The Strongest Dragon in the Era of Beast Taming

Chapter 828: Chapter 822: Obtaining the Spiritual Root

“Baa!”

Taking advantage of this moment, Loona, following David Jones’s command, released the Star Time Core without hesitation and fully unfolded it.

The Star Time Core resonated with the two-winged dragon scale, manifesting the Time Law and creating an inescapable Zone of Time that locked onto the Chaos Ginseng Tree.

At this instant, time came to a standstill, and everything in the Rosewood Treasury froze in place.

Everyone’s movements, perceptions, thoughts, and emotions, including David Jones himself, paused within the Time Stars Fall.

At this moment, only the holder of the Star Time Core, which was Loona, could move freely within the Zone of Time.

Loona’s dragon claw retracted, placing the radiant Star Time Core upon David Jones’s chest, sharing with him the right to use the Star Time Core.

David Jones’s eyelids trembled slightly as he slowly opened his eyes, only to find the world around him eerily frozen.

“Such terrifying Time Stars Fall!” exclaimed David Jones.

It wasn’t his first time witnessing time stop, but he couldn’t help being shocked every time he saw it.

Unfortunately, Loona could currently maintain the time stop for at most one minute.

With this in mind, David Jones wasted no more time, walking step by step toward the Chaos Ginseng Tree with Loona.

All beings interact and counteract each other.

The Domination emitted by the Chaos Ginseng Tree was comparable to that of the Immortal and might even surpass it; even he could not withstand it, but what of it?

No matter how strong the Domination of the Chaos Ginseng Tree was, a tactic that couldn’t be unleashed was as good as nonexistent.

Fortunately, the Time Power that Loona possessed wouldn’t even give it the chance to release its Domination.

“Boom!”

David Jones pressed the Immortal Elixir Order onto the Chaos Ginseng Tree, causing its mottled bark patterns to burst into a verdant glow.

“Immortal Power can actually break through the temporal halt caused by the Time Stars Fall!” Realizing this, a hint of regret flashed in David Jones’s eyes.

Although he knew that no power in this world was absolutely invincible, he couldn’t help feeling somewhat disappointed.

This meant that with Loona’s current strength, she was still unable to challenge a Class IX Immortal across two levels.

But this was normal; the difference between each level was like heaven and earth!

The fact that the Time Stars Fall cast by Loona could be breached by a technique left by Saint Ingersoll indicated that Loona’s race and power were not strong enough to fully demonstrate the might of Time Power.

If Immortal Power could suppress Time Power, the Time Dragon wouldn’t have been able to battle against the two Dragons of Domination alone and emerge victorious in the end.

“What just happened?”

Witnessing David Jones suddenly appear before the Chaos Ginseng Tree, Lilith Hoyle’s eyes flickered with astonishment.

She possessed a Purple Spirit Realm, yet she couldn’t perceive even a trace of David Jones’s movements.

If such a situation occurred among adversaries of the same level, it would mean an overwhelming difference in strength, justifying an immediate surrender.

However, her power was clearly stronger than David Jones’s; it was impossible for her not to detect David Jones, whose Psychic Spirit Realm and strength were both below her own.

Is this the power of Time?!

Lilith Hoyle fell silent.

They say time is supreme, and space is king; now it seems that Time Power far surpasses Space Power!

Perhaps she was no longer a match for her own disciple.

The thought made Lilith Hoyle feel a bit stifled but at the same time, secretly proud.

“Teacher, have we succeeded now?” David Jones turned and looked at Lilith Hoyle.

Under the seal of the Immortal Power, the previously awe-inspiring Chaos Ginseng Tree had now become an ordinary stick of wood, and even the dilapidated Ginseng Fruit hanging from its branches had lost all luster.

However, he didn’t know how to take away the entire Chaos Ginseng Tree, and even Lolo was equally ignorant.

“Let me do it; the root system of the Chaos Ginseng Tree needs to be treated in advance before it can be transplanted,” Lilith Hoyle said with a smile.

