Chapter 1171, I Shall Give You the Divine Seat!

Translator: Silavin

 

“Ha ha!” Lu Fan burst out laughing. “You cannot put it like that. If this Slaughter Ancient God truly does overturn an entire era, you would not survive either, would you?”

 

“I summoned you out here to fight the Slaughter Ancient God precisely so that you yourself can continue to live. We have a saying in Dragon Country, when the nest is overturned, no egg is left unbroken. You ought to understand what that means. If you do not help me kill him, you will die sooner or later. There is no escaping it.”

 

The Devouring Dragon King let out a cold snort. “That is not necessarily so. I have already made up my mind. Once I have fully recovered my strength, I shall find some suitably concealed location and carve out a space resembling a Secret Realm to hide away in. Once the Ancient Gods Struggle For Supremacy has concluded and the new era begins, I shall emerge and attempt to harmonise with the new World Principles.”

 

“By then, I need only integrate with the new World Principles, and I shall be able to live out my remaining lifespan in the new era. Moreover, if the new era is resource-rich enough, I may even find methods to extend my lifespan further, allowing myself to live for tens of thousands of additional years. I might even hold on long enough to see yet another era. Who is to say of the possibilities?”

 

“Besides, when an era has only just begun to turn, there should be no great powerhouses moving about. With my strength, against a crowd of weaklings, I could easily start monopolising everything. I could readily proclaim myself a God, and receive their worship and offerings. Perhaps in the end, I would become the mightiest being of an entire era, and finally seek out a few Ancient Gods who had fallen into deep slumber, strip them of their Divine Seats. That might not be an impossibility either.”

 

As she spoke, the Devouring Dragon King became visibly animated, and it was apparent she had been scheming all of this for quite a long while.

 

Lu Fan heard her out, and could not help but laugh. “Your planning is rather smooth, is it not? The way I see it, the most likely outcome is this: the Ancient Gods Struggle For Supremacy begins, every living being in the entire era is slaughtered. You, hiding in what you believed to be a safe haven, gets caught up in it too, and perishes in the end. In fact, if your luck is poor enough, you may not even hold out until the Ancient Gods Struggle For Supremacy begins. Some Ancient God may eye on your strength and kill you before it even starts, using you to increase their own degree of awakening.”

 

“You, brat, shut your mouth! You and your cheeky words!” Lu Fan’s string of observations sent the Devouring Dragon King plummeting from the heights of paradise to the depths of despair, which naturally left her in a thoroughly sour mood. So she snapped back at him.

 

Lu Fan smiled wryly. “I am merely speaking honestly. Whether you heed me or not, it is all possible. Once the Ancient Gods Struggle For Supremacy begins, there is absolutely no safe place, anywhere. Even somewhere like the Dragon Domain has been touched by the Ancient Gods, and the Life Dragon King nearly perished. Trying to find somewhere safe, I suspect it is impossible.”

 

The thought of the Valley of Life being destroyed gave the Devouring Dragon King pause.

 

The Dragon Domain was mysterious by its very nature, and the Valley of Life, as the Life Dragon King’s lair, was a Forbidden Zone within the Dragon Domain. It was something that even many powerful Giant Dragons could not set foot in.

 

Yet even the Valley of Life had been invaded by an Ancient God. Wanting to evade the Slaughter Ancient God’s murderous rampage was indeed something close to impossible.

 

Having weathered the turning of an Era, even structures were damaged, and ruins were rarely left behind.

 

As for living things…

 

Outside of Ancient Gods, she had truly never heard of anything that could survive the turning of an era.

 

Well, that was not entirely true.

 

At the very least, the Blood Moon’s Owner was a product of the previous era.

 

However, the reason the Blood Moon’s Owner had managed to survive the turning of an era was precisely because it was the Fallen Corpse Ancient God’s Mount.

 

If the Devouring Dragon King was willing to be like the Blood Moon’s Owner, shackled in chains from head to tail, worked like a beast of burden, then surely some Ancient God would be willing to take her under their wing and make her an Ancient God Slave.

 

The question was, was the Devouring Dragon King willing to do something like that?

 

Lu Fan did not even need to ask. If the Devouring Dragon King had truly been willing to exchange her freedom for her life, she would have agreed to become the other Ancient God Slave the last time they had encountered one.

 

The Devouring Dragon King knew full well that everything Lu Fan said was true, and for a moment, she had no counter-argument.

 

Lu Fan thought for a moment, then smiled and said, “Well then, how about this. If you truly wish to live for tens of thousands more years, or even hundreds of thousands, or millions of years, I can make that happen for you. Never mind millions of years, I can grant you endless lifespan!”

 

“Oh?” The Devouring Dragon King was also extremely sharp, and understood at once what Lu Fan meant. “You intend to give me the Slaughter Ancient God’s Divine Seat?”

 

Lu Fan nodded. “What else?”

 

“We all have Divine Seats already. If we truly kill the Slaughter Ancient God, I seriously cannot think of anyone else to pass this Ancient God Divine Seat to. Originally, I had thought of giving it to Xiao Ye, but comparatively speaking, you seem like a better choice. If you help us kill the Slaughter Ancient God, I can strip away his Ancient God Divine Seat and transfer it to you, making you an Ancient God as well, granting you endless lifespan, making you one of the rulers of this world!”

 

Hearing this, the Devouring Dragon King’s eyes lit up at once, and she looked very much as though she found the proposition extremely interesting.

 

“That proposal of yours is not bad at all. And truth be told, I am rather fond of his Ancient God Power. It is far superior to the Ancient God Power of those little girlfriends of yours.”

 

*Hmph!*

 

The moment those words left her mouth, the young women present could not help but feel a little stung, though with a great enemy directly before them, none of them had time to be cross about it.

 

“Then I will do it!” The Devouring Dragon King’s body blazed with the radiance of Dragon Language Magic, while the aura on her body climbed steadily, clearly readying for battle.

 

Seeing this, Lu Fan thought it over and added, “But, let us be clear on a few things first. Helping you obtain the Slaughter Ancient God’s Divine Seat is no problem, but I have a few conditions. First, our stripping of his Divine Seat is to preserve this era. Once you become an Ancient God, you are forbidden from initiating the Ancient Gods Struggle For Supremacy, and forbidden from destroying this era. Otherwise, we will make sure to strip away the Divine Seat from you.”

 

The Devouring Dragon King said impatiently, “Relax. I have no interest whatsoever in any Ancient Gods Struggle For Supremacy. Compared to destroying an entire era and forging a world of one’s own creation, I only wish to become the mightiest being in this world, then find a place to settle down, gather some followers, and enjoy their worship and reverence for all of eternity. That is more than enough for me.”

 

“Becoming some sort of God King, is exhausting. I truly cannot comprehend what drives these Ancient Gods to exhaust themselves so much for such a goal.”

 

Such a thoroughly content to ‘lie-flat’ Dragon left Lu Fan speechless with amusement.

 

He thought to himself, [If all Ancient Gods thought like this, then would all these crises in the world even start?]