Chapter 177 - 62: Flame Dragon Breath (Part 2)

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And Feng Wanwan, it was under an extremely coincidental circumstance that she acquired Dark Fire. When Feng Wanwan was young, she went into the mountains to gather herbs on multiple occasions. One time, due to carelessness, she fell into a mountain stream. The stream was a thousand zhang deep, and when she fell in, she thought she was going to die. Who would have known that her life was not yet to end; as she fell, she was caught by a Cliff Vine. The cushioning force of the Ancient Vine spared her the fate of a bloody demise. When Feng Wanwan slid down to the lower part of the ravine along the Ancient Vine, she discovered that the deeper she went, the colder the air became, unbelievably so, at the bottom. It was only when Feng Wanwan reached the bottom of the stream that she found an underground ice river beneath the ravine, sealed with ice unknown for how many years. Beside the stream, ice crystals were forming on the ground. In the middle of the underground ice river, she found a Fan Dragon that was at the brink of death. "Dragon? Did grandma ever encounter a dragon? Aren’t the dragons of the Eastern Continent long extinct?" Yue Jinghua felt her throat go dry. For a Summoner, a dragon was undoubtedly the most deadly temptation. If there really were dragons in the world, then how wonderful it would be if she could tame one. "The dragons that Dark Practitioners talk about on the continent refer to the Holy Domain Dragon Clan, those enormous creatures have long been extinct. The dragon your mother spoke about is similar to the Lizard Dragons, Wall Dragons, and Earth Dragons of Longzhan Country. This Sub-Dragon Clan was bred by Dark Practitioners based on the legends of the Ancient Holy Dragons. In the Dragon War Empire era, didn’t you also follow your father to the Dragon Roar Cave to see dragons?" Lie Rou chided. This damn intermittent amnesia. Yue Jinghua cursed inwardly. How could she overlook such important information. A million years ago, for unknown reasons, the Holy Domain Dragon Clan disappeared from the Eastern Continent, but before they vanished, their traces had spread across the entire continent. On the continent, there are still many Dark Beasts with the bloodline of dragons alive today on the Canglong Continent, known as the Sub-Dragon Clan. The Fan Dragon is also a branch of the Sub-Dragon Clan, but compared to Lizard Dragons, Wall Dragons, and the Earth Dragon mounts of the Dragon Riders, Fan Dragons are rarer and more precious. Fan Dragons are wild Dragon Seeds, a hybrid of Volcano Lizards and the Ancient Dragon Clan. Legend has it that they are the descendants of the Holy Sanctuary Fire Dragon and the Giant Wall Lizard, hatching from the mouth of active volcanoes. Naturally possessing incredibly powerful Fire Attribute Dark Skill, due to their high Ancient Dragon Bloodline and demanding hatching conditions, Fan Dragons are difficult to obtain through artificial breeding. When Feng Wanwan found the Fan Dragon, it was already suffering from frostbite all over its body. Yet even so, its spread wings were over five meters long; the Dragon Breath it exhaled melted a large hole in the underground ice river. This was an adult Fan Dragon; for some unknown reason, it had met with disaster in this underground dark river. By the time Feng Wanwan found it, it was already taking its last breaths. Feng Wanwan was kind in nature. Although she also feared the gigantic creature, driven by the healer’s inherent compassion, she stepped forward to attempt a rescue, but to no avail, Just when Feng Wanwan thought the Fan Dragon was about to die a tragic death there, the Fan Dragon suddenly went into a frenzy, and with one bite, it clamped onto Feng Wanwan’s right palm. A Fan Dragon possessing part of the bloodline of an Ancient Dragon, even at its weakest, is still a High-level Dark Beast. A High-level Dark Beast’s desperate bite at the brink of death? Feng Wanwan was beset by starvation and cold, which was compounded by sudden terror, and she fainted on the spot. When she woke up, she found that the Fan Dragon had died, and she was enveloped by its wings, sparing her from the fatal freeze. After that incident, Feng Wanwan’s right palm developed a mark resembling a tooth imprint, a Flame Mark. She did not know the purpose of this mark, a remnant of the dragon’s bite, until later, when she learned from an elder alchemist that this Flame Mark was the Fan Dragon’s