Bright Dragon King: What do you mean you sent the auspicious beasts to humans?

When Zi Ji used the protective talisman found by the Light Dragon King and followed Rus Wang into the spatial rift, an unbearable pressure instantly enveloped her entire body.

"The kings of the Dragon Valley Forest throughout history must have a cultivation age of at least five hundred thousand years to be qualified to open a spatial rift and safely traverse this path to the Dragon Valley world. Miss Zi Ji, the Light Dragon King intends to meet you personally this time to hear about the situation on the Douluo Continent, which is why he asked me to give you this set of protective talismans. If you still feel unwell under the protection provided by the senior Light Dragon King, you might as well let me carry you to the Dragon Valley world."

Zi Ji, having released her human form, gasped for air with great difficulty. After hearing these words and looking at the composed Rus Wang, she did not force herself, nodded, and spoke bluntly.

"Then I will trouble you to carry me for the rest of the journey; this feeling is truly unbearable."

"Transform into your human form, sit on my back, and hold on tight. We are departing."

Zi Ji immediately transformed into her human form, and Rus Wang moved closer. After confirming that Zi Ji was seated on his back, he flew toward the only point of light in the darkness.

From Zi Ji's perspective, that point of light grew larger and larger, eventually forming a spatial rift not much different from the one she had entered. When the dragon Rus Wang carried Zi Ji out of this spatial rift, blue skies, white clouds, and a lush green forest appeared in her field of vision once again. Within a single breath, she could clearly sense the death aura of a large number of true dragons.

As Rus Wang continued to fly, that aura grew increasingly intense, and Zi Ji's mood grew heavier and heavier.

On Rus Wang's dragon back, Zi Ji looked down, and a vast basin came into view. Rus Wang began to descend in altitude. This was a basin devoid of trees, where countless stone tablets stood tall. The surrounding soil was clearly being constantly turned over to prevent weeds from growing.

As Rus Wang landed completely on the ground, he spoke again, having only said a few words when they first entered: "This is the Dragon Clan Graveyard of the Dragon Valley world. When the Dragon God fell, the remains of many dragon predecessors who fell alongside him were piled up in this location in the Dragon Valley world."

"Although the senior Light Dragon King has passed away, he still survives in the form of a dragon soul. The kings of the Dragon Valley Forest throughout history, provided they meet the age requirement, come to pay their respects and report on the outside world every year to listen to his advice. This time, I reported your arrival to him, and he chose this as the meeting place because he wants to see you, the envoy of the Douluo Continent, with his own eyes and hear about the situation on that continent. Especially the situation regarding the Silver Dragon King torn away by the Dragon God, the clan of his wife, the Dark Dragon King, and the details of the series of major disturbances that occurred there."

"It's over!"

Zi Ji sat stiffly on Rus Wang's dragon back. As a self-appointed special envoy of the Star Dou Forest, she had originally just wanted to try to make contact with her dragon kin on this continent and see how they were developing. As a result, not only did she learn about the dragon king of this second continent and the one from a third continent, but she also learned that a group of elves with heaven-defying racial traits lived there.

The dragon king here had actually taken her status as an envoy seriously, immediately reporting it to one of the nine great dragon kings—the ancestor-level Light Dragon King—and listing a complete set of procedures.

"Is it too late for me to confess my true identity now?"

Zi Ji suddenly wanted to wail and hide from reality.

Such behavior, which damaged her image, was something she would normally be ashamed of. But everything depends on the occasion. Who was the Light Dragon King? Within the dragon race, he was also known as the Holy Dragon King. He was the Light Dragon King who controlled light and prayer, governed the creation of life, and was responsible for the reproduction of the dragon race. At the same time, he was in charge of punishment and used the Dragon-Slaying Blade to execute sinful dragons. What status did she, a Hell Demon Dragon King with over two hundred thousand years of cultivation, have to meet him? Di Tian should have been the one to come!

Seeing that Zi Ji on his back made no move to get down, Rus Wang used his soul power to lower her and said to her: "It's alright, Miss Zi Ji. The old senior has been accompanying the young dragons born after the fall of the Dragon God in the Dragon Valley world for tens of thousands of years; he has long since learned to control his temper. When the ancestor asks you something, just tell him everything you know truthfully. I was a newcomer here once too."

Rus Wang shrank his size and patted Zi Ji's shoulder with his forelimb to comfort her.

"O-o-okay."

Zi Ji nodded stiffly.

In front of Rus Wang and Zi Ji, milky-white mist emerged from the ground, condensing into a complete cloud, the shape of which then transformed into a white Western dragon.

Seeing this, Zi Ji hurriedly knelt on one knee, struggling to keep her voice from trembling, while simultaneously dropping the title of "King."

"Junior, Hell Demon Dragon Zi Ji, has come to pay respects to the Light Dragon King."

Beside her, Rus Wang nodded slightly to express his respect. The Light Dragon King had once told him that he was the king ruling over the Dragon Valley Forest and the entire Folded Ear Continent. Although this kingdom was too small compared to the dragon race of the past, his status was on par with him, so there was no need for overly heavy reverence; he should just treat him as a senior.

"Shadow Demon Dragon, from the Douluo Continent, a junior of the dragon race with dual dark and water attributes?"

"Yes, Lord Light Dragon King."

"Just call me Senior. Nowadays, I am just a dragon soul; I have no physical body and no means. At most, I can listen to your news and offer some suggestions."

"Yes, Senior Light Dragon King."

