Three months later, Noah came to a valley where a large group of disciples were gathered.
A cultivator of the second rank of the holy realm stood in front of the crowd of disciples and shouted instructions to them.
"Listen well! You will all climb the dragon valley one by one until one of you passes the test!
Although our sect is not very strong now, you must remember that long ago, we were one of the most powerful forces in this world. Our ancestors recorded these things in the ancient books of our sect so that we will never forget our past prosperity!
It is up to you to pass the dragon valley test and reproduce our past brilliance and glories!"
"Hmm.. I guess those are the disciples of the dragon phoenix valley."
Noah hid his aura and flew into the interior of the valley.
He then took out the slave who obtained the golden dragon's inheritance and controlled it like a puppet.
Suddenly, a golden dragon tattoo lit up on the slave's back before a golden dragon materialized above his head, roaring at the protective barrier guarding the valley.
The barrier opened and Noah and his slave entered before it closed again.
They reached a secluded spot before Noah ordered the slave to circulate his cultivation technique to absorb the surrounding energy.
The dragon tattoo on the slave's back lit up even more as he began to swallow all the golden energy that permeated the valley.
On the other hand, at the phoenix dragon palace, the people who saw the golden aura and the dragon flying in the sky became alarmed and began to ask for the person who managed to enter the place of inheritance.
"Quick, go and find out which disciple managed to enter the dragon valley!"
Five minutes later, the people the palace master sent out returned with bearish faces.
"What's wrong? Did you manage to find out which disciple got in?"
"Palace master, we have asked everyone and it seems that none of the disciples entered yet to take the test."
"Are you telling me that whoever entered the valley is not a disciple of our palace dragon phoenix?"
The palace master looked like he was going to go crazy.
"Quickly! Set up a blockade around the entire area! Don't let anyone in! If anyone tries to intrude kill them immediately!"
Sighing, the palace master could only wait for Noah to come out to see who had obtained the dragon's inheritance.
On the other hand, the slave absorbed the surrounding golden energy endlessly.
Five days later, a majestic golden aura illuminated the dragon valley as the slave entered the transcendent realm.
The source of the golden dragon's lineage dormant deep within him also awakened, materializing into a drop of blood essence that floated into the slave's heart.
Noah pulled the slave back into his capsule before opening a portal a few miles away.
"Palace master, the lower cave of the freezing sky has been alarmed by this situation and are now heading towards the dragon valley!"
"Not good! If we collide with the lower cave of the freezing sky, our sect will not survive..."
The lower cave of the freezing sky was another neighboring force that always coveted the other inheritance of the phoenix dragon palace, the inheritance of the phoenix nest.
Noah already knew of the arrival of this force and was glad for it as they would serve as perfect pawns for his next plan.
"Phoenix dragon palace master, deliver the new dragon emperor! A sect as weak as yours cannot nurture him! Rest assured that we in my sect will make sure to treat him very well!"
"Hmp! I don't even know who the hell this new dragon emperor is to begin with and even if I did I wouldn't hand him over to you!"
"You think I'm an idiot! I'm not leaving here today until I destroy your dragon phoenix palace!"
"You dare!"
The first order saint rank aura exploded from the palace master's body and an aura of the same level came out from the lower sky cave sect master freezing.
Noah saw the duo fighting in midair and took out his magic gourd before pulling the three demons and their bone clone out from inside.
"Seal off the area and don't let anyone escape!"
Noah ordered the four of them before hiding.
Three first order holy rank auras and one second order holy rank aura suddenly exploded before the four conjured a barrier that isolated the entire place so no one could get out.
Half an hour later, all the disciples of the two sects and their two masters were captured and gathered in one place before the bone clone created a pool of blood with their bodies before absorbing all their vitality, causing his aura to explode, bringing him to the top of the first holy rank.
Seeing that his clone was finished, Noah put the four of them back into his magic gourd before taking out the slave who obtained the ice phoenix inheritance and having her open the inheritance site of the phoenix nest with her aura before absorbing all the qi yin inside her.
The woman also entered the holy realm and awakened the source of her lineage before Noah put her back into her capsule.
She then ransacked the various martial arts and cultivation techniques of the dragon phoenix palace before teleporting to a faraway place.
The gray cloud sect was a mid-level sect with a first-rate saint rank master as its leader.
Today, a disaster suddenly fell on their heads as Noah arrived at the place before isolating it and having his four holy rank fighters mercilessly slaughter everyone before turning them into nutrients for his bone clone.
Holding a space bag in his hand, Noah smiled.
It was the gray cloud sect master's space bag.
Pulling out a fist-sized blood-red stone, Noah contemplated it for a moment before storing it in his magic gourd.
Using the cultivators of this sect to feed his bone clone was just something he did in passing, his real target was this stone.
