Chapter 31

Nowadays, although Huaxia Jiu has already solved the problem of his physical body and no longer worries about being treated as an oddity by humans, he vaguely realizes that the fact that he comes from another world—Earth—and the matter of being a messenger of the Dark God are no small matters. If the cultivation sects in this world were to find out, the consequences would be unimaginable.

This issue is fundamentally unsolvable, unless he ruthlessly kills the hundreds of townspeople of Tang Family Town, led by Tang Guanshu, to silence them. Not to mention that Huaxia Jiu would never do such a thing of indiscriminately killing innocents, even though psychologically, killing those who harbored hostility towards him was no different from stepping on an ant for him.

Moreover, after experiencing the numerous benefits of faith, Huaxia Jiu would never do something akin to killing the goose that lays the golden eggs. So far, although Huaxia Jiu is still somewhat confused about the five-colored meteorite and the power of faith of the Dark God, the series of benefits and wonders it has brought him since he obtained it from Earth are real and tangible, and he has personally experienced them.

Without the five-colored meteorite, Huaxia Jiu on Earth would never have undergone a transformation, developing an intelligence not inferior to that of normal humans. And when entering the spatial rift and traversing the spatial channel, if it weren't for the five-colored meteorite suddenly generating a five-colored light membrane to protect him from the cutting force of the spatial power, he would have long been reduced to ashes.

Similarly, if it weren't for the five-colored meteorite having a mysterious connection with the underground altar of Tang Family Town, he would have been lost in the spatial channel. The most important thing is that without the five-colored meteorite, he would never have become a messenger of the Dark God and collected the faith power of hundreds of devout believers like Tang Guanshu.

As a result, due to the wonders of faith power and the magic of the five-colored meteorite, Huaxia Jiu was able to use the soul of the tiger demon king to generate his own soul and cause his mechanical body to mutate. As for the final step, using the human-shaped dragon body as raw material to forge his human body, it ultimately also owed to the five-colored meteorite and the power of faith.

In short, although going to Jiangyuan City carries some risks, the idea of abandoning Tang Guanshu and the others is out of the question. Huaxia Jiu reviewed the events of the past month in his mind, and after deep contemplation and reasoning, he made the decision to go to Jiangyuan City.

Huaxia Jiu has the good habit of a man of action. Having made up his mind, he took action without hesitation. The environment in the deep ravine is almost identical to the dense forest outside, especially under the cover of poisonous fog, making it easy to get lost even with soul perception.

Therefore, Huaxia Jiu planned to leave the deep ravine along the original route, then return to Hedam City along the familiar path, and then head to Jiangyuan City. He activated the Wind Walking technique and quickly moved towards the place where he had descended into the deep ravine.

Every time Huaxia Jiu passed a place, he habitually stored the route in his mind in the form of a map, a habit he had developed when he was a mechanical police officer on Earth. Before long, Huaxia Jiu had already reached the place where the human-shaped dragon body had been sitting. There was a square boulder two meters high and five meters wide, with distinct features.

Huaxia Jiu glanced at the square boulder and was about to continue using the Wind Walking technique. Suddenly, the true essence in his dantian surged, his heart rate quickened, and his blood seemed to boil. At the same time, he felt a vague sense of kinship from somewhere nearby.

This was the first time Huaxia Jiu had experienced such a feeling since he gained a human body, so he was both surprised and startled. His soul perception quickly scanned the surroundings and soon locked onto the square boulder where the human-shaped dragon body had been sitting. The sense of kinship came from below the boulder, while the familiar feeling came from the boulder itself.

With a look of surprise and doubt, he took out the black staff and held it in his hand, cautiously approaching the boulder. As he got closer, the sense of kinship and the familiar feeling became clearer. It was as if there was a close relative under the boulder, and the boulder itself felt extremely important to him.

In addition to these two feelings, he sensed a familiar aura. Dragon aura! A very faint but pure dragon aura, coming from under the boulder. When Huaxia Jiu was two meters away from the boulder, the dragon aura grew stronger, making him feel a slight pressure. The dragon aura was mixed with a strong aura of death, but within this aura of death, there was a faint trace of life. The dragon aura, aura of death, and life aura all came from under the boulder, as if there was a dying dragon under the boulder.

After a brief moment of contemplation and reasoning, he stepped back. Before he could determine whether the boulder and the thing under it were dangerous, his character would not allow him to act rashly. As he stepped back, he subconsciously measured the distance from the boulder.

After a few breaths, when he was over a hundred meters away from the boulder, the feeling completely disappeared. This is why he had not felt anything special about the boulder during his many days in the deep ravine. The boulder was square and clearly not a natural part of the deep ravine. It must have been brought here by an intelligent being, most likely the human-shaped dragon body.

The boulder could make him feel a sense of kinship, which was actually related to the bloodline of the human-shaped dragon body. This sense of kinship was unlikely to have been caused by the human-shaped dragon body sitting on the boulder for a long time. Instead, the boulder must have had a very close relationship with the human-shaped dragon body when it was alive.

For the boulder to make his body feel a sense of kinship, it must be a very important object, and it was likely that the boulder had been stained with the human-shaped dragon body's essence blood or even its soul aura. Such an object could very well be its life-bound spirit weapon.

The thing under the boulder, which made him feel a sense of kinship and could produce a faint dragon aura and a trace of life aura, had two possible explanations. One possibility is that it is a part of the human-shaped dragon body, and through some method unknown to Huaxia Jiu, it has retained some of the human-shaped dragon body's life aura. The other possibility is that it is another dragon, struggling to survive, and is a direct relative of the human-shaped dragon body.

To explain it in detail, the entire reasoning process took Huaxia Jiu less than two breaths to conclude. In the next moment, Huaxia Jiu approached the boulder again.

When he was about ten meters away, he stopped. Huaxia Jiu's eyes were fixed on the boulder. He had a thought, and the black staff in his hand suddenly extended, inserted under the boulder, and then he used it to pry. The black staff had the ability to extend and contract at will, which Huaxia Jiu could use after refining it.

"Hmm—so heavy!"

Although Huaxia Jiu's physical body was not as strong as a real dragon, it was not inferior to the physically powerful demon races. His strength was comparable to that of a mammoth. Even though he only used less than half his strength, with the principle of leverage, he should have been able to easily overturn a truck.

In the next moment, Huaxia Jiu held the staff with both hands, his veins bulging, his face turning red, and he let out a loud shout, using his full physical strength to press down.

Rumble—

Bang—

The boulder, as heavy as a small mountain, was lifted a few meters before Huaxia Jiu's strength was exhausted, and it fell back down. Huaxia Jiu let out a cold snort, without pausing, the true essence in his dantian surged, and a green light flashed over his hands. With a loud bang, the boulder was overturned and rolled to the side, revealing a circular pit over a meter wide to Huaxia Jiu's eyes.

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