67: Gift of the Dragon Soul

Finally, with his unremitting efforts, the golden-red, illusory light slowly opened its equally illusory, golden… Dragon's Eye.

An ancient thought, filled with doubt, scrutiny, and curiosity, slowly echoed in Lin Feng's mind.

“Human?”

“Why do you carry the aura of my race?”

“And that scent of life and creation that makes me feel so comfortable…”

Facing the inquiry from that ancient and majestic thought, Lin Feng didn't feel the slightest Fear.

He merely condensed his Mental Energy into a purer and friendlier thought, slowly transmitting it.

“Respected Your Excellency Dragon.”

“I am merely a traveler who inadvertently trespassed into your resting place.”

“The powerful Dragon's aura emanating from you is of great help to me.”

“And this Life Power on me, which you find ‘comfortable,’ might also bring a small comfort to your fading remnant Spirit.”

He neither lied nor concealed, but chose the most sincere and equal stance to communicate with this existence that once might have been world-destroying. He was testing the waters for a transaction.

The golden-red Dragon remnant Spirit fell into a long silence after receiving Lin Feng's thought.

Its golden Dragon's Eyes flickered continuously, seemingly engaged in an extremely complex process of thought and deliberation.

After a long while, its ancient thought finally resounded again: “Life and creation… what a nostalgic scent. You are right, young man. My time is running out. Rather than dissipating meaninglessly among these cold bones, I might as well bestow my last power upon you, this interesting junior… considered a decent end to my long and failed life.”

Its thought carried a sense of release and detachment, like a hero at the end of his road.

“Then, human… are you ready? Ready to receive the final Legacy from an Ancient Red Dragon?”

Lin Feng's heart leaped! He knew he had made the right gamble! He immediately composed himself, adjusting his body and Spirit to a perfect state, ready to face any impact!

“I am ready.”

“Very good…”

As the Dragon remnant Spirit's final sigh of relief faded, the golden-red light, which had been as flickering as a candle in the wind and incredibly illusory, suddenly erupted with an unprecedented, dazzling golden-red Divine Light!

A colossal, purest, and most Origin Dragon Power, powerful enough to make the entire Black Mist Swamp tremble, instantly engulfed and submerged Lin Feng's entire body!

【Ding! You have received the ultimate Legacy of the Ancient Red Dragon Soul!】

【Your Bloodline is being forcibly transformed and sublimated by the ‘Dragon Origin’…】

Boom——!

Lin Feng felt as if his body had been thrown into a molten furnace with a temperature of tens of thousands of degrees!

Every drop of blood, every bone, every inch of muscle within his Physique was constantly destroyed, decomposed, and then reconstructed in a stronger, more perfect way under the onslaught of this incredibly overbearing Dragon Origin!

It was an indescribable, bone-deep, extreme pain, yet accompanied by an ultimate rebirth, as if shedding one's mortal coil!

【Your ‘Strength’ attribute has received a permanent epic-level enhancement!】

【Your ‘Physique’ attribute has received a permanent epic-level enhancement!】

【Your talent ‘Flame Monarch (A-rank)’ has absorbed pure ‘Dragon Flame’, and your talent has advanced…】

【You have obtained S-rank talent — ‘Crimson Lotus Dragon Lord’!】

【You have obtained A-rank passive talent — ‘Dragon Bloodline’!】

【You have obtained A-rank passive talent — ‘Dragon Scale Armor’!】

【Your professional Legacy Stone ‘Dragonblood Warlord’ has absorbed the pure Dragon Soul, and its quality has increased…】

【You have obtained a special item — ‘Unique Professional Legacy Stone (Dragonblood Emperor)’!】

As that series of miraculous System prompts swept through Lin Feng's entire consciousness like the fiercest storm, the golden-red Dragon remnant Spirit finally exhausted its last trace of power, transforming into specks of golden light that slowly merged into Lin Feng's glabella.

“Young man… do not betray this power, and do not let ‘our’ tragedy repeat…”

Its last trace of thought slowly dissipated in Lin Feng's mind.

Lin Feng slowly opened his eyes from that extreme pain and rebirth. In his dark pupils, two golden-red vertical pupils, filled with supreme majesty, flashed and disappeared!

A terrifying Dragon's Might, originating from the apex of life and capable of making all things submit, swept over him, instantly enveloping the entire Black Mist Swamp!

“Roar—!!!”

Dozens of kilometers away from the Dragon's skeleton, the Level 15 Lord BOSS 【Abyssal Corrosive Megalisk】, which was engaged in a grueling battle with Su Qingxue's “First Elite Group,” suddenly stiffened!

For the first time, a trace of instinctive Fear, originating from the deepest part of its Bloodline, appeared in its huge pupils, which were usually filled with brutality and madness!

It actually abandoned the food that was already within reach, let out a terrified shriek, then turned without looking back, and fled madly towards the deeper parts of the swamp!

“…?!”

This sudden scene left Su Qingxue, Instructor Lei Yan, Li Hu… everyone completely dumbfounded.

They couldn't understand, nor could they figure out, what kind of existence could scare a Level 15 Lord BOSS away just by leaking a trace of its aura?!

Su Qingxue, however, suddenly looked up, her cold eyes filled with unprecedented shock and horror!

She fixed her gaze on the direction she had been worrying about earlier. In that fleeting, terrifying Dragon's Might, she clearly captured a very faint, yet incredibly familiar aura belonging to Lin Feng!

“…No… impossible…” Her body trembled uncontrollably due to a terrifying guess that could overturn her entire worldview!

At this moment, the “instigator” who had stirred up the entire dungeon calmly stood up from the ground. He felt the terrifying power within his body that seemed capable of easily tearing apart heaven and earth, then looked at his completely god-like attribute panel, and slowly exhaled a turbid breath with a faint smell of sulfur.

“…It's time to go out.”

His figure transformed into a golden-red stream of light, instantly disappearing from this Dragon's graveyard that had granted him his ultimate transformation.