C7

• {Year : 16.6} •

Lin Shen, the Divine Dragon, stood back up after using Rejuvenation Breathing Technique tailored for animals. He shook himself and saw countless golden sharp scales spread out on the ground. 'They'll be useful for crafts...'

With a thought, they all went into his storage space. True Monarch Yellow Mountain just looked on as the golden dragon moved here and there.

...

Lin Shen checked himself out with divine sense. He had promoted his spiritual sense to divine sense when he received his Divine Body. Peering through his inner world, he was astounded when he saw his spirit lake... no, spirit ocean. It was so large it could hold Asia continent. In fact, there was a small land in the center of spirit ocean.

His consciousness human body moved to it and was met with a sharp sword floating upward in the very center of the small land. There was also four lotuses surrounding the floating sword, bloomed. On the four lotuses were very small spheres.

Lin Shen first checked the floating sword and nearly had a heart attack when it pointed towards him and shot forward so fast he couldn't see. It paused exactly 1 inch away from the center of his torso. The Divine Dragon had cold sweat on his naked back.

'F*ck! If this sword wanted to, it could easily kill me!' Lin Shen mentally exclaimed as his two golden eyes looked at it. He examined it very closely and was shocked when he found out what it was. 'A Life Wheel in the form of a sword?!'

'No, a Life Sword to be accurate!' Lin Shen thought this was due to the Legendary Omega Sword Dao he cultivated. He touched it gently and it hummed in response. 'Hmm, it already has a sword soul...'

In his universe, sword souls were considered a legendary but they did exist. Every sword cultivators yearned for it but most of them would not receive one even till the death. Even out of all countless friends and people he met in his past lives, he had only saw 4 cultivators possessing sword souls and they were old monsters who lived from ancient history.

This was the very first sword soul Lin Shen owned and he was glad to have received it. He decided to call it, 'Jian'. A simple name.

Waving his hand to let the Life Sword return to its original position, Lin Shen began to examine the four lotuses and the spheres on each. He was pretty sure they were nascent souls in making, but four?

'Never heard of two nascent souls in a cultivator, let alone four.' He shook his head and moved towards them. The four lotuses were of different colors respectively and emitted their own kind of aura... 'A lotus emitting its aura on its own? Very strange!'

He was about to touch the eerily black lotus that emitted devilish and destructive aura when it dodged out the way with his Life Sword blocking him. 'Eh?'

He was confused but he felt that the Life Sword was telling him not to touch it because it would harm him instead. 'Huh, dangerous even to its user... Destruction Devil Lotus.'

Lin Shen shook his head and moved onto the very clear white lotus as if no impurity was permitted on it, it emitted a holy and calming aura. This time, the white lotus did not move and allowed him to touch it gently. He moved his palm under it and held it. 'Hmm, holy and it calms me... Refreshingly Holy Lotus.'

Nodding, he moved onto the third lotus, its outlines looked very sharp and was colorless. Lin Shen felt a a sharp stinging all over his consciousness human body when approaching it. 'A colorless lotus that emits sword-like aura, Colorless Sword Lotus.'

This time, when he placed the Colorless Sword Lotus to its original location, the fourth lotus moved towards him by itself. Lin Shen was surprised but understood it was probably due to him being of Divine Dragon race. This fourth lotus was clad in golden scales acting as petals and emitted draconic aura. 'A draconic lotus, cladded in golden scales of the Divine Dragon user... Gold Lotus of Divine Dragon.'

Suddenly right after the Gold Lotus of Divine Dragon returned to its original location, the whole inner world trembled.

*Hoong~*

'Eh? What's going on?' Lin Shen panicked as he looked around, sensing nothing wrong except the four lotuses twirling by itself.

The slightly transparent spheres on them slowly enlarged as if becoming pregnant. They were in progress of making nascent souls.

The Destruction Devil Lotus had a fiend-like baby inside its black sphere. The Refreshingly Holy Lotus had a human baby that radiated holy attribute inside its white sphere. The Colorless Sword Lotus had a human baby with a small blade with no hilt on its small body, inside the colorless sphere. Finally, the Gold Lotus of Divine Dragon had a small dragon baby with no scales yet, inside its gold sphere.

