Chapter 93: The Shocked Silver Dragon King
On a forest path leading to a nearby village on the outskirts of Dragon City, Ye Zhilan wore an aqua-blue dress, her steps light, followed by two Sect-assigned guard Disciples.
Today, she was fulfilling a request from an Elder in a nearby village to treat several villagers injured during a Martial Soul hunt.
Just as the three reached a secluded corner with dense forest, a sudden change occurred!
A figure darted out from the side like a Gui Mei, carrying a foul stench, and lunged straight at Ye Zhilan!
The attacker was a sallow-faced, lecherous-eyed middle-aged man whose Soul Power fluctuations revealed his cultivation to be at the Soul Emperor level!
He had clearly planned this in advance, lying in ambush here with a clear target: the seemingly weak and vulnerable Ye Zhilan.
"Little beauty, come have some fun with me!" The Soul Emperor sneered, his fingers forming claws, and with a fierce gust of wind, he reached for Ye Zhilan's shoulder, intending to subdue her.
He clearly regarded Ye Zhilan as a powerless healing-type Soul Master, his eyes full of smug certainty.
Not far away, in the shadow of an ancient tree, the Silver Dragon King stood quietly, her silver hair and purple eyes visible. All of this was, naturally, her "doing."
She had used her powerful Divine Sense to influence the mind of this unscrupulous Soul Emperor she had happened upon, amplifying his evil thoughts, while concealing her own aura and that of the guards behind Ye Zhilan, directing this "attack."
According to her plan, she was supposed to "accidentally" pass by next, step in to "save" her, and thereby naturally get close to Ye Zhilan.
However, the scene that followed completely exceeded her expectations.
Facing the sudden attack, there was no trace of panic on Ye Zhilan's face; instead, she frowned slightly, a flash of disgust crossing her features.
She did not even release her Martial Soul. Just as the Soul Emperor's sharp claws were about to touch her clothes, her seemingly delicate right hand pressed forward, appearing quite casual!
There was no flashing Soul Ring, no explosion of Soul Power, only a surging force of Qi and blood, condensed to the extreme and seemingly capable of splitting mountains and cracking stones, mixed with a strange, vibrating force that suddenly erupted!
"Bang!" A dull, thunderous sound like leather being struck!
The smug Soul Emperor's sneer instantly froze, replaced by extreme horror and pain!
He felt an irresistible, overwhelming force like a mountain flood or tsunami surge from her seemingly weak palm, and a strange, vibrating power penetrated his body, instantly disrupting the flow of his Soul Power!
"Pfft—!" He could not even let out a scream; his whole body flew backward like a kite with a broken string. Blood sprayed from his mouth, his sternum shattered into unknown numbers of pieces, and he slammed heavily into a large tree over ten zhang away, sliding down limply, clearly breathing more out than in.
All of this happened in a flash! Only then did the two guard Disciples behind Ye Zhilan react, revealing their Martial Souls in shock and anger, only to find the target had already been effortlessly dealt with by their Young Miss.
"Young Miss, are you alright?" The guards hurried forward.
"It's fine, just an annoying fly." Ye Zhilan gently shook her hand, as if merely brushing off a bit of dust, her tone calm.
Her current physique, bolstered by the nourishment of the Immortal Herb and her own Cultivation, was already no weaker than an attack system Battle Soul Master of the same level. Combined with the "Mountain Splitting Force" taught by Yu Yuanchen, which integrated the power of Qi and blood, it was not difficult to severely injure a careless, underestimated Soul Emperor when caught off guard.
However, the matter was not over. Just as the Soul Emperor collapsed, heavily injured, another change occurred!
The ground at Ye Zhilan's feet arched slightly, and a dark red shadow shot out like a lurking viper, instantly Binding the dying Soul Emperor's body!
It was a dark red vine, as thick as a bowl, covered in hideous barbs—it was her Life-bound vine guard, "Star Devourer"!
"Argh—!" The Soul Emperor let out one last shrill scream as the vine tightened abruptly, unleashing a terrifying strangling force. Accompanied by the teeth-gritting sound of cracking bones, the Soul Emperor expert was alive and strangled to death in just two or three breaths, his breath completely extinguished!
