Chapter 40: Silver Dragon King
Star Dou Great Forest
Among the huge expanse of forest, there existed many spirit beasts of all kinds. From plants like the blue silver grass, or bloody vines that strangled their prey and used blood as a method of growth. Snakes, spiders, wolves, monkeys, even beasts with the blood of dragons, phoenixes, and so on.
But within this huge and dangerous forest, there were two existences that were known to many. Two hundred thousand year spirit beasts that could defeat several titled douluo together.
The titan great ape, that its existence is like a mountain, black fur all over its body. The height of its shoulders exceeded at least seven meters. Not only was its body huge, but its entire body was covered in muscles that stood out like small hills.
The other powerful existence was the heavenly bull python. A spirit beast that had a bull-like head with huge, rotating horns that bent slightly and pointed towards the sky. Its eyes were like huge blue lanterns and its body was so long that it could stand hundreds of meters above the ground level.
These two spirit beasts were the most powerful existences in the central area of the Estar Dou Forest. Or at least, that was what most people knew. The reality was different. Although the Titan Great Ape and the Heavenly Bull Python were beasts that were over a hundred thousand years old, they were not up to being ferocious beasts.
Ferocious beasts, or also called Great Beasts, were existences that surpassed 200,000 years old. And among the knowledge that Percy possessed, the most powerful was a golden-eyed black dragon that was 800,000 years old.
Three-headed Scarlet Mastiff, Twilight Golden Dreadclaw Bear, Abyss Demon Dragon, Emerald Swan, Six-winged Demon Tiger. They were all beasts that surpassed 200,000 years old and possessed terrifying power. And all of them were located in the deepest and most central part of the Star Dou Forest.
These ferocious beasts seemed to have only one purpose: to be the central force of the Star Dou Forest, and to protect a divine existence that was injured in a war in the God Realm.
Percy's purpose for entering this dangerous area was to contact this divine existence. And in the area of the ferocious beasts, he seemed to be surrounded by a special atmosphere. There were no other spiritual beasts in this place, not even a single insect could be seen. The wind stopped the moment Percy entered.
Percy's left eye lit up with what looked like a gray flame-shaped aura. And in front of him, a massive blood-red three-headed dog stopped. Its powerful jaws were already open when it appeared out of nowhere in front of Percy, but when it felt the power of Percy's left eye, it stopped as its eyes widened.
The impact of the attack based on spiritual power and the annihilation attribute began to corrode his mind as images of possibly the most terrifying things in the world flooded his head.
"If you don't want to waste a golden opportunity for your King, then you'll let me pass," Percy muttered as he walked past the three-headed demonic mastiff. This was a 270,000-year-old ferocious beast. But in the face of the power of the eye of annihilation, it didn't seem like much.
Percy continued on his way, completely ignoring the three-headed mastiff. And when he finally reached the lake of life, he completely released his hold on the god of death. The killing intent of his domain appeared as a massive purple-black flame surrounding his body before the surroundings gradually darkened.
The surface of the lake of life began to ripple and move erratically until a figure shot out. Then another figure jumped out of the lake, and then another, and another. Four figures appeared in front of Percy with strange, angry, and confused looks.
"Who are you, human?!" said a handsome middle-aged man in a black robe with golden lines. He has black hair with a golden lock hanging down, sharp and deep eyes with golden pupils, with a body of at least 2 meters tall and broad shoulders.
Beside him were two incredibly beautiful women. The first was a woman with jade-green hair that fell behind her back, and her eyes were also jade-green. Her figure was slender, and her light green dress outlined her perfectly. Her slender, snow-white arms were exposed. The strangest thing was that she had a pair of wings behind her, which seemed to be sculpted with gems.
This pair of wings was jade-green, and each feather looked extremely dazzling. The bright green wings were filled with a captivating aura of life and made her look like a natural goddess.
It was Bi Ji, an emerald swan.
The other woman had her body covered in purple-black scales. She had a slender figure with perfect, round breasts and long legs. The top of her chest was exposed to reveal her snow-white skin and a deep cleavage between her breasts. Her long, purple-black hair hung loosely behind her back and away from her body even without the wind blowing. Her exquisite face was extremely charming with her deep purple eyes. Her lips, on the other hand, were a bright violet. An inky black scale on her forehead rippled with layers of purple radiance that flowed to the top of her head.
She is extraordinarily beautiful, having light purple eyes, dark purple lips, purple hair, and a large, round chest.
This woman was Zi Ji, an abyss demon dragon.
Finally, a muscular man figure of over two meters, who was a twilight golden terrifying claw bear.
"Di Tian, Bi Ji, Zi Ji, and… whoever you are…" Percy named the first three, but completely ignored the human-shaped bear.
