Chapter 518: The Real Significance of the Land of Inheritance
Translator: Henyee Translations Editor: Henyee Translations
Hum!
In the City Master’s Office of Dragon City.
Ji Ye, who sat cross-legged on the ground, had a lot of yellow Dragon Aura flowing above his head, which turned into a Five-Clawed Golden Dragon and became more and more real!
After it fully became solid, the Five-Clawed Golden Dragon suddenly opened its eyes.
“Phew!”
Ji Ye took a soft breath and also opened his eyes.
It took him several days to completely absorb the powers in the golden seal and the True Dragon’s Heart.
At this moment, his own stats had changed.
[Race: Human (Earth)]
[Talents: Fusion (Transcendent, Inheritance), Treasure Refining(Transcendent, Inheritance), Healing (Transcendent, Perfect, Rare), Emperor’s Dragon Contract (Transcendent, Superior, Rare)]
[Level: Transcendent Rank-4 (Quasi Legend)]
[Skills: Dragon Transformation, Imperial Dragon Aura, Unlimited Resizing, True Dragon’s Eyes, Soul Clone, Distance Reduction…]
[Items: Hundred Dragon Soul (Transcendent Rank-4), Retribution Fire Trident, Void Ring, Thousand-Year Ice Dragon Sword…]
[Others: Omitted]
He was at the very peak of Transcendent Rank-4. In fact, he was very close to Transcendent Rank-5.
As a matter of fact, Ji Ye sensed that as long as he refilled the power of the True Dragon’s Heart that was consumed in the battle earlier, he would be able to enter Transcendent Rank-5.
This fusion was absolutely worth it. Even though all the power of providence acc.u.mulated so far was consumed, he had been significantly strengthened too. In terms of combat ability, he was undoubtedly Earth’s best gamer!
The harvest was not just about the improvement of strength.
His talent skills had advanced too.
The King’s Contract had evolved into the Emperor’s Dragon Contract.
[Emperor’s Dragon Contract (Talent Skill)]
[Level: Transcendent]
[Rarity: Perfect (Rare)]
[Description: 1. Whenever your subordinates or the targets subdued by you make a contribution to your settlement, you will receive an additional quota of power of providence!
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It was probably a result due to Li Chunfeng’s modification of fate, the incarnation of the Heavenly Leading Star he got with the Monument of Heavenly Spirits and Earthly Fiends, and the True Dragon’s Heritage.
Compared to the original King’s Contract, the talent skill had undergone a lot of changes after the advancement. It had two different functions, and both of them were quite powerful.
The first function meant that, after the advancement of the talent, every member of Dragon City would provide a quota of power of providence for him. Furthermore, if some aliens outside of Dragon City surrendered to him, they would provide their power of providence to him too.
“When I fused the True Dragon’s Heart, the settlement core suddenly offered some power of providence to me. It must be because of the advancement of my talent…”
It also meant that Ji Ye could use the Fusion talent without worrying about the cost.
Ji Ye speculated that the reason for the change was probably related to the Transcendent items he made with his Fusion and Treasure Refining talents and distributed to the members of his settlement.
In fact, thanks to the Transcendent treasures that the heroes of Dragon City had, while they suffered heavy casualties in the battle, even more Transcendent mermaids and mermen had died.
The bodies of the Transcendent creatures could be crafted into new equipment with the two talents, forming a virtuous cycle.
The second function was sort of an upgraded version of the King’s Contract.
The only change was that those who were contracted would be under Ji Ye’s control.
It didn’t seem to be of any special significance after first glance.
However, Ji Ye realized very quickly that it was perhaps a critical change.
The players’ talents could roughly be divided into two kinds—those that work on themselves and those that work on others.
For example, Li Qing’s Insight into the Combat Ability, Su Nongying’s Registration Book, and his Healing talent could also work on others.
However, unlike the Healing talent, he could only use the Healing talent on the items that belonged to him.
Therefore, he had been crafting items with the Fusion talent and giving them away to the heroes of Dragon City to indirectly strengthen them.
However, the new function of the contract talent changed everything.
The targets contracted by him would be under his control. Did it mean that he could fuse the targets’ techniques and Transcendent powers exactly like he fused his own?
