Chapter 462: Dragon God Blood Can Evolve

The golden giant dragon paused for a moment, swallowed the dragon breath it was about to spit out, and asked in confusion: "You are...?"

Before it could finish speaking, the little angel dragged Nai Ge Li Si's tail, and everyone turned around and ran, zipping out of the narrow cave entrance.

Nai Ge Li Si cooperated well, relaxing and letting the little angel drag him along, which was much faster than turning around and flying himself.

Only then did the golden giant dragon realize what was happening and roar in anger: "Damn insects! Despicable leeches! Disgusting two-legged beasts!"

While roaring, the golden giant dragon got up and quickly crawled toward the cave mouth, like a giant lizard, and emerged from the cave in a few moves.

Seeing Ange and the others were already waiting calmly on the flat ground outside the cliff.

"Damn it, you actually dared to trick me? Prepare to die..." The golden giant dragon opened its blood-filled mouth, about to brew dragon breath, but was interrupted by Nai Ge Li Si's shout.

"Wait a minute! Have I ever ridden your wife?!" Nai Ge Li Si shouted loudly.

What!? You still want to ride my wife? Are you a dragon rider?! The golden giant dragon's eyes bulged as big as an entire horse, and flames of anger burned like dragon breath.

"Uh, you're angry? Wait, let me rephrase: Have I ever stolen your dragon eggs?!" Nai Ge Li Si shouted loudly.

With your embryo-like appearance, you still want to steal my dragon eggs? The golden giant dragon was so angry its nostrils turned round.

"Have I disturbed your sleep?! I haven't ridden your wife, I haven't stolen your dragon eggs, and I haven't disturbed your sleep, so why did you breathe fire at us?!" Nai Ge Li Si cursed.

The golden giant dragon, disregarding everything, opened its blood-filled mouth wide, and a scorching dragon breath that had long been brewing deep in its throat shot out.

The little angel flew up and blocked in front of the dragon breath; Seeing Ange waved his hand, sending a beam of light onto her—Guardian Barrier. Although they had never practiced it, their coordination was as perfect as if they had rehearsed it a thousand times.

The dragon breath hit the little angel and split apart.

After the dragon breath passed, the little angel was unharmed, opened six wings, and drew the Archangel's Staff.

The golden giant dragon's eyes suddenly widened: "Six-winged Archangel? You..."

Before it could finish speaking, the little angel pushed both hands forward, and a beam of light shone on its chest.

The golden giant dragon's skin tore and flesh split, its scales fell off, and a two-meter-wide crater appeared on its chest, filled with bloody flesh.

Roar! The golden giant dragon screamed in pain, raised its upper body, and swung its huge claws down to strike.

Clang! Its hind legs were struck as if by lightning; the cannonball formed by the little zombie collided with its body, causing it to almost lose its balance.

The golden giant dragon violently shook its tail, stood up, planted one hind leg on the ground, and kicked out with the other hind leg, performing an extremely difficult golden lizard kick that landed on the little zombie.

The little zombie assumed a lunge position, kneeling on the ground with one hand braced in front and the other supporting on the ground—Earth Charge. Xiong Xiong's soul energy armored itself onto his body, forming heavy soul armor.

The golden giant dragon's kick felt like kicking a stone embedded in the ground; with a crack, it slid forward. The soreness in the sole of its foot was so intense it almost made tears well up in the golden giant dragon's eyes.

The little zombie was also crushed into the ground.

The golden giant dragon fell to the ground and could not get up again; for it, this was a kind of supercharged last burst of energy before death.

As Seeing Ange and the others just entered the cave, they saw a dying golden giant dragon. It had been provoked by Nai Ge Li Si and chased out, breathed a mouthful of dragon breath, and then performed a golden lizard stand.

This posture was difficult even for young dragons to achieve, let alone for such a fifty-meter-long giant; if it were not for that last burst of energy before death, it absolutely could not have performed such a move.

Lying on the ground, the golden giant dragon raised its head and bared its teeth viciously at Seeing Ange and the others.

If it were an ordinary person, they might have been frightened by its fierce appearance, but Nai Ge Li Si himself was a giant dragon and could immediately see through its outwardly strong but inwardly weak posture.

