"So that is it. I am not human. I am the weapon spirit of the Dragon Clan Law Blade."
A bitter smile appeared on Sima Jinchi's face. His feelings were extremely complex.
However, because Gu Yuena had told him some things beforehand, now that he truly knew the truth, although his heart was still shaken, he did not collapse or lose composure. After all, this was a choice he had made himself.
Now, he had truly reached the realm of Human and Blade as One. He was the Dragon Clan Law Blade. The Dragon Clan Law Blade was him. No one could surpass him in this realm.
Moreover.
His gaze fell on his ninth spirit ring. The golden divine level spirit ring was so dazzling.
Unlike the original work, because it was Gu Yuena using the Dragon God's Heart's power to awaken him, his ninth spirit ring did not need to be used in conjunction with a Dragon God bloodline possessor. He could use his ninth spirit ability himself, though its power was relatively weaker.
With his ninth spirit ability, Sima Jinchi was confident that after obtaining Three Word Battle Armor, he would have almost no equal below the Limit level. If he had a set of Four Word Battle Armor, he would even be confident in facing some weaker Limit Douluo.
And if the Limit Douluo he faced had a dragon type martial soul, he could even seal the other's martial soul for a period of time. Fighting a Limit Douluo without a martial soul, the advantage was his.
After not being human, he had indeed become stronger.
The Dragon Clan Law Blade was truly delicious.
And at this moment, Sima Jinchi also understood Gu Yuena's true identity. She was not one of the legendary elemental gods, but the inheritor of the Dragon God.
"Greetings, my lord." Sima Jinchi knelt on one knee again. This time, he knelt more solemnly and sincerely. "Thank you, my lord, for letting me understand my true self."
Gu Yuena snapped back from the scenes displayed on the earlier light screen. Various emotions churned in her eyes. She finally suppressed them and nodded lightly.
"Rise. What I said before was only to prepare you mentally. I have no intention of turning you back into a divine weapon. The dragon race's era has long passed. The identity of the Dragon Clan Law Blade is meaningless now. However, since you have understood your true self, you should also cultivate diligently. Do not disgrace the name of the Dragon Clan Law Blade."
For her, this divine weapon, the Dragon Clan Law Blade, was truly useless. It was better to let him grow as a human.
Perhaps he would be useful in the future.
Hearing this, Sima Jinchi relaxed. He stood up and bowed solemnly. "Thank you, my lord, for your understanding. I will certainly cultivate diligently."
After all, he had been human for so many years. Although the Law Blade was his true body, if he were truly treated as an object, he would still find it somewhat hard to accept.
Gu Yuena's words completely eliminate his concerns.
Relaxed, Sima Jinchi looked at Huo Yuhao beside Gu Yuena and asked hesitantly, "May I ask who this lord is?"
Huo Yuhao also had the Dragon God's aura on him and was close to Gu Yuena. He did not seem like the legendary Fire God. In Sima Jinchi's eyes, this one was most likely also a dragon race deity.
He just did not know which of the Ten Great Dragon Kings he was. It certainly could not be the Golden Dragon King.
Huo Yuhao knew he had misunderstood and shook his head. "I am not a dragon. I am human."
Sima Jinchi was startled. A flicker of confusion passed through his eyes.
In his eyes, Huo Yuhao was certainly a deity. Given the situation of the Divine Realm War back then, it was truly hard for him to believe that the Silver Dragon King would be close to a human deity.
However, he could also see the faint, unspoken understanding between the two. Thinking about it, he was now human as well. There was nothing wrong with his lord's future husband being human.
If his lord planned to exterminate humanity, then he truly would not know how to handle himself.
"In the future, seeing Yuhao is like seeing me."
Gu Yuena's calm voice sounded, interrupting Sima Jinchi's thoughts.
Sima Jinchi was startled. He quickly collected himself and solemnly replied, "Yes, my lord."
He looked at Huo Yuhao. His gaze was even more respectful than before.
When his lord said "seeing him is like seeing me," anyone could understand the weight of those words.
Feeling his gaze, Huo Yuhao waved his hand. "There is no need to be so nervous. Be more casual."
Sima Jinchi nodded, but he did not dare to be truly casual.
He said respectfully, "Greetings, Lord Huo Yuhao."
Huo Yuhao did not say much more. He simply smiled. Seeing that Gu Yuena seemed to be pondering something and the atmosphere was quiet, he casually asked a question that interested him.
"As the Dragon Clan Law Blade, what rank did you reach at your peak?"
The Dragon Clan Law Blade had two settings. One was naturally at the top tier divine weapon level. The other was at the super divine weapon level.
However, the divine weapon's setting was relatively clear. The super divine weapon setting was something previous netizens had dug up from some details.
For example, in Soul Land III, when Tang Wulin used the Law Blade against En Ci, it was said to be the Dragon Clan Law Blade personally forged by the Dragon God, even an existence above the Golden Dragon King and the Silver Dragon King. Well, let us forget that.
