The Strongest Dragon in the Era of Beast Taming

Chapter 704: Chapter 698: Sudden Advancement

“What’s the use of this thing? Even Lilith doesn’t want it!” Grau looked at the dragon egg with disdain.

The aura contained within the Dragon Egg of Doom was too terrifying; to be honest, he couldn’t even muster the thought to touch it.

Seeing Grau’s sincere face, occasionally complaining about the teacher’s bad luck, David Jones quickly took the cup.

Fearing that the more Grau spoke, the more mistakes he’d make, and in the end, the teacher would settle the account.

“Come on, let’s make a blood oath. It won’t do without your blood,” Grau urged.

“Drip, sizzle!”

Just as David’s blood began to drop, billowing black smoke rose from the cup.

Soon after making the oath, both David and Grau downed the Five-colored Emperor Blood Wine in one gulp.

Boom!

As the Five-colored Emperor Blood Wine turned into surging energy that flooded into his body, David’s Tigrex Dossier, which had reached the fourth apex, started to run wildly, even crazily absorbing the extracted heavenly and earthly arcane force of depleted Waterland City, forming a phantom funnel of heaven and earth.

Elsewhere, as the beast siege came to an end, citizens who had gathered in the shelter started to return to their homes.

“Boom!”

The sudden tremor caught the attention of the sheltering citizens, who looked up at the sky to find the slowly sinking twilight sun transforming into swelling purple haze, creating an aura of ‘purple haze coming from the east.’

“What’s going on? I can’t sense the arcane force!”

“No, I can feel the direction in which the arcane force is converging. All the arcane force is being devoured by an unknown entity!” A beast taming officer responsible for escorting the citizens looked towards the distance.

At the same time, in the Trainer Medical College of Waterland City, VIP ward.

Guildmaster Maud opened his weak eyes and looked out the window, where clouds of rotting purple haze gathered in the sky like clouds lit with fire.

“This is a King-level powerhouse making an Epic breakthrough!”

The sudden sight of what he had long dreamed of caused a violent stir in Guildmaster Maud’s spirit!

The King-level powerhouses in Waterland City were few and far between, and to speak immodestly, he was the strongest King Trainer in Waterland City!

Yet even so, the barrier to breaking through to an Epic was seemingly within reach, yet actually miles apart.

“No, that seems to be coming from the direction of the Louise family!” Guildmaster Maud’s eyes widened.

The Louise family had a tradition of not entertaining outsiders since ancient times, let alone he remembered that Gregory Louise had already made an Epic breakthrough in the Level I city of Suntomb City last year.

“Wait, this time when Grandmaster Hoyle came to Waterland City, the one responsible for the reception was Rosalind Louise, and even David was staying temporarily at the Louise house, could it be?”

Guildmaster Maud couldn’t help but take a deep breath and then violently lay back down on the bed.

No, impossible, absolutely impossible!

It must be that I’m thinking too much, maybe Grandmaster Hoyle, besides David, had brought another disciple.

But for some unknown reason, the more Guildmaster Maud denied it, the more he visualized David making an Epic breakthrough, completely surpassing him, the older generation.

“It seems I’m getting older, always prone to wild thoughts. How could there be a twenty-year-old Epic powerhouse in this world!” murmured Guildmaster Maud, swallowing his saliva.

Meanwhile, Gees Goldsmith, who was residing in the Trainer Guild building, also noticed the hard-to-ignore anomaly in the sky.

“Eh, Waterland City truly lives up to being the city of miracles. Aside from Elder Brother David, it turns out there is another powerful trainer who can cause such a grandiose anomaly!” Vivian Goldsmith’s eyes sparkled with excitement.

Unlike Vivian’s reaction, Gees Goldsmith fell into deep thought.

It’s been hundreds of years since Waterland City has seen an epic strongman, and it was just last year that Gregory Louise emerged, the newly minted epic being the father of Lilith Hoyle’s disciple.

