Capítulo 114: Beyond Mortal and Divine
"ROAR!!!"
The Dragon God's Roar shook the heavens and earth as the Nine Elders instinctively kneeled on the ground!
At that moment, every beast in the Frozen Hell was keeling on the ground without her own control as they payed respects to the prowess of the Mythical Dragon.
The Nine Chiefs saw Sheng Tian smirk but they didn't know that his inwards were already in a turmoil.
His profound veins started cracking, his bones, blood and internal organs, all were severely damaged.
What he performed was nothing new.
It was precisely "Dragon Roar" profound art he got from the Mythical Dragon God.
He just upgraded it by providing the Mythical Dragon Bloodline and Physique from his body.
The profound art of Dragon Roar itself has three moves—True Dragon Roar, Divine Dragon Roar, Mythical Dragon Roar.
Every move Sheng Tian used till now could only be considered as an inferior version of True Dragon Roar.
Except until just now, when he finally decided to try it till he could.
The result?
Beyond imagination!
The Nine Chiefs despite being at the Late levels of the OverLord Realm kneeled to his dominance.
Even though his move didn't even attack them physically, he is still only in the first level of Earth Realm!
Despite the gaps of Sky Realm, Emperor Realm, OverLord initial and mid realm, his attack was able to control them for a second.
Leng Yue Yan felt her heart grip as an incomparably chilly feeling rose from the bottom of her heart.
As if in resonance to True Dragon Roar, an indescribable blue light spread her from body before forming a phantom of the legendary bird.
"Screech" The cry of the Phoenix sounded.
It was neither loud nor quiet.
However, it didn't bring any tyrannical aura that the True Dragon Roar did, instead, it brought along, a terrifyingly bone chilly aura that made both man and beast shiver.
Neither was the cry so loud nor was it so strong, yet its presence was undeniable. Even more so to the Nine Chiefs due to their connection with the Ice Empress.
"Spirit of the Phoenix!" They all claimed in shock.
Sheng Tian too turned back, and saw an ice phoenix phantom.
Though it was very faint, he can still make out those eyes...they held the same coldness the Divine Ice Goddess did. The same arrogance, the same indifference.
"Hiss" Sheng Tian instantly realised that the one who guided Leng Yue Yan was not the Heaven's End Ice Flame itself but the spirit hidden inside it!
Damn that Ice chicken. Why did she leave her spirit in the flame?
"Who are you?" The Nine Elders couldn't bear to sit after the incident and asked indignantly, feeling a little scared.
The most scared were obviously the most greedy ones.
Sheng Tian's lips curled into an enigmatic smile, but his mind was on the verge of collapse.
That move just now, consumed almost everything he had and still destroyed almost every fibre of his body.
If not for the Celestial Body Tome's recent breakthroughs, he would have already...
"Me? Haha, can you bear the truth?" Sheng Tian's scorned without mercy.
The Nine Chiefs felt their knees giving out as they thought of the horrendous possibility.
Sheng Tian looked at their trembling legs and a sharp glint shone in his eyes. He stressed word by word "T-r-u-e D-r-a-g-o-n P-r-o-g-e-n-y."
"Plop"
The Nine Chiefs collapsed once again. After his conformation right after his magnificent display of strength, they didn't even have the thoughts of questioning or conforming his identity.
Dragons.
They are a legend, even to the profound beasts.
This legend wasn't created out of thin air. The horrifying truth behind the terror of Dragon Race, every Chief knew.
When the Ancient War of Devils and Humans dawned, the devils aimed to fight every single race, except Dragon!
When asked about it, the Supreme One said "The strength of every single race combined wouldn't hold a candle to the Dragon Race. Probably, only the Ancient One can annihilate them."
This was a thousands of years ago.
Back then, the Dragon Race didn't participate in the Ancient War. It wasn't that they couldn't, they just disdained the clash of ants.
However, the Head of the Dragon Race owed the Ice Empress a favour. And that favour was what prevented the return of the Ancient One and granted the humans a heavenly land.
Else, despite the combined efforts of the Pinnacle Human Sovereigns and Profound Beast Forefathers, the devil army would have easily overwhelmed them and achieved their ultimate goal.
And once that happened, no one would have been able to shake them, not even a peak mortal cultivator!
However, despite their loftiness, the intervention of the dragons failed the key plan of the devils. Thus, they suffered the terrible retribution of the devils.
Despite Supreme One's words of praise to the Dragon Race, the Devil Race themselves weren't much worse.
They just needed time.
Thus, the final brawl between the Titans resulted in severe losses for the Dragon Race and also, a heavily injured Supreme One.
