Chapter 240: Chapter 7: Dragon King’s Remains
BOOM!
The moment Su Zhou realized the Spirit Sound was actually a True Dragon’s Roar from a great distance, he subconsciously unleashed his full Spiritual Pressure and aura.
In an instant, an invisible wave spread out. For dozens of miles around, all the Sea Race, regardless of whether they had Dragon Blood, were frozen in place by the overwhelming presence, not daring to move. It was only after several seconds that they regained control of their bodies, rapidly swishing their tails and retreating into the distance!
The jet-black Sea Serpent in Su Zhou’s hand was instantly knocked unconscious, hanging limply from his grasp.
At this moment, Su Zhou had no time to worry about the small Sea Serpent. His Spiritual Power and Spiritual Energy were clashing in a profoundly mysterious way with a distant existence thousands of miles away!
In that moment, an incredibly detailed vision even appeared before Su Zhou’s eyes.
He saw the deep sea, inky black and devoid of light. In the silent water, white particles drifted down like snow.
Deep on the seabed, stone pillars like towering smokestacks spewed out vast amounts of high-temperature water and subterranean matter, forming high-temperature hydrothermal zones!
The largest of these black smokers were nearly a hundred meters tall, with massive vents a meter or even several meters in radius. The smaller ones were still several to a dozen meters high, with vents dozens of centimeters in diameter. They violently ejected plumes of black "smoke," within which dazzling Spiritual Light flickered!
In the Era of Spiritual Qi Revival, even Earth itself had changed. Magma, once just superheated molten material and nothing more, had become the very blood of the Earth Veins during the age of the Earth Awakening, possessing an extremely dense Earth Fire Spirit Qi.
The same was true for the black smokers on the seabed. They were once merely vents for the ocean’s geothermal cycles, spouting subterranean matter. But now, they had become breeding grounds for bursts of oceanic Spiritual Qi, creating a vast Spiritual Rich Circle on the seafloor.
These were the ocean’s Pocket World Blessed Lands, its Spirit Mountain Secret Realms!
But that wasn’t the most important part... As Spiritual Light of various colors erupted from the black smokers, illuminating vast swathes of the sea, one massive shadow remained.
Su Zhou focused his gaze and then let out a long breath.
Because that shadow was not an area devoid of Spiritual Light... Rather, the Spiritual Light erupting from the black smokers was being absorbed and blocked by something enormous.
He could faintly make out that it was an impossibly huge skeleton of unknown length... a Dragon Bone!
The skull alone was as massive as a small mountain. Its bones were scattered across the seafloor, having even merged with the undulating underwater mountain ranges to become nests for countless sea creatures!
At this moment, his spiritual senses peaked. Su Zhou could see that atop the enormous Dragon Bone skull, within the eye socket of the skeleton, a Flood Dragon with horns not yet fully grown was swimming about. That was its nest, its home. The depths of the Sea Abyss, thousands of meters down, seemed to have no effect on it, its movements still agile and natural!
And deep within that eye-socket nest, a spiritual glow as round and perfect as a pearl was twinkling like a star.
The Spiritual Mechanism connection ended, and the faint Dragon’s Roar Spirit Sound gradually faded away.
It didn’t seem to appear often, only broadcasting in short bursts. The jet-black Sea Serpent had apparently known this, which was why it had led Su Zhou here.
"There are already Extraordinary Level creatures in the sea?"
Snapping out of the vision from his spiritual senses, Su Zhou’s expression was grim and serious.
’To be able to interact with my Qi Mechanism and resonate with my bloodline from thousands of miles away... could that Flood Dragon, which doesn’t even look fully grown, already be a True Dragon of the Extraordinary Tier?’
’After all, some leaders of human factions with inheritances haven’t even reached the Extraordinary Tier yet! Even with the bloodline inheritance of a Demon Beast, it shouldn’t be this fast.’
"No, it wasn’t the Flood Dragon. Its power isn’t on the same level as mine. Besides, I was the only one who saw it just now. It didn’t seem to sense me."
