Dual Cultivation: I Summon Villainesses of Mythic Era-Chapter 79: White Snake and the Demonic Dragon (1)
BaiShe settled into lotus position facing her.
"Close your eyes," said the Queen. "Perceive the energy around you. Qi is not a simple force, it is the very essence of the world... You must aspirate it through your pores, let the flow pass through your meridians and guide it toward your Dantian, just below your navel."
BaiShe began to learn the rudiments of Qi manipulation under the skeptical but intrigued eye of the Queen.
"It is... more difficult than expected," murmured BaiShe.
"Do not be so impatient, little serpent," mocked Long Huang. "A mortal normally takes fifty years just to open his meridians."
However, the surrounding Qi began to swirl around him, violently aspirated by his unique constitution.
The Queen’s expression changed instantly. She saw the spiritual mists condense into an emerald vortex that rushed into BaiShe’s body. It was not the hesitant manipulation of a novice, but the insatiable hunger of a predator.
"What is this... ?" she murmured while leaning toward him. Her large breasts almost brushed BaiShe’s chest, but she paid no attention, too fascinated by the spectacle.
BaiShe opened his silver eyes, which now shone with a fleeting violet glow.
"I think I have understood the concept, Majesty," he declared with his usual nonchalant smile.
Long Huang remained speechless for several seconds. The talent he had just demonstrated surpassed anything she had seen in humans from the Lower Realms. She felt a shiver of excitement run down her spine.
"You are definitely not an ordinary human, BaiShe," she admitted while standing up. Her silk dress slid over her legs, producing an erotic rustle in the silence of the hall.
"At this rate, you will end up learning to manipulate laws that even my dragon lords fear," she added.
BaiShe stood up in turn, smoothing his black tunic. "I am only a humble scholar at your service, Majesty."
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*Era of Origins... Battlefield of the Blazing Skies*
The sky was nothing more than a torn canvas where two absolute powers clashed. On one side, the Draconic race, led by the majestic and terrifying Long Huang. On the other, the Phoenixes, creatures of eternal fire whose wingbeats made purifying embers rain down on the world
Total war had broken out, transforming the peaks of the Ancient Realms into immense blazes where the rock itself ended up liquefying.
Xuan BaiShe stood at the top of a rocky promontory, overlooking the chaos. Despite the air saturated with sulfur and stifling heat, he maintained an anachronistic elegance.
His black tunic, embroidered with silver threads bore no trace of ash. He observed the movements of the troops with a cold analytical gaze that contrasted violently with the surrounding fury.
At his side, Long Huang, the Demonic Dragoness with Black Flames, exhaled an aura of pure domination.
"Why do we stay here observing, BaiShe ?" asked Long Huang in an authoritative voice. "My warriors are burning with desire to reduce these birds to ashes. Your prudence is starting to look like cowardice."
BaiShe did not avert his gaze from the front. A thin smile, devoid of any human warmth, stretched his lips.
"Haste is the enemy of strategy, my dear Dragoness," he replied in a melodious tone. "Your warriors are powerful, but the Phoenixes possess a regeneration that will exhaust your troops if we do not strike their Qi convergence points. Let me coordinate the assault, and I promise you a massacre that centuries will remember."
’She is still as impulsive as ever,’ he thought, his silver pupils scrutinizing the flaws in the opposing formation. ’Her emotions are a precious fuel, but without my logic, she would only consume her own forces.’
Suddenly, three flaming silhouettes pierced the clouds. They were the Phoenix Generals, entities whose power approached the Heavenly King stage. Their golden feather armors emitted a heat so intense that the petrified trees below instantly caught fire.
"Insignificant reptiles !" thundered the first Phoenix General. "Today, the phoenix race purifies your filth with sacred fire !"
Long Huang let out a growl of contempt. She deployed her black flame wings, and the space around her began to twist under the pressure of her demonic Qi.
"Go away, BaiShe," she ordered. "These three are for me. I will show them what true draconic despair is."
"Wait," BaiShe interrupted by raising a nonchalant hand. "Let us use the Blood Eclipse formation. Order your flank divisions to converge toward the center at my signal. While they focus on your frontal power, I will open a breach in their meridians."
Long Huang stared at him for a moment. She knew that this human, although devoid of the physical power of the Origins, possessed a mind capable of overturning destiny [1].
"Do what you have to do," she spat before launching herself into the skies.
She opened her mouth, releasing a cry that shattered the eardrums of the nearest soldiers.
< Roar of the Origins Draconic >
The sound wave, infused with her black dragon essence, struck the Phoenixes, forcing the generals to stagger in mid-flight under the pressure of her natural authority.
The combat began with unheard-of brutality. Long Huang plunged into the melee, her hands with nails sharp as blades tearing the flaming flesh of the Phoenixes.
The golden blood of the fire creatures gushed in fountains, evaporating in a shrill hiss. She summoned columns of dark fire that directly consumed the souls of her enemies.
< Arts : Combustion of Draconic Pride >
Meanwhile, BaiShe did not remain inactive. Although human, he coordinated the draconic armies through Qi signals, moving thousands of warriors.
He waited for the moment when the Phoenix Generals concentrated their sacred fire to try to seal Long Huang.
"Now," he murmured to himself [1].
He took a step forward, and for the first time in this life, he released the art he had perfected himself by observing the laws of the world. It was not a learned technique, but a pure manifestation of his will and his self-taught power.
< Arts : Myriad Illusory Swords >
The sky above the battlefield seemed to fragment. Thousands, then tens of thousands of translucent blades composed of pure Qi materialized instantly. Each sword vibrated with a murderous intention so dense that it created spatial distortions.
The Phoenix Generals raised their eyes, terror finally replacing their arrogance.
"This technique... It is not possible ! A mere human can use qi !" cried one of them.
BaiShe did not respond. With a simple gesture of his hand, without even taking his hands out from behind his back, he commanded the rain of blades. The swords descended on the Phoenixes with precision, ignoring the sacred fire barriers to directly slice the vital points.
