novelraw Chapter 257
Chapter 257
Chapter 257: What Smells Milky?
“It’s broken.”
After the surrounding white fog dissipated,
Xia Li’s gaze returned to the shattered crystal.
This dodecahedral crystal embedded in the dead wood had completely shattered under that arrow just now.
Like a bullet passing through glass, the dodecahedral crystal was shattered into powder, dissipating along with the dust into the dark earth.
Xia Li’s eyebrows twitched, only then feeling a sense of regret.
“It should be fine, right?” he said.
Xia Li had heard humans in Azure Continent countless times praising things like ‘the supreme artifact cannot be destroyed…’
Hopefully, those words weren’t just for show. “Artifacts, small matter!”
Lucia said excitedly, “Crystals are just a vessel for artifacts. You can think of them as special existences in this world, they can attach to any container as long as they are willing!”
Lucia was repeating what Old Black Dragon had told her before.
At that time, Lucia couldn’t understand what kind of existence an ‘artifact vessel’ was.
But after seeing the fully released Demon Repelling Sword in Xia Li’s hand, she instantly understood.
The appearance of an artifact is just one form of its existence, this form can be changed, distorted, even replaced at any time like a turtle shell.
Therefore, a long sword can become a longbow. The shattered crystal can still exist in the form of light.
So cool.
She wanted one too!
“Look, there’s still a ball of light on the ground that hasn’t disappeared… Go and ‘niu’ it over!”
Lucia excitedly flapped her dragon wings.
However, after flapping her wings several times, she found that she couldn’t move.
The surrounding air was heavier than water, her body seemed to be sealed in some kind of high-density space, from her arms and legs to her eyeballs, she couldn’t move.
Lucia suddenly realized, the current scene was still black and white…
Except for the longbow in Xia Li’s hand and his eyes, which were emitting a golden light.
The world presented a silent and desperate black and gray.
“Xia Li, I can’t move, you haven’t undone the effects of your ultimate move!” Lucia reminded him.
Fortunately, she didn’t need to move her throat to speak, otherwise she wouldn’t even be able to communicate with Xia Li.
Xia Li, the only one who could move in the space, calmly put down the longbow first, then took off his jacket.
“N-no, that’s not good!”
Lucia’s big head couldn’t move, but she could feel the movement of the person between her dragon horns.
The Brave Hero was taking off his clothes at this time?
No way, that would be too much of a waste.
She wouldn’t even be able to fully witness the Brave Hero’s naked body!
Lucia was so nervous that her mouth was watering.
Because she couldn’t swallow, her saliva was about to drip down.
Was Brave Hero Xia Li finally going to use the power of Time Stop to do something outrageous to her?!
Just thinking about it made the dragon excited.
But after Xia Li took off his jacket, he didn’t continue to undress.
He grabbed the end of the golden longbow and swung it forcefully.
The bowstring drew a perfect arc with his arm as the center.
Halfway through the arc, the longbow changed shape again, returning to its original long sword form.
“Withdraw.”
As Xia Li issued a command, the Demon Repelling Sword returned to its original form.
At the same time, the power that had spread over two hundred kilometers was also completely withdrawn by Xia Li.
The Demon Repelling Sword returned to its sharp azure blue form, and with a crisp metallic clang, Xia Li sheathed it behind his back.
At the same moment, the black and white scene instantly returned to color.
The passing birds finally started moving, the unextinguished sparks on the ground continued to crackle.
“Eh???”
Lucia exclaimed in surprise.
The moment Xia Li sheathed his sword, all the magic power around them disappeared.
Her feeling just now was not wrong. The moment the Demon Repelling Sword was fully released, it was not just magic that was repelled, but also the magic power existing in the space.
It created a space completely devoid of magic power with Xia Li.
No wonder that Undead General couldn’t use magic even after struggling several times.
It wasn’t magic nullification at that time, but there was simply no magic power around.
The rain of arrows falling from the sky had cleansed everything here.
“Not good!”
Lucia’s vision went black.
She tried to flap her dragon wings to keep her balance, but her wings lost their strength like melting snow.
Not just her wings, but her scales, claws, horns…
These body parts, strengthened by immense magic power, dissolved in an instant due to the lack of magic power.
This suffocating feeling, this familiar feeling of weakness throughout her body…
That’s right!
This is the feeling of returning to Earth!
But, that’s not right.
