Chapter 598 - 565: A Thousand-Year Grudge
Chapter 598: Chapter 565: A Thousand-Year Grudge
Li Wei and Saint Xi were in the Endless Sea, searching for the Saint Dragon King’s whereabouts.
Far away in Maple City, Torresta’s avatar wasn’t resting either.
He was searching everywhere for the information Li Wei needed.
After a month of effort, he actually managed to find some surprising information.
The Dragon Hunter had once participated in an operation to hunt a Wind Poison Dragon in the Poison Dragon Cave.
The person in charge of the Wind Poison Dragon hunting operation was the Empire’s most ancient Prince—the Jade Prince.
The intelligence also revealed that after becoming a Legendary Professional, the Dragon Hunter had been in the service of the Jade Prince ever since.
The reason was simple: the Jade Prince was the noble in the Empire most enthusiastic about hunting Giant Dragons.
The Dragon Hunter needed to hunt Giant Dragons to grow stronger.
It was no surprise that he served the Jade Prince.
Both sides got what they wanted.
The Jade Prince had been collecting the hearts of Giant Dragons.
However, he wasn’t doing it to create Dragon Blood Potions.
Instead, it was to create a Secret Medicine that could grant him long life.
This Secret Medicine could only be created using the hearts of Giant Dragons, which possessed immense Life Force.
It was precisely because the Jade Prince had used this Secret Medicine that he was able to live for a thousand years.
Becoming the Empire’s most ancient Prince.
But this wasn’t even the bombshell news.
What truly surprised and astonished Li Wei was that his avatar had unearthed a top-secret event from a thousand years ago.
This was also the starting point of how the Jade Prince obtained the Secret Medicine of longevity.
A thousand years ago, the Dragon Race was embroiled in civil war.
The Demon Dragon King started the war, vying for the throne of the Dragon Race.
He was backed by a Demon God.
Not only that, but the Demon Dragon King also took the initiative to approach humans.
He cooperated with certain humans, using the power of the Human Empire to weaken the Saint Dragon King’s forces.
One could say the Demon Dragon King also deserved some credit for the rise of the Dragon Blood Warriors.
Among those bewitched by the Demon Dragon King was the Jade Prince.
The Demon Dragon King killed the Saint Dragon King’s daughter.
He tore out her Dragon Soul and her heart.
The Demon Dragon King gave the heart to the Jade Prince and told him a method to extract the potent Life Force from a dragon’s heart.
He helped the Jade Prince create the Secret Medicine for longevity.
In return, the Jade Prince used his own influence to secretly help the Demon Dragon King suppress the Saint Dragon King’s forces.
The Demon Dragon King leaked the movements of the Dragon Race.
The Dragon Hunting Legion, controlled by the Jade Prince, won repeated victories and grew ever stronger.
This ultimately laid the foundation for his current, unshakeable position.
As the Empire’s most ancient Prince, he was not only the oldest in age but also wielded immense power and authority.
Unfortunately, after living for over a thousand years, even the Jade Prince, who had taken the Secret Medicine, could feel his life approaching its limit.
That was why he was so desperate to find traces of Giant Dragons.
He hoped to create a new Secret Medicine for longevity to extend his life.
Torresta obtained all this information from an Alchemist family.
This Alchemist family was descended from the very Alchemist who helped the Jade Prince create the Secret Medicine a thousand years ago.
To prevent news of the Secret Medicine from spreading, the Jade Prince sent people to "deal with" the Alchemist after he finished creating it.
The Alchemist had also sensed the danger.
He made preparations in advance and escaped the Jade Prince’s assassins.
He fled to a remote area, changed his name, and lived in obscurity just to survive.
To evade the Jade Prince’s pursuit, that Alchemist never created another Secret Medicine for the rest of his life.
He hid his identity and lived as an ordinary person.
It wasn’t until his descendants discovered the legacy he left behind that they took up the Alchemist trade again, continuing it to this day.
The Alchemist who created the longevity Secret Medicine also recorded his experiences.
He compiled them into a Secret Scripture and hid it within his legacy.
It was only when a genius appeared in the Alchemist family and deciphered the recipe for the longevity Secret Medicine from the Secret Scripture that the shocking events of a thousand years ago came to light.
That genius wanted to verify the authenticity of the recipe and began seeking materials to create the longevity Secret Medicine.
This was how Torresta’s avatar discovered him.
And so, Li Wei finally learned the whole story.
At first, he had only wanted to find the mastermind behind the Dragon Hunter.
He never expected that, after all this, he would end up unearthing the secret between the Demon Dragon King and the Jade Prince.
Knowing that the Legendary Witch Lich was determined to break through the Storm Wall, Li Wei guessed that he wanted revenge on the Jade Prince.
After all, the Jade Prince was only alive today because of a Secret Medicine created from the heart of the Witch Lich’s wife.
There was no way the Legendary Witch Lich would ever let him go.
As for why the Legendary Witch Lich knew about the affair between the Jade Prince and the Demon Dragon King, Li Wei wasn’t surprised at all.
After all, the Legendary Witch Lich was one of the parties involved a thousand years ago.
It would be strange if he *didn’t* know.
A thousand years ago, the Demon Dragon King tore out Holy Dragon Philis’s heart right in front of him.
Afterward, the Legendary Witch Lich, who was still a Mage at the time, made inquiries everywhere, searching for his wife’s heart.
As a member of the Dragon Race, the Demon Dragon King had no need for a Giant Dragon’s heart.
What was useful to him was the Dragon Soul.
In that era, the greatest use for a Giant Dragon’s heart was to create Dragon Blood Potions.
Following this clue, the Legendary Witch Lich easily found his way to the Jade Prince, who was then the Commander of the Dragon Hunting Legion and the Dragon Blood Warriors.
By then, the Jade Prince had already taken the longevity Secret Medicine.
The Legendary Witch Lich sensed a familiar aura from him.
Later, when he connected this to the Jade Prince’s unnaturally long life, the Legendary Witch Lich understood the source of that familiar aura.
The life-aura of Holy Dragon Philis.
He wanted to find out what had truly happened.
He found the Jade Prince to confront him face-to-face.
When the Jade Prince saw that he had guessed his connection to the Demon Dragon King, he instantly resolved to kill him.