Douluo Continent: Simulating Douluo Dalu III: The Legend of the Dragon King, Targeting Tang San at Every Turn

"Hmph, you really do know who I am." The Silver Dragon King had picked up on something from Gong Yu's tone. Then she added, "How could a few mere mortals be worthy of being my elder sisters?"

That displeased Gong Yu. "What do you mean they aren't worthy of being your elder sisters? Since you've come to live in the human world, you should think of yourself as human. They're already Na'er's elder sisters now. How heartbroken would they be if they heard you say that?"

"So I don't care whether you're the Silver Dragon King or Na'er. Since you've come to the human world, experience what it's like to be human."

"I know you came for the Golden Dragon King Bloodline in my body, and I'm not afraid to tell you that you can't take it. If you don't believe me, I'll stand right here without resisting. Try taking even a trace of my Golden Dragon King Bloodline."

With that, Gong Yu spread his arms and stood before the Silver Dragon King without putting up any resistance.

The Silver Dragon King naturally wouldn't pass up such a good opportunity. She truly intended to extract Gong Yu's bloodline, but the moment she acted, an unyielding will blasted her back.

"Y-you... How do you have the Break Evil Dragon's unyielding will within you?" The Silver Dragon King was astonished after that will blasted her back. Then she recalled how it had felt when the Break Evil Dragon's indifferent gaze had looked down on the Dragon God, and she shuddered.

Gong Yu no longer kept anything hidden. The Silver Dragon King would find out sooner or later anyway, so he summoned his Second Martial Soul for her to see.

A golden Coiling Dragon Staff appeared before the Silver Dragon King.

"My Second Martial Soul contains the Break Evil Dragon's unyielding will. After it fused with the Golden Dragon King Bloodline in my body, this Martial Soul mutated. But the mutation went both ways, so my Golden Dragon King Bloodline also came to contain that unyielding will.

"Therefore, even if you obtained the Golden Dragon King Bloodline in my body, you wouldn't be able to fuse with it. You might even be assimilated by the Break Evil Dragon's will."

Naturally, Gong Yu dared to tell the Silver Dragon King all this so brazenly not just because of the unyielding will. More importantly, the simulator had placed a seal on his Golden Dragon King Bloodline within his body. With that seal in place, the Silver Dragon King simply couldn't take his bloodline.

After listening to Gong Yu's explanation, the Silver Dragon King said nothing, but her eyes darted from side to side, as though she were plotting something.

Then Gong Yu asked, "So, what are you planning to do? Go back to the Star Dou Great Forest, or stay with us as our little sister? But let me make one thing clear: you can be our little sister, but you're not allowed to put on those airs of yours as the Silver Dragon King."

The Silver Dragon King spoke again. "You seem to know me quite well?"

"I know a lot of things," Gong Yu said, "but I can't tell you."

"Where did your Golden Dragon King Bloodline come from?" the Silver Dragon King asked again.

"I told you, I can't say." Gong Yu wasn't falling for that.

The Silver Dragon King didn't mind his answer, so she asked another question. "Are you from the Divine Realm?"

"No." This time Gong Yu answered, though his reply was brief.

"All right, I'll stay." The Silver Dragon King nodded her agreement.

Chapter 24: The Bloodline's Call

The Silver Dragon King insisted on coming along, and Gong Yu couldn't do anything about it. He promptly found an excuse to give Gong Lan, then set off with the Silver Dragon King.

"What should I call you from now on? Little Sister, Ninth Sister, Na'er, or perhaps Your Majesty the Dragon King?" Bored on the road, Gong Yu could only tease the Silver Dragon King to pass the time.

"Whatever you like," the Silver Dragon King replied indifferently. Then she added, "My name is Gu Yuena."

But upon hearing the name, Gong Yu said, "Nonsense. You've never had a name, have you? You were called the Silver Dragon King when you fled the Divine Realm, and you've been called that ever since. Your subordinates call you 'my lord,' so you just made that name up."

"You know quite a bit about me. How much do you know about the Divine Realm?" Each asked their own questions. They were clearly on different wavelengths, yet neither minded the other.

Gong Yu didn't answer her and instead went on with what he was saying. "No, you can't be called Na'er. Now that you've entered the Gong family, you have to take the Gong surname. So you can only be called Gong Yuena."

"I'm asking you a question. How long are you going to keep playing deaf and dumb?" Having received no answer from Gong Yu, the Silver Dragon King sounded a little reproachful.

