What bad intentions could the original dragon have?

The formless ice crashed into the deep pit accurately. Then Zhong Ling waved his claws, lifted up a large amount of snow and covered it directly, submerging the formless ice under the snow.

"Alright." Zhong Ling returned to human form and came to Ying's side. "This way, it will probably sleep for a few decades."

The seal she had just cast was a weaker seal, which had the effect of sealing off part of the elemental power of the formless ice.

To a certain extent, it is like giving the formless ice a sedative.

The snow that was then lifted up was like a blanket covering it.

"Wow~ Fortunately Linglong is here." Paimon pretended to cry, flew in front of Zhong Ling, nudged her hands in her sleeves, and hid inside.

There is no place safer than in Zhong Ling's arms!

"Hehe..." Zhong Ling rubbed Paimeng's head and looked at Ying. "Are you hurt?"

"That's not the case." Ying shook her head. She was hit by a lot of hail and ice cones while running away.

But with the protection of the cloak given by Zhong Ling, although he could feel himself being hit, the force was like walking on the street in a cotton jacket and being hit by a snowball.

Although it felt like I was hit, it didn't even hurt.

"That's good." Zhong Ling breathed a sigh of relief.

When she sensed the presence of Ying's elemental force around the violent elemental force, she had already arrived.

Before she had flown far, she felt someone calling her real name, asking for help.

So in an instant she transformed into her original form...well, a greatly reduced version of her original form.

"I'm sorry, it was my miscalculation that caused this crisis." Albedo apologized very seriously. "I didn't expect that in the snowy mountains where the 'ground veins' were cut off, there would be [pure formless elements]."

Elemental life forms tend to settle down in places where earth veins gather, and Zhong Ling himself is no exception.

Moreover, the stronger the elemental life, the stronger the elements in the earth vein gathering place where it lives.

The ground veins of the 'Dragon Ridge Snow Mountain' have been cut off. Although there is still elemental power, there is no 'ground veins'. It is like flowers and plants without soil. Elemental life generally does not like this place.

So Albedo estimated that there was formless ice existing there, but he didn't expect it to be of the [Pure] level.

"Uh, are you apologizing so seriously?" Ying coughed lightly. "Yes, I accept the apology."

"What do we do next?"

"Instead of continuing to collect Durin's aura around the snowy mountains, why not go find Durin directly?" Zhong Ling looked towards the Sleeping Dragon Valley. "Although Durin has been dead for a long time, and even his flesh and blood have completely turned into bones, his vitality has not been completely cut off."

"He's been dead for five hundred years, but his life force hasn't been completely cut off?!" Ying widened her eyes.

Dead, but not completely dead?

"Well, Du Lin's vitality is so strong that it is unbelievable. Even I find it difficult to understand why Du Lin has such vitality." Zhong Ling can be considered a knowledgeable person, but many incredible things have happened in the five hundred years since she proclaimed herself the emperor.

It is said that Xumi's predecessor, the [Flower God], returned to Xumi after the Battle of Kanreya, was seriously injured and died.

Barbatos was also seriously injured in Kanreya, and died as soon as he returned to Mondstadt. He was awakened by people's prayers before he had slept for two days, and fought a battle with Durin.

Not only the [Flower God] and the [Wind God], although my brother did not explain the situation, he seemed to have suffered some not-so-serious injuries as well.

What is even more incredible is that.

The temperaments of [Ice God] and [Thunder God] changed drastically after the Battle of Kanria.

The attitude of the [Faints] represents the [Ice God] to a certain extent.

The isolation order and eye hunting order issued by Inazuma next door are naturally the will of the Thunder God.

Zhong Ling couldn't believe that Baal would issue such a decree... No, even Baalzebub, that stupid bastard, probably wouldn't do such a thing.

"What kind of place is Kanria?"

'What happened during that battle?'

"Since the [Abyss Cult] are the remnants of Kanreya, what kind of relationship do they have with Sora who came from outside the world?"

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With Zhong Ling, whose perception far exceeds that of ordinary people, leading the way, they easily avoided the monsters.

Anyway, we have to go directly to find Durin’s remains, so there is no need to fight these monsters anymore.

"Although I can always feel the incredible vitality from Durin, I can't find the source of that vitality." Albedo explained to Zhong Ling what he perceived.

"Well, this is normal." Zhong Ling nodded slightly, looking at Albedo with a little doubt in her eyes. "Because Durin's remaining 'life' is obscured by Barbatos."

"It was because he couldn't completely kill Du Lin that he chose to prevent others from entering in this way."

"Whether it is taking Durin's toxin out of the snowy mountains or letting someone be corroded by the toxin, Barbatos doesn't want to see it."

"If Ying didn't have the power to purify toxins, I wouldn't have taken you to find it, and I wouldn't have even sealed it."

"Well, I'm quite lucky." Albedo nodded.

For Albedo, the 'unknown' is meaningful.

Although Albedo also knows Durin's origins, even so, there are still many "unknowns" about Durin for Albedo.

Therefore, it is very meaningful to study Dühring.

...

......

"Wow... It doesn't seem like much when looking down from Albedo's camp, but it's really spectacular when looking up from below." Ying said as she looked up at the huge ribs. "Come to think of it, Tevarin doesn't seem to be this big?"

Ying thought about it and realized that Tevarin was only about a hundred meters tall, while Dulin was already a hundred meters tall.

"Durin is a living creature, and Tevarin is an elemental dragon." Zhong Ling said as he looked at Durin's skeleton. "We elemental dragons can change our body size."

"The smallest one can usually shrink to about 1.5 meters, and the largest one depends on their characteristics. For example, I can transform into a dragon body of 10,000 meters."

