Dragon Tattoos
Mu Yu cast a formation to protect the dragon vine from harm since Long Xingyun’s experience gave him the edge. The majority of the dragon vine’s experience was in verbal tirades with Xiaoshuai, not physical combat. The dragon vine relied primarily on Mu Yu’s sword qi to deftly evade critical moments.
“Big Earthworm, your double-spear-looking horn is sturdier than his tree trident!”
Long Xingyun took the dragon vine’s spear head on with his torso to choke the dragon vine, stabbing his finger into its neck and trying to crush it. Thanks to his grandfather’s scale, the dragon vine’s horns only managed to scratch the surface of his body. Long Xingyun licked the blood on his claws and applauded, “A true dragon’s blood really does taste magnificent.”
Enraged, the dragon vine fired a sword from its mouth.
“Hahaha, your sword won’t even scratch me,” berated Long Xingyun, absorbing the dragon breath through his mouth and then slurping. “Ah, fabulous.”
“Did he just swallow Big Earthworm’s saliva? I think I’m going to lose my apple!”
Realising the gap between their leads was increasing, the dragon vine’s eyes glimmered green as it churned out dragon vitality. The dragon vitality went wild as it was more intense than the dragon vine was capable of controlling.
“Big Earthworm is evolving if I’m correct,” notified Xiaoshuai, popping another melon seed in this mouth.
Mu Yu always assumed the dragon vine couldn’t grow stronger because it was tough for dragons to. He never minded it since he usually didn’t rely on the dragon vine to fight in his steed. Nonetheless, it was evident that the dragon vine needed to grow stronger to protect itself now that it was a target of those under the green dragon fiend king’s banner.
The dragon vine’s scales expanded and fluttered similarly to flapping wings. Formation lines coated its deer-antler-esque horns, raising its power level.
“Dragon tattoos?!”
“Why are you so surprised, fraud? I’m a true dragon, after all,” responded the dragon vine, ascending to a level six fiend beast!
Long Xingyun had dragon tattoos on less than ten of his scales, while the dragon vine had dragon tattoos on all of its scales.
Long Xingyun made a big mistake, trying to withstand the dragon vine’s next dragon breath. Long Xingyun looked down to his chest upon feeling a stab to see a gaping hole in his torso. “H-how did you penetrate my scale?”
When Long Xingyun spread his grandfather’s scale over his body, he also thinned out the power, notwithstanding him borrowing its energy earlier to clash with Mu Yu. As a consequence, it was far too weak to withstand the dragon vine’s blast.
Long Xingyun collapsed, reverting back to his human form, still glaring at the dragon vine vengefully.
“Eliminating fakes is a duty we are all responsible for.”
The dragon vine concentrated energy to its head and fired another dragon breath. Long Yeli dashed in and shielded Long Xingyun from the blast at the last second.
“Young Master Xingyun, are you all right? How dare y-” Long Yeli stopped himself upon beholding the dragon tattoos on the dragon vine.
“You want to accompany him into death?”
The dragon vine blasted Long Xingyun without hesitation. Seeing Long Yeli shield Long Xingyun, Mu Yu also joined the fray, reminding Long Yeli of his traumatic defeat. Nevertheless, Long Yeli prioritised Long Xingyun’s safety, thumping fists with Mu Yu.
“Did you need a hand? We have plenty of hands,” voiced Xiaoshuai, jumping up to Mu Yu’s shoulder and shrouding himself in electricity.
Long Yeli scanned the trio and, without another word, picked up Long Xingyun to show his heels.
“You’re not running anywh-”
Mu Yu stopped the dragon vine, warning, “Stop pushing yourself. You’re in horrible shape, so heal up as fast as you can.”
Like cultivators, the dragon vine activated an innate ability, but it had yet to consolidate its new level. Had Mu Yu not covertly supported it, Long Xingyun still might have won.
The dragon vine reverted to its small size, powering down, and returning to Mu Yu’s shoulder. “I don’t like fakes.”
“Nothing we can do about it. Our target is Ghost Gate’s group. Therefore, we need to reserve our energy to fight them. I’ll help you consolidate your cultivation now,” said Mu Yu, placating the dragon vine even though he would have loved to get rid of Long Xingyun for good.
The dragon vine’s nerves took damage when it forced itself to go beyond what it could handle. Accordingly, Mu Yu provided a black and white spiritual energy transfusion. As long as both energy sources were merged, they’d turn into green vitality once they left his body.
“You’re good now. You just need some rest.”
Mu Yu sauntered over to the door and wrinkled his nose. “It says ‘nineteen’ on the door. Since we were on the twenty-seventh floor, shouldn’t this be the twenty-eighth floor? What sorcery is this? Don’t tell me this pagoda isn’t a typical pagoda.” Mu Yu drawled, “Come on, man.”
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