msmithbooks Chapter 58 On the Throne
Chapter 58 On the Throne
In Hakimi's eyes, this was just an ordinary dragon palace, an ordinary throne.
It is magnificent, luxurious and imposing, and no different from those in other places.
But in Cheng Xiao's eyes, these were completely different.
They saw a completely different world.
Cheng Xiao's Dao heart was firm, and he firmly believed that what he saw was the truth. In order for Long Yingxue, who inherited the Dragon King's legacy, to ascend the throne smoothly, the system probably directly blocked Hakimi's senses.
Perhaps the system also wants to do this to him.
However, since his spiritual cultivation had already reached the Great Ascension stage, it was impossible for him to succeed.
That's when he saw the truth.
The entire Dragon Palace has been polluted; all the dragons have gone mad, and the place is filled with filth.
Cheng Xiao remained silent.
He stood quietly before that repulsive "throne of flesh and blood".
The surrounding seawater had been completely stained purplish-black by the turbidity source.
Countless dark red tentacles wriggled wildly on the base of the throne, like a mass of internal organs with its own consciousness.
Hakimi continued his incessant chatter, his relaxed tone sounding almost foolish: "It's just a stone chair studded with jewels, isn't it? If you ask me, the dragons' aesthetic sense is just too nouveau riche, incredibly tacky. Brother, let's hurry up and prepare to welcome the heroine to the throne!"
Cheng Xiao stared silently at the mass of flesh and blood, unable to reconcile the image before him with the "stone chair inlaid with jewels."
Now he has two more guesses.
Alternatively, this so-called "Fairy Conquest System" is just a pre-programmed inanimate object, completely incapable of perceiving the turbid source that transcends the common sense of this world, which is why Hakimi can't see anything either.
Or...
The system itself was created to facilitate this bizarre anomaly, and even the so-called system guide was deliberately keeping it from him.
"Hakimi," Cheng Xiao finally spoke.
In those few breaths, he had already formed a completely new plan and scheme.
"What's wrong, brother?" Hakimi asked.
From the beginning, he felt that Cheng Xiao was a bit strange, but he couldn't quite put his finger on what was wrong.
"Close your eyes," Cheng Xiao said coldly.
"Huh? What do you mean?" Hakimi thought for a moment. He didn't have eyes at all, so how could he close them?
However, before he could react, Cheng Xiao's consciousness began to vibrate violently.
He couldn't completely block Hakimi's view, but he had his own strengths.
Cheng Xiao channeled his spiritual power and directly split his divine consciousness in two!
It felt as if a steel knife had cleaved through his mind, forcibly separating his consciousness and severing his connection with Hakimi.
Cheng Xiao was afraid that the system would affect his judgment in the future.
Forcibly severing one's consciousness is extremely painful; even he gasped for breath, his vision went black for a moment before he regained his senses.
From this moment on, Hakimi will no longer be able to see what he has seen.
It's also impossible to comment on what he did.
After regaining his senses, Cheng Xiao looked once more at the throne made of flesh and blood.
The battle in the sky was still fierce, with constant sounds, but the main hall was eerily quiet.
In the deep sea, only the throne still echoes with the sounds of flesh colliding.
Cheng Xiao had been standing there for a long time, and the eyes on those tentacles seemed to react a beat late. Now, "they" finally noticed this uninvited guest who had suddenly barged in, and their eyes all turned to look at Cheng Xiao.
Cheng Xiao had noticed that the dragons in the Dragon Palace went mad precisely because they were being watched by these eyeballs.
If it were an ordinary cultivator, their Dao heart would instantly collapse the moment they were stared at by so many Turbid Source Eyes.
Their minds will gradually go mad, and their bodies will also undergo changes.
He had seen far too many cultivators like this back in Shenhe Prefecture.
The source of turbidity there was even more terrifying. At first, when they didn't know what it was, they would even actively absorb it.
Cheng Xiao also studied this strange thing for a while.
He discovered that he was not afraid of being "watched".
Perhaps it is because he cultivates the Path of Ruthlessness.
His state of mind was much more stable than that of other ordinary cultivators, and not even a ripple would appear.
As long as one gets close to the source of the turbidity, one can hear the insane babbling that corrupts the mind, but Cheng Xiao doesn't feel anything when he hears those things; he just feels that he can't hear them clearly and they are hazy and indistinct.
Cheng Xiao ignored the sticky tentacles probing at his feet and walked straight to the front of the throne.
His gaze fell on the "rope" wrapped around the throne.
As he got closer, Cheng Xiao was finally able to confirm that the so-called "rope" was Long Yingxue's dragon tendon.
The Dragon Well was crystal clear, and even though it was shrouded in endless purplish-black filth, it still emitted a faint glow.
The surface of the dragon tendon was covered with corroded pits, and with each flicker of light, the surrounding writhing flesh would twitch in pain.
This dragon tendon acts like a seal, firmly suppressing the source of the distortion within the throne.
But now it seems that this dragon tendon is also on the verge of collapse.
"I see."
Cheng Xiao reached out and gently stroked the dragon tendon.
The moment he made contact, he felt a familiar presence.
All the mysteries were pieced together at this moment.
The reason why the current Dragon King cruelly removed the dragon tendons from his own daughter, Long Yingxue, was to suppress something beneath the throne.
When Long Yingxue was absorbing the true dragon's essence in the Burial Dragon Abyss, Cheng Xiao hadn't paid attention yet, but now it seems that Long Yingxue is perhaps the only dragon among all the dragons who has inherited the true dragon's bloodline.
Only the purest true dragon bloodline can completely purify the source of impurity.
The current Dragon King has long been corrupted by the turbidity of the deep sea!
He himself, or rather the entire higher-ups of the Dragon Palace, in order to survive and maintain their sanity under the corrosive influence of the turbid source, extracted Long Yingxue's dragon tendons and forcibly tied them to this array eye in order to neutralize the pollution of the turbid source.
"To extract the tendons of their own daughters and use them as consumables, these dragons are truly insane."
When Cheng Xiao was in Shenhe Prefecture, he never paid much attention to the matter of Zhuoyuan.
Looking at it now, it's truly terrifying.
They had no way to solve the problem.
Given enough time, not only the creatures it comes into contact with, but the entire world will go mad.
Cheng Xiao enveloped his right hand with the divine soul power of the Mahayana stage and suddenly gripped the dragon tendon.
With a forceful pull, he ripped the dragon tendon directly from the throne of flesh and blood!
The moment the dragon tendon left the throne, the entire Dragon Palace trembled.
With the dragon tendons no longer suppressing it, the "thing" that had been accumulating inside the throne for many years suddenly erupted.
The purplish-black mist instantly engulfed the entire hall.
The throne began to expand wildly, and countless barbed tentacles danced wildly like demons, emitting extremely piercing sounds.
Cheng Xiao could sense that the dragons who had always maintained their rationality seemed to have "boiled up".
They were completely engulfed in this madness.
Cheng Xiao also heard the Dragon King, who was fighting with Long Yingxue on the sea, let out an extremely shrill scream at this moment!