Chapter 129 – Terrifying Fire Dragon!
In reality, if Wei Xiao Bei had not rushed to dig a hole in the sand dune and hide inside it, just the large stones that were sent flying by the sandstorm would have been enough to do him in.
Even with Wei Xiao Bei’s health reaching 20 points and his sturdiness that had reached 14 points, this did not signify that he would not die if he got hit by such a large stone like that.
Even an elephant or a whale would probably die after being hit by such a large stone.
Even when Wei Xiao Bei was hiding 5-6 meters under the sand, he could still feel the continuous violent shaking. He felt as if he had been placed on a massage chair that was still turned on and vibrating.
After a while, the shaking stopped. Wei Xiao Bei ignored his wobbly body that had been affected by the continuous shaking, as he strived to dig himself out of the sand.
After finally digging himself out, he took a deep breath. If he had stayed in there for another moment, he would have probably suffocated to death.
At this moment, the sand dune had changed shape. Large amounts of stones had been scattered around the desert. Some large stones that had exceeded 3 meters had even sunk in the sand.
It was easy to imagine what Wei Xiao Bei’s ending would be if he had not hid himself in the sand.
When Wei Xiao Bei was inspecting his surroundings another shockwave spread towards him from afar.
Eh?
It’s from the direction of the fiery red mountain range!
Wei Xiao Bei quickly moved to another sand dune and looked towards the mountain range.
Eh?
What is that?
At this time, the sand storm in the direction of the mountain range had disappeared. Everything looked blurry from the distance Wei Xiao Bei was at, but he was able to see that another huge monster had appeared in the mountain range.
Wrong. The mountain range was no longer the thousand meter long mountain range anymore!
It had already been occupied by a long snake that was more than 600 meters!
Long snake?
No! That’s not a long snake!
The shape of the figure in his eyes was too familiar. It’s head was shaped like a bull. It had deer-like horns, prawn-like beady eyes, elephant-like ears, snake-like neck and abdomen, fish-like scales, phoenix-like claws, and tiger-like palms!
Every Chinese citizen should know what this thing was.
It was a dragon!
The symbol of China!
However, the dragon that appeared only had 3 claws.
Regardless of that fact Wei Xiao Bei was extremely excited. This was his first time seeing a dragon.
In Chinese legends, dragons had appeared many times. Every single line where the Yellow River was mentioned, dragons would also be mentioned. Moreover, there were also mentions of dragon shrines and sacrificial offerings that would bring forth rain.
Moreover, ancient Chinese Emperors would often brag about how they were descendants of dragons and wore clothes that were called dragon robes. The beds that they slept in would be called dragon beds and their illnesses would be called a dragon’s indisposition. When an emperor rose into power it would be called a dragon’s excitement. The places where the emperor’s stayed at before they were enthroned would be called the dragon’s residence. If their wives become pregnant they would call it ‘bearing a dragon’s child.’ And their children would be named as a dragon’s grandson.
The royal families in ancient China would use ornaments with dragon motifs and designs. If a cabinet minister had infuriated the emperor, it would be called assaulting a dragon’s scales!
Feng Shui would call places with a lot of energy as dragon cavities and mountain ranges with a lot of energy as dragon veins.
In short, dragon’s held a high position in Chinese culture. It was something that foreigners could not understand, but every offspring of China would.
This scene in front of him was something truly unexpected for Wei Xiao Bei.
He never would have imagined that the fiery mountain range was actually occupied by a dragon.
Perhaps because it had been asleep for too long, rocks had formed on its body, making it look like a mountain range.
This should be a fire dragon!
In Chinese legends, a majority of dragons flew into the skies to bring forth rain. In other words, they were experts at controlling rain.
The Dragon King of the four seas, Dragon Kings of the Yellow River and Yangtze River, as well as other Dragon Kings verified that dragons were really creatures that ruled water.
However, this did not mean dragons did not know how to play with fire.
In Master Qing Dong Xuan’s work, ‘Record of the Unusual’, there was a passage that went, “On the tenth year, sixth month and forth day, in the county of Pinghu, a fire dragon appeared. Its body was covered in purple flames and it passed by the fields. Hundreds of hectares of land were burned to nothing.”
Although this fire dragon was not covered in purple flames, its body was still covered in flames.
It was easy to see that the fire dragon had originally been asleep. In the end, the daring Radiant Sacred Beetle had awoken it from its slumber.
However, the mountain collapse was merely caused by the fire dragon’s awakening.
This time, the dragon appeared to have fallen asleep once again.
In reality, Wei Xiao Bei felt depressed at this scene. He did not know how to describe it better.
You made such a huge movement and destroyed the two factions that were fighting, creating such disastrous losses, yet you are just going back to sleep?
Are you teasing us?
In reality, the fire dragon going back to sleep was a good thing. With the immense gap in power between Wei Xiao Bei and the dragon, although Wei Xiao Bei felt fond of it, he also feared it tremendously. Just making a few movements was enough to cause such destruction. If someone had actually provoked it, Wei Xiao Bei did not know what would happen, and did not want to know what would happen.
