Dragon Clan: I'm too lazy to talk to you, you're not worthy to listen!

With a "snap," Wrath withdrew the Seven Deadly Sins, making a crisp sound.

Norton lay prostrate on the ground, his eyelids twitching intermittently.

The slash of the blade left a faint, dark red scorch mark on the back of Norton's neck, and all the fluorescent lights in the basement suddenly exploded.

The flying glass shards condensed into ice crystals in the air, refracting the patterns of the Bronze City murals—

Among those intertwined bronze branches, the reliefs of Norton and Constantine seem to be slowly wriggling.

"Something's not right!" Ye Jingchen suddenly grabbed Xia Mi's wrist and took three steps back.

His fingertips touched the pulsating veins on the girl's wrist, where the flowing blood had a rough, bronze-like texture.

In an instant, Xia Mi activated Alchemy Concept Armament, and granite-colored arm armor with summer flower patterns began to appear on her arms.

Chen Motong's alchemical zipline suddenly taut.

Norton, who should have been unconscious, slowly straightened up. Lava-like blood gushed from his pierced shoulder blade, outlining the missing chapter of "The Fragment of the Ice Sea" on the ground.

The twelve short swords of Shudeya wailed, the alchemical matrix on their blades being melted by the high temperature.

“You know nothing about the power of the dragons…” Norton’s voice resonated like a bronze chime, “…”

Norton, like an unkillable cockroach, stood up once again.

His pupils split into eight segments, like a kaleidoscope, each reflecting a different scene:

Jiang Cheng inserted the bronze key into the sluice gate at the bottom of the Three Gorges.

Fingel burned archives in the ice cellar of Kassel College.

Meanwhile, the bloodstains on the golden coffin were seeping into Chen Motong's fingertips!

Ye Jingchen's alchemy compass suddenly burst forth with a bright light. This was something Jiang Cheng had secretly given to Ye Jingchen before parting.

The compass in the center transforms into a dragon holding a candle, its tail pointing towards the inner wall of the golden coffin.

There, out of nowhere, appeared the "Black King's Revival Ritual" written in dragon script, the handwriting identical to the bronze tree tattoo on Norton's chest.

"It seems this is the true key to revival." Ye Jingchen swung his sword at the coffin, but the enraged blade was repelled by an invisible barrier the instant it touched the dragon pattern.

The recoil caused his tiger's mouth to split open, and blood dripped down the hilt of the knife, only to be absorbed by the dragon pattern the instant it touched the surface of the coffin!

Chen Motong suddenly let out a painful groan. Under the skin of her right hand, worm-like lines rose, and a thin blood vessel was spreading towards her heart: "Ye Jingchen... the blood remaining on my hand from the coffin is being absorbed..."

Before he could finish speaking, thick fog suddenly poured into the basement ventilation shaft.

The sound of gears meshing could be heard from within the mist, and the faint outline of the Bronze City's mechanisms turning could be seen.

Xia Mi's golden eyes glowed with an eerie dark red in the mist, and a black egg had appeared in her arms at some unknown time.

"Xia Mi, what are you doing?" Ye Jingchen asked.

"I am Jormungandr, the Dragon King!" Her face, which was no longer as playful as usual, became serious and dignified.

She waved her hand toward the stairwell, and a cloud of gray mist spread out.

Suddenly, a bronze chain emerged from the fog and dragged Fenrir, who was eating potato chips, from the living room into the basement.

"Sister!" The honest Dragon King, whose entire body was now covered in bronze patterns, didn't understand what had happened and asked in bewilderment, "What's wrong?"

Ye Jingchen's temples throbbed.

He saw that the tattoo on Norton's chest was synchronized with the bronze patterns on Fenrir's body. Even more terrifying was that the blood vessels on Chen Motong's right hand had spread to his neck. Those patterns were clearly miniature versions of dragon sacrificial texts!

It seems that Jormungandr and Norton had secretly made arrangements while I was away from home; no wonder she had been so anxious to call me.

No wonder Norton, who was severely injured by the rage, was able to run to the basement and cause such a commotion.

With the two Dragon Kings joining forces, many things can naturally be accomplished smoothly.

"Alright, Jormungandr, aren't you afraid?" Ye Jingchen asked.

Jormungandr: "Norton and I, the Dragon Aspects, have a long-standing agreement. How could you humans possibly understand the great dragon race?"

"You want to resurrect Nidhogg the Black King? Wasn't the Black King killed by you two together?" Ye Jingchen asked.

Jormungandr: "That's just your human subjective conjecture."

"Has a new Black King emerged? Otherwise, why are you in such a hurry to revive the old Black King?" Ye Jingchen asked.

Jormungandr: "You talk too much!"

