Chapter 176: Destiny Bestowed, Like a Tiger Gaining Wings? Is Your Fate Enough?

Diti's question undoubtedly struck at the core of Zu Long's heart.

At present, his biggest knot is that the Dragon Race's inheritance will be severed, and the younger generation will have no chance to rise.

If this problem can be solved.

Even if it required exchanging all of the Dragon Race's foundation, even his own life, he would not even frown!

However, to be safe and avoid a false hope.

He still forced the strange feeling down and asked Diti for the concrete method.

"Thank you, Daoist friend Diti, for still keeping the Dragon Race in mind."

"I just don't know what price the method you mentioned would require the Dragon Race to pay?"

"As long as it remains within what the Dragon Race can bear."

"We can definitely reach a cooperation."

"Daoist friend, rest assured, what I speak of is absolutely a hundred benefits and not a single harm to the Dragon Race."

Diti replied in a calm voice, pointing toward the southwest to inform the other of his purpose in coming here.

"All I need is the Qing Long you have sealed."

"When the timing matures, you only need to sit and await merit's arrival."

"All other matters will be resolved by me for you."

Hearing this, Zu Long's eyes involuntarily rose with a hint of turmoil, and his words lost the firmness they had earlier.

"Daoist friend, I wonder if we could change the candidate."

"To be frank, Qing Long is my younger brother."

"He was born at the tail end of the Great Calamity, affected by the Great Calamity's malevolent qi and the race's karmic burden, resulting in a natural lack of sentience, his mind and spirit filled with brutality."

"I tried every method, yet could not restore him to his original state."

"Thus, I was forced to suppress him within the Guixu Dragon Tomb."

"You selected him to go complete the mission."

"He will only mess everything up; he cannot follow your commands."

Listening to Zu Long's defense, Diti's eyes showed no change, remaining utterly indifferent, as if he could see through his heart, ignoring the other.

"Daoist friend, you think I know nothing."

"... dare to come here to discuss with you?"

Under Diti's gaze, Zu Long inexplicably felt a slight panic.

But to protect Qing Long and prevent him from being harmed.

Leaving the Dragon Race with a powerful trump card.

He could only continue to play the fool to the very end!

"Daoist friend, I'm not quite sure what you mean."

"Qing Long truly is not fit to roam the primordial wilderness."

"He not only cannot communicate normally with living beings."

"He would also indiscriminately slaughter the surrounding living beings."

"……"

Seeing Zu Long still stubbornly stick to his words.

Diti straightforwardly exposed everything.

"The reason Qing Long has become this way."

"Do you truly think it was due to the Great Calamity's malevolent qi and the race's karmic burden?"

"Such nonsense used to deceive outsiders is one thing."

"If you intend to deceive me, you'd better save yourself early."

"I naturally dared to come here to find you."

"Naturally, I am fully aware of Qing Long's condition."

"He was not eroded by malevolent qi, causing a loss of mind."

"It is because his destiny is too heavy, and Heaven and Earth do not permit him to have self-awareness, right?"

Seeing Diti lay all the cards on the table.

Zu Long's expression also turned slightly embarrassed.

He, as one of the few supreme beings in Heaven and Earth.

Having endured two Great Calamities without falling.

How could one not see the abnormality on Qing Long's body.

Only, he is unwilling to admit that the other's destiny lies within him.

After all, a being bestowed with destiny, whether in cultivation speed or personal fortune, far surpasses other beings.

Breaking through realms is as simple as eating and drinking.

Acquiring fated treasures is even simpler, like picking up money on the street.

Sometimes, even without doing anything, opportunities will come knocking on their own.

But these enviable benefits for everyone.

Often mean that the price to pay is equally enormous, even requiring repayment with one's life!

The ones back then, and the present the Demon Race, are all like this!

Basically, beings bearing destiny ultimately meet a tragic end—death, disappearance of the Dao, or a wretched fate of imprisoning all beings!

