Dragon God

blood red dragon scale

Chapter 26 - Blood Red

Dragon Scale

The terrifying aura that paralyzed

Ling Xi with fear finally disappeared.

She thought Long Chen was fine but

in the next moment, he was rolling

on the ground in pain. Shocked and

afraid, she emerged hurriedly from

the sword and her tiny body circled

Long Chen in a panic. "Long Chen!

Long Chen! What happened? Don't

Scare me ..."

Her eyes slowly reddened as she

spoke. If she could still shed tears,

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"My skin, it hurts!" Long Chen felt

pain all over the surface of his body!

The tiny particle of Inherited Blood

Essence had quickly spread across

his body like a poison, and the pain

was due to the blood touching his

skin. "Long Chen, something's ...

growing out of your body!"

Long Chen was still full of agony

when he heard Ling Xi's frantic

exclamation. In a panic, his eyes

sprang open to look at his arm.

His arm had completely turned

blood red and the skin had fractured

into countless neat segments, each

the size of a fingernail, and

something was growing out of

them. To his horror, they were

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Long Chen gasped in shock. He

looked down at his body despite

the intense pain and saw that dense

red scales had covered his entire

body. A piece of red bone that

looked like a sharp knife protruded

from each of his fingers, toes,

knees, and arms. They looked much

sharper than regular blades too!

Long Chen froze in shock when he

saw the sharp bones protruding

from his fingers. "Is this ... a fucking

claw? Did | become a wild beast?"

He felt his back and found a row of

sharp spines along it. The blood-red

spines also appeared on many parts

of his body. His head was also

cOvered in dense scales, his hair had

completely disappeared, replaced

by terrifying red spines!

Although Long Chen couldn't see his

entire body, from his body and

limbs, he could tell that his body

had become the perfect weapon.

The blood-red scales strengthened

his defenses greatly; the spines

were great for attacks! "This look ...

With the blood red scales ... Well

this is dramatic ..." said Long Chen,

trying to find something good to

say as he stared at his body.

By this time, most of the pain had

faded. It looked like his

metamorphosis was almost

complete.

Ling Xi finally heaved a sigh of relief

when she heard Long Chen speaking

coherently. She was about to speak

when Long Chen asked, "Xiao Xi, do

you think I'm handsome looking like

this?"

Ling Xi regarded him for a while.

Long Chen looked vicious and

violent but the lines on his body

from the scales to his spines were

perfect. It was cool. But what's the

use of that? "Long Chen, hoW ...

how are you feeling?"

Long Chen observed the sensations

in his body. "I don't know .. but I

can feel immense power inside! I

feel powerful!"

He was feeling the strength of this

body. The particle of the Inherited

Blood Essence from the Dragon Seal

had penetrated his body and was

now headed towards its final

destination, his dantian.

Long Chen's body had already been

modified into something very

strange.

Long Chen could even see that

every organ, every bone, even every

drop of blood contained a blood-red

dragon's shadow twisting and

roaring angrily!

Every organ and muscle came alive;

his heartbeat grew several times

stronger. When the enhanced blood

flowed into his organs and muscles,

his body practically devoured it!

Long Chen had never dreamed of

such a strange phenomenon! "Why

did I become like this ... What

happened to me?" Long Chen

mumbled to himself.

While he muttered to himself, the

expanding Inherited Blood Essence

merged into his Qi, which had

attained the Fifth Draconic Stage. In

an instant, his Qi changed at

lightning speed. A wisp of red

appeared in it, and as it changed,

the red grew denser!

This process was not painful but

Long Chen realized to his shock that

ten units of his original Qi had

turned into one unit of this blood-

red Qi!

This realization had just hit him

when a strong wave of hunger

crashed through his body and his

face contorted.

Ling Xi asked worriedly, "What ...

What's going on with you?"

He could feel her concern and sawN

the worry in her eyes, and he felt a

gush of warmth. "|-| feel so hungry

.. l can't take it anymore ... 'm so

hungry!"

Long Chen groaned in suffering. Yet

they both realized in horror that his

groan was actually a dragon's roar!

But Long Chen had no time to

concern himself about it. He needed

ten units of Qi for one unit of blood-

red Qi! The feeling of starvation was

due to the lack of Qi. He realized he

was like demonic beasts! "l'm so

hungry! So hungry ..."

Long Chen collapsed on the ground.

He was so hungry that he had no

more strength left in him. Ling Xi's

mind was a mess after the events

of the day. She didn't know how to

solve his problem so all she could

do was say in a panic, "-I'm going

to get you something to eat!"

