Chapter 288: Chapter 198: Benefits are here!
Intense pain surged from within! It felt as if a fire was burning from my organs to my flesh!
The flame transitioned from a dark red to a gold, and then dark gold! It seemed as if every impurity within my body was being ignited and refined into pure gold.
Does it no longer hurt?
Long Yi could vaguely see his skin, which seemed to have a faint golden hue.
Damn, am I turning into gold? This is too terrifying! I’m still alive, you know!
Although he currently was unable to move, Long Yi felt as if his body was becoming lighter, and a powerful surge of energy was steadily emanating from within.
"All procedures of preset mode three have concluded, now switching back to normal mode, terminating command."
The small cube flew back into the ground. Finally, Long Yi was able to move again.
Looking at his bracelet, Long Yi saw that the ten million credits had disappeared. Only a little over two hundred thousand remained.
Well, at least the real name of Dragon God’s space is confirmed. Long Yi scratched his head and vanished.
Nobody saw the previous events. In reality, the moment Long Yi emerged victorious, he had disappeared in the eyes of the crowd.
The entire Dragon Knight Academy was in an uproar.
The survival mode Long Yi set in the Four Side Array had attracted everyone’s attention. Even those who usually sneered at the Dragon God’s space were interested in the ten million credits. At the end of the fight, Long Yi had managed to defeat the Fang Te and Feit duo single-handedly, driving the entire academy into a frenzy!
Everyone in the Dragon Knight Academy knew Long Yi was powerful. But as to just how powerful, nobody had a clear estimate. Now, having successively defeated Fang Te and Feit, he had actually pulled off a victory. This might have been luck, or perhaps happenstance. But whether it was luck or happenstance, it was still built on a solid foundation of strength. A baby could not possibly defeat an adult, no matter how lucky or coincidental the situation. Since Long Yi had won, that alone was solid proof of his strength!
Then, it was the problem of where the ten million credits went.
At the moment, in everyone’s eyes, the second Long Yi received the ten million credits, he disappeared. It seemed that Long Yi must have gone to squander his newly earned credits. However, the most expensive items on the exchange list still remained untouched. In the ranking list of the Dragon God’s space, Long Yi had only over two hundred thousand credits left.
Where the hell had he spent that ten million?
Only Long Yi knew just how valuable the items he exchanged for with the ten million credits were.
A black Dragon-slaying Sword, needless to say, certainly came from the Ancient Giants. Indeed, no one else would be so spare time and effort to create such a large item.
However, Long Yi didn’t currently need the black Dragon-slaying Sword, so it wasn’t of much help. What really surprised Long Yi was the transformation of his body.
From the time he was an infant, Long Yi had never stopped training, which put him ahead at the starting line. His constant battle from childhood to adulthood had steadied his pace in this world compared to others.
But, such a path did come with negative impacts. Long Yi belonged to the Giant bloodline, with a recuperative ability far beyond humans’.
Although this ability allowed him to recover quickly, it wasn’t without drawbacks.
Long Yi wasn’t always able to heal his injuries perfectly.
For example, a fracture in his hand during a fight when he was young. Even though he bore the pain to straighten the bone, it still had a slight misalignment. The discrepancy may not appear significant, but facing formidable opponents, it would be enough to prevent his hand from exerting its full power!
There were many other similar examples.
To do good work, one must first sharpen their tools.
The body is the foundation of everything.
The cube had put Long Yi’s body back into its healthiest state, and it was one of the things that took him by surprise.
The second surprise was the enhancement solution the cube had mentioned.
Although Long Yi belonged to the Giant’s bloodline, he didn’t have its inherent strength. The cube injected him with an enhancement solution, which by name already suggested it was something that improved one’s physical condition. Long Yi instinctively resisted the idea, but once the solution entered his body, he realized the term "enhancement" didn’t mean making something bad good but catalyzing something adequate to improve further.
As Long Yi sweated nervously, he pondered how vastly different he had been, assuming he was already powerful after unlocking the Giant bloodline, and how much potential he still had to realize.
When Long Yi woke up, he saw Little Mermaid Mina staring at him with wide eyes.
On one side, the Golem lady was playing chess with Little Zi. The chessboard and pieces were made of ice, and judging from their expressions, they seemed evenly matched.
Long Yi instinctively tried to cover his private parts and discovered the surroundings were burnt. He was lying amidst ashes, the room was full of water, and the air smelled of firefighting.
"You were on fire. I helped you put it out," Mina said anxiously.
"You woke up, Master!" Little Zi asked excitedly. The chessboard in front of her instantly turned into water. Long Yi immediately realized that the little maid was probably losing.
