#7498 - The Road to Dragon
In the infinite heaven, on an island in a certain sea, in a cave, there are white snake eggs distributed in the cave.
In the humid cave, hundreds of snake eggs glowed with a bluish-white light. The shell of one of the eggs suddenly cracked, and with a crisp "crack", a small silver-white snake struggled to get out.
Its scales had not yet hardened, and its wet body trembled in the cold wind, but its pale golden pupils suddenly contracted, bursting with shock and anger.
"I... turned into a snake?!"
Dongsu Dragon Ancestor's consciousness awakened in the narrow snake body. He tried to raise his neck, but fell to the ground because he was not familiar with this body.
Memories came flooding back like a tide: fighting side by side with Xiang Chen, Dong Su, Feng Zu and others in the Four Disasters Formation, the determination and helplessness of transforming into a new person, the excruciating pain of his soul being torn apart in the Wanxiang Wuji Liantian Furnace... and now, he had been reborn as the most lowly sea snake!
"Hiss——" a sharp hiss came from the side.
Three newly hatched black snakes were approaching, their scales gleaming with iron, their fangs dripping with venom—they were “wire sea snakes,” vicious by nature, and their young would devour each other.
"How dare an ant offend me?!" Dongsu Dragon Ancestor instinctively released his dragon power, but it only resulted in a feeling of weakness.
The newly born snake body was so weak that it couldn't even muster the slightest bit of pressure.
The leading wire snake pounced forward, its fangs piercing his vital points. The severe pain made the East Dragon Ancestor furious, and the memory of the dragon clan's childhood fighting skills suddenly emerged -
"Dragon swings its tail!" He lashed the wire snake's skull with his tail like a whip, and while it was dizzy, he bit off its throat.
The fishy blood rushed into the throat and turned into pure demonic power to nourish the meridians.
At this moment, hundreds of snakes were dancing in the cave. People who were afraid of snakes must have felt their scalps tingling. The cave turned into a Shura field. Hundreds of new sea snakes were biting each other, and venom and body parts were all over the ground.
The other two snakes took the opportunity to bite his body. The severe pain made Dongsu Longzu furious. He twisted his body wildly and threw the two snakes against the cave wall. While the other party was dizzy, he quickly swam to a higher place.
The Dongxu Dragon Ancestor perched on a stalactite pillar, watching the massacre coldly.
"I have to find a way to improve my strength..." He stared at the stalactites hanging from the ceiling of the cave, and suddenly discovered that the water droplets condensed on the tip of the stone contained weak energy of heaven and earth.
The Dongsu Dragon Ancestor was perched under the stalactites, collecting spiritual dew drop by drop.
Whenever a fellow sea snake approached, he would release his dragon might to scare them. Although the dragon might was not as strong as it used to be after reincarnation, it was still very intimidating to these low-level sea snakes.
"Eating one's own kind can refine one's demonic power, but such behavior..."
He saw a spotted snake swallowing his brother and its scales suddenly shone. He finally lowered his head and said, "Forget it. Since I have entered this situation, I will prove my truth by killing him!"
The little white snake from Dongsu shot out like lightning, accurately biting a little snake born at the same time at the seven-inch position, injected venom, and then began to devour the other from the head.
"Mmm - brother, you smell so good -"
There is friendship and righteousness in the nine heavens and ten earths, and brothers are eaten in the snake cave!
Seven days later, only thirteen sea snakes survived in the cave. Their bodies grew several times in size, their scales glowed metallically, and evil spirits condensed into mist in the cave.
He had accumulated enough energy for the first molting. When the old skin split from his head, he practiced the Dragon Transformation Art according to the secret method of the dragon clan, feeding the essence of the molted skin back into his body.
“Crack—”
The new scales glowed light silver, and the body was larger than the other snakes. Dongsu Dragon Ancestor spit out his tongue, feeling the weak dragon energy in his body: "Finally, it has taken shape."
The silver scales of the Dongxu Dragon Ancestor have transformed and are emitting a faint white light, with a faint bulge on his forehead - that is the prototype of a dragon horn.
It seems that the real living environment for these snakes is still the sea, so when the time comes, they have a blood instinct to migrate into the sea.
This migratory instinct is engraved in the blood genes of salmon, turtles, and migratory birds.
However, Dongxu Dragon Ancestor felt a sense of crisis and suppressed the migration instinct in his blood.
It’s better to just develop here first.
"No!" He suddenly bit the crevice in the rock, and his snake tail wrapped around the stalactite.
He watched as the twelve sea snakes rushed toward the beach like a silver torrent, their scales gleaming in the moonlight like a flowing river of stars.
But the next moment, a piercing cry came from the night sky—
Dozens of iron-beaked seagulls swooped down!
"Snap!" A seagull picked up a wire snake and its sharp beak easily cut off the snake's body. The half of the snake's body twisted in pain, and the raised snake head wanted to bite back the iron-beaked seagull.
