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Chapter 165, Section 164: [White Dragon Maiden - Xiang Yu]

Gobi.

Beneath a sheltered high cliff lies a rust-colored lake, roughly an acre in size.

On the rocky shore of the lake, there was a pile of burning cow dung. Atop the flickering flames was a vine-woven grill, on which were tied some pieces of meat of unknown origin.

The meat was already slightly charred from the fire, but no one paid any attention to such trivial details.

A pack of hungry dragon-wolves straddled the backs of their brothers, their eyes fixed menacingly on the woman in the encirclement.

The woman rode on a large horse, holding a huge iron bow taller than herself. A long sword hung from the saddle. Her entire body was covered by a headscarf and robe, but the pair of pale, beautiful eyes peeking out from the gaps in the headscarf, along with the crystal-clear white skin around them, were enough to fill the Dragon Wolf brothers with a burning, hungry desire.

hiss--

The leader of the dragon werewolves took a deep breath and licked the saliva that was flowing from his lips with his long tongue.

"What a youthful scent! It's the unique aroma of a fourteen or fifteen-year-old girl."

Girl, do you feel lonely and isolated walking in the vast, deserted Gobi Desert? Come and have some fun with us brothers!

The wolf soldiers of the Dragon Wolf Clan are all seasoned veterans, and they will definitely let you enjoy the wonderful feeling of being a woman.

Oh... Besides that, there's a sweet, bloody smell in the air. Are you injured?
Come quickly into your brothers' arms, we will protect you and keep you safe from any harm.

The leader's words caused the humanoid brothers around him to collectively howl, and the dragon wolves under their mounts even started pawing the ground with their five hooves.

Dragon Wolf is essentially a wolf-shaped human who also likes beautiful members of the opposite sex and can even have normal human-shaped offspring with them.

Facing the dozens of dragon-wolf cavalrymen surrounding her, the girl clenched her small fists tightly beneath her robe.

"It's like a tiger fallen into the plains being bullied by dogs. If I hadn't been injured, would you bastards have the right to threaten me?"

The girl on horseback took a deep breath, suppressing the anger in her heart.

She lifted the hem of her robe, revealing a quiver hanging on the saddle and an arrow with a red gemstone inlaid on its tip, and said in a deep voice.

"I also have a flaming arrow produced by the imperial court. If I shoot this arrow, it will at least take down your leader."

You'd better be sensible and make way for me to get water. After that, we can each go our own way and both of us can be at peace.

Otherwise, don't blame me for my arrows being blind.

But her clear voice only fueled the anger in the hearts of the dragon wolves, making the thugs' breathing even heavier.

"Don't be scared by her. She's badly injured and can't even draw that iron bow."

As the leader laughed wildly, all the dragon wolves laughed and began to slowly tighten the encirclement, closing in on the girl in the center.

Faced with this situation, the girl could only grit her teeth and draw the flaming arrow from her quiver.

He leaned back on his horse, braced his bare feet against the massive iron bow, and with both hands he drew back the bowstring, enduring the excruciating pain of his ruptured abdominal wound as he shot an arrow at the leader of the dragon-wolf tribe.

To the horrified look of the dragon werewolf, the Exploding Flame Arrow transformed into a dazzling red light, striking the leader precisely.

boom!
A blazing pillar of fire shot into the sky, and the exploding flames engulfed several nearby wolf riders.

The girl, exhausted after shooting the arrow, fell off her horse. Her headscarf slipped off, revealing platinum blonde hair, two short, delicate dragon horns on her forehead, and a beautiful face that still retained a touch of childishness.

Upon seeing the girl's fair and delicate face, the wolf riders who had been rushing forward in anger, intending to devour her alive, immediately fell silent.

After looking at each other for a while, they excitedly shouted.

"What are you all standing there for? Hurry up and line up according to the rules. I still want to go up."

"Screw that. Such a beauty should be offered to the clan chief."

"Our team leader was killed in the bombing. How are we going to explain this when we get back?"

……

boom!
As Chen Sheng flew through the air, he saw flashes of fire on the ground ahead, followed by a loud explosion.

Originally, he didn't take this small matter to heart.

After killing Longxuhu and gaining the supernatural power of flying, he had seen many battles in the sky, which was nothing new in the Gobi Desert.

But as he flew over the explosion, he suddenly felt a sudden, throbbing sensation.

Following the momentum, after flying forward for a distance, Chen Sheng had an idea and turned around in mid-air to fly back.

