lcionline Chapter 216 An unexpected gain
Chapter 216 An unexpected gain
Hu Qing's eyes were fixed on the bronze bell. His expression was solemn, and a strong sense of uneasiness surged in his heart.
He remembered the mysterious bell sound at the end of the decisive battle between Gu Yang and Wang Yuanming. The strange bell sound was so powerful that it shocked them all.
Now, he finally understood that the bell sound was made by the giant dragon in front of him.
"This bronze bell..." Gu Yang's voice trembled a little. He tried to hide his shock, but the fluctuations in his heart still made his voice sound a little unstable.
If the giant dragon had not used the bronze bell to deprive him and Wang Yuanming of the power of their sacred weapons, the fight would probably have taken some time.
Hu Qing keenly noticed the key point and said, "So, are we at the source of the Lingliu River?"
The giant dragon nodded, and when it saw that Hu Qing and Gu Yang knew about the bronze bell, it moved its body with difficulty in front of the bronze bell, blocking their view.
"You two are quite interesting. You are the most interesting people I have met in all my years here."
The giant dragon opened its mouth wide, lying lazily on the ground, and then stretched out a thick finger towards Hu Qing.
Hu Qing felt a little scared when he saw the finger that was ten centimeters away from his head. If he was not steady, he might be stabbed to death.
And this finger stinks so much that it makes it hard to open my eyes. The gaps between the scales are filled with flowing and sticky black liquid.
"Your shell is a good puppet, but your main body only has one soul. I don't understand how you survived." The dragon raised the corner of his mouth slightly.
The giant dragon saw through his true identity at once, and Hu Qing even felt that it was natural. He felt Gu Yang nervously pulling the corner of his clothes from behind.
Hu Qing exhaled, trying to dispel the stench in front of him, and then said respectfully:
"Then this dragon master shouldn't have brought us in just because he thought we were interesting, right?"
"Cough... cough..." The dragon turned its head and coughed violently, covering its mouth with its front paws.
When it slowed down, he quickly put his hand behind his back, but Hu Qing still saw the thick black liquid on it.
"I'm old, and it takes me a long time to pull you in..." The giant dragon lowered his head and said a few self-deprecating words, then looked at Gu Yang with his sharp eyes, or to be more precise, at Gu Yang's dantian.
"Take out the holy artifact. Don't hide it. There's no one else here."
Gu Yang's face turned pale instantly. He didn't expect that the dragon could discover it directly.
Hu Qing was also trembling a little. This giant dragon really came for this.
The two men felt deeply powerless. How could they win against such a big guy?
Gu Yang reached into his arms, ready to launch a sneak attack on the dragon and find a chance to escape with Hu Qing.
The dragon noticed the panic of the two people, and his gaze lingered on Gu Yang for a moment before he said:
"Don't be so nervous. If I really want to steal it, you can't stop me. It's a holy weapon. I once had one too."
After hearing the dragon's words, Gu Yang and Hu Qing were even more shocked. It turned out that the dragon was once the owner of the holy weapon.
"Then I wonder which one did the senior once own?" Gu Yang asked curiously, not as nervous as before.
The dragon said nothing, looked down at him for a few seconds, then stretched out its left claw and placed it in front of the two men, indicating that they should hand over the holy weapon.
"Aren't you just robbing?" Gu Yang curled his lips and muttered softly.
The dragon seemed not to hear and continued to stretch out its finger, moving closer to Hu Qing.
Gu Yang looked at Hu Qing. Hu Qing had a serious expression on his face and quietly made the number five with his hands behind his back.
Gu Yang now understood what he meant. He took out the fragment of the holy weapon belonging to Wang Yuanming and the others from his dantian and prepared to hand over a fragment first to see their attitude.
Gu Yang carefully placed the fragment on the dragon's claws.
The dragon looked down at the tiny fragments on its claws, and a trace of nostalgia appeared on its old face. The corners of its eyes were even a little moist, and it was obvious that it was recalling something.
Hu Qing and Gu Yang waited tremblingly on the side, they had no idea what the dragon was going to do.
"No, this is from another kid just now. Yours hasn't been given yet."
The dragon's gaze shifted away from the fragments, and it stretched out its claws again and placed them in front of Gu Yang, demanding all the fragments of the holy artifact.