last breath before dying, sealed inside it, and was called Flame Dragon Breath. Perhaps knowing its own demise was imminent, the Fan Dragon felt gratitude toward Feng Wanwan for saving its life. Aware that Feng Wanwan’s mere mortal body could hardly withstand the intense power of the Flame Dragon Breath, it sealed its power in the palm of her hand, only allowing a small fraction of its strength to manifest. That year, Feng Wanwan was seventeen years old. In the next two decades, Feng Wanwan made use of the Flame Dragon Breath left behind by the Fan Dragon to refine various Spirit Pills. Feng Wanwan came from poverty and understood better than anyone the danger of possessing a treasure. Ever since she became famous, she rarely revealed the existence of the Flame Dragon Breath in public. To the outside world, she always insisted that the Flame Mark on her palm was a birthmark. Even Lie Rou only learned of it through a chance intrusion into the alchemy room during her childhood, and after repeatedly pressing Feng Wanwan with questions, she finally coaxed out the true origin of the Flame Dragon Breath. At this point, Lie Rou paused slightly. Yue Jinghua, after some contemplation, also understood—Dark Practitioners of the Heavenly Dark Realm could nurture pure and unmatched Alchemy Fire, prepared for High-level Alchemists to use in Alchemy. Presumably, the situation with the Dark Beasts was similar to that of Dark Practitioners. That dying Fan Dragon must have been a High-level Dark Beast, its Elixir Energy Fire reaching the prowess of Heavenly Dark Realm masters. Only then could its dying breath, the Flame Dragon Breath, assist Feng Wanwan in refining Elixir Pills. The mystique of the Canglong Continent was unfathomable, and many phenomena defied common sense. Yet, considering Feng Wanwan’s character and her cautiousness in dealing with others, and being an adept Pill Master at various pills, how could she have succumbed so easily to poison and perished? A look of doubt crossed Yue Jinghua’s brow, and Lie Rou continued softly, "The story is not yet finished. As the saying goes, ’Blessings arise from misfortune, and misfortune lurks within blessings.’ Your grandmother, through fate, acquired the Flame Dragon Breath, becoming a famous High-level Alchemist in the continent. Yet, it was also due to her long-term use of the Flame Dragon Breath that her body suffered the torment of fire poison." When the Fan Dragon transferred its last breath to Feng Wanwan, it also passed its natural venom contained within its teeth into her body. Feng Wanwan had tasted countless poisonous plants and poisons since childhood, her meridians and Dantian were already damaged, and she could never strengthen her body through the practice of Dark Skill as other Dark Practitioners did. Later, she met Lie Changgong, and the two, sharing mutual affection, became spouses. When Feng Wanwan became pregnant, to prevent the fire poison from reaching the fetus, Lie Rou, she went to Danlu seeking pills to protect her pregnancy. Being a freelance alchemist, yet considering her unborn child, she finally agreed to join Danlu. Danlu then bestowed a Snowfield Ice Ear, which quelled the cold poison within her body. After giving birth to Lie Rou, during a Danlu alchemy competition, she was forced to use the Flame Dragon Breath, revealing her secret. "Since then, your grandmother was never at ease, worried about bringing disaster upon herself. Your grandfather, seeing her unhappy, advised her to leave Danlu. At that time, I had already met your father and married into the Dragon War Empire, and your grandmother had no one else by her side. It was in the year you were five, while your grandfather was away on business, your grandmother went to gather herbs in the mountains and suddenly passed away," Lie Rou said this, pausing again, her voice trembling with pain she was enduring. Yue Jinghua tightly gripped Lie Rou’s hand, the hand of her beautiful mother drenched in sweat, cold as ice. "When she was discovered, her body was already ravaged by fire poison, covered in blisters, her face and body had long been decayed beyond recognition. Most despicable of all, her palm, the right one containing the Flame Dragon Breath, had been cleanly severed off," Lie Rou couldn’t continue further, she turned away, her eyes brimming with anger, "Only people from Danlu knew of the Flame Dragon Breath within your grandmother..."

Chapter 177 - 62: Flame Dragon Breath (Part 2)

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