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Chapter 383 - 193: Transform into a Dragon, Sunlight Tribe
Zhang Daniu was gone.
Carrying a Horn Bow on his back, Zhang Wu came before Li Chang’an. He knelt and bowed respectfully before leading his younger brother down the mountain.
Li Chang’an watched the entire scene unfold, feeling a slight stir of emotion.
’I have to admit, it’s fascinating to watch the world and its mortal inhabitants change from the perspective of a rock. It’s like watching a movie so long you can’t see the end.’
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Over the next fifty years, Li Chang’an began to constantly adjust and evolve his body using the Bone Transformation Technique.
By the time he was a hundred years old, the scales on Li Chang’an’s body had come to resemble Dragon Scales, and his form had slowly morphed into that of a coiled dragon.
However, just as he was pondering how to carve his own dragon horns, lightning suddenly flashed and thunder roared as a storm descended from the sky.
Thunderbolts as thick as buckets swept across Li Chang’an’s body, leaving dark scorch marks on his surface.
If his body hadn’t already undergone several evolutions, a single one of these Thunderbolts would have likely caused him severe damage.
But even with his transformations, being struck by a Thunderbolt was still an unpleasant sensation.
Seeing more Thunderbolts streaking through the sky and hurtling toward his head, Li Chang’an opened his mouth and spat out a waterfall-like vortex of Spiritual Qi, trying to block the onslaught.
But lightning was the wrath of the heavens. How could it be so easily blocked?
Li Chang’an exhausted all his strength to barely block three of the empowering Thunderbolts, but two still slammed into the top of his head.
’This must be one of the tribulations of my predetermined fate.’
Li Chang’an had, in fact, long been prepared for this.
But he had never expected the Thunderbolts to be so immense and unstoppable.
The two Thunderbolts that struck his head left two deep indentations.
Deciding to go all in, Li Chang’an used the Bone Transformation Technique to sculpt the two indentations, which were still crackling with arcs of electricity, into a pair of horns.
Soon, a pair of translucent, pale purple dragon horns appeared atop Li Chang’an’s head.
After examining them closely for a moment and deciding they didn’t detract from his majestic appearance, Li Chang’an breathed a small sigh of relief.
[Ding! Defying Fate successful!]
[At the age of fifty, you tempered your body in a mountain fire, successfully forging your stone form into the rare Spirit Jade Body. At the age of one hundred, you underwent Thunderous Empowerment and successfully obtained the Power of the Thunder Attribute!]
[Rebirth evaluation has increased. You have received an additional 30,000 Rebirth Points!]
He never thought that two empowering thunderbolt strikes would give him a pair of dragon horns filled with the Power of the Thunder Attribute. This was a truly pleasant surprise for Li Chang’an.
With the addition of the two dragon horns, Li Chang’an became even more extraordinary.
From a distance, he was now the most eye-catching rock in the entire bunch.
Since adapting to the long life of a rock, Li Chang’an’s perception of time had grown increasingly dull.
He didn’t know how much longer he had spent evolving on the mountain, only that Zhang Chuan and Zhang Wu had died before long. Soon, their grandsons, great-grandsons, and further generations of descendants were coming to the mountain to hunt.
Fortunately, these descendants all remembered their ancestors’ instructions.
They would come to make offerings and burn Incense for Li Chang’an at regular intervals.
It was through their occasional conversations that Li Chang’an learned the village at the foot of the mountain had grown into a small town with a much larger population.
Yet, the number of hunters coming up the mountain hadn’t increased. He overheard that this was because most of the people below had taken up farming. The hunter’s profession—living off the land—was no longer as popular or respected as it once was.
Li Chang’an found this somewhat strange.
’If things continue in this vein, the people at the foot of the mountain will soon enter an agrarian society.’
’So why were they still playing at tribal warfare when I was three thousand years old?’
Though puzzled, Li Chang’an didn’t dwell on it.
By now, he was powerful enough to draw upon the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi to transform his body on his own. The offerings of Incense were still beneficial, but their absence would no longer hinder his continued evolution.
「At the age of five hundred.」
Li Chang’an’s body was already showing signs that he would Transform into a Dragon. Not only were his Dragon Scales vividly lifelike, but his two magnificent dragon horns would also occasionally crackle with faint arcs of electricity.
By this time, the number of hunters entering the mountains had dwindled to almost none. Even the Zhang Family, who had once promised to worship him for all generations, had long forgotten their ancestors’ pledge.
Li Chang’an didn’t hold it against them, however.
After all, he had only casually saved Zhang Daniu’s life. The fact that their family had honored him for so many generations was more than he could have ever asked for.
「At the age of one thousand.」
Li Chang’an heard that the people below were apparently organizing for war. The town’s hunters had all been conscripted, which meant his sources of information became even more limited.
「At the age of one thousand one hundred.」
The war was over, and it seemed the town below had been defeated. Hundreds, if not thousands, of men and women fled into the mountains, seeking refuge from the chaos.
One day, Li Chang’an saw a young girl and a burly man enter the mountains.
The reason Li Chang’an noticed these two in particular among the throngs of refugees was that their demeanor was clearly out of place.
The girl looked to be about fifteen or sixteen. She was quite beautiful, and a persistent gloom clung to her features, evoking a sense of pity.
The burly man, on the other hand, was a full two meters tall, as imposing and formidable as a small mountain himself.
The man kept the girl close, apparently acting as her personal guard.