IS Chapter 154

Chapter 154

Jin Ming’s mind was still a blank.

In his entire life, no one had ever pointed a sword at his throat like this.

Not even his younger brother, Li Yuan.

He had also never heard what it sounded like when a life-saving immortal artifact shattered.

Would he have died without the immortal artifact?

No, he still had his reverse scale.

Everything seemed to slow down, and Jin Ming slowly saw his own thoughts. He had been to many realms in his life, always causing trouble and making a scene. Why had things suddenly turned out like this?

So, just what kind of person was this?

That face reflected in his eyes, how could it seem sharper than the sword against his throat?

The sword’s edge overflowed with baleful energy, and Jin Ming’s reason finally slowly returned. Luckily, he still had his reverse scale. It was too early to speak of death.

His gaze finally shifted away from that chillingly beautiful face, slowly moving downward to the sword’s edge pressed against him. This feeling of being held under a sword with no power to resist had only occurred when he was beaten by Li Yuan, so it felt somewhat familiar.

A familiar piece of jet-black jade appeared in his vision.

At that moment, Jin Ming’s entire dragon body shuddered, his mind unable to react in time as his body retreated several steps backward.

“What is this?” he blurted out.

Then, he stared blankly at the dark sword, his eyes filled with confusion as he looked at Ye Zhuo’s eyes, his voice trembling, “Ah…?”

The person opposite him had a calm expression, his demeanor composed. Jin Ming looked at the sword again, repeatedly confirming its texture, color, and aura. That terrifying feeling of his younger brother’s entire dragon being impaled on it lingered, chilling every dragon to the core.

Just what was this?

Ye Zhuo clearly saw the process of Jin Ming’s eyes instantly changing from human eyes to dragon eyes. Was it that extreme? It wasn’t as if he had impaled Dragon Li Yuan on it.

Ye Zhuo: “What?”

Repeatedly recalling and confirming that Li Yuan was still alive and well, cultivating in the Abyss Sea, Jin Ming’s voice trembled, his aura diminished by ninety percent, “How… did this come to be?”

Ye Zhuo recalled a little. Li Yuan seemed to have said he would give him this reverse scale, but they hadn’t reached an agreement in the end.

Ye Zhuo: “Pulled it off.”

Jin Ming could hear his own blood flowing. He admitted that he had initially been stunned by that sword that warded off gods and ghosts, but now that he saw what had happened, a towering rage rose in his heart.

Heaven and earth spiritual energy surged like angry waves, gathering around Jin Ming, and he glared at Ye Zhuo.

Pulled it off?

Pulled off the Hidden Abyss Black Dragon’s reverse scale? What dragon? What scale?

Made it into a sword? Who taught him to do that! Just who was this person!

However, Ye Zhuo, at the center of the storm, seemed unaffected by his spiritual energy suppression.

Moreover, the sword was still pointed at him. Jin Ming heavily exhaled a breath of turbid air—he couldn’t control this person!

So, he shouted: “Who is your master! Where are your parents!”

He would definitely find this human’s elders and reason with them!

He saw that the person was staring straight at him, a hint of disdainful coldness even visible in those frosty eyes.

Ye Zhuo: “Gone. Dead.”

Four short words landed heavily. Jin Ming choked. Was there no one who could control him?

Jin Ming tried to calm his breathing, maintaining his composure. He understood everything now.

What tenth of a point, what sincerity and pretense, were all just excuses. Those two red dragons were confidently talking about emotional wounds and heartache, but they were all wrong! His brother had truly been bullied. Such a solitary and arrogant little dragon, the unparalleled pride of the entire dragon realm, had his reverse scale forcibly ripped off by someone else! Suffering such great humiliation, of course he wouldn’t see anyone and would cultivate in the Abyss Sea, waiting for revenge! That was the truth.

Outrageous… outrageous! The dragon race had suffered such an extraordinary humiliation, he would definitely tell the Dragon Ancestor.

Ye Zhuo watched Jin Ming’s expression stiffen and change, his anger threatening to erupt, and felt confused: “What did you come to do?”

Come to get angry? Could something have happened to Li Yuan? Ye Zhuo: “What’s wrong with him?”

