IS Chapter 38
by VolareYe Zhuo reached out to touch the front of the dragon’s head.
The dragon quietly watched him, allowing him to place his fingers on its scales.
The cool, jade-like scales had a slightly undulating, rough texture. In the dim light, the edges of the pitch-black scales shimmered with a faint, mostly dark-gold luster.
True dragons hadn’t appeared in the human world for a thousand years.
Let alone being touched by hand.
Ye Zhuo: “Then I’m really getting on.”
Li Yuan said, “Okay.”
Ye Zhuo landed behind Mo Long’s neck.
There was a line of raised, hard scales down the center of the dragon’s back, which one could perhaps hold onto.
But Ye Zhuo still felt that the dragon horns beside him would be a better place to get leverage.
“How’s your flying?” Ye Zhuo said, “Will there be wind? Will it be shaky?”
A mere human daring to question his flying skills when he himself couldn’t even fly properly.
He knew he was carrying someone for the first time, so he couldn’t be at ease. This person’s thoughts were easy to guess.
Ye Zhuo knew the dragon race well for the sake of his sword. Did he not know that he was born to fly?
“Don’t worry,” Li Yuan retorted, “I won’t let you fall to your death.”
Ye Zhuo chuckled softly.
“Then I shall wait and see.”
— No need to wait and see, Li Yuan already wanted to fly.
The sea of clouds churned like a whirlpool in an instant, and the true dragon’s body suddenly soared toward the infinitely distant blue sky.
On Quiet Grass Cliff, three copper coins were tossed lightly upward, then fell onto the table.
“Nine-five, flying dragon in the sky, most auspicious.” Wei Sheng Xian was slightly surprised, “Oh? This is…”
Before he could finish speaking, a clear, resounding cry echoed from the northern horizon. Looking up, the faint shadow of a true dragon stretched across the high sky, like a primordial dream.
And on the back of that Mo Long, a figure in red stood against the wind, ethereal as a true immortal.
The next moment, Mo Long suddenly leaped up and rushed straight into the sky, then higher and farther in the misty white northern horizon, until finally, it disappeared at the end of sight.
His divine sense cast toward the Micro-Snow Palace, he could still see those bumpkins staring blankly at the sky, their eyes wide like copper bells.
Wei Sheng Xian stared deeply at the three copper coins.
“Don’t bother telling me about this kind of nonsensical thing next time,” he said.
The outline of the Micro-Snow Palace quickly blurred in his vision, and the Green Mountain range became a clear white undulation, eventually covered by the ethereal clouds.
Ye Zhuo suddenly realized that he had brushed past a misty white cloud, and the abundant moisture brushed against his cheek.
Mo Long continued to fly upwards, until the entire human world below was so far away from them.
There was no shaking, no reason for anyone to stand unsteadily.
Even, there was none of the strong wind that Ye Zhuo had expected.
— Because dragons were born with wind and thunder.
When it leaped into the sky, it was the lord of wind, cloud, thunder, and lightning. The wind and clouds would only help it rise to the sky and gallop ten thousand miles. How could they come head-on and block its way?
Therefore, Ye Zhuo on the dragon’s back only felt the vast wind generously sending him off, and didn’t feel disturbed by the wind at all.
“Dragon Li Yuan,” Ye Zhuo said seriously, “You’re very impressive.”
“Is that all it takes to impress you?” Li Yuan said, “Your expectations are too low.”
Ye Zhuo: “I’m blind, I apologize to you.”
A snort came from the dragon in his sea of consciousness, but it sounded quite pleased upon closer inspection.
The speed seemed to have increased again. In the blink of an eye, they had left the gloomy Green Mountains, crossed the bustling and vast human world outside the mountains, and arrived above the vast northern snowfields stretching for tens of thousands of miles.
The snow reflected the sky, a vast expanse, and the continuous glaciers stood quietly under the starry sky like behemoths.
Mo Long dived down in the howling cold wind, taking him through the ancient glaciers and the vast snow sea, and then leaped up again, heading north.
What was beyond the far north? There seemed to be land, but few people mentioned it, and no one went there.
The journey was long, and Ye Zhuo was already sitting next to the dragon’s horn. He didn’t hear any objections from the dragon, so it should be fine.
The farther they went, the thinner the spiritual energy became. Finally, it was a boundless land devoid of spiritual energy.
No wonder no one set foot here. It was impossible to cultivate in a place without spiritual energy, and even the land would gradually become unsuitable for farming.
They would land when passing some unusual places, and Li Yuan would turn back into human form, and travel through those places with him.
At this time, they were traveling through a frozen, grayish-white frozen earth, scattered with countless remains, weapons, war drums, and huge ancient altars.
Among those remains, some bones were still as white as jade, and the remaining flesh was lifelike, like the bodies of immortals.
Some had three heads and six arms, or ribs with wings, and scales, resembling the god and demon races in ancient legends.
There were also countless giant beast corpses and the remains of strange birds.
Ye Zhuo understood.
Perhaps this was one of the places where the human race had lived thousands or even tens of thousands of years ago when spiritual energy was abundant.
There were humans, immortals, demons, ghosts, gods, and perhaps even legendary immortal dynasties, supreme Dao traditions.
After that, there was naturally slaughter and oppression, and rivers of blood flowed.
And so, he had what he saw today.
“There is more than one ancient battlefield like this. I think there must have been a lot of grievances and disputes here, but in the end, they all turned to dust,” said human Li Yuan.
Ye Zhuo looked at his profile.
Could a dragon that had lived through countless ages also lament that all things had an end?
Ye Zhuo: “You brought me here to teach me this?”
Li Yuan glanced at him: “Just passing by. Have you seen enough? Get on.”
Until this frozen earth also came to an end, the horizon between the sea and sky was like a black and white line, slowly unfolding.
— Ahead was a vast ocean churning with monstrous waves, the water was dark, and the strong winds set off huge waves, each several feet high.
According to the time, it was clearly noon, but the cold sunlight was dim, and a huge, pale sun hung in the sky without any warmth.
Ye Zhuo had not expected that at the end of the north, there would be such a spectacle.
“How is it?” the dragon asked him, “This is your human Northern Sea, haven’t been here before, have you?”
“Never been here,” Ye Zhuo said, “You can really run.”
Li Yuan ignored him.
Hovering above the Northern Sea, the dragon tail swayed slowly and casually to maintain balance. Li Yuan looked thoughtfully at the monstrous waves rising and falling like mountains below.
Ye Zhuo’s voice came at the right time.
“If you want to play in the water, go down,” Ye Zhuo said, “I’m not afraid of water.”
He certainly knew Ye Zhuo wasn’t afraid of water.
But this person’s wording was getting more and more inappropriate!
How could he say he wanted to “play” in the water? He was clearly just swimming.
He was a dragon who could fly, that was true, but when it came down to it, the Hidden Abyss Black Dragon lineage was born in the sea and was more instinctively drawn to water.
What’s more, this Northern Sea had raging waves that he was very interested in.
…The last time he came here, he clearly didn’t have such thoughts.