62: Chapter 62 Dragon Clan Secrets! Can they reproduce without mating?

The atmosphere in the guest hall of the West Sea Dragon Palace was oppressive.

"Absurd! Simply absurd!"

The white-haired guardian Elder of the Yin Yang Sect paced back and forth in the room in a rage, pointing a trembling finger at Su Feng, spittle flying everywhere:

"Did I not warn you repeatedly before we came? This is the West Sea Dragon Palace! Even if the Sect Master of our Sect were here in person, he wouldn't dare sit on that Dragon Throne!"

"Do you know how dangerous that was just now? Although the Black Dragon King is treacherous, that palm strike was a genuine Half-step Spirit Transformation! If we two old bones hadn't risked our lives to block it, would you still be standing here talking?"

The Elder clutched his chest, which was still aching faintly, his face full of frustration at Su Feng's lack of improvement:

"It is good for young people to have pride, but one must know the occasion! Yan Jue might be a figure in the Southern Region, but in this West Sea Dragon Palace, he isn't even fit to carry the Dragon King's shoes!"

"The Dragon Clan is blessed by heaven; not only is their comprehension of Law extremely deep, but they also possess a formidable Physical Body and innate Divine Ability that we humans cannot compare to! If a fight really broke out, we would just be serving ourselves up on a platter!"

Su Feng sat on a chair, listening quietly to the Elder's roaring, his expression remaining as calm as water throughout.

He knew that although these two old men were pedantic, they had genuinely tried to protect him just now and had no malicious intent.

If Su Feng didn't have a cheat, he might have followed along without saying a word, acting properly as a background prop.

But now...

"Elder."

Su Feng set down his teacup and spoke slowly, his voice not loud, but possessing a power that struck straight to the heart:

"A person must not kneel."

"If you kneel for too long, your knees will soften, and you won't be able to stand up again in the future."

"Today, if they dare to humiliate you, make you use the side door, and leave you without a seat, and you endure it, tomorrow they will dare to shit on your head, and the day after tomorrow, they will dare to annex your Sect and enslave your descendants."

"Dignity is not something you get by enduring; it is something you fight for."

"You!!"

The Elder choked, rendered speechless by Su Feng's words.

He turned his head to look at the silent Shen Luoyu, hoping that this rational Saintess could control her man:

"Saintess! Look at him! He is going to drag us down with him!"

Who would have thought, Shen Luoyu only glanced indifferently at Su Feng, then stood firmly by his side:

"I think Su Feng is right."

"Even if we are beaten to death, I accept it. At least... we will die standing."

"Saintess, you!!"

The Elder nearly spat out a mouthful of old blood, his mind reeling in utter disbelief.

You two are a loving couple, so you're fine with being beaten. But the one who got hit just now was me! It was my old bones taking the brunt of it!

"Ao Tingxin of the Dragon Clan has come to apologize to the honored guests from the Southern Region regarding the reception incident."

At this moment, a cold, clear voice rang out from outside the door.

The Yin Yang Sect Elder was stunned.

The Dragon Clan apologizing? The sun must be rising from the west!

Su Feng ignored the disheveled Elder and said: "Please come in."

Ao Tingxin walked in wearing casual clothes, waving her hand to signal for several large chests to be brought up behind her, her tone sincere yet retaining the reserve of a princess:

"This time, our West Sea Dragon Palace invited the Southern Region to attend, but such a misunderstanding occurred; it was our poor hospitality. These few chests of Deep Sea Spirit Marrow are meant as an apology."

Su Feng swept his Divine Sense across, looking at the overflowing Deep Sea Spirit Marrow, and knew at a glance that these were of great value. He smiled indifferently:

"Princess, you are too kind. How could I accept this?"

While saying he was embarrassed, his movements were not slow at all. With a wave of his hand, the several large chests of treasures vanished instantly, all entering his personal Secret Realm.

