Phaseless Demon

The Longmen Ceremony mentioned by the dragon pattern is actually the coming-of-age ceremony of the Dragon Clan.

Every dragon who has reached the age of one thousand has to hold a coming-of-age ceremony. Simply put, this ceremony is actually to let the little dragons participating in the ceremony soak in the spring water of Longmen Spring for three days.There are complicated elements in it, that is, before soaking in the spring water, the little dragons have to accept the assessment of the elders in the clan and the dragon king.

The so-called assessment tests Xiaolong's physical fitness, attack power, defense power, spell talent, and a basic knowledge assessment.

As long as all these assessments meet the standards, or only one of them fails to meet the standards, they will be recognized by the elders. Immediately afterwards, the little dragons that meet the standards can go to soak in the spring water of Longmen Spring. a seat.

Of course, occasionally there will be cases where the performance of the juvenile dragons participating in the ceremony does not meet the standards, but that is rare. The talents of the dragon race are generally very strong. Can meet the examination standard.

However, there is no end to it. Among these juvenile young dragons, there are always a few who are particularly regretful. Due to natural deformities, genetic diseases, congenital weakness, etc., they are not as healthy as healthy dragons. The assessment results will not meet the standards, they will not be eligible to participate in the coming-of-age ceremony, and they will not be able to soak in the Longmen Spring water. These poor little dragons will basically be bullied by their peers.

Many of them didn't even have to wait for the coming-of-age ceremony, and they were already bruised and bruised in the torture and insult, and died slowly in depression.

However, that happened a long, long time ago when the dragon clan was still in a rather feudal, secular, and uncivilized era. The current dragon clan will never bully these unhealthy little dragons in this way. If possible, they will try their best to Treat and improve the unhealthy little dragons, and try to help them recover to health, just like Yayu's re-tempering of the dragon's body this time.

In the Longmen ceremony held for Yayu, the assessment was postponed. The elders decided to re-temper the dragon's body for Yayu first, soak in the spring water of Longmen Spring, and then test his body's various abilities.This can be regarded as unprecedented, Yayu became the first "non-dragon" in the history of the dragon clan to enjoy such special treatment.

In order to re-temper the dragon body for him, the dragon priest couple must also collect a lot of very rare and expensive materials to forge a new dragon body.The Dragon King did not hesitate to pay for it. He even dug out a complete keel bone from the resting place of Dragon Soul Island as a tempering material. Its keel was buried on Dragon Soul Island, but today it was dug out by the Dragon King.

Unlike humans, dragons do not have much respect for their ancestors. They often trade their own scales, molted dragon skins, and hairs with humans, sometimes not only from themselves, but also from other dragons. , all the dragon bones that died on Dragon Soul Island are basically incomplete.

For them, the corpse of a dead dragon is no longer a "living life", but a "resource" on Dragon Soul Island. This resource can be used by every dragon that lives on Dragon Soul Island. of.Of course, they also tacitly assume that after their death they will also become "resources" for their descendants or other dragons who need them.

The reason why dragons have such a peculiar and completely different concept from humans is because they have a special tradition.When every dragon family is about to die, or when they have a premonition of their own death, they will fly back to this Dragon Soul Island, and they will find a suitable place to dig a hole and bury themselves.

If there is no way to fly back by itself, the dying dragon will signal the other dragons.Or mark your location with a sign that only the dragons can see and interpret, so that after you die, other dragons will come to find him and bring his body back.

They will sleep peacefully on Dragon Soul Island forever.

The origin of this peculiar tradition is probably related to the origin of Dragon Soul Island, because the entire Dragon Soul Island is formed from the corpses of ancient dragons, and the dragons born on this island are more or less inherited from this ancient dragon. Therefore, every dragon clan is aware of where they belong deep in their hearts. They will instinctively want to come back and become the soil and dust on this island, and become the cornerstone for their fellow clans to continue the glory of the entire race.

For the dragons who are about to die, returning to Dragon Soul Island is their greatest consolation before they die, and it is a special belief that makes them "death is honorable".

Dragons are not afraid of death, they firmly believe that as long as they die on the island, when they reincarnate, they can still be born on Dragon Soul Island and become new dragons.

Therefore, letting a dragon die and never being able to return to Dragon Soul Island is what the dragons fear the most, and it is also the most serious punishment among the dragons.

The second son of the current Dragon King, "Long Hongxiao" is such an unlucky guy who accepted this punishment. He was permanently frozen under the [-]-meter deep sea, bearing the huge pressure and gravity of the ocean, and slowed down in the cold and endless darkness. Die slowly, there is no chance of escaping, let alone the day of returning to Dragon Soul Island.

