The dragon gate ceremony mentioned by the dragon pattern is actually the coming-of-age ceremony of the dragon clan.

Every dragon who reaches the age of 1,000 years has to hold a coming-of-age ceremony, which is simply to let the little dragons who participate in the ceremony soak in the spring water of Longmen Spring for three days. There are no complicated ingredients, that is, before soaking in the spring water, the little dragons have to accept the assessment of the elders and dragon kings in the clan.

The so-called assessment tests Xiaolong's physical fitness, attack power, defense power, spell talent, and a basic knowledge assessment.

As long as all these assessments meet the standards, or only one of them does not meet the standards, they can be recognized by the elders, and then the little dragon who meets the standards can go to the spring water of Longmen Spring, and then officially become an adult, and obtain the title and a place in the race.

Of course, there are occasional cases where the underage dragons participating in the ceremony do not meet the standards, but that is rare, the dragon family is generally very talented, and as long as the young dragons live to be a thousand years old in good health, each dragon can undoubtedly meet the assessment standards.

However, there is nothing to do, among these underage young dragons, there are always a few particularly regrettable, because of natural deformities, genetic diseases, congenital weakness and so on, the guide zhì is not as sound as the healthy dragon clan, the unsound little dragon, the general assessment results will not meet the standard, do not have the qualifications to participate in the coming-of-age ceremony, and there is no way to soak in the Longmen Spring water, these poor little dragons will basically be bullied by the same clan.

Many of them didn't even wait for the coming-of-age ceremony, and they were already covered in torture and humiliation, and died slowly in depression.

However, that was a long, long time ago, when the dragon clan was still in a rather feudal, secular, and uncivilized era, and the current dragon clan would never bully these unhealthy dragons like this, if they could, they would try their best to treat and improve the unsound dragons, and try to help them recover their health, just like the crow feather re-quenched dragon body this time.

During the Dragon Gate Ceremony for Crow Feather, the assessment was postponed, and the elders decided to first re-quench the dragon body for Crow Feather, soak it in the spring water of the Dragon Gate Spring, and then test his body's abilities. This is unprecedented, and Ravenfeather became the first "non-dragon" in the history of the dragon clan to enjoy such special treatment.

In order to re-temper the dragon body for him, the dragon priest couple must also collect a lot of very rare and expensive materials that can be used to forge a new dragon body. The dragon king did not hesitate to spend money for this, he even dug out a complete dragon bone from the resting place of the dragon soul island as a quenching material, this dragon bone is very old, about the dragon that died at that stage in ancient times, its dragon bone is buried on the dragon soul island, but today it was dug up by the dragon king.

Unlike humans, dragons don't have much respect for their ancestors, they often trade their scales, shed dragon skin, and hair with humans, and sometimes they not only take their own bodies, but also other dragons, and all the dragon bones that died on Dragon Soul Island are basically not complete.

For them, the corpse of a dead dragon is no longer a "living life", but a kind of "resource" on Dragon Soul Island, which can be used by every dragon that inhabits Dragon Soul Island at will. Of course, they also assume that after their death, they will also become a "resource" for their descendants or other dragons who need it.

The reason why dragons have such a strange and very different concept from humans is because they have a special tradition. Every dragon clan will fly back to this Dragon Soul Island when they are about to die, or have a premonition of their own death, and they will find a suitable place to dig a pit and bury themselves.

If there is no way to fly back on their own, the dying dragons will send signals to the other dragons. Or mark his location with a sign that only the dragons can see and interpret, so that after his death, other dragons will come to him and bring his body back.

They will sleep forever on Dragon Soul Island.

The origin of this strange tradition is probably also related to the origin of Dragon Soul Island, because the entire Dragon Soul Island is made of the corpses of ancient dragons, and the dragon clan born on this island more or less inherits the blood of this ancient dragon clan, so each dragon clan is deeply aware of their own place in a trance, and they will instinctively want to come back, become the soil and dust on this island, and become the cornerstone of the glorious glory of the entire race of their fellow clans.

