Rayne turned to Shui Xin'er, Ah Yin and Xiao Wu.
"Mom, I have something to do under that pool, and it might take some time. So, do you want to return to Skywater academy or wait for me here?" He asked.
"Can't we just come along with you?" Xiao Wu couldn't help but ask hopefully.
Unfortunately, it was rejected instantly by Rayne.
"No! You guys are incapable of coming down there. In fact, you guys can't afford to even come close to the surface of the pool. And I suggest that you don't attempt it. There is no benefit, only dangers." Rayne said.
Hearing this, Shui Xin'er was worried.
"Rayne, then you..."
Rayne smiled reassuringly and said.
"It's fine, mom. Nothing will happen to me! I'm the strongest!"
At this time, Ah Yin suddenly asked.
"Young master, why don't you just go to City of Contracts and assume the leadership position? I'm sure it will be much more easier than building a new organization from the scratch."
Rayne sighed after hearing this.
"City of Contracts... Ah Yin, you seem to have the wrong idea about it. That place isn't much of an organization, but more of a place of faith. Other than blessing the statue of mine build there by my believers, with the ability of gathering power of faith to realize some miracles, I don't have much to do with the development of that place."
"Whether it is the titled Douluos over there or other believers, they are in that city on their own will, not out of any obligation or responsibility."
"Although it is said that there are five extreme Douluos, they are all healing auxiliary titled Douluos. I trained them back then to pass on the healing and medical skill, and also to spread my faith. The other titled Douluo are also most likely of auxiliary type as well, with very few battle type."
"As you can tell, almost all those strongmen above level 90 in that city resists getting involved in the power struggle of the continent. The City of Contracts is basically a free zone that avoids any involvement in the power struggle and focus on their faith and peaceful lives."
"The intention behind the creation of Ouroboros organization contradicts the way of life and principles of City of Contracts."
"It's better for that city to be as it is. A simple pilgrimage without any complexities."
Rayne said to the three women.
He truly feels that there is no need to drag those peace loving people of that city into his shenanigans.
Ah Yin looked surprised, at the same time, she didn't really feel surprised.
Despite only a few days of acquaintance, she knew that Rayne, while quite selfish minded, wouldn't impose his will onto others, unless there is a possibility of them getting in his way.
Till now, Xiao Wu and Dugu Bo seems to be the only people who seems to be in this category. No, maybe even she herself is included in this category? She's not sure.
She truly wonder why Xiao Wu, of all people, is bound by his side by Rayne.
In fact, Rayne himself doesn't have anything against Xiao Wu.
It's just that, leaving her alone and away from her sight would result in the same path as in his fourth life and the original work.
'Miraculously', she would lose some of her memories and get back together with Tang San again, fulfilling her 'destiny'.
And the advantage and disadvantage of Xiao Wu is that, she is absurdly loyal to the person she acknowledge as her lifelong partner.
The advantage is obviously... Well, no need to be elaborated. Who wouldn't want a beautiful that is completely devoted to you.
The disadvantage is that, this kind of devotion makes Xiao Wu almost like a puppet that solely exists for a certain someone.
And if the interests of that certain someone is threatened, this girl will lose her mind and do some crazy stuff.
Rayne still remembers the time in his fourth life where Xiao Wu instigated her two 100,000-year-old soul beast brothers to attack his mother and sister, just because his own existence posed the greatest threat to Tang San at that time.
It even escalated to the point of a beast tide, which resulted in tens of thousands of soul beasts being massacred by Rayne.
At the end, the slumbering Di Tian had to wake up and intervene to stop this farce.
Basically, Xiao Wu is kind of a wild card.
Letting her out of his sight now means, her coming back later and courting death.
...
Before entering the Yin Yang Ice Fire Well, Rayne left a lot of food rations to the three women, as well as a ready made house.
That's right, a portable house!
Rayne had prepared quite a bit before coming here.
After settling the three women, Rayne reached near the pool.
Looking at the co-existing ice and fire, he remembered the two beautiful women with contrasting personalities, who spent a lot of happy times as his life long partners.
He looked at the pool in a daze, when a system notifications brought him back to his senses.
It was actually a message from the group chat, notifying a message to him.
Opening the group, Rayne saw a message, that he had been seeing daily for the past few days.
['Kiana Kaslana' has sent a gift to 'Rayne Ashburn'.]
[Kiana Kaslana: Rayne, I've made too much food again. I'll give you some, so give me something in return as well!]
Rayne looked at the abomination of a food in his group chat inventory, and his mouth twitched.
Sighing, he took out a few dishes he had made earlier from the Gate of Ashburn, and send them to Kiana via the group chat gift giving option.
[Ding!]
['Rayne Ashburn' has sent a gift to 'Kiana Kaslana'.]
[Rayne Ashburn: You know, you could just ask me to cook some food for you, instead of sending your 'special' food to me.]
[Kiana Kaslana: That won't do! You are giving me the food you cooked, so I should also give you the food I cooked! Equal exchange!]
[Rayne Ashburn: Equal Exchange? What part of this is equal?]
[Kiana Kaslana: Muuu... Even if the food I cooked isn't as good as yours, it's not bad!]
[Serafall Leviathan: Wow★! Rayne-chan is getting home cooked bento from a cute girl like Kiana-chan★! I'm so jealous★!]
[Rayne Ashburn: Home cooked bento? How about I send you this 'Home cooked bento'? It's a very colorful dish.]
