Chapter 285: 285. The Ruined Territory of the Dragon Race

285. Chapter 285: The Ruined Territory of the Dragon Race

"So what if your master is powerful? He can't protect you like this now."

Su Chen got angry just thinking about that dog Lanbo, and hearing his lackey's words now, he naturally felt his temper flare up.

These bats truly had no self-awareness; now that Su Chen was the butcher and they were the meat, they actually dared to be so arrogant.

Thinking of this, Su Chen simply used his Spiritual Power and slapped the giant bat twice, *smack, smack*.

The giant bat didn't react in time and took these two slaps head-on; infused with Spiritual Power, it left him completely stunned.

"You actually hit me?"

The giant bat said, extremely angry.

"I hit you because I wanted to. Go back and tell that bullshit master of yours that I, Su Chen, will definitely avenge today's grudge!"

Su Chen gave a cold snort. They were still in the border region, and he hadn't expected these bats to arrive so quickly, but as long as it wasn't Lanbo himself, these were not too much of a threat to them.

As for the other small bats, they had all been killed by Su Chen.

"You lunatic, if my master finds out, he will definitely pull out your tendons and peel your skin!"

Seeing this, the giant bat said with an unconvinced look.

Su Chen had no patience to listen to him ramble on about this and that; he directly pried open his mouth and fed him a pill.

The giant bat struggled violently and shook his head frantically, but how could Su Chen let him have his way? He simply pinched his mouth shut and forced it down.

"You—what did you feed me?"

The giant bat roared in anger.

"Naturally, it's a medicine that will make you lose all your cultivation and Spiritual Power. I'm not a kind person to let you go like a tiger back to the mountains. If you have the ability to survive and make it back, then find a way to have your master kill me."

Hearing this, Su Chen gave a cold, icy smile, his eyes indifferent and ruthless, as if looking at a dead object.

The giant bat gritted his teeth and glared at Su Chen, suddenly feeling a pain as if ten thousand ants were gnawing at his whole body; his internal organs felt pierced through, and a dense, pervasive pain spread throughout his body, even carrying a sense of burning.

He screamed in pain incessantly, rolling on the ground, the flying dust sticking to his body, making him look extremely wretched.

"What exactly did you feed me!?"

The giant bat said through gritted teeth, his face twisted in pain, wishing he could tear Su Chen to shreds on the spot.

"Of course, it's medicine to make your life worse than death. Letting you go just like that would be letting you off too easily, wouldn't it? It's not just today; every three days from now on, you will suffer this kind of pain, and the pain will increase every day. Since your master is so powerful, then let him find a way to cure you."

Su Chen said with a cold laugh, feeling not the slightest bit of guilt for doing this, even finding it deeply satisfying.

After all, this giant bat looked like he had been running rampant by Lanbo's side for a long time and must have committed many heinous acts. If it weren't for the fact that killing him outright would be letting him off too easily, Su Chen would have finished him off directly.

But it didn't matter if he couldn't kill him; he could naturally make him wish he were dead.

As his voice fell, the group left him where he was and walked deeper inside.

The further they walked, the more visibly desolate and bleak the scenery became; compared to the situation over at the Mermaid Race, it was no different, both being extremely withered and decayed.

It was hard to imagine that the Dragon Race, as a top-tier fighting force, would have their territory in such a dilapidated state.

Su Chen became more alarmed as he walked. Large swathes of yellow sand covered the original landscape; looking out, there wasn't a single plant within hundreds of meters, the parched earth even causing the ground to crack, and the scorching sun shining on them felt as if it were about to roast them alive.

The climate here was dry and hot, without even a drop of water.

The group had been teleported out from the Mermaid Race, and their remaining supplies were not much, especially in a place like this, where water resources were needed all the more.

They had walked a long way, drinking their remaining water sparingly, and now it was about to run dry.

"What should we do now? If we go on like this, we'll die of thirst before we even find the Dragon Race."

Lv Luo, as a Tree Spirit, lacked moisture and was completely wilted, looking listless when she spoke.

Luo Shen had fine beads of sweat on her cheeks; her expression hadn't changed much, but she still couldn't help but wipe the sweat from her face with her sleeve, then continued: "Let's find a place with sufficient water sources before we continue our journey."

Natasha now had the Universe Pearl and could stay away from water for a long time, but this hot and dry environment had a huge impact on her, and she was almost being baked dry.

Xiaoxian flapped her little wings incessantly and was hot beyond words, but as a Golden Dragon, she was naturally fond of hotter places, so she didn't show much change.

They just kept walking aimlessly like this; the further they went, the more decayed and broken the scenery became, looking as if no living thing had survived there for hundreds of thousands of years.

Suddenly, Xiaoxian twitched her nose and flew toward a certain spot.

The others didn't know what was going on, so they hurriedly followed.

They saw Xiaoxian stop in front of some bones, silent and speechless.

Su Chen and Luo Shen were the first to step forward to observe what kind of sacred being this skeleton belonged to that it had actually attracted Xiaoxian.

As soon as they got close, Luo Shen recognized at a glance that this was the skeleton of a Dragon.

It was just that because so much time had passed, the flesh had rotted away and been absorbed, leaving only this empty skeleton lying here.

Looking at the completeness of the bones, this Dragon had even suffered dismemberment before death, and the manner of death was extremely tragic; even the bones were incomplete in some places, mostly broken, without a single intact part.

There was no need to guess who had committed such cruel acts.

It must have been that maniac Lanbo! Su Chen couldn't help but clench his fists, sneering at Lanbo's behavior of slaughtering the innocent.

Xiaoxian had finally sensed the aura of her own kind, but it turned out to be just a corpse—or not even a corpse, just a skeleton.

Her heart was extremely depressed, and she felt that the current situation of her companions might not be good either.

Thinking that her own clansmen, whom she had never met, had also suffered such unprovoked disaster, she felt very uncomfortable inside.

Although she had never seen those of the Dragon Race, how could Xiaoxian not miss her own kind, as well as her family whom she had never met?

When she saw Natasha successfully find her family earlier, she was overjoyed and had fantasized in her heart about the life of finding her family after returning to the Dragon Race.

But looking at the current situation, the plight of the Dragon Race might not be any better than that of the Mermaid Race.

If the most powerful Dragon Race had already withered to this extent, there was no need to mention the other races.

"It's okay, Xiaoxian. With Lanbo's ability, it's not enough to deal with the entire Dragon Race; this Dragon must have been separated from the group." (End of chapter)