Chapter 449: The Mystery is Revealed

To be able to contend with an Emperor while at the Divine Realm—such an existence was exceedingly rare in the entire Cosmos.

At this moment, the Blade Slaughter Sect Master stood before Li Yang. He looked at Fire Cloud Emperor and bowed slightly, saying, "Greetings, Fire Cloud Emperor."

Fire Cloud Emperor appeared and looked at Blade Slaughter. His voice rumbled as he said, "Blade Slaughter, I didn't expect your strength to have improved since we last met tens of thousands of years ago."

The strength Blade Slaughter had just displayed had clearly surprised him. When he himself was at the Divine Realm, even at his peak, he would have been no match for Blade Slaughter.

After speaking, Fire Cloud Emperor added, "This is a key military station. Blade Slaughter, you should leave."

After speaking to Blade Slaughter, Fire Cloud Emperor glanced at Li Yang before looking away.

His figure was towering as he stood in the void. Below, Li Yang looked like an ant that could be crushed with a mere wave of his hand.

In Fire Cloud Emperor's eyes, Li Yang was just a minor character, not even worth mentioning.

Some Emperors from the Human Race's Eternal Saint Hall might value Li Yang, but Fire Cloud Emperor was from the Primordial Martial Dao Saint Realm, so he naturally didn't care about him.

Li Yang stood silently in the void, gazing up at that towering figure, an indescribable feeling in his heart.

This was his territory, yet Fire Cloud Emperor didn't even bother to ask his opinion, completely ignoring him.

However, Li Yang knew this was only to be expected.

"Yes."

Hearing Fire Cloud Emperor's command, the Blade Slaughter Sect Master said nothing more, simply turning to leave with Li Yang.

"Ancestor!"

Meanwhile, Luoyu flew to Fire Cloud Emperor's side, his voice filled with excitement.

"Luoyu, repair this station."

The recent battle had all but destroyed the base.

"Yes." Luoyu nodded. Figures of Deities flickered about, collecting the fragments of the many palaces. Then, new palaces appeared one after another.

For so many Deities, building a base was the simplest of tasks.

With the base repaired, the surrounding membrane enveloped it once more.

"Ancestor, the creature inside the sun..." Luoyu couldn't help but ask.

He was overjoyed.

'Haha, Li Yang's move was unexpected, but he still fell short at the final hurdle. In the end, I'm the winner!'

'Now that my ancestor, Fire Cloud Emperor, has arrived, there won't be any more surprises.'

'I managed to block Blade Slaughter just now, so there's no way the Blade Slaughter Sect Master could have discovered the creature in the sun. The initiative is still in our hands.'

"I'll go take a look at that Array." Fire Cloud Emperor nodded, preparing to try and break it.

...

Meanwhile, the Blade Slaughter Sect Master led Li Yang and the others away.

Following behind the Blade Slaughter Sect Master, Li Yang's heart sank. 'I can't believe Luoyu actually notified his family's Fire Cloud Emperor to come here. The more they act like this, the greater the opportunity in the sun must be. But I was just a step too late. Now that Fire Cloud Emperor is here, I have no idea what that opportunity even is.'

Just then, Soul Ink's voice suddenly echoed in his mind.

"Li Yang, I saw what was inside the sun just now," Soul Ink said suddenly.

Hearing this, Li Yang was stunned for a moment, then quickly asked, "Soul Ink, what's the opportunity inside the sun?"

A trace of surprise still lingered in Soul Ink's eyes; clearly, it too had been shocked by the creature in the sun.

Before, with so many Deities present and Luoyu deliberately concealing it, it was difficult to investigate.

But when the Blade Slaughter Sect Master swept aside Luoyu and the others, an opening appeared, and it seized the opportunity to see the scene within the sun.

Soul Ink said, "Inside the sun, there's actually the corpse of a lifeform."

"What? A lifeform's corpse?" Li Yang was taken aback.

He had thought the great opportunity in the sun would be something like an inheritance, a Sacred Artifact, or some other treasure.

But the opportunity was a lifeform?

A single corpse of a lifeform was enough to draw so many experts here?

After all, even for top-tier experts, a mere corpse was worth practically nothing.

It was like the black bead he'd gotten from the Star Moon Race, which contained the corpses of dozens of Emperors.

In reality, those corpses had been of no use to him at all.

Soul Ink continued, "I've told you about this lifeform before. The formation of Dragon Scale Insects is related to it. You should remember."

At this, Li Yang instantly understood. "You're talking about... the Ancestral Dragon?"

Legend had it that if an Ancestral Dragon lingered in one place, it would leave behind its aura. After it left, this aura would continuously condense and form a Dragon Scale Insect.

This was the origin of the Dragon Scale Insects.

Li Yang was shocked. 'The Ancestral Dragon is an incredibly powerful creature, a lifeform of the highest order. Take the Sky-Fierce Flood Dragon, for instance. It's born with an innate mastery of the Space Law's Profound Mysteries: Spatial Domain, Teleportation, and Space Freeze. Aside from fewer than ten species of innate Deities in the Cosmos, lifeforms like the Sky-Fierce Flood Dragon are of the highest order! Lifeforms on the same tier as the Sky-Fierce Flood Dragon include the Winged Dragon clans, the Void Spirit Dragon clans, and others... As long as these draconic beast clans grow to maturity, they all reach the World Realm. And all of these clans have some connection to the Ancestral Dragon; you could say they all possess a trace of its bloodline. Just a single trace of its bloodline raises a lifeform's tier to such a degree. It just goes to show how high its own level is! And according to what Soul Ink said before, not even a Dominator is a match for the Ancestral Dragon! It is absolutely a lifeform at the very pinnacle of the Cosmos, one that could even fight the strongest of the Human Race!'

'And now, the corpse of such a creature has appeared inside the sun?'

Li Yang thought about the Ancestral Dragon's scale he had found in the Solar System before, as well as all the Dragon Scale Insects.

"That's right."

Soul Ink nodded and said, "I once estimated that the Ancestral Dragon stayed in your Solar System for a very long time, but I never expected its corpse to actually be here."

It was also amazed. A lifeform of this caliber was extremely rare; not even a handful of Ancestral Dragons had ever appeared in the entire history of the Cosmos.

Shaken to his core, Li Yang couldn't help but ask, "Soul Ink, what exactly are the uses of this Ancestral Dragon's corpse?"

'So many Deities have descended, and even an Emperor Level expert has come. This Ancestral Dragon corpse must be incredibly useful.'

"Its uses are immense," Soul Ink said with a sigh. "Li Yang, you know the use of Dragon Scale Insects, and you've experienced their benefits yourself."

Li Yang nodded. Dragon Scale Insects were treasures that World Realm Cultivators desired above all else. A Cultivator at the Peak of World Realm only needed to refine a few Dragon Scale Insects, and their strength would increase more than tenfold!

If there were enough Dragon Scale Insects, even Deities would desperately covet them.

However, Dragon Scale Insects usually appeared in such small numbers that most Deities had little interest in them.

But Li Yang knew that if hundreds or thousands of Dragon Scale Insects were to appear, nearly all Deities would fight madly over them!

Soul Ink sighed. "Dragon Scale Insects can drastically increase the strength of a World Master, and in sufficient quantities, they can even strengthen Deities. And yet, Dragon Scale Insects are formed merely from the breath of an Ancestral Dragon."