Xue Jing reached out and touched her head, saying gently:
"If you are afraid, you can refuse it. You don't have to feel burdened. It's just human nature."
Renia was stunned and a little dazed.
A glimmer appeared in her eyes, and she murmured: "Why, don't you lie to me and say there is no danger?"
"Why don't you threaten me and force me to do this?"
Hearing this question, Xue Jing burst out laughing.
"… I am not so depraved as to deceive or coerce a little girl."
He paused and said gently, "We are in a cooperative relationship based on mutual consent. Putting all that aside, you are also my friend. I will not do this to you."
Renia's eyes lit up: "What if I choose to refuse?"
Xue Jing smiled and said, "Then I will go and kill the Dragon God alone."
Renia's eyes became brighter and brighter: "Without my help, it will be difficult for you, right?"
Xue Jing nodded: "To be honest, yes."
"If you don't help me, my chances of killing the Dragon God will become very low... almost impossible."
Renia's voice trembled a little: "Can't you do it without me?"
Xue Jing said solemnly: "It won't work without you. Only you can help me. Only you can do it."
Tears suddenly rolled down the girl's eyes.
"Only I can do this..."
"How can I refuse after hearing such words..."
The shrine maiden who was known as the "most useless one in history" had her self-worth affirmed for the first time in her life.
…
"Were you acting just now? Were you lying to her?"
In the valley, Xue Jing strolled around, looking for dragon thunder plants.
The dozen or so dragon thunder seeds he had collected before had been almost destroyed in the life-and-death battle with the third guard dragon. This time, facing the pure-blooded dragon species, he had to collect more.
Facing the question from the person in the mirror, Xue Jing smiled and said:
"Why do you ask? Do I look like I'm acting?"
The person in the mirror was silent for a while, then shook his head and said, "It doesn't look like acting, but I feel like you have great acting skills."
"… I'm just purely curious. Are you deliberately playing the emotional card to get her to volunteer?"
Xue Jing thought about it and said, "One third of it was intentional."
"I do think that if I say it this way, it should be able to touch her and make her do it voluntarily."
“… But, nothing I said was false.”
"If she doesn't want to, I won't force her. This is a voluntary cooperation."
"I needed to kill the Dragon God, and so did she. Under the premise that both of us wanted this result, I just pushed her gently."
Xue Jing squatted down in front of a golden corolla, gently touched the petals with his fingers, and engraved the seal on them.
"Even if it comes to this, Renia still chooses to refuse out of fear."
"That means her character is limited to this level. I won't trust such a person to hand over the key 'claw' to her..."
The person in the mirror sighed, "You are very mature... not like a child."
Xue Jing put the golden seeds into his pocket and said with a smile: "Is this a compliment?"
The person in the mirror crossed his arms and did not reply. Instead, he glanced at the glasses Xue Jing was wearing and said jokingly:
"In fact, you have an easier way to make her work for you wholeheartedly."
Xue Jing naturally understood what it meant, he just shook his head and said:
"If it is really necessary, I will not hesitate to use this face."
"The premise is that it is really necessary."
The person in the mirror snorted and said jokingly, "Am I telling you about your face? You are so narcissistic."
…
Xue Jing spent the entire day collecting dragon thunder plant seeds in the territories of various guard dragons.
The final harvest was about twenty-five or twenty-six.
It’s not that you can’t collect more, but the upper limit of the planting contract has been reached.
In order to contract more seeds, he even used 1,200 points of divinity to upgrade the Plant Contract to the same level as Shadow Flame, reaching Level 6.
Now, he has completely stretched his strength to the limit that he can currently reach, and Aban really has no more strength left.
By the time he returned to this country, it was almost noon the next day.
At this time, the altar had been built in the square.
Various ritual vessels were placed around the square. The meat of many creatures and various local specialties, which Xue Jing could not recognize, were placed as offerings all over the square, which had become an altar.
Hundreds of people from this country, dressed in various sacrificial robes, were standing in their positions, waiting for the ceremony to begin.
On the high platform in the middle of the altar, Renia was kneeling quietly with heavy makeup on her face, wearing a priestess's robe and a gorgeous crown on her head, holding a hook-blade-shaped ritual object in each hand.
Xue Jing did not enter the city, but stood far away on the hillside, looking down at the sacrificial site below.
Time passed slowly until noon, when the sun rose above the zenith in the sky and the sacrificial ceremony officially began.
The shaman under the platform seemed to be saying something. After he finished speaking, all the priests started to move, and Renia also began to dance on the platform.
As the ceremony progressed, it seemed that a mysterious invisible force gradually emanated from the altar.
“BOOM!!”
A deafening thunderclap was heard, and Xue Jing's gaze turned towards the center of the border area - the roaring waterfall.
Huge golden lightning bolts were constantly falling from the sky, and every time one struck, he could hear a loud thunder after a while.
"call out-"
Under Xue Jing's gaze, a huge shadow rose into the sky from the roaring waterfall.
The speed is so fast that the distance is so far that the feeling is not profound.
However, the continuous shrill sonic booms emanating from it and the white air waves spreading along its path all reveal one fact.
Xue Jing's pupils shrank slightly: "Supersonic..."
At this speed, he probably couldn't stand it just standing on its back, not to mention being hit by it...
