Chapter 0189

Chapter 189: First Senior Sister: I Want to Become the Queen!

Zhou Tong stared, stunned. An Emperor Armament in a small secret realm sounded like a wild dream. An Emperor Armament was an Emperor’s life-bound weapon, complete with its own spirit. If fully awakened, it could unleash an Emperor’s casual strike, enough to crush the continent. Below the Emperor Realm, no one could withstand it. More than that, an Emperor Armament would choose its master on its own and return to the hands of an Emperor’s descendants. It should not be sealed away here, unless the Emperor’s bloodline had been completely wiped out.

Shaken, Zhou Tong released his spiritual sense to search for a trace of imperial might, but he found nothing. He looked down at the First Senior Sister in his arms.

She reached up to stroke his head, her voice gentle and spoiled as she said: “Why so impatient? If an Emperor Armament could be found so easily, it wouldn’t be worth much.”

Zhou Tong breathed out as he nodded, letting it go for now. Even if one truly existed, most people could never subdue it. The urgent task was right in front of them. He drew out a key, the crucial item to open the Dragon Transformation Pool. The next step was to find where it lay.

The First Senior Sister’s brow lit as she said: “I know where it is.”

She turned, drawing everyone’s eyes, and called crisply as she said: “Follow me!”

She took the lead at a run, with Zhou Tong right behind her. The people of the Upper Clarity Sect and the Blood God Sect hurried after. In her mind, she spoke in secret as she asked: “Miss Mountain Ghost… you didn’t trick me, right? Don’t let me embarrass myself in front of my junior brother.”

The Mountain Ghost’s clear voice sounded in her mind as she said: “Princess Consort, Your Highness, the honest Mountain Ghost never lies. Rest easy.”

The First Senior Sister’s smile curled higher; then her brows drew together as she muttered in her heart: [Why not call me the Queen?]

The Mountain Ghost sounded a bit embarrassed as she said: “The King has not awakened. I dare not decide such things. Of course, my favorite is still you.”

Zhang Chu Qiao lifted her chin with bright eyes as she said: “That’s enough. I won’t lose.”

Images of her master and the little demoness flashed through her mind, and her fighting spirit surged. The Mountain Ghost laughed with real joy as she said: “That is the King’s woman!”

As Zhou Tong’s teacher and foster mother, she was very satisfied with Zhang Chu Qiao. Her voice grew solemn as she said: “The place ahead is where the Dragon Transformation Pool lies. Princess Consort, Your Highness, just do exactly as I say. And remember, do not tell the King about me yet. It is not time.”

The voice faded. Zhang Chu Qiao’s face became serious. Thanks to the Mountain Ghost, she finally knew the origin of this secret realm. This land once belonged to the God Clan. Later, the God Clan was destroyed, and the area was abandoned. As Humans declined, the Myriad Races rose up and tried to wipe Humans out, opening an ancient battlefield here. Back then, Humans and the Mountain Ghost Clan allied and fought the Myriad Races in a world-breaking war. Heaven and earth shattered; even sun and moon dimmed. Later, an aged Human Emperor arrived holding an Emperor Armament and suppressed everything. After the battle, the Emperor’s life was spent; he sat down and passed away here, and the Emperor Armament remained in this pocket of space. The mighty foes of the Myriad Races also died and left their inheritances behind. So this place was both a graveyard and a land of inheritances. As tomb guardians, the Mountain Ghost Clan also left their inheritances and authority in the secret realm, waiting for the King to return and claim all of it. Among the Four Symbols Pools, the Dragon Transformation Pool was the Mountain Ghost Clan’s inheritance ground.

The First Senior Sister suddenly lifted her hand for a halt as she said: “Stop!”

Everyone pulled up short. They had reached a flat, empty wasteland. It was strangely neat, as if carefully cleaned; not a weed or a pebble in sight, bald and glaring.

Zhang Chu Qiao turned to Zhou Tong with bright focus as she said: “Junior brother, lend me a drop of blood.”

Zhou Tong did not hesitate. He flicked his finger, and a drop of blood flew into her palm. To open the Mountain Ghost inheritance, the King’s blood was the best key.

Her hands danced through hand seals. She refined the blood and shot it into the center of the barren ground.

The earth roared and split. A towering tree burst upward, and a coiled azure dragon wound around its trunk, pouring out terrifying pressure.

Zhang Chu Qiao gripped the key, spoke a spell under her breath, and turned the key into a great sword as she cried: “Open for me!”

She drove it into the dragon tree.

With a deafening crack, the trunk split wide. A flood of emerald spiritual liquid gushed out like a river, packed with dense energy, and in an instant it drowned the plain. This was the Dragon Transformation Pool. Anyone who soaked in it would gain benefits beyond imagination.

People trembled with excitement and stepped forward, but a profound power blocked them. Without permission, they had no right to enjoy the pool.

Zhou Tong smiled at their allies and spoke generously as he said: “No need to be polite. Everyone, enter the pool.”

In a blink, the barrier vanished, opening the way for members of the Upper Clarity Sect and the Blood God Sect.

Cries rang out as they bowed with tears in their eyes and shouted: “Lord Zhang Chu Qiao is second under heaven!” and “Young Master Zhou Tong is first under heaven!”

They plunged in like dumplings into boiling water.

Chu Ran threw his head back with a whoop as he said: “So good!”

All the pores of his body seemed to open as his flesh grew stronger at a speed he could feel. A pool that turned people into dragons lived up to its name.

Zhang Chu Qiao’s cheeks were rosy as she leaned close to Zhou Tong and urged softly as she said: “Junior brother, let’s enter the pool too.”

The Mountain Ghost had told her that the true inheritance lay at the bottom. Only the King’s woman could obtain it, and only by taking that inheritance could she become a rightful Princess Consort. [I will claim it. I will become the Queen.]

But then rumbles boomed above the pool. Clearly, a fight had broken out.

Harsh voices cut through the air as someone laughed and said: “Hahaha… the Dragon Transformation Pool really appeared, and you still claim you aren’t a successor of the Mountain Ghosts!”

Another snarled as he said: “Stop talking and kill him. Take his blood to strengthen our White Tiger inheritance!”

A third voice cackled as he said: “Don’t waste him. Plant a Deathbinding Gu and make him our Heaven Gu Clan blood bag!”

At the name, Zhou Tong’s brows knotted as he muttered: “Heaven Gu Clan.”

Zhang Chu Qiao’s face went cold as she said: “Kill them. Don’t let any of them leave alive. Their blood will help us too.”

The Four Symbols Pools matched four races. The Mountain Ghost Clan and the Heaven Gu Clan were mortal enemies. Each could use the other’s blood to strengthen its own inheritance. Duan Li, the chief enforcer’s disciple, had been mistaken for a member of the Mountain Ghost Clan, so disaster had fallen on him for nothing.

Zhou Tong made his decision in an instant as he said: “Hold the fort here. I will be right back.”

Then he shot upward like an arrow.