Dragon Raja: Dragon Slaying Begins with System Hosting

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How can a new king ascend the throne if the former king is not eliminated?

Fortunately, Chu Zihang has no scandals and no inclination to be interested in romance; otherwise, if he had won the hearts of those beautiful girls, the system would have been in big trouble.

Compared to Chu Zihang, the system still needs some time to catch up. Now, it's thriving, and the system is confident it can catch up and even surpass him. However, Chu Zihang's early start definitely gives him an advantage. Fortunately, Chu Zihang hasn't used his advantages...

Lu Mingfei idly pondered: if the system determined that a woman was already married, would the system turn into a traitor?

The system becomes Cao Cao, which is equivalent to being Cao Cao himself... This is ridiculous...

The system didn't find Lu Mingfei's ridiculous idea speechless; instead, it gave it a firm affirmation!

Lu Mingfei had anticipated this. If it weren't for the fourth mission plan limiting the system's performance, the system would probably have taken off by now.

Morality and law? Those govern people, but I'm not a person! I don't care about the consequences, I only care about the mission objective!

“No…” Lu Mingfei suddenly felt a tightness in his anus.

The original plan was for the system to rise through the ranks of politics to the pinnacle of this world, and then turn the tide. But now that superpowers have appeared, the times have definitely changed!

If the influence of superpowers is negligible, the system will definitely stick to its original path. But if the superpowers are very strong, the system will definitely abandon the political path... At that point, the system will avoid this burden and, when needed, will certainly trample on the bottom line to achieve its goal.

Although Lu Mingfei could make the system abandon this option, the system would still analyze its possibilities and predict the outcome, just like when it finally found the "Methods to Make Money". When it found the "Methods to Make Money", the system also calculated the approximate profit.

The stock market requires capital, but if you want to follow the proper channels, you won't find "methods to make money" in the book. The system at the time didn't intend to use the proper channels; instead, it directly pushed predictions to investors, using a broad-based approach...

Although the stock market bull run stalled mid-month, the system might actually be able to attract some initial funding after more than a month of continuous growth.

Looking back now, the projected returns for just one month probably reached hundreds of thousands!

Although it seems now that even without resorting to crooked methods, the system, with Lu Mingfei's help and his powerful analytical abilities, was able to earn money legitimately by writing novels, Lu Mingfei was genuinely tempted at the time!

At that time, the system predicted that one could earn at least several thousand or tens of thousands of yuan in a month. Lu Mingfei was a poor boy. If he hadn't experienced the actual demonstration and gained some insight into the vastness of life, he probably would have directly lifted the system's restrictions.

After all, it was just a small trial. If he could make money, it would at least show that the investor who followed the system's predictions also made a lot of money. He was just riding the bull market wave; he didn't harm anyone...

But now that the superpower module has intervened... Lu Mingfei doesn't know if he can resist the temptation of the results analyzed by the system.

From the system's perspective, the human heart is something that cannot be tested. As the saying goes, "Only the sun and the human heart cannot be looked at directly."

What if you have ideas in your mind but no action in your hands? If the seeds take root and sprout in your mind, it will be terrible if they grow into towering trees.

Lu Mingfei took a deep breath and asked the system, "System, do you think I can resist these temptations?"

System: [...When granaries are full, people know etiquette; when food and clothing are plentiful, people know honor and shame...]

You can't expect someone who can't even feed themselves to follow the rules. As our ancestors said, "Only when the granaries are full can people know etiquette."

From the system's perspective, Lu Mingfei is currently in a state of "when the granaries are full, people know etiquette; when they are well-fed and clothed, they know honor and shame."

The system is based on Lu Mingfei, and the fact that it can write a passionate novel is partly because Lu Mingfei himself still has a burning passion in his heart.

Lu Mingfei's thought at this moment was: With the system in hand, the advantage is already in my hands!

Isn't it better to reach the top honestly than to take crooked paths? Just like Zhu Yuanzhang, after becoming emperor, he didn't hide his past as a beggar.

The system provided an analysis of Lu Mingfei's idea: "[...In his youthful arrogance, he always believed that anything was possible. As time passed, he eventually realized that human strength has its limits. Some methods are necessary...]"

Chapter 20 Confirms Senior Chu Zihang's Cheating Skills

Actually, being with Chu Zihang is quite boring, especially since Lu Mingfei rarely speaks under the system's management.

Even though it was a group of three playing ping-pong, only Xia Mi was rambling on and on.

Chu Zihang only spoke briefly at the beginning, when teaching Lu Mingfei table tennis skills, and demonstrated a few things for him, after which he fell into a long silence.

Lu Mingfei was a little strange. Chu Zihang didn't talk to him at all. Although he was indeed good at table tennis, he respected his opponent when facing Xia Mi, a beautiful girl. Even a lion uses its full strength when hunting a rabbit.