After saying that, Jormungandr raised his hand and waved it at Ye Jingchen. He didn't even activate any Word of Power; he simply relied on the authority of the King of Earth and Mountains.

A sharp spike burst from the ground and pierced towards Ye Jingchen!

Ye Jingchen twisted his body and dodged the ground spikes.

"Chen, Mo Tong, the Black King's Eye, forming a cocoon with your eyes, Dragon King, so you are all keys." Ye Jingchen suddenly chuckled, and the alchemical matrix in his palm lit up with a dark golden light. The parchment contract appeared in Ye Jingchen's palm.

"Have you forgotten the contract you signed with me?"

Norton scoffed at this.

Jormungandr: "When the Supreme Being is present in the world, the parchment contract in your hand will only become a piece of waste paper. He is the ultimate end of everything."

“But He hasn’t been resurrected yet!” Ye Jingchen’s expression hardened as he gripped the parchment contract tightly.

Within the contract, two chains of different colors swiftly extended, the red chain imprisoning Norton.

Brown chains, however, bound Jormungandr.

The enraged blade suddenly sprouted crimson dragon patterns, a forbidden alchemy technique activated by Ye Jingchen with his own blood.

The moment the blade pierced the ground, the floor tiles of the entire basement surged like waves, revealing a giant bronze armillary sphere beneath—this was the true base of the golden coffin!

Norton's roar suddenly turned into a terrified scream: "Impossible! How could you know...?"

"Hush—" Ye Jingchen's pupils seemed to transform into a rotating star map, his eyes filled with a strange and unpredictable look. "You dragon kings always forget that what humans are best at is memory, which started with the ancient practice of knotting ropes to record events."

Just as I plunged the alchemical dagger into the heart of the golden coffin, I had already discerned the secrets hidden within it.

Your self-righteous, meticulously planned schemes and schemes are not as perfect as you imagine.

The armillary sphere suddenly rotated in reverse, and the sound of the bronze gears meshing was deafening.

The dragon patterns on the golden coffin began to peel off, revealing the dense, black-gold scales on the inner layer.

The blood vessels on Chen Motong's right hand suddenly contracted, condensing into a miniature black king egg phantom in her palm.

Seeing that the two Dragon Kings were imprisoned, Ye Jingchen flashed in front of Chen Motong, reached out and pinched the thin blood thread, and quickly and accurately pulled the blood thread out of Chen Motong's blood vessel!

The phantom image of the miniature black king egg also disappeared.

Ye Jingchen used the alchemy technique of elemental substitution to replace the blood vessels with metallic copper.

Seeing Chen Motong's pale face, he reached out and steadied her shoulders. "Are you alright?"

"It's nothing..." Chen Motong shook her head and pressed her hand against the tiny blood vessels on the back of her hand, which were pierced by blood vessels and were oozing blood. "What did you mean by what you just said? Am I also part of the resurrected Dragon King?"

Ye Jingchen looked into Chen Motong's eyes and said, "At first, this was just my guess, but after connecting it with what happened, I became more and more convinced of my idea."

Do you remember that black serpent dragon you encountered at the bottom of the sea off Japan?

In Chen Motong's mind, the shocking scene of the black snake spewing pillars of ice and fire from its mouth at the bottom of the sea flashed through his mind once again. He nodded and said:

"I remember, I don't think I'll ever forget that scene."

Ye Jingchen: "That black snake died once. When it died the first time, it gathered its life force into its left eye, forming a cocoon around its eyeball, and thus survived in the world."

Chen Motong: "So, when you saw my name, you naturally made that connection?"

Ye Jingchen nodded and said, "Yes, and what you encountered today has also confirmed my guess."

Ye Jingchen still had many things to say.

for example:

In terms of Word Power, Lu Mingfei, like Chen Motong, was a humanoid egg of another being. After completing the 3E exam, he did not have Word Power, only the manifestation of Blood Sorrow.

As for his name, Lu Mingfei's name should be viewed in reverse—"Fei Ming Lu," which means "not the wise and correct path."

From Lu Mingfei's personal perspective alone.

What Lu Mingfei will ultimately have to experience is watching himself transform into a dragon, sit on a throne, and have his former friends come toward him with swords in hand.

Lu Mingze is a bit more complicated. He is a complex guy himself. He is not Lu Mingfei's cousin in real life. Or it would be more appropriate to call him a little devil to avoid ambiguity.

The little devil himself didn't have a name, making him mysterious and obscure. He was initially called Zero, but later he gave Zero to Renata and borrowed the name of Lu Mingfei's cousin in real life.

The deeper meaning of the name is also quite sophisticated. "Ze" is a homophone for "Ze" and means to choose.

The name "Lu Mingze" can be interpreted in reverse as "choosing the wise and correct path," but this is a viewpoint presented solely from his own perspective.

