Chapter 57: The protagonist dies, so he should just kiss her once, no matter what.
Amidst the earth-shaking tremors, Bai's feet slipped, and she plummeted to the ground. The wind howled in her ears, and she flapped her wings, trying to steady herself, but she couldn't stop her descent.
"Bang!"
Bai crashed heavily into the forest, raising clouds of dust.
"Pfft, cough cough." Bai also bared his little tiger teeth, spat out the dirt in his mouth, and with a flap of his wings, soared into the sky.
Unlike the desolate world they had been in before, this place before them was as beautiful as a fairyland.
In the distance, mountain peaks rise one after another, their snow-capped summits mingling with the sea of clouds, reflecting a magnificent glow. Ancient trees reach for the sky in the forests, and vines radiating various colors of spiritual light appear and disappear among the trees.
There are many floating islands in mid-air. Amidst the swirling clouds and mist, waterfalls cascade down from floating cliffs. The water does not fall to the ground but disappears into the clouds.
"This place is so beautiful it looks almost unreal," Bai muttered to himself.
She flapped her wings and headed towards the floating island in the distance. Actually, she didn't have any particular purpose; she just wanted to see where the water flowing down from the mountain went.
She had seen many similar models in the past when playing games, and this time she wanted to see carefully where this waterfall from the sky would flow.
Before even approaching the floating island, Bai suddenly turned sharply, dodging the purplish-black lightning that descended from the sky.
She steadied herself and looked at the enormous black dragon hiding in the clouds. Two pairs of equally dazzling golden eyes gazed at each other across the distance, reflecting each other's images.
One side is as majestic as a mountain, while the other is as small as a cub that has not yet been weaned.
Despite the huge difference in size, Bai Ye showed no fear. After waiting for so long, has the main character finally decided to show himself?
She yelled at the top of her lungs, "Hey, Black Dragon, are you good or bad? Can you talk?"
Her response was a deafening dragon roar. The dragon opened its mouth, and a slender figure, enveloped in rosy light, gracefully flew out. A black gauze dress covered her exquisite figure, revealing her graceful figure.
The woman in black in mid-air slowly opened her eyes and looked at Bai Ye expressionlessly.
"Young man, defeat me and you will inherit my legacy."
The moment Bai saw the other person's eyes, he knew this person was no ordinary individual. Their gaze was icy, as cold as an unyielding glacier, devoid of any human emotion, filled only with endless indifference.
Before Bai could reply, the woman made her move. She raised her hand, and wind and thunder roared, instantly engulfing an area of a hundred miles in a sea of lightning.
Before Bai could react, the tiger was grabbed by the throat by a giant lightning hand and lifted in front of the woman in black.
"Cough cough...wait a minute." Bai also patted the lightning hand on his neck.
"Sister, why don't you let go first and let me unleash a few powerful moves? That way, I'll lose with more dignity." Bai's face was flushed red as she struggled to hold back, her tail thrashing wildly in the air, and her golden wings flapping weakly behind her.
The woman tilted her head slightly, looking at the little white tiger struggling in vain, as if trying to understand the brain circuit of this talkative tiger.
While the woman was still in a daze, a golden light flashed on Bai Ye's claws, and a golden claw mark pierced through the air.
The claw-like energy tore through the lightning, and the woman in black retreated hastily.
Once freed, Bai spread its wings and distanced itself from the woman by nearly a thousand feet.
The woman flashed and caught up with Bai Ye almost instantly. She transformed into lightning, her speed reaching its limit. No matter how fast Bai Ye flew, the woman could always catch up in the first instant.
After Bai realized this, he chose to draw his sword and fight back, saying, "Playing with lightning, huh? I have that too!"
Black lightning crackled around the blade of the large black sword, its sword energy like a rainbow piercing the sky and heading straight for the woman's face.
The woman's expression remained unchanged. She slightly raised her palm, and a longsword formed from the power of thunder suddenly appeared, crackling with electricity.
She swung her sword down, unleashing a thunderous sword aura that crashed against Bai Ye's sword light.
"boom!"
A lightning dragon flickered within the sword light wielded by the woman. The lightning dragon roared and broke through Bai Ye's sword momentum, swooping down and piercing straight through Bai Ye's body.
