Silver Dragon Awakens, Tremor of the Star Dou Forest

Awakening of the Silver Dragon, Tremor of the Star Dou Forest

The deep core of the Star Dou Great Forest was canopied by ten thousand trees, where layer upon layer of millennial ancient trees blocked out every sound from the outside world. The entire realm grew so quiet that only the faint sound of life energy flowing remained.

A pool of the life lay flat in the very center, its water as clear and calm as condensed jadeite. Life primordial qi, rich enough to turn into white mist, lingered over the lake surface year-round, sinking into the deep bottom in wisps and threads. Ordinary spirit beasts dared only roam the outer periphery, while a thousand zhang beneath the lake lay the co-ruler of the entire Star Dou spirit beast clan: the Silver Dragon King Gu Yue Na, who was sleeping to heal her injuries.

This was the era of the Peerless Tang Clan, and a long time had passed since the Dragon God had split and she had fled from the God Realm to lie dormant here. With her severe injuries still unhealed and the greater part of her divine essence dormant, she kept all her auras restrained year-round, slumbering within the deepest jadeite palace at the bottom of the lake. She relied on the endless source power of the life lake to repair her damaged dragon body, rarely meddling in external affairs, with only Di Tian and other fierce beasts acting on her behalf to manage the entire forest.

Her silver hair spread out across the cold jade platform at the bottom of the lake, and her true silver dragon form was restrained within a human body. Her pale purple eyes were lightly closed, and she was surrounded by the endlessly circulating primordial sources of the nine major elements, as quiet as if she had fallen into an eternal slumber. Ever since their parting in the God Realm where the Golden Dragon King had been sealed by the gods, there had been no news of him whatsoever. Gu Yue Na had long since grown used to the complete loss of that familiar, homologous destructive dragon power from her perception, leaving only the bone-deep hatred of the dragon race's annihilation in the depths of her heart as she lay quietly dormant to await the chance to revive her clan.

Yet right beside the Sea God Lake, the Golden Dragon King's origin, suppressed within Tang Wulin's body, fluctuated with his emotions. A wisp of extremely faint yet highly recognizable golden dragon breath drifted outward uncontrollably, spanning a vast distance, piercing through layers of forest seas, and transmitting straight into the depths of the core life lake of the Star Dou Great Forest.

The dead-silent space at the bottom of the lake suddenly shook.

The elemental currents that had originally lain dormant and motionless surged wildly, and the nine elemental systems—water, earth, wind, light, and others—surrounding Gu Yue Na's body suddenly grew restless and shook frantically.

The eyelashes of the closed-eyed Silver Dragon King trembled violently, and her pale purple eyes slowly opened. The dragon might that had originally been dormant at the bottom of her eyes surged instantly, and a layer of faint silver-white dragon scales emerged from the side of her neck.

That aura...

So familiar it was engraved into her divine soul and origin, it was her other half—who had issued from the same Dragon God entity as her, wielding power and destruction—the unique, domineering, and robust bloodline aura of the Golden Dragon King.

Gu Yue Na's body tightened slightly, and huge ripples stirred within her mind.

She remembered clearly that back then, the Asura God had cleaved the Dragon God in two with a single sword, and the Golden Dragon King had been suppressed by the gods, permanently imprisoned within the cage of the God Realm. It was utterly impossible for him to set foot in the Douluo Plane by even half a step, let alone leak his own bloodline aura onto this continent. Yet the dragon breath drifting over at this moment was incomparably real, and the resonance of a homologous bloodline could not be faked. That was the pure and unadulterated origin of the Golden Dragon King, and it was definitely not something ordinary descendants of the dragon race could imitate.

She relaxed her fingertips, and a wisp of silver elemental thread extended outward along the lake water, tracing the source of that golden aura to investigate. Her divine sense pierced through heavy mountain forests all the way, finally locking onto the Sea God Lake drill ground outside Shrek City in the distance.

Her gaze passed through heavy obstructions and fell upon the youth with deep blue long hair and faint golden dragon patterns lingering around his body.

The heavy origin of the Golden Dragon King was sealed within the youth's body, locked tightly by layer upon layer of seals, and the dragon breath had quietly overflowed from the gaps in the seals. Yet as Gu Yue Na looked at that unfamiliar face, she felt not a shred of familiarity in her heart.

