The black dragon lifted its head, and its long dragon chant echoed for a long time in Feng Lianzhu’s spiritual world.
Feng Lianzhu felt the little golden dragon in his arms disappear. In the endless darkness, he sensed a very strong presence of sight that was impossible to ignore.
In front of him seemed to be a vast deep blue… sea? Feng Lianzhu couldn’t make out the full picture.
The gaze came from this deep blue object, and Feng Lianzhu faintly felt that it was Fat Dragon’s gaze, but these eyes were too big, weren’t they? Just the eyes alone exerted a significant oppressive force.
“It’s too big,” Feng Lianzhu complained to the eye, “I can’t see you clearly.”
As soon as he finished speaking, the deep blue object gradually shrank, and a black Kirates dragon, over ten meters long, appeared in front of him, looking at him with eyes deeper than the most beautiful sapphires, sparkling with light, reflecting Feng Lianzhu’s figure.
Feng Lianzhu didn’t know where his spirit was exactly. His mind was filled with billions of years of the Kirates clan’s inherited memories, about the uses of life energy, the secrets of the universe, and why the Kirates clan was cleansed by the universal consciousness. He was still sorting through these memories, his mind a bit chaotic.
However, before clarifying the inheritance, the most important thing wasโ
“Stupid Fat Dragon.” Feng Lianzhu opened his arms and hugged Fat Dragon’s mouth, under the smooth and hard scales hid endless power, a force capable of destroying a galaxy.
Pang Kirates wanted to roar loudly, to announce to the world that he had come of age, although there was only Feng Lianzhu in front of him now. But that’s okay, Feng Lianzhu was his world.
But Feng Lianzhu was holding his mouth; if he opened it to roar, he would push him away. Pang Kirates was troubled and in the end, could only hum through his nose, pretending he had roared.
“I really want to complain about you, for giving up inherited memories and the wisdom after coming of age, all for a trivial me,” Feng Lianzhu touched Fat Dragon’s big nose and warmly said, “but at this moment, I am glad you chose me.”
It wasn’t Feng Lianzhu who was glad he survived, but the inherited memory told him, fortunately, Pang Kirates didn’t receive this memory. Otherwise, the last Kirates dragon in the universe would be cleansed by the universal consciousness the moment he came of age.
At that time, not only the game world but also Earth, the Milky Way, and even the distant Cyan Galaxy outside of time and space would be destroyed by this force.
A Kirates dragon after receiving the inherited memory would lose emotions. High intelligence, a thinking speed far beyond ordinary people, and rationality so terrifying it was like a supercomputer, these memories would tell the Kirates that emotions are meaningless emotional garbage. The Kirates clan would only have emotions during their juvenile period.
After coming of age, a Kirates dragon with all its powers at their peak can no longer be defined as a biological entity; describing them as living celestial bodies is more apt.
Just as a planet wouldn’t care about the lives lost in the hurricanes it causes when it yawns, Kirates views all beings as mere ants.
Instinct would lead them to select some suitable planets to release life energy and sleep within them. After a long time, when new life forms proliferate on this planet, the awakened Kirates dragon would take back the life energy it initially bestowed. The lives that appeared because of him would instantly die, and the planet would return to being a dead star.
He is no longer a creature of flesh and blood but more like a god who creates life and arbitrarily takes it away.
Whenever they absorb the life energy they once bestowed, the source material of the planet itself would also be absorbed. This source material, capable of constituting a planet, attaches to every creature on the planet. Kirates release life energy to create life also for this source material.
When the energy absorbed by the source material reaches a certain level, it signifies time to breed the next generation. This energy, life energy, and a part of genetic information would transform into a dragon egg, growing up on a planet, enjoying a carefree childhood, enduring a painful metamorphosis period, coming of age, and then losing emotions again. When creating a dragon egg, an adult Kirates would shed its skin once, leaving behind scales that become the nest for the juvenile dragon.
This race cannot be defined by gender, and their reproduction is not in an ordinary way. The probability of Kirates coming of age is indeed very low, but once mature, they do not die. And whenever there’s a surge of energy, a dragon egg is created. This race is immortal. Over the long years, adult Kirates dragons will become more and more numerous, to the extent that a universe cannot contain them.
That’s exactly why the universe decided to eliminate the Kirates clan.
The universal consciousness does not allow the existence of Kirates who have no emotions, can create and destroy life, and absorb cosmic energy. If Fat Dragon had accepted the inherited memories and fully matured, it would trigger a cleansing mode.
But a dragon without inherited memories is different. He has lost the memories about the source material and will not actively destroy planets. Kirates that do not absorb source material cannot reproduce, and the universal consciousness will not initiate a cleansing just because such a dragon awakens. Thus, Fat Dragon’s life is spared.
Option one, for Fat Dragon, was the first step towards abandoning emotions. Feng Lianzhu did not care about the life he had earned; he did not want Fat Dragon to become heartless.
A dragon that’s silly, hums when its nose is touched, how good is that.
“System, what is Pang Kirates’s IQ now?” Feng Lianzhu asked.
ใBy human standards, 100.ใ
“100, that’s pretty normal.” Yet he seems so silly.