Hovering above the rusty lake, he looked at the fallen girl and the howling dragon-wolf men around her.

The girl's stunning beauty was nothing special to Chen Sheng, who was used to seeing beautiful women, but her platinum blonde hair, dragon horns, and eyes delighted him.

"What great luck! I've actually encountered someone with pure Golden Dragon bloodline, which will be perfect for helping me with my cultivation."

The "Ten Thousand Dragons Scripture" cultivated by Chen Sheng is a technique that involves condensing the body's spirit in 365 acupoints around the body at the fourth stage, aiming to integrate all the body's spiritual powers into one and advance to the fifth stage.

Among them, the five pure elements of metal, wood, water, fire, and earth form the basic framework of the entire technique and are the five fundamental bloodlines that must be possessed.

As for the remaining 360 types of spirit bodies, there are no strict requirements on the attributes of the bloodline. As long as the total number of 360 can be gathered, they can be integrated with the Five Elements Dragon Vein and naturally advance to the fifth rank.

In this fruit, which contains mixed dragon bloodlines, pure dragon veins are extremely rare.

Only a few individuals with exceptionally rare bloodlines, or those noble families of ancient vassal states, might possess it.

Chen Sheng was indeed very lucky to encounter such a treasure on the way.

Looking down at the helpless girl surrounded by wolf riders, he exhaled a breath of cold air, which condensed into several ice spikes in front of him and fell down.

Whoosh whoosh—

The sharp ice spikes, driven by gravity, fell rapidly to the ground and precisely pierced the skulls of several dragon-wolf cavalrymen, spurting out streams of a mixture of pinkish-white brain matter and blood.

"Enemy attack!"

"The enemy is flying in the sky."

"Broken Claw, don't die! You still owe me money!"

"Idiots, spread out now!"

The attack caused brief chaos.

The second-in-command of the wolf cavalry finally managed to quell the chaos, then looked up at Chen Sheng in the sky and shouted.

"Friends in the heavens, we are warriors of the Dragon Wolf Clan, currently on official duty, hunting down traitors of the imperial court."

Anyone who dares to obstruct official business will be considered an enemy of the imperial court.

Friend, I'll forgive your ignorance, but you'd better leave quickly. Being a hero who saves a damsel in distress isn't so easy.

To have one's clansmen killed and still have to humble oneself by calling the murderer a friend—that's the privilege of the strong.

Chen Sheng's display of flight and icy breath indicated that he was at least a second-tier cultivator, and with his aerial advantage over ground combat, he could easily annihilate the wolf riders. The wolf riders had no choice but to resort to lying to scare them.

Chen Sheng ignored these blustering but cowardly fellows and bowed his head to speak to the girl on the ground.

"Would you like to make a deal with me?"
I can save your life, but I'll demand a drop of your blood as payment.

In what was once a near-certain death situation, a glimmer of hope for survival suddenly appeared. How could the girl refuse? She forced herself to shout.

"I am willing!"

"Get out of here! Forget about this woman. Let's split up and escape. There's still a chance we can survive."

The quick deal between the two startled the wolf riders, who turned their wolves around and fled into the distance.

But before they could run a few steps away, Chen Sheng had already blown out a long breath.

Dense icicles condensed in the air and rained down, crashing down on the fleeing wolf riders, piercing their fragile bodies and blooming into vibrant flowers of blood.

In a short time, they wiped out a ferocious cavalry force whose strength was enough to slaughter most of the tribes in the Yangcheng region.

Having easily accomplished all of this, Chen Sheng landed on the ground and squatted down in front of the girl.

He looked at the longsword the girl was gripping tightly in her hand, and at the distrustful look in her eyes as she stared at him, and smiled faintly.

"Relax, those dragon-wolf cavalrymen are dead, and I'm here to collect my reward."

Think about it, if I wanted to harm you, that icicle would have hit you instead.

The girl didn't speak, but instead wiped the white blood seeping from her abdomen with her longsword and then extended the blade towards Chen Sheng.

In this wasteland of dragon blood, beauty is an extremely scarce resource. The girl was not worried that Chen Sheng would kill her, but rather that he would become a beast and stab her.

Chen Sheng didn't care about the girl's attitude. He dipped his finger in the blade, letting a little white blood stain his fingertip, and then put it in his mouth and sucked it.

He allowed the highly corrosive dragon blood to enter his mouth, merge with the nearby cells, and begin to slowly replicate within his body.

