Douluo Continent: Long Live the Spirit Hall

"Okay!" Lieyan nodded obediently. In front of Yan, she was a gentle and obedient girl, and Yan was obviously trying to find a solution for her.

"Little Black and Little White, we'll always have them." Yan leaped up and rode the Great Yan Sacred Fire Dragon with blazing flames. The two dragon heads, Black and White, were somewhat dissatisfied with the nicknames their master had given them, but they were both sensible and obedient children, and they still had to do what their master asked.

After letting out two dissatisfied roars, the Great Evolution Sacred Fire Dragon suddenly increased its speed, transformed into a streak of rainbow light, and disappeared into the horizon, speeding towards the center of the continent.

...In the center of the Dragon Rider Nus continent, at the intersection of the Eastern and Western Dragon continents, was the first ancient battlefield where countless ancestors of the Dragon Rider Nus continent fought and sacrificed their lives.

Now it has a resounding name: Falan. Falan, the paradise of continental mages, is also the most authoritative place on the entire continent of Longzinus.

This area isn't very large, but it's the core of the Dragon Knight Nus continent. Faran borders four of the seven nations of the Dragon Knight Nus continent. The entire region is roughly one-tenth the size of one of the empires, yet it possesses the power to sweep across the seven nations of the continent.

High above the Farland Plains, a creature resembling a serpent swam and flew through the sky. This creature was clearly black and white, and had two heads, one black and one white.

On the back of this creature was a young man embracing a beautiful woman, and the couple were looking down at each other.

Various plants grow on this plain; forests and grasslands are all within their field of vision.

"That should be Falan over there. It looks pretty good." Yan put his arm around Lieyan's slender waist, enjoying the soft and plump touch. The two of them looked ahead and soon found their target: a long, continuous cliff. Below the cliff, there was a magnificent city.

This vast city stretches as far as the eye can see, and what is most striking is that within this colossal city, there are seven iconic buildings, even the furthest one, which can be clearly seen.

Those were seven towers, the symbol of Falan, the Seven Towers of Falan. Yan wasn't quite sure how tall the Seven Towers of Falan were, but they were exceptionally eye-catching.

The seven towers are each a different color, representing the seven attributes of magic. The towers stand tall and straight, each topped with an enormous gem.

"This is really tacky. Using such large gemstones for decoration makes it look like the dragon race." Yan glanced at the huge gemstones on the seven towers and had a slight urge to take them down. Although they looked tacky, they were beautiful to use and quite practical.

These seven gems were not ordinary decorative gems, but magical gems containing elemental energy. The seven huge gem squares emitted a faint halo that covered the entire city, with seven colors flowing and a surging aura of magical elements emanating from them.

Within this sacred realm of Falan, magical elements are much more concentrated than in the outside world, primarily due to the existence of these seven towers inscribed with crucial magical arrays.

“This city was built from the outer ruins of a certain seal. The place we’re looking for should be inside the seal.” Yan, riding the Great Yan Sacred Fire Dragon, quickly descended and then pointed to the seven towers, explaining, “Lie Yan, let’s infiltrate first. According to the information I received, the powerful figures of the Seven Towers of Falan repair the seal every so often. This is our chance.” Lie Yan naturally had no objection to Yan’s arrangement. The two disguised themselves as travelers and joined a group entering the city, easily infiltrating the city amidst the chanting of Falan’s praises.

Late at night, in the center of the city where the Seven Towers of Falan are located, two figures silently disappeared into one of the towers.

“These seven towers are quite remarkable; they should be the keys to unlocking some kind of ruin. But since I’m here, I naturally have a way to open them.” Inside one of the towers, Lieyan and Yan appeared. After observing the array patterns engraved inside the tower for a while, Lieyan gained some insights, and fiery red energy fluctuations swirled around her slender jade fingers.

Flame pointed slightly at the ground, a faint light flickered, a powerful energy fluctuation flashed by, and a golden energy spread out from the void.

A dazzling portal silently appeared before Yan and Lieyan. Within the portal, there was only endless colorful light, but no path could be seen at all.

Lieyan and Yan stepped into the passage. As soon as their bodies entered the portal, they vanished into the colorful light, their auras completely severed.

