Chapter 624: Chapter 496: Strange Movements on Dragon Island

Boom!

An unprecedented burst of Fighting Aura shook the heavens and the earth. The massive Black Dragon let out a terrifying roar, the entire laboratory fell into chaos amidst the storm!

"This power! This unrestricted power that can be freely used!" Yake exclaimed with delight.

"Indeed, Your Majesty, this is indeed an unexpected surprise. We all know that the Dragon Clan cannot fully utilize their own power, and we had previously observed Long Yi seemingly liberate Dragon Clan’s power through some means. But now, I can say with great certainty that you have fully mastered the Dragon Clan’s power. From now on, you hold the ultimate power in this world in your hands. You need not worry about being watched by Rongka, or about any restrictions. The dragon’s body can freely adapt to any world. Even if you enter the Heaven Realm, as a member of the Dragon Clan, you will automatically possess the power to rival the Celestial Clan!"

Tilian fervently exclaimed!

"Yes! This is the very power I desired, a power surpassing everything!"

Yake finally burst into laughter. With his black dragon identity, even if the Dragon Clan were to attempt to destroy the Black Dragon Empire, he could still save his own skin!

Without the pressure of death, Yake relaxed entirely. He began to adapt to his new body, and to his surprise, he didn’t have to exert much effort to fully master all its powers!

Now, Yake truly wished that Long Yi was standing before him. With this Dragon Clan body, he would no longer fear Long Yi!

"If every one of my Dragon Knights were as strong as I am..." Yake murmured.

"That’s impossible, Your Majesty," Tilian said, "Preparing this body for you consumed a lot of our time and energy, and an immensely terrifying amount of resources. Even if we remove those factors, merely matching Dragon Knights with Giant Dragons is enough to occupy all our efforts. You know, for your body, we used dozens of different techniques, even a technique from Solon that had been buried for many years. If we were to repeat this for every Dragon Knight, I think the White Dragon Empire would have already breached our Imperial City before we finished."

Tilian said, naturally, Yake knew all this because all of Tilian’s efforts had been under his watch.

"I know it’s difficult, but, I think, if we were to nurture a special group, it wouldn’t be that hard, would it?" Mean Yake, rejuvenated by happy mood asked. Had it been before, Yake would have certainly used an authoritative tone, but now, having narrowly escaped death, Yake felt his body lighten and his tone soften.

Tilian pondered for a while, nodded and said: "Although I still don’t advise it, if it’s just a small group, it won’t take up too much of our energy and resources so it should be fine."

"Good, then it’s settled. Your prime task now is to prepare, as for me, I need to find a place to test how strong my new body really is!"

A few days later, a startling piece of news reached the White Dragon Empire.

The Emperor of the Black Dragon Empire, Yake Black, had his body blasted to only a head left by Long Yi’s punch in the Dragon’s matchup. However, after returning to the Black Dragon Empire, he miraculously came back in the form of a Black Dragon! A few ministers did not believe that this was Yake, suspecting that Tilian was up to mischief, but ended up being beheaded by the enraged Black Dragon Yake.

Yake proved his identity by unlocking the national treasury with the spirit of the emperor. Everyone then realized that their emperor had truly become a black dragon.

Thus, the Black Dragon Empire literally became the Black Dragon Empire.

The news made Long Yi chuckled. In his view, Yake was rather pathetic. Always changing bodies, becoming a monster or a black dragon. Did he think becoming a black dragon would allow him to defeat Long Yi?

However, a subsequent rumour from a covert channel came in: Yake Black, now in Black Dragon form had supposedly removed the Dragon Clan’s curse. He was able to directly use the Dragon Clan’s Fighting Aura, which was extremely powerful!

Upon receiving this news, Long Yi’s first reaction was,

Yake will definitely apply this technology to the Black Dragon Knights.

Well, it seems that upgrading the White Dragon Knights is inevitable.

Earlier, through Dragon Blood and potions, Long Yi had already greatly enhanced the strengths of the Dragon Knights, but that was merely the prelude. Long Yi’s goal was to allow the Dragon Knights to have a process of adapting to this kind of power.

Now, basically everyone had gotten reasonably adapted. Both physiologically and psychologically, they were fully ready.

So next, it was time to thoroughly enhance the Dragon Knights.

Remember, Long Yi, despite being inexperienced, still used the power of the Giant to transform Ai Lin from a human into a Fairy Dragon! And this Fairy Dragon was completely different from the artificially made ’Fairy Dragon’ of the Black Dragon Empire. She was recognized by the true Fairy Dragon!

In other words, as long as he repeats this process, Long Yi can turn every Dragon Knight in the White Dragon Empire into a true ’Fairy Dragon’!

