Dragon Transformation in the Apocalypse

Chapter 188 The Test for the Siblings

Although Li Chenglong was pleased with his increased strength, the thought of El and Tris's terrifying attributes and unpredictable superpowers still made him somewhat apprehensive. He hadn't witnessed their combat abilities much; this time, it was only when El was cleaning the house. Normally, he couldn't sense their energy fluctuations during activities. Even when Tris easily moved the over two-meter-tall Kiel alien in and tossed it lightly to the ground, there was no excess energy emanating from it. Fighting either of them would be no easy task.

He sat there cross-legged, carefully sensing the flow of G-crystals and energy within his body. It wasn't until evening that Triss came to call him for dinner. However, Grandma Lena didn't come down. According to El, she had exhausted herself this time and needed to rest for a few days. But she asked her grandson to pass on a message to Li Chenglong: after their first failure, the Gil aliens were preparing to send a second wave of hybrids to Earth, and these hybrids would be far more powerful than the previous five ordinary Gil aliens.

Li Chenglong, still reeling from his recent awakening, had somewhat overlooked the matter. He quickly stood up and said, "My two young friends, I wish to begin the trial immediately. Earth and Dawn City are both in imminent danger; I cannot afford any delay." The two exchanged a glance and nodded slightly. El smiled and said, "Since our elder brother has made his decision, let's begin now. Please follow us."

The two led the way, with Li Chenglong quickly following behind. As they walked, they suddenly spread their wings and took flight, disappearing into the distance in an instant. Li Chenglong knew this was the beginning of the test; if he couldn't even catch up, he couldn't possibly pass. He immediately activated his spiritual energy, using the Dragon Soaring Technique, and flew up to follow them. Seeing the siblings flying further and further away, Li Chenglong gritted his teeth and used spatial teleportation repeatedly, finally managing to catch up, albeit barely.

The two flew for a total of 20 minutes, nodded in satisfaction, and then found an open space to stop. When Li Chenglong arrived, before he could rest, Xiao Cui immediately spoke up: "There are two of us, brother and sister. You can choose either one. As long as you defeat us, you pass the test. Oh, and there's one more thing. Although you feel like two or three days have passed, because you've been traveling through the interdimensional space for so long, it's actually been half a month since your last battle. And it will also take you half a month to return to Earth from our Hailan Star. So you need to cherish your time."

Li Chenglong took a deep breath: "Alright, I choose to challenge El." El folded his white wings and stepped forward: "Okay, but don't hold back, otherwise losing will be a waste of time. I won't hold back either, big brother, be careful." Li Chenglong cupped his hands, unleashing the second level of his Dragon-Phoenix Blood, and charged towards El. El neither dodged nor evaded, meeting the attack head-on.

Li Chenglong had initially thought that his years of combat experience in the army, coupled with the arduous battles he had endured over the past year since the apocalypse, would make him superior to the child before him in both agility and fighting skills. However, after only a dozen or so moves, he found himself not only failing to gain the upper hand but also being relentlessly pushed back by El's combined attacks. Triss, standing nearby, said, "Big brother, you must go all out! This level of skill is absolutely no match for El."

At this moment, El also smiled and said, "Yes, actually I haven't even shown 60% of my strength yet, but I'm going to get serious from now on." Li Chenglong knew that he was definitely going to have to fight to the death, but he really should. He didn't know what was happening to Yunlan and his son, and he didn't know what would happen to Dawn City without him. If he kept cowering and wasting time, they would be in more danger.

Li Chenglong roared, his aura suddenly surging, and then a golden light emanated from his abdomen—the power of the G-Crystal had been activated. Li Chenglong first placed his index fingers and thumbs together in front of the dazzling G-Crystal on his stomach, then slowly waved his right hand from left to right: "Armor Combination! Sunrise Armor!" He had just come up with the name on the spot; Dawn City and the Dawn Army both required the sun to rise, so why not call the armor the Sunrise Armor?