With a burst of intense light, the glowing passage vanished from its spot.

"Strange, could it be that I sensed something wrong?" Not long after Yan and Lieyan disappeared, an old man appeared outside the room. He pushed the door open, looked around for a while, and found nothing. He could only shake his head and leave the room, returning to the top of his tower once again.

"This place is a bit strange." When Yan regained his sight, he felt that he had come to an unfamiliar region. It was a strange and mysterious space that seemed to be endless, yet also seemed very small.

When Yan probed out of his body with his spiritual power, unstable fluctuations appeared, sometimes extending infinitely and sometimes being rapidly suppressed, making it impossible for him to accurately grasp everything around him.

"Xiao Yan, are you alright!" Lie Yan's voice reached his ears, and Yan felt everything around him suddenly become clear. The shifting spatial perception that seemed to come from near and far disappeared instantly, and all the images were no longer blurry.

He looked around again, finally getting a clear picture of the area. It was a huge space, nearly ten thousand square meters in diameter, like a giant cave, and the entire space was unusually dry.

The ground here is covered with countless intricate golden patterns, and within these patterns, a faint golden light quietly flows, as if they possess life.

Golden patterns intertwine to form a huge pattern, seemingly composed of some special creatures intertwined together.

In this vast cave spanning tens of thousands of square meters, this pattern occupies nearly one-third of the ground area, and it is located in the very center of the cave.

"Xiao Yan, have you seen this kind of creature before? It seems very powerful." Lie Yan curiously examined the intersecting golden patterns on the ground. These patterns formed strange divine beasts similar to the Great Yan Sacred Fire Dragon. They were extremely majestic in appearance, with camel heads, deer antlers, ox ears, tortoise eyes, shrimp whiskers, snake bodies, fish scales, clam bellies, and eagle claws.

Yan casually summoned the Great Yan Sacred Fire Dragon, and then explained to Lie Yan, "This is the Eastern Divine Dragon, the ancestral divine beast of the Eastern Dragon Clan of the Dragon Qi Nus Continent. They should belong to the strongest divine beast clan in this plane, but during the ancient war, in order to resist powerful external enemies, they sacrificed themselves to seal themselves, which led to the extinction of their clan."

"Roar..." After the Great Yan Sacred Fire Dragon appeared, it looked around in surprise, especially interested in the dragon pattern formed by the golden patterns on the ground. It pointed at it and occasionally let out a cheerful dragon roar.

Chapter 486 Dialogue with the Dragon King

"The power in this place seems rather strange."

On the continent of Dragon Rider Nus, within the strange sealed space beneath the Seven Towers of Falan, Yan successfully sensed the difference in power attributes after arriving in this sealed space where no outsiders were present.

The elemental fluctuations within this space are strange. You should know that in most parts of the continent, magical elements of various attributes are mixed together, and any magician needs to separate their own magical energy before using magic.

But this strange space is different in some ways; the magical elements here are clearly distinct. Just like the Seven Towers of Falan symbolize, there are seven elements in total, floating quietly in the air in seven directions.

Each magical element has its own region, and the fluctuations of these magical elements become extremely peaceful, never infiltrating the range of other magical elements.

Yan's heart suddenly stirred, and his spiritual power spread out, revealing some information. Turning from the ground to the air, he saw seven cone-shaped gems floating in mid-air.

These seven gems are cone-shaped at the bottom and appear to be flat at the top. Each gem has a top surface that is over one meter in diameter. The size of these seven gems is very similar to the seven gems at the top of the Seven Towers of Falan, and even their auras are very similar.

Yan looked around and observed for a moment before muttering to himself, "The strange balance of the teams here is troublesome. Once someone uses a skill, it will disrupt the elemental balance. And those seven gems on the Seven Towers of Falan, were they just illusions that gathered the energy of this place...?"

Yan gleaned a great deal of information from this strange space. Taking advantage of the fact that the powerful figure from the Seven Towers of Falan had not yet entered this ruin space, he was already contemplating how to enter the deeper, more crucial levels.

"Xiao Yan, I can sense it. The being above us is one of the two powerful beings who resisted my consciousness."

