Chapter 1730: Chapter 929: Showdown (Part 2)
There are far too many legends about dragons; Lin Feng himself didn’t know how this golden dragon had come here, nor why it was willing to stay and watch over the void. But now that this independent space was shattering, where would the dragon go? Would it break through the barriers of space and time and once again roam the universe...
In that moment, Lin Feng seemed to see the dragon dancing with the star river, roaming through one segment of time after another, observing humanity and observing the origin of Heaven and Earth.
The golden dragon was without doubt the greatest Guardian of this world; they could think, and they worried about the stability of the universe.
Their farsightedness could be said to reach millions of years ahead. At this moment Lin Feng seemed to think of the current Human Realm, thought about going to ask the dragon for a way to save all living beings.
So he put away the Spirit Communication Cloak. The dragon had originally been about to fly away, because in its eyes a human whose size compared to it was like that of a mouse really wasn’t worth much interest.
Just as the golden dragon was about to fly away, Lin Feng took off the cloak’s hood and revealed himself before the dragon.
Sensing the suddenly appearing human aura among the ruins, along with a faint fluctuation of Spiritual Power, the dragon suddenly grew interested. It had never imagined that a human at the Four Spirits Seal level would have the guts to face it directly.
The golden dragon’s anger calmed; at this moment what it felt was more curiosity.
Its deep, gloomy eyes stared straight at the human man, and this man didn’t show even a trace of fear. Moreover, his body seemed to be emitting a kind of similar aura—this was the Scale Armor worn under Lin Feng’s clothes.
The golden dragon should have been furious, yet the person before it made it unable to get angry, because this person stirred in it an impulse to peel off its own Dragon Armor and give it to him as Soft armor.
The golden dragon sensed Lin Feng’s aura, and it seemed to remind it of a story from a thousand years ago. It had been a dazzling white day, incomparably bright. It was slumbering in the universe when it discovered a star falling from afar. After this star fell, it actually triggered a tremendous explosion in the cosmos, and then the entire galaxy began to explode. But such an explosion was utterly insignificant to the golden dragon; it only suffered a minor injury and arrived above the Six Realms.
The golden dragon encountered a white-robed Cultivator; the white-robed Cultivator exuded the same aura as Lin Feng. He placed all of his own energy into a single Crystal Stone. This Crystal Stone was eventually brought here by the dragon. Although this independent void and that power were enough to rival the golden dragon, compared to the dragon they were still weak. Because of this, the dragon didn’t covet it; instead, it protected this energy aggregate that was close to its own power, traversed countless times and spaces, and finally arrived in this independent space. The dragon slumbered for a thousand years. A thousand years later, Lin Feng arrived and took away the power of the man in white.
The dragon felt Lin Feng’s aura, then let out a heaven-shaking dragon roar. Its mission was already over. Guarding for a thousand years was just the snap of a finger to it, yet to protect something for an entire millennium because of a human it loathed—this wasn’t something just any golden dragon could do.
The golden dragon spoke to Lin Feng: "You have returned. All causes and fates are decreed by Heaven. There is no need for distress or self-blame."
Lin Feng hadn’t opened his mouth to ask, yet the golden dragon already knew what he wanted to ask, because a thousand years ago he had asked it that very question; the dragon only had a chance to answer it a thousand years later.
Immediately, the space behind the dragon was torn open, forming a vast void. This was a tunnel of time and space, a rift leading to the boundless universe. The golden dragon would once more roam the Nine Heavens, wander the proud universe, continue to observe every change in the cosmic star river, and await the next person capable of attracting its attention.
The golden dragon surged into the seven-colored flowing light and disappeared in an instant without a trace within the boundless, shadowless space tunnel.
After the dragon left, Lin Feng watched with his own eyes as the torn space knit together again and returned to normal. Yet in the very next second, the entire independent world began to tremble, as if it would collapse in the next instant.
It turned out that after Lin Feng obtained the power, the time limit of this independent space had already reached the brink of collapse. Lin Feng had come at just the right time—the dragon hadn’t yet left with the Crystal Stone; it had waited here for a thousand years and finally waited for the master of the inheritance treasure to come back.