As for whether it was for his own sake, for Lu Mingfei's sake, or for both, only the little devil himself knows.

Ye Jingchen then turned his head and approached Norton and Jormungandr.

The chains emanating from the parchment contract tightly bound the two dragon kings.

Norton struggled, and the more he struggled, the tighter the chains became. Norton was wrestling with his own strength, like a strongman struggling to lift himself.

Ye Jingchen looked at the two dragons, then reached into the Seven Deadly Sins sword case with both hands, gripping the hilt of the raging sword with one hand and seduction with the other.

Norton showed no fear; it wasn't like he hadn't been slashed by rage before, so he only felt a little pain.

Upon seeing lust, Jormungandr instantly dropped his arrogant demeanor, his expression softening as if he had transformed back into Xia Mi. "Boss, I knew you could do it!"

"I was just putting on an act to lure Norton into making a move!"

Jormungandr smiled at Ye Jingchen, revealing a small, white canine tooth.

Norton cast a disdainful glance at Jormungandr, scoffing at her opportunistic behavior.

Upon hearing Jormungandr's words, Ye Jingchen temporarily suppressed his lust and his rage.

At the same time, the parchment contract was retrieved, and the iron chains binding the two dragon kings also disappeared.

Norton and Jormungandr exchanged bewildered glances, momentarily confused as to what Ye Jingchen was about to do.

Ye Jingchen then turned to look at Chen Motong, Jiudeya, and Fenrir behind him, "Let's all go back to the living room and have a proper talk."

After saying that, Ye Jingchen walked straight past Jormungandr and Norton and went up the stairs.

The remaining few, still puzzled, had no choice but to follow...

in the living room.

Norton, Fenrir, Jormungandr, Ye Jingchen.

Ye Jingchen sat on the sofa and first looked at Jormungandr.

Jormungandr instinctively turned his head away, not daring to meet Ye Jingchen's gaze. Betrayer usually doesn't dare to look directly at the betrayed.

Ye Jingchen turned his head to look at Norton again, but Norton was staring straight into Ye Jingchen's eyes.

Ye Jingchen: "Who do you think your enemy really is? Humans? Hybrids? Dragons?"

Jormungandr did not speak.

Norton: "Of course it's you hybrids who stole the dragons' power. Humans are nothing but our servants."

Ye Jingchen looked directly into Norton's bright golden eyes, "Norton, is this really what you think?"

You have lived in this world for so long, between revival and slumber, you must have a profound understanding of it.

Jormungandr too.

As Ye Jingchen spoke, he glanced at Jormungandr, and this time she did not avoid his gaze.

Norton pondered for a moment, then said, "This world shouldn't be like this, and we shouldn't be an outcast, we shouldn't have nowhere to go, we shouldn't be hunted down wherever we go! I want to create a world that belongs to my brother and me, a world that belongs to the dragon race! I want to revive the dragon race!"

Norton was so excited that he almost stood up as he spoke. After experiencing so much, his memory had recovered to about 80-90 percent.

Jormungandr turned to look at Norton, silently gave him a thumbs up, and said, "Me too!"

Fenrir, meanwhile, kept chewing on potato chips, indicating that he didn't understand.

"You help me conquer the world, and I'll give you what you want," Ye Jingchen said.

Norton: "I have been betrayed too many times. You humans are not trustworthy."

Ye Jingchen: "Won't your dragon clan betray you?"

Norton: “…”

Ye Jingchen: "Just because I'm stronger than all of you right now, you should give me priority consideration. Besides, I share the same idea as you."

Norton: "You can kill me, but you can't make me submit."

Ye Jingchen: "As far as I know, you haven't even formed a dragon body since you were born, let alone left behind a bone jar. If you die this time, you will really die."

Norton fell silent.

Jormungandr: "I agree with working with the boss; the boss has always been very lenient with his own people."

As Jormungandr spoke, he reached out and pinched Fenrir.

Fenrir, unusually quick-witted, put down the bag of potato chips in his hand: "Whatever my sister says goes, I'll listen to my sister."

Jormungandr pinched Fenrir again.

"Ouch, that hurts!" Fenrir's mind went blank, and he looked at Jormungandr. "Why are you pinching me again?"

Jormungandr rolled his eyes in exasperation and lowered his voice: "You have to say you'll listen to the boss!"

“Oh,” Fenrir nodded, “I’ll do as the boss says.”

Ye Jingchen: "Norton, they've all expressed their opinions, what about you?"

Even if you don't think about yourself, you should at least think about Constantine, who hasn't even hatched yet.

You'll have a lot to face.

Various hybrid families, dragon king families, Odin…

Norton: "I... I'll think about it..."