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The crack gradually spanned the entire neck of the bone dragon.

Accompanied by a cracking sound.

The undead bone dragon let out a final mournful cry, the soul fire in its eye sockets gradually shrinking due to severe damage, nearing extinction, and its huge head drooped down due to the cracks.

Bang!

Its massive body crashed to the ground, its dragon tail stretching forcefully towards the dragon egg, exerting all its strength to strangle the dragon egg, and looking at the movement and strength, it actually wanted to crush the dragon egg.

Perhaps it subconsciously knew that it was nearing its end and was unwilling to leave its clan behind, intending to depart together.

But Rhode was quite interested in this dragon egg and naturally did not intend to let the undead bone dragon take the dragon egg away like this, and moreover, such a behemoth like the undead bone dragon, forged from rare alchemy, how could Rhode waste it?

"It's better to obediently leave the dragon egg behind."

Rhode looked at the undead bone dragon, raised a hand, preparing to sacrifice it, he stretched out his hand and placed it on the undead bone dragon's body, directly sacrificing this undead that had been lonely for who knows how many years.

The undead bone dragon only wailed, lying under Rhode's hand, without the slightest struggle.

Perhaps because it knew that struggling would be of no use, or perhaps it was subdued by Rhode's power, it did not resist, allowing the flames to engulf its entire body.

As the soul fire in its eye sockets grew smaller and smaller, eventually dissipating, its entire skeleton also turned into a handful of white ash, sinking into the ground along with the rubble.

In the instant the dragon disappeared, Rhode felt a massive amount of magic power and soul power surge into his body, his entire body's strength was greatly increased, and even his soul was completely forged and strengthened.

Huff.

Rhode let out a long breath, the breath from his mouth turning into a thick white mist, slowly rising into the air.

At the same time, fragments of ancestral memories about the dragon race occasionally surfaced in Rhode's mind, but he couldn't quite make them out yet, perhaps he needed to sort them out properly later, and if he wanted to nurture the dragon egg, he might be able to find relevant information from these ancestral memories.

As for other completely unfamiliar inheritances, such as summoning shadow soldiers or creating undead knights, they were of no use to Rhode at all.

After all, his alchemy was already sufficient to forge more apostles, such as Death Apostles, and he had a Wraith Legion under his command, and he could even convert others to join the Wraith Legion.

Rhode wasn't short of manpower to begin with.

Not being a necromancer, he naturally threw these inherited memories into a corner.

Perhaps they might be useful someday.

Rhode didn't intend to discard these inheritances directly, anyway, leaving these things there wouldn't hurt.

He took a deep breath, feeling somewhat regretful.

He had to say, the benefits of sacrificing an undead bone dragon were indeed considerable, especially on the soul level, if there were a few more undead bone dragons here, with the Immortal Armor, he could slowly grind these things to death——

If there really was a batch of undead bone dragons, all sacrificed, he wondered how many times his strength would skyrocket.

But this kind of thing was also a matter of luck, after all, not everyone had the ability to create such an undead bone dragon.

Rhode didn't dwell on this matter for too long, dwelling on these things was not as good as getting the things in hand sooner.

After that, he would explore the North and South Continents, and he would always encounter good things of the same level.

Rhode paused, just about to walk towards the position of the altar.

His attention was drawn to the dragon egg, he gently kicked the dragon egg, the dragon egg only tilted backwards, quickly bouncing back, but instead bumped Rhode's toes, causing some dull pain.

Only then did Rhode experience the toughness of the dragon egg, no wonder the dragon tail had strangled the dragon egg with so much force just now, but it didn't damage the dragon egg, it turned out that the outer shell was so hard, presumably this was the reason why the dragon egg could still survive until now.

He also didn't know what kind of dragon was inside.

The dragon egg stopped again.

It remained motionless, as if the movement just now was just Rhode's illusion.

But Rhode clearly saw the other party's movements, and now it was too late to play dead.

"...I'll study you after I finish my business."

Anyway, the dragon egg couldn't roll out of the passage, Rhode bent down and knocked on the eggshell: "Behave."

The dragon egg didn't continue to play dead, but instead shook with considerable intelligence, obediently nestled at Rhode's feet.

"Okay, that's considered obedient."

Rhode nodded, then looked at the altar again, a hint of doubt flashing in his eyes.

It seemed that it wasn't his imagination.

Rhode frowned slightly, when the energy in his body soared just now, he had already felt it, there was a rather powerful aura on this altar.

It was just that it seemed to be deliberately hidden, this powerful aura wasn't very conspicuous, but rather hidden so subtly that it was almost imperceptible.

If Rhode hadn't already sacrificed the dragon bones, and his soul power and magic power had been greatly increased, he probably wouldn't have noticed the existence of this aura.

As Rhode got closer and closer, the aura became more and more obvious.

Strange…

Rhode dared to say that he had absolutely never deeply reached the vicinity of the altar before.

But this aura made him feel particularly familiar.

As if he had encountered it somewhere…

Chapter 257 Black Magic Progenitor!

No matter where this feeling came from, it couldn't hinder Rhode's determination, he only paused for a moment, then continued to lift his footsteps, walking two or three steps to the front of the altar.

Sure enough, the barrier that had been gathered back blocked the way, but this little thing, for others, might play a hindering role, but for Rhode, the level of this barrier was not enough to see.

Before sacrificing the dragon bones, Rhode already had enough strength to unlock the barrier at that time, let alone now after the magic power soared.

He placed his palm on the barrier, magic power burst out from his palm, striking the barrier in front of him.

As the saying goes, one force breaks ten skills, facing this level of barrier, Rhode didn't need any sophisticated means, just raising his hand and lifting his foot, he used magic power to break the barrier.

