Chapter 87: Fighting with an egg against a rock
When she came back, she was soaked.
Feeling cold, he changed his clothes but did not lie down immediately. Instead, he sat there until dawn.
With her by his side, he always slept extra soundly. When she left once, he didn't seem to notice.
She even gradually stopped caring that they were sleeping in the same bed but having different dreams.
She heard him mumbling in his dream, but she didn't know what he was saying.
The second time he went to the secret passage to be tortured and have his blood taken, that night Jiaoran looked towards the Cha Nu Pond in the light of the stars and the moon, feeling vaguely uneasy.
Thinking of the pain that would come in a moment, she broke out in a cold sweat.
The strange tentacles once again filled the secret passage. On another platform, the governor was sitting upright like a lotus.
Jiaoran opened her eyes with great difficulty in extreme pain, and only this time she saw the mist all around her.
A faint red light flickered in the mercury pool, and the surrounding area looked like smoke and fire.
An idea suddenly occurred to her that something was hidden under this pool of mercury.
Just then, Mu Jin rushed in.
The blood-drawing process was suddenly interrupted, and Jiaoran faintly heard a low roar from something under the secret room.
Before she could sit up, the silk threads suddenly tightened, and blood continued to seep out from under her. She gradually felt as if something was rubbed in her eyes and she could not see clearly.
Bubbles were popping out from under the mercury, and something was about to emerge.
Mu Jin hurriedly flew forward, but when he was only one step away, he was suddenly knocked back by the golden light around the rising platform and almost fell into the mercury. He tiptoed and returned to the shore.
The pillar fell down and a golden beam of light rose up, covering Jiaoran's body and the governor who was sitting cross-legged.
When Mu Jin saw the blood under her body like blooming red flowers, his heart was broken.
Cha Che had hurried over and stopped him, saying, "What's the matter? You didn't listen to me and caused trouble. Now her life is over."
Unexpectedly, Zhuxing also followed him. He was really careless this time. He didn't expect that his wife was so attentive and could sense his panic.
"What are you waiting for?!" Zhuxing roared.
Mu Jin nodded, and the two of them flew towards Jiao Ran, who was almost wrapped like a silkworm cocoon, regardless of their lives. Chai Che was originally discussing how to solve the current dilemma, but suddenly saw the two of them rushing forward regardless of their lives.
I couldn't help but yell, "No!"
As soon as he finished speaking, the golden light mysteriously trapped both of them in the air. Two threads split out from the silk thread and tied up Mu Jin and Zhu Xing's waists. Now the two of them could neither retreat nor move forward.
Seeing the golden light coming so fast, Chai Che turned to look at his father on another high platform. He raised his hand and a green light went towards the governor.
Sure enough, the two silk threads were quickly retracted and went straight towards Chai Che.
Mu Jin couldn't enter the golden light, and was so worried that he was confused. Only then did he realize that this instrument was to take Jiaoran's blood and give it to Chai Yu, and the way to break it was to kill Chai Yu.
If he had known this, he should have killed Chai Yu without any mercy. After the first time, Chai Yu would never let Jiaoran go.
As soon as the silk thread came, Chai Che turned around and went back to the shore. The moment the silk thread was about to touch him, he fell back to the shore.
These threads looked like the threads spit out by some giant spider.
"What should we do now?" Zhuxing asked Mu Jin.
Mu Jin said nothing, but she had already made up her mind that Chai Yu must die.
Seeing that he remained silent, she complained to her husband, "It's all your fault. If you hadn't used Jiaoran to draw blood, nothing would have happened today."
Ripples appeared in the mercury pool. Zhuxing pointed at the pool and said, "Look at the water. It seems strange."
In the blink of an eye, the silver water suddenly turned bright red like blood, just like a pool of hot blood flowing, but in the blink of an eye it turned into a silver spring.
"It is said that a thousand years ago, a dragon was locked up here. It escaped from heaven and later wreaked havoc on the human world, so it was locked up here. The place where it was imprisoned was named Locking Dragon Pond by the monster hunters at that time," said Chai Che.
Zhuxing sneered, "There are only villains in this world who pretend to be gods and play tricks. The so-called dragons and evil dragons are nothing but lies to deceive people."
Chai Che knew his wife no longer believed him, so he turned to Mu Jin and said, "One of the books in the burned library said that this dragon had been cultivating for thousands of years. After it devoured more than a hundred immortal cultivators, its scales were forged by heavenly thunder into steel, and ordinary weapons could not hurt it at all. It is said that its vital points are the seven inches of the snake and the red horn on its forehead. But even at these two vital points, mortal swords cannot hurt it even an inch."
Mu Jin stared at Jiaoran who was in a coma in the distance.
It was all his fault. If he hadn't been so inconsiderate and kept everything from her, she wouldn't have parted ways with him.
He thought he could protect her, but in fact, from beginning to end, it was she who was protecting him.