That was of great significance.
While there were plenty of heroes in Dragon City, some of them were already left behind at this moment.
For example, Ling Zhen, Zhu Wu, and Qin Ming.
Perhaps because they weren’t famous or popular, they hadn’t reached the Transcendent level yet even though they were offered abundant resources.
If they could meet the requirements for the Fusion talent with the new contract, some of the heroes would definitely be glad to accept the contract. After all, with the development of Dragon City, those who remained in the Extraordinary level would fall from the top tier to the middle tier, but if they accepted Ji Ye’s contract, he could let them advance by fusing Transcendent power with them.
He would also be able to completely control them!
In that case, even if the Legends such as the Zhao brothers, who were infamous usurpers, were summoned one day, they wouldn’t cause any trouble.
Of course, if he became a real Legend, even the greatest emperors wouldn’t be able to challenge his position as the Master of Dragon City.
However, speaking of Legend…
Ji Ye noticed that his rating had changed from Boss to Quasi Legend.
It should be similar to Quasi Commander. He had met some of the requirements of the Legendary level, but not all of them.
“How can I become a real Legendary?”
Ji Ye was deep in thought.
Even the Confederation Office probably didn’t know the answer to that question because very few settlements from Earth had pa.s.sed the advancement test and reached the Transcendent level.
“However, the green Flood Dragon must know the answer…”
Ji Ye’s eyes became solemn.
Clang!
After a noise, an illusionary black dragon soul, shackled by dozens of chains that were attached to runes, emerged in front of Ji Ye.
“Roar!”
The green Flood Dragon roared at Ji Ye and struggled crazily. The dozens of rune chains on the Hundred Dragon Soul were all straightened and cracking.
“Dragons are really hard to kill. Even the soul of a Flood Dragon is still so powerful!”
Ji Ye complimented it.
As a matter of fact, he had always felt something wrong about the green Flood Dragon.
Dragon City was undoubtedly the strongest out of the settlements from Earth. It had the highest development speed.
However, the green Flood Dragon was already Transcendent Rank-3 at the time of Dragon City’s advancement, and now, it was already Transcendent Rank-4.
Even Dragon City couldn’t have resisted it if Li Chunfeng hadn’t made plans in advance or activated the True Dragon’s Heritage.
Such an enemy seemed too formidable, didn’t it?
“You must know the Land of Inheritance very well, don’t you? If you answer my questions honestly, maybe I’ll consider sparing your life!”
Ji Ye spoke to the green Flood Dragon’s soul telepathically.
He could indeed consider sparing the green Flood Dragon’s life. For example, he could subdue the green Flood Dragon and contract it.
In such a way, he could elicit the information he wanted from the green Flood Dragon, and he could even use it as an experimental subject to find out if he could activate fusion!
“Hooo! True Dragon, Legendary, I will eat you…”
However, sensing Ji Ye’s telepathic message, the green Flood Dragon’s soul struggled even more violently, and its reply was a mess.
“Has its soul been severely destroyed by my powerful attack?”
Ji Ye frowned slightly.
The Transcendent Rank-5 power was naturally not just physical damage. It could significantly wound the green Flood Dragon’s soul even though it was not aimed at it.
At this moment, the soul was simply rambling, and it couldn’t be communicated with!
“You leave me with no choice. I’ll just refine you!”
Immediately, the runes on the soul chains glittered, and the green Flood Dragon’s soul crumbled.
In the process, the injection of Transcendent Rank-4 soul power, as well as the soul power that the weapon had absorbed earlier, made it more and more powerful than before.
Eventually, the weapon turned from purely dark into half transparent. It could be vaguely seen that dozens of Flood Dragons were swimming in it!
The Hundred Dragon Soul successfully evolved into a Transcendent Rank-4 weapon.
Then, Ji Ye grabbed the weapon and covered it with the silver light of Fusion.
When he crafted the Hundred Dragon Soul, he had fused the Soul Mask with it, so naturally, he could extract memory pieces from the soul.
Also, with Ji Ye’s Fusion talent, he had enough time to select and acquire information!
A picture popped up in Ji Ye’s head.
