I am in Douluo, I am the son of the Dragon God

Chapter 438 Transaction (4-character chapter)

"Trade?" Xu Xingyu looked at Lieyan in surprise, then frowned and asked, "As the only god-level expert in the entire Five Elements Continent, I don't think there are many things you can't get. Is there anything else you need from me?"

Hearing this, Lieyan sighed and said, "Don't tease me. Since you know that I am a creature from the abyss, then you also know how strict the restrictions of the God Realm are on me. Even though I am invincible in this plane, I am just a slightly larger grasshopper in front of the God Realm."

"That's true." Xu Xingyu nodded as if in agreement, then looked at Lieyan calmly and said slowly: "But are you sure you are here to trade, not to force a deal?"

After he finished speaking, a nine-colored dragon shadow appeared from behind Xu Xingyu. The oppressive feeling of the Dragon God began to spread in this inner earth world. At this moment, Xu Xingyu's body also completed the dragon transformation, and it seemed that he was ready to fight at any time.

However, in response to Xu Xingyu's accusation, Lieyan just shrugged and said, "I just saw that you have been quietly testing the red lotus mark on your body, and I felt a little sorry for wanting to obtain the spatial coordinates of the inner world, so I just fulfilled your wish and teleported you here."

What he meant was that Xu Xingyu's previous act of secretly scanning Ji Dong's Red Lotus Mark in an attempt to obtain the coordinates to the inner world was noticed by Lie Yan.

"Oh, thank you very much, Her Majesty the Flame Queen. I also want to make a deal with Her Majesty, so this is fine. But next time, if possible, please give us advance notice."

"Then I'll pay attention next time. Can I now present my side of the deal?"

"Please."

After getting Xu Xingyu's affirmation, Lieyan felt a little relieved. She actually understood that what she said before was just an excuse. Her actions were actually preparations to take a dominant position in the upcoming negotiations.

It's not like she had never made deals with other people before. For example, when she was seeking various natural treasures for Ji Dong, she had made deals with Teng Snake, Suzaku, Frost Dragon, etc. However, she was able to take the lead in those deals only because the gap in strength between the two sides was too big. Therefore, even if they didn't want to make deals with her, they had to bite the bullet and make deals.

But Xu Xingyu is different. Whether it is his performance on the Holy Evil Island or now, this young man named Ji Dong definitely has the trump card that can compete with the god-level self.

If he relied on hard power to force the other party to make a deal with him, it would definitely cause a big commotion, and eventually his existence would be noticed by the gods.

So she did this kind of act of luring someone into a trap. On the one hand, it was to ensure that the gods would not discover her. After all, most of the gods were observing the surface and rarely cared about the development of the center of the earth.

On the other hand, if the negotiations between the two failed, she could also rely on the environment of the center of the earth to gain an advantage on the battlefield after the negotiations failed. But now it seems that even if she has these advantages, she may not be able to keep Xu Xingyu and others.

Little did he know that Xu Xingyu was also feeling somewhat fortunate for the upcoming deal. After all, Lieyan believed that he could not keep Xu Xingyu, while Xu Xingyu felt that even if he could take Gu Qiuxi and Yalin'er away, things would not be much better.

There is no way, he himself does not belong to this plane, which means that the spatial coordinates of Xu Xingyu belonging to this plane are nothing but the Holy Evil Island.

Once he uses the power of space to teleport himself, Gu Qiuxi and Yalin'er away from the inner world, they will be trapped on the Holy Evil Island for the next five years.

Although there was no time limit for the Dragon God's third test, he was not in the mood to stay on the Holy Evil Island for five full years! If he remembered correctly, the next Holy Evil War would be the one when the Dark Sky Tribulation triggered the Ten Thousand Tribulations Prison of Thunder. He was not in the mood to witness the Ten Thousand Tribulations Prison of Thunder fully erupting. The last time the core array suffered was enough to give him a headache!

The other people who were listening at the side were a little scared by the conversation between the two. Fortunately for Gu Qiuxi, she had seen a god-level strong man, so the moment she entered this space, she realized that this was the act of a god-level strong man. At most, her expression became a little gloomy and lost after getting a positive answer.

