After Breaking Off the Engagement, I Started Pursuing My Master-Chapter 94 - Hold on!
Chapter 94: Hold on!
“I have kept this dragon crystal inside my body for thirty years,” the black serpent said, looking at Bai Li, who had returned to her physical form.
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It knew she had no chance of escaping, so it approached slowly, lowering its head to gaze at the slender girl in front of it.
“For this dragon crystal, I even gave up the unborn child in my belly. It took me thirty years, but I finally learned a trace of the dragon clan’s divine power from the dragon crystal. I suppose what you just used is the Great Void that the Serpent Ancestor comprehended?”
“How do you know?”
“I was once a member of the Serpent Clan. A thousand years ago, I was taken into Jishi True Person’s small world and became a part of this world. I thought I would never be able to break free from the rules of this world, but unexpectedly, he came to this Burial Dragon Valley and merged it with his small world, turning it into his legacy secret realm. And I had the chance to touch this dragon crystal.”
“I’ve waited too long, far too long. My bloodline was lowly, and I thought I would never have the chance to refine this dragon crystal in my life. But I didn’t expect to wait for you. Fate has finally favored me. As long as I devour you and completely refine this dragon crystal, I can break free from this world. When I return to the Western Region Serpent Clan, I will be the king of the Western Region, and all the demons of the Western Region will obey my orders!”
Perhaps because of many years of loneliness and no one to talk to, the black serpent spoke a few extra words.
“Have you noticed? You can no longer use your Great Void. This is the domineering aspect of the dragon clan. The dragon clan moves through the world with rules, and all demons under its command are nothing but ants. With just a thought, they can lock your Great Void. You have nowhere to escape, and you will be devoured by me, becoming the nourishment for my path to becoming a demon king.”
Bai Li bit her lip and made no further sound. She tried to swing her sword, but even if the blade struck the serpent’s head, the serpent did not dodge or avoid it. Her sword blade could only spark a little on the serpent’s forehead, nothing more.
“Your futile struggle is meaningless. Although we are of the same clan, I have no choice but to devour you. In the future, I will erect a monument for you in the Serpent Clan to commemorate your sacrifice for my path today!”
The serpent’s body drew closer and closer, its blood-colored vertical pupils growing larger and larger.
Bai Li’s slender legs trembled slightly.
She thought she wouldn’t be afraid of death.
At the moment of her escape, she had already prepared for all the consequences. Perhaps she would die in some corner of the Eastern Region in the future, but that would be much better than a life chosen by others.
As a member of the Serpent Clan, she always envied the spiritual birds flying in the sky, their beautiful wings, and the vast expanse of the sky they had, going wherever they wanted.
The breath of the black serpent carried the ultimate cold qi, and Bai Li felt as if her very marrow was gradually solidifying.
“Is all this nonsense your last words?”
Amidst the noisy rain, suddenly a voice came through.
The black serpent was drawn to the voice and turned its head. In the chaotic curtain of rain under the dark sky, a white-robed cultivator stood in the rain, drenched from head to toe, without time to open an umbrella, because Bai Li had run too fast, and just keeping up had nearly exhausted all his strength.
He always felt it strange that Bai Li suddenly said things like ‘If I die, don’t be sad.’ So, he pretended to sleep for a very long time.
“Jiang Huai…”
Bai Li’s eyes widened as she stared at the figure of the boy in the rain.
“Go back… go back…!”
She suddenly yelled at Jiang Huai like a madwoman, but Jiang Huai just kept walking towards her, as if the sound of the rain had drowned out her voice.
“How can you leave without saying goodbye? Didn’t we agree to share good food and shoulder burdens together? If you leave like this, I can’t consider you a good brother anymore.”
Jiang Huai said, looking into her eyes.
He had never seen Bai Li cry in all the time he had known her, but now the girl’s cheeks were wet with tears, and her voice was almost hysterical. Jiang Huai looked into her eyes seriously, but he didn’t have time to comfort the girl in front of him because the black serpent had already spat out a stream of cold air toward him.
In an instant, Jiang Huai looked up, and Mirror Flower was activated.
In front of the black serpent, everything turned pure white. It couldn’t see the curtain of rain, the distant lake, or Bai Li, and the cold stream it had spat out didn’t hit Jiang Huai. But in an instant, it swept its giant tail, trying to find Jiang Huai’s trace.
A system notification quietly sounded in Jiang Huai’s ear.
【Low-grade experience scroll*50 used.】
The experience scroll was the most shameless thing in Jiang Huai’s system, ignoring cultivation constraints and the rules of heaven and earth, directly converting Jiang Huai’s cultivation into experience points for leveling up. Sometimes Jiang Huai felt like the creator of this system was a hardcore player of some game, and he was the little sprite whose cultivation was being boosted.
But unfortunately, his sea of qi was now damaged, and the experience scroll could only temporarily grant him cultivation, which would dissipate after a short while due to the shattered qi sea.
Fifty low-grade experience scrolls didn’t increase his cultivation by much, only barely allowing him to reach the great perfection late stage of Nascent Soul.
These experience scrolls were all obtained by Jiang Huai through various means, such as pinching Luo Qingyu’s feet, kissing Wen Wanwan’s lips, pinching Bai Li’s butt, and even kissing his master’s lips while drunk.
He had never touched those truly evil tasks, so after saving up for so long, he only had a few scrolls. If a cultivator who was truly dedicated to the path of cultivation and indifferent to good and evil had this system, perhaps they would have reached the eighth realm by now?
The spiritual energy was abundant after a long absence.