In fact, he should not accept such a strict punishment. After all, although he is a big carrot, he messes with all kinds of monsters outside every day. He also did not do evil things that are too angry for both humans and gods. He did not massacre or plunder other people's lives. He never stole or robbed other people's property.

At most, he owed too many love debts and broke the hearts of many men and women. He is an irresponsible scumbag.

But this is definitely not a reason for him to be crushed under the deep sea at a depth of [-] meters and suffer endless pain.

But things have developed to such a point that the current Dragon King does not have the strength to go to the 1000-meter deep sea to rescue his son, and it has been [-] years since Long Hongxiao was sealed. The Dragon King can almost confirm that his child is dead, because Long Hongxiao is not that strong, nor can he last that long.

As long as he thinks of his own child dying alone in such a cold and dark place, the Dragon King will feel extremely sad. Sadness is mixed with anger. The "Snake Demon" of "Crow Feather" appeared in front of him.

The Dragon King could clearly feel the traces of spiritual power belonging to his son Long Hongxiao from Yayu's soul.

At that moment, the Dragon King was pleasantly surprised. He even had a sense of surprise that his son successfully broke through the [-]-meter deep sea and returned to Dragon Soul Island, and returned to him!

Although Yayu lied at the beginning that he was the dragon egg lost by the dragon priest, but the Dragon King didn't mind. After returning to him, the Dragon King was already very happy.

And the other son of the Dragon King, who is the current priest of the Dragon Clan, is the eldest son of the Dragon King. He was also very concerned about his younger brother Long Hongxiao. At his father's request, he chose to accept Yayu as himself without hesitation. real kids.

It can be said that the re-tempering of the dragon body for Yayu was entirely determined by the selfishness of the Dragon King and the dragon priest couple. After all, re-tempering the dragon body was time-consuming, labor-intensive, and even more expensive, and the resources on Dragon Soul Island would be consumed a lot .Ordinary dragons don't have that much right to do these things, because they will be criticized by their fellows, but as a dragon king, of course they can choose to do this. After the incident with his second son "Long Hongxiao", he would give the Dragon King sympathy and understanding for his actions.

Ever since, with the support of most dragons on Dragon Soul Island, the matter of Crow Feather's quenching of the dragon's body was decided.

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The dragon body of Crow Feather has already been forged by the Dragon King, and only the Dragon Gate Ceremony is left. This ceremony, which attracts thousands of dragons, is officially opened today. It is held by the priests of the Dragon Clan. Stand at the highest place to inspect the environment.

As for other ordinary dragons, as well as onlookers like Yinggan Zhan Haoyan, they stood on the watchtower built on the cliff near Longmen Spring.

The terrain of Longmen Spring is in the shape of a bay, with a round lake in the middle surrounded by tall cliffs surrounding the lake. The spring eye is on the highest cliff, and a large amount of clear spring water flows out of it. The left and right positions fell, forming a Milky Way waterfall that flew down three thousand feet, and fell crazily down.

After the spring water fills the deep pool, it gushes out from a low-lying low dam, forming a river, flowing out of Longhun Island and flowing to the sea. The gate-shaped wooden frame "Longmen" of Longmen Spring is built on this site. On the top of the low dam, the so-called "Longmen" is like the gate of this Wangtan water, hence the name of Longmen Spring.

Ya Yu, who accepted the Dragon Gate Ceremony today, was specially dressed up by a few dragon attendants. They put on a black dress for Ya Yu, referred to as "Xuan Duan", a black coat, a white inner, and deep red wide trousers. , plus black dress shoes.There is a lot of solid color and white space on the clothes, but the collar, cuffs and belt are densely embroidered with exquisite dragon patterns and dragon totems.

Crow Feather's hair was also combed specially, and a beautiful bun was tied on her head.In some respects, the customs and traditions of the dragon clan are similar to human customs and traditions. For example, minors cannot wear their hair in a bun. The minor dragons basically have disheveled hair and run wildly all over the street. Parents will not be too concerned. too constrained.Only after the coming-of-age ceremony, they will comb some simple buns, and be restrained and regulate their behavior.

The dragons had a long childhood, but compared with their long lifespan, this childhood seemed very short.

It's so short that even the little dragons are not ready yet, the Dragon Gate is already close at hand.

Crow Feather prepared neatly, and was crowded by Xiaolong's attendants and walked out of the prepared cave.

On the cliff next to Longmen Spring, there is a naturally formed platform, where an arc-shaped ladder stands.The little dragons who received the Dragon Gate Ceremony will stand on this arc-shaped ladder, jump down the cliff in human form to the wonderful music played by the nearby dragon band, and at the same time turn into a dragon shape during the falling process, and then fall into the pool bottom of the pool.

