The Greatest Opportunity

Just imagine it: what kind of status would Zi Yan have in the future? She would be the Dragon Emperor of the Void Ancient Dragon Clan, unifying all the Dragon Islands. After consuming the one-of-a-kind Dragon-Phoenix Origin Fruit, she would become the sole Dragon-Phoenix. Her talent and potential would rank among the very best of all female characters, and she would even have a father at the peak of the nine-star Dou Saint realm.

More importantly, Zi Yan had shown Xiao Yan kindness. During their time at Canaan Academy, she had looked after him and filled the role of his big sister. In the final battle, she had even saved Xiao Yan's life through her relationship with her father. She was absolutely a super angel investor and lifesaver!

Besides, according to the ending described in the book, Xiao Yan eventually went looking for Yun Yun, Little Fairy Doctor, and Mittel Ya Fei. That gave him two principal wives and three concubines, while Zi Yan happened not to be among them.

As long as he could win Zi Yan over, his future would be smooth sailing and a meteoric rise! That would be true dragon-climbing and phoenix-clinging!

So his most important task now was to leave Dragon Island, find the Black-Corner Region outside, and locate Zi Yan. Then his future would be secure! That was why Zhu Jin had used all the resources his family had given him early on to improve his cultivation—he needed to leave Dragon Island as soon as possible!

Xiao Yan had his engagement annulled at fifteen, after which Yao Chen awakened. His coming-of-age ceremony was at sixteen, and his three-year agreement was at eighteen. Only after that did he enter Canaan Academy. There was not much time left for Zhu Jin!

Zhu Jin straightened his dragon body, clasped his hands behind his back, raised his head proudly toward the sky, and voiced his "thoughts after reading," saying, "If I get reborn into Battle Through the Heavens and don't cling to a powerful thigh, wouldn't that make my rebirth pointless?"

You already knew how the stock market would move, and you still would not go all in? Of course he had to go all in!

The next day, Zhu Jin packed all the remaining junk in his home into his storage space and flew toward North Dragon Island's "exit."

Ordinary young dragons could not freely enter or leave Dragon Island. The island was sealed off, and a Dragon Seal was required for entry and exit. The main reason Zhu Jin had gone to find his biological father yesterday to take up his post was to obtain a Dragon Seal. When he collected his reward, he had automatically received one.

As he flew along, a series of rumbling sounds suddenly came from a forested area in Dragon Valley.

"Hm?" Zhu Jin frowned and looked toward the sound. In the valley's woods, quite a few towering trees had been knocked down, as though someone had smashed them apart with a hammer.

Boom!

Dust billowed up as another tree crashed to the ground. Zhu Jin finally saw the culprit behind this scene. It was a young dragon about three meters long, a little smaller than himself. It was none other than the little brat Zhu Jin had defeated—Zhu Zong.

"What is this guy doing?!" Zhu Jin landed nearby and watched the absurd sight before him with a strange expression.

After patting the wood chips off his body, Zhu Zong walked up to another large tree. He grabbed the trunk with both hands, his eyes filled with determination, then, under Zhu Jin's dumbfounded gaze, viciously slammed his lower body into the tree.

As Zhu Zong rammed the tree with all his strength, he gritted his teeth and said, "Just wait! Once I train and strengthen my only weakness too, I will definitely wipe away this humiliation. Thirty years in Dragon Island, thirty years in Phoenix Nest—never bully a weak young dragon! In three years, I will break through to the Dou Spirit realm. When that time comes... hehehe. Ooh, ooh, it hurts, hurts, hurts, hurts! Hisss, hisss, ooh, ooh, ooh, it hurts, hisss, hisss." Zhu Zong endured the pain as he trained his weakness, fantasizing about washing away his humiliation three years later!

Watching this, Zhu Jin's golden eyes widened, and his dragon jaw nearly dropped off. A chill rose from the depths of his heart, making him shudder as every dragon scale on his body stood on end.

