Chapter 558: Chapter 552: Immortal Power

“Your Majesty is eager for the talent, once saying that knowing people and making good use of them is of the utmost importance! Mister’s great ability, this Prince wishes to recommend Mister for the Umbral Noble Rank, to enter the imperial hospital as its head, to serve His Majesty. What are your thoughts, Mister?”

Theodore Lindwood smiled slightly, without beating around the bush, and took out the sincere offer of a noble rank, confidently inviting David Jones.

The Umbral Dynasty has a seven-level noble rank system, ranked from high to low as follows: Venerable, Noble, Duke, Marquis, Earl, Viscount, Baron.

The highest Level I Venerable rank is only for those above Ghost Immortal who have made great contributions to the Umbral and can only be held by powerhouses at the apex of Ghost Emperor.

Azir Nos, as the leader of the Green Wood Saint Clan, the ruler over a domain, holds merely a noble rank himself.

Worldly powerhouses vie for fame and profit fervently, and he believed the temptation of being ennobled would be sufficient for David Jones to choose to join the royal family.

After all, it was a Class II noble rank that ordinary Ghost Emperor powerhouses would not even dare to dream of in their entire lives, representing power and status.

“Then I must trouble Your Highness,” said David Jones, his eyes lighting up as he readily accepted.

A Class II noble rank would already give him access to the Umbral’s secrets, and his planned scheme was now largely complete.

Now it remained to be seen what secrets lay hidden behind the Cross-world Gate standing deep within the Umbral Palace!

Seeing that David Jones had accepted the invitation, Theodore Lindwood slowly exhaled a heavy breath, then turned his head to glance at his sister.

Lornaa Lindwood nodded slightly and took out a pitch-black elixir that faintly resonated with the sound of a Dragon Roar from a space ghost implement, and introduced it.

“Mister, this is the royal family’s secret treasure, the Nine Abyssal Body Protective Pill. Upon consumption, you will gain the protection of a wisp of Dragon God’s power, which can not only withstand a fatal attack but can also instantly teleport you to the Umbral Imperial City—an excellent life-preserving elixir,” Lornaa explained.

David Jones’s eyes flickered as he looked at the elixir in Lornaa’s palm, which appeared to be a poison in the form of external alchemy, yet to him, it held no secrets.

[Nine Abyssal Heart-protecting Pill]: A Class VII SS-tier elixir, uniquely crafted by the Saint of Healer of the Umbral with the power of the Guardian Dragon God as the catalyst. It can shield the user from an attack and enable Spatial Teleportation.

Note: If the user harbors any thoughts of betrayal against the Umbral royal family, the Dragon God’s power attached inside their body will activate on its own, causing the user’s blood to rebel and collapse, their entire Cultivation dissipating like water.

Over time, the Dragon God’s power will subtly alter the user’s will, making the user a loyal servant to the royal family.

(With the Dragon-Wielding Talent, devouring the Dragon God’s power within the elixir can neutralize the pill’s side effects, losing the teleportation ability, but the life-saving power will remain. There is also a chance to awaken a new trait of the Dragon-Wielding Talent by consuming the Dragon God’s power.)

Body protection, heart protection—with just a difference of one character, the implications are worlds apart!

After reading the information on the Nine Abyssal Heart-protecting Pill, David Jones maintained a calm expression, not surprised in the slightest. If anything, he was relieved.

It was common for forces to add a layer of protection when recruiting talent.

David Jones could understand Theodore Lindwood’s methods, but that didn’t mean he agreed with them.

So, when the time came, they should not blame him for plundering the Umbral’s resources and then absconding.

Thus, beneath Lornaa Lindwood’s feigned bashful exterior, David Jones picked up the Nine Abyssal Heart-protecting Pill and swallowed it.

Upon witnessing this, Theodore Lindwood let out a sigh of relief.