Probably because of this, it attacked all living creatures without restraint; giant dragons only become this ferocious when they are about to die, and this golden giant dragon had reached the end of its life.

"I know you are about to die. You are afraid we will move your corpse and those dragon eggs, right? I can guarantee you that I will not touch those dragon eggs. I am also a giant dragon; look closely. You can call me Lord Nai Ge." Nai Ge Li Si flew up and said with a sigh.

The golden giant dragon paused for a moment, and its narrowed vertical pupils slowly opened.

"Your name," Nai Ge Li Si asked loudly.

The golden giant dragon looked at Nai Ge Li Si for a long while and suddenly said: "You said you won't touch my dragon eggs, but you didn't say you won't touch my corpse. Does that mean you will touch it, right?"

Nai Ge Li Si nodded honestly: "Yes, it would be a waste not to. You are such a huge adult giant dragon; even if I said I wouldn't touch you, you wouldn't believe me anyway."

The golden giant dragon took a deep breath and then exhaled slowly: "Swear an oath, in the name of the Dragon God, that you will not touch those dragon eggs, and I am willing to give my body to you to handle."

"Agreed, I swear in the name of the Dragon God that I will not touch those dragon eggs." Nai Ge Li Si quickly swore the oath.

The golden giant dragon stared at him for a long while, then suddenly let out a long sigh and said: "My name is Nefarian Uzmos Rafalit Babuguli... Dorok." It took a full minute for the golden giant dragon to finish saying its full name.

Nai Ge Li Si asked: "Where are your wings?"

The golden giant dragon turned its head to look at its back and said painfully: "I have no wings; I never had them since I was young."

"A deformed dragon? Then how did you grow so big? Do you live here? What do you usually eat?" Nai Ge Li Si asked in confusion.

This island was not a barren island, but it was obviously impossible to support a fifty-meter-long giant dragon; where did the food come from? Eating migratory birds? Don't make me laugh.

Dorok said: "I can swim."

"Pfft—you can swim?" This was simply a miracle in evolutionary biology; a giant dragon can actually swim?

This was the only reasonable explanation; otherwise, it would be hard to explain how it survived here. This was not the Dragon Island of the main plane, which could support millions of little fat sheep. Only by eating fish could it survive and grow so big.

"How old are you this year?" Nai Ge Li Si asked.

"Two thousand years old," Dorok said.

"What? Over two thousand years old? You're going to die at over two thousand years old? Are you joking? Aren't you a golden dragon?" Nai Ge Li Si was so shocked he flew up, flapped his wings, and circled around Dorok once.

The scent of exhaustion at the end of life was clearly detectable; indeed, its lifespan had reached its end.

"How is that possible? Your aura doesn't look like that of a two-thousand-year-old golden dragon. You're lying, right? You smell like you're over ten thousand years old, yet your skin, flesh, and scales are quite young. A young giant dragon's body emitting the rotting smell of old age is too strange." Nai Ge Li Si said with a puzzled expression.

Dorok's claws moved unconsciously; he was hesitating whether to slap this embryo dragon to death, but the moment this impulse arose in his heart, he immediately sensed danger. Glancing sideways, he saw that Seeing Ange's gaze had locked onto him at some unknown moment.

After thinking for a moment, Dorok relaxed his claws. Killing an embryo dragon obviously would not change the situation; it would only anger the other party, and he wouldn't even be able to protect the dragon eggs. Although those eggs might already be rotten, they were already the last hope of the dragon race.

Sighing inwardly, Dorok replied: "Since our wings began to degenerate, the lifespan of our dragon race has been declining sharply. By my generation, it has dropped to less than two thousand years."

"Degenerate? Giant dragons can still de... uh, degenerate into what? Degenerate into being able to swim in the sea? Degenerate into fish? Golden dragon fish?" Nai Ge Li Si muttered to himself.

He originally wanted to say it couldn't be degeneration, but thinking of the Dragon God and then thinking of his own kind on the main plane who couldn't even hatch their children, what else could this be but degeneration?

Dorok glared at him; comparing the great giant dragon to a fish, if it were another species, Dorok would definitely have given it a claw right now, but the one complaining was the golden...

