Dragon God

A/N: So... about the talk. I'll just give an official announcement that it'll happen at the Dragon Valley. I don't want to just randomly bring up the talk like that after all. I want the big reveal!! At the same time, a few things that you guys have been waiting for will happen at the Dragon Valley as well. However, that's enough spoilers for now.

"The final stage will be starting tomorrow. Are you sure you want to hold back against them?" asked Gu Yue as laid on Huang Yu's chest.

Gu Yue had just finished a very effective strength recovery session with Huang Yu as of now and was resting with him. She definitely didn't do it for the pleasure obviously.

She was just recovering her injuries.

"Yeah. I wanna try out some new stuff I've learned,"

Huang Yu wasn't lying about this. He was genuinely unsure of how strong he was when he merely made use of his current cultivation base. He wanted to try to use his now converted to Rank 30 cultivation along with all the laws he had comprehended to fight.

That meant no Limiter Removal, no martial spirit, no King's Wisdom, and last but not least…

No using his physical energy as well.

That meant that Huang Yu would technically be going into his fights with the body of an ordinary human, with only his cultivation base to supplement him. While his current cultivation base would equate to a normal Rank 60, his true battle prowess may be higher when laws were considered.

He knew that he was far above most of the competition, barring possibly Long Yue if he used his two-word battle armour, should he just use his body and martial arts to battle. Using his martial spirit now would be overkill since not only did he have four hundred-thousand-year spirit rings, but also reached nearly the same level of sword intent integration as he did a few years back inside of the Spirit Ascension Platform.

What did that mean? Well, it meant that Huang Yu could officially annihilate ordinary Titled Douluos at Level 2 of his strength.

"Mmm."

Gu Yue trusted him. She knew Huang Yu well enough that she knew that he definitely wouldn't do anything that he was unsure of.

"Do you know about Long Yue's martial spirit though?" Gu Yue suddenly asked. She found that this was actually a great opportunity to slowly break the news to him.

"The Mountain Dragon?"

"The Mountain Dragon King." Gu Yue corrected. "There's only a one word difference between the two of them but there's a world of difference in their strengths."

Hearing this, a gleam passed through Huang Yu's eyes. He knew where Gu Yue was going with this.

"So is it supposed to be really powerful?" Huang Yu feigned ignorance.

Gu Yue sighed. "To explain that, I'll have to go a long way back to the past."

"Thousands upon thousands of years ago, the Dragon God came into being. He roamed around the universe and finally found a planet to settle on."

"I'm going to assume that this planet is the one we're on right now?"

An expression of surprise appeared on Gu Yue's face. "T... that's right. On this planet, he created nine dragons, which are now known as the Nine Dragon Kings. They were his children as well as his subordinates."

"The Nine Dragon Kings include: The Golden Dragon King, the Mountain Dragon King, the Fire Dragon King, the Water Dragon King, the Earth Dragon King, the Wind Dragon King, the Light Dragon King, the Darkness Dragon King, and the Space Dragon King. They all inherited part of the Dragon God's indomitable power, so all of them were very powerful."

"Were they Godkings?" Huang Yu asked, particularly interested in this. "And why only eight clans."

"To answer the second question, it was because the mountain dragons didn't form a clan; each and every one of them was a king," Gu Yue answered. "This world was almost completely covered by the sea when the Dragon God first found it. The Dragon God ordered the mountain dragons to transform into the mountains and rivers to enlarge the living space of the Dragon clan when they were old enough. The Dragon God rewarded them for their sacrifices by making every one of them a king. All the other dragon kings admired them and held them in very high regard."

Huang Yu was slightly skeptical about the last part of Gu Yue's words. How could any of the dragon kings want to be turned into a piece of land for other people to crap on?

"As for whether any of them were Godkings. None of them managed to reach the level of God King. The only God King of the Dragon Clan was the Dragon God, who had the most impeccable bloodline."

"However, each and every one of them were still very high-level gods. Huang Yu, do you know the ranks above Rank 100?"

Surprise appeared on Huang Yu's face before he quickly hid them. He shook his head. "I don't."

Gu Yue pushed herself up at this time, climbing on top of Huang Yu's lap as she looked at him with her beautiful eyes.

"When one breaks through to Rank 100, they become a God Officer according to the rankings of the Divine Realm. These are the weakest of Gods, but they're still far beyond anything those before could accomplish."

"From Rank 101 to 109, one could be considered a third-class god. They could be considered the bottom feeders as well."

"From Rank 110 to 119, they are second-class gods. Only at this level would one start to obtain respect among the Gods."

"As for first-class gods, their cultivations are above Rank 120. These are the ones that people could consider true gods. Before this rank, they are still considered pseudo gods, and coincidentally, the Nine Dragon Kings were around this rank as well."

"Finally, there is the stage of God Kings. These existences are all beyond Rank 150."

Raising an eyebrow, Huang Yu got up as he closed the distance between both of their faces, causing Gu Yue to blush slightly. "That's… very interesting…"

Gu Yue chose to get up at this time. "Well, that's enough story-telling. You should know what I'm trying to tell you about the Mountain Dragon King now right?"

