Dragon Clan: They're all insane, and you still want me to slay dragons?

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"Then tell me first, what are the Fierce Ghosts, and where are they?" Gao Kui got straight to the point.

Genjiro and the other family heads immediately looked at Ryoma Genichiro. The negotiations hadn't even started yet, and you've already sold out the Snake-Headed Eight Families.

Aside from Genjiro, only Ryoma Genichiro had a significant amount of contact with Takagi earlier in the entire conference room.

"It has nothing to do with the head of the Ryoma family. Someone else told me the name 'Fierce Demon Clan.' Don't underestimate my intelligence network."

Gao Kui, adopting the air of an intelligence expert, swept his gaze over the crowd and sneered, "What, judging from your expressions, it seems you have no intention of telling me about the Demon Clan?"

"Of course not. We know that honest communication is necessary to gain your understanding. We just didn't expect that you already knew about the existence of the Fierce Ghosts."

Ryoma Genichiro explained for a moment, then turned to look at Genjiro and the others, asking for their opinions. After receiving nods of approval from the family heads, he gathered his thoughts and began to explain in detail.

"To understand the Demon Clan, one must understand the Snake Clan. It concerns the secrets of the Snake Clan's life and death, which is why we have kept it largely hidden from them before."

Now……"

Now is a time when we must speak out.

Ryoma Genichiro sighed slightly and said, "The bloodline of the dragon is both the glory and the curse of the Snake-Headed Eight Families, just like... just like the Gao family of Northern Qi in China and the Beowulf family in Europe. This curse has haunted the Snake-Headed Eight Families for thousands of years."

Throughout history, the bloodlines of the Snake Clan have never been stable, at least statistically speaking, far less stable than those of ordinary mixed-race families.

Hybrids possessing the bloodline of the Snake Clan have a very high probability of falling into the form of "Demons." You may not know what a Demon is; according to Cassel, it's roughly an intermediate state between a hybrid and a Deadpool, ultimately completely degenerating into a Deadpool.

The proportion of ghosts within a family once reached as high as 50%. The more outstanding the bloodline, the higher the proportion of dragon blood, and the more likely one is to fall into ghosthood.

Since ancient times, every member of the Snake Clan has had to undergo bloodline testing when they are young. Those whose bloodline is not stable enough are identified as demons or potential demons and sent to the deep mountains for surveillance. Once there are signs of their bloodline awakening, the clan will send law enforcement officers to eliminate them.

Even so, a considerable number of ghosts escaped the pursuit of the family's law enforcement officers. They banded together for warmth and called themselves the Fierce Ghost Clan.

This organization is like the shadow of the Snake-Headed Eight Families, clinging to them for thousands of years without ever being extinguished. Because they share the same origin as the families, as long as the bloodline of the Snake-Headed Eight Families continues, they will never be completely wiped out.

Ryoma Genichiro stopped speaking here, and the other family heads also looked sad. There were quite a few of their clansmen and relatives who had fallen into demonhood.

Hybrids are lonely, not accepted by dragons or humans, and can only find warmth in each other's embrace. Therefore, hybrids generally value family ties.

Yet they had to kill their own family members time and time again.

"and then?"

Gao Kui remained calm, even thinking that the Snake-Ghost Eight Families were making a mountain out of a molehill. "I thought it was something serious, but it turns out it's just an unstable bloodline."

Despite the European Secret Party's extreme emphasis on the stability of mixed-race bloodlines, every student in Kassel had to sign the "Abraham Treaty," and every mixed-race individual with unstable bloodlines was closely monitored by the school.

But Gao Kui saw something quite different.

It's easy to tell from the Bloodlust Secret Technique that Angers himself, Meneke Cassel's generation, and the hybrids who have fought on the front lines of dragon slaying throughout history, all have unstable bloodlines.

Even if something was originally stable, it can become unstable after using methods like Bloodlust. Stable bloodline also means weakness. How can one dance with dragons without breaking through the critical point?

Gao Kui's own mental state is also unstable. Although Angers said that mental state and bloodline state are not the same thing, Gao Kui felt that they are essentially the same thing. In the end, aren't they both uncontrollable?

Seeing Gao Kui's calm and composed demeanor, Ryoma Genichiro and the others couldn't help but admire him. As expected of the prince of Northern Qi and the Messiah of Cassel appointed by Angers, he remained unfazed even knowing that the Snake-Headed Eight Families had such a big problem.

In reality, Gao Kui considered it a trivial matter.

"Then, we have to talk about the differences between the Demon Clan and the Snake Clan."

The Snake Clan ultimately followed the path of humans and hybrids, while the Demon Clan followed the path of dragons. They believed that dragons should be the emperors who rule the world, the most perfect creations of the Creator, and that humans and hybrids were only fit to be servants of dragons.

