Chapter 71 Homeland

The scales of the juvenile Ye Lai are not as cold and hard as those of the fully grown one. On the contrary, perhaps because these scales have not yet fully grown, they all have a texture similar to hard rubber. Coupled with the inconspicuous patterns on the surface, they feel surprisingly good to the touch.

After Yu Cang had touched Ye Lai all over and gotten close to him, he looked at the majesty in his big watery eyes and somehow felt a little guilty.

"Um... Ye Lai, don't you like being touched by me?"

Speaking of which, ever since Ye Zi appeared, he has always given me the impression of being majestic, calm and powerful. A dragon with this kind of personality probably doesn't like to get too close to others.

"You worry too much." Ye Lai said, "I really enjoy being close to the Master of this body. Perhaps I haven't shown it well enough. Please don't mind."

Only then did Yu Cang realize that although Ye Lai's eyes and expression had been calm when he was being caressed by him, the tail behind him, which was almost as long as his body, kept wagging back and forth, and he looked very happy.

Yu Cang breathed a sigh of relief and then chuckled a few times.

Well, it turns out that your reserve was all fake!

Yu Cang was now completely relieved of his psychological burden. He found a comfortable place to sit down and began to concentrate on petting the dragon.

"By the way, Ye Lai." Yu Cang asked curiously, "Can you still swallow your dragon scale sword? Will it hurt you?"

"No." Ye Lai lay in Yu Cang's arms, his tail hanging out, shaking non-stop. "You should know that every pure-blooded dragon has its own unique dragon breath, and you can completely understand the Dragon Scale Sword as my dragon breath, only condensed into a solid form."

"So that's how it is!" Yu Cang had an expression as if he had learned something new.

Condensing the dragon's breath into a solid form and biting it in the mouth as a weapon... If you think about it this way, this seemingly strange way of fighting makes a lot more sense.

But there is still one thing that is very strange... When Ye Lai bites the sword, his eyes are closed, and he relies entirely on the dragon pupils on the sword guard to see... Whose dragon has eyes on its breath!

This is too abstract.

Yu Cang didn't hold it in and immediately asked the question.

"About this." Ye Lai was silent for a moment. "The form of this body depends entirely on your will when you summon me. I can't actually decide where the eyes are."

"In other words, you didn't look like this before I summoned you?" Yu Cang seemed to understand.

This means... because the fusion material "Dragon Slayer" has eyes on the sword hilt, and the eyes of the randomly generated fusion form just happened to be on the sword, so this form was created...

Ye Lai did not answer Yu Cang's question immediately, but raised his dragon head slightly, as if recalling something.

Seeing this, Yu Cang asked again, "Speaking of which...why do you call me the master of this body? It sounds so literary."

"As the name suggests, you are the master of this body of mine."

"From what you said, you have many other bodies?"

“…There used to be one, but now, this is the only one.”

"Are those bodies also dragons?"

“Mostly.”

Ye Lai's answer piqued Yu Cang's curiosity: "Then where were you from before I summoned you? Was it from another world, or from Dragon Island in Haiting?"

Haiting is a country outside of Yan State.

The pure-blooded dragon clan is divided into two types: giant dragons and true dragons, which can be understood as Western dragons and Eastern dragons. All the giant dragon soul cards nowadays basically have their prototypes from Haiting.

Because only there live giant dragons that are not infected by the wilderness.

"I..." For the first time, an extra emotion appeared in Ye Lai's eyes. It was a very obvious confusion and loss. "I come from a destroyed world. Once, it was as prosperous as this world."

Seeing his eyes, Yu Cang knew he had said the wrong thing: "I'm sorry for coming here at night. I shouldn't have mentioned this."

"Don't worry, my Lord." Ye Lai quickly adjusted his mood, "These are things I should have told you."

Ye Lai curled up and huddled deeper into Yu Cang's embrace, then said calmly, "I have been wandering in the chaos outside this world for a long time. After so much time, my memories of my homeland have long been blurred. All I can remember is one obsession."

Looking at Ye Lai like this, Yu Cang didn't know how to comfort him and could only silently stroke Ye Lai's head.

Ye Lai continued, "In fact, there is a reason why I responded to your call—my homeland was destroyed by the power of 'Huang'."

Yu Cang was stunned: "What? Huang? ...Is this the Huang I understand?"

"That's right." Ye Lai's tone became more serious. "Before this world, the power of the wilderness had already devoured countless worlds. No one knows why they were born or what they intend to do. All we know is that all worlds that have nurtured wisdom will eventually be infected by them."

"Is Huang's power so exaggerated?" Yu Cang frowned slightly.

As far as he knew, the earliest clear record of wild beasts in history could be traced back to more than three thousand years ago.

At that time, wild beasts ravaged the land of Yan State, the mountains and rivers were broken, and the people were living in misery. At this time, the Saint Master Zhongqiu was promoted to a myth, simplified the power of the soul card from complicated totems to scrolls, and promoted it to the people, making the land of Yan State produce many talents.

Several hundred years later, Emperor Zulong appeared out of nowhere, killed all the wild beasts, swept across the world, and unified the country.

Later generations often said that a mythical soul card master only appeared once every thousand years, but during that period, within a short period of eight hundred years, three mythical people successively saved the world. The Holy Master preached the world, the Emperor Zulong restored the country, and the Emperor Wu even took his sword and went on an expedition of three thousand miles, so that even in the deep mountains and barbaric lands, there was no sound of animals running or insects chirping.

Whenever he reads this history, Yu Cang can feel his blood boiling, and he will have a feeling——

This wild beast is just weak!

He was driven out of the country by the predecessors of Yan State like slaughtering chickens and dogs, and has become the background board of the achievements of several legends.

Even if we leave Yan Country aside and look at several other countries in the world, at most they have dealt with it in a slightly embarrassing way. Except for an ancient mountain country that was destroyed due to internal strife, environment and other factors, the wild beasts are not a special crisis.

Can this kind of thing really destroy the world?

It's almost...

Ye Lai seemed to know what Yu Cang was thinking, but he just said calmly:

"The power of the wilderness is nearly unstoppable. Any living being with intelligence will be gradually corroded and contaminated by this power, turning into irrational wild beasts. In my hometown, it only took a few hundred years for all living beings to be infected by the wilderness.

"Finally, the entire world was eroded. I still remember that time, the earth was torn apart, the sky melted into nothingness, and the creatures assimilated by the desolation roared and raved nonsense in the doomsday... until everything in sight turned into a bubble in the chaos."

At night, I rested my neck on Yu Cang's arms and closed my eyes gently.

"And I... survived. The price I paid was that, from then on, I could only wander as a soul in the boundless chaos. Passing through one world after another, I could no longer remember the taste and color of my homeland."

(End of this chapter)