Originally, she chose to accompany Xu Xingyu to participate in the Dragon God test this time, not only because of her special Golden Dragon test, but also because she wanted to help Xu Xingyu like other girls.

Gu Qiuxi is different from Xu Xingyu and other girls. She can't guide her practice like Gu Yuena and protect Xu Xingyu when he is in danger, or help deal with power issues like Xu Jiujiu and Jiang Nannan, nor can she learn soul guides like Xu Yanxue to help the Spirit Pagoda, and she can't offer all her family's power like Wang Dong'er and still be on the forging list of Xu Xingyu.

So when she knew that her assessment was to accompany Xu Xingyu to go through the Nine Tests of the Dragon God, and use the blank godhood he had given her before to comprehend her own path and achieve her own godhood, she was actually quite happy, and thought that she could finally help Xu Xingyu.

Now, she has become a burden to Brother Xingyu. After all, the power of a god-level strong man is too strong, and Gu Qiuxi's spirit, body, and energy have not reached the god-level. There is no way she can help Xu Xingyu when facing such a strong man.

This made a seed of extreme unwillingness surge in Gu Qiuxi's heart, but she didn't know that this feeling of unwillingness caused the Golden Dragon King's divine core in her body to resonate, and by the next day this seed would germinate sooner or later. At that moment, whether Gu Qiuxi would achieve transformation or destruction would all depend on herself.

As for Yalin'er and Ji Dong, it was different. They were both so surprised that they couldn't speak.

In the former case, Yalin'er was surprised that Xu Xingyu could actually compete with a god-level strongman, and why, the moment Lieyan revealed that Xu Xingyu was the inheritor of the Dragon God, her bloodline became more submissive to Xu Xingyu?

Ji Dong's feelings for the latter are more complicated. To put it simply, he has always regarded Lie Yan as his goddess and has a crush on her. Therefore, the main purpose of his training has always been to grow up to be able to protect her and become Lie Yan's lover.

Now you tell him that Lieyan is a real goddess and the strongest person in the entire Five Elements Continent. The enemy she fears is a force called the God Realm which is not part of the Five Elements Continent and contains more than one god!

Fortunately, this news did not discourage Ji Dong. Instead, it made him understand why Lie Yan had been paying so much for him. He became more determined to become a god in the future and protect the Lie Yan he loved!

Back to the present, the moment Xu Xingyu said "please do as you wish", Lieyan also proposed the terms of the deal.

"I want to use five Earth Core Lotus Seeds in exchange for specific information on how the Dragon God became a god and created a godly throne."

"Oh?" Xu Xingyu frowned. He didn't expect Lieyan to do this. You know, this news is of no use to Lieyan, a creature from the abyss.

After all, although the laws of the universe allow the existence of abyss creatures for the sake of the balance of the universe, they will never allow any abyss creature to achieve the throne of God King. If any abyss creature achieves the throne of God King, it will become the enemy of the entire universe.

In the original work, Lieyan was able to become a God King (although the weakest one) due to many factors. First, Lieyan was not a pure abyss creature. She did not have the instinct of ordinary abyss creatures to devour all life, nor the instinct to ignore any life. Second, her throne was inherited by the previous generation of the God of Kindness. Third, her throne was only a proxy throne and could be taken away by the God of Kindness who passed it on to her at any time.

As everyone knows, the Dragon God's way to becoming a god is to prove his truth through force. The Dragon God created his own throne and became the God King through his own analysis of the laws of the universe, and he is even the Supreme God King of the highest level.

Even when the Abyss Demon King was promoted to God King, he took another path. This is a path that Abyss creatures, even impure Abyss creatures, absolutely cannot take. Once they take this path, they will end up destroyed due to the hostility of the laws of the universe.

But at this time, Xu Xingyu saw Ji Dong beside Lie Yan, and the doubts in her heart were solved on the spot. She smiled and said, "I didn't expect that Her Majesty the Queen has such a special liking for Brother Ji Dong. Does she want Ji Dong to follow the path of the Dragon God in the future?"