A nod in affirmation was Huang Yu's response. He paused briefly, then spoke up once more. "Then what happened to all the beast gods then?"

For some reason, Huang Yu felt a strange urge to find out about this. He didn't know why this was the case, but he chose to give in to his urges for now.

As those words entered Gu Yue's ears, she stiffened up. A wry smile appeared on her face. "When the most powerful humans from different planets created the Divine Realm, the Dragon God ascended to it and all the beast gods there," said Gu Yue. "There were five God Kings who formed a council which ruled the Divine Realm and the mortals."

"Long story short, the human gods beat up one of the beast gods and almost killed him. That ignited the anger within the spirit beasts that had been suppressed for so long. The five God Kings punished the human god, but it didn't appease any of the spirit beasts at all."

"Hence, the Dragon God declared war and lost it. While the Dragon God was the most powerful God King in the Divine Realm, he couldn't deal with the combined strength of the five God Kings. He was split in half by the Asura God with his Asura Sword. Despite this, the Dragon God was too strong, so two halves of it turned into two mighty dragons."

"The Golden Dragon King and the Silver Dragon King."

Huang Yu chose to interrupt at this time. "So is Tang Wulin related to the Golden Dragon King?"

Gu Yue's eyes widened in shock. "How…"

A laugh came from Huang Yu's lips as he scratched the back of his head. "It wasn't that hard to figure out, y'know, considering Wulin always shouts 'Golden Dragon' this and 'Golden Dragon' that whenever he fights."

There was another reason of course, and that was that Huang Yu had experimented with Tang Wulin's bloodline. There were many mysteries in it, but Huang Yu could tell that it wasn't something that should belong to this world…

Much like his third eye.

"I see…" Gu Yue had a complicated look on her face at this time. Huang Yu could tell that her thoughts were in disarray, concluding his hypotheses further.

'So are you related to the Silver Dragon King, Gu Yue?'

— — — —

The Continental Young Elites Tournament continued. After the round-robin stage kicked off, the matches had become more entertaining and there were more highlights. The clashes between the Shrek Academy and the Monster Academy had become a major subject of discussion.

Prior to this, Tang Wulin had managed to defeat the Fox King Su Mu and caused him to be unable to battle. However, in response to this, Long Yue went and broke a few of Yue Zhengyu's bones in their battle, causing him to be hospitalised as well.

In the one-on-one competition, which was the only competition that Huang Yu joined, Shrek Academy only had four people left: Huang Yu, Tang Wulin, Xie Xie and Yuanen Yehui.

On the Monster Academy side, Long Yue, Dai Yueyan, Dai Yun'er, and two other competitors had made it to the knockout stage of the one-on-one competition.

The small, separate stages in the Grand Star Luo Stadium had been replaced by a much larger one, which had a radius of about 800 feet and a soul barrier as high as 600 feet. Unlike before, the stadium now allowed one match to take place at a time, be it a one-on-one, a two-on-two, or a team battle. There were several huge screens hanging high above the stage to give the audience a much clearer view. It had taken them a good three days to set up all of this.

"Welcome, everybody, to the final stage of the Continental Young Elites Tournament!" she said as she descended. "My name is Fang'er, and I will be your host and commentator today."

The audience greeted her with a roar of applause and cheers.

"Today, is the first day of the final stage of our one-on-one competition," Fang'er said. "As you can imagine, the fights will grow more intense from here. A moment of negligence is enough to cost one the…"

Bla Bla Bla, the normal stuff that a normal commentator would say.

Nonetheless, Fang'er succeeded in hyping up the audience even more. It was a combination of her incisive commentary and gorgeous face that facilitated this.

"Would the first two contestants come on stage?"

"On the left corner, we have a member of Shrek Academy who has defeated his opponents through his frightening speed. Introducing, Xie Xie!!!!"

Boos instantly came out when Xie Xie's name was mentioned.

At the waiting area, a grin appeared on Xie Xie's face despite this. "Welp, it's time to go destroy my opponents! I wonder who's unlucky enough to face me." Xie Xie said, boasting slightly for Yuanen to here.

"On the right corner, we have… another member of Shrek Academy? What a surprise! It seems that our first match will be a civil war!"

At those words, Xie Xie froze. 'Please don't tell me who I think it is…'

"He has completely annihilated every opponent coming his way with frightening ease! None were capable of even scratching the corner of his sleeves! The Crimson Calamity, Huang Yu!!!!!!"

Hearing these words, the arena's boos suddenly turned into a loud cheer. Huang Yu's eccentric performances along with his incredible prowess had turned him into one of the fan favourites for the tournament despite the fact that he was from Shrek.

In fact, the fact that two students of Shrek Academy were fighting made the cheers even louder.

As the nickname Fang'er gave him entered Huang Yu's ears, he really cringed. "That's a horrible name." he complained, causing Gu Yue to laugh at him.

Shaking his head, he turned his gaze to Xie Xie. "Hello there. I'll remember what you said just now Xie Xie."

Xie Xie had no tears left to cry as he saw Huang Yu's expression. He glanced at Yuanen to see that she was trying her best not to laugh at Xie Xie's bad luck.

"Fuck me and my big mouth..."