152: I can really cure your situation.

When Li Yan saw the Rotten Dragon, which was lying deep in the East Sea and stretched for a thousand miles, he was shocked by the sight before him.

He couldn't ascertain the cultivation of this giant Dragon; what a formidable ancient creature it was, yet imprisoned here.

Looking at this menacing Rotten Dragon, if Li Yan's Physical Body wasn't currently seated on a golden-patterned lotus platform, and his Soul was Immortal.

He would have turned and run immediately, without any hesitation whatsoever.

Staying for even half a breath in front of such a mysterious and ancient behemoth was an insult to his own life.

But Li Yan, with his invincible Soul, forcefully suppressed his inner instinct of fear at this moment, as his rationality overcame his dread of the giant creature.

Li Yan endured the tremor deep within his Soul and spoke to the Rotten Dragon before him with a neither humble nor arrogant tone.

"I am a Loose Cultivator from Bugui Mountain, and I have come here to search for the Old Heavenly Court."

Seeing that Li Yan actually met its gaze, neither faltering nor losing his composure while communicating with it.

The Rotten Dragon's head slowly drew closer, its immense oppressive presence so strong that even an Immortal from the heavens would struggle to breathe.

At this moment, Li Yan noticed that its decaying body was covered in iron chains.

One end of the chains had hooks that directly pierced into its Dragon scales and flesh.

The other end had giant iron spikes driven into the seabed, with tens of thousands of chains and hooks, locking this Rotten Dragon beneath the earth.

From its appearance, this giant Dragon must have been defeated and then chained to the bottom of the East Sea by some force, suppressed in this place.

Imagine a living person, hooked by thousands of iron hooks into their flesh, chained and suspended in the cold, dark, and utterly black depths of the sea, for an unknown number of years.

Watching their own body decay in an endless solitude.

Nothing could compare to such torture, a double torment of Physical Body and Soul.

"How many years has it been?"

The giant Dragon spoke with a hoarse and ancient voice from its decaying vocal cords.

"It's been a long time since I've seen a living person."

"A mere Mortal Loose Cultivator, able to withstand the pressure of the ten-thousand-foot abyss of the East Sea?"

"Oh, I'm old, I'm confused, my mind has rotted."

"So you are not a living creature, but a Soul."

As if it hadn't seen a living person for too long, the Rotten Dragon seemed very sluggish and numb.

After a long time, its tone changed, and Dragon blood tears flowed from its eyes!

"Who sent you? Is it the Prodigy from White Jade Capital? Did they send you to humiliate me?"

Seeing the Dragon head pressing down, its gaping maw almost devouring Li Yan.

Li Yan had a flash of inspiration, and the Soul fire in his hand flickered, transforming into the jade talisman given to him by the Overseer Serpent.

He replicated the appearance of the jade talisman and presented it to the Rotten Dragon.

When he revealed this jade talisman, the blood tears in the Rotten Dragon's eyes gradually stopped.

It was in a daze for half the night, then slowly spoke: "Did it send you? That traitor."

Traitor?

Li Yan raised an eyebrow, feeling that the Rotten Dragon and the great serpent seemed to have a history.

However, none of this was Li Yan's concern; he only wanted to find the Old Heavenly Court, to find something that could contend with the Immortals of White Jade Capital.

"Senior, I am unaware of your grievances."

"I merely came here to seek the Old Heavenly Court."

Hearing that Li Yan was looking for the Old Heavenly Court, the Rotten Dragon let out a series of sneers.

"You want to find the Old Heavenly Court?"

"Do you know that twenty thousand years ago, two female Cultivators of the Great Ascension Stage also came here to search for the Old Heavenly Court?"

"That Old Heavenly Court is in the Gui Xu Realm Abyss behind me."

Someone came twenty thousand years ago?

Two female Cultivators of the Great Ascension Stage?

Li Yan frowned, vaguely wondering if this matter was related to him?

"May I ask, Senior, were those two female Cultivators, one wearing a feathered robe and the other wearing black clothes?"

"One wielding a sword, and the other a saber?"

Li Yan asked curiously if the two were Onyx Moon Fairy and Ember Immortal.

The Rotten Dragon was silent for a moment, then shook its head: "It's too long ago, I've forgotten. What they looked like has nothing to do with me."

"I only remember that they were discovered by White Jade Capital; one died and her Dao disappeared, and the other's whereabouts are unknown."

Hearing that the two Fairies, one died and one was injured, Li Yan became even more suspicious that the two people back then were Onyue and Zenmatsu, his two disciples.

"Speaking of which."

The Rotten Dragon seemed to recall something, and it slowly raised its head to look at the ten-thousand-foot deep dark water above.

"Ever since those two broke into this place twenty thousand years ago."

"White Jade Capital set up a large number of forbidden Formations and mist in the East Sea, preventing anyone from coming here."

"Although this place is shielded by my blood filth, outsiders cannot know the conversation between you and me."

"And you, how did you bypass them and enter this place without being detected?"

As the giant Dragon slowly awakened, its mind also gradually became clearer.

It remembered a very important question: how did Li Yan avoid those restrictions and successfully find this deep part of the East Sea? This Dragon Palace ruin.

Li Yan blurted out without thinking: "That great serpent sent me here."

He concocted a lie, mainly because Li Yan didn't want to go into too much detail; if he told the truth, this Dragon probably wouldn't believe him.

However, Li Yan's lie was acceptable to the Rotten Dragon; it didn't suspect him.

"That Dragon Clan traitor?"

"Heh... interesting."

The Rotten Dragon's tone was full of sarcasm.

Li Yan, in stark contrast to the Rotten Dragon, spoke again.

"The Old Heavenly Court is in this Gui Xu Realm Abyss, why can't I go there?"

Facing Li Yan's question, the Rotten Dragon looked down at Li Yan, this 'ant', with a disdainful tone and murky Dragon eyes.

"The Immortals of White Jade Capital extracted my Dragon Sinew and implanted True Lord Miao Ci's blessing into my Dragon Core, causing my entire body to rot and my eyes to become blind."

"The blood and pus constantly flowing from my body are polluting the Gui Xu Realm Abyss, blocking the Dao to the Old Heavenly Court."

The Rotten Dragon's tone conveyed a sense of Dragon Clan pride, as well as the helplessness of being corrupted.

It was practically saying directly, 'So what if you, a mere Loose Cultivator, know the truth?'

Can you, a mere ant, change this absurd world?

But upon hearing this, Li Yan almost laughed out loud.

If he were asked to do anything else, he might not be able to.

You say your Dragon Core has side effects? Isn't that just a coincidence?

From the initial shock to a calm state of mind, maintaining his rationality, his expression became increasingly relaxed.

When the Rotten Dragon explained the whole story, it expected Li Yan's despair and helplessness.

But it never expected this tiny ant to actually smile?

Seeing the slight smile on Li Yan's lips, the Rotten Dragon snorted: "Ant, are you perhaps mocking me?"

In front of the Rotten Dragon, Li Yan, clad in a blue cloth Daoist robe, swayed gently in the wind. With his hands clasped behind his back, a faint smile played on his lips, and a leisurely aura of peaceful years emanated from him.

"I can actually cure your condition."