The Ancient Dragon Empress had clearly paid a price for her choice to kill Ao Xianyu as quickly as possible.
At the very least, she had sustained some injuries.
Her battle style was very aggressive and radical, and she was most likely doing this to try and eliminate all of her enemies as soon as possible.
If the passageway between the two worlds could be opened up in a short amount of time, then they would most likely all fight more defensively in order to stall their opponents.
However, the evil dragons had chosen to take the initiative, and all of them were trying to slay their enemies at all costs.
They were doing this to strike fear into the hearts of their enemies, as well as to deny them the opportunity of gathering together and combining their forces… This indicated that it would take some time to open up the passageway between the two worlds!
In a slow battle, the evil dragons would lose. Hence, they were doing everything they could to seize the initiative in order to divide and conquer all of the powerful beings from the Dragon Court of the Eastern Seas and the Western Dragon Forest!
With this in mind, An Lin felt like the most important thing right now was to gather more allies in order to combine their power.
However, they were chased down in only a few seconds.
The Ancient Dragon Empress’ eyes had turned crimson, but her rainbow dragon scales emitted terrifying divine light, giving An Lin a sense of asphyxiation.
She could insta-kill Ao Xianyu, so she would be capable of insta-killing An Lin and Xu Xiaolan as well!
Sure enough, bloody tears began to flow from the Ancient Dragon Empress’ eyes again as a red divine dao light enshrouded An Lin and Xu Xiaolan. Boundless sorrow and pain manifested into a substantial power, which could resonate with heaven and earth.
A rain of blood fell from the sky.
Pain of Slaughter!
The spell technique that had insta-killed Ao Xianyu appeared again.
The Ancient Dragon Empress had chosen to use a sure-kill technique against An Lin and Xu Xiaolan from the get-go. She didn’t want to engage in a prolonged and drawn-out battle as she could sense a powerful aura approaching them from a distance.
She had to eliminate these two enemies before her new enemy arrived, so she unleashed this spell technique despite the price that she would have to pay.
Not only were there tears of blood flowing from the Ancient Dragon Empress’ eyes, but blood was also flowing from under her rainbow scales.
In the distance.
Dark Night Trident’s body trembled uncontrollably at the sight of the Ancient Dragon Empress, who was unleashing her Pain of Slaughter again. The scenes unfolding before his eyes slowly became blurred as a sense of indignation and powerlessness welled up in his heart.
“Why? Why did things become like this….”
He murmured to himself, and for some reason, he recalled back to the first time he had encountered the Ancient Dragon Empress.
At that time, the Ancient Dragon Empress was the epitome of both beauty and power. She was the leader of their Dragon Tribe, and she bowed to no other living being as she was the most regal god of this world.
“Big Sister Dragon Empress, why is it that we have to fight other Dragon Tribes every once in a while?” Dark Night Trident, who was seven years old at that time, mustered up his courage to look up at the beautiful empress before him.
Perhaps it was this moment of courage that transformed his whole life.
The Ancient Dragon Empress caressed Dark Night Trident’s hair with a gentle and soft smile. “They’re all outsiders and killing us will give them the power of dragons, so we have no choice but to resist in order to survive.”
“Can’t we just hide? Ever since my mother and father left for battle two years ago, they haven’t come back. I really want them to come back.” Dark Night Trident didn’t understand anything. All he knew was that he missed his parents.
The Ancient Dragon Empress’ eyes became slightly downcast.
She knew what it entailed for Dark Night Trident’s parents to have not returned for two years.
“We have nowhere to hide. This world is only so big, so where can we go to hide? If we don’t want to be pushed around, then we can only become more powerful.
“Your mother and father are fighting so that you won’t get pushed around, and they can’t come back for now… As long as you work hard to become stronger, you’ll be able to see your parents again later on.”
The proud empress told a little white lie to Dark Night Trident.
Her attitude was very gentle and friendly, so Dark Night Trident’s initial fear had completely disappeared, and he began to ask more questions.
“Then why is it that all of us are from the Dragon Tribe, but everyone else refers to us as evil dragons?”
“That title makes it easier for them to kill us without having it weigh on their conscience,” the Ancient Dragon Empress replied.
“That’s so bad! Why don’t we stand up and tell them we’re not like that?!” Dark Night Trident was a little enraged.
“There’s no need to do that. If they’re calling us evil dragons, then we’ll show them how evil we can be. We’ll show them that all of us are vicious and bloodthirsty so that they know not to mess with us! That way, they’ll have second thoughts about ever pushing us around again.”
“So if we pretend to be very vicious, they’ll be scared and back off? So we’ll be able to protect ourselves to a certain extent?” Dark Night Trident asked.
“That’s right! You’re such a smart little boy. However, just pretending won’t be enough. You’ll have to be really vicious if you want to protect your family and friends. Are you interested in cultivating with me?”
Dark Night Trident was stunned by the Ancient Dragon Empress’ question. He only managed to produce an answer after a few seconds, “R… really? You would be willing to teach me?”
“That’s right, your aptitude is not bad, so you’ll definitely be able to become one of the heroes of our tribe!” the Ancient Dragon Empress replied with a smile.
Dark Night Trident didn’t know at that time what a monumental event it was to be instructed by the Ancient Dragon Empress.
He was simply extremely happy that such a beautiful and powerful woman would be willing to instruct him in his cultivation.
“Master, I’ll work hard to become extremely powerful in the future! I’ll protect my parents, my tribal brethren, and I’ll even protect you!”
An amused smile appeared on the Ancient Dragon Empress’ face upon hearing this, and she caressed his small head. “I really look forward to seeing that day.”
After that, they chatted about a lot of things, but he could no longer remember the specific details.
The only thing that lingered in Dark Night Trident’s mind was the woman’s incredibly radiant and enchanting smile under the light of the sun.
Time flew by.
Dark Night Trident really had become one of the most powerful beings among the evil dragons.
However, when the world was on the brink of collapse and there was a battle erupting, which would decide the fate of his tribe, he could only stand by and watch as the Ancient Dragon Empress went into battle at the expense of her cultivation path.
He could still remember the vow he had sworn as if he had sworn it yesterday.
Dark Night Trident could only look on powerlessly from the darkness at everything that was transpiring.
“Master, I really am useless, so so useless… I told you I would become stronger, strong enough to protect you…”
Dark Night Trident muttered to himself, completely ignorant of the fact that his nails had already dug deep into his palms. He looked at the bleeding body of the rainbow dragon, and he felt like there were invisible hands tearing relentlessly at his heart.
On the battlefield.
Blood tears flowed relentlessly from the Ancient Dragon Empress’ eyes as blood stained her rainbow scales.
The red divine dao domain instantly enshrouded An Lin and Xu Xiaolan.
In this instant, Xu Xiaolan grabbed onto An Lin’s hand and activated the turtle shell in front of her chest at the same time.
Boom!
A huge turtle projection suddenly appeared to enveloped An Lin and Xu Xiaolan within.
Black divine light created a substantial, resolute turtle shell.
Ninety-nine different types of high-rank defensive spell techniques stacked themselves into layers on top of one another on the turtle shell. At the same time, the power of the defensive dao intent belonging to a Dao Integration Stage super mighty figure began to revolve on the surface of the turtle shell, as if Gu Yu had arrived in person!
That’s right, this was the Heavenly Star Dark Shell that had been gifted by the Heavenly Turtle Tribe High Priest, Gu Yu. It was capable of defending against even a Dao Integration Stage super mighty figure’s attacks for ten consecutive minutes!
The turtle shell immediately pushed the Ancient Dragon Empress’ red divine dao light aside, as if it was an absolute, indestructible defense!
