Chapter 193: A Power Too Overwhelming To Resist
Since ancient times, Chinese people’s cognition of dragons, such powerful creatures, has been somewhat neutral. After endowing this creature with the ability to control clouds and rain, people began to believe that dragons are creatures with unpredictable tempers and brutal personalities.
Because when the dragon is in a good mood, there is favorable weather, and when it is in a bad mood, there is heavy rain causing disasters.
It is said that the daughter of the Jing River Dragon King was abused by her husband’s family. The Qiantang Dragon King, as the uncle of the Jing River Dragon Girl, went a long way to her husband’s family to avenge his niece, and in doing so, eight million lives were lost.
Yun Ce values his individual independence highly; he does not want the dragon to share a body with him.
Watching the dragon scales constantly change their arrangement under the roasting of the shehuo, seemingly blocking the shehuo’s harm to the arm—in fact, it was indeed the case. Every time the dragon scales on the arm rearranged, the pain from the shehuo on the arm would diminish a bit.
However, the dragon scales could not persist for long; they would soften, and the heat would act on Yun Ce’s arm again. This pain was not even from the arm; it directly acted on Yun Ce’s head and nerves.
Yun Ce believes this is evidence that the dragon is alive inside him. Unable to resist the shehuo’s invasion, it inflicts the pain on Yun Ce himself, hoping to indirectly affect the shehuo by influencing Yun Ce, ultimately resolving its own crisis.
In the end, this battle concluded with Yun Ce passing out.
In other words, under the entanglement of the dragon’s strength and the shehuo’s strength, Yun Ce’s strength was still insufficient to serve as a stable third party.
However, this battle was not fought in vain. Before Yun Ce retreated several times, Doggy slowly infused the internal breath belonging to Yu Zhu into Yun Ce’s body.
1 Without Yu Zhu’s internal breath help, Yun Ce would have collapsed in the first round of confrontation.
1 Then, Doggy discovered something magical: that corrosive substance in Yu Zhu’s internal breath, after being scorched by the shehuo, actually became very pure.
1 Yun Ce’s body now had an additional internal breath, which was still rapidly expanding and growing.
1 This time, Yun Ce did not use the power endowed by the dragon. He slightly exerted force with his right hand, and a white pebble was crushed into stone powder by him.
1 “Crushing stone into powder is itself the mark of a thousand-man general.”
1 Zhang Min shook her right hand, which Yun Ce had nearly crushed, and complained.
1 Back in Sheyang City, Zhang Min felt she could defeat Yun Ce. Later, somehow, she always felt she was no match for him. Although they had not sparred since then, she did not know where this feeling of being inferior came from.
1 Today, she officially confirmed that she really was no match for this man.
1 Whether Yun Ce was stronger than her was not very important; what mattered was his ability to make her pregnant quickly.
1 What she did not know was that although Yun Ce appeared calm on the surface at this moment, his heart had already begun to roar loudly inside, nearly driving Doggy crazy.
2 Doggy, who had been arguing with Yun Ce, suddenly quieted down. It hoped Yun Ce could go to a quiet place where they could argue properly, without using Yun Ce’s pitifully small brain as the battlefield.
2 So, Yun Ce rode the red date horse to the wasteland, rolling, roaring, laughing, and crying on a small grassland, even raising a bow and arrow to shoot randomly at the sky.
2 The red date horse stayed far away, afraid this madman would harm it.
2 Strangely, only Yun Ce was going mad; Doggy never appeared from beginning to end. Even when Yun Ce, in his most excited state, called Doggy brain-dead, the guy did not retort even once.
2 With internal breath, Yun Ce believed he was not far from being invincible under heaven.
2 Yun Ce was willing to call the appearance of internal breath evolution, and even more willing to call this transcendence of one’s original strength super evolution.
2 Internal breath used to always appear in others, so Yun Ce’s feelings were not deep. Now, with internal breath in his own body, Yun Ce could feel the benefits it brought to himself.
2 His ears heard the sounds of the world more clearly, his eyes saw the world more sharply, his sense of smell distinguished flavors more clearly, and at the same time, his muscles had more strength; he jumped higher and ran faster.
2 If this is not evolution, what could it be?
2 In a joyful mood, Yun Ce untied the iron chain around a fierce beast’s neck, kicked its buttocks, signaling that it had gained freedom.
3 Strangely, the fierce beast did not run; instead, it lay even more obediently on the ground, not even daring to lift its head.
3 Looking back, he found that the red date horse had also run off without a trace.
3 When even the sound of birdsong disappeared from Yun Ce’s ears, even if his head was dizzy with joy at this point, he finally realized something was very wrong here.
3 Yun Ce quickly looked around and found the view empty of people. The red date horse came galloping anxiously from the northern horizon and instantly arrived beside Yun Ce, timidly burying its big head behind him.
3 Yun Ce looked up and saw an eagle circling in the sky. As the eagle continuously descended, its body grew larger and larger.
3 “This eagle has been watching you for three days.”
3 “Why didn’t you tell me earlier?”