‘Anything that could go wrong will go wrong.’ Wei Xiao Bei was not clear what kind of philosophy this was, but what happened next proved exactly that.
Just as Wei Xiao Bei was thinking whether he should go closer take a look or not, suddenly, the Radiant Sacred Beetle that had been stuck in the sand for quite some time had moved.
It could be assumed that the Radiant Sacred Beetle had passed out after being hit by a large rock, but because of its hard shell and strong vitality, it was able to escape death.
After moving around a little, the Radiant Sacred Beetle increased its struggling force. After struggling for a while, it finally pulled its back part out of the sand.
Indeed, it was the back part that had gotten stuck in the sand. If it was the head that was buried in the sand, it would have probably just escaped by burrowing itself deep in the sand.
After pulling itself out, it, for some reason, did not immediately escape. It had probably been injured. As a result, it lied down on the sand and once again released the golden radiance from its body.
Seeing this scene, Wei Xiao Bei understood that it was healing itself.
The effects of the golden light should be of a healing attribute.
However, when the golden radiance spread, the fire dragon that had gone back to sleep suddenly moved.
The Radiant Sacred Beetle simply did not notice this at all. It only continued to heal its injuries under the golden radiance and even increased the intensity of the light.
Very quickly, the dragon’s head faced towards the Radiant Sacred Beetle’s direction. With only less than a hundred meters of distance between them, the dragon’s long and narrow eyes silently watched the Radiant Sacred Beetle.
Seeing this scene, Wei Xiao Bei did not know if he should call the Radiant Sacred Beetle stupid or brazen.
The fire dragon was already looking at it and the Radiant Sacred Beetle, itself, had already noticed the fire dragon, yet it did not escape at all. On the contrary, it stuck out its butt and tried to pull it back, as if it was about to release more eggs.
Without a doubt, the Radiant Sacred Beetle’s action was meant to provoke the fire dragon. If Wei Xiao Bei was in the same position as the fire dragon, he would have responded with, ‘You still dare point your ass at this daddy? I will definitely fuck you good!’.
The red dragon’s following actions perfectly matched Wei Xiao Bei’s thoughts.
Boom!
The red dragon raised one of its claws and smashed down towards the Radiant Sacred Beetle without any hesitation at all.
With a loud boom, the golden radiance was not able to block the force at all and instantly shattered. The Radiant Sacred Beetle’s hard shell had been left caved in.
Perhaps because the red dragon’s striking force had just the right amount of power, the Radiant Sacred Beetle’s back part shot out large eggs, sending the eggs flying like artillery shells everywhere.
The red dragon did not even care where the eggs went at all. Boom! It striked with its claws again.
In the first strike, the shell had caved in. In the second strike, the Radiant Sacred Beetle’s shell had been shattered to pieces. Some of the juices that came out from the shell had stuck to the dragon’s claw. In an instant, like gasoline igniting on a torch, a ball of fire formed in the blink of an eye.
The fire dragon opened its mouth and sucked the ball of fire, making it disappear in an instant. After the dragon was done playing, he went back to its original spot. Once again, it went into resting position while lazily placing its head on its back, going back to sleep.
Wei Xiao Bei had roughly understood a lot of things from just witnessing the scene.
The Radiant Sacred Beetle had probably fancied the rocks that had accumulated on the fire dragon’s body. After all, the fire dragon was such a strong existence. Even the rocks that made their home on its back probably had huge benefits.
At the very least, it looked attractive to a monster like the Radiant Sacred Beetle. It was so attractive, that the Radiant Sacred Beetle even ignored the monsters that had originally lived in the fiery red mountain range such as the Fire Crows, Scarlet Pheasants, and six limbed, four winged snakes.
However, what it never imagined was that the fiery red mountain range was actually a fire dragon. In the end, it was turned into a dismembered corpse with just two strikes from the dragon. Its body had even exploded and was swallowed by the fire dragon, leaving nothing behind.
At that time, Wei Xiao Bei could not help but rejoice at his crisis perception. Otherwise, he would have probably died without knowing what happened.
A single sneeze from an existence like the fire dragon would be able to easily break all his bones if he was close enough.
Wei Xiao Bei was only an ant in front of it.
Whoosh!
A supersonic sound suddenly passed by. Wei Xiao Bei barely had time to lie down on the ground and dodge, when something fast flew by, almost causing Wei Xiao Bei’s death.
Ignoring the sand on his body, Wei Xiao Bei looked behind him and saw a large egg half buried in the sand dune behind him.
Right. That is the egg that was squeezed out!
The egg landing so close to him was an unexpected surprise for Wei Xiao Bei.
Wei Xiao Bei had previously witnessed how strong the large Sacred Beetles were, but when they had just come out from their shells, they were incredibly weak.