The Star Devourer vine loosened, and the Soul Emperor's corpse was already unrecognizable. The tip of the vine, as if alive, gently rubbed against Ye Zhilan's ankle, conveying a hint of intimacy and satisfaction, before slowly retracting into the ground and disappearing.
Ye Zhilan frowned slightly—not out of pity, but because she disliked such bloody scenes. She raised her hand and cast a soft green light that landed on the corpse, dissolving it to avoid polluting the environment. Throughout the whole process, her expression remained indifferent, as if she had done something insignificant.
Not far away, the Silver Dragon King's purple eyes widened, her stunningly beautiful face filled with disbelief!
She was not shocked that Ye Zhilan possessed the strength to defeat a Soul Emperor—given Ye Zhilan's status and her relationship with Yu Yuanchen, it was not strange for her to have trump cards for fighting above her level. What truly shook her to the core was the dark red Star Devouring Vine and the way Ye Zhilan controlled it!
With the vision of the Silver Dragon King and her Peak God King-level perception (even if her strength was currently limited), she saw through the essence at a glance!
That was not a simple Soul skills summoning, nor was it forced Spiritual control, but a kind of… deeper, almost instinctual symbiotic contract!
Under this contract, a wonderful balance was formed between the Star Devouring Vine (Star Devourer) and Ye Zhilan. The Star Devouring Vine provided Ye Zhilan with powerful combat strength, strange attack methods, and the massive Soul Power reserves unique to Soul Beasts (which could be used as a supplement when Ye Zhilan's Soul Power was exhausted); while Ye Zhilan's cultivation improvement and the transition of her Life level would, through this contract, directly feed back and drive the Star Devouring Vine's cultivation to grow frantically at a speed far exceeding natural Cultivation!
"This… what is this?!" A stormy sea raged in the Silver Dragon King's heart. She had lived for endless years and had seen humans hunt Soul Beasts to obtain Soul Rings and Soul Bones, seen Soul Beasts devour human Soul Masters to improve their cultivation, and seen a very small number of humans sign equal or master-servant contracts with Soul Beasts. But a model like this, where a Soul Beast was almost turned into one's own "Life-bound object," with synchronized cultivation growth, shared Life and death, and mutually beneficial symbiosis, was unheard of!
In particular, she clearly sensed that the Star Devouring Vine's intelligence seemed extremely weak, more like a pure instinctual consciousness, which made the achievement of this "contract" have almost no resistance, smooth to an incredible degree! And Ye Zhilan's Sacred Heart Immortal Begonia Martial Soul seemed to have a natural, almost "King-like" dominion and affinity for this type of plant-type Soul Beast, which was the key to facilitating all of this!
An unprecedented thought, like lightning flashing through the darkness, instantly illuminated the Silver Dragon King's heart, which had been anxious about the future of her race!
"Why… must Soul Beasts and humans be enemies?"
Once this thought arose, it could no longer be contained. She had always been thinking about how to make Soul Beasts stronger, how to resist human expansion, and how to break the shackles that prevented Soul Beasts from becoming gods. She had regarded humans as a threat, as competitors, and as objects that needed to be guarded against or even fought.
But the relationship between Ye Zhilan and this Star Devouring Vine had opened a brand-new door for her!
What if… what if this wonderful "contract" relationship could be popularized?
It didn't need to be all Soul Beasts, just a portion of those with outstanding talent and potential, signing similar symbiotic contracts with those human Soul Masters who had pure Heart-Nature and were gifted?
Human Soul Masters would gain powerful assistance, additional Soul Power sources, and even special Soul Beast abilities; while the contracted Soul Beasts could use the human Soul Masters' Cultivation speed, which far exceeded that of Soul Beasts, to break through their own racial talent barriers and achieve rapid improvements in cultivation! Even… when a human Soul Master broke through to the Divine Rank, could the Soul Beast that was their "Life-bound contract beast" also use this to break the curse of being unable to become a god?
Thinking of thousands of human Genius Soul Masters growing together with their contracted Genius Soul Beasts, and in just a few decades or a hundred years, being able to spawn a large number of powerful existences equivalent to ten-thousand-year or even hundred-thousand-year levels… the Silver Dragon King felt a suffocating excitement!
