Chapter 105 - The Fire Dragon King

"Oh, Senior Dugu, we're lucky. The soul bone of the Blue Silver King actually exploded."

"Really? I suppose he must have held a deep grudge against the Haotian Sect when he was alive. It must be hard for them."

Dugu Bo didn't know when the Clear Sky Sect had offended this great deity, but as long as it didn't involve the Dugu family, even if the Haotian Sect was destroyed, it had nothing to do with him.

He watched Xu Mingxi store away the 85,000-year-old Blue Silver King soul bone and followed behind with Dugu Yan.

It would be a lie to say that Dugu Bo had no interest in the soul bone at all, but since he didn't kill the Blue Silver King himself, he had no reason to speak up, and he didn't want to offend Xu Mingxi or the Star Crown Sect.

At present, he was highly relied upon by the Star Crown Sect because his poison was the best on the continent. However, the descendants of the Dugu family might not have the same opportunity he did to evolve the Green Phosphorus Snake into a Green Phosphorus Snake King, and then further into a Green Phosphorus Dragon.

As long as the Star Crown Sect allowed the Dugu family to safely continue progressing, it wouldn't matter even if they asked him to hand over the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well.

Xu Mingxi had no idea what Dugu Bo was thinking. If he did, he would have wholeheartedly agreed. He hurried through the forest and arrived once again at the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well, the great treasure land that had led to the rise of the Star Crown Sect.

"Speaking of which, there are still the Acacia Broken Heart Red and Qirong Tongtianju plants in the sect that haven't been used. Maybe I could use one of them to defeat Juegui Douluo? But why do I feel slightly at a disadvantage?"

It wasn't that Juegui Douluo wasn't strong. Both were level 94 titled Douluo with martial soul fusion techniques—truly rare powerhouses on the continent.

Even with their help, the Star Crown Sect still couldn't defeat the Spirit Hall. Without them, other powers wouldn't dare provoke the Star Crown Sect. This made Juegui Douluo's presence feel a bit awkward, even unnecessary.

The poison formation Dugu Bo had placed outside the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well was still intact, though slightly damaged. A few corpses lay nearby—mostly beasts from Sunset Forest who had accidentally wandered in.

"Mingxi, you wander around here for now. I'll take Yanyan back to get some medicinal herbs to help strengthen her body."

"Alright, feel free, Senior Dugu."

Xu Mingxi wandered the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well alone. After consuming the two immortal herbs—the Eight Petal Ice Grass and the Fiery Apricot—he no longer feared the extreme cold and heat of this place.

Ignoring the high-quality herbs growing abundantly around him, he flew straight into the sky above the blazing hot Yang Spring. With his left hand covered in sunlight, he slowly reached out toward the Yang Spring.

It wasn't hot—he could enter. Xu Mingxi withdrew his hand, sunlight enveloping his entire body, then plunged into the Yang Spring and began swimming toward the bottom of the lake.

The red spring water surrounded Xu Mingxi completely. As he dived deeper, he gradually felt the temperature around him rise. Even the sunlight barrier could not completely block the extreme heat of the lake.

His eighth soul skill, Blazing Sun Covers the Body, activated, coating his body in a thin red glow and insulating him from the external heat.

However, the moment didn't last long. Even with the double protection of sunlight and his fiery technique, the heat still seeped in. Xu Mingxi had to rely on his body, now strengthened by the Fiery Apricot.

Fortunately, he could already see the bottom of the lake. Beneath the red lake water lay a massive corpse. Xu Mingxi suspected this was the legendary corpse of the Fire Dragon King.

He forced himself to swim downstream and quickly inspected the Fire Dragon King's body, but was greatly disappointed. There was no so-called million-year-old soul bone like those discussed in his past life. The energy from the two dragon kings' corpses had likely transformed into these two magical springs.

Just as Xu Mingxi began swimming back against the current, a beam of light suddenly emerged from the eye socket of the Fire Dragon King's corpse.

A burst of red light shot forth, instantly destroying the spiritual defense soul guide on Xu Mingxi's body. He felt something invade his spiritual sea.

His expression changed, and the hundred-thousand-year soul bone skill of the Yangyan Crow, Golden Crow Turns to Rainbow, activated. Golden Crow wings appeared behind him as he rushed out of the Yang Spring in an instant, collapsing on the shore and focusing inward into his spiritual sea.

As he entered his spiritual consciousness, he sensed a blazing breath approaching. What appeared before his eyes was a massive red creature.

A giant red dragon suddenly appeared in his sea of consciousness, like a blazing fireball, radiating an ancient and powerful aura.

"You are the Fire Dragon King? What do you want?"

"Calm down, junior. I am just a residual soul. I sensed the aura of an old friend, so I came to check it out."

"Old friend? I don't know who you're talking about."

"The Star God. Junior, you must've obtained fragments of his divinity. It seems he too perished in that battle."

Star God's divinity fragments? Xu Mingxi's mind seemed to open like the Ren and Du meridians. Several past doubts were resolved, yet new ones emerged.

Why was there a Star God in the trials of the Sun and Moon Gods? What was their relationship? What was the meaning of the black crystal orb he received?

Most importantly, the Moon Goddess's final words: "The one most loyal to you is the light of ten thousand stars." Could she have meant the Star God?

"Senior, do you know the relationship between the Star God and the Sun and Moon Gods?"

"Why? Are the Sun and Moon Gods still alive? That's a good thing. Since you've inherited the Star God's legacy, I will tell you."

"In the past, the Star God was the elder brother of the Sun and Moon Gods. The three of them were close to our soul beast clan and governed the sun, moon, and stars of the world."

"Unfortunately, a great war later erupted, and all the beast-lineage gods fell. It now seems that the Star God must've been dragged down by us."

"Then, senior, do you know about the black crystal orb they had?"

"I'm not sure about that. Alright, junior, I will return to my slumber, and don't even think about a soul bone—there is none."

"The energy from my body and that of the water dragon has long become these two springs. It's fine to plant some fairy herbs nearby."

The dragon's image vanished in an instant. As Xu Mingxi woke, he removed the cracked level-eight mental defense soul guide from his neck, feeling a bit frustrated.

You could've just come out—you didn't need to be so aggressive. But the words of the Fire Dragon King's residual soul reminded Xu Mingxi: if he wanted to obtain the legacy of the Sun and Moon Gods, perhaps he should start with the Star God.

The appearance of the starlight and the Moon Goddess's words during the Sun and Moon Valley trial were clearly no coincidence. Maybe the key to activating the black crystal orb lay with the Star God.

Xu Mingxi once again took out the black crystal orb and tried to inject starlight into it, but there was still no change. He could only put it away helplessly.