"These are ancient dragon runes used by the dragon clan in ancient times. It's said they had special powers. But the spiritual power and elemental power left inside these dragon runes have already faded, so these broken runes are useless now."
Di Tian only glanced at them before answering directly.
The dragon clan was a race with a high level of civilization and wisdom.
Strictly speaking, a very long time ago, dragons were not Spirit Beasts.
At least before the Dragon God fell, the concept of Spirit Beasts that could drop Spirit Rings did not exist.
The dragon clan had many methods.
Although most dragons relied on their powerful bloodline and the inheritance within that bloodline to dominate others, the dragon clan also had its own knowledge system. It had extra forms of knowledge that could give them more methods and help.
Dragon runes were one example.
They were a kind of writing with special power.
If the user was powerful enough and skilled in this path, they could even carve dragon runes to directly command the elemental power between heaven and earth, forcing it into a special state.
Even a member of the fire dragon clan could use dragon runes to release water-attribute attacks.
This was originally a special field of study the Dragon God had created for the dragon clan after gathering experience from many worlds.
It could be used for everything from setting up formations, gathering energy, attacking, defending, and healing, all the way to refining divine weapons and building small worlds.
It could be said to be a technology with an extremely high upper limit and great potential.
But in truth, not every dragon knew this skill.
After all, the dragon clan's bloodline was already very powerful. Most dragons could spend their whole lives digging into their bloodline potential and still never fully exhaust it.
On top of that, dragons were proud and lazy by nature.
It could be said that if they could stand, they would never sit.
If they could sleep, they would never stay awake.
If they could mate, they would never stay single.
So although dragon runes were the official writing of the dragon clan, there were actually very few dragons who specialized in them.
Even the original owner of this ruin was not skilled in this path.
They had only used dragon runes to carve part of their diary at the end as a way to record their achievements.
But because they were not skilled in it, after only a million years, the power within the dragon runes had completely vanished.
Otherwise, if the dragon runes could still operate, Chen Ming's spiritual power would have been seized by them in an instant, and he would have seen the scenes described by that dragon.
"If you're interested, I happen to have an introductory guide to dragon runes. When I return, I'll look for it. I'll give it to you then, and you can try learning it."
Di Tian looked at those dragon runes full of obvious wording problems.
After thinking for a while, he decided to rewrite the dragon runes he had recorded and bind them into a book for Chen Ming to read later.
Perhaps Chen Ming would remember something because of it.
After all, Chen Ming's professional research ability was clearly very special. He was obviously not the kind of being who only relied on a powerful bloodline to act tyrannically.
Maybe Chen Ming had also been very skilled in dragon runes in his previous life.
In any case, this knowledge did not cost anything.
To Di Tian, it was only a small thing he had memorized during childhood education. Even if it failed to stimulate anything, Di Tian felt he would not suffer a loss.
Although Di Tian was complaining that the original owner of this ruin had a very low level in dragon runes, in truth, Di Tian's own dragon rune skill was not much better.
It was fine for basic use, but anything beyond that was completely beyond Di Tian's ability. Compared to those true experts who could freely arrange and combine dragon runes into all kinds of forms, Di Tian was only at the beginner level.
After all, Di Tian was the number one genius of the new dragon generation, born from the bloodlines of two Dragon Kings. He had not even fully developed his own bloodline yet, and he also had a profound divine skill like the Dragon God Claw taught by the Dragon God.
To him, dragon runes and similar things had no real meaning. He learned dragon runes only to keep the most basic reading and writing ability, so that he would not become illiterate among the dragon clan. After all, being called illiterate never sounded good.
Among the entire dragon clan, the ones best at magic-type skills were the Rainbow Dragons.
That branch came from the Dragon God's wife, the Dragon Queen, and her people.
Originally, they were only an ordinary branch of the dragon clan. Later, because of the Dragon Queen, the Dragon God gave them new power, allowing them to transform into the special Rainbow Dragons.
However, because their foundation was still rather shallow and their numbers were quite large, they never produced a powerhouse comparable to the Nine Dragon Kings.
Their strongest member was only at the level of a dragon elder.
This branch of dragons was not good at physical strength. Instead, they were skilled in controlling all kinds of elements.
Among the entire dragon clan, they were also the group best at using dragon runes and casting all kinds of special secret techniques. They were considered a dragon branch with great future potential.
The strongest Rainbow Dragons could face a first-class god while only being second-class gods themselves.
If they had time to prepare beforehand, they could even defeat a true first-level god as a second-level god.
However, even if other Rainbow Dragons still existed in the present day, there were absolutely none left who had survived from the Dragon God's era.
Under the severing of knowledge, the potential of dragon runes had been completely hidden. Even the new-generation Rainbow Dragons were completely unable to display the overwhelming power that their ancient ancestors had possessed.
Although they still had the same elemental affinity as before, and although they were still called the mage dragons of the dragon clan, today's Rainbow Dragons could no longer compare to their ancestors, who had attack, defense, and support all in one.
"Then thank you, Senior Black Emperor. If you need anything, please feel free to ask."
Chen Ming cupped his fists toward Di Tian and spoke seriously.
Dragon runes were divine runes within the dragon clan's system.
They were a special path of magic.
Although this path was different from becoming a god through Spirit Power, it was still an extremely high-level road.
Many Martial Souls naturally had dragon runes on them.
For example, Li Yusong's Dragon Pattern Staff, the assault-type Spirit Emperor from Shrek, had natural dragon runes. The Coiling Dragon Staff also had natural dragon runes.
Even when Chen Ming had first practiced beast soul toolization and transformed his soul into a shield, it carried a kind of natural dragon rune.
Some dragon runes were visible signs of dragon bloodline, while others were special patterns that carried dragon power.
However, Martial Souls with dragon runes were very rare.
On top of that, these dragon runes had already changed shape through inheritance, making it almost impossible to decode them later.
For Chen Ming, this ability could perfectly serve as an extra supplement to Spirit Power.
It would give him methods beyond Spirit Abilities.
He could even combine Spirit Power with different approaches and further deduce these dragon runes into something deeper.
For example, treasure arts on bones like in Perfect World, formations from cultivation worlds, or programming magic from certain punk-style magic worlds.
A language and writing system with special power had enormous potential for development.
Martial Souls and Spirit Power were very strong, and cultivating them did not require too much thinking.
But the problem was that the limitations were also large.
Chen Ming could research other methods to break through these current limits, but if there was a better system to assist him, he naturally would not refuse it.
Strictly speaking, his soul trait was most suited to becoming a mage in some magic world, researching the structure of magic and all kinds of knowledge.
Being a Spirit Master was actually not that suitable for him.
After all, Spirit Masters relied on bloodline and Martial Souls.
The role of the brain was not that high.
"If you're interested, we can study dragon runes together when the time comes," Long Na'er said to Chen Ming.
When it came to understanding dragon runes, if the Silver Dragon King dared to claim second in this era, no one dared to claim first.
Although she had lost many precious pieces of dragon knowledge and the Dragon God's early memories during the split, her memories of dragon runes were complete.
It was just that the Silver Dragon King usually needed to heal, so she did nothing and had no reason to use dragon runes as support.
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