Worshiping and praying are necessary conditions for seeing the dragon.
As for what Lu Ye was praying for...
You could already tell from the bulging veins on his arms.
Gradually, the feeling changed.
The sound of flowing spring water disappeared, replaced by the howling wind.
The ground beneath my feet felt soft and yielding, as if I were floating on a cloud.
Slowly opening my eyes, I felt a sudden sense of clarity.
Lu Ye is currently above the clouds.
As the white clouds dissipated, what appeared before my eyes was a huge, withered cherry tree, its trunk and branches shriveled.
The clouds stirred, and a white "dragon man" emerged from them like a sapling, holding a white jade flute.
Its common name is actually the White Wood Old Man. Its face is extremely aged, with dragon horns on its head, an unusually long neck, and a twisted body. Its entire body has the texture of a withered branch, and its lower body has completely transformed into something like a tree trunk.
Lu Ye was so disgusted by its ugliness that he stabbed it through the kidney.
The old man's figure turned into dust and vanished with the wind.
But it didn't end there.
A second white wooden old man "grew" out from the clouds.
Then came a second, a third, a fourth… and more and more. They kept moving toward Lu Ye, coughing painfully and expelling foul-smelling poison.
Lu Ye recognized it at a glance as a symptom of dragon's cough.
To avoid being contaminated by the poison gas, he spread out and took out his revolver to fire in a line. White-haired old men continued to appear, interspersed among them were black-clad dragon-men.
At that moment, a huge cherry blossom branch pierced upwards from the clouds beneath Lu Ye's feet, as if it were about to pierce his body. Lu Ye nimbly took a step to the side, simultaneously flicking the grappling hook on his wrist to pull himself up to the tree trunk.
Then he aimed at the old man in the white wood near the center and leaped down, the Immortal Blade piercing its neck. To Lu Ye's surprise, the old man in the white wood was surprisingly light.
He immediately grabbed the old man in white and flung him around violently!
The surrounding dragon-men were swept away, turning into dust and dissipating in the wind.
However, after the last old man in the white tree was killed, the huge cherry tree that had been withered was miraculously revived!
The withered branches swelled up again, and the pink and white cherry blossoms grew rapidly, covering the entire cherry tree in an instant. Countless cherry blossom petals drifted down with the cold wind.
The old men in white wood had reappeared at some unknown time.
They bowed low to the blooming cherry trees and offered their flutes.
As they made their offerings, the distant swirling clouds began to swirl.
Immediately afterwards, a huge yellow bolt of lightning struck directly in front of the cherry tree.
Then, one after another.
As lightning struck, the bodies of the white-wood elders gradually dissipated.
Lu Ye understood everything.
This is the power of the Sakura Dragon, the essence of resurrection.
— Trading one's life for another.
The so-called White Wood Elder was one of the first nobles to believe in the Sakura Dragon.
They are the servants of the Sakura Dragon.
In a sense, the Sakura Dragon granted these nobles true immortality.
Its true purpose in doing so was to store life force for later use. The evergreen cherry branches that rose from the clouds earlier were not meant to deal with Lu Ye, but to further draw life force from these white wooden elders.
Lu Ye found it really funny.
The nobles, in their cleverness, lured the inhabitants of the lower realm to the Fountainhead Palace to absorb their life essence. However, they did not expect that the Sakura Dragon they worshipped did the same thing, turning the nobles who had absorbed their full life essence into "dragon people" who were half tree and half tree, in order to drain their life.
A thick white fog instantly covered everything, and Lu Ye couldn't help but raise his hand to shield himself.
The clouds and mist quickly dissipated, and the old man in white wood was nowhere to be seen. In his place stood a pure white dragon holding seven swords, towering above the clouds.
The dragon shook its body, like a growing branch, and then stirred up the vortex of clouds.
The clouds were swirled up, lightning flashed and struck all around, and a white storm swirled around the cherry tree before exploding outwards!
The massive airflow spread outwards, blowing the blades hundreds of meters away.
This is one of the ways the Sakura Dragon deals with enemies. When facing an enemy much smaller than itself, it will keep its distance to avoid being caught in close combat.
At the same time, five ever-blooming cherry branches, similar to those that appeared when Lu Ye dealt with the old man Bai Mu, grew around Sakura Dragon.
To heal its wounds, the Sakura Dragon usually dwells within a giant cherry tree, but the intruder's appearance forced it to reveal itself. Revealing itself requires energy; the evergreen cherry branches are not only used to draw life force but also to infuse the Sakura Dragon with life.
