Chapter 58

Chapter 58

The light was somewhat dim, the trees were broken, and the forest was dead silent. Even the howling wind seemed to pause for a moment. In the entire world, only the heavy, rasping breaths of the giant dragons remained, mixed with dense spiritual power as it surged heavily around them, stirring up a small storm.

The crowd stared at the terrifying, hideous dragons, at the gleaming, cold fangs in their mouths. Even though they had long been prepared, they still couldn't help but turn pale, their hearts uneasy. The reputation of the dragon clan was too formidable; if it weren't for the immense temptation offered by those people, they wouldn't have dared to come along!

The one-eyed man, facing the dragon's might directly, trembled violently, the color draining from his face. He moved sluggishly, raising his head and staring blankly at the colossal creature above.

Its massive shadow completely enveloped him, the surrounding light dimming. He could see their ferocious features, their eyes like blazing torches, the twisted horns on their foreheads, and the sharp scales glinting coldly in the sunlight.

They slowly lowered their bodies, then firmly stood in front of Lu Yuanyin, blocking the gazes of the crowd.

He had almost never seen such terrifying creatures; just looking at them, he could feel their formidable physical strength and surging power. He could almost smell the lingering scent of blood on them, mixed with the unique odor of sea breeze.

The one-eyed man instinctively wanted to flee, but his feet seemed stuck to the ground, unable to move.

He swallowed unconsciously, his back instantly drenched in cold sweat. The crowd also stared straight at the dragons hovering in the air, their faces deathly pale.

After a long while, when the giant wolf, due to the pressure of bloodline suppression, cowered and prostrated on the ground, letting out low wails, the crowd finally snapped out of it, their expressions changing drastically.

Lu Yuanyin lifted her eyes slightly, seeing the dim sky, rolling thunderclouds. Unbeknownst to her, a heavy rain had begun to pour, accompanied by fierce winds. The several dragons stood steadily in front of her.

The azure dragon's tail drooped down, gently pulling her behind him. He said in a low voice, "Little girl, hide yourself first. Let me kill these beasts to vent your anger."

Lu Yuanyin looked at the dragon's tail in front of her, noticing a deep wound on it, with scales falling off around it, faintly revealing white bones. She hesitated for a moment, then nodded heavily, "Thank you, Senior!"

As her words fell, the several dragons stepped forward, suddenly raising their massive tails and striking heavily at the one-eyed man.

The one-eyed man's expression changed several times as he dodged awkwardly. The dragon's tail slammed heavily into the ground where he had just been, instantly shattering rocks, snapping giant trees along the way, and raising dust everywhere. Seeing the hesitant crowd, he couldn't help but shout tremblingly, "Everyone, why haven't you acted yet? How long must you wait?!"

As his words fell, dozens of figures shot out from the forest like sharp swords. Their bodies grew as they moved, and in the blink of an eye, they transformed into dozens of massive flood dragons.

They glared fiercely at the dragons, their throats emitting angry roars. The horned dragon cultivator, with a single horn on his face, looked viciously at the dragons in the air, his bright yellow vertical pupils flashing with killing intent. He ground his teeth and said, "I didn't think you'd actually dare to come!"

The azure dragon drooped his eyelids, glanced at him calmly, and after a moment, said slowly, "A bunch of cowards, why wouldn't we dare?"

A cold glint flashed in his cloudy eyes. They had just retrieved the snow lotus and returned to the inn when they heard that the human girl had disappeared. They quickly searched for her tracks but found nothing.

However, just now, they suddenly felt a mysterious connection guiding them here. When they arrived, they saw these damned beasts trying to lay their hands on the little girl!

Fortunately, they weren't late this time.

The black flood dragon's expression changed drastically. He stared at the azure dragon, his eyes filled with surging hatred. Spiritual power rippled violently around him, and wind surged behind him. He said word by word, "Very well, you've all come. Saves me the trouble of finding you one by one. Today, I'll make sure you have company on the road to the underworld!"