"No way! I'm going to become a Seventh Stage: Spirit Venerable four times when they each open their eyes?!" Lin Shen exclaimed his assumption, but slapped his forehead. "How would that even work? 🙄"

Luckily, those nascent souls were not completely condensed as he did not want to advance to Seventh Stage: Spirit Venerable right after becoming a True Monarch senior. 'I'll have to ask my master about this when we meet again.'

He was about to exit his inner world when he noticed something in his Holy Draconic Spirit Ocean. Lin Shen closed in and nearly fainted on spot. 'What the f*ck?! When did I bring in fishes?!'

Yes, there were lifeforms in his Holy Draconic Spirit Ocean... They definitely wouldn't be a normal fish like in Earth. Lin Shen dove his right human hand in and grabbed one.

The fishes looked all the same, so he just grabbed one and examined it. The fish's size was tuna-size. It had shiny scales that glowed rainbow colors, with its eyes looking bright and star-like. The fish's mouth had sharp teeth that looked capable of biting off metal. The fins also had rainbow colors, and swayed like leaves hit by a gentle wind.

Lin Shen felt this looked familiar from his past life as the Heavenly Emperor... He shrugged and placed the not-dying fish back in his large spirit ocean and exited his inner world.

In truth, those fishes were a descent of Divine beings that went extinct to where only records of it letting them know it did indeed exist. They were Divine Rainbow Fishes, known to be able change the eater's fate or even boost their cultivation greatly if used as ingredient for a long-lost divine pill.

...

What took a long while in his inner world was a millisecond outside in the time dilation field. Lin Shen had totally forgotten about True Monarch Yellow Mountain near him. The Divine Dragon moved slightly and spoke. "Do you know how long has passed?"

"Eh?" Being reminded, Yellow Mountain was curious too as he bolted to his phone and went back to the Divine Dragon who did not look impressed. True Monarch Yellow Mountain looked on his phone... and was greatly frightened. "A-a h-hundred years?!"

He had been so focused on condensing his nascent soul that he lost his sense of time, so he never realized. The middle-aged man panicked to which Lin Shen rolled his golden eyes at.

"If a hundred years passed by, then that means 100 minutes has passed outside." The Divine Dragon nodded and began to shine gold brightly as he morphed to his human form. Yellow Mountain closed his eyes to the brightness.

Finally receding, the gold shine disappeared into Lin Shen's chest. This time, he was not naked. He wore a gold Daoist robe with designed white lines near the edges of its hems. His originally slightly tinted gold hair was now completely gold with his eyes being fully gold too. His oppressive pressure also increased as Yellow Mountain nearly buckled before it.

Lin Shen sighed and used a technique to change his appearance, Body Disguise Technique. He changed to what he would normally looked like without Divine Dragon bloodline, a peerless handsome man with pitch black and soft hair that went to his shoulders as usual. His clothes also changed to a casual modern clothes. Lin Shen controlled his oppressive pressure as if it was a (Active) skill which he could turn on or off.

"😱! Oh no! Not another Whit-" True Monarch Yellow Mountain was about finish exclaiming when he suddenly paused. Confusedly pursing his brows, he muttered. "Eh? I don't feel attracted, but only reverent and respect...? 😯"

"..." Lin Shen took that in a very wrong way and carefully clarified his sexuality. "👀 I'm not discriminating, but I'm not gay."

"..." True Monarch Yellow Mountain felt his face furiously twitching, but he understood that he had it coming with what he said... "😞... It's all that Senior White's fault..."

He felt his dignity and reputation was lost to the Divine Dragon in human form before him...

"No, I'm straight too, it's just I thought you were peerlessly handsome that I, out of habit, exclaimed..." Yellow Mountain explained. "...I know a fellow daoist who is so handsome that I even questioned my sexuality before his charm. Luckily, I had pictures of beauties before I changed my sexuality..."

"..." Lin Shen reminisced to the first and last time he ever questioned his sexuality.

At the age of about 150,000 years, he fell in love with a beautiful woman at first sight only to find out she was a he... It was a trap, in Earth's word.

Shaking his head, Lin Shen waved him off. "Alright, I understand. Anyways, I'm going to leave and return to my abode."

"Ah!" Yellow Mountain looked nervous as he asked. "Um, do you want to join a chat group that I manage?"

"Hmm?" Lin Shen was curious and asked. "A chat group? Of?"

