Faced with the question, Di Guangming remained as cold and indifferent as ever.
He silently put away the Dragon-Slaying Blade and waited for the Dragon Emperor's instructions.
Long Zijin continued spooning up soup. "Pagoda Master Qiangu asked for your name and title. Just give him an answer."
Only then did Di Guangming show a thoughtful expression. A few seconds later, he made up a title. "My name is Guangming. My title is... Holy."
"Oh, so you are Brother Guangming. I have long admired you."
Qiangu Dongfeng cupped his fists and probed, "Brother Guangming has joined our Spirit Pagoda for over a month now, yet no position has been arranged for you. How about this—"
"I still have the position of honorary vice pagoda master under me. Please rest assured, it will not restrict Brother Guangming's freedom in the slightest, and none of the benefits or resources due to you will be withheld."
"What does Brother Guangming think?"
Di Guangming turned his eyes toward Long Zijin, seemingly asking for her opinion.
Long Zijin, however, looked at Leng Yaozhu with a smile and asked, "What do you think, Sister Yaozhu?"
"After all, Old Di and I both agreed to work under you."
"You are leaving such an important matter to this child?" Qiangu Dongfeng could not help frowning. His assessment of Long Zijin rose several notches again, and he grew even more wary of the Dragon Soul Master Family behind her.
"This..." Leng Yaozhu pondered.
Although her relationship with Qiangu Dongfeng was delicate and could not even be called good, she was ultimately his subordinate. Thus, speaking from her position, she could only say, "Brother Guangming, you should accept the vice pagoda master position. Otherwise, our Spirit Pagoda truly cannot find any post worthy of a Quasi-God."
"Fine." After receiving Long Zijin's nod, Di Guangming immediately accepted the position.
Yet Qiangu Dongfeng smiled for no apparent reason, as though he had achieved some purpose.
The expression on his face immediately changed from joy to concern. He sighed. "However, according to procedure and regulations, the position of vice pagoda master requires a recommendation and a vote by our internal council of senior officials before it can be approved."
"I, Qiangu Dongfeng, can recommend Brother Guangming. But I hope Brother Guangming can give me some reassurance. After all, though I have admired your strength for a long time, what I know is merely hearsay."
"If Brother Guangming's strength does not match Yaozhu's description and those old fellows in the council seize upon it, then I, as pagoda master, will have to endure their spittle too, will I not?"
The Dragon Emperor and the Holy Dragon King finally understood what this Spirit Douluo had been building up to for so long.
—He wanted to exchange a few moves with the Holy Dragon King.
"Old Di, show him what you can do, but hold back." Long Zijin directly gave the order in dragon language.
"Yes!" Sharpness surged into Di Guangming's eyes.
Having just acquired the new Dragon-Slaying Blade, the Holy Dragon King had naturally been itching to test it in battle and familiarize himself with it, but he had suffered from a lack of opponents.
Now Qiangu Dongfeng had delivered himself right onto the blade's edge. His strength had reached Demigod Rank, and his Martial Soul was related to "dragons," making him perfectly suited to sharpen a "dragon-slaying" blade.
"Good, Brother Guangming. Please—let us fight in the sky!" Qiangu Dongfeng laughed loudly.
In an instant, two auras beyond the limit erupted from the nineteenth floor of the Heavenly Spirit Pagoda!
The two simultaneously transformed into twin platinum flying dragons. In a flash, they passed through the Level Nine soul-guided crystal wall, appeared outside the tower, and shot into the heavens together!
However, the Holy Dragon King directly transformed his body and soul into light, passing through every barrier in his path, while Qiangu Dongfeng paused for half a second whenever he encountered a wall and only flew out of the tower by using his spatial Soul Core ability.
Seeing this, Long Zijin could not help secretly nodding and praising him inwardly. Qiangu Dongfeng truly deserved to be called an outstanding hero and a cunning tyrant of his generation!
The disturbance they caused naturally drew the attention of the entire Heavenly Spirit Pagoda. Countless Spirit Masters walked or flew out of the tower, joining streams of spiritual perception to observe the scene in the sky east of the Heavenly Spirit Pagoda.
Two huge holes had been punched through the sea of white clouds, revealing the azure sky beyond.
