Chapter 1720: The True Golden Dragon Mountain

Among the four great Outer Shenzhou, the Central Outer Shenzhou possessed the deepest foundations, and the number of Li Li Tianwang-level powers existing on this vast, boundless land far surpassed that of the other three great Outer Shenzhou.

Among them was the true headquarters of the Golden Dragon Treasure House — the Golden Dragon Mountain!

Li Luo followed Lü Taiyi and Lü Qing'er, spending over ten days crossing the vast heavens and earth before finally arriving at an extremely prosperous nation.

The nations here all belonged to the "Golden Dragon Commerce Alliance," likewise under the Golden Dragon Treasure House. It was said that of the wealth in the ten great Outer Shenzhou, this place held three or four tenths of it.

And in the central region of the Golden Dragon Commerce Alliance's nations, mountain ranges forged as if from gold stretched endlessly, resembling a crouching golden giant dragon, radiating boundless majesty and an aura of wealth and nobility.

This was the Golden Dragon Mountain.

Countless flying vessels, laden with expensive cargo, shuttle through this stretch of heaven and earth, ultimately delivering to every corner of the ten great Outer Shenzhou.

However, as they approached that golden-dragon-like mountain range, the flying vessels in the sky began to thin out, for as the central hub of the Golden Dragon Treasure House, this mountain range was guarded with extraordinary strictness. Powerful strange formations were densely spread throughout the heavens and earth, making it difficult even for King-realm experts to force their way in through brute strength.

But with Lü Taiyi — now the highest-ranking elder on Golden Dragon Mountain — leading the way, passage was naturally unimpeded.

On the silver-frost sword light, Li Luo opened his eyes. For those ten-plus days, he had remained in a state of cultivation; after all, he had just experienced that earth-shaking great battle in the Dragon race and had also cultivated the "Dragon Ancestor Body," so this period was perfect for settling and digesting.

He gazed at the magnificent Golden Dragon mountain range reflected in his pupils, feeling that unimaginable aura of prosperity, and could not help being moved. "What an extraordinarily wealthy land," he said.

Moreover, with his current strength, he could faintly sense that because the aura of wealth and nobility here was too dense, it had even stirred the mysterious fortune of heaven and earth, descending upon this ancient Golden Dragon mountain range.

With the blessing of heaven and earth's fortune, Golden Dragon Mountain naturally remained eternally prosperous, with countless young prodigies continuously emerging.

"No wonder the Golden Dragon Treasure House gathers the world's wealth — it turns out they're using this method to maintain their prosperity," Li Luo said with some admiration.

Wealth and nobility could nurture people and change fate.

Golden Dragon Mountain's ability to forge such unimaginable foundations was inseparable from their tireless gathering and accumulation of this aura of wealth and nobility.

And Li Luo finally understood why the Golden Dragon Treasure House was so passionate about accumulating wealth to become the wealthiest place in the world — their deeper purpose was to use this aura of wealth and nobility to leverage the fortune of heaven and earth.

Especially during these Ten Years of Heaven's Fortune, the world's fortune had become active, and Golden Dragon Mountain naturally received more gifts from heaven and earth.

It was possible that even Lü Qing'er's successful evolution of the Holy Ice Seed into an Acquired Primordial Seed had some connection to this place.

Lü Taiyi smiled and said, "Young friend Li Luo's eye is not bad."

This ultimate peak Three-Crown King of Golden Dragon Mountain was quite courteous toward Li Luo, for although the latter was young, his strength had already reached the world's peak. In the Dragon race battle, even two peak Three-Crown King-level experts — the Dark Yin Underworld King and Ao Yan — had been suppressed and sealed by him, battle achievements that shocked all directions and provinces.

Today's Li Luo had truly begun to enter the ranks of the ten great Outer Shenzhou's peak, so if one still regarded him as a junior, that would be far too presumptuous.

"This isn't your first time at Golden Dragon Mountain, either." At this moment, Lü Qing'er also slowly stepped forward, standing alongside Li Luo. Her eyes, like a ten-thousand-year Binghu, reflected the wealth-and-nobility-permeated Golden Dragon Mountain.

Li Luo was rather startled upon hearing this. Just as he was about to ask, his heart suddenly stirred, and sealed memories surged up from deep within his mind — back then in Daxia Ducheng, he had once followed Lü Qing'er, entering a Mi Jing through the Golden Dragon Treasure House there...

That was... the Golden Dragon Dao Field.

And the Golden Dragon Dao Field had been opened within the space of Golden Dragon Mountain.

That was why Lü Qing'er had said he wasn't coming to Golden Dragon Mountain for the first time.

Recalling these past memories, Li Luo's expression inevitably grew somewhat complicated. "You actually still remember," he said.