Gu Yang shook his head firmly. He couldn't hand over all the fragments.
Hu Qing took out the royal sword and placed it across his chest. As long as the dragon dared to act recklessly, he would have to save Gu Yang first.
"Oh? Rule magic treasure? This is a good thing, but why is it not activated?" The dragon glanced at the sword in Hu Qing's hand and said casually.
Then he looked at Gu Yang and said, "I've already said I have no ill intentions. Just let me see it."
Gu Yang shook his head. It was obvious that this giant dragon was not a good thing and could not be given to him.
The dragon seemed to have lost its patience. It stopped talking and directly picked up Gu Yang and shook him twice.
A gentle pure white spiritual power surged out from the dragon's claws, taking out all the remaining four fragments in Gu Yang's dantian.
Gu Yang felt weak, his body seemed so small in front of the dragon's power.
The sword in Hu Qing's hand stabbed straight at the dragon's arm, but the dragon easily held it down and bounced away, saying:
"If your spiritual treasure was in its prime, I might be afraid of it, but in its current state, if you take it out again, I will break it for you."
Hu Qing rolled on the ground several times before he stopped by leaning against a huge monster skeleton.
He wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth and looked at Gu Yang in the dragon's hand, feeling deeply powerless.
No matter how you fight, you can be knocked away at will.
The dragon no longer paid any attention to the two men, and now held five fragments of the holy artifact in its claws.
Its eyes became haggard, and the whole dragon seemed to have a sense of decadence.
These fragments seemed to have special meaning to it, and it stared at them quietly, as if having a conversation with some moment in the past.
Hu Qing watched the dragon's every move nervously, ready to rescue Gu Yang at any time.
However, the dragon's next move was beyond their expectations.
It slowly put all the fragments of the holy weapon back into Gu Yang's dantian, and then sighed deeply.
"The quantity is still too small. It would be better if there were more..."
After he finished speaking, he looked at Hu Qing quietly, muttering softly:
I didn't expect there was still one left. What a poor guy...
However, the voice was too soft, and Gu Yang, who was rubbing his shoulders, couldn't hear it clearly.
Hu Qing slowly walked over, holding the royal sword, and shouted loudly, suppressing his anger:
"Now that you've finished reading it, can you let us go?"
The dragon's gaze was deep and distant. It stared at Gu Yang and Hu Qing quietly, and let out a long sigh, as if it had made an important decision.
Suddenly, it swung its huge dragon claws and punched the cracked bronze bell behind it.
Under this blow, the bronze bell made a dull loud noise, then collapsed with a loud bang, turning into countless fragments scattered all over the ground.
A huge black crystal was revealed in the wreckage of the bronze bell.
The crystal emits a dim light, as if containing endless power.
Gu Yang and Hu Qing looked at the crystal with shock in their eyes.
The fragments of the holy artifact in their bodies seemed to sense the presence of the crystal and began to heat up, as if resonating.
"Such a large piece is actually a fragment of the holy weapon..." Gu Yang muttered to himself, with a hint of trembling in his voice.
Hu Qing also looked incredulous. He had never thought that the fragments of the holy weapon in their dantian would appear in such a form.
The power of small fragments is already strong enough, so the power of such a large fragment should not be underestimated.
The dragon stretched out its left claw, and the pure white spiritual power that flowed out wrapped around the black crystal. Its power seemed to have some mysterious connection with the crystal.
After a moment, the crystal began to shrink under the influence of spiritual power, and eventually turned into palm-sized fragments.
The dragon handed the fragment to Gu Yang, with a hint of loneliness in its eyes.
Afterwards, the entire dragon seemed to be shaky and spat out a mouthful of sticky black liquid. Its body seemed to become even more weak due to the previous consumption.
Hu Qing looked at the dragon worriedly. He could feel that the dragon's breath was rapidly weakening, and its scales were becoming dull, as if it would die at any time.
"Are...are you okay?" There was a hint of anxiety in Hu Qing's voice. He didn't know why the dragon had become like this.
The giant dragon raised its eyelids weakly. The stench on its body became stronger and stronger, and the black liquid on its wings flowed more and more, as if it could not be stopped.