"Bang!"
Bai's figure plummeted like a meteor, crashing through several mountains before finally coming to a stop.
She was embedded in the mountain wall, her body emitting blue smoke, her snow-white fur charred black by the electric light, and even her newly grown golden wings now emitted a burnt smell.
"So strong, I can't beat them." Bai muttered to himself, feeling the wound in his chest pierced by lightning.
"So I really relied on them too much? Without Sister Lü and Zhong Jiuli's help, I can't beat anyone!"
The woman in black descended slowly, stepping on lightning, the purple lightning illuminating her cold, stern face. She stood at the cave entrance, her long, slender figure completely blocking out the remaining light.
Bai also struggled to lift his head, his vision somewhat blurred, only able to see those eyes devoid of any warmth.
"Are you going to kill me?" Bai Ye's voice was very soft. She no longer had the strength to speak, and blood gushed out as soon as she opened her mouth.
The woman in black did not answer, but slowly raised her hand, and the Thunder Sword crackled with purplish-black arcs of electricity in her palm.
"Defeat me and you will inherit my legacy." Her voice was cold and indifferent. "The loser dies."
The sword's momentum was like a rainbow, crashing down with a thunderous roar.
The thunderous sword rapidly magnified in Bai Ye's eyes. She wanted to dodge, didn't want to die, and wanted to struggle, but the attack just now had shattered all the bones in her body, making it difficult to even move a finger.
Bai was also confused. Wasn't he the main character? Why was he going to die here?
It is said that before a person dies, many images flash through their mind like a revolving lantern.
At this moment, Zhong Jiuli's image flashed through Bai Ye's mind, along with all the little things they had done together over the past few days, the cool fragrance emanating from her, and the confessions that hadn't yet been spoken.
"If I had known I would die so soon... I should have kissed her once without thinking." Bai murmured to himself.
Unfortunately, the woman in black didn't give her much time to think. The thunder sword fell, and Bai Ye's skull exploded like a watermelon.
The protagonist is dead!
......
Before he could even fully experience the pain of death, Bai fell from the sky once again, his limbs flailing wildly.
Looking at this familiar scene, she raised her hand and touched her perfectly intact head with lingering fear.
A moment later, the woman in black descended, stepping on lightning.
Enemies meeting are bound to be filled with hatred.
Bai also chose to strike first. She used all her strength as soon as she made her move. Her left hand held the True Fire of the Sun, and her right hand held a sword with lightning crackling around it. Her wings vibrated behind her, and she instantly arrived in front of the woman in black.
The woman in black raised her hand, a spark of lightning flashing at her fingertips, and pierced through Bai Ye's brow once more.
"Ahhh!"
Falling, an endless fall.
Bai fell from the clouds again, his claws reflexively reaching for his forehead. The pain of his brains being ruptured seemed to still be in his body, and the wounds on his skull healed once more.
The woman in black reappeared from the clouds.
Next, this scene was recreated from various angles, and Bai also experienced enough ways to die with his head blown open during this trial.
After dying more than five hundred times, Bai realized that she could fight the woman in black for half an hour. She was confident that if she died a few hundred more times, she would definitely be able to defeat her.
The 999th time.
As the black-clad woman's thunderous sword struck down once more, Bai's eyes flashed with golden light; she had completely countered that earth-shattering thunderous sword strike.
The heavy sword trembled slightly, with dark lightning swirling around it. Bai also swung the sword, and a thunder dragon roared within the sword light, exactly the same as the attack swung by the woman in black.
"Boom!" The moment the two bolts of lightning collided, the world fell silent. The next instant, a violent wave of lightning swept outwards, the floating immortal mountain crumbled and collapsed under the impact of the lightning, and the cascading waterfall spun back up.
The woman in black was pierced through the body by the sword. She looked down at the lightning emanating from her body and the power of the true fire of the sun mixed in with the lightning, and a trace of blood slowly spilled from the corner of her mouth.
Bai Ye leaped forward, sword in hand, a wildly arrogant smile on his lips. "Now it's your turn to die!"
Without any hesitation, the heavy sword, imbued with the force of thunder, stabbed fiercely towards the woman's head.