"This isn't gold, is it? This is bronze, a bronze dragon? Are you an ancient dragon? You are an ancient dragon?!" Dorok finally recognized something and suddenly became very excited, pushing up with his forelimbs to try to get up.

Unfortunately, before he could support his body, his forelimbs went soft, and he collapsed back down.

With this movement, the wound on his chest tore open again, and blood could no longer be stopped, pouring down in a torrent.

Durok gave a bitter smile and lay back down, saying with regret and helplessness: "I didn't expect you to be a brass dragon, and I didn't expect to see an ancient dragon before I died. It's such a pity; you came too late. If there's anything else you want to ask, ask quickly. I probably can't hold on much longer. I could have lasted another month or two, but with this much blood loss, I won't even last half a day."

Lord Nai Ge comforted him: "Half a day is enough; it's not like we're telling a story that takes a month or two. But since you've lost so much blood, don't you want some healing?"

Durok's eyes widened: "You know how to heal? My magic resistance is very high; standard healing magic doesn't work well."

"I know, I know. My magic resistance is even higher than yours, so don't worry. We can do a 'little bit' of healing. Want to try?" Nai Ge Li Si gestured with its small claws and asked.

For some reason, a surge of anger welled up in Durok, ready to burst from its mouth.

Managing to suppress it with great difficulty, it forced a smile and said: "Of course I do. If possible, I would still prefer to die of old age rather than from excessive blood loss."

"Alright then, Seeing Ange," Nai Ge Li Si called out, turning its head.

Seeing Ange wiped out rows of holy light from the Cleansing Spell and infused them into Durok's body. Although its size was massive and its magic resistance extremely high, Seeing Ange's spell wasn't elemental magic.

Durok lowered its head and watched helplessly as its wounds quickly stopped bleeding and healed, with flesh and skin rapidly growing back, leaving only a large, bare patch without scales.

For a dragon, scales are like hair to a human; the Cleansing Spell couldn't heal them. That would require the little sapling, and that costs extra.

However, the bleeding had stopped, and the process took less than ten seconds.

Durok sat up, dumbfounded, looking at the bald patch on its chest, then at Seeing Ange, and finally staring at Nai Ge Li Si. Was this what they called a 'little bit' of healing?

Nai Ge Li Si loved seeing such stunned expressions on others. Feeling secretly pleased, it put its hands on its hips: "How about it? Not bad, right?"

It treated Durok like a junior of its own race—a two-thousand-year-old little brat of a dragon was at the perfect age for teasing.

Durok's mouth twitched, and suppressing the urge to bare its teeth, it gave a dry laugh: "It's fine, it's more than fine."

As it spoke, it moved around a bit and felt as if even some old, chronic injuries inside its body had healed. Durok felt that it should be able to live for another two months.

Nai Ge Li Si loved this feeling of being misunderstood by someone who couldn't do anything about it. Satisfied with its own mischievous nature, it returned to the main topic: "What's the deal with those eggs? I can smell them; some have already gone rotten."

Durok's expression dimmed, and it said: "This is our dragon race's hatching ground. All the eggs of the clan are here. Some are stuck, some lost heat, some lacked the right conditions—indeed, many have already died."

Nai Ge Li Si knew all too well how harsh the hatching conditions for dragons were. Not to mention eggs getting stuck, even for a healthy egg, successful hatching was no easy task; different measures had to be taken according to the species.

For example, the gold dragon is a magic dragon and requires a very active elemental environment to hatch.

Or the black dragon, which is a war dragon; its physique is exceptionally strong, and it must start training while still a fetus, otherwise, it won't be able to break through an eggshell that is several times thicker and harder than that of a normal dragon, and it will suffocate to death inside.

Silver dragons, red dragons, green dragons, and blue dragons all have their own requirements. Ancient dragons, on the other hand, have no requirements, but they are prone to getting stuck. So, before Seeing Ange arrived, the brass dragon was theoretically functionally extinct.

That won't happen now, of course. Although there are no male brass dragons, there are living male dragon shells, and it's not like they can't be used. Once this body of its grows up, it will go back to mount a female dragon and have children.

Seeing Ange also solved the problem of dragons getting stuck, and the dragon race has a bright future ahead.