For the dying dragons, returning to Dragon Soul Island is their greatest consolation before they die, and it is a special belief that makes them "glorious even though they die".

The dragons are not afraid of death, they are convinced that as long as they die on the island, when they are reincarnated, they can still be born on the Dragon Soul Island and become a new dragon.

Therefore, letting a dragon die and never be able to return to Dragon Soul Island is the most fearful thing for dragons, and it is also the most severe punishment in the dragon clan.

The second son of the current Dragon King, "Long Hongxiao" is such an unlucky person who has accepted this punishment, he is frozen forever under the depth of 90,000 meters of the sea, under the huge pressure and gravity of the ocean, and slowly dies in the cold and endless darkness, with no chance to escape, let alone return to Dragon Soul Island one day.

In fact, he shouldn't accept such a strict punishment, after all, although he is a big carrot, he messes around with all kinds of demon clans outside every day, and he just messes around and tosses out a lot of children, but he has not done anything that is too angry, he has not massacred or plundered other people's lives, he has not stolen and robbed other people's property, and he will not bully the weak.

At most, he owes too many love debts that have not been repaid, which hurts the hearts of many men and women, and he is an irresponsible scum dragon.

But this is definitely not a reason for him to be crushed under the depth of 90,000 meters and suffer endless pain.

But things have developed to such a point that the current Dragon King does not have the strength to rescue his son under the 90,000-meter deep sea, and a thousand years have passed since Long Hongxiao was sealed, and the Dragon King can almost confirm that his child is dead, because Long Hongxiao is not so strong and can't last that long.

As long as the thought of his child dying alone and painfully in such a cold and dark place, the dragon king's heart would be very sad, sadness mixed with anger, this complex feeling surrounded his heart for a long, long time, until suddenly one day, this "snake demon" who called himself "Crow Feather" appeared in front of him.

The Dragon King could clearly feel the trace of spiritual power belonging to his son Long Hongxiao from the soul of Crow Feather.

At that moment, the Dragon King was pleasantly surprised, and there was even a sense of surprise that his son had successfully broken through the 90,000-meter deep sea and returned to Dragon Soul Island and returned to him!

Although Crow Feather lied at the beginning that he was the dragon egg that the Dragon Priest had lost back then, the Dragon King didn't mind, as far as he saw that Long Hongxiao's bloodline was still in this world, and he could return to their Dragon Soul Island and return to him, the Dragon King would be very happy.

And the other son of the Dragon King, that is, the current priest of the Dragon Clan, he is the eldest son of the Dragon King, and he is also very concerned about the affairs of his younger brother Long Hongxiao, at the request of his father, he did not hesitate to choose to accept Crow Feather as his real child.

It can be said that the re-quenching of the dragon body for the crow feather is completely decided by the selfishness of the dragon king and the dragon sacrifice couple, after all, it takes time and effort to re-quench the dragon body, and it also consumes financial resources, and the resources on the dragon soul island will consume a lot. Ordinary dragons don't have that much right to do these things, because they will be criticized by their peers, but as a dragon king, of course they can choose to do so, no dragon on Dragon Island dares to be dissatisfied with his decision, and many dragons will give sympathy and understanding to the dragon king as long as they hear about the time of the dragon king's second son "Long Hongxiao".

So, with the support of most of the dragons on Dragon Soul Island, the matter of Crow Feather requenching the dragon's body was decided.

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The dragon body of the crow feather has already been forged by the dragon king, and then only the dragon gate ceremony remains, this ceremony of ten thousand dragons is officially opened today, organized by the dragon priest himself, the six elders of the dragon clan sit on the platform and watch, and the dragon king stands in the highest place to inspect the environment.

As for the other ordinary dragons, as well as onlookers like Ying Qian Zhan Haoyan, they stood on the lookout platform built on the cliff near Longmen Spring to watch.

