Chapter 574: Bud and Spring Breeze [Epilogue]
In the quiet room, faint moonlight poured in from the window. After exchanging a look with Bairnis, Su Jiu slowly closed the door.
“This is the true reward.”
Her gaze then fell on the small box. After some thought, she suppressed her excitement and slowly opened the box, revealing a dragon pearl that resembled white jade lying inside. Merely looking at it sent a chill emanating from it.
Although she didn’t know the specific method of use, when Su Jiu reached out to touch its surface, she felt a cool chill flow into her entire body from her arm, and then her consciousness gradually began to blur.
Immediately, white mist appeared before her eyes, and a young woman in white clothing appeared. She had a pair of white deer antlers on her head, her eyes were pure golden vertical pupils, and a few scales were scattered across her face.
She looked at Su Jiu quietly. First, she frowned, then showed disgust, and then, as if discovering something, a hint of helplessness appeared on her face. She extended her white, jade-like hand and gently placed it on Su Jiu’s forehead, opening her slightly pale lips:
“My name is the ancient true dragon, Ling. You are to inherit my bloodline and carry out my duty…”
The ethereal voice echoed in Su Jiu’s ears. Immediately after, the latter felt even more tired, a kind of mental fatigue that she hadn’t experienced since upgrading to Intermediate War God level mental power.
“Protect her.”
During her slumber, the Ice Chih bloodline automatically activated, and fine white dragon scales covered Su Jiu’s entire body like a parasite. After a long time, they slowly faded, and then a small pair of deer antlers appeared on her head.
There was already a significant difference compared to her previous Ice Chih Avatar. Not only in temperament but also in aura, it was much higher than the Ice Chih Avatar, even faintly approaching the Ghost Car Avatar.
Noticing the changes in the former, Bairnis brought over a basin of hot water and carefully wiped Su Jiu’s sweat, showing a bit of the behavior of a good wife and mother.
Night turned to day. As the first ray of morning light entered the Ancient Imperial Capital, the entire city regained its unprecedented vitality, and the outside was quite bustling.
“I… fused with dragon rhythm all night? That woman told me to protect [her]… does she mean E Huo?”
As if struck by the dazzling sunlight, Su Jiu’s eyes flickered slightly. At this moment, her True Dragon Avatar had already dispersed, but the sense of power emanating from her body told her that what happened last night was indeed real.
“You’re telling me to take care of me again…”
Glancing at Bairnis, who was napping on the bed, Su Jiu touched her cheek, feeling a warmth in her heart before carefully placing her into the Spiritual Space.
Ensuring there was no one else around, Su Jiu used her True Dragon Avatar again and looked at her own slender fingers. She felt that after using the avatar, she seemed to have grown taller and could use some bloodline skills…
The corner of her mouth twitched slightly. She turned around and saw that she had gained a silver tail, similar to Thor in “Miss Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid,” although it was much thinner. The tail had a fishtail fin at the end, which could be used to strike people when necessary.
In other aspects, she had a rough estimate. Without using the avatar, her base stats had increased by about ten percent. After using the avatar, compared to the Ice Chih Avatar, it was a fifty percent increase in almost all aspects.
It could be said that if she were to fight Lin with this avatar, her chances, which were originally one in ten, would at least become four out of ten, with her being the forty percent, of course, as Lin was also an Intermediate War God.
However, such an amplification was also huge. At least Su Jiu was confident in facing some Intermediate War Gods who specialized in close combat. The Ice Chih Avatar was too mediocre before; besides being resistant, it was useless. But now it was different, her base stats were maximized.
It was much stronger than ordinary S-class bloodlines, even approaching the ancient black dragon bloodline on the Male Protagonist Bai Ming.
“Today there’s also an investiture, I need to hurry to the square.”
She muttered to herself, and Su Jiu changed back into the durable Hanfu, of course, still wearing the belt around her waist, hidden within the loose clothing of the Hanfu.
“I’m still so cute.”
After comparing herself in the mirror from various angles, she tied a large butterfly clip in her hair. After tidying it up, she said quite seriously and slowly walked towards the square.
Today was bound to be the most lively day in the Snow Demon Kingdom in recent years. Tens of thousands of gazes were gathered in the square, where the ceremony of conferring the National Master, which had not been held for hundreds of years, would take place.
In the previous few days, this Blood Clan Girl had demonstrated her abilities through the competition, and just yesterday, her new policies had begun to be implemented almost nationwide.
The civil war was also declared over according to the plan of this National Master who had not yet officially taken office. After this war, which had claimed the lives of thousands, more and more young and strong men were returning home to reunite.
Whether it was these soldiers, or the merchants and small alchemy workshops that were affected, those who had the means were listening to the live broadcast from the alchemy broadcast.
Even though many people were watching from afar using alchemy broadcasters or other devices, the number of people gathered in the square today was nearly several times that of the previous two days.
Many of these onlookers had traveled from their cities by thousand-person vehicles as early as midnight, just to see the face of this National Master.
When Su Jiu arrived at the square, after showing her identification, she was led by the service staff with respectful attitudes to the lounge where they were waiting for her.