This was not the Golden Dragon King himself.

His divine soul, aura, and physical foundation were completely unfamiliar; he was merely a human body passively bearing the bloodline power of the Golden Dragon King. What caused even more doubt to rise in her heart was that the youth was entwined with an extremely strange, hazy fluctuation that did not belong to the current spacetime, as if he were drifting outside this timeline, his origin eerie and unfathomable.

Gu Yue Na knitted her brows, and heavy clouds of doubt swept across the bottom of her eyes.

The God Realm's seals were intact, and the Golden Dragon King had absolutely no possibility of breaking free; why would a wisp of his origin land within the body of a human youth? Where had the turbulent spacetime aura on this youth come from? She had never seen this person before, nor had she ever sensed this divine soul; she did not know him at all. Yet the instinct deep within her bloodline was resonating wildly, reminding her that the person before her was the carrier of the other half of the Dragon God's bloodline, tightly bound to her own destiny.

The water at the bottom of the lake surged violently, and silver dragon qi spiraled and howled around her body, making it completely impossible for her mind, which had previously been safely asleep, to remain calm.

She raised a hand to lightly press her chest, clearly feeling the Silver Dragon King's origin within her body boiling continuously because of that Golden Dragon King aura in the distance. The law of homologous attraction was pulling at her divine soul uncontrollably.

The God Realm's seals are unbroken; how could the Golden Dragon King have bloodline flowing down to the lower realm... Who exactly is this child?

Her low self-muffled words echoed in the deep lake bottom, filled with incomprehension and vigilance. Her severe injuries were unhealed, making it inappropriate for her to easily manifest herself. Yet that wisp of golden dragon breath that had crossed ten thousand miles had planted a heavy seed of doubt deep within her heart.

She quietly gazed through the elemental thread at the unidentified youth in the distance, secretly noting down this special golden dragon aura in her heart and intending to instruct Di Tian to secretly investigate this person's background.

The life lake returned to calm, and the white mist slowly drifted and undulated as before. Only deep at the bottom of the lake, the doubt in the eyes of the Silver Dragon King lingered for a long time, and the fateful entanglement of the dual dragons of the same origin had quietly drawn back its curtain in this era that did not belong to Tang Wulin.

After locking onto that unfamiliar golden dragon aura beside the Sea God Lake from afar, the astonishment and suspicion in Gu Yue Na's eyes failed to fade for a long time.

The fluctuations of disordered spacetime, the Golden Dragon King's origin imprisoned by layers of seals, the utterly unfamiliar human youth's divine soul... All these bizarre signs intertwined, completely shattering the peace of her slumber and healing that had lasted for tens of thousands of years.

She was very certain that the God Realm's seals were firm, and the suppressed Golden Dragon King himself had absolutely no possibility of breaking free from his shackles to descend to the lower realm. Yet that overflowing bloodline aura was pure to the extreme, being the orthodox Dragon God origin without the slightest adulteration, and it was definitely not something the inferior dragon bloodline remaining on the continent could compare to.

The deeper she delved, the heavier the doubts in her heart grew.

Unknown variables were the most dangerous. Now that the dragon race was in decline, she bore all the hopes of the clan's revival, and with her own divine body's injuries unhealed, she must never rashly manifest herself and disrupt the layout of her ten-thousand-year dormancy.

After locking onto that unfamiliar golden dragon aura beside the Sea God Lake from afar across the lake water, Gu Yue Na's inner doubts piled up layer upon layer.

The God Realm's seals were secure, and the Golden Dragon King himself had absolutely no possibility of breaking free from his restraints to come to the lower realm. Yet that homologous bloodline aura was real, and yet it resided within the body of a completely unfamiliar human youth, a person who was also entwined with turbulent and distorted spacetime auras, revealing strangeness everywhere. She bore the heavy responsibility of the dragon race's survival, and with the injuries to her own divine body unhealed, she must by no means personally go out and manifest herself, lest she expose her hiding place and draw the gaze of the continent's peak spirit masters and the God Realm.

With a thought, a robust and restrained silver dragon might spread along the lake water, sweeping through the entire core area of the Star Dou Great Forest.