Zhuxing said, "Dragon, dragon, dragon. If it really is a dragon, it must be a demonic dragon. How could a real dragon do such a bizarre thing with the blood of a mortal?"
"It is the patron saint of the Chai family." Chai Che whispered.
In an instant, Jiaoran suddenly sat up.
Open your eyes.
When a few people looked over, they saw Jiaoran holding several silk threads tightly in his hands, jumping up and flying towards the sky.
There seemed to be a giant beast entangled at the end of the thread.
Behind Jiaoran, thousands of silk threads followed her closely.
She did not let go of the silk thread in her hand, and it had already caused blood to flow from her palm.
Mu Jin saw this and became very flustered. "Zhuxing! Send me up."
Zhuxing understood what he meant. With his lightness skills, he could not jump that high. He needed her help.
"Okay, come on!" Zhuxing had clasped his hands together and built a ladder for him.
He stepped on Zhuxing's palm and was carried by her for a while. He met Jiaoran in mid-air. Jiaoran pulled the silk thread with one hand and said to him, "Don't worry about me, get down!"
Mu Jin was not willing to listen to her. "Let go of this monster, let's go!"
As he said this, he hugged Jiaoran around the waist and brought him back to the shore, causing the mercury pool to be completely stirred up.
Chai Yu had also woken up. He had never seen such a chaotic scene in all these years. He called out to Chai Che, "The dragon is about to awaken. A living sacrifice is necessary. Come with me!"
Originally, the silk threads did not attack Chai Che, Mu Jin and Zhu Xing, but after Jiaoran stood with them, the silk threads attacked everyone here regardless of everything. Anyone who was around Jiaoran would be strangled by the silk threads.
One of the threads was strangling Zhuxing's right arm. Her wrist had been injured before, and the thread was tightly binding her. But when she screamed in pain, Chai Che stepped forward and cut the thread with a sword.
The seemingly soft silk thread unexpectedly cut a hole in his sword.
But Chai Che was not an ordinary person, and this sword forced Si Xian to stop. Zhu Xing covered his bloody arm and turned around to save Mu Jin and Jiao Ran.
Cha Che hurriedly grabbed her shoulders and said, "Follow me!"
Zhuxing's eyes were filled with tears. "If my junior sister dies here today, I will never live in vain!"
He looked into her eyes and lost all his composure for a moment. "You want to die, right? Okay, I'll go with you."
Mu Jin was sent away by Jiao Ran with a palm strike. Chai Che stepped forward and supported Mu Jin's waist, "Are you okay?"
Mu Jin yelled, "Come back!"
After hearing the roar of a beast, the golden light suddenly disappeared, and thousands of silk threads slid through the air like meteorites and were withdrawn into the mercury pool.
Jiaoran's blood also fell to the ground in the air and scattered in the air like petals.
Then there was another strange howl.
Ghosts were crying all around, the sound was shrill, and the wind was cold.
A beast horn rose from the mercury pool and suddenly emerged from the surface of the pool.
In the silver flowing water, a demon dragon appeared, coiled on a black wooden pillar under the mercury pool. Countless white silk threads grew on his body, as if they were his fur.
The dragon's two eyes were glowing green, looking extremely strange.
Jiaoran thought that this was the evil dragon she was looking for.
Her blood and Mu Jin's blood can have such miraculous effects, allowing Chai Yu to reshape his muscles and bones and keep his youth forever. Chai Rou said that no matter how serious the injuries of Chai Ying were, they could be healed as before within a few months. It can be seen that their blood is different from that of ordinary people. It is with the help of this magical blood that the dragon helps Chai Yu seize the fortune of heaven and earth and go against yin and yang.
The reason they hunted down Chai Ying, who had escaped from the Chai family, was not necessarily because she had brought shame upon the Chai family. The most important thing was that she had something on her that the Chai family could not give up.
Therefore, they could not watch Chai Ying escape, she was too precious.
Once she kills the dragon, everything will end. This kind of evil magic will no longer exist in the world, and people with blood like theirs will no longer be exploited.
It’s a pity that she can never get back the “Takayama Shou” that her mother tried every means to take away from her during her lifetime.
Everyone wanted to get that secret book, but she just wanted to see if her mother had left her any words on it.
When the evil dragon saw Jiaoran's true face, its eyes shone brightly and it let out a long, sharp and fierce roar towards Jiaoran.
A foul smell came out of its mouth.
It was already furious.
It suddenly jumped towards Jiaoran, opened its bloody mouth, as if it wanted to swallow her in one gulp.
Fortunately, Jiaoran was still some distance away from it. It seemed that something was trapping it on the black wooden pillar.
It only leaped forward a few feet and could not move forward anymore.
Its body is covered with red and black scales. When it gets angry, all the scales stand up and emit colorful light.
There are two talismans on the black wooden pillar.
However, Jiaoran and the others did not know that it was a divine weapon specially used to suppress it.
Even without the chains, its lower body was still bound by the runes.