Moreover, human Lifespan was short, while Soul Beast Lifespan was long. Over time, it would inevitably be a situation where the human died but the beast remained. These Soul Beasts would also become Old Ancestor-level figures in these people's Families, and in the future, they might even be able to incite humans and Soul Beasts to form an alliance against the God Realm.
This was definitely not a fantasy! Soul Beast Cultivation often took ten thousand years, while human Geniuses could achieve Titled Douluo in a few decades! If this time difference were utilized well, what a terrifying power it would be!
Admittedly, the human need to hunt Soul Beasts to obtain Soul Rings still existed, and the weak being prey to the strong was a natural Law. As a member of the Dragon Clan, she understood the cruelty of the jungle Law even better and did not care about this. Those low-level Soul Beasts that were hunted were, in the long history of the Soul Beast race, merely a part of natural selection.
As long as the core, high-potential elite Soul Beasts could rise rapidly through this method, the overall strength and high-level combat power of the Soul Beast race would surely usher in an explosive growth period! It would be enough to occupy an absolute advantage in the potential racial competition of the future, and even… counterattacking the God Realm might no longer be a distant dream!
By comparison, investigating the burial ground of the Ice and Fire Dragon King, while important, seemed… it could be put aside for now? After all, that concerned her individual recovery, while this potential path before her concerned the future of the entire Soul Beast race!
The Silver Dragon King's gaze focused on Ye Zhilan again, and her eyes had completely changed. From the initial target of investigation, she had become… a Treasure Trove containing infinite possibilities! A key that could change the destiny of Soul Beasts!
"Must get close to her! Must figure out how this 'contract' is achieved! Can it be replicated? Can it be perfected? Can it be popularized?" The Silver Dragon King's heartbeat accelerated slightly. Her originally simple "approach-investigate" plan had instantly upgraded into a grand project concerning the fate of her race.
She watched Ye Zhilan finish cleaning up and walk toward the village with the guards, gritted her teeth slightly, and made up her mind.
The previous "hero saving the beauty" plan had clearly failed and appeared very clumsy. She needed to change to a more natural way that was less likely to arouse suspicion.
"It seems… I have to change my identity, change my approach, and truly integrate into her Life." A flash of determination crossed the Silver Dragon King's purple eyes. She looked at her own perfect body, which was so out of place with the surroundings, and began to think about how to play a more "reasonable" role.
An orphan girl who lost her way, was homeless, had a special affinity for plants, and perhaps even possessed some "peculiar abilities"? Perhaps… she could go to that village and "accidentally meet" her while she was practicing medicine?
The simple-minded Silver Dragon King was now full of thoughts on how to "learn" and "perfect" that wonderful method of contract, and her purpose for approaching Ye Zhilan had quietly shifted from "investigating Yu Yuanchen" to "studying Ye Zhilan herself." As for the clues about Yu Yuanchen and the Ice and Fire Dragon King… for now, they didn't seem so urgent.
Her figure slowly merged into the shadows, and she began to carefully plan her "new identity" and the "accidental meeting" scene. Outside Dragon City, an ideological storm triggered by a vine was quietly changing the trajectory of a supreme existence, and perhaps, it would also quietly change the future landscape of the entire continent.
The forest path returned to tranquility, as if nothing had happened. Only the faint smell of blood in the air and the slightly warm vine bracelet on Ye Zhilan's wrist indicated the brief but deadly conflict that had just occurred.
Ye Zhilan seemed to sense something; she looked up in the direction where the Silver Dragon King had disappeared, a flash of doubt crossing her beautiful eyes, but she did not sense any malice, so she shook her head and continued walking deep into the valley. She did not know that the abilities she had inadvertently displayed had already stirred up a stormy sea in the heart of a supreme existence and would quietly change the future destiny trajectory of her and Yu Yuanchen.
An undercurrent surrounding the "Way of Beast Taming" began to surge quietly. And the Soul Beast co-master of the Star Dou Great Forest officially cast her gaze toward this new path full of unknowns and hope.
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