CHAPTER 378: CHAPTER 370: ONCE FAMILIAR FACES.....

"Who exactly are you?" the Yaksha stared at Chen Qing with a deadly gaze, as if trying to see through his heart and liver!

The Dragon Clan had difficulty producing offspring, and to prevent assassination, the information about each Dragon King Breed was highly confidential. Outsiders of the Human Race had no right to know the title of the Western Sea Third Prince. Even within the Dragon Palace, only high-ranking hybrid breeds had a vague idea of the title. As for whereabouts, that was even more secretive. Inside the Dragon Palace, only the Yaksha guards responsible for protecting the prince’s safety received the information the day before they were assigned the task.

Prince Ao Xin of the West Sea was the youngest Dragon King Breed and had the best... capabilities!

His whereabouts were unknown even to the first two breeds of the West Sea; the current generation of the West Sea Dragon Palace had the thinnest lineage, barely producing two Dragon King Breeds after nearly a hundred thousand years, both of which were female dragons!

The Dragon Palace did not oppress females as the Human Race did, but in terms of status, female dragons have never been considered equal to male dragons.

The reason was simple, female dragons rarely gave birth to pure dragon breeds, but male dragons could sow their seeds with different species.

Now, so many offsprings of the Dragon Transformation had strengthened the Dragon Palace mainly because male dragons had sown enough seeds to bring in so many Dragon Transformation seedlings over millions of years.

Although the probability of a Dragon Transformation was low, with so many people coming each year, tens of thousands offspring of the dragon lair, there would always be one or two successful cases, right?

And why would so many come? It was all thanks to the diligence of male dragons plowing the fields...

Conversely, female dragons could not play the role of spreading Dragon Blood. Thus, in the matters of lineage and inheritance, no matter what was said, within the Dragon Palace, the status of male dragons was greater than that of female dragons.

Third Prince Ao Xin was the only pureblood male dragon of the younger generation in the West Sea, and his status was naturally exceptionally esteemed. To protect their only progeny, the elders even kept the princesses of the royal family in the dark about his movements; you can just imagine the level of secrecy.

Before that great catastrophe arrived, Ao Xin was assigned to participate in the Celestial Dragon’s ice seal plan. In the end, unable to evacuate in time, for safety’s sake, they simply let the Third Prince enter ice seal sleep in the Celestial Dragon Palace. Only a few Yaksha Kings, the West Sea Dragon King, and some Elders in the West Sea Dragon Palace were aware of this latest information on his whereabouts!

Why would this human know about this?

Could it be that there was a spy in the Dragon Palace who leaked it out back then?

At this thought, the Yaksha was alarmed and angry, while also feeling a chill, because whether it was a fellow Yaksha leaking the information or some Elder from the Dragon Palace, it was all part of a conspiracy against the Third Prince. What was the purpose of the person who leaked this information? Did they have some ulterior motive?

Could they even be in collusion with other ancient powers?

All sorts of thoughts emerged, making him feel like there was danger everywhere!!

Chen Qing naturally couldn’t guess the other party had such an overactive imagination and thought so far ahead. Faced with the questions, he chose not to explain and simply avoided the topic, "Who I am is not important. What I want, you cannot provide either. I will repeat what I said, I need to speak directly with the Third Prince!"

The Yaksha slightly lowered his head, concealing the frenzied murderous intent within. He even considered killing the human in front of him along with the Mystical Tortoise. But if so, it would be difficult to extract any information, and most crucially, the Heavenly Ghost Octopus had reached a point where it could not be dealt with temporarily.

As he was thinking, another Yaksha appeared.

"What are you doing here?" the Yaksha looked at his suddenly appeared companion with a mix of wariness and accusation in his eyes.

Now that there weren’t enough blood essence stones, only two of them could be revived. If he came here, then the remaining companion should have stayed close to Prince Ao Xin!

"The Crown Prince has ordered this human to appear before him!"

"What did you say?" The Yaksha gripped his Trident tightly, almost subconsciously suspecting that his companion from childhood had become a spy!

The other party slightly curled his lips at his companion’s murderous intent and helplessly took out a jade token, "The Crown Prince has commanded, do you believe it now?"

When the Yaksha saw the jade token, he regained some semblance of reason. The Crown Prince always carried this token with him, which was sealed with powerful Techniques; even if His Highness’s body was in an ice-sealed state, nobody else could take the token away without his permission.

"Kid, the Crown Prince wants to see you!" The Yaksha turned back to look at Chen Qing.

Chen Qing let out a sigh of relief, his greatest fear was that the Yaksha would recklessly kill him, along with the Mystical Tortoise, right there and then.

But he had no choice, time was of the essence, and his request could not be communicated through his subordinates bit by bit to negotiate; the fastest way was to talk directly to the person in charge, and to escape, he had to have the person with the ultimate decision-making power listen to him!

As they were led on their way, Chen Qing and Weichi Feihong followed from a distance, with the Divine Fire Technique still wrapped around the little Mystical Tortoise. Chen Qing dared not relax in the slightest; facing these monsters was just like when he had no power at all in the face of Emperor Siao, and conversely, they could kill him in an instant if they wished.

Along the way, the huge blocks of ice like icebergs caused the surrounding seawater temperature to plummet. Chen Qing, now with Super First Rank qi and blood, still felt a chill in his hands and feet.

The ice here sealed the nobles of the Dragon Palace; the larger the ice sculpture, the higher the noble’s status. Chen Qing naturally knew how these eternally unmelting ice sculptures were formed—they required massive amounts of Bai Yu to absorb the most concentrated ice freezing Art Energy. Powerful beings undergoing hibernation needed to freeze their bodily functions, which demanded an extremely high amount of Art Energy, and not all nobles could afford this treatment.

The bigger the iceberg, the longer the maintenance time, and those nobles who couldn’t get a thick enough layer of ice would thaw prematurely over the long years. Due to the desiccation of their body fluids without massive amounts of water essence for recovery, they would die within a few days at most after thawing.

So, the thicker the ice, the safer the noble. Judging by the thickness seen today, the Celestial Dragon Palace has preserved quite a few nobles—probably hundreds of pure-blooded dragons. If all of these creatures were to recover, they could annihilate the Great Jin Dynasty back and forth eight hundred times...

Finally, led by the Yaksha, in less than half a quarter of an hour, Chen Qing saw the largest iceberg.

Just as the initial intelligence had indicated, the most noble identity within the Celestial Dragon Palace was that of the Western Sea Third Prince!

However, upon seeing the completely human-like face within the huge iceberg, Chen Qing couldn’t help but be somewhat stunned...

After so many years, he had never expected that one day... he would see the face of a former colleague!

Colleague... a word Chen Qing thought he’d never use again in this lifetime.

Having lived for twenty years, he had always believed that his life would be that of an ancient Scholar, becoming part of the gentry class, a not-too-corrupt petty official, finding a capable father-in-law, marrying a virtuous wife, and then taking several beautiful concubines—that would have been his life.

He never expected the last two years to be so thrilling, or that he would see a face so familiar from his past life.

"Do you recognize me?"

A gentle voice came from within the giant iceberg, devoid of the physiological fear-inducing pressure like the Yaksha’s, instead giving off the feeling of being wrapped in warm water. In that instant, the chill of the surrounding icebergs seemed to lessen considerably.

Chen Qing came back to his senses, facing the other party squarely.

Wake up. With that mature tone, how could it possibly be the young bald-headed Qi Xiaosheng?