[To you, the Omniscience Authority that seals the power of the six great ancient dragons is like an iron wall stretched across the top of your head. Even if the sapling of the Hermit Bloodline grows with all its might, it cannot break through that iron wall and see the sunlight outside again.]

[But your use of the Flesh Authority is not entirely futile. Though you cannot make the sapling break through the iron wall and grow upward, you can make its branches and leaves spread outward…]

[Under the enhancement of the Flesh Authority, the effect of the related special effect Flesh Growth is greatly increased!]

[Your Shell Skill Dark Dragonfire Breath has increased from epic+ grade to mythic+ grade!]

[Your Shell Skill Hermit Descent has increased from epic+ grade to mythic+ grade!]

[Your Shell Skill Yokai Art – Art of Transformation… has increased to mythic+ grade!]

[Your Shell Skill Yokai Art – The Dreamer Awakens First…]

The densely packed skill advancement prompts directly flooded the screen. Every single skill of the little dragonkin Shell had been upgraded across the board to mythic+ grade.

Lin Xun stared at it in shock, finding it wildly satisfying.

Such rapid improvement gave him the illusion that he was using a cheat engine or a mod menu.

After this enhancement, the little dragonkin had gone in one leap from a bottom-tier Shell to an absolute T0-tier Shell!

Raising every skill to mythic+ grade did not simply mean increased skill power. There were also other aspects of improvement.

For example, Hermit Descent, which had always required burning health in order to transform into a giant dragon, had finally become a transformation with no resource loss. His mother would never have to worry about his transformation duration again.

For example, Dark Dragonfire Breath had also gained an additional state called World-Destroying Black Flame.

When the little dragonkin Shell transformed into giant dragon form, Dark Dragonfire Breath would change into World-Destroying Black Flame. Not only would the breath attack’s damage increase dramatically, it would also add the burning and virulent poison effects of World-Destroying Black Flame to the rider’s attacks…

Seeing this, Lin Xun could not help twitching the corner of his mouth.

This skill effect was indeed powerful, but he was an Apostle player, not a summon. Only he rode others, there was no chance of others riding him.

“I feel a bit bad about riding the Nine-Tailed Fox all the time. How about letting the Nine-Tailed Fox ride me for once?”

“…Right! I can ride myself!”

Lin Xun possessed a divine grade artifact like the Bee Queen Visage. He could absolutely make the little dragonkin and another rider Shell appear at the same time, thereby pulling off the flashy dragonrider move where the dragon was himself and the rider was also himself.

The skill description did not clearly state whether the bonus granted by World-Destroying Black Flame to the rider was triggered by physical attacks or spell attacks.

He was planning to find a chance to test it. If even a mage using ranged spells could trigger it, would that not be wonderful?

After Art of Transformation had been raised to mythic+ grade, even without relying on the Flesh Authority, the little dragonkin could now independently transform into the appearance of an ordinary person, no longer looking like some pitch-black caveman.

Just as Lin Xun was studying the new skills, he suddenly noticed that the skill description of Hermit Bloodline had also changed.

Because the power of the ancient dragons had been sealed, this skill had always remained at mythic+ grade, becoming the only skill that had not advanced.

[Shell Skill: Hermit Bloodline (Mythic+ Grade): A pure and great bloodline inherited from the Hermit Progenitor, possessing endless possibilities for advancement. You have successfully devoured part of the bloodlines of the other five great ancient dragons, but among them, only the bloodline of the Golden Lawgiver Progenitor contains inheritance power.]

[If you can obtain the inheritances of the Crimson King, Emerald Saint, Indigo Spirit, and Pale Sage, there is a certain probability that this skill will undergo a qualitative transformation.]

[By using this skill, you will be able to devour the bloodline power of any dragon race to advance the Shell Quality and skill quality of this Shell…]

[…]

“This… even blood essence is graded differently?”

