"Don't curse me, or I won't save you."
The Demon Lord stood up lazily, one hand on his hip, looking quite casual.
The Dragon King immediately shut his mouth, and the force with which he slapped the ice with his claws also decreased.
"What methods did the Five Immortals use to trap you?"
"They've locked my lower body up with the Dragon Lock Chain!"
"Dragon-Locking Chains..."
Chi Yuan sat down on the ice and began searching through his storage space.
"Nephew, are you sure you can handle this?"
The Dragon King scratched his face with his claws, trying to provoke Chi Yuan and speed up the unlocking process.
"You, a mere dragon, don't even know how to undo the magic artifact that restrains your race, yet you're urging me on!"
The Demon Lord was utterly speechless.
He was still racking his brains trying to figure out what could unlock this dragon-locking chain.
"Yes, found it!"
Finally, Chi Yuan pulled out a handful of talismans from a pile of magical artifacts that looked like a small mountain.
"You can stick it on the lock that's wrapped around your body yourself."
He handed over the unlocking token and indicated that he didn't really want to go into the water.
"They don't know how to respect their elders at all!"
The Dragon King muttered a few words, picked up the thin talisman with his claws, and then performed a "dragon diving into the water" maneuver.
When his head reappeared on the lake surface, the talisman in his hand had been affixed to the underwater chain.
After a long time, there was still no reaction underwater.
The Dragon King moved his lower body in disbelief, but could still hear the clanging and rattling of the chains.
His two dragon whiskers were so angry that they stood straight up.
"No, nephew, what's wrong with you? Are you trying to fool your Uncle Long?"
"If you can't give Uncle Long hope, at least don't let hope turn into despair!"
The Demon Lord was completely baffled.
"That shouldn't be the case!"
He remembered that this was the talisman to unlock the dragon chain, and it was one of the congratulatory gifts given to him by the Dragon King of the Yinglong Clan in the Demon Realm when he ascended to the position of Demon Lord.
Is this a fake?
However, there was no need for the Dragon King to risk being exposed and antagonize the Demon Lord for the sake of a talisman.
They, the Yinglong clan, are not poor.
"Never mind, I'll go down and take a look."
Instructing Shen Yulou to stay put, Chi Yuan transformed into a little fox, flicking its nine black tails, and jumped down with a "plop".
Submerged underwater, Chi Yuan surveyed the Dragon King's lower body.
Nothing unusual was found, which is even stranger.
Helpless, Chi Yuan could only carefully examine the chains bit by bit for a long time.
Only then did they discover a few small words at the end of the chain wrapped around the dragon's tail:
"Made by the Immortal Clan, with no unspoken taboos."
The Demon Lord then realized why he couldn't break the chains.
Sure enough, after not fighting with the immortal realm for so many years, his thinking has deteriorated.
Two small black paws scratched at the edge of the ice, and the black nine-tailed fox nimbly leaped out of the water.
Shaking off its still-dry fur, it took a few steps forward and transformed back into human form.
"The Five Immortals have placed a taboo on this chain of yours."
"Damn, that's so cheap!"
Upon hearing this news, the Dragon King was enraged again, but having never experienced the war between immortals and demons, he clearly didn't know what to do.
"How do we break the Immortal Lord's taboo?"
As the Demon Lord, Chi Yuan naturally possesses a lineage, which naturally includes methods for dealing with the Immortal Clan.
“Take the horn of the Azure Dragon of the East, the tail feathers of the Vermilion Bird of the South, the black hair on the forehead of the White Tiger of the West, the tortoise shell of the Black Tortoise of the North, and finally add a drop of the Immortal Lord’s heart blood.”
"But don't worry, there should be body parts of these mythical beasts inside the tomb."
"After all, these are the burial items that the immortals like the most."
Chi Yuan shrugged and continued:
"But the Immortal Lord's heart's blood, we need you to show us the way, we need to open the coffin to get the blood."
The Dragon King stiffly shook his head and scratched his dragon face with one finger.
"Let me think about it..."
Under the watchful eyes of Shen Yulou and Chi Yuanru, he finally wilted.
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