Chai Che never knew that the legend of the dragon was true. According to legend, the Chai family relied on the dragon's ability to summon wind and rain to win several battles. After he succeeded to the throne, the weather was good and there were no natural disasters for ten years.
But he didn't expect that the reason his father's true body remained intact and his youthfulness lasted forever was due to the power of the dragon.
Mu Jin shouted, "Jiao Ran!" hoping to call her back and stop her from doing anything stupid.
The dragon has been waiting for her for hundreds of years. He absorbs the blood of those with spiritual power, washes their marrow and extracts their spirits, and injects them into their bodies, hoping to break through the seal and transfer some to the mortals who serve the dragon clan. Just some of the spiritual energy that leaks out from between his fingers can make the Chai clan obey his orders.
It had been coveting Jiaoran's spiritual power since the first time it absorbed it, but it had not recovered so quickly the first time. After absorbing her spiritual power once, it had already broken through a layer of runes.
Once it breaks through the second barrier, it will be able to completely escape from this dark place and find the traitor.
Jiaoran looked at it for a while. If asked to kill someone, she would know to start from the neck, but she had never thought of slaying a dragon.
Suddenly, she thought of the little dragons in the Fish and Dragon Wonderland.
It's a snake.
When you hit a snake, you hit it at its most vulnerable part. Could it be that this dragon's most vulnerable part is also its weakest part?
Jiaoran drew out the dagger.
Hold your arm steady and aim at the scales seven inches away from it. As long as you pierce its scales and penetrate seven inches, you might be able to kill it.
Without thinking, she flew forward. She was just a tiny person, not even as big as the head of the giant beast.
She inserted the dagger into the seven-inch area of the demon dragon, but the dagger shattered into several pieces when it penetrated the first layer of scales.
The demon dragon's head is movable, chasing Jiaoran, grinding its teeth and roaring.
Only then did Jiaoran realize how great the world was. Even if she had the power to slay a dragon, her weapon was not powerful enough to do so.
No sooner said than done, a burst of blue mist suddenly spurted out of its mouth.
Jiaoran couldn't see the direction clearly, and shouted outside, "Don't come over here!"
She just hoped that Mu Jin would not seek death like her.
The dragon was enraged by Jiaoran, and stirred the water in the mercury pool to rise above the shore. Wherever its long tail moved slightly, it destroyed half of the secret passage and scattered rocks.
Chai Che grabbed one with each hand and took several steps back to avoid the falling boulders.
Jiaoran was injured by its sharp teeth and his shoulder was almost bitten off.
She fell wounded into a pool of mercury and floated in it.
A long tail covered with golden scales suddenly wrapped around Jiaoran's body in the mercury pool and dragged her in almost in the blink of an eye.
Her mouth and nose were instantly covered with mercury, and her throat felt a burning pain that almost suffocated her. The mercury poured into her eyes, and she could no longer see anything.
This time, she was afraid that she would really become blind. She knew from ancient books that the Ca Nu Pond was extremely poisonous. If the poisonous water flowed into her body, her life would be in danger.
It's a pity that she didn't say goodbye to Mu Jin in advance when she took blood this time. She died just like that, right in front of him. He must have been very sad.
She hopes Mu Jin is alive and well. Mu Jin has been trapped here for too long. He grew up in fear and on thin ice. Jiaoran wants him to forget the pain of his childhood and live a good life.
Thinking about it now, what she regretted most was not leaving Huiyingmen that year, but not coming to him earlier.
He lived too hard. Compared to him, at least her childhood was carefree. She knew how to love someone, but she never learned how to hate someone, so she couldn't face Zhou Zhi, the mother she loved most in the world.
Jiaoran fell into the pool right in front of the three of them.
The black wooden pillar suddenly fell down, and the dragon coiled on the pillar also fell with it to an unknown place.
Mu Jin stepped forward and was about to jump into it. This pool was the Cainv Pool. The water was extremely poisonous. Ordinary people would bleed from the mouth and nose if they smelled it too much.
This is also why Mu Jin was poisoned and weak when he was brought here in his early years.
"You're trying to kill yourself!" Cha Che grabbed him and said, "Come back with me."
Mu Jin said, "Jiao Ran is dead, why should I live?"
Zhuxing looked at the silver flowing water. The surface of the water gradually calmed down, but Jiaoran had disappeared. Her tears fell into the pool.
Chai Che said, "When she fought the divine dragon just now, the dragon's tail couldn't be curled up that long. It was bound. The tail that was wrapped around Jiao Ran wasn't the divine dragon's, but another dragon's. You can tell from the color of its scales."
Zhuxing recalled that the tail was indeed not the same color as the dragon's scales. "That's right."
Mu Jin felt hopeful. "So she was rescued?"
Chai Che had no idea that the Chanu Pond was extremely poisonous and anyone who fell into it would be in danger of death. But now his wife and brother were waiting for his words.
Jiaoran cannot die. At least, according to his answer, she must be alive, otherwise both of them will have difficulty living.
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