However, as she passed through the internal passage, she saw a few familiar figures walking over, and among them was the little adult Anna. The latter was holding her phone and waving excitedly at her, “Teacher, I’m here…”
She stepped forward slightly, Su Jiu touched her head, then looked up at the tall and refined figure before her, asking puzzledly, “Your Majesty, why are you here?”
“I still have to bestow an honor upon you later, so of course, I have to come…”
Upon hearing this, the Snow Empress shrugged and smiled, appearing very amiable. Then, she took out a communication pen, similar to the one Su Jiu gave Mr. Ziwei Li, from her pocket and handed it over.
“Take this. You’ve helped me a great deal. Take this one-way communicator. I promise to help you with all my might once.”
“Thank you…”
Su Jiu slowly accepted the weighty pen and quickly thanked her, her heart filled with excitement again. She knew exactly what this pen meant…
Later, she would have to take people to pick up the Silly Duke and participate in that power struggle. This opportunity was precisely to be saved for that time. With the support of the Snow Demon Kingdom, her chances would increase significantly.
After chatting with a few others, Su Jiu handed her portable charger to Anna and then walked towards the center stage of the square.
“National Master!!”
Many gazes turned towards her. They seemed to realize something and began to shout, their faces filled with immense excitement. To these common people, having no war and no casualties at home was the greatest achievement of this National Master.
Slowly walking onto the stage, Su Jiu’s gaze swept over many familiar faces: Elder Shuangkong of the Great Clan, Elder Hanye of the Second Clan, the Female Chief, and so on. Their gazes were all directed here, with varying colors.
She didn’t know how long she had stood on the stage. Looking at the plain faces further away, she closed her eyes slightly, unable to help but sigh.
If she followed the original plot, these people would perhaps become casualties of war, which was something she did not want to see.
“The investiture begins.”
Just as Su Jiu was lost in thought, a voice suddenly rang out. Immediately after, the Snow Empress Levitt walked over with a crown made of special olive branches in both hands, smiling, and asked with a chuckle, “Is there anything you want to say?”
“May peace be with us.”
Looking at the appearance of the crown, Su Jiu was slightly dazed. She looked at the Snow Empress, who “opened her eyes to see the world,” again and had a strange premonition – perhaps even if she hadn’t come, he wouldn’t have allowed the war to escalate on a large scale.
As soon as Su Jiu spoke, there was a moment of silence, and then cheers like firecrackers instantly ignited, soaring into the sky!
The investiture ceremony ended quickly. Su Jiu didn’t like to say those perfunctory words. She left the scene to the clan elders and the Snow Empress Levitt to handle.
She went alone to where Bai Ming and Hannah were to make some preparations for a rainy day. Her gaze fell on Hannah, who was already wearing human OL attire, and she guessed that the latter might be leaving for the human world with Bai Ming in advance.
“National Master, don’t be surprised. Since I’m going to the human world, I naturally have to wear human clothes…”
Seeing Su Jiu’s gaze, Hannah smiled calmly and then, as if sensing something, asked, “Is there anything you need from these two?”
Hearing Hannah’s way of conversing like a smart person, Su Jiu didn’t hide anything. She directly explained the situation she had encountered and the possibility that the Female Chief might need to help control the inter-state alchemy cannon, Prometheus, located in the city of Akovr!
“For this reason, I can agree. It’s just that after you defeated her, she has been very dejected all day, so it’s good for her to go out for a walk.”
After hearing Su Jiu’s explanation, Hannah nodded, waved her hand, and beckoned a servant, ordering him to call the Female Chief over.
Seeing Su Jiu looking ready to leave at any moment, Bai Ming also thought of the situation in the thirteen cities and then asked, “When are you leaving the Snow Demon Kingdom? Hannah and I are preparing to leave now…”
“Maybe tonight? As the National Master, I still need to make some arrangements. I can’t leave so quickly for now.”
With a helpless smile, Su Jiu figured she should go find Aman next. Although she didn’t have the essence blood, the dragon rhythm, which was even more precious than essence blood, was still in her hands.
She had to trick him into helping her.
…
Thinking this, Su Jiu found Aman outside the mountain. It wasn’t so much that she found Aman, but rather that the latter found her.
It seemed that Aman always knew where she was, but he also knew the limits and never actively sought her out.
Upon learning that she could obtain dragon rhythm after completing the next task of attacking the Ancient God Sect, his golden-red pupils went straight, and a sense of fawning appeared on his face.
Indeed, mixing with this National Master was a win-win situation with no losses.
Meanwhile, on the other side, the Female Chief had obediently followed the order. Along the way, she kept trying to probe the origin of Su Jiu’s alchemy skills with her little tricks.
However, all she got was a mysterious smile.
As the sun set, Su Jiu said goodbye to the four guides and finally, with a monkey and a snow demon, arrived outside the city walls of the Ancient Imperial Capital. She took a deep glance and then said softly,
“It’s time for us to go.”
…
After another night of stars, three figures, accompanied by the sound of thousand-person vehicles beating their wings, completely left the Ancient Imperial Capital, leaving behind only seeds, waiting for the warm spring breeze to urge them to sprout.
