"Quickly collect all the mineral veins, act quickly!" Long Chen said to everyone.
"Boss, what's wrong?" Guo Ran and the others were stunned.
"The best time to cross the tribulation is almost here. Besides mining these veins, we have many other things to do. We're running out of time." Long Chen suddenly remembered that before crossing the tribulation, all the Dragon Blood warriors had to be taken to the Dragon Tomb for baptism.
When Long Chen was baptized in the imperial dragon pool, a thought flashed through his mind: to bring the dragonblood warriors to undergo blood exchange. After the blood replacement, the dragonblood warriors would enter a brand-new era.
However, there were so many things going on the way that Long Chen forgot about it. When Guo Ran mentioned crossing the tribulation, Long Chen immediately remembered this important matter and immediately urged everyone to mine the ore vein.
During this time, the Liling Clan began bidding farewell to Long Chen and the others. It turned out they had come here to seek the spiritual source of the Liling Clan, their place of faith. They had been separated from the other clansmen and had to hurry to regroup with them, so they could not stay by Long Chen's side forever.
Long Chen was a bit worried about them, but they were determined to go. The nearby crisis had temporarily been resolved, and their bodies had fully recovered. It was time to leave.
Seeing their firm attitude, Long Chen couldn't force them and could only let them leave. However, before leaving, Guo Ran and Xia Chen gave them many mechanisms and formation plates, teaching them how to use them, hoping they would have a safety net in times of crisis.
The girls of the Liling Clan bid farewell to the Dragonblood Legion and left. The Dragonblood warriors began frantically mining underground veins, because this vein was so large and diverse, consisting of dozens of types of immortal gold veins—unimaginably large.
However, Long Chen only gave everyone three days to mine. Because time was tight, they had no choice but to extract the purest immortal gold divine ore, leaving the ore with a slight impurity in place.
This was a barbaric form of mining that caused huge waste. Looking at the ore, Guo Ran felt so sorry for him that tears nearly streamed down his face. If given enough time, he would definitely return every grain to the warehouse.
Three days later, under the frenzied mining of the Dragonblood warriors, the endless earth collapsed, countless ores forming chasms. The scene was shocking, and time was running out. The Dragonblood Legion only had time to mine the best ore; the rest could only be left here.
"It really hurts my heart!"
Guo Ran looked at the exposed ores with a reluctant expression. For a blacksmith, such behavior was simply a waste of a precious treasure.
"Alright, since you're eating meat yourself, you have to save some soup for others." Long Chen comforted her.
After mining ended, Long Chen immediately had Xia Chen build an ultra-long-distance teleportation array. When Guo Ran and the others asked where to go next, Long Chen announced the name of the Dragon Tomb.
When they heard that Long Chen was going to take them to the Dragon Emperor clan's lair for a baptism, the Dragon Blood Warriors were so excited they almost jumped out of their seats. They claimed to be Dragon Blood Warriors, with dragon blood flowing in their veins. Although they had never heard of the Dragon Emperor Clan, just hearing the name showed how supreme this clan was.
"Boss, if we don't have dragon blood in our bodies, can we still undergo the baptism?" Bai Xiaole said nervously.
Not only Bai Xiaole, Bai Shishi, and Yu Qingxuan also became nervous, since none of them had ever touched dragon blood before, and for a moment, they felt uneasy.
"Of course. The dragon's blood baptism isn't just about blood—it's also about soul and willpower. As the leader of all scales and the emperor of beasts, the dragon has many things in this clan—you can use them as references.
If you like it, accept it; if not, there's no need to cater to it. However, there are countless things we want in the Dragon Clan's legacy, and we will never let you down. Long Chen smiled and comforted him:
"Look at Zifeng, he doesn't have dragon blood in his body either, but he still has to undergo a baptism!"
Hearing Long Chen say this, Bai Xiaole was instantly excited, and Bai Shishi finally felt relieved. At that moment, the teleportation array was completed, and everyone stepped directly onto it.
"Buzz!"
After several rounds of calibration and dozens of teleportations, Long Chen and the others descended upon the Dragon Tomb once again. This time, Long Chen was quite familiar with the route, leading the Dragon Blood Warriors in a grand charge deep into the Dragon Tomb.
As everyone moved through the Ten Thousand Dragons Nest, feeling the terrifying dragon might, all the Dragon Blood warriors were filled with excitement. They knew that a chance to defy fate had arrived.
"Luckily, we made it back in time, or we would have missed this baptism." A Dragonblood Warrior looked at the magnificent Ten Thousand Dragon Nest and couldn't help but exclaim excitedly.
This Dragonblood Warrior had joined forces with the Dragonblood Legion in the Void Spirit Realm. Not only them, but the female medical warriors of the Dragonblood Legion had also returned. Last time, when they were besieged by the Celestial Clan, without them, the Dragonblood Legion would have suffered casualties.
"Sticking with the boss always brings good things." A female medical student giggled.
It turned out that the medical warriors had been cultivating in a hidden sect for years. Because that sect was caught between worlds and almost cut off from the outside world, their information was cut off. Only today did they truly return to the Dragonblood Legion.
However, they had just returned and already made great contributions, truly a timely help. With them present, the Dragonblood warriors could fight with all their might, completely without worries. Compared to before, they were completely constrained, a world of difference.
Now, the number of Dragon Blood warriors had increased from five thousand to seven thousand. However, whether it was Long Chen or the others, there was a faint sense of sadness in their hearts.
Back in the world-ending battle on the Tianwu Continent, over ten thousand Dragon Blood warriors died on the battlefield, but more than eight thousand flew to the Immortal Realm.
Long Chen was summoning the Dragonblood Warriors everywhere. The other Dragonblood Warriors ascended to the Immortal Realm and immediately tried to contact their brothers. But after all this time, everything that needed to come should have arrived.
And those who never came may never come. The Immortal Realm is not the immortal world mortals imagine; it is even more brutal and dangerous than the mortal realm. Perhaps some brothers have already fallen in the struggle within the Immortal Realm.
However, to gather over seven thousand Dragonblood Warriors scattered across the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths is already a great feat, and this feat is inseparable from the obsession in the heart of every Dragonblood Warrior.
"Oh my god, what a terrifying reverse scale."
When the Dragonblood warriors saw Zu Lin for the first time, they were immediately shocked. Some even swallowed hard, their eyes filled with longing.
"Stop looking, these are all trash. If you follow the boss, how can you be wronged?" They hadn't even reached the core area yet, and this group was already unable to move.
"Trash?"
The Dragonblood warriors' hearts raced wildly. Such a terrifying reverse scale was called trash by the boss—what treasure would the boss leave them then?
When they arrived at the core area, the Dragon Blood warriors' eyes were filled with shock. Clearly, they were frightened by the aura of the ancestral scales here. However, Long Chen discovered that the once overcrowded Ten Thousand Dragon Nest was now empty. Even the largest White Dragon Clan, the White Dragon Clan's Nest, was deserted. Clearly, they had all undergone their baptism and gone to find a place to undergo their tribulation.
"Buzz!"
The moment Long Chen led everyone into the Imperial Clan's Ten Thousand Dragon Nest, a vast dragon might surged, and everyone except Long Chen spat out a mouthful of blood.