In the No. 1 box of Wanbaotang Auction House, Lin Xiao and Li Wuru sat opposite each other. Neither of them spoke, just quietly sipping the fragrant tea in their hands.

Although I don't know why Li Wuru is looking for her, Lin Xiao knows in her heart that since Li Xin'er knows her identity, Li Wuru must not be ignorant of herself.

Lin Xiao wasn't sure how much Li Wuru knew about himself, or what kind of attitude he had towards himself, or the Lin family, so Lin Xiao was waiting, waiting for Li Wuru to tell him the answer.

After staring at Lin Xiao for a long time, Li ruthlessly opened his mouth to break the silence: "Ten years have passed in a blink of an eye, and the years are really unforgiving!"

Lin Xiao still didn't speak, just raised his head and looked at him quietly. Li Wuru knew his identity, which was originally expected by Lin Xiao.

"Your father and I are friends of life and death, and when the Lin family had an accident, I was in retreat to break through the War King. By the time I got out, it was already a few months later, and you had already been taken to Luoxia City by Lin Yun. All I can do is go to the imperial capital on your father's death day to give him a pillar of incense and drink a bowl of wine with him. ”

"Prince Li has a heart!"

Looking at Li's ruthless and sincere eyes, Lin Xiao couldn't help but reply.

"I can't talk about it, it's just to reduce the guilt in my heart!"

Li smiled mercilessly.

"There's nothing to feel guilty about! The events of the past are not something that Prince Li can change, I can only say that my Lin family is destined to have this catastrophe!"

It is true that the events of that year could not be stopped by ruthlessness.

"Don't keep calling me Prince Li, it sounds like a lot of life! I'm a few years older than your father, if you don't mind, call me a ruthless uncle!"

Li ruthlessly looked at Lin Xiao with anticipation.

In fact, Li Wuru was also very worried in his heart. As Lin Ao's friend, when the Lin family was in trouble, he was breaking through in retreat, and by the time he learned the news, the Lin family had been completely defeated.

Although Li Wuru understood that he might not be able to change anything with his strength, he didn't do anything, which made him feel guilty all these years.

Lin Xiao looked at Li Wuru, but in the end he still couldn't call out that uncle.

The conversation with Li Xin'er made Lin Xiao understand that the water in the imperial capital was very deep, and before he saw the situation clearly, Lin Xiao had to take it step by step.

Although Lin Xiao's impression of Li Wuru is not bad, the current Lin family, or the current Lin Xiao, cannot make the slightest mistake. Therefore, before thoroughly seeing Li Wulu's position, Lin Xiao did not want to have too much intersection with him.

Looking at Lin Xiao's hesitation, Li Wuru's heart was full of bitterness. As the only heir of a friend, but refusing to treat himself as an adult, Li Wuru will inevitably feel lost.

However, Li Wuru quickly adjusted his mentality, looked at Lin Xiao and said:

"Actually, I don't blame you, the first time we met, I was a little abrupt! I probably guessed what you were going to do, and I couldn't help you with anything, there was only one promise I could give you. ”

Li Wuru paused, looked at Lin Xiao and continued:

"In the future, if you encounter any troubles that cannot be solved, come to Seven Star City, even if I ruthlessly pay for this old life, I will do everything I can to protect you!"

Li ruthlessly looked sincere, without the slightest pretentiousness.

"Thank you!"

A trace of emotion flashed in Lin Xiao's heart.

After Lin Xiao finished speaking, the box fell silent again.

After staring at Lin Xiao for a long time, Li Wuru tidied up his clothes and stood up.

"The situation in the imperial capital is very complicated, remember to be careful in everything!"

After saying this, Li ruthlessly got up and walked towards the outside of the box.

"Prince Lai......"

When Li ruthlessly walked to the door, Lin Xiao stopped him.

Lin Xiao just hopes that one day when he faces Prince Li, he can sincerely call you uncle, instead of perfunctory to make you happy!"

Lin Xiao looked at Li Wuru and said slowly.

Li's ruthless body couldn't help but tremble.

"The road knows the horsepower, and the people will see it for a long time... Well said! Well said, I will wait for the day when you call me uncle!hahaha......"

Li ruthlessly laughed and left, leaving only Lin Xiao with a free and easy back.

"People related to the imperial capital are slowly starting to appear, and it seems that the trip to the imperial capital is not far away!

Thinking of this, Lin Xiao didn't stay any longer, and turned back to the inn. It occurred to him that there was one more important thing to do.

When Lin Xiao fell into the Xia Forest again, he used a large amount of his own blood to exchange for a trace of golden dragon blood, which was recognized by the Golden Dragon Ring, and he entered the Golden Dragon Ring, and also obtained the cultivation technique of the Proud God Nine Decisions in the Golden Dragon Ring.

