Rise of the White Dragon
chapter-243

Luan finally made it to Stage Two of the Twelve Golden Bones Realm. It was hard work, he was now lying on the floor, breathing heavily.

It wasn't easy, but he was doing something amazing. He was not making a simple ordinary body, but a Divine Spiritual Body. Of course, it wouldn't be easy. No wonder that his strength jumped straight to 4 dragons. Even now without using his Origin, he was confident in fighting the vampire.

Of course, he didn't intend to fight with her, as she didn't seem to have that intention herself. As long as he can use this cave, he'll stay on his own.

After all, he needed such a place to improve his body.

Coming out of the cave, he jumped into the icy lake. But for a cultivator it was bearable.

When he came out of the water, he made his body emit heat and began to dry off.

Silverfang Walruses were still wary of Luan, but they let their guard down a little.

Luan didn't care, he was about to go back to the cave, he now wanted to raise the Qi. He still hasn't used the pills he bought. The ones on the body he used pretty much everything, so after that he'll have to go buy more, but luckily he has a fair amount of Credits these days. You can buy it to increase his cultivar a little more.

Before starting to cultivate, Luan takes something out of the Storage Ring and starts eating. The Storage Ring space preservation was able to preserve for a few months as it was not very high level.

'Thinking about it, instead of finding materials to make a better Storage Ring, I'll buy it at the store...' Luan made a mental note not to forget.

Returning to Cabin 5, Luan did the same five spells again.

'She's still cultivating.' Luan remembered the vampire neighbor who is in the first cabin.

If she had left, he would have felt it, even if she hid it, as his senses are special. Of course, there are limits to everything, if she has a special medium, like the spells that were cast, it would be a whole different story.

'If it were at least the Sixth Order...' Of course, he knew there was no 'self', but he could get everything he lost and more. This time, he prevented his family from being murdered and his grandfather was strong enough to live for many years. Now, he just needs to cultivate and stay strong, but he also has to create a solid base, a poorly made base, which is easily destroyed.

'Nedrayng.' Luan held the pill in his hand. It was made with the dragon's eye as the main ingredient. Only those who practice dragon techniques would buy something like this, so it's a bit rare and expensive, as well as being very rich in Yin, as most of the ingredients used are Yin energy.

The pill was the size of a human eye and was white and pure as snow, the pill was also cold, expelling a cold sensation.

Luan mentally prepared himself, becoming stable in soul and spirit, and swallowed the pill.

The coldness in Luan's eyes intensified. His murderous intent spread. The spells were nearly broken, Luan controlled his senses and returned to the indifferent state.

The coldness was still there, rooted in his veins, dragons are by nature cold and cruel creatures, practicing a dragon technique, if you don't have a strong enough willpower, you will be swallowed by the coldness and cruelty of the technique itself.

Luan already knew the risks when he decided to take this path, and the confidence came from the years he's had experiences. He has already been wrong many times in the Cultivate path, choices that if he had made, everything could be different, because of that, he remembers perfectly the process of his evolution, until almost reaching the Seventh Order.

However, the base of the cultivation he is building is more solid than diamond.

With the veins connected throughout his body and his Dragon Core, the ease he had in using the Qi was very good; too good. He made the Pill's Qi soon be surrounded by his Negative Qi, and didn't let him take control. It was like he was suddenly surrounded by sand and wouldn't let him move. Right there, the Pill's energy begins to consolidate and the creation of one of the nine treasures begins.

The first treasure he created was in luck, you might say. He told Ingrid the whole truth and it helped him find peace of mind, thus causing a significant change in his emotions, as well as better control of his emotions. Dragon is moved by emotions, when he finally managed to share the cross he carries (sharing his secret) he created the first treasure which is a [Shield].

Although it was a shield, it was something like a cubic lego and he could somehow mold it into his body, at the moment it was something that gave him more defense and stored the Qi.

Each Treasure stores at least the power of 1 dragon. It shows how amazing it is to already have such power being newly formed. And as it improves, the limit Luan doesn't know yet; but if he had to deduce, he would say he can reach the strength of 2 dragons. That would be awesome if you had all Nine Treasures with the power of 2 dragons. But of course, this was just a deduction, not something realistic, it could be less or more.