"You killed my youngest son, harmed my people. Today, I'll tear you apart!"

With that, he turned to his clansmen and shouted fiercely, "Kill these old bastards, avenge our people!"

"They've taken advantage for too long just because they're also dragons. Now it's our turn!"

The azure dragon sneered, "What audacity."

The flood dragons immediately roared, their spiritual power skyrocketing. They raised their claws and charged forward with the male cultivator. Dozens of human cultivators also activated their spiritual power, drew their longswords, and rushed forward, unleashing devastating power as they madly attacked the dragons. In an instant, fierce winds howled, heavy rain poured down, and dozens of massive creatures engaged in brutal combat.

Sword light flooded everywhere, and vast spiritual power exploded in the void. The gloomy sky instantly turned bright as day, and even the earth trembled violently, the entire mountain range seemingly on the verge of collapse. Lu Yuanyin squinted her eyes, dazed and dizzy from the instant burst of spiritual power, almost falling to the ground.

She shook her head and quickly found a safe spot to stay.

Hot blood, accompanied by broken scales, fell from the void. Wherever the claws struck, the light injuries were torn flesh, and the severe ones were severed meridians and instant death. Several bloodied cultivators fell one after another, crashing heavily into the ground, leaving deep pits.

Several cultivators attacked her again, but before they could get close, a worn serpent staff shot out from behind her, blocking the one-eyed man's attack.

Lu Yuanyin turned her gaze and saw that thin figure standing under the tree. Compared to before, she seemed even thinner, her face full of wrinkles and traces of time. In the midst of the storm, her form appeared even more frail, her gray hair bun stained with water, her expression serious and stern as usual.

The old woman looked at her steadily but walked firmly toward her, just like before. She said in a deep voice, "Watch carefully. I'll avenge you."

Lu Yuanyin's eyes felt sour. Her lips moved, but she didn't know what to say. A surge of emotions swelled up, and in the end, she silently picked up her longsword, her gaze cold as she looked at the one-eyed man and his group.

Even for her grandmother, she would give her all!

Seeing some cultivators fall heavily to the ground, still breathing and trying to escape, Lu Yuanyin quickly rushed forward with her sword and stabbed directly through them. The man tried to resist, but his expression changed drastically as a terrifying pressure slowly descended upon him, forcing him to stay still!

In his terrified and incredulous gaze, Lu Yuanyin twisted her wrist and shattered his golden core.

This top expert, who had dominated the cultivation world for centuries, never expected to die in such a humiliating and bizarre way.

Soon, seeing several more people crash to the ground, Lu Yuanyin hurried forward, stabbing them all to death one by one.

Striving to uproot the menace, leaving no survivors!

Lu Yuanyin looked at the male cultivator she had just pierced with her sword. Suddenly, she felt that she truly lived up to being the cannon fodder female supporting character in the story.

If it were Lu Sisi, seeing these heavily injured people, she would probably feel sympathy and beg her master and Gu Lingqiu to spare them.

She was indeed vicious and selfish. When it came to her own life, she couldn't care less about any healer's benevolence; she only wanted to raise her sword and cut those scumbags into pieces!

Lu Yuanyin lowered her eyes, then stabbed her sword into the man's dantian. Only after completely shattering his golden core did she withdraw her blood-stained sword. She hooked the storage pouch from his waist.

When a person dies, the lamp goes out. Their storage pouches naturally became ownerless.

Lu Yuanyin opened their storage pouches and her eyes lit up. These people were all prominent figures in their time, carrying countless treasures. The treasures in their storage pouches were almost worth several years' revenue of the Chongyao Sect.

Lu Yuanyin put the storage pouches into her sleeve and continued to follow the elder dragons, eagerly searching for more treasures.

With a violent explosion of surging spiritual power, a sturdy figure was heavily smacked down by a dragon's tail. The one-eyed man stumbled to the ground, clutching his aching chest. The golden armor that protected his chest finally shattered under his heavy gaze.

