The Gift of the Auspicious Beast, Human Race's Secret History

"Please let Senior She Long go!" Xiao Yang said with a helpless, wry smile. "Lady Zi Ji."

"Human little one, you've got quite the nerve. Aren't you afraid I'll eat you?"

"Eat me?" Xiao Yang activated the Vajra Glazed Body, and golden light blazed across his entire body. At the same time, an indescribable majesty spread from him.

"Th-this is?! Lord Dragon God's pressure?! How is that possible?!!"

Seeing Zi Ji's utterly disbelieving expression, the corners of Xiao Yang's lips curved upward.

Descendants of Yan and Huang, heirs of Huaxia, descendants of the dragon—this inheritance transcended even the bloodline of the flesh, branded into Xiao Yang's most fundamental true spirit.

The Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors were the protection bestowed upon all descendants of Huaxia by the ancient human race and the first Human Emperor, Xuanyuan. It was an inheritance originating from the true dragon imperial clan—the Five-Clawed Golden Dragon.

The world where Xiao Yang had lived in his previous life was of a very high order, yet it was an era in which the human path flourished. Thus, the immortal path remained hidden, and the gods had retreated.

The advantage of such a world was its order and stability. One did not need to worry that, one day, some evil cultivator might suddenly descend, blood-sacrifice an entire city, and refine countless living souls into a Ten Thousand Souls Banner.

But the corresponding price was that, without spiritual energy being unsealed, one's talent for cultivation would also be locked away.

The five viscera of the human body corresponded to the five elements of heaven and earth; the meridians and acupoints secretly aligned with the celestial cycle.

Did they really think such things were coincidences? What a joke.

They were the greatest legacy that humanity's ancestors since primordial times had left for later generations.

The human body was a world unto itself, containing heaven and earth within, with no need to seek beyond itself.

Otherwise, how could one useless loser, trash, or shut-in after another suddenly become unparalleled geniuses after transmigrating...

What were the odds of that? Did they honestly think it was possible?

These were things Xiao Yang had vaguely gleaned from scattered hints within the system.

Even this so-called "system" was likewise merely a gift from the ancestors.

It had simply been turned into a concept that ordinary people like them—who had never truly encountered the path of cultivation before—could most easily understand and accept.

No matter the world, there would occasionally be a few lucky people who broke free from their own limits. That was all.

But without question, Xiao Yang's bloodline rank far surpassed that of the so-called Dragon God of Douluo Continent.

A dragon bore nine sons, and the fifth was Suanni.

The Three-Eyed Golden Lion carried a trace of Suanni bloodline aura. That was the true underlying reason why the Three-Eyed Golden Lion was drawn to Xiao Yang.

"Your Highness." Having felt with absolute clarity the bloodline pressure emanating from Xiao Yang, Zi Ji instinctively changed the way she addressed him and released She Long from beneath her foot. She Long was still unconscious.

Xiao Yang waved a hand. "Zi Ji, are there still any Light Dragon Race members with one hundred thousand years of cultivation in the Star Dou Great Forest?"

"There is still a one-hundred-thousand-year Golden Dragon King near Golden Lake in the Star Dou Great Forest. If Your Highness needs it, Zi Ji will fetch it for you."

"Mm." Xiao Yang nodded.

Zi Ji vanished from where she stood.

Not long afterward, Zi Ji returned, dragging a massive golden dragon along with her.

Xiao Yang did not stand on ceremony in the slightest. Curling the fingers of his right hand into a claw, he pierced the golden dragon's heart with a single strike.

The sight made Demon Queen Zi Ji's eye twitch violently, further confirming the dragon imperial bloodline within Xiao Yang.

Could an ordinary human tear through the physical defenses of a one-hundred-thousand-year Golden Dragon King with a single claw? What a joke.

However, Xiao Yang had activated a Heavenly Low-Level Dou Technique. If this claw could not break through its defenses, that would be the real problem.

After absorbing the one-hundred-thousand-year Golden Dragon's soul ring, Xiao Yang's cultivation surged by three stars in one breath, bringing him to around the level of a five-star Dou Master.

Slowly rising to his feet, Xiao Yang looked at himself once more and asked, "Thank you. Oh, one more question—have there been any recent reports of the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger?"

Zi Ji replied, "Is Your Highness planning to deal with it? Then that works out well. I heard it was injured a few days ago by that little monkey and little snake on watch duty, and supposedly fled north."

Xiao Yang nodded. Then he took two more steps forward and rubbed the Emperor Auspicious Beast's head. "Little one, remember to behave from now on. Don't go running outside the Star Dou Great Forest again. Until we meet next time."

With that, Xiao Yang turned around, lifted She Long, and headed toward the northern region of the Star Dou Great Forest.

As Xiao Yang's figure gradually disappeared into the depths of the Star Dou Great Forest, Zi Ji gathered the Emperor Auspicious Beast into her arms. "All right, let's go back. We'll meet again someday."

After finding an ancient thousand-year-old tree and settling She Long within the huge tree hollow naturally formed at its base, Xiao Yang turned around once more and set off to search for the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger.

Xiao Yang recklessly released the light aura from his body, attempting to lure the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger over.

With the boost of the Opportunity Card, Xiao Yang's luck was clearly not bad. Before long, he had drawn his target over.

Not long after that, Xiao Yang suddenly felt the light around him dim. The sky was clearly cloudless for miles, with sunlight shining everywhere, yet the forest had become pitch-dark.

"Interesting. Quite cunning, trying to suppress me with your domain? Unfortunately, before absolute power, such tricks are meaningless."

Not to mention that once he activated the Vajra Glazed Body, its golden radiance illuminated the world and left no trace of ghosts.

Even considering only the ability he had gained from refining the one-hundred-thousand-year Golden Dragon soul ring—Radiance of the Sun—unless the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger could block out the light of the great sun, it would be utterly useless.

Xiao Yang differed from soul masters. He had completely devoured and refined all the soul ring's energy into his own dou qi, so no soul rings would appear around him.

Ordinary soul masters of Douluo Continent, on the other hand, fused with soul rings. There was an essential difference between the two.

Taking the first soul ring Xiao Yang obtained from the Dark Gold Terror Claw Bear as an example.

Ordinary soul masters had to activate their soul ring skills to enhance their defense, strength, and attack power.

But after refining the Dark Gold Terror Claw Bear's soul ring, Xiao Yang had permanently and comprehensively improved his own strength, physique, defense, and more.

Radiance of the Sun worked the same way. Xiao Yang was now like Superman—as long as he stood beneath the sun's rays, his physical qualities would be continuously enhanced.

Furthermore, it had further strengthened his physical body.

As for the Cyclops's soul ring, after refining it, Xiao Yang gained a trace of chaos attribute within his body, allowing him to balance the two powers inside him. In addition, he could now alter his size at will, from the height of a normal human to a giant form up to fifty meters tall. His strength would also increase accordingly as his body grew.

However, if he expanded to the maximum fifty-meter state, then even with Radiance of the Sun absorbing solar power, he could only maintain it for three minutes.

Still, that was enough to settle a battle.