Chapter 50 What dares to peer at this seat?

"Humph, since the materials are so difficult to gather, I might as well concentrate on my cultivation instead," Yun Yi muttered to himself in his heart, before putting the jade slip back into his small storage ring.

He began to focus wholeheartedly on his cultivation, utilizing the blood bead within his body, along with the blood and spirit stones he had previously drained from several low-level living beings.

However, time slipped by day by day, and three or four months passed quietly in the blink of an eye.

Yun Yi discovered that his cultivation realm still remained at the initial stage of Foundation Establishment, having only progressed just a little bit compared to before.

He could not help feeling somewhat anxious and perplexed, "What is going on? Didn't my cultivation level improve very quickly before? Why has it become so slow now?" His mind was filled with doubts and incomprehension, yet he did not give up. Instead, he became even more determined to continue his cultivation, for he knew that only through unremitting effort and persistence could he possibly realize his dream of transforming into a human form.

Thus, he hardened his inner conviction even further and plunged back into the arduous cultivation, every subtle movement revealing his persistent pursuit of his dream.

Yet, reality is often far more cruel than imagination.

Another dozen days passed, and Yun Yi's cultivation still showed not the slightest improvement, as if bound by an invisible force, unable to advance any further.

What was even more worrying was that the blood bead inside him had grown increasingly greedy, continuously absorbing more and more blood yet failing to ever break through that capacity limit to transform the mysterious energy.

"What? I've used up the blood of those cultivators, and yet not a single bit of energy has been transformed? Even the spirit stones and elixirs are completely exhausted."

Yun Yi's voice was laced with helplessness and despair. He gazed fixedly at the blood bead, which remained as still as stagnant water, his heart deeply engulfed by an unprecedented sense of frustration.

He understood how precious and rare these resources were to him, a mere mosquito beast, yet now they seemed to have vanished like bubbles, failing to grant him even the slightest enhancement in his cultivation.

Yet, did this make him understand what he ought to do next?

"It seems that if I want to transform into a human form, I still have to rely on the Dragon Blood Transformation Art!" Yun Yi pondered silently to himself. At this moment, he clearly realized that the conventional path of cultivation had come to an end. If he wished to press forward, he had no choice but to try that much more arduous path—searching for the precious materials required to cultivate the 'Dragon Blood Transformation Art'.

"However, it is indeed time to leave. After all, I have been dormant in this cave for several months." Yun Yi made up his mind internally, and immediately flapped his wings, flying out of the cave.

He still maintained the form of a tiny mosquito, because doing so could both avoid attracting the attention of others and facilitate his travel through the world.

"First of all, I must find the material of the dragon blood. After all, when cultivating the Dragon Blood Transformation Art, dragon blood is the principal ingredient."

Yun Yi calculated in his mind. Fortunately, what the Dragon Blood Transformation Art required was not the blood of a true dragon; a mere trace of dragon bloodline would suffice. This discovery made Yun Yi breathe a slight sigh of relief, but immediately afterward, a new dilemma emerged.

Just as Yun Yi was wondering where he should fly to, a thought crossed his mind.

Where on earth could he find 'dragon blood' possessing the true dragon bloodline?

Searching blindly everywhere was obviously not a viable solution, because doing so would not only consume time and effort, but it was also very likely that he would never find it for the rest of his life.

Yun Yi fell into deep thought, when suddenly, his eyes lit up. "That's right, places where demonic beasts or the human race gather—such places might hold clues regarding the true dragon bloodline."

At this thought, a glimmer of hope ignited in Yun Yi's heart.

He decided to first look for a place where a multitude of demonic beasts gathered. Various kinds of beasts lived in such places, and perhaps he could track down some clues related to the dragon bloodline from them.

Even if the hope was slender, he had to give it a desperate try, for only by doing so could he possibly realize his dream of transforming into a human.

Thus, Yun Yi took a deep breath, gently beat his wings, and shot forward like an arrow released from a bowstring, soaring high as he shuttled through the lush dense forest, his sharp gaze scanning every single corner that might conceal a gathering place of demonic beasts.

However, time quietly slipped away. After an hour of arduous searching, apart from the verdant trees and the occasional wisps of passing breeze, he hadn't even caught a glimpse of a single wild beast.

"How could this be?" Yun Yi muttered to himself, his brow tightly furrowed. "What is going on? In such a massive forest, let alone spirit beasts, there aren't even a few wild beasts to be seen. How truly bizarre."

An ominous premonition quietly crept into his heart, and he shuddered violently as a heart-pounding thought flashed through his mind. "Could it be... that those spirit beasts have all fallen victim to human cultivators, being brutally hunted down and dragged back—some refined into pills, and others forged into weapons?"

Just as Yun Yi was immersed in deep worry and unease, a slight tremor suddenly came from the ground beneath his feet, interrupting his train of thought.

Following that, two massive figures slowly rose from beneath the earth, resembling slumbering giant beasts waking up, carrying a raw wildness and power.

Yun Yi looked closely and saw that the two demonic beasts had agile figures like the overlords of the mountain forest, their bodies covered in mottled fur that shimmered with a faint luster.

However, viewed from above, their meandering and twisting figures shared a striking similarity with "long serpents," easily giving rise to illusions.

"Tigers, aren't they!" Yun Yi remembered that tigers were also called long serpents, or great serpents, and now it seemed that phrasing was not incorrect.

Just as he was staring at the two tigers on the ground, an even more incredible scene occurred.

Those two seemingly ordinary tigers—one robust and mighty, the other gentle and spiritual—were clearly a pair of mates.

They actually opened their blood-red maws and unexpectedly uttered human speech. Though their voices were slightly unpracticed, every single word was clear and forceful, proving well enough that they had already cultivated to a realm where they could communicate with humans.

Moreover, Yun Yi could clearly sense that their cultivation realms were actually much higher than his own, which filled him with secret astonishment.

Yet, such powerful demonic beasts chose to hide underground, leaving Yun Yi's heart filled with perplexity.

More than anything else, however, was the shock brought to him by this very scene.

He widened his eyes, staring in disbelief at the two demonic beasts before him, his heart stirred by both shock and a trace of inexplicable excitement.

Perhaps these two powerful demonic beasts were precisely the key for him to find the true dragon bloodline and embark on the path of form transformation.

After all, given how high their cultivation was, their knowledge and the secrets they grasped must far exceed Yun Yi's imagination.

Just as Yun Yi was calculating in his mind how to approach these two demonic beasts and seek their help on the grounds that they were fellow demonic beasts, the tigress abruptly detected Yun Yi's presence.

"What kind of thing dares to spy on this deity!"