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Upon hearing about the existence of such a unique dragon clan, Xiao Lin rushed to an inn in Dragon City at the very first opportunity. He specifically ordered a dish made from a water-attribute soul beast that possessed the bloodline of a True Dragon.
In the open-air dining area, Xiao Lin stared at the red, fleshy carp before him, which sported two long dragon whiskers, and fell into silence.
A Magikarp?
Xiao Lin picked up a piece with his chopsticks.
The carp meat was like jelly—crystal clear and lightly springy.
Surprised, Xiao Lin popped it straight into his mouth to taste it.
"Ah~"
It was unbelievable.
The moment Xiao Lin took a bite, his eyes widened instantly. The soft, bouncy carp meat combined with a uniquely numbing, tingling sensation made it utterly irresistible.
"Yo, little brother, you're quite the connoisseur!"
Suddenly, a voice reached Xiao Lin's ears.
Opening his eyes, he saw a middle-aged man dressed in a green, waterproof fishing suit sitting across from him.
"Mind if I share the table? Just sharing the table."
The middle-aged man was very familiar and outgoing.
After ordering the exact same dish as Xiao Lin, he proactively struck up a conversation.
"This carp is called the Crackle Carp. The best part to eat is the tender meat around the fish belly."
"Mm, mm."
Faced with the middle-aged man's enthusiasm, Xiao Lin was a bit overwhelmed.
In the end, swept along by the man's warmth, he chatted with him for a while. The middle-aged man was named Kong Yan, a Soul Grandmaster from Dragon City. He made a living by helping the soul masters of Dragon City hunt soul beasts.
Hearing Brother Kong's words, Xiao Lin found it a bit difficult to understand.
The waterproof suit Kong Yan wore wasn't insulated against electricity.
Did Kong Yan not go to the nearest soul beast forest, the Thunder Gorge, to hunt soul beasts? Wearing this kind of suit meant he had to go into the water, and once you got wet, it was incredibly easy to get struck by lightning.
Kong Yan then smiled and explained the reason to Xiao Lin.
As it turned out, the Thunder Gorge was far too dangerous. Without reaching the Soul Ancestor realm and having the guidance of a high-level soul master, it was an absolute forbidden zone that one must never approach.
It wasn't that the soul beasts inside were exceptionally dangerous, but rather that the environment itself was simply not meant for humans to survive in.
Even a powerhouse at the Soul Saint level would become prone to attracting lightning if they stayed in the Thunder Gorge for too long. One bolt of lightning coming down, and an average soul master would be turned to ash.
Kong Yan was just an ordinary Soul Grandmaster.
Furthermore, here in Dragon City, there were many large rivers and a dense network of waterways. Many water-attribute soul beasts had excellent potential, which was more than enough for hundred-year soul beasts.
After listening, Xiao Lin couldn't help but smile slightly.
So, it wasn't as he had darkly imagined—that the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan was denying these commoner soul masters the chance to hunt soul beasts. Dispelling his cynical thoughts, Xiao Lin noticed an anomaly in Kong Yan's words.
"The soul masters here can't possibly all choose water-attribute soul beasts, right?"
Xiao Lin's question was simple.
Generally speaking, it was possible to awaken any kind of martial soul. What about those soul masters who hadn't awakened a water-attribute martial soul?
"Those soul masters can only travel a bit further. They either head north to the Far North to look for ice-attribute soul beasts, or they head south to other soul beast forests."
Kong Yan's words made Xiao Lin nod secretly.
He just so happened to be looking for some penniless soul masters to conduct experiments on self-condensing soul rings.
This place naturally provided such conditions; it was practically tailored for him.
"By the way, Brother Kong, I heard that the Thunder Gorge has the Thunder Emperor Dragon Clan. Do no soul masters hunt this dragon clan's soul beasts?"
Xiao Lin was highly interested in the Thunder Emperor Dragon Clan.
"How could they not? But how could ordinary people ever get the chance to hunt the Thunder Emperor Dragon Clan? Those are powerful True Dragon-type soul beasts that can take on ten-thousand-year soul beasts even as thousand-year soul beasts."
"For an ordinary soul master, just absorbing a Sub-Dragon type is already incredibly difficult."
Kong Yan said in a carefree and boisterous manner as he ate.