In just a few breaths, three massive figures broke the surface of the lake. Di Tian was covered in pitch-black dragon scales, his fierce beast pressure completely restrained as he stood bowed at the very front; Bi Ji was surrounded by emerald vegetation spiritual light, and Zi Ji was entwined with gloomy poisonous mist. The two fierce beasts followed closely behind, all lowering their heads together. In the forest in the distance, two more figures swept over; the Myriad Demon King and Bear Lord landed, separating to the two sides, and the five fierce beasts gathered together above the life lake.

"Lord Sovereign." Di Tian's voice was deep and respectful.

The cold and detached voice of Gu Yue Na came from the bottom of the lake, carrying a trace of unperceived solemnity: "Just now, in the area of the Sea God Lake in Shrek City to the southeast, a wisp of pure Golden Dragon King origin aura appeared, residing within the body of a human youth. The other party bears strange spacetime fluctuations, and I have never seen this person before."

The five fierce beasts started simultaneously, their eyes filled with shock. The Golden Dragon King had been suppressed by the gods since ancient times, and for tens of thousands of years there had not been a trace of his bloodline. For him to suddenly manifest today was definitely no small matter.

Di Tian said in a deep voice: "Lord Sovereign, do you require your subordinates to immediately go and capture that person for interrogation?"

"No," Gu Yue Na stopped him indifferently. "Now is a time when human spirit masters are flourishing, and Shrek has a profound foundation. My injuries are not yet healed, so it is inappropriate to stir up conflict. You only need to investigate secretly; you must not make a move, and you must not expose my existence."

She paused and issued her instructions: "Di Tian, you are to take Bi Ji and Zi Ji, conceal your auras, and head outside Shrek City to find out the youth's background, the details of the Golden Dragon King seal within his body, and the root of the spacetime anomaly upon him. Report back immediately upon completing the investigation, and do not engage in combat with anyone throughout the entire process."

"Myriad Demon King, Bear Lord, the two of you shall remain to guard the core area, reinforce the forest's outer barrier, and strictly guard the surroundings of the life lake. Do not allow any spirit beasts or humans to approach, and do not allow anyone to disturb my healing."

"We obey the sovereign's command!"

The Myriad Demon King and Bear Lord acknowledged the order and turned, transforming into two black shadows that merged into the dense forest. Layers of vegetation power spread out, wrapping the life lake so tightly not even a drop of water could leak through. Di Tian nodded, taking Bi Ji and Zi Ji to suppress all their fierce killing auras. The three faint lights merged into the horizon, speeding silently toward the direction of Shrek City to secretly investigate all of Tang Wulin's tracks.

There were no longer any fierce beast figures above the lake surface. The misty emerald green vitality white mist slowly rose, and the lake water returned to tranquility.

Inside the white jade palace a thousand meters deep in the lake, Gu Yue Na slowly withdrew her externalized divine sense, lightly closing her pale purple eyes to temporarily isolate all external disturbances.

Repairing her damaged divine body was the top priority right now. Piles of warm and translucent life crystals floated around the jade platform, every single piece condensing the pure vitality accumulated by the life lake over ten thousand years, making them supreme treasures for repairing her shattered divine bones and withered divine essence.

Silver-white dragon scales gradually emerged from the surface of her skin, and the elemental powers of the nine systems circulated around her body at a steady speed. Countless life crystals suspended themselves in mid-air, rotating and revolving around her. In the next moment, the crystal stones shattered one after another, transforming into babbling emerald-green primordial torrents that poured entirely into her body.

The warm and mighty vitality scoured through one trauma fracture after another left behind from ancient times within her body, and the withered Dragon God divine power grew full and magnificent bit by bit. Under the nourishment of the endless vitality, the originally weak and dim Silver Dragon origin slowly solidified and grew stronger.

Only the quietly circulating primordial qi remained at the bottom of the lake, and Gu Yue Na immersed herself wholeheartedly in her healing.

Yet that wisp of golden dragon breath that had crossed ten thousand miles and resonated homologously with her divine soul still lingered deep within her perception, refusing to dissipate. She did not yet know that this strange youth of unfathomable origin, bearing the bloodline of the Golden Dragon King, would stir up a fateful entanglement that had spanned eternity within a misplaced spacetime.