If she left, she would have to use

the Ling Xi Sword to fly away. She

would probably collapse after a

while, and there wasn't any hope

that she would find him something

to eat. When Long Chen heard her

say she was leaving, he stopped

her, "No, you don't have to! I don't

eat that.."

The sentence seemed to have come

out of his subconscious. Ling Xi

asked in a panic, "What the hell do

you want to eat then?"

Long Chen froze. He too was

wondering about that. This hunger

arose from insufficient Qi, so...

Long Chen had more than 500 spirit

jades on him. When he remembered

this, he fished them out quickly.

When he saw them, he realized he

didn't want to cultivate the spiritual

energy in the spirit jade but to eat

them!

To Ling Xi's horror, Long Chen

stuffed a handful of spirit jade

pieces into his mouth, crushing the

Qi-filled jade stones into powder

with his sharp teeth. He swallowed

huge amounts of nature's spiritual

energy, which entered his stomach

and his dantian where they were

quickly converted into new blood-

red Qi!

Long Chen felt like a person who

had been starving for several days

suddenly receiving a feast! While

that person might choke to death if

they ate too quickly, that wouldn't

happen to him!

His strange body absorbed the

spiritual energy extremely quickly. In

just fifteen minutes, he had

consumed almost 600 jade pieces

and turned them all into new blood-

red Qi!

Yet he realized the hunger had only

been mnomentarily sated!

The spirit jade didn't seem very

effective in making blood-red Qi.

Although the amount he had was

enough for him to break through

the Sixth Draconic Stage if he had

cultivated them normally, it was

more like a side dish now.

At least the plate of side dishes was

enough to slightly ease his hunger.

He had a feeling that he might die

of hunger if he didn't eat anything

else that night.

Ling Xi was stunned and speechless

when she watched Long Chen eat

the spirit jade. Despite her vast

experience, she didn't know what

was happening at all. Her nerves

finally calmed a little when she saw

Long Chen returning to normal after

eating the spirit jades.

She was about to speak when Long

Chen, who had finished his spirit

jades, suddenly spoke. "Xiao Xi, get

back into the Ling Xi Svword. We

need to get out of here. Help me

find a herd of nearby demonic

beasts! Quick!"

They were still in an emergency

situation. Despite her many

questions, when she saw the

urgency in his eyes, Ling Xi turned

into the sword and pierced herself

into his ear.

However, Long Chen's scales were

so hard that despite being a very

sharp sword, Ling Xi had to exert

immense effort to stick herself on

his ear.

Long Chen ran out without another

word. lt was late at night and his

bloody aura was extremely obvious.

However, there was an ancient

majestic feeling within the

bloodiness. The small demonic

beasts could sense this from far

away and trembled.

Long Chen headed towards the

deeper areas of the Desolate

Mountains. After a while, Ling Xi

said, "There's an underground

burrow in front. I can sense many

creatures inside but they seem to

be at least Category 5 Yellow-tier

beasts. You ..."

Before Ling Xi could finish, Long

Chen scurried into the underground

burrow. The scent of food was

already obvious.

The burrow was damp, with a thick

Scent of blood. He could faintly see

bones sticking out along the way.

Very soon, he reached an

underground burrow.

It was a large space with a dark

pool of mud on the ground. A

rotting stench attacked his nose,

though Long Chen was unaffected.

The mud was not far from his feet.

A blood-red silhouette slowly lifted

its head above the muddy surface. A

pair of red eyes stared at the

intruder coldly. "It's ... an

Underground Blood Lizard."

Long Chen's presence was tOo

obvious. Very soon, he noticed a sea

of red dots igniting like countless

lanterns in the dark. A sense of

violent hostility radiated from them.

Whoosh! Long Chen sensed the

closest Blood Lizard pouncing at

him, a rotting stench wafting from

it.

He realized that the Underground

Blood Lizards also had blood red

Scales and bony spines just like he

did. HOwever, their scales were

rough, large, dirty, and irregular.

Their spines were crooked as well.

Aesthetic wise, they were as

different as heaven and earth!

Long Chen didn't have time to think.

The Blood Lizard pounced on him as

if it wanted to crush him flat with

its huge body. In the past, Long

Chen would have destroyed it using

combat techniques but this time, he

did not.

He felt his blood surge throughout

his body. Although the Blood Lizard

was dirty, Long Chen had a peculiar

feeling that it would be a delicious

meal.

Long Chen shot forward, turning

into a red shadow. In an instant, his

arm stabbed through its abdomen,

his clawNS Squeezing its heart!