Douluo: This Legend of the Dragon King is not quite right

Hearing Lu Jun's irritating tone, Gu Yuena's lips twitched slightly, and a surge of anger almost rose within her.

She opened her mouth, hesitated, and ultimately swallowed back the complaints that were about to come out.

Arguing with a pre-programmed artificial intelligence is pointless and only makes you angry.

Just then, as if by magic, Lu Jun reached into his seemingly ordinary white pocket and pulled out something.

It was a rhomboid crystal, roughly the size of a fist, radiating a soft yet majestic nine-colored light, with liquid energy flowing inside.

He casually tossed the crystal to Gu Yuena.

The crystal feels warm and smooth to the touch, yet carries an indescribable heaviness, as if it supports the rise and fall of the entire dragon race.

The moment Gu Yuena touched the crystal, the bloodline of the Silver Dragon King within her body, as well as the complete bloodline of the Golden Dragon King that she had carefully sealed and preserved, resonated and fluctuated violently as if summoned by an emperor, filled with both longing and a hint of instinctive fear.

"This is... the Heart of the Dragon God!"

Gu Yuena instantly recognized this supreme sacred artifact of the dragon race and looked up at Lu Jun in shock.

"That's right, this is the Heart of the Dragon God, the core crystallization of the Dragon God's power and will."

Lu Jun remained in that lazy posture, pointing to the nine-colored crystal.

"It is also the key item that helped you successfully fuse the bloodlines of the two Dragon Kings and take the final step."

"Don't worry, this is not an illusion. It is a real object that I rescued from the place where the Dragon God fell, and left here after some effort."

He yawned, as if he had done something insignificant:

"Now that you have all the necessary equipment, the venue, and the bodyguards, you can begin the bloodline fusion process and attempt to become the new Dragon God."

His tone became casual, yet carried an undeniable air of authority:

"Try it boldly and confidently. Don't be afraid of failure or losing control. It's just a simulation anyway. Even if you blow yourself up like fireworks, I can snap my fingers and bring you back to your original state, allowing you to start over."

He looked at Gu Yuena, his eyes revealing a rare hint of trust, almost like that of the real person.
"Remember, no matter how difficult or obscure a problem may be, as long as you are willing to spend countless experiments and invest enough effort and time, you will always find the key to solve it."

"I believe you can do it."

Encouraged and supported by Lu Jun's words, Gu Yuena took a deep breath and suppressed all her distracting thoughts and anxieties.

She gripped the Dragon God's Heart tightly in her hand, feeling the immense power and unyielding will emanating from the first Dragon God, and her eyes became incredibly resolute.

She sat cross-legged on the calm lake surface and began to guide the original bloodlines of the Silver Dragon King and the Golden Dragon King within her body. Under the harmonization of the Dragon God's Heart and within this absolutely safe domain constructed by Lu Jun, she made her first attempt at fusion.

……

Meanwhile, deep within Dragon Valley, on the outskirts of the Land of Inheritance.

Lu Jun and Wu Siduo were waiting, feeling utterly bored.

Wu Siduo kicked at non-existent pebbles with some irritation. She looked down... well, with her impressive figure, it was indeed difficult for her to see her toes when she looked down.

"So boring, so incredibly boring..."

Wu Siduo muttered, unable to resist looking at Lu Jun, who was leaning against a boulder with his eyes closed, resting.

"Lu Jun, are we really going to wait here for this long?"

"Don't forget, we only have half a day. The world outside might be in chaos."

Upon hearing this, Lu Jun opened his eyes, took out the Dragon Pearl from his pocket that was used for timing and sensing the rules of Dragon Valley, glanced at it, and immediately frowned.

"Strange... According to the Dragon Balls, only about an hour has passed."

He stroked the surface of the Dragon Ball, sensing the faint flow of time within it. "But I feel like at least a whole day has passed. The passage of time inside Dragon Valley seems to be different from that outside."

"Could it be that there's something wrong with your own sense of time?"

Wu Siduo raised a possibility.

"Impossible." Lu Jun denied it without even thinking, and rolled his eyes at Wu Siduo. "I'd rather believe that you're the one talking nonsense and disturbing my peace than believe that there's something wrong with my time perception."

"Then... is there anything we can do besides wait?"

Wu Siduo asked somewhat helplessly.

Lu Jun closed his eyes again, yawned, and even shed a few physiological tears from the corners of his eyes due to drowsiness. He casually wiped them away with his hand.

"Probably, there's nothing we can do."

He responded lazily, but deep down he was not without turmoil.

From the moment he started, he had been vaguely sensing strange fluctuations coming from the deepest part of Dragon Valley, where Gu Yuena received her inheritance.

The fluctuation contained an incredibly pure and vast amount of ice elemental power that belonged to his own origin.

Earlier, the soaring sword intent that even he felt was clearly from him.

Combined with the various anomalies encountered after entering Dragon Valley—the pervasive ice element that shared the same origin as him; the incredibly stable small-world structure comparable to a complete plane…

Lu Jun already had a bold guess in his mind.

"It seems... I left quite a few backup plans here before."

"Is it to help Nana complete the inheritance?"

He rubbed his throbbing temples and felt a headache coming on.

The truth seems within reach, yet it remains shrouded in a thick fog.

"I'm getting more and more confused... Why do I have absolutely no memory of what I used to have?"

"If my past self truly existed and was powerful enough to orchestrate events throughout eternity, why didn't it leave crucial memories or fundamental power for my present self, or rather, for my rebuilt self?"

To be honest, when Lu Jun sensed the immense power that belonged to him deep within, he did have some thoughts about it.

Rushing in, I took that power back for my own use.

That would definitely allow his strength to recover to an unimaginable level in a short period of time.

But the thought only flashed through his mind before he suppressed it.

"No...we can't do that."

he said to himself.

"Leaving aside the unpredictable damage that a forced interruption might cause to Nana's legacy, more importantly... I believe in myself."

He believed that if he had laid out this plan during his prime, then every step must have had a profound meaning.

Since those forces were assigned to assist Gu Yuena, there must be a reason why they couldn't do without her.

If there is anything left for Lu Jun now, it will appear at the right time and in the right way, rather than requiring him to forcibly seize it.

"To believe in your past self is to believe in your present self."

Lu Jun ultimately abandoned that tempting idea, choosing instead to observe the situation and continue fulfilling his duty as a protector. (End of Chapter)