"Mother of dragons, dragon-fucks-tree? What kind of Dou Skill is that? So terrifying, so perverted." Zhu Jin touched his raised dragon scales, violently shook his head to cast off that horrifying image, and sped toward the exit.

This scene only strengthened his resolve to escape his original family. No one on North Dragon Island was normal. Even the North Dragon King would ultimately choose to blood-sacrifice his entire clan. He was mentally unstable.

Meanwhile, the little brat training his weakness had no idea that the enemy he imagined in his mind had already left Dragon Island. When he learned the news, that would be another story entirely.

The Dragon Island passage was actually an extremely long-distance teleportation passage. It was the same kind of thing as the wormhole passage Little Fairy Doctor, Xiao Yan, and the others needed to use in the book to travel to the Central Plains.

Only after being reborn did Zhu Jin gradually realize that the Dou Qi Continent was much larger than Earth, at least the size of a star comparable to the sun. Even if you could fly, you could not cross its regions directly. You needed wormhole technology to fold space and travel across them. One could only imagine how vast the Dou Qi Continent truly was.

Opening such teleportation passages required a Dou Zun. Even the Void Ancient Dragons, who were naturally proficient in the Dao of Space, required the cultivation of an advanced Dou Zong to open one. Zhu Jin naturally could not do it himself.

"The four Dragon Islands are all located in the void within the Beast Domain. According to the book, the Beast Domain lies in the southern part of the Dou Qi Continent, while the Jia Ma Empire is in the northwest... To reach the Jia Ma Empire, I would practically have to cross the entire Dou Qi Continent." Zhu Jin sighed helplessly. For someone who had only just reached the Dou Spirit realm, crossing the Central Plains and traversing the Dou Qi Continent was simply impossible.

And most importantly, he did not know the Black-Corner Region's exact location, much less where Canaan Academy was. Heavenly Silkworm Potato had not written down longitude and latitude coordinates.

He needed a map of the Dou Qi Continent.

"When I was reading, I never thought much about it. Only now that I'm actually here do I realize how badly I lack information. Couldn't Heavenly Silkworm Potato have written things in more detail? Had he even been to the Dou Qi Continent before writing about it?" Zhu Jin could not help complaining angrily.

"Stop."

Just as Zhu Jin muttered his complaints, a fifteen-meter-long adult Void Ancient Dragon guard blocked his path and said in a deep voice, "Present your Dragon Seal."

Zhu Jin knew the procedure as well. With a thought, he circulated his Dou Qi and activated his Dragon Seal. With a hum, a Void Ancient Dragon seal instantly appeared between his brows. This sort of Dragon Seal was the same thing as the seal on the Three Thousand Burning Flame in the book; it was essentially a marker.

Back then, the Three Thousand Burning Flame had been discovered by an elder of the Void Ancient Dragon Clan. But it had still been too weak at the time, so the elder had branded it with a Dragon Seal as a marker. Zhu Jin's Dragon Seal meant the same thing. It showed that Zhu Jin was a young dragon of Zhu Tian's clan and had received the clan leader's recognition.

After seeing the Dragon Seal, the dragon guard protecting the passage could not help revealing a trace of coldness and disdain in his eyes. Zhu Jin's Dragon Seal also contained his position information, proving that he was a dragon warrior of inferior bloodline. This was meant to prevent certain young dragons from refusing to report to their assigned posts.

"Where are you going?" After confirming his identity, the dragon guard asked indifferently. The void was also incredibly vast. There were mining regions and ruin sites that had belonged to the Void Ancient Dragon Clan since ancient times, as well as cultivation holy lands like the Void Lightning Pool described in the book. These were all resource territories the four Dragon Islands fought over, and competing for such places was the duty of dragon warriors.

In truth, dragon warriors were equivalent to conscripts. Carrying out missions meant deploying troops.

Zhu Jin did not hesitate, because he had long since decided where to go. "The Beast Domain."