Douluo Continent: The Peerless Tang Sect, Angels and Rakshasa Return

Chapter 67 - The Fiery Dragon

On the vast and boundless Soul Beast Grassland, a golden streak of light moved swiftly along the vegetable patch. In front of it was none other than the unfortunate one-horned snake from before—no, the Lightfire Dragon.

"Now's the time! Let's get started!"

Surprisingly, the Three-Eyed Golden Lion was now speaking not in the language of soul beasts, but in fluent human speech. The Lightfire Dragon, which was frantically fleeing ahead, hesitated for a moment before continuing to glide forward at low altitude.

It doesn't know if it didn't check the almanac before going out and offended some powerful being, but it unfortunately encountered the treasure of the Star Dou Great Forest and even the entire Soul Beast World - the Emperor Auspicious Beast Three-Eyed Golden Lion.

This little creature, unable to be hit and unable to fly, had no choice but to glide low in the air, praying in its heart that the imperial beast was preoccupied with something and had no time to care about it.

Hey, just now, it seems like the heavens heard its thoughts, because suddenly two people emerged from the bushes!

They kidnapped the auspicious beast and lured out the ferocious beast, which was suddenly free! Suddenly, no one cared about it anymore!

Who would have thought... just as it caught its breath, the Three-Eyed Golden Lion chased after it from behind again. Before it knew it, it was injured by the human on the Three-Eyed Golden Lion's back.

On its back, a black scythe had left a half-foot-long wound. Normally, it wouldn't have cared about such a small wound, but its increasingly weak body was telling it that the wound was unusual.

Looking back again, it widened its amber vertical pupils. Centered on the wound, the dark net-like patterns had spread over a large area, and the feeling of weakness came from that wound.

"roar!"

The dragon roared, twisted its body, and tore off a piece of bloody black flesh. A large amount of blood gushed out from the hideous wound, making a piercing hissing sound as it fell onto the grass.

White smoke rose from the charred yellow grass, and flames suddenly shot out.

"The Rakshasa's demonic eyes blaze across heaven and earth, slaughtering three thousand realms in a single breath!"

Brilliant pupil-shaped runes appeared in formation from several directions, flashing with dark purple light, and pillar-shaped lasers struck the massive body of the dragon repeatedly at tricky angles.

Qian Lingyun deliberately compressed these columnar lasers to the thickness of a finger, just so that their power could be more concentrated.

However, the defensive power of the dragon scales is not weak. It is a soul beast with both light and fire attributes, so its resistance to laser-type soul skills is quite high.

Qian Lingyun's move barely broke through the defenses on the dragon's scales, leaving only a few shallow wounds.

"Roar!" The dragon, in pain, let out a few short, urgent hisses, seemingly mocking Qian Lingyun's useless soul skills. But... it didn't know that Qian Lingyun had a very reliable plan B.

After the purple, shimmering pupil-shaped runes dissipated, a dark shadow leaped from the gap in the wildfire and landed precisely near the wound on the dragon's back. Qian Lingyun nimbly clung to the gruesome, ripped wound on the dragon's back and plunged the death scythes from her arms directly into it.

*Pfft—*

Hot blood sprayed from the wound onto Qian Lingyun's fair skin. The skin soaked in the dragon's blood seemed to be scorched, turning a faint pinkish hue.

Teng!

Qian Lingyun's already thin clothes caught fire under the high temperature. Her exquisite body looked particularly alluring in the flames, and the pair of fallen wings on her back seemed to be stained by the flames as well, burning fiercely in the fire.

It must be said that the temperature of this flame is indeed very high, but... compared with Qian Renxue's sacred fire, it is nothing.

Faced with the dragon's frenzied counterattack, Qian Lingyun would not give it the chance. She extended a long, spiky black tail from her tailbone and unleashed a barrage of attacks on the bones deep within the wound.

The black, cone-shaped tail made a sound like a billiard ball when it collided with the white skeleton, scattering sparks everywhere.

The dragon, in pain, roared repeatedly, its voice hoarse and its body trembling violently. It suddenly spread its wings and let itself burst into flames.