At the beginning, because Lin Xiao's strength was too weak, he didn't fully absorb even a drop of the nine drops of essence blood in the Golden Dragon Ring.

Now Lin Xiao's Proud God Nine Bureau has broken through to the second layer, and after this period of cultivation, Lin Xiao feels that his ** is also stronger than before, so Lin Xiao decided to try to continue to absorb some of the golden dragon essence blood.

Although Lin Xiao now has the strength equivalent to a middle-level general, Lin Xiao has not given up on continuing to strengthen the strength of **. Lin Xiao still remembered the benefits of absorbing the golden dragon essence blood at the beginning, if he could completely absorb the nine drops of the golden dragon essence blood, Lin Xiao believed that his ** strength would definitely reach a rather terrifying level.

Back in the room of the inn, Lin Xiao took off the ring on his hand and flew to the beam. After placing the ring on the beam, Lin Xiao entered the golden dragon ring with a thought.

The hall on the first floor of the Golden Dragon Ring was still as empty as usual, and nine drops of Golden Dragon Essence Blood floated quietly above the main hall.

Lin Xiao came to the bottom of the main hall and sat cross-legged, thinking about how to absorb the nine drops of golden dragon essence blood.

The last time he was in Luoxia Forest, Lin Xiao absorbed the golden dragon essence blood when he was passive, so now he didn't know how to absorb it for a while.

After carefully recalling the last time he absorbed the golden dragon essence blood, Lin Xiao hesitated whether to use his own blood to attract the golden dragon essence blood like last time.

Lin Xiao knew in her heart that there was a great risk in doing so. You must know that in the process of exchanging the golden dragon bloodline last time, Lin Xiao almost exploded and died, but fortunately, the golden dragon essence blood stopped and continued to pour into his body. But Lin Xiao wasn't sure if he would have the same good luck every time as last time.

Lin Xiao thought about it for a long time, and finally decided to take a risk.

"Damn! Die! In order to improve your strength, you will fight!"

Lin Xiao, who had made up his mind, bit the index finger of his right hand and stretched out the nine drops of essence blood floating above the main hall.

At the moment when Lin Xiao just stretched out his finger, the blood in Lin Xiao's body began to gush out of the wound of his finger frantically, surging towards the smaller of the nine drops of essence blood floating on the main hall.

The blood flowing from Lin Xiao's body came to a halt next to the smaller drop of essence blood, and began to slowly rotate around the drop of essence blood. In the process of turning, the blood kept decreasing, but the color became more and more red.

"Compress!"

Two words flashed through Lin Xiao's mind.

That's right, the blood flowing out of Lin Xiao's body began to compress rapidly under the effect of that drop of golden dragon essence blood.

Time passed slowly, and when he felt that he was about to be unable to hold on, the blood in Lin Xiao's body stopped gushing outward. The blood that originally gushed out was compressed to the size of a grain of rice, but the color was indeed bright red!

Next, the smaller drop of golden dragon essence blood also separated into a mass the size of a grain of rice, and began to merge with the compressed blood flowing out of Lin Xiao's body.

It shouldn't be so easy for two different bloods to fuse. But to Lin Xiao's surprise, the two balls of blood seemed to melt together without any rejection.

Just when Lin Xiao was surprised, the ball of blood that had fused together flew towards Lin Xiao's fingers, stopped at the wound of Lin Xiao's right index finger, and began to rotate slowly.

Just like last time, Lin Xiao felt a stream of heat rushing from the wound towards his body.

Lin Xiao's feeling was still as hot and stinging as last time, and the clothes on his whole body were completely soaked with sweat after a while.

Lin Xiao's teeth clicked, and he could feel that as the heat flowed through his veins, his body was constantly being strengthened.

Whenever Lin Xiao felt that he was about to pass out, he would bite his tongue fiercely, trying to keep himself awake! Lin Xiao's lips gradually gushed blood, and his tongue was full of wounds.

Lin Xiao vaguely understood that absorbing the essence blood of the golden dragon was not what he originally imagined.

Lin Xiao originally thought that he needed to give up his blood in exchange for the golden dragon essence blood. But now he realized that his blood was compressed through the action of the golden dragon essence blood, and after compression, it was fused with the same amount of golden dragon essence blood, and finally reabsorbed back into the body. It's just that when it is absorbed back into the body, it is not all absorbed at once, because the energy in the compressed and fused blood is huge!

In the human body, in addition to ordinary blood, there is also the existence of essence blood. I don't know how many times stronger the effect of essence blood is stronger than ordinary blood for a person! As long as there is essence blood, it will continuously produce ordinary blood!

The blood gushing out of Lin Xiao's body was ordinary blood, but what returned to the body was essence blood that could not be compared to ordinary blood, and it was also fused with the existence of golden dragon essence blood, and the benefits brought to Lin Xiao by this back and forth were indescribable.