They hadn’t completed the grand summoning ritual yet, they definitely wouldn’t be transmigrating at this time.
Lucia’s body rapidly shrank, like a deflated cannonball, plummeting from mid-air.
The girl’s body streaked across the dark night sky, leaving a silver trail.
The cold wind blew on Lucia’s face, she stared at the rapidly approaching ground, subconsciously closing her eyes.
To be honest, as a dragon, this was the first time she had experienced the fear of falling.
When she rode roller coasters on Earth before, she wasn’t afraid at all because she knew it was an amusement ride.
She wasn’t afraid when she flew in Azure Continent either.
After all, her powerful dragon body could absorb all impact forces.
But now, she knew for sure that something bad would happen if she fell!
“Waaaaah!!”
Lucia flailed in fear in the air, her small hands grabbing frantically, finally catching a piece of cloth, she clenched her fists and gripped it tightly.
Like a koala, she clamped her scissor legs around Xia Li’s waist, her hands tightly hugging his shoulders, her head burrowing into his chest.
This height.
It was equivalent to jumping off a two-thousand-meter cliff on Earth.
Wouldn’t she be bruised and battered if she fell?
“Clothes.”
Xia Li knew this dragon wouldn’t have any clothes on.
After she transformed into a dragon and returned to human form, her clothes were forged with magic power.
Now that she had lost her magic power, her clothes naturally disappeared as well.
Xia Li didn’t expect that his arrow wouldn’t cause the enemy to have a battle damage clothes burst, but it would burst his own wife’s clothes instead.
Fortunately, there wasn’t a single living thing on the ground.
Xia Li was quick to act, he struggled to pry open the dragon claws, then put his jacket and a shawl on her.
Xia Li’s clothes were large, and they looked baggy on Lucia.
It looked comical, like a daughter stealing her father’s clothes to wear.
“You laughed at me for being afraid of heights when I rode the roller coaster, you seem to be a bit afraid of heights too, Miss Lucia.”
The noisy wind poured into Lucia’s ears, she couldn’t hear what Xia Li was muttering at all, she only knew that her feet were about to touch the ground, she might become the only pureblood giant dragon in history to fall to her death.
However, a second before her body touched the ground.
A subtle updraft lifted both of their bodies at the same time.
Lucia’s light body floated in the air half a meter high.
Her sleeves and hem swayed downwards due to inertia, her broad shoulders slipped, revealing a small patch of sexy collarbone and round, delicate shoulders. Lucia hurriedly pulled her sleeves, wrapping herself up.
“Meat patty…”
She hugged her shoulders and said in a relieved tone, as if she had just survived a disaster.
“Hm? Hungry?”
Xia Li said to the hungry dragon while digging through his pockets, “I gave away the food I bought for you, I don’t have anything to eat in my pockets now.”
“I meant, why didn’t we fall into meat patties!”
“I know a little magic too,” Xia Li raised a finger and gestured, “A tiny bit of magic.”
“…”
Lucia looked around.
The scorched earth, scattered bones and debris, the unextinguished sparks of fire.
Although the environment here was no different from when they first arrived, Lucia had witnessed the scene of Brave Hero VS Undead Legion just now.
You call this ‘a tiny bit of magic’?
“Xia Li is clearly super strong.” Lucia muttered.
The Brave Hero was pretending to be a pig to eat a tiger.
No, pretending to be a pig to eat a dragon.
He deliberately created the falling scene, he must have wanted to use the ‘suspension bridge effect’ to make her fall in love with him.
But he didn’t need to do that at all.
After all, she was already deeply stuck in the mire of ‘liking the Brave Hero to the point of no return’, unable to extricate herself.
“How long until I can recover my magic power?”
Lucia snorted and walked ahead.
The two quickly walked towards the white light in the center of the pile of bones.
“Soon,” Xia Li replied, “The magic power in this space will slowly recover, maybe in ten minutes or so.”
“Oh.” Lucia responded.
It felt strange not being able to conjure her tail to wag.
After climbing over piles of bones, Lucia and Xia Li stopped together, standing in front of the white light.
The light hovered in mid-air, motionless.
Like a dazzling star seen when looking up at the night sky.
The star looked small, only the size of a grain of rice, but it gave a feeling of vastness and grandeur.
“Spoils of war!”
Lucia excitedly crouched down.
