The Lord of the Rings: Lords of Middle-earth.

Chapter 849 Tears of Moonlight
"Are you unhappy?" Shulan, who still looked quite young, squatted down beside Zilian, her soft golden hair glowing in the moonlight.

"Huh? Little girl, your sister and that traitor didn't come?" Zi Lian suddenly became interested as he looked at Feng Lin Shu Lan lying alone on the ground. As for the traitor he mentioned, it was naturally Zhui Guang.

"Um...I came to see...you." Fenglin Shulan said, her voice trembling slightly as she mustered her courage.

"Haha, aren't you afraid I'll eat you? You're so close to me and no one's protecting you... Hehehe, even though I'm sealed by magic, eating you is still no problem!" Purple Chain revealed a sinister smile, stood up and showed his claws, while a dragon's might quietly locked onto Maple Forest Shulan.

"Thump thump thump!" Feeling the dragon's might, Fenglin Shulan's face turned pale. She took a few steps back on the stone path with her small feet and put her hands on her chest in fear.

"No, you won't! If you eat me, the patriarch will beat you to death!" Fenglin Shulan mustered her courage, suppressed her inner fear, and calmly said to Zilian.

"Oh? You're so sure? I think it goes without saying which is more important, a dragon or a direct descendant of a family, right?" Zi Lian said with a sinister smile. After all, no one would kill a precious dragon to vent their anger for the sake of a clansman, especially not Maple Forest Orchid's son.

"Of course! My brother will definitely avenge me!" Fenglin Shulan said somewhat bluffingly. Although his cousin treated the family very well, he really couldn't be sure which was more important, himself or the dragon. The importance of a wild dragon belonging to the family was self-evident, so Fenglin Shulan began to slowly retreat with small steps.

"You've got some guts!" Suddenly, the ferocious Purple Thunder Dragon retracted its raised scales, closed its wings, and lowered its raised claws. It lay back down on the ground and pretended to sleep.

"Go back." Purple Chain exhaled a puff of white breath from its nose and flicked its tail, dismissing Maple Forest Shulan as if shooing away flies.

What he did just now was nothing more than to scare that little girl Fenglin Shulan. As a dignified Purple Thunder Dragon, he would not go so far as to abuse a young girl. Only someone at least at the sixth rank would be qualified to fight him.

However, Zi Lian was quite satisfied with this girl. Not only did she fawn over her every day, making him feel comfortable, but she also had considerable courage, daring to face the dragon's might at such a young age! Zi Lian didn't mind spending more time with this talented human who also pleased him so much; it was much better than constantly seeing Zhui Guang's sour face.

"..." A white figure vanished silently in the darkness, leaving only a few scattered fragments of light floating in the void.

"Who?" Zi Lian suddenly raised his head and assumed a fighting stance. Although he was sealed by humans, his powerful senses as a dragon were not sealed much. He could clearly feel something had just passed in front of him.

"Whoosh~" The only answer he received was the gentle night breeze. All around was quiet and still, except for the snores that echoed from the military camp. The entire city was unusually quiet.

"...Strange." Zi Lian stood there for a long time, then shook his head, flicked his tail, and burrowed back into the dragon's nest that Shu Lan had built for him, closing his eyes. Anyway, there were so many sixth-tier dragon knights and dragon riders in the city, even if the sky fell, there were taller people to hold it up! Zi Lian didn't mind watching the humans make a fool of themselves.

……

A white figure sat atop the castle's highest tower, gazing silently at the moon. With each breath, wisps of light flowed into her body.

"Phew~ You should be glad you didn't make a move!" Under the moonlight, a long, slender dragon shadow coiled on the high tower of the royal castle, gazing at the purple chain that had returned to the dragon's lair.

"Roar!" The dragon shadow let out a barely perceptible roar, and the next second a soft halo enveloped her body. "Bang!" The sound of air being torn apart rang out, and a pair of huge white wings unfolded in the moonlight. A giant dragon of adult size appeared on the tower as the halo dissipated.

"Thank you... Yuehua!" Longxi gazed at the bright moon and gently folded his wings. At this moment, the adult form of the Holy Dragon of Light reappeared in the Central Plains!

"Crack!" A clear sound came from the towers on the opposite side, and Long Xi immediately looked up at the sound.

"Welcome back! Congratulations on your recovery!" Zhui Guang bowed his head to Long Xi and said with utmost sincerity. As high-ranking dragons of the Light Dragon Clan, the Light Holy Dragon's status was clearly higher than that of the Twilight Dragon! Apart from the Time-Space Dragon, which had been wiped out, the Light Holy Dragon undoubtedly held the highest status among all Light Dragons!
"It's not a full recovery... just a clever trick." A magnetic female voice came from Long Xi's mouth, and she shook her head helplessly.

"What happened? Wasn't everything fine?" Zhui Guang asked, looking at Long Xi's tall and elegant dragon body with a puzzled expression.

“I borrowed the power of the Moon Dragon…” Long Xi said with a slightly bitter tone.

“I don’t want Youlan to become a dragon knight without a mount, even if I can’t use forbidden dragon spells…” Long Xi’s eyes were filled with sadness. Nothing is a greater blow to a dragon knight than being unable to fly in the blue sky! She could feel the sadness hidden beneath Fenglin Youlan’s smile, the embarrassment and awkwardness of being a dragon knight commander who could only fight on foot.

"So? What did you do?" Zhui Guang sensed something was wrong and looked at Long Xi with a serious expression.

"Moon Dragon? You used the power of the moon?" Zhui Guang looked at Long Xi in shock, his eyes full of confusion.

"Yes, I used moonlight to infuse the injured source of energy and forcibly reversed the injury," Long Xi said calmly.

"Are you crazy! You may never recover from this!" Zhui Guang exclaimed in horror. If Long Xi continued like this, she would be no different from a flying, armored earth dragon! In this lifetime, apart from dragon breath and her body, she would be unable to use any dragon language magic that only dragons could master.

"No? How did you activate the moonlight?" Chasing Light suddenly realized something was wrong. After all, the power of the Holy Dragon of Light came from sunlight, and the moonlight was not something the Holy Dragon of Light could activate.

“I have the blood of the Moon Dragon!” Long Xi’s voice was gentle and clear, but Zhui Guang felt as if he had fallen into an ice cave.

As a member of the Light Dragon Clan, Zhui Guang inherited a vast amount of dragon genetic knowledge in his memory. Of course, he knew what the Moon Dragons were like. Unlike other Light Dragons who gained power through moonlight, these Light Dragons did not have the power of their skills during the day. Instead, they had the strongest combat ability at night when the moon was bright. As one of the few light-type night-fighting dragon species, they were most famous for their innate talent ability - Weeping Moonlight!
By communicating with and drawing upon the power of the moonlight from the heavens to stabilize their state, the Moon Dragon Clan uses this desperate tactic of sacrificing their future to solidify their skills. The power of the moonlight allows the caster to maintain their most basic combat strength indefinitely, at the cost of never being able to advance further in their training...

“Tears streaming down your face...you really…” Zhui Guang said sadly.

"Get some rest, you still have to spend time with the children tomorrow!" Long Xi didn't say anything more, but transformed into a miniature form and flew towards the window of Maple Forest Orchid.

"Was it all really worth it?" Chasing Light murmured, watching her retreating figure.

"Perhaps it really was worth it..." A sudden, relieved smile appeared on his face. Wasn't this the destiny of the guardian dragons? Perhaps he was just feeling regret; his heart ached a little...