The dragons of the main plane have a bright future, but the future of Durok's clan is dark.

The bloodline of Durok's clan has degenerated; their wings have actually disappeared. They have become sub-dragon species that can only crawl on the ground. Nai Ge Li Si calling it a "gold dragonfish" wasn't actually wrong; some of Durok's kin have already grown webbed feet.

Durok is the most special one in the clan. Apart from having no wings, it is no different from a real dragon, and its size has even grown to an unprecedented fifty meters, and it can still breathe fire.

They live in the sea and survive by preying on sea fish.

However, this cannot stop their extinction. There are other giant beasts in the sea, as well as a large number of giant-toothed marine creatures. Without an aerial advantage and with a size that isn't dominant, the number of sub-species gold dragons is dwindling day by day.

Dwindling is one thing, but their hatching difficulty is no easier than that of real dragons. Leaving behind a pile of rotten eggs, guarded by Durok, the last one in the clan who most resembles a real dragon—just thinking about it is tragic.

Being tragic is one thing, but just as it was about to die, a few guys showed up, beat it up, and threatened the dragon eggs at any moment, making it unable to die in peace.

Couldn't they have come two months later? Once it was dead, the dragon eggs would have nothing to do with it, and it could have died in peace.

"Actually, you haven't awakened your bloodline inheritance, have you?" Just as Durok was grumbling to itself, Nai Ge Li Si suddenly asked.

Durok shuddered and covered up: "How is that possible? Of course I've awakened my bloodline inheritance. Don't talk nonsense."

"I'm certainly not talking nonsense. I didn't swear in the name of the Dragon God just now; I was faking it, but you didn't notice. If you had awakened your bloodline inheritance, you definitely would have sensed it, right?" Nai Ge Li Si said.

"You!" Durok said angrily: "You dare to deceive the Dragon God?!"

"Of course I dare to deceive him; I even dare to pat him on the head." Nai Ge Li Si floated over and patted Seeing Ange on the head with a claw.

Seeing Ange turned its head and looked at it blankly.

Nai Ge Li Si continued: "You are willing to admit that you are a sub-dragon species, but you are unwilling to admit that you haven't awakened your bloodline inheritance. It seems you care a lot about your dragon bloodline."

Having its secret exposed, Durok's expression was conflicted for a long while before it let out a long sigh: "Anyway, I'm dying soon, so what difference does it make whether I care or not? For the sake of the little bit of dragon bloodline I have, please don't touch those eggs, can you?"

"Of course I can. Most of them are rotten; why would I touch them? But if no one creates a hatching environment for them, the rest will rot too. Is there any point in keeping them?" Nai Ge Li Si asked.

"Sigh, I don't know either, but this is our last hope. Perhaps if they are left there, a miracle will happen? The Dragon God will bless them," Durok said piously.

Seeing Ange looked up in confusion, because just as Durok finished speaking, a massive ball of soul flame floated over, entered Seeing Ange's soul, and condensed into a mark.

A saint of the dragon race?

Seeing Ange scratched its head. What was going on? Why would a giant dragon become his believer?

The relationship between dragons and the Dragon God is connected through bloodlines; there is no connection at the level of faith. Moreover, the Dragon God doesn't have anything like a divine status, so how could he receive soul flames?

Although it couldn't figure it out, the soul flame Durok offered was truly massive. The power offered by it alone was equivalent to that of hundreds of pious human believers.

Nai Ge Li Si didn't see this power at the level of faith. It was mischievously saying to Durok: "Actually, we have some secret techniques that can speed up the hatching of dragon eggs. Unfortunately, you won't let us touch the eggs, so we can't use these techniques. What a pity."

The scales on Durok's head stood up in anger. It finally understood that this embryonic dragon had been teasing it all along, a bit like a senior's prank. Damn it, it wasn't even as big as one of its claws, so why was it acting like a senior!?

Durok took a deep breath, and another, finally managing to suppress the urge to go berserk. It forced a smile and said: "No, no, no, you can touch them. You are very welcome to touch these eggs. Can you really speed up their hatching?"

Nai Ge Li Si was just about to speak when Seeing Ange suddenly said: "Dragon God blood, can evolve."

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