Hum~
Li Mo flashed, being one step faster than her in getting it.
Lin Qingrou said, “We killed it, you and me, together. Each should get half.”
“Is striking a corpse what you call working together? Classmate Lin, your skin sure is thick.”
“It wasn’t dead when I attacked.” Lin Qingrou didn’t even blush, her tone cool.
Li Mo laughed dryly as he tucked the demon core away.
While they were quarreling, a sudden explosion resounded as something came swinging from the poisonous pool with such speed it sent the pair flying.
Lin Qingrou and Li Mo couldn’t react since the speed far exceeded their reaction.
Li Mo held his chest and panted, feeling his blood thrown in a mess. Lin Qingrou had a ripple of void traveling all over her, sparing her from any damage.
Li Mo said, “I see. You’ve obtained the Void Walker’s legacy. That’s why you knew of the Earth Fist. That’s why you can use Switch Teleport and Void Palm.”
“Look, what is that?”
Lin Qingrou pointed somewhere then flashed behind Li Mo sending a palm at him.
It was all so sudden, first distracting him, then sneaking up on him, and finally landing such a ruthless strike.
But Li Mo still managed to take a step amidst the crux of it all.
Crack~
Lin Qingrou’s palm hit nothing!
Hum~
Li Mo got behind her with Warp sending a flying kick right up her perky butt and launching her way up high.
A void ripple traveled over Lin Qingrou. Thanks to her protective treasure, no permanent harm came to her.
The two kept using their respective blinking arts, crossing ‘swords’ as much as a dozen times but no winner could be seen in sight.
“Roar~”
While the two were playing around, the thing coming out of the pool grew irate and swallowed Mystical Firebird whole.
The scorching heat vanished instantly.
Lin Qingrou got away from Li Mo with Switch Teleport. Only now did Li Mo get a good look at the thing from the pool.
That twenty-odd meter long, thick as a bucket, with four claws, and a pair of horns, was covered in black scales and possessed a striking similarity with the True Dragon of old.
‘Dragon?’
But Li Mo shook his head in the end.
True Dragon was one of the ten sacred beasts. It went extinct in antiquity while Earth had become a shelter for humanity once the ancient humans fled. Although the primogenitor brought many sacred beasts’ descendants at the time, none had the blood of a true sacred beast.
This was just a flood dragon!
A flood dragon was no real dragon, but a subspecies. Even so, a flood dragon was still far stronger than a mere ba serpent.
It just up and swallowed the Mystical Firebird like it was nothing. Comparing its action with ba serpent’s when facing the bird, one could easily see the differences.
“Is this a dragon? This place actually had a dragon?” Lin Qingrou was stunned.
“Roar~”
With a swish of its tail, the flood dragon launched two thunderbolts.
Lin Qingrou and Li Mo had long since been ready, but as the black thunderbolts approached, the oddest thing happened. Their reaction was delayed by a couple of seconds. Lin Qingrou and Li Mo’s blinking arts worked, but they were still thunderstruck.
Black smoke billowed from Li Mo’s chest, while Lin Qingrou’s pants were blown away. Her flawless and slim legs were out in the open. The void ripple was still there, but it seemed a flood dragon’s attack couldn’t be denied.
Li Mo took a bite out of the ba serpent’s demon core and said, “This flood dragon inherited the draconic influence of a True Dragon. But it’s incomplete, not even 1%. Even so, it is more than enough to impede our movements.”
This particular flood dragon lived in this poisonous pool, dying it black as well as making it poisonous. With the ba serpent’s demon core, he would be able to overcome this disadvantage.
Lin Qingrou said, “Save some for me!”
“Classmate Lin, I find your skin growing thicker by the minute. Your sneak attack failed and now you demand my ba serpent’s demon core? Now you tell me, will I really give it to you?”
Lin Qingrou was strapped for words.
Crack~
The flood dragon noticed the ba serpent’s corpse and flew into a rage, spitting a dozen black thunderbolts.
Lin Qingrou and Li Mo’s reactions were delayed again, making the attacks hitting them squarely.
The True Dragon’s trait, draconic influence, affected anyone weaker than it. And since this flood dragon only inherited a modicum part of this trait, it could only slow them down for a fraction. A True Dragon’s trait would root its enemy on the spot, making it cower in fear.
Lin Qingrou’s clothes were blown away and scorched black. The void ripple was getting weaker, flickering on and off, ready to collapse at any second.
Li Mo didn’t fare much better, aching all over, but at least his body was sturdy. And thanks to ba serpent’s demon core, he resisted the poison within the dozen black thunderbolts. He was in a much better spot than Lin Qingrou ever was, if only by a little.
Whoosh~
Lin Qingrou threw a knife at flood dragon among the three times she Switch Teleported. First to go before Li Mo, second to go behind him, and third to leave the battlefield.
Crack~
The flood dragon was enraged, launching a dozen more black thunderbolts at Li Mo.
Lin Qingrou’s cunning ply was a smashing success. She pulled all the aggro on Li Mo.
“You are one nasty bitch, you know that?” Li Mo said flatly, tacking the thunderbolts head-on.
It was hard to dodge under the flood dragon’s draconic influence. So Li Mo was prepared this time, executing Guard just as Lin Qingrou dumped all the aggro on him.
Crack~
The flood dragon constantly struck Li Mo with black thunderbolts, but the Guard held strong. He was out of harm’s way as long as he kept it up.
Lin Qingrou sighed from ways away, “Master was right in every way, Earth Fist’s Guard is freaky.”
The flood dragon had launched a hundred strikes by now yet Li Mo took ’em like a champ. It grew anxious so it resorted to whipping its tail instead.
Smack~
With every flick of its tail, the air would explode, but no matter how strong the attacks were, nothing could budge the staunch Li Mo.
“Roar~”
The flood dragon roared weakly, weary from having struck Li Mo all this time.
Rumble!
At the end of the flood dragon’s strength, the earth shook and Li Mo’s balance shifted.
Regaining his balance broke Earth Fist’s stance!
“You really are one mean shrew!” Li Mo’s voice was royally pissed now.
It was all due that Lin Qingrou’s nasty trick. ‘She wants to kill me.’
Li Mo withdrew a dozen steps.
“With that bitch butting in I would’ve died if not for you eating the Mystical Firebird. Since the timing is right and fate auspicious, you shall never become a full-fledged True Dragon, not with me around!”
“Boom!”
Li Mo’s shout made the black flood dragon turn red as a hundred-meter flame spew from its mouth. Then it slumped on the ground, lifeless…