Lin Xun carefully studied the skill description, focusing his gaze on the two words ‘inheritance.’

Back in Chapter Four, he had experienced the destruction of Hidden Canyon, and only then had the Hermit Progenitor granted him true inheritance before dying.

Now, according to the skill description, among the Five Great Ancient Dragon Blood Essence, only the inheritance power of the Golden Lawgiver Progenitor was present, while the inheritance power of the other four races was absent.

“What is going on here…”

[You successfully devour the Five Great Ancient Dragon Blood Essence and draw some memories of the five great ancient dragons from the bloodline power…]

[These memories are extremely chaotic, mixed and interwoven together with no logic whatsoever. You are unable to piece them together into anything complete or gain useful information.]

[Perhaps because of the inheritance power, among the chaotic memories, only certain memory fragments of the Golden Lawgiver Progenitor are comparatively clear…]

[…]

[Omniscient True Knowledge is the greatest and most powerful main god. The Abyss and the Stars are incapable of defeating Him… You affirm this without the slightest doubt, so you are willing to serve Him and be driven by Him.]

[The results of the two divine wars both verified this truth. Omniscient True Knowledge is the most powerful main god.]

[But even He, mighty as He is, cannot escape the fate that was already destined… The Abyss and the Stars were never His enemies. Neither is worthy of becoming His enemy.]

[He has only one enemy… and that is the terrifying Disorder.]

[Disorder has not only eroded this most powerful main god, even you believers who worship Him devoutly cannot escape the erosion and fallout of Disorder.]

[Omniscient True Knowledge seems to have long foreseen this future. Before the second divine war, He made an agreement with you to seal the power of the ancient dragons for precisely this reason.]

[But with Disorder as the most terrifying enemy, can merely sealing power be enough to avoid it?]

[Of course not! That old fellow Hermit is the best proof. Its faith was the most devout, its strength was the most powerful… and so it became the first ancient dragon to be eroded by Disorder.]

[You watched helplessly as He, sunk into madness, continuously gave birth to malformed offspring, then devoured those twisted descendants alive… You felt only your scalp go numb and your whole body turn cold.]

[Was that still the ancient black dragon that had always overcome every enemy and won every battle?]

[Was that still the Hermit Progenitor who had made demon gods and star gods alike tremble in fear on the battlefield of the gods?]

[The remaining five great progenitor dragons, including you, all knew that this was a fate that could not be escaped. In the near future, you too would become just like the Ancient Black Dragon.]

[Sealing the power of the ancient dragons could at most delay Disorder’s erosion. It was far from enough to isolate it. Your main god, yourselves, and your descendant offspring, not a single one could escape the erosion of Disorder.]

[You stood at the deepest level of Hidden Canyon, watching that once mighty Ancient Black Dragon become a twisted and malformed mountain of flesh, repeating its mad act of devouring its stillborn offspring…]

[Your heart had long since been swallowed by boundless terror, because in the unseen, you had a premonition that the next ancient dragon to be eroded by Disorder would be you!]

[You looked around at the expressions of the other four ancient dragons. In their eyes was strong sorrow, yet in the even deeper depths of their eyes was unwaveringly firm devout faith.]

[These dragons had all gone mad! They had all gone mad!]

[They clearly knew that if this continued, they would become slaves of Disorder, yet even so they still dared cling to their faith?!]

[You did not dare remain in Hidden Canyon any longer, and fled this place…]

[Because their devotion made you feel ashamed, made you feel humiliated and enraged, and made you think of them as incomprehensible fools blindly loyal to the end.]

[In the unseen, you had already felt the arrival of Disorder. You were about to become the second ancient dragon to be eroded…]

[You only wanted to flee this place, flee Omniscient True Knowledge, flee the faith you had once held firm…]

[You were going to betray the oath you had once treasured as dearly as life itself. Whether it be the Abyss or the Stars, so long as it could keep you away from Disorder, that would be enough…]

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