I Can See Through Everything-Chapter 481 (1)

As the mysterious entity saw the Li Huo Cauldron descending, it was already too late to dodge.

It had no choice but to retract its head and limbs inward, relying on its body to endure the cauldron's impact from above.

Boom!

The Li Huo Cauldron struck the mysterious entity, unleashing immense power.

It sent the creature crashing back into the sea from midair, causing a massive tidal wave.

Seawater splashed high into the sky, resulting in torrential rain across a ten-mile radius.

"Hmm?"

Lu Qing was surprised to see that the mysterious entity was merely knocked back into the ocean rather than shattered into pieces.

Although he had launched the attack hastily and hadn't used his full strength, the Li Huo Cauldron was still a mid-grade spiritual artifact.

For a creature to withstand a direct hit from it without being destroyed was terrifying.

Staring at the sea, Lu Qing could sense that the entity's aura had only weakened slightly, without showing any signs of serious injury.

Its physical body was so powerful that it was beyond what a typical Golden Core Realm spirit beast could possess.

...

The Five Elements Winged Serpent swiftly flew to Lu Qing's side and spat out the black Spirit pearl it held in its mouth.

Lu Qing caught it and stored it in his Heaven and Earth One Qi Bag.

Boom!

At that moment, the sea surged violently, and a colossal being emerged.

Lu Qing finally got a clear view of the mysterious entity’s true form.

It was a massive beast with a menacing, dragon-like head, thick limbs with razor-sharp claws, and a body covered in a hard shell adorned with profound patterns.

Its sheer size spanned several miles—far larger than any creature Lu Qing had ever encountered.

However, there was now a concave dent on its shell, with cracks spreading across it and faint traces of blood seeping out.

Clearly, while the Li Huo Cauldron's strike hadn’t seriously injured it, the impact still caused some damage.

At this moment, the beast was staring at Lu Qing and the Five Elements Winged Serpent with an ice-cold gaze.

The serpent trembled, instinctively retreating behind Lu Qing.

When the beast had chased it earlier, it truly believed it was doomed.

Moreover, it could feel an overwhelming, instinctive urge to submit before the creature.

That fear stemmed from the depths of its bloodline, an invisible suppression pressing down on it.

If not for being enslaved by Lu Qing’s divine soul and unable to betray its master, it might have already fled in terror.

...

Lu Qing, however, activated his special vision ability and gazed at the beast.

Immediately, a dense purple glow radiated from its body.

Several lines of information surfaced before him:

...

A flood of information stunned Lu Qing.

Now, he understood why this creature was so powerful—why even after being struck by the Li Huo Cauldron, it suffered only minor damage.

It carried the bloodline of the Ancestral Dragon!

The Ancestral Dragon was a Nine-Tribulation Exotic Beast, an entity beyond imagination in terms of power.

Even Suan Ni, one of its nine offspring, had already reached the Six-Tribulation level ten thousand years ago.

The sheer strength of such a bloodline was self-evident.

"So, the wisp of Suan Ni’s bloodline that fell back then... was claimed by the Dragon Tortoise clan?"

Recalling past events, Lu Qing finally pieced the puzzle together.

Previously, he had obtained two inheritances at Azure Dragon Pass—one from a sword scar in a gorge and another from Suan Ni’s claw imprint.

The inheritance illusions had revealed a scene from ten thousand years ago—Suan Ni losing to Daoist ‘Heaven-Shatterer’ by one move.

A claw wound was left on its paw, causing a drop of its blood to fall into the great river near Azure Dragon Pass, sparking a battle among countless aquatic exotic beasts.

Now, it seemed that the Dragon Tortoise clan had ultimately seized that wisp of Suan Ni’s bloodline.

However, the Dragon Tortoise before him was likely not the original one that absorbed Suan Ni’s blood but rather a descendant.

After all, the creature's lifespan was only around 40,000 years, whereas the battle between Daoist ‘Heaven-Shatterer’ and Suan Ni had taken place over 100,000 years ago.

...

"Even so, the Ancestral Dragon Bloodline is beyond formidable—capable of surviving both spiritual energy depletion and the Five Decays of Heaven and Man."

This Dragon Tortoise had survived for 40,000 years, which meant it had lived since the previous cultivation era and endured until now.

But unlike Plague Elder and Netherworld Old Ghost, who had survived by using soul-transferring techniques and abandoning their original bodies to parasitize spiritual artifacts—

This Dragon Tortoise had relied entirely on its bloodline’s strength to withstand the Five Decays of Heaven and Man.

Rather than perishing, it had only suffered a drop in cultivation and fallen into slumber.

Now, with the revival of spiritual energy, the Dragon Tortoise had awakened once more.

However, its strength had yet to fully recover.

...

Understanding all this, Lu Qing felt both shocked and relieved.

Luckily, the revival of spiritual energy had only begun a few years ago—this Dragon Tortoise was far from regaining its peak strength.

Otherwise, facing a Nascent Soul Realm Dragon Tortoise infused with Ancestral Dragon bloodline, even with his Perfect Golden Core, Lu Qing would have no chance of victory.

...

However, this realization also made things problematic.

Even though the Dragon Tortoise’s realm had fallen, its body remained at the Nascent Soul level.

From what he had seen, even the Li Huo Cauldron’s attack had only left a dent on its shell.

Though he hadn’t used his full power, he had unleashed at least 40–50% of the cauldron’s potential.

Even if he activated the cauldron’s full power, it would still be difficult to severely wound, let alone kill, the Dragon Tortoise.

Furthermore, when he had examined the Water Spirit Pearl, he discovered that it had already been refined and imprinted with the Dragon Tortoise’s soul imprint.

That meant the Water Spirit Pearl was under its control.

Only due to the mystical resonance between the Five Elements Pearls had he been able to catch the Dragon Tortoise off guard.

However, as long as the soul imprint remained, refining the Water Spirit Pearl would be extremely difficult.

There were only three ways to erase a soul imprint from a treasure:

The first two options were clearly impossible—judging by the Dragon Tortoise’s enraged gaze, it was unlikely to cooperate.

Even the third option wasn't viable in the short term.

Given its Nascent Soul-level soul, erasing the imprint would take at least decades, if not centuries—assuming the Dragon Tortoise didn't grow stronger in the meantime.

If it recovered its full strength within that time...

Things would become truly dire.