It is precisely for this reason that he forced his way through opposition, sealing Qing Long within the Guixu Dragon Tomb.

Besides wanting to keep a trump card for the dragon race, hoping that one day they might regain spiritual intelligence.

More so, to prevent the other side from being affected by the Heaven's destiny.

To be buried in an unknown place at some future time!

However, judging from Diti's current attitude.

He is probably already unable to stop the other side…

"Companion, since you have already made your point clear."

"Then I shall no longer conceal anything."

"You wish to take the Azure Dragon away; I absolutely cannot stop you."

"But I still hope you can provide a solid basis."

"Where exactly do you intend to take him?"

"What is the purpose, and can he return safely?"

Diti summons a Chaos Pearl, sealing the surrounding Heaven-and-Earth space-time.

Ensuring that no one can inquire about the recent situation here.

Only then does he speak lightly in reply to Zu Long.

"The Azure Dragon's Heaven's destiny is that when the Buzhou Sacred Mountain collapses and Heaven and Earth crumble, it will join the other three Mixed-Primordial level spirit beasts to stabilize the four poles of Heaven and Earth, ensuring the primeval realm remains safe!"

"And what I must do."

"Is to grasp the four Spirit Beasts of Heaven and Earth in my hand."

"When Heaven and Earth collapse, to seek merit and profit."

"What!"

Zu Long at this moment has no mood to consider Diti's stated purpose.

His mind is already entangled by the Azure Dragon's Heaven's destiny.

He never could have imagined.

The Azure Dragon's Heaven's destiny, astonishingly, is to stabilize the four poles of Heaven and Earth at the moment of collapse, ensuring the primeval realm remains safe!

One must know that the terrifying power unleashed when Heaven and Earth break apart is beyond any human capacity to resist!

Even now the Azure Dragon possesses cultivation comparable to a fully realized Mixed-Primordial Golden Immortal.

Even aside from the Azure Dragon, there are three other spirit beasts that have fully attained Mixed-Primordial Golden Immortal status.

But that is to stabilize the four poles of Heaven and Earth, bearing the terrifying divine might at the moment of collapse!

Even the Mixed-Primordial Great Luo does not dare claim absolute infallibility.

If the Azure Dragon goes, can it still live to return…

Thinking of this, Zu Long's heart suddenly rose with a hint of anxiety.

"Companion, do you think this Heaven's destiny can be transferred onto another?"

"I am now past my prime, unable to fight others any longer."

"Yet I still possess late-stage Mixed-Primordial Golden Immortal cultivation."

"If I could transfer the destiny, I would certainly be qualified."

"……"

Diti watches Zu Long's urgent demeanor.

His eyes show no ripple, only a light voice responding with a single sentence.

"Do you think Heaven and Earth would allow you to do this?"

When those words were spoken, Zu Long fell silent for a moment, then, with eyes tinged with unwillingness, spoke again.

"Is there truly no other way?"

However, this time Diti did not reply.

He only gazed at him with a calm eye color.

Leaving him to think whether such a possibility exists!

Heaven and Earth have long settled, and the stakes have already been placed.

If you wish to change, don't you also consider whether you have the qualification?

It is that Yuan Feng and Luo Hou usurp the Vermilion Bird and White Tiger, granting the two a special status so they can safely complete the destiny usurpation.

Now the Azure Dragon has already matured to a fully realized Mixed-Primordial Golden Immortal.

Without being transformed into an extradimensional heavenly demon.

Zu Long fundamentally cannot change the current situation.

Moreover, even if transformed into an extradimensional heavenly demon, it would only send the Azure Dragon forth to occupy the opponent's body.

This is a method to alter the status quo.

Plainly put, Heaven and Earth only recognize the bodies of the four Spirit Beasts of Heaven and Earth.

As long as the destiny is fulfilled, whose inner consciousness it is does not matter.

Heaven and Earth simply do not care!!

(End of Chapter)