Visions of the Light Dragon King

"It was simple. They had received my grace," Lu Chen explained calmly.

"My grace?"

The Dragon God froze. He quickly thought of what Qian Renxue had done and suddenly understood.

That was right. A favored daughter of heaven had spent the best years of her life burying the remains of those who had been dead for hundreds of thousands of years. That truly was a kindness!

But if that was a kindness, then he, the Dragon God, should have already repaid it on behalf of the dragon clan, shouldn't he?

Using a Dragon King's Martial Soul above God Rank to repay that debt was more than generous enough.

And even if it had not truly been repaid, that debt should not have fallen upon the person before him.

Could a debt of gratitude be transferred?

That made absolutely no sense!

Before the Dragon God could voice the doubts in his heart, the body formed from his remaining energy began to crumble apart.

After extinguishing the Dragon God and confirming that no remnants remained, Lu Chen beckoned. The vast Dragon Realm then fell into a single pearl.

"You're awake?"

Lu Chen watched Qian Renxue and spoke gently.

Qian Renxue opened her eyes, looked around, then looked at Lu Chen. Somewhat uncertainly, she asked:

"Lord Heavenly Dao?"

"What? You left for four years and no longer recognize me?" Lu Chen smiled faintly.

"Lord Heavenly Dao, it really is you!" Qian Renxue leaped up excitedly, wrapping her snow-white arms around Lu Chen's body. Her eyes instantly reddened as she laughed and cried at once.

Seeing how emotional Qian Renxue was, Lu Chen smiled helplessly. He stroked her little head and comforted her softly:

"Alright, I'm back, I'm back. Be good, Xiaoxue. Don't cry, don't cry."

"Lord Heavenly Dao~"

Qian Renxue had not been all that saddened to begin with, but the moment she heard Lu Chen's comforting words, she could no longer hold herself together. Raising her head from Lu Chen's chest, her cheeks flushed red as she said:

"Who comforts someone like that? You're treating me like a child."

"A child?"

Lu Chen gave Qian Renxue a once-over and smiled. "You really aren't a child anymore."

After four years away, after living alone in the Dragon Realm for four years, what had changed for Qian Renxue was not merely her strength and state of mind, but also her once-youthful body.

Four years ago, in Lu Chen's eyes, Qian Renxue had merely been a little girl. Even if she was prettier than most, that was all.

Four years had passed. Though Qian Renxue was still nothing remarkable in Lu Chen's eyes, he had to admit that the little girl from back then had grown into a fresh and graceful young beauty.

Golden eyes, a pert little nose, rosy but not overly seductive lips, flawless fair skin, waist-length golden hair, and those budding...

Tsk, tsk. Who wouldn't praise her as a girl as beautiful as an angel?

"..."

Perhaps sensing the teasing in Lu Chen's words, Qian Renxue's little face reddened. Her gaze drifted, and she no longer dared look at his face.

After not seeing him for several years, Lord Heavenly Dao seemed even more handsome.

Ah!

Qian Renxue! What are you thinking about?!

"Ahem." Lu Chen coughed twice, suppressing his smile. He pushed away Qian Renxue, who was still clinging to him, and resumed a stern expression.

"You did well this time. Tell me, what reward do you want?"

"Hm?"

Qian Renxue, having been pushed away, froze. Then, seeing Lord Heavenly Dao's serious expression, a huge question mark seemed to appear over her head.

Why did Lord Heavenly Dao change his expression so suddenly? He had not given her any time to prepare at all.

Though puzzled by Lu Chen's behavior, Qian Renxue quickly recovered.

Living alone in the Dragon Realm for so many years had long since tempered Qian Renxue's state of mind until it was exceptionally strong!

She was no longer that little brat who only knew how to cry and wore every thought on her face.

"It is Xiaoxue's duty to serve Lord Heavenly Dao," Qian Renxue said solemnly. "Besides, Xiaoxue has already gained many benefits during her years in the Dragon Realm. To covet a reward from you as well would truly be too greedy."

"Sending Xiaoxue to the Dragon Realm was already the greatest reward you could have given Xiaoxue!"

"Really?" Lu Chen asked.

"Really!"

Qian Renxue nodded firmly.

"You don't get to decide that." Lu Chen gave her a lazy glance and casually tossed over two Soul Bones.

"A seventy-thousand-year torso bone and a ninety-thousand-year head bone, produced by your second and third soul rings. Today, they are returning to their rightful owner. How you use them is up to you."

"L-Lord Heavenly Dao, this..."

"This doesn't count as a reward."

Lu Chen beckoned, and a mass of red and blue light floated out from Qian Renxue's body.

With a light tap of one finger, under Qian Renxue's astonished gaze, the "Soul Bones" she had abandoned back then drifted out from the mass of light one after another.

"These are all the 'Soul Bones' you abandoned back then. The contingency I left within your body gathered them."

Lu Chen glanced at Qian Renxue. She had been far too rigid. He had merely told her to show care for the dead, not to take nothing at all.

Besides, these had all been "voluntarily offered" by those dragons. How was that desecrating the dead?

"Lord Heavenly Dao, I..." Seeing the densely packed "Soul Bones," Qian Renxue was completely dumbfounded.

Hadn't you told me to care for and revere the dead? Why were you saying that while...

"These were all 'voluntarily offered,'" Lu Chen explained. "Also, learn to be more flexible in the future."

"However, you guessed right. These things that look like 'Soul Bones' are not actually Soul Bones."

"More precisely, they are 'Soul Bone Essence' that I guided those dragons to condense through a special method."

"Soul Bone Essence?" It was Qian Renxue's first time hearing this term, and she was somewhat surprised.

"Their only purpose is to raise the age of Soul Bones."

"This Soul Bone Essence is enough to raise a set of Soul Bones from ten-thousand-year quality to God Rank strength exceeding one million years."

"God Rank strength?" Qian Renxue stared in astonishment. "Like the Angel Set?"

"More or less." Lu Chen smiled. "The difference is that one can only unleash the power of an artifact set after becoming a god, while with the other, you can display God Rank strength before becoming a god, though only at the level of a Rank Three God."

"Furthermore, in terms of potential, this set has even greater potential than the Angel Set. After you become a god, it may be nurtured into a super-artifact."

Lu Chen turned and looked at the stunned Qian Renxue. "You now have two choices before you."

"First, use the original Angel Set as a foundation and use this Soul Bone Essence to forge an artifact set compatible with your Angel Martial Soul."

"Second, I will provide five fifty-thousand-year light-attribute dragon Soul Bones, along with one one-million-year light-attribute dragon Soul Bone, and use them as the core to forge an artifact set suitable for your second Martial Soul."

"Think carefully about which one you want to choose."

To be honest, the greatest surprise of this trip to the Dragon Realm had been Qian Renxue's second Martial Soul, the Light Dragon King.

Lu Chen had not expected that a Dragon God dead for many years could still grant a successor a Main God-level Martial Soul.

The appearance of this Martial Soul had altered his plans somewhat.

For example, using the Light Dragon King's Martial Soul to scheme for the Light God's authority...