"Ding ~ Host has transmigrated to the Primordial World and become a member of the Dragon Clan."
"The Host's innate talent is too low, and the Dragon Clan's shackles are too heavy. Do you choose to save the Dragon Clan to achieve Dao Proving and break free from the Dragon Clan's shackles?"
Xu Feng had a very, very long dream, dreaming that he had transmigrated to the Primordial World, becoming a half-blood dragon of the Primordial Dragon Clan, and also binding a system.
The system asked him if he was willing to save the Dragon Clan to achieve Dao Proving and break free from the Dragon Clan's shackles, also stating that his original body was just a half-blood dragon with low innate talent.
"Yes!!!"
In his daze, Xu Feng chose yes.
"Host chooses to save the Dragon Clan to achieve Dao Proving and break free from the Dragon Clan's shackles. Reward: Ancient Yinglong body, Ancient Yinglong soul. Beginning fusion."
As the system's prompts echoed in his mind, Xu Feng's consciousness began to blur.
When Xu Feng woke up, he was stunned.
He hadn't been dreaming; he had truly transmigrated!
He had transmigrated to the Primordial World, where the exact year and month were unknown, and hundreds of millions of living beings died at the drop of a hat.
He even became a member of the Dragon Clan, a half-blood dragon. After choosing to stand with the Dragon Clan, the system rewarded him with the Ancient Yinglong body and the Ancient Yinglong soul.
For countless years, Xu Feng had been in a deep sleep, fusing with his new body and dragon soul.
Xu Feng had some impression of the Ancient Yinglong because he had read some Primordial-themed novels.
During the period of the Ancient Three Clans' struggle for supremacy, the Dragon Clan was able to resist the Phoenix Clan and Qilin Clan without defeat. Besides the powerful strength of the Ancestral Dragon, it was also due to the Dragon Clan's immense numbers. Furthermore, there was a secret rumor.
That was, the Dragon Clan's ancestors were not one, but two.
One was the Candle Dragon, and the other was the Yinglong!
The Candle Dragon was the Ancestral Dragon well-known to everyone, the one who transformed into the Eastern Azure Dragon after the Three Clans' tribulation, eternally guarding the Primordial World.
However, the Yinglong rarely appeared; even the Dragon Clan themselves were a bit confused about whether this one had ever existed.
After countless years of fusion, Xu Feng obtained the Ancient Yinglong's body and dragon soul, learning some ancient secrets.
In fact, the Yinglong did exist. Like the Candle Dragon, he was formed from a main meridian of Pangu's body, considered among the first batch of living beings after the creation of the world.
With the two ancestors, the Candle Dragon and the Yinglong, the Dragon Clan enjoyed immense prestige for a time, their strength greatly increasing, making the Qilin Clan and Phoenix Clan gasp for breath.
After the Dragon Clan controlled the Four Seas and all the water domains in the world, the Candle Dragon and the Yinglong had a disagreement.
The Candle Dragon wanted to contend for supremacy in the Primordial World, defeat the Phoenix Clan and Qilin Clan, control the world's karmic luck, and thus achieve Dao Proving.
However, the Yinglong disagreed with starting a major war. After all, if the Phoenix Clan and Qilin Clan were pushed too far, even if the Dragon Clan won in the end, it would definitely be a Pyrrhic victory.
Over time, the rift between the Candle Dragon and the Yinglong grew wider. Finally, the utterly disappointed Yinglong disappeared into the endless void, pursuing his own Dao, and never returned.
With the Yinglong gone, the impetuous and arrogant Candle Dragon directly fell into Rahu's trap, engaging in a life-and-death struggle with the Phoenix Clan and Qilin Clan.
If Hongjun hadn't stepped forward, the Three Clans probably wouldn't have known they had been manipulated. There's not much more to say after that.
Rahu had his schemes, and Hongjun had his. Ultimately, Hongjun had the last laugh. Rahu was forced to self-destruct, and the Three Clans exited the stage of Primordial history.
The Dragon Clan could still make a few ripples, but the Phoenix Clan and Qilin Clan were reduced to less than one in ten survivors; it was sheer luck they weren't annihilated.
Of course, the Dragon Clan didn't fare well either, bearing the shackles of heaven and earth, making cultivation advancement difficult and breaking through realms harder each time.
Anyone who has read about the Primordial World knows that after the Ancient Three Clans' tribulation, the Dragon Clan's numbers were not small, but the cultivation of the orthodox Four Seas Dragon Clan was very poor.
Conversely, some miscellaneous dragons and flood dragons who had broken ties with the Dragon Clan saw their cultivation skyrocket at an alarming rate.
It was incredibly difficult for a Taiyi Golden Immortal to emerge from the Four Seas Dragon Clan, yet what about those miscellaneous dragons and flood dragons?
Before they knew it, they had reached the peak of Taiyi Golden Immortal.
This was the will of heaven's restriction on the Dragon Clan, a disguised form of punishment.
The Candle Dragon's fate was to eternally guard the Primordial World, never to appear for immeasurable kalpas.
And the Yinglong didn't fare much better; in fact, he died a truly tragic death, the kind that's too embarrassing to mention.