Shen Luoyu: "..." Ao Tingxin: "..."

After a brief silence, Ao Tingxin waved her hand to signal the servants to withdraw, a trace of apology appearing on her face:

"The targeting of the Southern Region was not my mother's intention; it was my uncle's deliberate doing."

"Princess Ao, we in the Southern Region do not believe we have offended your West Sea Dragon Palace. Why have you targeted us so much during the Ten Thousand Dragons Grand Gathering over the past hundred years?" Shen Luoyu asked coldly, clearly still brooding over what happened earlier.

Ao Tingxin sighed, a trace of sorrow flashing in her eyes:

"A hundred years ago, people from the Central Continent came to select young Prodigies with extraordinary talents; you should all know about this."

"My uncle's only son, my cousin, was selected. But the night he left, the Bloodline connection between my uncle and my cousin was severed."

"Only those envoys from the Central Continent knew the way to the Central Continent, and those envoys... were all you humans. Therefore, my uncle has hated the Human Race ever since, believing that humans killed my cousin."

Everyone suddenly understood. No wonder; it turned out to be anger displaced by the pain of losing a child.

Ao Tingxin changed the subject, her expression becoming somewhat complex:

"Our Dragon Clan is not like you humans; conceiving offspring is a very difficult matter."

"My cousin was not conceived naturally, but was an offspring my uncle forcibly condensed by sacrificing a thousand years of Dao cultivation."

"What?!"

Su Feng suddenly jumped up from his chair and asked hurriedly:

"You can reproduce without mating???"

This touched upon his blind spot in knowledge, and also touched upon his field of expertise!

Ao Tingxin didn't know why Su Feng reacted so strongly, but she still explained patiently:

"There are two ways for our Dragon Clan to reproduce: one is the mating of two dragons, and the second is self-reproduction."

"Like our lineage in the Dragon Palace, our Bloodline is noble. Unless an Ancestral Dragon with atavistic phenomena appears, it is difficult to resonate with other members of the Dragon Clan. If they force a union, there is a fifty percent chance that the offspring's Bloodline will degenerate, becoming worse with each generation."

"To ensure the purity of the True Dragon Bloodline, we often have to choose the second method—self-reproduction."

"But the cost is immense."

Ao Tingxin's eyes flashed with a trace of pain, her voice low:

"For my cousin, my uncle has yet to recover his cultivation to its Peak. And my mother..."

"To maintain the Dragon Palace's power to intimidate, she has already delayed it for hundreds of years. This retreat is actually not to achieve a Breakthrough to Soul Transformation, but to accumulate strength, preparing to sacrifice her cultivation once more to condense the next generation's successor for the Dragon Clan."

This was a Legacy of trading life for life!

After hearing this, Su Feng and Shen Luoyu exchanged a glance, raising their eyebrows in tacit understanding.

This was a top-secret of the Dragon Palace; how could Ao Tingxin just say it out like that?

"Princess Ao, you wouldn't tell us so much for no reason, would you?" Su Feng narrowed his eyes.

"There is no such thing as a free lunch in this world."

Ao Tingxin didn't hide anything either, looking straight at Su Feng:

"I heard that the Southern Region obtained the Legacy of a Soul Transformation expert, and it is said that the remnant soul of this Soul Transformation expert is still alive and is in the hands of the Head of the Su Family."

"My mother has some questions about the Central Continent and would like to ask this expert to clarify..."

Everyone was slightly startled. How did the West Sea Dragon Palace find out about this? It seems the Dragon Clan's intelligence network covers all Four Lands.

"Head of the Su Family, you can rest assured; our Dragon Clan will absolutely not take advantage of others. If you have any requests, feel free to make them, and our Dragon Palace will do everything possible to satisfy them."

Su Feng was silent for a long while, then suddenly became interested in this Dragon Mother. Anyway, the old ghost was just idling away, and as long as there was money, everything else was negotiable.

"Very well!"