Her first thought was to touch it with her hand, but after thinking about it, she probably didn’t have the right to touch the artifact, so she withdrew her small white hand and said to Xia Li beside her.
“Let’s get a container to guide it first…”
“You have the ability to ‘niu’ artifacts, it will definitely like the container you find.”
Lucia’s tone carried a hint of unwillingness.
It wasn’t that she was envious of Xia Li’s ability.
It was just that… seeing anything liking Xia Li would make her unhappy.
Who said you couldn’t be jealous of an artifact!
Xia Li thought for a moment.
Although he still had many questions for Lucia, he chose to follow her lead for now.
“What kind of container do you want to choose?”
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“Let me choose?” Lucia rummaged through the bones on the ground, but in the end, she decided that none of them would do.
Both of them hesitated for a moment.
“Your magic power should have recovered a bit by now, right?” Xia Li suddenly asked.
Lucia nodded, making a tiny gesture with her little finger.
“Can you produce a dragon scale?”
“I can, but…”
A dragon scale, if it was an immature soft scale, would consume very little magic power. The tiny bit of magic power that had regenerated in the air was enough.
“Give me one.” Xia Li stretched out his hand.
Lucia probably guessed what Xia Li was thinking.
She awkwardly gathered her robes, blushing as she asked Xia Li.
“What part do you want?”
Xia Li was stunned.
Could he even choose the location??
His gaze swept over Lucia’s body.
Lucia nervously pinched the corner of her clothes, turning her flushed head away.
The loot was clearly a divine artifact, not her…
But the way Xia Li was acting, it made it seem like she was the loot.
“From your chest.”
Xia Li had chosen the location.
Firstly, the scales on a dragon’s belly were the softest.
Secondly, the scales on the chest were close to the dragon’s heart. After the artifact was formed, Xia Li planned to wear it around his neck, so that their hearts would be close in a way.
Thirdly…
There was no thirdly, he just purely thought that spot was close to Lucia’s breasts.
It must be fragrant and soft.
Just a man’s nature.
“Oh…”
From the chest it is!
After witnessing the Brave Hero’s full-powered attack, Lucia had completely lost any will to resist.
She reached into her clothes with her small hand and fumbled around blindly.
The clothes Xia Li had given her were ridiculously large on her, Lucia could even pull open the neckline and stick her head inside.
After fumbling for a while, she finally pulled out a silvery-white, translucent scale the size of a fingernail and placed it in Xia Li’s palm.
Xia Li reached out to take it, pinching the soft scale that still held a bit of the girl’s body heat.
Then he brought it close to his nose and sniffed lightly.
“You, !”
His action made Lucia’s face almost burst into flames.
She hadn’t had a proper bath since arriving in Azure Continent.
She wondered if she smelled bad!
“Hmm, smells milky.”
Xia Li gave it a very high rating.
After teasing Lucia, he smiled with satisfaction.
Holding the soft scale in his hand, Xia Li turned around, no longer hesitating.
The white starlight remained motionless in front of Xia Li.
Xia Li beckoned, and the starlight flickered even brighter.
It just so happened that Xia Li had an idea he had always wanted to try.
He had always been skeptical of his own ‘awesome’ ability to tame divine artifacts.
From Wuqi’s Golden Bell to Qin Chuan’s Heart of Stone, both artifacts proved that Xia Li possessed a high aptitude for harmonizing with divine artifacts.
But Xia Li had always been frustrated by the lack of Azure Continent artifacts to experiment with, so he was never quite sure of his own abilities.
Now, by chance, he had encountered a native artifact, just enough for him to verify his conjecture –
Perhaps his golden finger wasn’t the ‘Demon Repelling Sword’ from the beginning, but ‘all divine artifacts’?
Placing the soft dragon scale on the pad of his index finger, Xia Li slowly raised his wrist, touching the scale to the strand of white light.
As when he first resonated with the Demon Repelling Sword, there were no fancy tricks.
With just one touch, these divine artifacts that coexisted with heaven and earth showed a strong affinity for him.
“Hum ━”
A burst of light appeared before his eyes.
After a brief hum, the tiny twinkling star disappeared.
The dragon scale lay quietly in Xia Li’s palm, without any extra light effects or runes. The color of the scale was only slightly brighter than before, otherwise there was no change.
“That’s it? It’s done?” Xia Li asked in surprise.
Closing his eyes, he could actually feel the inextricable connection he had established with this silver scale.