Already humiliated and angry, the one-eyed man was now even more furious. He couldn't help spitting out a large mouthful of blood. His breath was weak. If it weren't for the spiritual treasure he always carried to protect his heart, that tail strike would have directly crushed his internal organs. Even so, his qi and blood were in turmoil, and he was severely injured.

His face turned purple. Earlier, when he heard others praising these beasts, he found it laughable—just a bunch of decrepit, dying old things. What was so impressive about them?

But now that they actually fought, they realized how terrifying these monsters were. Although the black flood dragon insisted that they were also of the dragon clan and no different, they quickly discovered that whether in terms of fangs, claws, or scales, they were incomparable to these old dragons.

Even this old woman, who looked like she was about to enter a coffin, was terrifyingly strong!!!

The one-eyed man felt extremely frustrated. At the same time, seeing their men retreating step by step, he grew fearful. If Huo Wuyan arrived, they might not be able to escape unscathed today...

His expression grew uglier. Just as he was thinking about how to turn the tide, he saw a figure busily moving among the corpses. He looked closely and found it was Lu Yuanyin, following behind the old dragons, stabbing the heavily wounded cultivators to death one by one, then shamelessly taking their storage pouches.

"???"

The more he watched, the more he hated her. He almost ground his teeth to pieces. If it weren't for this little wench, his giant wolf wouldn't have died, and he wouldn't be in such a sorry state!

If he couldn't even capture this little girl today, what face would he have to continue walking in the cultivation world?!

Moreover, as long as he could catch this little wench, they still had a fight left in them!

His face tight with hatred, the one-eyed man grabbed his giant hammer and slammed it heavily into the ground, launching himself toward Lu Yuanyin like a bolt of lightning. He shouted fiercely, "Bitch, your life is mine!"

Lu Yuanyin's ears twitched, and she saw the one-eyed man charging madly at her, his giant hammer cutting through the air with a sharp, piercing sound. "If I don't kill you today, I'm not a man!"

Lu Yuanyin, seeing this, formed hand seals, summoning her alchemy furnace. Instead of retreating, she channeled her spiritual power and charged straight at One Eye, eager to see the furnace’s true might.

One Eye hadn’t expected the wench to neither flee nor retreat but charge directly at him, ready to take him head-on.

To One Eye, this was utterly laughable. This girl, only at the Nascent Soul stage, dared to challenge him, a reckless display of overestimating her own strength! He smirked, his expression turning vicious as he could already picture her pitiful end—brains splattered, drenched in blood.

The heavy hammer and alchemy furnace crashed together in a dull thud. Dust and debris flew as a slender figure was blasted backward. Lu Yuanyin stumbled for hundreds of steps before finally steadying herself.

One Eye froze, surprised she managed to block his strike. His grin twisted into something savage. "Let’s see how many more blows you can take!"

The web of her hand split open instantly, blood splattering. Lu Yuanyin rubbed her aching wrist, then hoisted the furnace again and charged once more at One Eye.

Soon, with another sharp rending sound, Lu Yuanyin staggered back—but this time only for less than a hundred steps. She glanced at the furnace in her hands, her eyes growing brighter. Suddenly, without waiting for One Eye’s next move, she attacked him even more fiercely.

The thick scent of blood filled her nostrils, her blood surging. She grew increasingly disheveled as her robes stained crimson.

One Eye’s expression darkened. Logically, killing Lu Yuanyin, with her low cultivation, should have been as easy as squashing an ant—simpler, even. But now, he couldn’t get the better of her!

To his horror, he noticed her retreating fewer and fewer steps, and she even started to trade blows evenly with him...

One Eye’s face burned with humiliation. He glared down at Lu Yuanyin, his chest heaving with turbulent blood. How was this possible?

