Chapter 34: Young True Dragon

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"Wait a moment!"

Seeing the Pure Yang Sword shimmering with golden light in Lv Cheng's hand, Shendu hurriedly floated behind Luo Pei.

"You had better give me a satisfactory answer, otherwise..." Lv Cheng shook the golden, glittering great sword in his hand.

"My good teacher, you know my temper~"

Going to such great lengths, conjuring up a bunch of things he couldn't even understand, just to drag him into Hell to suffer alongside the demons?

Is there something wrong with this guy?!

"I have done so much, not to add a demon compatriot to suffer with us," Shendu said eerily.

"I can guarantee you that everything I have done will cause you no harm; it is merely to obtain freedom."

No matter how Yin-Yang Balance restricts things, as long as Lv Cheng still has this sword, he will be restricted forever; Zhou Lan's plan treated him as a sacrificial lamb, and he would not sit idly by waiting for death!

He had confirmed during this time that this kid was not one of those Saints who could sacrifice themselves for others; when he had the spare capacity, Lv Cheng indeed didn't mind acting righteous and noble.

But if he himself were threatened, he wouldn't have so many scruples.

Now, Lv Cheng's soul is fused with his Original Demonic Qi, just like when he created Xiaolong; Lv Cheng will be connected to him by blood!

In this way, the power of the two of them is in a state of circulation!

If Lv Cheng wants to beat him back into Demon Hell, then he himself will be locked in as well!

If one prospers, both prosper; if one suffers, both suffer!

"Does this Magic Spell of his have any other harm to me... what the hell?"

Before Lv Cheng could finish his sentence, Luo Pei's body began to petrify.

The Magic Power of the Rat Talisman had been exhausted.

"Child, do not trust demons lightly," Luo Pei urged, returning once again to the state of a stone statue.

"……"

"I will give you one last chance, tell the truth, otherwise, I don't mind giving up this dangerous power," Lv Cheng said sternly.

Previously, he had thought that at most the demons would just be released from Hell, which is why he turned a blind eye to Shendu's little tricks, but the current situation is truly a bit awkward.

The demons can't get out, but he has to get in!

Damn it!

"You have no choice now, my child," Shendu floated slowly closer.

"A thing like a Contract has no room for regret; you are already connected to me by blood, and we prosper and suffer together."

"……"

"But if it's really as you say, and there's no harm to me, then why didn't you tell me straight?" Lv Cheng asked.

"I cannot say," Shendu said.

"Once you reach a consensus with me, when Luo Pei checked the Contract just now, he would have detected the abnormality; you would become his enemy, a fallen Immortal God Descendant. Guess what this great Saint Warrior would do?"

Lv Cheng narrowed his eyes, "If you told me the truth, as long as this matter caused me no harm, why would I insist on resurrecting Luo Pei?"

"I said it, would you believe me?" Shendu asked in return.

Lv Cheng was momentarily speechless, "Indeed, I would not."

"But with Luo Pei resurrected, aren't you afraid he has some other way to stop this?"

"He cannot stop it," Shendu said confidently.

"The strength of this Yin-Yang Balance Contract lies in the fact that no one can violate it; once established, even the Eight Immortals must obey it honestly!"

"Moreover, this Contract is still incomplete; I need Luo Pei to help you supplement the missing parts."

Lv Cheng's eyelid twitched, "That scroll from just now?"

"That is a restriction," Shendu said.

"Just as Luo Pei said, the Contract you and we have constructed is very unstable; even I do not know what will happen, and the world destruction he fears, where everything returns to chaos, is also what I fear."

"I am a demon, but I have no interest in destroying the world."

"So, from the day we signed the Contract, you have been calculating?" Lv Cheng looked strange.

"The calculation is real, but you also gained benefits, didn't you?" Shendu did not deny it.

A demon's Contract can only be signed with an equal soul, which is an Immortal God Descendant, and at first, he only had this idea; after all, Immortal God Descendants are all a group of true Saints who simply cannot be tempted, and even if he successfully completed the Contract, it would be useless.

Either be trapped in Hell with the demons, or exist in the human world with the demons; those Immortal God Descendants would choose the former without hesitation!

So the purpose and result of this Contract were self-contradictory to begin with!

He didn't hold much hope at first, but after contact, he discovered that Lv Cheng was not pure!

This kid is not a Saint!

Yang reaches its extreme and gives birth to Yin!

This kid is likely the reincarnation of those Immortal God Descendants!

Sure enough, having been betrayed so many times, even a Saint could not be without a shred of resentment...

"You said just now that I am your child, what do you mean?" Lv Cheng stopped struggling with it; it was useless anyway.

Signing a Contract with a demon was a gamble from the start; win and he would rise to greatness, lose and he would have nothing, and if he didn't gamble, he would have nothing at all.

High risk, high reward.

Now it seems his returns are not bad.

"You should have already discovered your own abnormalities, right?" Shendu said.

"I know, and you also know that I tampered with you, but you are just playing dumb; after all, these tricks cause you no harm."

Lv Cheng nodded.

A tacit understanding, after all.

"My words meant exactly what they said; you have inherited my bloodline, and not only do you possess my fire, but you also possess the bloodline of a True Dragon," Shendu said.

"You are currently like Xiaolong, belonging to the Young Dragon stage, which is the reason you were able to tame Xiaotian. To the Evil Dragon Legion, only a dragon with a more noble and powerful bloodline is qualified to command them; strength alone is not enough to tame an Evil Dragon."

Lv Cheng looked strange, "Your bloodline... I won't turn into a green-skinned lizard like Xiaolong, will I?"

This True Dragon bloodline of Shendu's is really quite strange!

Clearly a purebred Eastern Fire Dragon, yet it grew up looking inexplicable.

"First of all, you should not belittle your brother like that, even if he is an idiot," Shendu said gloomily.

"Secondly, I am not just a dragon, I am also a Demon. Unlike those dragons you know, the bloodline of a Demon is not passed down through the flesh, but through the soul!"

"Therefore, what kind of dragon you will become in the future... depends on the direction in which your soul develops."

"Then how did Xiaolong end up looking like a green-skinned lizard?" Lv Cheng asked in confusion.

"You didn't go after a female lizard, did you?"

Shendu's face darkened, "The birth of a True Dragon is an extremely long process, requiring at least a thousand years to complete the most basic incubation, but I could not wait that long, so I used a Magic Spell to accelerate it, and that formula... ahem."

Shendu looked somewhat embarrassed, "You also know that my wisdom was worn down too much by Hell, I couldn't remember the formula clearly, and besides, there were no other dragons in the mortal world at that time, let alone True Dragons, not even sub-dragons, so my formula... had a small problem."

Lv Cheng looked strange, "So, Xiaolong is a premature baby?"

"And because of your inferior formula, he suffered a genetic mutation?"

The image of a Demon is indeed not fixed; after all, after absorbing the Demon Qi of other Demons, even Xiaolong would undergo changes, and his appearance would lean closer to the true masters of that Demon Qi.

In other words, the soul and Demon Qi are these abstract concepts that are the true essence of a Demon.

As for the physical body, it is merely a derivative of a Demon's soul.

(End of chapter)