Chapter 21
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Braedon stepped into a shadow nearby and moved to an area behind the beast. Braedon jumped out of the shadow and tried to climb on top of the dragon's back. But before he could, the creatures tail swung into him and threw him into a wall.
The force of the impact caused two of his ribs to break. He started to gag and cough up blood. Braedon fell out of the wall and landed on the ground face down.
Zan Fu on the other hand slid between the dragon's legs to stab it in its underbelly. When Zan Fu raised up his weapon to pierce it, the blade shattered into pieces and fell all around him.
The dragon brought his had down to look at the person under it. It's cheeks inflated with a bright light and Zan Fu rolled aside in a panic before the dragon blew a fireball just where he had been lying.
Zan Fu struggled to stand up. The others came over to see what was wrong and noticed that the shards of the weapon that was shattered was stuck into his back.
"Crap, this is just the worst." The others carried Zan Fu behind them and a few others decided to attack instead.
Hui Hui and Hui Shui were great at far ranged weapons. They used bows and guns to fire special arrows and bullets at a distance while Rong Jie and Mei Jia used their blades and sword to hack at he monster's scaly armor.
While the dragon's scales were being chipped away, it was still not doing any substantial damage.
Qing Lei, the person who came with Mei Jia, was surprisingly good at healing and stayed away from the fight to heal all of the injured.
The people Shu Rong brought over were not strong, but they did have an advantage of speed. They ran around throwing rocks and other objects to annoy the beast. Whenever it was distracted long enough.
Rong Jie would bring out a greatsword and thrash it down onto its head with all of his strength, before running back to take a short break.
Braedon was being healed by Qing Lei at the moment and rose up with a start. He sat up to find Zan Fu looking in the direction of the battle with a strange look on his face.
"Is something wrong?"
Zan Fu nodded and said, "It's too easy. Despite us not dealing any damage, the dragon hasn't really done much to us either. It isn't even thinking on who to attack first and is fighting on instinct. This is so unlike what a dragon should be like, it is as if it isn't a dragon at all..."
Braedon looked at the scene before him and realized that Zan Fu was right. It was as if they were just fighting a more powerful mindless beast than usual. "Maybe the legends exaggerated a little."
Everyone who heard what Zan Fu said were discussing with themselves about this realization.
He was right, the legends said that dragons were powerful and intelligent. This was why most cultivators tried to avoid battle with them. This is why most people started to assume that the stories were exaggerated but Zan Fu Shook his head.
"My dad had met a dragon before. It spoke intelligently and its strength was no weaker than his. I think that something was done to this monster, I am just not sure what." Braedon and the rest nodded.
"This is an advantage for us though. If it doesn't have the brains and only the brawns, then beating it will be that much easier." Zan Li raised everybody's morale with these words.
Braedon nodded and stood up asking for someone to lend him their blade. One of Shu Rong's men gave him a greatsword that was only 3/4 the size of Rong Jie's. He accepted the blade and stepped forward stating that he had an idea.
Braedon started to run forward toward the dragon while the other Shu assassins were distracting the creature, "Everyone move back!" At his words, the others noticed Braedon running in their direction with a large blade following behind him.
They didn't know what he was planning but they moved back anyway just in case. As Braedon got closer the beast noticed him and turned its head in his direction. It's cheeks inflated once more and it blew a stream of fire enveloping Braedon.
Zan Fu who saw this screamed out from the top of his lungs, "BRAEDON!" He tried to stand up and run in Braedon's direction but Mei Jia, who had just arrived at his side, held him back and pointed.
"Look!"
From the shadow that the flame cast, a spiraling object launched up and floated in front of the dragon. Braedon pulled the greatsword, which was as big as he was, back like it was a baseball bat and used that flat side of the blade to smash the dragon across his face,
The unexpected attack drove the dragon onto the ground with a huge ~thump~ and rattled everybody there.
The monster roared out at Braedon but he quickly climbed in top of it head, which was lying on the ground, and swung the sword down onto it. He lifted it up and swung over and over again.
Eventually everyone got themselves together and gathered around to take their own shot at the beast.
Eventually the noise died down and it stopped breathing. Everyone released a sigh of relief as the enemy that was a powerful foe, despite being incredibly stupid, was dead.
They all fell back on their bottoms and started to pant heavily. It was kind of a boring battle, but that didn't make it any less tiring.
Braedon sat directly next to Shu Rong, while they were catching their breath, he decided to ask something that had been bugging him the whole time, "If your feud was with the Zan family, why did you have to bring the Yi clan into it?"
Shu Rong stayed silent for a second before grudgingly giving an answer, "It was because of you."
