Journey to the West: We're too early, Nezha is only seven years old.

"I will appeal to the Heavenly Court, and I will never let you get away with this!" The voice of the Dragon King of the East Sea could be faintly heard growing softer and softer.

Nezha wanted to chase after the Dragon King of the East Sea, but Li Jing grabbed his arm, preventing him from doing so.

"Guards, lock this rebellious son in his room. He is not to be released without my order!" Li Jing turned and ordered his personal guards.

Nezha was led away with his head down, feeling extremely wronged. He was about to resolve the trouble, but his father interfered unreasonably.

With a 'bang,' the door slammed shut.

Two guards stood on either side of the door, keeping watch.

Nezha angrily kicked over the stool; he had nowhere else to vent his anger, so he could only do this.

Zhou Xiaobai freed himself from Nezha's wrist, picked up the stool, and poured him a cup of tea.

As his strength increased and his control over his serpentine body improved, doing these things, which were somewhat complicated for the serpentine body, became extremely easy.

In fact, Zhou Xiaobai was also very helpless. He knew that Li Jing's behavior was wrong, but he couldn't very well beat Li Jing up.

He also knew what Nezha would face next, but although his strength had increased, it was still far from enough.

Nezha didn't say anything; he went to bed and fell asleep immediately.

Zhou Xiaobai faintly heard Nezha crying, but he didn't know how to comfort him. He just hoped that Nezha could figure things out on his own.

He shook his head and sighed, focusing his attention on the imprint space.

There floated a mass of true dragon blood essence, with the Dragon Pearl inside. Because he had given the imprint space a command to freeze, the Dragon Pearl remained in the state it was in when it was stored.

The Hundred-Turn Dragon Elephant Pill strengthened his foundation, but as Taiyi Zhenren said, it was still insufficient for him to become an immortal.

No matter how strong the physical body is, it is still just a physical body, unless he can obtain the technique of achieving sainthood through the physical body and enter the ranks of immortals with his physical body.

Becoming a true dragon is the most practical way for him to improve his aptitude, and the Dragon Ball and the essence of a true dragon are his hopes.

Through his own thin true dragon bloodline, he had obtained some inheritance related to true dragons. Combined with his understanding of the "Great Celestial Immortal Technique", he had a plan for fusing with the dragon pearl and absorbing the essence of the true dragon.

He turned to look at Nezha, who seemed to have cried himself to sleep.

With a slight thought, his body appeared within the imprinted space.

Throughout this process, he kept an eye on Nezha and discovered that Nezha did not notice anything unusual about him.

In a normal state, Nezha would sense Zhou Xiaobai's actions, but at this moment, Nezha's mind was already in turmoil, and he wouldn't care about anything else.

As soon as Zhou Xiaobai entered the Imprint Space, he found that the part of him that had transformed into a human had increased, with only his legs remaining as a snake tail; the rest of his body was no different from a human.

This is a change that occurs after one's cultivation level increases, but unfortunately, this can only happen within the imprint space.

There is some kind of restriction in the outside world that strongly suppresses the bloodline of the true dragon.

Otherwise, with his current strength outside, although he cannot completely transform into a human, speaking and transforming into a pair of arms would not be a problem.

He didn't know why his true dragon bloodline was suppressed, but fortunately, being in the imprint space didn't affect him, which allowed him to have a human body to do things.

He waved his hand at the Dragon Ball, and the Dragon Ball flew right in front of him.

With his mind focused on the Dragon Ball, he possessed unparalleled control within the imprint space, and the Dragon Ball had no defenses against him.

He sensed some free-floating spiritual energy within the Dragon Ball, which was Ao Bing's remaining mark within it.

If placed outside, it might require a being of the level of a Great Celestial Immortal to completely remove the spiritual imprint within the Dragon Ball before it dissipates on its own.

However, within the Imprint Space, Zhou Xiaobai could achieve the same level with just a thought.

Ao Bing's mark inside the Dragon Ball turned into wisps of black smoke and rose out of the Dragon Ball, making the Dragon Ball even more transparent and pure.

The clear and pure dragon ball possessed an indescribable allure, giving Zhou Xiaobai an urge to swallow it whole.

This is the instinctive desire of those with true dragon blood to become true dragons; the lifelong pursuit of those with true dragon blood is to become true dragons.

Of course, the chance of a true dragon bloodline advancing to a true dragon is almost zero, and the biggest difficulty in this is the dragon ball.

What are Dragon Balls? They are the essence of true dragons, capable of amplifying their sensitivity to the five elements.

Using the knowledge inherited from the true dragon bloodline, Zhou Xiaobai opened his mouth and swallowed the dragon pearl.

When the Dragon Ball reached his heart, he channeled his spirit into it.

As his spirit was absorbed into the Dragon Balls, he felt a connection between them and himself.

This connection grows stronger the longer the Dragon Balls are imbued with spiritual energy.

With a boom, his soul felt a vibration like a swaying drum, and then the Dragon Ball truly became a part of him.

Then, segments of inheritance flooded into his brain. These were all inheritances of the true dragon's bloodline, which were more numerous and profound than his original, thin inheritance of the true dragon's bloodline.

This greatly compensated for his lack of knowledge inheritance. The knowledge inherited from the Dragon Balls is the inheritance of the Dragon Clan, a powerful inheritance that has existed since ancient times.

Although for some unknown reason, the dragon race is relatively weak now, in ancient times, dragons were the top beings in the world.

At this moment, Zhou Xiaobai's snake tail had transformed into legs, and his outward appearance was no different from that of a human.

At the same time, his strength increased again. The dragon and elephant power increased by the Hundred-Turn Dragon-Elephant Pill was an extra addition and did not conflict with the increase in his own strength.

Although he has just fused with the Dragon Balls and does not yet possess the power of a full dragon, the power he has gained this time is already one-fifth of the power of a dragon. Once he fully digests the benefits brought by the Dragon Balls, he will be able to truly increase his power to the full dragon level.

With a slight shift in his mind, Zhou Xiaobai transformed from a human into a snake.

No, it can no longer be called a snake, because the two protrusions on its head have turned into a pair of dragon horns, and it has four dragon claws under its body.

Although its dragon body is far less powerful than Ao Bing's, it has fused with Ao Bing's dragon pearl, making its evolved dragon body essentially a direct descendant of the East Sea Dragon Palace, the purest true dragon.

After comparing the two, Zhou Xiaobai realized the weakness of his dragon body: the amount of true dragon essence blood was too small, which prevented his dragon body from exerting its true strength.

He opened his mouth and inhaled the true dragon essence blood within the imprint space. This true dragon essence blood from Ao Bing transformed into a stream of red water that entered his body.

The essence of the dragon was absorbed by the Dragon Pearl and transformed by it, becoming his own essence.

Normally, this kind of blood essence conversion wouldn't be so easy, mainly because Ao Bing's true dragon blood essence was refined from the same dragon pearl, belonging to the same source of blood essence.

Before long, all the true dragon essence blood left behind by Ao Bing became Zhou Xiaobai's true dragon essence blood.

Zhou Xiaobai's physical strength has also reached the level of one dragon and eight elephants, with the power of ten elephants combined into the power of one dragon. His actual strength is close to that of two dragons.