"Roar! Roar!..."
The dragon's roar echoed here, its whole body struggling fiercely, as if something was surging within it. Its whiskers seemed to be straining, and its claws were approaching Xie Zhou. However, the dragon's reason was constantly fighting against the demonic energy, and its claws were retracted.
"roar!……"
The dragon kept wagging its tail, trying to escape the shackles of Xie Zhou and the system.
Xie Zhou's mental energy was almost overwhelmed, and he asked, "Is the system not ready yet? This dragon is quite strong; it seems my mental energy has met its match..."
At this moment, two beams of light of different colors emanated from her body, both controlling the dragon. The dragon was in great pain as the black energy slowly withdrew from its body. However, the black energy was cunning and would always find an opening to slip back in. The dragon seemed to be suffering greatly during this process.
The system was also focused on dispelling the dragon's berserk state, and the demonic energy that had invaded its body had to be eliminated.
It did not respond to Xie Zhou's question.
Persistence pays off. Suddenly, with a loud "boom!", Xie Zhou felt somewhat exhausted. She felt that her spiritual power had never encountered such a strong resistance before. Perhaps it was because of this dragon. The power generated by this demonic energy was quite strong.
Xie Zhou looked at the dragon that had fallen into the water and breathed a sigh of relief, seeing that the demonic energy on its body had disappeared.
"Phew... Saving people... no... saving a dragon is really not easy!"
Xie Zhou sat down to rest, while the dragon, which had been sinking to the bottom of the pool, opened its eyes again, this time with a golden, shimmering color. It had regained its senses and quickly emerged from the pool.
Because the system was using the power of all living beings to dispel the dragon's berserk state, Xie Zhou was temporarily deprived of the protection of the power of all living beings, and his energy consumption was quite high. However, fortunately, the monsters outside did not seem to dare to enter this place, so Xie Zhou felt much more at ease.
But the moment the dragon emerged from the water, Xie Zhou activated his protective technique, and the water instantly poured down on him like a torrential downpour.
"ah!……"
Xie Zhou cried out and quickly got up to run to other places to take shelter from the rain.
The dragon was somewhat embarrassed, then its deep voice came through, "Thank you for saving me, young lady!"
Then it nodded slightly, and all the water on Xie Zhou's body disappeared, leaving her instantly dry.
Xie Zhou originally wanted to give this stupid dragon a good scolding, and those few words were almost about to pry open her mouth to crawl out, but when she saw that her clothes were dry again, she hesitated and didn't say anything.
Looking at the dragon, he smiled and said, "Thank you for the gift earlier, but I could tell you were asking for my help. You are a dignified dragon, almost one foot in the dragon class, how could you be in such a sorry state?"
She was like a venomous snake.
Upon hearing this, the dragon lowered its head slightly and began to explain: "My benefactor, you are unaware that tens of thousands of years ago, you dragons were thrown into the icy pool by its master, guarding the treasures beneath the pool day and night, forbidden from entering or leaving. Just a few days ago, a group of men in black suddenly broke in. They outnumbered me, and I was no match for them, so they released the seal on the forbidden treasures..."
Upon hearing about the men in black, Xie Zhou immediately pressed on, "Jiaolong, you also saw those men in black. So what exactly is this so-called forbidden object? Is it a terrifying monster with an extremely ugly appearance?"
The dragon shook its head and said, "No, could it be that our benefactor has seen those men in black?"
With a look of disdain in her eyes, she said jokingly, "Of course, we've not only met, we've even fought each other, we're old friends!"
Then Jiaolong continued to recount the story.
"Because the seal on the forbidden area was broken, the monsters that were imprisoned there escaped, and that's why I was affected."
"In order to prevent more and more monsters from being born, I did my best to suppress the demonic energy surging outwards. Under my suppression, the forbidden object was temporarily sealed, but it won't last long."
"My benefactor, please see this through to the end. I beg your help to suppress the forbidden objects once again. The dragon has failed in its duty, but if we don't suppress them, countless lives will be lost. You saved the dragon, so how can you bear to watch all living beings be tormented by those demonic energies, lose their minds, and turn into monsters? Then the outside world will become a purgatory. Please, my benefactor, lend a helping hand!"
The dragon spoke without even taking a breath, but Xie Zhou didn't want to care about such things. However, since she was already here, and these people included the Sword Sect and those she had met before, she was still proud to be able to accomplish something great.
The dragon submitted, its head slightly lowered, its clear eyes looking at Xie Zhou.
The system replied without hesitation, "Host! Promise it that the forbidden item shouldn't appear, and this place shouldn't be turned into a hell!"
However, Xie Zhou thought again that if she didn't come out alive and the seal wasn't reinforced, he would perish inside first. Wouldn't that be losing both his wife and his army? This deal was still somewhat irrational, and besides, Xie Zhou wouldn't get anything this time.
Xie Zhou was thinking about the innocent people, her companions and friends, and she couldn't bear to ignore them.
After weighing the options several times, Xie Zhou's answer naturally fell on the side of the dragon.
She nodded solemnly and said, "Alright! I'll help you, but this is for the sake of all living beings, and I still have a bit of gentlemanly conduct!"
The dragon hurriedly expressed its gratitude, saying, "Thank you! Thank you so much, my benefactor! Your kindness is immense, and I will surely repay you in the future. Please come with me, my benefactor..."
Xie Zhou nodded and followed the dragon.
The dragon leaped into the water. Seeing it about to enter, Xie Zhou, fearing she would get soaked again, quickly ran to the side to avoid the water. However, she felt it was unnecessary, because this time the dragon had learned its lesson and leaped lightly into the bottom of the pool.
It moved with the ease of a fish in water, and quickly found the mechanism. It stepped onto the bottom of the pool, and soon a path rose from the cold pool, a spiral staircase leading downwards.
"Boom..." There was a noise over there, so Xie Zhou went to check and saw a path emerging from the water, which surprised him.
The dragon returned to the surface and said, "This is the path to the bottom of the pool. My benefactor, please follow me..."
Xie Zhou lifted his horns, stepped onto the path, and followed the dragon to the bottom of the cold pool.
She saw a series of altar formations laid out not far in front of her.
The dragon pointed to that spot and said, "My benefactor, that's where the seal is located. The altar is where that forbidden object is worshipped!"
Xie Zhou took a few steps forward, but a sense of worry arose in her heart, because she remembered the altar she had seen before. She lingered on the stairs surrounding the altar, and the dragon, seeing this, said, "Benefactor, take a few steps forward. It's alright to step on it."
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