"That must be that ape's blood but how did it come here?" A question appeared in Michael's mind as he stared at the crimson droplet of blood. He could not help but recall everything Abras studied about Edros and Edros's time.

In ancient times, the Beastmen Races and the Dragons went to war with one another. At that time, Edros, who was the Beastmen race's king and their strongest, slaughtered many dragons. However, in the middle of the war, Edros disappeared without a trace. Edros's disappearance changed the tide of the war completely and the beastmen suffered a huge loss at the hands of the dragons. Eventually, the other races, mainly Nagas, organized peace talks between the two races because the war affected all the other races in the world. Since both races suffered a huge loss, they had no way but to end the war. Following Edros's disappearance, the Dragon clan in the Dragon island also mysteriously disappeared from the face of the planet. Soon, the dragons slowly lessened in numbers, some died of old age while some just vanished without a trace.

Michael was positive that Edros's disappearance has something to do with what happened to the Dragon clan and this drop of blood belonged to? Edros. However, he was unsure if Edros, the greatest king of the beastmen, had left this drop of blood here willingly.

"How did the dragons turn that ape's blood into this killing formation? Just a droplet of blood is already so powerful. It can easily kill off two Fusion stage mutated beings. No wonder slaughtered countless dragons" Michael thought as he stared at the golden blood that was growing further and further away.

Suddenly, Michael seemed to think of something. His eyes narrowed abruptly and staring fixedly at the blood,

"This ape... The golden babaroo of Noah. Is that monkey somehow related to Edros?" Michael's heart began to beat heavily. A terrifying notion appeared in his mind as he stared deeply at the crimson blood that gradually disappeared into the distance. He exclaimed, "I have to return here when I'm strong enough" If that golden babaroo of Noah was Edros's descended, he did not doubt that the monkey will be his foe in the future.

After seeing the giant ape, his fire of saving the baby dragon burned brightly in his heart. With the system's help, he would turn the baby dragon into the biggest baddest dragon this world has ever seen.

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After leaving the killing formation and the place where he saw Edros, he found a small cave to rest and heal his wounds. Luckily, he never tripped any formations on his way to the cave. He did find several mutated beings but he was able to avoid them. Inside the cave, he was laying on the ground half-naked, his robes torn to pieces, leaving him with only one set of clothes, the casual robes of King T'challa. After cleaning his body using Arch energy, he put on the robes.

Creach!

Michael tore his black coat to get a long strip and then, he tied the baby dragon onto his chest using the cloth. Suddenly his eyes narrowed, sensing the space several kilometers away being distorted.

"It must be Lailah. She's fallen into a formation," Michael murmured because the space being distorted was a sign of an activated formation.

Just as he was about to take a step forward, a familiar figure appeared before him, Spectre.

"Where are you going kid? Don't risk your life trying to save a woman you barely know, it's not your style "

"Shut up" Michael understood what the old man was trying to imply. He tried to ignore the old man as he began to walk outside of the cave

"Just let the woman, it's easy for you isn't it? After all, you killed the only woman you loved" his steps were halted by the old man's words. Flames of fury and sadness emerged in Michael's eyes as he clenched his fists.

"Don't!" his body was slightly shivering in anger, images of a girl in her bathrobes on a bed flashed across his mind. The girl's white bathrobes and the bed underneath her were turned red by her own blood, there were two bullet holes on her chest and one bullet hole right between her eyes.

Suddenly, all the hundred dragons in the formation roared at the sky together and then, streams of scorching hot fire shot out of their mouths. Soft whisperings drowned the space and vast energy radiated from the dragons, filling the entire region.

"They've started to use the dragon's breath!" Lailah murmured. Her face was pale and seemed extremely grim. The dragon's fire could melt the strongest metals in the world, even a Core Strengthening stage dragon's fire was powerful enough to burn any Soul Refining stage cultivator to ashes. Hundreds of these Core Strengthening stage dragons could certainly kill not one but several Fusion stage warriors like her if they used the dragon's breath.

Lailah gritted her teeth and a sliver of determination appeared in her eyes. A slender finger gently touched the seventh and the final string. Her finger was cut as soon as she came into contact with it. Dark red blood immediately began to flow, before being absorbed by the string.

The seventh string became completely red after absorbing her blood. It radiated an extremely mysterious aura that seemed to contain the Celestial Energy. At the same time, a gentle, graceful veena note seemed to hum softly from beyond the sky, echoing through the entire formation space.

Lailah paled from the loss of blood through her finger. This blood was not ordinary blood but it was lifeblood. Unlike the normal blood flowing in a cultivator's body, the lifeblood can't be reproduced quickly through any means including high purity healing potions. Once a cultivator used his or her lifeblood, they could only regain the lifeblood by consuming certain rare herbs.

Currently, Lailah used her lifeblood as a price to use an ability completely beyond her strength.

Roar!

A hundred dragons produced an earth-shaking roar. It was filled with the endless might of dragons and seemed to be able to shatter the void. It created countless sound waves, layering upon one another in the formation space as it quickly radiated towards Lailah with an aura of absolute destruction. Lailah gently struck the seventh string at the same time.

Ding!

The sound produced by the veena echoed through the mountains and forests. It was only a musical note, yet it contained great power. A powerful sound wave that was visible with the naked eye began to expand in all directions at an unbelievable speed.

The sound completely suppressed the roar of the dragons. Wherever it passed through, space would ripple, blazing through anything that blocked its way. It surged towards hundred dragons like a hot knife through butter, gently colliding with them.

Soon after, all the dragons in the formation disintegrated. The third form had been broken.

Lailah had played the seventh string at the cost of her vitality. All hundred dragons fell to a single wave of sound.

The seventh string trembled violently. She had already become pale as a white paper as all blood drained from her face. Her eyes also dulled for a while, revealing the weakness she struggled to conceal.

Roar!

Suddenly, another dragon's roar rose up. Soon afterward, vast presences appeared in the formation space. The hundred dragons had reformed their bodies and they each radiated with an aura countless times more powerful than before.

Despair immediately appeared in Lailah's eyes when she saw this. She said with endless bitterness, "The fourth form. It's the fourth form. Looks like I'm fated to die here today"

Breaking through the third form of the formation was already her absolute limit. She possessed no more strength for any resistance against the fourth form that could simply kill a lone Fusion stage warrior like her.