Chapter 1287: Chapter 204: Thousand-Star Dragon, Origin and End of All Things

“That is the proof of the Dragon’s Blood; all members of the exploration teams who have come here are, to some extent, connected to dragons.”

Speaking thus, Sio actually laughed: “Rather than that, Yisen, why don’t you think about which side the Dragon’s Blood in your body truly originates from.”

“Or rather, which kind of True Dragon left behind the descendant known as the Eclipsing Light Refining Dragon!”

“…Hmm.”

Yisen fell silent for a moment and then slightly nodded.

While outwardly convinced, in reality, his heart was filled with confusion.

Because unlike what Sio said, what he felt was not just ‘a bit of Dragon Blood’ within himself… the sensation was as if all the bloodline and essence organ of the Eclipsing Light Refining Dragon within his body started to vibrate, burn, becoming incomparably hot.

If this reaction is what is called the resonance of the Dragon Blood, then truly, the Dragon Blood of Light Erosion must be genuine Dragon’s Blood!

Yet problems followed as well.

“Not to mention why it is so weak as ‘Dragon’s Blood’…”

“This kind of ‘dragon’ that devours other lives to elevate itself, what spark, what civilization nurtured it as a ‘True Dragon’?!”

Yisen Gard’s heart was, in fact, filled with anger and turmoil towards his own ‘blood.’

——It is because of this blood that I was birthed amidst conspiracy!

——It is because of this blood that my father despised me, my uncle attempted to assassinate me, my grandfather manipulated me like a pawn!

——But it is also because of this blood… that I can stand on the stage now, side by side with Ian and Sio, alongside geniuses like Anfa…

Blood is a blessing. Blood is a curse.

Blood does not come through plea, nor leave through outrage.

Blood is life, and even more so the soul.

Yisen Gard does not loathe or reject the blood and darkness within himself… he merely wants to understand what the complex array of inscriptions that flicker briefly on his body truly represents.

The darkness that can house the Sunbird and absorb the Dragon’s Blood… what kind of meaning does it possess?

“What exactly… am I?”

Just as the blond-haired youth bitterly mocked himself, questioning the source of his existence.

At the center of the Exotic Species Research Institute, surrounded by the Twelve High Towers.

The massive Dragon Bone of the second-generation True Dragon swayed slightly.

After losing the seal of five towers, the power of the Source of Dragon Blood overflowed even more vigorously… yet precisely because of this, the skull of the ancient dragon corpse faintly emitted crimson gold light from its six empty sockets.

Simultaneously, the ‘crystal cabinet’ forged from Dragon Crystals beside Sio and Yisen Gard also shone with crimson gold brilliance.

The Colossal Dragon Corpse slowly illuminated its eyes, instinctively lifting its head to look at Sio and Yisen Gard, meeting their gazes.

At this moment, apart from the six eyes resembling an evening sun, the entire world dimmed.

“Huh?!”

And as the Mercury Spring Fairy watched in astonishment, accompanied by a twist of subspace, both Sio and Yisen Gard vanished — along with them, the crystal cabinet that may have recorded all the technological data and past memories of the Exotic Species Research Institute!

——Subspace Labyrinth·Dragon Soul’s Resting Place——

On a pitch-black sea, the blond-haired youth gazed around bewilderedly, not knowing when he had arrived here.

“This… I’ve been transferred?”

Realizing his situation immediately, Yisen Gard could not quite understand why, he suppressed his inner unease and as calmly as possible surveyed his surroundings: “This place is dark but vast, beneath my feet is a reservoir… is this the reservoir of the Exotic Species Research Institute? Or some marine biology research lab?”

[All Things]

And at that moment, Yisen Gard suddenly heard a grand voice.

Then came light!

The pitch-black sea was instantly illuminated, appearing before the blond-haired youth was a scene that could terrify most—

It was blood!

Dragon Blood!

Crimson gold blood formed the sea, and drifting in the sea were entities emitting crystal light, rather than creatures, they seemed more like the ‘organs’ of some gigantic machine!

This was an ocean composed of Dragon Blood and organs, and right in front of Yisen Gard hung six gem-like glowing golden eyes, gazing down at the youth.

[Descendant of a thousand stars later, offspring of Dragon Blood, perplexed humans…]

A grand voice echoed from all directions. Stunned, Yisen Gard, for a moment, found himself unable to move, perceiving that the sound emanated from the endless Dragon Blood sea below his feet and those organs and ‘eyes’ before him!

Between this flesh, a will yet unperished, neither dead nor alive, slowly uttered its final words: [Thou art the Key of All Things… thou art the end of darkness…]

[Thousand-Star Dragon, thou art the source and end of all things]