Metal Devouring Evil Dragon

Metal Devouring Evil Dragon, cave in Yin Yang Realm
== Cave ==
The cave was dozens of miles wide. It was pitch-black inside, and an evil air came from within. There were also some bloodline fluctuations that made Long Chen’s heart pound.
== Description ==
"When it comes to the toughest physical bodies, the metal devouring evil dragon would be number one. Other than devouring flesh, they’re a strange variety that also devours large amounts of metal ore. That makes their bodies extremely tough, and in particular, their teeth and claws can easily tear through our bodies, so we never allow metal devouring evil dragons to approach us,” said Evilmoon.
“Don’t worry, the metal devouring evil dragon is already dead. It still retains its essence blood, which is what you sense. If you can obtain its corpse, it will be very beneficial. Although this metal devouring evil dragon’s cultivation base should be around the mid twelfth rank, so in terms of human ranks, your Netherpassage realm’s Life realm, it was extremely powerful when it was alive. Yan Nantian might not be its match. Let’s enter carefully. If we’re lucky and I can obtain some dragon marrow, I’ll be able to loosen the Sovereign seal slightly. Then I’ll be able to use at least ten times the power I can now,” said Evilmoon. Toward the end, its voice quivered slightly in anticipation.
== Skeleton ==
This large space was filled with skeletons. Long Chen looked and saw at least over thirty corpses, all belonging to twelfth rank Magical Beasts.
Just seeing a single skeleton of a twelfth rank Magical Beast was already shocking enough, but seeing so many gathered together was another matter entirely.
Long Chen suppressed his wildly beating heart, doing his best to stay calm. He crept forward and saw that this was a giant underground space. There were skeletons everywhere. In front of them was a giant stone pillar. There was a giant dragon skeleton coiled around it.
This dragon skeleton looked like it had been made of gold. Divine light was still shining from it, illuminating this underground world.
This golden skeleton was definitely a true member of the dragon race, not a drake. It had two horns on its head to distinguish it.
“This should be the metal devouring evil dragon. It actually reached the Death realm. It seems it forcibly broke through, and its longevity ran out, causing it to die here,” said Evilmoon.
Originally, Evilmoon had thought that this metal devouring evil dragon had only reached the Life realm, but unexpectedly, it had entered the Death realm.
However, it had exhausted its life energy while in the Death realm, not possessing the ability to transform death into life. It had died, but its skeleton was perfectly preserved.
“Evilmoon, I don’t think it’s so simple. Based on my years of experience with bad luck, I smell something fishy,” said Long Chen cautiously.
“It really is strange. Its skeleton is still perfect, and its divine runes are still shining. That means its crystal core is still intact. Furthermore, look below its neck. Its reverse scale is still present and thrumming with dragon blood. That’s what drew us over,” said Evilmoon.
Long Chen looked at where Evilmoon was pointing and noticed a golden scale floating in front of the skeleton’s chest. Because its entire body was golden, that scale was covered up by the golden light. He hadn’t noticed it at first.
When Long Chen turned back, he saw that there was now a path behind the metal devouring evil dragon. That path was precisely the one he had entered from. He had no idea what had happened, but he had been moved into a death trap without realizing it. If he wanted to get out, he would need to get past the metal devouring evil dragon and the mountain of skeletons.
Just at this moment, the giant dragon skeleton on the stone pillar began to move. Its dragon head slowly turned toward Long Chen, and its mouth let out a booming voice. “I really didn’t expect to smell such a familiar scent. Hahaha, amazing. If I can devour you, I should have enough life energy to rise from the dead and step into the Samsara realm.”
The metal devouring evil dragon’s voice rang through the air. It was speaking the human language.
Long Chen came to a sudden comprehension. “So you were playing dead, using your essence blood to draw these Magical Beasts over and then killing them for their life energy.”
“Wrong. Hmph, the metal devouring evil dragon race disdains feigning death. I simply failed while attempting to break through to Samsara. My life energy was lacking, and even when I sacrificed my physical body, I was still unable to transform death into life. But then a few idiots began bumbling over here, attracted to my essence blood. Did they think they could take it? Even after failing my breakthrough, killing them was easy. But after absorbing their essence blood, I found that the life energy within them could allow me to attempt to break through again if I accumulated enough of it. Human race brat, you’re very good in particular. You actually have true dragon essence blood on you, and it’s so pure. Just who are you?” The metal devouring evil dragon’s large eye cavities began to twinkle with a cold light.
