Chapter 253: White Orchid Rain Festival (Thirty-Five)
"Dragon Lord? Dragon Lord?"
An anxious voice sounded, with a hint of confusion, "What's wrong with you?"
The person being called seemed to have just come back to her senses from a daze. She examined the name and then realized belatedly that it was addressed to her.
She is the leader of the dragon clan, and now is a critical moment in the battle with humans. How could she be distracted at this time?
"I'm fine. What's the situation now? What about those dragons who were hiding their identities in Bailan City?"
She finally remembered that there was a thorny problem facing her. The dragon clan, which had been hiding their identities in Bailan City, had recently been discovered by humans for some unknown reason. She was trying to find a way to save her clan.
Yizhihua's worried mood improved, but she became gloomy again because of this question. "Their conditions are not very good. Generally speaking, humans are not their opponents, but now humans seem to have some helpers. A circle of barrier has been set up outside the entire Bailan City. We can't get in and they can't get out. The tribes who went to inquire about the news came back and said that a big fire has been set in the center of the city. Humans are going to burn it directly with a big fire at noon today..."
When Yizhihua reached this point, her voice gradually became quieter. She thought that those were all her own people, who had never even harmed humans, but yet ended up like this. She couldn't bear to continue.
The Dragon Lord couldn't bear to listen any further and stood up to go to Bailan City, but was stopped by Yizhihua.
“Lord Dragon, you can’t go. The people in Bailan City don’t know you yet. They think they have captured a few aliens, but if they find out about you, it will bring disaster. Besides, we don’t know who the other party’s helpers are yet, and whether they will do anything to you…”
"I can't wait any longer. I won't let anything happen to them. You take the rest of the tribesmen and wait for my news here..."
Longzhu made up his mind, and without waiting for Yizhihua to say anything, he transformed into a golden dragon and flew towards Bailan City.
"Saint, the auspicious time has arrived."
On the high altar, there were dozens of wooden stakes, and on each of them was tied a person with a human-shaped dragon tail. Although from the outside, there were no wounds on their bodies, everyone's face showed a painful expression. They struggled to get away from the stakes, but were tied tightly by some force.
At the front of the wooden stakes stood a woman in white, looking towards the entrance of Bailan City, as if she was waiting for something. Upon hearing this, she shook her head slightly, "No hurry, the time has not come yet."
As soon as she finished speaking, a strong wind blew up from the sky, blowing so hard that people could not open their eyes and almost fell down.
Suddenly, in the broad daylight just a moment ago, several bolts of lightning appeared in the sky. The lightning was louder than that in a normal thunderstorm, and when it struck, it hit the barrier outside Bailan City.
The entire Bailan City was instantly illuminated. Within two seconds after the first thunderclap, twelve more thunders came down and struck the barrier in unison.
Eventually, the protective barrier was forcefully opened from the outside.
The thunder and wind were getting louder, and a large number of the residents of Bailan City who were gathered around the altar were blown down.
As the vision blurred, only the woman in white on the altar was spotless. She stood high up and looked at the lightning coming from afar, revealing a hint of cunning.
It was like a hunter who had set a trap long ago and finally caught his prey. With joy in his eyes, he tried hard not to take action immediately.
In the raging sand and dust, a golden edge faintly appeared on the horizon, like the afterglow of the setting sun, but it did not bring any warmth to the entire city.
"Another dragon has arrived, and it's golden..."
The residents under the altar began to shout when they saw the scene before them.
"Saint, Saint, please bless mankind to triumph in the end..."
The person who set up this barrier must have put in a lot of effort and deliberately expended some of his own energy. The Dragon Lord felt it almost as soon as the first lightning struck, but she had no other way.
The humans under the altar were not her target. The Dragon Lord did not intend to kill them at first. She just used her golden tail to stir up strong winds and dust, preventing them from getting up for a while.
What concerned her even more was the mysterious power that always surrounded her people.
And finally, this mysterious power gathered on a white shadow beside the altar.
The Dragon Lord frowned. She smelled an unfathomable aura from the other person, but her companion was right in front of her and she had no way to retreat.
The long curled tail, like a sharp knife, chopped towards the opponent's face.
After three feet of dust flew up, the woman just took a step back. She didn't even have any extra weapons in her hands. Her white clothes were as white as snow. However, the Dragon Lord felt that his tail seemed to have hit something hard and bounced back.
She was incredible and attracted another bolt of lightning.
A corner of the altar was chopped off and burned. She lightly tapped her foot and landed on a wooden stake. She snapped her fingers lightly, as if she was counterattacking the Dragon Lord's attack.
The Dragon Lord did not act rashly, but after a moment, she did not feel any impact of the snap because nothing happened to her.
Until a shrill voice sounded from the altar.
"Ah... Dragon Lord, save me..."
The scales all over the body of the dragon tied up on the wooden stake that the saint was standing on suddenly began to appear and disappear, and the legs that had originally turned into a dragon's tail were also switching between the two states of a dragon's tail and legs.
"I heard that only a dragon who is willing to endure the burning of a fire can give birth to a piece of dragon scale paper? I wonder if it's true or not?"
The woman tilted her head and asked a completely unrelated question.
The Dragon Lord frowned and did not speak immediately. He swept his long tail and directly surrounded dozens of humans with lightning. With the sweep of his long tail, one of the humans was thrown into the air, then struck by lightning and fell back to the ground.
