“Yes, the energy of a Dragon Seal relic.” The Demon Star trembled, “This is the purest energy in the world, capable of transforming into any energy attribute.”
Solon’s heart first gave a leap, then he continued gently trying to awaken Queen Yan.
For him, reviving Queen Yan at this moment was the most important thing.
She remained with her eyes closed, unresponsive. Solon placed his hand on her carotid artery and found there was a pulse.
Next, he could no longer concern himself with propriety, pressing his ear to her chest to listen for a heartbeat.
However, the heartbeat was also normal. Even her breathing was very steady.
Both heartbeat and breathing were normal, yet she simply could not regain consciousness.
“Demon Star, what is wrong with Queen Yan?” Solon asked, “Her heartbeat and breathing are both normal, yet she simply cannot wake up.”
And at this time, the Demon Star was still immersed in the excitement of the Dragon Seal relic energy, and had not clearly heard what Solon was saying.
Only after Solon repeated himself several times did it react, saying, “Master, just now when we fell from the abyss and dropped into the Sea God colossal beast’s mouth, what did you feel?”
“As though I passed through countless energy arrays, countless bizarre scenes of light and shadow, assaulting the brain domain, shattering the entire mind into pieces,” Solon said.
The Demon Star said, “Your mind was protected by me, but Queen Yan’s mind had no protection whatsoever. And most importantly, she fell first, so the vast majority of the energy attacks were borne by her. Therefore… her brain domain may have already suffered devastating damage.”
Solon was startled. Did that mean Queen Yan had become… a vegetable?
“Is there any way to revive her?” Solon asked.
The Demon Star shook its head, “I do not know. We can try, but I feel it will be very difficult.”
Solon said, “Still blood fusion, with your energy tentacles entering her brain domain to stimulate her spiritual recovery, correct?”
The Demon Star said, “Yes, Master, you are already more familiar with it than I am.”
Solon could not attend to its joke, because the Demon Star concerned itself only with Solon alone. It paid not the slightest attention to the life or death of others.
He cut open a wound on Queen Yan’s arm, then cut open a wound on his own finger, letting the blood of the two people fuse.
The Demon Star’s tentacles entered Queen Yan’s body through the blood, and then entered her brain domain.
If Queen Yan were awake at this time, or even merely unconscious but with her brain domain undamaged, the Demon Star’s energy tentacles would also have difficulty entering her brain domain.
Because the defence of the brain domain was extremely strict.
“Master, Queen Yan’s brain domain is completely undefended at this time. It is evident her spirit has suffered devastating damage,” the Demon Star said.
Solon said, “Release energy to stimulate her brain domain and see if it can recover.”
Following Solon’s command, the Demon Star released energy to stimulate Queen Yan’s brain domain.
However…
This energy completely sank like a stone into the sea, without any reaction!
Once, twice, three times, five times, ten times…
There was completely no reaction at all!
“Very well, no need to continue,” Solon said.
The Demon Star stopped. After a long while it said, “Master, her brain domain is too severely damaged. The possibility of almost complete recovery is gone, unless…”
“Unless what?” Solon asked.
The Demon Star said, “Unless she receives nourishment from an enormous spiritual force. Of course, it must be extremely, extremely, extremely enormous, roughly dozens of times, hundreds of times greater than your spiritual force. Only then can her brain domain recover and allow her to regain consciousness.”
Solon said, “The Dragon Seal relic can restore her consciousness, correct?”
“Yes,” the Demon Star said, “Not only that, the Dragon Seal relic can also make her incomparably, incomparably powerful. However…”
Solon said, “However, once the Dragon Seal relic is given to her, I will be unable to devour it, correct?”
“Yes,” the Demon Star said.
“I understand,” Solon said, “Where is the Dragon Seal relic? Where are we now?”
The Demon Star said, “We are in the heart of the seabed colossal beast.”
Solon was startled. The cavern he was in at this time was truly massive, several thousand to over ten thousand square metres in area.
And the ground of this cavern was completely hard yet crystalline and translucent. This did not resemble the heart of a seabed colossal beast at all. There was no mucus, no blood.
The Demon Star said, “This colossal beast is not a true colossal beast, but rather an energy creature. Press your ear to the ground.”
Solon did as instructed, pressing his ear to the ground.
“Boom… thud… boom… thud…”
Indeed, it was the rhythm of a heartbeat, roughly one beat every nine seconds.
Moreover, he also discovered that with each massive heartbeat, the cavern where he was would contract slightly. Though the degree of contraction was extremely, extremely minute, it was indeed continuously contracting.
