Li Hui quickly extended his spiritual sense to search the entire dragon cave. Time was pressing, he needed to find the treasure as soon as possible and leave quickly, otherwise if the dragon returned, he would not be able to escape.

  Li Hui was startled by this exploration and found that there was actually a crocodile in the cave! Almost immediately, he wanted to turn around and escape!

  "No! This is not a dragon, it's the shed scales of a dragon!" Li Hui calmed down and found that the "dragon" didn't move at all, without any breath. Then he discovered that this was just the shed scales of a dragon.

  Jiaolong was born as a fourth-level foundation-building demon beast, while the legendary divine beast Long was born with the power of a golden elixir in its early stages, making it a fifth-level demon beast!

  Every time a major boundary is crossed, such as from the fourth-level foundation-building period to the fifth-level golden elixir period, or from the seventh-level golden elixir later period to the eighth-level primordial infant early period, the dragon will shed its original scales and grow new ones. The defense of the new scales will be increased by another level!

  "This time I've picked up a treasure!" Li Hui was overjoyed, and his body floated to the front of the dragon's shed scales.

  This suit of dragon scales is extremely complete, from the neck to the tail, with a length of over ten zhang, and the entire body presents a light green color, unfolding to a width of several feet.

  "With such a huge dragon scale armor, I'm afraid it can refine quite a few top-grade spiritual equipment armors!" Li Hui waved his hand and urged the Yuanhao Xianfu to put all the scales into the storage room of the immortal mansion.

  The Jiaolong will shed its original scales after breaking through to the Golden Elixir stage in the late foundation building period, and at that time, the body of the Azure Water Jiaolong is only over ten zhang long, so these scales are also over ten zhang long.

  But this is enough to make one's tongue wag! The scales that the Jiaolong sheds in its later stages of foundation-building, even without any refinement, are no less hard than top-grade spiritual artifacts! With just a bit of refinement, they can be made into top-grade spiritual artifact armor, and can even be combined with other materials to create magical artifact armor!

  Just this one item, Li Hui's gains on this trip are already not small. Such a large dragon scale armor, if placed outside, who knows how many sects will fight for it!

  After putting away the scales, Li Hui shifted his gaze to some ores piled up on the left side of the cave!

  "It's said that dragons love to hoard treasures, and it seems this dragon is no exception!" Li Hui's mouth curled up into a faint smile, his mood reaching its peak!

  On the left side of the cave, under the stone wall, various ores were piled up like a small mountain. Among them, the most abundant was a kind of semi-transparent ore that resembled white jade and emitted a faint cold air. Other colored ores also had several varieties each.

  Li Hui was not familiar with these mineral materials, but how could the collection of a Golden Elixir period Jiaolong be inferior? Without hesitation, he urged the immortal mansion to move all the accumulated minerals into the storage room of Yuanhao's immortal mansion.

  After doing all this, Li Hui felt that there should be no other treasures in the cave, and he was about to turn around and leave. Before leaving, he released his spiritual sense to explore the cave again.

  "What is this?" In the deepest part of the cave, on a stone platform as white as jade and several feet in diameter, a spiritual tree with a height of over three feet and a color close to transparent green grew on the platform. The spiritual tree had several green fruits that were slightly pale, whitish, and translucent.

  At first glance, this spiritual tree and its fruit are ordinary and unremarkable. However, the stone pedestal on which it grows is clearly not of mortal quality, and yet the spiritual tree has managed to take root in it, showing that it too is no ordinary object!

  Li Hui hesitated for a moment, having lingered in the cave for quite some time. If he didn't leave now, there was a chance that if the dragon returned, he wouldn't be able to escape.

  It's a bit reluctant to leave, I'm afraid that the spiritual tree is the real treasure of this dragon, otherwise it wouldn't be hidden deep in the cave.

  "I hope the Golden Elixir cultivators of the Wan Beast Sect aren't all useless!" A resolute glint flashed across his face, and Li Hui's figure moved, already flying towards the stone platform where the Spiritual Tree grew.

  Near the stone platform, the spiritual energy of heaven and earth is exceptionally dense, no less than that of the Xianfu Linshui Pavilion. The spiritual fruit on the spiritual tree has only three fruits. As soon as you come to the edge of this stone platform, you can smell the strong fragrance emitted by the spiritual fruit. Taking a breath makes one feel refreshed and invigorated, refreshing the heart and spleen.

  "Just by inhaling a whiff of its fragrance, there's such an effect, and this Spirit Fruit is clearly not yet mature. If it were to be ingested after maturing, who knows what kind of effects it would have!" Li Hui felt a slight excitement in his heart, it seemed that this trip to the Jiao Cave was quite rewarding after all.

  Time was pressing, Li Hui directly stretched out his hand to grab the trunk of this spiritual tree, wanting to pull it up. Being able to produce such a fruit, this spiritual tree itself was also a rare treasure, and couldn't be abandoned.

  With a strong pull, the spiritual tree only trembled slightly, but its roots didn't move at all. Li Hui furrowed his brow, and the "Dragon Elephant Golden Vajra" technique circulated within him. A golden light flowed on his arm, transforming his entire arm into a reddish-gold color.

