Using entries to cultivate immortality in chaotic times

Chapter 413: Chapter 171: Dragon Clan… Has it really perished like this?_5
 

If we are talking about the strongest opponent this time,

it would probably be Chen Qiu.

With a tenth-grade Nascent Soul, he understands the terror of a tenth-grade Nascent Soul, and even more so, the terror of a twelfth-grade Nascent Soul.

If his tenth-grade Nascent Soul is already so terrifying, one could only imagine what kind of power Chen Qiu’s twelfth-grade Nascent Soul possesses.

…

However, the ranking list this time does not only include participants from the Human Race of the Xuantian Continent; all who meet the cultivation requirements will participate.

This naturally includes the Devil Clan, the Sea Clan, and some other races that have long been hidden from the world.

As long as you are within the bounds of the Xuantian Continent, you are compelled to participate.

Unless you are like the top forces in Quzhou, who directly seal themselves in their small worlds, thus avoiding compulsory participation—that is an effect of seclusion.

“Ah?”

In the dense jungle at the southernmost tip of Upper Quzhou, an Ent, who had not moved for many years, slowly opened its eyes, staring blankly at the Heavenly Dao Decree in front of it.

It had just slept for thirty-seven years—why was it woken up again?

In the days of its deep sleep, it heard the incessant chatter of the Heavenly Dao Decree by its ear, annoyingly incessant, talking about twelfth-grade Nascent Souls. It couldn’t care less if there was anyone with a twelfth-grade Nascent Soul; it just wanted to completely block out this Imperial Decree.

All it wanted was deep sleep; apart from sleeping, it wanted to do nothing else.

And now…

Today, hearing this new Heavenly Dao Decree, it seemed somewhat unusual. After seeing the Secret Realm panel that popped up in front of it, it was even more convinced there were tens of thousands of things amiss—damn it—

It wasn’t supposed to participate, was it?!

It was just an Ent that knew only how to sleep; what use was it competing for a rank in the Nascent Soul strength list!

Though it had a Nascent Soul cultivation, only those in its race who achieved Divinity Transformation could transform. Moving with its roots was deathly slow; it couldn’t beat anyone at all. Ents were inherently a peace-loving race with no means of attack.

“So annoying.”

The Ent, which hadn’t spoken for a long time, sighed deeply, its long inactive brain beginning to think again. It wondered if it was possible to surrender in advance in this “Nascent Soul Strength Rank List”.

…

West of Quzhou.

In the deep sea, within a considerably large island surrounded by the ocean,

a middle-aged man, with one hand behind his back, looked at the Black Dragon in front of him with a complex expression, “Only those in Dragon Clan who achieve Divinity Transformation can transform. By participating in the Nascent Soul strength rank list, you will quickly expose the existence of the Dragon Clan.”

“The Dragon Clan has not shown itself on the Xuantian Continent for many years.”

“You last sneaked into Quzhou and almost exposed us.”

“But since you must go this time, try to appear weak to the enemy, do not aim for any ranking. Thousands of years ago, that battle injured the very foundation of our race, and we have yet to recover from it even now. No matter what, we must stay out of this chaos and not get involved again.”

“The Dragon Clan is unlike other races.”

“Understood,” said the huge Black Dragon, its body entwined and coiled around another female dragon, responding seriously.

“Sigh.”

The middle-aged man sighed deeply, gazing at the female dragon below the Black Dragon.

He had even forgotten what relation this female dragon had with the Black Dragon.

The breeding rate of the Dragon Clan is extremely low.

Thousands of years ago, that battle resulted in the near-total extinction of the male dragons; only three or four male dragons survived. Once a dragon is injured, recovery is extraordinarily difficult, coupled with the inherently low fertility rate of the Dragon Clan.

By the time it reached his generation, he was the only male dragon left, with all others on the island being female dragons.

For the sake of bloodline inheritance, he hadn’t done much else in thousands of years, except for breeding.

But even so, over thousands of years, only three dragon cubs were born.

Two of them were female dragons.

Only this Black Dragon was a male dragon.

He was getting old and would soon be too old to breed. As a dragon at the Peak of Divinity Transformation, he too had to participate in this strength ranking list, but he had already decided to go in and surrender straight away.

This Black Dragon was born a hundred years ago.

Given the lifespan of dragons, it had just passed the young dragon stage.

Normally, those just past the young dragon stage wouldn’t go into battle, but… there was no choice. Now, apart from the two of them, all others were female dragons, ninety-eight old female dragons on the island.

After the defeat in that battle thousands of years ago, when the Dragon Clan Patriarch returned to the island with a few remaining clansmen, he half-sealed the female dragons on the island. In this state, the female dragons have no consciousness but can reproduce, and their lifespan can be extended to thirty thousand years.

