Chapter 10 The Dragon's Secret Realm (Part 10)
Dark clouds rolled in the sky, and muffled thunder rumbled from time to time. The damp and scorching wind carried the salty smell of the sea, and the endless stretches of wild grass bent and swayed in the wind.
A sudden downpour occurred.
The dark sky seemed to press down heavily on the crumbling high wall. The wind howled faster and the thunder and lightning became denser. On the endless wasteland, the man in black robes was sitting cross-legged in meditation. If a powerful being were here, he would surely be amazed by the complex spiritual power in the man's body and the rapidly expanding sea of consciousness. But in the end, he could only sigh at the fact that this man had only four spiritual roots. Even with millions of spiritual power and a sea of consciousness, it would all be in vain.
But the person meditating was not discouraged at all.
He separated the chaotic spiritual energy in his sea of consciousness at an almost unbelievable speed, and then channeled it into the four-colored spiritual roots residing in his dantian. The broken meridians and the wounds in his waist and abdomen were slowly healing, but he had too little time and only the surface was healed hastily.
Jiang Gu opened his eyes inside the energy shield formed by spiritual energy.
With Zhou Xiuyuan around, the news that he possesses the Divine Kite Shark will spread quickly, and then there will be more than three people chasing after him.
His cold gaze fell on Wei Feng, who was outside the protective barrier.
Jiang Gu wasn't kind enough to make him a rain cover. Perhaps feeling cold, the boy curled up into a ball, his tattered clothes soaked through, and his high ponytail clung wetly to his pale face, looking as miserable as if he were about to die.
After all, he still needed to keep people around to extract scales and refine weapons, and Jiang Gu wasn't confident that he could accomplish both tasks simultaneously while being surrounded and intercepted by a group of people.
A pale white spiritual energy drifted out from the shield and entered Wei Feng's brow.
"Cough cough..." Soon, a faint coughing sound rang out in the rain, and the curled-up boy moved a couple of times with difficulty.
Wei Feng was drenched in the rain so much that he could barely open his eyes. Every part of his body ached, and an intense itching permeated his bones. Even though he was a strong and healthy young master who had been pampered for more than ten years, he could hardly bear the pain.
He desperately wanted to call out a name or title to alleviate this inhuman torment, to give him even the slightest glimmer of hope to save him, but when he opened his mouth, he tragically discovered that there was no one he could rely on and who could genuinely save him.
"Get up when you're awake," Jiang Gu said calmly. He paused for a moment, and only walked past Wei Feng after the dizziness subsided.
A pale, bluish hand weakly gripped the hem of his clothes in the downpour.
“Senior…” Wei Feng began hoarsely, his voice trembling with a sob, “I… feel so bad.”
Jiang Gu stood with his hands behind his back, looking down at him without the slightest fluctuation in his eyes. "What does your discomfort have to do with me?"
"Please... give me back my storage bag." Wei Feng was panting heavily, his eyes red as he looked at him. "All my pills are in there."
Since his body started showing abnormalities half a year ago and he couldn't find a solution, he would take pills randomly when he was in great pain. Sometimes, if he was lucky, he could suppress the symptoms to about 70-80%. But Jiang Gu had taken away his storage bag before.
Jiang Gu frowned slightly when he met his tearful eyes and said coldly, "The Divine Kite Shark bloodline in your body is slowly awakening, so it's normal to feel uncomfortable. If you take those high-level pills when you feel uncomfortable, it will only make your already fragile sea of consciousness and dantian deteriorate even faster."
His tone was just like that of the elders in the sect who liked to lecture him. Wei Feng felt pain, itchiness, and anger. He didn't know where the strength came from, but he suddenly sprang up from the ground and pounced on Jiang Gu.
"Give me the pills!" he roared hoarsely.
He was too fast, and Jiang Gu was caught off guard and didn't have time to dodge. However, he was not knocked down. He swayed for a moment and then stood steadily in place.
He has never had patience with children.
"Bear with it." Jiang Gu pushed him away with a hint of disgust.
