“Rongrong, how dare you be so rude!”
Accompanied by a gentle, jade-like voice, Ning Fengzhi and Qian Renxue strolled side by side from the waterside pavilion corridor.
Hearing her father’s voice, Ning Rongrong reluctantly released Meng Chen’s battered rabbit ears.
She clapped her hands like a little fox who had stolen some candy, and then quickly climbed off Meng Chen.
Meng Chen felt as if he had been granted a pardon.
He sprang to his feet with a quick movement, hurriedly reaching out to cover his burning rabbit ears, and glared at Ning Rongrong with lingering fear.
“Father, you don’t know, I almost fell on the rocks just now, and Meng Chen saved me!”
Ning Rongrong ran and jumped into Ning Fengzhi’s arms.
Although she was willful, she still remembered Meng Chen’s kindness.
She tilted her little head up and pleaded with expectant eyes.
“Father, shall we take Meng Chen back to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School?
Those fellow disciples in the school are clumsy and not fun at all.
I want Meng Chen to play with me every day!”
Upon hearing this, Meng Chen felt a chill run down his spine and secretly rolled his eyes.
Playing with you every day?
Is that really playing with you?
You clearly just want to get my ears touched for free!
Ning Fengzhi affectionately pinched his daughter’s little nose and smiled helplessly.
“Nonsense!
Xiao Chen is Prince Qinghe’s sworn brother, a member of the Crown Prince’s household.
How can you take him away so easily?”
Qian Renxue stepped forward at the opportune moment and smiled gently.
“If Rongrong likes Xiaochen, the gates of the Crown Prince’s residence will be open for you at any time.
As long as the teacher allows, you can come to the residence to play with Xiaochen anytime.
Qinghe will be waiting for you.”
“You said it yourself, Your Highness!”
Seeing this, Ning Rongrong turned her head and raised her pointed chin at Meng Chen, huffing arrogantly.
“Did you hear me?
Next time I come to Tiandou City, you’d better not hide from me, or I’ll have Grandpa Sword pluck all your rabbit fur off!”
Although she uttered harsh words, her pretty little face clearly radiated undisguised joy.
As the luxurious carriage slowly drove away from the Crown Prince’s residence, the courtyard, which had been bustling all morning, finally returned to tranquility.
Five days passed in a flash.
For the past five days, Meng Chen has stayed indoors, focusing on his cultivation in the side hall.
Now, with his physical strength alone, he is able to withstand ordinary powerful attack-type Soul Masters.
But Meng Chen knew very well that this was far from enough.
To have the ability to protect oneself in the perilous Douluo Continent, one must break through the second blood seal as soon as possible!
Early in the morning, Meng Chen left the Crown Prince’s residence and headed to Cixin Pharmacy on the south street of Tiandou City with great anticipation.
“Young Master Meng, you’ve arrived.”
Inside the pharmacy, the shopkeeper, upon seeing Meng Chen’s distinctive golden ears, immediately and respectfully ushered him into a private room.
A short while later, Ye Cixin, dressed in a plain long dress, walked in gracefully.
What made Meng Chen’s heart sink slightly was that this renowned female physician from Tiandou City had an undisguised sense of guilt and exhaustion in her eyes at this moment.
“Madam Ye, has something gone wrong with the medicinal herbs?”
Seeing this, Meng Chen asked softly.
Ye Cixin sighed softly, then took out three golden nanmu boxes emitting a rich medicinal fragrance from her storage soul tool and placed them neatly on the table.
“Young master, the Thousand-Year Dragon Scale Fruit, the Thousand-Year Green Vein Vine, and the Thousand-Year Earth Dragon Tendon have all been collected for you by Cixin Pharmacy through all available channels.
The medicinal effects of all of them are of the highest quality.
However, there is a problem with the crucial fourth ingredient, the Thousand-Year Sea Dragon Marrow.”
Meng Chen frowned slightly.
Is it a price issue, or is the merchant out of stock?
“It’s not a matter of money.”
Ye Cixin gave a bitter smile.
“The caravan that was originally scheduled to transport the Sea Dragon Marrow encountered a rare riot of soul beasts on its return journey.
Most of the caravan was killed or injured, and most of the goods being transported were lost…
The thousand-year-old Sea Dragon Marrow was also lost.
It is likely that there will be no second one in the Heaven Dou Empire in the short term.”
Hearing this, Meng Chen felt a deep sense of helplessness.
What bad luck!
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Without a key ingredient, the breakthrough must be put on hold for now.
Although Meng Chen was somewhat disappointed, he understood that natural disasters are unavoidable and did not say much.
He paid the remaining three medicinal herbs with gold soul coins, carefully put the medicine box into his soul tool, and then bid farewell and left the medicine hall.
Walking on the bustling streets of Tiandou City, Meng Chen looked up at the azure sky and gently rubbed his throbbing temples.
“It seems we’ll have to wait a little longer for this second seal…”
……
At the same moment that Meng Chen was lamenting the obstruction of the elixir’s progress,
Deep within the vast, boundless, and sun-obscuring Star Dou Great Forest in the southern part of the Heaven Dou Empire.
This place is an absolute forbidden zone for human soul masters.
Even a titled Douluo at this level could be caught off guard if they were not careful…
In the center of that lake of life, as clear and tranquil as jade, the void began to twist violently without warning.
The rich, multicolored primordial energy of heaven and earth, so dense it had become tangible, suddenly surged, and above the sky, a faint, ancient, and mysterious silver dragon shadow flashed by!
Deep within the lake, a terrifying will that had slumbered for countless millennia quietly awakened at this moment.
“Buzz…”
Transparent ripples spread through the void.
Immediately afterwards, a faint light scattered, and a petite and slender figure slowly emerged from the spatial rift and the pervasive white mist, her delicate, snow-white feet stepping out of the water.
It was a girl, who looked to be about five or six years old.
This girl possessed exceptionally long silver hair, so long it cascaded down to her ankles like moonlight.
It shimmered with a dreamlike, sacred aura in the sunlight.
That delicate little face was like the most perfect creation in the world, without a trace of human warmth or worldly concerns.
What’s most breathtaking are those deep, clear amethyst eyes, absolutely stunning.
“My lord…”
At the edge of the Lake of Life, space distorted, and a tall, black-robed figure exuding overwhelming, ferocious dragon might knelt on one knee, filled with awe and his eyes were filled with fanatical excitement.
The petite figure with silver hair and purple eyes ignored Di Tian behind her.
Her unblemished purple eyes slowly rose, traversing towering mountains and endless void, gazing towards the Heavenly Dou Empire in the far north.
Not long ago, the bloodline belonging to the other half of the Dragon God within her, which had been dormant for a long time, sensed a distant yet incredibly intense bloodline resonance!
It was precisely because of the restlessness of their bloodline that Di Tian and the others became tense and had no time to pay attention to the Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm, allowing it to escape.
The silver-haired girl gently bit her lip.
“Is that aura yours?”
Her voice was like a secluded orchid in a valley, ethereal and cool, carrying a sacred whisper from ancient times.
As soon as she finished speaking, a faint silver light flashed, and the stunningly beautiful silver-haired figure silently walked out of the Lake of Life, gradually disappearing into the vast forest.