Chapter 83 Chapter 83 "Your Highness, don't cry."

"Your Highness, don't go over there."

Yingluo stopped Jiuzhao reflexively.

His gaze quickly swept over the eagerly awaiting Zhulong not far away, and he solemnly warned, "You're blocked by the cold iron chains, so Zhulong can't reach you. You're relatively safe. But if you go over there, not only will you be corroded by the cold iron's chilling power, you'll also be within its attack range."

Jiu Zhao also glanced over, unconcerned: "Your magic clearly worked. Just look at that beast's expression and you'll see."

As they exchanged words, she witnessed countless bolts of lightning strike down upon Ying Luo, and her inner worry grew. "Besides, I can see you don't look well—we can't afford to waste any more time. Let's just do it first and think about it later!"

After saying that, she passed by.

Yingluo quickly activated the mermaid costume and followed.

But every failure taught her a lesson, and Jiu Zhao ultimately became more cautious. She took a dozen steps forward, standing just enough so she could reach out and touch the Zhulong's claws. She coaxed him, "Okay, Ah Zhu, I'm here. Tell me where the submandibular bead is."

"My Lord, can you please come closer?"

Zhulong also started to act like a child, "It's been ten thousand years since we last met. Can you pat my head like you did when we were little?"

Jiuzhao: "...?"

This Zhulong is over ten thousand years younger than Wu Shao. Could he really be his illegitimate son?

The veins on Jiuzhao's forehead throbbed with impatience.

Considering that the other party is currently trapped in an illusion, in order not to alert the enemy, I can only endure it.

She moved closer.

He also secretly told Yingluo not to follow him, otherwise Zhulong would detect his aura.

"Then Your Highness, please take Jiao Yi away. I can handle it."

Yingluo was worried.

Jiu Zhao shook his head and refused: "No, this beast is so big, it would be a pity to leave it alone, it can be used to block the thunder punishment."

The king had ordered this, and Yingluo could not try to persuade him any further. He watched Jiuzhao leave his protection range and slowly approach Zhulong.

Against the backdrop of the huge beast's body, the tall Jiu Zhao looks extremely petite.

It seemed as if she was held in his hand, and with a slight pinch, she would break into pieces like a full fruit.

But when she stood in front of him, the ferocious beast that had killed countless immortal soldiers turned into a docile lamb and lowered its head.

Its two sharp claws opened and closed, surrounding Her Highness the Divine Princess, and its huge head rubbed against her palm affectionately.

The scene before my eyes seemed warm, yet strange no matter how I looked at it.

Yingluo was wondering what was wrong when he saw one of the claws raised up at lightning speed and stabbed straight towards Jiuzhao's fragile neck.

"Your Highness, be careful—"

Without bothering to use secret sounds, Ying Luo summoned his natal jade sword and rushed forward to fight with the sword.

clang!

The sharp claws collided with the sword, making a teeth-grinding sound.

Ying Luo was knocked back a big step by the huge force. Fortunately, he pulled Jiu Zhao out of Zhulong's arms in the process.

Seeing that the attack missed, the innocent and confused expression disappeared from Long's face in an instant.

Zhulong's pupils were still misty, revealing the truth of its blindness. From its drooling dragon mouth came a chilling voice: "What a pity! I almost could have avenged my master and killed you, the little bitch born by the traitorous man who betrayed my master."

Yingluo held Jiuzhao's lower back, and the two of them tried their best to keep their bodies steady.

Hearing this, he said coldly: "You are really pretending!"

"You're just a trifle trick, and you still want to deceive me——"

A hint of mockery flashed in Zhulong's lifeless eyes: "Don't you know how much you weigh?"

Jiu Zhao's brain was still stuck in the sudden change and he couldn't come to his senses immediately.

Suddenly, he heard Zhulong insulting him and his deceased mother. Two flames of rage threatened to burst out of his sight: "You evil dragon beast who followed the sinful god Wu Shao in rebellion, how dare you speak such foul words and insult my mother goddess? Die!"

"ha."

Zhulong's nostrils dilated slightly and he let out a clear sneer.