The Demon Star said, “Just as you previously speculated, these Yan Islands are also part of an ancient civilisation. It was once a kingdom, a maritime kingdom. And this Sea God colossal beast is the lifeblood guardian deity of the entire kingdom. It is not a true creature, but rather a massive energy body, continuously swallowing seawater and then purifying it into fresh water, sustaining the people of this maritime kingdom.”
This was the secret of how Yan Island possessed inexhaustible fresh water.
It was the Sea God colossal beast, through the energy provided by the Dragon Seal relic, continuously transforming seawater.
Solon said, “The Dragon Seal relic, then, is the power core and energy source of this Sea God colossal beast. Just as at the Blood Shore Lost City, the energy for the entire kingdom’s defensive grand array was provided by the Dragon Seal relic in the holy temple.”
“Yes,” the Demon Star said.
Solon said, “The Dragon Seal relic at the Blood Shore Lost City was a Dragon Flame. Then what do you think the Dragon Seal relic of the Yan Island kingdom is?”
“I am not certain,” the Demon Star said.
“Where will it be?” Solon asked.
“Also within the Sea God colossal beast’s heart,” the Demon Star said, “Just as the Dragon Flame crystal was at the centre of the Blood Shore Lost City, so the Dragon Seal relic of the Yan Island kingdom must certainly be at the centre of the Sea God colossal beast.”
Solon said, “And we are currently inside the Sea God colossal beast’s heart?”
“Yes,” the Demon Star said.
Solon said, “The fresh water is becoming less and less because the energy of the Yan Island kingdom’s Dragon Seal relic is gradually depleting, so the efficiency of fresh water transformation is becoming slower and slower.”
The Demon Star said, “Yes. Just now when Queen Yan jumped in, and then you were pushed down, it caused the Sea God colossal beast to activate its defensive energy array. This exhausted its final energy. So now its heartbeat is becoming slower and slower, becoming one beat every nine seconds, then every ten seconds. Imagine, once a creature’s heartbeat slows to this degree, what will happen to it?”
“It… will die,” Solon said.
“Yes, the Sea God is about to die, and it will die very soon,” the Demon Star said, “Yan Island is about to be destroyed. So Yan Mo was correct. He was a clear-sighted person. The Yan people must change, must expand, must leave the Yan Islands, or else they will perish. However, every clear-sighted person is in pain.”
The Sea God was about to die!
It did not know how many years it had lived, thousands of years, tens of thousands of years, yet it was about to die!
The energy of the Dragon Seal relic was about to be completely exhausted!
The Demon Star said, “Therefore, you must obtain the Dragon Seal relic before the Sea God dies, or else this Dragon Seal relic will be completely extinguished, exhausting its final trace of energy.”
Once the Dragon Seal relic energy was completely exhausted, there would be no way to revive Queen Yan ever again.
Solon’s mind gradually recovered somewhat at this time, then he began to stand up and look around in all directions.
This was a cavern, a cavern of over ten thousand square metres in area, with passages extending in all directions around it.
Whether the ground or the cavern walls, they were all like red jade, crystalline and translucent.
Indeed, this was inside the Sea God colossal beast’s heart. This was probably some atrium or ventricle, and the passages extending in all directions around it were the blood vessels of the heart.
Of course, it was not a true colossal beast, but rather an energy creature. However, its structure was identical to that of a true creature.
“Master, we must hurry, because the Sea God’s heartbeat is becoming slower and slower, slower and slower. It will die very soon…” the Demon Star said.
Solon observed the cavern where he was at this time, which was to say, some atrium or ventricle of the Sea God’s heart.
Around him, there was not the slightest trace of the Dragon Seal relic. It was evident the Dragon Seal relic was not here.
The Demon Star said, “Master, use your imagination. At the Blood Shore Lost City, the Dragon Seal relic was a Dragon Flame. Then in the Yan Island kingdom, what would the Dragon Seal relic be?”
“Water!” Solon said, “Because the Sea God colossal beast relies on it to continuously transform fresh water.”
“Yes, it should be water,” the Demon Star said, “Thousands of years ago, there was a legend of a Dragon Seal relic. Its name was the Holy Tear of the Dragon! It had always been said to be hidden somewhere on the seabed, but no one knew where it was. If my guess is not wrong, the Dragon Seal relic we seek is the Holy Tear of the Dragon.”
The Holy Tear of the Dragon, that is to say, the tear of the Divine Dragon.
Solon closed his eyes and began to use his wisdom to deduce where this Holy Tear of the Dragon would be.
The heart has a left atrium, right atrium, left ventricle, right ventricle.
And the place where he was at this time was one of them, but he did not know specifically which atrium or ventricle.
