Golden Dragon: Six Thousand Years of Empire.

Chapter 162 Sleep, Transformation, Evolution
"You have to make your own judgment and choices. Although Auntie told you not to rely on her, she will definitely continue to help you."

"I know."

Taidel raised his hand and rubbed his brows, sighed, and looked at the golden dragon beside him.

"Not only a mother, you are also the dragon I trust the most. I can support you unconditionally."

"Then I am truly honored!"

"That's so grandiose, Noah."

"You are the one who is boasting. It's enough to just keep it in your heart. Why say it out loud?"

Noah's tail swayed gently, and alchemical patterns lit up one after another around him as his tail swayed. This was to suppress his power. As the ancestor dragon, Noah's every move at this moment would cause huge damage to the surroundings if he was not careful.

At this time, Noah could understand why the metal dragons loved transfiguration. If the dragons did not suppress and restrain their own power, once they entered the civilization they admired and liked, they would be like adults who had accidentally entered the country of Lilliput. Even if they had good intentions, negligence could lead to a disaster.

"By the way, I want to take a nap."

"If you want to sleep, just sleep. Why are you telling me?"

Teddle just felt confused.

"I haven't had a rest for several years, so this sleep period may be a bit long."

Noah planned to harvest the golden fruit tree. He had accumulated the fruit for so long, and he planned to eat his fill this time.

"Maybe it will be longer? How long?"

Taidel finally realized that something was wrong.

"Maybe one or two years? It shouldn't be more than three years at most."

Noah said uncertainly.

"Three years? So long? I remember you are only 54 years old this year. With your growth cycle, it will take at least several decades for you to become a young dragon. How come you are going to fall asleep so soon?"

"Normal hibernation and sleep, isn't that possible?"

Seeing Teddel's strong reaction, Noah was also fed up.

"Just because I can work continuously without sleep doesn't mean I don't need to rest. I am also a living being. Even if I am a constructed golem, I need to stop and debug after running for a long time."

"I need you!"

Taidel's tone was sincere.

"I know, but I'm a dragon, a dragon that needs sleep!"

"Are you planning to miss my coronation ceremony?"

"I think in just one or two years, it's impossible to sort out the things that happened between the legends, so I should be able to catch up."

"You're right, go to bed!"

Upon hearing this, Teddel was immediately discouraged and waved his hand lazily.

Because until now, the borders of the kingdom have not been determined. Ever since Cassius's accident, some legends who had originally vowed to follow the Augustus family have had different ideas and are wavering between joining the kingdom and rebuilding their own principality.

Although the freedom of having no one giving orders to you is great, it is also a truth that it is better to lean on a big tree for shade. How to choose and weigh the pros and cons is a very difficult decision for many legends of the East.

If the most powerful legend who single-handedly pushed down the gates of hell is still alive, then of course there would be no hesitation, and many legends would be willing to surrender and follow the Augustus family until death.

But this most powerful legend has fallen into hell. Although there are rumors that this most powerful man has not died and is still struggling in hell and is still alive, what's the use of this?
For them, the strongest people who cannot return from hell are no different from falling, because they can no longer influence the situation on the continent.

But if I go against what I said to the legends, even though it is not a promise, it will greatly damage my reputation and I will lose a lot of face.

Putting aside the inestimable loss of credibility, on the other hand, even if the Augustus family lost that strongest man, it is still the strongest family in the East and has two legends.

Moreover, among the direct descendants of this family, there are two geniuses with legendary potential. That’s not all, the Augustus family has also been supporting a golden dragon that is destined to become a legend in the future.

There is no need to find any astrologers or prophets. Although the Augustus family is in a slight decline now, its future is visibly bright.

Is it really the right choice to abandon such a family for a moment of freedom?

This is the dilemma of many Eastern Territory legends. Although the future glory is visible to the naked eye, the future is too changeable.

