More than half an hour later, the lightning dissipated, and Xue Jing's eyes reflected the appearance of the real dragon at this time.
It is now smaller than before, and its skinny and shriveled body is far less plump and beautiful than when it was in good condition before. The cherry blossoms on the dragon horns on its head are also slightly yellow and withered, as if they will rot and die at any time.
The original arrogant and domineering aura that was above all living beings and beyond the food chain has disappeared without a trace. There is not even room for anger in the dark golden vertical pupils, only visible fatigue.
However, when it looked down and noticed Xue Jing, who was standing with his arms folded across his chest and looking calm and composed, endless hatred immediately ignited in its vertical pupils.
Then... it turned around and flew away.
Xue Jing was stunned.
"Hey, it still wants to run?"
"This border is so small, where can it run to? Chase it!"
The person in the mirror said immediately.
Xue Jing nodded, stepped on the ground, and was ejected. He then stepped on the black thin plate formed by the shadow flame in the air at an extremely fast speed, constantly approaching the real dragon.
The real dragon was extremely weak at this time, and its flying speed was nearly ten times slower than the supersonic speed at the beginning, and Xue Jing was constantly closing the distance between them.
"You have to be careful. It's not running away because it thinks it can't beat you, but because it's afraid that you still have 'claws' on you!"
The man in the mirror reminded.
"A lean camel is bigger than a horse. Its current combat power is at least as strong as those three guard dragons. We must not take it lightly!"
Xue Jing narrowed his eyes slightly: "Don't worry, I understand."
He touched the Futu Knife at his waist, looked at the real dragon in front of him which was still hundreds of meters away, stepped on the black thin plate, and directly activated the twin speeds.
"call out!"
It was as if a rocket booster suddenly appeared at the tail, and the whole person immediately approached the real dragon.
"Hey, where are you running to, you beast!?"
With a shout, Xue Jing gathered his strength and spun twice in the air, then drew his sword and slashed it on the back of the real dragon.
"Squeak—"
The blade entered the body, feeling only a slight resistance, and then it smoothly cut through the bark-like scales, penetrating into the flesh, leaving a deep wound.
At this point, the true dragon, who had already experienced the hellish pain of killing the snake pioneer, naturally did not take the pain of this wound seriously.
But once again being offended by this insatiable little bug, its hatred and animal brutality immediately overwhelmed its reason. It no longer cared whether the other party had that kind of "foreign object". It immediately stopped, turned around, stretched out its claws, and slapped Xue Jing like it was slapping a mosquito.
Xue Jing stepped on the thin board and kicked in the air to avoid the blow. Fu Tu sheathed his sword and stared at the real dragon's claws with his divine silver eyes. Then he gathered his strength again and drew his sword, slashing out dozens of sword lights in an instant.
“Squeak, squeak, squeak—”
The flesh and blood on the real dragon's claws were all cut off like a butcher cutting up an ox, leaving only dark golden claw bones.
Xue Jing kicked back from the air again, and fell down. With a flash of knife, he appeared under the real dragon. A huge knife wound was torn on the real dragon's body, from its left shoulder to its right waist.
Dark golden blood gushed out, and the real dragon roared angrily, with golden lightning flashing all over its body. However, the dragon lightning had just appeared on its body when it instantly went out.
Just now, in order to deal with the snake-killing spearhead that had pierced into its core organs, it had almost used up all of its dragon thunder.
With no other options, it could only start chasing the slippery Xue Jing with its claws, sharp fangs and long tail, like using an anti-aircraft gun to kill a mosquito.
Even though the real dragon has been weakened to the extreme, it still has tremendous attack power and speed in its every move. As a race favored by heaven, its basic physical abilities are not bad.
However, Xue Jing himself is small in stature and small in size, but he also possesses extremely strong five senses and reaction abilities, as well as the observation ability of [Visualization·Truth] that can imprint everything in all directions in his mind. He is incredibly flexible.
Not only can he always dodge the real dragon's attacks perfectly, he can also often take advantage of opportunities to counterattack in the gaps between the real dragon's attacks, leaving one knife wound after another on its body.
The two continued to engage in close combat, attacking each other head-on.
…
On the ground, in a tattered golden sphere, Renia opened her eyes and blinked in confusion.
He felt intense pain from the shattered eardrums in both ears, and his entire body was covered with abrasions and fractures.
But she seemed to... survive.
Her eyes gradually became clear, and Renia endured the pain in her body, groaned, and climbed up, looking around.
Soon, she saw her sister Dotia lying quietly beside her.
Renia raised her right hand with all her strength and placed it on Dotia's plump fruit. After she felt her still beating heart, she breathed a sigh of relief and smiled happily.
"Sister... We survived."
She nudged Dotia's body, trying to wake her up.
Because her eardrums were shattered by the dragon's roar, her hearing had deteriorated a lot. She couldn't even hear her own voice clearly, so her voice was involuntarily amplified a lot.
Dotia was soon shaken out of her stupor by her.
When the two sisters saw that each other was still alive, they hugged each other tightly and cried with joy.
It was not until a long time later that the two people with hearing loss spoke loudly to each other, communicated with each other through gestures, broke open the golden plant sphere, and walked out.
"roar!!"
A dragon roar that shook the border area came from the sky. Even the two sisters who were almost deaf could hear it clearly. They couldn't help but look up and gaze towards the sky.
They saw a man holding a long sword fighting with the terrifying Dragon God in the sky far away.
This was a scene that they were completely unable to understand and was completely beyond their cognition.
A mere human being is actually fighting on equal terms with the Dragon God
Even the Dragon God's body was constantly cut by the blade, but the human was able to nimbly avoid all attacks and was not hit at all.
"He... suppressed Lord Dragon God?"
