Chapter 16 “So It’s Yinglong!”

Matvey had spoken just now in perfect Mandarin, and upon hearing him, Su Zhou's heart skipped a beat. He knew that his previous guess had been correct.

Before he obtained Yara's undying blood, he had possessed a sliver of Yinglong bloodline. The sense of familiarity he felt upon first seeing Matvey further confirmed this. Now he understood why Matvey had moved to deal with him and the hunter youth from before.

Yinglong was a dragon of the Zheng Nation lineage, possessing the authority to command wind, rain, thunder, mountains, lakes, and rivers. He was also a master of the earth, able to draw channels through the land. In ancient times, Yinglong was even rumored to be the mount of the Nuwa Great Heavenly Venerate—serving as the mount of Nuwa was no shameful matter, as she was an ancient earth mother goddess who controlled creation and life.

The Quetzalcoatl's power included control over wind and rain, and manipulating the weather, which overlapped with Yinglong's power. Therefore, Matvey, for the sake of his future battle plans, decided to eliminate this unstable element first, and he succeeded.

As for why Matvey didn't choose to pursue the bounty hunter or the priestess Vika, but instead chose Su Zhou, who was clearly stronger, it was naturally for the same reason—as a dragon-serpent with similar origins, Su Zhou, or rather, the Zhuzhou Dragon in the eyes of the people of this world, also had the divine power to control thunder, gales, and heavy rain, that is, the 'power of heaven'.

But regardless, the Zhuzhou, derived from Yinglong's blood, was now facing the real Yinglong.

As Matvey's voice faded, a tearing roar came from high in the sky. The massive blizzard intensified, and violent gales and thunder surged for thousands of miles.

And an incomparably huge, pale yellow winged dragon, dragging all the snow clouds within a radius of dozens of miles, pressed down on Su Zhou in the form of a thick ray of lightning!

In that instant, the world seemed to shrink. The sight of the massive snow clouds collapsing towards the ground was like a colossal avalanche, the white mountains like cast iron, threatening to crush Su Zhou into powder with their icy aura.

But what responded to it was a wild ray of light.

"Call the wind and summon the rain? I can do that too!"

Looking up at the thunderous snow clouds pressing down like a mountain, Su Zhou was unafraid, even smiling.

Within his body, the 'wind assist' and 'water assist' powers, which originated from Yinglong, were now operating at their limit—Su Zhou didn't intend to compete with the genuine Dragon God of Heaven in controlling the weather. Even in the Zhuzhou legends, which had been modified to the point that he himself didn't recognize them, he was just a divine dragon skilled in slaughter and combat.

Compared to controlling such vast weather phenomena, Su Zhou was better at concentrating his power in one place and releasing it.

In an instant, within Su Zhou's Imperishable Dragon body, the Thunder Swamp Heart was beating rapidly, producing enormous thunderous spiritual power. The Five-Spirit Colored Scales converted and purified this power, finally inputting it into that crystal spine, which had been solidified and strengthened, as if loading it with cannonballs.

Starting from the fin-spines at the tail, a cyan-purple light began to shine. Within a radius of ten miles, countless spiritual light particles were forcibly drawn in, and as a vortex of spiritual energy appeared around Su Zhou, they collided and rotated, like a swirling nebula, and then disappeared into the white dragon's body.

Then, this light extended along the spine, all the way to the head.

The power of the wind, the power of the water, became the blood transporting spiritual power within the giant dragon's body, became the sails that accelerated the flow of blood, while fire and thunder were their cargo. The powers of the four elements began to gather and unite.

My body is a world in itself.

The spiritual light converged, like the waters of the Northern Sea pouring into the Guixu (mythical bottomless sea). In just a short moment, the torrent of spiritual energy, swirling down, stopped 'absorbing' after gathering the terrifying power that made Matvey's eyelids twitch.

Then, it was released.

At the same time that the snow clouds were pressing down on the earth with thunderous light, the surging spiritual light, compressed and condensed to the extreme, spewed out from Su Zhou's mouth, piercing through the heavens and earth with the roar of the atmosphere being burned away.

The scarlet firelight instantly overwhelmed the thunderous light. It swept across as Su Zhou's neck turned, tearing apart snow clouds tens of kilometers in size—a rapidly expanding crack appeared in the sky, dissolving Yinglong's attack that swept the weather from above!

The cloud mountain was scattered, and even the pale yellow dragon was startled. It elegantly circled, avoiding the terrifying breath, its dragon eyes looking at the strange 'distant relative' on the ground with surprise and admiration.

"I didn't expect such a powerful dragon to appear in later generations. It seems that responding to the Ancestral Dragon's call this time was the right thing to do."

It looked at Su Zhou from afar. Just as Su Zhou felt familiar with Yinglong, Yinglong had the same feeling towards Su Zhou—He could sense that Su Zhou's bloodline originated from Him, but had evolved to a level even more powerful than His own—Could it be that it was a hybrid of Yinglong from another world and a higher-level dragon?

But that wasn't right either. Bloodlines, to a certain level, were all the same. Even the Zhulong (Torch Dragon), who theoretically controlled the sun and moon and the power of time, was just someone who cultivated earlier. If Yinglong's legends continued to evolve, then one day, He, with the power to 'spread clouds and rain' and 'control the five elements and earth', would become the central dragon god who controls all living beings and the phenomena of heaven and earth, controlling matter and the phenomena of changes in matter.

