Daily Intelligence: From Water Snake to Jinghe Dragon King

Within Hualong Lake, the primordial dragon blood essence that constitutes the lake's water manifests as true dragon phantoms, their roars echoing as they respectfully welcome Liu Qing.

One after another, the phantom images of true dragons willingly sacrificed themselves to become steps, paving a path for Liu Qing to reach the bottom of Dragon Transformation Lake.

Without hesitation, Liu Qing, in his five-thousand-foot-long azure dragon form, descended along the Myriad Dragon Stairs towards the bottom of the lake.

As Liu Qing gradually walked towards the bottom of the lake, the illusory image of the true dragon behind him seemed to have completed its task, gradually disappearing and merging back into the lake water, waiting to be melted down into resources.

Liu Qing finally reached the bottom of the lake.

The steps behind them completely disappeared, the lake water once again covered everything, and the surroundings were all blood red.

Liu Qing knew that the real transformation had begun.

A loud, resounding dragon roar, like a horn being blown, heralded the beginning of a great transformation.

The lake water suddenly trembled, and countless bloody rays surged from all directions, frantically drilling into Liu Qing's body.

These countless streaks of blood light were the purest evolutionary substance from the primordial dragon race's original blood essence. As they flowed in, Liu Qing's body began to change.

The scales are thickening and hardening, slowly turning from their original bluish-black color to a hint of gold. The bones are also becoming exceptionally strong, their color gradually transforming from the original azure jade color to the noble gold color. The blood, muscles, and fascia are also undergoing the same transformation, rapidly changing from the inside out.

As the body evolved, countless true dragon blood essences surged in, causing waves of intense itching, accompanied by the pain of the slightest muscle splits. Fortunately, this intense itching and pain was bearable.

The body kept growing, starting from five thousand zhang, then five thousand five hundred zhang, six thousand zhang, and six thousand five hundred zhang.
The process of smelting and absorbing the essence and blood of ten thousand dragons continues, and the body has already evolved to a permanent golden color, while the size of the main body is also continuously increasing.

After an unknown amount of time, Liu Qing felt a tingling and itchy sensation in her abdomen. When she looked again, she saw that the fourth claw, which had originally grown halfway and was showing a bulge, had grown out completely.

At this point, Liu Qing had four claws and was a true dragon.

However, this is still the process of transformation. The main body is still evolving. As Liu Qing transforms into a true dragon, his body undergoes tremendous changes in both size and strength. As a result, he can absorb and refine the essence of the myriad dragon blood even faster.

The muscles, bones, fascia, and blood inside the body rapidly marched toward the golden color, and the exposed size of the body increased rapidly once again from eight thousand feet.

Eight thousand zhang, eight thousand five hundred zhang, nine thousand zhang, nine thousand five hundred zhang.
Upon reaching this point, the changes in her body suddenly stopped, seemingly on the verge of ceasing. Liu Qing quickly scanned her abdomen, where the area that had begun to swell, as if about to grow a fifth dragon claw, had also stopped changing.

Liu Qing frowned and remained silent. Suddenly, he remembered the intelligence tip that walking the dragon and accumulating merit could increase the chances of transforming into a five-clawed golden dragon.

Liu Qing immediately realized.

With a thought, he channeled the thousands of merits he had gained during his journey through the dragon-walking process—clearing the Grand Canal, deepening and widening it, increasing its carrying capacity, and thus quelling the floods—into his body.

Really useful.

Then the stopped evolution began to transform once again, as if the merits had injected new power into the evolution.

As evolution began once again, Liu Qing, with a stroke of genius, also channeled the imperial fortune he had absorbed from Emperor Yang Guang of the Sui Dynasty into his physical body.

The Five-Clawed Golden Dragon is the emperor of the dragon race. If it is to be born, it must have great fortune to withstand the worship of all dragons in the three realms. Although Liu Qing has extraordinary fortune, just in case, he still put the fortune of the Sui Emperor Yang Guang into it.

