Chapter 449: Heavenly Gate

A high-grade patchwork monster!

And yet such a strong one who has been patched up, being 'shaped' into a flesh-and-blood pilgrim, is still not enough?

Tiluan still wants him to complete what mission?

Nobody moved.

Including Liu Junyan.

He kept standing in his original position, holding that ancient bronze sword in his hand, his head following that figure step by step as it climbed up, moving bit by bit.

The Dragon Gate is tall.

The Bone Ladder is long.

The iron chain on the White Dragon's Dībā pò's ankle clanged clang with his movements.

This process was long and monotonous.

I don't know how long passed, but he finally knelt at the end of the Bone Ladder.

And his head was only two or three meters away from the lintel of the Dragon Gate.

He knelt there, with chanting voices continuously coming, unable to tell whether they came from above the Bone Ladder or from the depths of the forbidden land.

When the chanting stopped, that person straightened his upper body, took out three long, thin sticks of yellow incense from his sleeve, raised them above his head, and performed another kowtow.

The yellow incense caught the wind and ignited without fire.

The curling incense smoke actually drifted straight toward the area above the Dragon Gate's lintel.

"We seem to have been deceived."

Beside him, Hu Yulin suddenly whispered this.

I looked at him, puzzled: "What?"

"Climbing the Dragon Gate, offering incense... isn't that what Seventh Lord should be doing?" Hu Yulin scratched his head, "Now he just watches as someone else does this."

Yes.

Xiaoye said the same to me.

It's obvious that from the start, they were all kept in the dark by Liu Junyan.

Hu Yulin seemed to catch on: "Xiao Jiu, have we all been played by this kid?"

"I don't know." I said honestly, "If I hadn't come today, I would know nothing of what you're plotting."

Hu Yulin narrowed his eyes to scrutinize me: "Before, I always thought no one understood him better than I did, but now, after over a century of settling, he seems to have changed, his heart hiding too many things, making him inscrutable, but Xiao Jiu, you can see through his heart, right?"

I still shook my head.

Things have come to this; there's nothing left to say.

They are childhood friends, brothers; knowing some things in your heart is enough.

I do have some speculation: nothing more than Liu Junyan announcing that he wants to 'give the child a name' by climbing the Dragon Gate and offering incense... but this news is meant for those who are attentive.

Because climbing the Dragon Gate itself is profitable.

A carp leaping over the Dragon Gate can ascend to become a dragon.

Then, what about the Dībā pò cultivated by the White Dragon itself?

Could one, by relying on this true Dragon Gate, achieve some purpose?

Liu Junyan is using the pretext of earning a name for this little guy in my belly... to completely slay the White Dragon's Dībā pò?!

When I thought of this, Hu Yulin obviously thought of it too.

The two of us locked eyes, and at the same time heard a 'hiss' squeezed from between the other's teeth.

Childhood friends truly are childhood friends.

Hu Yulin silently cursed: "Damn brat! His scheming is too deep! He's dragged me and the entire Linghai Dragon Clan into this."

I said somewhat ruefully: "But he hasn't considered everything..."

Liu Junyan knows the Dragon Gate trap.

But he didn't expect that the Little White Dragon and Liu Mu's determination would be greater.

They actually sacrificed their own lives to fulfill Liu Junyan's plan, both offering themselves up and activating the true Dragon Gate.

Liu Junyan's goal was achieved, but he forever lost his mother.

For all these years, he has held his breath, just to ensure success in rescuing Liu Mu.

Before acting, he also clearly arranged for Hu Yulin, successfully rescuing Liu Mu and Zhong Susu.

But he never imagined that Liu Mu would still die in the end.

Actually, from Liu Mu's perspective, she was destined to die.

Whether it was entering the Dragon Transformation Cauldron back then, or later handing over her inner elixir to me, she had long prepared for body and spirit to be destroyed.

How to put it? In this world, eight or nine out of ten things go against our wishes.

This... must be fate.

Crackle!

The seventh bolt of heavenly thunder came especially suddenly.

While everyone's attention was still on that person on the Bone Ladder, a bolt of heavenly thunder exploded from above the Dragon Gate without warning, lightning forcibly tearing apart the space above it.

It was as if another dimension had been ripped open!

"Heavenly Gate!"

I heard someone shout excitedly.

Immediately, everyone echoed: "It really is the Heavenly Gate!"

"As it turns out, the legend is true: climbing the Dragon Gate, offering incense, sacrificing one's heart's blood to the ancestors of Longling gives a chance to obtain the mighty merit and Dragon Qi accumulated by the Longling ancestors, open the Heavenly Gate, and ascend to immortality!"

Yeah, did you see that just now? That person stuck a silver needle into his own heart to take heart's blood, and that was indeed sincere enough.

Yeah, ordinary people usually take heart's blood from the left ring finger.

Who is he?

……

Everyone present is an important figure of the Linghai Dragon Clan.

And among those who were just loudly discussing, there are plenty of elders and such.

One white-haired, white-bearded old man stroked his beard and said, "He might be the founder of our Linghai, the true … of the Linghai Dragon Clan."

Pfft!

Before he could finish speaking, his eyes suddenly widened, he spat blood, his whole body instantly stiffened, and then he began to sway as if about to fall.

He slowly turned his head, looking in disbelief at the person who had schemed against him.

Everyone followed his gaze and saw the steadfast-eyed Xiaoye.

"Tsk tsk, these outstanding youths of the Linghai Dragon Clan, each fiercer than the last, each harder to provoke." Hu Yulin clicked his tongue repeatedly, "They have been striving to eliminate dissidents around them, but they never managed to uncover that person hidden deepest; I never expected it to be this venerable, respected elder."

I only glanced, then my gaze shifted back to the Dragon Gate side.

This is a private matter of the Linghai Dragon Clan.

However, in that brief moment, the White Dragon's Dībā pò, who had been kneeling just before, had already risen.

He stood aloof at the end of the bone ladder, facing the heavenly gate split open by thunder and lightning, one hand making a gesture of chanting sutras while his mouth murmured incantations.

Within the heavenly gate, lightning flashed and thunder rumbled; each bolt of light that passed through his body let me clearly see the three golden scales on his chest, as well as that translucent blood-red cinnabar spirit bone.

He began forming hand seals, continuously chanting some scripture, and his whole body slowly rose toward the heavenly gate.

He… is he really going to break the heavenly gate and ascend to immortality?!

If it weren't for those two long, black iron chains still on his ankles, I would truly have thought he would succeed.

At that moment, Liu Junyan moved.

He held the ancient bronze sword in his hand, tapped his toe, and leapt onto the bone ladder.

His body was like lightning; he covered several steps in a single stride, and in the blink of an eye he had reached the top.

If just now the White Dragon's Dībā pò had knelt step by step like a devout Buddhist;

then Liu Junyan at this moment was like a grim executioner from hell, heavy with killing intent……