“He’s doing very well! Cultivating in the Abyss Sea a thousand miles a day. I will definitely kill you!” Jin Ming gritted his teeth.

Being able to cultivate in the Abyss Sea meant he was doing well. Then what did he come to find him for? The dragon race’s tolerance was comparable to that of the Upper Purity Mountain.

Jin Ming’s gaze couldn’t leave the sword, and after a long while, he seemed to finally catch his breath and said: “You are going too far!” Only then did he realize that the scene was familiar. In the past, only others had said those four words to him, but today he had blurted them out himself.

So it was about the reverse scale incident? Ye Zhuo finally understood why the golden dragon was so enraged.

“It wasn’t just pulled off,” Ye Zhuo said, “It was pulled off ten years ago.”

Jin Ming’s chest heaved violently.

So that was it. Everything made sense! There was no lover, only an enemy. This was a life-and-death feud, and it would definitely come to a conclusion!

“You insult my dragon race like this, you better kill me now.” Jin Ming gritted his teeth, “When I return to the dragon realm and inform the Dragon Ancestor, I wonder if your realm can withstand it.”

“Inform away.” Ye Zhuo said, “The one who’s embarrassed won’t be me.”

Jin Ming couldn’t catch his breath again. He should just kill him now!

Ye Zhuo had no interest in killing him. The golden dragon mainly cultivated supernatural powers and spells. Although his dragon body was also very strong, he was essentially a Dao cultivator among dragons, which was uninteresting.

“To avenge him, one of you is not enough.” Ye Zhuo sheathed his sword, “Bring enough people next time.”

Jin Ming now hated that his vocabulary was not rich enough.

How could there be anyone in the world more arrogant than the dragon race, but he couldn’t beat this person!

Was he really going to go back like this?

Something moved in his field of vision. Jin Ming looked over and saw that the sneaky medicinal worker was taking advantage of the fact that the spiritual energy of this world was sealed by him to tie up those three people who were chasing them.

What was the realm of these three in their human world? Human Immortals? The highest in this realm? Wouldn’t they be more outstanding than this Ye Zhuo?

Jin Ming coldly watched the three Human Immortals.

He didn’t believe that this human realm, with its unremarkable reputation, could be such a land of outstanding talents.

“You three.” Thick spiritual energy surged out like a tide, and with the magic sword in his hand, Jin Ming said coldly, “Come here.”

Ye Zhuo watched from the sidelines, a dog-eat-dog situation was always a good show.

In the end, the three Human Immortals were either pierced through the chest by the peerless magic sword or had their dantian shattered. They were all still alive, but they had all fallen to the ground in a sorry state, unable to get up.

Watching the three Human Immortals defeated and their crumbling Dao domains, the frustration in Jin Ming’s chest finally dissipated by a third. So, it was this sword cultivator named “Ye Zhuo” who was the problem.

Ye Zhuo: “Aren’t you leaving?”

“You better be like what you said and wait for me to come again.” Jin Ming threatened, “No matter what realm, the dragon race will never let you go.”

Ye Zhuo was too lazy to pay attention.

Jin Ming snorted coldly, turned to leave, and was about to take off when he suddenly heard that person’s cold voice in his ear: “Hold on.”

At the same time, that reverse scale sword reappeared like a ghost, resting against his neck. Jin Ming couldn’t bear to see that sword at all. An nameless fire rose up and he couldn’t swallow it, so he simply turned around: “What else is there!”

Ye Zhuo sized up Jin Ming.

Dragon Li Yuan’s older brother, his facial features were complete, but his skin was much thinner, looking easy to bully. He thought that if he interrogated him, he could easily get something out of him.

Sect Master Lin saw this scene and suddenly had a bad feeling. But he had no right to speak.

Ye Zhuo’s gaze slowly moved, finally landing on Jin Ming’s dragon eyes. The golden dragon’s pupils were light, a bright gold, which looked very noisy.

His spiritual energy was hindered, a condition that gradually appeared after Li Yuan left. His luck had also started to improve from that time. The spiritual energy blockage hadn’t reached the point of hindering his fighting, so overall, there were more benefits.

But there was an unknown change in his body that irritated Ye Zhuo.

Especially during meditation, he always saw a deep sea, which made him increasingly feel that the matter was related to the dragon race.