"It seems that you should be a divine dragon from a certain world, evolved from Yinglong—amazing!"

Although he said amazing, Yinglong didn't mean to waste any time. In fact, continuing to attack, he started even heavier.

With a long dragon roar, Su Zhou suddenly felt the atmosphere around him being rapidly drawn away, and all the moisture began to be drained—even the surrounding spiritual power was forcibly dispersed, and the gravity of the land under his feet began to become chaotic.

Boom!

In an instant, Su Zhou's surroundings turned into a vacuum, and the huge body of the Imperishable Dragon, which already weighed tens of thousands of tons, was dragged upside down from the ground by an inexplicable force, as if it were a cloud of mist, and rushed towards the top of the sky!

Even Su Zhou was initially stunned. The vacuum was fine, after all, air and water were within Yinglong's control, and it wouldn't have much of an impact on him, but he didn't expect that the Five Elements Master of Earth could also be related to gravity.

However, for him, the strange gravity was nothing more than switching to space combat mode. Instantly, six vector nozzles behind Su Zhou's body began to spew flames, and huge wings of spiritual energy were released, allowing him to quickly break free from Yinglong's controlled gravity. Then, the white scales all over his body lit up with a bright light at the critical point, and he crashed towards the opponent!

Su Zhou's dragon body, in its original form, was forged in the Reincarnation World. It was the simplest and most primitive form, with only a spinal cannon that gathered spiritual power as a breath, a Thunder Swamp Heart and Five-Spirit Colored Scales as an energy system, and Imperishable White Scales for defense.

However, after such a long time and battles, Su Zhou's true form had not only added vector nozzles for high-speed movement and flight, but also a specialized blade dragon tail for close combat, high-strength alloy dragon claws, and various miscellaneous spiritual organs, which could support combat in various special environments such as water, magma, sky, space vacuum, and the moon.

This time coming to the Dragon Ball world allowed him to find a huge treasure trove. Su Zhou had already obtained a portion of Fafnir's blood before. If there hadn't been a lack of time, he would have been able to analyze the demon dragon's bloodline on the spot and derive the secrets of its indestructible, immortal body from it, further strengthening his dragon scales and torso.

And now, what he was using was the fastest 'space rocket' form of all forms!

In just an instant, the spiritual vacuum zone that Yinglong used to bind Su Zhou was torn apart. The enormous creature, with a speed approaching fifteen times the speed of sound, directly smashed the air into visible concave ripples, and the white shock wave spread, instantly blowing away the surrounding clouds and land.

But Yinglong was not one to be trifled with. In some myths and legends, He even killed the war god Chi You and the Kua Fu who chased the sun. Even without these, he was still the most warlike of all the divine dragons.

More importantly, He had a helper.

Staring at Su Zhou, who was rushing towards Yinglong with brute force, Matvey, who had been accumulating power and waiting for an opportunity, immediately released his most powerful defensive magic.

Layers upon layers of hexagonal invisible shields were superimposed in front of Yinglong. The solidity of this barrier of the heart, created by the user's own mind, varied from person to person. The more secrets a person had in their heart and the less they communicated with others, the stronger their barrier of the heart would be.

And Matvey's barrier of the heart was as solid as if it were forged from fine gold. Even if it were to withstand the artillery bombardment of an entire magic army, it wouldn't show the slightest crack. With the added force, more than twelve layers of barriers of the heart were superimposed in front of Yinglong in an instant.

But these barriers were as fragile as soda crackers in front of Su Zhou. In less than a second, all the barriers of the heart were shattered by Su Zhou's brute force, causing Matvey to feel as if he had been struck by lightning. The way in which the barrier of the heart was shattered caused him to feel dizzy and almost kneel on the ground.

But Matvey had already prepared himself. This earliest Dragon Ball holder, the fallen priest, raised his head after a bout of dry heaving, looking towards Yinglong with a stiff smile, and everything was as he expected—Su Zhou, who had been slowed down by the barriers of the heart, had been firmly entangled by Yinglong, who had been waiting leisurely!

The white dragon could be seen struggling forcefully, trying to break free, like a giant bear or tiger being entangled by a giant python, but the pale yellow dragon's body was unbelievably strong and tough. No matter how hard he tried, he could only temporarily pry it open a little, and it was impossible to break it.

"This is bad."

At this moment, Su Zhou also felt uneasy. He couldn't help but mutter to himself: "So this is what it feels like to be entangled by a dragon? So difficult to break free..."

"Give up, junior of the same bloodline."

In response, Yinglong's head also crossed Su Zhou's shoulder, his huge mouth aimed at the white dragon's neck. Su Zhou could clearly feel the air flow that he was spitting out, and he could crush his throat at any time.

Yinglong said calmly: "Your summoner has no fighting power, and it is not your fault for losing. As long as you are willing to give up, we will not attack your summoner, and you can leave with dignity."

"Too bad."

But Su Zhou just continued to shake his head and mutter to himself, and the layer of white light on his body scales became more and more blazing.

—Isn't it normal for space rockets to explode?

In this white light, Yinglong, feeling extremely uneasy, didn't have time to think about why, and the situation had already happened.

Su Zhou self-destructed.