  "Hi!"

  Li Hui's **Crimson Gold Body** surged with immense power, attempting to uproot the Spirit Tree. However, a burst of spiritual light enveloped the tree's surface, and it remained completely unmoving!

  Li Hui's face showed a few shades of surprise, his pure physical strength was enough to reach the power of a Qi Refining stage cultivator at the beginning of foundation building, yet he couldn't budge this spiritual root.

  "It seems that we can only give up on this Spirit Tree. The Spirit Fruit is not yet ripe, and even if we were to pick it, we wouldn't know if it would be effective!" Li Hui's face fell slightly, a hint of bitter smile spreading across his face.

  His gaze swept across the stone platform and suddenly froze.

  This spirit tree grows on the edge of a stone platform, and in the middle of that stone platform, there is an egg-like object, several feet long and about one arm thick, emitting a greenish color.

  "This is... a giant egg!" Li Hui felt his throat dry and his heart racing.

  In this dragon's lair, this stone pedestal is the place where the spiritual energy of heaven and earth is most concentrated. Anyone can guess that this egg is a dragon egg!

  "It's said that some divine beasts and strange creatures, when born in a certain place, will have some spiritual grass or fruit growing nearby. When these creatures are born, they'll ingest them. This spiritual tree should be the companion object of this dragon egg!" Li Hui quickly thought of the use of this spiritual tree.

  A dragon's congenital spirit beast is naturally a rare treasure of heaven and earth!

  But Li Hui never expected that this time entering the cave to explore treasures would actually discover a crocodile egg!

  At this time, Li Hui's heart was also extremely nervous. He had killed a Qi Refining cultivator from the Wan Beast Sect and found a jade slip in his storage bag that recorded how to tame demonic beasts as spirit beasts for cultivators. Li Hui only took a casual look at it, but he knew that for this type of oviparous demonic beast, using a certain secret method to tame it before it was born was the simplest way to tame a spirit beast.

  Having a dragon as one's spiritual beast is simply enchanting!

  But if I were to steal the dragon egg myself, that dragon outside would probably take revenge on me without hesitation and hunt me down for the rest of my life.

  "Even if I don't steal the turtle egg, I've stolen so many things from that turtle dragon, it probably won't let me off. Besides, I'll be flying far away soon, how can that turtle dragon find me? Moreover, at this time, that turtle dragon is probably struggling to save itself!" After hesitating for a moment, Li Hui steeled himself and decided to go all out.

  Since it's been decided, let's get moving quickly. However, Li Hui suddenly felt a headache at this time. This spiritual tree is the symbiotic creature of this dragon egg, and it's likely that only after birth can the dragon quickly evolve by consuming the spiritual fruit on this tree. But now, the spiritual fruit hasn't matured yet, and this spiritual tree itself can't be pulled out either.

  Li Hui hastily circled around the stone pedestal, and at this moment, the spiritual tree and the dragon egg were right in front of him. He couldn't bear to give up what was in his heart, but if he only took the dragon egg without the catalysis of the spiritual fruit, it would be difficult to cultivate and advance the dragon after its birth.

  This stone pedestal was several feet in diameter, but only a little over five feet high. Li Hui walked around it for several laps and still couldn't think of a way to get up, his heart was extremely anxious. If there really was no other way, he would have to give up.

  Li Hui's eyes suddenly stopped at the connection between the stone pedestal and the ground, this stone pedestal was a whole piece like white jade, while the ground was a whole piece of dark green stone bottom.

  "Haha! I'm so stupid!" Li Hui's eyebrows relaxed, and he suddenly burst out laughing, "Since we can't pull out this spiritual tree, let's move the stone pedestal away with it!"

  Li Hui thought quickly in his mind about how to place the stone pedestal in Yuanhao's immortal mansion, and soon came up with a plan: "Let's put it among those fake mountains in Linshui Pavilion!"

  Li Hui's hand flashed with white light, and the stone transformed by Yuanhao Xianfu appeared in his hand. Immediately, the spiritual energy inside his body poured into the Xianfu, and the stone transformed by the Xianfu emitted a burst of white light suspended in mid-air, enveloping the entire stone platform.

  "Received!"

  Li Hui let out a light drink, his mind urging the Xianfu at the same time, and the spiritual power in his body surged wildly. The Xianfu emitted a huge suction force that enveloped the stone platform.

  The stone pedestal trembled slightly, and the branches and leaves of the spiritual tree growing on it also rustled.

  This stone pedestal was incredibly heavy, Li Hui felt that it was much more strenuous than when he had stored that pile of ore in the immortal mansion. His body's spiritual energy was fully activated, and the white light emitted by the immortal mansion grew even stronger.

  That white jade stone platform shook violently, and the surrounding air also trembled with it. Then that huge stone platform suddenly disappeared into thin air!

  In the Water Pavilion of Yuanyang Immortal Mansion, on the empty land between the fake mountains by the lake, that white jade pedestal suddenly appeared and steadily landed on the empty land, as if it had been there all along.

  Li Hui watched all this through the immortal mansion, finally putting his mind at ease, a smile appeared on his face, and he immediately closed the immortal mansion, turned around and flew quickly towards the outside of the cave.

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