Above a desolate island that was floating in the middle of a vast ocean, two Flood Dragons that were more than a hundred meters long had their lower half bodies entangled. One of them was a male, with intimidating purple scales and claws, and the other was female. There was an egg with green spots between them.
“My child, the day you’re born, the whole world will…”
In the picture, the female Flood Dragon nuzzled against the egg and spoke in an uneasy tone.
Although it wasn’t speaking the human language, Ji Ye was able to understand what they said with their mental waves in the status of fusion.
“Those two must be the green Flood Dragon’s parents.
“This must be the so-called hereditary memory, an ability that the natural-born Transcendent creatures who are more advanced than human beings are capable of.”
Ji Ye recalled the information he read on the forum of the Land of Inheritance.
Hereditary memory, like the ability to travel in s.p.a.ce, marked the degree of development for a race and a civilization!
Technically speaking, every creature had hereditary memory.
For example, most birds were born with the ability to build nests, and almost all mammals knew how to bite apart the umbilical cords after their babies were born. Even the insects knew what food to eat and what not to…
Of course, the hereditary memory that the dragons had was clearly better than that of regular creatures.
The two Flood Dragons in the picture, which were obviously Transcendent, seemed to be “blessing” their child.
Ji Ye could already imagine that they would say “the whole world will whisper your name…”
Little did he antic.i.p.ate…
“The whole world might have collapsed…”
What the female Flood Dragon said was quite astonishing.
“The world will fall into darkness. All lives will be destroyed. Only the Land of Inheritance can keep embers of hope for the civilizations from planets and universes. We don’t have a choice!” the purple female Flood Dragon continued.
What did it mean?
Ji Ye was deep in thought.
The world that the green Flood Dragon lived in would fall into darkness, and all lives would be destroyed?
Wait, planets and universes?
Did the world that the green Flood Dragon lived in consist of planets too?
Shouldn’t it be some sort of “plane”?
The Flood Dragons were obviously creatures that belonged to a fictional world with xuanhuan or xianxia backgrounds.
“Honey, is there really nothing else we can do?”
The female Flood Dragon sounded reluctant.
“We’ve been luckily chosen to enter the Land of Inheritance and given unusual power. However, the price we must pay is that we partic.i.p.ate in this round of tests. We have to perfect this world which will be a sanctuary of life in the Great Darkness, even at the cost of our lives…”
The purple male Flood Dragon sounded rather calm.
“Can’t we ask Lord Yellow Dragon to send our baby out? He is a Legend and has the privilege of sending creatures to the special planes…” the female Flood Dragon turned back and said with hope.
“It won’t work. Those special planes are only the imperfect experiment subjects of the Land of Inheritance. They cannot endure to the end of the darkness.
“Besides, if it enters a special plane, it will forget everything about the Land of Inheritance and us,” the purple male Flood Dragon replied calmly.
“Leave it here and ask the lords in the City of Dragons to take care of it.”
“Even if we die in this test, we will still provide information for the dragon race, and our baby will receive great power as a seed of the dragons. In the future, it will have a great chance to become Legendary and even Mythic…”
“Child, remember… We love you…”
The two green Flood Dragons became blurry and obscure.
It was because the green Flood Dragon’s soul was damaged and the information was incomplete.
But it was good enough.
The arrival of the Great Darkness, the destruction of lives…
The Land of Inheritance was not a place of trials, fortifications, and fortunes at all, but a place that attempted to preserve the hopes of all civilizations and species.
That was the true meaning of “inheritance”!
Ji Ye suddenly realized why, apart from defeating them, “subduing the aliens” was also an option in the quests of the Land of Inheritance.
Under normal circ.u.mstances, it would be unlikely for an intelligent creature to surrender to another intelligent creature.
However, if an alien civilization only had one last settlement, and the result of not surrendering would be the destruction of their civilization and species, then surrendering clearly wouldn’t be an unacceptable price.
“However, the most important information should be the ‘special planes’.
“The mermaids, the Eagle Men, the sea monsters… Are those aliens really creatures from alternate universes? Or are they…”
Ji Ye suddenly thought of something and changed his expression.
[Note: Everybody living on the emperor’s territory is the emperor’s subject!