After all, divine weapons and deities were not comparable. Without an owner, even a super divine weapon could not fight a half step God King. The comparison here was certainly not about strength, but about essence. Although it seemed very strange that the essence of the Dragon God's other half could not compare to the Law Blade made from the Dragon God's horn, there was no other possibility.
Setting that aside, the arguments for the Dragon Clan Law Blade being a super divine weapon were two things from the Soul Land IV period.
First, the past scene Lan Xuanyu saw during his Dragon God trial. Before the Divine Dragon Realm's great war, the Dragon Clan Law Blade had knocked away the Asura God, who was about to "harm" the Dragon God. This was also the scene Huo Yuhao had seen on the light screen earlier.
However, at that time, the Asura God had been hesitating whether to kill the Dragon God and save the divine realm. Upon hearing the Law Blade's shout, he had even frozen on the spot, completely off guard. So this matter was somewhat hard to judge. It could only indicate so much. It was difficult to use as conclusive evidence of rank.
Second, in Soul Land IV, the dragon race of the Dragon Horse Binary Star had forged a counterfeit Dragon Clan Law Blade, which was ranked as a super divine weapon.
In the eyes of the Great Divine Realm, it was considered a pseudo super divine weapon. And when comparing this counterfeit to the real one, the original text only said the counterfeit was inferior in some aspects, but did not say it surpassed the real one.
However, it also did not say the real one's rank was above the counterfeit's. After all, by the Soul Land IV period, the real Dragon Clan Law Blade had disappeared. Sima Jinchi was nowhere to be found. The true rank was never clearly stated.
So overall, these two arguments had limited persuasive power. They merely obscured the Dragon Clan Law Blade's rank, without being able to illustrate that it was a super divine weapon.
So Huo Yuhao was somewhat curious about this.
Hearing Huo Yuhao's question, Sima Jinchi was somewhat confused, but he still answered, "I am the dragon race's Law Enforcement Blade. When used against the dragon race, my peak power is no different from that of a super divine weapon. Moreover, I was personally forged by the Dragon God using his own horn. In the Dragon God's hands, I could also unleash power comparable to some super divine weapons. But in terms of rank alone, like the Golden Dragon Spear forged by the Dragon God, I am a top tier divine weapon below the super divine weapon level."
He thought Huo Yuhao was asking this question to gauge his value, so he said a lot.
This was also one of his future superiors. He had to perform well.
Huo Yuhao, hearing this answer, summarized the following conclusions.
A Civil War Illusion God. An Exclusive Divine Weapon.
It was a very clear positioning. Huo Yuhao was not disappointed.
After all, the possibility of the Dragon Clan Law Blade being a super divine weapon was not high to begin with. In Soul Land IV, the Golden Dragon Spear's Version Update, from being forged from the Golden Dragon King's rib to being transformed from the Dragon God's rib, was also not a super divine weapon. It only had power not inferior to a super divine weapon in the Little Dragon God's hands. The Dragon Clan Law Blade was also obviously unlikely to be a super divine weapon.
Gu Yuena, hearing their exchange, snapped back from her thoughts. Her mood was somewhat low, but she still added, "The Dragon God did not forge an offensive super divine weapon in his lifetime. He only left behind the Dragon Rising Pillar, a super divine weapon that allowed the dragon race to boost their strength. Because he did not really need one. His body was the strongest weapon."
Huo Yuhao, hearing this, thought of the physical constitution of the Golden Dragon King had displayed and nodded.
When one's physical body became strong enough, it was also terrifying. Facing the spacetime turbulence that had made the divine realm treat it as a great enemy, the Golden Dragon King could cross it with his physical body alone. If not for this, the Golden Dragon King could not have ignored the threat of the spacetime turbulence and gone to fight the gods of the divine realm.
If the Golden Dragon King was like this, the Dragon God's physical body would only be stronger.
However, this raised the question of what the Dragon God's purpose was in forging the Golden Dragon Spear. Had he ever actually used that thing in battle?
Huo Yuhao silently joked. Then, glancing at Gu Yuena, whose mood was off, he said to Sima Jinchi, "You came to Mingdu to participate in the Federation's selection, right?"
Sima Jinchi was startled, then nodded. "Yes. I was originally a member of the Federation's Southern Legion. This time, to train and for the selection rewards, I changed my identity to participate."
He paused, then added, "Originally, I wanted to challenge strong opponents in the selection to break through my bottleneck. I did not expect."
He had not expected to meet these two, directly awaken his origin, and break through the barrier that had troubled him for years.
Huo Yuhao said, "In that case, go back and prepare for the selection today. Do your duties well and stand by."
"Yes."
Sima Jinchi was started, looked to Gu Yuena for instructions, and saw that she said nothing, obeyed and left.
When only she and Huo Yuhao remained, Gu Yuena directly leaned into Huo Yuhao's arms and sighed softly.