But Su Zhou quickly shook his head, dismissing his previous speculation. The image of the enormous Dragon Bone appeared in his mind. Su Zhou said in a low voice, "The one that sensed me... was actually that massive Dragon Bone!"
"It was the residual Spiritual Energy and the Dragon Pearl from that True Dragon’s remains that resonated with my blood!"
That was the correct answer.
"A Spiritual Rich Circle has actually appeared on the seabed, and a Flood Dragon is already growing and developing there... Hiss... this complicates things. It’s like the ocean has its own Pocket World Blessed Lands. And next to the dragon’s corpse, a number of Dragon Blood Sea Demons similar to that Flood Dragon are sure to be born."
"And looking at that size, it wouldn’t be impossible for giant Sea Beasts like those in East Japan’s monster movies to appear in the future!"
For a moment, even Su Zhou felt a headache coming on. "Yara, your bloodline is really something else, to have the power to remotely sense other True Dragons... Doesn’t this mean I could just take a trip around the ocean and easily obtain the benefits left behind in these corpses?"
"But of course." Yara flicked its tail, poking Su Zhou’s cheek. It sounded quite pleased with itself. "That’s why I always talk about a dragon returning to the sea... Of course, those benefits are only so-so for you. After all, you already have my inheritance, as well as other powerful human inheritances. You don’t need to get the Dragon Pearl inheritances from those Dragon Kings to grow strong quickly."
"But if your luck wasn’t as good as I thought—for example, if you’d fled back from the Divine Wood World in disgrace with nothing to show for it, and hadn’t received the Thunder Marsh Inheritance from the Zhengguo Government—then I would have guided you into the sea to fight those little flood dragons for their inheritances."
"How many times are you going to use that ’dragon returning to the sea’ line?" Su Zhou couldn’t help but retort. Then, as if he’d thought of something, he rubbed his chin. "Speaking of which, the Thunder God of the Thunder Marsh also had a dragon’s body and a human’s head. Could it be..."
Yara didn’t reply, and Su Zhou didn’t press the matter.
After a while, the jet-black Sea Serpent in Su Zhou’s hand woke up. Su Zhou released it and patted its head. "Thanks, little guy, for showing me such a big secret."
With that, he casually bit his finger and squeezed out a drop of blood. "This is for you. Consider it a reward."
This drop of blood, suffused with a cyan-purple Spiritual Light, didn’t disperse in the seawater. It neither sank nor floated, hanging suspended like a Gemstone.
Upon seeing it, the Black Serpent began to tremble with excitement. But it didn’t swallow the drop immediately. Instead, it circled the blood a few times, then looked back at Su Zhou as if asking, ’Can I really have this?’
Su Zhou naturally gave his consent. "Eat up and go. Be careful, and remember not to attack humans."
He said with a smile, not expecting a snake to fully understand his meaning, "Otherwise, I won’t hold back."
After receiving permission, the Black Serpent promptly swallowed the drop of blood. It swayed its body once toward Su Zhou, then swam off into the depths of the ocean.
"By the way, Su Zhou, what do you plan to do now that you have this information about the Dragon King’s Remains?"
Watching the Black Serpent swim away, Yara—who rarely showed interest in any creature other than Su Zhou—asked with a curious tone, "Are you going to make preparations and go seize it, or wait for that Flood Dragon to grow up before you kill it, so you can take both the big and small Dragon Pearls at once?"
"What else can I do?"
Su Zhou rolled his eyes in the water and shook his head. "Make preparations and go seize it? Me, a human, fighting a Flood Dragon in a water battle in the deep sea? Of course I’m reporting it to the government!"
It wasn’t that Su Zhou didn’t want it all for himself. If it were truly feasible and his strength was sufficient, Su Zhou would have dived thousands of meters into the sea today, slaughtered the Flood Dragon’s entire family, and eaten all the delicious things himself. Of course, he wouldn’t necessarily kill it. He could hand it over to the country to see if it could be farmed. That way, he might be able to eat dragon meat every day.