The dragon only had a right arm, but that did not prevent it from delivering a blow to Lu Ye that could be described as "creating the world from the ground up".
The seven blades, each over sixty meters long, tore through the air and cleaved downwards.
Lu Ye could even see the wind pressure generated by the huge sword blade.
This is the Sakura Dragon's attack method: using powerful wind blades to tear apart enemies.
The high-speed airflow generated by that vertical downward slash was more than ten meters long, enough to be equivalent to more than a dozen blades. If one was not careful, one's body would be cut by the wind blade.
Lu Ye rushed toward the five evergreen cherry branches.
His goal wasn't to sever the Divine Dragon's lifeline, but rather to use the lightning strikes from its body to attack it. Even if he severed the evergreen branches, the Divine Dragon wouldn't disappear; instead, he would lose the opportunity to kill it.
Above the clouds, yellow lightning bolts struck continuously, one after another.
Meanwhile, Sakura Dragon's seven swords continuously created massive wind blades, attempting to kill the outsider.
With each swing of Yinglong's sword, a danger symbol, even redder than blood, would appear above Lu Ye's head.
But he moved nimbly, running and leaping.
If it's a sweeping attack from below, use the Senpou Kick to dodge the lower part of the attack. If it's a diagonal slash or a vertical slash, Lu Ye has enough time to step aside and dodge.
The most dangerous one came from a vertical slash.
A massive wind blade grazed Lu Ye's cheek thirty centimeters away, tearing a large gash in his face, from which blood dripped. Only then did Lu Ye realize that, without him noticing, the Dragon's Blood power within him had vanished.
That's not surprising.
The power of the Dragon's Blood originally came from the Sakura Dragon.
Since it can bestow "favors," it can naturally take them back.
In other words, Sakura Dragon severed the contract between Lu Ye and Kuro.
He is no longer immortal.
After much effort, we arrived at Changyingzhi, which was Lu Ye's home turf.
The hook rope gripped the top of the cherry blossom branch, and the dragon leaped into the air. Seizing the opportunity, the dragon charged up and manipulated lightning to strike Lu Ye's head.
But this was exactly what Lu Ye wanted to do.
The wedge-shaped ball in his hand caught the thick bolt of lightning that struck down from the sky.
An electric current coursed across the blade, and the entire blade emitted an intense light.
Lu Ye swung it down suddenly.
—A lightning strike in return!
The massive bolt of lightning was deflected back and struck the Sakura Dragon's enormous body.
The power of lightning poured into the wounds on the Sakura Dragon's abdomen and left arm, causing it to roar in pain.
At this moment, it understood that the weak human in front of it had mastered the secret of its ability to activate the Vortex Thunder, and that the Seven-Branched Blade's attack was too slow. If this continued, it would inevitably fall into a disadvantageous position.
The Sakura Dragon looked up and let out a deafening roar.
The heavens and earth trembled, and Lu Ye almost lost his balance.
what happened?
According to the game's progression, the Sakura Dragon becomes weak and listless after being hit by lightning a few times.
What's going on now?
With a tremendous shaking, the Sakura Dragon seemed to be trying to break free from its restraints, gradually detaching itself from the giant cherry tree.
Where it blends with the cherry tree, it exudes a strange and wonderful color.
That was a light that Lu Ye was very familiar with, so beautiful it was dazzling.
— Protoss Fragments.
Lu Ye opened the panel almost instantly and scrolled to the bottom.
There was a line of text that stood out prominently there.
[Return to World Progress: 85%]
85%... This means I'm very close to getting a Protoss shard.
Since Violet contracted dragon cough five days ago, Lu Ye's mind has been focused on how to save her, and he has long since put things like the fragments out of his mind.
I never expected it to be with Sakura Dragon!
The Sakura Dragon completely separated from the giant tree, revealing its complete body, and surged above the clouds, gathering the power of lightning.
Lu Ye gritted his teeth and once again used the Cherry Blossom Branch to leap into the air, drawing the Mortal Blade.
First, deflect the Sakura Dragon's attack with lightning, then use the power of the Mortal Blade to kill it in mid-air!
But the next second, something unexpected happened to Lu Ye.
A branch as thick as a blade wrapped around Lu Ye's wrist.
Where did it come from?
Lu Ye couldn't help but wonder to himself.
Looking in the direction the branches extended, Lu Ye's eyes widened.
That branch was actually connected to the huge cherry blossom tree, weaving through the clouds, and unknowingly crept up to Lu Ye's feet!
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