Rebirth of the Supreme Immortal Emperor
Chapter 282 - 282 280 The Clumsy and Cute Jiao Long First Update

282: Chapter 280: The Clumsy and Cute Jiao Long [First Update] 282: Chapter 280: The Clumsy and Cute Jiao Long [First Update] After setting his mind, Li Chen hovered in mid-air, his hands swiftly forming seals.

Soon, a waxing crescent-shaped seal materialized in mid-air.

This was the Moonlight Seal, and as the name suggests, it is a seal capable of absorbing the essence of the sun and moon.

The moonlight soon flowed like a cascade of glowing ribbon from the Nine Heavens, streaming into the Moonlight Seal.

The shape of the Moonlight Seal transformed, from a crescent to a full moon, surrounded by an increasingly brilliant and dazzling white light, akin to a rising sun.

“Seal complete, subdue for me!”

Li Chen, with hands as if holding up an Ancient Great Mountain, drove the Moonlight Spirit Seal with his thoughts, pressing it down towards the Jiao Long in the Stone Pond.

“Roar roar, roar roar…”

The Jiao Long let out desperate roars, attempting to resist the blinding luminance of the Moonlight Seal.

Unfortunately, after thrashing in the Stone Pond for a while, it had no choice but to bow its proud head.

Seeing this, Li Chen was overjoyed and shouted sternly at the Jiao Long, “Do you submit now?”

“Roar roar!”

The Jiao Long’s massive head tried to struggle and rise again.

“Refusing to submit, eh?

Fine, I’ll beat you until you do!”

Li Chen leaped into the air, his legs flashing rapidly as he fiercely kicked at the somewhat ugly face of the Jiao Long.

“Thirteen Consecutive Kicks!”

No choice, the creature’s Scale Armor was tough enough to withstand cannonballs.

Kicking its body was mere tickling—thus, punches were directed at its face instead.

“Crack and smash, crack and smash!”

Li Chen delivered thirteen kicks in succession, striking forty-nine times before finally kicking the proud head of the Jiao Long into the water.

“As the saying goes, to hit is to be close, to scold is to care.

When love isn’t sufficient, we turn to kicks.

Brother Jiao Long, with all this love I’ve shown you, won’t you yield now?”

Li Chen spoke with interest, a hint of teasing playfulness in his voice.

The Jiao Long is an Ancient Mutant, and though it couldn’t speak the human tongue, its intelligence was no different from that of an adult’s.

In this respect, it far surpassed the Jade Golden Toad.

However, precisely because its lineage was relatively pure, it was unwilling to bow before Li Chen, a mere human.

Of course, now under the oppression of Li Chen’s overwhelming power, it had to submit.

Watching its reflection in the pond water, the Jiao Long cried, real tears.

If it could speak at that moment, it would surely point at Li Chen’s nose and curse profusely.

“You damn human brats, didn’t your mom ever tell you not to hit the face?

Even more so when I, a handsome dragon, rely on my face for a living.

TMD, can’t you leave some dignity?

How am I supposed to live as a serene and beautiful Jiao Long now?”

Seeing the Jiao Long’s head droop, Li Chen called out from above, “I’ll ask you one more time, do you submit or not?”

The Jiao Long, though completely immobilized by the Moonlight Seal, still maintained its pride—until it saw Li Chen raise his leg again.

“Ssss, ssss!”

This time, what emitted wasn’t the roar of a Jiao Long, but the hissing of a python.

Clearly, this fellow was the offspring of a dragon and snake mating.

Li Chen, with his forceful methods, forced the Jiao Long to bow.

His pupils slightly contracted, shooting a white beam into its Sea of Consciousness.

According to Li Chen’s current Soul Capturing skills, even an ordinary Grandmaster could not be captured.

However, the Jiao Long’s mind was too simple, pure as a five or six-year-old child.

Capturing its Sea of Consciousness was utterly stress-free.

Soon, a continuous stream of information fed back from the Jiao Long’s mind.

After about half an hour, Li Chen had already figured out the Jiao Long’s origins.

He was right; this creature indeed was the product of a dragon and snake mating.

Nine hundred years ago, on a moonless, windy night filled with lightning and the rustling of fallen leaves, an injured Five-clawed Golden Dragon descended from the sky and happened to fall into this Stone Pond.

What a coincidence that a wild Myanmar Golden Python resided here.

The Golden Python, gentle by nature and in the prime of its love-seeking youth, saw the dashingly handsome Five-clawed Golden Dragon and tenderly cared for it, hunting prey for the Golden Dragon and such.

Eventually, the dragon and the python fell in love over time, sinking into the river of love.

And then, on a stormy night of flashing lightning, the Five-clawed Golden Dragon succeeded in bedding the Golden Python.

Moreover, with one shot hitting the mark, the Golden Python was impregnated with the little Jiao Long.

But after that night, the Five-clawed Golden Dragon mysteriously disappeared, never to be seen again.

The Golden Python eagerly hoped every day for the return of the Five-clawed Golden Dragon.

