Invincible Dad-Chapter 488: Slaying the Dragon (Part 1)_1
Ruan Lan’s words stunned everyone present.
This was especially true for Tang Baishan.
He couldn’t sense a single trace of Spiritual Energy from this young girl, and yet she dared to speak so boldly.
She’s utterly reckless!
Tang Baishan’s gaze flickered. "Young lady, although I have been gravely injured and my lifespan shortened from healing the Dragon Vein, I am no pushover that anyone can simply toy with."
"Cut the crap. Give back the Divine Dragon’s providence," Ruan Lan said, rolling her eyes dramatically.
This old geezer is so stubborn, still putting on an act at a time like this. It’s truly shameless. Thank goodness I saw through his deception, or I would have been fooled!
"Fine. Very good."
Tang Baishan laughed, his anger reaching its peak.
Pointing at Gao He and the others, he spoke, his words deliberate and cold, "You’ve forced my hand!"
The moment he finished speaking, Tang Baishan stomped his foot fiercely. The blood-red Divine Dragon in the lake, which had been on the verge of collapse, suddenly soared into the air.
However, it no longer possessed any of its former divinity. Instead, it was filled with an intense, murderous aura.
The entire Mount Fu mountain range was shrouded in waves of scarlet mist, and a putrid, sickening stench filled the air.
"And you still claim this isn’t the Transplanting Flowers and Trees Formation," Ruan Lan pouted. "You seized its providence to turn its body into a Puppet. How else could you control a dragon?"
"Elder Tang!"
The expressions of the several Martial Ancestors beside Gao He changed drastically.
They couldn’t believe that Tang Baishan had actually committed such a heinous crime.
"Elder Tang, you... why would you do this?" Gao He’s face was a mask of shock, his voice thick with profound anger. "You are a venerable elder of the Hua Country’s Martial Dao World. Countless juniors have looked up to you as a guiding light, and yet you..."
"I was young once. For my so-called beliefs, I shed blood and sweat for Hua Country for a full seventy years."
"But what did I get? Besides empty praise, I received nothing!"
"I’m a hundred and fifty years old. I want to continue living, and to live in a younger, more powerful state."
Tang Baishan’s expression was calm as he asked, "Is it wrong for me to want to live?"
From the moment I took control of the dragon’s body, I knew this would not end peacefully, so there’s no point in hiding it anymore. I’ll just have to kill everyone here who stands in my way. A secret... will remain a secret.
"But you cannot harm the Dragon Vein for your own selfish desires!" Gao He cried, overcome with grief.
"The Dragon Vein belongs to everyone under the heavens. I’ve only come to take my share. What’s wrong with that?"
No longer pretending, Tang Baishan hovered in the air with a cold laugh. The Divine Dragon, radiating a dense murderous aura, flew behind him.
The oppressive pressure emanating from the man and the dragon made Gao He and the other Martial Ancestors tremble with fear, but not a single one of them retreated.
"My Formation is indeed Transplanting Flowers and Trees, but in this world today, I’m afraid no one besides Li Sanbai can break it," Tang Baishan laughed maniacally. "I waited a hundred years. I finally waited for this fourth new Dragon Vein to appear, and for Li Sanbai to die!"
Gao He opened his mouth, then shut it again. In truth, this Formation hadn’t been set up by Li Sanbai at all.
"Gao He, don’t blame me for being ruthless," Tang Baishan said indifferently. "I originally planned to leave quietly. You brought this on yourselves."
"Don’t get too cocky, you old geezer! Watch me break your Formation!"
Ruan Lan was ecstatic. This was her very first magical duel.
Following the methods for setting up Formations from the chessboard’s inheritance, she waved her hands, forming one slow, stiff seal after another.
Tang Baishan sneered.
He had studied Formations for over one hundred and twenty years to achieve his modest success. Who did this little girl think she was? Was she even qualified to break the Transplanting Flowers and Trees Great Array?
But the smile on Tang Baishan’s face didn’t last long. It was quickly replaced by a look of shocked disbelief as he saw the girl, who previously had no Spiritual Energy, suddenly surrounded by a massive amount of it.
Ruan Lan took out the inherited chessboard of the Star Origin Sect, picked up nine black and white pieces, and scattered them into the air.
