Chapter 646: Help Me Cultivate

“Little Blue!!!”

Boislo shouted in agony.

The blue dragon’s body was now half-covered in frost, its lower jaw split open into a bloody, mangled wound, with bones clearly fractured inside.

He had spent immense effort to successfully subjugate the blue dragon before him.

He not only relied on it to help him pass this trial, but also hoped to use it to change Medlin’s opinion of him and ascend to the peak of his life!

The brown wooden staff, after completing the incantation, glowed with magical energy.

【Flame Purification】!

The blue dragon’s body seemed to become an inflammable substance soaked in gasoline, igniting rapidly from its head to its entire body.

The sudden explosion of flame formed a detonation, generating a powerful shockwave of translucent red air that spread outward at high speed.

It not only melted the ice on its body but also blasted the man hovering in midair—who made anyone who approached feel uneasy—backward.

Luo De adjusted his posture in midair and landed steadily.

He glanced at his forearm, now encased in black liquid metal by Slimy Black.

Slimy Black extended tiny hands toward the dragon blood, emitting a sense of longing.

“Eat. It’s yours.”

Slimy Black immediately raised its round, fingerless hands in triumph, cheering joyfully.

【Slimy Black’s obedience +1, current obedience: 47】

Due to its low intelligence, Slimy Black’s obedience always increased very slowly, usually by just one point at a time.

It was strange, too.

Despite having 【Basic Luck】, she couldn’t even roll 【Basic Intelligence】.

Or perhaps, for her, she didn’t even want intelligence—after all, Luo De fed her, and all she needed was to eat and sleep.

“Move back, Luo De.”

The star-being Hali called out.

Her magical energy surged and rose steadily.

Instantly, an unnatural cloud of magical energy rose above the forest, pressing down extremely low.

The air carried not pure moisture, but a pungent acidic stench.

Whoosh—

Torrential rain poured down.

In a cylindrical zone, streams of acrid green smoke erupted, directly striking the blue dragon under 【Flame Purification】 and the star-being Boislo.

【Acid Rain Storm】.

The flames struggled and were extinguished, hissing as they emitted corrosive green smoke.

But for an adult blue dragon, this level of strong acid was insufficient to harm it—merely softening its scales slightly.

Its yellow, amber-like eyes, filled with resentment and fear, never left Luo De on the ground.

A punch shattered the dragon’s lower jaw scales.

This man was the real threat.

Moreover, dragon instinct told it this man was wrapped in thick dragon resentment—he had killed at least a hundred dragons! (He hadn’t; it was the dragon resentment naturally carried by 【Julia’s Blood Burst】.)

Though being controlled by a star-being was a disgrace for a dragon, it feared death more.

It immediately sent a mental message to Boislo.

“Run?! No! If Medlin finds out I fled from this guy, how will she ever look at me again?”

Boislo replied instantly.

He was trapped, beads of cold sweat forming on his forehead, his smile frozen in place.

The thought of “failing” flashed through his mind repeatedly.

He wasn’t blind to Luo De’s strength, but he preferred to believe it was merely a temporary boost.

How could a human of the same rank possibly match a dragon in raw physical power!

“Hehehe, Hali, impressive. Is this gentleman your contracted ally? How long can he really help you?”

Hali, emboldened, sneered: “Enough talk. If you’re too scared to fight, get lost! Should I tell Medlin exactly how you look right now?”

“You!”

Boislo roared, “Little Blue!!”

The blue dragon growled in furious discontent.

Tiny blue-white electric arcs crackled from between its scales.

From its spine, blinding white light flared upward.

The surrounding scenery warped from the heat, as if a compressed layer of lightning built upward, converging deep into its throat.

A breath attack?

Hali’s expression turned grim.

“Luo De!”

【Resistance to Energy】 and 【Protection from Energy Damage】 were already cast upon him.

Both enhanced the target’s resistance to a specific elemental damage type.

“Enough! Catch her!”

Luo De retracted Slimy Black’s metal form and flung her—plop—onto Hali.

He missed.

Slimy Black smacked squarely onto the star-being lady’s chest, duang—both elastic bodies jiggled violently.

Slimy Black clung to him, thinking Luo De was abandoning her.

Ignoring the dragon’s torrent of lightning, she scrambled desperately to climb back onto his body.

Luckily, Hali caught her in time.

She had very low lightning resistance; last time she fought the cardinal, clinging to Luo De had nearly electrocuted her.

Meanwhile,

Luo De’s body ignited with blue-white lightning.

【Thunder-Infused Tendons】!

“Blue Dragon, I demand you aid my cultivation! Hahaha—”

The blue dragon snapped its head down, jaws wide open, unleashing a torrent of blinding lightning from its mouth!

It was no simple current—it was condensed, liquid lightning.

Luo De didn’t dodge or retreat; he dragged the lightning and shot straight into the storm.

Exploding plasma surged like a tidal wave, engulfing half the battlefield!

BOOM!!!

“Suicide!” Boislo laughed.

The explosion’s shockwave hurled Luo De through the air; the remaining ice vaporized into white mist under the heat.

Luo De skidded several meters upon landing, his body blackened and still crackling with dancing electric serpents.

The mist cleared; the blue dragon slowly closed its jaws, the lightning in its throat not yet fully extinguished.

Though fearful inside, it still looked down upon the human with haughty disdain.

A dragon’s pride must not be lost.

“Perfect chance! Little Blue! Finish him!”

“Luo De!”

Hali frantically cast a spell, but clearly couldn’t match the dragon’s speed.

Zzzt—

Before the massive claw could strike, a streak of lightning spiraled upward along the dragon’s forearm in an instant.

The next moment, gushing dragon blood erupted from where the lightning had passed.

The blue dragon let out a pained, sky-shaking roar.

“Little Blue?!”

Boislo looked—and saw the dragon’s forearm scales flipped backward, flesh and muscle shredded.

“Impossible! Blue dragons are immune to lightning!”

Puff-zzt—

Luo De, his entire body crackling with arcs, appeared before him in an instant, his right hand clutching a fistful of torn dragon scales.

“Dragon scales? They can be ripped off by force.”

“Wha—”

Before he could finish, a hand glowing blue-white lightning clamped around his throat.

“I—I yield!”

“I don’t accept.”

Luo De’s smile turned sinister; 【Aura of Fear】 slammed into the star-being’s face.

“No! No no no!!!”

Boislo screamed in terror—he saw in this man’s eyes a tangible, murderous intent.

Without doubt, this man had slaughtered countless sentient beings—he was a true killing star.

Intense terror and fear of death slammed into his mind.

With a sharp crack, Bualuo’s eyes rolled back and he fainted completely.

(End of Chapter)