[Serafall Leviathan: No thanks★! It was made full of love by Kiana-chan for Rayne-chan★! I can't possibly ask for it, teehee★!]
[Darkness: I am very full at the moment. So I don't need it either.]
[Rengoku Kyojuro: It is colorful indeed! I briefly saw my deceased mother waving at me after tasting lady Kiana's food!]
[Kiana Kaslana: @Rengoku Kyojuro, You like my food so much? Do you want more?]
[Rengoku Kyojuro:....]
[Rayne Ashburn:.... Let's leave it aside for now. I have something to do. So I'm leaving first.]
[Rengoku Kyojuro: See you later, young Rayne!]
[Serafall Leviathan: Goodbye, Rayne-chan★!]
[Kiana Kaslana: Goodbye!]
[Darkness: See you again soon.]
...
Closing the group chat panel, Rayne once again focused on Yin Yang Ice Fire Well in front of him.
Then, without any hesitation, jumped and dived into the incomparably deep pool.
The Yin-Yang Ice Fire Well is more ten thousand meters below the water. Instead of being as dark and deep as in the deep sea, it is extremely bright.
The aqua blue and blazing red halos of light converge here, blending and supporting each other, forming a state of balance.
A very display of Yin and Yang coexisting.
If someone comes here, they will find that in the center of the icy blue halo and the blazing red halo, there is a huge dragon bodies suspended.
One fiery red and one aqua blue. Two unbelievably beautiful and majestic dragons.
Each of them almost more than Five thousand meters in length.
The red dragon's scaly body looks like ruby, as if magma is flowing through each scales.
The other blue dragon seemed to be wrapped in brilliant icy blue scales. In terms of picturesque view, the beauty of this dragon was mesmerizing.
What was even more strange was the existence of two strange objects that resembled eggs. They had a distinctive black and silver surface and some incomprehensible patterns. Each of the eggs were as big as an average human adult.
The fact that these two eggs can remain unharmed in the harsh environment deep in the pool, showed their extraordinary nature and origin.
A small version of the red dragon was floating above the body of the massive red fire dragon. It had it's eyes closed and it's entire body was glowing brilliantly, as if it is the incarnation of the sun.
Flame patterns were swaying on its body, as if the small dragon itself was burning. It was just enchanting and beautiful as the gigantic dragon beneath it.
Suddenly, the little red fire dragon opened its eyes, and its golden red eyes emitted a captivating light. It looked up towards the sky, as if it had sensed something.
The ice-blue water dragon floating above the Ice and Water Dragon also opened its eyes at the same time. After a faint glance upwards, it swam towards the red fire dragon.
As Rayne reached the very bottom of the pool, his infinity isolated him from the terribly dangerous power of ice and fire emanating from the two dragons.
As he looked at the two lifeless red and blue dragons, Rayne felt a rare extreme sadness and regret.
He had always called himself the strongest and claimed absolute security to his close ones. He has always been confident in protecting his loved ones.
But looking at the lifeless state of his two wives, Rayne was made to rethink about many things about himself.
That's right, the two giant dragons are the Fire Dragon King and Water Dragon King, two of the nine Dragon Kings under Dragon God in the ancient times.
Gu Huoling, the Fire Dragon King!
And,
Gu Shuiying, the Water Dragon King!
Then, he looked at the two strange eggs, his eyes looked more complicated.
His unborn children.
If not for his carelessness in the past, they might've long been born into the world back then, and would've grown up to be healthy and wonderful kids.
The two small dragons observed him closely since his arrival here.
Rayne also stared at them in their eyes. He saw doubt, uncertainty, sadness, joy and hope in their eyes.
He opened his lips, but no words came out. He didn't know what to say.
What can he even say? He failed to fulfill his responsibility as their husband and failed to protect them and his unborn children.
Rayne never thought that there would come a day where he would feel this awful.
Suddenly the icy blue dragon spoke in a loud echoing cold female voice.
"The reincarnation (Kāma) seal, the Six Eyes, this unparalleled dragon bloodline, and that technique you're using, the infinity.... Are you... Ophion?"
The cold female voice filled with doubt and hope resounded in Rayne's ears.
The red dragon also looked at him with hopefull inquiry.
"Ophion... What a nostalgic name. I haven't been called that for so long." Rayne muttered with a wry smile.
Ophion. This is a name that Rayne was given by his family during his life as Ouroboros.
Basically, after mingling with humans back then, his siblings had decided to give themselves a human-like alternative name.
And his name, Ouroboros, didn't exactly sound very human-like, more like the name of a godly monster.
So the name Ophion was given to him by his dragon mother back then. And also, the very few people who are very close to him, such as his family, his four wives and his three female disciples all call him Ophion.
Although the name Ophion also wasn't very human-like, but it was the closest among the names his mother had chosen for him back then.
Back to the scenario.
Hearing Rayne's muttering, the two dragon's eyes widened and they rushed at him.
In a instant, they reached him and shone with brilliant red and icy blue light.
Rayne didn't make any attempt to defend or dodge.
The brilliant light condensed into female humanoid forms.
Two breathtakingly beautiful women, one with red hair and other with icy blue hair.
Rayne was expecting a slap in the face or a beating and cursing. But what greeted him was a tight hug by both women.
And the simple word they uttered that was filled with apology, gratitude and longing, made him stunned.
"Sorry, Ophion! Sorry for leaving you alone all these years!"
...
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