By the time David Jones and his companion had dealt with the Chaos Ginseng Tree, it was already the next day in the afternoon.

“My batch of Raksha Golden Elixir still needs a month before it’s ready. The Tower of Refining Beasts is about to open. You can warm up there before heading to Blunt College, it’ll be beneficial.”

Thinking of Lilith’s words before she left, David Jones felt a surge of excitement.

He hadn’t forgotten that the first Trainer to pass the Inheritance Trial could gain control privileges of the Beast Refining Tower—a nine-refined heritage weapon.

As for the Pet Resources reward for passing the Inheritance Trial, David Jones wasn’t too concerned.

Times had changed; now, he was no longer the poor boy who considered Level VI Pet Resources a treasure.

…

Mesona Space.

Lolo hugged the Chaos Ginseng Tree tightly without moving, her face constantly wearing a silly smile.

“Yi.”

Rainbow shook its head repeatedly.

In the past few days, Lolo had been like a child holding a new piece of candy, hugging the Chaos Ginseng Tree all day long, ignoring even her favorite watering and weeding tasks.

“Chirp!” (Breakthrough!)

Lolo looked at David Jones with bright eyes, her tone filled with excitement.

“Wait a little longer,” David Jones shook his head. “The teacher still needs some time to refine the Raksha Golden Elixir. There’s no need to rush.”

For a Class VII Overlord, breaking through to Class VIII Emperor undoubtedly represented a life-and-death trial.

If successful, a bloodline leap could occur, evolving into an Emperor species.

However, if the breakthrough failed, the bloodline would burn out, never to recover.

Lolo was the first Seven-turns Dragongirl in the world, and within the Flowery Kingdom, there was no available roadmap for Emperor Evolution.

Even Miss Tracy, a research scholar, couldn’t conjure up Lolo’s evolution roadmap from thin air without adequate data, which required extensive analysis and exploratory experiments over a long time.

Fortunately, Lolo was promising, having grasped the opportunity to break through to the Class VIII Emperor level on her own.

But with the past example of Moon Dragon’s evolution, David Jones still felt it wasn’t safe enough.

So he didn’t hesitate to take on another debt of gratitude, exchanging a Flameless Dark Dragon horn with his teacher for a Raksha Golden Elixir.

The Raksha Golden Elixir was a five-turn Golden Elixir used by legendary body cultivators from the Ancient Age to strengthen their flesh and spirit.

But as the era of body cultivation ended and the Era of Beast Control gradually rose, an Alchemy Grandmaster experienced the pain of attaining Level VIII and specially altered the elixir formula, transforming the Raksha Golden Elixir into one that could help either a Trainer or a Pet break through to Class VIII Emperor.

The modified Raksha Golden Elixir had a straightforward effect.

If taken at the time of a failed breakthrough, one could pay the price of one to two major level losses to maintain the foundation of life, thus gaining another chance at breakthrough. This way, a failure wouldn’t lead to a dead end, an inability to advance in strength, or even complete destruction.

That Alchemy Grandmaster happened to be David Jones’ mentor’s mentor—in other words, Lilith Hoyle’s teacher, Grandmaster Ingersoll Harvey.

Otherwise, in a scenario where demand exceeds supply, David Jones wouldn’t know how much time it would take to get his hands on a Raksha Golden Elixir.

For example, in order to be extra cautious, he had requested a Rosewood Fruit from the Rosewood College leadership.

As a Level VIII legendary resource that could increase the probability of breaking through to Class VIII Emperor by 30% for either a Trainer or a Pet, Rosewood Fruit was in high demand within Rosewood College.

Even legendary fighters had to queue up honestly, waiting centuries to exchange for it, not to mention those epic warriors who needed to painstakingly accumulate qualifications.

Despite being the Rosewood Leader now, with an ostensibly respected status, David Jones couldn’t bypass Rosewood rules to exchange for a Rosewood Fruit.

This was because the Rosewood Fruit was tied to the vital interests of legendary fighters and the Harvey family’s three veins!