Furthermore, the Demon Clan has always pursued the perfect evolution from hybrids to pure-blooded dragons.

Gao Kui scoffed when he heard the Ghost Clan believe that dragons were the Creator's most perfect creation. The most perfect creation was either Adam or Michael; what did dragons have to do with it?

When Ryoma Genichiro mentioned the perfect evolution that the Oni Clan was pursuing, Gao Kui perked up a little. He remembered that Angers had mentioned the "path to godhood".

The ultimate goal of the path to godhood is to become a hybrid monarch who is no less powerful than the next generation or even the first generation, having completely shed his snake skin and transformed into a dragon.

"Tell me in detail about that perfect evolution."

Even if Gao Kui didn't ask, Ryoma Genichiro would still bring up this point, saying, "And this brings us back to the origin of the dragon blood of the Snake-Headed Eight Families."

The earliest hybrids were created when humans offered women to dragons, resulting in childbirth through intercourse. The dragon bloodline of the Snake-Headed Eight Families, however, originated from the blessing of a high-ranking dragon, or perhaps from bloodline contamination; we refer to that high-ranking dragon as a god.

God gave us the bloodline of dragons and entrusted us with the sacred remains that contain his spirit and can bring him back to life, hoping that one day we can resurrect him.

After obtaining the sacred remains, the ancestors of the Snake-Headed Eight Families did not follow the gods' instructions. Instead, they built a burial site to seal the remains inside. From then on, the mission of the Snake-Headed Eight Families became to worship and suppress the sacred remains.

However, the sacred remains possessed the power to bewitch people. One of the ancestors of the family was bewitched by the sacred remains and merged with them to become the Yamata no Orochi. The other ancestors had no choice but to suppress the Yamata no Orochi and bury it at the bottom of the sea along with the Divine Burial Ground.

The Demon Clan's long-cherished wish is to release the Yamata no Orochi, which has merged with the sacred remains, so that the returning god can truly be reborn, and ultimately receive the blessing from the god to evolve into a true dragon.

Ryoma Genichiro paused again.

“I smelled a lie,” Gao Kui said.

Even if he no longer cared so much about the truth or falsehood of the world and its people, Gao Kui's ability to distinguish between falsehood and reality still remained.

From Ryoma Genichiro's words, Gao Kui sensed a hint of falsehood, a falsehood far less pronounced than Chen Motong's, but much stronger than Angers'.

He didn't lie, but he did conceal something, Gao Kui concluded.

Genjiro and the other family heads immediately felt their hearts leap into their throats. They hadn't expected Gao Kui's judgment to be so sharp; indeed, seeing is believing. Ryoma Genichiro had indeed been hiding something; he had concealed the true identity of that high-ranking dragon: the White King.

If Gao Kui persists in pursuing this point, then there will still be room for further entanglement between the two sides.

"However, I don't care who the dragon that gave you your bloodline is; that's a question the headmaster and the others should be concerned with. Go on, you know you haven't gotten to what I most want to hear yet."

Yuan Zhisheng and the others breathed a sigh of relief.

"Some of the following content will involve my subjective speculation, but it shouldn't be too far off from the truth."

Genichiro Ryoma continued, "The current leader of the Demon Clan is called the King. Even as an enemy, I have to admire him as a man of great talent and ambition."

More than a decade ago, the living space of the Oni clan in Japan was compressed to an unprecedented low, and they were once close to extinction. It was during that time that the King appeared out of nowhere, gathering and integrating all the Oni.

For the past decade or so, the Ghost Gang, under the leadership of the King, has not made any major moves. However, based on the analysis of this incident, it is clear that they are not inactive, but rather have a grand scheme that they are holding back.

Perhaps more than a decade ago, Wang Jiang was plotting to dive to a depth of more than 8,000 meters underwater, destroy the seal of the burial site of the gods, and release the Yamata no Orochi within.

To this end, he continuously planted and bribed spies within the Snake-Headed Eight Families, secretly controlling many key points of the Snake-Headed Eight Families, completely paralyzing the family's intelligence gathering on the Demon Clan, so that the Demon Clan has grown into the behemoth it is today, without our knowledge.

Finally, here's everything that's happening now.

The king will command his demons to launch a fierce attack on the family and its subordinate forces, creating the illusion that he is going to fight the family to the death. His real purpose is to use a feint to the east while attacking the west, and to dive underwater to destroy the seal of the burial site.

To ensure the operation goes smoothly and is not disrupted by anyone, the king will contact the humanoid dragon king John Wick and ask him to guard the skies above the water.