"What is this? Is it trying to set itself on fire?!"

This crimson flame was far more intense than the previous flame ignited by burning blood. In just a few breaths, Qian Lingyun felt her whole body getting hot, as if she were about to catch fire.

She hurriedly channeled her soul power to resist the intense heat, which was an extremely scorching flame, within which lay hidden a great deal of light.

Qian Lingyun was about to leave when she discovered that her scythes were somehow stuck in the bone gaps of the dragon's body. If she didn't get away in time, and the power of light contained in the flames found an opportunity to backfire on her body, she was afraid she would suffer from severe internal injuries!

Thinking of this, a cold glint flashed between Qian Lingyun's brows, and her arm bones faintly shimmered with a dark light.

Two loud bangs.

Qian Lingyun broke free of her restraints by self-destructing her external soul bone. The powerful impact of the two exploding death scythes propelled her directly out of the air.

The potent poison of the Death Spider King, mixed with the power of Rakshasa, spread like maggots along the exposed flesh of the dragon, reaching its entire body through its blood vessels in just a few breaths.

Just as it was about to fall to the ground from mid-air, the Three-Eyed Golden Lion tilted its body slightly and made a diagonal dash toward the place where Qian Lingyun was falling, and caught the free-falling Qian Lingyun on its back in mid-air.

"Heh, thank you!" Qian Lingyun landed safely after being cushioned by the Three-Eyed Golden Lion's back. She struggled to her feet, looking at the fiery dragon twisted into a pretzel hundreds of meters away. She couldn't help but pat the Three-Eyed Golden Lion's large head. "It's been poisoned by me; it's beyond saving. Wait until it dies from the poison before you eat it!"

"Poisonous? Can this thing still be eaten?" the Three-Eyed Golden Lion asked in surprise.

After saying that, Qian Lingyun collapsed to the ground, too exhausted to even change her clothes. She could only use the wings on her back to cover her vital parts and slowly recover her nearly depleted soul power.

Just then, the direction of the core area of ​​the Star Dou Great Forest suddenly changed strangely.

The entire Star Dou Great Forest seemed to be swaying slightly, with all the tree canopies in sight swinging in one direction at the same time, and then slowly swinging back.

An invisible pressure, like a colossal change occurring between heaven and earth, slowly emanated from the Star Dou Great Forest Well. In that instant, the Star Dou Great Forest fell completely silent, as if all living beings had fallen into a deep sleep.

"It's Di Tian! Di Tian is here!" The three-eyed golden lion excitedly circled Qian Lingyun a few times, then humanely placed its paws on her shoulders and said, "Don't worry, just because you worked so hard to catch my lunch, you'll be fine. I've got your back, don't worry."

A dark red light flashed suddenly, and a person appeared on the back of a three-headed, crimson giant mastiff.

"Red King, you've come too!" The three-eyed golden lion tilted its head and lay down in a cute and endearing manner.

"So we've reached an agreement!?" Qian Lingyun greeted the blonde woman on the back of the Crimson King with a smile.

"Okay, it's settled. You and Senior Di Tian go over there, I'll stay here and wait for you!" Qian Renxue jumped off the Crimson King's back, walked a few steps to Qian Lingyun, took off her coat and covered Qian Lingyun's almost perfect body, and said reproachfully, "What? It's so hot, you don't even want to wear clothes?"

"Cough cough cough." Qian Lingyun coughed awkwardly twice and muttered, "It was burned just now."

After saying that, she pointed to the Fiery Dragon that was still struggling for its life not far away and said, "Look, it's about to die. Go and finish it off so you can absorb a spirit ring! Don't waste it!"

"Okay," Qian Renxue nodded, and walked towards the direction of the Lightfire Dragon with her sword in hand.

"It seems you really did promise them quite a few things behind my back!" Qian Lingyun murmured coldly as she watched Qian Renxue's departing figure.

I've been struggling with this for a long time: should it be a pure love story with Xueyun, or a threesome with Ruishou? I'm really torn!

(End of this chapter)