"A chat group that's composed of genius cultivators. Me and three other fellow daoists created this in hopes of making each others stronger through exchanging information and having stronger connection together." The middle-aged man explained carefully. He then added. "Ah, a chat grou-"

"No, I know what a chat group is. I was born in 2000 after all." The Divine Dragon said, much to Yellow Mountain's stupefied expression. Lin Shen saw that and was confused. "What?"

"Eh? I-I thought you we- Wait, you're sixteen years old then?"

"Yeah?" Lin Shen tilted his head and then understood after a little thought. "You thought I was a old monster going back a long time ago, because I'm a Divine Dragon?"

True Monarch Yellow Mountain dumbly nodded. "Y-yes."

"Haha!" Lin Shen laughed out loud and said. "If I was an old monster, I would've been out of this universe already!"

"Huh?" The middle-aged man was confused at that, but Lin Shen didn't explain.

"Ah, anyways. Sure, add me in the chat group." Lin Shen brought out his phone from his storage ring on right hand. First, he made sure that he changed his nickname and was satisfied as he told him his ID. "My number's *****."

"..." True Monarch Yellow Mountain added him.

"Beep~" A sound came from Lin Shen's phone, he checked it.

[True Monarch Yellow Mountain (*****) sends you a friend request.] Additional message: None.

Lin Shen pressed accept button and waited for him to add him to the chat group.

[True Monarch Yellow Mountain has invited you to join the group 'Nine Provinces Number One Group, do you accept?]

He pressed 'Accept' again and was successfully added.

'The Last Divine Dragon has agreed to join the 'Nine Provinces Number One Group'.

[You have joined the group chat, do say hello to the other group members! 😉]

"Mmn. I'm gonna go now, I'll talk in the chat group later after my rest." Lin Shen tiredly said to Yellow Mountain. The middle-aged man clasped his hands in respect and thanked him.

"Senior Divine Dragon, I thank you for allowing me to benefit off you." He said, even adding. "I swear to the heavens that I won't forget this debt and will do anything you need from me."

"...Uh, it's alright." Lin Shen just nodded and disregarded his usage of Divine Dragon as a Dao name when it was his race. He waved his hand and the great warding array with time dilation field disappeared, as if it never existed.

True Monarch Yellow Mountain watched Lin Shen in human form, fly off to his abode. He then glanced around and brought up his phone, opening the chat group, Nine Provinces Number One Group.

Sure enough, noticing that a new member joined the chat group, lurking members emerged and spoke.

Northern River's Loose Cultivator: "Did True Monarch Yellow Mountain invite a new fellow friend? Hasn't it been 7 months since a new member joined us?"

Su Clan's Seven: "There's a new fellow daoist? Is he from Mt Hua? Where's the immortal cave he's cultivating in? What's his dao name? Which stage of cultivation is he at?"

Yellow Mountain then explained. "This fellow daoist is of Divine Dragon race, hence his ID. I recently met him a hundred ye- ah! I meant few hours ago. His Dao name should be Daoist Divine Dragon. Currently his stage is at... uh, I forgot to ask..."

"..." The lurking members was silent as they processed this information. Divine Dragon race...? It sounds strong!

Thrice Reckless Mad Sabre: "A Divine Dragon? Wow, must be delicious..."

All of the lurking members and Yellow Mountain saw this and felt their mouths twitch.

"Brother Thrice Reckless, do you really love seeking death?" Northern River's Loose Cultivator sighed. "Daoist Divine Dragon sounds strong, he may- no, he must be a senior! You may have brought a disaster upon yourself again with your death-seeking mouth!"

Thrice Reckless… this daoist was good in every aspect, being a loyal person and eager to help others, so his relations with others were pretty good... it was just that his uncouth tongue would pack him into life and death situations.

Unfortunately, this fellow daoist was so unlucky that it made one have goosebumps. The timing didn't matter... whenever he was reckless, he had always offended powerful seniors. These seniors who were all lacking in entertainment would naturally be happy to kill some time by torturing Thrice Reckless Mad Saber who sent himself right to their doorstep.

Thrice Reckless Mad Saber sent a row of 😭😭😭. "I beg you, do not to mention the word 'powerful senior'… it is a traumatic experience that still haunts me!"

