Soul Land IV (Douluo Dalu) : Ultimate Fighting

Chapter 1203: Chapter 123 Preparing to Go Home

He didn’t expect that Lan Xuanyu and his team would return so quickly and couldn’t help but praise their intelligence in secret. Having won the championship, they wouldn’t lack tangible benefits, so what was the point of staying in Ascending Dragon City to bask in flattery?

Upon hearing of Lan Xuanyu and his team’s return, he immediately paid a visit, personally expressed his concern for their wellbeing, and brought many heavenly and earthly treasures for Lan Xuanyu’s healing. Lan Xuanyu feigned weakness and informed him that he was severely injured, with damage to his very foundation, and feared he would need to enter seclusion for a long period of recuperation. During this time, he would likely be unable to receive visitors. He then shared his thoughts on delaying his trip to the Dragon Realm with Huang Daoqi.

To this, Huang Daoqi was naturally overjoyed. His greatest concern now was Lan Xuanyu leaving Fenglong City, especially worried about increased contact between other families and “her.”

A displeased Sky Dragon Leader was indeed a good thing. Otherwise, if he became the heir to the Leader, the millennium contract would be no more than a piece of paper. Now with Lan Xuanyu in seclusion for healing, he wished the longer Lan Xuanyu’s recovery took, the better. After all, the revelation of an Imperial Dragon Leader was already something he could take pride in.

There and then, Huang Daoqi told Lan Xuanyu to rest easy. Regarding the construction of the new Dragon Power Hall, he would handle it personally, ensuring Lan Xuanyu’s satisfaction.

After his father and son left, Lan Xuanyu immediately said to Bai Xiuxiu, “Xiuxiu, make a trip to Tree Elder and tell him. We are ready to go home.”

“Going home?” Bai Xiuxiu’s eyes lit up, but then she frowned and said, “But what if they want to summon you to the Dragon Realm? We can’t control the timing of that.”

Lan Xuanyu replied, “Use the severe injury and damage to my foundation as the reason, and say I’m in secluded healing. We will discuss it after I’ve healed. After this return, it might be a long time before we can come back again. So, despite some risks, we must make the trip home once more. Bring all the plant-class soul beasts with you and also take our findings back. The data we’ve accumulated over the past few months is of great help to the federation. Once we are back on Sky Dragon Planet, we will need to stay here for a while, focusing on cultivation in hopes of making a breakthrough.”

“Okay,” Xiuxiu said. “If all else fails, just have your servant tell them we’ve gone back to where we used to live. After all, they don’t know the exact location of our previous residence.”

“Right,” Lan Xuanyu’s eyes slightly narrowed. Now was the time they must return. Missing this opportunity, with his increasingly important status on Sky Dragon Planet, the chance to vanish for several dozen days would be almost impossible.

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Ascending Dragon Platform.

Eighteen Dragon Knights were spread out, each standing at different positions on the Ascending Dragon Platform. The Sky Dragon Leader stood at the center of the entire platform, the closest point to the Dragon Realm and the necessary path to it.

At this moment, the emotions of the Sky Dragon Leader seemed to have returned to normal as he said in a deep voice, “Begin.”

The eighteen Dragon Knights simultaneously raised their right hands, drove by their bloodline, droplets of blood fell from their fingertips onto the ground in front of them.

The positioning of their stance was very particular. Although they were all attempting together, the higher-ranked Dragon Knights stood closer to the center.

The blood of Dragon Knights at this level was already entirely different from that of ordinary Dragon Clan members. Each droplet of Dragon blood was as heavy as a hammer, producing a “thud thud” sound when hitting the ground.

Especially the blood of the Sky Dragon Leader, each droplet was gold-red in color, and the ground would form little pits where the blood fell, with intense gold-red energy rippling around, accompanied by low dragon roar growls.

The blood of the other Dragon Knights also fell in various wonders. For a moment, the Dragon Power filled the entire Ascending Dragon Platform, far surpassing that of the previous Ascending Dragon Competition.

If it weren’t for the Dragon Knights being able to conceal with their Cultivation, I’m afraid that the deep dragon roar would be enough to cover the whole Ascending Dragon City.

Each one of them was a Super God-level powerhouse. As drops of Dragon blood fell, they all watched the ground with blazing eyes while fully expanding their divine consciousness, sensing the changes happening in the Ascending Dragon Platform beneath them.

Soon, more and more blood accumulated beneath their feet, and the colors of their blood varied according to their own attributes, not purely red. The Dragon blood spread, and for a moment, the entire Ascending Dragon Platform filled with frenzied dragon roars.

Suddenly, the Ascending Dragon Platform seemed to have been touched by something, and it began to tremble slightly. The eighteen Dragon Knights present naturally felt it, and, overjoyed, they quickly urged their own blood to flow faster, speeding towards the ground.

At their level of Cultivation, blood was the most precious resource. Although they could recover blood quickly, the energy accumulated in the original blood was the most tremendous. It had absorbed an unknown amount of Dragon Power and the essence of heaven and earth.

At this very moment, the misty glow pervading the Ascending Dragon Platform had an energy fluctuation even richer than the immortal aura of the Divine Realm.

After all, immortal aura is commonly found in the Divine Realm, but what they had before them was equivalent to eighteen Level One gods bleeding! This was an entirely different level of change.

The trembling of the Ascending Dragon Platform began to intensify, and such a massive structure now had palpable trembling waves, with the Dragon blood on the ground also trembling, beginning to seep into the ground drop by drop.

The Sky Dragon Leader’s eyes shone brightly with golden light; his blood was undoubtedly the highest in level and the most energy-containing among all Dragon Knights. He also believed that if there were to be feedback, he would surely be the first to receive it.

At this time, even he could not afford to consider the loss of his bloodline. Ever since his Cultivation reached this level, he could sense many things that were previously undetectable. For instance, his current Cultivation was actually unstable, hovering within a phase. If the energy absorbed from the Dragon Realm were too little, Strength would even dissipate, yet it couldn’t be elevated even when saturated.

He no longer knew how many years had passed without increasing his Cultivation. He understood that this was because he didn’t possess a divine god Rank. Even as Super God-level powerhouses, they couldn’t create a system within their bodies. They needed to constantly supplement with external energy to maintain their Cultivation. While Cultivation could be maintained, life span could only increase, not truly reach immortality.

The eighteen Dragon Knights once tried to create the Divine Realm with their collective strength. However, no matter how hard they tried, they couldn’t touch the path to the Divine Realm. Up to now, they still do not know how the Divine Realm should be created or how it came into existence.

They could only grope around.

As the one with the most potent strength, the Sky Dragon Leader naturally had the clearest perception. He faintly felt that unless his strength could cross another huge bottleneck and reach the mythical level of the God King, perhaps the creation of the Divine Realm would be a matter of course.

But that level was as insurmountable as the heavens for him. Without a special opportunity, he understood that no matter how many more years he cultivated, it would be impossible to succeed.

The power of the Dragon Clan within the Dragon Realm was indeed mighty, yet still far insufficient to support him in reaching that level. Or perhaps, he had not yet grasped the true essence of the Dragon Clan world.

How to achieve this, he did not know. Yet, the higher level of Bloodline Energy obtained by Lan on the Ascending Dragon Platform, which induced the evolution of bloodline, had presented an opportunity to these Dragon Knights. If bloodlines could evolve, perhaps there would be an opportunity to continue Cultivating. Although breaking through to the realm of the God King was still slim, at least there was a certain possibility.

Precisely because of this, the eighteen Dragon Knights had gathered here today for such an attempt.