But now…

Those thirty thousand years are nearly up.

So, even though the Black Dragon is still young, it has to rush into battle; otherwise, once this batch of old female dragons dies, the Dragon Clan would truly be extinct.

“Father, what’s her name?”

The Black Dragon suddenly gasped and asked,

“…”

The middle-aged man’s face showed a complex expression as he pulled out an ancient, thick tome from his chest, flipping through dozens of pages before finding the corresponding “Dragon Seal” on the body of the female dragon beneath the Black Dragon, and said in a low voice,

“She is of the Cloud Hiding Dragon Bloodline, known for her extreme speed and skill in hiding.”

“Her name is Xiao Fei.”

“If we go by seniority, she is over a dozen generations older than you.”

“Be gentle, her life is not long, don’t kill her.”

Then a trace of sorrow flashed in the middle-aged man’s eyes as he gazed out to sea, knowing in his heart that after this batch of old female dragons died, the Dragon Clan would be truly extinct. The Dragon Clan was lustful by nature.

That was their nature.

But now, the sight of a female dragon made him want to vomit.

This showed what he had been doing every day for years; he had really tried hard to continue the Dragon Clan’s Bloodline Inheritance, but the Dragon Clan’s breeding rate was painfully low.

In the past, when there were many dragons, although the breeding rate was low, they could at least connect.

The war thousands of years ago nearly exterminated the Dragon Clan.

He had even transformed into human form, sneakily traveled to the Xuantian Continent, and looked for many folk remedies, all to no avail; the difficulty of dragon breeding was ingrained in their very bones, said to originate from the dawn of the ancients.

That was the very beginning of Xuantian Continent.

At that time, the Dragon Clan was the dominator of Xuantian Continent, while the Human Race was squeezed into a small corner.

But it is said that because of the Dragon Clan’s lustful nature, Heavenly Dao disapproved, leading to a shift in Heavenly Dao’s version that was detrimental to the dragons, causing the Dragon Clan to gradually fall from their position of dominance and become a semi-reclusive race from an Ancient Great Clan.

The ancient tomes spoke of the Dragon Clan’s glorious past.

“Sigh.”

The middle-aged man, with his hands clasped behind his back, looked at the sea with sad eyes and sighed deeply, realizing that if he died, it would be a pity for the treasures he had collected over the years.

Apart from their lust, the Dragon Clan also loved collecting.

That too was their nature.

The only advantage of being the sole Male Dragon was that all the good things belonged to him; without any other Male Dragon to compete with him, he had collected many useful and useless things.

“Father.”

The Black Dragon, somewhat breathlessly, raised his head to look at his father, his eyes somewhat teary as he pleaded, “Can we stop here today?”

“No.”

The middle-aged man shook his head seriously and said, “There are ninety-eight female dragons on the island; they must be visited daily. I only have a little over a thousand years left to live, and these female dragons have less than a hundred years.”

“Within these hundred years, enough Dragon Cubs must be born.”

“Otherwise, the Dragon Clan will perish!”

“Then…”

The Black Dragon unsatisfiedly shook his head, his dragon whiskers clinking on the ground, making a series of sounds, “Can I have the two youngest female dragons on the island?”

“No, those two are mine.”

“If you talk back one more time, we’ll settle this the Dragon Clan way, fighting for the female dragon. Do you think you can beat me?”

“Hmm?”

“Alright…”

The Black Dragon, looking quite weary, dived into the sea, washing himself off before reluctantly flying towards another female dragon, who was thirty thousand years his senior. He felt there was a misunderstanding about their clan in the ancient tome.

Who said the Dragon Clan was lustful?

He didn’t enjoy it at all.

Not only did he not enjoy it, but he even found the sight disgusting and nauseating!

…

The middle-aged man looked at the Black Dragon’s retreating figure and sighed once more, turning to watch the two young female dragons playing on the shore.

Aside from the ninety-eight sealed old female dragons on the island, there were also two female dragons, over three thousand years old and born around the same time as him, and three female dragons, over a thousand years old, plus the two younger ones, over a hundred years old.

But these were all his.

As the Clan Leader, he certainly deserved better.

Then he casually took out a handful of jelly beans from the Storage Ring, chewing them while looking sadly over the sea surface.

Is the Dragon Clan really going to perish like this?

Unwilling!

And this handful of jelly beans was actually a mixture of Golden Core Heavenly Dao Cultivation Pills and Nascent Soul Heavenly Dao Cultivation Pills, items of substantial value on the Xuantian Continent, but treated as mere jelly beans on the Dragon Clan island.