Among the palaces decorated with the aesthetic tastes of the nouveau riche, a three-story attic with a fresh and aesthetically pleasing style appeared before Xue Huan's eyes.

The attic occupies a much smaller area than the palace and looks quite small, but that is only relative to the dragon clan's buildings. From Xue Huan's human aesthetic point of view, this attic is just the right size and looks exquisite in every detail.

This is the residence of Aunt Lin Linzhi.

Xue Huan found her in the alchemy room.

Seeing that Lin Zhi was immersed in refining the elixir, Xue Huan did not disturb her. Instead, she walked to the cabinet where the elixirs were stored, took out a bottle of peach-flavored elixirs, poured out a pill and tried to put it in her mouth.

Hmm, it really tastes like candy.

Pills originally have no taste, and even if they do, it is a medicinal taste, bitter. However, in order to cater to Yun Huan's taste, Lin Zhi improved the recipes of many pills and refined pills of various flavors.

There are flavors like grape, watermelon, pear... everything you can think of.

Normally, Yun Huan eats these pills as candy.

As a dragon blessed by nature, Yun Huan did not need to practice deliberately. The more natural treasures and elixirs she consumed, the more spiritual energy she would convert into after digestion, and the faster her cultivation would grow.

Therefore, her practice is to sleep. After waking up from a sleep, the food she had eaten before is basically digested, and her strength will also reach a new level.

Of course, you have to strike a balance, otherwise she may suffer from indigestion.

Even though Xue Huan knew nothing about cultivation, she knew how enviable this talent was. The dragon clan was truly a race blessed by nature.

Of course, there are gains and losses. The dragon clan has obtained powerful cultivation talents, long lifespans, and strong physical strength, but when it comes to reproduction, it is heartbreakingly difficult.

Perhaps influenced by this body, Xue Huan took drugs very enthusiastically, eating them as if they were candy.

After Lin Zhi finished refining a batch of pills, she opened her eyes and saw Xue Huan sitting beside her and putting pills into her mouth.

She was stunned for a moment, thinking she was hallucinating.

Xue Huan saw her staring at him blankly. Feeling guilty, she thought she had seen through him immediately. She greeted him awkwardly, "Auntie Lin."

Who knew that the next second, she fell into a gentle and fragrant embrace.

It was Linzhi. She hugged her tightly, as if she was afraid that she would suddenly disappear.

Xue Huan heaved a sigh of relief, it turned out that she had not been seen through.

"Hanhuan, you finally woke up." Lin Zhi held her face, crying with joy, her voice choked with sobs.

Xue Huan: “???”

Wake up? Wasn't Yun Huan practicing before? Why did Lin Zhi look like she had been asleep for a long time?

Moreover, there seemed to be something wrong with her behavior.

Lin Zhi wiped her face. "How could you be so reckless? Dragons usually don't transform into adults until they are eight hundred years old. Yet, you forced yourself to transform in order to leave the valley, and ended up experiencing the transformation tribulation prematurely. Aunt Lin originally thought you were still young, and planned to wait until the time was right to tell you about the things you need to pay attention to during the transformation tribulation. But... Fortunately, you have successfully survived the tribulation and returned. Otherwise, how could Aunt Lin explain to your mother?"

Xue Huan was still confused. Transformation tribulation? Coming back from the tribulation? What's going on?

Seeing her puzzled look, Linzhi guessed that she had not yet recovered from her previous experience and found it funny. She took her to her room, took out a palm-sized box from the drawer of the dressing table and handed it to her.

Xue Huan opened the box and found a piece of purple dragon scale inside. It was glowing and full of spiritual energy, so exquisite that it looked like a work of art.

To her surprise, the dragon scales actually floated out of the box, transformed into a streak of light, and sank into her brow.

She subconsciously touched her forehead, and a message came from the dragon scales.

Before a dragon cub transforms into an adult, it needs to go through a transformation tribulation. This tribulation is different from the thunder tribulation of other races. In this tribulation, the soul will leave the body and the memory will be sealed. It will be reincarnated and experience all kinds of things until the dragon's memory awakens and the soul will return to its place.

This means that you have successfully passed the transformation tribulation and can now transform.

Xue Huan: ...So she didn't travel through time, but her soul just traveled to the modern era, and now she's back to being a dragon?

This experience is really extraordinary.

Due to the special nature of the dragon's transformation tribulation, it is easy for people with ill intentions to exploit it. This exploitation may target the reincarnation of the dragon who is undergoing the tribulation, or the dragon itself. For example, bad people may deliberately find the dragon who is undergoing the tribulation, deliberately deceive its feelings, and plot to steal the dragon's soul. Another example is that bad people may take advantage of the absence of the dragon's soul in the body and seize the body to occupy the dragon's nest.

In order to prevent these situations, the dragon clan will naturally take corresponding measures.

But because Yun Huan's previous tribulation had happened so suddenly, Lin Zhi was caught off guard and could not take any protective measures for her soul. She could only protect her body to prevent it from being taken over by someone.

Now that Xue Huan is back, Lin Zhi can be sure that it is her who has returned, but to be on the safe side, she still needs to be tested.

But the testing is over.

"Ah, it's over?" Xue Huan was confused again. When? How could she not know?

Lin Zhi smiled and said, "The scale that just sank into your brow was left to you by your mother. It bears a special mark she left on it. Only you can make it recognize you as its master. If someone else had taken over your body right now, their soul would have been destroyed long ago."

Xue Huan's heart trembled, and she felt extremely relieved. Fortunately, she was "Yun Huan", otherwise she would have been scared to death at this moment.

As expected of a dragon clan, how could they easily allow others to possess their bodies?

This also explains why she received those memories when she returned to her body, because those were originally her memories, but they awakened with the return of her soul.

"Hanhuan, can you sense if there's anything extra in the spirit palace?"

Xue Huan closed her eyes and found that the purple dragon scale was lying safely in her spiritual palace, wrapping her inner elixir like a piece of armor.

The spiritual palace is to the dragon clan what the sea of ​​consciousness is to human cultivators; it is the place where the soul resides.

The death of the physical body does not mean true extinction, but if the soul is destroyed, that is true death.

Therefore, the importance of the spiritual palace is self-evident.

Xue Huan touched the dragon scale and found that her soul had instantly arrived in another vast space.

The black fertile land stretches as far as the eye can see, with various plants, vegetables and fruits planted in neat rows.

At the foot of a bare mountain, there is a group of white thatched houses.

In front of the thatched cottage, there was a lake filled with spiritual energy. No, it was a spiritual lake! The water within was so rich that it had transformed into a tangible spiritual fluid. Every drop contained abundant spiritual energy.

There is a tall and gorgeous tree growing by the lake. Its trunk is snow-white and its fan-like leaves are as white as jade.

For some reason, looking at everything here, Xue Huan had a strong sense of familiarity and intimacy, as if she had been here countless times.

But this was clearly her first time here.