Beneath the Red Dragon

Chapter 375: Chapter 144: The First Nightmare

Karon’s active spirit gradually calmed, his will sinking into the Sea of Spiritual to enter a deeper slumber, allowing his body to slowly grow under the nourishment of the reviving Ancestral Dragon Blood.

The life tree fruit, sealed with magic and swallowed by Karon, stored in his stomach, was gradually consumed by the spontaneous guidance of Karon’s body, breaking the magic seal along with the life tree fruit that enveloped the life energy and aura.

A massive surge of life energy spread throughout the body of the Ancestral Red Dragon, accelerating the revival and flourishing of the Ancestral Red Dragon’s Blood.

The inheritance within the Dragon bloodline also flowed forth with more knowledge and legacy, which the slumbering Karon would gradually digest, a process every Giant Dragon experiences while in slumber.

From the knowledge Karon had pre-acquired from the Five-Colored Dragon Queen Tiamat, the inheritance treasure vault of a Giant Dragon is a crucial aspect, serving as an essential means for Dragons to combat other Legends.

After reaching adulthood, the inheritance vault embedded within each Giant Dragon’s bloodline will fully open, forming a mental domain system recognized as the Dragon’s Treasure Vault, enough to resist and avoid the cognitive impact and overwriting generated by traditional Legends’ constructed worlds.

This also explains why so many Dragons appear obsessive and insane under the influence of inheritance; their cognition is thoroughly covered and surrounded by their inheritance, shielded by the protection of preceding bloodlines.

Of course, some particularly powerful Legends can always surpass the ordinary range; specific confrontations depend on the individual differences between both sides.

Yet this highlights the inherent advantages of the Dragon race; simply sleeping till adulthood grants them basic capabilities to counter those who, through endless effort over countless years, manage to reach the zenith.

However, Karon no longer needs to wait until adulthood. His Flame Domain—[All Things Turn to Ash] has materialized into a substantive domain sufficient to resist the cognitive impacts of the Legends.

This is why Tiamat has taken such a liking to this Red Dragon, still a novice in the eyes of the Mother of Evil Dragons, for even amongst Ancestral Red Dragons, few Red Dragons are like Karon, as it is Karon’s cognition and will influencing the evolution and growth of his bloodline.

To some extent, it equates to an external manifestation of Karon’s cognitive system towards the world, much like a berserk Red Dragon possessing a narrow materialistic domain, whose domain was formed by the influence of his cognition and will.

Karon’s domain isn’t simply derived from his bloodline’s evolution; its extensive development is largely attributed to Karon’s experiments involving the dissection of numerous Purgatory Flame Demons of the same origin and extracting the knowledge from countless magical creatures sharing similar attributes.

If Karon wishes, he could even embed this knowledge into his bloodline, enabling descendants worthy enough to inherit Karon’s bloodline and digest this knowledge to evolve and transition towards Karon’s path.

Permitting his body to robustly grow under the nourishment of abundant life energy and the supplementation of Magic Power, Karon’s consciousness sinks to the depths of the Sea of Spiritual, touching upon the Spiritual Domain.

Karon’s Heart Energy, this formidable power, is the integration of spirituality and mental flesh, and the power of heart energy provided to Karon by all races and subjects ruled by him stems from their spiritual devotion.

This is the knowledge Karon discovered and acquired as he delves deeper along this path.

Although Karon’s abilities are somewhat special, they can still be categorized under the Mind Mage category, or more accurately referred to as Psychic Casters.

Of course, some mages and scholars prefer to call Psychic Casters Spiritual Mages, as the root of these Casters’ power always relates to their spirituality, necessitating the excavation of their spiritual strength.

Nevertheless, Karon’s capabilities differ somewhat from those broadly classified as Psychic Casters. Whatever Mind Mages can achieve, Karon can do, but what Karon can accomplish is challenging for those Psychic Casters to replicate.

Similar to facing and traversing that layer of spirituality concealed deep within the world, connecting all living beings—a true existence yet immensely illusory Spiritual Domain.

For Karon, confronting that illusory Spiritual Domain is akin to a fantastical river running through countless beings, with Karon’s own Spiritual Domain resembling a bubble on this illusory river, independent yet interconnected.

He did not recklessly venture into the world of the Spiritual Domain; though appearing as a river, its depths are boundless and vast, where one could easily become lost.

Moreover, stepping beyond one’s Spiritual Domain into the spiritual world entails encountering numerous unpredictable dangers.

Many evil spirits and sinister entities, difficult even for gods to eradicate, are entrapped within, exiled by deities to the spiritual world, their bodies sealed as if caught in eternal silence.

This is a method frequently adopted by many Divinities when faced with insoluble adversaries.

It’s said that the Chaos Demon Dog Kozif, known as the Heaven’s Plunderer, devourer of the souls of godly followers (Prayers), was sealed in the deepest part of the spiritual world by the divine beings of Heaven Mountain.

The chaotic capabilities of this Demon Dog are bizarre; the souls it devours are utterly destroyed, unable to be saved even by the divine power of gods, with even the right hand of the God of Justice once bitten off by this Demon Dog and rendered beyond recovery.