Huo Yuhao naturally put his arm around her waist and said gently, "What is it? Still thinking about those images earlier?"
Gu Yuena was silent for a moment, then nodded slightly.
"You know, I only have part of the Dragon God's memories, mainly some common sense and various inheritance. I was not clear about that divine war back then. I only later pieced it together through some records and Emperor Tian's account. I also told you about the Divine Realm War as we saw it. Do you still remember?"
Huo Yuhao nodded with a strange expression.
Of course he remembered. He remembered it vividly.
The version of the Divine Realm War in Emperor Tian and Gu Yuena's eyes was this. The Dragon God led many divine beasts in a battle against the gods, ultimately lost, and was killed by the Asura God, becoming two Dragon Kings. Then, as the defeated, the beasts were ultimately punished by the divine realm and forbidden from becoming gods.
The Asura God said, "I have told you this is Unofficial History. You are slandering me."
To be honest, when he first heard this version from Gu Yuena, Huo Yuhao could not hold it together. But thinking about it afterward, in the eyes of ordinary deities, this was indeed the truth.
After all, the beast deities certainly would not believe that the Dragon God and the Dragon Kings had simply not cared about their survival. In their eyes, the Dragon God and the Dragon Kings must have been at the front lines and been killed by the Asura God and the others. The human deities could not accept that their victory had been brought about by various misunderstandings and World-shaking Wisdom. Neither side could accept that the cause of a divine war had been so absurd.
So, after that divine war, whether in the eyes of the beast deities or the human deities, the Divine Realm War in Gu Yuena and Emperor Tian's account was the truth. It could only be the truth.
But now, Gu Yuena had obviously noticed something was wrong from the earlier images.
"At that time, the Dragon Clan Law Blade, because the Asura God was about to act against the Dragon God, had not listened carefully to his explanation. I just watched the Law Blade's memories and noticed the Asura God's explanation."
Gu Yuena's voice was very soft, carrying deep confusion and bewilderment. "He said the Dragon God had gone mad and killed several Dragon Kings. The remaining Dragon Kings had committed suicide. If the Dragon Kings had really been killed by the Asura God, would he have made up such an Absurd reason? A normal person could not even think of such a reason, right?"
Huo Yuhao almost lost it.
Yes, a normal person could not think of such a reason.
But that was precisely the truth.
A truth so Absurd that no one was willing to believe it.
"So you think." Huo Yuhao looked down at Gu Yuena and said softly, "That actually proves it is true?"
Gu Yuena nodded, her expression complex.
"If the Asura God wanted to fabricate a lie, he had better explanations. Not this one. And if the facts were as the Asura God said, then the Divine Realm War back then was just a misunderstanding?"
At the end, Gu Yuena looked up and fixed her gaze on Huo Yuhao. "Yuhao, back in Xingluo, you said you would tell me the truth."
Huo Yuhao looked at Gu Yuena's determined purple eyes and knew he could not avoid it today.
"Do you really want to know?"
Gu Yuena nodded.
"Even if the truth is very Absurd, very Bizarre, and might even make your dragon race a joke?"
Gu Yuena was silent for a moment, then still nodded.
Huo Yuhao looked at her and slowly began, "Alright. I will tell you what I know. What you just thought is indeed true. The Dragon God."
He told Gu Yuena everything. The Divine Dragon Realm's attempt to evolve into a Divine Star and its failure. The Dragon God going mad because his son had sacrificed himself. The Dragon Kings committing suicide. The Dragon God decreeing that spirit beasts could not become gods.
Hearing these Absurd truths, an incredulous light flashed in Gu Yuena's eyes.
If not for the fact that it was Huo Yuhao telling her this, and that she had already guessed part of it, she would simply not have dared to believe it.
These truths were even more exaggerated and Absurd than she had imagined.
She had guessed various reasons for the Dragon Kings' suicide. But she had never imagined that the Light Dragon King and Dark Dragon King had chosen to commit suicide because they could not stand by and watch the Asura God kill the Dragon God.
Were you sober? You had lived for hundreds of thousands or millions of years. Had your brains also Rusted?
Such a reason for suicide. Could any intelligent being really think of that?
Had you not considered what the beast deities would do after you all died?
And the Dragon God.
Gu Yuena truly had not expected the real Dragon God to be so Abstract.
A God King who decreed that spirit beasts could not become gods, and his reason was actually that he was worried the hatred between humans and beast deities would continue, and that in the future, beast deities who became gods would have a hard time in the divine realm.
Because he was worried that beast deities who became gods would not have a good end in the divine realm, he simply prevented them from becoming gods, letting them die under the lightning tribulation?
Afraid that the child would be bullied outside, so he simply strangled the child at home, so that the child would never be bullied?
This was the Wise Dragon God? What kind of World-shaking Wisdom was this?
Gu Yuena could not understand. And she could not comprehend.
At this moment, she only felt that something inside her had shattered.
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