But still a little tired...
For some reason, ever since she ascended the throne, she has no longer been as motivated as she once was on the battlefield.
Since she has people helping her govern the country, she only needs to lead the development direction, and there won't be too many trivial matters to bother her.
Therefore, I am often lazy.
For example, every week or so, Xi Heng would go to Qin Xie Chang Xiang to reminisce with his junior sisters, or do some other entertainment.
"Let's take a rest first." She wanted to rest first.
Anyway, there is no concept of time here.
"It would be nice to have a projector, a screen and popcorn..."
Xi Heng let his thoughts drift away, and from this he thought of other things:
"Speaking of which, how many years will it take to develop Tianzhao to the point where it can show films?"
"One hundred years, or two hundred?"
"Tsk."
Feeling that there was little hope, she thought of another way:
"Tian Zhao is just one of the countries in the Chonghai Realm. Are there any places with high levels of technology in other realms?"
For example, the Steam Age, the Information Age, and even higher...
"I really want to go out and take a look." she said to herself.
"Flying boat..."
How to get the flying boat?
In other words, is there any other way to help her cross the realm, such as a teleportation array...
Thinking about such unimportant things casually, Xi Heng closed his eyes and slowly fell asleep.
……
After a few hours, I gradually regained my spirits.
When I woke up, I raised my hand and pressed [Load File].
There was a slight ripple in the air, the light scattered and overlapped, and three save slots appeared.
The girl hummed a light tune, her fingertips falling on the last pair.
The scene in front of my eyes suddenly twisted, and my body felt as if it was being twisted and changed in a whirlpool.
When he opened his eyes again, he saw the familiar appearance of the Dragon-Locking Well, and immediately heard a violent dragon roar coming from the bottom of the well.
"hold head high--!"
"It's a bit refreshing..." Xi Heng yawned: "Do your ears get shaken every time you come back here?"
Immediately, there was a shock wave at the bottom of the shaft, like the roar of an explosion.
Xi Heng ignored him.
The shaft is a hundred meters long, and the giant dragon below has been trapped for hundreds of years. If it could have broken free, it would have done so long ago. There is no need to worry about this thing coming out.
She just pinched her fingers and chanted the spell as before, activating the Heavenly Demon Transformation technique, using her flesh and blood spiritual light to greatly enhance her body and spirit.
After he finished, he turned around and said, "Everyone disperse."
The elite soldiers, who had been in a state of tension, immediately obeyed the order and cordoned off an area.
The space deep in the cave is huge enough, just like the space that the dragon at the bottom of the well came out of, and it is completely large enough to accommodate the dragon's heart.
Xi Heng silently read the inventory and pushed his hand towards the open space in front.
The next moment, the strange round meat ball fell into the melt without any warning, creating a cloud of dust.
Because of its shape, it moved on the ground.
Xi Heng clapped his hands, and regardless of the people around him who were horrified as if they had seen a monster, he simply used light skills to jump to the wound on Dragon's heart.
He drew his sword and cut off a piece of bloody meat from the soft flesh inside.
He grasped the piece of meat in his left hand, looked at the blood gushing out from underneath it, and blinked.
"There's no cup. How can I drink the blood?"
Looking back at the elite soldiers in the rear, most of them should be carrying bamboo tubes with them. Although there are two or three women among them, Xi Heng still feels a little repulsive.
She only likes to snatch her senior sister's bamboo tube to drink water.
Shaking his head, he chose the simplest way
He first put the soft meat into his lips, then directly scooped up a spoonful of dragon heart blood with one hand and handed it to his lips.
Pure dragon heart flesh and blood entering the stomach brings the same hot sensation as polyps, but the burning pain is obviously much less.
And the fever is not like before, which would spread explosively once it appeared.
The effect of pure dragon heart meat is more gentle, and the heat spreads more slowly.
And as the dragon's blood immediately entered his throat, the heat sensation no longer caused the same intense burning pain in his body as before.
However, changes in the body will always cause discomfort.
But this time she was no longer trembling all over, and the tearing feeling from the inside out was much weaker. There were no longer the hideous cracks on the surface of her skin like before, but instead thinner bloody scars.
Xi Heng drank another mouthful of dragon blood, tore open his sleeves and looked at his arms.
The burning sensation flowed to the arm, and at the same time, scars appeared on the surface of the arm, and fine dragon scales appeared, gradually becoming more and more prominent.
She gradually confirmed her conjecture from her previous life:
"This burning breath is the key to transforming into a dragon."
"Wherever the heat goes, fine lines will appear."
"Changes such as scales, dragon horns, and dragon pupils are also caused by the integration of heat into flesh, blood, and bones."
With the inspiration and quick thinking brought by the Heavenly Demon Transformation, Xi Heng quickly understood the origin of the dragon appearance.
"This hot breath may be what some books call dragon energy - when a person breathes in dragon energy, he or she will become a dragon."
I didn't notice this before because the discomfort caused by taking Dragon Heart Polyp was too intense, making it difficult to concentrate my mind.