This lake is very deep, and there seems to be a mysterious restriction left by the ancient dragon clan at the bottom of the water. The little dragons soaked in the spring water will be blessed by the Dragon God. After three days, the little dragons will rush out of the dragon gate, and they will find that they have become stronger. More powerful than ever.

However, Yayu who accepted the Dragon Gate Ceremony is quite special. After all, the body he is using now is the body of Yan Snake, and cannot be transformed into a real dragon, so although he is standing on this ladder now, it is not him who will jump down later .Soon, Xiaolong's attendants next to him pushed another "person" to the cliff ladder, and walked to Yayu's side.

The onlookers on the nearby high platform took a closer look and found that it was the dragon body that the Dragon King and the Dragon Priest had made for Ya Yuxin.

This newly finished dragon body was wearing the same Xuanduan dress as Yayu, and stood beside Yayu woodenly. Although his eyes were open, there was no expression on his face, and his standing posture was a bit crooked. It was driven by spells that allowed him to stand up instead of lying down on the ground.

At this time, the dragon body is just a simple shell without a soul inside, just like a doll.But soon, Yayu will take out her inner alchemy and put it on the dragon body, attach her own soul to it, replace it, and then jump off the cliff to become a real dragon.

It is impossible to say that I am not excited.

Crow Feather's eyes widened, and the corners of his mouth couldn't help evoking a vague smile, looking at the "new body" he had carefully maintained these days, in order to increase the coordination and compatibility between this body and his soul, he practiced He practiced together with this new body, so this body is full of the spiritual power of Crow Feather.

In addition, Yayu shamelessly embezzled the power given by the ancient dragons in Yanshe Neidan. He almost emptied Yanshe's cultivation base and used it all to cast his new body, so even if Yanshe got it back His own body is equivalent to just taking back an empty shell.

Of course Crow Feather will never feel sorry for what he did, he is not the kind of guy who will be condemned because of uneasy conscience, he is a downright evil monster, but he has not fallen, which is probably because he likes to be frank It probably has something to do with the character of wantonly doing evil.

Yan Snake floated next to Ying Gan, and also raised his head to look at Crow Feather on the cliff ladder over there, and saw the other party standing there with his body and face in such gorgeous clothes, Yan Snake The snake couldn't help feeling a little ridiculous.

Yan Snake and Ya Yu have been rivals for more than 1000 years.As the saying goes, the person who knows you best is your enemy, so he knows the reason why Yayu has worked so hard and killed many innocent people, and wants to succeed - because Yayu wants to avenge the Dragon Clan, for the sake of His dead mother took revenge on the Dragon Clan.

But Yan Snake was a little uncertain at the moment.

When he saw Yayu standing on the ladder and seeing the excited smile on the other side's face with a snake, he didn't know whether Yayu still wanted to take revenge on the Dragon Clan at this moment, or whether Yayu was really just Is it enough to want to be a Dragon Clan?

The Dragon Band, which added to the fun of the Dragon Gate Ceremony, began to play music. The Dragon Band is also a unique sacrificial team of the Dragon Race. Their instrument is a giant conch, which can blow wonderful music like a horn.This piece of music is very long, and it's just a prelude. They probably have to play for a long time, because they have to leave a lot of preparation time for Crow Feather.

"Greed is not a good thing." Standing beside Yan Snake, Ying Gan muttered to himself. He watched the ceremony with Yan Snake, with a fox in his arms and a rabbit on his head.

The fox and the rabbit seemed to have no interest in this Dragon Gate Ceremony. The fox just waited and watched a few times before starting to yawn.

I don’t know what the reason is, the fox has never recovered its human form when it was in Dragon Soul Island, and it always maintains the form of a black fur fox. She is very cute and fluffy. Every time Yinggan carries her into the street, there are many dragons next to her. They will come to watch and compete to touch her fur, and she will impatiently slap these shaggy dragons away with her paws.

Han Chan is also a cute animal. The moving rabbit doll is loved by many female dragons and little dragons. They all want to drag him off Yinggan's head. Grabbing Yinggan's hair and not letting go, as time passed, Yinggan would never let any dragons get close to Han Chan—in order to prevent Han Chan from pulling his hair.

Yinggan's arms and head let the fox and rabbit occupy the position, and there was no place for the dragon pattern to penetrate, and he didn't want to keep shrinking in Zhan Haoyan's arms, because Zhan Haoyan always wanted to find a chance to beat him hard, and he was scared Longwen subconsciously moved away from Zhan Haoyan, and made two laps around Yinggan. Seeing that the fox and the rabbit didn't intend to move his position, he had no choice but to start wandering around Yan Snake pitifully.

Yan Snake has no body after leaving Feng Tian Jing, and he cannot be hugged, looking at Long Wen's slightly pitiful eyes, he is also very helpless.