Qiangu Dongfeng and the Holy Dragon King both had illusory platinum dragons coiling around them, continuously sweeping aside the white clouds around their bodies.
They stood a hundred meters apart, confronting each other.
Qiangu Dongfeng had gone to great lengths, obtaining Leng Yaozhu's introduction through the Crystal Blood Dragon Ginseng, meeting Long Zijin through Leng Yaozhu, then meeting Di Guangming through Long Zijin...
Finally, he had used the position of vice pagoda master of the Heavenly Spirit Pagoda to draw out the Holy Dragon King. He had truly exhausted every scheme.
But why had he gone to such lengths?
First, the Qiangu Family had one Quasi-God and two Demigod Rank experts overseeing it. It was about to become the continent's number one family.
This was an indisputable fact.
As long as they used the God-Slaying Plan to eliminate the Sea God Pavilion and Tang Sect forces together with the Holy Spirit Church, the Qiangu Family would undoubtedly become the number one power on the continent!
Therefore, as the head of the family, when faced with this suddenly appearing Quasi-God, Qiangu Dongfeng naturally had to test whether this variable would become aid on the Qiangu Family's path to greatness or a stumbling block that had to be crushed beneath their feet.
In less than half a second, the thought flashed through his mind. Qiangu Dongfeng shouted and clenched his hand.
"Coiling Dragon Staff, come!"
The illusory dragon coiling around his body was immediately grasped and transformed into a solid staff.
It was a massive staff with a black main body, golden ends, and dragon-shaped patterns carved across its surface.
A pure golden holy attribute rippled from the golden staff ends. It was the holy attribute radiated by the Evil-Breaking Dragon Soul coiled around the staff.
What attribute could break evil? Pure holiness, of course.
Qiangu Dongfeng gripped the black-and-gold staff, twisted his waist and spine, and swept it out, scattering the clouds across the sky!
Nine crimson Ten Thousand Year Soul Rings rose in succession.
At the same time, the Four-Word Battle Armor, Heaven and Earth Coiling, manifested over Qiangu Dongfeng's body.
Facing a Quasi-God with Demigod Rank power, he could not afford to hold back in the slightest.
That was also why he had not fought inside the Heavenly Spirit Pagoda. He feared losing disgracefully and damaging the majestic image he had established.
"Brother Guangming, please." Qiangu Dongfeng's aura surged like a rainbow, his voice sounding like the roar of a dragon soul.
Yet Di Guangming, standing a hundred meters away, made this Spirit Douluo, whose spirits had just risen, furrow his brow tightly.
The Holy Dragon King's expression remained calm. He merely reached behind his waist, gripped the hilt in reverse, and drew a violet crystal cleaver.
"Hm?" At the sight, Qiangu Dongfeng immediately felt displeased. He had not summoned his Martial Soul, displayed his Soul Rings, or even used Battle Armor.
Was he looking down on me this much?
Yet he did not know that the Holy Dragon King drawing his blade against someone below God Rank was already the greatest respect he could offer.
After all, when he had captured the Water Dragon King alive, he had only used a single claw.
"Hmph, excuse me!" Qiangu Dongfeng roared through the air.
He spun with the staff in hand and swung it horizontally in a full circle. The surrounding space cracked apart piece by piece, and a sensation of sweeping away all things erupted in the sky!
Second form of the Indomitable Staff Technique: Heaven-Shaking Earth-Quaking!
The black-and-gold Coiling Dragon Staff expanded in midair, becoming a hundred meters long and ten meters wide, then swept horizontally at the person a hundred meters away!
The air along its path exploded with a series of bangs;
The space along its path rang with fragile cracks and clatters, like a transparent glass curtain splitting apart inch by inch.
Yet the Holy Dragon King merely rotated his wrist once before drawing his blade!
In an instant, surging blade intent transformed into an artistic realm, filling half the sky!
Within that realm, enormous dragons as large as mountain ranges were cleaved apart by a single slash, their bodies and souls shattering as dragon blood sprayed across the horizon!
Such a horrifying sight made everyone's hearts tremble with terror!
Transcendent God skill—
Dragon-Slaying Blade Art!
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