"This has nothing to do with you!" Lieyan responded with a cold expression.

In response, Xu Xingyu just looked nonchalant and continued: "Okay, okay, I won't tease you anymore, I'll just tell you what I think."

"I don't agree with this deal, it's not a good deal at all."

This made Lieyan suddenly nervous. She knew that Xu Xingyu's words were not a rejection, but a request for more money.

Don't underestimate Lieyan because she is a god-level warrior. She doesn't have many treasures that can impress Xu Xingyu. The most precious ones are the nine earth-core lotus seeds in her hand. She originally wanted to use them to forge her own artifact. Now she feels very painful to exchange five for such a piece of information that she doesn't know whether it is useful or not. And now you want to pay more!!!

But just when Lieyan wanted to express his dissatisfaction, Xu Xingyu continued: "And to be honest, although your Earth Core Lotus Seed is precious, it is of average value to me now. If possible, I want something else."

These words suddenly reminded Lieyan that Xu Xingyu had said before that he also wanted to make a deal with him. So did this mean that he already had a desired target?

With this question in mind, Lieyan immediately asked: "Since you don't like my lotus seeds, then what do you want?"

Xu Xingyu replied calmly, "I want a Pure Flame Red Lotus."

As soon as these words came out, Lieyan's face instantly became gloomy, and he said in a deep voice: "Xu Xingyu, do you know what you are saying?"

As the incarnation of the Earth Core Red Lotus, Lie Yan naturally knew about the Pure Flame Red Lotus, a variant of the Earth Core Red Lotus, but it was precisely because of this that she was so resistant.

Even if Xu Xingyu said that he wanted all the Earth Core Lotus Seeds and Flames in her hands, he would not show such an attitude. However, Xu Xingyu's current behavior was, to some extent, no different from asking her to sell out her own people.

Lieyan would never allow such behavior. As the first red lotus of the earth's core to be born with intelligence, she has always taken good care of her people.

After seeing that other tribesmen were unable to develop spiritual intelligence like her due to the harsh environment on the eighteenth floor, she took them away from the eighteenth floor and let them grow on the fifteenth floor. There, her tribesmen soon developed their own spiritual intelligence, and when their cultivation reached a certain level, they transformed into humans and established the Fire Lotus Clan, and regarded Lieyan as their leader.

Therefore, Lieyan would never agree to such a deal that would sell off his people!!! Even if they were mutants!!!

Xu Xingyu only knew that this deal would definitely make Lie Yan feel disgusted with him, but there was no other way. In order to solve the changes in Wang Dong'er's body, he had to get the Pure Flame Red Lotus!

Xu Xingyu said solemnly: "Of course I know what this deal means to you, but I have no choice but to get the Pure Flame Red Lotus. Just like you want to get some information about becoming a god from me for Ji Dong's future, and I have to get the Pure Flame Red Lotus for someone important to me."

Listening to Xu Xingyu's words, Lieyan also caught something at this moment. She had seen it in Ji Dong before. It was the awareness of one person to save another person.

Finally, after thinking for a while, Lieyan said in a low voice: "I can agree to your deal, but you have to promise me that you will never treat this member of my tribe unfairly!"

"Okay." Xu Xingyu nodded slightly.

Lieyan then added: "Besides that, the information about how the Dragon God became a god is not enough to be exchanged for my people. So you have to add something else."

"Something else?" Xu Xingyu thought for a moment and said, "Then can you give Ji Dong three chances to save his life? As long as it's not a god-level strongman who takes action, I can immediately teleport to his side through the power of space to help him."

After a mental struggle, Lieyan finally agreed: "This... is also possible."

To be honest, she actually wanted something else, but there was nothing she could do because Xu Xingyu had immediately grasped her vital point, Ji Dong.

It has been said before that Lie Yan cannot take action in the mortal world because of the reasons in the divine realm, so if Ji Dong gets into trouble in the mortal world, she will have no way to save him, otherwise her only fate will be death.

"Happy trade then?"

"Well, happy trading."