Chapter 201: The Primordial Dragon's Most Important Treasure!

Could it be that a true dragon truly has no desires or wants?

Even its dwelling place is this clean—does it truly have nothing it cares about?

Could there truly be a living being in this world with absolutely no flaw to speak of?

Gazing at this empty, barren yellow-brown earth that yielded nothing, Zhang Rang couldn't help but mutter in despair.

"Ah, found it! Found it!"

Just as Zhang Rang was about to give up on searching and lead everyone back to pile in with their lives, a voice of pleasant surprise suddenly rang out.

"What?"

For a moment, Zhang Rang—who had suspected he was hallucinating from sheer disappointment—turned his head back in disbelief.

"Your Majesty, here! We found a buried treasure here!"

At that moment, another shout rang out, and only then did Zhang Rang realize it wasn't a hallucination—there really was something other than dirt and black stone in this true dragon's dwelling place.

Unable to wait, he directly took several long strides across the ground and rushed over.

Before long, he arrived before the soldier who had called out.

In an instant, an amber-colored transparent stone roughly two meters tall, carefully buried under a great deal of earth, appeared before him.

And within this amber-like stone, a beautifully shaped sharp claw resembling an eagle from the old era appeared before him.

"Th-this is?"

Gazing at this peculiar claw, Zhang Rang couldn't help but slow his pace.

At this moment he muttered to himself—could this be the "treasure" the true dragon had hidden away?

This claw, it seemed he had seen it somewhere before? Why did it feel so familiar?

But he couldn't recall where he had seen it.

Boom—!!!

Before he could think further, at that moment another violent explosion rang out in the distance, and a beam of light, as if unstoppable, sliced through the atmosphere and landed not far from him, then completely detonated.

This commotion instantly brought Zhang Rang back to his senses—the Time right now was not generous at all, there was simply no Time to let him think it over carefully.

However, since this claw encased in stone could be so carefully buried by the true dragon, it must be something the true dragon particularly cared about.

If so, then it should be able to make the true dragon show a flaw for a moment.

When the time comes……

Thinking this, Zhang Rang directly looked toward the countless soldiers awaiting his command.

Then with a grand wave of his hand, he took this claw preserved within the stone and once again transformed into the Red-Scaled Dragon form, flying toward the battlefield.

……

Boom!

Accompanied by yet another explosion, the massive dragon mecha standing before the black-robed entity was directly blasted away by a tremendous force.

"Buzz~ buzz~"

Accompanied by rhythmic tremors through the ground one wave after another, a majestic ancient dragon, as if wearing a flaming crown, slowly arrived before the black-robed entity, whose strength was already beginning to fail.

In an instant, the shadow cast by the Primordial Dragon's massive body directly enveloped the black-robed figure kneeling on one knee.

"Cough, cough, damn it—so this is the might of an innate deity? I was careless after all."

In the end, even though the powerful giant dragon had already closed in right beside him, he still showed not a trace of fear—only unwillingness.

After all, this was merely his avatar; even if it collapsed and died, at most it would only cause his true body to suffer heavy injuries—he wouldn't actually die.

At this moment, his heart was filled with thick unwillingness.

If only he had known earlier that a mere dragon of the Legendary realm could possess so many divine Characteristics, and even possess the power to wound the Divine realm.

He should have prepared more thoroughly, carrying with him all the treasures and good things he had accumulated over so many years.

Because the gains in this world were worth such a gamble for him.

What a pity—because of his own carelessness and his usual caution, he had not let his avatar carry various life-preserving powerful treasures, fearing that an accident would cause his years of savings to be destroyed in a single moment.

Sigh, this time it might end in failure.

And once it failed, he would have no right to set his sights on this world again in the short term. By then, once this spatial passage was discovered by those lofty deities—

By then, everything would have nothing to do with him.

The black-robed entity thought to himself with a touch of bitterness at this moment.

He seemed to already see a heaven-sent opportunity about to slip away from him.

But since this avatar was destined to be destroyed, the thing he carried on him also had to be transferred.

Fortunately, he wasn't without a shred of hope, because he still had another avatar.

Watching the terrifying purple flames once again drift from the edges of the dragon's maw, causing the air to twist violently.

At this critical juncture, countless thoughts flashed through the black-robed entity's mind in an instant, and he immediately decided to make this avatar's final ember burn its brightest.

With the thought already formed, the black-robed entity kneeling powerlessly on one knee also began, under the Primordial Dragon's startled gaze, to emit a strange, flickering light from his entire body.

"Hey! True dragon!"

"Look this way! Look what this is!"

But just then, a Red-Scaled Dragon rapidly flying in from the distance suddenly shouted loudly.

This sudden voice, accompanied by a faintly familiar aura—

Also caused the Primordial Dragon to halt its impending attack and turn its head to look.

And this made it instantly widen its eyes, nearly scared out of its soul!

Because it discovered that beneath the claws of the giant beast the human had transformed into, a transparent stone radiating a faint red glow was being gripped with utter roughness.

And within that stone—was the treasure it had painstakingly and carefully hidden away!

This was a claw it had accidentally discovered while patrolling this territory back when it was first sent by its Father God to garrison Tiandu Feixu.

That sharp claw had originally stood quietly in the deepest part of a luxurious imperial palace, frozen solid by dense, thick ice, and it radiated an aura so rich and familiar that it felt reassuring.

Without a doubt, it was a Dragon Claw shed by its Father God at some unknown time!

Because from the moment it was born, its entire infancy had been spent growing up within this very claw!

It believed no being in existence was more familiar with this Dragon Claw than itself; even its younger brothers and sisters were not as familiar with it. Countless days and nights it had lain within this Dragon Claw, falling into a peaceful slumber.

But now it had actually discovered a Dragon Claw shed by its Father God in such a ruin; without a doubt, this Dragon Claw had perhaps been left behind by its Father God before it was even born.

Then it recalled the heavy responsibility its Father God had entrusted to it—to guard the world and stand watch against beings from other realms crossing over.

In other words, atop this Dragon Claw there might still exist an epic, song-worthy legend about its own Father God.

For instance, its Father God had once fought here against a powerful deity from another world, using a spatial tunnel as the battlefield, and during the battle had been wounded and shed a Dragon Claw.

Of course, for a being to force its Father God to shed a Dragon Claw, the opposing deity must have gained not the slightest advantage, and its fate was likely even more tragic.

As for its Father God's strength, the First Dragon had not the slightest doubt.

Thinking of this, it immediately understood just how precious a treasure this Dragon Claw was—it represented a chapter of its Father God's past!

Just this one point alone was enough to make it, the First Dragon, carefully preserve it; perhaps in the future it would even be a treasure to boast about to its younger brothers and sisters!

With this, the First Dragon began to carefully preserve this Dragon Claw that came from its Father God.

But now, its most precious treasure had actually been found by these detestable humans, and was now being gripped roughly by that human's filthy, stinking claw.

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(End of this chapter)