Chapter 59
Suddenly, the giant dragon struggled to raise its head and turned to stare at Luo Hengzhi. Its huge dragon face was smiling as it excitedly said, "You...I know your purpose. You want me to pass on all my cultivation to this dragon doll, don't you? I can promise you that I can give everything I have to that dragon doll, but I want you to grant me one request."
The dragon, who was just struggling to catch its breath, was now talking to Luo Hengzhi with its eyes shining, as if it had experienced a final burst of energy before death.
"How can I help you?" Luo Hengzhi was curious about what the dragon wanted.
"I'm running out of time. You have to agree first. As long as you agree, I will immediately transfer all my cultivation to Longwazi." The dragon's tone weakened again, urging anxiously.
Luo Hengzhi chuckled and slowly said, "What request should I make first?"
The dragon stopped haggling, perhaps he really didn't have time: "Fine, I'll talk. All I need is for you to promise that I will be a dragon again in my next life, and that I will live forever!"
Fire Phoenix: "You must have done something to betray the dragon clan, so you can't be a dragon in your next life."
After hearing this, Ye Zi also stared at the dragon, her brows slightly furrowed!
"Why do you think my promise will be useful to you?" Luo Hengzhi wanted to find out exactly what the dragon saw in him.
The dragon shook its head violently: "I cannot say, but what I ask for is nothing more than a word to you. You will not lose anything, so why not agree!"
Long Bao knew that Luo Hengzhi would go to the God Realm and casually make a promise of eternal life, which was against the rules of heaven and earth. He was arbitrarily altering the fate of living beings, and who knew what kind of impact it would have on Luo Hengzhi.
Long Bao urgently stopped Luo Hengzhi: "Master, you mustn't! I don't want his cultivation. After he dies, I can just pick up some of his equipment. As long as I can cultivate, I can cultivate myself. Long Bao doesn't want the cultivation of a possessed dragon."
Longbao turned around and glared fiercely at the giant dragon with its small eyes: "Don't try to bewitch my master! We don't know your karma in this life, nor do we know if you have committed many sins. If my master changes your fate at will, then your karmic retribution will be transferred to my master, and my master will bear it for you. You have ulterior motives! You wicked dragon!"
After listening, the dragon looked at the baby dragon and smiled: "Little dragon, you keep saying that I'm bewitching you, but what about you? Why did you recognize him as your master? Aren't you using him the same way?"
"I'm not like you. I would never harm my master," Longbao said angrily.
The dragon laughed even louder: "How can we be different? The moment you tricked him into forming a pact with you, we became the same."
Before the dragon could finish laughing at its young cub, its body convulsed violently, and its voice turned pleading: "Say yes! I don't have time, say yes..."
Before the dragon's roar faded, its last breath dissipated, and its enormous golden eyes drooped, completely losing their luster!
In the blink of an eye, the soul turned to wind, and the body returned to dust!
The dragon bone thus merged into the mountain, becoming a continuous range of peaks.
The dragon's skeleton dissipated, leaving the storage space unclaimed. It fell to the ground and rolled near the dragon treasure.
"Grab equipment! Grab equipment!"
Long Bao flew down from the fire phoenix's head at top speed, picked up the ring on the ground, and poured out all the contents of the ring, which instantly filled half of the cave.
"Wow wow wow... Master, we're rich!" Long Bao pounced into the spirit stone mountain and rubbed his big head against the top-grade spirit stones.
Looking at the mountain of magical treasures, Fire Phoenix said, "The Dragon Clan's ability to hoard goods is indeed well-deserved. With such a rich fortune, no wonder that old dragon was unwilling to die."
Luo Hengzhi looked at Long Bao and called out softly, "Long Bao."
"Master." Long Bao put down the spirit stone and looked cautiously at Luo Hengzhi. "Master, I confess, and I will be lenient with you!"
“Our dragon race has a kind of precognitive ability. I foresaw that Master would go to the God Realm in the future. I only wanted to go to the God Realm to find my father, so I forced Master to form a contract. I only hid this part because I was afraid that Master would find out that I had ulterior motives and would abandon me. I really didn’t lie to Master about anything else.”
