Dragon Borrowing Dad's Might

Zhu Jin had his own credo for life as a dragon: when heaven and earth were vast, nothing mattered more than having a big fist.

So over the past ten years, aside from rapidly raising his cultivation to the Dou Ling level, Zhu Jin devoted all his energy to "physical training." For example, every day he did 100 push-ups, 100 sit-ups, 100 squats, and ran 10 kilometers without flying. He kept it up for ten years.

Zhu Jin had read books too. He knew that the most sinister characters in novels were those body cultivators. They clearly punched people into a bloody mist, yet insisted that their opponents had escaped using Blood Escape. It was simply sinister beyond measure, so he resolved to become that kind of dragon.

Just think about it: reaping without sowing, gaining rewards without merit, getting something for nothing, joining the Soul Hall, having one's whole family rise to heaven, getting carried away with success, petty people gaining power, soaring to the heavens in a single step—those were all complimentary phrases.

With a single punch, it was as though the Ancient Void Dragon King had awakened. The faint dragon aura within his body was activated, and vast dragon might suppressed all around him. Even the Flame Wolf Unicorn, the strongest among them and likewise a Tier Four magical beast, turned pale in horror. This punch was more terrifying than every Dou Technique he had ever seen!

"You! You... what kind of dragon are you?!" Before dying, the Flame Wolf Unicorn asked the question he most wanted answered. Wasn't Zhu Jin merely an ordinary Dragon Beast? Why was he so powerful?!

"I am an Ancient Void Dragon." Those were the last words the Flame Wolf Unicorn heard. If he had been able to say one more sentence, he would have asked: What kind of dragon is an Ancient Void Dragon?

Bang! Under that punch, the Flame Wolf Unicorn's "Flame-Pattern Body Protection" instantly shattered. The flames covering his body were dispersed, and every bone in his body was crushed in an instant.

Flesh and blood splattered beneath the punch, and even the flames within his body were blasted out. The Flame Wolf Unicorn could not even scream. With another bang, his blood dyed the entire basin red, while the remains of his head rolled hundreds of meters away.

Zhu Jin's all-out punch, condensed with Dou Qi, did not merely shatter the Flame Wolf Unicorn's flame defense. It also pulverized his body, reducing him to chunks of flesh with a single blow.

The scene was simply too shocking for the beasts present. The surrounding Flame Wolves, who had still been preparing to come to their king's aid, had not even recovered their senses before they watched Zhu Jin forcibly tear off the Iron-winged Vulture's wings, slap the strongest Mountain-moving Ape to death, and finally punch their wolf king into a pile of meat!

At that moment, time seemed frozen. Zhu Jin stood with one foot on the Flame Wolf Unicorn's corpse, while carrying the Iron-winged Vulture and Mountain-moving Ape in his hands. Though his expression remained calm amid the bloody sight, his tyrannical aura came crashing toward them, shaking every creature present.

One against three, defeating three magical beasts of the same tier whose cultivation was slightly higher than his own!

In his first true life-or-death battle since setting out into the world, he had won!

After all, back on North Dragon Island, Zhu Jin had never needed to hunt magical beasts to survive. Every day when he woke up, there was food to eat, beast milk to drink, and spiritual plants and medicinal herbs to consume. Why would he need to risk his life hunting?

Of course, he had not forgotten that he had not come here to slaughter indiscriminately, but to fill his stomach. However, he did not start eating on the spot. Instead, he opened his storage space and put all three corpses inside, intending to find somewhere to slowly enjoy the flesh of Tier Four magical beasts—though one of those corpses was perhaps more accurately called a pile of meat.

After cleaning up the aftermath, Zhu Jin looked at the group of Tier Two and Tier Three Flame Wolf Unicorns. After giving it some thought, he did not wipe them all out.

Because he needed subordinates. In this world where strength reigned supreme, loyalty was the least thing one needed to worry about. As long as you were strong enough, you would have loyalty.

The Wild Mountain Goblins were the simplest example. Those goblins had not betrayed Zhu Jin; they had merely been loyal to the Flame Wolf Unicorn. In the eyes of the Wild Mountain Goblins, the Tier Four Flame Wolf Unicorn leader was the strong one, the king who had always ruled over them.

But now, these Flame Wolf Unicorns had lost their leader. If Zhu Jin wanted to gain a foothold in the Beast Domain, subduing them was the fastest method.

At that moment, with a low roar, Zhu Jin's dragon claws grasped the air as he rose into the sky. He hovered dozens of meters above the ground, and beneath the sunlight, he looked like a true dragon seated coiled in the heavens.

With a thought, Zhu Jin took out the dragon scale his biological father had given him and hid it behind his back, pouring his Dragon Dou Qi into it. With a hum, an unimaginably powerful Ancient Void Dragon bloodline aura instantly spread throughout the basin. At that moment, Zhu Jin seemed as lofty as the heavens themselves, as though he were a pure-blooded Ancient Void Dragon who held dominion over all beneath the sky.

As that dragon might descended, every Flame Wolf Unicorn collapsed onto the ground like frightened puppies, their tails lowered as they did not dare raise their heads.

That was why Zhu Jin had wanted an old scale—dragon borrowing dad's might! His bloodline might be inferior, but his father was formidable. As long as he injected a little Dragon Dou Qi and activated the lingering dragon might within the scale, he could put on a grand show.

In the world of magical beasts, bloodline was everything.

Zhu Jin deliberately lowered his voice and said solemnly, "Though your leader showed me disrespect, I am not a cruel and bloodthirsty dragon. Submit to me, and you shall be spared death."

Upon hearing that Zhu Jin would spare their race and overlook the past, the dozens of Flame Wolf Unicorns, who had been utterly despondent as they waited to die, suddenly raised their lowered tails with a boing. They stuck up their rumps and wagged their tails, lifting their heads as they let out cheerful howls. Then dozens of wolf heads nodded fiercely, declaring that they were more than willing to serve the Dragon King.

After all, the Wild Mountain Range lay at the edge of the Beast Domain. To the magical beasts living here, a Dou Wang was practically a "god." They all believed that someone as powerful as Zhu Jin had to be a Dou Wang.

The strong were revered. If you were strong, then you were the most honored.

Seeing this, Zhu Jin nodded inwardly. He silently put away his biological father's dragon scale, slowly descended, then looked at the Flame Wolf standing at the front of the pack, whose strength was second only to the Flame Wolf Unicorn leader. "Take me to your nest."

After clearing a dungeon, the first thing to do was obviously loot the spoils! This Flame Wolf Unicorn Clan could not be considered weak in the Wild Mountain Range, so they surely had a lair of their own.

Wasn't this perfect? Zhu Jin's cave was far too crude. Taking over a magpie's nest—no, a dragon taking over a wolf's den. The winner was king. Nothing wrong with that!

But when Zhu Jin followed the Flame Wolf Unicorn's deputy leader to the nest, he could not help sighing. "This really is a 'doghouse.' It's way too shabby."

The Flame Wolf Unicorn nest was not far from the basin, which was where the clan usually drank water. And because Flame Wolf Unicorns were fire-attributed magical beasts that favored scorching places, their nest had been built beside a lava river. The entire place was simply pieced together from rocks, utterly incomparable to Dragon Valley on North Dragon Island.

"Forget it, forget it. Being near lava is fine too. I won't even need to breathe fire to roast meat." Zhu Jin rubbed his stomach. He had just fought a major battle, so it was time to eat. He had a feeling that he was about to level up.