Quick Wear: Let go of the desire to help others and respect the burial of the insane.

Is there really a risk of successfully refining it?

Li Cheng's heart pounded, and a sense of unease swept over him.

In the darkness...

No! He now felt that his most important opportunity had been taken away!

In his mind, Yang Zhen was nothing more than a tool for him and Bai Ruanruan to flirt with, a tool to wipe their messes. From beginning to end, he never cared about this inferior creature even once.

"Yang Zhen, I command you! Stop! Don't take my Dragon Ball! You're nothing but a lowly mortal!"

This was his hope of transforming into a true dragon.

The weight of the two rivers and four seas rests on his shoulders. How could he command all races if he didn't become a dragon?

"As long as you can put down the Dragon Ball, I will forgive and forget everything from the past! I allow... I allow you to be my queen!"

“阿城giegie！”白软软拉着即将暴揍的黎城，哭诉道：“你说过你弱水三千只取一瓢饮，今生今世唯爱我一人！”

In a moment of panic, Li Cheng secretly communicated with his companion.

"Ruanruan, I'm trying to calm Yang Zhen down."

"If Yang Zhen takes away the Dragon Pearl, I will not be able to transform into a true dragon, and how can I be worthy of you?"

Bai Ruanruan gripped Li Cheng's hand tightly, "I don't care! I won't allow any other men around you!"

"Especially that bitch Yang Zhen, I don't believe there's anything in this vast ocean that can't subdue her!"

Li Cheng: .....

"Ruan Ruan, I swear! You are the only matriarch of our Merfolk royal family. The others are all concubines, and you can do whatever you want with them!"

"Once Yang Zhen marries into the family, she'll be at your mercy. Even if you kill her, no one will say anything!"

Bai Ruanruan suddenly stopped sobbing and tentatively asked, "Really?"

Li Cheng nodded.

In the blink of an eye, the newlyweds reached a deal.

Yang Zhen returned the Dragon Ball and became the lowest-ranking human concubine in Li Cheng's household.

Not only did he live in the woodshed without any servants, but he also had to pay his respects to Bai Ruanruan, the goddess, and serve her every day.

If Yang Zhen fails to serve properly, Bai Ruanruan will exercise her rights as the mistress to punish Yang Zhen, and may even have the right to subject Yang Zhen to caning.

After Yang Zhen dies, his body will be thrown back into a mass grave on land, so as not to pollute even a drop of the ocean water.

Bai Ruanruan was overjoyed and satisfied, finally forgiving Li Cheng's act of taking a concubine.

Anyway, she's the mistress of the house, who would dare disobey her?

She then persuaded, "Yang Zhen, as long as you return your husband's dragon pearl, I will allow you to become a concubine of the Li family."

"There are countless powerful demons who would rather die than have a concubine in the royal family!"

"Follow me, and you can enjoy nearly a hundred years of wealth and honor, instead of turning into dust like ordinary people!"

There's a lot of commotion outside.

But only the old Mermaid King knew the truth.

The refining process will not stop until one side completely transforms into a dragon and inherits everything.

He had considered killing Ning Jun or forcibly preventing his succession.

However, no fool would want to be struck by lightning when a cultivator is undergoing a tribulation.

All we can do is pray that the newly born dragon god is fragile, or that both sides will suffer heavy losses.

They imprisoned the young dragons in the abyss, making it easier for them to capture and devour them alive.

Or... what if the new Dragon God harbored even a trace of affection for his son, Li Cheng?

"Ding! 』

New item reward obtained – Dragon Pill!

"The host's dragon core has automatically embedded itself into the host's body and will return to the cycle of reincarnation when the host leaves."

"So convenient?"

"Wouldn't that mean I could become a little dragon and command all beasts to submit just by standing there?"

"The host is having a bit too much of a wild idea."

"..."

"It's like a beating," the Reincarnation Bead explained.

All mission takers are essentially spiritual life forms, and through repeated missions, they shed their superficiality and achieve extraordinary things.

In this way, the quality of the soul will become increasingly heavier.

The body of the person in the past will no longer be suitable for the task unless the person can improve their physical fitness in the same way.

But Ning Jun's original physical body... has already self-destructed.

To obtain a suitable body, one must reshape a top-tier Dharma body capable of carrying one's divine soul!

"Host, the reason I'm telling you this so late is because I've explored many small worlds, but I haven't found one suitable for you."

Ning Jun rubbed his temples.

She didn't really reshape her body much, mainly because she couldn't find suitable materials or a suitable place to practice.

The Reincarnation Bead, like Granny Wang selling cucumbers, desperately tried to sell Ning Jun how good her product was.

"This Dragon Ball is a pseudo-divine artifact that combines the concepts of the ocean and water..."

Most importantly, it is capable of growth and inherently carries immense fortune!

Ning Jun raised an eyebrow, finally showing interest, "Can it grow?"

The protagonist, Li Cheng, ultimately grows into a powerful god, inseparable from the Dragon Pearl, but he only unlocks a small part of its potential!