She then scratched her head. I think... this should do it?
Even Xu Lai was slightly surprised.
Under the surge of Spiritual Energy, the eighteen black and white chess pieces actually sketched out a rudimentary Starlight Array, drawing down strands of starlight from the vast Universe.
Of course, this shabby little Formation couldn’t hold a candle to the true Starlight Array capable of killing a peak Quasi-Emperor. The difference was night and day.
But it did possess a faint killing aura.
"Why isn’t anything happening?"
Setting up a Formation for the first time, Ruan Lan had a puzzled look on her face. She tentatively waved her hand.
With that casual gesture, a black chess piece transformed into a streak of light and shot toward a mountain peak.
BANG!
An entire mountain peak collapsed.
"..."
You could have heard a pin drop.
Gao He and the others stared with wide eyes, sucking in sharp breaths. Not even a Seventh Grade Martial Ancestor could destroy a thousand-meter-tall mountain so easily, could they?
Ruan Lan herself was shocked. "Oh my god, how am I so powerful?!"
"What Formation is this?" Tang Baishan asked, his face etched with apprehension.
"The Youthful, Cute, Invincible, and Gorgeous Fairy’s Universe’s Strongest Great Array for Exclusively Killing Shameless Old Geezers!" Ruan Lan rattled off in one breath, panting heavily. "That was exhausting."
"You’re courting death!" 𝐟𝐫𝕖𝗲𝘄𝚎𝗯𝕟𝐨𝕧𝐞𝚕.𝕔𝕠𝐦
Tang Baishan’s expression turned icy.
He had laid his plans here for a month, using the Dragon Vein of Mount Fu as his Formation.
Here, within the Dragon Vein of Mount Fu, he was heaven itself. He was invincible.
"Kill!"
Tang Baishan directed the dragon’s body to charge at Ruan Lan.
Panicked, Ruan Lan scrambled to hide behind Xu Lai before she began to control the rudimentary Starlight Array.
Although Ruan Lan had no Cultivation Level and her proficiency with the Array Path was only two days old, the progenitor of the Star Origin Sect was a peerless genius whose understanding of the Array Path was truly unconventional.
While Ruan Lan couldn’t master it in such a short time, she could still use it on a basic level.
Formation against Formation.
The scale of their duel, however, was a far cry from the battle between Xu Lai and the final Sect Leader of the Star Origin Sect.
It’s like watching two fledglings pecking at each other, Xu Lai thought after watching for a minute.
But by relying on the endless power of the cosmos, Ruan Lan surprisingly gained the upper hand.
"Hahahaha! Isn’t my ’Four Seas and Eight Desolations’ Number One Beauty’s Great Array for Exclusively Killing Shameless Old Geezers’ amazing?" Ruan Lan gloated, high-spirited.
Tang Baishan, whose mind was controlling the Divine Dragon’s body, now looked disheveled and utterly drained. His face was deathly pale, and this time, it wasn’t an act.
He coughed up a mouthful of essence blood and stared at the battered dragon’s body, snapping furiously, "What is the real name of your Formation? Why is it different every time?"
"The name’s too long, I can only say it once," Ruan Lan said nonchalantly. "Besides, its purpose is to kill an old geezer like you. Do you have any other tricks? You’d better use them now, or you won’t get another chance."
"Fine. Very good," Tang Baishan nodded, his voice dripping with rage.
He didn’t have much of his lifespan left. To survive, he had been willing to become a villain for the ages and harm the Dragon Vein. His plan to extend his life while maintaining his good name was supposed to have been flawless, but now it was completely ruined.
But it’s not a major setback. As long as I kill everyone here, I can still salvage everything!
"Dragon Transformation!"
As Tang Baishan spoke those words with a blank expression, a small, blood-red dragon appeared within his body, writhing and letting out faint, miserable wails.
"That’s Dragon Energy!" Gao He clenched his fists, his eyes nearly splitting with rage. Just because one man, Tang Baishan, wanted to live a little longer, the lives of billions might be endangered in the future.
"Dragon Transformation?" Ruan Lan muttered, confused.
Her eyes gradually widened in horror as she saw the Divine Dragon’s body behind Tang Baishan open its cavernous maw and—
Swallow Tang Baishan whole
