Mo Fan’s question stunned Yingying Monster. It thought for a long while before saying with an innocent face, “I just broke through like that!”
“Er…”
Mo Fan was speechless and had to ask again, “I mean, how did you undergo the tribulation?”
“Tribulation?”
“Yingying did not undergo any tribulation!”
Yingying Monster said it as a matter of course.
“No tribulation?”
This time it was Mo Fan who was stunned. He immediately frowned and muttered to himself, “How is this possible… This defies common sense!”
“For us demon cultivators, breaking through to the king realm requires undergoing thunder tribulation to temper the demon core with its power and give birth to king-level strength. So how could one break through to the king realm without tribulation?”
Mo Fan frowned tightly. Suddenly, as if thinking of something, he looked at Yingying Monster. “Have you condensed a demon core in your body?”
To Mo Fan’s deep surprise, Yingying Monster nodded directly.
Then Mo Fan saw a golden light shine from its abdomen. The light moved along Yingying Monster’s body towards its head.
Yingying Monster opened its mouth, and Mo Fan immediately saw a gleaming golden demon core fly out.
This scene deeply shocked Mo Fan.
Because it shattered his common knowledge.
“Daddy, I know what you are thinking. Although I am not entirely clear on the specific reason, from the memories awakened in my bloodline, it should be because I do not belong to the creatures of this realm, so the rules of this realm have no effect on me.”
After Yingying Monster put away the demon core again, it suddenly said these words.
“Do not belong to this realm?”
Mo Fan was stunned upon hearing this and looked at Yingying Monster with some surprise.
“Daddy, while absorbing this drop of true dragon blood, I awakened some deep bloodline memories, including those about my origin.”
Yingying Monster nodded, then suddenly became a bit downcast. Its tone lowered as it said, “Actually, I already know I am not really your son, Daddy. I evolved from those dragon loaches.”
Hearing this, Mo Fan fell silent and sighed inexplicably in his heart.
“The dragon loaches that appeared in your spring pool, Daddy, actually escaped from this true dragon lair. In that vague memory, I discovered a great river in a certain place within this true dragon lair. Those dragon loaches were born from that river and then escaped through various spatial rifts to the Black Water River and Nether River.
And these dragon loaches are actually transformed from the flesh and blood of a true chi dragon!
That chi dragon was once a friend of the ancient true dragon here, and like the ancient true dragon, it did not belong to this realm. Later, it was slain by a mighty being from the upper realm.
So strictly speaking, I am a life born from the remains of that chi dragon after its death.
And I… actually have no real parents…”
As Yingying Monster spoke, a trace of sorrow appeared on its dragon face, and a hint of loneliness showed in its amber pupils.
At this moment, it no longer seemed like the awe-inspiring chi dragon, but like a child abandoned by its parents.
Just then, a pair of arms suddenly reached into the golden radiance and stroked Yingying Monster’s huge head.
“No, you will never be a lone demon!”
“From now on, I, Mo Fan, am your father!”
Mo Fan said gently, hugging Yingying Monster’s head with a smile on his face.
“But… Daddy, I may not be a complete life, and I am very afraid. I fear that as my cultivation increases, I will no longer be myself…”
At this point, Yingying Monster truly choked up like a human child, its massive body trembling slightly, as if genuinely terrified of its future.
“Yingying Monster, no matter what you become, and no matter what you turn into in the future, you will always be my, Mo Fan’s, child!”
“As long as you are still willing to acknowledge me as your daddy, I will never let anything else replace you!”
Mo Fan spoke solemnly, as if making a promise.
He clearly understood what Yingying Monster feared.
As it absorbed the true dragon blood, its bloodline memories were awakening further, so it worried it would completely turn into that ancient chi dragon from the past.
In truth, Mo Fan did not know if, should it really become what Yingying Monster feared, he would have the ability to stop or change it all.
But now he knew Yingying Monster needed his comfort.
Sure enough, after hearing Mo Fan say this, Yingying Monster’s trembling body gradually calmed.
It was as if, in this instant, it had become the naive and ignorant Yingying Monster of before.
After this recounting by Yingying Monster, Mo Fan finally understood completely.
Perhaps, just as Yingying Monster said, the reason it and that ancestor-realm chi dragon could ignore the breakthrough restrictions for demons in this realm was fundamentally because neither belonged to this realm!
Could it be that in the upper realm, demon cultivators do not need to undergo demon king tribulation?
A trace of doubt flashed in Mo Fan’s eyes, but soon, as if thinking of something, he broke into a cold sweat!
Since Yingying Monster and that ancestor-realm chi dragon were both lives derived from the flesh of that ancient chi dragon, did they also have some competitive relationship, like those dragon loaches?
Just like how the Black Dragon King in the Nether River, upon learning of Yingying Monster’s existence, was determined to devour it!
Thinking of this, Mo Fan felt an inexplicable worry.
He had witnessed the methods of that ancestor-realm chi dragon. It was far beyond what the Black Dragon King in the Nether River could compare to. Let alone that he had not yet truly gained king-realm power, even if he had, he might not be its match.
At this thought, Mo Fan felt a huge sense of urgency.
“No, I absolutely cannot sit and wait!”
Mo Fan frowned, turned to look at Yingying Monster, which had resumed absorbing true dragon blood, and his gaze became much more determined.
He opened his mouth and spat out a black spear, a burning heat in his eyes.
This spear was seized from Lei Yushan. It was the demon ancestor sacred weapon of Lei Yu Zidian, the Thunder God Spear!
Under the immense pressure from the ancestor-realm chi dragon, Mo Fan had no choice but to seize every opportunity to increase his strength.
Refining the Thunder God Spear became his top priority now!
This refining lasted an unknown time.
The Thunder God Spear was ultimately refined successfully by Mo Fan. Its power filled him with delight and truly made him understand the terror of a demon ancestor sacred weapon!
Mo Fan even strongly suspected that the reason Lei Yu Zidian had been killed by him was likely because he lacked this Thunder God Spear.
If he had sacrificed both the Thunder God Spear and Wind God Spear at once, it would probably have been much harder to kill!
Next, he successively refined some other treasures.
These treasures came from the human cultivators he had hunted earlier.
Without their owners’ marks, these treasures were easier to refine and were quickly mastered by Mo Fan.
Boom!
After an unknown period, deafening roars suddenly came from afar.
He turned to look and saw the sounds coming from one of the tunnels. At the same time, a terrifying and tyrannical aura spread from that tunnel.
A wisp of vast divine sense instantly covered the entire cavern!
Mo Fan and Yingying Monster were immediately detected by that wisp of divine sense.
“Hahahahaha…!!”
The next moment, a loud laugh came from the tunnel, shaking Mo Fan’s ears until they rang.
“I was wondering why, even after fully absorbing that drop of true dragon blood, this ancestor still had not achieved a major breakthrough. It turns out a portion of the inheritance was stolen by you, little thing!”
“You really deserve to die!”