The Light Dragon King sighed, and then, to Zi Ji's shock, he took out notebook after notebook from the storage soul guidance device that Rus Wang had given him.

"What, is it strange to see me, a senior, using things invented by humans? These are external objects; if they are useful, they should be used. There is no reason to ban such things just because they were invented by the humans who kill our dragon race."

Then the Light Dragon King began to flip through the content he had written on these notebooks from stone tablets over the years, intending to pick out the key points and ask Zi Ji what she was doing when these events occurred on the Douluo Continent, or whether she was an eyewitness.

Beside them, Rus Wang sat with a calm face, but inwardly, as the Light Dragon King questioned Zi Ji based on the notebooks—slowly moving from tens of thousands of years ago to the era of the first Douluo—he began to want to laugh.

"Humans becoming gods happened on the Douluo Continent, and you did nothing?"

The Light Dragon King looked at her stuttering self, his face beginning to darken. During the divine ascension fluctuations twenty thousand years ago, the Dragon Valley Forest had seen major activity. They had sent a five-hundred-thousand-year-old Tianyang and three twenty-thousand-year-old powerhouses from the Blue Lightning Tyrannosaurus, Fear Demon Dragon, and Crimson Fire Dragon clans to investigate. Although they always went in the wrong direction and ended up on the current Douling Continent, at least they had taken action and established contact with the dragon race there.

After ten thousand years of mutual contact and the sudden four hundred years of turmoil, following the arrival of the junior Rus, the Light Dragon King had immediately sent him over to move the surviving dragons—whose top dragon kings had also been struck dead by heavenly tribulations and ravaged by human soul hunting squads—to the Zheer Continent.

"At that time, I, along with the Black Dragon clan leader Di Tian, were both in deep slumber alongside the heavily injured Her Majesty the Silver Dragon King. Therefore, we only learned about the situation in the outside world after being awakened by that disturbance and slowly gathering information."

"In other words, during such a good opportunity for internal strife twenty thousand years ago, not only did you fail to seize the chance, but you were also sleeping? You only woke up after the internal strife was over?"

"Yes."

"Those four soul beast traitors who defected to humans and gods—I can temporarily attribute that to the human gods and understand why you couldn't clean them up. But in the nearly ten thousand years between that divine ascension and another human divine ascension over three hundred years ago, not only did you fail to reflect on yourselves, but you also didn't achieve any development, and instead helped the evildoers? You sent another human named Huo Yuhao to become a god, and there were seven more traitors who willingly became soul spirits just to become divine officials under the tolerance of the gods?!"

"No, that's not it, Senior. We did react to the suspicious sacrifice of the Three-Eyed Golden Lion and launched a beast tide to retaliate against the humans."

Zi Ji hurriedly indicated that the soul beasts of the Star Dou Forest had not been completely inactive this time, but she herself did not understand the final result.

"And so? Why are the humans of the Douluo Continent still able to cross the ocean and invade the Dragon Valley Forest and the Douling Continent?"

"That human who ascended to godhood, Huo Yuhao, used some unknown power to temporarily block the beast tide we launched. Then he brought out something called a soul spirit, directly persuaded Di Tian, and agreed to return to the Star Dou Forest with Di Tian to continue trying to research soul spirits. Then Di Tian stopped the beast tide. I was also very confused at the time, but due to Di Tian's strength, I could only keep it to myself."

Is this the Black Dragon Di Tian I know? Is this still the descendant of my wife? Are you sure he was taught by the Dragon God himself? How did he become so stupid, as if his intelligence had been lowered? The Light Dragon King's originally fair dragon face suddenly turned black.

"So, the temporary manager of your Star Dou Forest, Black Dragon Di Tian, knew that the life and death of the auspicious beast, the Three-Eyed Golden Lion, was directly related to the soul beast fortune of the Star Dou Forest. Not only did he fail to protect its life, but he didn't even educate it well, letting it fall in love with a teenage human it didn't even know before, named Huo Yuhao? And it even sacrificed its life to let the human live, giving the fortune of the Star Dou Forest to Huo Yuhao along with it?"

The Light Dragon King took a deep breath to summarize, then looked at Rus Wang, who was reading a newspaper and pretending he hadn't heard anything.

"You're part of this too! Rus! Keep an eye on your son in the future! Don't let him be like that damn Three-Eyed Golden Lion, doing stupid things for love!"

"Yes!"

Rus Wang, having been called out, finally remembered the tastes of his own brat, which were essentially the same as those of the Three-Eyed Golden Lion Wang Qiu'er—both had fallen in love with someone of a different race. The only difference was that Huo Yuhao ended up with nothing, while he, Barus, had actually "borne fruit."

The Light Dragon King, having had his eyes thoroughly opened by the antics of the dragons and soul beasts on the Douluo Continent, let out a long sigh.

"Sigh, I hope that once the Silver Dragon King has recovered from her injuries, she will be able to properly keep you all in line with the power split from Lord Dragon God."

The Light Dragon King cast a glance at Rus Wang out of the corner of his eye, thinking to himself.

"This junior, Rus, is actually quite excellent. Each of his children reached the ten-thousand-year threshold in just over two hundred years, and their bloodlines are incredibly formidable. Even though only one of them turned out a bit crooked, he is at least a genius; his talent for learning dragon rune arrays ranks in the top ten among all the juniors I have ever seen. I just wonder if, with his dual soul cores, he has a chance at reaching a million years and breaking through the barrier originally set by the Dragon God."