DLWAV CH49

Actually, Ao Ruize truly hadn’t sharpened his claws for a long time.

After all, he used to be busy with work, and later busy rubbing his wife’s feet…

So it was impossible for Ao Ruize to say he wasn’t tempted.

Then the issue was very simple.

In the next second, his figure disappeared directly into mid-air.

Immediately after, a golden dragon, tens of meters long, appeared on the mountain peak.

Its body coiled firmly around a stone pillar on the mountain top, and then, grabbing the dragon-scratching ball from the void, it began to sharpen its claws.

Phew!

Lord Dragon Soul couldn’t help but let out a long breath.

This feeling of its floating heart finally settling down was simply too comfortable.

So much so that it didn’t even care to think about why Ao Ruize, who was nine out of ten likely a descendant of Lord Green Dragon, had a body that wasn’t green, but golden.

It didn’t forget to offer guidance: “Gently, gently… yes, like that, your middle toe will be symmetrical with your right claw…”

Ao Ruize also couldn’t help but blow the two whiskers by his mouth.

Honestly, having not sharpened his claws carefully for so long, suddenly doing it like this was truly extraordinarily comfortable.

Of course, if there was someone to help him sharpen them, that would be even better…

While the dragon and the ball were busy, in the Dragon Clan Ancestral Hall a hundred miles away, after hearing the Sixth Elder’s report, the expressions of the Clan Leader and others also changed.

“What did you say? Long Ruize’s bloodline concentration actually reached seventeen percent?”

Sixth Elder: “No, I’m afraid it’s far more than seventeen percent.”

Because Long Ruize looked completely pressure-free at the time, he obviously could have gone further than just one step.

The excitement on the faces of the Clan Leader and others could barely be concealed.

Long Ruize was only twenty-seven this year, and his bloodline concentration was already this high. If they poured all their efforts into cultivating him, his bloodline concentration could definitely reach another level.

The Clan Leader immediately asked: “How is Ruize’s aptitude?”

The Sixth Elder then turned to look at Elder Chongzhen.

Elder Chongzhen only just reacted.

He also just realized what it meant for Long Ruize to suddenly test for such high bloodline concentration.

Elder Chongzhen only felt his throat completely dry: “Water-Wood dual spiritual roots.”

This aptitude wasn’t considered too good, after all, ranked above it were mutated dual spiritual roots, single spiritual roots, and mutated single spiritual roots.

But it didn’t matter—

Although pills to wash away miscellaneous spiritual roots were rare, it wasn’t impossible to find them with the full power of the Dragon Clan.

With such good aptitude, as long as no accidents occurred, his future achievements might even surpass the Grand Elder.

The Grand Elder’s current cultivation was at the late stage of Tribulation Transcendence; above that was the peak of Tribulation Transcendence, and then the Ascension stage.

As long as Long Ruize could successfully break through to the Ascension stage, it would only be a matter of time before the Dragon Clan returned to the head of the Four Great Clans. The Dragon Clan could even stand at the peak of the Mingxiao Continent for another two thousand years.

If Long Ruize could successfully transcend tribulation and ascend in the end, then not only would the Dragon Clan’s strength reach a higher level, but the Mingxiao Continent would also be saved—

This matter had to start from ten thousand years ago.

Ten thousand years ago, the Four Great Divine Beasts suddenly disappeared. Following that, the entire Mingxiao Continent seemed to be sealed by something, unable to receive spiritual energy feedback from the Upper Realm anymore, while the spiritual energy produced by the Mingxiao Continent itself was far less than the amount consumed daily by tens of millions of cultivators.

The result was that ten thousand years passed, and the spiritual energy of the Mingxiao Continent became thinner day by day, making cultivation increasingly difficult for cultivators.

If tens of thousands of years ago in the Mingxiao Continent, Deity Transformation cultivators were as common as dogs and Nascent Soul cultivators walked everywhere, then in today’s Mingxiao Continent, a cultivation family producing a Golden Core stage cultivator could already walk sideways locally.

Moreover, the Demon Clan used to launch a Righteous-Demonic War every few hundred years.

