Reborn as a Mountain: I Defy the Heavens with a Smile-Chapter 171: Dragon Art’s

"I-I already gave you the first part of ’Celestial Dragon Ascension Art’! And that’s all I have! Everything else is behind my sealed memories!" The azure dragon replied with grievance.

Who knows how many times it had explained, but Ye Chen just didn’t believe in it.

"If it is as you say, then let me examine your soul sea," Ye Chen stated, initializing his soul power.

The soul sea was somewhat similar to the sea of consciousness, and it was where memories, special physique, soul essence, and other important elements resided.

If someone wanted to seal the memories, then they would have to do it through the soul sea, and it was easy to investigate this. However, having someone investigate the soul sea was no different than handing them a blade and turning your back, just to see if they’d use it.

Ye Chen understood this but he could clearly see the azure dragon trembling in pain, which was the result of lying to him, as the soul contract did not allow it.

He was already patient enough for asking it multiple times and giving multiple chances to speak the truth. However, since it was not obedient, he decided to use force.

"W-wait! You can’t investigate my soul sea! There are threatening traps set inside by my father, as he predicted someone would try to harm me through this!" The azure dragon explained with panic.

However, anyone could tell it was lying, as its whole body trembled because of backlash.

There was no way Ye Chen would fall for this so he displayed no hesitation and utilized the soul power to the fullest, sealing the escape paths.

"Stop right there! If not, I—I will fight to death!" The azure dragon roared with anxiety.

But Ye Chen did not care about it at all. The dragon art it was hiding after all might be something that can undo the soul contract between them or it might help the azure dragon to escape from the heavenly spear like other children of divine beasts.

There was no way he would allow any of this to happen, as the azure dragon held many secrets. Not to mention it can also be used as a trump card.

"You!" The azure dragon could only watch helplessly as Ye Chen tried to force his way inside the soul sea.

There was, of course, natural protective defense but the azure dragon couldn’t let it act; if not, the soul contract it had made with Ye Chen would sense it as a threatening attack and before even something happens to Ye Chen, its soul might disperse or it would be heavily injured.

The azure dragon was, after all, afraid of death and pain so in the end it could only grit its teeth and suppress the defense of the soul sea.

Swoosh!

Ye Chen did not let this chance go and directly made his way inside the soul sea of the azure dragon in his human soul form.

Similar to the sea of consciousness, the soul sea was vast and endless. Of course the size depended on cultivation.

Ye Chen had long understood this so he was not surprised by this but there was something that stunned him and that was the translucent human figure standing at the center of the soul sea.

"You are a woman?" Ye Chen inquired with a stunned look as he glanced at the delicate figure possessing violet eyes and long azure hair.

The azure dragon had proclaimed to have countless wives before so Ye Chen did not doubt its gender and neither inquired about it. But now seeing its human form, he was confused.

"You brute! Barging into a lady’s soul sea and demanding her gender even after seeing her true human form... just what kind of scheming thoughts are you harboring?!" The azure dragoness glared at him with anger.

"Oh~ So I am harboring scheming thoughts, not the azure dragoness who lied about having countless wives."

"I—I was talking about my father!"

"Really?"

"Y-yes, I am one hundred percent sure." The azure dragoness nodded hurriedly.

In response, Ye Chen rolled his eyes at her and glanced at countless golden runes floating in her soul sea.

These runes were a seal placed on her memories by her father. However, this had nothing to do with him; all he wanted to know was what this dragoness was hiding.

"Y-you stay away from me!"

The dragoness panicked as Ye Chen walked towards her with cold eyes.

She really wanted to run away but because of the seal, the area she could move in was small. So there was no escape.

"I gave you a lot of chances before but you still did not tell the truth. If you want to blame someone, then blame yourself."

Ye Chen spoke as he held her chin. Then, without waiting for her response, he placed his finger between her eyebrows.

The dragoness wanted to stop him, but before she could, her vision blurred, and one by one, memories started to flash before her eyes.

Through these memories, Ye Chen learned a lot about this dragoness and he couldn’t help but become speechless. Because this dragoness loved to pretend to be the Divine Azure Dragon. If not possible, then she will pretend to be the Evil Black Dragon and cause chaos in the family.