"My purpose is only one: to talk to the silver dragon," Percy said, and began once again as he saw Di Tian about to attack. Narrowing his eyes, he said, "If you want the spirit beasts to have a chance at godhood, then you will let me see it."
Di Tian, the golden-eyed black dragon, narrowed his eyes as he stopped his hand in midair. His knees were already slightly bent when he stopped, but he did not move any further. His golden eyes were fixed on Percy's figure.
Percy raised his hand and his bracelet glowed, taking out two things that left the fierce beasts shocked. The first item was a flora, it looked simple in appearance, but it held a glow filled with a holy and rejuvenating aura. The second was a golden pill that seemed to constantly vibrate from the power it contained.
"In exchange for something, I'll heal your lord. As for the rest, as I said, we'll talk."
"You claim to have the chance for us spirit beasts to reach the divine. But I only see a normal human. Furthermore, you just showed those two things that will help our lord," Di Tian snorted angrily.
"We can just take them away from you."
Percy smiled coldly and said, "Are you completely sure?"
At this moment, the Death God Domain surged once again as Percy's left eye lit up. Under Percy's control, his Death God Domain's killing intent increased substantially, transforming into a white light that rapidly revolved in the surroundings, and releasing fierce whistling sounds that chilled blood and bones.
The grass was completely flattened as the trees surrounding the lake of life trembled and seemed to be on the verge of being uprooted.
This was the final form of the Death God Domain, Asura Hell. The Death God Domain had several forms. The first was the normal Death God Domain, and was followed by the Slaughter Assault. Then, the Asura Hell was born, being its third form.
At this moment, the enormous killing intent caused the rest of the ferocious beasts except for Di Tian to turn slightly pale as they felt their power decrease substantially.
As the killing intent reached a final point, the lake of life exploded, causing a shower of water to splash everyone as a similar, or even more powerful killing intent manifested.
"ASURA!!", a roar of hatred was heard as a silver dragon appeared in front of everyone.
"Finally here…", Percy sighed a little. He knew he couldn't win against all the beasts. He could fight and then run away without problems, but he couldn't win. Right now he was just betting on the silver dragon to come out of its sleep.
A huge dragon stared at Percy with murderous intent. The body of this dragon was huge, with powerful legs and wings that seemed to hide the sun. Its scales were a shiny silver color and its eyes were a bright purple, similar to amethysts.
"You finally came out of your lair, Silver Dragon King!" Percy shook his head, "No, it should be Silver Dragon Queen, you are a woman after all."
"How dare you come to this place!" the dragon roared angrily, "You are a mere Asura heir. Do you really think I can't kill you?"
"If you kill me, all chance of your race rising will be completely lost, Silver Dragon Queen," Percy narrowed his eyes, slightly raising his hand with the flower and the pill in it.
"I will give you these two things for your recovery if you promise me something. After the first conversation is over, we will talk about your race reaching the divine realms."
The dragon's huge eyes narrowed at the two things in Percy's hand. She could tell that while they wouldn't completely heal her injuries right away, in a few years this would be a reality. The flower gave off an enormous holy aura that almost seemed unreal for such a fragile flower. And the pill was so full of vitality that it trembled slightly.
And while she was a dragon, a sovereign of beasts, she was not like the Golden Dragon King filled with violence and arrogance. While a certain arrogance was rooted in her being due to her birth as part of the Dragon God, she thought of her race first. Ever since the war in the god realm and the Asura God splitting the Dragon God in two, the entire spirit beast race was paralyzed because of the gods.
The beings above did not want another Dragon God to go crazy in the god realm, so they controlled the lightning tribulations that these spirit beasts had to go through after a hundred thousand years. When a spirit beast reached a hundred thousand years, they had two choices: transform into humans, or continue as spirit beasts, but endure a tribulation every hundred thousand years.
After a beast reached 600,000 years, it was almost impossible to overcome the tribulation. And leaving aside the Silver Dragon Queen, there was only one known existence of 1,000,000 years, and it was the Deep Sea Demon Whale, a beast that only the Sea God was able to defeat and prevent from reaching the divine levels.
"Speak, human," deciding to listen, the silver dragon said coldly.
"I will give you these two things with only one condition," Percy narrowed his eyes coldly with a condensed killing intent. At that moment, memories of Tartarus seemed to come back to his mind and his face twisted slightly.
"I want your help in killing gods from another god realm."
Whether it was Bi Ji, Zi JI, even Di Tian, they all opened their eyes in surprise upon hearing Percy's condition.
"I come from a different galaxy. In this place, the gods did not create a god realm, but instead still live on the planet. As a demigod born from a god and a mortal, I fought for the gods in two wars..."
"But I was only rewarded with betrayal."
"My home planet doesn't have the spirituality like this one, there aren't even people capable of fighting or advancing levels to reach godhood. The gods control everything, so they do whatever they want. They rape, steal, kill, betray... and much more."
