Chapter 59: Killing the Dragon

Pei Ye suddenly woke up.

This was a prepared, goal-oriented ambush, aimed precisely at the black dragon. Although he didn't know how they had designed it, the facts were already before his eyes.

A shocking wound appeared on the black dragon's body in an instant.

The blade edge cut into the body that was as hard as glass, sliding along the spine toward the tail. The jade-like scales shattered one after another before the blade edge, and bright red blood surged out like a waterfall. That soft and exquisite body was instantly broken and messy.

There was also a sharp friction hiss coming from the dragon body; that was the sound of the blade tip pressing against the spine.

Pei Ye's heart was gripped tightly, blood was squeezed out of his heart, and Qi and blood surged to his head. Without waiting for careful thought, his body had already drawn his sword and rushed up.

But the next moment, a violent explosion appeared in the forest. The expanding heat wave blew him away.

【Bing Fire】, this art with great lethality, arrived simultaneously with the blade edge, exploding on the black dragon's body.

At this moment, without Zhu Gaoyang's protection, even the aftermath made Pei Ye's whole body shake violently, as if hit head-on by a giant hammer, his muscles and bones feeling as if they were dislocated.

And how bloody and mangled the black dragon at the center was now, Pei Ye couldn't see, nor did he dare to guess.

Pei Ye fell to the ground, immediately tried hard to support his body, panting, pressing his chest and abdomen, gritting his teeth, and raising his head, looking forward anxiously.

However, the trees were scorched black, stones and earth were flying and exploding, and everything was covered in smoke and dust.

In the smoke and dust, the black dragon was as calm as ever in such a sudden change.

Feeling the severe pain coming from its body, it didn't look back at all, but executed the attack before its eyes even more resolutely.

Even if a bloody chunk was bitten off its neck, it still insisted on tearing off half of the Qiongqi's wings.

Afterward, terrifying heat erupted behind it. That high temperature approached its body, and the scales actually seemed to shrink and melt.

However, the dragon head circled its neck, and a pair of green eyes looked back calmly. The heat that stuck to its body instantly turned into docile sheep.

At the same time, its body continued to sweep forward, borrowing the momentum of attacking the Qiongqi, and despite the blade edge cutting through its body, it raised its head and rushed into the clouds.

For Pei Ye, the two breaths of time were unbearably long. Finally, he saw the edge of the smoke and dust churn into a vortex, and a familiar long black shadow whistled out, and he let out a sigh of relief.

The knife wound that cut open more than half of the black dragon's body and reached the bone was shocking, but there were no traces of high-temperature scorching on that body. Pei Ye guessed it should be the authority of its 【Dragon Fire】.

The passive situation Jing Ziwang faced against the Qiongqi that day was reproduced here, only now the roles were reversed, and the Candle World Sect was the side standing on the ground.

Although it had already suffered heavy injuries, who would dare to say they could take down this divine beast that also possessed many wonders in the sky?

However, the black dragon's aggressiveness was even more ferocious than the Qiongqi's that day. Just after flying into the sky, it suddenly turned its head to look back.

Where its gaze fell, the heat that had just been suppressed suddenly exploded.

The black dragon's guidance and control of these heat levels were clearly more brilliant than the purple-robed people. The terror of 【Bing Fire】 lay in the violence and concentration of its explosion and the intensity of its high temperature, but the usage was very simple, similar to the thunder fire pills used by Jianghu people—just throwing it at a fixed point, regardless of who it was, as long as they were within range, it treated everyone equally.

And the high temperature under the black dragon's control was like a maggot on a tarsal bone, exquisite, flexible, and following its heart. It could drop to a harmless low temperature when passing through trees, leaving no traces at all, and then explode instantly afterward, burning for several zhang.

It could combine into one place, or turn into dozens of balls, lingering around the enemy like bees chasing honey.

For the black dragon, fire had always been its docile servant.

And because of this, the purple-robed person didn't notice these fatal little things getting close for a moment. When the black dragon's green eyes stared, dozens of thunder fire beads exploded on his body simultaneously. Even though he hurriedly mobilized true Qi to protect his body, the body that had already suffered a 【Shooting Dipper Dragon Light】 from Zhu Gaoyang could no longer bear it.

That body, which seemed to have no vital points, was blasted with many remnants. He swayed, sat cross-legged on the ground, and couldn't move for a moment.

When discussing Zhu Gaoyang that day, the black dragon's saying "not completely unable to beat" wasn't being stubborn, but was indeed a serious consideration.

At that time, the Qiongqi was terrifyingly strong because it carried the Divine Seed, but the black dragon, which had been circling with this power for many days, was not at the level of a normal divine beast. The two were just gods fighting.

When the 【Bing Fire】, which was supposed to be a fatal blow, didn't work, but was instead used by the black dragon for a counterattack, the situation began to slide toward a direction out of control.

Pei Ye saw this and had some doubts—their ambush time was so synchronized and the location so precise, but why were they completely in the dark about the black dragon's information?

If it were said that there was no time to investigate, why could they accurately know that the black dragon would appear at this time and place?

It was like... a temporarily assigned task?

There was no time to think carefully. The black dragon had already launched an offensive again, and the Dragon Fire headed straight for the purple-robed person sitting in meditation, seeking to kill him completely.

The purple-robed person holding the blade flashed over immediately. His left arm drew a semicircle slowly but quickly, and the rich Mystic Qi condensed into the shape of a flowing stream following this semicircle.

This stream seemed extremely heavy, and the surroundings were faintly pressed and concave. Thus, the flame flowers all over the sky were also adsorbed, forming a gorgeous flame stream, and then extinguished one by one within it.

But the black dragon didn't look at the scene here at all. The moment the Dragon Fire left its body, it fell toward the Qiongqi that had been left behind on the other side.

The Qiongqi was originally a Demonic Calamity whose ferocity was hard to suppress. At this moment, facing the heavily injured black dragon, how could it be willing to retreat? It flapped its wings and pounced, and the two beasts had clashed once in the blink of an eye. The black dragon knocked the Qiongqi to the ground again.

Pei Ye let out a sigh of relief. He hadn't expected the black dragon to be able to firmly occupy the initiative while fighting three alone. The heart-wrenching feeling of seeing the three besieging it for the first time finally let go.

However, just at this moment, a sudden alarm went off in his heart. Pei Ye turned his head abruptly, only to see the purple-robed person who had resolved the Dragon Fire turning around, his ghost mask looking at him gloomily.

He didn't choose to help the Qiongqi, because the black dragon could break away and fly into the sky at any time, but Pei Ye, this contractor, had no way to escape.

In fact, this was also a question that had been hovering in Pei Ye's mind from just now—they had been hunting him all along, so why did they swarm the black dragon this time and cast him, the host carrying the Divine Seed, aside?

Pei Ye immediately wanted to leap backward, but with a turn of his mind, he leaped toward the black dragon.

After all, no matter what, he couldn't beat the purple-robed person's speed, and going toward the black dragon would make it easier for it to rescue him. This was a very reasonable idea.

The black dragon and his mind were connected. At this moment, it had already cast aside the Qiongqi and leaped over.

The purple-robed person was in front of Pei Ye in the blink of an eye. The cold air on the blade edge approached his body. Pei Ye's heart tightened, but the purple-robed person turned his blade and slashed back at the black dragon whistling toward him.

And the black dragon treated this blade as nothing, twisted its body to avoid most of the blade Qi, and let the remaining power add another terrifying wound to its body, just rushing straight toward Pei Ye. ===== CHAPTER 60 =====