"So, this Dragon Ball is a priceless treasure lost in this land, refined by a dragon who became a supreme god. After the supreme god's fall, it was then obtained by the male protagonist?"

"wrong!"

Cough cough

"Host, you'd better refine the Dragon Ball as soon as possible. Don't keep your secret lover and your son-in-law waiting."

Ning Jun glanced outside and saw that preparations were underway for Li Cheng's concubine-taking ceremony.

It's much smaller in scale.

She chuckled. There's a kind of beauty in knowledge that just slips through the mind, leaving no trace.

The Dragon Ball transformed into a Dragon Pill.

The memories of the first owner are revealed to the successor without reservation.

A shooting star flashed across the sky.

The blue bead fell into the swamp and was picked up by a small black loach.

The loach gleaned a trace of an ancient law from it and then transformed into a true dragon!

But Zhenlong never gained any further insight from the Blue Pearl before he died.

Before his death, he suddenly realized that he had foolishly occupied the Blue Pearl for too long and should hand it over to the pride of his clan.

Before his death, he handed the Blue Pearl over to the Merfolk royal family, so that all the ocean prodigies could come and see the Blue Pearl, increasing the chances of all ocean races transforming into dragons.

The royal family believed that the treasure left behind by the true dragon must be a dragon pearl, which could be refined to transform into a dragon.

He then embezzled the money and placed hundreds of seals on it, prohibiting other races and lowly merfolk from contacting it.

We await the day when the royal prodigy will refine himself into a dragon.

The real name of "Dragon Ball" is Canglan.

The vast ocean stretches endlessly, its surging waves flowing into the boundless sea.

Ning Jun suddenly opened his pupils.

Golden light shone brightly in his vertical pupils.

A massive mixture of dragon energy and spiritual energy converged above her head, forming a pair of golden dragon horns.

A deep, resonant dragon's roar erupted from the depths of the sea, causing the water to surge and churn.

Even underwater cities would tremble.

The dragon transformation is complete!

...

"But don't get too proud, host~"

"You're at best a slightly stronger dragon, not a true dragon."

"This doesn't count?"

"To the demons of this place, he's no different from a divine dragon, but host, you'd better step up your game!"

"We don't need to be true dragons, Flood dragons, or ancestral dragons. If we're going to be anything, we'll be the strongest dragon gods, forming our own lineage, not suppressed by other dragons!"

"The host has only achieved a preliminary dragon transformation; further purification of dragon blood, strengthening of the dragon heart, cleansing of the marrow from the dragon bones, and finally, reshaping of the dragon body are required!"

"Isn't just having the Dragon Pill enough?" Ning Jun frowned slightly; she also wanted to achieve this result.

Reconstructing the Dharma body is not so easy.

In her previous N lives, those old monsters had to travel all over the world to create personalized clones.

"It also includes a Laws DLC. Depending on what kind of dragon you want to become, you can choose the corresponding Law, such as the Great Law of Power, the Great Law of Water..."

Ning Jun clenched his fist. "You're not going to say that bloodlines can also be upgraded, are you?"

"Bingo! Host, we need to extract the essence of all races, and the merfolk are just one of them..."

"Hehe, let's fuse some evil god bloodline, and get some laws...hehehehe."

"Heh." She sneered. "So this is what you were waiting for. If I made you the planner for the second tour, what would happen to the two of them at home?"

They lure people in with free characters, and once players are hooked, they start charging for in-game purchases.

Ning Jun cannot stop halfway or abandon the project, after all, the Dragon Ball has already been tested by the Reincarnation Pearl and inserted into her body, there is no turning back.

The Reincarnation Beads said sadly.

"Host, I won't allow you to talk about yourself like that! Zhuzhu is an orphan from a certain orphanage, born of heaven and earth, and you are her only family!"

"...?"

"I don't want to care about you."

The water that had been flowing around Ning Jun receded.

She remained above all the seafood, yet no one dared to take a step forward, and not even a demon dared to whisper among themselves.

There is no other reason.

That golden dragon horn, that golden dragon eye.

It's just too dazzling!

It was so dazzling that they instinctively submitted to the strong, rather than to a dragon that had come from nowhere.

Li Cheng was dumbfounded.

"It...it really turned into a dragon?"

Before this, Li Cheng could still deceive others and comfort himself. Where could an ordinary person leap over the dragon gate?

His pupils dilated, his gaze fixed intently on the dragon horn.

His chest felt as if it were being cut by a knife, the pain was so intense that he couldn't breathe, and his body swayed precariously. If Bai Ruanruan hadn't steadied him, he probably would have collapsed.

"Dragon horns? How could you possibly have dragon horns!"

Bai Ruanruan's eyes widened, equally incredulous. "Yang Zhen, aren't you human? You're a lowly..."

A wave of oppressive force swept over them.

Li Cheng knelt down and slammed his head heavily onto the cobblestone ground.

"Bang, bang, bang!"

