Chapter 60: Immortal Lord

The black dragon's calmness and decisiveness in trade-offs were fully revealed.

It wasn't trying to bring Seeing Pei Ye into the sky, thereby completely occupying the initiative in this battle.

It was trying to take him away from this place directly.

This was not a necessary battle for them; they only needed to drag out time to wait for reinforcements.

Not to mention that after several rounds of fighting, although the black dragon seemed to occupy the initiative, it hadn't successfully killed any of the enemies, while the wounds on its own body were realistically increasing.

The black dragon rushed over with its tough body, and Seeing Pei Ye reached out and grabbed the long mane with extreme tacit understanding, turning over and mounting it.

Dragon Fire surged toward the purple-robed person behind to block him. The black dragon pressed its front claws onto a thick tree trunk, raised its head, and was about to rush into the clouds.

Then, it felt its body stiffen.

Piercing cold erupted from its neck, spreading to half of its body. Its claws and muscles instantly lost sensation, and its body, which had risen halfway, fell down.

The black dragon turned its neck and twisted its head. Its large, clear green eyes looked toward Seeing Pei Ye. The youth riding on its back looked at it calmly, his eyes red-gold like fire.

Green eyes and golden pupils met. Pain appeared in the black dragon's eyes; that was the purple-robed person behind passing through the Dragon Fire, his blade edge dissecting its body.

The external situation was settled, but in Seeing Pei Ye's abdomen, the little dragon suddenly began to swim upward, leaping into Seeing Pei Ye's heart-spirit realm.

Seeing Pei Ye woke up with a start.

Then he saw in horror that he was standing on the dragon head. Frost spread from beneath his feet, climbing onto the long mane, climbing onto the forehead, climbing onto the eyes.

The Black Chi hung its head to the ground, gasping its last breath, unable to resist. The purple-robed figure began from its tail, carving white bone out of this magnificent body.

He raised his hand and wanted to draw his sword to slash at the purple-robed person, but his body seemed to be disconnected, without any response at all.

"Open your eyes." The black dragon's calm voice came from his ear.

Seeing Pei Ye opened his eyes.

He looked around blankly. This was a place even harder to understand. Around him was a clear lake, tree shadows were dense, and birds were chirping.

"This is your heart-spirit realm. Something is influencing you."

Seeing Pei Ye straightened up. Those memories that he hadn't recognized but were recorded deep in his heart-spirit realm surged up.

Zhu Gaoyang's stupid suggestion, his own hand gripping Zhu Gaoyang, his neglect of the pursuers behind when chatting with Xing Zhi just now...

These memories made him break out in a cold sweat.

Since when... Seeing Pei Ye traced back his memories, and suddenly, the image of the sprout breaking the seed appeared.

It was here.

It truly possessed intelligence, and could influence, or even replace, himself without him knowing!

"Influences acting on the heart-spirit are all projected into the heart-spirit realm." The black dragon said, its voice lower.

Does that mean it is hiding in this realm?

Looking around, the lake water was clear, and dragon shadows seemed to be in the depths; the forest was high and dense, and tigers seemed to be crouching in the darkness. Seeing Pei Ye frowned and was about to walk over to check them one by one, but heard the black dragon say: "None of them."

"What?" Seeing Pei Ye was stunned for a moment.

"It is... above."

Seeing Pei Ye raised his head. The vast scene shocked him.

The clouds were stained with frost, and the shadow that couldn't be seen to the edge was slowly falling, covering the entire sky—or rather, it was the new sky.

In front of it, Seeing Pei Ye and the black dragon were like dust.

It wasn't hiding somewhere in Seeing Pei Ye's heart-spirit realm, but was covering Seeing Pei Ye's entire heart-spirit world like a grain of rice with an irresistible posture.

"What is... this?" Seeing Pei Ye murmured.

Was this the kind of pressure that the minds of those alienated people suffered?

"No." In this place, the black dragon could clearly perceive his inner thoughts, "The Frost Ghost digests the human's original brain and then generates a simple and effective center, thereby completely destroying the consciousness. But your brain hasn't been infected at all."

"Then, what is this?"

"A consciousness."

"What?"

The black dragon looked at him and didn't speak.

Unease permeated the air. Seeing Pei Ye suddenly thought of a horrifying possibility. He shook his head violently and stared straight at the black dragon.

This seed wasn't the final weapon the Candle World Sect relied on to turn the tables, but the deity they worshipped itself?!

The nature of the whole matter had changed.

The black dragon didn't deny it, only saying: "I will build a defense for you with the Quail Head as the core."

As soon as this word fell, Seeing Pei Ye felt a move in his heart. Looking back, a small wooden house had appeared behind him. Seeing Pei Ye walked in, and the black dragon's long body coiled around the house from the outside.

The shadow cast by the sky was blocked outside.

Seeing Pei Ye looked blankly at the giant shadow in the sky from the window. Closing his eyes, he could perceive the outside world through his body's senses again—only it was still not under his control.

Everything was answered at this moment.

The purple-robed people were no longer in a hurry to take him back, because he had already become a little bug under the claws of their god.

They swarmed to kill the black dragon, because this was the food their god had taken a fancy to.

At that time, the god who had just awakened didn't have enough power accumulated and wasn't sure about killing the black dragon alone. To avoid scaring it away, they temporarily lurked down.

However, why didn't it enjoy Zhu Gaoyang? At that time, Zhu Gaoyang was clearly completely unable to resist.

"After eating me, it wouldn't need to 'forage' specifically anymore." The black dragon interrupted Seeing Pei Ye's thinking. Its voice became more ethereal, as if it could disappear at any time, "Once it awakens, its power will grow at an incredible speed—from one to two, from two to four... After eating me, it jumped from four to one hundred, and afterward..."

Seeing Pei Ye understood without the black dragon needing to say it.

From the moment of awakening, it didn't reveal its traces at all, relying on the corpses at the time to complete the one-to-two, then relying on the absorption of Mystic Qi between heaven and earth to complete the two-to-four, and then it aimed its target directly at the black dragon.

In just over an hour, it had captured such massive power and was about to grow from a parasitic object into an enemy that was hard to look at directly.

"What is your situation now?" Seeing Pei Ye looked at the black dragon's fading body, worried.

"Remember? I said, I 'saw' it all." The black dragon looked at him.

Seeing Pei Ye recalled. That was when flying in the night sky, talking about Zhu Gaoyang.

When Zhu Gaoyang was trapped and killed, his consciousness was dim, but the black dragon hadn't been affected?

From that moment, it knew of the existence of this consciousness?

They descended into the world together. Just as the black dragon didn't know that the Immortal Lord was sleeping in the Qiongqi's abdomen, the Immortal Lord couldn't know that there was a soul in the black dragon's body that could confront it.

Now it had calmly completed its purpose, but the black dragon still had a backup plan?

"I cannot guarantee it." The black dragon said solemnly.

"Then, what do I need to do?"

"Survive. Now that it is using your body, it is instead the guarantee of your survival. If you can get rid of it by any chance, go home and find that cat to break the contract." The black dragon's body gradually dissipated.

Seeing Pei Ye reached out eagerly: "Don't, when will you..."

"This is the thing I truly vowed to kill, Seeing Pei Ye." The black dragon's voice was unprecedentedly condensed, "This is absolutely not an enemy you can deal with now, nor is it a matter you should bear. You are already excellent enough, but there are no constants in the world. Things are already before your eyes. I can only hope that you can be even more excellent." ===== CHAPTER 61 =====