But Gong Yu said, "What do you want me to answer? How much could I know about the Divine Realm? You escaped from there. Don't you know more than I do?"

Gong Yu's retort left the Silver Dragon King silent. Since she said nothing, Gong Yu fell silent too.

But after a long while, the atmosphere in the carriage grew unbearably stifling, and the Silver Dragon King was the first to break the silence. "You should just call me Na'er from now on!"

"Okay, Gong Na'er." Gong Yu gave a faint smile.

"Can you give me a drop of your blood?" Na'er suddenly made this request. There was a pleading note in her voice, leaving Gong Yu feeling awkward. He couldn't decide whether to give it to her or not, so he simply did.

"You still haven't given up on fusing with the Golden Dragon King Bloodline, huh? Here." Gong Yu pinched the tip of his left index finger with his thumb, and a drop of golden blood flowed out and went straight to Na'er. His blood had turned golden after he fused with the Golden Dragon King Bloodline.

Then Gong Yu added, "It doesn't matter how much blood I give you. You simply can't fuse with blood that's left my body."

"I know. I just want to study it." Na'er gave him a perfunctory answer. In truth, they both understood that she simply hadn't given up.

Gong Yu spoke again. "Actually, you and the Golden Dragon King don't necessarily have to devour each other. Besides, even if one of you succeeded in devouring the other, it still might not revive the Dragon God's Power."

Na'er merely listened without speaking. She understood what Gong Yu was saying, but the things she bore weighed too heavily on her, and she couldn't let them go.

Moreover, even if she were willing to give up devouring the Golden Dragon King, he might not be willing to give up devouring her. Given the chance, the Golden Dragon King certainly wouldn't let the Silver Dragon King go.

Since she said nothing, Gong Yu continued, rambling from one thing to another. "Actually, it's not completely impossible for you to fuse with my bloodline!"

Hearing that finally caught Na'er's attention. "How?"

You want to devour me that badly? Gong Yu thought.

He gave a bitter smile and said, "Naturally, you can't be the one doing the fusing. You've already tried, and you simply can't do it."

Na'er lost some of her composure and asked warily, "You mean you'll devour me?"

"What nonsense are you talking about? How could I devour my own little sister?" Gong Yu flicked Na'er on the forehead in exasperation, then added, "I mean we can use our bloodlines to create a new Dragon God."

"Create one? How?" Na'er was a blank slate right now, so she didn't understand what Gong Yu meant. She thought, Although I can use the power of life, I can't create life out of thin air using bloodlines alone.

"That's not hard." Gong Yu's mouth twitched, and he blushed a little as he said, "It's not hard, but you'll have to wait... ten years, I think. At least ten years."

Na'er didn't understand, so she asked, "Why do we have to wait ten years?"

"Because I won't mature for another ten years!" Gong Yu said sheepishly. "Once I've matured, the two of us can mate. Then we'll have a child, and won't that fuse both our bloodlines?"

"You mean you and me, the two of us breeding?" Na'er was still thinking like a Soul Beast, so she spoke very bluntly.

"Mm." Gong Yu nodded. "In theory, this method is feasible, and the Break Evil Dragon's will wouldn't reject it."

Recalling the scene in the simulator where he had had his way with Na'er, Gong Yu said to himself, I'm not creating a Dragon God. I'm just creating the Nine-Colored Coiling Dragon Staff!

"All right." Na'er agreed immediately, without even stopping to think.

Gong Yu's jaw nearly dropped. He swallowed and said, "Aren't you going to think it over?"

Na'er frowned. "What is there to think about? We can create a Dragon God with our bloodlines, so why would I need to think about it?"

Gong Yu was stunned. Did all Soul Beasts think this way?

"Are you sure you don't want to think it over?" For some reason, Gong Yu felt as though he were tricking a little girl.

"No need. What you said makes perfect sense." Na'er refused at once. What was there to think about? Weighing the pros and cons, the Dragon God was naturally more important to her.

"All right, then. You said it yourself, so I'm not tricking you! From now on, you're my woman." Gong Yu smiled. This was in the bag. When the time came, not only could he awaken the Nine-Colored Coiling Dragon Staff, he would also gain a divine beast for a wife. Where else could he find such a good deal?

Two days passed in the blink of an eye. That day, the carriage finally reached the town outside the Sunset Forest.

