Dragon Tamer

Chapter 596: Chapter 598: Gods and Tianchen

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“What’s this?” Zhu Minglang found that the mysterious melody that had been maintained in the Piano Palace had disappeared.

Li Yunzi took down the qin string, merged it with the Silver Thread Sword in her hand, and it vanished into her sleeve, as if the string never existed. Yet, Li Yunzi exuded a touch of fairy-like charm. Her already transcendent beauty seemed to have gained a hint of divine mystery, unlike any ethereal detachment found in the human world.

Her eyes rippled like gentle waves, bright and stunning, and even amidst the blood-soaked battlefield of the city-state, she could not conceal the aura of transcendence that seemed completely out of place in this mundane conflict.

It was as if everything she endured, be it hardship, pain, anger, or confusion, was merely a mortal trial. When the moment came, she would shed her physical shell and ascend to immortality.

At this moment, Zhu Minglang felt a wisp of an intangible aura emanating from Li Yunzi. She seemed close enough to touch, yet as distant as a star in the night sky, which reminded him of what Zhu Xuehen had told him.

Could she truly be a fairy descended from the heavens?

“This is the essence of my Life Soul. When I was born, it was like a silk cord wrapped around my wrist… but I no longer remember what it is or what it’s used for. My great-grandmother told me that I must retrieve this item; it was hidden within my mother’s qin strings,” Li Yunzi said.

“So, the grace of God appeared in Absolute Ridge City-State because of it?” Zhu Minglang asked.

Absolute Ridge City-State is a group of evil cultivators. They are unworthy of receiving the divine grace bestowed by the World Dragon Gate, which means the divine blessing was intended for Li Yunzi.

“Perhaps my mother was a deity who yearned for the mortal world. She nourished the essence of my Life Soul with her qin strings, thus passing her power on to me…” Li Yunzi said.

The Ancestral Dragon God Princess, truly a descendant of a True God—Zhu Minglang didn’t know why, but he felt a bit excited at heart.

“Does this mean that our children won’t have to go through such arduous cultivation and tribulation, and they’ll be born with the destiny of a demi-god?” Zhu Minglang asked seriously.

“…” Li Yunzi suddenly lost the desire to chat with Zhu Minglang.

How could his skin be getting thicker!

“By the way, are there truly other deities in the Supreme Court Courtyard Continent?” After making his previous remark, Zhu Minglang immediately changed the subject, not affecting his image of sincerity in the least in front of Li Yunzi.

“There are, I guess, but we are still too far removed from their reach. The world is undergoing transformation, most likely according to the will of these deities,” Li Yunzi said.

Li Yunzi herself didn’t know much; she was also searching.

However, having reclaimed the essence of her Life Soul, her path to cultivation would be smoother.

Many things were not clarified by her great-grandmother. In fact, Li Yunzi was still not entirely sure whether her mother was indeed a deity.

Regarding her origins, Li Yunzi herself had many doubts. It felt like a riddle shrouded in mystery, seemingly related to the World Dragon Gate…

Who opened the World Dragon Gate?

Her great-grandmother?

Or someone from Li Chuan.

Was that person also a deity?

Li Yunzi shared her inner confusion with Zhu Minglang.

Zhu Minglang had also been puzzled earlier as to why the World Dragon Gate happened to appear in Li Chuan.

In Absolute Ridge City-State, there was also this Ancient Relic. Besides the Stone Hall and the Piano Palace, there were many other ancient halls, each seeming to possess a very long history, each like a chapter of a glorious era. What exactly did they represent?

The people of the Wu Clan in Absolute Ridge City-State were a clan of rebels.

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They had clearly claimed the ancient relic as their own and built a city-state around it. Absolute Ridge City-State must have been built within the last twenty years; its history was nowhere near as lengthy as that of Ancestral Dragon City-State.

By basking in the afterglow of past gods, they gradually grew stronger and were always waiting for the coming of the World Dragon Gate, ready to transform into the overlords of the Supreme Court Courtyard Continent.

The power displayed by Absolute Ridge City-State was already close to that of a major force.

Every major force on the Supreme Court Courtyard Continent was the result of long years of accumulation, most of which had existed for a thousand years or more and had never declined.

For a small Absolute Ridge City-State to catch up in such a short period was truly startling—the speed of their rise, the extent of their growth, it was really heart-pounding. Given a few more years, they would indeed be unstoppable!

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As the sky grew dark, Zhu Minglang and Li Yunzi were walking casually among the ancient relics.

They had been in a hurry before, and Zhu Minglang had only seen the Piano Palace, the stone corridors, and the Earth Garden. He hadn’t been to the other areas. The ancient relic was actually very large, and although most of it was in ruins, one could still glimpse its former splendor as if it were a sanctuary of numerous gods, with countless subjects coming here to worship…

Walking along, Zhu Minglang saw a red temple with a statue of a deity inside. He appeared calm and serene, standing there with a tranquil expression, but at his feet, a person was prostrating, bending at the knee, pressing their face forward to kiss the back of his foot.

Such a form of worship was rare, and Zhu Minglang did not understand why the worshipper would debase themselves in this way—was it not a Valkyrie with a fairy-like countenance and perfect jade feet like Li Yunzi?

“There’s some ancient text written here,” Li Yunzi said, pointing to a clear stream in front of her.

The stream flowed over stones that never faded, and the stones bore rows of characters. The ripples of the clear water seemed to give these words a special luster, mysteriously twisting in the water patterns.

“Can you understand it?” Zhu Minglang asked.

“Isn’t this the script we use?” Li Yunzi raised her delicate eyebrows.

“Oh, I thought it was some sort of divine inscription intended to be inscrutable to mortals, something with a divine form, deliberately obfuscated. Our ancient gods didn’t like to play tricks,” Zhu Minglang approached and saw that the writing was indeed quite similar, just a bit odd in font.

“It says here that every star in the sky represents a god. The brighter the star, the more powerful the god,” Li Yunzi read the words on the stone slab by the spring softly, her beautiful face filling with astonishment,

“Billions of spiritual cultivators are like a river’s current, and in the end, they all converge in one place, which is the World Dragon Gate.”

“The World Dragon Gate selects gods from among the powerful spiritual cultivators of various worlds. Each time a new god is added to this continent, its Spiritual Rhyme civilization rises a level, and the divine radiance of each newly anointed god is also reflected in the sky…”

After reading this, Li Yunzi couldn’t help but glance at Zhu Minglang.

Zhu Minglang was also looking at her.

Then, simultaneously, they both looked towards the night sky.

The sky was cold and clear, with a pristine quality. Stars of various hues lay quietly scattered across the long night sky, resplendent and countless. Some twinkled faintly, while others shone brightly, demanding attention…

The divine radiance of each god reflected in the sky?

Zhu Minglang had never seen a god and had even doubted for a time whether there really were gods in the world.

But he had never imagined that each glowing star in the night sky, which could be seen simply by looking up every night, represented a god!

One star, one god?

Just how many gods were there in this world!!!