Fortunately, Liu Qing took this action. Otherwise, if the Dragon King's position had consumed too much of his fortune after he became a Five-Clawed Golden Dragon, the position of the leader of the Jie Sect would have been reduced accordingly, which might have made it difficult for him to hold the position of leader of the Jie Sect and caused more trouble.

At that moment, the sound of the Julong Drum suddenly rang out from outside.

The deep, resonant drumbeats seemed to herald the final evolution.

The bulge on the abdomen, representing the fifth claw, suddenly split open, and the fifth dragon claw finally grew out.

At the same time, Liu Qing's body was entirely golden, and his body finally reached 9,900 feet in length.

Originally, Liu Qing's divine soul, thanks to the gift from his clone Liu Bai, reached 9,900 zhang, stronger than his physical body. Now, it has evolved into a five-clawed golden dragon, and his physical body has also grown to 9,900 zhang, consistent with his divine soul.

Only when the physical body and the spirit are identical can one truly cultivate both body and soul.

The vast Hualong Lake, which was originally blood-red, has now become clear and without any other color.

The gift from the myriad dragons of the primordial era, the countless accumulated essences of blood, were completely absorbed and refined by Liu Qing.

Its whiskers are like whips, its scales are gleaming gold, its horns are ferocious, its mane is like a banner, its body and tail meander for nearly ten thousand feet, and it has five claws on its belly. Today, the Dragon King is born, the first five-clawed golden dragon in the Three Realms.

Liu Qing let out a dragon's roar, which meandered within the Dragon Transformation Pool, venting the excitement in his heart.

From a grass snake that almost perished in the beak of a long-legged crane, to the five-clawed golden dragon, the king of the dragon race, Liu Qing had overcome countless trials and tribulations along the way. Recalling the hardships he had endured during his evolution, Liu Qing couldn't help but feel a surge of emotions.

The journey of the dragon has now been successfully completed.

Liu Qing created the only five-clawed golden dragon in the Three Realms since the Great Calamity of the Dragon and Phoenix. Inside the Hall of Ten Thousand Dragons, the dragon throne at the deepest part of the palace radiated ten thousand rays of golden light, which opened up a great road in the air, extending directly to Liu Qing's feet.

Having completed his dragon-walking maneuver, Liu Qing no longer needed to reveal his true form. He immediately trembled and transformed into human form.

He was still dressed in his usual blue robe, just like before, but deep in his eyes there was a golden glint. Upon closer inspection, one would realize that the golden glint was actually the phantom of a five-clawed golden dragon.

Liu Qing stepped onto the golden road and walked towards the dragon throne.

Arriving at the dragon throne, he turned and sat down, looking down at the scene below.

Suddenly, a vast amount of information flooded into Liu Qing's mind the instant he sat on the dragon throne.

In just a short while, Liu Qing absorbed the incoming information with his powerful divine soul.

It turns out that this was a message from the Wanlong Palace.

The dragon throne is the core of the Myriad Dragon Palace, a supreme innate treasure of the Dragon Clan. When Liu Qing sits on the dragon throne, it means that the Myriad Dragon Palace has taken the initiative to recognize Liu Qing as its master.

As a supreme innate treasure of the dragon race, it is perfectly reasonable for it to voluntarily acknowledge the dragon emperor as its master.

The Wanlong Palace took the initiative to recognize Liu Qing as its master, and then told Liu Qing about all the functions of the Wanlong Palace as a supreme innate treasure.

When facing enemies, the Wanlong Palace can rely on its own treasure for a strong defense, or it can command the Wanlong Palace's attached spiritual treasure, the Gathering Dragon Drum, to suppress and kill enemies with its drumbeats.

If the enemy is a dragon or a dragon-like creature, Liu Qing, who possesses the Myriad Dragons Palace, is naturally able to restrain them. With just a thought, he can ignore realm and kill any dragon or dragon-like creature.