"And if the injury is more severe, the maximum size will decrease accordingly."

"When Tevarin was at his largest, he was no smaller than Durin."

"Oh, that's right." Ying nodded in understanding.

The Zhong Ling dragon body that she saw for the first time in the cave was about three thousand meters long.

But the second time I saw her at Liyue Harbor announcing that the [Liyue Seven Stars] would reach the top of Tianheng Mountain, it was estimated to be 10,000 meters high. However, she was above the clouds at that time, so it was difficult to see the whole picture clearly.

The last time she was seen was in the form of a Dust Dragon, and at that time she was indeed ten thousand meters tall.

"Look at that one...wasn't it cut off when Linglong demonstrated the [Sword-wielding Technique]?" Paimon pointed at a broken bone stuck in the ground.

After five hundred years, it is difficult to tell whether Durin's remains are bones or rocks.

"That's it." Zhong Ling nodded and stopped. "Our destination is nearby."

Zhong Ling expanded the 'elemental vision'.

Although Barbatos is a stinky guy who can only say "hehehe", he does have some strength.

"It uses high-intensity wind to distort vision, making it impossible for people to see the hidden place directly. In addition, it is the power of the Wind God, so the 'elemental vision' of mortals cannot detect it. Therefore, for so many years, no one has been able to discover the existence of Durin's remaining vitality."

In fact, rather than saying that the wind wall was built by the [God of Wind] and could not be detected by mortals, it would be better to say that Barbatos’s ability to hide was too strong.

Zhong Ling raised her hand and put two fingers together to point to an empty space.

The surrounding wind began to flow, and in the blink of an eye it turned into a high-intensity whirlwind.

In Zhong Ling's sight, the two whirlwinds suddenly collided with each other.

In an instant, the power of the Wind God turned into flying feathers all over the sky, and then completely dissipated.

The hidden area also appeared before our eyes.

Previously, the surrounding area was made up of black shadows, white snow, and dark gray skeletons. These were the only three colors in sight.

However, after the wind wall was dispersed, the black and red light spread out.

'Dongdong...'

A faint sound reached their ears.

This sound, this rhythm...

"It's a heartbeat!" Paimon exclaimed.

"It's actually a heartbeat?" Ying had thought that the so-called 'remaining life' was something like the remnant of a snake that might still bite people after its head was chopped off.

Of course Ying knew that it was because snakes' brain cells were not as developed as those of humans, which meant that they were not completely controlled by the brain.

All in all, Ying originally thought that there was still a part of Du Lin's body that had not completely lost its vitality.

Unexpectedly, after the wind wall was dispelled, what appeared was Du Lin’s still beating heart!

Isn’t this outrageous?

"It's really a bit outrageous." Even Zhong Ling didn't expect that Du Lin's heart was still beating.

"Is it Durin's heartbeat?" Albedo suddenly looked at Ying.

Just as he guessed.

The frequency of the light on the sword held in Ying's hand is exactly the same as the frequency of her heartbeat.

In this way, it can be confirmed that what resonates with this sword is indeed Durin's heart.

As she got closer to the heart, Ying suddenly discovered something terrifying.

She just stepped on a black and red area on the ground, and when she lifted her foot she actually felt something sticky.

"The blood on the ground hasn't completely dried up!" Ying reached out and grabbed Zhong Ling beside her, stopping her from moving forward. "Linglong, move back!"

Ying discovered that not only the heart and the sword were resonating, but even the half-dried blood on the ground was emitting a faint dark glow.

Because the light was so dim, and the light from the heart was so obvious, they ignored the blood.

Because of the protection of the Barbatos Wind Wall, the blood here was not dried up by the wind and snow like in other places, but was always maintaining a minimum circulation with the heart.

Therefore, the blood circulating on the ground in resonance with the heart actually remains active!

At this moment, the dark red poisonous blood of Durin emitted a deep mist. This wisp of mist rose up, but disappeared completely in the blink of an eye.

The poisonous blood on the ground was no longer the extremely thick black and red color as before, but instead revealed a hint of bright red.

'Dongdong...'

Suddenly, two extremely heavy heartbeats were heard, and then the purified dragon blood on the ground turned into a line of blood, which suddenly poured into the "eye" at the hilt of the long sword.

Ying's hand holding the sword began to tremble violently. No, it was the sword that was shaking.

The shaking only lasted for a few seconds before stopping.

After absorbing the blood, Ying clearly felt the power of the sword at this moment.

Although it is not as good as [Sky Blade], it has indeed reached the artifact level.

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"Du Lin is really strong." Zhong Ling said, sensing the aura emanating from the sword in Ying's hand. "To forge something comparable to a divine weapon with human strength, the blacksmith's skills are the best among humans."

Although the sword's full potential could not be brought into full play, it was indeed the ultimate of humanity.

Human beings are like this. In terms of talent, human talent may be ten times that of immortals and gods.

Things that might take gods and immortals hundreds of years to accomplish only take humans ten years.

But human life is still too short.

This blacksmith was the best among men, but he still had his flaws.

Human perception cannot reach the level of immortals and gods, and human control over power cannot reach the level of immortals and gods.

Just like the unrivaled blacksmith, Morax.

For Morax, there is no difference between pulling up the majestic sacred peak and picking up a teacup. That kind of meticulous mastery of power is the result of thousands of years of Morax's practice.

It is not something that can be mastered in just a few decades of life.

In addition, the materials that immortals and gods can use may be something that mortals may not be able to melt in their entire lives.

"With human power?" Albedo looked at Zhong Ling, and then looked at the sword in Ying's hand.

No matter how close the gods and immortals are to mortals, they still have the vision of a god and immortal.