"Within the Dragon King's scales lies extremely powerful law power. As long as I comprehend what is contained within this scale, my realm can continue advancing one level higher."
Although the thing was in reality something that had shed from his own body, Di Tian still spared no effort in praising it.
"To be honest, boy, I think very highly of you. I feel your talent is quite good. In the future, you might even have the ability to stand above me. Do you have any interest in joining my sect?" Di Tian suddenly spoke.
"Senior, you overpraise me. I don't want to join any sect or force. I only want to do my own research and cultivation. I have no interest in schemes and power struggles."
"Indeed. Scheming against each other is a lower path. With that time, it's better to improve your own strength." Di Tian first nodded in agreement.
Then he remembered that this entire ruin was a trap he had set up, and he fell a little silent.
After all, he did not like schemes either.
The problem was that the current state of the dragon clan forced him to use his world-shocking wisdom to maintain it.
Fortunately, My Lord, the Silver Dragon King, was here.
As half of the Dragon God, the Silver Dragon King's wisdom had to be above his.
So Di Tian could simply give up using his own brain and fully follow the Silver Dragon King's orders.
"I think very highly of you. Beings with bloodline like yours are truly rare. Maybe in the future, we might even become family." Di Tian raised his hand and released powerful dark energy.
His dark-attribute Spirit Power turned into something like black sludge, directly binding the glowing Heavenly Dragon Horse crystal.
After looking at the relic left behind by his old friend for a while, Di Tian raised his hand and tossed the crystal, now ninety percent sealed by him, into Chen Ming's hands.
"My attribute is darkness, the complete opposite of this light attribute. This thing brings me no benefit. To me, it is poison."
"You and Long Na'er can study it together and see if you can absorb the power inside. I'm very curious what the continent's number one genius can research from it."
"Senior, aren't you afraid I'll get greedy, take this crystal, and disappear?" Chen Ming asked while feeling the power inside the crystal.
"If you disappear just because of this crystal, then that would also be a good thing."
"After all, I do think highly of you."
"If it lets me see your true face early, that is not a bad thing either."
"I only think highly of you, yet I'm already willing to give you such a treasure. If you truly join us and gain my trust, think about what else you could obtain."
Di Tian now had quite the air of, If I can give a traitor a million, then wouldn't those who follow me get even more?
Although to Chen Ming, who had eaten far too many empty promises in his previous life, Di Tian's words were not very tempting.
But considering that this was the Douluo world, where everything was scarce in all kinds of ways, Chen Ming had to admit that Di Tian's words were already quite advanced.
"Thank you for your kindness, Senior." Chen Ming cupped his hands toward Di Tian and thanked him.
"There are still many murals left behind by the dragon clan here. We can take a look. Maybe some great secret is hidden inside." Di Tian waved his hand, then spoke as if he did not care much.
Although Di Tian had specially moved this ruin core here from another place, he had already checked it several times.
There was nothing valuable left inside long ago.
No matter how carefully Chen Ming looked, there was no way he could find anything special.
Chen Ming nodded.
Then he glanced at Long Na'er, who had been silent the whole time. He placed his hand on hers, and with Long Na'er half-resisting and half-allowing it, the two walked to the murals nearby and began carefully studying these dragon carvings that were over a million years old.
Unlike the murals outside, which were more like a history of the dragon clan, the murals here leaned more toward the personal diary of a certain dragon expert.
Perhaps when they were first carved, these diary records had extra seals. There may even have been divine thought left behind by that expert to prevent outsiders from peeking.
But after a million years, that expert might have already fallen.
After so many hundreds of thousands of years, these murals had long since lost their original protective power and become simple stone carvings.
They could no longer protect their privacy from outside eyes, nor could they fully preserve the meaning within them.
There were many patterns drawn on the murals.
Aside from the dragon clan, there were also shadows of many other races, such as tigers, phoenixes, and a kind of being that looked like a bear but also somewhat like an ape.
At first, the main figure in the mural seemed to be beaten badly by a being that looked like a mix between a bear and an ape.
But under the lead of a huge nine-colored dragon, many dragon shadows charged toward those bear-ape beings.
After that, large sections of the mural showed the war between that giant dragon and those mixed beings.
In the end, the nine-colored dragon defeated a huge bear-ape creature, while the remaining smaller ones were wiped out by the dragon clan.
If Chen Ming had not guessed wrong, this should be a record of the war between the dragons and the Behemoths.
As a powerful race, the individual strength of the Behemoths was even above dragons.
Their powerful bodies gave them the strength to tear dragons apart with their bare hands.
Their strong resistance also allowed them to almost ignore the dragon clan's attribute attacks.
They were even called "dragon-eating beasts."
Whether the Behemoths in this universe were magical beasts, beastmen, or something else, almost every time they appeared, they would use dragons as a stepping stone and trample them hard.
In all kinds of ways, they repeated the same idea again and again:
Behemoths were a race that could tear dragons to pieces.
The owner of this mural seemed to have been one of the participants in that battle, and even an important one.
They may even have taken part in the final duel between the Dragon God and the Behemoth God.
Of course, because of the dragon clan's proud nature, Chen Ming definitely did not rule out the possibility that this dragon had not actually joined that war at all.
Or perhaps it had only fought at the outer edge, then later boasted that it had taken part in a God King-level battle.
At the very end of the mural was a long string of special patterns carved into the stone.
It was something similar to writing.
But Chen Ming felt that something seemed to be missing from it.
It was as if the soul of this writing had already faded away with time.
Now, the remaining corpse of the text could no longer provide enough information for him to deduce it again.
"Senior Black Emperor, may I ask if you recognize this kind of totem?"
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