"I thought I could roast it to medium-well, didn’t expect it to be raw still," the Golem Lady scoffed.
As it turned out, when Long Yi disappeared, Mina had exited immediately, hoping to celebrate with Long Yi. To her surprise, Long Yi had not come out but ignited himself instead. Luckily, Mina was a mage, and she curbed the room fire with two rainfall spells while providing no aid to the flame on Long Yi. In a blink of an eye, all of Long Yi’s clothes were burnt to ashes, and his naked body had laid burning for a while before the flame eventually stopped.
The golem and Little Zi completely ignored it. Since they aren’t human or general beings, the flames posed no threat to them.
Long Yi was hustling to put on his clothes.
"Why do I feel a hint of gold on you?" The observing Mina asked.
"Hehe, this is a treasure I got in exchange for ten million academic credits!" Long Yi exclaimed excitedly.
"Is it the Giant’s inheritance?" Mina asked excitedly.
"Yes! Huh? How did you know?" Long Yi was perplexed.
"Of course I know, Brother Long. You’re a Giant, and this so-called Dragon God’s space was initially constructed by Giants, so of course, the inheritance you obtained is from the Giants!" Mina answered as if it was a matter of fact.
"How did you know?" Long Yi grew even curious.
"Well, I didn’t know at first, but later my father told me!" Mina confessed somewhat bashfully.
"The Sea Emperor?" Long Yi scratched his head, wondering how he knew.
Hold on, after the Giants’ war, some humans and the Dragon Clan used powerful magic to retreat into the sea, morphing into the current Sea Emperor Clan and the Sea Dragon Clan. This means there was no break in the Sea Emperor Clan’s history! Their annals should trace back to the Giant era!
"Yeah, father recognized you as a Giant, saying you would definitely try to find the Giant’s inheritance. No, actually, father said at the time that the Giant’s inheritance will surely find you. However, I feel like father definitely got it wrong. How could the inheritance somehow find you by itself?" Mina chirped on like a little bird.
Upon reflection, it certainly seemed like the Giant’s inheritance found me.
The attraction emitted by the elder golem sister led Long Yi to her. The Dark Gold Dragon-slaying Sword found him via the Emperor. As for this so-called ’Human Remote Safety Training System’, although Long Yi entered himself, considering it held all his information, it must have actively collected his data through some means.
All these Giant-branded items were trying their best to find him.
With these thoughts... there was a slight excitement in his heart!
It was as if I was the phoenix to whom every bird pays homage!
However, what did that so-called ’Pioneer’ bloodline mean? As a civilized person, aren’t the words ’Pioneer’ sounding a bit tragic?
Before Long Yi could feel tragic, the dormitory door was burst open.
Arin came in first, followed by the overly excited Wesley and Big Eye. They were practically inseparable brothers.
"Brother Long! We’re here to celebrate with you!" They all yelled together.
"I’ve spent all my ten million academic credits." Long Yi said.
"Oh, I have an urgent matter to attend to, so I’ll be going first," Big Eye immediately turned to leave.
"Uh, I also have something urgent." Mosquito also left.
"Well, I don’t have anything urgent, I just want to see what their urgent matters are," Wesley chuckled and also headed out.
"Come, Arin, Mina, I still have two hundred thousand academic credits left. Let’s go splurge somewhere," Long Yi proposed.
"Brother Long! My dear Brother Long!" The trio that had just turned to leave came charging back in unison.
"Those with negative points, get lost!"
After making a great deal of fuss, Long Yi saved one hundred thousand academic credits, and the rest was taken up by everyone. They were basically exchanged for various interesting trinkets and some good food.
The hundred thousand academic credits that Long Yi reserved obviously had a use.
He wanted to give Arin a chance to choose a Mount Dragon.
Arin originally had a Mount Dragon, but to assist Arin, her contracted dragon Silver Light voluntarily integrated into Arin’s body. Although it facilitated Arin, it also put her at a disadvantage for potential aerial battles in the future. Therefore, Long Yi had always hoped that Arin could pick a new Mount Dragon.
Of course, this was also Silver Light’s wish.
So, after sending away those full and happy jerks, Long Yi promptly used these hundred thousand academic credits to exchange for a Dragon Egg picking opportunity. Long Yi initially thought there might be a complicated process or back channels involved. However, in less than half a day, an invitation was sent to Arin’s wristband.
Arin opened her wristband excitedly.
"Agreed."
Those two simple words floated there. (To be continued! If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for its recommendation at qidian.com. Your support is my greatest motivation. Mobile users can read at m.qidian.com.)