The beating of the heart is accomplished through the contraction and relaxation of the atria and ventricles.
Then, without unexpected incident, this Holy Tear of the Dragon should be at the centre of the four atria and ventricles.
Because it was the energy core of the entire heart, the entire Sea God colossal beast, and even the entire Yan Island kingdom.
Then, Solon began to observe the directions of the blood vessels around him, determining where he was.
Very quickly, he arrived at a conclusion. He was in the right atrium, because only on the left side were there blood vessel passages.
Then, heading towards the lower left, following the blood vessel passage, he would reach the core area of the four atria and ventricles.
That is to say, the location of the Dragon Seal relic, the Holy Tear of the Dragon.
“Master, quickly, quickly…” the Demon Star suddenly shouted, “The Sea God’s heartbeat is becoming slower and slower, slower and slower. It is about to die. There is less than a minute left.”
So suddenly, so urgent?
The Demon Star sensed that the energy depletion of the Dragon Seal relic was accelerating.
Of course, even the Dragon Seal relic one second before complete depletion would possess incomparably, incomparably powerful energy.
Just as at the Blood Shore Lost City, that Dragon Flame crystal had provided energy for tens of thousands of years, and what remained was already not much. But it was this minuscule amount of energy that had completely boiled clear the entire blood sea, and allowed Solon’s cultivation to achieve a massive breakthrough.
However, once it was obtained after complete depletion, not a trace of energy would remain.
At this time, Solon had already calculated the direction. He immediately picked up the unconscious Queen Yan and ran desperately towards the blood vessel passage in the lower left corner.
Though this was merely a blood vessel of the Sea God colossal beast, it was several dozen metres in diameter, completely unobstructed for running.
At this time Queen Yan was completely unconscious, and Solon’s body was extremely weak. Though she was a woman, she was over 1.7 metres tall, and her figure was voluptuous and alluring, exceeding one hundred jin. Carrying her while running truly made Solon’s legs feel as though they would break, utterly exhausted.
“Master, quickly, quickly…” the Demon Star trembled, “I can sense that the energy of the Holy Tear of the Dragon is becoming weaker and weaker. The Sea God is about to die immediately. There is not even a minute left.”
Because in one minute the Sea God’s heart would beat six times, and each time would consume the surviving energy of the Dragon Seal relic (the Holy Tear of the Dragon).
And once the Sea God died, it would represent the complete depletion of the Dragon Seal relic, and represent that Queen Yan could never be revived.
Even, the Sea God’s heart and body would completely contract, trapping Solon and the others alive here.
Solon carried Queen Yan and ran desperately, ran, ran, towards the centre of the Sea God’s heart.
Completely racing against time, racing against death.
“Master, quickly, throw Queen Yan away, or else you will die here. Quickly, throw Queen Yan away,” the Demon Star shouted in alarm.
Though Solon had exhausted his dragon power and energy in the fall just now, and was already utterly weary at this time.
If he threw Queen Yan away at this time, his running speed would increase. Perhaps he could find the Dragon Seal relic before the Sea God died.
But he still held Queen Yan tightly, refusing to let go.
Ran, ran, ran…
Running towards the centre of the Sea God’s heart, completely racing against the God of Death.
Time slipped away second by second. Previously the Demon Star had said the Sea God had only a minute of life left.
Ten seconds passed, fifteen seconds, thirty seconds, forty-five seconds, fifty seconds…
Solon carried Queen Yan and ran desperately, not knowing how far he ran, how long he ran, along the blood vessel passage of the Sea God colossal beast.
Suddenly, the view before him opened up…
Before him appeared an incomparably beautiful scene.
A teardrop crystal, floating in the air.
Here was the centre of the heart.
It was the Dragon Seal relic, the Holy Tear of the Dragon.
It was a beautiful deep blue, the most beautiful, purest blue in this world.
It was indeed a tear, the tear of a Divine Dragon.
It was this tear that had continuously provided energy for the Yan Island kingdom for tens of thousands of years, provided fresh water for tens of thousands of years.
And now, it was about to exhaust its final trace of energy.
Solon made his final sprint, sprint, sprint…
However…
“Boom… thud…”
The Sea God’s final heartbeat ended.
Then, this incomparably beautiful Holy Tear of the Dragon, like a star in the sky, began to fall.
“Whoosh…”
Solon carried Queen Yan, sprinting desperately, sprinting!
After this Holy Tear of the Dragon fell, it transformed into thousands of blue rays of light, scattering upon Solon’s body, upon Queen Yan’s body.
“Boom boom boom boom boom…”
Boundless energy.
Boundless radiance!