Chapter 346 - 345: Inheriting the True Dragon’s Soul and Will

What is my identity?

What are my origins?

Where are my roots?

When such questions popped into Jiang Qiu’s mind, he didn’t know how to answer. After all, he instinctively knew the answer: from beginning to end, he was of the Human Race, from Blue Star.

However, that questioning thought had no intention of giving up. Throughout the process of his Soul Fusion with [Snow], it constantly tried to pry open his mind, seeking an answer it needed to see.

As the fusion deepened, his will gradually weakened. The question of whether he was still human had become a point of conflict.

’Am I human?’

’Now that I possess a pure Dragon Race bloodline, can I still call myself human?’

’I came from Blue Star, or perhaps the Northern Boundary. I have accepted so many legacies from the Northern Boundary, received the True Dragon’s gift, forged a Dragon Form, and welcomed a new life. It seems the rest of my existence will be defined by my identity as one of the Dragon Race.’

’Am I truly human, or one of the Dragon Race?’

This question wavered in his mind, but he gritted his teeth and insisted he was of the Human Race, born in Gao Yuan City of the Xia Country’s Northwest Province on Blue Star, heir to the strength of countless human ancestors.

Wu Shan taught him his first Martial Arts, and Zhao Gongzheng introduced him to the Celestial Pride Project. Later on, many other elders of the Human Race helped him grow.

Even after arriving in the Northern Boundary, the legacies from the four masters of the Human Race’s Cyan Simurgh Palace paved the way for him. The Main Vein Tribes also sacrificed themselves for him, all for the sake of winning the Battle of the Chosen.

Back on Blue Star, Luo Beixing passed his Great Dao to him before he died... a Dao named "My Dao"!

With a single thought, the sea of stars became a stream, the ages a river, and the eternal cosmos entered the cycle of reincarnation. Countless Great Daos rose to their peak only to fall into the abyss, but "My Dao" alone never faded!

Jiang Qiu opened his eyes, his will fully restored. The questions in his mind shattered like glass. A ceaseless draconic pressure integrated into his soul as an unprecedented transformation was completed. The sound of the wind in his ears was deafening.

Suddenly, a terrifying pressure descended from the heavens, exploding outward from him. With a casual press of his hand, an invisible Law Power enveloped him, parting the seawater and blocking the pressure.

In his current state, the entire Secret Realm was his Realm. Here, he was the one and only master!

"The Dragon Spirit Fish are mine."

The moment he spoke, his voice was ancient and profound, as if it had existed since before the birth of endless eons. With a casual grasp, the heavens and earth changed color. The nine Harmonization Realm experts’ eyes widened, their hearts pounded, and the space-time around them began to distort.

At that moment, from the vantage point of the nine Harmonization Realm experts looking down, the vast surface of the sea collapsed, forming a vertical abyss so deep in color it seemed to touch the void.

On this boundless sea, a fissure opened with Jiang Qiu at its center. It slowly widened—a stark contrast between the golden sea reflecting the sky and the ink-black abyss. It was as if a True Dragon had opened its eye.

By now, the Secret Realm’s seal was completely broken. The ever-shifting Dragon Spirit Fish in the sky scattered into a ceaseless shower of fireflies, drifting down like a blizzard of golden snow and gathering around Jiang Qiu.

The Netherworld Monarch’s spirit trembled. Unwilling to miss such an opportunity, he unleashed his power to resist the Law of the entire Secret Realm and began trying to capture the True Dragon’s residual soul within the Dragon Spirit Fish for forced Refinement.

He was a rare prodigy in the Yin Yang Great Realm, an unparalleled genius who had earned a place on the Yin Yang Celestial Pride List. In the future, he was destined to enter the Yang Realm and complete his true form!

Such bright prospects made it seem unlikely that he would risk opening a Secret Realm like this, luring in and slaughtering over two hundred thousand Cultivators.

But that was just the foolish opinion of the masses. ’What slaughter?’

’This was merely for the liberation of all living beings!’

Only a true prodigy who had cultivated to the Harmonization Realm would understand that the Yin Yang Great Realm was an inescapable cage. Yin Yang controlled the world, controlled everything—even the very Origin of their souls as Harmonization Realm experts.

Many would think that Harmonization Realm experts were unrestrainable, the absolute peak of existence in the world. But in the Yin Yang Great Realm, that was not the case.

No matter how much the natives born there cultivated, their souls belonged to Yin Yang. If it wanted to kill you, you would die. If it wanted to erase your memories, you could not defy it.

It was only by a stroke of luck, by inheriting the legacy of a predecessor from a Transcendent Realm, that he had glimpsed this secret and dared to risk seeking Transcendence!

Transcendence didn’t exist in the Yin Yang Great Realm; in fact, no one in this entire eon had achieved it. But he wanted to be the first!

The True Dragon—the final glory of the last eon, a legendary Transcender of the Dragon Race, an expert who had broken free from the constraints of the Great Realm’s Law.

’If I can find a way to inherit its will, perhaps I, too, can achieve Transcendence!’

This was a huge gamble: using the souls of over two hundred thousand Cultivators as a stake to activate the dormant Dragon Spirit Secret Realm, break the final seal, and witness the birth of the Dragon Spirit Fish, which contained the True Dragon Residual Breath.

’As for sharing a piece of the pie with the other eight Harmonization Realm experts?’

’In their dreams. Why would they think that I, the one who discovered the Secret Realm first, wouldn’t have laid a trap? When the time came to absorb and refine the Dragon Spirit Fish, I would catch them off guard, activate the Array hidden in the very depths, and sacrifice them all! Their sacrifice would even bolster the Dragon Spirit Fish’s power!’

But just as this plan was about to succeed, a mere Dao Entry Realm Cultivator had stepped forward. Not only had he withstood a casual strike, but he had also harnessed the Law of the entire Dragon Spirit Secret Realm.

"Absolutely not!"

With a furious roar, the desire in the Netherworld Monarch’s heart swelled to its absolute limit. His power erupted outward, and then—BANG!—he exploded.

VMMMM—

A powerful shockwave rolled out. The other Harmonization Realm experts, at least ten kilometers away, were caught in the blast. They hadn’t even had time to snatch the True Dragon Breath wafting from the Dragon Spirit Fish before they were scrambling to protect their Soul Bodies from being injured by the explosion.

The self-detonation of a Harmonization Realm expert wasn’t something one could simply defend against. An explosion of this magnitude would leave you dead or crippled, even if you weren’t at the epicenter!

BANG, BANG, BANG!

Like a chain reaction of bombs, after the Netherworld Monarch exploded, the next closest Harmonization Realm expert also exploded. One after another, eight of them detonated. Only Red Demon, the farthest away, was left. His eyes widened as he suddenly found himself unable to manipulate the Space-Time Law. A terrifying spiritual shockwave surged toward him, about to cover him completely.

In that moment, he heard a Dragon’s Roar. From a higher dimension of the soul, a single word was uttered: "Die!"

In an instant, all his thoughts faded to gray. The light vanished from his pupils, his heart stopped beating, his desires ceased, and even his survival instinct plummeted into oblivion.

Myths and legends spanning tens of thousands of years flooded his mind. Rumors of the True Dragon replayed in the depths of his soul. That Transcender, the one who had brought about the turning of an eon, had once again revealed an aura that surpassed the world.

The soul and will of the True Dragon... had been inherited...