The Molten Vortex Ice Light Dragon that Dugu Bo had found had exactly 29 protruding Ice and Fire Crystal Spikes on its back when counted carefully.
"Senior Dugu, you really think highly of me."
After confirming the age of the Molten Vortex Ice Light Dragon, Yu Yan turned to look at Dugu Bo, waiting to hear what he had to say.
"Isn't this what you were looking forward to?" Dugu Bo looked at Yu Yan playfully. "There is also one at twenty-six thousand years. If you don't like this one, how about we go find that one instead?"
"We're already here, so why go looking for trouble? Let's just go with this Molten Vortex Ice Light Dragon in front of us."
Yu Yan was just being a bit cheeky; if you really wanted him to give up this Molten Vortex Ice Light Dragon with such a perfect age, he certainly wouldn't be willing.
"You kid, can't you just directly and generously admit that you want it?"
"I'm being humble, okay?"
After giving Yu Yan a white-eyed look, Dugu Bo released his Titled Douluo Aura and flew toward the Molten Vortex Ice Light Dragon ahead.
The Molten Vortex Ice Light Dragon, which was napping in the ice and snow, felt the Aura emanating from Dugu Bo. It looked up at the small flying figure, opened its bloody maw, and let out a threatening roar at Dugu Bo.
While threatening Dugu Bo, the Molten Vortex Ice Light Dragon was also slowly retreating. A Ten Thousand Year Spirit Beast already possessed a certain degree of intelligence; it understood that it could never defeat the person before it, so it only wanted to use its threatening roar to scare him away.
From Yu Yan's perspective as a bystander, the Molten Vortex Ice Light Dragon retreating after threatening its opponent was a contradictory and incredibly stupid show of weakness.
A top-tier sub-Dragon-type Spirit Beast of nearly thirty thousand years—the strength of such a Spirit Beast was far greater than it appeared on the surface.
Being in the Extreme North Land, to avoid any complications and to end the battle quickly, Dugu Bo decided to use his full strength to take down this Molten Vortex Ice Light Dragon.
Besides those thoughts, Dugu Bo also wanted to display his strength in front of Yu Yan to let him know just how strong he was.
Under Yu Yan's gaze, the seventh spirit ring on Dugu Bo's body merged into him. Dark green poison gas spread from Dugu Bo, and from within that gas, a terrifying thirty-meter-long emerald-green giant serpent slowly poked its head out.
Standing behind Dugu Bo, Yu Yan took out the fragrant silk immortal product planted in a flowerpot, shielding himself from the approaching Jade Phosphor Serpent Poison.
Dugu Bo glanced back, and after confirming that Yu Yan was not affected by the poison mist, he turned his gaze toward the Molten Vortex Ice Light Dragon in front of him.
The Aura of the Titled Douluo-level Jade Phosphor Serpent Emperor spread out, causing no small impact on the Molten Vortex Ice Light Dragon. This could be seen from its lowered body and its increasingly heavy growls.
The Jade Phosphor Serpent Emperor opened its large mouth, and a poison cloud drifted out, flying toward the Molten Vortex Ice Light Dragon's position.
Although it didn't yet know what that poison cloud was, the Molten Vortex Ice Light Dragon, sensing a threat from it, also opened its mouth, with ice and fire energy intertwining within.
A beam of ice and fire energy flew from its mouth, colliding with the dark green poison cloud. Amidst the intertwining and collision of ice and fire energy, the toxins contained within the poison cloud were greatly weakened.
By the time the poison cloud reached the Molten Vortex Ice Light Dragon, it had become very thin. Combined with its body constructed from intertwined ice and fire, the poison cloud naturally couldn't cause any substantial damage to the Molten Vortex Ice Light Dragon.
"How annoying!"
After witnessing the entire process of the Molten Vortex Ice Light Dragon breaking through his move, Dugu Bo let out a disgruntled curse. Under his control, the Jade Phosphor Serpent Emperor slowly raised its upper body like a cobra.
The emerald snake eyes suddenly turned a terrifying white, and a layer of white halo shimmered on its tongue as two beams of pale white light shot out, heading straight for the Molten Vortex Ice Light Dragon's body.
This was Dugu Bo's Head Spirit Bone, which came from the Empress of snakes, Medusa. Its skill was Medusa's Gaze, and any object hit by it would be turned to stone.
Yu Yan knew the details of this Spirit Ability, but the Molten Vortex Ice Light Dragon did not.
Unaware of the details of this Spirit Ability, the Molten Vortex Ice Light Dragon lashed its tail, and three flaming arrows slowly manifested behind it. An Aura of extreme cold drifted from the Ice and Fire Crystal Spikes on its back, attaching to the surface of the flaming arrows in a spiral shape, increasing their power.
The pale white light collided with the flaming arrows attached with ice vortexes, and the light enveloped the arrows, turning them into stone.
The pale white light, its momentum not yet exhausted, continued to fly toward the Molten Vortex Ice Light Dragon and landed on it, petrifying a portion of its body.
Just as the Molten Vortex Ice Light Dragon realized something was wrong, the second Medusa's Gaze had already arrived before it and struck its body.
After being hit by Medusa's Gaze consecutively, even if the Molten Vortex Ice Light Dragon wanted to run, it simply couldn't.
When the tail of the Jade Phosphor Serpent Emperor, flashing with emerald light, pierced through the Molten Vortex Ice Light Dragon's body, the outcome of this battle required no further words.
"Yu Yan Kid, you can deliver the final blow now."
With a flick of its tail, the Jade Phosphor Serpent Emperor threw the not-yet-dead Molten Vortex Ice Light Dragon in front of Yu Yan.
With the Ice and Fire Twin Fish Martial Soul Possession active, the second spirit ring merged into his right arm. A large amount of spirit power was injected into his arm by Yu Yan, and a ten-meter-long dragon-shaped flame appeared beside him. Under Yu Yan's control, it struck the Molten Vortex Ice Light Dragon's mouth and exploded inside.
The already dying Molten Vortex Ice Light Dragon lost its life under the massive explosion of the Blazing Dragon Roar's flames.
Streams of energy drifted from the Molten Vortex Ice Light Dragon's body, condensing into a black spirit ring above it.
Taking a deep breath, Yu Yan sat cross-legged in front of the Molten Vortex Ice Light Dragon's corpse, guiding the black Ten Thousand Year spirit ring toward himself.
The moment the Ten Thousand Year spirit ring descended, violent spirit power as hot as lava poured into his Meridians. A Spirit Master with an insufficient Physique would be directly blown apart by this violent spirit power, but such a problem naturally wouldn't occur with Yu Yan.
Yu Yan methodically operated the Little Fish Meditation Technique, using the spirit power within his body to guide this energy through his Meridians. He had experience in taming violent energy.
The violent spirit power gradually became docile. What followed was the core test one must face when absorbing a Ten Thousand Year spirit ring: Soul Shock, which was the resentment of a wise Ten Thousand Year Spirit Beast after its death.
The remnant Soul of the Molten Vortex Ice Light Dragon manifested in Yu Yan's mental space. Carrying resentment and anger, it launched a Soul Impact at Yu Yan. The death struggle of a nearly thirty-thousand-year-old Spirit Beast's Soul was something an average Spirit Master truly couldn't withstand.
During the first wave of the Molten Vortex Ice Light Dragon's impact, Yu Yan concentrated his mind and held his mental state steady, waiting for it to weaken.
The Molten Vortex Ice Light Dragon's Soul Impact kept surging like ocean waves.
Yu Yan was like a giant rock by the sea, remaining motionless amidst the crashing waves, waiting for them to pass.