Lü Qing'er said in a flat tone, "Li Luo, my emotions are frozen, not my memory."

Li Luo muttered, "Why does it feel like it might as well be amnesia — at least then you wouldn't be an ice block."

If it were the old Lü Qing'er, she would surely have rolled her eyes hard at his words, but now her fair, cold, and beautiful face showed not the slightest ripple.

The silver-frost sword light cut across the sky, passing through Layer upon Layer of strange formations radiating astonishing energy fluctuations, until the space before them suddenly transformed, as if becoming a boundless starry sky.

A dragon roar that shook the universe suddenly rang out.

Li Luo looked up and saw that in the starry sky, there seemed to be a golden dragon coiled, seemingly asleep, its dragon eyes tightly shut. In Li Luo's perception, this golden dragon was not a living creature but a form of energy body.

No — it should be a top-tier, ultimate guardian strange formation.

Even with Li Luo's current strength, facing this closed-eyed golden dragon, he sensed an extremely intense sense of crisis.

"What an astonishing guardian strange formation — the foundations of Golden Dragon Mountain truly are extraordinary."

Li Luo secretly marveled. He had also seen the mountain-guarding strange formation of Li Li Tianwang's lineage, but compared to the one before him at Golden Dragon Mountain, it was more than one tier inferior.

Upon that massive golden dragon's body, towering mountain ranges stood, upon which countless buildings and lights could be seen.

This was the true Golden Dragon Mountain.

The three core lineages that had founded Golden Dragon Mountain all resided here.

The silver-frost sword light cut through the void and descended straight toward a towering main mountain. Here there was a guest-welcome plaza. When the silver-frost sword light descended, Li Luo saw many extraordinary figures coming forward to greet them.

"Li Luo, you are an honored guest this time — all three lineages of our Golden Dragon Mountain have come to welcome you," Lü Taiyi said with a smile.

Li Luo's gaze looked forward and saw that among the many figures coming to greet them, the foremost was a middle-aged man wearing a golden dragon robe. His face was resolute and steady, and he held a jade scepter with a golden dragon biting its tail.

Then Li Luo saw, behind this somewhat world-weary middle-aged man, a familiar figure of a beautiful woman.

That was... Yu Yu Hongxi.

And so Li Luo knew the identity of this middle-aged man.

At this moment, the middle-aged man stepped forward, first giving a slight bow in greeting to Lü Taiyi, then turning his gaze to Li Luo, a faint smile appearing on his face.

"Li Luo, we have finally truly met."

"My name is Lü Sui. I am the current Mountain Master of Golden Dragon Mountain, and I am also Qing'er's father."

Actually, back then in the Heavenly Mirror Pagoda, Lü Sui had appeared to take Lü Qing'er away, but Li Luo had been cultivating at the time and the two had not interacted, so this was their first true meeting.

Lü Sui was very polite, and his gaze toward Li Luo was also filled with sighs of admiration. One should know that back in the Heavenly Mirror Pagoda, the latter had been only at the Marquis Realm, but now upon meeting again, Li Luo had already entered the top tier of this world — in terms of strength, even stronger than him, the Mountain Master of Golden Dragon Mountain.

After all, he himself had only barely broken through to the Three-Crown King realm during these Ten Years of Heaven's Fortune with the aid of heaven and earth's fortune. But now Li Luo had even suppressed and sealed two peak Three-Crown King-level experts — such earth-shaking battle achievements could not be ignored even by Golden Dragon Mountain.

"Greetings, Mountain Master Lü Sui."

Li Luo quickly returned the courtesy, then his gaze turned toward Yu Yu Hongxi, whom he hadn't seen in years. Since the upheaval in Daxia, Yu Yu Hongxi had no longer served as the president of the Golden Dragon Treasure House in Daxia, but had come to Golden Dragon Mountain to be with Lü Qing'er.

"President Yu, it's been a long time," Li Luo said with a smile, cupping his hands in greeting.

Yu Yu Hongxi looked at this dignified, broad-shouldered, handsome young man before her, her eyes full of complexity, for she too was well aware of what status and strength Li Luo now held in the ten great Outer Shenzhou. Otherwise, the high-ranking members of Golden Dragon Mountain's three lineages would not have all come to welcome him.

The youth in her memory who had once had to run everywhere seeking reinforcements to protect the Luo Lan Mansion had long since emerged from the abyss, transformed into a heavenly dragon, his dragon roar shaking the ten provinces.

Her own daughter's eye for people was indeed excellent — what a pity, though...

Yu Yu Hongxi's gaze, full of tender pity, looked toward her daughter — face like frost, eyes like a Binghu — and in the end could only heave a quiet sigh within her heart.

Those Li father and son — what a pair of troublemakers.