Chapter 568: Dragon King Bloodline
The capsule hull, enclosing one man and three women, continued to sink.
At this moment, the four keenly perceived the abnormality of the surrounding sea currents.
A rapid hum indicated that living beings were approaching at extreme speed!
“Hum—”
The sound waves, carrying the sea currents, created tangible ripples that roared towards the capsule ship and then disappeared into the distant darkness.
Silken water streams pushed the hull, dislodging falling debris and gently bumping against the ground, landing in the center of a silver ground portal embedded in the seabed.
Immediately after, a youth, burning with white light, shot out from the darkness in the direction the sound waves came from.
The youth wore a black and white striped hospital gown from a psychiatric hospital. Strangely, he had short, horn-like protrusions on the sides of his forehead, and his pupils subtly condensed into orange vertical pupils, sometimes straight, sometimes unfocused, with unstable auras.
“Qin Luo, why don’t you surrender?!” A indifferent, faint voice seemed to come from an infinite distance, majestic and condescending.
The youth ignored the voice behind him and continued to flee. Sensing the four powerful life forms in the capsule ship ahead, his face lit up with joy, and he charged towards the capsule ship without hesitation.
Xia Feng, however, frowned. In this situation, it seemed the youth named Qin Luo was being pursued.
Unless it was unavoidable, Xia Feng did not want to meddle in other people’s affairs.
“Senior, save me!” Qin Luo pleaded earnestly as he fled towards the capsule ship.
“Hum—!!” At the same time, a faint hum still echoed in the sea currents from afar.
Although the distance was still very great.
Xia Feng could vaguely see a middle-aged man in a black and blue robe, exuding an imposing aura, stepping out of the darkness. His robe cuffs were adorned with cloud patterns and flying geese.
Xia Feng recognized this as someone from the Jin Yang Power Factions.
The Jin Yang Clan was one of the seven great clans of the Empire and had a close relationship with the Ye Li Clan.
As the middle-aged man appeared, ten giant submarines emerged from the darkness behind him, like ten giant beasts. Their sleek, oval bows glowed with creepy red light, illuminating the space ahead like a blood-red night.
Xia Feng’s Eye of Deconstruction scanned each giant submarine, finding that each one contained exactly 149 Spirit Masters.
Regarding their specific realms, they ranged from third-stage to fifth-stage. They all had pale faces, reclining in honeycomb-like cabins, seemingly powering the giant submarines.
With Xia Feng’s vision, he could clearly sense the terrifying energy contained within each submarine.
It was more than enough to heavily injure a Venerable Second or even a Venerable Third Realm, provided the Venerable did not dodge and took the blow head-on.
Under normal circumstances, they might not be able to defeat a Venerable, but with ten submarines launching a large-scale bombardment, even a Venerable Third Realm might suffer a setback and have to retreat temporarily.
“Senior, save me!” Qin Luo had reached not far from Xia Feng and the others and pleaded for help again.
“Save your sister!” Xia Feng rolled his eyes and directly controlled the capsule ship, soaring upwards and retreating. He planned to leave this troublesome place first and return later after these two parties resolved their own issues.
Seeing that the mysterious four had no intention of rescuing him, the youth’s pupil light turned cold, and he shouted, “Seniors, the Jin Yang Clan has been secretly capturing thousands of ordinary citizens for human experimentation in recent years, below the dense forest south of Li Tian City! Don’t you intend to deal with such a heinous act?”
Xia Feng’s dark eyes narrowed. This guy was really trying to drag me down with him, even if it meant losing all pretense.
Qin Luo’s vaguely formed vertical pupils could not penetrate the capsule ship to see the specific scene inside, but he could sense the auras. Inside, there was one man and three women. One of the women was a Venerable, though her exact realm was unknown. As for the only male, his bone age was the youngest, and his aura was the weakest.
Yet, he was being protected in the center.
Quite the fortunate fellow, Qin Luo thought with a cold laugh. Seeing the capsule ship accelerating away, he continued rapidly, “Seniors, I know you don’t want trouble, but the Jin Yang Clan’s human experiments are aimed at creating Divine Half-dragons with Dragon King bloodlines! And I am the only Dragon King bloodline they have successfully experimented on all these years!
Do you know the meaning of the Dragon King bloodline? It means my future is bound to be limitless! So, seniors! A drop of kindness will be repaid with a gushing spring. If you save me today, I, Qin Luo, will repay you a hundredfold in the future!”
Qin Luo’s voice boomed, speaking rapidly. Xia Feng was indeed somewhat surprised and glanced back. The youth’s eyes, faintly forming orange vertical pupils, were filled with confidence, his chin raised, and he looked down indifferently.
“6. Could this guy be the material for Ye Li Dongjun’s Holy Solution Ceremony?” Xia Feng recalled the information obtained when he copied the Absolute Twin Pupils Sub-spirit Artifact earlier.
[Holy Solution Ceremony: Enslave 3 Dragon King-level Divine Half-dragons, or, kill 6 Dragon King-level Divine Half-dragons]
[Currently Enslaved: 1/3]
[Currently Killed: 2/6]
Among the Empire’s seven great power factions, the Jin Yang Clan and the Ye Li Clan had the closest relationship, with frequent intermarriages. It was not impossible for the Jin Yang Clan to help Ye Li Dongjun complete the Holy Solution Ceremony and advance to a pseudo S-grade spirit artifact.
If the deduction was correct, then this Qin Luo should be the second slave Ye Li Dongjun wanted to enslave.
Or rather, the third.
Because Xia Feng was the second; Ye Li Dongjun originally intended for Ye Li Kong to enslave him but failed.
Xia Feng naturally was unwilling to be Ye Li Dongjun’s slave. However, Xia Feng wouldn’t mind helping Ye Li Dongjun based on Qin Luo’s words, helping him advance the Holy Solution progress!
If anyone wanted Ye Li Dongjun’s Holy Solution Ceremony to succeed the most right now, it would be Xia Feng himself.
Seeing that the capsule ship’s speed had not decreased and showed no sign of stopping, Qin Luo’s gaze turned displeased. He took out a spirit paper engraved with dragon patterns, bit his finger, dripped his blood mixed with spirit particles onto the spirit paper, and placed it on the silver ground portal in the center of the seabed.
Crimson ripples spread out, forming rectangular light portals around Qin Luo, arranged in a matrix to protect him.
At the same time, a layer of pale red light flow appeared on the silver ground portal, then quietly vanished.
Xia Feng stopped the capsule ship and looked over.
This ground portal, which opened to Laboratory 7, was actually a powerful barrier formed by a complex arrangement of spirit particle structures.
But as the youth operated it, the spirit particle structure within the barrier underwent subtle changes that did not affect the whole, adding a layer of secrecy to the barrier.
It was like a six-digit combination lock. Qin Luo used his abilities to add an extra digit to the combination lock, making it a seven-digit lock. The seventh digit was known only to Qin Luo.
“Your Excellency, this secret base belongs to you, right?”
Qin Luo’s expression was calm, his tone still pleading, “If you still wish to use this secret base, you had better help me. Don’t you think so?”
“You have quite the courage, but unfortunately, you’re a fool.” A man’s faint voice came from the capsule ship for the first time.
Hearing the implicit mockery, Qin Luo’s face darkened, and he was about to say something more.
From the dark sea currents behind him, red lights gradually lit up, illuminating the area brightly.
Qin Luo’s expression changed slightly, and he turned his head. In just a few seconds, this group of persistent pests from the Jin Yang Power Factions had arrived!
