CHAPTER 383: CHAPTER 375: WEST SEA.... THE MOST DANGEROUS!

"Oh?"

At the same time, not only the Eastern Sea but also the other three forces received this treatment immediately.

In the Northern Sea, the Duke of Wei’s youngest son looked at the negotiating Yaksha and also fell into a struggle.

"Lower Rank Dragon Race?"

"Yes!" The Yaksha tried to make his smile seem gentler, though no matter how he smiled, it looked as if he wanted to devour someone....

"Now that the Pureblood Dragon Race is temporarily out of resources, even the Lower Rank Dragon Race could command us. Think about it well....." The Yaksha said with a smile, "Becoming a Dragon King Breed isn’t so easy; even the best Dragon Transformation Objects only have less than a twenty percent chance...."

"But it’s different for the lower-level Dragon Clans, whether it’s the Poison Dragon, Azure Dragon, or Grass Dragon. All of them are at least part of the Dragon Clan, with lifespans exceeding ten thousand years!"

"Plus all the legacies of the Dragon Palace and various methods of advancement, you can all pass them on to your families. Isn’t this better than betting on that less than twenty percent chance?"

"This...." The young Duke of Wei suddenly began to breathe rapidly, and many magicians from the Northern Aristocratic Family were also seduced into a quicker heartbeat!

"Why choose us?" Bai Sang, the Bai Family Patriarch next to him, suppressed his desire and asked rationally.

"I am puzzled as well!" Xiang Tianyu, relatively young from the Duke of Yue, frowned and said, "According to you, you now urgently need the Dragon Clan’s battle strength, so why not directly activate those Dragon Transformation Objects? Those demons won’t merge with us, wouldn’t their success rate be higher? And wouldn’t they be easier to control?"

"Dealing with smart people is really troublesome...." The Yaksha hehe smiled, "Indeed, activating the Dragon Transformation Objects directly is better, but those demons, having been frozen here for so long, once belonged to their demonic forces, which I’m afraid have vanished into thin air over hundreds of thousands of years, how can they compare to you?"

"To be able to find this place and to see that all of you still have such strength in this age when Spiritual Energy is dissipating, it goes without saying that you must be top-notch forces in the world nowadays, right?"

"So that’s how it is...." Bai Sang suddenly smiled.

These ancients, once the veil of mystery is lifted, are no different from the great noble families, all calculating like sly foxes.

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"Cooperate?"

At the location of the Celestial Dragon Palace, the Western Sea Third Prince was speaking these words to Chen Qing.

"Actually, you don’t need to do this...." The Third Prince said, "Even if the Dragon Palace is revived, top-tier human forces like you will still be the objects of our courtship. If existences like you want to undergo Dragon Transformation and join the Dragon Palace, we would never stop you; on the contrary, we would offer even greater support!"

These words left Weichi Feihong, who followed behind Chen Qing, stunned for a moment before responding.

"Why?"

Chen Qing did not speak, but Weichi Feihong could not help himself.

"Because we are more useful than those Dragon Transformation demons!"

The reply didn’t come from Ao Xin, the Third Prince, but from Chen Qing.

Facing Weichi Feihong’s confusion, Chen Qing provided the answer.

"Those Dragon Transformation Objects are indeed easy-to-control demons, but they lack their own forces. Now that the Dragon Palace is being revived and is in desperate need of resources, a force capable of mobilizing vast resources is naturally many times more useful than some wild demons."

Chen Qing looked towards the iceberg where Ao Xin was: "The worst thing for these ancient creatures that have been sealed for so many years? Resources, information, and manpower!"

"Manpower?" Weichi Feihong was puzzled. Resources and information were understandable—the ancient forces, having been isolated from the world for a long time, needed resources upon revival, and being unfamiliar with the outside world, they also needed information to gain the initiative. These were all understandable, but manpower?

Why would they need that?

"What’s so surprising about that?" Chen Qing said with a laugh. "Even our own official forces need countless manpower to support them. Wouldn’t a top-tier force like the Dragon Palace need it too? Countless projects need to be restarted; the dragon-related techniques and grand formations that the Dragon Clan is best at; defenses against other forces, including repairing various facilities after the Dragon Palace’s return to the human realm, as well as offerings and resource gathering—aren’t all these things in need of manpower?"

"These... doesn’t the Dragon Palace have its own?"

"They used to..." Chen Qing said indifferently. "When the disaster struck, and the Earth Spirit went into slumber, these creatures chose to freeze themselves to survive. But as you’ve seen, this Ice Jade is a precious resource, not to be wasted on people of little value. Pureblood dragons need it, high-end nobility too. Other than retaining some top-tier combat guards and indispensable Blood Guards, the billions of dragon slaves that were once available, could they afford such treatment?"

Weichi Feihong: "...."

"Mister Chen really is a well of knowledge." Ao Xin said somewhat admiringly. "Matters from so many years ago, Mister Chen talks as if he had seen them with his own eyes. I am now genuinely curious about Mister Chen’s background; you are definitely not an ordinary human."

"I still think it’s not quite right..." Weichi Feihong was confused. "Your Majesty, you just mentioned that the Dragon Palace needs to rebuild various facilities, mostly underwater, right? How much use could human forces possibly be?"