Xue Jing looked carefully, and his strong eyesight allowed him to clearly see the monster flying at supersonic speed.
There is no doubt that it is a dragon.
Xue Jing has seen many dragon species since entering the border area, but no dragon has ever given him such a strong "dragon" feeling.
Its entire body is filled with an absolute, terrifying and domineering aura that is superior to any other living creature and is at the top of the food chain.
It was a temperament that was taken for granted, as if the person was destined to be above all living things without any room for doubt, arrogant to the extreme, and taken for granted to the extreme.
The dragon scales were like tree bark, without any of the roughness of the three guard dragons. Instead, they were delicate and seemed to be carefully crafted by gods, elegant and luxurious.
Huge wings, a streamlined slender body, a swaying slender dragon tail, and two sharp dragon horns that curve upward on the top of the head.
Above the dragon's horns, there are winding brown branches, and on the branches are beautiful flowers similar to cherry blossoms.
"That's a pure-blooded dragon... a true dragon."
Xue Jing's eyes were filled with excitement, as if he had realized something.
"Be careful, follow the plan, and don't be impulsive." The man in the mirror reminded.
"Don't worry." Xue Jing said softly as he looked at the real dragon that cut through the air and left a sonic boom cloud.
He took a deep breath, touched the Futu Knife hanging on his waist, and looked up at the sky.
In the cloudless sky, there is only one sun standing in the middle of the sky, casting rays of sunshine.
"Nice weather, perfect for slaying dragons."
…
Chapter 166: Fight with all your strength and without reservation (4K)
People didn't have to wait too long. The real dragon flying at supersonic speed took less than two minutes to cross a distance of dozens of kilometers and arrived tens of thousands of meters above the altar of this country.
"call out!!"
The delayed sonic boom made all the residents of this country cover their ears.
“Boom—”
Above the sky, suddenly, the clear sky turned into dark clouds, the sky became gloomy, and golden lightning crackled and flashed continuously in the dark clouds.
On the altar, the ceremony was still going on. Renia was still dancing the sacred music on the platform, and the shaman was chanting prayers below the platform.
Xue Jing stood on a distant hillside with his arms folded across his chest, watching the scene and waiting silently.
"Gudong—"
In the center of the dense dark clouds, a circular hole slowly opened up.
A huge real dragon with a gorgeous and perfect body, flapping its wings and slowly descending from the sky with an absolute dominance that looked down upon the world.
When all the citizens of this country saw the supreme and noble figure, no matter what they had thought before, at this moment they all showed the utmost fanatical faith and worship, knelt down respectfully, prostrated themselves, chanted the prayers they had memorized by heart, and welcomed this dragon god of creation.
Seeing the Dragon God slowly descending towards her, Renia couldn't help but take a deep breath and touched the two 'claws' hidden in the clothes around her waist.
Her heart was beating so fast that she thought it would jump out of her mouth in the next second.
She was nervous, her hands and feet were weak, and an extremely huge pressure almost crushed her to the ground as the Dragon God kept approaching.
"I can't do it without you. Only you can do it. Only you can help me."
Xue Jing's gentle yet solemn words echoed in her mind. After Renia's body stiffened for a moment, the pressure was miraculously relieved a lot.
With impeccable etiquette, she knelt down before the descending dragon god, demonstrating the priestess' obedience to the god.
The flapping of her wings created a violent air current that blew against her loose shrine maiden robes. Her shoulder-length brown hair fluttered in the air current, and the ceremonial crown on her head also swayed constantly.
"call-"
As the Dragon God's feet lightly touched the ground, all creatures in this country fell to their knees. No one dared to make the slightest sound, and the whole city was eerily silent.
With his feet grasping the platform on the altar, the Dragon God's dark golden vertical pupils looked at the kneeling witch on the platform. The dragon head slowly lowered and approached her.
"Hmm—"
A low sound like the roar of an engine came from the dragon god's throat. Its long neck wrapped around the priestess on the ground, and it looked around carefully with its eyes slightly narrowed.
Then, the Dragon God raised his front paws and grabbed the witch in his hands. He flapped his wings and soared into the sky, pulling the sonic boom cloud along with him as he returned towards the roaring waterfall.
This was a result that was not unexpected to anyone, and everyone had an expression of 'as expected'.
The most useless priestess in history would naturally have no chance of gaining the Dragon God's approval. Her only fate was to be captured and brought back to the holy land of the Roaring Waterfall to serve the Dragon God for life.
The old witch priest under the altar sighed deeply, his face full of worry.
"What should we do now... The priestess left no offspring. Will the bloodline of the Dragon God Priestess be cut off in this generation?"
"If I had known earlier, even though she was still young, I should have..."
…
On the hillside, Xue Jing watched the real dragon soaring into the sky and returning, and could clearly see Renia in its claws.
"Very good, let's follow."
Xue Jing narrowed his eyes slightly, the ground beneath his feet exploded, and his figure instantly disappeared from the spot, and he kept rushing towards the direction of the roaring waterfall.
While galloping, he looked at the real dragon that was much faster than him and kept pulling away from him, and said:
"He actually used the dragon force field to protect Renia, protecting her from the supersonic wind pressure shock wave. This pure-blooded dragon is really taking good care of her."