This is an ability possessed by the talent [Hybrid Body]. After a period of nurturing, it can replicate enough pure-blooded golden dragon cells to condense a body representing the golden dragon bloodline.

Having obtained what he wanted, Chen Sheng immediately stood up, a gust of wind surging around him, pulling his body upwards.

He had no interest whatsoever in why the girl was being hunted by the Dragon Wolf Clan, or what grudges or affections existed between them.

Based on his experience from his three previous reincarnations, he urgently needs to find a place to establish himself, cultivate his power, and provide resources for his development in the early stages of his reincarnation.

Unexpectedly, just as they ascended to a height of a dozen feet above the ground, a weak cry came from the ground.

"My benefactor, would you like to find the blood of a pure-blooded Five Elements Dragon to aid your cultivation?"

Upon hearing this, Chen Sheng stopped and looked at the girl who was slumped on the ground with a scrutinizing gaze.

The girl, whose blood loss was worsening, took a few heavy breaths before speaking.

"I also have a friend who is the owner of the Crimson Dragon bloodline."

Unfortunately, she was captured by the imperial court. If her benefactor could rescue her, his cultivation would surely reach a higher level.

Upon hearing that there was a chance to obtain another type of Five Elements Dragon Vein, Chen Sheng's attitude immediately changed drastically.

He immediately landed back beside the girl and spoke gently.

"Your self-healing ability is a bit weak. Would you like me to take a look at your wound?"

Chen Sheng's words caused a flicker of hesitation in the girl's eyes, but it quickly turned into determination.

She reached out and slowly pulled the large robe up, first revealing two slender, long white legs, then a pair of soft, gold-threaded trousers that tightly covered her vital parts, and then a terrifying, bowl-sized penetrating wound on her abdomen.

Inside the abdominal cavity, a layer of dark red flames was burning the girl's internal organs, charring the cut surface of the wound to a black color, causing white blood to flow out continuously.

Chen Sheng stared at the wound for a while, then said confidently.

"I can heal this injury. Are you comfortable letting me treat it?"

"My benefactor saved me, yet he remains unmoved by my beauty. He is a true gentleman. How could I not trust my benefactor?"

With the girl's consent, Chen Sheng activated his flying magic, creating a gust of air to lift her up and move her to the campfire where cow dung was burning.

He put his hand to his mouth and blew out a breath, which condensed into a piece of cold, solid ice almost the same size as the wound, and then stuffed it directly into the girl's wound.

"Ouch...it hurts, my benefactor, it's too big, can you make it smaller?"

blah-

Ice and fire collide, creating a cloud of scorching steam.

Visibly, the girl's internal organs convulsed in pain, and beads of sweat began to gush from every pore of her body.

Her piercing screams lasted for the time it takes for an incense stick to burn before the flames in her wounds finally disappeared.

Without the flames clinging to her, the gruesome wound on her abdomen began to heal slowly.

After a while, the girl regained some strength, straightened her robe, and leaned against a boulder.

"The ammunition fired by the ley line weapons is refined from underground lava, and the wounds it causes are difficult to heal."

This weapon was originally possessed by all seven kingdoms, but after the tyrannical Qin dynasty unified the world, only they were able to produce it. How hateful!

The girl smashed a stone on the ground with her pink fist, venting her anger and frustration from the pain she had been suffering, before respectfully bowing to Chen Sheng beside her.

“I was rescued by my benefactor, but I have not yet revealed my name. I hope my benefactor will not take offense.”

A true man never changes his name or surname. My name is Xiang Yu, and my grandfather was Xiang Yan, the commander who led the elite troops of Chu against the tyrannical Qin more than a decade ago.

In any era, when interacting with strangers, having a noble status or a distinguished ancestor can often quickly earn one's respect.

Even Chen Sheng, who was reincarnated into this world, was not immune to the common practice.

"Are you a nobleman from the State of Chu?"

While Chen Sheng was surprised, he also felt that this was a reasonable thing to do.

How could someone with pure dragon demon blood be an ordinary person?
Seeing Chen Sheng's expression, the girl looked at him with a scrutinizing gaze.

"Did your benefactor become afraid after hearing who I am, and dare not befriend me?"

After unifying the country, the Qin Dynasty relentlessly slaughtered the nobles of the six former states who were constantly rebelling. Making friends with them was indeed a risky move that could easily cost you your head.

However, Chen Sheng didn't seem to care much about this and just smiled faintly.

"To be honest, I'm also quite interested in things like rebellion."

(End of this chapter)