"You could talk this whole time, and you didn't say so!? I'm seriously speechless, you old six!"
Li Xunyuan took half a step back, his eyes and brows twitching. He nearly let loose a string of curses.
"As a member of the noble-blooded Ancestral Dragon Clan, isn't it perfectly normal for me to speak?"
The Chaos Ancestral Dragon held his little head high, looking proud and aloof.
Smack!
Li Xunyuan slapped him, leaving the Chaos Ancestral Dragon's world spinning and stars dancing before his eyes.
"You could talk, so why didn't you say so? Did you leave your vocal cords at home?"
Li Xunyuan demanded, his anger blazing three feet high. Who could stand someone suddenly piping up like that?
"But... Divine Child... you never asked!"
The Chaos Ancestral Dragon stammered for a long while before those words came out of his dragon mouth.
"I was wrong. If there's a next time, may the Heavenly Dao strike me down and deny me a peaceful death!"
The Chaos Ancestral Dragon immediately swore an oath to the Heavenly Dao, trying to quell Li Xunyuan's anger.
"Divine Child, that damn qilin is no good either. Don't be fooled by how soft and cute he looks on the outside. His true form is vicious-he can eat eight ferocious beasts in a single bite!"
At that moment, the Chaos Ancestral Dragon shot the Origin Qilin a sideways glance and began gesticulating wildly as he painted a vivid picture.
Together with the way he drew a dragon claw across his neck and the outrageously ferocious expression on his dragon face, it made for a particularly comical sight.
Since he'd gotten beaten, he had to drag the other fellow down with him.
Li Xunyuan ignored his nonsense, forced out another drop of essence blood, and formed a contract with him.
[Race: Chaos Ancestral Dragon] [Bloodline: Chaos Bloodline] [Talent: Unlimited potential] [Realm: Ninth Heaven of Creation] [Origin: Formed from the evolution of the elements when heaven and earth were first created, a chaos divine beast that held dominion over the oceans and ruled all sea creatures!]
Li Xunyuan froze for a moment as he read the introduction on the system panel.
These two had the same bloodline, and their introductions were much the same. Could they have come from the same place?
As if sensing Li Xunyuan's thoughts, the Chaos Ancestral Dragon explained through voice transmission, "Divine Child, just as you thought, the two of us do come from the same plane, a place called the Chaos Dao Domain."
Li Xunyuan nodded at that.
"The Chaos Dao Domain and the Primordial Dao Domain are separated by who knows how many hundreds of millions of light-years, and there's a Dao Domain barrier blocking the way. How did you get here?" Li Xunyuan asked.
The Chaos Ancestral Dragon's voice was bitter, his tone helpless. "My bastard father sent me here, of course!"
"When he sent me to the Primordial Dao Domain, my father solemnly warned me to obey every command the Li Lineage gave me!"
"He said following someone from the Li Lineage was an immense honor!"
"At first, I refused to accept it. But the moment I met you, Divine Child, I believed him, and I accepted it!"
"Of course, I didn't submit because of any overbearing power. I'm genuinely convinced, heart and soul!"
At first, as a heaven's chosen of the Chaos Ancestral Dragon bloodline, he had been ten thousand times unwilling to serve as a human's follower and mount.
But in the end, he couldn't defy his father and was forced to come to the Primordial Dao Domain.
Later, after meeting the Li Lineage's Ninth Ancestor and the other clan elders, he gradually began to change his mind.
And from the day he met Li Xunyuan, the Chaos Ancestral Dragon completely abandoned his original way of thinking.
Actually... being someone else's follower wasn't so bad. It was downright great!
"The Li Lineage? The Li Lineage that made the Chaos Ancestral Dragon Clan submit... Could it be..."
Hearing their conversation, the Origin Qilin's gaze suddenly froze, and towering waves rose in his heart.
There seemed to be a Li Lineage in the Chaos Dao Domain too, one whose might shook the world and which stood head and shoulders above all others. Could it really be such a coincidence?
After his brief shock, the Origin Qilin recounted his own origins.
The Primordial Qilin Clan had been ordered to guard the borderlands of the Chaos Dao Domain, protecting the countless lights of homes behind them.
But one day, the war horns shattered the Chaos Dao Domain's long peace.
The Ancient Nether Clan from beyond the domain suddenly launched a war, constructing spatial gateways on a massive scale. Their armies pressed upon the border and began attacking the Chaos Dao Domain.
During that battle, the Origin Qilin had been separated from his clansmen and accidentally wandered into a spatial turbulence, eventually blundering his way into the Primordial Dao Domain.
"The Ancient Nether Clan launched a war? They're going to war with the Chaos Dao Prefecture?"
The Chaos Ancestral Dragon couldn't remain calm. He could hear the Origin Qilin's voice transmission too, and for some reason, his heart grew heavy.
If fighting truly broke out, even transcendent factions could not stay out of it, and risked being destroyed in the conflict.
A world-ending calamity of that scale would not only embroil the Chaos Dao Prefecture; the other Dao Prefectures would also suffer devastating blows.
