Chapter 262: Death
At Li Mie’s question, Zu Long blinked his eyes innocently, appearing deep in thought, then simply nodded.
A simple nod of the head, yet the implications behind it were immense.
Fang Biyu’s little mouth opened, and a shocked exclamation escaped out of her throat.
"I knew it, this little guy’s egg was special...!"
However, before she could finish speaking, Li Mie spoke again, interrupting her train of thought.
"This aura... this feeling... this setting... are you a member of that race...?"
At first, Li Mie simply wanted to say the word dragon, but for some reason she could not bring herself to say that word.
As someone who had reached the Eternal Emperor Realm in her past life, she knew quite a few secrets of the Upper Realm. One of those secrets was that dragons were long extinct.
Yet now, Zu Long standing in front of her made her feel completely different. Moreover, there was something strangely familiar about him, as if she were looking at herself in a mirror.
This strange sensation confused her greatly.
Then suddenly, her thoughts stirred, and she realized what it was.
Divine Golden Core...!
The moment this thought appeared in her head, Li Mie knew this was the truth, and the shock she felt in her heart surged like a mountain.
A Divine Golden Core at birth...!
She did not feel this shocked when she realized Zu Long was at the Immortal Realm of cultivation. What sent chills running down her spine was Zu Long’s Golden Core state.
Madness. Absolute madness.
Li Mie’s shock was understandable, but she was slightly overreacting. There was no doubt Zu Long’s talent was amazing, but she failed to consider one thing. Zu Long was not just any random dragon, but the son of one of the ordinary ancient dragons, as well as the future hope of the entire dragon race.
While the group of ladies calmed down, meanwhile in the Upper Realm, Wang Chen was meditating when suddenly his eyes snapped open, shock and horror clear in them.
Out of nowhere, the Eternal started to shake violently, letting out intense rays of supreme energy. For a moment, his entire qi sea seemed to boil.
Just one look, and Wang Chen realized something major had happened.
At this time, Rin Luan was sitting some distance away from cleaning her sword. When she felt the change in his state, the next moment she directly teleported behind him and asked in a worried tone,
"Master, what happened?!"
However, Wang Chen had no time to explain, as at this moment over a dozen system messages were floating right in front of his eyes, their content causing his thoughts to come to a halt.
He ignored her words and muttered something under his breath.
"I can’t stay here any longer..."
He did not waste any more time. Taking a single step, Wang Chen’s figure disappeared. When he appeared again, he was inside the Tower of Rotting Enlightenment, completely cut off from the outside world.
Although the formation of Absolute Concealment completely erased his traces, the commotion that was coming was bound to attract everyone’s attention.
Of course, Wang Chen could care less about attention, but after Heavenly Will’s warning, he did not want to alert that mysterious entity.
Heavenly Will had mentioned something about being a non-existent entity. Wang Chen had a suspicion that the mysterious entity might already be at that level. To be able to replace the Heavenly Will of the Upper Realm and overwrite it with its own rules, he doubted any ordinary immortal could achieve such a feat.
Countless thoughts surged through Wang Chen’s head. In a brief amount of time, he thought of countless possibilities.
Then his eyes turned to the final system message floating in front of him.
[Ding! You have successfully met the conditions to evolve your Eternal Flame Golden Core.]
When he read through this notification, something in Wang Chen’s mind clicked. It seemed his earlier theory was correct — the Eternal Flame Divine Core could still evolve.
But he had never thought it would be this earth-shaking.
This thought had barely popped into his heart when suddenly the Eternal Flame Core flared like a red giant going supernova after billions of years of accumulation. Wang Chen barely had time to think when his body exploded from within. Everything about him was erased in the radiant explosion. His cells completely vaporized. Even the Garden of Eternity, which had stood for years, was gone in the blink of an eye. Also gone with it were all the things inside the Garden of Eternity — Rin, Rin Luan, the Resentful Devil, and also Wang Chen’s favorite pet.
Wang Chen could only witness this scene as his soul was not spared either.
The moment the explosion occurred, Wang Chen’s soul was blasted to pieces, turning everything into small particles. With the explosion, the mysterious curse that had restricted Wang Chen’s lifespan was also blasted to pieces.
These scattered pieces of existence floated through the empty space of the Tower of Infinite Enlightenment. The only thing that was completely unaffected was the Tower of Infinite Enlightenment itself.
If Wang Chen were still here, he would have definitely been shocked. All this time he had been thinking the tower resided inside his soul, but now that his soul was destroyed, for some reason the tower remained completely unaffected, seemingly existing independent of Wang Chen’s existence.
Sadly, he was not here to witness this scene.
Time continued to pass. With each moment that passed, the smoke that had been colorless slowly started to turn multicolored. Some turned golden, seemingly representing all the talents that Wang Chen had comprehended. In these golden particles of light, Wang Chen could be seen practicing skills such as Absolute Concealment and all the Sword Dao skills. At the center of this fog was the Rune of Non-Existent Authority.
Time continued to flow like water. Without realizing it, a year had passed.
At some point, slowly, the particles started to circulate around the Rune of Non-Existent Authority.