After buying some supplies in town, the two entered the Sunset Forest.

But shortly after they went in, Na'er sensed something close to her bloodline calling to her.

She pointed in a direction and said, "Something over there is calling me."

Gong Yu frowned. "Why haven't I heard the call? The bloodline in my body is no weaker than yours."

Na'er explained, "Because whatever is calling me is closer to elemental power. Your bloodline has nothing to do with the elements."

Hearing that, Gong Yu understood at once. "Then I have a rough idea what's calling you."

"You do?" Na'er was a little surprised. Even she had only sensed the call and couldn't tell what was calling her.

Gong Yu said, "It's the Ice Dragon King and the Fire Dragon King calling you. Of the Nine Great Dragon Kings, aside from the Mountain Dragon King and the Golden Sacred Dragon King, who are close to the Golden Dragon King, the other Dragon Kings should all be close to you. Their abilities were inherited from the part of the Dragon God that belongs to you. So, although you aren't their mother, you're closer to them than a mother."

Chapter 25: A Second Soul Ring in Sight

"I'm the Silver Dragon King. I know more about the Nine Great Dragon Kings than you do, so you don't need to tell me in such detail." Na'er rolled her eyes at Gong Yu, thinking, This guy is a bit long-winded.

"True, I was being presumptuous." Gong Yu gave an awkward smile. When it came to the Nine Great Dragon Kings, who could know them better than the Silver Dragon King?

"I'm going there." Na'er pointed in the direction of the call from her bloodline and spoke to Gong Yu.

Gong Yu nearly broke out in a cold sweat. He swallowed and immediately objected. "No. I know you want to go where the Ice Dragon King and the Fire Dragon King fell, but you can't go there for now."

Na'er frowned, but her attitude wasn't particularly forceful as she asked, "Why?"

Seeing that Na'er's attitude had softened, Gong Yu explained, "Because it's a Titled Douluo's medicinal garden. Although that Titled Douluo is very weak, no matter how weak he is, he's still a Titled Douluo. I don't have the ability to take you there right now."

But Na'er said, "I'm not afraid of him. He's just a Titled Douluo. I can deal with him."

"Why won't you listen to advice? You're hundreds of thousands of years old, and that's all the intelligence you have?" Gong Yu held his forehead. "Yes, you can deal with that Titled Douluo, but how do you know the Divine Realm isn't watching that place? You don't think it was just a coincidence that the Ice Dragon King and the Fire Dragon King's bodies fell in the same place after they died, do you?"

"You have a point." Na'er nodded and added, "Then I won't go. I'm going to sleep. Take good care of my other personality."

"What the heck? We've come all this way, and now you tell me you're going to sleep? What were you doing earlier?" Gong Yu nearly exploded with anger. You little dragon, if you wanted to sleep, why did you come along? I'm here to hunt for a Soul Ring, and now I have to look after a tagalong too.

But the Silver Dragon King's consciousness paid no mind to that. She went to sleep as soon as she said she would, without the slightest warning. In the blink of an eye, the real Na'er's consciousness had already returned.

"Y-young Master, how did I get here?" Na'er opened her dazed, big purple doll-like eyes, and the first person she saw was Gong Yu. She immediately asked him in curiosity.

Gong Yu sighed. "Na'er, try recalling what happened along the way. You should understand why you're here."

Na'er nodded and tried to remember. Her face turned bright red at once.

"So you already know who I am?" Na'er lowered her head, almost afraid to look at Gong Yu. "Then I..."

Before Na'er could finish, Gong Yu took her little hand and walked toward the depths of the Sunset Forest.

As he walked, he said, "There's no need for all this 'you' and 'I.' You should have seen in your memories that the Silver Dragon King has already agreed to bear me a child in the future. So from today on, you're my fiancée.

"Mm, I'll have to find an excuse to fool Gong Lan and the others. When we get back, we'll tell them that we were actually betrothed as children, but when you went out to visit relatives, you were attacked by villains. Your parents were killed, and you accidentally lost your memory. You came to my doorstep using an address written on a piece of paper.

"Now, because you came out with me, your memory has returned, and you've remembered that your parents told you to seek refuge with me before they died. And since we'd never met, I didn't recognize you when I first saw you."

"I... I understand." Na'er lowered her head again, her face as red as an apple with embarrassment, enough to make one want to take a bite.

