337: Chapter 337 Stepping Stone

"Pain... so painful..."

Even with Fairy Qingyun's formidable cultivation, having already stepped into the early stage of the Tribulation Transcendence Realm,

she was tortured to the brink of death by this backlash of bloodline.

Her ten fingers dug fiercely into the bed, gouging ten deep blood grooves into the bed board made of solid jade.

Her nails cracked and bled, but she remained completely unaware.

From her lower body, bright red blood gushed out like a bursting dam, soaking the bed.

One hour... three hours... five hours!

During these five hours, which felt as long as an entire epoch, Fairy Qingyun hovered repeatedly on the edge of life and death.

She bit through her lips, swallowing all her screams.

Relying on a mother's instinct to protect her young, she clung desperately to her last breath.

Finally.

Accompanied by a faint baby's cry.

Fairy Qingyun finally breathed a sigh of relief.

The child had been born safely.

Just as Fairy Qingyun's internal observation had indicated, it was a boy.

"He is born..."

Fairy Qingyun gazed at her now-flat abdomen, feeling the limp weakness throughout her body as if her bone marrow had been drained.

She gasped with difficulty, breathing a sigh of relief.

She reached out with her blood-stained hands.

Desiring to hold the tiny infant, covered in amniotic fluid and blood, who was crying with his eyes closed, into her arms.

She wanted to unfasten her clothes and use her milk to soothe his fear of arriving in this world.

However.

Just as her fingertips touched the infant's warm skin.

"Bang!"

The heavy door of the bedchamber was kicked open by a violent force.

The burly man, transformed from the Black Dragon, rushed to the bed like a black hurricane.

He didn't even glance at the woman on the bed, who was deathly pale and on the verge of death due to hemorrhaging.

He reached out with his thick hand and brutally snatched the infant, still connected by half an umbilical cord, from Fairy Qingyun's arms.

"You... what are you doing?"

Seeing her child snatched away, Fairy Qingyun's eyes nearly split open in rage.

She tried desperately to sit up, letting out a desperate plea.

The Black Dragon turned a deaf ear to her cries.

He used those bloodshot eyes.

To stare fixedly at the infant he was holding in mid-air.

Sure enough.

Inside this tiny infant's body.

Contained the spiritual roots of a human cultivator.

And it flowed with the purest original bloodline of him, a True Dragon from ancient times.

"Hum—"

The Black Dragon felt the resonance between the bloodline within him and the bloodline on little Su Chen.

The Dragon bloodline is a truly miraculous thing.

Even if little Su Chen were thrown to the other end of the Linghe Realm now.

He could still rely on his own sense of the Dragon bloodline.

To quickly lock onto little Su Chen's location and track him down!

"Perfect... too perfect!"

"This is what I have waited ten thousand years for..."

"A great medicine... cough, cough, I misspoke, offspring."

The Black Dragon's voice trembled violently from excessive excitement.

Next.

A chilling scene unfolded.

Looking at the still-crying Su Chen.

A large amount of saliva uncontrollably secreted from the Black Dragon's fang-filled mouth.

"Drip... drip..."

That murky, foul-smelling drool dripped down his chin.

And it actually flowed directly onto the newborn Su Chen's delicate little face.

"Waaah—!"

Stimulated by this liquid, the infant cried even more heart-wrenchingly.

Yet the Black Dragon seemed to be enjoying it like a beautiful piece of celestial music.

He extended two thick fingers, completely disregarding the infant's fragile bones.

As if kneading a piece of dough about to be cooked.

He repeatedly pressed and kneaded Su Chen's body.

He was feeling the texture of this "flesh-and-blood great medicine."

He was stimulating the True Dragon blood and Qi that had just awakened within the infant.

Watching this scene, Fairy Qingyun, lying in a pool of blood, felt as if she had been struck by five bolts of lightning.

A sudden surge of fury overcame her.

She finally understood.

All the conspiracies of this old lecherous dragon.

So, from the moment this River God accepted her father's tribute and imprisoned her in the Dragon Palace.

He never intended to treat her as some cultivation partner vessel.

Nor did he ever intend to reproduce any offspring.

He raped her, imprisoned her, and kept her.

His only purpose was one thing.

To use her, a female cultivator with extraordinary talent, as a maternal vessel.

To hatch and refine for him a supreme supplement that fused human spiritual roots with pure Dragon blood.

The Black Dragon looked at Fairy Qingyun's angry, realizing expression, grinned, and had no intention of explaining anything.

After all, as the oldest creature in this Spirit River that had flowed through eternity.

He, the Black Dragon, knew a terrifying fact better than anyone.

The so-called legend of the civilization cycle in the Linghe Realm was true.

Now, the source of the Spirit River had begun to show signs of decay.

The heavenly cycle was turning, and the Age of Dharma Decline for this world was approaching.

The Spirit River, I fear, is about to run dry!

Once the Spirit River dried up, he, a True Dragon firmly imprisoned by ancient heavenly laws at the bottom of the river and forbidden from leaving the water veins for eternity.

Would lose all protection and sources of power.

At that time, he, a dignified Demon Venerable, would only be like a stranded loach.

Together with those stupid humans on the shore that he usually looked down upon.

Miserably die in the despair of the civilization cycle.

Therefore.

He must live.

He must ascend and escape this world that was about to collapse.

And the only way to break the heavenly laws, allow him to transform into a true human form, and escape the constraints of the water veins.

Was to eat a direct descendant who contained his own pure origin but also perfectly fused with a human destiny.

Simply put, he needed to have an offspring with another human female cultivator.

As long as he swallowed this newborn infant alive, sucked dry the wisp of innate creation Qi within his body, and devoured the human-dragon intertwined bloodline on his body.

He could completely shed the shackles of his dragon body and obtain a perfect human Dao body.

Once he could transform into a human, with the terrifying peak Tribulation Transcendence Realm cultivation he had accumulated over ten thousand years.

He could easily trigger the Nine Heavens Lightning Tribulation.

And ascend on the spot.

To be free outside this doomed world.

Even a tiger does not eat its own cubs.

But this old demon who had lived for ten thousand years.

For the sake of ascension, for the sake of surviving.

Was actually going to swallow his own newborn flesh and blood alive in one bite.

"Hahahaha."

"Good son, become the stepping stone for your father's ascension."

"This is your supreme honor!"

The Black Dragon laughed wildly.

His hideous face transformed into a giant dragon head.

His blood-thirsty maw opened wide, and his sharp fangs bit down fiercely toward the infant he held in his hand.

With this bite, Su Chen would surely be smashed to pieces, with no flesh or bone remaining!

Just at this critical moment.

As the Dragon God thought he was devouring the flesh-and-blood great medicine.

And that his ascension was a foregone conclusion.

A sword hum suddenly exploded in the empty bedchamber.

Immediately after.

A powerful sword Qi soared into the sky from the bed where Fairy Qingyun lay.