The Silver Dragon Queen looked at Percy as she hovered in the air. But suddenly, a glow covered her body. Percy slightly narrowed his eyes at the glow, but he saw the transformation of the sovereign beast. In the end, a beautiful woman remained. Her figure was alluring and exquisite, long silver hair looking ethereal as it fluttered as she descended to the ground in front of Percy. Her bare feet, even when they touched the ground, did not get dirty in the slightest.
Those amethyst eyes looked coldly, but one couldn't help but think about them and admire them for a little while longer. Her body was mature and seemed to have everything a woman could dream of in her.
"What's your deal about the survival of our race?"
Percy looked at her for a long moment, not admiring the woman, but thinking. While he had said that after the first deal was accepted he would talk about the second, he was thinking about talking about everything right now.
"When I finish off most of the gods on my planet, we will form a divine kingdom in that sector of the universe. Of course, I still have to stay for a while in this divine kingdom when I ascend. But I promise you that as long as you guys don't do something like a war against humans in that time, I will allow the beasts about to ascend to the divine levels."
"But I think you know, Silver Dragon Queen. While they could choose to become divine beasts, they wouldn't be as strong as other gods. In the end, they would just be wild gods without an established position."
Wild gods were different from true gods. They usually surpassed mortals by force, but their Qi wouldn't turn into Immortal Qi completely, and since they didn't have inherited god positions, they couldn't be immortals; they had a limited lifespan. The same was true for divine beasts. While the positions and inheritances were different, they were based on the same principle.
"How do I know you're not lying? You humans are too cunning. And at the slightest opportunity, you'll betray even your own."
"I won't betray you. Since I was betrayed, even by my own father... I abhor betrayal."
"And while I can't prevent the actions of other gods too much, I can at least guarantee that the tribulations of you ferocious beasts won't be controlled to kill you. Simply put, while the tribulations will continue, you can take them as tests to become divine beasts. The damage and difficulty will decrease, but the tribulations won't end. I'm sorry, but in this God Realm I can't make you make such a decision."
"How long do you have to spend as an Asura God in this sector?"
"One hundred mortal years."
The Silver Dragon Queen raised her eyebrows. She knew that time in the divine realms was different in many parts of the universe. And while one hundred years seemed like a lot, in a divine vision it was very little. If twenty years in the god realm was ten thousand years in the mortal plane, then one hundred mortal years was very few years in a god realm."
"I can believe you now. Your offer is not bad…"
"But?" Percy asked.
"But it doesn't solve the overall problem. My race will continue to be killed indiscriminately by the humans of this planet."
"Isn't that what you did with humans before soul power cultivation came about?" Percy immediately countered. But then he shook his head.
"Then just create a method for spirit beasts to become spirit rings with consciousness. That way, they can live in the human's mental sea and become gods with the human. At the same time you can also create artificial spirit rings… Don't the gods give out rings when an heir needs one?"
The woman narrowed her eyes, thinking for a bit. She then looked at Di Tian.
"It is possible, your majesty," Di Tian nodded. "While it will take time, it is possible to create artificial spirit rings through a type of contract, but it would require a lot of manpower, and even sacrifices."
Percy sighed, he really didn't want to do this now, but it was for the best. Plus he had no choice if he wanted the help of these ferocious beasts. He wasn't foolish enough to think that he could kill most of the gods of Olympus all by himself. That idea was just nonsense.
He took out a scroll from his bracelet and threw it to Di Tian. The man/dragon raised an eyebrow before opening the scroll and began to read. His eyes grew wider and wider as his eyebrows rose and then he looked to the side, thinking about the information.
"Di Tian?" Zi Ji asked curiously.
"Nothing…" he shook his head, "With this foundation technique, we can create a type of energy-based spirit soul and use them as spirit rings. In fact, if we use this, we can complete a plan in less than five years."
"The only thing we would need to finalize this, would be a place where humans can hire martial souls to function as spirit rings attached to them. In fact, the age and power of a martial soul might be better than a spirit ring hunted by a spirit beast, to a certain extent."
Di Tian looked at the Silver Dragon Queen and nodded.
"Your majesty, with this we can decrease the hunting of spirit beasts by 60% in the first few years when martial souls begin to be used."
"I can have a place for that. Just… do the work yourselves, I have many other things to do," Percy let out a sigh. While he couldn't fully trust them, he had no other choice at the moment.
"My name is Gu Yuena."
"What?" Percy looked at her a little dumbfounded.
"My name is Gu Yuena," the Silver Dragon Queen said once again.
"And we will be cooperating from now on. What is your name, human?"
"Perseus... but you can call me Percy."
Gu Yuena nodded and smiled slightly.
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