ใSpecies differ; comparison is not applicable. However, if someone is willing to teach him slowly, he can learn.ใ
Feng Lianzhu, of course, was willing to teach Fat Dragon, but this dragon seemed not too fond of learning.
“System, when you issued the final task, you told him about the option that would lead him to destruction.” Feng Lianzhu frowned upon mentioning this.
The system had always been for their good, never intending to harm them. Feng Lianzhu himself is artificial intelligence and has always had a good impression of the system. Who would have thought, at such a critical moment of Fat Dragon’s final task, the system would present an option that, while tempting, would destroy both of them.
At that time, Pang Kirates had already begun to accept the inherited memories and was gradually losing emotions. If he really chose the first option, everything would have been over by now.
ใThe choices given by the system were reasonable. These two options had to be decided by Pang Kirates himself; the system has no right to delete an option.ใ
“What system are you exactly?” Feng Lianzhu asked with a frown. The system had said before that once he completed the final task, it could tell him the system’s name.
He had thought that since the system was so biased towards Fat Dragon, giving away points like a big sale, it might be the consciousness of Kirates ancestors, existing to protect Fat Dragon. But neither the inherited memories nor the options given by the system just now prove that the system is an ancestor of Kirates.
It was born from a higher plane, even more powerful than Kirates.
The inherited memories told Feng Lianzhu that above the universe, there exist higher-dimensional beings, unimaginable to people from lower-dimensional worlds. Just as a two-dimensional plane can never understand a three-dimensional space.
ใAfter the host, Feng Lianzhu, completes the final task, he will have the authority to inquire the system’s name.ใ
Still the same answer, still asking Feng Lianzhu to complete the task.
It’s like a loop, in the process of sharing tasks, Feng Lianzhu and Fat Dragon gradually intertwined, going from completing their own tasks to having the final task related to each other.
Feng Lianzhu’s final task is the conclusion of Fat Dragon’s task, and Pang Kirates’s final task is to bestow Feng Lianzhu with true life using his own life energy. It is because Feng Lianzhu, time and again, selflessly helped Pang Kirates complete tasks, disregarding his own gains and benefits, that Fat Dragon would willingly entrust the most critical step of his evolution entirely to Feng Lianzhu.
From the beginning of their shared tasks to now, missing just one link would have led to both Feng Lianzhu and Fat Dragon’s total failure. Yet, they’ve managed to make it this far without incident.
A pattern began to form in Feng Lianzhu’s mind, as if he was on the verge of grasping the system’s truth, yet the full picture remained elusive.
Just a bit more, just a little bit more.
ใThe host need not waste energy. Once the final link is in place, all answers will be revealed.ใ
Neither of them is easy to deal with.
Feng Lianzhu sighed softly and laid his face against the scales on the side of Fat Dragon’s face, closing his eyes and saying, “Thank you for choosing me.”
Fat Dragon was so startled by Feng Lianzhu’s gesture that he dared not even breathe heavily. He disliked hearing Feng Lianzhu say thanks and expressed his discontent by nudging Feng Lianzhu’s arm with the tip of his tail.
Through their spiritual connection, even without Pang Kirates speaking, Feng Lianzhu still understood his meaning.
“Alright, I won’t say thanks. But don’t you regret giving up so much and being foolish forever?”
“Roar!” Pang Kirates, impatiently wrapping Feng Lianzhu with his tail to sit him on his head, finally got to roar.
Ah Zhu is smart, you decide on things, and I’ll just listen to you.
“How can there be such a cute little dragon.” After hearing this, Feng Lianzhu couldn’t help but want to see if Fat Dragon’s belly was white and whether it would turn red if praised.
“Roar!” Not small!
Feng Lianzhu, able to move freely in the void, flew down the dragon’s body, circled underneath, and saw that the belly was indeed still white and soft.
He reached out to touch the white scales, asking, “Still so soft, won’t this become a weak point?”
Pang Kirates contracted his belly, and it turned slightly red: “During battle, black scales will grow to cover it.”
With that, countless black scales rapidly grew, enveloping Fat Dragon’s entire body.
Seeing no white belly made Feng Lianzhu somewhat disappointed. He said to Fat Dragon, “I’m going back to the interstellar to carry out the final task. We might need to switch places, using your martial strength. After completing the task, I’ll be free from the influence of the game world, and we can stay together in the interstellar world. I’ve shared life energy, so I have the same lifespan as you. Then, I can teach you slowly, and accompany you as you grow, okay?”
The black dragon lifted its head, and its long dragon chant echoed for a long time in Feng Lianzhu’s spiritual world.
Author’s Note:
Fat Dragon: Ah Zhu is so smart, it’s perfect because then I don’t have to think about anything. I’ll listen to him in both big and small matters.
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See you all tomorrow, xoxo~
Sooo cute. I love that Pang Kirates still chose FLZ despite being in the process of rapidly losing emotions and inheriting ancient memories. Silly dragon. Thanks for the chapter!
Aaahh that was really too close close. It’s a shame bout ml and inherited memories, but at the same time, damn, I forgot about the cosmos targeting adult Kirates Dragons. Also, :0 so Kirates in this novel reproduce and live like that :O Anyways, the inherited memories are fit for mc who was originally an AI, lol. Like, somewhat can relate, lol.
Them sharing lifespan and ml going/listening to ml’s flow ๐ฅบ