The Ancient Nether Clan had been tainted by a special undying substance. Whether in physique or cultivation speed, they far surpassed the cultivators of the Dao Prefectures.
Moreover, members of the Ancient Nether Clan were extremely difficult to kill unless their souls and bodies were completely erased by an emperor-path divine ability.
Otherwise, they were undying and indestructible.
"It probably wasn't a full-scale attack. They don't have the nerve for that yet. This was just a small-scale probe," the Chaos Ancestral Dragon said through voice transmission, shaking his head.
Every so often, the Ancient Nether Clan beyond the domain would launch a small-scale war, trying to determine the Dao Domain's true strength.
But every expert they sent was utterly annihilated. The Dao Domain would rather kill a thousand by mistake than let a single one escape.
As a result, the Ancient Nether Clan had never obtained accurate intelligence, so they kept wavering over war, a situation that had continued to this day.
After hearing the Origin Qilin's account, Li Xunyuan had a general idea of why he had ended up in the Primordial Dao Domain.
"Master, I see that you possess immortal bones. Just now, they even resonated with the dharma body within me. You must be exceptionally well suited to cultivating the Primordial Qilin Clan's dharma body!"
At that moment, the Origin Qilin eagerly volunteered the suggestion.
"This dharma body is called the Chaos Immortal Body. If you can refine the bones in your body into immortal bones and then activate their Dao patterns, it can transform into the Chaos Eternal Immortal Body!"
This immortal body had been born when chaos first opened, and possessed supreme might.
It could make Li Xunyuan's physical body eternal and undying, lasting forever without perishing, truly invincible in the world.
Apart from the Primordial Qilin Clan's first-generation ancestor, not a single person had succeeded in refining this immortal body in the countless epochs since.
That was solely because its cultivation requirements were far too exacting.
Even for a clan of chaos divine beasts, it was harder than ascending to the heavens.
To cultivate this immortal body, one first had to replace all 206 bones in one's body and refine every one of them into immortal bones.
Yet that was only the first step.
Next, one had to activate the patterns of the Great Dao within those immortal bones, commonly known as Dao patterns.
Whether replacing bones or refining Dao patterns, the materials consumed had to be at least on the level of immortal crystals.
Only treasures of an equivalent level could also be used to refine and activate the patterns of the Great Dao.
An immortal crystal could seal away a heaven's chosen of a generation, allowing them to emerge again several epochs later. It was exceedingly precious.
Even with the Primordial Qilin Clan's foundations, their reserves of immortal crystals were small and exceedingly scarce.
Thus, over several epochs, no one had managed to successfully activate this dharma body again, and it had been unable to reappear in the world.
Fortunately, the Primordial Qilin Clan's natural physical bodies were relatively powerful, and their divine abilities were sufficiently heaven-defying, so the clan had not fallen from its throne among the chaos races.
The exchange between Li Xunyuan, the Chaos Ancestral Dragon, and the Origin Qilin had lasted no more than a dozen breaths.
During that time, Yun Yuan saw Li Xunyuan standing there in a daze without saying a word. Startled, he raised a hand and waved it before Li Xunyuan's eyes.
Seeing this, Li Xunyuan ended the conversation through divine sense.
He turned to Yun Yuan and said, "Uncle, I'm fine. I just had a sudden insight, so I'll return to the Lineage for secluded cultivation!"
He didn't tell Yun Yuan about the Chaos Eternal Immortal Body. A physique like that was too heaven-defying, and the requirements to cultivate it were extremely demanding, so he kept it to himself.
"Good!"
Yun Yuan nodded slightly. "I'll come see you on the day of your entry into the world. And... has your mother come out of seclusion?"
"Not yet."
Li Xunyuan shook his head gently. His mother had been in seclusion since before he was born, and there had been no word from her to this day.
"Alas, the Quasi-Supreme tribulation includes many trials, such as the samsara tribulation and the mortal world tribulation. Everything rests in heaven's hands!"
"But heaven protects the good. I believe my little sister will surely turn danger into safety and advance to the Quasi-Supreme realm."
Yun Yuan sighed, a trace of worry flashing through his eyes.
"We should be going too!"
Yun Yao said farewell to Li Xunyuan, the sleeves of her red dress fluttering.
The young woman's long black hair cascaded down like a waterfall. She was like a fairy who had stepped out of an immortal realm in a painting, standing apart from the world, untouched by its dust and smoke.
As she spoke, her exquisite, flawless face possessed an irresistible allure.
"Take care. I won't see you out!"
Li Xunyuan replied indifferently, then turned and left with Li Cangtian and the other person.
All he wanted now was to study the Chaos Eternal Immortal Body. His mind was full of cultivation, and he had no interest in anything else.
"You..."
Yun Yao watched Li Xunyuan's retreating back, her limpid eyes visibly blanking for a moment. How could this fellow be so blunt?
Was that how he spoke to girls?
He really had no appreciation for romance!
At that, Yun Yuan smiled and shook his head helplessly beside her.
"Come on, girl. It's time to return to Fuxi Heaven!"