“Who am I? If you want to know who I am, stand firm! I am the 17,589th generation heir to the divine dragon race! My name is Long Chen, ancestor to all dragons-”
The metal devouring evil dragon’s eye suddenly unleashed a ray of divine light. This underground world shook intensely, and Long Chen’s mind-sea quivered as an unmatched power invaded it. It was a golden sword that was trying to destroy his mind-sea.
== Battle ==
Even once its head fell to the ground, its skeleton, which had now been split into three portions, suddenly began to move. All three segments reconnected.
“Long Chen, splash some of your essence blood onto its bones. Don’t let it merge!” shouted Evilmoon as it attacked again, sending the head flying.
Long Chen didn’t tarry. He flashed toward its neck and spat out a mouthful of blood. It landed on the bone.
Long Chen was surprised to find that when his essence blood landed on its bones, its original golden color rapidly transformed into a white color.
His essence blood contained true dragon essence blood. That was an essence blood that suppressed all other dragons, including their dragon bloodlines.
The metal devouring evil dragon still had a bit of its essence blood in its skeleton, but when it encountered true dragon essence blood, it was instantly suppressed. It wasn’t even able to unleash its divine abilities.
Long Chen repeatedly flashed through the air, spitting out blood on the segments of the metal devouring evil dragon’s skeleton. It was no longer able to reconnect its body.
The metal devouring evil dragon’s body seemed to have been sealed, leaving behind only its head. At this moment, it opened its mouth, and seventy-two sharp golden teeth stabbed toward Evilmoon like seventy-two swords.
Evilmoon was sent flying by one of the teeth. The metal devouring evil dragon’s teeth were its toughest weapon. Evilmoon was actually unable to block them.
== Death ==
Long Chen immediately appeared beside Evilmoon, and a blood-colored rune appeared on his forehead. This was the seal used to control Magical Beasts. He didn’t quite know what Evilmoon was planning.
Evilmoon absorbed the blood-colored rune and sent it into the metal devouring evil dragon’s head.
Black qi suddenly burst out of Evilmoon. The golden head was quickly infected by that black qi. Cracks covered it.
Finally, the metal devouring evil dragon’s skull shattered, and a giant crystal core appeared. Long Chen’s blood-colored seal was on top of it.
“I’ll absorb its soul essence, and that will conveniently help you subdue these dragon teeth. Those are true treasures. Focus! Using the crystal core as a foundation, try to control the dragon teeth,” said Evilmoon.
Black qi continued to flow out of Evilmoon. It enveloped the golden crystal core, causing it to start turning black as well.
The roaring of the metal devouring evil dragon could still be heard coming from the crystal core, but it was unable to stop the invasion of the black qi. Its roaring gradually grew quieter.
Long Chen obtains the Golden Dragon Teeth from it.
== Bones ==
Its goal was its dragon marrow.
Long Chen put the metal devouring evil dragon’s skeleton into the primal chaos space. He found a secluded place for Evilmoon to calmly absorb it.
Once Evilmoon absorbed its dragon essence, this corpse would be useless. Originally, Long Chen had also wanted the dragon claws, but Evilmoon had told him that it wasn’t possible.
The dragon claws were different from the dragon teeth. The claws didn’t possess their own runes, so they weren’t very useful. Most importantly, if he took away the dragon claws, the dragon marrow would no longer be complete.
Only then did Long Chen learn that the dragon marrow was not just located in its spinal column, but throughout all of its bones. 
As for its teeth, rather than calling them bones, they were more like solid metal. They were the main tools the metal devouring evil dragon used to eat its food. They might be priceless treasures to Long Chen, but they were useless to Evilmoon. So the two were taking what they each needed.
== DBL ==
"Starting today, you will be true Dragonblood warriors."
A golden scale suddenly appeared in the air in front of everyone. A fierce aura came from it, and the roar of a furious dragon shook their ears.
"It's a dragon scale. It's the reverse scale of the ancient beast known as the metal devouring evil dragon. Inside is its essence blood. When I obtained it, it was just preparing to make a breakthrough to the Samsara realm, so the essence blood inside it is very pure and powerful. Once you absorb it, your blood will be dragon blood. Once you can control it, I'll teach you the Dragon Blood Body Tempering Art. You will also be able to upgrade your bodies with dragon blood. How is it, are you looking forward to it?" Long Chen laughed mischievously.
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