Dream of the Golden Dragon King

Dream of the Golden Dragon King

"Good, Chi Qiu. Relax your control over your Martial Soul."

Before the last syllable had faded, Yu Rufeng thrust out his hand. His black Sixth and Seventh Soul Rings blazed brightly. His Martial Soul Avatar activated, and his figure turned indistinct, while the White Sparrow, which had been indistinct before, became solid. It beat its wings and alighted on the illusory Golden Dragon above Chi Qiu, giving a soft cry.

In that instant, Chi Qiu felt the blood throughout her body boil. Her dual extreme attributes seemed to have heard a call, becoming unusually active all at once. Even her Power of Destiny, just as she had expected, shimmered with golden light in her Sea of Consciousness and seemed on the verge of expanding. She carefully controlled it, still keeping her Power of Destiny isolated from the Soul Fragment of unknown origin.

Just then, she thought she heard a dragon laughing.

At first, she thought she was imagining it, but the sound gradually grew clearer. At the same time, a flash of golden light flickered in the third eye on her forehead, and the Golden Dragon Spear flew out, clinging tightly to her hand. She couldn't even make herself let go.

She also felt the Golden Dragon Spear resonating with the laughter.

"Who are you?" she asked with her mental power.

"I never thought I'd one day be able to contact the lower realm through one of my own bones." The voice suddenly sounded right beside her ear. "I have this strange human's Soul Skill to thank for it. Otherwise, that pitiful little trace of my bloodline in you would never have been enough to resonate with me."

A little trace of his bloodline? Chi Qiu's golden-red pupils contracted sharply. Could the one speaking inside her head be...

"I'm not speaking inside your head. I'm speaking through your bones." The voice came again. Chi Qiu started. It seemed even her Sea of Consciousness was within the other's view.

"Senior." Her tone immediately filled with the utmost respect.

Her Golden Dragon Martial Soul had been simulated based on that so-called trace of bloodline. Then the one speaking to her could only be—

The Golden Dragon King!

"Senior, where are you?" Along with her respect, Chi Qiu's voice carried a note of urgency. "Over the years, Soul Beasts have dwindled more and more. Lord can't leave seclusion, and Teacher Di Tian is nearing the end of his life. We..."

"You call her Lord?" The Golden Dragon King sounded irritated. "You, with my bloodline, don't need to submit to her."

"But you're not here. She's the only one we can rely on!"

"I'd like to be there!" The Golden Dragon King scoffed. "Unfortunately, those human gods have trapped me in the Divine Realm. It won't be long before they find a way to drain my blood dry."

"You... are in the Divine Realm?!" Chi Qiu was shocked. "Then the one contacting me now is..."

"Do you know where your Golden Dragon Spear came from?" The Golden Dragon King sounded as if he were mocking a child who'd been deceived. "They broke off one of my ribs and made it into that! You couldn't have obtained it just because you have my bloodline. It's practically a divine artifact in its own right. Some god is trying to frame you."

Chi Qiu stood frozen, struggling to absorb the information the Golden Dragon King had given her.

"You did well. You blocked that Soul Fragment. Otherwise, I wouldn't be able to communicate with you now. If that fragment had tainted your Sea of Consciousness, the last connection between us would have been cut off. You'd have walked right into that fellow's scheme, and in the end, you'd probably have been drained dry like me, with nothing left."

Chi Qiu silently drew in a breath.

She had been able to detect the ill-intentioned fragment right away because her mental link with Huo Yuhao was connected, raising both their mental powers to a new level. If this had happened at another time, things could have gone very differently.

"My seal is very strong. Under normal circumstances, I can't easily communicate with the lower realm, either. But today, I sensed a resonance in my bone. This human in front of you was awakening the bloodline within your Golden Dragon Spear, so I seized the opportunity."

"It's my honor to speak with you, Senior," Chi Qiu said at once.

"Honor, my ass. You'd be better off calling it a misfortune," the Golden Dragon King snapped. "I know the Silver Dragon King better than anyone. The personality she inherited means she's doomed to fail, but all I can do is watch, and so can you. Even if you had another ten thousand years, you still couldn't beat her."