Just like the Wood Centipede, which had reportedly been successfully farmed. If he had the chance in the future, he really could eat Wood Centipede Eggs every day.
But the human body was truly unsuited for underwater combat. Through his spiritual senses just now, Su Zhou had seen how the Flood Dragon moved with ease and freedom in the deep sea. Its body structure was perfectly suited for aquatic battles. Even at full power, he wouldn’t be able to trap it; it would most likely escape. ’I could probably win a fight, but what’s the point if I can’t kill it? It’d be a waste of effort.’
What’s more, the deep sea was simply too dangerous. Su Zhou felt that unless he could transform his entire body structure into Spiritual Power Organs, it would be difficult to adapt to such an extreme environment.
This meant that going to the seabed before reaching the Extraordinary High-tier was an extremely dangerous affair. But if Su Zhou had already reached the Extraordinary High-tier, the inheritance and power contained within the Dragon Pearl wouldn’t be that appealing to him—it was a classic case of something not worth the trouble.
In that case, he might as well just report it to the government. If there was going to be an encirclement, let a group handle it. Since he had Dragon Blood, if there were any real benefits, they couldn’t possibly exclude him. Plus, it would save him a lot of trouble.
"Actually, more than the benefits and power contained within this dragon corpse, what I’m more concerned about is its true identity, and why it died here."
He wasn’t just answering Yara’s question; Su Zhou was also talking to himself.
He stared into the distant deep sea as if he could see the enormous remains thousands of miles away. Su Zhou’s tone was solemn. "A massive Flood Dragon thousands of meters long... food alone would be a problem. Devouring the ecosystem of an entire sea would probably be a trivial matter for it."
"Even if it didn’t need food, a single movement from it could overturn rivers and seas... Could a creature like this really have existed before the Severed Communication a thousand years ago? When did it die? A thousand years ago? Two thousand? Or even thousands of years ago, predating our history books?"
The Spiritual Energy Revival was bringing with it more and more unknowns and mysteries.
No one could answer this question. If he wanted to find any clues or answers, he was afraid the only way was to report it directly to the government and search for a hint within their unimaginably vast collection of Classics.
Swimming all the way back to Hai’an, the dive took a total of fifty-seven minutes. If he hadn’t been drawn away by the Black Serpent at the end, he would have been back in just over forty minutes. Su Zhou’s time estimation was quite accurate.
Hurrying back to the hotel, Su Zhou didn’t contact Shao Qiming and his sister right away. Instead, he directly pressed a series of symbols and keys that were more like a password than a phone number, and then prepared to take the call.
This was a direct line given to him by the Zhengguo Thirty-Six Saints Central Committee. As long as he entered the corresponding number, dedicated personnel would be available to assist him.
In other words, Su Zhou now had a direct channel of communication with the Zhengguo Thirty-Six Saints Central Committee, the highest authority in Zhengguo.
[This is Intelligent Interaction Platform Number 5. Hello, Professor Su Zhou.]
The voice that came through was that of a calm, middle-aged man. Su Zhou didn’t know who was behind the voice, but it had been this same voice that had communicated with him from the very beginning.
’I wonder who it is. They must have a lot of free time. Or maybe it’s an AI?’ Su Zhou thought, but he spoke directly, "While I was diving in the South Sea, I had a spiritual resonance with a massive dragon corpse in the deep sea. I discovered that a Flood Dragon has already appeared there, along with a Dragon Pearl that I suspect is a Dragon King’s inheritance."
Su Zhou quickly recounted everything, spilling the details like beans from a bamboo tube. The other end of the line listened quietly the entire time.
Only after Su Zhou had finished did the voice slowly say: [Thank you very much for the information, Professor Su Zhou.]
[What you resonated with were likely the remains of a Demon Race Dragon King from ancient times, forming a relic site.]