As for Mingfei on the top lane, ... he wasn't completely killed.

The system was tortured by Xia Mi for two rounds, but under Chu Zihang's guidance, the system learned and applied the knowledge, and after adapting, it struggled for a while.

The three of them took turns going on stage, and it was a real big fish eats small fish, small fish eats shrimp, shrimp... Xia Miguang was eaten, but there was no mud for her to eat.

However, Xia Mi didn't care. After being eliminated by the system, she sighed, "Heroes of the world are indeed as numerous as carp crossing a river."

Neither the system nor Chu Zihang seemed to care much about her words, or at least they didn't respond.

The system was analyzing Chu Zihang's physical attributes, but since Chu Zihang was playing table tennis against a system that had just learned table tennis, he couldn't use his bloodline power, which far exceeded the attributes of a normal human body. Therefore, the system couldn't analyze anything for the time being.

Even though Xia Mi, who was standing to the side watching the two spike the ball, didn't reply, she kept talking and asked Lu Mingfei, "By the way, Lu Mingfei, do you have any clues about that 'emperor' from before? I went back and checked again but couldn't find the origin of those two pictographs."

The system barely managed to catch Chu Zihang's smash, replying, "Not at the moment."

"Is it because the city library has too few books? I saw a psychological explanation that the feeling of déjà vu when seeing a certain scene is called the hippocampal effect or déjà vu. Although I didn't have a feeling of déjà vu, seeing those words suddenly was probably similar to this effect."

As Xia Mi spoke, she added, "I tried what you said on my roommates, and they didn't feel anything after hearing it. But they told me that I didn't feel anything either. Does that mean only what you say works? And only for me?"

The system made a clumsy save, but failed. The ping-pong ball hit the ground and bounced powerfully against the wall behind it. The system turned around to pick it up, and just as it reached the table with the racket, it said to her, "Maybe, it's your turn."

Xia Mi stepped forward and picked up the racket. "Haven't you tried it with anyone else?"

"No."

"Why don't you give it a try with Chu Zihang?"

"Try what?" Chu Zihang had no idea what his two junior classmates were talking about.

"I inexplicably saw two characters. I thought they were ancient pictographs. When I went to the library to look them up, I ran into Lu Mingfei. I wrote them down for him, and he suddenly read them aloud. When he said those two characters in a strange language, I had an urge to kneel down and worship him." Xia Mi spread her hands, her face full of deep absurdity and helplessness.

Chu Zihang, however, was quite knowledgeable and knew that this world was very mysterious and not what people usually understood.

He didn't speak, but looked at Lu Mingfei. The system had already understood his meaning: "Give it a try."

Then, Lu Mingfei's expression instantly changed under the system's control, from his calm and collected gaze to an indifferent indifference to everything in the world.

"Praise the awakening of our king. Destruction is rebirth!"

His voice was solemn, like the tolling of church bells, echoing the majesty of the ancient dragon emperor wherever it went.

These weren't just two dragon runes; in fact, they were a complete dragon rune sequence obtained after the system analyzed the "Emperor." However, the system discovered something very interesting during the analysis: the true power wasn't contained within the dragon rune itself, but rather in the power of the "Emperor" that was conveyed while reciting it.

Theoretically, this power can be applied to any dragon script language. However, neither Lu Mingfei nor the system recognizes other dragon scripts; they only recognize the word "Emperor" written by Xia Mi and the passage obtained by supplementing it from "Emperor".

Chu Zihang's expression changed drastically upon hearing the voice.

His heart was filled with awe in an instant, as if he had heard the call of a great sovereign. Indeed, as Xia Mi had said, he had an impulse to kneel down and worship Lu Mingfei.

Xia Mi's knees were already bent as she stared blankly at Lu Mingfei.

Lu Mingfei's ability to directly control the power of "Word of Power: Emperor" through dragon runes is her biggest suspicion. A normal hybrid awakening and controlling "Word of Power: Emperor" should involve directly using dragon runes to recite the incantation, not first controlling the power of the Word of Power and then completing the incantation. This might be because the dragon impersonating Lu Mingfei isn't familiar enough with humans, leading to this oversight.

Of course, even if Lu Mingfei is a mixed-blood and controls the "Word of Power: Emperor," he couldn't possibly make Xia Mi kneel down. But this scene isn't Xia Mi acting; it's her instinct. Lu Mingfei's eyes really do look too much like that "Emperor."

The system glanced at Xia Mi, thinking she was stunned because it hadn't said the dragon characters for "emperor," since Lu Mingfei had only said "emperor" last time, but hadn't said that word.

The system added to her, "After I went back, I vaguely saw this passage again, and it felt more comprehensive than 'Emperor,' so I took it out to try it out."

Chu Zihang didn't move, but stared intently at Lu Mingfei.

