The Ice Fire Dragon King's Gift

The Ice Fire Dragon King's Gift

"We really want to help you, but regarding the Soul Bone you mentioned, it seems we don't have one."

Deep beneath the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.

Faced with Qian Xunji's sincere and earnest words, the Ice Dragon King Remnant Soul could not help sighing and shaking its head.

"No."

Qian Xunji froze, somewhat unable to believe it.

That shouldn't be!

The Ice Dragon King actually wanted to help Qian Xunji as well.

It wanted Qian Xunji to become a god and ascend to the God Realm as soon as possible.

Once he controlled great power in the God Realm, he could secretly help the Dragon Clan and Soul Beast Clan achieve the Dragon Clan's glorious revival.

Unfortunately, after the Ice Dragon King and Fire Dragon King had fallen, they truly had not produced any Soul Bones.

The Ice Dragon King Remnant Soul had some guesses about this, so it began to explain.

"Do you remember what you said?"

"The Soul Beast Clan was born after Lady Silver Dragon King tore open Space and escaped back from the God Realm, bringing our fallen corpses with her."

"Back in the era of our Dragon Clan, the species known as humans did not exist."

"So at that time, perhaps after the God Realm had finished purging our Dragon Clan, along with the other powerful Divine Beast and Exotic Beast races..."

"It added a rule to the world: after your Soul Beast Clan reaches a cultivation of one hundred thousand years, you will face a Thunder Tribulation with a nine-in-ten chance of death every time you increase your cultivation by another one hundred thousand years."

"Only later, after humans were born..."

"Did the God Realm alter the world's rules again, adding the rules that Soul Beasts would produce Soul Rings after death, and that there would also be an extremely low chance of producing Soul Bones."

"But by then, the Fire Dragon King and I had already been dead for many years."

"And for a Soul Beast to produce a Soul Ring and Soul Bone after death, the prerequisite is that it must be killed. But we had already fallen at that time, so how could we have produced Soul Bones?"

After hearing the Ice Dragon King Remnant Soul's words, Qian Xunji suddenly understood.

That was right!

When the God Realm altered the rules of the Douluo Continent and added the rules that Soul Beasts would produce Soul Rings and Soul Bones after death...

The Ice Dragon King and Fire Dragon King had already been dead for countless years!

And Soul Beasts had to die before they could drop Soul Rings and Soul Bones.

If the God Realm had changed the rules of the Douluo Continent before Gu Yuena brought the Ice Fire Dragon Kings' corpses back to the Douluo Continent...

Perhaps the Ice Fire Dragon Kings' corpses would have produced Soul Rings and Soul Bones when they landed on the Douluo Continent.

But if the world's rules had been changed...

The Ice Fire Dragon Kings had already been dead for countless years.

How could they have produced Soul Bones?

Thinking of this, Qian Xunji could not help laughing bitterly inwardly, feeling deeply disappointed.

Had he come all this way for nothing?

Although there were no Soul Bones...

After hearing what Qian Xunji had said about making the Dragon Clan glorious once more, the Ice Dragon King Remnant Soul and Fire Dragon King Remnant Soul had been deeply moved.

After exchanging a glance, determination seemed to fill the two Dragon Kings' eyes.

"Little fellow, we're sorry that we don't have any Soul Bones to help you."

The Ice Dragon King Remnant Soul spoke in a low, slow voice.

"But although we don't have any Soul Bones, and although we've been dead for so many years, nearly all the power and Origin Essence in our bodies has dissipated..."

"The Origin Essence we have left can still be of considerable use to you, who haven't become a god. We're willing to give this remaining Origin Essence to you."

"It may allow you to increase your strength considerably."

Hearing this, Qian Xunji was overjoyed.

But then, he grew somewhat nervous.

"Senior, if you give me your remaining Origin Essence, what will happen to you?"

Origin Essence—just hearing the name made it clear how important it was.

The Ice Fire Dragon Kings had already fallen and were now nothing more than Remnant Souls.

If they gave all their remaining Origin Essence to him...

Would their souls scatter completely?

Although Qian Xunji had initially come here for the Ice Fire Dragon Kings' legacy...

And although everything he had said to the two Dragon Kings' Remnant Souls just now had been a bluff...

