Without even looking back, Xian Ling transformed into a dark-gold streak, hurtling toward the pitch-black horizon.
Mumbling incantations under her breath, she practically turned into a rainbow of light. Every few moments, she would suddenly burst forward, crossing a massive distance in the blink of an eye.
She didn't care whether Xue Lun lived or died.
As for Xian Xiao'ai, if she was gone, she was gone. Once her granddaughter was dead, she could always adopt a godson, find him a wife, and have them breed a new one. But if she herself died, then everything would truly be over!
At this thought, Xian Ling couldn't help but feel a sense of relief.
Fortunately, her opponent had only recently stepped into the Transcendent realm. He likely hadn't learned any Circle-tier spells yet. There was no way he could break free from her binding spell anytime soon.
However, in the very next second...
“Where do you think you're going, you old hag?!”
A black-robed figure soared into the sky. It was none other than a murderous Bai Xiaodu!
The binding spell had indeed held him back for a brief moment, but Bai Xiaodu's reactions were incredibly swift. He had used 【Somatic Control】 to forcibly break the crowd control effect. Then, activating his Roaming Dragon Technique, he pursued her without a single moment of hesitation.
Seeing him hot on her heels, Xian Ling's face contorted in shock. She gritted her teeth and snarled, “We are both transcendents! If we truly fight to the death, you'll have to expend a massive amount of your Pathway Origin. You won't gain anything from this!”
Bai Xiaodu sneered. “You certainly think highly of yourself, you old hag. A transcendent of 【Trickery】 actually wants to face me in a direct head-on clash?”
With that, his speed surged even further!
Seeing this and knowing that the situation was unsalvageable, Xian Ling let out a long sigh. With a flick of her wrist, she conjured a wooden staff inlaid with dark-red scales.
“Dragon Might!”
With a resounding boom, an invisible red ripple expanded rapidly in all directions with her at the center.
Since this was an area-of-effect debuff, there was no dodging it. Bai Xiaodu swung his sword in surprise, finding that his physical strength had suddenly decreased by thirty percent out of nowhere. At the same time, an inexplicable sense of dread welled up in his heart, as if a terrifying dragon were silently staring down at him from the distant heavens. The feeling immediately gave him the sudden urge to turn tail and run!
What a great skill!
Bai Xiaodu looked up. Instead of backing down, his interest was thoroughly piqued. I wonder if this skill will drop when I kill her!
Xian Ling continued to fly away at high speed, repeatedly waving her staff to cast spells at Bai Xiaodu. Because his attributes were weakened by the Dragon Might, the latter's speed plummeted, allowing Xian Ling to widen the gap between them.
She raised her staff high, chanting a long string of bizarre, hypnotic syllables that Bai Xiaodu didn't recognize at all. As she chanted, the staff flared with a searing light, the intense heat warping the surrounding air!
A sinister grin spread across Xian Ling's wrinkled face. “You persistent pest, taste the Fiery Wrath of the High Dragons!”
Bai Xiaodu raised an eyebrow. “You're just a trashy lizardman at best, yet you dare call yourself a high dragon?”
Xian Ling's face darkened, and she glared at him venomously. “Ignorant fool. Even if our lizardmen clan has fallen from grace, we still carry dragon blood in our veins. Naturally, we can command Dragon Tongue secrets. Anyone whose dragon blood is less pure than mine will be utterly suppressed!”
Then, she respectfully threw her staff forward. “I summon the Royal Spirit!”
The dragon-scaled wooden staff shot straight into the sky, burning with a furious, blazing light that caused the surrounding temperature to spike instantly. It was as if a brilliant sun had suddenly appeared, illuminating the area for hundreds of meters around as bright as day!
Within this blazing sun, a rift quietly emerged and rapidly expanded, finally opening completely to reveal a golden, vertical-slit dragon eye. The moment it appeared, its gaze swept across the two people present. It lingered on the lizardman for only a brief moment before quickly locking onto Bai Xiaodu.
With a crackling sound, the dragon eye trembled continuously.