The topography of Longmen Spring is a bay-like shape, in the middle is a pool of circular lakes, surrounded by high cliffs that surround the lake, the spring is on the highest cliff, and a large amount of clear spring water flows out of it, this spring water falls from a position of about 1,000 meters, forming a Milky Way Waterfall that flows straight down 3,000 feet, and falls down crazily.

After the spring water is filled with a deep pool, it gushes out from a low dam on a relatively low terrain, forming a river, flowing out of Longsoul Island and flowing to the sea, and the wooden frame "Longmen" of Longmen Spring that resembles a door is built on top of this low dam, and this so-called "Longmen" is like the gate of this Wangtan water, from which Longmen Spring gets its name.

Today, the crow feather who accepted the dragon gate ceremony was specially dressed up by several small attendants of the dragon clan, and they dressed the crow feather in a dark dress, referred to as "xuanduan", with a black coat, a white inside, dark red wide pants, and black ceremonial shoes. The clothes are covered with a large area of solid color, but the collar cuffs and waistbands are densely embroidered with delicate dragon patterns and dragon totems.

Crow Feather was also specially combed and tied in a beautiful bun on her head. After the dragon is incarnated, in some aspects, it is still relatively similar to human customs and traditions, such as minors can't comb their hair in a bun, and underage dragons are basically cloaked and scattered, running around the streets, and their parents are not too restrictive. It is only after the rite of passage that they comb their hair in a simple bun and are restrained and regulated.

Chapter 147

Dragons had a long childhood, but it seemed short compared to their long lifespan.

Raven Feather was neatly prepared, and then walked out of the prepared cave by the dragon's attendants.

On the cliff next to the Longmen Spring, there is a naturally formed platform, and an arc-shaped ladder stands there. The dragons who have undergone the Dragon Gate Ritual will stand on this curved ladder and jump off the cliff in human form to the wonderful music played by the nearby dragon band, and at the same time transform into dragon form in the process of falling, and then fall to the bottom of the pool.

The lake is very deep, and there seems to be a mysterious prohibition left by the ancient dragons at the bottom of the water, and the little dragons who have been soaked in the spring water will be blessed by the dragon god, and when the little dragons rush out of the dragon gate after three days, they will find themselves starting to become stronger, more powerful than before.

However, the crow feather who accepted the dragon gate ceremony was more special, after all, the body he was using now was the body of a snake and could not be turned into a real dragon, so although he was standing on this ladder now, it was not him who would jump down later. Soon, the little dragon attendants next to him pushed another "person" to the cliff ladder and walked to Crow Feather's side.

The crowd of onlookers on the nearby high platform took a closer look, and they would see that it was the dragon body that the dragon king and the dragon priest had newly made for Crow Feather.

The newly made dragon body was wearing the same Xuanduan dress as Crow Feather, standing next to Crow Feather indifferently, although his eyes were open, but there was no expression on his face, and his standing posture was still a little crooked, and he had to rely on spells to enable him to stand instead of lying directly on the ground.

At this time, the dragon body is just a simple shell, and there is no soul in it, just like a puppet. But soon, Crow Feather will take out his inner pill and give it to this dragon's body, attach his soul to it, replace it, and then jump off the cliff and turn into a real dragon.

It's impossible to say not excited.

Crow Feather's eyes widened, and the corners of his mouth couldn't help but hook up a smile, looking at the "new body" that he had carefully maintained these days, in order to increase the coordination and compatibility between this body and his soul, he cultivated with this new body when he cultivated, so this body was full of Crow Feather's spiritual power.

In addition, Crow Feather shamelessly appropriated the power given by the Ancient Dragon Clan in the Inner Dan of the Snake of Words, and he almost hollowed out the cultivation of the Snake of Words, and used it all to forge his new body, so even if the Snake of Speech took back his body, it would be equivalent to just taking back an empty shell.

