The Black Dragon King lunged forward to devour him, and Chu Feng's vision blurred.
When his sight cleared again, Chu Feng found himself back inside the inheritance pool.
However, the phantom of the Yaojiao within the pool was shrinking — more precisely, it was shrinking as it circled around Yaojiao Tingyu, that phantom containing the potent Yaojiao bloodline was merging into Yaojiao Tingyu's body.
"So it seems to have succeeded." Seeing this, Chu Feng smiled and let out a sigh of relief.
He had originally feared that the Black Dragon King intended to pass its power on to him, and at that moment he had truly been alarmed.
If the Black Dragon King really had transferred its inheritance to him, it would have meant Chu Feng had stolen Yaojiao Tingyu's power — plunging himself into a position of betrayal and dishonor.
But now, Yaojiao Tingyu's transformation was strikingly obvious. Even her aura was surging rapidly. She had been a half-step Martial Emperor of the first rank, but now she had already reached the seventh rank, and her aura was still climbing.
"Wait." However, Chu Feng was quickly taken aback once more. Yaojiao Tingyu was indeed receiving the inheritance — that was undeniably happening right before his eyes.
But Chu Feng's own aura had also broken through. He was no longer a seventh-rank half-step Martial Emperor — he had become an eighth-rank half-step Martial Emperor.
Moreover, Chu Feng sensed that his Mental Power had strengthened severalfold. With a mere thought, the formation power he drew from the formation space was no longer Snake-pattern formation power — it had become Dragon-pattern formation power.
"I've broken through too? Did I receive the inheritance as well?" Chu Feng was stunned. His eighth-rank half-step Martial Emperor cultivation and his Dragon-pattern formation power had already solidified. There was no further room for immediate advancement, but this was his current strength.
"Chu Feng, come take a look — quickly!" At that moment, Eggy spoke up excitedly.
"What is it?" From Eggy's tone, it sounded urgent. Chu Feng immediately projected his consciousness into the formation space.
"Oh my heavens, how is this possible?" Upon entering the formation space, even the perpetually composed Chu Feng lost his composure.
Inside his formation space, not only was Her Majesty the Queen present as always — three additional items had appeared, floating in midair.
Those three items were... a map, a token, and a key.
The map flickered between illusory and real, shifting between the two states — truly wondrous.
The token appeared to be crafted from ordinary stone, rough and even somewhat ugly, but Chu Feng could tell at a glance that it was extraordinary, containing some hidden, special power.
As for the key, it was even more peculiar. It was composed of light, and that light was itself made up of countless tiny motes of light, like a sky full of stars condensed into the shape of a key.
Yes — it looked exactly like a star-studded key.
Filled with wonder, Chu Feng reached out to grab all three items for a closer look.
BOOM— However, the moment his hand touched the star key, it detonated, transforming into several streaks of light that vanished without a trace.
BOOM— BOOM— Right after, the token and the map also exploded one after the other, disappearing completely.
"How can this be?" At the sight, Eggy was startled. In her eyes, all three were treasures — losing them would be a terrible waste.
"No, they're already on me," Chu Feng said.
"What?" Eggy didn't understand.
Chu Feng smiled faintly, then projected his consciousness back into his body and opened both hands. The stone token and the star key sat in his left and right palms respectively.
"They actually transferred from the Spirit Formation space onto your body." Eggy was quite astonished, but then asked, "But what about the map? That one's still missing."