Astral Pet Store

Chapter 409 The Contest

Art thou the human seeking my legacy?

Yuan Linglu was baffled to hear this question.

This creature here... that looked like a human being... is it the manifestation of the dragon king’s soul in the Mysterious Realm?!

When she was a kid, she had heard some interesting folklore of advanced creatures being fond of taking shapes of human beings and living in human society.

A few seconds of confusion later, Yuan Linglu realized something. Surprised, she shouted, “You, are you the other challenger?”

“No!

“I have been waiting for inheritors like you for tens of thousands of years here...” Su Ping kept a straight face to bamboozle her. Right then, from the dragon king’s skeleton burst out a beam of glaring golden light. A holy aura was emitted from the skeleton. Following that, a puff of smoke that was the dragon king’s soul slowly rose from the skeleton and looked down at the young man and the young lady.

Su Ping was frozen on the spot.

Yuan Linglu looked at the actual dragon king’s soul. How impressive and powerful it was.

She remembered the other young man standing here. Alerted, she glared at him. “You must be the other challenger that my grandpa told me about. When did you get here?”

She was on guard. Her grandpa had set up a tight encirclement outside the Mysterious Realm several days prior. He couldn’t have snuck into the Mysterious Realm.

“Eh...”

The fact that the dragon king’s soul appeared so quickly and debunking him was unexpected. But Su Ping didn’t seem to be embarrassed at all. “By grandpa, you mean the old dude at the legendary rank standing out there, right?” He grinned.

“You!”

Yuan Linglu glared at him and drew her sword. “You shall not insult my grandpa like this!”

“An insult? So, your grandpa is not the old dude at the legendary rank?”

“You!”

In a fit of rage, Yuan Linglu was about to attack Su Ping; but right then, the majestic dragon king’s soul roared. The soul breathed out a beam of golden light that enveloped Yuan Linglu.

Stunned, Yuan Linglu realized that this might be the beginning of the legacy bestowal. Excited, she wondered if the dragon king’s soul had already chosen her because it could tell that she was talented.

Su Ping was taken aback. He thought there was going to be a contest between them. Why was the dragon king’s soul choosing her directly? But soon, Su Ping noticed that the beam of golden light shrank into the girl’s forehead, leaving behind an arc-shaped mark.

It was just a mark.

Phew. That was a good scare.

Su Ping patted his chest and breathed in relief.

He noticed the dull look in the girl’s eyes. Her mind was otherwise occupied. He remembered the vast and formidable view he had seen when he got the mark. He knew that the girl was defenseless at the moment.

Kill her!

Without reservation, Su Ping sprang to action.

Bang!!

He punched at the girl’s face.

But the punch didn’t land on her face because a layer of golden hue had blocked the way. It turned out that the faint beam of golden light could become tangible and protect her.

Su Ping was surprised.

Yuan Linglu opened her eyes.

They made eye contact. Su Ping cleared his throat, loosened his fist, and explained, “There was a grain of dust on your face.”

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Yuan Linglu’s face became clouded. She had heard from her grandpa that this person was sinister and dangerous, and her grandpa was not wrong!

She was glad that the dragon king’s soul had protected her. Otherwise, his sneak attack would have been successful.

From the mark she had just received, she understood the rules of the Mysterious Realm as well as how this person had entered the Mysterious Realm.

The mark explained why no guards outside had noticed anything

She mobilized her astral powers and squinted her eyes. Since she was sure who Su Ping was, she was no longer in the mood to hide her killing intent. She had to get the dragon king’s legacy!

Su Ping took a few steps back and summoned the Little Skeleton and the Inferno Dragon.

While a fight between them was about to break out, they both felt a burning sensation on their foreheads.

All the seals of the dragon scale lands had been undone.

The last two lands had opened up simultaneously!

The sudden change of events did surprise Su Ping but he didn’t find it strange. Same as his speculation, the old dude at the legendary rank was controlling the last two dragon scale lands and he could open them up at any time.

That legendary rank man must have given his order to undo the last two seals the moment the girl climbed up to the ninth dragon bone.

That was to say, the contest to obtain the legacy had officially begun.

However, Su Ping didn’t rush into action. The golden glow was still over the girl. Just then, he had exerted his full strength to use the Fist of Exorcist, and yet, he was unable to inflict any harm. That was to say, the dragon king’s soul had a power far superior to what he could imagine. The dragon king must have been an entity above the legendary rank.

From the information passed onto her from the mark, Yuan Linglu had realized that her grandpa had succeeded. She put on a grave expression. She had learned about the young man from her grandpa. There was a legendary rank battle pet warrior, a powerful one at that, supporting the young man.

A person that not even her grandpa was able to defeat.

The young man wasn’t weak since he was being groomed by such a powerful legendary rank battle pet warrior. She couldn’t afford to underestimate Su Ping.

While the two of them were getting ready for a fight, all of a sudden, they heard a loud call coming from their side. The magnificent dragon king’s soul suddenly shone in all its radiance as it flew to the sky and hovered around before it descended once again.

The dragon king’s image shrank but the golden glow was becoming even brighter. It was as if the dragon king’s soul had been cast out of pure gold. Eventually, the dragon king’s soul shrank to above a dozen meters tall. “You two are the inheritors that I have been expecting for hundreds of thousands of years here,” said the dragon king’s soul in a solemn voice.

Su Ping raised his eyebrows and looked at the girl from the corner of his eye.

See? I even chose the right words and just used “tens of thousands” instead of “hundreds of thousands”.

Yuan Luling darted a glance at Su Ping as she heard the dragon king’s announcement. She was still on guard against him.

“Thou hath passed the test and both are qualified for my legacy. Now, I will choose one of you with the final test. Be prepared,” said the dragon king’s soul.

Yuan Linglu nodded.

Su Ping waited quietly.

“There shall be two items in the final test to check your will and strength!” the dragon king’s soul continued in a voice that was magnificent and resounding. The language was not one that Su Ping or Yuan Linglu could understand. However, they could directly comprehend the meaning in their minds.

As the dragon king’s soul’s voice faded away, a beam of golden light swept across the surrounding areas. The desolated place was gone and so was the beam of golden light. Su Ping and Yuan Linglu found themselves in a dark place with several dots of starry light visible around them.

The golden dragon king’s soul re-emerged before them.

“The first part of the test is to find out about your will. Please climb the steps that are the dragon bones. You shall be deemed to have passed the test if you can climb over the tenth bone.”

The golden dragon king’s soul moved to the side and revealed a massive golden dragon skeleton behind it, which emerged from deep in the world of darkness; the glaring light from the skeleton was giving off a sense of grandeur.

The skeleton meandered into the distance. There had to be over a thousand dragon bones.

Su Ping and Yuan Linglu were surprised. They would pass the test if they could climb more than 10 dragon bones of that large skeleton?

“You shall not attack each other during the test. You may begin.”

The dragon king’s soul vanished as its voice faded away. In this emptiness, Su Ping, Yuan Linglu, and the huge skeleton were the only present.

Since the dragon king’s soul had announced the rules, Su Ping had to put away his Little Skeleton and the Inferno Dragon. Yuan Linglu threw a glance at him and stepped on the skeleton first.

She had never fought Su Ping before but his Inferno Dragon did worry her. That was a rare battle pet. While she stepped to the skeleton, she was wondering what she could do to defeat that dragon pet later.

But she gave up all those messy thoughts as she stepped on the first dragon bone. Something overwhelming had assaulted her senses.

She seemed to be able to see many devils and demons in front of the dragon bone.

That was terrifying!