Then, the light from his stomach enveloped Li Chenglong and gradually dissipated. The siblings then saw a person wearing a mixed red, blue, and yellow armor walk out. There was a belt with dragon and phoenix patterns on the stomach of the armor. In the center of the belt was a round ball of light, about the size of a fist, emitting white light. It should be the materialized G crystal.

The siblings nodded, seemingly pleased. Li Chenglong said, "I'm going to go all out now, so please be careful." With that, he rushed forward. El, now fully charged, met them head-on. Their fists clashed, each strike releasing tremendous energy. To protect the ground and the surrounding plants and trees, Triss gestured, instantly creating a protective barrier around their battle, shielding them from the released energy.

The two fought fiercely for a long time, but neither could gain the upper hand. Li Chenglong knew that this couldn't go on, but his opponent hadn't drawn his weapon, and if he did, it would be an unfair victory. As if sensing Li Chenglong's thoughts, El summoned his weapon first—a halberd, much longer than El's own height, yet he wielded it with impressive power and ease.

Li Chenglong immediately summoned the Dragon Emperor Sword and unleashed a powerful strike: "Sky-Splitting Dragon and Phoenix Slash!" El wielded his halberd: "Stormy Fierce Thrust!" The intertwined energy of the dragon and phoenix clashed with the azure light. Due to the barrier's effect, the energy swept through every corner within the barrier, and the blinding light made it impossible for Cui Si to see what was happening inside.

Even before they could see him, the sounds of intense battle could be heard from within. Li Chenglong roared, "Energy Cannon!" A powerful laser beam erupted from the sphere of light at the center of the belt on the abdomen of his armor, hurtling towards El. El spread his wings and easily dodged the energy cannon, but Li Chenglong was already above him. Red lasers shot from the eyes of the Sunrise Armor, striking El's wings directly. El cried out in pain and fell to the ground. Li Chenglong clenched his right fist, which gradually emitted a golden light: "Dragon Fist Burst!" A massive golden dragon flew from his right fist, rushing towards the still-falling El. El had no time to react and was struck by the golden dragon, crashing to the ground.

Triss spoke up, "Alright, the battle is over, Li Chenglong wins!" She then removed the barrier. Li Chenglong had already removed his Sunrise Armor, and the G-crystal pattern on his abdomen had dimmed. He quickly stepped forward to help El up, "Sorry, I hit you a little too hard. Are you alright?" El shook his head, dusted himself off, and touched the horn on his head, saying, "Congratulations, big brother, you won! You've passed our test and can return to Earth."

"Clap clap clap." A round of applause rang out, and then a woman of exceptional beauty emerged from the shadows. As she clapped, she said, "You did a good job. You are worthy of the person I have chosen." Li Chenglong looked at the woman and saw that she also had a pair of wings on her back and a pair of horns on her head, just like El and Triss. After thinking for a moment, he suddenly exclaimed, "Master, is that you?" The woman nodded: "This is my true form, but this form is too conspicuous and easily discovered by the Alliance, so I have always disguised myself as an old woman."

Triss and El flew up to Lena: "Grandma looks better like this. She just doesn't look like a grandma at all. People who don't know her would think she's an older sister." Lena slowly walked forward: "I've told you everything I wanted to say, so I won't say anything more here. As agreed, I'll take you home now. We'll meet again after you fly out of Earth."

After speaking, she casually waved her hand, and a spaceship over fifty meters long appeared before everyone's eyes. Lena continued, "The spaceship is already set to automatic navigation mode. Its destination is Earth. Based on its space navigation method, it should arrive in about 14 days. Once you arrive, store the spaceship in your psionic space. I also put a user manual inside, but I don't have time to translate it into your language. You can ask Synapse's daughter; she should know you. Make good use of this spaceship. It will definitely be very useful."

Li Chenglong's eyes welled up with tears. "Master, please accept my bow." He was about to perform the ceremony when Lena quickly stopped him. "Calling me 'Master' sounds a bit awkward. From now on, please call me 'Teacher.' That would be more fitting for our relationship. Alright, you should go now. The universe is vast, but we will surely meet again." Li Chenglong nodded vigorously, climbed the ladder, and soon the spaceship began to rise, spewing red flames, before disappearing from the three of them's sight.