Not to mention whether the two seemingly legendary geniuses in the Augustus family can successfully break through, let’s just talk about the powerful golden dragon. Will he really stay in the Augustus family and not leave?
Even if he never leaves, the golden dragon has been promoted to a legend, and the dragon race is stronger than the human race. What choice will this golden dragon make? Will he still maintain the current close relationship with the Augustus family?

These are all factors that need to be considered. Every legend not only needs to consider himself, but also needs to take care of his descendants, relatives and friends. Every legend represents a huge regional force.

"I'll wake up as soon as possible."

Noah assured that he certainly knew the bottlenecks and difficulties that Taidel and the Augustus family were facing now.

Even if his adoptive father Cassius had problems, his family's power was greater than that of the former royal family just by the existence of his adoptive mother Selena and Tidel. However, the legend of wanting to establish a kingdom now almost covered the East Territory, which was something that had never happened before.

To be honest, there are only two legendary royal families, and some of them cannot control such a huge country. Even if it is forcibly formed, it is a kingdom with a united system. The so-called monarch is just the greatest noble, not the real king who is above the country.

Perhaps Tedal would be more satisfied with such a result, but Noah was not. Not to mention Noah, even the little kid who was destined to ascend the throne in the future could not accept such a result.

Therefore, Noah needs stronger power. As an ancestral dragon with an infinitely extended life span, Noah does not expect to grow faster and enter the next age group immediately, but he can use the power of evolution to gain more power and have a higher level of combat power. Realm and combat power are two different things. Although most of the time, the two are basically equal, but sometimes, the two are not consistent.

When Noah was serving as the Sun Archon and controlling the Mage City, he had already discovered that as long as one could possess the power to rival or even kill a legend, no matter what realm one was in, one would still receive the same treatment as a legend.

The only pity is that he can only control the Mage City, not the Floating City. If there really is a floating city, Noah wouldn’t have to worry about it now.

"I hope that when I wake up, I'll have the power to kill the legend."

After pushing aside or arranging everything, Noah entered his own sleeping demiplane. Before closing his eyes completely, the golden dragon made a wish.

Although it is nonsense, it is not completely unfeasible. The supernatural system was established after the birth of civilization, and the division of many realms was also established by intelligent races. Before the birth of civilization, when the world was just opened up, a group of powerful and unreasonable primitive creatures would always be born.

They don't talk about fighting qi or magic, let alone any realm. If they are classified according to the current system, some of them don't even have qi and mental power. They are just huge beasts.

However, these beasts without any extraordinary abilities were able to rely on their powerful bodies to beat legends to death. Facing such monsters, what could one do even if one was not at the legendary level?

Who dares not to regard it as a legend?
The majestic nebula flows slowly in the boundless dark void. Golden trees with sparkling branches and leaves are rooted on them. The fruits hanging between the treetops emit an alluring fragrance that makes the dragon soul eager to move.

"One, two, three...six!"

Noah counted the bright red fruits on the branches, each of which was like the red sun, emitting red clouds. He felt an unprecedented sense of satisfaction in his heart, but at the same time, there was also a slight regret.

"After all, I'm still too weak. If I become stronger, I should be able to gain more."

A demonic disaster swept across half of the continent. Although Noah actively participated in it while ensuring his own safety and led the army to kill monsters and accumulated six blood-source fruits, he never killed any legendary evil demon from beginning to end.

It's not that he doesn't want to, it's just that he can't. Although he has used the help of the Mage City to injure many legendary demons, it was only bleeding, and the feedback from the Golden Tree was very limited, less than one or two percent of the kill.

"Killing a legendary devil may allow the golden tree to immediately produce a complete fruit, and the quality should be further improved."

Noah made a guess, but he didn't have to count on it for now. Not to mention waiting two or three hundred years to become a legendary dragon, even if he had legendary power, where would he go to kill them? This kind of demonic disaster that consumed half of the continent might not occur once in a thousand years.

