Only upon reaching the jade stone did Mo Fan truly see how severe Yingying Monster’s injuries were.
Its enormous body was mostly stained blood-red, with almost no scales intact. Its back had multiple gashes, flesh torn open, and through the gaps, white bones were faintly visible.
At the same time, Mo Fan noticed that Yingying Monster’s wounds were slowly healing under the nourishment of the true dragon lair, which eased his mind somewhat.
“Daddy, why are you here?”
At this point, Yingying Monster lifted its massive head, opened its eyes to look at Mo Fan, its tone still weak.
“Of course Daddy came to find you!”
Mo Fan smiled, forcing out a large amount of demon fluid from his body. With a casual wave, it entered Yingying Monster’s forehead.
The next moment, the injuries on Yingying Monster healed at a visible speed.
At the same time, its drowsy mind became much clearer.
“Thank you, Daddy!”
Enjoying Mo Fan’s care, Yingying Monster immediately beamed with joy. Though still in dragon form, its expressions were as rich and varied as a human’s.
“Thank my arse! You call this king Daddy, so naturally this king must take good care of you!”
Mo Fan rolled his eyes, his tone full of helplessness.
At first, he had been quite resistant to this dragon son he had picked up for free.
But as they spent more time together, he gradually developed some affection. Until earlier, when he witnessed Yingying Monster’s miserable state with his own eyes, the anger in his heart finally erupted.
Now, looking at Yingying Monster’s cheeky appearance, he suddenly felt that having such a dragon son was actually pretty good.
“Daddy, I am absorbing true dragon blood right now. It contains the inheritance of an ancient true dragon. So, Daddy, do you want to take a couple of sucks?
That way, you could have the same chance as Yingying Monster to obtain the ancient true dragon inheritance!” Yingying Monster suddenly said.
Hearing this, Mo Fan felt a slight temptation, but soon shook his head. “Daddy does not need it. You absorb it properly! Daddy will guard you here!”
“Daddy is so good!”
Yingying Monster immediately grinned, then smiled happily.
Mo Fan could only laugh and cry at the sight, thinking to himself, you call me Daddy, so how could a father snatch his son’s opportunity?
“Daddy, how did you find this place?” Yingying Monster asked curiously while absorbing the true dragon blood.
“After returning to Black Wind Mountain, I found you had not appeared for a long time, so I asked Bai Yaoyao about the situation. Then she and I sneaked into the Nether River beneath the spring pool to look for you. As a result, we learned about the Black Dragon King from a demon general there.
After that, we fought the Black Dragon King and learned of your whereabouts. So we used the great teleportation array there to come to this Dragon Ruins.”
Mo Fan explained briefly.
“So that’s how it is. Does that mean Mummy came too?” Yingying Monster’s eyes lit up immediately!
Mummy?
Mo Fan’s face twitched at the word, but thinking of Bai Yaoyao’s devastating beauty, he suddenly felt he had not exactly lost out…
“Yes, but she and I got separated. I met you first.”
Mo Fan nodded, then asked, “By the way, tell me what happened to you during this time!”
As he spoke, he glanced at Yingying Monster’s noticeably larger body and saw it had grown another pair of legs. He immediately activated his Blue-Eyed Essence Divine Ability to examine it.
Sixth-order chi dragon, early king realm cultivation!
As expected, Yingying Monster had broken through to the king realm!
But Mo Fan was unclear how it had achieved this breakthrough.
After all, from the information he knew, the entire true dragon lair was restricted by mysterious rules, making it impossible to undergo tribulation here, and no one dared to do so.
For someone like him, reaching the king realm in boundary was fine. As long as the tribulation had not been crossed, true king realm power could not be unleashed, so the Dragon Ruins rules would not kill him.
If he truly underwent tribulation here, it would be different. It would trigger the Dragon Ruins rules, and he would be directly killed by them, just like the cultivator he had seen outside the true dragon lair earlier.
But there was a more critical factor: he had not sensed the presence of thunder tribulation at all in these Dragon Ruins.
In other words, it was impossible to truly undergo tribulation and break through in this secret realm!
Yet this did not seem to apply to Yingying Monster. Moreover, according to the memories of the ancient mushroom demon, he discovered that the blood-coloured chi dragon had also broken through to the king realm in this true dragon lair, even cultivating all the way to the ancestor realm.
All this contradicted the information Mo Fan knew.
However, he was in no hurry to ask and listened carefully as Yingying Monster recounted.
It turned out that Yingying Monster had indeed stayed obediently with Big Head in the spring pool at first, cultivating dragon loaches. But later, it discovered aquatic demon cultivators coming from below the spring pool.
After a battle, the aquatic demon cultivators were utterly defeated. Yingying Monster then forced them to reveal information about the Nether River. After that, it could not stay put and went to the Nether River every few days.
In its words, it was to search for the source of those dragon loaches.
But it never found the source and instead attracted the attention of the Nether River’s demon king, the Black Dragon. A battle ensued, Yingying Monster was no match, got injured, and fled.
Finally, in an abandoned cave, it saw a great teleportation array. Upon entering, it was inexplicably transported to the Dragon Ruins.
However, in the Dragon Ruins, Yingying Monster was delighted to find it could strengthen its dragon qi and promote its evolution by devouring the dragon-blood creatures inside.
Moreover, it seemed naturally to counter those dragon-blood creatures. Even those with higher cultivation were far from its match.
Just like that, after devouring an unknown number of dragon-blood creatures, Yingying Monster finally provoked a monster it could not handle, a far more powerful dragon-blood creature!
Thereafter, it was chased all the way by that dragon-blood creature, eventually fleeing towards Blood Dragon Mountain. With no retreat left, Yingying Monster chose to fly into the unfathomable abyss, stumbling by chance into the outer entrance of the true dragon lair.
In the cavern, it saw the terrifying guardian beast that resembled a true dragon. Thinking its life was over, it discovered the guardian beast did not attack it.
At the same time, in a mysterious way, Yingying Monster sensed an extremely strong force attracting it. So it followed the sensation to the blood-coloured crystal wall and entered the true dragon lair without any trouble.
When Mo Fan heard this, the image of those old fellows attacking the blood-coloured crystal wall together inexplicably came to mind, making his expression turn strange.
In his view, if those old fellows knew Yingying Monster had entered the true dragon lair so easily, they would probably be furious enough to explode.
This made Mo Fan think again of the female cultivator in the mushroom demon’s memories. There seemed to be some common connection, but for the moment, he could not figure out what it was.
The rest was simpler. Yingying Monster followed the sensation all the way to this fire vein tomb cavern, smoothly finding the true dragon blood on the jade stone, and began absorbing and refining it.
This cultivation session lasted an unknown amount of time.
It only knew it had broken through the king realm bottleneck and become a true demon king!
“This place can isolate heavenly dao senses, preventing thunder tribulation from descending. How did you become a demon king?”
After Yingying Monster finished recounting its experiences, Mo Fan immediately asked the doubt in his heart.
