Chapter 874: Clown Dragon Master Taoran! Has March 7th Vanished in the Blink of an Eye?

"You think I don't know why you've come delivering this message?"

"Jing Yuan sent you to test me, didn't he?"

"By the Alliance's oath with the Vidyadhara, no one may cause a Vidyadhara to bleed or be wounded within Vidyadhara territory."

"Are you all prepared to break that oath before the very eyes of the Luo Fu Dragon Lord?"

Taoran let out a cold laugh,

putting on an insolent, fearless air.

"Lady Dragon, please do not be alarmed."

"Elder, the Vidyadhara Sacred Ground and the Dragon Lord are not a protective talisman you can clutch in your hand!"

Miss Lingsha said in a solemn tone.

"The Elder has been holding forth the whole way, sounding every bit the patriot, eloquent and well-reasoned — yet at the final moment he still uses a little girl as his shield. Truly laughable and pitiable."

Brother Dan Heng's tone was utterly icy.

"I have already said it: the desire to survive is never a crime."

"You are all Vidyadhara, as am I — you should understand my painstaking efforts."

"As a Vidyadhara, I have also left you all a face-saving way to part in harmony."

"If you all withdraw from Scalegorge Waterscape now, petition the Alliance's upper echelons, and let the Six Arbiter-Generals conduct a public trial and sentence me to the Punishment of Scale-Shedding — to be reborn through reincarnation —"

Taoran laid out his own demands.

"Mr. Taoran's little scheme, on the other hand, is perfectly clear to me."

"A Vidyadhara reincarnation wipes the slate of past sins clean..."

"But the filthy tricks the Dragon Masters pull during reincarnation are hardly unknown to me either."

"You may not be you, yet you will still be you."

"I will not excuse my past crimes by feigning ignorance, nor will I let you slip away and shirk responsibility."

March 7th: "Use reincarnation to wipe away all guilt and punishment?"

March 7th: "Oh my, isn't his little scheme just a little too perfectly calculated?"

Stelle: "Diagnosis: wishful thinking."

Stelle: "For a crime like his, not throwing him in the Shackling Prison would be a travesty of justice."

Hu Tao: "I feel... with just these few people, given Mr. Dan Heng's skills, he should be able to rescue Young Lady Bai Lu, right?"

Hu Tao: "Once we successfully rescue Young Lady Bai Lu, this Dragon Master won't be so cocky anymore."

Stelle: "I don't think there's much of a problem. Just a few small fry like these — wouldn't we take them down easily?"

Robin: "But does this Dragon Master have any other tricks up his sleeve?"

Brother Dan Heng: "He's already pushed Bai Lu out as a human shield — most likely he's already at his wit's end."

Miss Lingsha: "Indeed, this should be his final card for survival."

Miss Lingsha: "His aim is also to negotiate with us — to agree to let him shed his scales and reincarnate."

Miss Lingsha: "But unfortunately, no matter what, we will not agree!"

Miss Lingsha: "Because we cannot allow the Luo Fu Vidyadhara to continue their fall!"

The video continued.

"Dan Heng, I've always despised your inability to read the room. Reincarnation, rebirth — you haven't changed a bit."

Dan Heng's words,

made Taoran feel disgusted.

"Young Lady Bai Lu, you are the Dragon Lord of the Luo Fu Vidyadhara — please tell me, what is your wish at this moment?"

Brother Dan Heng paid Taoran no heed,

and instead looked toward Bai Lu.

"I... I don't want to stay here."

"I don't want to be ordered around by people anymore!"

"I'm not a puppet for others to manipulate!"

"Please take me away with you!"

Bai Lu's expression was utterly resolute,

for she wished to escape a life like that of a caged bird.

"I understand."

"As the oath states, members of the Alliance may not wound or kill Vidyadhara here."

"But I am no longer a citizen of the Alliance — I am merely a nameless wanderer, free to come and go."

"The Luo Fu Xianzhou's oath cannot bind the spear in my hand!"

Having spoken, a long spear suddenly materialized in Brother Dan Heng's hand,

and right before Dragon Master Taoran's stunned gaze,

he drove it viciously into the wall behind him!

Stelle: "Holy—!"

Stelle: "So cool, Dan Heng!!"

Stelle: "I didn't even register your movement!"

March 7th: "Th-that was so sudden!"

March 7th: "Looks like Dan Heng is really angry."

Hearing Yanqing: "Mr. Dan Heng is right — the Alliance truly cannot break its oath."

Yanqing: "But unfortunately, Brother Dan Heng is now merely a Nameless."

Yanqing: "Unbound by any constraints."

Yunli: "Cleverness can be its own undoing."

Yunli: "He's offended the wrong people — his little scheme has backfired."

Furina: "Brother Dan Heng truly lives up to his past life as Long Zun — what boldness. The moment he said 'one,' he struck."

Furina: "But with that blow, he wouldn't have killed him, would he?"

Lingsha: "No, he wouldn't have."

Lingsha: "Setting aside that his current body has long since been corrupted into a Mara-stricken body, even by the vitality of the Vidyadhara, he wouldn't die so easily."

Stelle: "What a shame I wasn't there — I would have loved to take a good swing at him myself!"