999: Chapter 284: Far-Reaching Plans_2 999: Chapter 284: Far-Reaching Plans_2 This custom was not much different from that of the Dragon Turtles in later generations.
When a new Dragon Turtle crosses the Heavenly Catastrophe, there will always be elder support, just like Gu Luo leading Su He, and Green Thunder taking Ya Ya along.
However, Su He was somewhat special, a slight leap forward.
Gu Luo had not yet gotten used to the feeling of being a parent when Su He kept advancing through the stages of Opening The Heaven until now.
Normally, Dragon Turtles are led hand-in-hand by their elders until they reach Opening Two-fold Heaven, and only let go when they get to Opening Heaven Three-fold.
Until reaching Opening Heaven Five-fold, they are considered to have parental guidance, but once at Opening Heaven Five-fold, they can go wherever they like, and even if they fall into a forbidden area and get trapped for two or three thousand years, no one will care.
Unless they cry out for help.
While they were talking, the pitiful screams of the trapped Dragon below rose up, and as the Azure Dragon separated from the body, he became a complete Black Dragon.
Apart from the color, everything else was nearly identical to Meng Xiao.
The Scholar was slowly dismembering him, transforming the Thunder into Symbols and embedding them into the Flesh Body.
He was not looking at the Scholar now, but staring intently at Ji Feixue with heart-wrenching sobs: “Traitor!”
Black Meng Xiao was now completely exuding the aura of Origin.
The Spiritual Energy was plentiful, though not very powerful.
In his prime, he would have been only a little stronger than the previous Meng Xiao.
Together, Su He and Ji Feixue might not be able to beat him, but escaping would definitely not be a problem.
Meng Xiao, hearing the word “traitor,” looked at the chilling Ji Feixue before him, and his heart inexplicably clenched tightly.
He lowered his head and said without any further waste of words, “Probably not more than five thousand years ago, just when I had reached Opening Heaven Five-fold, I followed your mother on an adventure in the Star Sea and heard it was the legendary Heaven Court Ruins.
There wasn’t much gain, but no loss either.”
Meng Xiao’s voice was not loud, his ethereal body having some difficulty producing sound.
“Later, wandering, I met your father, that fellow who was just a mortal then, accidentally entering a Secret land on his way to the imperial examinations, and your mother casually threw him out.
Afterward, I went independent, went back to my old home to establish my own cavern abode, but within three or four years, I heard that they— one man and one dragon— somehow got tangled up.”
As Meng Xiao spoke, he let out a sigh, a hint of envy rising in his eyes.
“Some time later, I heard your mother had a falling out with Xi Zu and moved with her young lover to Yunmeng Ze to live in seclusion.
Then there was no news until sixteen hundred years ago when that bastard suddenly found me, beat me up without saying a word, and Suppressed me here, flaying and filleting me…”
A flicker of terror passed through Meng Xiao’s eyes, as if the memory of that event still left him deeply afraid.
“I don’t know what he went through in just three thousand years, but he became frighteningly strong.
He kidnapped me right from Xi Zu’s side, and even Xi Zu was no match for him.”
“He brought me here and, amidst my vociferous cursing, dissected me, skin and bones, and that was the first time I saw another me.”
Meng Xiao gestured towards the Black Dragon below.
“Don’t ask me what the hell it is, I don’t know.
Origin body snatchers?
Borrowing the Dead and Returning the Soul?
Origin Reforging?
All possible.
Your father only mentioned it was brought back from the Star Sea, and there’s probably more in your mother’s body, and what’s more, it’s likely much worse.”
At this point, he looked at Ji Feixue, wanted to say more but stopped.
Seeing Ji Feixue’s gaze turn colder and the Immortal Sword softly cry out, he said helplessly, “Your father suspects you might have it too, but his Status seems off.
He couldn’t even wait for you to hatch, let alone erupt.
So—”
Meng Xiao’s eyes blazed with anger, and he gritted his teeth and said, “So, he used me as a guinea pig.
That bastard dissected me, then stitched me back up, in bits and pieces, inflicting tortures, planting hatred in me toward him, toward this place, and even toward you— forced me to see you as an enemy, driving my mind to distort, wishing I could capture you, bring you here, and tear you apart, skin your flesh, strip your bones…”
As he spoke, he ground his teeth, and glanced at the other self being flayed and deboned, his momentum suddenly weakened.
“Who knew that he had left measures in place here, and it turned out that as soon as I came in, I would be flayed and deboned…
Was he using me as instructional material, leaving behind a complete demonstration to tell you how to deal with it in the future?” Meng Xiao wondered, also confused.
“Don’t ask me too much— he must have a way to ensure you wouldn’t die at my hands.
Too much I don’t remember, that bastard tampered with my memory, but different memories should recover in different situations.
Before being split in two, I didn’t even remember it all happened on Sister Le’s Suppression Land!
Maybe I have to capture you to know?”
As he said this, he sighed, the love of parents for their children runs deep and far.
But who the hell wants to be the one “calculated”?
Ji Tianchen was a good father, but he suffered greatly for nothing.
And that bastard’s calculations almost failed.
No matter what, he probably never expected his daughter’s progression would be so fast!
In less than fifteen hundred years, she had already reached Stepping Sky Five-fold, easily killing typical Stepping Sky Seven-fold, just a tiny bit short, just a tiny bit!
If Ji Feixue advanced once more, he might never have the chance to bring Ji Feixue here again.
Ji Feixue, looking at the Black Dragon being dissected, shook her head and said, “I’ve come to save you as an aside.”
It must be that they could not directly separate this Black Dragon back then, and only this time did they succeed.
The operations after separating the Black Dragon were just a cover, a message to her on how to respond.
A dark mother within her own mother’s body?
Ji Feixue shook her head, that couldn’t be it.
Her father’s struggle against the darkness for three thousand years must have been a battle against the existence behind this dark body.