Because of the pain, he began to struggle violently, but because the lightning had not completely dissipated, he began to convulse.
"Humans don't have the same endurance as dragons. If the lightning is even slightly stronger, they will die immediately."
The Dragon Lord did not answer the Saint's words. He turned around and selected a group of hostages to show the Saint what mutual respect meant.
The strong wind blew up the sand, moving regularly between the altar and the Dragon Lord. The man and the dragon commented on each other, and tested each other's bottom line in silent silence.
"I never said that I did these things for those humans?"
The saint raised her eyebrows. The dragon on the pillar still hadn't recovered. She didn't even glance at her own kind, nor did she pay attention to the human on the ground who was convulsing due to the electric shock.
Her tone was extremely cold, but her light words and unhurried delivery revealed her indifference.
The Dragon Lord's heart trembled, and he understood why the other party did not let these humans go to a safe place, but waited for him here. It was not because she was so powerful that she did not need to worry, but because she did not care at all.
"That's a shame. I do this because of my kind."
The circle of thunder and lightning did not stop there, but expanded further and further until it gathered all the residents of Bailan City together.
"So if you dare to touch a hair on their head, the people of this city and I will be the ones to die under the lightning. Since you don't care about the survival of mankind, you did this just for me. If I die, wouldn't you have lived in vain?"
The Dragon Lord instantly understood what the other party wanted to do from the Saint's words.
She transformed into a human form and landed on the altar, with her palms spread upwards with a ball of lightning in them.
"Tell me, why did you wait for me?"
The Saint's originally expressionless face finally revealed some expression because of the Dragon Lord's words. The other party's thinking was beyond her expectations, but she did not show any panic.
"Maybe just want to kill you?"
The saint snapped her fingers again, and the dragon finally got a chance to catch its breath, but the dragon lord never let down his guard.
"If you had the ability, you wouldn't have used such a trick. Why wait so long?"
The Dragon Lord was in no mood to argue with her, but instinctively felt that the other party seemed to be plotting a bigger conspiracy.
"Since you know that it is difficult for me to capture you alone, why did you come to Bailan City? They are just a few species, just like the human in your hand. If they die, there will be another one. What's so strange about that?"
The saint seemed to be genuinely curious. She looked down at the Dragon Lord with a hint of disappointment and confusion in her tone.
"If you knew what I wanted to do, you might not care about their lives."
Rather than asking those questions to the Dragon Lord, it would be more accurate to say that she was talking to herself, because she quickly got a self-consistent answer from her own mind, with contempt and relief.
"Let them go, and I'll be yours." The Dragon Lord didn't want to waste words with the other party, nor did he want to explain anything to her. "Otherwise, we will all die together. I don't know if you can die completely, but I can guarantee that I will die completely."
The Dragon Lord has little patience, and she doesn't care about the life and death of humans, especially since her own race has been bullied by the other side.
The saint did not answer immediately, but just stared at the other person, as if judging the truthfulness of her words.
After a moment, the saint raised her finger and pinched it gently. A drop of blood came out from her finger and floated in front of the Dragon Lord.
Unexpectedly, he was blocked by the other party with lightning, "Let them go first, I don't trust you, you have no sympathy for your own kind, what if I get caught and you change your mind?"
This is the truth from the Dragon Lord. Judging from the other party's reaction just now, let alone humans, even if it is any other creature or life, standing in front of her, the other party will not blink an eye.
The saint showed an unhappy expression on her face, as if it was the first time someone questioned her trust.
But the problem that the Dragon Lord mentioned was also what she was worried about. If the two of them could not reach an agreement on this issue, things would change sooner or later.
After thinking for a while, she waved her hand casually, and the drop of blood quickly turned into a spray, drawing a circle around the Dragon Lord, as if to prevent him from changing his mind.
Then, the white sleeves were rolled up, and the same blood was extracted from the bodies of those dragons. Those dragons instantly recovered their original forms and hovered in the air.
Originally, when they saw the Dragon Lord was trapped, they wanted to attack the Saint, but were stopped by the Dragon Lord.
"Stop it, go back and find Yizhihua right now," the Dragon Lord said expressionlessly, "Tell her to carry out the second alternative plan immediately, without delay."
Her words were cryptic. The Saint did not care about these contents. She also firmly believed that no matter how many dragons came, they were not her match, so she was not worried about the news leaking out at all.
Fortunately, those tribes all believed the Dragon Lord's words and left Bailan City quickly without much hesitation.
"I thought you were going to play some tricks?" The Saint's tone sounded a little surprised. "I didn't expect you would actually choose to stay for those tribes?"
There was a clear hint of mockery in these words, as well as a hint of anticipation and excitement.
The encirclement turned into blood again, and continued to approach under the Dragon Lord's instructions.
Just as it was about to penetrate the opponent's skin, the lightning in the Dragon Lord's palm was crushed.
In an instant, the entire Bailan City was like a broken light bulb, flickering in the huge thunder. The residents who were caught in the circle of lightning turned into burnt charcoal in less than a second.
As for the two people on the altar, one of them had a look of surprise on his face, as if he couldn't believe what was happening before his eyes.
At the same time, the lightning that had been in his body was drained away and he turned into a piece of wood sculpture.
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