But for the past four thousand years, the Demon Dao hadn’t dared to make any big moves because those Demon Lords of the Demon Dao were also afraid of accidentally getting heavily injured in the war and dropping a few levels directly.

It was easy to drop levels, but difficult to cultivate back up.

One could imagine that sooner or later, the spiritual energy of the Mingxiao Continent would be completely cut off due to expenditure exceeding income.

This was a result no one could accept.

So now they could only pin their hopes on someone successfully transcending tribulation and ascending, entering the Upper Realm through the ascension channel sent down by the Upper Realm, investigating the cause of the matter clearly, and then using the power of the Upper Realm to restore the spiritual energy of the Mingxiao Continent.

Thinking of this, the Clan Leader and others became increasingly excited.

“Clan Leader, this is impossible…”

Long Tianlu knew things were really heading in an uncontrollable direction.

This was a result he absolutely could not accept.

He tried to salvage the situation: “Long Ruize must have tampered with something. He has done bloodline tests so many times before, but the results never exceeded six percent.”

“And what if the detection array set up by Lord Dragon Soul made a mistake?”

Speaking to the end, his expression also became more and more agitated.

Because he felt that nine times out of ten, things were just as he said.

Hearing this, the Clan Leader and others forced themselves to calm down.

Right, it was too early to be happy now.

Lord Dragon Soul taking Long Ruize away must also be because it discovered his bloodline concentration suddenly increased so much, which was somewhat abnormal, so it prepared to question him carefully.

Before Lord Dragon Soul investigated the truth of the matter clearly, everything was still unknown.

They just hoped there were no issues with Long Ruize.

The Clan Leader and others couldn’t help but take a deep breath.

But unexpectedly, before they could exhale that breath, another burst of dragon roar suddenly came from the distance.

In the next second, Lord Dragon Soul’s figure appeared in everyone’s sight.

However, after putting Ao Ruize on the ground, it only left one sentence: “From now on, he is the Young Master of the Dragon Clan.”

Then it went directly back to the Ancestral Hall.

—Because it was in a hurry to sleep.

If not for having to deal with the Clan Leader and others, Ao Ruize also wanted to go down and sleep comfortably first.

Hearing Lord Dragon Soul’s words, the eyes of the clansmen lit up instantly.

What did this mean?

This meant there was no problem with Long Ruize.

He was indeed a descendant of the Divine Dragon, and his bloodline concentration was indeed unusually high.

The Clan Leader immediately bowed and replied: “We obey Lord Dragon Soul’s command.”

Then he turned his head, his voice instantly spreading throughout the entire Dragon Clan territory: “From today onwards, Long Ruize is the Young Clan Leader of my Dragon Clan!”

—He only thought Lord Dragon Soul misspoke.

After all, “Young Master” meant the heir to the master of a clan.

“Young Clan Leader” meant the heir to the clan.

Lord Dragon Soul probably intended to establish Long Ruize as the Young Clan Leader.

Let’s not talk about the reactions of other Dragon Clan members after hearing this sentence.

Elder Chongzhen and the others present were directly stunned, including the milk dumpling who happened to wake up at this time.

“What happened?”

“How did you suddenly become the Young Clan Leader of the Dragon Clan?”

Long Tianlu only felt his vision go dark.

How could he accept such a result, letting a bastard from a branch line climb over his head?

Most importantly, the positions of Clan Leader and Young Clan Leader of the Dragon Clan had always belonged to the capable, and his eldest brother was a strong contender for this term’s Young Clan Leader—

But now Ao Ruize became the Young Clan Leader, which meant his eldest brother’s efforts all these years were in vain.

The Sixth Elder reacted then: “No wonder the Young Clan Leader returned empty-handed three times previously when going to the secret realm to accept baptism. It turns out it was because your bloodline concentration was too high, Young Clan Leader.”

Because the higher the bloodline concentration, the fewer impurities could be washed away, and the lower the pain.

This could explain why when Long Ruize accepted the baptism ceremony before, he had no reaction at all, leading people to mistakenly think he didn’t have the Dragon Clan bloodline.

