Chapter 8

After some time, when Yan came out of the inn, he had a complicated expression on his face.

Turns out that the place where he was dropped was west of Cyan forest town, which was north of Floating cloud city, where the main plot would begin in 6 months. Looking towards the east direction, he could see mountains undulating on the surface of the earth.

'If I were a poet, I would compare this mountain range to the raging waves of a stormy sea, but since I'm not a poet, I can only ask, why the fuck would anyone compare these solid titans to a raging sea? If I had to guess, people are a little too afraid of that Emperor realm dragon in there, and they should be. But oh well, time to get that dragon transformation.'

Circulating his profound energy, he flew towards the inner areas of the mountain range, while thinking back to the reason he had chosen ATG world.

The reality was, he didn't choose ATG world as much as he chose cultivation world. It was just that the world of ATG had too many women, form start to finish, who would give yourself to you if you proved capable. No romance or some shit.

And what's more the quantity of these women wasn't small. A sect of women. A planet of women (almost). The there's the specific feature of cultivation world where you can get almost anything if you're strong enough. This was the feature that attracted Yan most to a cultivation world. As for ATG, this was the first world that came to mind. Also, the plot, at least whatever was known to him, did not affect that entire universe like many other cultivation novels, so Yan could spend his time with many girls while the protagonist was fighting wars.

As Yan was thinking about this, his thoughts drifted towards the plot of the novel, which he was about to mess up, either by a little or by a lot. As he was thinking about this, he suddenly had a bad premonition. It was the same one that one has when their teacher is surprisingly good to students before springing a surprise test on them. Nothing too harmful, but nothing pleasant either. But before he could dwell any further on it, he saw that he has entered the Scarlet dragon mountain range.

Using true arts, he could feel the presence of concentrated profound energy, which system informed him was at emperor realm, level 2.

Cutting his thoughts, Yan started focusing on what was to come. Using true profound arts to completely conceal his own energy signature, he travelled to the front of a cave.

The area outside the cave was looking like a place that had seen its fair share of volcanic eruptions, what with all the holes and craters on ground, and the heat prevalent in the place.

Deciding that it would be better to bring the dragon out instead of going inside, Yan clenched his fists and let magic flow into it. Profound energy wasn't suited to be used in this way, at least it wasn't the best way of utilizing it, otherwise there wouldn't be so many arts created which depict strict patterns.

Soon, both of his fists were covered in fire so hot that the surrounding rocks were melting. Punching his fists against each other, he opened his palms and separated them a little, resulting in him holding a fiery ball, about twice the size of his fist.

Lifting the ball above his head using both hands, then supplying it with more magic, resulted in the ball becoming as big as his whole body.

Then Yan threw the wall forward, while shouting fire dragon's brilliant flame!!....in his mind. His chunni tendencies weren't that bad that he would go shouting out the name of attack, even if no one was looking, not to mention it was impractical.

The ball flew forward at great speed, courtesy to the great physical abilities of Acnologia's physique, and impacted the front of 100m tall cave, resulting in an explosion of fire that blew away most of it, while turning the surrounding stones, as well as a good chunk of the mountainside the cave was in, into red hot lava.

Soon, there was activity in the cave as out came a red dragon.

"WHO DARES TO INTRUDE UPON THIS KI-?!"

Not listening to the mumblings of the soon to be dead dragon, neither paying attention to anything other than its head, Yan used one of the moves of Acnologia.

He changed his posture to that of a running man, put strength in his leg, and rushed forward at a speed that would appear like teleportation to the dragon. Cladding his right hand in dense magic, he made it sufficiently tough, and while moving, ripped through the throat of the dragon, whose head appeared to be 5m long, changing its status from soon to be dead to dead.

The dragon did not get to finish his sentence before he was lying on the ground dead, and his blood flowing from the wound. And as soon as he died, Yan felt something flowing into him. Utilizing one of the techniques mentioned in soul magic, he activated his soul eyes, and could see the dragon's soul entering his body.

Soon, his body had absorbed all the energy, and he felt his body become stronger, and his magic pool, chakra pool, and profound energy expand slightly, along with his soul being strengthened.

Yan did not waste his time, and instantly went to stand in front of the now headless long neck of the dragon. The blood was flowing away. Yan immediately removed his only presentable clothes and stored them into his inventory, standing naked under the bloody fountain gushing out of the dragon's neck.

He was thinking of his 'fight' with the dragon. Poor thing must have experienced the same agony he did. When he went to the Isolation Training Chamber during the implanting of his fullbringer, he had kept Acnologia's and his strength in Tyrant Profound Realm. And it was then that he experienced the true terror of physical strength beyond mortal bounds.

Acnologia did not use any magic, but even then, he went from standing casually to blindingly fast speeds in half a moment. There was no preparatory movement, no spike of magic power, pure, unadulterated technique backed by high physical abilities.

The next thing Yan knew, he was feeling the same burning pain in his chest that he felt when he first decided to fight Acnologia. He did not even have time to activate his regeneration ability that he gained from the devil fruit.

This repeated hundreds of times, before he was able to see the shadow of Acnologia rushing towards him, which gradually morphed into a proper figure, and then, he was able to block the first attack, only for the next one, which was just as fast, to claim his life.

Though, this did have the benefit of improving his reflexes to an entirely new level, and he was able to replicate the technique to a minor level, though he needed to get into a running posture first.

He had once tried to take on the technique only using Fire dragon's physiology, and this drove home the point that Acnologia wasn't a dragon king in name. While with his complete strength, Yan was slowly able to see Acnologia, and even block his attack with one of his own, but when he tried the same thing with Fire dragon's body, the arm he used to stop the attack crumpled like paper.

Before he could proceed further in his thoughts, he felt a foreign energy entering his body, boosting the production of Draconic energy in him, while at the same time strengthening his dragon seed. The blood that was flowing away was now slowly flowing back towards him, all the while the blood present in the dragon's body was being pulled by something.

Soon, he felt something crack in his body, and the Draconic energy which till now hadn't moved a bit, now started dancing violently. This dance was pleasant, as he felt his body being strengthened, though not by much, maybe because it was merely an 'unlocking' of his dragon transformation, than gaining an entirely new one.

Soon, profound energy from all around started rushing towards him, as he felt his body's physiology change , this time to be stronger, more durable and gigantic.