Chapter 667: Special Invitation

A sudden, loud voice demanded answers, and two powerful presences simultaneously surged toward the side of the Sky-Sundering King.

This was by no means a friendly aura; it directly overwhelmed many warriors, causing them to suffocate.

The originally arrogant side fell silent for a moment.

The King of Hell snarled, “Damn it, they are two Wangzuns from the Chinese military!”

From the crowd of neutral bystanders, two tall warriors stepped forward.

These two individuals openly displayed their powerful aura as they approached Luo Hao Tian and the others.

No one is afraid of anyone here.

However, if a conflict were to arise, facing twelve Dragon Kings, along with three peak-level Royal Sovereigns and thirty-five Uncrowned Kings, the outcome of such a battle would truly be uncertain.

A cold voice said, “Before coming in, the Commander had said that once a conflict arises, we must stand on Lu Yu’s side.”

“That’s right. The commander’s order is to fight until death. Even if there were no orders to assist Lu Yu, do you think I’d allow you to bully our Chinese soldiers?”

“China has never feared any enemy. If you want to fight, come ahead.”

The two Wang Zuns were originally soldiers by origin, their fierce and bloodthirsty battle aura causing many people to retreat in alarm.

Both sides had countless powerful individuals, and the group that had been arrogant earlier all fell silent.

It’s not certain who is stronger or weaker now.

The Destroyer Dragon King with a gray-scaled body said, “If I don’t send you all out, it’s because I’m giving you a chance. Should Lu Yu fail, you still have an opportunity. If anyone dares to speak nonsense again, they will be immediately expelled from this space. If you want to fight, wait until the trial of the Three-Eyed Dragon King concludes.”

The Bone Dragon King said, “Do you truly believe you stand a chance in this space? We haven’t even deployed our dragon warriors yet. If they were to arrive, could they not easily suppress your force of less than ten thousand?”

The Heaven-Sundering King and others exchanged glances, and all fell silent.

The Howling King said respectfully, “Good, I’ll be waiting.”

Many people were also不服气 and said, “I’d like to see if Lu Yu is truly worthy of becoming the dragon knight of the Dragon Clan’s strongest king.”

The Silver Dragon King said, “Since the emergence of the Three-Eyed Dragon King, a total of three challengers have attempted to confront him, but all have failed. Among them were one King, a killer inheritor who reached the King Reverence level, and another King Reverence expert. Therefore, you don’t need to feel upset; there’s still a chance.”

Hiss!

Many people on the ground inhaled sharply, their faces turning pale with shock.

This challenge is way too difficult.

Even the king failed.

Luo Haotian and the others couldn’t help but feel a great shock in their hearts.

Now they want to stop Lu Yu, but it’s already impossible.

Now the only hope is to pray.

The confrontation and struggle in another realm did not cause the slightest disturbance in the deepest part of the dragon clan’s domain.

It was just like the dragon’s lair that Lu Yu had seen.

Above the dragon’s nest, countless dragon bones, each tens of thousands of feet long, intertwine and weave together to form a vast, bone-made sky.

At the edge of the sky, each stone pillar, thousands of zhang thick and stretching ten thousand zhang high to touch the heavens, formed the pillars supporting the dragon’s nest.

Heading towards the center of this dragon’s nest, the stone pillars became even thicker and taller. The central area contained a total of thirteen stone pillars, each reaching a height of one hundred thousand zhang, surpassing even the scale of a towering mountain.

This space has no end, as vast and immense as a desert.

Massive dragons coiled around the pillars, their innumerable eyes gazing into the depths of the dragon’s nest, where a crimson mist swirled intensely.

In the very center of the Dragon’s Nest, a colossal dragon nearly a million zhang in length coiled around one of the thirteenth thickest and tallest stone pillars at the central point. This was the Three-Eyed Dragon King. His entire body was covered in silvery-white dragon scales, each scale emitting a rising silver flame. His massive dragon body, a million zhang long, coiled around the stone pillar, while his dragon head lowered, gazing down at the blood mist in the center of the blood pool.