Hearing this, Ao Ruize smiled: “That is not the case.”

He suddenly turned to look at Long Tianlu: “At that time, I really couldn’t sense the power of baptism.”

Hearing this, the Sixth Elder and others couldn’t help but freeze.

How could someone possessing the Divine Dragon bloodline not sense the power of baptism?

Ao Ruize: “Lord Dragon Soul said that was because I had been dosed with the Absolute Pulse Pill at that time.”

“What?”

“Absolute Pulse Pill?”

The faces of the Clan Leader and others changed instantly.

The Absolute Pulse Pill was developed by the Demon Clan. Five thousand years ago, the Demon Clan had used it to stir up a bloody storm among the Four Great Clans.

Simply because the Absolute Pulse Pill could destroy the Divine Beast bloodline in the bodies of cultivators from the Four Great Clans.

And a large part of the power of cultivators from the Four Great Clans came from the Divine Beast bloodline.

Back then, the Four Great Clans lost almost half their manpower before completely wiping out the Absolute Pulse Pill from the Mingxiao Continent.

Unexpectedly, after a few thousand years, it actually appeared again.

Ao Ruize: “However, this Absolute Pulse Pill was obviously found by the mastermind from some ancient secret realm. Because it had been stored for too long, not only was its efficacy greatly reduced, but it had also spoiled.”

“Precisely because of this, my bloodline was not destroyed, but instead, under its effect, earth-shaking changes occurred.”

The milk dumpling only reacted then.

Obviously because Ao Ruize’s bloodline concentration was too high, the Dragon Clan saw his potential, so they pushed him to the position of Young Clan Leader.

“That’s great.”

The milk dumpling was extremely excited. It never expected they would dodge this crisis so easily.

“And within a short time, Long Tianlu and Yan Chong shouldn’t be able to do anything to us.”

After all, they now had the Dragon Clan backing them.

Next, they could slowly fight with Yan Chong and the others.

Ao Ruize said, however: “Not that troublesome.”

Milk dumpling: “Hmm?”

Hearing these words, Long Tianlu’s vision went dark again.

Listening to Ao Ruize’s meaning, his bloodline concentration suddenly skyrocketing was actually due to that Absolute Pulse Pill he administered.

So what was this for him? Attempting to steal a chicken only to lose the rice?

But the matter was obviously not over yet—

Because unlike Elder Chongzhen who only cared about rejoicing in Ao Ruize’s good luck, the Clan Leader obviously thought more: “Investigate, we must investigate clearly who exactly drugged you!”

He was only worried about one thing: what if the mastermind obtained not just one Absolute Pulse Pill, but a whole bottle, and the other Absolute Pulse Pills were intact, or even worse, the recipe for the Absolute Pulse Pill?

The Sixth Elder and others realized this then.

Their expressions also became serious.

After all, this concerned the survival of the Four Great Clans.

Just at this time, as if remembering something, someone suddenly said: “Just now, was Long Tianlu from the Nineteenth Elder’s family constantly fanning the flames from the side, seemingly certain that the Young Clan Leader wasn’t of our Dragon Clan bloodline?”

In an instant, everyone’s gaze fell on Long Tianlu.

Ao Ruize said opportunely: “By the way, I know an array that can determine whether a person is telling the truth or lies. Coincidentally, it happens to be effective only on cultivators below the Golden Core stage.”

Long Tianlu’s current cultivation was at the late Foundation Establishment stage, so wasn’t that coincidental?

Hearing this, Long Tianlu’s face turned completely white.

And seeing this scene, the Nineteenth Elder’s expression changed instantly too.

Milk dumpling: “…”

No need to guess to know that Long Tianlu was going to be unlucky.

Once Long Tianlu got unlucky, Yan Chong getting unlucky wasn’t far off.

Ao Ruize chuckled lightly.

Only saying: “Just solving one or two dregs, why would it be that troublesome?”

The milk dumpling followed his train of thought. They could totally take the opportunity to finish off Yan Chong then. This way, the revenge for the predecessor and his father would be considered taken, and their mission would be considered complete.

Milk dumpling: “…”

Is this mission that simple?