novelraw Chapter 563: Flamethrower-Grilled Dragon King!
Chapter 563: Flamethrower-Grilled Dragon King!
Let me give you a simple example.
The Dragon Keeper Clan is like a large king cobra breeding facility.
The king cobras in their hands have been continuously bred and improved through generations, their lethality and ferocity long surpassing what local snakes should naturally possess.
Previously, with the control of the Dragon Keeper Clan breeding facility, these king cobras were quite docile.
Later, the Dragon Keeper Clan ran away, moved to a new location.
But they couldn't take all these king cobras with them.
So what to do?
The simplest solution would be to destroy them.
But the Dragon Keeper Clan wouldn't do that.
They released them into the wild, beautifully justifying it as "returning species that came from nature back to nature."God damn it!!!
Fine! I have no issue with you releasing them, but at least release them in uninhabited areas, or find some way to restrain them!
They didn't.
They released them in urban parks, where the ecology is good and there's specialized protection.
Those dragons, no longer restrained by the Dragon Keeper Clan, left quite a few dramatic marks throughout the long course of history.
Stirring up trouble, wreaking havoc in their domains.
Later when the dynasty collapsed, Hairy Dragon feared being held accountable and hid in Wei Gao.
Alright then! Back then you didn't care, but now that Lu Ding has killed Hairy Dragon, you want to interfere?
Even tried to sneak across borders to deal with him?
And now you want to say Lu Ding went too far?
Wasn't it you, Dong Minglong, who issued threats and made moves?
And side effects~
Who forced you to use such a heavily side-effect-laden technique?
If it's really not feasible, how about you just die? Don't use it then.
Dong Minglong lay severely injured on the ground, watching as Lu Ding approached step by step with his long blade.
He wasn't actually afraid.
He just struggled to look toward the dying Dragon Spirit.
If it weren't for this golden dragon protecting him and bearing the brunt of the damage,
Dong Minglong would have been sliced dead by that single blade strike.
But credit where credit's due, the golden dragon is truly badass!!
After taking Lu Ding's blade strike, she actually didn't immediately perish.
But she could no longer stir up any trouble.
Her magnificent and dazzling scales were completely destroyed, her mystical dragon body shattered until only the small section below the dragon head remained.
Dragon blood splattered, staining the ground red.
The dragon head lay quietly, jaws slowly opening and closing, able only to open its mouth but unable to make any sound, looking utterly miserable.
Dong Minglong struggled forward, his blood-stained hands clawing at the muddy ground to drag his severely injured body.
While blood gushed from his mouth, he still cried out: "Ling... Ling'er..."
Just as his hand was about to touch the dragon head.
A crimson long blade stabbed down from above, directly piercing through the back of Dong Minglong's hand, pinning him to the ground.
"AHHHHH!!!!!"
Hearing his scream, Lu Ding didn't respond, just silently crouched down, raised his hand, where spiritual energy outlined, gathered, and formed a hungry tiger pouncing on prey, coiled on his hand, opening its tiger mouth to roar.
Tiny dark red light particles continuously gathered, solidifying into an egg-sized light sphere containing violent power.
The [Tiger Qi Death Beam Cannon] shifted slightly, aiming directly at the golden dragon's head.
Dong Minglong looked up at this scene: "No!!! No!!!! What are you doing!! Stop!!! Stop it!!! Lu Ding!!!"
"I was wrong!! I was wrong!! I shouldn't have thought about attacking you!! I shouldn't have thought about sneaking across the border!!!!"
"Spare her!!! Please spare her!!! I'm begging you!!! I'll do anything you want!!!"
Hearing this, a faint smile appeared at the corner of Lu Ding's mouth.
Do anything?
His Adam's apple trembling slightly, Lu Ding's low chuckle sounded: "Then kill yourself."
Dong Minglong's words instantly stuck in his throat, his expression freezing immediately.
He said he'd do anything Lu Ding wanted.
But having him kill himself...
He wasn't quite willing.
But opportunities are fleeting, once gone they won't return.
Just as he hesitated, a dark red beam suddenly shot straight out.
Accurately blasting the golden dragon's remaining head.
BOOM!!!!!!!!
The explosion roared up with a mushroom cloud, shockwaves rippling out.
The colors of heaven and earth were pulled between light and dark for an instant.
Lu Ding's figure, his face, his expression, pulled by this explosive light, appeared incredibly ferocious.
The wind whipped his scholar-warrior sleeves, making them flap loudly.
Dong Minglong witnessed everything with a dazed, stunned expression, blood mixing with tears as they dripped down.
But he couldn't cry out.
Could only continuously roar, emitting heart-wrenching screams of agony.
"AH!!!!! AH!!!!!"
His hand, pierced through and pinned to the ground by Blood Frost, struggled incessantly, the wound becoming increasingly gruesome.
Until with a tearing sound.
Dong Minglong endured excruciating pain to tear his hand free, gathering energy, attacking, recklessly desperate!!!!
But just as he raised his hand.
BANG!!!!!
Lu Ding delivered a straight kick, directly interrupting the spellcasting, kicking Dong Minglong's face until it collapsed, broken bone edges piercing through flesh and skin to become exposed!!!!
A sense of powerlessness gradually rose from his heart.
"Why!! Why!! Why are you doing this to us, she was innocent, why did you kill her!!!"
Lu Ding stepped forward, grabbing the now powerless Dong Minglong and lifting him up.
Raised his hand, palm aimed at that horrifically damaged face.
One could see talismans gathering into lines continuously swirling in his palm, like a vortex, with heat gradually emanating from within.
As the Sin Dragon within his body drove spiritual energy, circulating through his meridians, finally spewing out from his palm.
Open fire!!!
The [Torment Flame of Sin] burst forth.
Like a welding torch spraying flames, the tail flame heating up, shooting straight at Dong Minglong's face.
Blood evaporated, flesh and skin turned to carbon.
The pain was indescribable.
Dong Minglong wanted to scream, but when he opened his mouth, the gushing flames directly burned into his mouth.
Trembling, struggling, his body constantly twisting, but Lu Ding's hand was like a vise, gripping him without the slightest waver.
Lu Ding's hair floated wildly, the firelight illuminating his face.
"Innocent!?"
"What the fuck do you mean by innocent, you want to kill me, she wants to cooperate with you to kill me, and you call that innocent?"
"But... but... we already avoided you......."
Dong Minglong said painfully, his originally deep voice now sounding like two pieces of iron rubbing against each other.
Under the high-temperature spray roasting, his head gradually melted.
The ferocity on Lu Ding's face became even more pronounced.
"Avoided!? Innocent!? What kind of fucking victim act are you putting on here?"
If the Dong Family could contend with Elder Shui, if the Dong Family could contend with Great Han, contend with the 749 Bureau, would they have avoided?
They probably would have long since charged into the Third Circle and finished off Lu Ding.
Can't win means can't win, but you make it sound so noble.
As for that golden dragon, cooperating with Dong Minglong to cause trouble for Lu Ding, is that called innocent?
What? Are accomplices not guilty?
When you're powerful, "destroying you has nothing to do with you, I'm the Second Circle Dong Family Dragon King, how dare you Third Circle natives rebel against your superiors."
When you're weak, "I already avoided you, why are you still chasing me to kill me, we're all just trying our best to survive."