"Brother Li Zha, you're joking, right?"
Na'er discreetly drew her arm back, trying to make sure.
Li Zha wiped the corner of his mouth and answered seriously:
"Do I look like I'm joking?"
"Huh?"
Panic instantly rose in Na'er's heart.
How was this place even scarier than the Star Dou Great Forest?
The avatar in the Star Dou Great Forest wanted to merge with me, but someone here actually wanted to eat me!
Li Zha looked at Na'er with a beaming smile. He really had eaten it before.
"Well... I don't taste good!"
Na'er scooted farther away.
"Hmm... I'll have to try you to know. Hurry up and let me take a bite!"
Li Zha put on a fierce expression.
He really had eaten human flesh in this life, and it had tasted crunchy!
At the thought,
Li Zha recalled the scene from that day: the human tower, the bloody flames, the black-robed elder, the charred arm.
A surge of savage hostility emerged.
The Silver Dragon King Bloodline inside Na'er felt suppressed, and the Silver Dragon Spear hummed, about to appear to protect her.
Outside,
the two Bais saw this and nodded.
"Ooh! Looks like Li Zha and our newcomer Na'er are getting along pretty well."
"Yeah, little brother Li Zha really knows how to have fun. He even knows to peel shrimp for a girl."
"Hehe, picking up girls at such a young age. Who knows how many young ladies he'll lead astray in the future..."
Bai Haoze teased.
On the Douluo Continent,
powerful Soul Masters naturally had many admirers.
Take the Sky-Cleaving Douluo, said to hold up the heavens above and reach into the netherworld below. Even someone as outstanding as Pagoda Master Leng had been one of that Douluo's admirers back then.
The Spirit Ice Douluo Huo Yuhao from ten thousand years ago was even more so. Rumor had it that even the crown prince of the Sun Moon Empire was his illegitimate son.
And Li Zha's talent surpassed both of theirs.
The two Bais could readily imagine
how many young ladies would pursue Li Zha once he grew up.
"What did little brother Li Zha just say? Na'er got so embarrassed she stood up."
"Hey, why did little sister Na'er suddenly start running?"
"Ah, little brother Li Zha's chasing her. I'm honestly envious. It's so easy for children to get close and familiar with each other. Once you grow up, it's hard to have an intimate relationship with anyone."
On the surveillance feed,
Li Zha and Na'er staged a grand chase around the room, with Na'er running everywhere barefoot, her expression panicked.
Li Zha's eyes gleamed as he pursued her relentlessly.
The two Bais naturally assumed this was just a game between two children.
Xiao Bai, Bai Zhicen, picked up her Soul Guidance Communicator and played a song Li Zha had written himself over the past year.
Bai Zhicen loved listening to it.
"You say you're a little hard to win over, hoping I'll see the difficulty and retreat..."
For some reason,
Bai Zhicen felt this song suited the scene perfectly.
Inside the room,
Na'er was terrified, her face pale as she frantically dodged.
"Don't come any closer!"
"Brother Li Zha, I really don't taste good! Believe me, really..."
Na'er fled in terror.
She didn't dare stop at all.
If he caught me, I'd lose my life!
However,
Na'er was clearly no match for Li Zha, and he soon caught up.
Li Zha grabbed her arm and bit down!
"Nooo!"
Na'er bit her lip and shut her eyes, not daring to look.
To think that I, a dignified Silver Dragon King Avatar, would be eaten here by a human child! If I'd known, I'd never have come to the Spirit Pagoda!
Yet the next moment,
Na'er suddenly realized her arm didn't hurt.
Li Zha had only gently left a tooth mark, then patted her head.
"Na'er, how could your big brother possibly eat you, right? Of course I was joking!"
Na'er asked in surprise, "Really?"
"Mm-hmm. Let's eat. Afterward, I'll take you around the area."
Li Zha pulled Na'er back to her seat and swiftly switched into eating mode.
Na'er breathed a sigh of relief. She had only been scaring herself.
However,
Li Zha's strength had already astonished her. She knew she wasn't human, and logically, children at the same level shouldn't have been able to catch her at all. Yet Li Zha's strength and speed were terrifying. He was practically a ferocious beast in human form.
Picking up a large chicken drumstick, Na'er revealed her true foodie nature and soon believed Li Zha.
Meanwhile, Li Zha's attention had already shifted to the Immortal Court Seed. As if he were kidding-he absolutely did want to eat Na'er!
Saying he was joking
was the actual joke!
However,
Li Zha had just noticed that the Immortal Court Seed seemed to stir the instant he touched Na'er.
That was why he had stopped to examine it closely.
After sweeping through the food like a gale through scattered clouds and eating his fill, Li Zha immediately sent his consciousness into the [Mountain and River State Diagram]. Inside the Immortal Court Seed's tower, the gray [East Sea Dragon King] tablet was glowing faintly.
"What's going on?"
Li Zha picked up the tablet and turned it over to inspect the back.
[Godhood-compatible Candidate detected! Bestow godhood?] [After godhood is bestowed, its inheritor will be subject to your authority as the Great Deity of the Three Altars and Seas. Karmic Flame Points from Evil Soul Masters they kill will also be credited to you.]