Bai Xiaodu felt a wave of intense heat wash over him, and a strong sense of danger flooded his mind. Chasing after Xian Ling to kill her was no longer feasible; she had only paused for a brief moment to throw the staff before immediately turning to flee again. She clearly had no intention of engaging in close-quarters combat with him.
Becoming cautious, he narrowed his eyes and instinctively shielded them from the blinding light with one hand. She really is a transcendent. She's got some tricks up her sleeve. So hard to kill.
“Is this a competition of whose purity is higher?”
After a brief thought, Bai Xiaodu retrieved the True Dragon Blood Orb from his inventory and shouted to wake Kiru. “Hey, hey, hey! Wake up, Kiru! The Federation just won the dragon war and is handing out slaves. I'm taking you to get a silver-haired little girl!”
“Where's the silver-haired little girl?! Is she from the silver dragon clan?” Kiru, who had been planning to play dead, instantly snapped awake and started shouting back.
Bai Xiaodu grinned, pointing the blood orb toward the wary Xian Ling in the distance. “There she is! Go ahead and enjoy your little grooming game, my old baby!”
Kiru's spirit form quickly emerged from the orb, looking over with immense anticipation. Only to be greeted by Xian Ling's dried-up, bark-like face! Kiru's spirit form flushed a deep shade of crimson.
“Are you freaking kidding me, Bai Xiaodu?! Can you do something human for once?!”
“I'm a fox! Why on earth would I do something human?!” Bai Xiaodu barked back righteously. “And what do you know anyway? Women are like raisins—the more wrinkled they are, the sweeter they taste!”
“Then why the hell don't you eat her yourself?!”
“Because I'm always thinking of my brother!” Bai Xiaodu shook the orb, forcing Kiru's gaze toward the vertical golden dragon eye in the sky. “Hurry, how do we deal with this thing?”
Kiru glanced at it and sneered. “It's just a low-grade Dragon Tongue staff. It can store a few skills of dragon experts for combat convenience. However, when activated, it runs a check. Whoever has the lower concentration of dragon blood gets blasted. Damn it, looking at this thing pisses me off. Being half-human and half-dragon, I took plenty of beatings from these things back in the day. This old hag is probably trying to defect to the Dragon Clan. To reward her loyalty, they gave her this weapon. To them, there is no better reward. It boosts her strength while preventing this lizardman from rebelling.”
Bai Xiaodu nodded. He already knew exactly what to do.
Holding the blood orb high in one hand, Bai Xiaodu burst with a blood-red radiance. He roared, “True Dragon Manifestation!”
In an instant, countless threads of blood wove into a suit of armor, draping over Bai Xiaodu from head to toe. Even his silver-white fox tail was wrapped into the shape of a dragon's tail, covered in shimmering phantom scales.
“Graaargh! I am a dragon!!!”
Hum! Hum! Hum!
The dragon eye, which had been preparing to attack Bai Xiaodu, suddenly trembled violently! Its gaze darted frantically back and forth between Xian Ling and Bai Xiaodu. Finally, its cold, murderous gaze locked onto Xian Ling, whose face had completely lost all color!
Xian Ling seemed utterly shattered by this sight. Stumbling backward, she shrieked in a panicked frenzy, “Lord Royal Spirit! I am the dragon! I am the real dragon! He's an imposter! Do not be deceived by him!”
Filled with righteous indignation, Bai Xiaodu bellowed, “Silence, you mongrel! A dragon is a dragon, and a lizard is a lizard. Do you think Lord Royal Spirit cannot tell the difference?!”
Then, Bai Xiaodu looked at the dragon eye with deep solemnity and cupped his hands. “Who is loyal and who is treacherous, Lord Royal Spirit will surely judge!”
Boom!
Before his voice could even fade, the dragon eye erupted. The sun-like, searing energy mass spun rapidly. In the next instant, a terrifying golden-red laser beamed out, blasting directly at Xian Ling as she desperately tried to dodge!
With a single agonizing shriek, Xian Ling was instantly incinerated into a pile of ash!
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