She was determined to smash this woman's head open!
The moment the sword tip touched the woman's brow, her body suddenly became ethereal, transforming into countless bolts of lightning that vanished.
"Aaaaaah, this isn't fair!" Bai roared, "Can't I just kill her before it's over?!"
Unfortunately, the woman in black had vanished, and no one could answer her question.
The black dragon reappeared in the clouds. It looked down at Bai Ye and said with interest, "Little tiger, you are quite good and qualified to receive my inheritance."
"We can talk about the inheritance later. Can you release that woman first? I want to stab her to death!" Bai was also very unwilling.
"Go, go and accept the real test. If you pass the test, you will receive my inheritance." The black dragon ignored Bai Ye's request and waved its claws, causing this unrealistically beautiful space to crack like glass.
As the feeling of weightlessness came over him, Bai transformed back into human form and put his clothes back on at the fastest speed he had ever been before being teleported away.
The next instant, Bai also appeared on the huge dragon bone.
"Waaaah, my little one!" Jiao Jiao puffed out her cheeks, with half of the dragon's tail still dangling from her mouth. "I thought I'd never see you again, waaaah."
Bai, exasperated, raised his hand and pressed it against her head. "Swallow the food in your mouth before you talk to me properly."
After saying that, she turned to look at Zhong Jiuli, "Are you alright, Zhong Daya?"
Zhong Jiuli didn't answer, but reached out and pulled her into his arms.
"What's wrong?" Bai asked softly, carefully raising his hand to gently stroke her back.
Are you injured?
Zhong Jiuli didn't speak, but buried her face in her neck and gently inhaled her scent.
Bai was also a little ticklish from her teasing, so he leaned close to her ear and reminded her, "We're in public."
"It's alright." Zhong Jiuli's voice was a little muffled. "Let me hold you for a while."
Bai rarely saw Zhong Jiuli so emotionally out of control, and she guessed that Zhong Jiuli must have encountered great difficulties in the trial.
She didn't move anymore, but simply held her quietly. Although she herself had encountered great difficulties, nearly a thousand deaths had brought her to the brink of a mental breakdown.
But none of that mattered compared to the woman in her arms. As long as Zhong Jiuli wanted to hold her, she was willing to hold her forever, until the end of time. If he wanted a kiss, she would be willing to do that too.
After a long while, the two slowly separated.
Bai also looked around; the two of them were currently standing on the dragon's spine. Not far behind them, Liu Xianyue, A-Lian, and the Chu sisters were slowly approaching them.
"You're all alright." Bai was also very happy that his friends were all safe and sound.
Her gaze fell on Chu San Niang. "San Niang has actually reached the Golden Core stage? It seems she has made quite a bit of progress."
Chu San Niang smiled, revealing two small dimples on her cheeks. She flipped her palm, and a white jade scroll appeared out of thin air. As the scroll shimmered with spiritual light, the sound of ocean waves seemed to emanate from it.
"This is the Sea God's Diagram. Once the seal is broken, it can summon the great sea monster to come and help. Big White, this is for you."
Bai quickly waved his hand, "Keep it for yourself. With your skinny arms and legs, you obviously need something to protect yourself more than I do."
“There are countless ways to repay a debt of gratitude.” Zhong Jiuli reached out and stopped Chu Sanniang’s hand, pushing the sea god painting back.
"But it's definitely not about handing over your most precious opportunity to someone else. First, make yourself stronger, and then you can repay them however you want later."
Chu San Niang's face flushed slightly as she held the scroll and nodded emphatically, "Thank you for your guidance, senior. I understand."
Bai also looked at the group and asked, "Were you also sent out by that big black dragon, who told us to go and face the real trial?"
Chu Erniang shook her head, "I was sent out for no reason."
"I didn't see any black dragon, just a stinky bird that kept setting fire to me. I'm so annoyed," Liu Xianyue said.
Chu San Niang and Jiao Jiao both nodded, "We've seen the Black Dragon."
Bai also pondered, "It seems that only a few of us were chosen by the Black Dragon?"
She looked at Zhong Jiuli as she spoke, "Zhong Daya, what about you?"
Zhong Jiuli shook her head. "The Black Dragon did not choose me."
