432: Born into the torrent, one must either perish or be destroyed.

[Simulation Ended]

[Final Achievement: Glorious Stepping Stone]

[Survival Time: 19 Years]

[Ending: Standing Above All Living Beings, Drowning Within a Tiny Space.]

(You were born glorious and lived humbly; being above tens of millions was your destiny, yet you chose a path of tenderness.)

(Anyone could walk this path, except you.)

(A True Dragon reigns over all dragons, and you reign over True Dragons; you are the destined Dragon Ancestor, the destined Dominator.)

(Born in a torrent, if you do not destroy, you can only be destroyed.)

(From the moment you chose to reject this path, your ending was already set.)

(Additional Comment: The tenderness of the Qingyun Sect was too soft, so soft that it allowed you to wear away your sharp dragon claws and proud dragon hornss. However, a True Dragon is destined never to emerge from a bird's nest. It is a pity; had you not chosen to enter the Qingyun Sect back then, you would not have died; but had you not chosen to enter, you would not have reached this step. Your destiny is like your choices, wavering and uncertain; you would regret whichever one you chose.)

Qin Wangchuan looked at the cold ending comments and shook his head after a moment of silence.

"As expected."

"Cheng Yu is Long Yu."

"Likely, the Heaven Sparrow Clan took advantage of the time after the small realm was closed to capture the surviving True Dragons and forcibly crossbreed them to cultivate pawns like Cheng Yu."

"Planning for ten thousand years just for this moment, to use half-true, half-false dragon blood to infiltrate the heart of the True Dragon Clan."

Qin Wangchuan's line of thought became increasingly clear. "For Cheng Yu to dare to infiltrate alone so boldly, his confidence, besides his Half-blood status, must be that eye on the plume—that is definitely not his own power."

"The owner of that eye is likely some Great Demon behind the Heaven Sparrow Clan, perhaps even that Demon Ancestor."

"He uses Cheng Yu's body to spy and provides assistance or ensures a backup plan at critical moments."

"And Long Yin... though he is at the center of everything, he is too immature and not firm enough."

If he had wanted to leave, he could have left at the very beginning.

If he had wanted to stay, Cheng Yu probably wouldn't have even been able to get close to him.

"Indecisiveness is sometimes good, but more often than not, it only brings harm."

[Please choose (one) item to inherit from the following rewards:]

1: 19 years of lifespan.

2: ???

3: Origin +990.

4: A plume from the Heaven Sparrow Ancestor.

Qin Wangchuan's gaze swept across the options.

The Origin reward this time was extremely generous, but what surprised him even more were those three question marks.

"System, did you encounter another bug?"

[Self-checking... Self-check complete, no errors found.]

[As a side note, the probability of this System making a mistake is no less than the destruction of the world.]

"I think even if the world were destroyed, your mouth would still be stubborn."

Qin Wangchuan raised an eyebrow at the options and stared for a moment: "Question marks... does that mean you want me to take a gamble?"

"My luck has always been quite good."

After saying that, he decisively chose "2".

[Obtained: Ancestral Dragon Blood.]

[Fusing... Fusion failed.]

[Error!]

[Detected that the host already possesses Ancestral Dragon Blood.]

[Attempting forced Fusion... Fusion failed.]

[Unable to fuse with low-level Bloodlines.]

[Searching for solutions... Search complete.]

[Option 1: Re-select another reward to inherit.]

[Option 2: Give up this portion of Ancestral Dragon Blood and obtain Origin +1000.]

[Option 3: Consume twenty times the Origin to refine this portion of Ancestral Dragon Blood.]

Qin Wangchuan watched the System prompts scroll by with great interest.

"I told you there was a bug, but you didn't believe me."

"See, it's stuck, isn't it?"

He teased in his heart, but his gaze sharpened.

The System error also revealed key information:

"'Unable to fuse with low-level Bloodlines'... Although this description is a bit abstract, the meaning is clear."

"The dragon blood in my body undoubtedly comes from that time with Dragon Gauze."

"In other words, what Dragon Gauze passed to me was also Ancestral Dragon Blood, and its quality or concentration is much higher than what I obtained in the simulation?"

This confirmed some of his previous suspicions.

Dragon Gauze's identity and Bloodline were likely even more startling than expected.

Then, his gaze turned to the last option.

"Twenty times the Origin, huh."

Qin Wangchuan calculated.

This price was by no means small.

But high risk could also mean high reward.

"I'll gamble."

He chose "3".

[Selection confirmed. Consumed 2000 Origin points.]

As the choice took effect, Qin Wangchuan only felt his body vibrate slightly, and a strong sense of weakness instantly hit him, as if a large portion of some supportive power within his body had been drawn away.

Twenty times the Origin was equivalent to one-sixth of his original amount, which was definitely not a small number.

But immediately after, a change occurred!

He felt as if a drop of "blood" that was scalding and hot to the extreme had dripped into his heart.

It wasn't actual blood, but a concentrated substance of Origin essence.

This drop of blood fell into his Spiritual Platform and was immediately captured, enveloped, and pumped by his incomparably powerful Supreme Dao Heart!

Buzz—!

An indescribable sense of majestic power, accompanied by ancient dragon pressure, centered on his heart and boomed through his entire body!

Every inch of flesh, every bone, and even the depths of his Divine Soul seemed to be baptized by this burning and noble power!

"This feeling..."

After a brief adaptation, Qin Wangchuan felt as if every cell in his body was cheering and jumping for joy.

"I feel—I'm full of power!"

"This refined Ancestral Dragon Blood is indeed extraordi—wait."

The joy only lasted for a very brief moment.

That surging sense of power came quickly and left even quicker!

It didn't bring about a world-shaking qualitative change, and even the quantitative change seemed negligible.

There was likely only one reason for such a result.

"System," Qin Wangchuan's voice was low, with a hint of disbelief, "you didn't really just give me one drop of this stuff, did you?"

Thinking back carefully, the System prompt indeed only said "Obtained Ancestral Dragon Blood" and never specified the amount.

A bowl, a basin, a drop... all could be Ancestral Dragon Blood.

As he concentrated on internal inspection and searched repeatedly, he finally confirmed—

What he had exchanged for a full two thousand Origin points was indeed just a single, insignificant drop of blood!

For ordinary Cultivators, or even for an average Dragon Clan Genius.

This single drop of refined Ancestral Dragon Origin essence blood might already be a supreme Opportunity, enough to undergo a complete transformation.

But for Qin Wangchuan... it was far from enough!

He himself not only had the Ancestral Dragon Blood passed to him by Dragon Gauze as a Foundation, but he also possessed an Immortal Body with infinite potential.

At the same time, he also had a Heaven-Defying Foundation like the Supreme Dao Heart.

With the two combined, it was like a vast and deep starry sky, with an astonishing capacity to contain things.

Dropping this single drop of dragon blood into it was like a slightly brighter meteor streaking across the night sky; besides a momentary flash and a faint disturbance, it couldn't light up the starry sky or change the situation at all.

Twenty times the Origin, for just this?

Just this?