Lin Zhu didn’t dare to speak, was he afraid of taking responsibility? Then he could now ask the dragon to clarify.

“You,” Ye Zhuo said, “Examine my meridians. Tell me the truth about what your brother did.”

Such an imperious tone, Jin Ming, as the dragon race’s crown prince, had never heard in his life!

Especially from the mouth of his dragon race’s enemy. Did having a good appearance and being good at swordsmanship allow him to order others like this?

He even said that his brother had done something? Their dragon race had always been upright and disdained using underhanded tricks.

Ye Zhuo: “If you can’t say anything, I won’t let you go back.”

“?”

Having just defeated three Human Immortals from their human realm, Jin Ming had recovered somewhat and began to wonder if he had lost the first opportunity because he was intimidated by this person’s appearance and swordsmanship. Now that he was prepared, could he fight again?

But seeing the reverse scale sword, he suppressed this thought.

No one of the same generation in the dragon race could beat Li Yuan, this was the consensus of the entire dragon realm. Even among the previous generation, there were some things to be said.

Li Yuan had always challenged the strongest ancestors in each race with his sword. This was also well known in the dragon realm.

Therefore, the appearance of Li Yuan’s reverse scale in the hands of a human was especially shocking to the dragons. Jin Ming would rather his younger brother had been blinded by love and had pulled it off himself, but the opposite was true.

Looking back at Ye Zhuo with an unpredictable expression, Jin Ming swallowed his anger and placed his hand on his wrist, sending out a wisp of dragon race’s true energy. What a pure immortal spirit body, the spiritual energy was as pure as the beginning of the universe. How could the heavens be so unfair, giving this tyrant a beautiful appearance and such good bones.

This was his younger brother’s enemy, and also the dragon race’s great enemy. Do something? It would be best if he could secretly kill this person and eliminate a major threat to the dragon race. Jin Ming viciously scattered his true energy, probing this person’s meridians.

“Sect Master Lin.” Ye Zhuo suddenly called out to Lin Zhu, “Where are you going?”

Facing away from them, Lin Zhu, who was about to stiffly leave, stopped with difficulty, looked back at the hillside, and showed a forced smile: “Haha, I wanted to go see the scenery…”

Amidst this stiff laughter, the gloating expression on Jin Ming’s face suddenly froze and disappeared bit by bit.

The expressionless golden dragon slowly raised his eyes, sizing up Ye Zhuo again from top to bottom.

Then, he sent in more true energy, examining his meridians a second time. The bewildered expression gradually turned into disbelieving confusion, and then, he helplessly looked at Ye Zhuo from top to bottom again.

Ye Zhuo: “…?”

What was he doing?

What exactly did Dragon Li Yuan do? He did feel something in his body vaguely responding to the true energy that Jin Ming sent in.

“Have you looked enough?” Ye Zhuo said lightly.

Jin Ming shuddered, as if burned, and abruptly released Ye Zhuo’s wrist.

Ye Zhuo quietly watched Jin Ming: “Did you find anything?”

But he noticed that this golden dragon’s gaze had somehow fallen on his natal sword again. What was there to see? Were all golden dragons like this?

Jin Ming struggled to confirm again that this was undoubtedly his younger brother’s reverse scale.

Not a life-and-death enemy? How could this be? How could something like this happen?

“Are you a Supreme Spirit Body?” Jin Ming said.

Ye Zhuo: “I don’t know.”

Jin Ming: “You should be.”

“…So?”

Jin Ming’s fingers twitched, as if he wanted to confirm again. But Ye Zhuo’s unfriendly gaze stopped him from doing so. Damn it, why was he so afraid of this person? Could he have been damaged by that sword?

In any case, this should be good news. Jin Ming’s mind was now in a thousand threads, feeling that many things would change accordingly, and even the dragon realm would be shaken. Forget it, he would think about it later.

Jin Ming: “You… you seem to be…”

An ominous premonition rose in Jin Ming’s heart, and he stammered, “…pregnant with a dragon whelp?”

Ye Zhuo’s voice was still as calm as ice and snow.

“Pregnant with what?”

“Pregnant with,” Jin Ming’s heart rose with an ominous feeling and he stuttered, “…pregnant with a dragon whelp?”