Four years ago, he had offended a beautiful 'powerful senior' with his stupid mouth and got tortured really badly… that senior had tormented him non-stop for one year and four months. Yes, a total of one year and four months! Thinking back to those years, his eyes started to tear up.

Just when Thrice Reckless finished talking, the group members all sent a 😏 one by one... not at all concealing, but instead openly rejoicing at his misfortune.

There were nine members whose status was 'online' within the chat, and six of them had sent a sent a row of smiley faces.

True Monarch Yellow Mountain: "You can only blame your death-seeking mouth... 😏."

Make that seven now.

"You bunch of schadenfreude as*holes, this lord has remembered every one of you. Don't even let me meet you, or else I shall let you to have a taste of my Seventy-Two Swift Saber Strikes!" Thrice Reckless Mad Saber grudgingly replied. He was confident in his swift saber and the six fellas who were laughing weren't his opponents in a one-on-one fight

Just when Thrice Reckless Mad Saber finished talking, another 😏 appeared within the group. It was Su Clan's Seven who sent it.

Shortly after, Su Clan's Seven excitedly said, "When are we having the duel?"

Evidently, Su Clan's Seven hadn't actually wanted to rejoice at his misfortune, he'd just wanted an opponent for a fight.

"..." Thrice Reckless Mad Saber instantly lost his spirit. Against this Seven, he couldn't win at all!

He had a profound cultivation base, having reached the late stage of Fifth Stage Spiritual Sovereign Realm, just two steps away from becoming a Sixth Stage True Monarch. However, he was unable to defeat Seven.

Despite having his fast and fierce Seventy-Two Swift Saber Strikes, along with a lightning fast footwork, he was still unable to win against him.

He was called Mad Saber, and even he himself was afraid of his angry self. But even then, he was really no match for Seven!

After seeing Thrice Reckless losing his momentum, the members within the group sent another wave of 😆😆😆.

"..." This time, Thrice Reckless Mad Saber could only depressingly send an ellipsis.

The group was puzzled, despite them making a din for half a day, the newcomer had yet to appear.

"Our new dao friend isn't speaking?" Northern River Loose Cultivator asked.

Medicine Master: "Yellow Mountain?"

An unfathomable short message.

Luckily, everyone in the chat had long become accustomed to Medicine Master sending short messages, he was asking True Monarch Yellow Mountain what was going on.

The reason Medicine Master sent short messages wasn't due to his lofty personality, but because he used only two fingers and handwriting pad to type, therefore his speed was extremely slow. Also, there was a higher chance of making typos in a long text, plus deleting and writing anew was simply painful. Therefore, Medicine Master had a habit of only sending short messages. Over time, Medicinal Master was then labeled as someone whose words were as rare as gold when he communicated with the rest.

True Monarch Yellow Mountain: "I forgot to mention, after undergoing something, Daoist Divine Dragon was tired and decided to rest. He said that he would appear in the group tomorrow."

He then posted three images in the chat, a picture of the golden dragon, the second being of Divine Dragon in human form, with the last being of his current appearance.

All of the lurking members was surprised to see a golden dragon image before the second picture.

"This golden dragon has such oppressive presence even in a image!" Northern River's Loose Cultivator exclaimed with the other 'online' members agreeing.

"Yes, it seems that Daoist Divine Dragon is strong!" Su Clan's Seven excitedly commented, to which the others' wry smiled at.

This fella was still thinking of fighting against a Divine Dragon... They moved onto the second picture and nearly had a heart attack.

Northern River's Loose Cultivator: "We have another Senior Whi- eh?"

Thrice Reckless Mad Sabre: "Weird? I thought I would feel charmed by this peerless handsome man..."

"Yes, I thought so too. But I only feel reverent and respect to this person." Su Clan's Seven was also confused.

Medicine Master: "?"

True Monarch Yellow Mountain was glad that he was not the only one. "Yes. I also had thought so at first, but apparently Daoist Divine Dragon will only invoke respect and reverence to him."

"Thank god, I thought we had another Senior White." Northern River's Loose Cultivator sighed in relief, to which the others related to.

They moved on the third picture and only commented.

"Even in his current appearance, he still looks peerlessly handsome. I'm going to envy this guy..." Thrice Reckless said.

They began to go offline one by one since True Monarch Yellow Mountain said that their new dao friend would appear tomorrow.