A bluff was still a bluff.

Qian Xunji's original goal had been to obtain the Soul Bones produced by the Ice Fire Dragon Kings' deaths.

That was not particularly important to the Ice Fire Dragon Kings' Remnant Souls.

But Origin Essence was different!

When it came to those who helped him, Qian Xunji still could not regard their assistance as something he naturally deserved.

The education he had received in his previous life had ensured that he always carried a grateful heart.

He could not easily accept having someone help him by sacrificing themselves.

"Haha!"

The Fire Dragon King Remnant Soul immediately threw back its head and laughed heartily.

"Little fellow, don't concern yourself with such trivial matters!"

"We've already fallen. We're merely clinging to existence as Remnant Souls now."

"Although our corpses, as Divine Beasts, are nearly imperishable..."

"Our Origin Essence has already almost completely dissipated over the countless years since our fall."

"Even if we didn't give you our remaining Origin Essence, after another ten thousand years, once our Origin Essence had completely dissipated, the two of us would still be heading toward annihilation."

"Rather than linger on, we'd rather give you our remaining Origin Essence, let you become a god as soon as possible, and help our Dragon Clan become glorious once more in the future!"

"Don't feel guilty. This is our own choice!"

"That's right, little fellow. You don't need to feel guilty, and even less should you refuse!"

"If you truly want to thank us, then cultivate diligently, become a god as soon as possible, and strive to restore our Dragon Clan to glory!"

The Ice Dragon King Remnant Soul chimed in with a smile.

"By the way, little fellow, we still don't know your name."

The Fire Dragon King Remnant Soul asked.

"My name is Qian Xunji. What are the names of you two seniors?"

Qian Xunji's mood was somewhat heavy. He drew in a deep breath, bowed slightly to the Ice Fire Dragon Kings' Remnant Souls, and spoke.

"My name is Chi Yan!"

"My name is Bing Lan!"

The Fire Dragon King Remnant Soul and Ice Dragon King Remnant Soul answered in deep voices.

"Qian Xunji, accept our Origin Essence!"

"The future of our Dragon Clan rests on your shoulders!"

In an instant, dazzling crimson and ice-blue light erupted from the Ice Fire Dragon Kings' corpses.

Amid the enormous dragon roars of the Fire Dragon King and Ice Dragon King Remnant Souls, which reverberated through the mental plane...

Countless streams of crimson and ice-blue light were continuously drawn out of the Ice Fire Dragon Kings' enormous corpses.

In the end, they condensed in the air into a crimson orb and an ice-blue orb, both filled with tremendous vitality.

Then, with a whoosh, the crimson and ice-blue orbs instantly transformed into streams of light and shot into Qian Xunji's body.

After the Ice Dragon King and Fire Dragon King's Origin Essence entered his body...

Qian Xunji immediately felt an extremely cold and fiercely scorching energy surge into him.

But after entering his body, these two powerful energies did not spread through his limbs and bones or merge into his body.

Nor did they fuse into his Soul Power.

Instead, they surged toward his arms, one to the left and one to the right.

Qian Xunji's arms instantly burst with dazzling ice-blue and crimson light. They began to swell, grow larger, and stretch out.

"Damn! Why does it hurt so much!"

Qian Xunji immediately clenched his teeth, pain showing on his face.

He could only feel his two arms.

One seemed to have been placed in an extremely cold region, as if it were about to freeze off.

The other seemed to have been thrown into magma, as if it were about to melt.

Finally, after the transformation was complete...

Qian Xunji's arms had become extraordinarily enormous and elongated.

One was covered in ice-blue dragon scales, while the other was covered in crimson dragon scales. They radiated extreme cold and heat respectively, and their sinister dragon claws were incomparably sharp!

At the same time, a majestic wave of Soul Power suddenly surged out of the Soul Bones fused into his arms and flowed into the Soul Power within his body.

This caused Qian Xunji's Soul Power Level to break straight through the Rank 92 peak, where it had remained for a long time, reaching Rank 93.

Immediately afterward, it broke through to Rank 94.

It only stabilized after reaching the advanced stage of Rank 94.

(Ice Fire Dragon Kings · Concept Art Three)