The dragon has three eyes, but now only the one located between its eyebrows is open. The blood mist arises from a blood pool, several dozen zhang in diameter, situated among thirteen stone pillars.

The blood pool was formed by the coiled dragon bones of a dragon. The bones were pitch-black, each inch gleaming with dark light.

The blood pool was filled with blood-red water, which burned like flames, rising up to form blood-colored fire tongues as high as a zhang.

In the blood pool, a human sat cross-legged within it.

This is the Dragon Blood Baptism, a crucial trial that must be undergone to gain the Dragon King’s recognition.

Lu Yu’s entire body was splattered with dragon blood, which instantly transformed into streaks of blood lines and pierced into his body.

These blood threads coursed through every drop of Lu Yu’s blood and every nerve in his body, as if countless needles were piercing into him all at once.

“How do you feel, Lu Yu?” said the Dragon King with three eyes. “It’s not pleasant having thousands of needles pierce your body, is it?”

“Haha, Your Majesty the Dragon King, if this is the extent of the pain, then I’ll pass,” said Lu Yu, sitting in the blood pool without even a hint of a furrow in his brow. “However, the power contained within the dragon blood is indeed formidable.”

“What?”

The Dragon King of the Three Eyes was startled. He stared at Lu Yu in confusion and asked, “This isn’t right. Even the killer inheritor who entered this blood pool all those years ago had experienced unbearable pain and fainted. How come you feel absolutely nothing?”

The Dragon King with three eyes appeared calm on the surface, but his heart was in turmoil.

“The full awakening of the Killer Inheritor increases pain tenfold. Even such agony hardly makes me frown. What does this pain amount to?” Lu Yu laughed and said, “Dragon King, you just need to tell me how much longer this will take.”

“That’s not right either,” said the Three-Eyed Dragon King, frowning. “This pain isn’t merely ten times that of a fully awakened killer; it might even be more than twenty times greater.”

Lu Yu smiled and said, “For the Poisonous Dragon Transformation, the pain of enduring the Venomous Body was more than ten times worse than this.”

“Even with the complete awakening of a hundredfold pain, you didn’t go insane?”

The Dragon King with three eyes stared in shock at Lu Yu, then burst into laughter and said, “Excellent, excellent. You’re indeed interesting. However, the time limit isn’t decided by you, but depends on your situation. This is merely the first stage; there are still two more stages awaiting you. If this stage fails to drive you insane, then the second stage will be the draconic transformation. Only when you can control yourself and resist the transformation into a dragon will you be able to proceed to the next stage.”

Lu Yu fell silent and sat cross-legged in the blood pool, striving to calm and relax himself.

He was confident that he would pass.

But this does not mean he will relax.

He will not recognize every challenge unless he achieves victory.

The Dragon King with three eyes, who had lived for countless millennia, witnessed Lu Yu’s actions and couldn’t help but silently exclaim in his heart, “Excellent!”

The blood in the pool was initially boiling with flames, but as it coursed through Lu Yu’s body, the flames gradually weakened and eventually disappeared.

The blood pool regained its calm, with the blood within it seeming to congeal.

“Phase two.” The Dragon King with Three Eyes opened his mouth, releasing a blast of dragon’s breath into the blood pool.

Boom!

The blood pool began to boil violently, with giant blood bubbles rising from the bottom of the pool.

The temperature around rapidly increased, and soon all the blood began to transform from liquid into flames. The silver-white fire turned the blood pool into a raging sea of fire.

Lu Yu’s flesh began to turn crimson in the silver flames, then charred and died. New flesh regenerated, and faint dragon scales started to form on its surface.

The silver flame was not only burning flesh, but also moving toward Lu Yu’s bones.

Countless stars shimmered on Lu Yu’s bones, as if tiny, nascent galaxies were winding around them.

The silver flame landed on his bones, making the starlight on his skeleton even brighter and more dazzling.

