Dragon souls?
As Ye Qingcang explained, everyone wore baffled expressions.
Only Violet was an exception.
However, Ye Qingcang had no interest in explaining further. He took two Jade Boxes from his pocket. Milky-white astral energy split from his arms, branching in midair into two hands formed of astral energy. They plucked the Apricot of Blazing Fire and the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass together, placing them into the two Jade Boxes respectively.
Then he threw out the bracelet, letting it hover above the spring.
"Rise!"
Ye Qingcang held two fingers together like a sword before him.
Within the bracelet suspended above the spring, the two miniature beads of Chi Wen and Ya Zi suddenly lit up, radiating faint halos as they sought a shared frequency with the springs below and drew upon their waters.
Roar!!!
From the two springs of ice and fire, a shattered dragon soul rose from each!
Yet even though only their dragon souls remained—and shattered dragon souls at that—the two remnants still carried an inviolable air of holiness. That familiar power made Yue Guan, Gui Mei, Dugu Bo, and Liu Erlong instinctively fall to their knees. Dugu Bo and Liu Erlong were affected by their bloodlines, while Yue Guan and Gui Mei knelt purely in worship of the divinity carried by the dragon souls!
"Submit to me and follow me toward immortality..." Ye Qingcang lowered his sword fingers and extended his palm. A Red Jade-like longsword fell into his hand. It sounded less like persuasion than conquest. "Or die here!"
"Boy, do you know whom you are speaking to?" the Water Dragon King demanded. Its entire body was blue-green and gold. It was also the Ice Dragon King, wielding dominion over both water and ice—the ancestor of every water dragon and ice dragon in the world.
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