"And the fact that I have no cultivation is because I foresaw the price I would have to pay: my cultivation was imprisoned for three years. Master, I really told you everything. I was really afraid that if you knew that my motives for approaching you were impure, you would abandon me, so I hid it."
As Longbao spoke, he burst into tears, large tears welling up in his tiny eyes: "Master, I lied to you, please punish me, don't abandon me."
Luo Hengzhi raised her hand to wipe away the tears on Long Bao's big face: "I didn't abandon you."
"Thank you, Master." Long Bao hugged Luo Hengzhi's neck tightly with his little paws and burst into tears. "I forced the contract because I was ugly at the time and was afraid that Master would not want me."
Luo Hengzhi: "Yeah, now it's... ugly too!"
"Oh! Waaah..." Long Bao froze, tears streaming down his face, crying even harder. He jumped off Luo Hengzhi and burrowed into the pile of treasures. "I must find rare and precious treasures! I must become beautiful!"
Ye Zi and Huo Feng saw Long Bao darting inside, his bottom sticking out as he cried and desperately searched for treasure. At the same time, they both looked at Luo Hengzhi.
"Did I... go too far?" Luo Hengzhi looked at his wife with a guilty expression and said, "I was just teasing him."
"Now only Long Bao is ugly, but I can't say. Long Bao is under a lot of pressure right now," Huo Feng said.
Ye Zi: "There are too many things. Can we set up a classification array to separate the rare and precious materials directly?"
"Yes, Xiao Yezi is so smart and thoughtful." With his wife speaking, Luo Hengzhi immediately began to set up the formation.
Luo Heng felt that she shouldn't discourage Long Bao at this moment, but only try to make amends. The best way to stop Long Bao from crying was to hope that there were rare and precious treasures here that could make Long Bao look better.
Once Luo Hengzhi finished setting up the formation and activated it, the treasures that had instantly formed a mountain were automatically categorized and arranged neatly.
The dragon treasure, hidden among the pile of treasures, fell to the ground with a "thud".
Looking up, they saw the naturally separated treasures and immediately spotted a dragon-shaped fruit, so they pounced on it.
"Dragon's Unparalleled Handsomeness Breaks Through the Heavens!"
Fire Phoenix: "......"
What a weird name!
Ye Zi and Luo Hengzhi looked at each other in disbelief upon hearing the name of this spiritual fruit. Long Bao really wanted to become handsome!
"Master, protect me! I want to eat Long Aotian!" Long Bao walked to Luo Hengzhi's side and poked her as he spoke.
“Go ahead.” Luo Hengzhi nodded in agreement, set up a spirit-gathering array in the cave, moved the spirit stones on the ground to Long Bao’s side for later use, and also took out half of the top-grade spirit stones from her spatial ring.
Long Bao was deeply moved by the preparations Luo Hengzhi had made for him, and swallowed the Long Aotian Shuai Po Cang Qiong Fruit in one gulp.
Luo Hengzhi never expected that Long Bao's talk of eating actually meant eating!
He thought he would absorb it slowly, just like the Fire Phoenix.
After swallowing the Dragon Aotian Handsome Sky-Breaking Fruit, Long Bao began to absorb a large amount of spiritual energy into his body to help digest the fruit.
The spiritual energy of the Spirit Gathering Array was clearly insufficient, and the spirit stones on the ground quickly turned into powder, with top-grade spirit stones being rapidly consumed.
Luo Hengzhi realized that the Dragon Treasure required far more spiritual power than the Fire Phoenix, so he took out all the top-grade spirit stones in the space.
Ye Zi also took out all the remaining top-grade spirit stones from her storage bracelet and piled them all next to Long Bao for later use.
“Dragon Treasure is taking too much of a risk. If we don’t have enough spirit stones, this fruit could turn around and devour Dragon Treasure.” Fire Phoenix saw the problem, but she had used up all her spirit stones last time, so she could only look to Luo Hengzhi.
