In his slumber, Yang Xingchen hazily found himself in a strange place.
Looking at the two mountain-sized skeletons lying before him, Yang Xingchen could not help remarking, "No matter which world it is, the might of dragons is beyond question."
Although he was not quite sure why he had appeared here, Yang Xingchen had no option but to move forward. He certainly would not get out by simply standing around.
Just as Yang Xingchen was about to step forward, Cangyuan, who should have been absorbing the power of the third seal, suddenly popped out.
Cangyuan came up to Yang Xingchen, blew a bubble at him, then began circling him.
This had already become Cangyuan's routine whenever he appeared before Yang Xingchen.
By now, Cangyuan had shed his fish-like appearance.
His body, originally over two meters long, had transformed into an eight-meter-long form. His two dragon whiskers had grown even longer, four claws had sprouted from his belly, and silvery-white scales covered his entire body.
However, Cangyuan had yet to grow dragon horns. With two bumps on his head, he kept rubbing against Cangyuan's body, like a pet acting cute with its owner.
"Cangyuan, I never thought you could refine your bloodline to the point of approaching a pureblood dragon with just over ninety-three thousand years of cultivation!"
"Once the fourth seal is released and you cross the hundred-thousand-year threshold, your bloodline will probably transform completely to the level of a true dragon!"
Yang Xingchen reached out and gently brushed Cangyuan's scales, looking at him and his striking resemblance to the divine dragons of his previous life's legends.
Who would have imagined that in a world where nearly all dragons were Western dragons, Cangyuan could evolve from a dragonfish into an Eastern dragon?
Of course, Yang Xingchen had not forgotten the matter at hand, and he stepped forward.
Since he could enter a place like this, it proved that the Ice and Fire Dragon Kings bore him no great hostility.
Otherwise, the two Dragon Kings, whose dragon souls still remained, should have killed him the moment he stepped into this space.
"Ice Dragon King, are you sure you didn't sense it wrong? This human boy has the presence of the Time Dragon King and Space Dragon King on him?"
"No matter how I look at it, that dragonfish seems more likely to possess their presence!"
The Fire Dragon King looked Yang Xingchen and Cangyuan over as they approached his skeleton, then turned toward the Ice Dragon King, who was calmly observing the Snow Empress.
"Be patient, Fire Dragon King. Once this human reaches us, won't you be able to confirm it?"
The Fire Dragon King and Ice Dragon King had noticed Yang Xingchen as early as when he had come to fish beside the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
First, this human, Yang Xingchen, had actually bound his life and death to a Heavenly Snow Woman over seven hundred thousand years old, and he also carried the soul of a lesser-dragon Soul Beast.
Second, they had both noticed Yang Xingchen fishing an item that did not belong to this timeline out of the waters of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
The Fire Dragon King believed this had happened because Yang Xingchen had absorbed the Soul Ring of that lesser-dragon Soul Beast with space-time attributes named Cangyuan.
The Ice Dragon King, however, believed that Yang Xingchen's Martial Soul had been touched by the presence of the Time Dragon King and Space Dragon King.
While the two dragons were arguing endlessly over this, Yang Xingchen had taken the initiative to jump into the waters of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well because the Snow Empress's third seal inside him had loosened.
Seeing an opportunity to prove their views, the two Dragon Kings had agreed to pull Yang Xingchen's consciousness into this space.
This space was a demiplane gradually formed from the divine power that had dispersed after the two dragons fell here.
Entering it required the consent of both Dragon Kings. Otherwise, one could not even sense this space's existence.
"Cangyuan, you're saying you can sense two powerful dragon bloodlines calling you here?"
Yang Xingchen had not walked far when Cangyuan, who had been circling him and playing at chasing his own tail, suddenly said he sensed something calling him.
The only beings capable of calling a lesser dragon like Cangyuan in this place were probably the Ice and Fire Dragon Kings, whose dragon souls still remained.
