Chapter 30
Dragon Blood Resurrection Grass!
That plant was so strange.
It was not rooted in the soil, but simply floated on the surface of the cold pool.
Or rather, its roots have penetrated deeply into that bottomless, icy pool.
Its leaves are long and narrow with sharp serrations on the edges, and each leaf looks like an open dragon scale.
Its entire body is blood red.
It was a deep, almost black, red that shone brightly.
It was as if what flowed inside was not juice, but scalding hot blood.
In this dark, deathly still water filled with the stench of corpses, this alluring red plant stands out like a burning flame, seemingly out of place yet exuding a deadly allure.
【warn!warn!warn! 】
As soon as Jiang Han approached, the system in his mind suddenly issued a piercing red alert.
[A mythical-level companion spirit has been detected!]
[Extremely dangerous! Extremely dangerous!]
[This item is definitely guarded by a god-level creature! Host, please evacuate immediately! Evacuate immediately!]
Mythical level?
Jiang Han paused for a moment, but then the fervor in his eyes intensified.
Evacuate?
What a joke.
Now that things have come to this point, even if the King of Hell himself were to be present, he'd still have to pluck out a couple of hairs from his beard to take a look.
He ignored the system's warning and gestured for Black Fiend to come closer.
Black Demon and Little White remained firmly stationary ten meters away, refusing to take another step.
Their bodies trembled violently, and fearful whimpers emanated from their throats, as if the icy pool were some kind of absolute forbidden zone, where anyone who approached would be reduced to ashes.
That's bloodline suppression.
Absolute hierarchical suppression.
"Useless."
Jiang Han cursed, released the black-gold ghost claws, and jumped off Hei Sha's back.
He adjusted his posture in the water and slowly swam towards the blood-red plant.
The closer you get, the stronger the chill becomes.
Even the temperature control system of the tactical rain jacket started to alarm.
Jiang Han extended her hand.
The instant my fingertips touched the blood-red leaf.
"Buzz!"
The plant trembled violently, as if it were alive.
Immediately afterwards, all the leaves unfurled, like subjects meeting their king, and actually wrapped themselves around Jiang Han's fingers.
It was not an attack.
It's affection.
It seemed to sense the aura of the Qilin bloodline within Jiang Han's body.
[Ding! Identification successful!]
[Item Name: Dragon Blood Resurrection Grass (Mythical Grade)]
[Growth conditions: Extremely demanding. It must take root in the heart and blood of a "true dragon" and absorb ten thousand years of dragon energy to take shape.]
[Efficacy: It can bring the dead back to life and heal flesh and bones. Although it cannot truly bring the dead back to life, it can forcibly extend life by sixty years!]
[Note: This herb grows wherever a dragon falls. Where the herb remains, the dragon remains.]
The blood of a true dragon?
Extend one's life by another sixty years?
Jiang Han's pupils suddenly contracted to the size of pinpoints.
Sixty years of lifespan!
For him, a late-stage cancer patient, this was practically a miracle cure!
But what shocked him even more was the second half of the system's sentence.
Where there is grass, there is dragon.
Jiang Han slowly lowered his head, his gaze fixed on the bottomless icy pool beneath his feet.
If this grass grows on the blood of a dragon's heart...
So this so-called cold pool...
It's not a pond at all.
It was a huge wound!
Or perhaps... just a mouth?
So, what's buried underneath...?
Jiang Han felt a chill run from the soles of his feet straight to the top of his head, and his blood boiled at that moment.
He slowly raised his head, facing the drone camera, his voice hoarse, yet carrying a chilling calm:
"Brothers."
"Someone once asked me why the dragon is the only animal in the Chinese zodiac that doesn't exist."
"Experts say it's a totem, and it's fictional."
Jiang Han stroked the dragon blood grass, which was as alluring as fresh blood, and a mad smile curled at the corner of his mouth.
"Today, I will tell you."
"Our ancestors were not lying."
He pointed to the endless darkness beneath his feet.
"It's right down here."
"and……"
"It's still warm."
Rumble—!!!
The voice just fell.
As if to prove his words.
A muffled, loud thud suddenly echoed from the once calm depths of the icy pool.
It's like the Earth's crust is moving.
Immediately afterwards, a string of enormous bubbles rose from the depths of the icy pool, each bubble as big as a truck, carrying with it a thick black mist.
The entire cave began to shake violently.
The crystal pillars that sealed the corpses began to shake and crack.
The water began to swirl, forming a huge whirlpool that seemed to swallow everything in its path.
【warn!warn! 】
The system alarm became louder than ever before.
[The eruption of "Ancestral Dragon Corpse Qi" has been detected!]
[Energy Level: Cataclysmic!]
[Host, please evacuate immediately! Repeat! Evacuate immediately!]
The live stream chat went completely crazy.
[Holy crap! An earthquake?!]
[A dragon?! Jiang Shen, you're saying there's a real dragon down there?! Don't joke around, I have a heart condition!]
[Run! Something's wrong! It feels like the sky is about to fall!]
That vortex is about to suck Jiang Shen in!
Black Demon and Little White were so frightened that they lay on the ground, too afraid to move, and could only let out desperate cries.
But at the heart of that raging vortex.
Jiang Han did not take a single step back.
He clung tightly to the dragon blood grass, letting the raging water crash against his body.
In his eyes, golden flames and black ghostly energy intertwined, making him appear both godlike and demonic.
"Evacuate?"
He drew the black gold ancient sword from his back, its blade pointing directly at the center of the bottomless vortex.
The sound of wild laughter echoed through the rapids:
"This is the moment I've been waiting for!"
"Since you're here, don't sleep!"
"Open the coffin...and perform an autopsy!"