Of course, this is not necessarily the case. If the world is too weak, even if the invasion is barely repelled, the devil will find ways to organize a second or third invasion.

The world's vitality is consumed round after round until the world's foundation is exhausted, the species and ecology are completely destroyed, causing a mass extinction of species, and ultimately leading to the fall of the plane.

"Well, maybe we can go and help other planes."

Another thought came to Noah's mind. If he really wanted to go to the battlefield to kill the evil spirits, there would be plenty of space.

"Forget it. Taking the initiative to participate in the plane war is not advisable. The risk is too great and not worth it."

Noah suppressed his thought and began his mission of eating fruits. The first one was naturally the dark fruit that swallowed up light like a black hole and affected the prosperity of the golden tree. This fruit carried the resentment and negative emotions of many creatures who had died in the past few years because of Noah.

Among them were dragons, giants, and many humans. Noah didn't even need to open his mouth to swallow the fruit, just touching it was enough.

Then, Noah's consciousness sank into a boundless ocean of negative emotions, in which he kept struggling. His mental will was tempered like never before. At the same time, this was also an extreme torture.

Noah didn't know what his adoptive father went through after falling into hell, but he felt that no matter how bad it was, it couldn't be worse than what he felt at the moment.

Noah didn't know how long it had been, but he managed to endure the torture that felt like every second was a year. His tired but extremely bright dragon eyes fixed on the red fruits blooming on the treetops.

“Now it’s time to enjoy!”

After swallowing a blood-origin fruit, warmth swept through the body, soothing the endless torture and pain Noah had suffered from swallowing the dark fruit, and relieved the golden dragon's exhausted spirit.

"Sure enough, the effectiveness has decreased!"

Noah silently felt the effect of the fruit on himself, and then, as expected, he felt the warmth spreading throughout his body. It only lasted for less than half a quarter of an hour before it began to fade.
"But I still have the numbers to make up for it!"

Such a result was not unexpected to Noah. After all, his bloodline had already completed an upgrade and crossed the threshold between ordinary dragons and ancestral dragons.

As Noah methodically swallowed the blood-source fruits one by one and savored the flavor of the fruit, the golden dragon's body began to burn, and red flames gushed out from the gaps between Noah's scales.

But under the scorching flames, the golden dragon showed an expression of joy and happiness, because at this moment, he felt the changes in his dragon body very clearly.

He could feel that the dragon scales, dragon wings, dragon horns, dragon tendons, dragon bones, dragon blood, dragon heart... every part of his body, from the dragon heart that supplied the body with blood and vitality, to the brain that allowed him to think, and to the seemingly smallest and inconspicuous scales on his tail, had been strengthened and improved.

This is an improvement on the basis, and it also directly affects the evolution of the origin. Noah's physical state has not undergone any earth-shaking changes, but Noah feels that everything he has, even the dragon soul that is not directly related, has been affected and indirectly strengthened.

"From now on, I should no longer be considered the lowest species among the ancestral dragons."

While Noah's body and mind were enjoying unprecedented comfort, a thought emerged in his mind.

Ancestral dragon is just a general term. For modern dragons, from the first ancestral dragon to the last ancestral dragon, all the dragon species that have been passed down for countless generations in between are ancestral dragons.

But Noah didn't know the difference between the first and last dragons. But even if he used his tail to think, he knew that they couldn't be the same.

Taking the general term "ancient dragon" as an example, if one lives for 800 years, he can be called an ancient dragon, if one lives for more than 1,000 years, he is an ancient dragon, and if one lives for 1,200 years, he is a great ancient dragon. These are all ancient dragons, but if one lives for 2,000 years, he is still an ancient dragon.

But are these ancient dragons the same thing?
of course not
"I definitely don't want to be the last ancestor dragon!"

The red flames on his body were still burning, but Noah's dragon claws had already resolutely reached out to the treetop, where a fruit was blooming with green light.

Natural fruit!

He needs nature's guidance!

(End of this chapter)