Chi Qiu fell silent for a moment, then suddenly said, "Senior, our connection is already quite strong. After Teacher Yu strengthened my bloodline, I was able to resonate with you to this degree."

"So what?" The Golden Dragon King clearly wasn't one for seeing where an idea might lead.

"If the connection between our bones lets me speak with you, then surely it can transmit some of your power as well."

"Ha, Little Kitten, you want me to pass my power on to you? Dream on." The Golden Dragon King understood what she meant, but immediately dismissed the idea. "Whether I'd be willing is beside the point. Do you think it's easy to cross the barrier between the Divine Realm and the lower realm? And I'm sealed on top of that."

Chi Qiu shook her head. "We won't know unless we try. You said it yourself: if things go on like this, all you can do is watch, and so can I. Without your help, another ten thousand years won't change anything. Do you have a better plan? Or do you just want to yell at me to vent your frustration?"

"Then tell me: if you got my power, what would you do with it?"

Chi Qiu's eyes lit up. "There's something I need to report to you."

With that, Chi Qiu immediately told the Golden Dragon King everything about Huo Yuhao.

"The destiny surrounding this human is absolutely extraordinary. That brief burst of power even surpassed the one in the Star Dou Great Forest when I was born. Even if it's the will of this continent, it shouldn't possess such overwhelming Power of Destiny... This seems more like the union of two individuals with immense destinies."

"I hadn't intended to interfere in these matters, but when I realized I might be the only one who could clearly sense this terrifying Power of Destiny, I acted."

The Golden Dragon King sounded displeased. "What, you plan to place your hopes in a human? If that's how you've made up your mind, then in my eyes, you're no smarter than the Silver Dragon King."

"I won't," Chi Qiu said. "We can only seek a balance with humanity. I just want to find a breakthrough here. You have to admit that it's unrealistic to expect Soul Beasts to rise up and wipe out humanity now."

"Hmph. If I were in the lower realm, I'd kill every last human."

"You can't come down," Chi Qiu replied calmly.

"...Does that human named Huo Yuhao have anything else going on?"

"We've already made an attribute connection. There seems to be a divine consciousness from another world in his sea of awareness. He calls that being Electrolux."

The news clearly interested the Golden Dragon King. After a moment's thought, he said, "If it's a divine consciousness that doesn't belong to this world, then it could indeed be one of Huo Yuhao's advantages. If you use power generated by this world, you'll ultimately be restricted by it. But if you can break through that limitation, a lot of things become easier."

"So you think my idea could work, too," Chi Qiu said, feeling a little relieved.

"Haha, you're worried I'd be hostile to that boy, aren't you? You've lived in the human world for over a year. Have you grown fond of it?"

"I won't hide it from you, Senior... I have."

"Hmph. You're all the same, from ancient times to the present. Since you were willing to be honest with me, you've at least got a bit of a conscience. I'll try to secretly pass my power on to you in stages, but we'll need a vessel connected to you. I'll first use this rib of mine to leave a tombstone in your Sea of Consciousness as the vessel. That way, when I die, you can at least cry at my grave."

Before Chi Qiu could say, "Senior, don't be so pessimistic," a sharp pain struck her Sea of Consciousness. A Golden Dragon Stele slowly rose from a raging sea of golden waves, like a mountain emerging from the ocean when the continents collided in ancient times.

Her body swayed, and she fell to the ground.

"Miss Chi?!" Wang Dong rushed over and caught her. "What's going on, Teacher Yu? Is this a side effect?"

Although Chi Qiu and the Golden Dragon King had spoken for a long time in her Sea of Consciousness, only a minute or so had passed in the outside world.

"I'm fine." Chi Qiu took a deep breath to soothe the pain in her head. "Teacher Yu's Soul Skill is incredibly powerful. Wang Dong, go ahead and try it without worry."

Then she called out, "Teacher Yu, could you let me see Yuhao right away?"