Chapter 1
A dragon. A Jiao Dragon (a type of dragon), 21.57 meters long, with sapphire blue eyes, its entire body greenish-black, scales dense and sturdy, with four claws, controlling the water element.

A dragon. A Lightning Dragon, its length uncertain because electrical currents are difficult to transform into visible arcs in water, but azure lightning spiritual energy has condensed into a body about 3 meters long, held in someone's hand and controlled.

Su Zhou. 180cm tall, having re-grown due to cultivating extraordinary power, finally breaking through the Zheng Nation's (China) level-two disabled standard line before the age of 19, with a fit and muscular physique, an omnivorous appetite, currently pinching the Lightning Dragon to coerce the Jiao Dragon.

The relationship between the three is 'Su Zhou' > 'Lightning Dragon' > 'Jiao Dragon'.

Clearly, an omnivorous appetite is in a high position, a general trend in the Earth's ecosystem, and indeed lightning counters water, just like in Pokemon.

Although the Jiao Dragon has not completely broken through yet, having not condensed its 'spiritual energy control organ', the Dragon Horn, and thus achieved true dragonhood, it already has a heritage, and deep down, it also has the arrogance of a true dragon. The dragon blood descendant before it, although its bloodline is higher-ranked, made it tremble all over as soon as it revealed itself, almost sinking straight to the bottom of the sea. But the Jiao Dragon has never been weaker than anyone in its life!

So, facing Su Zhou's amiable communication, it honestly stopped and let out a long roar.

[This is my territory!]

The tone of this Jiao Dragon was quite like that of an innocent little farmer whose field had been invaded by the local bully, who arbitrarily picked watermelons and pumpkins, and even commented, 'Your melons are so beautiful and sweet,' with three parts anger, three parts unwillingness, three parts fear, and ninety-one parts resentment.

"You say it's your territory, so it's your territory? Did you apply for nation-building? Do you have a notarized document from the United Nations? Have you established diplomatic relations with other countries?"

Casually retorting, Su Zhou certainly knew that this wasn't its home. This was international waters, and theoretically, the Zheng Nation government had the right to inherit all orthodox extraordinary power traditions related to Zheng Nation—of course, this was a legacy of history. Su Zhou didn't come here to forcibly seize the nest of an innocent Jiao Dragon this time, and the Zheng Nation didn't need a dragon bone either. There were at least hundreds of similar demon god skeletons in the Kunlun Ruins, forming continuous mountain ranges. They really didn't lack one more.

They had more important things to do.

"Hmm, nice figure, have you been working out recently?"

Su Zhou knew that ordinary dragon species would be suppressed by Yala's bloodline when facing him—this Jiao Dragon was now clearly completely suppressed by him, so it didn't dare to have any distracting thoughts.

Facing the other party's territory claim, Su Zhou didn't answer immediately. He just carefully looked at the Jiao Dragon's entire body with his spiritual vision and compared it with the dragon king's skeleton not far away.

——Indeed, they were exactly the same, almost identical, except for the lack of dragon horns. This Jiao Dragon could at most stir up rivers and seas, but it couldn't summon wind and rain. True dragon horns were also an extraordinary organ unique to a demon's true form. If he got one himself, he might really be able to directly create a heavy rain in places with moisture.

"So, even the weakest true dragon must be at the consummation of the high-level Extraordinary. And a pure-blooded true dragon only needs to receive a good education in childhood, and after growing into a complete body, reaching the peak realm isn't impossible."

"And after a true dragon comes of age, it only needs to exercise a little and have a little brain, comprehend its own divine power, and it can advance to the commander level, which is the realm of demon kings for other races."

Seeing the dragon descendant in front of it holding lightning and pointing at itself, and then looking at its whole body with great interest, even dragons were afraid. This Jiao Dragon immediately let out another angry roar!

[This is my home!]

Facing the interaction between Su Zhou and the Jiao Dragon, the production team naturally immediately controlled the camera and broadcast it in real time, and the comments and remarks were also surprisingly emitted.

"Oh my god, there really are dragons in this world!"

"There are no horns on its head, it's a jiao! However, it already has four claws and scales, and it's very close to being a true dragon—but speaking of which, are demons this big? This Jiao Dragon looks bigger than the submersible, at least twenty meters long, right?"

"Uh, speaking of which, it might be an illusion, but Su Sea Emperor seemed to be threatening it just now?"

"You're too cautious, it's not an illusion, Su Sea Emperor is indeed threatening it."

"Can you talk? How is this a threat? The Jiao Dragon was obviously about to attack, Professor Su is just conducting peaceful negotiations."

"That's its territory, right..."

The comments of the netizens were quite soft, without any of the simple and direct style of dragons negotiating with each other. Facing the Jiao Dragon's second claim, Su Zhou directly smiled and said: "It's okay, your home is my home, I'll just treat it like my own."

