"Are you surprised by my appearance? Can you tell me what time it is outside?" the High Priest asked curiously.
"It is currently in the mainland calendar…" Bexia briefly explained what she knew and also provided information about the Great Dragon Church to the High Priest.
"How is that possible? The Great Dragon Church passed a millennia ago. If it weren't for guarding the desolate place for the Dragon God, I wouldn't have stepped down as the High Priest…"
"A millennium…" Bexia was astonished as she looked at the High Priest before her. He had been in power for a millennium!? Considering that the history of the human race was not even a millennium old, unless it was the mythical age or even more ancient times.
"Never mind, all of this is no longer of any use." The High Priest shook his head again and spoke, "Can you do me a favor, young one?"
"Help you?" Bexia thought she misheard. This person before her should be a super powerful being, and yet he was asking for help from someone as insignificant as her, it was simply a joke.
"Don't misunderstand, I have no ill intentions. The reason I need your help is because I am already dead, as I just told you!" The High Priest explained.
"What you see now is just a residual image of me. If I leave this space, I will immediately dissipate!" the High Priest continued.
"Of course, I won't ask for your help for nothing. I will pay you enough rewards that will surely satisfy you. How about it?" At this moment, the High Priest had already arrived at the door of the wooden house. After pushing the door open, Bexia was stunned by what she saw inside. The wooden house was empty except for a low stool with a pile of bones sitting on it. However, this skeleton emitted a warm white light.
"This is my corpse. What do you think?! Are you scared?" the High Priest jokingly said, unable to tell that it was his own skeleton. After all, who would joke about their own body?
"Why aren't you saying anything, young one? Do you not believe me?" The High Priest waved his hand, and a piece of jade flew into his hand from the waist of the skeleton, along with a ring on its finger.
"This piece of inheritance jade contains all my insights about talismans that I have researched in my lifetime. And this ring contains my lifelong savings, although most of the contents inside have decayed and disappeared due to the passage of time…" The High Priest sighed with a touch of emotion. Time was an irresistible force that made even the strongest individuals seem tiny in the face of it.
"However, my sacred artifact is still here. As long as you can find some treasures to refine it, you can awaken its power. And all of my battle techniques as the High Priest are also within. If you become my disciple and do one thing for me, I will give you everything. They are enough to make you a super powerful being!"
"Your Excellency, I'm not interested in this. If you have no other business, may I leave?" Although what the High Priest said sounded enticing, were they really that easy to obtain?
The answer was definitely not. Aside from whether this High Priest was good or bad, even if it was a genuine request, it would definitely not be simple. It was probably the kind of perilous task where one risked their life.
"... " The High Priest looked expressionless at Bexia before letting out a sigh and saying, "Young one, I know you don't believe me, but I hope you can take my belongings and give them to my descendants in the Great Dragon Church. I don't want my legacy to disappear because of this!"
"And my task is actually quite simple. Take my token and activate the great formation in the Dragon God Palace, awakening the power of the Dragon God and eliminating the two invaders who stole the Dragon God's power!"
The High Priest persisted, but Bexia was already thinking of using the Eight-Pole Cloud Umbrella to escape.
However, the High Priest, who saw through Bexia's intentions, suddenly smiled. Bexia immediately felt a stiffening sensation throughout his body; he couldn't move. He quickly became alert, thinking that his fox tail was about to be exposed.
"Ah!" The High Priest stuffed everything in his hands into Bexia's arms and looked at his widened eyes. "Young one, carry on my legacy. I can feel the bloodline of my descendants in you!"
"And you must help me with my task, whether you want to or not. After all, you are the only one who has come here in so many years!" The High Priest pushed Bexia's shoulder, and the surrounding space quickly blurred and eventually turned into darkness.
Bexia felt as if he had been thrown into an endless abyss. It might have only been a few seconds, or it could have been several days. In this endless darkness, the concept of time had completely blurred.
"Huh!?" When Bexia regained his senses, he found himself in a dim hall. The intricate reliefs around him were exquisite, and even the stone bricks beneath his feet were engraved with detailed dragon patterns. On a platform not far away, there was a stone chair. Under Bexia's surprised gaze, a man with horns and a tail formed by the gathering flames sat on it, the fiery dragon patterns extending from his left shoulder to his back.
"Challenger, defeat me (Red Dragon Warrior Blazeji) and you can proceed to the next level!" The fire dragon licked his lips, and his hands and horns began to transform into dragon claws. As he stood up from the chair, Bexia suddenly felt a sense of trepidation.
"Crimson Dragon Fist!" Red Dragon Warrior Blazeji clutched his hands, and a layer of flames enveloped his arms, forming fiery gauntlets. The red flames weren't just blazing with temperature; even the air distorted under their influence.
"Flames of the Earth!" After landing, dragonman Blazeji summoned a crimson power that appeared directly under Bexia's feet. The scorching flow of flames made his face change, and he immediately flashed to a location more than ten meters away.
"Boom boom boom!" A series of flames erupted from the ground, completely transforming the area where Bexia was standing into a volcano-like scene. The surging fire elements were extremely rich, comparable to Extreme Magic.
"I didn't mean to disturb, I want to leave now!" Bexia was inexplicably brought here, feeling extremely speechless. Faced with the dragonman Blazeji in front of him, he sensed that the opponent's strength was not inferior to his own; otherwise, his instinct wouldn't have given him a sense of danger.
"Challenger, when you entered here, you no longer have a way out. Either defeat me and continue forward, or forever remain here!" Dragonman Blazeji revealed a cruel smile, and with a step, he suddenly charged towards Bexia, his fiery gauntlets carrying scorching punch winds. If the attack landed, it would probably instantly explode into a mist of blood.
"F*ck!" Bexia cursed as he saw the imposing dragonman Blazeji, his actions swift. The Hidden Dragon Cold Star immediately appeared in his hand, meeting the scorching gauntlets...