As Yan was observing the surroundings, Lieyan suddenly spoke, pointing to the top of her head. Yan instinctively looked up as well.

He saw an extremely large body. In the cave, which was tens of thousands of square meters in size, the area of ​​the ceiling was naturally no less than that of the cave floor. And on that huge dome, a huge golden body was embedded in it.

This being has a winding body, a huge body that is at least a thousand meters long and almost occupies the entire cave ceiling.

His appearance is somewhat similar to the forty-nine intertwined divine dragons beneath Yan and Lieyan's feet, but his size is much, much larger.

The enormous golden body looked lifelike. Its appearance was not much different from other dragons, but it did not have four claws like ordinary dragons. Instead, it was a five-clawed true dragon.

Every golden line and every golden scale on it was so clear and complete, as if it had never died at all.

The dragon's eyes opened, and two bright, ruby-like eyes looked down as if looking down on all living beings.

As Yan's mental energy and gaze moved upwards, he noticed that the dragon's eyes were flickering, indicating that the dragon king was worried that they might cause trouble.

"This is the Dragon King, who should be the only god-level powerhouse in this world so far. However, it's a pity that he fought against another god-level powerhouse who came from another realm. Although he didn't completely lose, he can't be considered to have won in his current state."

As Yan spoke, he summoned the Great Yan Sacred Fire Dragon. When the Great Yan Sacred Fire Dragon, which resembled the Eastern Divine Dragon, appeared to radiate a golden glow, and its red dragon eyes became even brighter.

"Hello, outsiders!"

An old and mysterious voice resounded in Yan and Lieyan's hearts. The voice seemed to come from all directions, and its direction could not be discerned, but Yan could sense that it was full of vigilance and helplessness.

Yan spread his hands to tell Lieyan not to speak, then looked up at the Dragon King above and said in a deep voice, "Your Majesty the Dragon King, hello."

"Hello to you, young outsider. I never imagined that there were humans in other worlds."

The Dragon King's voice held a hint of amusement and curiosity. Yan and Lieyan were not the first alien creatures he had encountered. However, unlike the Abyss Mother Demon King clan he had fought before, Yan was a human, a human similar to the human race, the mainstream race of the Dragon Rider Nus Continent.

"In the vast universe, worlds are as numerous as dust, and the conditions of each world are very different, while some have similarities. It is not surprising that different worlds have different humans."

Yan replied with a smile, "I've been to quite a few worlds, many of which have both humans and dragons. There are relatively few Eastern dragons, but more Western dragons..."

Yan briefly introduced the situation of a few worlds, and the Dragon King was indeed hooked. They then discussed some knowledge about different worlds with him.

After chatting with the Dragon King, Yan spoke again: "Your Majesty the Dragon King, after we came to this world, we discovered some of its history, especially the history after the ancient war, which is quite interesting."

The Dragon King smiled wryly and said, "I'm sorry to have made you two guests laugh. The damage that battle caused to our world back then was too severe."

It wasn't easy for our Dragon Rider Nus Continent to develop from the emergence of life to its peak. At that time, I had just broken through to the God level when I encountered the collision of two worlds.

In that battle, my enemy was a powerful demon god, the Mother Demon King. In truth, I lost that battle; however, she was an intruder, and this was our human world. With the help of the world's will, I killed her and sealed the passage.

"You killed the Demon Queen? Are you sure?"

Yan's tone suddenly became somewhat amused. The Dragon King said that he had killed the Mother Demon King, but Lieyan said that she sensed two wills. Moreover, Yan also knew that the Mother Demon King in the original work had not completely died.

The Dragon King said in a deep voice, "That battle was indeed very dangerous, but we did win, although the fruits of that victory were stolen by those despicable Western Dragons."

The space-time rift between the two worlds is now sealed by our clan's Heavenly Dipper Array, which was created at the cost of the bodies of forty-nine members of our Divine Dragon Clan, with our Divine Dragon King as the guide and our seven guardian dragons as the stars, thus gathering all the power of our Eastern Dragon Clan.

If the Abyss Plane could break the seal, then they wouldn't have been defeated by us in the first place. I took the Mother Demon King with me; I'm certain of that.