It was also because she saw with her own eyes the dragon form dispersing that she realized that the dragon transformation was not permanent.
"If I can control this dragon energy and transform into a dragon or shed my dragon form at will, I should be able to master the power of the dragon..."
“But how can this be done?”
Dragon Qi is not transformed energy or Qi and blood, and it does not flow in the meridians.
Once it enters the flesh, it will expand rapidly like a drop of water falling into a sponge.
How can she, as a sponge, prevent water from soaking in?
"Maybe it's because I took in too much dragon heart meat that I can't control myself..."
Xi Heng had just eaten a fist-sized piece of dragon heart meat, but he felt a burning sensation spreading throughout his body, and his transformation into a dragon was complete.
"I think I should eat slowly and in small bites?"
"Forget it. There is still some dragon energy gathered in my chest. I will try to make some influence first."
She tried step by step:
"First, it is the manipulation of the flesh and blood itself... Most of the flesh and blood has been fused with the dragon energy, so it has become tough. If the dragon energy contained in it is stripped away, perhaps the dragon form can be cancelled."
"Well, Hua Jin and Qi and blood have little effect on dragon energy."
"Kenshin can feel the dragon's breath, but it still has no effect."
"It seems... only when you use up all your energy until your body begins to wither, will the dragon energy leak out."
Before this, Xi Heng personally killed two dragon-transformers.
But after the death of those two people, the dragon phase was not quickly removed.
From this we can see that the reason for the dispersion of dragon energy is not death.
More like 'withering'.
If you die immediately, the dragon energy will not be drawn out of the body immediately.
Perhaps it is because the physical body has not gone through the stage of 'withering'.
"Dragon energy doesn't seem to like withered flesh."
"If the life span of other people who devoured the dragon's heart was not affected and they gradually aged... it should also cause the dragon energy to leak out."
"Aging, declining, withering..." Xi Heng thought of a possibility: "Will life span have some effect on dragon energy?"
Longevity is a special vital energy hidden in the Qihai and Mingmen acupoints.
It is the hidden energy that supports the subsequent operation of life. It is extremely abundant and powerful.
It is almost equivalent to the 'vitality of the human body'.
The dragon energy seems to prefer vitality, and when the lifespan passes, it will leak out.
So……
Thinking of this, Xi Heng jumped off the dragon's heart and returned to the ground.
Sit cross-legged on a flat surface, focus your mind on your dantian, and gather energy in your palms.
During meditation, the Qi and blood flow slowly, first circulating in the meridians for several cycles.
Then, she skillfully performed the 'Fatal Technique'.
The Qihai and Mingmen acupoints are open, and the qi and blood turn into a spoon shape, from which a bit of longevity can be glimpsed.
The Life-Taking Technique can transport life force from vital acupoints, move it to Dantian, and gradually devour it bit by bit.
This is also what Xi Heng knows now, the only way to finely manipulate the vital energy - to move around by wrapping it with qi and blood.
Others, such as Blood Wave Sword Technique, Blood Line Forbidden Technique, Sword of Life, etc., are not about manipulating vital energy, but about explosion and forcing.
According to the experience before the last death, life span may have some impact on the dragon energy.
She couldn't directly control the dragon energy, nor could she directly guide her life span.
But she can wrap her life span with her qi and blood and indirectly experiment with dragon energy.
This time, the life force taken out by the Life-Taking Technique did not stop after reaching the Dantian, but passed through without hesitation and then flowed to another meridian.
As the Qi and blood circulate upward, they gradually move toward the heart and lungs where most of the Dragon Qi is gathered.
This was quite easy for Xi Heng, and any martial artist who had learned internal skills for a few months could do it.
Gradually, Shouyuan and the scorching dragon energy came into contact.
Once the two get close, they suddenly stick together like the two poles of a magnet.
The scorching dragon energy was attracted to Shouyuan. As soon as he approached, many times more dragon energy surrounded him.
One of the strands of dragon energy and longevity rotate with each other like a yin-yang fish, while attracting more strands of dragon energy around them.
"It does have some effect." Xi Heng quietly observed the situation inside his body.
Since the dragon energy will react to life span, everything will be easy.
She can use her lifespan to interfere with and manipulate the dragon energy to a certain extent.
A trace of lifespan has a weak attraction to the idle dragon energy.
Then, as long as she gathers a huge amount of life force and interacts with the dragon energy, the attraction will increase uncontrollably.
By then, perhaps even the dragon energy that has already merged with the flesh and blood can be absorbed again, and the dragon-like appearance will be shed.
"continue."
He tried to do two things at once, maintaining the lifespan that had already accumulated in his chest while continuing to use his qi and blood to transform into a spoon shape, drawing out new lifespan from the qihai and mingmen acupoints.
As her lifespan was gradually stripped away, her already pale complexion became even more frail.
If an ordinary person did this, he would probably die of old age in no time.
But to her, it doesn't matter at all.
