"Us? I'm the only one who fell in, right? Who else?"
Tang Rao glanced around but couldn't make heads or tails of the situation.
"Still trying to argue with that slippery tongue of yours? You brought these little things with you into my ho, using the life-saving hot spring ant for my son. What exactly are you trying to do?"
When the giant dragon got angry, its dragon whisker pointed towards the sky.
"I didn't an anything by it, I just wanted to ask, since I fell in here, how do I get out, Brother Dragon?"
Just a single breath from the giant dragon, and Tang Rao could feel imnse pressure.
No wonder it's the Dragon Clan; always so sacred and inviolable.
"How to get out? You still want to leave, huh!"
The giant dragon snorted, and the entire Ice Valley shook again.
Tang Rao staggered, dodging left and right. Thankfully, the ice shards falling from above didn't hit him.
"Brother Dragon, I really didn't co here on purpose. I stayed a bit longer on the mountain and then encountered a landslide, which caused to fall. Speaking of which, I'm the victim here."
After all, Tang Rao couldn't understand why he was so unlucky.
The giant dragon remained silent for a mont.
It was recalling if it might have sneezed earlier, causing the avalanche. It wasn't impossible, it seed.
Even if it was his fault, what of it? He sneezed on his own territory, without disturbing anyone else's domain. Tang Rao, on the other hand, intruded upon the giant dragon's territory. From this perspective, Tang Rao was the intruder, whether he admitted it or not, it was still his fault!
"Boy, it doesn't matter whether you're the victim or not. You've intruded on my ho and destroyed my son's hot spring pool, you deserve to die!"
In any case, you deserve to die!
"Why don't you dragons make sense? It's not entirely my fault. It's partly because your place isn't sturdy. Otherwise, I wouldn't have fallen, wouldn't have smashed your stuff, and you wouldn't be angry with now. So what gives?"
When it cos to feeling wronged, Tang Rao feels more wronged than anyone else.
"Hmph, you little human, your mouth sure is sharp."
In all these years, since its appearance and rise to prominence, it's the first ti the giant dragon's authority was so challenged.
"Considering how eloquent you are, I'll let you die quickly."
The giant dragon opened its blood-red mouth, with its fearful white fangs filling Tang Rao with dread.
Even Tang Rao was trembling in fear from those fangs.
"Damn it, which god did I piss off this ti?"
Quietly retrieving a five-colored stone from behind him, Tang Rao found that reciting a spell and using Instantaneous Movent were useless before the giant dragon.
In front of the giant dragon, none of these tricks worked.
"I never imagined the Divine Stone would be in your hands, kid. Tell , who are you?"
If it weren't for the stone in Tang Rao's hand, he would have already been the giant dragon's al.
"Who I am doesn't matter. What matters is don't eat , and don't scare , okay?"
Just a mont ago, that terrifying mouth truly scared Tang Rao's heart half to death.
"Tell where the Divine Stone ca from, and I might spare you."
The Divine Stone is crucial to Tang Rao and also to the giant dragon. A human life is insignificant, but the Divine Stone, there's only one in the entire Divine Realm. Its significance is extraordinary.
How did the Divine Stone co to be? Tang Rao thought about how the Guardian Snake had died because of it, which was already a great regret for him. Who knows, if he said anything more to the giant dragon, it might implicate others.
Such foolishness, Tang Rao thought it best to avoid.
"What Divine Stone? I found it, and that's all I know."
Found it?
Who is Tang Rao tricking?
"Really don't know? Found the Divine Stone, and even learned a mnemonic. Do you think the Dragon Clan's artifacts are so easy to decipher?"
The giant dragon was highly dissatisfied with Tang Rao's lie.
"What? This stone belongs to your clan?"
Who are you trying to fool? Would the Dragon Clan entrust their artifact to the Snake Clan? Are you saying the Dragon Clan is out of mbers, or are they afraid a mber might make off with the stone on their own?
"Stop bluffing. When Tang Rao's father was telling fibs, you probably hadn't even stopped nursing yet. Don't even try to pry it out of , I won't say a word no matter what."
Tang Rao sealed his lips, taking a valiant stance as if he wouldn't disclose national secrets even under threat of death.
"The Snake Clan are loyal subordinates of the Dragon Clan. Did you get the Divine Stone from the Guardian Snake and then kill the Guardian Snake?"
The giant dragon closed its eyes in thought for a mont, then reopened them to look at Tang Rao: "You took the Divine Stone and ran, afraid of retaliation, silencing the snake. Am I wrong?"
"Completely wrong, totally wrong. The stone was given to by the Big Snake, who said it originally belonged to , telling to take it and quickly leave. The Big Snake was killed by others, it had nothing to do with . Stop throwing baseless accusations at ."
With a bit of provocation, the giant dragon easily got Tang Rao to spill the truth.
"Kid, do you really think your tricks can fool ?"
You big-headed dragon, you're far from matching Tang Rao's father's wits.
Tang Rao and the giant dragon had different reactions, but the difference was one dared to speak directly, and the other kept thoughts shaded in their heart.
"Who's trying to fight you? I've said everything, both true and false. Will you let go now?"
Every extra minute spent with the giant dragon was an extra minute of danger. The dragon's breath aid at Tang Rao gave him imnse pressure.
"It's a pity, I still need you. I can't let you go just yet."
The giant dragon spoke just a sentence, and the oppressive air made Tang Rao's ears and nose bleed.
Tang Rao was startled. If he spoke a few more words, wouldn't he bleed to death from all over his body?
"Brother Dragon, what level are you? Your words alone could kill ?"
Truth is always so cruel. After all his years on the battlefield, Tang Rao had seen strong beings, but none as terrifying as this one.
He had bled so much just to learn the truth, it shouldn't be too much to ask, right?
"Speak softly to , not too loudly; my small body can't take it."
After leaving the hot spring, Tang Rao and the giant dragon kept so distance.
Presumably, knowing Tang Rao couldn't leave on his own, the giant dragon allowed him to stand wherever he liked.
"I need your Divine Stone to save my son's life."
The giant dragon's voice softened, its body now lying on the ground with a look of sorrow.
"What's the big deal? Take it and save him. Do I look like soone who's stingy?"
It's just to help save a dragon cub's life, just borrowing Tang Rao's Divine Stone, not asking for his life. What's the big deal?
"The Divine Stone might turn to water."
The giant dragon added.
...
Tang Rao suddenly fell silent.
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