Although the Nine Abyssal Heart-protecting Pill was one of the royal family’s utmost secret external alchemies, with barely any ghosts aware of the elixir’s specific details, he was still somewhat afraid that the mysterious David Jones would notice the hidden wisp of the Dragon God’s power within the pill.

Now that David Jones had taken the elixir, he became one of them; even if David were to discover the hidden negative effects of the Nine Abyssal Heart-protecting Pill in the future, he still couldn’t pose any threat to the royal family, unless he was willing to forsake his Cultivation and die!

As Theodore Lindwood and Lornaa Lindwood smiled, viewing David as a future mainstay, a Dragon Roar from ancient times resounded within David’s mind.

“Roar!”

David’s expression remained unchanged, but secretly he used a part of his mind to control the Dragon-Wielding Power, wrapping the Nine Abyssal Heart-protecting Pill he had ingested tightly within.

The emergence of the Dragon-Wielding Power seemed to agitate the Dragon God’s force within the elixir.

As a faint wisp of white smoke rose, the flawless surface of the Heart-protecting Pill gradually cracked open, revealing a sacred dragon, glowing all over and with indistinct features, that suddenly burst out from the fissure at an unfathomable speed.

Luckily, the Dragon-Wielding Power held a certain allure to the dragon, and instead of attempting to break through the confinement of the Dragon-Wielding Power, it actively threw itself into it, seeking to reverse the engulfment.

“Is this the Immortal and Indestructible Power of the Dragon God?”

Feeling that touch of undiminishable divine radiance, David’s step faltered slightly.

“What’s wrong, Sir?” asked Theodore, puzzled.

“It’s nothing,” David shook his head and deftly changed the subject, discussing the more familiar Alchemy Scripture with Lornaa, while in reality, he devoted most of his effort to capturing and devouring the Dragon God’s power.

Unlike the Dragon God’s power, which was fighting alone without any support, the Dragon-Wielding Power inside David’s body, though far inferior in quality to the Dragon God’s Power, vastly exceeded it in quantity and could be replenished at any time.

Most importantly, David’s Dragon-Wielding Power had an extremely special ability to engulf, slowly wearing down the Immortal Power that even legendary warriors might not be able to annihilate.

Consequently, before the arrogant strand of Dragon God’s Power could start to engulf, it was thoroughly wrapped by the overwhelming Dragon-Wielding Power and started to be refined.

“Roar!” An unwilling dragon chant echoed.

After just ten minutes, the Dragon God’s Power being overwhelmed finally lost its faint sentience and became a mass of Energy, pure and incomparable, which was the Immortal Power that even the Dragon-Wielding Power could not destroy.

Sensing the desire and impatience coming from the Arcane Star, the cautious David picked out a strand from that wisp of Immortal Power, estimated to be hundreds of strands, and slowly integrated it into his own Arcane Star.

“Boom!”

David felt a shake in his mind, and his already rock-solid Arcane Star underwent a transformation, becoming as firm as a boulder of goldstone, radiating Domination that couldn’t be gazed upon directly, but this state lasted only a moment before reverting to its original form.

“Is this all the so-called Immortal Power is? It can’t even further awaken the Dragon-Wielding Power!”

Just as David was feeling somewhat disappointed, he discovered that his Arcane Star, which he thought would take years to condense, had directly advanced from the initial phase of Class V to the apex of the initial phase, just a half step away from breaking into the medium phase.

Overjoyed, David hesitated not a moment to integrate ten strands of Immortal Power into his Arcane Star.

However, with more volumes of Immortal Power being integrated into the Arcane Star this time, the effect of Strengthening the Arcane Star was clearly not as good as the first time; not only did the previous golden stone anomaly not occur, but his Arcane Star Cultivation couldn’t even step into the medium phase of Class V.

Instead of anger, David felt elated.

Energy wouldn’t just disappear without reason!

His intuition told him that if he could absorb the remaining ninety or so strands of Immortal Power entirely, his Dragon-Wielding Talent was bound to awaken a new trait!