Then Yan Snake thought for a while, then pinched a magic spell casually, allowing a thin layer of wind power to attach to his hands, feeling like wearing a pair of invisible gloves made of wind on his hands, and then stretched out his hands to "grab" "Hold the dragon pattern, hold him in your arms with the wind, it looks like you are really holding him in your arms.

Being "hugged" by someone seems to make Longwen extremely satisfied. He is a very insecure dragon, especially when he was just born, he always hoped that he could be hugged by his parents all the time, but it is a pity that since his birth, his parents I haven't hugged him very much. He has grown to such a big age, and he has been taken care of by another female dragon in the clan. That female dragon, Long Wen has always called her Aunt Ling.

Aunt Ling has her own child, which is as big as a dragon pattern. Aunt Ling is always on her child almost all the time, and she goes around him every day, caring whether he is fed and clothed, whether he is hungry or cold no.

Longwen has always felt that Auntie Ling is the correct attitude of a mother towards her child.He really didn't understand why his mother wasn't like Aunt Ling, and why she entrusted him to Aunt Ling to take care of him for the rest of the time, except for being hugged a few times after birth. Unfortunately, Aunt Ling also had her own child. If you want to raise them, you usually don't care about the dragon pattern.

But to be honest, even if Aunt Ling's heart is not on Long Wen's body, she will still prepare clothes and food for Long Wen, and care about Long Wen as much as she cares about her own children.

Long Wen wished that Aunt Ling was his mother. Every time he saw the cold eyes of his biological mother staring at him, he would be very sad. Every time he was sad, he would cry and go to Aunt Ling. He was very sad. Not understanding, he asked Aunt Ling: "Why don't my parents like me?"

Aunt Ling was very embarrassed by this question and never answered Long Wen directly.

But later, after Long Wen asked many times, Aunt Ling suddenly took Long Wen to a corner of the house one day and whispered the truth to him.

"You are too weak, child." Aunt Ling didn't want to tell the truth to a child, but she also didn't want to let Long Wen always yearn for the love of her parents and always be in the whirlpool of pain that she couldn't ask for. The tone told Long Wen: "When every little dragon is born, the priest in the clan, that is, your biological father, will conduct a physical examination on it. Healthy children are always welcome, and you..."

Although Aunt Ling spoke tactfully, what she said immediately made Longwen realize something, he curled up, tremblingly asked Aunt Ling: "Is it because I'm not strong enough?"

"Some children will have congenital defects. Although some of them can be made up with acquired efforts, they can become much stronger with more practice and the nourishment of panacea."

Aunt Ling frowned and sighed at the dragon pattern, "And you are born with a lack of spiritual roots, which cannot be compensated by cultivation or pills. Even if you re-temper your body, your lack of spiritual roots will make you very weak, and you can't do it at all." There is any progress on the path of cultivation. At the same time... your lack of spiritual roots will also make your lifespan very short...meaning..."

"I will die very early." Longwen rarely wailed directly, but said these words inexplicably calmly, with his head lowered and his body shrunk into a small ball.

Aunt Ling felt sorry for him, and reached out to touch Long Wen's little head, "Don't worry, your grandfather, His Majesty the Dragon King, still likes you quite a lot, maybe he is willing to think of something for you."

Aunt Ling was wrong. In fact, even Lord Dragon King didn't like Long Wen very much, although in front of Long Wen, Dragon King's performance was indeed remarkable and amiable.But after Yayu came to their dragon clan, this kind of differential treatment was clearly shown.

Even a half-dragon hybrid monster can get much more attention than Dragon Mark, but Dragon Mark, as the biological child of the priest couple, is no match for such a monster.

Long Wen never believed that his parents would be so cruel. He always felt that his parents still cared about him, but they were too busy. His father was busy with many things as a priest, and his mother was his assistant, so he had to follow him. We are busy together, so we don't have time to take care of Longwen.

Long Wen has always believed in this, he began to make himself active, he went to see his parents every day, he tried to win favor with obedient, obedient, and cute behaviors, I have to say that Long Wen is very smart, he knows If you become depressed, silent, and do nothing, you will only receive less attention, and your parents will only dislike him more and more.

On the contrary, if he were an obedient, lively, and lovable boy, his parents would be his biological parents no matter what.

As the saying goes, only children who can cry, make trouble and act like a baby will have sweets.

At first, it really had some effect, Long Wen kept making noises there, his mother really couldn't bear to ignore Long Wen, every time Long Wen acted like a baby with her, his mother would hug Long Wen, and the warm embrace made Long Wen Wen was very happy, and his father would pay attention to his situation from time to time. During that time, Long Wen almost felt that he had succeeded.

But then Crow Feather appeared.

Crowfeather's presence took away the attention that Dragonmark's parents had for him.