Lu Sisi never imagined that Lu Yuanyin could go toe-to-toe with One Eye. Just days ago, the other girl was only at the Foundation Establishment stage, a well-known waste of the Chongyao Sect.

Yet in just this short year, her cultivation had skyrocketed. She now had a Dragon Lord as her partner, countless dragon elders protecting her, and even that old lady who’d disappeared for so long came out just to back her up.

Lu Sisi felt a profound sense of injustice. Stunned, she held her mother’s body in her arms, the form slowly stiffening, its warmth fading into cold. Her mind went blank; even now, she hadn’t fully processed what just happened—or perhaps she simply refused to accept it.

Staring blankly at her mother’s pale face, Lu Sisi’s whole body ached. She suddenly coughed up blood, and just before losing consciousness, she saw Immortal Lord Changye standing expressionlessly before her. He casually pulled her to her feet and vanished into the distance with her.

The old man beside him said grimly, "Let's go. These wastes."

She opened her mouth, wanting to beg them to take Brother Gu and her parents along, but the moment she tried to speak, she coughed up more blood, and darkness took her.

Seeing the flood dragons faltering and cultivators dropping one after another, One Eye gathered his spiritual power then slammed his palm against his own chest. The color drained from his face, turning it ashen.

He growled, "I’ll kill you today, no matter what!"

His lifeblood slowly merged into the heavy hammer, his spiritual energy surging. His muscles bulged, veins popping, his clothes tearing apart like a deformed, grotesque frog.

A dark glint flashed in Lu Yuanyin’s eyes. As she braced to counter One Eye’s explosive charge, specks of blazing fire rained from the void, gleaming brilliantly under the sun.

She sensed a familiar aura in that golden flame.

One Eye froze.

The ethereal, fragile-looking flame instantly exploded on contact with his skin, engulfing him whole. A searing pain shot through his body, as if the fire pierced his flesh and scorched his very soul. His face contorted.

An overwhelming spiritual pressure spread across the sky and earth, causing the temperature to soar.

He instinctively tried to flee, gathering his power, but a sharp pain shot through his neck. His heart jolted as his head thudded to the ground, blood splattering.

In his last conscious moment, he saw others swallowed by the flame, screaming as they turned to ash on the ground—once-proud overlords, now helplessly reduced to ashes.

A tall figure stood silently before him. Dressed in black robes with white hair cascading down, horns sprouting from his forehead, his red eyes, hollow and cold. He looked down at the crowd, his loose robes billowing in the wind, exuding an air of menace.

One Eye belatedly realized this was the legendary Dragon Lord, Huo Wuyan.

The tall figure came to a stop in front of her, the thick scent of blood spreading through the jungle. At the sight of One Eye’s rolling head and the splatter of blood, Lu Yuanyin instinctively stepped back.

The wind and rain suddenly stopped.

Huo Wuyan stared at her, then gave a cold laugh. "Why didn't you tell me?"

"Lu Yuanyin, what do you take me for?"

After everything between us, you kept this from me and went off on your own to get yourself killed.

What does she actually think of him?

Lu Yuanyin looked at his icy expression and felt a flicker of guilt. Her lips parted, but no words came.

She could sense he was furious—even angrier than the first time she drained his cultivation through their union.

Though his face remained as impassive as ever.

She blinked, and Huo Wuyan suddenly grabbed her hand and vanished into the distance.

Seeing this, Grandma's expression changed as she tried to go after them, but the Azure Dragon quickly blocked her path.

Faced with Grandma’s stern face, he rubbed his fingertips together, finding himself in a tricky situation. This was Huo Wuyan's mother-in-law, essentially; he couldn’t afford to offend her.

As Grandma grew more impatient, the Azure Dragon hastily put on what he thought was a sincere smile and said dryly, "My dear in-law, please don’t hurry..."

Grandma: "???"

She stared at him coldly. Who are you calling 'dear in-law'? This shameless old dragon.

Author's Notes:

None.