Yan looked at the forty-nine intersecting dragon patterns on the ground, the Big Dipper Formation and such. It sounded like a formation from a certain movie. When did a martial arts formation become so high-class?

Yan was inwardly cursing, but the AI, Dawn, kept scanning until it had memorized all the patterns. Only then did it look up again and say with a smile, "So, Your Majesty the Dragon King, you're just playing with those Western Dragons outside."

This place clearly doesn't need any energy injection to maintain the seal, yet you have them come every year to guard it and replenish its energy. That's really incredibly pointless.

"Haha, it may be boring, but it's satisfying. Those Western dragon devils took advantage of our heavy losses in the decisive battle with the Mother Demon Clan to launch a sneak attack on the descendants of the Eastern Dragons and the Beastmen. They were truly shameless to the extreme."

The Dragon King's voice was filled with displeasure, "It was only because that battle back then exhausted almost all of my clan's strength that they managed to succeed by sheer luck. Otherwise, my clan would have wiped out those Western Dragon devils."

Even if I can't destroy them, I can't let them live too comfortably. Whether the seal is stable or not is entirely up to me. Making them keep injecting energy is just their way of atoning for their sins.

The Dragon King's voice carried a hint of vicissitude and sorrow, "The ruins and seals before us may look magnificent, but they came at the cost of my people's inability to find peace even in death."

Whether it's to avenge them or to let their souls finally rest in peace, I've been waiting for an opportunity, a chance to launch a counterattack against that abyss world.

Over the years, I have often made these Falan people feel that the seal is unstable, because only in this way can they continuously inject energy into the seal and maintain a tense state of mind.

All of Falan's ideas were secretly orchestrated by me through the seal. I used the illusion that the seal was about to break to make them consolidate the continent's strength in preparation for a counterattack against the Mother Demon World.

As for when the seal will be completely broken, that depends on when they accumulate the strength I expect.

Yan raised his head slightly, a smile appearing on his lips. "So, all these years of conflict between the nations on the Dragon Rider Nus Continent, and the wars between the various countries on the continent, have all been orchestrated by you, the mastermind behind it all."

"You want the people of Falan to unite all the forces on this continent according to your wishes, and then launch a counterattack against the Abyss World where the Mother Demon King resides. Your idea is good, and it's great for the Eastern Dragon Clan, but what does it have to do with the two of us?"

"Gentlemen, what is it that you want?"

After Yan finished speaking, the Dragon King fell silent for a moment. When he spoke again, his voice was somewhat strained.

He had revealed so many secrets just now, hoping to evoke empathy and compassion in Yan and Lieyan. However, it seems that he hadn't succeeded. Judging from Yan's expression, it seems there's room for negotiation, so he can only continue trying.

Yan looked up at the Dragon King and smiled, saying, "There are indeed many good things on the Dragon Continent, but with our combined strength, there aren't many that we can even look at. I'm somewhat interested in the legendary Water of Life; I've heard it's related to the Eastern Dragon Clan."

Chapter 487 The Fountain of Life

"What do you want with the water of life?"

The Dragon King's voice held a hint of surprise and hesitation, and was filled with sorrow. "Gentlemen, although the Water of Life is formed from the blood of my Dragon Clan, after thousands of years, it has become nothing but pure life energy."

Back then, we defeated the Mother Demon and drove them back to the Abyss Plane, but the Dragon Clan was also wiped out. As the clan leader, I could only watch helplessly as my people died one by one. Can you understand the pain that was?

The blood of the dragons flowed together, forming a spring that condensed life energy. To preserve the last vestiges of the dragon race's bloodline, I gathered them together..."

Yan's eyes changed for a moment. He could deeply feel the sorrow in the Dragon King's heart. As the clan leader, he was powerless to save his people. The entire race was wiped out. What pain that must have been!

However, this has nothing to do with him. It wasn't that he destroyed the dragon race. He wanted to seize the greatest fortune in this world, so he had to go to the Fountain of Life. Even if the Dragon King was unhappy, he still had to get the benefits.

The Dragon King continued, his voice low, "On the continent of Longzinus, only I can grasp its true location, because its ability to constantly shift is something I bestowed upon it."

I can give up the Water of Life, but I hope you two will grant me two conditions.