Braedon was taken aback by this, "Because of me?"
Shu Rong nodded and continued, "We knew that you had connections with the Zan so we had the great idea of sending assassins to your house and killing you."
Braedon gulped at how easily it was for Shu Rong to talk about his death, "By coincidence, that girl Yi Ling and her grandpa Yi Bai were there as well. We figured that if we killed you then the Zan family would blame the Yi family and they would take each other out."
"We planned to kill Yi Ling and Yi Bai since they were witnesses and leave fake clues that it was the Yi family while hiding the bodies. Actually, that was the same plan we had when we came down here."
Braedon looked at Shu Rong with a worried look in his eyes, "You're actually very cruel." Shu Rong thanked him for the compliment and Braedon despised that it was better not to correct him.
"Wait. If you're much weaker than you were in the past, how strong were the men you sent to my house anyway?"
Shu Rong thought about it for an instance and answered, "There was one in the second realm and two in the fourth. Why did you want to know this?"
Braedon shook his head, "No reason." But in reality, he was thinking about how Yi Bai was in the sixth realm but he was having some trouble dealing with someone in the fourth realm, "He was holding back at that time. The question is, why?"
He decided to put away the useless thought. Just as he was about to ask one more thing, Braedon saw a flash of silver from the darkness and punched Shu Ring into the ground.
He fell back and started coughing from the unexpected attack, "What was that-". Before he finished, Shu Rong, Zan Fu, and the others stared up in horror as the tail of the once dead dragon was now pierced into Braedon's chest.
Braedon clutched at the tail sticking out of him as blood dripped from his wound. His entire body became cold and numb as his consciousness started fading into pitch black.
Zan Fu looked up toward Braedon while whispering under his breath, "No no no no no no no no!" He ran forward and leapt up onto the dragon's tail, just as the beast itself started to rise from its apparent death.
Zan Li looked at this scene with shock written all over his face, "It was playing dead!"
Zan Fu climbed up the tail until he reached Braedon and tried to grab onto him. The tail smashed into a nearby wall and knocked Him off, forcing him to plummet to the ground.
Then it rose up and flicked its tail over in Zan Fu's direction, making Braedon get forcibly ripped from it and crash next to Zan Fu. He crawled over to Braedon as he grabbed at the gaping wound in his chest.
Zan Fu placed his hand over the hole and screamed at Qing Lei to come over, but he couldn't thanks to the dragon charging at their camp and knocking them all aside.
He tried to stop the bleeding, but nothing he did would work. He brought out some of the pills he carried, but none of them could heal Braedon's wound. They could only prolong his life for maybe a few seconds, "C'mon Braedon! You're going to be okay. Stay with me!"
He lifted Braedon up and placed him on his back. His mind was spinning as he tried to think of what he could do. This situation was impossible. The same creature who couldn't even figure out to eliminate its greatest threat, which was Rong Jie at the time, first was pretending to be dead the whole time and it succeeded?!
The whole situation was messed up. Suddenly, a single thought popped into Zan Fu's mind that scared him. He screamed out his revelation to the others as quickly as he could.
"EVERYBODY RUN, IT IS GETTING SMARTER!"
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Braedon stepped into a shadow nearby and moved to an area behind the beast. Braedon jumped out of the shadow and tried to climb on top of the dragon's back. But before he could, the creatures tail swung into him and threw him into a wall.
The force of the impact caused two of his ribs to break. He started to gag and cough up blood. Braedon fell out of the wall and landed on the ground face down.
Zan Fu on the other hand slid between the dragon's legs to stab it in its underbelly. When Zan Fu raised up his weapon to pierce it, the blade shattered into pieces and fell all around him.
The dragon brought his had down to look at the person under it. It's cheeks inflated with a bright light and Zan Fu rolled aside in a panic before the dragon blew a fireball just where he had been lying.
Zan Fu struggled to stand up. The others came over to see what was wrong and noticed that the shards of the weapon that was shattered was stuck into his back.
"Crap, this is just the worst." The others carried Zan Fu behind them and a few others decided to attack instead.
Hui Hui and Hui Shui were great at far ranged weapons. They used bows and guns to fire special arrows and bullets at a distance while Rong Jie and Mei Jia used their blades and sword to hack at he monster's scaly armor.
While the dragon's scales were being chipped away, it was still not doing any substantial damage.
Qing Lei, the person who came with Mei Jia, was surprisingly good at healing and stayed away from the fight to heal all of the injured.
The people Shu Rong brought over were not strong, but they did have an advantage of speed. They ran around throwing rocks and other objects to annoy the beast. Whenever it was distracted long enough.
