The Silver Scale's Owner Revealed

"You're not human..." Di Tian repeated, then changed tack and said calmly, "Strictly speaking, you belong to the Master."

"Uh."

The moment Qin Yu heard "the Master," he thought of the Silver Dragon King, who lay dormant while recovering from her wounds.

His mind was a mess. He needed a moment to think.

What on earth was going on?

"Hoo!"

Qin Yu took a deep breath and looked at Di Tian. "I can't remember. Tell me everything in detail."

"I don't know." Di Tian shook his head, then swept a hand through the air, opening a Space Vortex. "Go in. The Master will tell you everything."

Qin Yu hesitated briefly, then walked toward the Space Vortex.

The instant he stepped inside, his vision blurred, and he felt his body being pulled into another space.

"Tap, tap, tap—"

Footsteps echoed in the darkness. This space was unusual: Spiritual Power could not probe it, leaving only sight.

Qin Yu crossed the open ground, looking around. There was nothing but darkness.

And yet, that darkness felt both strange and familiar to him.

He seemed to have been here once before.

"Hm?"

Qin Yu stopped abruptly. Something had stirred in his sea of consciousness.

He quickly checked and saw that the silver scale suppressing the Heavenly Saint Rift-Splitting Halberd was glowing, as though responding to something outside.

"This... is the Silver Dragon King's scale?" Qin Yu immediately guessed who it belonged to.

Following the scale's response, Qin Yu instinctively looked in one direction. It was still pitch-black, but the darkness there seemed deeper than elsewhere.

Just as he was about to look more closely, a pair of enormous purple eyes opened in the darkness.

They were close—so close he could have reached out and touched them.

Before those enormous eyes, Qin Yu looked tiny. Anyone afraid of giant creatures would have been scared to death.

"Whoosh—"

Almost at the same instant, light appeared in the darkness.

The light came from nowhere, striking gemstones scattered all around and illuminating most of the space in an instant.

Cool, quiet, mysterious.

That was Qin Yu's first impression of the place.

As the light spread into the deeper darkness, Qin Yu saw the owner of those enormous purple eyes: a giant silver dragon.

The dragon's body stretched a thousand zhang. Its silver scales were not fearsome, but graceful and smooth.

Its eyes were purple, just like Qin Yu's. The silver dragon looked noble and mysterious; Qin Yu, dignified and mysterious.

Those eyes also reminded Qin Yu of the purple eyes that had once flashed through his mind. The look in them was exactly the same.

The silver dragon was right before him, yet Qin Yu felt as though a hazy chasm in space separated them.

Dragon and man, one vast and one small, held each other's gaze for a long time.

"What kind of dragon are you?"

"Is the silver scale in my sea of consciousness yours?"

Qin Yu was the first to speak.

"The Silver Dragon King," the dragon replied in a clear, cool female voice. "That is my reverse scale. I used it to suppress your accompanying Transcendent Divine Artifact."

Hearing the Silver Dragon King describe these things so precisely, Qin Yu began to understand.

The Silver Dragon King was most likely the one who had saved his life.

"I want to know what happened back then," Qin Yu said.

"Do you remember who I am?" the Silver Dragon King asked, watching him quietly.

"It's all hazy. I can't remember clearly."

Qin Yu shook his head.

The Silver Dragon King fell silent for a while, then condensed a mass of energy and sent it into Qin Yu's forehead. "Everything you want to know is in there."

Qin Yu's thoughts went hazy at once.

Countless images flashed before his eyes. They were less his memories than the Silver Dragon King's.

Everything he saw was from her perspective.

By the time he had seen it all, every doubt in Qin Yu's mind had been resolved. At last, he had recovered the memories he had lost.

"A Transcendent Divine Artifact eroded my soul, and I lost my memories..."

Qin Yu murmured, finally understanding everything.

Over a decade earlier, a purple dragon egg had fallen into the Lake of Life in Star Dou Forest, wreathed in terrifying Destruction Divine Power.

The Ferocious Beasts sleeping in a separate space had awakened. Di Tian and Bi Ji had personally investigated, but neither could get close.

Soon afterward, the Silver Dragon King had awakened. Sensing something unusual about the egg, she took it into the underground space and discovered that it was an egg of the supposedly extinct Purple Brilliant Heaven Destroying Dragon.

Just as she was about to investigate further, the Destruction Divine Power within the egg had erupted, causing it to hatch prematurely.

When the egg broke open, what emerged was not a Purple Brilliant Heaven Destroying Dragon, but a baby boy who had already taken human form.

That baby boy was Qin Yu.

Investigating further, the Silver Dragon King had been shocked to find an accompanying Transcendent Divine Artifact in Qin Yu's sea of consciousness. It was strengthening his Purple Brilliant Heaven Destroying Dragon bloodline, but also damaging his soul.

Strictly speaking, the artifact was not harming him directly. His soul was simply too weak to withstand its aura of Destruction Divine Power.

To save Qin Yu, the Silver Dragon King used her own reverse scale to temporarily suppress the Destruction Divine Power leaking from the artifact.

But Qin Yu's soul had already been damaged. He fell unconscious and lost his memories.

In the end, because he had taken human form, she could only send him into the human world to live among humans. That was how he came to Spirit Hall.

The Silver Dragon Reverse Scale had not only saved Qin Yu's life; it could also conceal his Soul Beast aura, as well as monitor, locate, and protect him.

If Qin Yu faced a fatal threat, the Silver Dragon Reverse Scale would protect him automatically. Not even a Peerless Douluo could harm him.

That's one hell of a debt, Qin Yu thought with a quiet sigh. He looked at the Silver Dragon King, his expression complicated.

"Qin Yu, you recently cleared out a treasure-filled place. There should be Immortal Herbs there that can strengthen Spiritual Power and heal damage to the soul."

"If you want to verify whether these memories are real, you can take one."

The Silver Dragon King spoke slowly.

In the years since she had awakened, she had occasionally checked on Qin Yu. She knew more about him than he knew about himself.

"There's no rush."

Qin Yu waved a hand and sat down on the ground. He gave the Silver Dragon King a faint smile. "I'll never forget what you did for me with your reverse scale. I owe you."

"So neither of us has to feel burdened by it, let's be direct. What do you need me to do?"

In truth, it was more than the reverse scale. She had also spared his life.

The Heavenly Saint Rift-Splitting Halberd might have been his accompanying Transcendent Divine Artifact, but if he died, it would have no owner.

That the Silver Dragon King had not seized it was beyond his expectations—and another debt he might owe her.

"The Heavenly Saint Rift-Splitting Halberd... I assume the accompanying Transcendent Divine Artifact gave you that name when your Martial Soul awakened."

"I have never encountered Destruction Divine Power like what this artifact carries. It also seems able to ignore defenses. Its power is astonishing."

"It suits your Purple Brilliant Heaven Destroying Dragon bloodline."