"Holy shit?!"
Li Zha was rather surprised.
"So that's how these Immortal Deity Tablets of the Immortal Court work?"
But after thinking it over carefully, Li Zha felt it did make sense!
The Silver Dragon King was a fucking dragon king too.
Though she certainly couldn't compare to the Immortal Court's true East Sea Dragon King, this was only an Immortal Court Seed Taiyi had given him, so naturally, she qualified.
Li Zha simply hadn't expected
that these tablets could actually be bestowed on others. Didn't that mean he could mass-produce gods?
"They'll be under my authority, and their Karmic Flame Points will belong to me too. Hmm... that's very reasonable!"
"But I'm honestly puzzled. My system can actually interact with Taiyi's Legacy?"
Li Zha found this quite unexpected.
It felt as though the wall between dimensions had been breached.
Thinking of it that way,
he strongly suspected Grandmaster Taiyi had already known he had a system!
Yes, that had to be it!
Fuck... no wonder he'd immediately said I'd received the legacy of his disciple Nezha. So those words had held a deeper meaning all along.
"Forget it. Having this is a good thing!"
Holding the tablet, Li Zha prepared to leave.
Just then,
the Blazing Dragon Spirit suddenly appeared.
"Master! This..."
Li Zha looked at the Blazing Dragon Spirit in surprise. This bootlicking dragon spirit usually liked staying inside the [Mountain and River State Diagram]. After all, this place was far more entertaining than Li Zha's own Sea of Consciousness.
"Do you need something?"
The Blazing Dragon Spirit hesitated for a moment, then steeled itself and spoke. "Master, that girl outside... I sensed the aura of my ancestor, the Dragon King, coming from her!"
"Oh. Anything else?"
The Blazing Dragon Spirit's eyes widened. It had meant to warn its master, but judging by his reaction, he seemed to know already.
As expected of Master!
"One more thing. I wanted to ask, Master, are you planning to take her as your Soul Spirit?"
The Blazing Dragon Spirit asked the question it truly wanted answered.
Its ancestor
was the Silver Dragon King of the Star Dou Great Forest, the Lord of Soul Beast.
The moment Na'er appeared,
the Blazing Dragon Spirit had felt that bloodline pressure.
If not for Li Zha's tremendous power, it wouldn't have dared reveal that she was the Silver Dragon King, much less do anything detrimental to Na'er.
But at this moment,
the Blazing Dragon Spirit was deeply worried. The Silver Dragon King Bloodline was so much nobler than its own!
I'd only just latched onto this powerful backer, and now I fucking ran into my ancestor? What kind of matchmaking system was this?!
"No. She's a Soul Beast reincarnated as a human. Killing her would yield a Soul Ring and a Soul Bone, but making her my Soul Spirit probably wouldn't work."
"That's good."
The Blazing Dragon Spirit sighed in relief.
"If you're worried about being replaced, you'll have to prove your worth."
Li Zha left those words behind before departing.
The Blazing Dragon Spirit drew a deep breath, gritted its teeth, and opened the ancient book to delve into studying the [Illusion Technique].
Li Zha's consciousness returned to the outside world,
and he handed Na'er the [East Sea Dragon King] tablet.
"Na'er, since this is our first meeting, here's a little gift from your senior brother."
Na'er took it in surprise and carefully examined the small tablet in her hand.
The moment the tablet touched her hand,
it swiftly dissolved, streaking into Na'er's body as a flash of light.
"Huh? Where did it go?"
Na'er was astonished. Then she suddenly closed her eyes as the tablet appeared in her mind.
[You have been invested as the East Sea Dragon King!]
Na'er read the words in her mind, and immediately felt a tingling sensation run through all the meridians in her body.
Divine Powers inheritances appeared one after another in Na'er's Sea of Consciousness: Summoning Clouds and Rain, Tidal Thunder, and Tsunami Flood.
Na'er could only feel
the new Dragon King inheritance transforming the bloodline within her, even surpassing the Silver Dragon King's own bloodline!
"What's this? I've evolved?!"
Na'er was stunned.
Didn't this mean I could escape the Silver Dragon King Avatar's control from now on?
I could even become an even stronger Dragon King!
"Na'er, thank your senior brother!"
Na'er excitedly hugged Li Zha.
At the same time,
deep within the Star Dou Great Forest,
several incomparably powerful figures stood.
This was the Star Dou Great Forest's last remaining Core Circle, the territory of the great Ferocious Beasts and of Beast God Di Tian.
At this moment,
Di Tian and the other Ferocious Beasts bowed in submission before a black-haired woman.
"My lord, our apologies. We lost track of Na'er."
Gu Yue sat on the Throne and waved a hand. "It doesn't matter. Na'er only split off thirty percent of my power. I can take it back whenever I wish."
"Our most urgent task is to enter the Spirit Pagoda and put humanity's power to our use!"
Di Tian nodded. "Yes. A wise judgment, my lord!"
Gu Yue gazed up at the sky. Rain had begun to fall, and the soft drizzle drifted into her wise black eyes.
Gu Yue had no idea
that she would never recover that thirty percent of her power.
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