Before they reach the Lava Sea where the Forbidden Fire resides, let these adventurers acclimate to the Lava Lake first.
Currently, there are four teams in the Lava Lake: Manfred's, Caiman's, the elves, and the Red Rose team.
Once the strengthened Brock enters the twelfth floor, a massive battle royale will erupt in the Lava Lake.
In the harsh environment of the Lava Lake, thick with smoke, a free-for-all will break out.
The only foothold is a tiny fire-resistant boat.
Beneath the Lava Lake lie countless monsters. Dalun Li could hardly wait to see these adventurers at each other's throats under such brutal conditions.
As for which adventurer would be the first to find the hidden eleventh giant pillar and kill the Sub-dragon Wyvern...
“This can be considered a way for these adventurers to experience some combat beforehand.”
“After all, the battle to pursue the unique Forbidden Fire on the Lava Sea later on will be the main event.”
“Am I being too kind?”
Dalun Li couldn't help but think this.
To help the adventurers pursue the Forbidden Fire, he had even created the battle royale terrain of the Lava Lake as a mock exam for them.
Was there any other dungeon in this magical world as kind-hearted as his?
Whether it was kindness or not was another matter.
The orb floating on the pedestal emitted a bright light, and a unique vine broke through the ground, slowly growing.
Upon the vine grew a mass of flesh.
This flesh possessed blood vessels, bones, and skin.
White, root-like tendrils grew from the vine connected to the flesh, penetrating it to provide nutrients to the mass.
Dalun Li expertly connected to the Eternal Imprisonment Brain.
In an instant, as he linked with the Eternal Imprisonment Brain, Dalun Li's thought processes accelerated several times over.
Every thought became clear in an instant; his understanding and mastery of extraordinary knowledge ascended from that of a genius to a monstrous genius.
If this were a cultivation world, the supreme elders of a sect would likely be unable to resist exclaiming that this child had the potential of a Grand Emperor.
Of course, this wasn't the limit yet. Dalun Li wouldn't be satisfied with just the potential of a Grand Emperor; the level of the Eternal Imprisonment Brain had not yet been fully developed.
However, the current Eternal Imprisonment Brain was sufficient.
He pushed the Eternal Imprisonment Brain into an overclocked state while simultaneously calling up the data on Brock's physical body stored within it.
This data detailed the physical changes Brock underwent when he broke through to become a second-rank mage.
Using this information, Dalun Li manipulated the vines, injecting energy to begin a second modification of the flesh.
As the orb on the pedestal glowed with a silvery-white light, the vine tendrils growing on the flesh began to squirm, emitting a halo of mana.
The entire vine also began to continuously pump energy and nutrients into the flesh to fuel its modification.
Dalun Li concentrated intensely, activating his Monster Creation talent to carefully modify the flesh.
Initially, this mass of flesh was only a tiny portion of Brock's body tissue.
Through this period of cultivation, it had grown skin, tendons, and bones.
Now, with the second modification, the mass of flesh changed once more.
The mana within it rose rapidly, and the flesh began to break down, unable to withstand the power.
“Blood vessels bursting, cells proliferating rapidly and chaotically... it looks like cancerous tissue.”
Dalun Li wouldn't let this cultivated flesh tissue lose its vitality.
This was a very likely way to test where the uniqueness of Brock's body truly came from.
He quickly manipulated the vines and began to heal the mass of flesh.
Plant life was a field in which Dalun Li was extremely proficient.
Sure enough, as Dalun Li applied healing, the collapse of the flesh tissue stopped, and it began to regenerate rapidly.
However, this regeneration was still unable to withstand the mana within.
Dalun Li quickly changed his method, increasing the strength of the flesh.
Under the shifting state of collapse and change, the flesh finally transformed again.
Beneath the skin, a peculiar stratum corneum began to grow.
These layers were like knives, pushing through the skin as they grew outward.
The newly emerged layers were bloody and soft in texture.
However, as Dalun Li injected energy, the layers rapidly expanded and hardened.
Dalun Li was very familiar with the power within this stratum corneum.
“Dragon scales!”
Indeed, they were the scales of a dragon.
The Sub-dragon Wyvern Dalun Li had previously created using the skeletal remains of a sub-dragon's leg possessed the [Dragon Scales] skill.
As the dragon scales grew, the surface of the flesh tissue became covered in a layer of pale purple scales.
“Dragon bloodline...”
“Does the uniqueness in Brock's body stem from a dragon?”
The surprise in Dalun Li's heart slowly subsided; he didn't find it that strange upon reflection.
Dragons were the most legendary and powerful life forms in the magical world.
If Brock's massive mana capacity was due to a dragon bloodline, it made perfect sense.
However, a dragon bloodline typically had very strong dominant hereditary traits; a human with a dragon bloodline could not possibly maintain a purely human form.
Scales, horns, dragon tails, claws, dragon wings... those were all normal.
Therefore, races that inherited a dragon bloodline were also known as dragon-kin or dragonborn.
Dragonborn were not only powerful but also held high status.
Yet Brock didn't show a single dragonborn characteristic.
Dalun Li was becoming more and more puzzled.
Could it be that the dragon bloodline in his body was special?
A dragon with massive mana and purple scales.
Perhaps Dalun Li was simply ill-informed and had never heard of such a dragon's existence.
The situation was too bizarre.
One had to remember that Dalun Li had already integrated the Forbidden Fire Stone into every inch of Brock's flesh and bone.
Yet he hadn't discovered the existence of a dragon bloodline at all.
However, this physical cultivation clearly manifested dragonborn traits.
Dalun Li stopped thinking and focused his gaze on the flesh before him.
“At least the cultivation is a success.”
Dalun Li took out a glass bottle and then precisely sliced into the tendons within the flesh.
He drained the blood from it.
The flesh he had worked so hard to cultivate quickly became shriveled.
Dalun Li didn't completely drain the flesh; for the sake of sustainable development, he stopped after filling one bottle of blood.
After carefully sensing the blood in the bottle, Dalun Li's mood turned to one of pleasant surprise.
“There is indeed the aura of a dragon.”
“The cultivation was quite successful!”
Dalun Li then manipulated a mass of Forbidden Fire to perform a second refinement on the blood.
The property of Forbidden Fire wasn't just destruction; the Forbidden Fire itself possessed the characteristics of life.
It could not only serve as the fire for foundry arts but also refine biological materials with ease.
Soon, under the burning of the Forbidden Fire, the impure blood in the bottle evaporated, leaving only the most refined essence.
In the end, the bottle of blood yielded only one percent dragon blood.
Looking at the tiny droplet of dragon blood, the size of a mung bean, floating in the bottle, countless uses flashed through Dalun Li's mind.
Brock really is a great material!
However, this extraction of dragon blood couldn't be done indefinitely.
Dalun Li looked at the shriveled mass of flesh.
Although the wounds and consumption had been healed by the vines, the flesh had suffered irreversible aging.
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