Suppose that if the Four Seas Dragon King, who was at the early stage of the Great Luo Realm, became greedy and wanted to kill Liu Qing to seize his treasure, then no matter if Liu Qing was at the Golden Body Realm or the Undying Realm, or even if Liu Qing was only at the Three Flowers or Five Qi Realm, which was several major realms lower than the Four Seas Dragon King, he could easily suppress the Four Seas Dragon King with just a thought and the activation of the Myriad Dragons Palace.

This is the terrifying power of the Myriad Dragons Palace. As long as Liu Qing acknowledges the palace as his master, no matter how low Liu Qing's cultivation level is or how high the other party's cultivation level is, the Myriad Dragons Palace can suppress the other party.

Of course, with Liu Qing's current combat power and the strength of other dragon races and dragon-related beings in the Three Realms, they could easily suppress him even without the Myriad Dragon Palace. Moreover, they wouldn't dare to oppose Liu Qing.

In Liu Qing's view, the functions of the Myriad Dragons Palace were nothing special. Its inherent defensive and offensive capabilities as a supreme treasure were not remarkable, and even its ability to restrain all dragons and dragon-related creatures in the Three Realms was just ordinary.

As the emperor of the dragon race, the five-clawed golden dragon, he did not need the Palace of Ten Thousand Dragons. His mere status was enough to command all dragon-like beings in the Three Realms to refrain from the slightest disobedience.

What Liu Qing valued were the two functions behind the Wanlong Hall.

Firstly, the Wanlong Palace can project the Three Realms. Any dragon-type creature that evolves into a dragon can use the Wanlong Palace to help it evolve. This kind of help is not the passive kind of help before, but rather Liu Qing controls it and actively or consciously helps it.

In other words, Liu Qing can use the Dragon Transformation Power of the Wanlong Palace at any time to give dragon-related creatures such as snakes, pythons, dragons, carp, eels, and loaches a chance to transform into true dragons.

To put it simply, Liu Qing can, according to his own preferences and with the help of the Myriad Dragons Palace, evolve any dragon-type creature into a true dragon.

Liu Qing can create dragons.

However, this would consume the essence of the Myriad Dragons Palace. Currently, the Myriad Dragons Palace's essence power for transforming into dragons has been drained by Liu Qing. If they want to create a true dragon, they need to collect the essence blood of other true dragons.

Secondly, there is the Wanlong Palace, which can control the flow of time within the Wanlong Palace.

This ability is perhaps the most crucial reason why the Myriad Dragons Palace can become a supreme innate treasure.

Even Tan Di Zhen Jing, whose rank is slightly higher than that of Wan Long Dian, does not have this ability.

Looking across the Three Realms, from the primordial era to the present, the only spiritual treasure capable of altering time is the innate supreme treasure, the Eastern Emperor Bell.

Now, the Wanlong Palace is the second one.

At this moment, the Wanlong Palace recognizes Liu Qing as its master. Liu Qing only needs to think to speed up or slow down the flow of time within the Wanlong Palace.

A single breath can last for ten thousand years, and ten thousand years can be but a single breath.

The greatest benefit of the Myriad Dragons Palace's ability to Liu Qing is that it allows him more time to reflect and comprehend the Dao.

The Dao foundation will no longer become unstable due to a rapid increase in one's cultivation level, nor will one be unable to reach the end of the Great Dao due to insufficient time.

This feature means Liu Qing no longer has to worry about not having enough time to cultivate.

Originally, Liu Qing planned to leave immediately after evolving into a five-clawed golden dragon, but after mastering the function of the Myriad Dragons Palace, he was in no hurry to leave.

After the Wanlong Palace took the initiative to acknowledge him as its master, it could no longer block Liu Qing's senses of the outside world. Upon sensing the outside world, he learned that the immortals of the Jie Sect had already formed a great formation and were in a stalemate with the forces of the Chan Sect, Buddhism, and the Heavenly Court. There was no immediate danger, so Liu Qing decided to cultivate for a while and wait until the immortals of the Jie Sect could no longer hold out before going out.

Liu Qing made a thought, instructing the Myriad Dragons Palace to slow down the flow of time until one hundred years inside the palace was equivalent to one hour outside. (End of Chapter)