Wei Feng was panting angrily, his eyes were bloodshot, and he was soaked to the bone by the downpour. He refused to let go of Jiang Gu's sleeve, and his legs were still trembling.
Jiang Gu easily shook off his hand with a little force. He originally intended for Wei Feng to follow him as before, but the other party was clearly in so much pain that he could barely stand.
Just when Wei Feng thought he was about to leave without looking back, the young man suddenly bent down and hooked his leg with one hand. Before Wei Feng could react, he was already being held horizontally in his arms.
Wei Feng was stunned at first, then his pale face flushed red instantly, and he struggled while angrily shouting, "What are you doing!?"
His strength was barely greater than that of an ant. Jiang Gu lowered his eyes impatiently, "If you keep making trouble, I'll pluck all your scales off right now."
Wei Feng immediately fell silent, awkwardly being held by him with his neck stiff and back straight. After a long while, he gritted his teeth and said, "I am not the Divine Kite Shark. You must have made a mistake."
Jiang Gu said calmly, "Qing Du is Qing Changxi's subordinate, so he wouldn't mistake him."
"Who is Qing Changxi?" Wei Feng asked, puzzled.
“The patriarch of the Merfolk clan,” Jiang Gu said patiently, afraid he would cry again, “was strangled three months ago.”
“I don’t know him! My parents have names and surnames. I have lived in Yanghua Sect for sixteen years. Shenyuan Jiao was only born half a year ago. How could it be me?” Wei Feng stretched his neck, feeling a little tired, and leaned into Jiang Gu’s arms in a way he thought was subtle.
Jiang Gu pretended not to see it.
He wasn't carrying Wei Feng out of sheer kindness; he'd noticed before that the more physical contact he had with Wei Feng, the faster the scar on his neck would fade. He simply wasn't comfortable carrying an unconscious boy; it made him seem like he had some kind of peculiar fetish.
—Of course, things aren't much better now.
However, Jiang Gu has always been ruthless in his actions, and after only a moment's hesitation, he instinctively chose the decision that was most beneficial to himself.
Just think of it as holding a hairless Utau.
“No one has ever witnessed the birth of the Divine Kite Shark. It was only a strange phenomenon that occurred half a year ago that confirmed their belief in it,” Jiang Gu said. “It would also be understandable if we said that the Divine Kite Shark bloodline within you has begun to awaken.”
Wei Feng was convinced for a moment, but then retorted, "But don't you have the Divine Kite Shark's companion ring? The direction it points to is never wrong. If I am the real Divine Kite Shark, it shouldn't have taken you to the Mermaid Bay Ruins."
“Qingdu tampered with the ring.” Jiang Gu glanced at the ring on his hand. “I started to suspect it as soon as you were able to implant those spider silk threads into it so quietly.”
After all, even he couldn't forcefully infuse spiritual energy into it.
Wei Feng belatedly realized, "You found out a long time ago! You deliberately left me in that stone house?"
“No,” Jiang Gu denied him. “It’s mainly because you’re too annoying.”
Outside the spiritual energy shield, the rain poured down, pounding against the shield with a dull thud. The thick curtain of rain enveloped the endless wasteland. Wei Feng looked up angrily, but could only see half of the other person's blurry chin. The young man took large strides, but held him firmly in his arms. His cold aura was mixed with the scorching scent of grass and damp earth, and every time he spoke, a slight vibration came from his chest.
This person is extremely despicable, ruthless and cruel; I want to skin him alive and turn him into a puppet.
However, perhaps because this person had saved him many times before, perhaps because he had been tormented to the limit by the pain and itching, or perhaps because the cold spiritual energy on the other person relieved his pain, Wei Feng's eyelids grew heavier and heavier as he got angry, and finally, listening to the sound of rain, his consciousness completely blurred.
Jiang Gu lowered his eyes, and his spiritual energy condensed into a wild grass, pushing away the boy's head that was trying to rub against his front.
...troublesome things.
——
Within the Chaolong Secret Realm.