The aura that was originally wrapped in the barrier instantly overflowed, the red crystal block exuded a powerful life aura, but it was also mixed with more blood soul power, incomparably pungent.

Hiss.

Rhode gasped, his expression changing instantly.

It seemed he had underestimated this progenitor of black magic in their previous encounters.

This was truly not just ordinary inhumanity.

The souls consumed by the previous soul fragments, when added together, nearly equaled the entire population of a small kingdom, and now this crystal—

At least a million souls must have been sacrificed to achieve such a state.

Originally, Rhode could barely speculate that perhaps a certain number of magical creatures were used to construct these soul fragments.

But the appearance of the crystal completely overturned the possibility of magical creatures.

Even if it were magical creatures, the soul fragments inside and out, plus this crystal, would require hundreds of thousands of powerful magical creatures, just to supply the progenitor with enough to refine these things.

Unless he captured all the magical creatures on the continent and committed biological extermination, it would be impossible to gather such a large number.

Slaughtering the commoners of a few small kingdoms would be much easier.

Moreover, if that progenitor truly possessed such immense power, capable of exterminating most magical creatures, the guardian here today wouldn't just be an ordinary undead bone dragon.

Perhaps there are indeed some magical creature souls inside, but human souls still make up the majority.

Rhode let out a long breath.

He didn't dwell on this matter any further, as it was already a thing of ages past.

Rhode only intended to retrieve the inheritance here; the other matters were, in his view, inconsequential.

Rhode reached out and stroked the red crystal.

The aura of the Tree of Life burst forth from it, incredibly dense.

The familiar aura Rhode sensed was precisely this aura originating from the Tree of Life, but it must have been deliberately concealed to prevent the Tree of Life from attracting those creatures coveting it.

After all, there were too many bizarre magical creatures in this world, especially in the era of the black magic progenitor, where oddities were everywhere.

Who knew which magical creature could ignore the multiple barriers and sneak in silently.

The allure of the Tree of Life to magical creatures was no joke; complete preparation was necessary.

However, Rhode discovered something even more peculiar.

The life aura on this crystal was far more potent than the Tree of Life Rhode had sacrificed back then.

Ever since Rhode touched it and that aura burst forth, Rhode could feel the scent of life aura with every breath he took.

Even these auras were constantly forging Rhode's body.

This was definitely not a level that a single Tree of Life could achieve.

Rhode sensed the aura emanating from within the crystal and couldn't help but shake his head slightly.

If that were the case, then it would make sense.

The life aura inside this crystal was almost a hundred times stronger than the one he had encountered back then.

In other words, the black magic progenitor must have sacrificed at least a hundred Trees of Life, squeezing and extracting the origin within them, to construct this Life Crystal.

Naturally, this led to the large-scale reduction and scarcity of the Tree of Life in the current era.

That was logical.

But no matter what, these things were all benefiting him.

Rhode chuckled and held the crystal in his hand.

The crystal kept shaking, as if it had sensed that the visitor was not its creator, constantly resisting Rhode.

Crack.

Rhode exerted a bit of force.

Although it was just a bit of force for Rhode, it was an irresistible brute force for other creatures, including this crystal.

A faint creaking sound, difficult to bear, came from around the crystal.

The crystal's resistance grew weaker and weaker, finally nestling docilely in Rhode's palm, without moving at all.

Rhode nodded in slight satisfaction, then held the crystal and placed it above the gap on the Immortal Armor.

Sure enough, there was even a faint suction between the two.

Click.

A sound.

The crystal was directly sucked into the gap, firmly embedded within.

Buzz!

Buzz!

Buzz!

Rhode even felt a slight vibration coming from the Immortal Armor.

Along with the buzzing, the red crystal began to emit streaks of blood, and blood-colored纹路 began to spread out along the contours of the Immortal Armor.

The power of blood souls began to pervade the Immortal Armor.

With the effect of the Blood Soul Crystal, the Immortal Armor finally returned to its complete state.

After the power surge stopped, the armor's power began to soar rapidly.

Finally, it stabilized.

Rhode clearly sensed that the Immortal Armor's power had increased more than a hundredfold.

Now, the Immortal Armor was just as Rhode had predicted.

Not only could it withstand divine power, but even if a true god descended, they might not be able to break through the armor's defenses.

In terms of defense, the Immortal Armor had improved at least tenfold.

With the strength of the North and South continents, no one could harm Rhode in the slightest.

Rhode was quite satisfied with these gains.

With a thought, he transformed the Immortal Armor back into ordinary noble attire, and then calmly continued to survey the altar before him.

Since it was the inheritance left by that progenitor, it wouldn't just be a Blood Soul Crystal.

The key black magic inheritance had not yet appeared.

Rhode turned his gaze to the booklet beneath the Blood Soul Crystal.

The booklet was pitch black, with a line of silver words engraved on it.

In the dim light around, they reflected a hint of red light, appearing somewhat eerie.

He immediately recognized the origin of this booklet.

It was the third volume of the Book of Black Magic, which was in line with the title of black magic inheritance.

Rhode's intention was to come for this, so he wouldn't hesitate.

He directly picked up the Book of Black Magic from the altar and silently initiated a sacrifice.

The art of black magic transformed into a ray of light in the sacrifice, flying straight into Rhode's body.

Countless black magic inheritances appeared in Rhode's memory.

More profound barriers and advanced barrier techniques emerged before Rhode.

Sacrificing this Book of Black Magic not only granted black magic, but also gave Rhode a large amount of alchemy inheritance in addition to barrier techniques.

Rhode's originally incomplete術法 were all filled in, becoming complete again.

Among them, black magic benefited the most.