Chapter 42: Water And Fire Dragon Kings
It took a full three days before Zhu Zhuqing finally emerged from the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Eyes. Besides a significant increase in her body strength, her soul power had also reached level thirty.
There was no need to go soul hunting either. Dan Heng directly granted Zhu Zhuqing her third soul ring, five thousand years, which had far exceeded the so-called soul ring age limit theory proposed by Master.
The scenery of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Eyes was indeed magnificent and mysterious, but after staying there for four or five days in a row, everyone had had enough. Meng Huaifeng, March 7th, Xing, and Zhu Zhuqing left the valley together to go harass the soul beasts in Sunset Forest.
Dugu Bo was still cultivating, while Dan Heng finally followed his inner intuition and dove into the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Eyes.
He descended continuously for nearly ten thousand zhang, and two massive dragon corpses appeared before Dan Heng’s eyes.
One emitted a white halo, the other a red halo. One white and one red, exactly matching the colors of the springs in the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Eyes. Clearly, the formation of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Eyes was closely related to these two dragon corpses.
“You are… a descendant of my Water Dragon Clan?” A transparent white dragon soul emerged from the white dragon corpse, circled around Dan Heng, and asked in surprise.
The red dragon corpse was not to be outdone, and a transparent red dragon soul drilled out, asking, “Young one, over so many years, you are the first dragon clan member to find this place. Tell this king, how is the dragon clan in the outside world now?”
“Uh… Your Excellencies Dragon Kings, under the protection of the train crew, the Imbibitor Dragon Clan—Dan Heng—is not from the dragon clan of this universe, but came from another universe, and has no understanding of the dragon clan situation in this universe.” Dan Heng spoke the truth.
Dan Heng could sense that these two dragons had considerable strength in life, far inferior to Jing Yuan at his peak, but probably not much different from his current normal state.
Upon learning that Dan Heng was not from the Water Dragon Clan, the Water Dragon King was somewhat disappointed, while the Fire Dragon King boldly said without minding.
“All dragon clans under heaven are one family. What does it matter which universe? After being dead for so many years, to encounter a fellow clansman—this king is very happy, haha.”
“Dan Heng, my young friend, can you tell us about the current situation in the outside world?” The Water Dragon King composed himself and asked again.
“I haven’t been in this universe for long and don’t know much, only able to tell you some things I’ve heard secondhand.” Dan Heng didn’t mind chatting with the two dragon kings.
Dan Heng told the two dragon kings a lot, especially about Douluo Star’s special Martial Spirit Cultivation System, where one must hunt soul beasts to obtain soul rings to continue advancing, which made the two dragon kings curse the God Realm vehemently.
They firmly believed that the Dragon God’s madness must have been a conspiracy by the gods of the other races.
From the two dragon kings’ mouths, Dan Heng gained a one-sided understanding of the truth about the great war in the God Realm back then. It could only be said that it was all for their respective interests, with no right or wrong.
If anything, the current God Realm was more in the wrong. After all, the God Realm was created by the Dragon God, and it was the Dragon God who allowed other races to enter the God Realm to become gods.
But this had nothing to do with Dan Heng. The Nameless’ creed was to not interfere in the legitimate struggles between local forces.
Of course, if one side wanted to destroy the world or carry out mass slaughter, that would no longer be a legitimate struggle, and the Nameless would help the other side severely sanction such idiotic behavior.
“Dan Heng, my young friend, before we fell, we saw the Silver Dragon King leading a branch of the dragon clan to flee into this planet. Could you please help us find the Silver Dragon King hidden on this planet? We have some words we want to say to her, and we also hope she can bury our corpses and dragon souls in the Dragon Realm.” The Fire Dragon King requested.
“Though you are not of our lineage, you are still a water-attribute dragon clan member. My origin should be of some help to you. As reward, it is entrusted to you—absorb it to improve your strength or do whatever you want with it.” The Water Dragon King said.