"The Divine Kite Shark Scale is actually in the secret realm!?"
"It's absolutely true, Qing Changxi's men are also there."
"That merman named Qingdu is still alive..."
"How did the Yanghua Sect get involved?"
"It fell into the hands of the Jiang family."
"This is outrageous! The Jiang family got there first!"
"It's Jiang Gu..."
"Although that guy is only at the mid-stage of the Nascent Soul realm, he is ruthless. It won't be so easy for him to steal it."
The news spread like wildfire throughout the entire secret realm. Regardless of whether they had planned to snatch the Divine Kite Shark Scale before, now that such a valuable item was right in front of them, there was no reason for them to give it up so easily.
Zhou Xiuyuan stood on the cliff, laughing heartily. He wanted to see how long Jiang Gu could hold out.
——
When Wei Feng woke up, he smelled a strong stench of blood.
However, everything in front of him was pitch black. He tried to get up, but halfway up, he was hit on the head by something hard. There were cold, slippery rocks on both sides. He tried to move forward or backward, but found that everything was completely blocked.
It felt as if he were trapped in a damp, cold pipe, unable to even do the most basic thing like turning over.
"Is anyone there?" Wei Feng pounded on the stone wall, but the surroundings were so quiet that only his own voice could be heard. "Hey! Is anyone there!?"
He gasped for breath, the panic in his heart almost drowning him. He frantically reached for the storage bag at his waist, only to realize after a while that the storage bag had been taken away.
"Senior!" Wei Feng pounded on the stone wall, "Let me out!!"
The surrounding air grew thinner and thinner. Wei Feng tried everything he could to break free of the narrow cage, but even after he shouted until his throat was hoarse and his hands and feet were bleeding, there was still no response.
As he was exhausted and drowsy, a thought suddenly entered Wei Feng's mind—could he have already been turned into a puppet?
The body will only leave when summoned by its master, but its soul and consciousness are forever trapped within the narrow, boundless stone...
"No! I don't want to stay here!" He was terrified by his own guess and began to struggle frantically.
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"Hand over the Divine Kite Shark Scales!"
Jiang Gu stomped on the head beneath his boot, splattering red and white gooey substances everywhere, which were then kept out of his clothes by the spiritual energy shield. He coldly looked up at the several cultivators in front of him who looked terrified, "Let you go? Do you think you're stupid?"
The next instant, a flash of snow-white sword light appeared, leaving only a pile of severed limbs on the ground.
Jiang Gu lowered his brows. Killing people did not improve his mood. He had lost count of how many groups of cultivators had come to snatch the Divine Kite Shark Scale.
He wiped his longsword clean, and the spirit pet pouch at his waist suddenly began to twist and shake wildly, as if it were about to fight the pouch to the death.
Jiang Gu glanced at the bloodstains on the ground, took two steps forward, found a clean spot, and opened the spirit pet pouch.
Splash!
A pile of small, round luminous pearls fell to the ground with a clatter. The disheveled boy sat on the ground, looking up at him with a blank expression, his eyes filled with fear and anger.
"...What are you doing?" Jiang Gu looked at him in confusion.
He had clearly washed the person before putting them into the spirit pet bag, so he was really puzzled as to how Wei Feng had gotten himself so dirty in just half a day.
Wei Feng was breathing heavily, his lips trembling slightly. He clenched his teeth, trying to calm himself down, and said in a hoarse voice, "You... have you already refined me?"
Jiang Gu was stunned for a moment, then instantly understood the idiot's idea. Looking at the miserable and terrified boy in front of him, he felt a rare bit of wicked amusement.
He raised an eyebrow slightly. "Yeah, is it comfortable inside the rock?"
Wei Feng's eyes instantly turned red, and he gritted his teeth, saying, "I'm going to kill you."
Jiang Gu glanced at him and gave a nonchalant smirk, "Use the luminous pearl you dropped?"
Wei Feng was filled with shame and anger. In his rage, he spat out a mouthful of foul blood.
That was the first time in his long life that he had been so angry that he vomited blood.
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