His cultivation dropped from the peak of the mortal realm to the eighth level of Heaven Realm.
That was only when the Nine Masters of the Apex Powers were able to seize him and lead him to a fight in the Eternal Frozen Land.
Though no one knew the result, there was no Supreme One from that day…..but there was also no Nine Masters.
However, this story was not spread. It is simply because the Dragon Clan that actually had low population was almost driven to extinction by the Devils.
From then on, the Dragon Race never appeared once again and vanished like a smoke in air.
However, the records left by the Forefathers of the Beast Empire showed how terrifying the Dragon Clan was, even after their downfall.
That's why after Sheng Tian's display of his Dragon Roar, everyone in the room was scared.
Offending Dragon? Even a potential enemy is not worth it.
The Legacy of the Ice Empress might be their foundation, but who said the Dragon Race doesn't have any?
"What do you want?" The Old Man in purple, the Dragon Wolf Clan Chief spoke in a hurried tone.
His gaze began to size up Sheng Tian giving him goosebumps almost at a crazy level.
The rest of the chiefs also turned silent.
Now, no one even brought up the topic of Frozen Tears Lake.
Sheng Tian controlled his body from collapsing and smiled "Arrange us a luxurious room. I will talk after a bath."
The Skinny Old Man nodded and soon, an OverLord in black robes led them to their room.
Sheng Tian unhurriedly entered the room holding Leng Yue Yan's hand under her cold glare.
'Why are you doing this again?' She clenched her fist.
There's no way she is happy sharing a room with him after all they've gone through.
"Close the door." Sheng Tian entered the room and left her hand, and started walking straight towards the bed without turning back.
He realised the room was fully isolated from spirit sense through formations.
"Humph!" Leng Yue Yan snorted and reluctantly closed the door.
"I need an explanation." She coldly spat.
"Thud" Sheng Tian coughed a mouthful of blood and collapsed.
"What happened?" Leng Yue Yan dashed to catch his frail body just before it hit the ground.
As he started to lose consciousness, his bones which were tightly held together by him till now started cracking uncontrollably.
"Crack."
"RIP"
Sheng Tian's face distorted in extreme pain. However, he closed his eyes and confronted it without any regrets.
"Sheng Tian." Leng Yue Yan cupped his cheeks, as she called out to him, her voice shaky. She inspected his body.
"Oh no." her face paled.
All his internal organs were a mess. His profound veins, which were the strongest and the most perfect she has ever seen, were on the verge of breaking.
His bones have long since broken badly. His blood was in a crazy turmoil.
"Sheng Tian!" She yelled at him, trying to jolt him awake.
Her eyes started turning red.
She immediately retrieved the best pill she had, and fed it to him.
"Wake up!" She shook his body lightly, afraid that she would hurt him.
She was scared.
"No. Not again. Not you too." The corner of her eyes turned wet realising Sheng Tian's breath turning weak.
"No…" tears almost flowed out of her eyes, until she heard a snoring sound.
"Huh?" She looked down only to realise that his body started healing at an unbelievable rate.
In a matter of few minutes, all his broken bones were fixed.
Not long after, his blood flow was controlled.
In a few hours, his internal organs and profound veins were restored to their peak and beyond.
"What the hell?" Leng Yue Yan touched her own forehead and tried to affirm that she was not dreaming and she is definitely not crazy.
"This bastard actually made me so worried!" Her voice turned ice cold and she waved her hands, a wave of profound energy blasted Sheng Tian's back.
"Aiyoo!" The painful squeals of a young man reverberated in the luxurious room.
"Who dares to disturb this Young Master's sleep?" Sheng Tian groggily opened his eyes and shouted at no one in particular.
"Good morning, Young Master." A bone chilling voice entered his ears, making all the hair on his body stand up.
"Haha." Sheng Tian nodded at Leng Yue Yan like they just met and ran off to have a bath in the attached wash room.
"You are …..really…" Leng Yue Yan's eyes followed his silhouette and watched him vanish from her sight. The light in her eyes dimmed as she raised her head high and sighed.
Sheng Tian closed the bathroom door and sighed, the light in his eyes shone with splendour.
'I overestimated my Physical Endurance.' He looked at the blooded handsome in the mirror and washed himself.
Soon, it was dusk and Sheng Tian, accompanied by Leng Yue Yan went to a meeting room to meet a Chief who he wanted to meet.
Five minutes forward, they were sitting face to face with the Old Man in purple, Old Li—the Chief of the Dragon Wolf Clan.
