Dragon Marrow and Dragon Souls of the Ice and Fire Dragon Kings, Humanity's Weakness in Becoming Gods

"Are the Ice Dragon King and Fire Dragon King buried here?"

"No wonder I always sensed a familiar aura when I entered the Sunset Forest. So that was why."

Gu Yuena murmured, a trace of daze in her eyes.

When the eighteen Dragon Kings gathered in the Dragon Realm, it was also the Dragon Clan's greatest era.

Yet prosperity inevitably declined. On that very day, the Dragon God lost his mind, bringing catastrophe upon the entire Dragon Clan.

Looking at the burial ground of the Ice Dragon King and Fire Dragon King, Gu Yuena recalled the Dragon Clan's former glory.

It could be said that the Dragon Clan's splendor was inseparable from the strength of those Dragon Kings.

Even the Human Clan, which was gradually rising now, could hardly compare to the Dragon Clan of that era at its peak.

"Sister Na."

Li Qinglian quietly watched Gu Yuena's phantom, waiting for her to calm her emotions.

Silvery-white light gently swayed through the valley, reflecting off the waters of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well. It was like two dragon souls from ten thousand years ago, casting distant gazes from the depths of time.

Seeing Gu Yuena's lost and bewildered appearance, Li Qinglian could not help but feel somewhat emotional and saddened.

Gu Yuena took a deep breath, and clarity gradually returned to her silver eyes.

She looked at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, her gaze complicated and distant, as if she were reading an ancient tome sealed away for ten thousand years.

"This is the burial ground of the Ice Dragon King and Fire Dragon King."

"At the Dragon Clan's peak, there were eighteen great Dragon Kings. Every Dragon King commanded an ultimate law of power and guarded a territory within the Dragon Realm. The Ice Dragon King controlled ultimate ice, while the Fire Dragon King controlled ultimate fire—they were the two poles of extreme cold and extreme heat among the Dragon Clan, as well as two of its oldest beings."

Li Qinglian listened quietly, his gaze never shifting.

"Although they ranked among the weakest of the eighteen great Dragon Kings, even so, their combat power was absolutely no weaker than that of any God King in the God Realm."

Li Qinglian's pupils contracted slightly.

Even the weakest tier could stand shoulder to shoulder with God Kings?

"When the eighteen Dragon Kings gathered, it marked the Dragon Clan's most powerful and prosperous peak."

Gu Yuena's voice gradually sank, carrying a hint of pain.

"Unfortunately... prosperity inevitably declined. During those years, the Dragon God lost his mind, ultimately triggering that disaster. More than half of the eighteen Dragon Kings perished, the Dragon Clan fell apart, and its former glory turned to ashes overnight."

She lowered her eyes, her silvery-white hair gently brushing in the valley breeze.

"The Ice Dragon King and Fire Dragon King fell during that catastrophe. Their final remains crashed into the earth, and the powers of extreme cold and extreme heat intertwined and settled within this valley. After ten thousand years, they eventually formed this Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well."

Li Qinglian's heart shook as he listened.

He had already guessed much of this.

But hearing it from Gu Yuena still left him stunned.

As Dragon Kings of the God Realm, they had to be at least two million years old.

He suddenly thought of something even more important and looked toward the depths of the spring.

"Sister Na, are the remains of the two Dragon Kings... still down there?"

"At the deepest point. Their flesh and bones have long since merged with the earth, but their core dragon marrow and dragon souls should still be slumbering at the bottom of the spring. Over ten thousand years, part of their power became the vitality of this treasured land, nourishing the surrounding immortal herbs and spirit medicines; the rest remains buried deep beneath the spring."

Gu Yuena looked at Li Qinglian. Seemingly recovered from her earlier emotions, she curled her lips into a smile.

They said every part of a soul beast was a treasure.

The Dragon Clan was even more so.

Even the treasures left behind by the Ice Dragon King and Fire Dragon King were enough to grant any living being a transformation profound enough to remake its body and bones!

Although Li Qinglian was a Death Divine Tree and possessed extremely high innate quality,

the remains of two Dragon Kings could absolutely bring Li Qinglian an enormous improvement.

To put it plainly, even if a Death Divine Tree evolved to its limit, it would only reach the level of the Ice Dragon King and Fire Dragon King.

"Hehe. Sister Na, look..."

Li Qinglian felt a little embarrassed.

He had just obtained the Dragon Abyss Realm from Gu Yuena. Even with Li Qinglian's thick skin, he found it somewhat awkward to ask for more.

"You have your eye on them, don't you?"

"Mm."

Li Qinglian nodded.

At a time like this, he did not act coy with Gu Yuena.

He had to obtain the hidden treasures of the two great Dragon Kings!

They would become the foundation upon which he stood!

"Sister Na."

"Although I rebuilt myself into a human and can cultivate and grow stronger as quickly as humans do, I can also, like humans, embrace all rivers and absorb the advantages of every race in the heavens for my own use."

"If I did not possess a human body, I could not have absorbed the Seed of Life left to me by the Goddess of Life, nor could I have fused with the Pure Heart Eyes of the Goddess of Kindness."

"The human body is like a large, customizable platform. If conditions allow, I can even modify any part of my body. That is something no other living being can accomplish."

Li Qinglian spoke frankly.

"That is indeed the Human Clan's greatest advantage. By absorbing spirit bones, they can install upon themselves the optimal solutions that all races have evolved over countless years."

"Isn't that exactly what happened with the External Spirit Bone you absorbed?"

Gu Yuena said faintly.

For spider soul beasts such as the Human-Faced Demon Spider, the most optimized parts of their bodies were their eight spider legs. Those legs were the weapons Human-Faced Demon Spiders needed to survive in the world of soul beasts.

Thus, every Human-Faced Demon Spider would temper its own spider legs as it grew.

That was why those parts had the potential to evolve into spirit bones!

External Spirit Bones were, in truth, the optimized body parts evolved by those special soul beasts.

By absorbing an External Spirit Bone, Li Qinglian directly gained that advantage and fully fused it with his own body. He could even continue driving its evolution through cultivation.

Simply by absorbing a spirit bone, he had directly taken the optimal body part that the Human-Faced Demon Spider had evolved over millions of years and acquired its primary abilities.

This kind of cheat was enough to make every living being in the world crave it.

Therefore, saying that the Human Clan was weak was complete nonsense.

The Human Clan was merely too weak at birth. Once they developed later on, they were practically demonic.

"But the Human Clan also has its greatest disadvantage. The human body is too frail and cannot withstand attacks at all. Although I rebuilt myself from a Death Divine Tree, after taking human form, I inherited this weakness as well."

"If I do not resolve it, my future achievements will still be limited."

Li Qinglian felt somewhat helpless.

He still remembered the original story, when Tang San fought Bibi Dong and Qian Renxue in a godly battle.

When the three fought, they first had to avoid one another's attacks.

Even Tang San, who had inherited the Asura God, simply could not endure the full-force strike of a First-Level God.

For Tang San:

his attack power had reached the level of a God King, but his physical body was far inferior.

Although Tang San later became the de facto ruler of the God Realm, he had never fought a truly grueling battle.

If he truly fought an established God King like the God of Destruction, the opponent could completely trade injury for injury and wear Tang San to death.

The Human Clan cultivated quickly, but they were like modern-day broiler chickens.

If he did not improve his physical body, Li Qinglian would find it difficult to contend with top Dragon Kings whose bodies were as tyrannical as those of the Dragon Clan, much less compare himself to the Dragon God.