Not long after giving birth to Little Jiao Long, it passed away due to excessive longing and despondency.

With only Little Jiao Long left, surviving alone in the Stone Pond.

Before dying, the Golden Python mother told her son to guard the Dragon Blood Fruit here.

Once grown up, it could transform into a true Divine Dragon, soar through the Nine Heavens, and look for its father.

Thus, Jiao Long stood guard here for over nine hundred years.

During this nine-century-long stretch of time, it became a deity in the eyes of the local residents, receiving veneration and worship.

It also became a monster in their stories, hounded and harassed daily.

So, every thirty or fifty years, Taoists or monks would come up the mountain to subdue demons and exorcise spirits, adding a bit of fun to its mundane and lengthy wait.

Although nine hundred years is a long time, Jiao Long never left this place since birth.

Hence, its memories are rather unremarkable.

The most interesting recent memory was from seventy years ago when the Japanese Army stationed in Lingnan dispatched two full divisions, employing planes and cannons, to hunt it.

The two sides battled for seven days and nights, ending with the annihilation of the Japanese Army.

However, Jiao Long was also severely injured in that fight.

Latterly, General Jiang, the supreme commander of the National Revolutionary Army, upon learning about this, personally conferred the title of National Guardian Beast upon it.

To express its gratitude, Jiao Long swallowed all the Imperial Commissioners who came to bestow the honor in one gulp.

For the following seventy years, no one else came here.

In fact, during those nine hundred years, Jiao Long also considered leaving the Divine Dragon Pond to see the outside world.

But this fellow was hopeless with directions.

Every time it went out, it would end up back where it started in total befuddlement.

After carefully sifting through Jiao Long’s memories, Li Chen earnestly asked, “Jiao Long, as long as you are willing to submit to me, I will take you out of here to find your father, how about it?”

At the sound of Li Chen’s words, Jiao Long’s eyes immediately brightened.

However, when its bucket-sized pupils rotated twice, it suddenly appeared dejected again, emitting a low, despairing growl from its nostrils.

Li Chen understood its meaning, rolling his eyes and retorting: “You think I’m like you, a directionally-challenged individual, unable to distinguish north from south after just a few steps?”

Jiao Long gave Li Chen a rolling glance and began to whine again.

Li Chen stared at Jiao Long for a long while and tentatively asked, “Do you mean to say, you won’t let me touch your Dragon Blood Fruit?”

Seeing that Li Chen had understood, Jiao Long vigorously nodded its head.

Li Chen pondered for a moment and said, “Meeting equals sharing half, that’s the rule.

You can’t hoard it all to yourself, right?”

Jiao Long initially disagreed, but when it saw Li Chen raise his palm, it immediately became more reasonable.

Li Chen nodded in satisfaction and said, “From now on, your name is Little Dragon, what do you think?”

Jiao Long, naturally immune to names, unlike the Jade Golden Toad who took the matter seriously, agreed without hesitation.

After beating around the bush, Li Chen finally approached the main point.

“So, how many Dragon Blood Fruit do you have?

Surely there’s not just one, right?”

Dragon Blood Fruit, as the name implies, is a rare and exotic fruit cultivated with dragon blood.

This fruit came into existence when the Five-clawed Golden Dragon was injured and shed fresh blood on this ground.

While the Golden Python was not small, a mature female would be at most ten meters in length.

Looking at the current size of Jiao Long, at six to seven zhang, which is over twenty meters when converted.

From a genetic standpoint, it is deduced that the Five-clawed Golden Dragon of those days was probably even larger.

Such a large creature’s fresh blood spilled would certainly not be limited to nurturing only one plant.

In other words, this Divine Dragon Pond might hide a large patch of Dragon Blood Fruit.

Jiao Long blinked, looking at Li Chen in utter confusion, clearly not understanding his question.

Li Chen was also puzzled.

After a moment of contemplation, he extended one finger and wiggled it back and forth in front of Jiao Long.

“Do you know what this is?”

Jiao Long nodded, indicating it understood.

Li Chen then extended a second finger: “And this one, do you recognize it?”

Jiao Long nodded again.

However, when Li Chen showed six fingers, Jiao Long became bemused.

Through this probing, Li Chen realized that the beast had no concept of numbers; in its world, the biggest number was five.

Anything more was beyond its comprehension.

“Goddamn, turns out this beast is not only directionally challenged but also numerically illiterate.

Surviving to such a size, you really are a miracle!”

But then Li Chen thought, if there are more than five Dragon Blood Fruit, this would be a huge gain for himself.

With this in mind, he suppressed the excitement in his heart and asked seriously, “Little Dragon, where have you hidden the Dragon Blood Fruit?”

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The lengthy chapter of nearly 3000 characters is presented.

According to some internet searching by Little Le, a mature Golden Python is about seven meters long.

However, for the sake of the novel, it was exaggerated.

Otherwise, with such a great disparity in size, the Five-clawed Golden Dragon and the Golden Python would have a hard time mating.

Thus, following the principle of humanity, another three meters were added to its length.