Dual Cultivation: I Summon Villainesses of Mythic Era-Chapter 86: Forever my beloved queen...
"Where is he, Long Huang?" asked the King of Spades who had resurrected. "Where is the one you called your right-hand man? The Celestial Demon seems to have deserted your ship as it sinks into oblivion."
Long Huang straightened her opulent chest, ignoring the pain radiating from her wounds. Her eyes, of absolute black, burned with visceral hatred. She clenched her fists, her nails sinking into her palms.
"He is not a coward," she spat, although uncertainty gnawed at her, she believed it was part of his plan... They had lived together far too much, millennia as lovers and allies. How could he sweep it away with a flick of the hand?
"BaiShe will return. And when he does, there will be nothing left of you."
The Rakshasa let out a shrill laugh. "BaiShe? That bastard is nothing more than a name that history is about to erase. He disappeared some time ago, leaving us the task of finishing your existence. Look around you, demonic dragoness of the black flames. Your brothers are dead. Your empire is nothing but dust in the wind."
Nevertheless, the reality was overwhelming. Without the Celestial Demon to orchestrate defense and attack, Long Huang was vulnerable. She was a force of pure destruction, but she lacked the predatory cunning of her missing companion.
It was thus that Long Huang was sealed. They decided to lead her to the most cursed place in the kingdom: the Draconic Tomb.
Long Huang, chained, crossed the lands where her kind were massacred by the thousands. The extermination of the dragon race was almost total.
Long Huang remained there, in the depths of the Draconic Tomb, a Queen without a kingdom, waiting for her lover to return and break the cycle of Samsara. Her obsession with believing in him, engraved in her very essence, remained the only thing that could not be completely erased.
But it was only denial... He never returned. And the wait began to turn into resentment and even then... She was still in love with him.
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*Dao Era*
The atmosphere inside the sanctuary of the Golden Jade Lake had become heavy due to the spiritual density of the liquefied Qi stagnating in the cave. The crystals embedded in the walls of dark rock emitted a flickering bluish glow, while the golden vapors of the source rose in regular spirals, enveloping the ruins in a mystical shroud.
In the center, Xuan BaiShe stood, his breath short, his silver eyes fixed on the bubbling waters of the lake.
The silence that reigned after Huojin’s death was terrifying, broken only by the lapping of the sacred water against the dragoness’s bruised body. BaiShe felt a sharp pain radiating from his own Dantian, a direct consequence of the forced use of the Law of Dao Authority he had just torn from the Executor. 𝒻𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘸ℯ𝒷𝘯𝘰𝑣ℯ𝑙.𝘤𝑜𝘮
He collapsed onto one knee at the edge of the basin, one hand pressed to his chest, where his Omega Heart beat with irregular violence.
Suddenly, a bluish and translucent light burst before his retina, breaking the darkness of the cave.
[The Karmic Link is mutual : 100%]
BaiShe remained petrified, this was not wanted.
It was no longer only Long Huang who was bound to him by the force of the invocation; destiny had just sealed their connection in a bidirectional and absolute manner. At the very moment this figure reached perfection, a vortex of white and blinding energy invaded his consciousness.
Revealing their shared memories.
[Assimilation completed... Ability acquired]
BaiShe let out a low growl, his silhouette beginning to transform under the effect of this power. His chaotic Qi, fusion of primordial Qi and Rakshasa energy, entered into total resonance with Long Huang’s draconic essence. Ebony scales began to appear on his forearms and temples. His silver hair turned to the deepest black, absorbing the ambient light, while his violet pupils stretched into reptilian slits.
...
At the center of the Golden Jade Lake, the waters suddenly calmed. The regenerative Qi cocoon enveloping Long Huang dissipated. The demonic dragoness slowly opened her eyes. She straightened up with supernatural grace, the golden water sliding over her torn black lace dress, revealing porcelain skin now healed of its burns.
Her horns, broken by the Dao lightning, had regrown, darker and more imposing than before, marking her return to her true Origin power. She turned her head toward the shore and saw BaiShe, still half-transformed, struggling against the reflux of power.
"Why did you waste such a resource for me...?" murmured Long Huang.
She exited the basin, her light steps leaving no trace on the scorched ground. She approached him, stopping only a few centimeters away.
BaiShe raised his eyes toward her, his face marked by sweat and dried blood, but his nonchalant smile had returned, although tinged with obvious fatigue.
"I told you, idiot... you are my property. And I do not like anyone touching what belongs to me... not even the Dao," he replied in a hoarse voice.
Long Huang remained silent for a moment, observing the young man who now carried her own energy signature. The visceral hatred she had displayed since her invocation had evaporated, replaced by something else... The mutual sacrifice they had just accomplished she facing the lightning, he facing the laws of life and death had broken the last barriers of their pride.
"We remember now... don’t we?" she asked softly, extending a hand to caress BaiShe’s cheek.
BaiShe closed his eyes under her touch. "The Dao cursed us because it fears what we represent together."
Long Huang suddenly seized the collar of BaiShe’s tunic and pulled him toward her with a savage force, typical of the predators of her race. She plunged her black eyes into his violet pupils, her hot breath caressing his lips.
"Then let us devour this world, my Demon... As before.." she said in a breath before kissing him with devastating passion.
Their tongues intertwined with an avidity that testified to centuries of solitude and repressed hunger. BaiShe encircled the slim waist of the demonic dragoness with black flames, pressing her against him while her Qi, black and burning, mingled with his own chaotic Qi.
They separated after long minutes.
" Forever my beloved queen..."