The moment Jiang Huai arrived here, he had already grasped the Ye Ning sword. Fortunately, he wasn’t late. The Ye Ning sword spirit, who loved to sleep, was awakened by him. Just now, she was complaining that she wanted to sleep a bit longer, but now she was ready for battle.
“Do we have to use that again?” the sword spirit, named Xiao Ning by Jiang Huai, asked seriously.
“Yes, that one.”
Jiang Huai gripped the Ye Ning sword, and in an instant, under the influence of the sword spirit, the sword’s sharpness reached its limit. A heavenly-grade high-grade perfect spiritual sword, just one step away from being a supreme treasure, was a rare divine weapon in the world. If used properly, it could cut through anything.
Mirror Flower could only delay the black serpent in front of him for a while. The real killer move was in this sword strike.
Perhaps influenced by Chu Xianning, Jiang Huai also liked simple sword moves. His sword moves were about intent, not form. Over the years, he had comprehended only two moves: one called Mirror Flower and the other called Water Moon.
Water Moon was a strange sword move because it seemed to touch upon some kind of rule constraint. Once used, it would cause great backlash to him. The day Jiang Huai first comprehended it, he lay in bed for three days after swinging his sword, which scared Chu Xianning so much that she admonished him to use it sparingly in the future.
Jiang Huai rarely used it indeed, but his understanding of the sword intent never stopped. The path of cultivation could be without a sword in hand, but not without a sword in heart. If there was no sword in his heart, anyone could humiliate him.
Jiang Huai raised his hand, locking the black serpent’s body with his sword intent, finding the position of its heart. His entire body’s spiritual energy was drawn into one, and a dazzling light shone at the tip of the sword. Accompanied by the swing of the sword, the light turned into a crescent moon. The moonlight fell on the black serpent’s chest, and in an instant, the sword light dissipated, and blood surged.
Jiang Huai spat out a mouthful of blood, and the black serpent’s chest was pierced and torn by the sword edge, black and red blood spraying everywhere. Jiang Huai immediately returned to his original position, holding Bai Li tightly in his arms, moving to an open area to avoid the black serpent’s poisonous blood splashing on Bai Li.
Bai Li’s face was still filled with shock. She looked up at the blood on the corner of Jiang Huai’s mouth, and before she could speak, Jiang Huai softly said.
“It’s nothing.”
Jiang Huai turned his gaze to the black serpent in front of him. Its body had already collapsed thunderously, but its eyes still had a faint light. Those were the eyes of a flood dragon, but now they were filled with regret and unwillingness.
It no longer had the strength to stand up, and death was just a matter of time. Jiang Huai also couldn’t wield a second sword in the short term, powerless to deliver a finishing blow. He took out a Fire Dragon Talisman, trying to kill the black serpent completely in the shortest time to prevent any changes.
“Why… I was just one step away…”
“Villains usually die because they talk too much. You’ve triggered the law.”
Jiang Huai said as the light of the Fire Dragon Talisman lit up. He had just breathed a sigh of relief, but in the next moment, the black serpent’s eyes became even colder.
“I can’t become a true dragon… but you… don’t even think about it…!”
From the mouth of the black serpent, another syllable suddenly came out, which was its dying roar. It activated all the dragon crystals within its body, using itself as an altar, sacrificing itself to invoke the power of the laws on the dragon crystals.
The dragon clan controlled the laws of heaven and earth, and the human clan was protected by the laws of heaven and earth, not affected by most of the laws used by the dragon clan. Jiang Huai didn’t understand this roar, but the white serpent in his arms suddenly let out a scream. In an instant, her body was forced to revert to her true form, and numerous wounds tore open on her white scales, and blood instantly soaked Jiang Huai’s clothes.
After that roar, the black serpent’s eyes lost all vitality in the firelight, but its eyes were still full of resentment.
“That’s the power of the dragon clan’s rules, it’s a command for Bai Li to die!”
Xiao Ning, hidden within the Ye Ning sword, recognized the meaning of that roar and hurriedly reminded Jiang Huai. Jiang Huai immediately took out the best healing pills from his body and tried to stuff them into the white snake’s lips. He tried hard to pry open her mouth and stuff the pills in. Her wounds seemed to recover, but then they tore open again, and the blood kept gushing out. Jiang Huai was somewhat panicked, but after rummaging through his storage ring and thinking through all the ancient books he had read, he couldn’t find a way to stop her injuries.
“Healing pills can only hang on to her life. It used the dragon clan’s command to make her die. It’s useless,” Xiao Ning reminded from the side.
“What should I do?!” Jiang Huai’s voice trembled.
“This… I don’t know either… This secret realm belongs to the Jishi True Person… We can only bet that his remnant soul is still here. His medical skills were very good,” Xiao Ning hesitated, then detached from Jiang Huai’s hand and floated in the air.
“You take that dragon crystal with you, and I’ll take you to the Jishi’s inheritance site. If his remnant soul is still there… there might be a way…”
Jiang Huai quickly took out the huge dragon crystal from the body of the black serpent and put it into his system backpack, then jumped onto the Ye Ning sword. The white serpent’s skin in his hand kept cracking, and Jiang Huai fed her all his healing pills one by one, but the effect was just a drop in the bucket.
Apart from that, he couldn’t do anything else. He just held Bai Li tightly. He always thought that Bai Li, transformed into a white snake, was creepy, with a cold and slippery body, but now he just hoped she would be fine, with no more wounds on her pure white scales, which would be the most perfect appearance.
“Hold on… I’m trying to find a way… Bai Li… I’m trying to find a way… You can’t die… You’re not allowed to die… You’re my friend… I won’t let you die!”
