The Silver Dragon King Knows Nothing About Soul Beasts

"That premature baby, the Silver Dragon King, what does she know about soul beasts? She can't even distinguish between the fate of the soul beast race and the weight of love for a human, let alone act as a queen. Especially when she chose to die in battle during the final showdown—that 'love-brained' episode was just like a teammate making a pig-headed play in a high-ranked match when we were about to stage a comeback. It infuriated me!"

After finishing the novel and reading about Gu Yuena's actions, a young man couldn't help but vent his frustration, leaving a comment on a specific paragraph of the story.

"Forget it, anger is anger. I should go to the courier station to pick up my custom-made Starlight Ruse King figure that cost me 640 yuan, and I'll grab a bowl of sliced noodles for lunch on the way."

As he spoke, the young man grabbed his keys and left, locking the door behind him. By the time he signed for the figure's box with one hand while holding his phone, and was walking across a crosswalk at a green light, a large truck ran the red light at an extremely high speed...

Hydrogen (not really) Douluo Planet, Zheer Continent, Nanshan Rainforest.

The rainforest after the rain was humid and stifling; every breath felt like it was being choked off. Massive amounts of rainwater submerged the low-lying areas, and as the river water backflowed into these regions, it provided the fish with plenty of new habitats. At the same time, it offered relatively safe hunting and growth grounds for the predators that fed on them.

In this water-submerged lowland lake, the once-calm surface began to ripple again. Predators and schools of fish alike scrambled to flee the area. A massive creature had entered; its body was enormous yet streamlined, covered entirely in ice-blue and light-cyan scales. The sharp, blade-like horns on its head gave it a silhouette that earned it the name "Dragon Head."

Pale yellow mane-like structures hung from its neck, and the scales on its torso were arranged like refined steel armor, with spikes protruding from some of its joints. It had sturdy limbs, and at the end of its long, slender tail was an orange-red gradient fan-shaped tail fin, as if to suggest it still possessed the characteristics of an aquatic creature. The wide wings connected to its forelimbs, which fused the features of bat wings and dragon wings, silently interpreted its ability to survive in multiple environments.

Ruse King! A spirit that did not exist on Douluo Planet.

Its eyes were covered by a thick nictitating membrane as its entire body entered the lowland lake. However, it was too massive; even with its whole body lying on the lake floor, a large portion of its back and wings remained above the water.

When it poked its head out of the water, seemingly satisfied that there were no other creatures around, it opened its mouth and let out a sound that wasn't particularly loud. This wasn't a declaration of territory, but a call to a certain existence.

Soon, another figure stepped out of the rainforest. It was a ten-thousand-year-old female dragon that truly fit the physique of a Western dragon. Between its slightly parted jaws were five small lives—the crystallization of their bloodlines.

The behavior of a male Water Dragon and a female Water Dragon caring for their young together was unbelievable to the people of Douluo Continent outside of Zheer Continent, but that was on the condition that the male dragon paired with the female was first and foremost a male Water Dragon.

Watching his wife place the five cubs, which looked like a mix of dragon and Ruse King, into the water from her mouth, the dragon immediately enveloped all six of them with energy. He then released a pressure equivalent to that of a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast toward the surroundings, warning everything in the forest.

After doing this, his massive body moved through the rippling lake water to his wife and cubs, snuggling up beside her. Watching the cubs play in the water or climb onto his back to rest, he seemed to be savoring the cozy time of having a wife and children.

As a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast, the Ruse King who cared for his young alongside the female Water Dragon was the undisputed overlord of this rainforest. And the Folded Ear Continent, where this rainforest was located, did not originally exist on Douluo Planet at all.

But just like the Ruse King, it existed abruptly on Douluo Planet. Like a mystery, it absorbed many weak soul beasts that were being hunted and driven to desperation by humans and the Spirit Pagoda. Yet, human ocean-going exploration ships from outside the indigenous population could never touch this mysterious Fourth Continent.

The Ruse King summoned a system panel that only he could see, which contained the truth about the Folded Ear Continent.

[Current Time: 85th year of the 10,000-year interval between Peerless Tang Sect and Legend of the Dragon King]

[Time remaining until the Folded Ear Continent's protective barrier disappears: 1994 years, 7 months, 29 days, 13 hours, 7 minutes...]

[Indigenous People: (Customized Version) Chinese-style Western Fantasy Elf]

[Population: 3.113 million+]

[Technological Level: Late Neolithic Age]

[Cultivation System: None yet]

The Folded Ear Continent was essentially a continent created by the system after the Ruse King was "trucked" over by fate.

The indigenous people here, the Chinese-style Western Fantasy Elves, were also a race customized by the Ruse King. They looked like the Japanese-style elves from Record of Lodoss War, but without the arrogance of Western fantasy elves; they possessed Chinese ethical and moral standards, loved farming and craftsmanship, and had rational thoughts about everything in the world. It could be said that the birth of the Chinese-style Western Fantasy Elves was essentially the most perfect human template pursued by the Ruse King's human soul.

"It's been 5 years since I came here,"

Now with a wife and children, Ruse sighed. He had been "trucked" to Douluo Planet in the 80th year after the Peerless Tang Sect timeline, thinking everything was over. But the appearance of the Paradox System had brought him the possibility of action.

As long as he integrated this 44.76 million square kilometer continent under his feet and unified the Chinese-style Western Fantasy Elves, he was confident that he could use these two thousand years of protection to develop a nation with the technological level of Call of Duty 13, where soul beasts and elves lived in equality.

"In a few days, after I shrink my size, it'll be time to take the one-year-olds to the elf cities to see the world."

As more and more soul beasts fled to the Folded Ear Continent, it was inevitable that those ten-thousand-year soul beasts that had gained intelligence felt fear toward the indigenous elves on the continent. They feared that these long-eared primate-like things would replicate the human slaughter against them, so within just three years, serious conflicts between elves and soul beasts had erupted.

Many elf city-states that were about to enter the Bronze Age were destroyed by soul beasts. Even more ironically, the soul beasts were the ones who had come to this land as refugees.

Over the past 5 years, besides finding the female Water Dragon who was close to the elves to reproduce, the Ruse King had spent most of his time searching for and protecting the indigenous elves, killing those soul beasts that had gone red-eyed and couldn't distinguish the elves from humans.

It was precisely through these five years of fighting and protection that Ruse had gained a certain understanding of his own strength level; he was currently roughly at the level of a 200,000-year soul beast. He just wasn't sure how much his strength would increase if he could evolve into a Blade Ruse King.

Ruse felt the sensation of one of his cubs sleeping on his head and let it sleep, not shaking it into the water. After all, a thirty-something-pound little guy lying on his head was no burden on his neck at all.

"However, speaking of which..."

Perhaps due to his own essence and bloodline, his five cubs had already developed the intelligence of a Border Collie from his previous life by their sixth month, and they could understand the Elvish Language (Chinese) he taught them, far better than their mother. The latter had been learning from him for two years and only knew fifty Chinese characters and the multiplication table.

The Ruse King looked at the female Water Dragon.

[Female Water Dragon, Age: 90,520 years]

She had grown another 100 years in age compared to the previous month. Should he say that the Folded Ear Continent was good for raising soul beasts, or what?

But thinking about it, in the last few months, the female Water Dragon had become increasingly clingy, and the Ruse King understood her worries.

"A hundred thousand years is a tribulation for a soul beast after all, but don't worry, with me here, the Dragon God's schemes won't be able to hurt you."