, they dared not adopt the dragon surname, and the entire clan had to change their surname to Long.

Of course, this was also a taboo for the Long family; anyone who mentioned it would be at odds with them.

Although Lu Li and the other two were displeased with Long Yang's arrogance, they had to admit that his bloodline was far stronger than theirs, so they had no choice but to keep silent.

Seeing them fall silent, Long Yang smiled even more smugly, swaggered over to the pool, and dripped in a drop of blood.

"Gurgle..."

The pool soon boiled, and in an instant, dozens of bubbles rose up!

Long Yang first put on the light shield himself, then manipulated the bubbles to envelop all the killing generals under the Gray Pupil Lord. Even so, ten bubbles remained.

But the martial artists from other camps showed expressions of regret; they had come here hoping that Long Yang would take them inside.

Now, however, ten spots were not enough to go around!

"Hehe, there are still ten spots. Who else wants to enter the Dragon Emperor's territory? Let me make it clear: you can go in, but you must swear a Heavenly Dao oath that once inside, if you find any treasures, I get first pick!" Long Yang said smugly.

Counting Ye Yuan, there were only five lords with dragon-blooded martial artists. That meant seven lords had no killing generals who could enter the Dragon Emperor's territory.

From the lords' attitudes, it was clear that the Dragon Emperor's territory held many good things; otherwise, these killing generals wouldn't risk going in.

But without the support of the light shield, they couldn't enter. Now, Long Yang was undoubtedly price-gouging.

At this moment, dragon-blooded martial artists were clearly in high demand. Because the blood could only be dripped once; further drops were useless. Moreover, the bubbles emerging from the pool could only be controlled by dragon-blooded martial artists, making each spot extremely precious.

"Hmph! Long Yang, what are you so smug about! Your light shield may be precious, but there's still one dragon-blooded martial artist who hasn't dripped his blood!" Lu Li said, clearly displeased.

At Lu Li's words, everyone's gaze focused on Ye Yuan.

Long Yang laughed loudly: "What a joke! When it comes to the purity of dragon bloodline, is there anyone in the human domain who can compare to our Long family? Lu Li, since you say that, it seems you don't need these ten spots? Hmm... looks like no one cares about these ten spots. In that case, I'll destroy them!"

Long Yang made as if to act, and the other killing generals couldn't hold back. Someone quickly spoke up: "Brother Long, don't act on impulse. Isn't it just one treasure? We'll give it to you!"

The speaker was Wu He, under the Blazing Flame Lord, who also had no dragon-blooded martial artist. If Wu He wanted to enter the Dragon Emperor's territory, he had to agree to Long Yang's terms.

There were only ten spots, first come, first served. Moreover, Wu He was a mortal enemy of Ye Yuan and couldn't possibly beg Ye Yuan for help.

"Haha, Brother Wu knows how things work!" Long Yang laughed heartily.

Wu He had just sworn a Heavenly Dao oath on the spot when Long Yang manipulated the bubble to envelop him.

With Wu He's move, the other sovereigns could no longer sit still. Even the Netherkill Sovereign spoke up to request a spot.

The ten spots were quickly snapped up.

"Haha, has everyone finished dividing them? Then I'll go ahead on my own!" Ye Yuan said with a hearty laugh, walking over to the edge of the pool.

Long Yang's face showed disdain. He knew that Ye Yuan's dragon lineage was not weak, but surpassing him was impossible.

Ye Yuan bit his finger and squeezed out a drop of blood like toothpaste.

"Drip!" The blood merged into the cyan pool.

One second passed, two seconds passed, three seconds passed...

There was no reaction in the pool!

"Hahaha, Ye Yuan, are you here to be funny? Are you sure the blood on you is true dragon blood? The pool water doesn't react at all!" Wu He laughed upon seeing this.

Long Yang also said contemptuously, "With such thin bloodline, you still dare to make a fool of yourself! Your dragon clan martial techniques—don't tell me they're all simulated with primal force?"

Si Yin's face also turned very ugly. She had secretly watched that battle; it was definitely true dragon power, so why did the pool water not react?

Ye Yuan, however, was completely unconcerned, a smile still hanging on his face.

"Gurgle... gurgle..."

Just as everyone was mocking Ye Yuan, the pool finally reacted.

Seeing this reaction, everyone's face showed an expression of disbelief.