Lin Feng hadn’t disappointed it. The dragon’s exuberant departure was so suave, so natural, full of righteousness.
Lin Feng was also a man of upright character and naturally felt a sympathy with the dragon, so he used a simplified Void Technique to shift himself segment by segment toward the exit. It wasn’t long before Lin Feng arrived at the exit.
At this time the Sect Leader had already come to the gate outside. Seeing that Lin Feng still hadn’t come out, the Sect Leader wondered if Lin Feng had already died.
"Hurry up and close the exit!" the Sect Leader ordered Luo Jingtian angrily. After hearing the order, Luo Jingtian began casting a spell to close the entrance to the Secret Realm.
Seeing this scene, Feng Ling grew anxious and hurriedly shouted to Luo Jingtian, "Stop! If you close the Barrier now, Lin Feng won’t be able to come out. Without the inheritance treasure, how will you open the passage to the Seventh Realm?"
Feng Ling knew that only by saying this would the Sect Leader be moved at all. But it wasn’t that the Sect Leader didn’t want Lin Feng to come out—he simply believed Lin Feng was already dead. Since he was dead, the Sect Leader could put his mind at ease and think of some other method. But if that one inside were allowed to come out, the lives of the few of them might be in grave danger.
Because once the golden dragon was enraged, no one would have a good ending. Even if they managed to beat the golden dragon back, the Sect Leader would be heavily injured. If he were gravely wounded, how could he complete his grand plan?
So the Sect Leader couldn’t afford to gamble. As long as the dragon wasn’t truly enraged, it would naturally abide by the laws of Heaven and Earth and wouldn’t slaughter wantonly.
Seeing the Sect Leader hesitate, Luo Jingtian also stopped his hand, and at this moment he stood there blankly, looking at the Sect Leader and Feng Ling.
Just then, Feng Ling’s eyes lit up, and the Sect Leader looked over.
It turned out Lin Feng had come out, and before Luo Jingtian could close the space gate, it had already collapsed on its own.
The sky above Star Fall Mountain also returned to its usual state, as if nothing at all had happened before. Lin Feng, weakened, landed on the ground, used the last of his strength to glance at Luo Jingtian in front of him, and then sank into unconscious sleep.
For a Four Spirits Seal cultivator, he had spent far too much in this operation.
Luo Jingtian looked at Lin Feng thoughtfully, a strange expression tugging at the corner of his mouth.
"This brat actually came out safely, without suffering any injury..." He couldn’t believe it. Facing the golden dragon, just how had Lin Feng managed to retreat completely unscathed?
At this moment the Sect Leader also strode over, squatted down, and examined Lin Feng, then let out a sudden cold laugh.
He then said to Feng Ling behind him, "Take good care of him. Pick two useless Soul Devices to help him deal with two beasts."
After that, the Sect Leader left with Luo Jingtian, not even sparing them another glance, leaving five Soul Devices for Feng Ling to choose from. It was as if, to Luo Jingtian and the Sect Leader, these Soul Devices didn’t matter at all. The reason they had tried to snatch them was to obtain the power of the inheritance treasure, so as to open a brand-new world that would be no weaker than the Six Realms.
At a thought, Feng Ling put all five Soul Devices away into the Qiankun Bag. In fact these five Soul Devices had always been handed to Feng Ling to keep; the Sect Leader didn’t care about the Soul Devices and knew that Feng Ling would surely distinguish priorities, so he entrusted these things to her safekeeping.
Feng Ling indeed lived up to expectations; she had not only kept the items safe but had also brought Lin Feng over and into the Inheritance Secret Realm, allowing the Sect Leader to discover a heaven-shaking secret.
When the Sect Leader first observed Lin Feng, he had already completely confirmed that the inheritance treasure had indeed been left here by Lin Feng a thousand years ago—no wonder he had perished...
Thinking of this, the Sect Leader walked along, laughing wildly up at the sky. At his side, Luo Jingtian saw the Sect Leader laughing so heartily and, relying on his own wits, seemed to have guessed something as well, only he didn’t say anything, just followed along quietly like that.