'Other.' With a cold stare, but not entirely emotionless, he mutters in his mind as he takes another 'Nedrayng' pill and swallows it.

This time, his control was greater, he already knew how to deal better with the cold Qi Yin that came from the ingredients and the dragon's eye. Though for a few seconds, he blurted out his murderous intent, but he controlled it fast.

The pain was not the same as the one in the body, but he still felt pain when practicing, especially when some of his organs were affected by the devastating energy that sometimes leaked out unintentionally, even though he was around it, sometimes it was almost unavoidable.

But it was still at the bearable level. So he continued.

POV1 – Vampire Lenore.

'He left.' When I thought he was going to leave, did he come back after throwing himself in the cold water? Did he have a breakthrough?

I have to leave soon, I need blood with powerful vitality, or else I'll get stuck in this bottleneck...

There is a silver snake with dragon blood if I could get her blood... However, her strength is 10 dragons. It will be difficult with me alone.

I kept trying to break this bottleneck, but even with the pill it doesn't work, my body wants something more powerful.

As I try to force through the bottleneck or be lucky enough to have enlightenment, I feel the aura and Qi of the man from before coming out of the cabin. He jumped into the lake again, I heard the sound of water splash.

'Has he had another breakthrough? How can it be so fast?!' My disbelief was sizeless after all, now I can feel the strength of 5 dragons coming from him, and before it was just 3 dragons.

'This boy is a genius!' Even in her Clan, she being treated like a genius, she was far from it, doesn't he have bottlenecks?

This time he seems to want to leave.

A crazy idea crossed my mind: 'If he helps me, we would be able to kill the snake with dragon's blood...' I the vampire princess asking someone for help?

I balk in my mind, in part, I didn't want his help, but I admit that now that he has dragon strength and that Origin, we might have a chance to kill the silver snake with dragon blood.

The problem is trusting someone like that, most are treacherous, if I'm careless, I'll end up getting killed by him before I even know how I died.

My family will probably seek revenge, but does that help me? I don't want to die to be avenged. This is nonsense. I want to live, I want to reach the surprising level, the level that not even another vampire has reached, and then...

"Sigh~"

Yes, I know I dream too high, but only if I get that strength, I won't need to see my planet destroyed.

Did he stop and stand in front of the cave? What does he intend to do? He's not going to start killing the Silver Fang Walruses, is he? If so, I'll fight him to the death!

But I thought too much, was he just playing with one of them? This man is weird.

Putting on my veil, I left too. He looked at me, those red eyes… He was more bloodthirsty than my vampire race, what the hell is he?

"Say it." He takes me by surprise by speaking in his indifferent voice and looking at me blankly.

I look at him for a few more seconds and say, "I want to kill a silver snake with dragon's blood, but I can't do it alone. I just need the blood, the rest is yours, how about that?' Even if the blood is valuable, the rest of a snake with dragon blood is also equally valuable, if not more, yes?

"What level of power?" He still remains indifferent and cold, he is really weird.

I answer with even more coldness and indifference: "10 dragons, if we attack together, we have a chance." I also recognized the equipment he uses, it should give at least 10 dragons defense.

"If you sign this, I accept." He took out a contract to my surprise.

I see he doesn't trust me either, but of course, I can't trust him either, except I don't have a contract with me. I take the contract already signed by him and read it.

'Huh?' In fact, he made the deal on terms, if we kill the silver snake with dragon blood, I get the blood and he gets the rest, that's what I wanted.

Without thinking twice, I signed.

The contact splits into two parts and enters our body thus taking effect.

"Luan." He said indifferently.

"Lenore," I say coldly. Knowing the name might help when we're going to fight.

"Lead the way," he said coldly to me.

"Can fly?" After all, it would be faster if I could, but not everyone could.

"Yea." I see clouds appear and he starts floating on top of those clouds.

'Two Origin?!' I knew he's a genius. Isn't he afraid to show me this? Anyway, I'm not interested, I just want to be able to improve myself.

I spread my bat wings and start to fly. Amazingly, he seems to be able to keep up with me and looks like he can go even faster than me. This was unacceptable, but there's nothing I can do, maybe if I manage to break my bottleneck?

I stopped these thoughts when I felt the mighty blood of the silver snake with dragon blood. He also stopped.