3 “I did tell you, but you were busy mating and even gave me a hibernation command.”
3 Yun Ce looked at the increasingly large eagle, sighed, and said, “Sure enough, beauty misleads the nation and misleads the person. What do you think this eagle is here for?”
3 Doggy said, “Probably to kill you.”
4 “From which side?”
4 “It could be from any side; even your good brother Cao Kun has harbored killing intent toward you.”
4 Speaking of Cao Kun, Yun Ce could not help but ask softly, “Do you still have radioactive material?”
4 “Yes, it’s packed in a lead box. This radioactive material is different from any radioactive source on Earth. At the time, things were too urgent, and I didn’t get much sample.”
4 “In a moment, no matter who comes, I plan to give this box of radioactive source as a gift.”
4 “Then be careful not to contaminate yourself.”
4 “Doggy, thank you for letting me leave the mountain villa.”
4 “No choice; I calculated that if you stayed in the mountain villa, more people would die without any effect.”
4 While Yun Ce and Doggy were communicating in his mind, the oversized eagle clumsily landed on the ground, and a person in a fur robe slid down from its back.
4 He staggered a bit before barely standing steady, turned to Yun Ce, smiled, and said, “You can sense my presence; that’s quite rare among young people.”
5 Yun Ce looked at this person whose face seemed somewhat young but whose speech was old-fashioned, politely cupped his hands, and said, “Greetings, senior. May I ask what guidance brings senior here?”
5 The guy, whose age could not be discerned as young or old, laughed and said, “This old man just came to see with his own eyes what kind of person would lay hands on little Yu Zhu.”
5 Yun Ce did not deny it or quibble. He took out a pretty lead box from his bosom, held it in both hands in front of the man, opened it to face him, letting the still glowing soil inside face him. Seeing the fluorescence illuminate the man’s face emerald green, he pleaded: “Please spare my life, senior.”
5 The fur-robed man puzzledly took the radiation source and examined it carefully, even asking Yun Ce.
5 “What is this thing?”
5 “I hear that applying this to the chest greatly benefits improving internal breath.”
5 “Why offer it to this old man?”
5 “Begging senior to spare my life.”
5 “Knowing victory before battle—this truly is a tradition of you Han people.”
5 Yun Ce smiled obsequiously: “Those who understand the times are outstanding people.”
6 Seeing the fur-robed man extend a finger to touch the radiation source, Yun Ce worried he might also suffer, so he stood behind the lead box. Even if there was radiation, it would be blocked by the lead box, not harming him.
6 He very much hoped this old guy would play with the radiation source a bit longer, but unexpectedly, the old guy closed the box and said to Yun Ce, “I’ve accepted your gift; this old man will give you one day to live. You can go back to arrange funeral matters. You killed Yu Zhu and sent his head to Chang’an; this old man must take your head back.”
6 Hearing this, Yun Ce let out a long breath of relief, bowed deeply to the fur-robed man, and said, “May I ask senior’s esteemed name?”
6 The fur-robed man chuckled: “This old man is named Yu Sang. I hear you are on good terms with Liu Changsheng; he should know this old man’s name.”
6 “Now, you can go back to arrange funeral matters.”
6 Hearing this, Yun Ce bowed to the old guy again, then impatiently jumped onto the red date horse’s back. Without returning to Yun Clan Villa, he sped off toward the east.
6 Yu Sang was not surprised that Yun Ce did not go back to arrange funeral matters but ran east instead. He regretfully shook his head and said, “Not properly arranging funeral matters and running around will make you die in the wilderness.”
6 As he spoke, he reached out and pressed the extremely obedient fierce beast’s head. With a puff, the fierce beast’s skull was opened, revealing the still wriggling brain inside.
6 The giant eagle brought its beak over and began pecking at the fierce beast’s brain.
6 After pecking a few mouthfuls, the giant eagle stopped, its eyes with colored rings staring fixedly at the lead box in Yu Sang’s hand.
7 Seeing this, Yu Sang laughed: “You know this is a good thing too? This thing emits boundless power from inside to outside. Unfortunately, to use it, it still needs proper research.”
7 As he spoke, he opened the box, scooped out a bit with his finger, and smeared it on the giant eagle’s face. The giant eagle joyfully jumped twice, making Yu Sang laugh heartily.
7 While Yu Sang was feeding the giant eagle and laughing, Yun Ce and the red date horse had already run twenty li away. Neither horse nor man showed any intention of stopping. In any case, Yun Ce planned to first run to Cao Kun at Yujin Pass.
7 If Cao Kun did not work out, Yun Ce really planned to gallop back to Chang’an. As that old thief Yu Sang said, since High Priest Liu Changsheng knew his name, could it mean that High Priest Liu Changsheng was an expert of the same level as him?
7 This was the first time Yun Ce had encountered a strongman of the Great Han World. He had thought there would be many strongmen, but he did not expect one to be this strong.
7 Just now, facing Yu Sang, he truly could not muster the slightest desire to fight.
7 One more chapter.
