Chapter 73: Dragon God War! Ice and Fire Dragon Kings!
"These… are they soul beasts?"
Looking at the thousands of gigantic beast remains scattered across the basin, Zhu Zhuqing was no longer shocked and instead asked calmly.
Along the way, the earth-shattering scenes she had witnessed had gradually numbed her nerves. At this moment, she felt somewhat detached.
"You could say that."
Zhou Chen spoke slowly. "To be precise, they are the Dragon Clan—true dragons."
"True dragons? Like the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon?"
Zhu Zhuqing wrinkled her delicate nose slightly. She had heard that true dragons were top-tier soul beasts that had long gone extinct, and that human clans claiming inheritance of true dragon martial souls, such as the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon clan, were exceedingly rare.
"The Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon? Whether they are true dragons is hard to say."
Zhou Chen smiled faintly and said mockingly, "In any case, true dragons were almost completely slaughtered by the gods. The few that remain are hiding everywhere just to survive, and no dragon would bother to verify the authenticity of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon clan."
At this point, Zhou Chen's tone turned somber. "As long as the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon clan remains powerful, they are true dragon descendants, and few would dare say otherwise. If one day they decline or are wiped out, countless people would surely slander them as mongrel dragons."
Hearing this, Zhu Zhuqing nodded in agreement.
This world had always been one of the strong devouring the weak, and such tendencies were even more pronounced in the Star Luo Empire.
As long as you are strong, even a grass chicken martial soul will be praised as a phoenix. If you are weak, even a true dragon will be scorned as a lizard.
Suddenly realizing something, she exclaimed in shock, "What did you say? The Dragon Clan was wiped out by the gods?"
"Who else could it be?"
The corner of Zhou Chen's mouth lifted slightly as he began recounting the history of the Dragon Clan from the Douluo trilogy.
"The ancestor of the Dragon Clan was named the Dragon God. It possessed the power of creation and destruction from the origin of the universe, and even the combined forces of the Five Great God Kings of humanity were no match for it. Beneath the Dragon God were the Nine Great Dragon Kings, known as the Dragon God's Nine Sons, each one a First-Class God."
As he spoke, Zhou Chen pointed toward the Dragon Clan graveyard below. "Below the Nine Great Dragon Kings were tens of thousands of true dragons. The weakest among those that died here possessed strength comparable to a Titled Douluo, and there were quite a few god-level true dragons as well. Other than the gods of the God Realm, who else was worthy of being the Dragon Clan's enemy?"
Hearing this, Zhu Zhuqing's small mouth fell open. Even though she had prepared herself mentally, Zhou Chen's words still left her heart pounding with fear.
One had to know that in the present age, the total number of human Titled Douluo barely reached a few dozen. Yet the ancient Dragon Clan had tens of thousands of Titled Douluo-level beings.
Not to mention those god-level true dragons.
Such power was enough to annihilate humanity a hundred times over.
Taking a deep breath, Zhu Zhuqing barely steadied herself. Her eyelashes trembled as she asked, "Why did the gods of the God Realm want to eliminate the Dragon Clan?"
"It wasn't that the gods wanted to destroy the Dragon Clan. It was that the Dragon God wanted to destroy the gods."
Zhou Chen sneered coldly. "Several hundred thousand years ago, there were two major factions in the God Realm: divine beasts and human gods. The Dragon God was the leader of all divine beasts. Perhaps it lost its mind and led all divine beasts in the God Realm in an attempt to slaughter all the human gods."
"This war was also known as the Dragon God War."
"However, although the Dragon God was immensely powerful, for reasons unknown, the divine beast faction was defeated. The Dragon God itself was besieged by the Five Great God Kings of humanity and was ultimately split in half by the strongest among them, the Asura God King, with a single sword."
"After that battle, all divine beasts were exterminated, and the God Realm suffered massive losses as well. More than a thousand human gods fell, and it took several hundred thousand years for the God Realm to recover."
At this point, Zhou Chen sighed softly. "Because of this, the human gods harbored deep hatred toward the Dragon Clan and all beasts. The Asura God King personally led the God Realm's law enforcement team to descend to the lower realm, completely exterminating the Dragon Clan on Douluo Continent and severing the path for beasts to become gods."
"The Dragon God War…"
Zhu Zhuqing murmured, her gaze fixed blankly on the scene below. This graveyard alone was already so shocking that she could not imagine how vast and magnificent the war that engulfed the entire God Realm must have been.
No wonder Zhou Chen said this place was a prison of the God Realm.
Clearly, these Dragon Clan members reduced to mere bones were all criminals in the eyes of the God Realm and were ultimately slaughtered.
"All right, stop looking."
Zhou Chen smiled, tightened his arm around Zhu Zhuqing's slender waist, and said, "What I need is down there. Let's go find it."
As soon as his words fell, Zhou Chen controlled the Xuanyuan Sword, transforming into a streak of golden light and descending onto the outer ground of the Dragon Clan graveyard.
Originally, Zhou Chen had intended to fly straight to the very center of the graveyard to find the fifty tons of divine crystals.
However, this place was covered by a flight-restricting formation laid down by the God Realm, specifically designed to counter the flight-capable Dragon Clan. As a result, flight was impossible here.
Thus, the two of them slowly walked inward. The deeper they went, the more enormous the dragon bones became. Within the bones, aside from overflowing soul power, there also seemed to be faint fluctuations of spiritual power.
After an unknown amount of time, Zhou Chen grabbed Zhu Zhuqing's hand and suddenly stopped.
They had arrived at the center of the dragon graveyard.
Here lay two incomparably massive sets of true dragon bones.
One was icy blue, the other crimson red. Each stretched for more than ten thousand meters in length and stood nearly a thousand meters tall, over a hundred times larger than the surrounding true dragons, unimaginably colossal.
Of the two, the blue dragon on the left had its head severed. The enormous dragon skull lay alone to the side, and within its hollow eye sockets seemed to linger boundless resentment.
As for the crimson dragon on the right, a massive fissure cut through the center of its enormous skeleton, as if cleaved by a sharp weapon, precisely splitting its ten-thousand-meter-long body in two.
The blue and red dragon skeletons were entwined together, forming the shape of a Taiji diagram.
It was strikingly similar to the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Eyes.
"This is…"
Zhou Chen stared at the blue and red dragon skeletons and suddenly recalled their identities.
They were two of the Dragon God's Nine Sons, among the Nine Great Dragon Kings—the Water Dragon King and the Fire Dragon King.
Back then, when the Dragon God fell in the God Realm, its Nine Sons, each a First-Class God, naturally became priority targets for pursuit.
Among them, the Water Dragon King, who controlled water elements, and the Fire Dragon King, who controlled fire elements, both fell in the Sunset Forest. Their bodies were buried deep underground, and from this, the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Eyes were born.
This secret was recorded in the Legend of the Three Dragon Kings of Douluo and did not appear in the plots of Douluo One or Two.
Thus, Zhou Chen had never realized it before.
Only now did he remember.
Beneath these two Dragon Kings lay layer upon layer of purple crystals. The crystals were filled with strange energy, and countless golden runes were engraved upon their surfaces.
If Zhou Chen's guess was correct, those golden runes were actually the flight-restricting formation laid down by the God Realm.
As for the purple crystals, they provided energy for god-level formations and were precisely what Zhou Chen had been searching for all along—divine crystals.
(This chapter ends.)
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