It was as if he had an extra eye on his head and an extra arm on his body. He could control these parts at will with his mind.
This feeling was exactly the same as when he used the Demon Repelling Sword.
“Xia Li is so amazing!”
Lucia leaned her head over, her golden-brown eyes staring intently at the scale.
She had to praise him now.
Before, she was already afraid of Xia Li when he only had the Demon Repelling Sword, now he had one more artifact.
Even more afraid.
It was a good thing she had chosen to turn enemies into friends and use love to influence the Brave Hero, otherwise she would have been beaten black and blue by him long ago.
Lucia squatted down, hugging her knees.
She blinked her eyes, staring at the silver scale for a while, then pursed her lips and looked at Xia Li.
“Hee hee~”
“You’re smiling like an evil silver gradient cat.”
Seeing Lucia’s mischievous grin, Xia Li thought of the evil silver gradient cat meme online.
“Hee hee hee~”
Lucia went even further, her smile even more evil now.
The evil dragon pursed her lips and scuttled sideways towards Xia Li like a crab, hugging her knees.
“Xia Li, Xia Li, can you use it now?”
Lucia asked with ulterior motives.
“I should be able to.” Xia Li nodded.
Using artifacts was as easy as eating and drinking for him.
Even with a newly harmonized artifact, he could summon and dismiss it with a single thought.
With a thought, a white mist began to spread around them.
“Wahhh~~”
Lucia quickly raised her head, took a deep breath, and her eyes sparkled with admiration.
“You said summoning magic, how exactly do you do it?” Xia Li asked.
He could sense that the silver scale did have the ability to ‘summon’.
But this ability was far from simple as it sounded, it was a very complex power.
Xia Li had to actually try it out to figure it out.
But with bones all around, Xia Li was afraid that a single thought would awaken the soldiers who had just been laid to rest.
So, to be safe, he asked the evil dragon how to do it.
Lucia lowered her raised head and wrapped her arms around Xia Li’s arm, hugging it against her soft body.
She didn’t rush to answer Xia Li’s question.
Instead, she said something that Xia Li found nonsensical.
“Xia Li, if you died, I would be very sad.”
“I’m still young and strong!”
Xia Li was amused by the evil dragon’s words.
Why did she suddenly start talking about this again…
Wasn’t ‘enjoying the moment’ the top priority between them?
Being sentimental didn’t fit Lucia’s evil dragon mindset.
Besides, she hated talking about this kind of thing the most.
“Xia Li, when you die, will you become a ghost and come find me?”
Lucia continued to ask.
Xia Li reached out and hugged the evil dragon’s soft body. He was half-squatting, while the evil dragon sat on his thigh.
The evil dragon leaned back against his embrace, her boneless body held tightly by Xia Li’s grip on her slender waist.
“Why are you asking about this…”
He thought for a moment and answered seriously.
“If you don’t come to visit my grave, I will definitely become a ghost and come find you… because I will definitely miss you very much then.”
“I see!”
Lucia rolled over in Xia Li’s arms and reached out to rub the Brave Hero’s big face.
“Then I definitely won’t come to visit your grave!”
“That way you can become a ghost and come see me!” The evil dragon cleverly planned.
“Aren’t you most afraid of ghosts?”
“But I’m not afraid of the ghost you become!”
“…”
Xia Li simply couldn’t resist Lucia when she spoke sweet nothings like this.
He couldn’t help but kiss Lucia’s small face.
Lucia covered her face, shyly nuzzling him.
“Hee hee~”
“What are you so happy about?” Xia Li kissed her again.
This dragon had been giggling non-stop since the beginning, her little mouth never closing.
She was smiling as if some evil plan to destroy the world had succeeded.
“Xia Li, Xia Li, would you be angry if I lied to you?”
Lucia muttered, kissing Xia Li back on the face.
“You dare lie to me?” Xia Li asked in surprise.
He was the master of two divine artifacts.
This dragon still dared to lie to him?
Wasn’t this asking for a spanking?
“Of course not!” Lucia quickly assured him.
She smiled, her beautiful eyes curving into crescents.
Looking at the white mist that filled the surroundings, her expression paused for a moment. She turned and hugged Xia Li tightly, adding.
“…It’s just that I haven’t finished telling you the story from before.”
“This doesn’t count as lying, it’s just withholding information at most!”