Lena patted the two little ones' heads, then transformed back into her old woman form: "Things have been really unsettling around here lately, so we're planning to move. But let's go home and rest today, I'm sleepy." With that, the three of them transformed into three streaks of light and disappeared into the distance.

Upon entering, Li Chenglong discovered that although the spaceship appeared to be only fifty meters long from the outside, its interior was enormous, stretching a full kilometer from the rear cabin to the cockpit. The cockpit alone had about ten seats, with a captain's chair at the highest point in the middle. Various electronic devices were displayed in abundance, and Li Chenglong, not daring to touch anything, found a bedroom and began to rest.

As soon as he lay down on the bed, he took out a family photo of himself, Yunlan, his son Haohao, Li Xue, and others, and murmured, "I'm back."

The spaceship was fully equipped with all sorts of functions. One room was filled with books, and on the wall hung a photograph of his teacher, Reina, a young man, and two children. The two children were, of course, Al and Triss as children, and the young man was, unsurprisingly, their father and his teacher's son.

Whenever he had free time, Li Chenglong would go to the study to read. Some books were written in interstellar language, and Li Chenglong could understand some of the content. Other books, however, only allowed him to look at the pictures. From the books, he learned that the population of Hailan Star was probably very small. Despite being slightly larger than Earth, its global population was only one hundred million. Moreover, it had already suffered an invasion, but not by an alien alliance of Kiel Star people, and the invasion occurred much earlier. Furthermore, the people of Hailan Star had very long lifespans. Ordinary people could easily live to be over 300 years old, and for superpowered individuals, the higher their level, the longer their lifespan. After reaching level 11, they could basically live to be two or three thousand years old.

A bad feeling suddenly came over him. He had always called Al and Triss his two little friends, but could they be much, much older than him?

Besides reading in the library, another hobby he enjoyed was combat training in the training room. This training room was clearly specially modified and enhanced; it wouldn't be damaged no matter how much psionic energy was released, and it could simulate various enemies and combat environments according to his needs—it was incredibly powerful. Li Chenglong once again simulated the five Gil alien brothers who had appeared last time, and this time he easily defeated them without even using the Sunrise Armor.

Besides these, the expanded psionic space, thanks to his teacher, now spans four square kilometers—an incredibly vast size, beyond Li Chenglong's comprehension. Li Chenglong decided to cultivate one square kilometer of high-grade Dawn Rice, a gift from his teacher, said to have higher yields and greater energy content. One square kilometer equals 1500 mu (approximately 4 hectares) of land. Even assuming a yield of one ton per mu for ordinary Dawn Rice, that's already 1500 tons—an unbeatable yield! Not only will the ability users of Dawn City receive a share of Dawn Rice, but ordinary people will also have access to it. They can also trade with other bases for resources that Dawn City desperately needs. It's worth noting that Xu Qingming and Wei Huasheng have long coveted Dawn Rice.

In the remaining square kilometer, besides the Flame Trees and the psionic apples and persimmons, Li Chenglong still planted some fruits and vegetables on a lot of land. Anyway, there were automatic seeders, automatic pollinators, automatic fruit thinners, and automatic harvesters. As long as he used the red crystals as their energy source, they could keep working. He might as well plant more.

He had originally intended to ask Teacher Lena about his crystal factory, but he forgot because he was in such a hurry to get back. However, he didn't really need the crystal factory for the time being, so he decided to leave it for later. Besides the crystal factory, there was also a storage area, which was currently 1 square kilometer in size. After the expansion, it seemed like there wasn't much stored there. Li Chenglong planned to store more essential supplies in his own psionic space's storage area in the future, since keeping them there was the safest option.

Time flew by, and 14 days had passed in the blink of an eye. Li Chenglong's spaceship had departed from the space navigation route and was now 20 kilometers away from Earth. The spaceship then automatically adjusted its course and began its journey towards Earth.