"Let me be clear, Old Man. I know you have spies in the outside world. They should have reported it to you already. This is gonna decide the life and death of everyone—D-e-v-i-l-s." His tone turned grave.
"So you were here for that all along." Old Li sighed deeply.
"What do you want to know?" His eyes held vicissitudes of ages.
Sheng Tian paused for a moment before he raised an eyebrow "Just one.Where are they?"
"You!!!" Old Li's eyes widened and his chest heaved up and down. "Don't be rash. Even the Dragon Race back then was almost annihilated by them. Compared to them, what are you? A mere Sky Realm brat!"
Sheng Tian's lips curled up.
'I just heard of some legends of Dragons in Mythical World. So it turns out they do exist.'
With a light cough, his expression turned tranquil "Old Ma—, I mean, Senior Li. My Dragon predecessor always hid the glorious days of the Dragon Race. Perhaps, this is the reason. I wonder if you could enlighten me about this. Don't worry, I promise you will have no future problems due to it."
Leng Yue Yan perked her ears and looked at the Old Man.
"Sigh. You youngsters…." Left with no choice due to his own reasons, he started narrating the fabled yet forbidden tale of the Dragon Race.
"Hiss" Sheng Tian sucked in a deep breath.
It's because he realised the biggest instigator in the fall of Dragon Race was not the Devils, but the Ice Empress herself!
Such a terrifying woman...
If she was alive now,…..*gulp*…he subconsciously turned to look at Leng Yue Yan who had a calm expression on her face.
"Hm?" She raised an eyebrow.
Since she covered herself with a veil, he couldn't see her facial expression. But, he was pretty sure that she would have looked like a cold blooded Goddess.
"Thank you, Senior Li." Sheng Tian got up and bowed, and she followed.
"Haha. It's no trouble at all. In fact, I have yet to tell you what you wanted. But I have presumptuous request." The Old Man's fingers grazed through his soft long beard.
"If you can give me a good enough reason to do so." Sheng Tian answered in full honesty.
"My grandson encountered you on the way and he mistakenly told you the forbidden route that no one used in the past thousand years. Yet, you are safe and sound. I assume that you must have found the accursed "Graveyard" and discovered the secrets long lost."
'Interesting.' Sheng Tian neither confirmed nor denied. Instead, he breathed in the sweet aroma of the dishes that came flying onto the table.
"Let's talk as we eat." The Old Man Li gestured and Sheng Tian showed no shyness.
Munching on the delicious meat, he smiled at the Old Man "Are you still not gonna speak?"
The Old Man sipped his tea and chuckled "You are a hard person to negotiate with. Regarding your request, while the Beast Empire has intelligence channels outside, what we can know is limited.
However, the only thing I'm certain of is that the devils have already started their move. The day they will come out of the shadows is not far away, probably less than a year." The Old Man gripped his tea cup tighter and took a deep breath.
"That's too fast!" Leng Yue Yan's cold voice interrupted them.
Sheng Tian was the first to shake his head. "It's not fast. They should be planning since at least 5 years."
He remembered Meng Xin's discovery in the Eternal Frozen Land.
Old Man Li's eyebrows twitched at Sheng Tian's reaction "Aren't you scared?" He couldn't help but ask.
"Scared? Why would I be? I only want my peace to be safe. That's the only reason I even care about them." He sneered.
'Selfish bastard!' The cold beauty and the old man, both cursed in their minds.
"During the time you spent in the Frozen Hell, almost a million people vanished without trace. The Forbidden lands also turned strange. If you uncover the truth of this matter, perhaps you will find the devils." Old Li shook his head and sighed deeply, the setting sun's rays shone on his pale white hair.
Sheng Tian was surprised at how fast things were progressing.
Wasn't the Villain supposed to wait till the Main Character power up? The fuck is wrong the world he transmigrated into. He cursed all the novels he read.
'Anyway, the only thing I can do now is to find some clues and proceed. There's no other way. But my best bet would be Forbidden Lands.'
"What is your request then?" Sheng Tian finished his meal and asked in an emotionless tone.
Surprised by how fast the Young Man could flip his mood, Old Li smiled wryly despite his OverLord Cultivation. However, he didn't state his request, but questioned him with an cunning smile: "Do you know there existed a treasure beyond the comprehension of Mortal and Divine—Space Heart!"
PENSAMENTOS DOS CRIADORES 
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I wanted to end this with a cliff when the chapter hit 1.8k words.
An active reader threatened me on discord to write more.
So, here I am. giving you a longer chapter.
But it's still a CLIFF!!!
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