“And mine too. Anyway, we’re already dead, and this origin is useless. We’ll give it to you together. If you can’t use it yourself, you can give it to the younger generation in the clan.” The Fire Dragon King chimed in.
Dan Heng was not tempted. Absorbing a fellow clansman’s origin—what difference was there from cannibalism for cultivation? Only Abundant Evil Creatures would do such a thing.
The Imbibitor Dragon Clan could not reproduce, and every clansman who died meant one fewer. Although the Water and Fire Dragon Kings were not Imbibitor Dragon Clan, Dan Heng couldn’t help asking, “My Imbibitor Dragon Clan has a secret method that can make deceased dragon clan members reincarnate. Would your Excellencies Dragon Kings be willing to reincarnate as my Imbibitor Dragon Clan?”
The Dragon Transformation Method modified by Jing Yuan was incomplete in Dan Heng’s memory, but the original Dragon Transformation Method from the Dragon Lord Legacy was complete and flawless.
Bai Heng was not of the dragon clan and only had a few strands of hair and blood traces left, so the Dragon Transformation Method needed modification.
But the Water and Fire Dragon Kings were dragons themselves, with intact dragon souls, corpses, and origins all present. The original Dragon Transformation Method alone would allow them to easily reincarnate and be reborn.
The two dragon kings were overjoyed: “Who would choose to be buried in the Dragon Realm waiting for annihilation if they could live? We’re all dragon clan anyway—what’s there to refuse?”
“There is one thing I must tell you in advance: my Imbibitor Dragon Clan are descendants of the Dragon Ancestor. After the Dragon Ancestor disappeared, due to a series of events, the Imbibitor Dragon Clan lost the ability to reproduce and could only sustain itself through continuous reincarnation, yet it has been declining day by day.”
“Moreover, ordinary Sustainers of the Hunt have only a five-hundred-year lifespan. Your origins are extraordinary, so your lifespans might be longer, but probably no more than a thousand years or so before reincarnating. In the first life, you can retain your memories thanks to your dragon souls, but subsequent reincarnations will lose the previous memories, becoming entirely new individuals.” Dan Heng explained the pros and cons clearly.
The Fire Dragon King and Water Dragon King looked at each other. Even with only their dragon souls left, they could exist for at least tens of thousands of years—how could their lifespan be shorter after revival?
“Dan Heng, my young friend, this doesn’t make sense. Shouldn’t stronger strength mean longer lifespan? With your strength, you can only live a thousand years or so?” The Water Dragon King raised the question.
Dan Heng nodded silently. According to the memories in the Dragon Lord Legacy, long ago when the immortal Dragon Ancestor was still around, their lifespans were indeed incredibly long. Unfortunately, after the Dragon Ancestor disappeared, the lifespans of ordinary Imbibitor Clan members grew shorter and shorter, stabilizing at around five hundred years only now.
The various Dragon Lords had long speculated that this was very likely the result of interference from the Equilibrium Aeon, including the Celestial Beings’ Demonic Yin Body, the Fox People’s moon madness, and so on.
All long-lived species blessed by the healer have one or more flaws that cause them to self-destruct and perish after reaching a certain age.
Only a very few can break this flaw and continue living.
And no matter how much they researched, the healer’s blessings were flawless, yet there were all sorts of flaws.
Therefore, it could only be interference from other Aeons, most likely the Equilibrium Aeon—mutual interference!
It seemed that It did not want any race to achieve immortality, believing it would disrupt the universe’s balance, so It imposed influence.
If this universe connected to their own, the mutual interference would definitely intervene. It wouldn’t be long before this world had few existences that could live tens or hundreds of thousands of years at a whim.
It was unknown whether this was a good deed or a bad deed.
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In the later parts of Douluo, it says the Dragon God went mad on his own, but how to explain that advancement requires killing soul beasts? How to explain that soul beasts cannot become gods?