The father and daughter together carved out a stable overlord evolution pathway for the Titanium Ragdoll clan, a feat that caused quite a stir in the Trainer Guild.

“Something’s not right, knowing she’s been outmaneuvered by Peony, Lilith Hoyle should have come knocking by now, but everything is eerily calm, could it be that she’s preoccupied with something more urgent!” Gees Goldsmith suddenly stood up.

“Eh, Grandpa Goldsmith, are you going out?” Vivian Goldsmith asked curiously,

“Yes, the issue of ownership of the Demise Relic still requires discussion; I need to pay a visit to Grandmaster Hoyle,” Gees Goldsmith said, his gaze somewhat grave.

This visit would surely put him at a disadvantage, but he needed to confirm the identity of this newly minted epic strongman.

If it really is David Jones, a twenty-year-old epic strongman would be enough to change the power dynamics of the Flowery Kingdom’s Big Five.

…

Lilith Hoyle was the first to discover David Jones’s breakthrough and the first to summon her pet to project a shielding barrier.

An epic breakthrough requires an environment rich in arcane force and undisturbed, and the scarcity of arcane force in Waterland City could likely cause David Jones’s failure.

“Grau, it’s you causing trouble again!”

Lilith Hoyle glared at Grau fiercely as a flicker of light from her Star Ring materialized a small vial of the Eclipse Dragon’s Heart Blood above David Jones’s head, which quickly poured down to compensate for the lack of arcane force.

Boom!

A vast surge of arcane force erupted into a purple pillar of light that shot into the sky, revealing the giant phantom of an ancient and ferocious dragon that devoured True Dragons with ease.

The world fell silent in this instant.

Looking at the enormous phantom of the Eclipse Dragon in the sky, the weak trembled, while the powerful held a wary respect and dared not interfere.

Such a terrifying anomaly during a breakthrough indicated that the practitioner’s cultivation technique was extraordinary, and the backing power formidable.

Interfering with someone’s breakthrough could create mortal enemies—a loss for both sides—which was why almost no one would do such a thing.

As David Jones continued to refine the Dragon Blood within his body, he found the speed at which he fortified his physique couldn’t keep up with the demands of the Tigrex Dossier.

“No, it’s not enough, the energy required for the Golden Emperor Body is terrifying!”

David Jones never imagined that one day he would face the possibility of a breakthrough failure, simply because his foundations were too strong and the external arcane force too weak.

“Bang, bang, bang!”

As top-grade Arcane Crystals shattered one after another, the massive arcane force filled David Jones’s body like surging waves, causing his skin to emit faint purple glimmers that flickered wildly.

“Even the Heart Blood of the Dragon of the End is insufficient!” Lilith Hoyle looked deeply at her disciple and then pulled another drop of Dragon Blood emitting strange golden radiance from her Star Ring.

Lilith Hoyle never expected that the Ancestral Dragon Blood, which she exchanged today with Dragonsoar Academy using the Dragon Blood of the End, would be put to use imminently so soon.

“Forget it, consider this a reward for helping me suppress the Demon God Avatar!” Lilith Hoyle sighed, as the drop of Ancestral Dragon Blood transformed into a streak of golden light that flew out from her hand.

Without David Jones’s help in slaying the Demon God Avatar and eroding a part of its essence, she would’ve had to pay a much steeper price in the Demise Relic to suppress the Seven Definite Dead Demon with Behemoth Goldsmith.

Besides, the Body Cultivation technique David Jones practiced was the Tigrex Dossier, which shared the same lineage as the ancient Ancestral Dragon.

The blood of the Ancestral Dragon and that of the Dragon of the End both had a substantially terrifying boosting effect on the breakthrough of the Tigrex Dossier, which was also why she was willing to exchange Dragon Blood with Dragonsoar Academy.

After all, this drop of Ancestral Dragon Blood was intended as a reward for David Jones.

“If he still fails to breakthrough, then it is simply destined to be so.”

Although she said this, Lilith Hoyle’s eyes were filled with confidence as she watched David Jones.