It was clearly a prisoner bound by cold iron chains, but it exuded an aura of fearlessness.

His underestimation of the enemy was guessed by Ying Luo, which made him lose face. At the same time, the other party insulted his mother.

Jiu Zhao's eyes turned red, and the anger hidden deep in his heart was suddenly aroused.

She floated in the air, shouting angrily and raising her divine whip to lash at Zhulong's jaw.

The power of the Phoenix's true blood was also condensed on the surface of the whip. When it was swung, it carried an extremely sharp edge, as if it could split the sun and moon in half and turn the mountains and rivers upside down!

Zhulong still raised his claws nonchalantly.

The sharp claw tip flashed with a metallic edge, and Jiu Zhao felt as if the whip was hitting a towering mountain.

What a strong defense.

It has been imprisoned in the Sunless Abyss for tens of thousands of years, how come it is still so strong?

Jiu Zhao was startled and raised the whip handle to withdraw it, but Zhulong grabbed the whip tail tightly and threw him down, causing him to fall heavily to the ground.

"How ridiculous! The most powerful bloodline of the Phoenix Clan, the true blood power that the Lord possesses that surpasses all three realms, flows through your body, yet you've become this vulnerable. It's a shame that you, the daughter of Tai'e and Sichen, are nothing but a mediocre waste!"

The comments that were once used to mock Meng Chu were now used by Zhu Long to mock himself.

Although Yingluo whispered to him, "Don't listen to Zhulong's words of suppression. You are only over 30,000 years old. Compared with your peers, you are already very outstanding" - Jiuzhao still hated his own laziness and indulgence.

Thunder from the ninth heaven descended and struck the spine beneath his clothes.

Jiu Zhao collapsed on the ground and twitched in pain, then gritted his teeth and crawled up little by little amid Zhulong's laughter.

She raised the magic whip again and rushed forward.

Yingluo also held a jade sword and attacked her from both sides from another direction.

Whipping and chopping.

Fire, ice.

Nine fireballs emerged from behind Jiu Zhao and hit the dragon scales. The blazing flames illuminated the gloomy cage.

Ying Luo casually gathered up thousands of huge waves, and the roaring waves were hidden with a coldness as sharp as a dagger, stabbing towards Zhulong's abdomen.

This battle is far more difficult than the Immortal Level Examination.

Although Zhu Long's movements were restricted, his top-notch defensive power left the two young celestial beings helpless.

Its body was half dormant, motionless as a mountain.

Occasionally, it would seize the opportunity when the two were not on guard, and breathe fire and attack with its claws and fangs.

The attack was not fast, but if it succeeded, it would leave deep wounds on Jiuzhao and Yingluo.

Not to mention, throughout the entire process, it kept using foul language, irritating Jiu Zhao, who had a fiery temper.

"Useless goddess, a piece of mud that can't be helped.

"I only pity that my lord was born tens of thousands of years earlier. If I had met you in the era of ruling the Three Pure Heavens, wouldn't it have been easy to kill you?

"But then again, I can't really blame you.

"The union of the Phoenix Twins was the will of heaven, but Tai'e insisted on going against it. No wonder she gave birth to a failure like you, a half-blooded child!

"Don't you want my submandibular pearl?

“I’m not afraid to tell you the truth, unless I offer it willingly, taking it by force will only yield a bunch of useless fragments.

"If you want, defeat me—

""Defeat me, and I will dig it out with my own hands and give it to you, a piece of trash—"

…

“Ah ...

At some point, the feathered features on Jiu Zhao's face became increasingly obvious, and wings surrounded by flames rose into the sky from her shoulder blades.

A sharp and fierce phoenix cry emanated from her lips.

The whispers of the immortals in the Three Pure Ones Heaven in the past, the accusations made by Lan Qi when he fell off the Changsheng Platform, Meng Chu's wanton ridicule, Fu Xu's disappointed look when he chose to part ways with her, Zhu Ying's earnest advice... all appeared in her mind alternately.

"Your Highness, calm down and concentrate, don't fall into that beast's trap!"

Seeing that her eyes were red, showing signs of being entangled by inner demons, Ying Luo ignored Zhulong's attack and instead used the Heart Cleansing Technique on her.