The stone's name was blood essence stone and it had the ability to absorb, refine and convert blood into life energy that it would store inside that could be used for healing or to nourish the body.
With that settled, Noah traveled to some ruins about 100 miles from the site before deploying his divine sense to the fullest.
"I found it!"
Noah touched a place seemingly with nothing strange, but nothing more than putting his hand on the spot, the air distorted before revealing a spatial rift.
Stepping into the space rift, he appeared somewhere in space.
Flying to a cluster of asteroid fragments, he searched for a while before pulling out a red prism the size of the palm of his hand.
Although it looked like a simple gem, it was actually a space shuttle, the problem was that it was damaged and traveling with it to other planets would be dangerous as it could break apart, as well as being slower than normal shuttles.
But Noah didn't seek it out to use it, he wanted to reverse engineer it to try to learn how it worked, although that would have to wait until much later.
Leaving the space rift, he used a matrix to camouflage the location before flying away.
After finding an isolated cave, he sat down to refine the space shuttle.
Two months later, he made the space shuttle go from the size of his palm to two meters in length.
Standing on top of the shuttle, he activated it before flying away at a speed that exceeded the speed of sound.
In less than a day, he had covered a distance it would have taken him a month to cover flying non-stop.
Arriving at the border between human and bestial territory, he stepped off the space shuttle before transforming, becoming a bear with energy fluctuations that placed him in the fifth order.
Entering the domain controlled by the third order holy rank thunder dragon, he strolled through the forest without anyone paying attention to him.
After all, fifth order beasts were very common in this place.
Noah spent the next three months in the forest, behaving as any other wild beast would while secretly monitoring the movements of the thunder dragon's people.
One particular day, while hunting a rabbit, he saw a man dressed in blue robes with two golden horns on his head emerge from the giant tree in the center of the forest while being accompanied by a large number of soldiers of the beast race.
Noah followed the army secretly, keeping as far away as possible and turning into a new beast from time to time.
Half an hour later, he watched as the thunder dragon stood in front of another army led by a muscular man with red horns.
The two of them deactivated a sealing matrix placed earlier at the site, revealing a large spatial rift.
The two saints of the monstrous race rose into the air and entered the rift, with their drills following behind them.
Noah let more than an hour pass before he also entered the space rift.
The first thing he noticed upon entering the other side was the large number of mutilated corpses floating in the void around him, all of them killed because they couldn't withstand the wrenching force of space.
Pulling out his space shuttle, he activated it and began to explore the area.
Half an hour later, he found the passage to enter the other side.
On the other side of the passage, he saw a huge stone pillar with a death warning engraved in golden words.
Quickly averting his gaze, he looked at the group who stood in front of some floating steps before hiding his aura, turning into an insect and hiding under a stone at the side of the path.
The group attempted to climb the stairs but evil spirits suddenly appeared and began attacking them.
The two third order saint rank cultivators managed to resist for a while but the other soldiers quickly died, overwhelmed by the ridiculous amount of evil spirits.
The two remaining third rank saints were forced down from the steps and after discussing it for a while, they decided to retreat for the time being and come again when they were more prepared.
Half an hour after they left, Noah transformed back into his original form before pulling his subordinates out of the magic gourd.
The four of them cast a joint magical barrier that protected them from the evil spirits.
Thus, they climbed the steps with the four of them on each side and Noah in the center.
Several hours later, the group arrived at a barren piece of land with a starry sky overhead.
As they wandered around the place, Li Rong kept looking up at the comets in the sky.
"Madam..."
"Don't bother her, this is her chance."
Noah warned Han Fei before continuing to look for the exit of the place.
Suddenly, Li Rong's body trembled before releasing his aura and starting his advance.
"Madam is advancing!"
Noah pushed the other two aside and let Li Rong undergo the world energy baptism.
At first it looked like he was going to fail in his breakthrough but when he activated his demonic transformation, his aura exploded even more and he managed to withstand the baptism, officially entering the third level of the holy rank.
"Congratulations on your breakthrough."
Noah congratulated her as he assessed her aura.
"It's all thanks to you bringing me to this place sir."
"Don't take credit for it, if you managed to understand anything about the asteroid shower it's because of your own luck."
Now let's move on, we have to get out of this maze.
After a while, Noah and the others passed through an invisible passage and exited the maze.
Looking at the pillar that seemed to pierce the sky with the words "Tong Xuan Pillar" engraved on its surface, Noah shook his head and kept walking.
Suddenly, a tide of blood rushed over the group but before it reached them, Noah took out the blood essence stone and made it absorb all that incoming blood.
After absorbing all that blood, the blood essence stone looked like a beating heart.
Putting the stone away, Noah put his four companions into the magic gourd before continuing.