Dotia covered her mouth with her hands and said in disbelief.
Renia was inexplicably a little proud, and couldn't help but say complacently: "Isn't it amazing? I said he was very strong!"
Dotia: "Ah? What did you say?"
She didn't hear the words clearly because her eardrum was ruptured.
Renia shouted into her ear: "Sister, let's go back first. All we can do now is wait!!"
Upon hearing this, Dotia nodded, placed her hands on her full chest, and made a praying gesture towards the man and the dragon fighting to the death in the sky, hoping that the dragon-slaying warrior would return safely with victory.
After giving Xue Jing one last hopeful look, the two sisters supported each other and limped towards the direction of this country.
…
Time passed slowly, and before I knew it, nearly five hours had passed.
The sky was gradually getting dark, and a full moon gradually emerged in the night sky.
During these five hours, Xue Jing continued to fight a life-and-death battle with the real dragon.
A man and a dragon started fighting from above the roaring waterfall, and gradually moved to another place.
Xue Jing didn't pay attention at first, but soon discovered that the real dragon was actually guiding his battle route.
As the fight went on, they arrived at the territory of the three guard dragons.
But obviously, it did not wait for the expected helper and was just wasting its efforts.
All the dragon species in the border area had been killed by Xue Jing in advance.
The real dragon also understood that this was a planned, arranged, organized and premeditated criminal action against it!
He suddenly went crazy, hatred surged, and he began to devote himself to fighting with Xue Jing.
In the extremely intense battle, Xue Jing always maintained a state of high mental tension. After a long time, it was inevitable that he would make mistakes and was hit by the real dragon several times.
His physical strength is totally incomparable to that of a dragon. Once he is hit, he will be seriously injured and on the verge of death. Fortunately, he has the means to activate the fire of life. With super-fast regeneration of his body, it will not be a problem as long as he is not killed instantly.
But the vitality consumed was real. Compared with the real dragon that had been receiving damage continuously for five hours, he was actually closer to the state of exhaustion.
"roar!!"
Amid the roar, several blades flashed past, cutting a deep wound in the shape of a cross on the dragon's neck, digging out a large piece of flesh. Xue Jing took a short breath, dodging the latter's sweeping counterattack, and thought to himself:
"Trouble..."
Just like a real dragon cannot use dragon thunder, his shadow flame has now been almost used up, and the nearly thirty plant contract seeds he originally had were also evaporated in the previous dragon thunder explosion.
Therefore, the only thing he could rely on was his martial arts.
But now, his dwindling vitality and gradually failing physical strength due to long-term, high-intensity combat have gradually put him in a dilemma.
The person in the mirror also noticed this. He clenched his two little hands tightly together and said nervously:
"Hold on, Xue Jing."
"It's almost there. Now it's time to test your perseverance. It's almost over. Whoever can't hold on first will lose!"
The person in the mirror said this while looking at the cherry blossoms wrapped around the dragon's horns on the real dragon's head.
Unlike the real dragon itself which was gradually becoming weaker and weaker, the dragon-horn cherry tree was originally a little yellow and withered, but is now gradually recovering.
"Something's wrong." The person in the mirror looked solemn.
"Xue Jing, be careful."
"This pureblood has never used the power of its core organ even once from the beginning till now!"
"Although it is very likely that it cannot be used because of the 'claws', we still have to be on guard!"
Upon hearing this, Xue Jing's eyes moved and he looked at the only thing wrong with the real dragon - the dragon horn cherry.
He immediately took a few steps, stepped on the thin board, approached its head, and swung his sword to chop at the dragon's horns.
The real dragon, who had never dodged his attacks from beginning to end, quickly lowered its head this time and avoided his slash.
Seeing that he had been exposed, the real dragon no longer pretended, and with a roar, he used the core ability that he had barely recovered. The cherry blossoms on the dragon's horns began to multiply rapidly, one by one popping out continuously, breaking away from the dragon's horns, and floating in the air.
In just a blink of an eye, there was an endless sea of flowers in front of Xue Jing.
In the dark night sky, under the shining of the full moon, endless petals submerged him completely. The area was so huge that he had no room to hide.
"Xue Jing!!"
The person in the mirror shouted.
After each petal touched Xue Jing, it immediately began to absorb the little remaining vitality in his body, along with his flesh and blood.
Endless petals covered him, and in just less than a second, he was sucked into a dried skeleton. Even his skin was crushed and absorbed, and the marrow in his bones was also sucked out, leaving only a brittle and soft skeleton without any essence.
"It's over. All my efforts have been in vain..."
The person in the mirror of the bracelet covered his head in despair.
Tears welled up in its eyes as it looked at the boy, who was only a skeleton left, and said sadly:
"Xue Jing..."
This extremely confident young man, who did not waver at all even when he learned that he would be facing a pure-blooded dragon, arranged his dragon-slaying plan step by step, as if everything was under his control from beginning to end, would actually stop here...
Facing a powerful pure-blooded dragon, this seemed to be a natural and reasonable result, but the person in the mirror found it difficult to accept.
“Ah!!”
The ecstatic dragon roar resounded throughout the heaven and earth, and an unprecedented sense of pleasure flooded the real dragon's body.
It never thought that just crushing a bug to death would bring it such a huge sense of joy and accomplishment.
Under the full moon, countless petals are floating around it. Even though it is already exhausted at this moment, as long as it is given time, with its vitality, it will gradually recover.
By then, it will kill all the 'little bugs' in the world!
“Ah!!”
…
Xue Jing has always been curious about what death feels like.
He also has the capital to be curious.
And now, he finally realized what he wished for.
It was like falling into an endless black abyss, with no end in sight and no sense of anything.
No big deal, he thought.
The so-called death is just a special state of life.