"All right, be bolder from now on. Don't keep your head down all the time. You're my fiancée, nobler than anyone else on this continent." Gong Yu held his head high with pride, thinking, I'm a man with a system. Who on this continent could be nobler than someone like me who has a system?

"Mm-hmm..." Na'er nodded like a chicken pecking at grain and immediately raised her head. I'm the Silver Dragon King's human side. I really shouldn't keep my head down all the time.

Gong Yu then asked, "What Martial Soul do you use, Elemental Control or the Silver Dragon Spear?"

"The Silver Dragon Spear." Na'er raised her right hand, and a silver-white spear engraved with a silver dragon appeared in it.

"Then you formed your Soul Ring yourself, right? You shouldn't need to absorb a Soul Ring." Looking at the Silver Dragon Spear, Gong Yu thought of the Golden Dragon King's seal within him. Each layer of the seal would provide a Blood Essence Soul Ring, and once he broke the fourth layer, he would obtain the Golden Dragon Spear.

But Na'er shook her head. "I don't need to form Soul Rings. It produces growth-type Soul Rings on its own."

"Really?" Gong Yu was a little surprised.

"Of course," Na'er said. "Look, all I have to do is think about it, and a Soul Ring will grow out on its own."

After hearing Na'er, Gong Yu immediately looked over and saw a deep yellow Soul Ring rise and pulse beneath her feet.

"How did you do that? Can you teach me?" Gong Yu swallowed hard. If I learn that ability, I won't have to spend my days hunting Soul Beasts for Soul Rings in the future.

"I don't know. I didn't do it. It should have been her. I just summoned it with a thought." Na'er covered her little mouth and giggled.

"Ah, forget I asked." Gong Yu smiled awkwardly, but suddenly a rustling sound reached his ears. He stopped, moved in front of Na'er, and immediately became alert. "A Soul Beast is approaching."

Na'er stopped too and immediately gripped the Silver Dragon Spear, taking a defensive stance.

As the sound drew closer, a spider that looked like ice and jade soon appeared less than a hundred meters in front of them.

"That's an Ice Jade Borer Spider." Gong Yu spread out his spiritual power, keeping watch over the spider's every move.

"I don't recognize it, but it doesn't seem very strong!" After sensing the Ice Jade Borer Spider's strength, Na'er relaxed considerably.

"It's all right, I suppose," Gong Yu said. "The main way to identify an Ice Jade Borer Spider is by the scales on its back. Before this kind of spider reaches a hundred years, it grows one white scale for every ten years of cultivation it gains.

"Once it has ten scales, they gradually begin turning yellow, starting with the first. After that, one scale turns yellow for every hundred years it gains, and so on. Once it reaches a thousand years, one scale turns purple for every thousand years, and at ten thousand years, the scales turn black.

"Looking at that spider, only three of its scales have turned purple, and the fourth is already close to deep yellow. So it should be nearly four thousand years old. If we really fought, I might not be able to beat it."

Gong Yu knew his own limits. Although he had cultivated Dragon Elephant Prajna close to completion of the second level, and his body was strong enough to absorb a Soul Ring of around three thousand years, he feared he couldn't actually hunt down an agile three-thousand-year Soul Beast like this one.

"Sigh, I'm missing a movement technique. Otherwise, I could trade blows with this spider." Gong Yu felt a little frustrated. The beginner's gift pack the system had given him included the Quanzhen Internal Cultivation Method, but not the Golden Wild Goose Skill, so movement was his weak point.

Looks like I'll have to learn from the Ancient Tomb Sect and catch sparrows to practice my qinggong later. Mm, no, in this world, if I'm going to catch something, I should catch Sharp-Tailed Swifts.

After muttering that to himself, Gong Yu looked at Na'er and asked, "Are you sure this spider isn't strong? Can you beat it?"

Na'er nodded. "I can borrow a tiny bit of her power, so dealing with this little spider should be no problem."

"All right, sorry for the trouble. I'll choose this spider for my Soul Ring." Gong Yu smiled faintly. Having a wife who could fight by his side was actually quite nice.

Chapter 26: Na'er Was Actually a Violent Girl

The Ice Jade Borer Spider seemed to notice Gong Yu and Na'er as well. It let out a strange hiss, as though taunting them, or perhaps crying out in excitement at the sight of prey. Then it moved its eight icy, jade-like legs and charged at Gong Yu and Na'er as though shifting through shadows.