"Of course, after joining..." Chen Qing said with a sneer, "When the Dragon Palace was at its peak, billions of Sea Clans members, do you think they were all demons? Humans are skillful and adept at works that none of the other hundred clans can compare with. Back then, who knows how many were transformed by the Sea Clan."

"Forced demonization?" Cold light flashed in Weichi Feihong’s eyes.

"Do we need force?" Ao Xin’s voice carried pride, "My Dragon Palace once ruled the four seas, sheltering billions of creatures. Anyone who joined the ranks of my Dragon Palace could avoid any demon’s harm. Even the lowest servants held a distinguished status in this realm; did we need force? Back then, countless people wished to become shrimp soldiers and crab generals under my command. A large clan would offer hundreds of boys and girls each year for our blood meals, and we would only grant a few slots!"

Weichi Feihong: "...."

He had not experienced the era of demon rules over the world, but he could imagine how lowly the Human Race had been, though he hadn’t expected it to be so tragic.

The lowest of servants, a large clan, needed to offer up hundreds of boys and girls each year as blood food for these beasts?

Would such days... return?

At this thought, Weichi Feihong felt a chill run through his scalp!

But to speak of rebellion, he saw no hope in sight!

"Of course, that was only for the lowly humans," Ao Xin said gently. "For outstanding people like you, the treatment is naturally different. If you can successfully undergo Dragon Transformation, your family will become nobility in the Dragon Palace, and naturally, you won’t need to offer blood food!"

"But we would still have to cooperate with you and let our subordinates offer tributes, right?" Chen Qing said with a smile.

"Why must there be tributes?" Weichi Feihong asked bravely. "If the Dragon Palace has the power to transform the Human Race, why not transform everyone? If the Dragon Palace is short of people, wouldn’t it be better to change all the Human Race into your people?"

This was the best solution Weichi Feihong had come up with.

Even if they transformed and became the lowest of servants, wasn’t it the same for the ordinary Human Race in their lifetime?

To lead the life of a bottom-tier worker ant, as long as they could eat and dress warmly, what difference did it make who they served?

What was the difference between following one’s own Human Race and following top-tier demons like these?

In such a terrifying world, if they could all turn into demons, it wouldn’t necessarily be a bad thing...

"That approach is probably not going to work," Chen Qing said with a shake of his head and a smile.

"Why?" Weichi Feihong said excitedly.

"Because demons crave blood," Chen Qing sighed. "Demons like human flesh and blood; it’s their nature, unchangeable. If all are transformed into the Sea Clan, where would the tasty snacks come from?"

"This..."

"Besides, transformed demons can’t reproduce offspring. Without the Human Race to continue bearing children, how could the population be maintained?" Chen Qing said with a smile. "The Human Race reproduces quickly, is delicious, and can continuously produce useful servants. Which power didn’t compete for them in those days? What do you think... allowed the weak Human Race to survive from that age until now?"

Weichi Feihong: "...."

"Mister Chen seems very knowledgeable about the affairs of those times..." Ao Xin said with a gentle smile. "Knowing so much, why do you still engage in such acts? By releasing the Heavenly Ghost Octopus, have you not considered that it could destroy us as well as the Human Race? That creature is not reasonable like us..."

Weichi Feihong felt a cold shiver down his spine, reasonable?

Being reasonable means being farmed and eaten slowly?

In that case, it might indeed be better to be devoured cleanly by that so-called Heavenly Ghost Octopus.

Chen Qing chuckled, the messed-up setting was something he had created for logical consistency, but only after he truly became a member of the Human Race here did he realize how cold it was.

The Creator was merciless; it really wasn’t just talk...

"The Third Prince has been trying to win us both over on the way here. What, is he in a hurry?"

Ao Xin paused for a moment at these words and after a long while, replied, "Why do you say that?"

"Our Human Race has infiltrated the Dragon Palace this time with a total of five forces, including myself. Forces from all four Dragon Palaces have entered; I believe the current situation in the Celestial Dragon Palace will make the noble heads of the various Dragon Palaces instead invite them, right?"

"Indeed..." Ao Xin smiled. "The Blood Guards have just reported that most of your companions have already accepted the agreement."

"What about you, Mister Chen? Don’t you want to undergo Dragon Transformation?"

"I don’t want to..." Chen Qing shook his head.

"Are you really serious, Mister Chen?"

"Dead serious!" Chen Qing sneered. "Why? Does the Third Prince mean to say that if we don’t wish to undergo Dragon Transformation, you won’t let us leave?"

"Does Mister Chen really think of leaving?" Ao Xin also sneered. "After you’ve taken so many of our resources, if you don’t want to become one of our own in the Dragon Palace, Mister, how do you think you can leave?"

"Of course, it’s because your West Sea Dragon Palace is about to be finished!"

As these words came out, the atmosphere in the room suddenly turned chillingly cold. Weichi Feihong shuddered, looking puzzled. Hearing Chen Qing’s tone, it seemed that only the West Sea Dragon Palace was currently in an especially dire situation?

"You must have received the news as well, right?" Chen Qing looked at Ao Xin with a grim face amid the ice. "The one sent to your West Sea Dragon Palace is the Biological Weapon you raised yourselves, and also the very Ancient Worm that you dared not let into the Nine Heavens Mirror Valley, even in exchange for handing it over to a human..."