As one of the first beings to take human form after the creation of the world, the Yinglong was also one of the powerhouses of his time and had his own destiny.
As the saying goes: The Great Dao has fifty, Heaven derives forty-nine, one escapes. That one that escaped is the chaos pearl.
It's unknown how heaven-defying the Yinglong's destiny was, to actually find the chaos pearl that had escaped into the void when Pangu created the world.
This was a great destiny for anyone.
Unfortunately, the Yinglong failed to control it properly.
The chaos pearl inherently contained a small Primordial world. The Yinglong could have used the chaos pearl as a medium for Dao Proving.
Although he couldn't compare to an existence like Pangu, he would still be a transformed Dao Prover through strength, easily able to crush later Primordial Sages, and would not be restricted by the will of heaven.
Unfortunately, the Yinglong was too ambitious and also overestimated himself.
He didn't want to use the chaos pearl as a medium for Dao Proving; instead, he wanted to rely on his own strength to learn from Pangu's Dao Proving.
With this idea, the Yinglong began to court death, attempting to forcibly devour the chaos pearl, making it completely merge with him.
The result was obvious: something even innate demon gods dared not do, the Yinglong did.
He was ultimately burst apart by the chaos pearl, dying an inexplicable death.
The chaos pearl, however, was completely unharmed, continuing to reside in the endless void.
They were all freaks!!!
One, lacking sufficient strength and brain capacity, wanted to control the world's karmic luck to achieve Dao Proving. In the end, he himself transformed into the Azure Dragon of the Four Sacred Beasts, forever controlled, not to mention causing all members of the Dragon Clan to bear shackles.
The other wanted to learn from Pangu, surpass Pangu, and ended up playing himself to death.
How did these two bizarre existences emerge from the Dragon Clan?
Xu Feng had a headache, for no other reason than that he was now the new Ancient Yinglong, but he also bore the Dragon Clan's shackles.
"They didn't do human things!!!"
Xu Feng didn't know how many times he had cursed the Candle Dragon.
Ancient Yinglong, this background should be terrifying enough, right?
He was on the same level as Rahu, Hongjun, and others, but could you believe that after Xu Feng took human form, his strength almost couldn't reach Taiyi Golden Immortal? Can you believe it?
With purple hair, purple eyes, and a purple robe, Xu Feng stood atop a mountain peak, with no mood to admire the magnificent mountains and rivers of the Primordial World, nor any interest in searching for spiritual treasures or spiritual roots.
Many years had passed since the Three Clans' tribulation. It was uncertain when Hongjun would achieve Dao Proving, followed by his lectures at Zixiao Palace.
In the Primordial World, most of the good things that could be salvaged had already been taken by Hongjun; what remained were mere scraps.
As for those that hadn't appeared yet, it wasn't their time.
Those that had appeared had escaped into the endless void.
Xu Feng currently lacked the ability to search for them.
"If I were strong enough, I could go search for the chaos pearl and use it as a medium for Dao Proving. Just thinking about it is exciting. What Three Corpses Dao Proving, what merit Dao Proving, they would all have to stand aside."
Strictly speaking, Hongjun owed the Dragon Clan a huge favor, as he had also schemed against the Dragon Clan back then. Otherwise, how could he have achieved Dao Proving today?
This favor, Hongjun must repay it.
Xu Feng secretly pondered that there were only three ways to break the shackles he bore.
First, promote the development of the Primordial World. This path was not an option because it was Hongjun's task, and competing with Hongjun for a task didn't seem like a good idea at all.
Second was to achieve Dao Proving. Only after achieving Dao Proving could he break these shackles.
The third was the most foolish method: let the Dragon Clan multiply wildly, constantly increasing their numbers. This way, with more Dragon Clan members, the burden of the shackles would be lightened when spread among them.
However, the reproduction rate of the orthodox Dragon Clan was shockingly slow.
It was strange to say, the Dragon Clan's own reproduction rate was very slow, but when they were with other races, their reproduction rate was extremely fast, as evidenced by the myriad of miscellaneous dragons and flood dragons scattered across the Primordial World.
After much consideration, the most reliable method was still to achieve Dao Proving himself and break free from the shackles.
He was now truly the Ancient Yinglong body. Why couldn't he demand repayment from Hongjun for the debts of yesteryear?
But before that, he needed to cultivate first; he was too weak.
The dignified Ancient Yinglong body, after taking human form, only had the early-stage strength of a Taiyi Golden Immortal.
This was even after Xu Feng's various efforts in cultivation; otherwise, he wouldn't even have reached Taiyi Golden Immortal, which was enough to infuriate anyone.
If it were other transmigrators, they would probably have gone to search for treasures immediately after taking human form, but Xu Feng did the opposite. After taking human form, he found a place to continue cultivating, not showing the slightest inclination to go out and wander.
Let alone searching for treasures. With that mindset, it would be better to think about how to trick Hongjun.
The Three Clans' great war, the Western Demonic Sect, Rahu's self-destruction, led to great calamity in the West, with sparse living beings and thin spiritual energy. Hongjun, you offered two Saint positions to compensate the West, so what about our Dragon Clan?
He had to fight for it, and the compensation too!!!