But both Dragon Kings were already remnant souls. Could they be calling Cangyuan over now because they wanted to possess him or take over Yang Xingchen's body?
Yang Xingchen had originally guessed that the two Dragon Kings meant no harm, but after hearing Cangyuan's words, his thoughts gradually changed.
"Hiss... if it's a blessing, it won't be a calamity; if it's a calamity, there's no escaping it!"
If he were still outside now, he would certainly take to his heels and run. He definitely would not return until he had sufficient strength or a trump card.
Unfortunately, he had already been pulled into this strange space, and he most likely could not escape even if he tried.
After walking for who knew how long, Yang Xingchen finally arrived with Cangyuan before the remains of the Ice Dragon King and Fire Dragon King.
Looking at the two dragon heads the size of small hills and the bodies as enormous as mountain ranges, Yang Xingchen found it hard to imagine how powerful the two Dragon Kings had been in life!
"So this is how the waters of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well come into being!"
Yang Xingchen had only stopped for a moment when he saw several droplets condensed from pure fire-attribute and ice-attribute Heaven and Earth Yuan Power.
The droplets slid down the two Dragon Kings' ribs to the ground, eventually flowing into a two-colored pool not far from Yang Xingchen.
Without even thinking about it, those droplets definitely became part of the waters of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, and this pool was its source.
Before Yang Xingchen could react, two soul flames shot out of the pool.
"All right, Ice Dragon King, looks like you guessed right. You win match number eighteen thousand and seventy-five!"
The first to speak was an orange-red soul flame that radiated heat comparable to a fire.
"Fire Dragon King, I never said I was taking part in your boring competition. Besides, didn't you only lose because you didn't want to give the same answer as me?"
Even though the deep-blue soul flame had no facial expression at that moment, Yang Xingchen could sense its speechlessness from its tone.
Ever since his dragon soul had stabilized and he had regained his intelligence, the Fire Dragon King would always challenge the Ice Dragon King to inexplicable contests.
At first, the Ice Dragon King had been willing to participate to pass the time.
But as the number of contests increased and their contents grew increasingly repetitive, the Ice Dragon King had lost interest.
"If you don't say anything, that means you agree. You're the one who taught me that."
"Oh, right! I nearly forgot to welcome our Dragon King descendant and the little fish who's about to become a true dragon."
Before he had even finished speaking, the orange-red soul flame transformed into a muscular man over two meters tall, who scratched his head sheepishly.
Immediately afterward, the deep-blue soul flame also transformed into a tall, refined man with a cold expression.
"Fire Dragon King, can't you be a little more mature? What if you frighten them?"
"Hello, human child descended from a Dragon King. I am the Ice Dragon King, and this muscular fellow is the Fire Dragon King."
Before Yang Xingchen could ask why both the Ice and Fire Dragon Kings called him a Dragon King descendant, the Fire Dragon King spoke first to explain:
"I'm guessing you must want to know why we're calling you that. To make it easier for you to understand, could you summon your Martial Soul?"
Faced with the excited Fire Dragon King, Yang Xingchen, who wanted to know the answer, naturally did not refuse. He immediately summoned the Space-Time Fishing Rod.
The Space-Time Fishing Rod looked little different from the ordinary fishing rod Yang Xingchen used every day.
The only difference was that silvery-white points of light flowed along the Space-Time Fishing Rod's shaft.
"Back then, the Time Dragon King and Space Dragon King foresaw through the river of time that the Dragon God's plan would fail. Wanting to change history, they deliberately prepared for both eventualities."
"If they successfully stopped the Dragon God from carrying out the God Star Plan, the origin power they had cast into the future would disappear."
"If they failed to stop him, this origin power cast into the future, containing the powers of time and space, would find a suitable host."
The Fire Dragon King slowly walked up to Yang Xingchen and poured his own power into the Space-Time Fishing Rod.
In an instant, the shaft of the Space-Time Fishing Rod in Yang Xingchen's hand turned silvery-white and erupted with a radiance it had never displayed before.