Rong Jie would bring out a greatsword and thrash it down onto its head with all of his strength, before running back to take a short break.
Braedon was being healed by Qing Lei at the moment and rose up with a start. He sat up to find Zan Fu looking in the direction of the battle with a strange look on his face.
"Is something wrong?"
Zan Fu nodded and said, "It's too easy. Despite us not dealing any damage, the dragon hasn't really done much to us either. It isn't even thinking on who to attack first and is fighting on instinct. This is so unlike what a dragon should be like, it is as if it isn't a dragon at all..."
Braedon looked at the scene before him and realized that Zan Fu was right. It was as if they were just fighting a more powerful mindless beast than usual. "Maybe the legends exaggerated a little."
Everyone who heard what Zan Fu said were discussing with themselves about this realization.
He was right, the legends said that dragons were powerful and intelligent. This was why most cultivators tried to avoid battle with them. This is why most people started to assume that the stories were exaggerated but Zan Fu Shook his head.
"My dad had met a dragon before. It spoke intelligently and its strength was no weaker than his. I think that something was done to this monster, I am just not sure what." Braedon and the rest nodded.
"This is an advantage for us though. If it doesn't have the brains and only the brawns, then beating it will be that much easier." Zan Li raised everybody's morale with these words.
Braedon nodded and stood up asking for someone to lend him their blade. One of Shu Rong's men gave him a greatsword that was only 3/4 the size of Rong Jie's. He accepted the blade and stepped forward stating that he had an idea.
Braedon started to run forward toward the dragon while the other Shu assassins were distracting the creature, "Everyone move back!" At his words, the others noticed Braedon running in their direction with a large blade following behind him.
They didn't know what he was planning but they moved back anyway just in case. As Braedon got closer the beast noticed him and turned its head in his direction. It's cheeks inflated once more and it blew a stream of fire enveloping Braedon.
Zan Fu who saw this screamed out from the top of his lungs, "BRAEDON!" He tried to stand up and run in Braedon's direction but Mei Jia, who had just arrived at his side, held him back and pointed.
"Look!"
From the shadow that the flame cast, a spiraling object launched up and floated in front of the dragon. Braedon pulled the greatsword, which was as big as he was, back like it was a baseball bat and used that flat side of the blade to smash the dragon across his face,
The unexpected attack drove the dragon onto the ground with a huge ~thump~ and rattled everybody there.
The monster roared out at Braedon but he quickly climbed in top of it head, which was lying on the ground, and swung the sword down onto it. He lifted it up and swung over and over again.
Eventually everyone got themselves together and gathered around to take their own shot at the beast.
Eventually the noise died down and it stopped breathing. Everyone released a sigh of relief as the enemy that was a powerful foe, despite being incredibly stupid, was dead.
They all fell back on their bottoms and started to pant heavily. It was kind of a boring battle, but that didn't make it any less tiring.
Braedon sat directly next to Shu Rong, while they were catching their breath, he decided to ask something that had been bugging him the whole time, "If your feud was with the Zan family, why did you have to bring the Yi clan into it?"
Shu Rong stayed silent for a second before grudgingly giving an answer, "It was because of you."
Braedon was taken aback by this, "Because of me?"
Shu Rong nodded and continued, "We knew that you had connections with the Zan so we had the great idea of sending assassins to your house and killing you."
Braedon gulped at how easily it was for Shu Rong to talk about his death, "By coincidence, that girl Yi Ling and her grandpa Yi Bai were there as well. We figured that if we killed you then the Zan family would blame the Yi family and they would take each other out."
"We planned to kill Yi Ling and Yi Bai since they were witnesses and leave fake clues that it was the Yi family while hiding the bodies. Actually, that was the same plan we had when we came down here."
Braedon looked at Shu Rong with a worried look in his eyes, "You're actually very cruel." Shu Rong thanked him for the compliment and Braedon despised that it was better not to correct him.
"Wait. If you're much weaker than you were in the past, how strong were the men you sent to my house anyway?"
Shu Rong thought about it for an instance and answered, "There was one in the second realm and two in the fourth. Why did you want to know this?"
Braedon shook his head, "No reason." But in reality, he was thinking about how Yi Bai was in the sixth realm but he was having some trouble dealing with someone in the fourth realm, "He was holding back at that time. The question is, why?"
He decided to put away the useless thought. Just as he was about to ask one more thing, Braedon saw a flash of silver from the darkness and punched Shu Ring into the ground.
He fell back and started coughing from the unexpected attack, "What was that-". Before he finished, Shu Rong, Zan Fu, and the others stared up in horror as the tail of the once dead dragon was now pierced into Braedon's chest.