A True Dragon type with the thunder attribute perfectly fit the criteria for Xiao Lin's soul ring selection.
Xiao Lin silently took note of this soul beast.
The last time, he hadn't chosen that Thunder-Winged Sky Dragon, which used electromagnetic force to fly, and it had made him lose sleep for an entire night out of sheer regret.
"Hey, Brother Lin, I'm only telling you this, so keep it between us."
Kong Yan suddenly leaned closer to Xiao Lin's ear and whispered covertly.
Xiao Lin's heart stirred, and he feigned interest.
He understood that this probably wasn't much of a secret. Generally, when someone prefaced a statement like this, it was anything but confidential. However, approaching it with a gossiping mindset, Xiao Lin ended up hearing a piece of absolute blockbuster news.
"Let me tell you, the Young Sect Master of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan was originally planning to absorb a Thunder Emperor Dragon soul ring as his fourth soul ring. But for some reason that day, things went entirely sideways, and the Young Sect Master was almost dragged off by the Thunder Emperor Dragon to act as its stress reliever!"
Watching Kong Yan state this with absolute certainty, Xiao Lin was utterly flabbergasted.
Wasn't the Young Sect Master of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan Yu Tianheng? How could something like that have happened to Yu Tianheng? This rumor was far too wild.
Xiao Lin couldn't bring himself to believe even a shred of it.
Still, wasn't this Thunder Emperor Dragon a bit too impulsive for such a rumor to even spark?
Xiao Lin thought back to the Ice and Fire Dragon Kings residing within his sea of consciousness.
They seemed perfectly decent and proper.
Because of the unique nature of the Thunder Emperor Dragon, Xiao Lin specifically inquired with the Ice and Fire Dragon Kings, asking if the two dragon kings knew of this particular dragon clan.
Naturally, the two dragon kings had no idea what kind of species the Thunder Emperor Dragon was. However, they mentioned that they could sense a powerful force nearby—the aura of the Dragon God.
The Ice and Fire Dragon Kings speculated that this so-called Thunder Emperor Dragon might possess a trace of the Dragon God's bloodline.
Recalling the ancient battle between the Dragon God and the Thunder God, the two dragon kings became increasingly certain of the Thunder Emperor Dragon's lineage.
Even so, despite the Thunder Emperor Dragon carrying a trace of the Dragon God's bloodline, the two dragon kings still looked down upon it.
They merely mentioned that if Xiao Lin absorbed this Thunder Emperor Dragon's soul ring, they could use their own dragon qi to cleanse and refine it.
This left Xiao Lin highly satisfied.
He decided that his fifth soul ring would be chosen from the Thunder Emperor Dragon. After Xiao Lin and Kong Yan finished their meal, Kong Yan even invited Xiao Lin to participate in a dragon-catching event together.
However, Xiao Lin ultimately declined. He had no interest in the reward of the Dragon-Catching Grand Tournament—a mere thousand-year soul bone. Moreover, he had important business to attend to.
A day later.
Xiao Lin found a penniless young boy.
The poor kid was named Ku Lin, a student at the Dragon City Primary Academy. He was ten years old this year, possessed the Fine Iron Staff martial soul, and had an innate soul power of Rank 2.
Currently, he had just cultivated to Rank 10, becoming a Soul Trainee at the bottleneck. He was preparing to spend a large sum of money to hire a powerful soul master to help him travel to the Far North to hunt a soul beast.
He wanted a hundred-year soul ring of decent quality, but he was incredibly stingy with his money.
His family was not wealthy; he lived alone with his twenty-three-year-old mother.
Over the years, by pinching pennies and living frugally, the household had only managed to save up seven gold soul coins. The awakening of the children in Dragon City was all handled by people from the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan.
Those with potential would join the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan. Those without potential, like Ku Lin, wouldn't even be able to receive the monthly gold coin stipends from Spirit Hall in the future, even if they managed to become full-fledged soul masters.
Because Spirit Hall didn't exist here at all.
Xiao Lin felt as though he had discovered yet another reason why the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan would eventually be wiped out in the future.
With Ku Lin's budget of fewer than eight gold soul coins, even the teachers at the Dragon City Primary Academy were unwilling to hunt a soul beast for him, let alone anyone else. Just as Ku Lin was about to give up and settle for a slightly better ten-year soul ring, Xiao Lin appeared.
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