Ze Tian Ji

Chapter 491 – The Clear and Intense Cry of the Dragon

Translated by: Hypersheep325

Edited by: Michyrr

Night at New North Bridge was similar to the summer nights of other places in the capital, brimming with the stifling heat of summer. The grass was littered with people endlessly fanning themselves with palm-leaf fans. Many people used the hand not holding the fan to carry a bag of ice. Chen Changsheng waited for a very long time until an ideal chance came for him to go from the tree to the well and jump in.

It was still that familiar feeling of falling, that icy chill that bored into the bones. None of the torrid summer heat above could be found in this underground space. The thick mantle of snow on the ground signified that this place would always be the cruel winter.

As he watched the Black Dragon slowly float over like a moving mountain range, although he had seen this sight many times before, he still found it impossible to control his emotions, feeling almost scared witless.

The Black Dragon floated in the space in front, gazing at him from high up. The emotion revealed in its dragon eyes was one of cold indifference. Only he could clearly tell that the deepest depths of those eyes concealed a hint of impatience and complaint.

After returning to the capital from Xunyang City, he had only come to see the Black Dragon once. It was just that pressure placed on the Orthodox Academy recently had been far too great and he had been far too busy. He had truly found it impossible to tear himself away.

The wound between the brows of the Black Dragon should have slowly gotten better. At least, he couldn’t see any problems on the surface.

Chen Changsheng took out the food such as roast lamb and chicken that he had prepared as usual, also cleaning up the trash on the floor. Just as he was prepared to speak, a sudden chilly wind blew into his face.

It was the Black Dragon’s dragon breath, containing a frightening might and cold.

The most powerful soul could be dispersed by this icy dragon breath.

The dragon breath of the Golden Dragon could melt metal. Chen Changsheng had never seen it before, but he could be very sure now that its peer the Black Frost Dragon’s dragon breath could definitely freeze metal into bits, because he was currently frozen to a halt, the cold piercing into his bones and his body in incomparable pain. After some time, he was finally able to break through the ice with great difficulty. Fear still lingering in his heart, he said, ”In the future, don’t joke around like this anymore.”

He didn’t know that his body had once been bathed in the true blood of the Black Dragon, or else that dragon breath would have simply frozen him to death. Then it would no longer be a joke.

A hint of happiness and content flashed across the Black Dragon’s massive eyes and the cavernous space echoed with the sounds of ’zhizhi’ as it laughed.

Chen Changsheng was already used to the strange laughter of the Black Dragon. He told it what had happened recently to the Orthodox Academy, which could also be considered an explanation for his lack of visits.

The Black Dragon slowly descended to the ground before him, blocking out the radiance of the several thousand Night Pearls studding the ceiling of the underground space.

Chen Changsheng stood in its shadow, staring at it for a long time. He firmly resolved that he must get an answer today.

Back then when he had endangered his life and attempted Introspective Meditation for the first time, he was just about to die, but when he finally woke up, he was lying on his bed in the Orthodox Academy, and he wasn’t even wounded. On the contrary, he had obtained an unimaginably tough body, strength and speed.

He knew that this was definitely related to the Black Dragon. Later on, he had asked several times, but the Black Dragon had always avoided answering his question. Hearing his question, or maybe sensing his resolve today, the Black Dragon did not act as it had done before, using disregard to humiliate him, or using its dragon breath to humiliate him. Instead, it fell into a long silence.

”Are you sure you wish to know the answer?” the Black Dragon said in human tongue.