Braedon clutched at the tail sticking out of him as blood dripped from his wound. His entire body became cold and numb as his consciousness started fading into pitch black.
Zan Fu looked up toward Braedon while whispering under his breath, "No no no no no no no no!" He ran forward and leapt up onto the dragon's tail, just as the beast itself started to rise from its apparent death.
Zan Li looked at this scene with shock written all over his face, "It was playing dead!"
Zan Fu climbed up the tail until he reached Braedon and tried to grab onto him. The tail smashed into a nearby wall and knocked Him off, forcing him to plummet to the ground.
Then it rose up and flicked its tail over in Zan Fu's direction, making Braedon get forcibly ripped from it and crash next to Zan Fu. He crawled over to Braedon as he grabbed at the gaping wound in his chest.
Zan Fu placed his hand over the hole and screamed at Qing Lei to come over, but he couldn't thanks to the dragon charging at their camp and knocking them all aside.
He tried to stop the bleeding, but nothing he did would work. He brought out some of the pills he carried, but none of them could heal Braedon's wound. They could only prolong his life for maybe a few seconds, "C'mon Braedon! You're going to be okay. Stay with me!"
He lifted Braedon up and placed him on his back. His mind was spinning as he tried to think of what he could do. This situation was impossible. The same creature who couldn't even figure out to eliminate its greatest threat, which was Rong Jie at the time, first was pretending to be dead the whole time and it succeeded?!
The whole situation was messed up. Suddenly, a single thought popped into Zan Fu's mind that scared him. He screamed out his revelation to the others as quickly as he could.
"EVERYBODY RUN, IT IS GETTING SMARTER!"
Braedon stepped into a shadow nearby and moved to an area behind the beast. Braedon jumped out of the shadow and tried to climb on top of the dragon's back. But before he could, the creatures tail swung into him and threw him into a wall.The force of the impact caused two of his ribs to break. He started to gag and cough up blood. Braedon fell out of the wall and landed on the ground face down.Zan Fu on the other hand slid between the dragon's legs to stab it in its underbelly. When Zan Fu raised up his weapon to pierce it, the blade shattered into pieces and fell all around him.The dragon brought his had down to look at the person under it. It's cheeks inflated with a bright light and Zan Fu rolled aside in a panic before the dragon blew a fireball just where he had been lying.Zan Fu struggled to stand up. The others came over to see what was wrong and noticed that the shards of the weapon that was shattered was stuck into his back."Crap, this is just the worst." The others carried Zan Fu behind them and a few others decided to attack instead.Hui Hui and Hui Shui were great at far ranged weapons. They used bows and guns to fire special arrows and bullets at a distance while Rong Jie and Mei Jia used their blades and sword to hack at he monster's scaly armor.While the dragon's scales were being chipped away, it was still not doing any substantial damage.Qing Lei, the person who came with Mei Jia, was surprisingly good at healing and stayed away from the fight to heal all of the injured.The people Shu Rong brought over were not strong, but they did have an advantage of speed. They ran around throwing rocks and other objects to annoy the beast. Whenever it was distracted long enough.Rong Jie would bring out a greatsword and thrash it down onto its head with all of his strength, before running back to take a short break.Braedon was being healed by Qing Lei at the moment and rose up with a start. He sat up to find Zan Fu looking in the direction of the battle with a strange look on his face."Is something wrong?"Zan Fu nodded and said, "It's too easy. Despite us not dealing any damage, the dragon hasn't really done much to us either. It isn't even thinking on who to attack first and is fighting on instinct. This is so unlike what a dragon should be like, it is as if it isn't a dragon at all..."Braedon looked at the scene before him and realized that Zan Fu was right. It was as if they were just fighting a more powerful mindless beast than usual. "Maybe the legends exaggerated a little."Everyone who heard what Zan Fu said were discussing with themselves about this realization.He was right, the legends said that dragons were powerful and intelligent. This was why most cultivators tried to avoid battle with them. This is why most people started to assume that the stories were exaggerated but Zan Fu Shook his head."My dad had met a dragon before. It spoke intelligently and its strength was no weaker than his. I think that something was done to this monster, I am just not sure what." Braedon and the rest nodded."This is an advantage for us though. If it doesn't have the brains and only the brawns, then beating it will be that much easier." Zan Li raised everybody's morale with these words.Braedon nodded and stood up asking for someone to lend him their blade. One of Shu Rong's men gave him a greatsword that was only 3/4 the size of Rong Jie's. He accepted the blade and stepped forward stating that he had an idea.Braedon started to run forward toward the dragon while the other Shu assassins were distracting the creature, "Everyone move