Chapter 1869 - The Ancient Records of the Dragon Gods (1/2)
The Eastern Divine Region, the Snow Song Realm.
The God Realm was still trembling in the aftermath of Yun Che’s actions. The northern part of the Eastern Divine Region had been one of the first places to have been struck, so the dark smoke of battle still lingered in the air.
Only the Snow Song Realm still remained cold, quiet, and tranquil, the same as it had been ever since ancient times.
Mu Xuanyin slowly stepped into the Ice Phoenix Sacred Region. Nothing had changed but it seemed to her as if an entire lifetime had passed… because her heart no longer solely belonged to this world wreathed in eternal snow.
Snow fluttered wildly in the air as blizzard winds seemed to rush out to greet her. They danced around her like a bunch of ice fairies, swirling around her robes like butterflies around a flower.
As she followed after that most-familiar aura, Mu Xuanyin’s feet softly carried her to the Ice Phoenix Sacred Hall… a place she was most familiar with, a place that had once belonged to just her and Yun Che.
“Ah…”
A startled cry rang in the air as Mu Feixue shot to her feet and dumbly stared at the celestial figure who seemed to have stepped out of a dream and appeared in front of the sacred hall. Her icy eyes seemed to mist over as she softly cried out, “Sect… Master…”
Mu Bingyun had been standing in front of that cold pond decorated with Ice Feather Spirit Flowers when she sensed that aura, her body spinning around as quick as lightning.
The gazes of both sisters met, the sight of Mu Xuanyin instantly drowning out everything else in Mu Bingyun’s eyes. Even her body seemed to have blurred into a crazily-spreading icy mist.
“Big… Sister…”
With a soft cry, she dove into the arms of Mu Xuanyin, the person she had been longing for day and night. As she dove into her embrace, Mu Bingyun started crying like a child. Icy tears welled up in her frigid voice, as little droplets of ice began to form on their robes.
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The Western Divine Region, the Dragon God Realm, the Dragon God Domain, the Dragon God Sacred Hall.
In this place which was once the most exalted and sacred place in the God Realm, one could no longer see hide nor hair of the Dragon Sovereigns and Dragon Gods who used to walk freely in this area. The entire vast Dragon God Domain didn’t contain the figure of a single dragon. They had all been expelled by the Qilin Realm days ago.
The vast fortune that the Dragon God Realm had accumulated over a million years was mostly hidden beneath the Dragon God Domain. Innumerable barriers were being slowly broken down by the Qilin Realm as they inched their way toward their goal. Furthermore, this enormous fortune certainly wasn’t something that could be counted in a short amount of time.
Its vastness far exceeded the average imagination.
“The Dragon God Realm truly lives up to its name. In just a few short days, the amount of resources I’ve already counted has exceeded the total amount that the three king realms of the north have.”
Chi Wuyao picked up a spatial jade in the shape of a pearl as she continued in her slow and unhurried manner. “Just picking a few treasures from this place would allow me to hold a dozen grand coronation ceremonies, ones which would be so lavish and extravagant that they’d echo down through the ages.”
“It looks like the number I had previously estimated was far too small. The difference between our Northern Divine Region and the other three divine regions was truly like the difference between heaven and hell.”
The poverty of the Northern Divine Region juxtaposed with the wealth and plenty of the three other regions… This incredibly large gap in resources would trigger the wrath of any dark profound practitioner, and Chi Wuyao was no exception.
“Hmph.” Qianye Ying’er gave a cold snort as she shot her a glance. “You are about to become the exalted empress of the entire God Realm, someone who possesses unparalleled divine might. Everything in the universe is yours to control and use, so saying such things right now truly is boring and pointless.”
Chi Wuyao replied in a soft and graceful voice, “Compared to being empress, I’d rather be an imperial concubine who can serve the Devil Master without any worries or cares, someone who can simply focus on flirting with him and striving for his favor. Who cares if I’d be just a simple concubine?”
She batted her alluring eyes at Qianye Ying’er. “Qianying, if it strikes your fancy, how about I let you be empress instead?”
“Tsk!” Qianye Ying’er turned her jade face away from Chi Wuyao without replying.
“Ahem.” Yun Che let out a rather awkward cough before asking, “Devil Queen, you said you made a ‘rather interesting discovery’. What was it?”
The fact that Chi Wuyao had been so anxious as to get Hua Jin to send a sound transmission to him meant that this definitely wasn’t an ordinary discovery.
Chi Wuyao stretched out both hands before she waved them gracefully in the air.
A cluster of black light appeared before dispersing, revealing a floating ancient tome the color of dark bronze that was about one and a half meters long and wide.
The ancient tome radiated a dense and heavy draconic aura. However, what was shocking about this tome was not the denseness of its draconic aura, it was how ancient it was… It was so ancient that it gave Yun Che the feeling that it shouldn’t even exist in this present era.
Qianye Ying’er’s eyes flashed as she asked, “Could it be… the Dragon God Secret Tome?”
“No, if it was the Dragon God Secret Tome, how would I dare to summon my lord Devil Master in such a hasty fashion?” Chi Wuyao replied. “This ancient tome has been bound by nine seals and each seal contains the lingering traces of the Dragon Monarch’s soul. If he wasn’t already dead, there’s no way that I would be able to break all of these seals in such a short time.”
“Furthermore, what this ancient tome records isn’t the history of the Dragon God Realm… It is the history of the ancient Dragon God Tribe.”
“What!?” A look of shock appeared on Qianye Ying’er’s face and even Yun Che’s eyes bulged when she said those words.
An ancient secret record!? And it was something that the ancient Dragon Gods had left behind!?
Chi Wuyao gently pushed the ancient tome toward Yun Che. “I’ve already flipped through most of it. What is recorded in it is the history of the ancient Dragon God Tribe and many other ancient secrets that should have died with the Era of the Gods.”
She looked at Yun Che. “These ancient secrets are nothing but information to other people, but they may be of some particular help to my lord Devil Master, so you might want to peruse it slowly.”
He very quickly dispelled the barrier around the book. After that, both Yun Che and Qianye Ying’er used a thread of profound energy that was as gentle as they could muster to slowly open this ancient record left behind by the Dragon Gods, a miraculous existence in and of itself.
The first page of this ancient tome recorded the commandments of the Dragon God Tribe, and the second page recorded the divine titles of each era’s Dragon God and the key draconic figures during their era.
Even though they were called the “Dragon God Tribe”, every long and vast era of this tribe only had a single “Dragon God”.
Among the vast races of the True Gods, the two words “Dragon God” were only less exalted than the names of the four revered Creation Gods. It was a divine title that transcended all the other god clans.
As for the ancient “Dragon God Tribe”, this referred to the dragon races directly under the Dragon God’s command. It was a title that was crowned with the divine title of the “Dragon God”, but it was not one that their entire race adopted.
As a result, the “Dragon Gods” of the current Dragon God Realm were not only disrespectful of the divine title of “Dragon God”, it would have been viewed as the worst sort of blasphemy by the ancient Dragon God Tribe.
The lifespan of the Dragon Gods was extremely long. Though it was not as long as the Creation Gods, it definitely far outstripped all other living creatures. As a result, during the long and vast Ancient Era which encapsulated the entirety of the Dragon God Tribe’s history, there were only ever six Dragon Gods.
Yun Che’s eyes fixed on the records of the very last Dragon God. It was the Primordial Azure Dragon who had bestowed all of these gifts upon him.