Douluo: I founded the mecha tribe and I am the king of mecha battles!

Chapter 290 Marked with His Brand!

Chen Zhou raised his hand to press the water droplet on the side of his neck. The droplet, which should have evaporated instantly, crystallized on his skin, forming a miniature hexagonal pattern resembling dragon scales. Even more strangely, Gu Yuena's unique silver-purple starlight danced in the center of the pattern.

"Soul anchor point?"

He traced the cool, scale-like markings with his fingertips, and pale blue starlight seeped through his fingers. This was an unexpected development—Gu Yuena had actually imprinted a portion of her essence onto him, meaning she had voluntarily relinquished one of the most important powers of a dragon: bloodline concealment.

The ultimate trump card that had saved his life during the pursuit by the gods was now being handed over as casually as a gift.

Gu Yuena suddenly knelt on one knee, her flowing silver hair obscuring the dragon god runes churning in her eyes. She placed her left hand on her chest, and raised her right hand overhead, palm up, cradling something nonexistent. This posture fully revealed the dragon god emblem on her collarbone, the ancient, originally golden characters gradually tinged with the azure of Chenzhou.

"Look."

Her voice suddenly became ethereal, as if it came from the bottom of a deep well, "Even the restrictions left by the Dragon God are adapting to your aura."

Suddenly, a crack appeared in the moonlight. A semi-transparent, silver dragon phantom rose from Gu Yuena's back, its long neck lowered, its chin resting lightly on Chen Zhou's shoulder. This protective gesture, in dragon culture, represents a declaration of "ownership of the lair."

Crystals of ice and fire began to seep from the cliff. The energy overflowing from Gu Yuena's body was transforming the surrounding environment, an instinctive behavior of high-ranking dragons when marking their territory.

The traces of those crystal growths miraculously formed the pattern of an alchemical matrix—she was unconsciously imitating Chen Zhou's power system.

"interesting."

Chen Zhou reached out and touched Gu Yuena's forehead. The vertical eye that originally carried part of the Dragon God's power seemed to sense the danger and immediately opened.

When the vertical eye between the eyebrows opened, what the remaining obsession of the Dragon God saw was a vast and boundless starry sky. Countless alchemical runes formed alchemical patterns, countless alchemical patterns formed alchemical matrices, and countless alchemical matrices overlapped to form alchemical arrays, decomposing and recombining this part of the universe.

At the edge of this void, a blurry figure was looking down at it—a being of a higher dimension than the Dragon God.

The vertical pupils trembled violently, trying to close, but were forcibly held in place by the starlight flowing from Chen Zhou's fingertips.

"The dead should not leave behind these outdated and rotten thoughts in this world."

"Isn't it better to keep it simple?"

A crimson-gold light burst forth from his soul and from his eyes; with just one glance, Chen Zhou dispelled this so-called obsession.
Brand it with his mark!

Gu Yuena's body suddenly began to tremble violently.

The last vestige of the Dragon God's will left in her bloodline melted away as quickly as ice and snow meeting a raging fire. The golden light burst forth from Chen Zhou's eyes, piercing through her vertical pupil on her forehead and reaching the depths of her spiritual center.

The silver dragon phantom suddenly raised its head and let out a long, earth-shattering roar. Its body tumbled in the air, and every scale began to peel away. When those silver-purple dragon scales fluttered like snowflakes, what was revealed was not flesh and blood, but countless flowing starlight.

The clouds were torn apart, and a torrential downpour began without warning. However, the raindrops froze into ice ten feet above the ground, then ignited into eerie blue flames. In the curtain of ice and fire, Gu Yuena's delicate body gradually floated into the air, her silver hair billowing back like a cascading waterfall.

Her vertical pupil on her forehead completely changed color—the golden pupil left by the Dragon God had now transformed into a bluish-green color identical to Chen Zhou's. Deep within her pupil, starlight swirled, the rewritten laws of her bloodline.

"How do you feel?" Chen Zhou withdrew his finger. Gu Yuena slowly opened her eyes. When her right eye's purple pupil and her left eye's red and blue double pupil focused simultaneously, the rain of ice and fire falling from the sky suddenly stopped. Billions of suspended raindrops, each one reflecting her newly born third eye.

"An unprecedented level of clarity."

Her voice suddenly trembled with a metallic resonance, the power of the dragon's mantra. Her bloodline, which had been tainted by the dragon god's guilt, was now as pure as the morning dew.

The most wondrous change was at the level of her soul—those responsibilities and hatreds that had entangled her for millennia suddenly seemed as distant as if from another world. The mission of revival left by the Dragon God remained, but it no longer felt like a suffocating pressure to her.

It was as if someone had taken away a huge burden for her.

"My master has severed my shackles, but has also tied new bonds~" Gu Yuena suddenly twirled lightly, and flowers of ice crystals and fire lotuses bloomed on the ground where her toes touched. As her skirt fluttered, it revealed the newly emerged azure patterns on her waist—the soul anchor points that shared the same origin as the scales on Chen Zhou's neck.

Chen Zhou gazed at the completely transformed Silver Dragon King.

Although Gu Yuena was still speaking in that flippant tone, her essence had changed. The power flowing within her was no longer simply obedience to the Dragon God's will, but rather an authority reshaped by a higher-dimensional being.

The most direct manifestation of this is her triple divine rings—the three original sources, the Silver Dragon, the Ice and Fire Dragon King, which were originally clearly distinct, are now showing a faint tendency to merge. The energy threads surging in her meridians are weaving into entirely new laws.

"Since my master has accepted my loyalty..."

Gu Yuena suddenly leaned closer, her cool breath brushing against Chen Zhou's ear, "Shouldn't we give the pet a little reward too?"

"Want a reward?"

He suddenly wrapped his arms around Gu Yuena's slender waist.

Gu Yuena was startled by his sudden action, but then a playful smile appeared on her face. Her silver hair, like flowing moonlight in the night, was gently entwined by Chen Zhou's fingers, as if he had grasped the entire starry sky.

"Master, so you like things this direct?"

Her voice was soft and gentle, with a slight upward inflection at the end, like a feather brushing against the heart. Her fingertips traced Chen Zhou's chin, cool yet with a hint of heat—the temperature emanating from the surging ice and fire energies within her.

Deep within Gu Yuena's pupils, the vertical pupils of a dragon contracted, carrying the aggressiveness of a predator, yet the smile at the corner of her lips resembled that of a tamed cat.

Two completely opposite qualities are perfectly blended in the Silver Dragon King—both dangerous and submissive.

However, Chen Zhou merely chuckled softly, his voice magnetic and deep: "Since you've chosen to submit, you should understand—"

He tightened his fingers slightly, pinching her chin and forcing her to look up and meet his gaze.

"—The master's reward is naturally decided by me."

The moment he finished speaking, a strange starlight suddenly appeared on Chen Zhou's fingertips, and countless alchemical runes emerged from his hands, outlining a miniature alchemical array in the void.

(End of this chapter)