However, Long Yi didn’t plan on doing this. After all, it was nice for a female Dragon Knight to transform into a Fairy Dragon, but most Dragon Knights were male. If they turned into ’Fairy Dragon’, people would feel awkward. Just like those so-called artificial ’Fairy Dragons’ in the Black Dragon Empire, it was really amazing that they could face this title. The thought of a grown man being called a fairy was extremely discomforting.

Of course, the most important reason Long Yi couldn’t do this was that the full version of Dragon Blood Reincarnation would result in the loss of a dragon. This was completely unacceptable.

So, Long Yi had another plan to enhance strength without affecting the image of others.

This plan was called ’Dragon Transformation’.

Dragon Transformation was based on Dragon Blood Reincarnation, which used life chain modification as a basic measure to perform Dragon Transformation surgery on humans.

Earlier research on the Lumberjack Crab had achieved some results. Although it was ultimately unsuccessful, Long Yi believed that he was on the right path, with certain specifics missing. So, this time, Long Yi decisively brought in guinea pigs for experiments.

Since Long Yi had instilled the concept of the life chain into a group of scientists at the biological research institute, these scientists had gone insane. They were also curious about what keeps life maintaining its independent characteristics, and Long Yi directly gave them the answer. How could such novel knowledge not pique their curiosity?

Unfortunately, the study of life chain was at the molecular level, and currently there was no magic that could help people observe the life chain at the molecular level. But Long Yi didn’t go into much detail, he simply transmitted a basic concept which would save him from explaining his various experiments in detail to these scientists in the future.

Unlike releasing the Dragon Clan’s curse, mitochondria symbionts were originally present in the body of the Dragon Clan. It was easy to recover the curse. But the guinea pigs could not generate Dragon Power, and it would be very difficult to let them generate Dragon Power. After all, this experiment was meant to be used on humans. The successful case of remodeling the Lumberjack Crab was not a good reference.

Initially, Long Yi also intended to help Suolin restore her normal body, but this task proved to be more difficult than he thought. Restoring Xiaoyou’s Dragon power ability was the process of giving something back to the Dragon Clan which was originally theirs. But curing Suolin meant creating a new human body out of thin air. With only a tablet and a giant wand, Long Yi had no confidence in a flawless result without any sequelae. Though he wanted to, he eventually gave up.

Now, Long Yi was stuck halfway.

What should he do?

Long Yi spent the night reviewing all kinds of materials, repeatedly looking at the contents of the giant tablet. Finally, he found the root cause.

The reason these experiments failed was due to a conflict between the mitochondria that produced Dragon Power and the original mitochondria in the organism’s body. Long Yi’s attempt to add new mitochondria directly caused the organism’s body to collapse, while during the Dragon Transformation of the muscles, this did not happen. So, Long Yi decided to shift his perspective and instead of adding Dragon Power mitochondria, he would modify the mitochondria.

This plan almost instantly succeeded.

Out of the forty-eight guinea pigs used for the experiment, only one showed no effect. All the remaining forty-seven experienced complete transformation. Their size didn’t change significantly, but their muscle strength noticeably increased and their skeletal structure strengthened. At the same time, the mitochondria inside their bodies started to produce Dragon Power. After a week-long observation period, these guinea pigs remained healthy and lively. A simple intelligence test showed that this transformation did not cause any mental changes.

Next, the experiment should be carried out on apes, which are closer to humans.

At this point, a month had passed since Long Yi returned to the White Dragon Empire.

Over the past month, Emperor Kirei Kandela of the White Dragon Empire met with many foreign envoys. These envoys expressed their congratulations to the White Dragon Empire for winning the competition this time, and at the same time subtly expressed their country’s position in the potential conflicts in the future. They obviously hoped to remain completely neutral, not participating in any fights. But at the same time, they understood that complete neutrality was impossible. So they were willing to provide some help and convenience to the White Dragon Empire in the potential wars in the future.

This assistance and convenience naturally referred to money, battlefields, and concealed supplies.

Kirei thanked the envoys for their friendliness and praised their noble character for standing with justice. He also reassured them that as long as they did as they had said, without going back on their words, the White Dragon Empire would definitely guarantee their safety and independence in the potential war in the future.

The envoys left happily with the emperor’s guarantee. According to general logic, the words of the Emperor of the White Dragon Empire were very trustworthy.

However, a message from the Dragon God Temple shocked the world today.

The Highest Council of Dragon Island decided to maintain world peace by providing the Black Dragon Empire with aid in the form of ten thousand Pureblood Black Dragons from today onward!

The first batch of two thousand Pureblood Black Dragons had already arrived in the Black Dragon Empire on schedule! (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for it on qidian.com. Your support is my greatest motivation. Mobile users please visit m.qidian.com to read.)