Without hesitation, Luo Hengzhi stacked several more spirit-gathering arrays, but the spiritual energy still couldn't keep up with the dragon treasure's consumption.
"Luo Hengzhi, set up a spirit-gathering array in that lake. That's a spirit liquid pool brimming with spiritual energy." At the critical moment, Ye Zi glanced at the lake out of the corner of her eye and discovered that the lake water was no ordinary thing.
Without saying a word, Luo Hengzhi flew to the center of the lake and set up a spirit-gathering array and a spirit-guiding array to draw spiritual energy to Long Bao.
Ye Zi is right. The lake water is so rich in spiritual energy that even top-grade spirit stones cannot compare. It should be enough for Long Bao.
As the spiritual energy in the lake was depleted, the lake water gradually decreased. Finally, when only a shallow layer remained at the bottom of the lake, Longbao stopped absorbing spiritual energy.
A blinding light emanated from Longbao. Longbao raised its little paw and touched its forehead, shouting, "Break!"
The blinding white light grew larger and larger, eventually covering almost the entire cave!
As the blinding light faded, a majestic and imposing dragon appeared in the cave, far larger than the old dragon from before!
A resounding dragon roar pierced through the cave, its domineering power unmatched!
Fire Phoenix: "It's done! Dragon Baby has succeeded!"
Luo Hengzhi looked up at Long Bao. This was his dragon, a divine dragon. Luo Hengzhi smiled. Long Bao's true form was so cool! So handsome!
Fire Phoenix: "Dragon Baby's true form is too handsome, let's see him transform."
Long Bao suddenly transformed into a young boy, who looked only twelve or thirteen years old. Standing next to Huo Feng, he was clearly the younger brother!
Huo Feng, dressed in a dark red phoenix brocade robe, was a handsome and beautiful young boy, while Long Bao wore a blue, green, and white dragon-roar robe, looking lively, cute, and energetic.
The four of them look very harmonious standing together now; they're a family with exceptionally high looks!
Fire Phoenix circled around Dragon Baby, exclaiming, "Dragon Baby, you're so handsome!"
"I knew it! I'm definitely more handsome than you!" Long Bao said smugly, running towards Luo Hengzhi. "Master, I'm not ugly anymore, am I?"
"Hmm." Luo Hengzhi nodded. "His true form is especially handsome!"
"Really, Master?" Long Bao was so excited. His master finally praised him for being handsome, so he must really be handsome!
"Master Ye Zi, am I handsome?" Long Bao ran to Ye Zi's side again, seeking praise.
"It's the most handsome dragon I've ever seen in its true form." After all, Ye Zi had only ever seen one dragon, Long Bao, not counting the old dragon from before. "The avatar is very cute, almost as cute as your master."
"I... am cute?" Luo Hengzhi thought his wife was going to praise him for being handsome, but what kind of word is "cute"?!
Ye Zi pulled out a photo of Luo Hengzhi when she was little. She looked almost as big as Long Bao at the time, with a serious expression, even cuter than Long Bao!
Luo Hengzhi glanced at the photo Ye Zi had saved online that time, and she didn't expect Ye Zi to use it as her phone's lock screen!
Luo Hengzhi saw her own silly and embarrassing past: "..."
Before Ye Zi and Luo Hengzhi left, they divided all the treasures among the four of them. Afterwards, perhaps because the dragon died, the entire secret realm withered, with not a single blade of grass remaining, and not a single good thing to be found.
And so, after going in and out of this secret realm, Ye Zi and Luo Hengzhi almost went broke!
The two of them don't even have a single spirit stone on them right now!
Ye Zi was once wealthy, but now she is penniless and anxious because she has no money in her pocket!
So on the way to Hanhai City, Ye Ziqian repeatedly told Huo Feng not to miss any secret realms and to focus wholeheartedly on finding spirit stones.
But it seemed the secret realms were hiding from them, because they didn't encounter another one along the way.
Fire Phoenix finally discovered the spatial fluctuations of the secret realm on the outskirts of Hanhai City!
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