For this reason she had been confined in the dragon palace for a long time, unable to cultivate. It was no wonder that she lost to the spiritual mountain whose age was smaller than hers.

’What a troublesome child,’ Ye Chen muttered in his heart and continued to read her memories.

Because most of the memories were sealed, he only learned about the dragoness; as for the ancient era and Divine Azure Dragon, he could only see their faint shadow.

He was a little disappointed at this but he did not care and focused on the technique the dragoness was hiding.

It was the ’Primordial Dragon Space-Time Codex.’

The dragoness had learned this technique through unknown inheritance and only dragons with a divine bloodline can learn it.

And just as Ye Chen guessed, the dragoness was planning to escape and even had the intention of causing trouble for him.

"Ugh!"

Suddenly the dragoness let out a painful grunt.

The process of reading memories was, after all, not harmless. If not for the fact the dragoness kept lying to him, he would not use such a forceful method.

"Count yourself lucky," Ye Chen said to her and withdrew his soul power.

Hearing this, Long Ruxue glared at him viciously but before she could say anything, her vision darkened.

"She has a good face; it’s a pity that she is not bountiful."

Ye Chen muttered, looking at unconsciousness beauty and gave her a score of 10/10. She was, after all, unparalleled beauty; it’s just her assets were pitiful. Nonetheless, it was better than nothing.

After he was done with assessing her, he did not waste any time and withdrew his consciousness, returning to his room.

There were many things he needed to do after all, such as counting gains from the mystic realm, and, most importantly, convincing his junior sister to dual cultivate.

However, before that there was something he needed to handle personally. Thinking of this, he did not hesitate and arrived inside the world of void pearl.

"Ye Chen, release us now! If not, my father won’t let you go!" Zhu Dong shouted with hatred, followed by the disciples of the Flame Dragon Sect.

In the mystic realm they suddenly lost their consciousness. At first they thought it was some opportunity; however, when they saw the disciples of the Flame Dragon Sect arriving here one by one, they immediately understood someone was capturing them.

It did not take too long and they found out it was Ye Chen. He, after all, captured Zhu Dong and a few others without knocking them down.

"Heh~ you are still arrogant after getting captured."

Ye Chen chuckled faintly and then ignored them.

He was here not for them but for the golden queen bee and spider that he had captured. So he did not waste time here and found these two before using ’Soul Binding Art’ on them and successfully making them his slaves.

"Help them recover," he commanded the void pearl and after giving a few more instructions, he left.

As for Zhu Dong and others, he wanted them to break down and lose the will to live. In this way, making them alchemy slaves would be easier.

...

Just as Ye Chen was doing this, a piece of news spread through the mystic city and top powers.

"I didn’t expect the Wu family’s little girl and Crown Prince Ji Feng to become the disciple of mysterious senior."

"Yeah but don’t you think it’s weird for Crown Prince Ji Feng to be a junior brother?"

"Thats right but there is a more important thing and that is the mysterious senior did not accept Ye Chen as his disciple."

"Humph! What’s so important about that? It’s probably because he is cultivating demonic arts!"

"Bullshit! It’s because Ye Chen received the inheritance of the strongest senior, even more than the mysterious old man!"

"Oh really? Then why was he not training and fighting with other disciples like Lin Xian’er? Don’t tell me the ’strongest senior’ only existed in a dream?"

The cultivators who had nothing to do started speculating. Some were badmouthing Ye Chen, while some were speaking on his side.

Soon these words reached Ye Chen and he sneered in response while writing a grudge against the old man in his small diary.

The old man, after all, forced Lin Xian’er and Ji Feng to fight with other disciples under his gaze. Even an idiot would know what kind of rumors would spread if Ye Chen was not with them.

He had, after all, too many enemies, not to mention almost everyone inside the mystic realm was jealous of him.

There was no way the old man failed to see this, which meant he was doing it on purpose, probably because he destroyed the stone golems.

"Old man, be prepared to lose your cute disciple," Ye Chen chuckled to himself as he guessed Lin Xian’er would definitely break ties with him after knowing he used her to create trouble for her lovely demonic brother.