Bai looked around and noticed a few scattered figures in the distance. Compared to before, there were indeed far fewer cultivators.
Could it be that those cultivators who didn't emerge were really left in the trial space to become lizardmen? How cruel!
"How about we just slip away?" Bai lowered his voice, pointing furtively at the outside of the dragon bone. "We've already gotten our share of the benefits."
Before the words were finished, a terrified scream came from afar.
Everyone looked in the direction of the sound and saw a gray-robed cultivator leaping towards the dragon's remains, his face still showing a hint of wild joy at surviving a calamity.
The moment he leaped up, his figure was strangely frozen in the seawater, as if he had been grabbed by an invisible hand.
The protective aura surrounding the cultivator was as fragile as a firefly, extinguishing in an instant. The next moment, a muffled "thud" was heard, like the sound of a watermelon, limp and rotten inside after being exposed to the sun, falling from a great height.
The gray-robed cultivator exploded into a cloud of blood mist right before everyone's eyes.
The Chu sisters and A-Lian all gasped slightly, and Jiao-Jiao covered her eyes and hid inside Bai Ye's clothes.
They weren't afraid of the dead; they had seen countless dead people along the way. But this person's death was too bizarre; the group couldn't even see who had done it.
The gray-robed cultivator exploded without warning or resistance. Such an opponent sent chills down one's spine.
"Alright, alright, since we can't escape, let's go and confront it!" Bai encouraged the team. "Underwater exploration team, let's go!"
With a flap of her wings, the light of the water-repelling pearl enveloped them, and they were all carried by her at an extremely fast speed toward the location of the dragon's head.
"Wow, Yezai, you've grown wings!" Jiaojiao looked at Bai Ye's wings in amazement.
"Isn't that amazing? Right now, I'm the only one who can fly in the entire ocean." Bai Ye happily flapped her wings, lightning flashing, and her speed increased once again.
Liu Xianyue was genuinely surprised now; Bai Ye's speed had almost surpassed hers. Such rapid flight speed, combined with this guy's void escape technique.
To be honest, this little tiger's survival skills are truly maxed out.
Compared to everyone's surprise, Zhong Jiuli seemed unusually calm.
"Zhong Daya, why don't you praise me for being amazing?" Bai Ye turned her head and asked, her eyes sparkling, clearly looking forward to Zhong Jiuli's praise.
"Very impressive." Zhong Jiuli patted her head and praised her softly.
"Then let me show you what true speed is." Lightning suddenly erupted from Bai Ye's wings, and with each flap, the group advanced hundreds of miles.
At this moment, even the dragon skeletons stretching for tens of thousands of miles seemed insignificant.
In just a few breaths, the enormous dragon head was right in front of them.
When they were still more than ten miles away from the dragon's head, Bai led the group back onto the skeleton. "We can't go on, the pressure is too strong, we have to walk over."
Zhong Jiuli and Liu Xianyue were able to withstand the pressure; their cultivation levels were high, so they could proceed steadily.
The Sea God Map in Chu San Niang's hand emitted a soft halo, enveloping her and her sister and blocking much of the dragon's might.
What surprised everyone the most was Ah Lian, who seemed completely unaffected and walked the easiest among them.
As the distance closed, the enormous dragon head appeared even more ferocious and terrifying.
Bai also looked at the dragon head with its eyes half-closed and felt that this guy didn't look too much like the black dragon in the trial space. The black dragon in the trial space looked more domineering.
Perhaps it was because this guy only had a head left, while the big black dragon still had a body. As she looked at it, her consciousness drifted into a daze.
"Oh no... I think I've been infected again." Bai's vision went black, and he collapsed onto the dragon bone with a "thud".
When Bai opened his eyes again, he found himself floating uncontrollably in the starry sky.
Two black dragons that stretched across the Milky Way were tearing and attacking her before her eyes. One of them was, without a doubt, the black dragon that had just been reduced to a skeleton.
The other one looked exactly like it, but it had no physical form. Instead, it was composed of strange dark matter. She seemed to have seen this thing before. In the Great Creation Scripture, the dark shadows that fought were just like this black dragon.
They fought fiercely in the starry sky, and the moment their claws collided, several planets shattered in their grasp.