Of course, Raven Feather never feels sorry for what he did, he's not the kind of guy who would be condemned for having a troubled conscience, he's a downright evil youkai, but he hasn't fallen into demons, which probably has something to do with his penchant for doing evil.

Yan Snake floated next to Ying Qian, and also raised his head to look at the crow feathers on the cliff ladder over there, looking at the other party standing in such a place with his body and face on top of his face, wearing such gorgeous clothes, Yan Snake couldn't help but feel a little ridiculous.

Snake and Raven Feather have been rivals for more than a thousand years. As the saying goes, the one who knows you best is your enemy, so he knows very well why Ravenfeather wants to succeed despite all the hardships and the lives of many innocent people - because Ravenfeather wants revenge on the dragons, for the sake of his dead mother.

But the snake is a little uncertain at the moment.

When he saw the crow feather standing on the ladder and saw the excited smile on the other party's face with words, he didn't know if crow feather still wanted to take revenge on the dragon clan at this moment, or was it enough for crow feather to really just want to be a dragon clan?

The dragon band, which is also a unique sacrificial group of dragons, begins to play music to support the dragon gate ceremony, and their instrument is a giant conch, which can blow wonderful music like a trumpet. The piece was long, and it was only a prelude, and they probably played it for a long time, as it gave Ravenfeather a lot of time to prepare.

"Greed is not a good thing. Ying Qian stood beside the snake and talked to himself, he watched the ceremony with the snake, holding the fox in his arms and the cicada rabbit lying on his head.

The fox and the rabbit seemed to be uninterested in the dragon gate ceremony, and the fox just looked at it twice and began to yawn.

I don't know what the reason is, the fox has not recovered its human form when it is on Dragon Soul Island, and it always remains in the form of a black-haired fox, she is very cute with her furry, every time Ying Qian carries her to the street, many dragons next to her will come to watch, competing to touch her hair, and she will be very impatient to use her claws to slap these hairy dragons away.

The cicada is also a cute thing, and the moving rabbit doll is loved by many female dragons and little dragons, who want to pull him off Ying Gan's head, but unfortunately the cicada is dead-eyed, and every time he is dragged by the dragon, he will tightly hold Ying Qian's hair and not let go, and over time, Ying Qian will no longer let any dragon get close to the cicada - in order not to let the cicada pull his hair.

Ying Qian's arms and head let the fox and rabbit occupy the position, the dragon pattern has no place to drill, and he doesn't want to continue to shrink in Zhan Haoyan's arms, because Zhan Haoyan always wants to find an opportunity to beat him hard, the scared dragon pattern subconsciously stayed away from Zhan Haoyan, and made two laps around Ying Qian, seeing that the fox and rabbit had no intention of moving the position, he had to start around the snake pitifully.

Yan Snake has no entity when he comes out of the Heavenly Sealing Mirror, and he can't hold him, looking at the slightly pitiful gaze of the dragon pattern, he is also very helpless.

Then Yan Snake thought for a while, then pinched a magic decision casually, and let a thin layer of wind power be attached to his hands, feeling like he was wearing a pair of invisible gloves made of wind on his hands, and then reached out to "grab" the dragon pattern, and held him in his arms with the wind, looking like he was really in his arms.

Being "hugged" by someone seems to make the dragon pattern extremely satisfying, he is a very insecure dragon, especially when he was born, he has always hoped that he can be hugged by his parents all the time, but unfortunately since he was born, his parents have not hugged him much, he has grown to such a big age, and has been taken care of by another female dragon in the clan, that female dragon, dragon pattern has been calling her Aunt Ling.

Aunt Ling has her own child, as big as the dragon pattern, Aunt Ling's mind is almost all the time on her own child, she has to go around him every day, caring about whether he is well fed and warm, whether he is hungry or freezing.