This seems to be a long-awaited feast!
Dongsu Longzu hid behind a reef and witnessed this one-sided massacre.
The sea snakes instinctively rushed towards the waves, but were eaten one by one by the seagulls. The blood dyed the shallows red, the evil spirit attracted more predators, the tiger crabs clamped the snakes' tails, and the ghost jellyfish entangled the struggling bodies...
"This is the way of heaven..." The vertical pupils of Dongxu Dragon Ancestor shrank.
He thought of the Jiejiao Ten Thousand Immortals Formation of Wuliang Heaven, which was so similar to the current moment - the weak are all bait!
Suddenly, the Iron-beaked Seagull, whose head was poisoned by a snake, fell from the sky and stumbled into a cave. Dongsu Longzu hesitated for a moment, then wrapped his snake tail around it and dragged it into the underground river.
"Why save me?" the seagull transmitted the message.
"I need to know the outside world's intelligence." He said coldly, "Tell me about this sea area."
From the broken memories of the world known to the little seagull demon, the Dragon Ancestor Dongsu pieced together the rules of this world.
This is the "Xuanming Realm" in the Infinite Heaven, where monsters advance by devouring.
Every thousand years, there will be a "Dragon Gate Banquet", where those who transform into dragons can enter the Dragon Palace and gain the true fortune of transforming into dragons. And this cave is actually a derivative cave of the underwater dragon vein!
The only way to escape from this world is to transform into a real dragon.
"Ah - how tragic! I am the ancestor dragon of the nine heavens and ten earths of primordial chaos, the noble purple-gold divine dragon, but now I have to start my evolution from scratch. Life is unpredictable, and I don't know how others are doing."
After sighing, Dongxu Dragon Ancestor began to frantically devour the creatures in the cave.
He ambushed a rock frog that was sucking the spiritual dew, and pierced its spine with his venomous fangs to extract its demonic marrow.
They trap blind shrimps that stray into caves, use the secret method of the dragon race to refine the essence of the water in their shells, and even venture to climb to the top of the cave to lick the "earth milk" dripping from the stalactites...
He found a hidden crevice and stored the collected spiritual dew and earth vein milk in a natural stone bowl. Every day, in addition to hunting small spiritual insects, he practiced the "Dragon Transformation Art".
A month later, he shed his skin for the second time. This time, he deliberately left it at the entrance of the cave to create the illusion that he had left.
Sure enough, some other predators stopped bothering us.
Late one night, he found a dragon vein node deep in the cave. Although it was weak, it was a treasure to him now. He sat on the dragon vein and began to try the most basic breathing method of the dragon clan.
"breathe--"
With the rhythm of breathing, the energy of heaven and earth in the dragon vein slowly flowed into the body. Dongsu Dragon Ancestor was pleasantly surprised to find that although this body was weak, it had a very high affinity for the energy of heaven and earth.
After shedding his skin three times, he turned into a three-meter-long silver python. The dragon horns on his forehead broke through the scales, and four tumors bulged under his abdomen - that was a sign that the dragon claws were about to grow!
That day, he found a dragon skeleton deep in the dark river. The skeleton was as white as jade, and it still exuded a sense of oppression even after being dead for a thousand years.
Dongsu Dragon Ancestor was ecstatic: "It turned out to be the Thunder Dragon that failed to survive the tribulation! There must be a demon pill hidden in its bones!"
After gnawing on the dragon's bones for seven days and seven nights, he finally found a dusty bead. The moment the demon pill entered his stomach, thunder exploded!
“Ahhh——” He rolled over and roared, his scales peeling off and regenerating, the silver scales gradually transformed into a faint golden color, and the memory of the Thunder Dragon emerged in his sea of consciousness. He turned into a dragon during a rainstorm, attracted heavenly thunder to temper his body, and was eventually ambushed by his enemy...
“So that’s how it is.” The Dragon Ancestor of the East Constellation sat on the dragon bone, lightning flashing in his pupils. “To become a dragon in the Xuanming Realm, one must go through three disasters and six calamities.”
One hundred years later
On a moonlit night with roaring tides, the cave exploded.
A golden dragon a hundred feet long rose into the sky, its four claws under its belly tearing through the clouds, and its single horn on its forehead was wrapped with thunder.
A huge whirlpool appeared on the sea surface, and the crystal palace was looming in the waves.
Countless monsters came from all directions: a two-headed black turtle spewed ice flames, a ghost-faced octopus waved its tentacles, and even a green-scaled dragon came riding on the mist...
The Dragon Ancestor of the East Constellation looked down at the group of monsters and suddenly shouted: "Xiang Chen, Junior Sister, Di Xin, Yu Jingrui... No matter where you are reincarnated--"
The dragon roar shattered the dark clouds, and he leaped into the whirlpool: "I will see you again after I seize the dragon fortune of this Xuanming Realm!"
Little did he know that this trip had involved him in a murder conspiracy.