back!" At his words, the others noticed Braedon running in their direction with a large blade following behind him.They didn't know what he was planning but they moved back anyway just in case. As Braedon got closer the beast noticed him and turned its head in his direction. It's cheeks inflated once more and it blew a stream of fire enveloping Braedon.Zan Fu who saw this screamed out from the top of his lungs, "BRAEDON!" He tried to stand up and run in Braedon's direction but Mei Jia, who had just arrived at his side, held him back and pointed."Look!"From the shadow that the flame cast, a spiraling object launched up and floated in front of the dragon. Braedon pulled the greatsword, which was as big as he was, back like it was a baseball bat and used that flat side of the blade to smash the dragon across his face,The unexpected attack drove the dragon onto the ground with a huge ~thump~ and rattled everybody there.The monster roared out at Braedon but he quickly climbed in top of it head, which was lying on the ground, and swung the sword down onto it. He lifted it up and swung over and over again.Eventually everyone got themselves together and gathered around to take their own shot at the beast.Eventually the noise died down and it stopped breathing. Everyone released a sigh of relief as the enemy that was a powerful foe, despite being incredibly stupid, was dead.They all fell back on their bottoms and started to pant heavily. It was kind of a boring battle, but that didn't make it any less tiring.Braedon sat directly next to Shu Rong, while they were catching their breath, he decided to ask something that had been bugging him the whole time, "If your feud was with the Zan family, why did you have to bring the Yi clan into it?"Shu Rong stayed silent for a second before grudgingly giving an answer, "It was because of you."Braedon was taken aback by this, "Because of me?"Shu Rong nodded and continued, "We knew that you had connections with the Zan so we had the great idea of sending assassins to your house and killing you."Braedon gulped at how easily it was for Shu Rong to talk about his death, "By coincidence, that girl Yi Ling and her grandpa Yi Bai were there as well. We figured that if we killed you then the Zan family would blame the Yi family and they would take each other out.""We planned to kill Yi Ling and Yi Bai since they were witnesses and leave fake clues that it was the Yi family while hiding the bodies. Actually, that was the same plan we had when we came down here."Braedon looked at Shu Rong with a worried look in his eyes, "You're actually very cruel." Shu Rong thanked him for the compliment and Braedon despised that it was better not to correct him."Wait. If you're much weaker than you were in the past, how strong were the men you sent to my house anyway?"Shu Rong thought about it for an instance and answered, "There was one in the second realm and two in the fourth. Why did you want to know this?"Braedon shook his head, "No reason." But in reality, he was thinking about how Yi Bai was in the sixth realm but he was having some trouble dealing with someone in the fourth realm, "He was holding back at that time. The question is, why?"He decided to put away the useless thought. Just as he was about to ask one more thing, Braedon saw a flash of silver from the darkness and punched Shu Ring into the ground.He fell back and started coughing from the unexpected attack, "What was that-". Before he finished, Shu Rong, Zan Fu, and the others stared up in horror as the tail of the once dead dragon was now pierced into Braedon's chest.Braedon clutched at the tail sticking out of him as blood dripped from his wound. His entire body became cold and numb as his consciousness started fading into pitch black.Zan Fu looked up toward Braedon while whispering under his breath, "No no no no no no no no!" He ran forward and leapt up onto the dragon's tail, just as the beast itself started to rise from its apparent death.Zan Li looked at this scene with shock written all over his face, "It was playing dead!"Zan Fu climbed up the tail until he reached Braedon and tried to grab onto him. The tail smashed into a nearby wall and knocked Him off, forcing him to plummet to the ground.Then it rose up and flicked its tail over in Zan Fu's direction, making Braedon get forcibly ripped from it and crash next to Zan Fu. He crawled over to Braedon as he grabbed at the gaping wound in his chest.Zan Fu placed his hand over the hole and screamed at Qing Lei to come over, but he couldn't thanks to the dragon charging at their camp and knocking them all aside.He tried to stop the bleeding, but nothing he did would work. He brought out some of the pills he carried, but none of them could heal Braedon's wound. They could only prolong his life for maybe a few seconds, "C'mon Braedon! You're going to be okay. Stay with me!"He lifted Braedon up and placed him on his back. His mind was spinning as he tried to think of what he could do. This situation was impossible. The same creature who couldn't even figure out to eliminate its greatest threat, which was Rong Jie at the time, first was pretending to be dead the whole time and it succeeded?!The whole situation was messed up. Suddenly, a single thought popped into Zan Fu's mind that scared him. He screamed out his revelation to the others as quickly as he could."EVERYBODY RUN, IT IS GETTING SMARTER!"