Looking at the ever-smaller ball of blood at the wound on his finger, Lin Xiao really couldn't imagine that such a small ball of blood would bring so much pain to himself.

You must know that Lin Xiao can clearly see that the blood pouring into her body from the wound is only a strand smaller than a hair. But even so, Lin Xiao felt like there was a red-hot needle in her body that was constantly wandering. If the whole drop of blood poured into his body at once, then he couldn't explode and die in an instant?

As time passed, the drop of essence blood on Lin Xiao's finger became smaller and smaller. As the last trace of essence blood poured into his body, Lin Xiao felt the pain in his body gradually become smaller.

When the painful feeling completely disappeared, Lin Xiao breathed a sigh of relief, and suddenly felt that there was no strength in his body, but this time Lin Xiao did not pass out again.

"After this period of my cultivation, ** is really a lot stronger! At least last time, I passed out directly. It seems that absorbing the essence blood of the golden dragon, the blood released each time is automatically controlled within a range that can be just bearable, so that there is no need to worry about the danger of bleeding too much when absorbing it in the future!"

Lying on the ground in the main hall, Lin Xiao muttered to himself, and frowned again after speaking, he smelled a foul smell from his body.

"In the future, I have to prepare a wooden barrel in this hall and store some water here! Otherwise, every time I absorb the blood of the golden dragon, I will be covered in a foul smell, and it will be really uncomfortable!"

At this moment, Lin Xiao was the same as the last time he had absorbed the essence blood of the golden dragon, and his body was covered with a layer of black dirt. Although the muscles all over his body didn't look like there was any big change, Lin Xiao was sure that his ** was many times stronger than before! According to Lin Xiao's estimate, now he can easily resist the full force of an ordinary high-level fighter with only his ** defense!

"With the power of ** and the breakthrough some time ago, I should be able to compete with ordinary high-level generals now, and it's time to go to the Dark Night Forest!"

After Lin Xiao finished speaking, he was about to leave the Golden Dragon Ring, but he inadvertently glanced at the stone door in front of the hall.

"By the way, why did you forget it! I've broken through to the second layer of the Nine Proud God Decisions now, and I should be able to open that stone door!"

With a hint of excitement, Lin Xiao walked to the stone gate.

"There are nine drops of golden dragon essence blood and nine proud gods in the first layer, what will be inside the second layer?"

With a hint of anticipation, Lin Xiao put his hands on the stone door and pushed forward hard.

The stone wall does not move.

"It seems that just relying on the power of ** is not enough!"

Thinking of this, Lin Xiao concentrated the strength of his whole body into his arms, and then controlled the purple qi of his whole body to surge towards his arms, pushing the stone gate with all his might.

This time, the stone gate finally moved, but it moved very slowly, only a little at a time.

"Since it's moving, you can definitely push it away!"

Lin Xiao kept gritting her teeth and insisting on pushing the stone gate.

About an hour later, when Lin Xiao felt that the purple qi on his body was about to be insufficient to support him to continue pushing the stone gate, the stone gate was finally pushed open by Lin Xiao, and a glimmer of light could be faintly seen.

After opening a gap, the stone door was relatively easy to push, and Lin Xiao didn't have much effort to push the stone door open completely.

The scene in front of her made Lin Xiao stunned.

What appeared in front of Lin Xiao's eyes was not a vast space like the hall outside, just a room of about ten square meters, and there was nothing inside.

"What's going on? Is this the second layer? Why nothing?"

Lin Xiao's heart was full of questions.

After carefully observing for a while, Lin Xiao focused his gaze on the floor in the middle of the room. There is a circular pattern with various symbols carved on it. Lin Xiao walked to the circular pattern and squatted down to carefully observe the symbols.

After a while, Lin Xiao sighed in disappointment.

"Hey...... I thought I would get some information like the last time I looked at the symbols on the stele! I didn't feel anything this time!"

Lin Xiao stood up and walked around the room, but after a long time, he still found nothing.

"How can there be nothing? shouldn't it......."

Just as Lin Xiao was talking to herself in confusion, he suddenly felt a force pulling him above his head.

Lin Xiao was shocked, and when she looked down, she realized that she had unconsciously walked to the middle of the circular pattern on the floor. At this time, the symbols in the circular pattern had begun to move strangely, gradually emitting a dazzling light, and at the same time, Lin Xiao felt that the force pulling him above his head was getting stronger and stronger!

"Could it be that this room is just a transit station, and the real second floor has to be reached through here?"

Lin Xiao thought about it carefully and then relaxed, no longer resisting the pull of that force.

The moment Lin Xiao relaxed, a dazzling light enveloped him. Lin Xiao subconsciously closed his eyes, and a feeling of weightlessness came, and Lin Xiao could feel that his body was slowly rising upward.

When the feeling of weightlessness disappeared, Lin Xiao slowly opened his eyes.