Chapter 534: Tang San Emerges

Mei Gongzi also hadn’t arrived yet, or at least he hadn't seen her.

Today was the first day of the final stage of the individual competition, with a total of eight matches, meaning the top sixteen would be narrowed down to eight. It was still an elimination tournament, with the winners advancing. Naturally, being late resulted in an automatic forfeit.

Big Cat did not choose to rest in his own room but stood at the entrance, eagerly waiting for Tang San's arrival.

Having reached the final stage, he felt both excited and a bit uneasy. Asura was his anchor; with him present, Big Cat’s confidence and fighting spirit were more robust.

At this moment, he saw Mei Gongzi's figure.

Today, Mei Gongzi looked exceptionally stunning. She wore a silver-white long dress, with faint silver light rippling on it, displaying strange patterns. As she walked, it seemed as if she was traversing through the void, giving him an elusive feeling—as if she existed not only in this space but also roamed another dimension.

This was not actually Mei Gongzi’s ability, but rather an effect of her long dress. Clearly, the dress was no ordinary item.

Her black hair flowed down her back, and the silver dress added to her noble aura, making her beautiful like the radiant moon. She also wore a silver crown, with a bright silver gem in the center that shone brilliantly, emanating strong spatial fluctuations. It seemed as if an invisible layer of spatial power enveloped her whole body.

Big Cat blinked, feeling a sudden bitter taste in his heart.

There was no doubt that Mei Gongzi's attire was not just for appearance. It was a symbol of wealth and the profound heritage of the Peacock Demon Clan.

She looked beautiful, but beauty was one thing and the fact that every item she wore was a top-tier artifact was another thing altogether. Coupled with the Celestial Plume she had used before, which was a bona fide divine item, she was armed to the teeth for the finals.

Indeed, the Peacock Demon clan did not have a Demon Emperor, but in terms of wealth, they were not inferior to any other clan. Since she had reached the finals, the Peacock Great Demon King had every justification to bring out these treasures of the Peacock Demon clan for her to wear.

Mei Gongzi's attire exuded grand nobility, coupled with the intimidating presence of formidable equipment.

At this moment, Mei Gongzi noticed Big Cat. It seemed that the marvelous equipment she wore had no impact on her behavior; with a flash of silver light, she immediately teleported in front of him.

"Big Cat, where's my big brother? Has he arrived?"

Big Cat was stunned for a moment and said, "No, I haven’t seen him and I can't reach him."

A trace of anxiety flashed in Mei Gongzi's eyes. "I can't reach him either. He said he would be in seclusion for two days. I hope nothing's wrong." As she spoke, she tried to contact Tang San again with the communicator, but there was still no response.

"How about I go look for him?"

"Let me go. I'm faster."

With that, the silver patterns on her dress rippled, and the next instant, she was gone.

After a dozen teleportations, she appeared outside the White Tiger Hotel.

Although most guests had gone to the Ancestral Court Square to watch the matches, there were still staff members at the White Tiger Hotel.

When she appeared at the hotel entrance in her splendid attire, the guards were stunned. With her silver crown and dress, Mei Gongzi looked like a goddess descending upon the earth.

Mei Gongzi, however, didn't pay attention to them and directly entered the lobby.

As soon as she entered, someone exclaimed in surprise, "Princess?"

Mei Gongzi was about to teleport directly to Tang San's room but stopped when she heard the call. Turning her head, she saw an unfamiliar face.

"Do I know you?" Mei Gongzi asked with a frown.

Xu Ziran replied respectfully, "I am Xu Ziran from the Aetherhorn Merchant Association. I have seen Your Highness before at a celebration. You seem to be looking for something; might I ask what it is?"

"I am looking for Asura. Have you seen him?"

Xu Ziran smiled wryly and said, "I am also here to wait for him. Actually Brother Asura is a great friend of our association. With the finals approaching, we have brought some medicines for him to use during the competition."

"He hasn't come out?"

"Hmm, not yet. The competition is about to start; maybe he has already gone to the venue?"

"No. That is where I’m coming from, and he is not there."

Xu Ziran felt just as anxious as Mei Gongzi.

Asura had already entered the top sixteen, and in his mind, Asura’s status was no longer just that of a business collaborator. He was well aware of what entering the top sixteen meant. The Peacock Great Demon King had already sent people several times to ask for information about Asura, indicating that the young man was far more .

However, he hadn't expected that the princess, the heir to the clan leader, would personally come to find Asura. Considering that Asura participated in the pair competition with her, his status in Xu Ziran's mind rose once more.

"Anyway, let me check what’s going on," Mei Gongzi said, and with a flash of silver light, she disappeared again.

When she reappeared, she was in Tang San's room. At that moment, waves of dragon roars surged, and Mei Gongzi felt a mighty surge of bloodline power rushing toward her.

"ROAR—" A grand dragon’s roar burst forth, and the door to the cultivation room suddenly opened. She saw a figure about to step outside.

"Big Brother—" Mei Gongzi called out instinctively.

The figure inside sensed her presence and immediately stopped; a hurried voice said, "Don't come over, I'm not dressed."

Mei Gongzi's steps stopped abruptly, and her face flushed.

But she didn't have to wait long. A few seconds later, Asura walked out of the cultivation room. His clothes were very much on, and the mask still covered half of his face.

How did he get dressed that quickly?! Oh... Right, he probably just didn't have his mask on....

Mei Gongzi immediately understood and realized what she had missed. If she had been a step quicker, she might have seen his true face. She felt a pang of regret and couldn't help but scold him. "The competition is about to start. Why haven't you left yet?"

Tang San smiled wryly and said, "I didn't expect it to take this long either!"

Indeed, he had encountered some issues during cultivation. It wasn't that something went wrong, but rather, some strange changes occurred after integrating the Wind Dragon imprint.

As he controlled the Golden Roc imprint to gradually devour the Wind Dragon imprint, the Golden Roc imprint underwent many strange changes, increasing in size until it was even larger than the Lion-Tiger one. The energy it emitted caused Tang San's body to transform.

The Wind Dragon bloodline seemed to have a strange compatibility with Tang San himself. After merging, the Golden Roc imprint—or rather, the new Dragon Roc imprint—allowed him to undergo a complete rebirth. His body underwent a sort of cleansing, which significantly enhanced his physique. And though he was a pure-blooded human, his bloodline aura had a touch of draconic energy added to it.

Tang San's extensive cultivation experience allowed him to understand what was going on, more or less. Although he had been reincarnated into this world, completely losing his physical body, his divine consciousness from his previous life remained and it subtly altered his current body. He was slowly awakening abilities from his past life, and it wasn’t just those related to the Mysterious Heaven Technique.

In his previous life, he had many interactions with powerful dragons from that plane, and even his sons and grandsons acquired draconic bloodlines one way or another. Therefore, his own bloodline naturally had an affinity with dragon bloodlines. When he merged with dragon bloodlines, they offered him far more potent enhancements than other types of bloodlines.