At the same time, he activated the spies planted within the family, namely Sakurai Hiroshi kidnapped Aso Makoto and framed the family, and released this information at the right time to provoke you to attack Genji Heavy Industries.

In this way, both Your Excellency and the Young Master will be kept in check, preventing either of them from going to the Divine Burial Ground to stop them at this crucial moment.

"John Wick?"

Gao Kui was slightly taken aback, then realized that Emmanuel must have been involved in this incident: John Wick seemed to follow the lead of Jiude Mai, who was in turn a henchman of Emmanuel.

This is probably the script written by Emmanuel.

He exploited the demons' thirst for evolution, sending John Wick to contact the King and urge him to take immediate action. And if the King decided to act, and if he was a cautious man, he would inevitably have to consider himself in Japan.

brat!

Now, Gao Kui has roughly guessed Emmanuel's identity: Jesus, the holy son who made a new covenant with the world two thousand years ago, is himself two thousand years ago.

Essentially, I am the same as Emmanuel, the same person, God, and Son, only at different points in time, and with different missions and personalities.

One was Li Sanlang, and the other was Emperor Xuanzong of Tang in his later years. Some say that Li Longji in his youth or early adulthood would have cursed his later self if he saw himself in his later years. Li Longji's personality changed drastically at different stages of his life.

Li Longji probably couldn't see another version of himself, but Immanuel could; He is God. Gao Kui's cursing of Him was tantamount to cursing himself.

As his humanity grew and his sense of independence and self-awareness became stronger, Gao Kui was quite disgusted by Emmanuel's arrangement.

Without Emmanuel's arrangement, Gao Kui would not exist today, and his life as a human being would have come to an end four years ago.

Gao Kui gritted his teeth slightly, his heart filled with mixed emotions. His feelings at this moment, and his views on Emmanuel, were probably only somewhat understood by Emperor Xuan of Han, Liu Bingyi, in Chinese history.

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Unfortunately, even though he knew it was a script written by Emmanuel, Gao Kui had no choice but to play his own role in the script.

"Where is the headquarters of the Ghost Clan, I mean, where is the King General?"

Gao Kui asked in a deep voice, his eyes spitting out flames that seemed to set the world ablaze and throw any enemy into the lake of fire, punishing them with the most severe divine punishment.

An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth. This phrase appears many times in the Old Testament, advocating and supporting the principle of reciprocity in revenge against enemies.

The New Testament explicitly refutes the idea of ​​"an eye for an eye" and "a tooth for a tooth." Jesus said that if someone strikes you on the right cheek, turn the other cheek also and let him strike you; respond to hatred with love.

Neither the New Testament nor the Old Testament condones excessive revenge against enemies outside the legal framework.

However, both the New Testament and the Old Testament advocate entrusting the right of revenge to "God," such as "Do not take revenge yourself, but leave room for the wrath of the Lord" in Romans, and "The Lord God will take revenge on his enemies" in Deuteronomy.

Ryoma Genichiro and the others shuddered. They could feel the killing intent of the Northern Qi prince and they understood Gao Kui's desire for revenge.

Brutal, severe, and resolute.

"Unfortunately, we also don't know the headquarters of the Ghost Clan, or where the King is located."

Genji asked the Sakurai family head for a women's cigarette, lit it, took a deep drag, and said, "Just as the head of the Ryoma family said, the Demon Clan has been keeping a low profile for the past ten years or so, and it seems that they have infiltrated the family, making it impossible for the family to obtain relevant information about them."

Frankly, we can't find even one of the Ghost Clan's major strongholds, let alone their headquarters.

"What a piece of trash." Gao Kui mocked mercilessly.

Genjiro, Ryoma Genichiro, and the others looked embarrassed. Although they were ashamed, they did not refute Gao Kui's sarcasm because what he said was true.

The Snake Clan was practically manipulated by the Demon Clan.

"After this incident, we will devote all our efforts to investigating spies within the family and searching for the whereabouts of the Ghost Clan and the King General. We will notify you as soon as we have any definite information."

Yuan Zhisheng patted his chest and gave his assurance.

The Snake Clan had no reason not to inform Gao Kui after receiving concrete information about the Demon Clan. The enemy of my enemy is my friend; why wouldn't they take advantage of a top-tier fighter for free?

Gao Kui looked impatient. He had never been a patient person, and even though his humanity had improved somewhat, he still lacked patience.

Yuan Zhisheng noticed that Gao Kui was getting impatient, and said, "If you want to take revenge on the king, there is another good place to go."

"where?"

"The burial place of the gods."

Genji explained, "The king did all this just to release the Yamata no Orochi from the Divine Burial Ground and achieve the ultimate evolution. Everything else was just a side move to achieve this goal."

"If you want to get revenge on the king, there's no more effective way than sabotaging their operations."