Under Jiang Hao's persistent questioning, Old Wang finally revealed that Prince Yu needed Jiang Hao's help.
Prince Yu's strength has already reached the Epic level, and he is also preparing to break through to the Legendary level. However, his ambition is not just to reach the ordinary Legendary level. He wants to use the trial grounds of the royal ancestral land to integrate his awakened bloodline power when he breaks through to the Legendary level.
Its wish is to become the most powerful dragon king in the entire dragon race, just like its father, and to receive the title of Yinglong.
If Prince Yu wants to realize this wish, he can only find a legendary-level expert to accompany him into the Black Dragon Ancestral Land when he is breaking through to the legendary realm, and become its protector during its trial.
Its father, King Chasing the Sun, was protected by a human king who had just reached the legendary level, and eventually became King Yinglong. Legend has it that many years ago, one of its ancestors was also protected by a legendary powerhouse, and only then did he become King Yinglong.
The stronger the protector, the more limitless their ultimate achievements. After witnessing Jiang Hao's strength, Prince Yu had already designated Jiang Hao as his protector. However, Jiang Hao was not yet at the legendary level, which was why Prince Yu was trying every means to win him over.
The original intention was to hope that when Jiang Hao reached the legendary level, he would not forget the favor he had received from the Black Dragon Empire, and that he could help Prince Yu again at that time. In that case, the deal would be done.
Even before meeting Prince Yu, Jiang Hao already harbored a favorable impression of the Black Dragon Clan. His act of rescuing Prince Yu stemmed, to some extent, from a desire to repay a debt of gratitude. While discussing repayment might seem like a bitter, resentful act, Jiang Hao preferred to call it reciprocity. "You treat me with respect, I'll treat you with even greater respect; you helped me before, so I'll certainly help you when you need it." The saying "A gentleman's friendship is as light as water" perhaps better reflects Jiang Hao's state of mind when he rescued Prince Yu.
Having learned of Prince Yu's plans, I was quite willing to help him out.
However, he was only at the Epic level at the moment, so he could only keep this matter to himself for the time being.
Having eaten and drunk his fill, and with nothing much to do anyway, Jiang Hao simply found a high slope and looked down at the vibrant, spring-filled Resurrection City.
Throughout the entire Resurrection City, there was no blue sky or white clouds. Only above the massive city, one could see thick fog rolling back and forth – that was the Ice Silkworm's Fog Spirit Realm.
Jiang Hao was slightly worried, unsure how long the resurrection power left behind by the ancient god could last. He wondered what he should do when the ancient god's power was exhausted, so that they wouldn't have to live in constant fear of death, just as they were now.
However, this point was ultimately beyond Jiang Hao's comprehension. After thinking for a long time without any clue, Jiang Hao finally lay down on the high slope and fell asleep.
One day after returning to Realm 7865, Jiang Hao simultaneously received messages from the five major races: the Beastmen, the Deep Sea Clan, the Dragon Clan, the Gnolls, and the Humans. Each of these races contacted Jiang Hao, informing him of the same message.
Their respective capital cities realized that the Skeleton Legion was about to completely break through the barriers of the Realm of Numbers. In the near future, a large number of Skeleton Legion soldiers would emerge from the broken barriers and come to the Realm of Numbers.
They jointly advised Jiang Hao to immediately gather all his summoned skeletons into the Realm. They also made a request that put Jiang Hao in a very difficult position.
They also suggested that Jiang Hao allow the Gnoll Empire to establish five star-level teleportation arrays in the Realm. Because of the original agreement, whenever a skeleton legion breaches the Realm's barrier, they must send their strongest members to intercept and suppress it.
Because the Gnoll Empire's star-level teleportation array is the fastest and most convenient way to deploy troops to the battlefield.
The five races spoke earnestly, as if the skeleton legion would burst forth from the shattered walls of the domain at any moment.
After discussing the matter with the city lord of Jinling City, Jiang Hao, Yun Xinghe, and others felt that the news was most likely true. However, they couldn't help but wonder if the coincidence was too much.
In the end, the three agreed that since all the people of the No. 1 Realm had already been evacuated, even if they agreed to their request, even if they intended to cause trouble, it would not cause any loss to the No. 1 Realm.
Jiang Hao then agreed to their request.
Standing atop the city wall of Dingbei, Jiang Hao first noticed a human race's mid-sized star-level warship arriving in the southern part of the northern ice plains.
However, those descending from above were squads of gnoll soldiers. They quickly established a row of five teleportation arrays from west to east in the southern part of the northern ice plains.
Then, squads of soldiers from the five races emerged from the teleportation array.
The scene looked quite bizarre. Especially the gnolls and humans who had been fighting to the death just moments before, now their teleportation arrays were right next to each other, and soldiers from both races walked out of the teleportation arrays without any incident between them.
Could it be that the formidable enemy on the other side, the Skeleton Army, is really that powerful?
But Jiang Hao had clearly repelled a wave of skeleton legions at the Qiongfeng Pass before, and at that time their strength was only equivalent to the gold level.
Jiang Hao thought to himself that the five races did not issue any warnings during the Skeleton Legion's invasion. In other words, although the boundary barrier was damaged, it was not enough to warrant an alert from the five races.
The fact that the Skeleton Legion's invasion has allowed the five races to quickly put aside their previous discord and form a unified front in a short period of time shows that this invasion has pushed the five races to a critical juncture of life and death.
Humanity's star-level heavy warships emerged from the teleportation array, and soldiers from the five races boarded the warships one by one. Soon after, the 380 star-level warships had been divided up among the five races.
Then came 350 medium-sized star-level warships, 1200 medium-sized star-level warships, and finally, five star-level warships appeared.
These warships, without exception, were all divided up among the five major races.
Jiang Hao was dumbfounded. He never expected that the human race would be so bold as to hand over the very foundation of their existence in the Spirit Ruins to others.
It wasn't just warships; the humans also provided various pre-forged equipment sets, allowing the other four races to take whatever they wanted. The orcs offered countless herbs and potions. The orcs, the deep-sea race, and the dragons also provided a large number of land, deep-sea, and aerial mounts. The gnolls even provided the other major races with another strategically controlled item: a large-scale spirit stone array.
According to the city lord of Jinling, once the magic array is set up, as long as a magical beast core is put into the array's power position, the array will automatically rotate, grinding any monsters that enter the array into dust.
Jiang Hao was stunned.
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