Bai was also somewhat astonished. "What does it mean to show me this? Do you mean you want me to participate in a battle of this level?"
"Little Tiger".
A thunderous dragon roar echoed through the starry sky, making Bai's head buzz.
The black dragon, which was engaged in fierce combat, suddenly withdrew and swam to Bai Ye's side.
"Is this your true form? It's so big! So big that planets look like toys in your hands," Bai said.
"Help me slay this fiend, and the entire legacy will belong to you."
"Huh? Me?" Bai pointed to the tip of his nose, his voice cracking with shock.
"Are you sure you've got the right person? Me? You two fight by smashing planets against each other, what am I supposed to do there, give its scales a scraping treatment?" Bai also had a lot of complaints he wanted to make, but he didn't know how to express them.
“Young man, don’t be afraid. I am a remnant soul, and so is it. It is me, and I am it. What you are destroying is both me and it!” the black dragon said.
Bai was also a little confused. "You mean, that strange black dragon is something like your inner demon?"
The black dragon shook its head. "It comes from the void, following you like a shadow, eroding reason and inducing inner demons. It is called the Heart-Eating Shadow Demon."
“Young man, you are a member of the White Tiger clan. Only you can kill it. Your Golden Eyes of Illusion can see through all the illusions of the world. Help me kill it and help me to be free.”
Looking at the black dragon with its head bowed, Bai suddenly understood why the Hidden Dragon Abyss felt so strange to her.
The black dragon in the previous trial space made her feel that it was sometimes gentle and sometimes violent. She originally thought that the old black dragon had suffered a mental breakdown due to being trapped at the bottom of the sea for too long.
It now seems that it was the influence of the Heart-Eating Shadow Demon that caused the black dragon to be sometimes lucid and sometimes in a state of chaos.
Therefore, the other side keeps switching between good and evil camps.
The name of this Heart-Eating Shadow Demon reminded Bai of the giant mushroom he had encountered earlier. Could it be that all these ghostly creatures share a common origin? Do they all come from the mysterious void, making them so difficult to destroy?
"Hey, tell me first, what's your relationship with that woman in black who repeatedly tortured and killed me before I consider whether I should help you?" Bai said, looking up.
"She is me too!" Black Dragon's voice was somewhat ethereal.
"What the hell?!" Bai also exploded, "You've killed me a thousand times before, and now you want me to help you?"
"Are you dreaming?"
The great black dragon lowered its eyes, its golden pupils swirling with complex light.
“When that shadow demon completely takes over and corrupts my soul, the day I break free will be the day the catastrophe descends upon the Nine Provinces.” The great black dragon’s voice was filled with indescribable exhaustion. “I’m so tired, so tired, so tired. I can’t hold on for much longer.”
Bai scoffed, "Moral blackmail? Do you think I'm a moral person?"
She recalled her countless deaths, each time helplessly having her head smashed open. She disliked that feeling of despair utterly.
"Little Tiger, you have people you care about, right? Your friends," the Great Black Dragon said slowly. "Don't you think about her? The girl you liked so much, do you know that when she saw you die, she almost detonated her Dragon Ball to fight me to the death?"
Bai's pupils contracted, and he froze on the spot.
"If you don't help me... she will really have to rely on self-destruction to destroy me in the future." The black dragon's voice was much softer, but it hit Bai Ye's heart like a heavy hammer.
She found the reason for Zhong Jiuli's sudden loss of control: it was because she had witnessed Zhong Jiuli's death hundreds of times.
She probably didn't die a very ugly death, right? Sigh, she must have died a very ugly death. Every time she dies, her brains are blown out of her body. How could she possibly look good?
"Wait a minute!" Bai suddenly realized the crux of the problem, "Why could she see what happened to me in the trial space? Wasn't she also participating in the trial?"
The black dragon shook off its previous heaviness, its whiskers swaying lightly at the corners of its mouth. "I saw that she cared a lot about you, so I let her see your trial process, and let her know what kind of tiger cub she has her eye on is!"
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Author's Note: Bai Ye: I died, I came back to life, and I've become stronger! [Dog head with rose in its mouth][Dog head with rose in its mouth][Dog head with rose in its mouth]
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