After three heavy thuds, Li Cheng's forehead was pierced by a slightly sharp pebble, and blue blood, unique to seafood, flowed out continuously.

His handsome face was now wrinkled into a pretzel.

"Yang Zhen, what are you doing?! Giegie is a mermaid prince, and you're just a country bumpkin dragon. What gives you the right to order Li Cheng Giegie around!"

Bai Ruanruan spoke.

The atmosphere suddenly changed; all the demons fell silent, their eyes fixed on the mermaid prince and princess.

The scene that Bai Ruanruan had anticipated—where all the demons and merfolk stood up for her—did not occur.

On the contrary, most of them were gloating, looking like they were watching a good show.

as predicted.

The dragon from the countryside spoke up, "You call me a country dragon? Well then, you're right."

"Since Li Cheng has already kowtowed to me, a country bumpkin, it's not unreasonable for him to kowtow to the powerful demons in other cities, is it?"

"Li Gouzi, go and kowtow three times to all the guests present!"

Li Cheng froze, panicked, and struggled to get up, only to find in horror that his body was crawling toward the nearest giant seafood monster.

"I almost forgot, you should kowtow to your enemies a few times first. After all, your Li family has done quite a few bad things."

"No...no!" Li Cheng froze again, then crawled toward his enemy.

But my body was already under constant control, and I started kowtowing repeatedly along the way, my head hitting the ground loudly!

"Ruan Ruan, Father, please... please save me!"

Li Cheng was banged on the head until he bled and his whole body ached, and he still had to endure the ridicule of the Li family's enemies.

Bai Ruanruan felt extremely distressed.

Although the wound is on Li's body, the pain is in Bai's heart!

"Li Cheng! Yang Zhen, stop! Stop, stop!"

Stop fighting!

"Li Ergou, kowtow five times instead."

Bang bang bang bang, Li Cheng banged loudly and forcefully.

Now I finally understand all kinds of seafood.

So this new True Dragon Lord has a grudge against the Li family of the Merfolk!

It's unclear whether the Li family had some kind of lapse in judgment or what, but a new dragon was born.

They should either relinquish the Dragon Palace and properly serve the True Dragon, since the Dragon Palace is the True Dragon's sacred ground, and it is only right to give it to the descendants of the Dragon Clan.

They either flee quickly to avoid conflict, or, given the sheer size of the largest seafood clan, they might not survive.

As a result, the mermaid prince repeatedly provoked the dragon.

The new dragon was kind-hearted and did not kill the merman prince immediately. Instead, he made him kowtow and was given a slight punishment to atone for his actions.

She has the heart of a bodhisattva.

"New Dragon God, what crime has my son committed to deserve this!" The old Mermaid King roared in anger.

"The Dragon Ball was given to you by my son, and your good fortune was also given to you by my son. Without my son, you would never have been able to embark on the path to immortality."

"Why do you deceive us mermaids here!" The old mermaid king cried, playing the emotional card.

Indeed, without Li Cheng, she wouldn't have been able to obtain the Dragon Ball so easily.

But Li Cheng wasn't doing this for her own good; he even wished Yang Zhen dead. Why should she thank Li Cheng?

Ning Jun smiled, her eyes crinkling.

The old merman was terrified; the strongest fighter was actually Li Cheng.

Li Cheng has already kowtowed and knelt down, so what can these old gentry who live off the government do?

Ning Jun said softly, "All members of the Merfolk royal family who have been harsh and abusive to their compatriots or other races, who have harmed their villages, who have seized the Dragon Palace of the True Dragon, and who have caused chaos in the ocean."

All the merman royals, including the old merman emperor and Li Cheng, felt a chill run down their spines.

“They have all been stripped of their merman bloodline!”

The voice of the new Dragon God gradually grew solemn.

Ning Jun turned his head and glanced at Li Cheng, who was kneeling on the ground.

"Except for the merman prince Li Cheng and his princess Bai Ruanruan, the rest have been exiled to the four seas and will never return!"

"If the other merfolk submit, their past mistakes will be forgiven!"

All the merman royal family.

Apart from Li Cheng and Bai Ruanruan.

They were all liquidated!

The old merman king's face turned pale as he watched his skin rapidly become covered in wrinkles.

"No!" Shouldn't the new Dragon God let them go?

All the demonic power in his body dissipated from his demon core.

The old merman king coughed up a mouthful of blood and fainted completely. He had originally intended to use their past relationship to save his son.

Unexpectedly, the new Dragon God "pardoned" his eldest son, Li Cheng, but then purged the other members of the Merfolk royal family!

The other merfolk royal families weren't much better off. They had lived for at least a hundred years, lost their merfolk bloodline, and were left with only fish blood.

Those with the weakest cultivation level were unable to maintain their human form and transformed into big-headed fish.

The rest no longer possessed their exquisite appearance; they were pitch black, reverting to the typical appearance of deep-sea fish.

Although Li Cheng did not have to leave the Dragon Palace, his bloodline was also stripped away.

"I don't want to be stripped of my bloodline!"