Chapter 105 I Don’t Need to Be Too Gentle to You

"Your hand...what's wrong?"

Ying Shixue didn't even glance at her hands, staring only at the blue flames surging in the depths of the lava pool. She said coldly, "It's okay."

The old Dragon King suddenly discovered a messy phoenix feather that had fallen into his snow-white clothes. He seemed to have thought of something, and most of his dragon body and soul slowly sank into the lava, letting out a heavy and helpless sigh.

"That child is on the side of Heaven after all. His stance is different from yours. You..."

"That's all right." Ying Shixue lowered her icy eyes, her breath as still as frost. "She's just a little phoenix, so it's normal for her to be a little proud."

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The underwater divine realm completely surrounded by dragon bone veins.

For several days in a row, He Zhimo carried Shang You on his back and visited most parts of the water area. After returning to the Crystal Palace, he also wrote down the routes of some important guard positions.

Shang You was no longer immersed in sadness. After adapting to the situation over the past few days, she gained more knowledge about her molted dragon tail. For example, if she swung her tail correctly, she could swim at an astonishing speed, but it would be very tiring for a little cub like her.

After she told He Zhimo all this, He Zhimo was reluctant to let her swim, especially in the past two days, always reminding her to conserve her energy.

When the night was completely silent, the two cubs secretly hid in the corner behind the shell bed. Shang You held the luminous pearl in his pocket, while He Zhimo lay beside him drawing a blueprint.

Shang You understood what was going on after reviewing the escape route that He Zhimo had secretly drawn. She traced her little finger from the long stretch of water at the palace gate marked on the blueprint to the connecting point at the other end and whispered, "The distance here is the longest, brother. When the time comes, hold my hand tightly and I'll swim you out."

He Zhimo nodded, pointed at the connection, and whispered, "Sister Shuihe will leave the barrier here after taking care of us every day. We will ambush here, and when Sister Shuihe opens the barrier, we will sneak out behind her."

Shang You looked down at his little dragon tail, and suddenly another question came to his mind, "But brother, if we really escape, where are we going to find mom?"

"Didn't Youyou say that the last time you saw your mother was in Kunlun Mountain? Let's go look for her there."

Shang You clenched her hands and nodded vigorously, becoming more determined in her thoughts at this moment.

She and her brother will definitely escape from here, find their mother and meet her.

He Zhimo and Shang You practiced the escape route several times to ensure that it would be foolproof in practice. When they felt sleepy, the two cubs hid the drawings and carefully returned to their respective shell beds to sleep.

The next day, everything went according to plan.

He Zhimo and Shang You stayed obediently in the crystal palace. After they had eaten and drunk their fill, Sister Shuihe came to coax the cubs to sleep. The two cubs were also very obedient, closing their eyes and covering themselves with the blanket, pretending to be asleep as they had simulated several times.

Shui He thought the little princess had fallen asleep, so he tidied up the palace and walked out of the palace with the food box.

Just as the water cranes were slowly leaving the water corridor, the two cubs controlled their timing, came out from the side hall, and immediately dived into the coral reef.

He Zhimo put the two cute jellyfish he had caught in advance onto his own head and Shang You's head respectively, disguising them as two jellyfish.

Shang You immediately grabbed her brother's hand, twisted her little tail behind her and began to gather energy, "Brother, I'm going to start speeding up."

He Zhimo also held Shang You tightly and nodded to show that he was ready.

The next second, a whoosh of water brought out circles of foam from the coral reef. Shang You quickly swam his short, sticky, transparent blue dragon tail and sprinted along the route his brother had recorded.

Before the water cranes arrived, the cubs were the first to reach the barrier and continued to pretend to be jellyfish swimming nearby, lurking at the edge of the dark corner of the cave.

After Sister Shuihe appeared, the barrier recognized the print of Shuihe's raised palm and opened automatically.

It was at the moment when Shui He stepped into the barrier that Shang You, who was hiding in the dark, had already stored the energy of the little dragon tail. Almost in a flash, Shang You and He Zhimo rushed out of the barrier that was about to close.

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Deep in the dragon cave.

When the attendant came with new clothes as ordered by the king, before reaching the evil water pool, he found Shang Youqing collapsed beside the water curtain. The backs of both his hands were scratched by the ice spikes that bounced off the water curtain, and several of the wounds were even bleeding.

The servant subconsciously wanted to rush into the water curtain to help the little phoenix up. Just as he was about to step in, the king's order suddenly came to his mind. He had to put the things he brought on the ground for the time being and rushed to the main hall.

The door to the main hall was closed, probably because the king was discussing some important matters inside.

The attendant discovered that Elder Changyi was also outside the hall, and hurried forward to tell him about the situation at the Dragon Cave. After hearing this, Elder Changyi's expression changed subtly, and he didn't say anything immediately. He just went into the hall to inform them on her behalf.

The attendant thought that the little phoenix was still unconscious by the water curtain, and looked anxiously towards the closed palace door, but the king never came out.

The attendant couldn't help but run over and ask Elder Changyi, "Elder Changyi, have you told the king? She's injured again, and..."

"Yes, but the king is working with other leaders to deploy a defense line in the sea area, so he might not be able to come out so soon."

"Then can I enter the water curtain barrier first..."

"No." The old man Changyi shook his head slowly, "The king did not convey such an order."

The attendant had no choice but to continue waiting, but his face became more and more worried.

After an unknown amount of time, the palace door finally opened.

The first to come out were several leaders, and after a while, the figure in snow-white clothes finally appeared at the palace gate.

The attendant didn't care about anything else and hurried forward to tell the king about the little phoenix's situation again.

Ying Shixue was very calm. He said "I understand" and did not let his attendants follow him. He went straight back to the depths of the dragon cave.

Just as the attendant said, Shang Youqing fell at the edge of the water curtain. There were crisscrossing scratches of ice on his hands. One could even see the traces of Shang Youqing dragging his knees and legs as he crawled from the ice bed to the water curtain.

Ying Shixue lowered his eyes for a few seconds, then silently destroyed the water curtain barrier in front of him.

He slowly picked up Shang Youqing with his dragon tail and returned to the ice bed.

When he put on her soft silk pajamas, Shang Youqing was still in a drowsy state caused by the cold current from the water curtain. He didn't know what kind of nightmare he had. The half of his face that was pressed against his dragon scales was wet with tears.

She didn't cry, but just shivered from the cold and curled up in his dragon tail, silently shedding tears, which made the area around her eyes red.

Even so, Ying Shixue didn't let the person go.

The dragon's tail wrapped around her tightly, and the cold air released by the dragon scales soothed the wounds on the back of her hand that were caused by the rebound of the water curtain, which looked like they were cut by cold blades.

He listened indifferently as she snuggled up to his dragon's tail, coldly and vaguely repeating the word "kill"...

When Shang Youqing woke up from the nightmare, Ying Shixue was still holding her wrists expressionlessly, checking if there were any other wounds on her hands.

Shang Youqing had not yet fully recovered consciousness. Just as he opened his wet eyes, he heard the sound of Ying wiping snow from above his head.

"There's no need to be too gentle with you. Last time I made you bleed, I should have just let you crash into the water curtain a few times. You like hurting yourself anyway."