"So it seems you succeeded. It's definitely more powerful than those two-syllable words before. I can almost see a king standing atop a mountain, waiting for me to pay homage to him." Xia Mi's heart was filled with complex emotions, but she managed a forced smile and turned to look at Chu Zihang: "Senior Chu Zihang, don't you feel anything?"

Chu Zihang didn't actually move his body much; he just had an urge to kneel down. His bloodline level was too low, but he didn't know that.

But this also confirmed one thing for him—Xia Mi and Lu Mingfei were his kind. He said with a solemn expression, "We can sense it, probably because we have bloodlines that allow us to feel that power, while ordinary people don't have bloodlines."

"Bloodline?"

Xia Mi was feigning doubt, while the system and Lu Mingfei were genuinely confused.

But Lu Mingfei felt that the system's analysis was probably correct—the system had previously suspected that Chu Zihang had a privileged background. Now that Chu Zihang had revealed this "bloodline," Lu Mingfei had directly confirmed that Chu Zihang was cheating in basketball.

"Mmm." Chu Zihang nodded gently, recalling the words the man had spoken to him that rainy night:

"Son, welcome to the real world!"

"Just now, and for a while now, whatever you see, don't tell anyone, because no one will believe you; they'll just think you're crazy."

"..."

Simply put, your bloodline is different from others.

"Don't act like it's the end of the world. It's not shameful to have different bloodlines. Your father's bloodline is different from others. You didn't inherit my bloodline, so you're just like a normal person."

"..."

Chapter 21 Bloodline

A light rain began to fall outside, which made Chu Zihang feel uneasy, especially after he recounted that night in front of Lu Mingfei and Xia Mi.

Physical education class is only 40 minutes long. They played ping-pong for half the class, and by the time they started talking about bloodlines, get out of class was over. They could only discuss it after school.

So after school, they went outside the school and entered a quiet, upscale coffee shop.

After he finished telling the story, Xia Mi asked, "So your father stayed there to fight Odin in order to cover for you?"

She glanced at Lu Mingfei, who was still deep in thought, and had a feeling that the two old guys were conspiring to deceive a human child.

But Lu Mingfei's act is so convincing now; his doubts and thirst for knowledge are far more convincing than hers, almost more real than the real thing.

In fact, Xia Mi now suspects that Lu Mingfei is played by Norton, the King of Bronze and Fire. That personality, as cold as metal, is a metallic life consciousness created by Norton using alchemy. Although the previous Norton did not have this ability, thousands of years have passed, who knows?

However, from this perspective, Norton still doesn't understand humans enough. When switching between controlling personalities, he made a serious mistake in front of himself, which he hasn't corrected to this day. Perhaps he gave up, or perhaps he thought he was a mental-type Word Spirit user and was more sensitive to the mind, so he simply pretended to be mentally ill. He just didn't know that what he was wondering about was the coldness and ruthlessness of that personality.

Schizophrenia is a minor illness and not a big deal. Many mixed-race people are easily mistaken for mentally ill or suffering from mental disorders when those around them don't believe them. So it's not surprising that some mixed-race people with human traits have a bit of a mental illness...

Most importantly, Norton, this arrogant dragon king, thought that humans were also dragons, and directly mastered the power of words, causing him to expose his true colors once again in front of her.

"Yes, that was the darkest day of my life." Chu Zihang nodded gently.

The system was analyzing Chu Zihang's words. Lu Mingfei came online and comforted the dejected Chu Zihang: "Doesn't that mean that every day of your future will be brighter than that day?"

Chu Zihang glanced at Lu Mingfei and said, "Thank you."

Xia Mi picked up her coffee and took a sip. The bitterness made her face contort. She put down her coffee, picked up the sugar packet and added sugar. Seeing that no one spoke, she asked, "So what should we do now? Senior Chu Zihang, you have mastered that power of bloodline, and Lu Mingfei seems to have mastered it too. I'm the only one who hasn't mastered it yet. I don't know if having a bloodline guarantees that you can have that power."

"I don't know." Chu Zihang and Lu Mingfei shook their heads in unison.

"If everyone who awakens their bloodline can gain a superpower, then your power 'Junyan' is controlling explosions, and Lu Mingfei's is 'Emperor' which can interfere with other people's minds. I wonder what mine will be," Xia Mi grumbled, stirring her coffee.

"To be precise, I can't fully control the explosion. Sometimes I can't even unleash it completely, and there are interruptions due to insufficient power." Chu Zihang corrected Xia Mi's mistake, then asked Lu Mingfei, "When you talked about that 'Emperor' dragon inscription, did you feel the power surging within your body?"

"Yes." Lu Mingfei nodded immediately.

Under the system's control, he wasn't very clear about the surge of power within his body, but he could still feel it. When the system was studying the "Emperor," he could see the black dragon, which was one example of this.