Remnant Souls of the Ice and Fire Dragon Kings! A Deal!

When Li Long stopped before that enormous scale, the spring water around him suddenly became heavier than before.

It was neither a change in temperature nor an increase or decrease in pressure, but a sense of weight pressing down directly upon his consciousness, as though something was slowly awakening from slumber and turning its gaze toward the area where he stood.

He stood beside the massive remains. Beneath his feet lay rock strata that had accumulated for countless tens of thousands of years, while above him stretched deep water swallowed by darkness. The only source of light was the faint dark-golden glow radiating from the Dragon Emperor Rod in his hand. Even that light now drifted more slowly through the water, as if some invisible force had seized hold of it.

Then he heard voices.

They had not traveled through the water, but sounded directly within the depths of his mind. Two voices appeared at once—one deep and scorching, the other clear and icy. Their utterly different qualities echoed through his sea of consciousness, as though they had crossed endless time and space from the depths of an unimaginably distant age.

"After countless years... a living being has finally come to this place."

There was an extremely slow rhythm in that voice, one tempered by the passage of ages. Every sentence seemed to be squeezed from the remnants of its consciousness with tremendous effort.

"And it is a human we despise and oppose."

The other voice followed, carrying a trace of complicated emotion, as though it had confirmed something it did not wish to confirm but had no choice but to accept.

"And it is you, of all people—someone who consumed both the Infernal Delicate Apricot and the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass, forging a body immune to all poisons and