“Your bone!”

The Dragon King with Three Eyes was surprised once again.

Although the Dragon Clan received the news that Lu Yu had already refined himself into a half-star artifact.

But now it’s no longer a half-star artifact.

This terrifying bone has already begun transforming into a star artifact.

The silver flame continuously burned Lu Yu’s bones, leaving not a single black mark on them.

However, dragon-like star marks began to appear one by one on Lu Yu’s bones.

Lu Yu paid no heed to the changes in his own body.

He had already noticed the changes in his flesh and blood.

The breath of humanity vanishes within the silver flame, as the essence of the dragon race is infused.

“There’s no way you can provoke my dragon transformation just like this!” Lu Yu focused his energy, his eyes suddenly snapping open with a burst of blood-red light.

Boom!

The unlimited fighting power of the uncrowned king within Lu Yu erupted.

His willpower was already terrifyingly strong to begin with, and now it was more than sufficient to suppress the dragon transformation force within his body.

Not even a hundredfold increase in pain could drive him to madness, nor could the essence of hellfire break him during its refining process. His mental strength and willpower far exceeded what the Three-Eyed Dragon King had anticipated.

The dragon scales forming on Lu Yu’s body were directly suppressed. The silver flame could temper his body, but it was utterly incapable of infusing any dragon clan essence into him.

“A terrifying human, beyond my imagination.” Even the Three-Eyed Dragon King had to admit that this was the most powerful challenger he had ever encountered.

Long Hua’s suppression had no effect at all.

However, Lu Yu was guiding the silver flame into his body to temper his star bone.

“Instead of transforming the body into a dragon, the idea is to channel the power of the dragon race into the bones. Is this the final transformation before the bones become a star artifact?” The three-eyed dragon king murmured to himself, his eyes sparkling with excitement as he said, “Then allow me to lend you a hand. Perhaps you can truly become my knight.”

The Three-Eyed Dragon King opened all his previously closed eyes, all three eyes glowing brilliantly. The entire dragon’s nest was instantly filled with a blinding white light.

The roar of countless dragons echoed through the Dragon’s Nest, causing it to tremble.

Three blazing beams of light intertwined and fell upon Lu Yu’s body, imprinting a series of dragon patterns onto his bones. Each dragon pattern had three eyes, and every scale on these dragon纹 was remarkably distinct.

Lu Yu’s skeleton began to emit a dragon clan aura. Every dragon pattern engraved on the bones became exceptionally clear, with scales as real as those of a dragon densely covering its surface.

At this moment, the Three-Eyed Dragon King finally closed his eyes and shouted loudly, “Lu Yu, hold on tight. The third stage involves the power of the dragon race being infused into your body. If you can’t withstand it, you will die.”

“Haha, come on.” Lu Yu looked at the Three-eyed Dragon King and said, “I’ve made it through the first two stages, so why would I be afraid of this final stage?”

The three-eyed Dragon King let out a dragon’s roar toward the sky. Suddenly, the scales beneath his dragon neck began to rupture, and a stream of dragon blood poured directly into the blood pool.

As the dragon’s blood poured into the pool, the reversed scale within Lu Yu’s storage space suddenly leaped out on its own, landing into the blood pool where it dissolved.

“Roar!”

In the blood pool, the dragon blood transformed into a blood-red, three-eyed colossal dragon, over a hundred zhang long, which wrapped itself around Lu Yu.

Lu Yu immediately felt an infinite surge of energy from the Three-Eyed Blood Dragon rushing into his body.

In that moment, Lu Yu discovered that all of his skills had been suppressed and were completely unusable.

Meanwhile, the power injected into his body was continuously expanding, as if trying to tear his body apart.

The voice of the Three-Eyed Dragon King echoed from midair: “Lu Yu, this is your special invitation. If you can absorb all the power from the Blood Dragon with your mortal body and still survive, you will be worthy of becoming my Dragon Knight.”