Jiao Dragon: [?]

Saying that it was his own home, it was his own home. Su Zhou tilted his head to signal, and then went with the Jiao Dragon to approach an area around a submarine hot spring, leaving the camera, and the five submersibles from various countries also left and began to scan the dragon bones from different directions.

Although many viewers on the Internet complained that they couldn't continue to watch Professor Su bully the Jiao Dragon, they also knew that there were many things that were indeed inconvenient to publicize to the public—official secrets, you know. Having said that, it was really surprising that this exploration could be broadcast live. Many people exclaimed that it was worth it when they saw the remains of the Dragon King. Sticking to watching the two-hour broadcast was indeed not a loss.

At this time, Su Zhou could also hear the instructions from the Holy Seats in the communication magic array.

[Professor Su, ask this Jiao Dragon when it obtained its heritage, and who it came from. Verify whether the dragon skeleton on the seabed is the Heavenly Pool Dragon King we know.]

Although, through various methods of calculation, the identity of the dragon skeleton has been 99% confirmed, the matter is of great importance and does indeed require caution. You must know that, next, many countries will reveal the true identity of the Dragon King to the outside world, as well as the origin of the Imitation Dao heritage... There must be no mistakes.

Su Zhou naturally knew that the matter was of great importance, so he withdrew the lightning in his hand, stood with the Jiao Dragon on two submarine chimneys that no longer spewed out underground matter, and seriously began to talk.

"This time, we came here with no malice. As you are the inheritor of the Dragon King's remains, as long as we hold goodwill towards each other, this place can be your territory. You have intelligence, so you have a channel for communication and can express your demands to us through communication."

Having already demonstrated his strength, there was naturally no need to continue intimidation. Su Zhou talked eloquently: "And now, we have some questions we want to ask you, and you can also ask us some things you want to know. Relax."

"About when did you obtain the heritage?"

Su Zhou's words seemed to have some kind of law for dragons. When he said 'relax,' this Jiao Dragon suddenly felt its whole body relax, and the natural pressure that felt like Mount Tai pressing down on it instantly disappeared—but its heart became even more nervous than before. It was precisely because of the contrast with the normal state that the Jiao Dragon understood that the dragon descendant in front of it was not something it could resist at all.

Whether in terms of bloodline or strength, it was the same.

So it honestly replied: [According to the time calculation method in the inheritance, eleven years have passed since I came into contact with the inheritance and obtained it.]

It was not very skilled in human time recording and language. It spoke a bit like machine translation, but as it talked to people and activated the memories in the inheritance, its words became more and more fluent: [Eleven years ago, I reached the Jiao Dragon realm, and the inheritance was further opened. The spiritual energy in the submarine hot spring is very strong, even stronger than on the sea surface, so I have been staying in my nest and haven't left.]

It sounded like it had been to the sea surface, but because the spiritual energy concentration was not as high as the spiritual energy-rich zone of the submarine hot spring, it came back again—its current strength was only at the mid-level of the Extraordinary, and its progress was not as good as Su Zhou's.

"About eleven years ago, that's about the same time as when I awakened my spiritual power."

Su Zhou raised his eyebrows slightly when he heard this. He nodded: "Although the spiritual energy recovery and explosion have only started seriously in the last year, the spiritual energy concentration ten years ago was probably at the critical point for activating the inheritance."

"So, how did you obtain the inheritance?"

Su Zhou asked, and the Jiao Dragon replied: [I didn't actually have many memories from before. I felt like I was just crawling around on the seabed... When I had the wisdom of basic memory, I was already lying on the Dragon Pearl, receiving the inheritance of the 'Heavenly Pool Dragon Ancestor'.]

The Dragon King's remains on the seabed did indeed come from the Heavenly Pool Dragon King, and as a descendant who received its inheritance, the Jiao Dragon naturally called the other party Ancestor instead of King.

"So, this Jiao Dragon was a deep-sea resident before? And it was crawling around on the seabed? I thought it was some sea snake that was inspired and desperately dived to the deep sea."

After confirming the source of the other party's inheritance, Su Zhou vaguely felt that something was wrong. He asked a few more questions, and the Jiao Dragon racked its brains to reply: [I don't feel anything. My predecessor was probably the kind of creature without wisdom, I can't remember anything at all. I even feel like I don't have a brain.]

This was of course not a metaphor. These words from the Jiao Dragon probably meant that it really didn't have a brain before—and after speaking to this point, Su Zhou almost understood. He used his spiritual power with a surprised expression to grab a sea cucumber from the seabed next to him and gestured to the Jiao Dragon: "Were you like this before?"

Jiao Dragon: [Yes, that's what it felt like!]