Long Wen has always felt that being like Aunt Ling is the right attitude of a mother towards her child. He really doesn't understand why his mother is not like Aunt Ling, why he is born except for holding him so many times, the rest of the time is basically entrusted to Aunt Ling to take care of him, but unfortunately Aunt Ling also has her own children to raise, and she usually doesn't care much about dragon patterns.

But seriously, even if Aunt Ling's mind is not on the dragon pattern, she will still prepare clothes and food for the dragon pattern, and will care about the dragon pattern like her own child.

Long Wen longed that Aunt Ling was his mother, every time he saw the cold eyes of his biological mother looking at him, he would be very sad, every time he was sad, he would cry and go to Aunt Ling, he didn't understand, he asked Aunt Ling: "Why don't my parents like me?"

Aunt Suzu was embarrassed by this question and never answered the dragon pattern positively.

But later, after asking the dragon pattern many times, Aunt Ling suddenly took the dragon pattern to the corner of the room one day and whispered to him the truth.

"You're too weak, kid. Aunt Ling didn't want to tell the truth to a child, but she didn't want to let Long Wen always have a desire for the affection of his parents, and always be in the whirlpool of pain that she couldn't ask for, she told Long Wen in a euphemistic tone: "When every little dragon is born, the priest of the clan, that is, your biological father, will examine it, and healthy children are always welcome, and you ......"

Although Aunt Ling said it tactfully, her words immediately made Long Wen realize something, he curled up and asked Aunt Ling tremblingly, "Is it because I'm not strong enough?"

"Some children will have birth defects, although some of them can be compensated for with acquired efforts, and with more cultivation and nourishment of elixir, they can become much stronger. ”

Aunt Ling frowned and sighed at the dragon pattern, "And you are a congenital spirit spirit that lacks a spiritual root, and you can't make up for it by cultivation or pills, even if you re-quench your body, your lack of spiritual spirit will make you very weak, and you won't be able to make any progress on the cultivation path at all." Meantime...... The lack of spiritual roots will also make your lifespan short...... It means ......"

"I'm going to die early. The dragon pattern rarely did not cry directly, but said this sentence inexplicably and calmly, he lowered his head, and his body shrunk into a small ball.

Aunt Ling took pity on him, and reached out to touch the dragon's little head, "Don't worry, your grandfather, the Dragon King, still likes you, maybe he is willing to help you think of some solutions." ”

Aunt Ling was wrong, in fact, even the Dragon King didn't like the dragon pattern very much, although in front of the dragon pattern, the Dragon King's appearance was indeed remarkable and amiable. But after Crow Feather came to their dragon clan, this differential treatment became obvious.

Even a half-dragon half-blood monster can get much more attention than the dragon pattern, and the dragon pattern, as the biological child of the priest couple, is no match for such a monster.

Long Wen never believed that his parents would be so ruthless, he always felt that his parents still cared about him, but they were too busy, his father had a lot of things to do as a priest, and his mother was his father's assistant, and he had to be busy with him, so he didn't have time to take care of Long Wen.

Longwen has always believed so, he began to make himself active, he went to his parents every day, he used obedient, obedient, and cute actions to win favor, I have to say that Longwen is very smart, he knows that if he becomes depressed, becomes silent, and becomes nothing, he will only make himself receive less attention, and his parents will only dislike him more and more.

On the contrary, if he is an obedient and lively good boy, and he is lovable, no matter how his parents are, they will be his biological parents, and he will definitely not be able to bear it, if nothing else, at least he will not be so cold to him.

As the saying goes, children who can cry, make trouble, and be coquettish will have candy to eat.

At first, it was really a little effective, the dragon pattern has been making trouble there, his mother really couldn't put up her mind to keep ignoring the dragon pattern, every time the dragon pattern was coquettish with her, his mother would hug the dragon pattern, that warm embrace made the dragon pattern happy, and his father would also pay attention to his situation from time to time, and during that time the dragon pattern almost felt that he had succeeded.

But then Raven Feather appeared.

The appearance of Raven Feather robbed him of the only attention he had from his parents.