What to do.

The next moment.

He suddenly realized that this was just a feint by Zhulong to distract him.

Jiu Zhao represents fire, and belongs to the same family as it. There is no concept of mutual generation or restraint in terms of power.

His element is water, and he has more combat experience than Jiu Zhao. Even though he is inferior in rank, he still has some suppressive power.

The sharp claws with dragon flames attacked, and Ying Luo raised his sword to block it. When he was knocked five feet away with the sword, he finally understood the reason.

His back hit the hard mesh, his throat felt hot and he spat out a mouthful of blood.

Even the jade sword slipped out of his hand and fell to the ground, constantly trembling and wailing.

“Yingluo!!”

Jiu Zhao's eyes were bloodshot.

She quickly flew out of Zhulong's attack range and rushed over to pick up Yingluo.

The corner of his eye shone on the jade sword that was connected to Ying Luo's life, and the clear white blade also showed several cracks on the verge of breaking.

how so?

Before, Zhulong had been attacking him.

He just took the opportunity to launch a sneak attack on Yingluo.

How could he be injured like this?

In the midst of confusion, a dazzling flash of lightning struck.

Jiu Zhao bent down without thinking to block it for Ying Luo, but a small part of it still fell on Ying Luo.

He spat out another mouthful of blood, and his beautiful and handsome face was mostly stained with blood and fragments of internal organs.

Seeing that Yingluo and himself had different reactions to the Nine Heavens Thunder Punishment, Jiuzhao suddenly had a terrible guess in his heart.

As if in sync with her, Zhulong coiled up his tough dragon body, using dense scales to resist. Under the simultaneous thunder, he sometimes hissed in pain, and sometimes laughed crazily: "You can feel it too, right? This kid is about to die -

"Does it feel strange?

"You were obviously struck by more lightning, so why is this kid injured like this?

"Before you came in, I sensed Yu Feng's presence, but this presence only protected you. With Yu Feng's divine power as a buffer, the Nine Heavens Thunder Punishment that fell on you, apart from causing severe pain, would not seriously damage your soul.

"It's a pity that this boy is so devoted to you. You are safe and sound, but he has been hit so hard that he is almost out of his mind."

Zhulong's tone was filled with joy, pleasure, compassion, and a hint of inexplicable admiration.

When Jiu Zhao heard the truth from him, the pain in his heart was far greater than the pain in his body.

She hurriedly tore off the mermaid robe and draped it over Yingluo, while transferring her immortal power into him.

The mermaid robe is useless to the person who is locked and protected by Yingluo, and the immortal power that is incompatible with water and fire is also useless.

"Yingluo, Yingluo, don't die... Why, why can't Jiaoyi protect you?"

Jiu Zhao pulled at his clothes helplessly, his pupils blurred, like a child who had done something wrong and didn't know how to make amends.

She rarely cries.

Even if he is criticized by thousands of people, he will only stubbornly raise his chin halfway and stand up with all his thorns.

But now.

For her own sake, her eyes were red.

Ying Luo took a deep breath, and the air passed through his throat, making a breaking sound, just like an old bellows that was leaking inside and out.

His bloodstained hand trembled as he lifted it and placed it beneath Jiu Zhao's eyelids, carefully trying to wipe away her tears. "The power of the Mermaid is not enough to protect the two of us from the thunderbolt. So, while you were asleep, I quietly absorbed a wisp of your aura."

"It only recognizes you as its master, so it won't work on me..."

Click.

Transparent and warm tears fell on Yingluo's face.

Very strange.

At the moment when his body and soul were about to fall apart, the emotion that emerged in his heart was still heartache for Jiu Zhao.

His will gradually dimmed, and he didn't want her to see his face twisted with pain from the thunder punishment. He turned his palm over and covered Jiu Zhao's grief-stricken eyes, "Your Highness, don't cry.

"If you can't save Zhu Yan, leave quickly...

"From now on, without me to protect you, you must be more careful."

Yingluo closed his eyes.

But there was a regretful smile on the corner of his lips.

If I had known earlier, if I had known earlier——

Just tell her your feelings.