Chapter 432

Little Linghua's eyes went wide as she looked at her own wrist.

The wooden dragon bracelet that had originally been worn on her wrist had vanished.

"It really is Brother Jiang Yan!!"

Tears streamed down Little Linghua's face all at once.

Meanwhile, Little Ayato and Linghua's mother had long since been stunned speechless.

And when Linghua's mother heard Little Linghua's words, she turned her head to look at Kamisato Ayaka.

"Linghua, you mean this wooden dragon was given to you by your Brother Jiang Yan?"

Little Linghua nodded, her eyes filled with joy.

Hearing this, Linghua's mother immediately let out a sigh of relief.

Thank goodness, they're saved.

At that moment, the wooden dragon suddenly began to move.

Its tail rose high, swept sideways, and instantly smashed two of the ronin to death on the spot.

Then its head let out a roar and lunged to bite at the remaining ronin.

"Damn it! Brothers, charge together!"

The ronin bellowed and swung the tachi in their hands at the wooden dragon.

But before the massive wooden dragon, these warriors' attacks were like a mere tickle, utterly ineffective.

Their attacks did nothing.

But the wooden dragon's attacks were no pushover.

In a single bite, a ronin's body was instantly snapped in two, and he perished on the spot.

Although the wooden dragon had been rather unimpressive in the Archon War, that was against gods.

Facing mere mortals—even though these ronin were all desperadoes—they couldn't even break through the wooden dragon's defenses.

In just a moment, the wooden dragon had swept through and wiped out every ronin there with irresistible force.

After dealing with the ronin, the wooden dragon returned to Linghua's side.

"Thank you! Brother Jiang Yan."

Kamisato Linghua stroked the wooden dragon's head, then suddenly remembered something and said anxiously to the wooden dragon:

"Oh right, Father is still over there!"

Saying so, Linghua pointed in the direction down the mountain.

She looked at the wooden dragon, her eyes pleading:

"Big dragon, could you please go save my father......"

Little Linghua didn't know whether the wooden dragon before her could understand.

The wooden dragon indeed couldn't understand, but the person controlling it from far away in Liyue understood.

The wooden dragon lowered its head, its tail gently scooping up the three of them and placing them on its head.

Little Linghua grabbed a raised part on the dragon's head and said joyfully, "Thank you."

The wooden dragon let out a roar, lifted the three of them into the air, and flew toward the foot of the mountain.

At this very moment, the battle on Linghua's father's side had fallen into a stalemate.

With the blessing of the Iaijutsu Style and a Vision, although Linghua's father couldn't defeat the Heavy Ruins, the Heavy Ruins couldn't do anything to him either.

But a human body is destined to have its limits.

Linghua's father knew this as well.

If he wanted to win, he had to smash the Heavy Ruins' most vulnerable core before his stamina ran out.

But the core was firmly guarded by the Heavy Ruins, and combined with its towering body, Linghua's father simply couldn't find an opening to smash it.

Just then, a laser beam suddenly exploded right beside Linghua's father.

Linghua's father's face changed, and his whole body dodged to one side.

But he was still caught in the blast's Yu Bo, sent tumbling two full rolls by the explosion.

Linghua's father looked up at the sky and saw a massive Ruin Hunter appear atop the Heavy Ruins.

"Now this is bad news......"

Linghua's father wiped the splattered dirt from his face, an expression of A Hint of Solemnity crossing his features.

Fortunately, Ayato and Little Linghua and the others had already escaped.

This also let the head of the Kamisato Clan quietly breathe a sigh of relief.

I'm sorry, Linghua, Ayato—Father may... no longer be able to walk by your side......

Little Ayato, the Kamisato Clan from now on will have to be left to you.

I'm very sorry for suddenly making you shoulder so much.

But Father believes in you—with your mother assisting you, you will surely be able to grow quickly!

Linghua's father (abbh) stood up, a look of resolve in his eyes.

Just then, a voice he knew all too well rang out softly from behind him.

"Father!!"

Linghua's father's face changed, and his whole body trembled.

His eyes were filled with disbelief.

"No... why did you come back......"

Linghua's father murmured as he turned his head, then froze on the spot.

He saw a giant dragon descend from the sky, setting Linghua, Ayato, and their mother down on the ground.

"You..."

Ling Hua's father had just started to speak when Ling Hua and Ling Ren rushed forward and hugged him tightly.

"Father, Ling Hua almost didn't get to see you again just now..."

Little Ling Hua said in a tearful voice, murmuring.

And Ling Hua's mother, her eyes slightly red, told Ling Hua's father about what they had just encountered.

"I'm truly sorry..."

Ling Hua's father said with a face full of guilt; this matter was indeed his negligence.

Just then, the single eye on the head of a Ruin Hunter not far away burst into light, and a laser beam suddenly shot over.

But it was blocked by a swipe of the Wood Dragon's tail.

The Wood Dragon roared and attacked the nearby Heavy Ruins and the Ruin Hunter.

The Heavy Ruins did not yield, and began to fight with the charging Wood Dragon.

The Ruin Hunter, intending to take advantage of the Wood Dragon's battle with the Heavy Ruins, flew up to attack Ling Hua's family, but was whipped away by the Wood Dragon's tail and embedded into the nearby mountain wall.

"Roar!!"

After whipping the Ruin Hunter away with one tail swipe, the Wood Dragon quickly coiled around the Heavy Ruins and bit down on its core.

"Crack, crack!"

The core at the single eye of the Heavy Ruins kept shattering, and finally, under the Wood Dragon's tearing and biting, it suddenly exploded into fragments.

The Heavy Ruins, as if having lost its power support, fell to the ground.

The Ruin Hunter also broke free from the mountain wall; no sooner had it emerged than the Wood Dragon's tail swept across, whipping it away once more.

Next, under the gaze of Ling Hua's family, the Wood Dragon began a one-sided beating of the Ruin Hunter.

The Ruin Hunter tried to fly high into the sky to evade the Wood Dragon's attacks.

But the Wood Dragon could fly too.

No sooner had the Ruin Hunter flown up than the Wood Dragon, which had already ascended, slapped it back to the ground with its tail.

Before it even reached the ground, the Wood Dragon bit down, sending large fragments falling as the Ruin Hunter was once again flung by the Wood Dragon back into the sky.

Then the cycle repeated, tossing the Ruin Hunter back and forth like a rubber ball.

Finally, the Ruin Hunter seemed unable to endure the Wood Dragon's humiliating fighting style, or perhaps the force of the Wood Dragon's final tail swipe was too great; the entire core of the Ruin Hunter exploded, scattering into a pile of parts on the ground.

The Wood Dragon came to Ling Hua and the others; before Ling Hua's father and the rest could say anything, the Wood Dragon raised its tail, placed them upon its head, and then flew toward the Kamisato Estate.

After the Wood Dragon set them down at the entrance of the Kamisato Estate and ensured Ling Hua and the others were safe, it coiled its body, emitted a faint glow from its entire form, and quickly shrank.

It then turned back into the Wood Dragon Bracelet, lying obediently on little Ling Hua's wrist, motionless.

Ling Hua raised her wrist, gently stroked the Wood Dragon Bracelet, and said in gratitude:

"Thank you."