Chapter 167: The Precious Body Lying Sideways.
He followed the Glittering Dragon’s footprints, imagining how she moved here.
Would she be curious about those always lively Odd-Faced Tribe folks above?
Or curious why the buns crabs crawling on the ground were so different from herself? Would she take pride in the ecosystem built around her?
Old Steel Dragon’s thoughts didn’t provide too many answers. A wind-soaring dragon’s life is always spent traveling, with no place being a true home, and no place creating attachment due to long stays.
After circling the world in the sky, the place he returns to always seems unfamiliar, as the world’s face keeps changing through monster activities and natural disasters.
Not staying in one place, the steel dragons flying in the sky cause less severe calamities, like typhoons that happen every year.
The truly free and formless wind only occasionally causes disasters, far less than lingering wildfires or poisonous mists, and incomparable to the trembling of mountains when earth dragons turn over.
Nor can it compare to the scale dance that makes dragons riot, or the meteorite that shatters the heavens, let alone the mysteries of ancient towers and the chilling sights within ruined cities.
Thoughts circled again and again, and all obstacles in the trench were shattered by his Horned Dragon form, expanding the path, revealing more overlooked places.
The Bone Tomb of the Odd-Faced Tribe, the remains of a horned dragon who mistakenly entered here.
The white bones of the horned dragon were charred black.
A slight nod toward the Odd-Faced Tribe totems surrounding the Bone Tomb caused some scattered remnants to vanish upon his touch.
Continuing forward, Jié Jié descended along a hidden path, his line of sight gradually darkening, as if returning from the Golden Land back into a cave.
But the gold and ore blended seamlessly with the rock walls, requiring an intelligence far beyond that of ordinary monsters to notice the difference, and only immense power could open this wall to reveal the master of the Gold Palace.
The alien soul within the monster’s body could do it; the spiky-covered monster smashed the palace gate with a violent dive.
Behind the door was nothing but another part of the Golden Land.
This field was quieter, yet still had golden-skinned Odd-Faced Tribes entering via their digging skills.
Fortunately, such places like palaces and halls never have just one entrance.
After walking down the long downward path for an audience, silent black lava only flickered with faint red luster. The pitch-black mountain should have been able to gush out scorching bl**d from its heart.
Even though the lava still glowed with heat, Jié Jié suddenly felt a bit cold.
Contrasting cold.
Despite the abundant energy of the earth veins, he had a feeling that things shouldn’t be this way.
Jié Jié looked ahead; that should be the last door of the palace.
Smash it open, go down.
The Extinction Dragon peered around.
The gold didn’t shine, but Jié Jié could feel the breath of a colossal creature lighting them up.
He could see without light.
His arrival did not awaken the master here, or perhaps the master was too tired, with consciousness lost in confusion without descending further.
The Glittering Dragon’s body nearly blended with the gold-paved ground, her arms and head embracing the central pillar, sound asleep.
Her breath emitted a little warmth, igniting the gold then extinguishing it.
The precious body lay sideways.
The noble body draped in gold lay there lazily.
Wake her up?
Or sleep with her?
An ordinary Extinction Dragon would surely roar fiercely, delivering a devastating palm strike to wake the monster before him.
But Jié Jié didn’t do that yet. He approached the Glittering Dragon’s face, gently listening to her breathing.
The intense heat waves that once surrounded her with her breath had already contracted within her body, but warmth still lingered beside her.
Her breathing was gradually becoming slow and subtle, yet remained clearly audible in the increasingly quiet environment.
Jié Jié blinked, unsure how much time had passed.
He felt that during the period of listening to her breathing while remaining silent, he might as well have been sleeping.
Like a dream.
The Glittering Dragon’s breath had almost disappeared, impossible to capture under the sound of Jié Jié moving his body.
So?
How long will this colossal creature sleep?
A year? Two years? Ten years? Several decades?
Or will she meet her end in slumber?
Wait peacefully for the new birth to k*ll the old world, dying together with the old world?
“Hey, wake up.”
Jié Jié growled, ramming into the Glittering Dragon’s head.
The Glittering Dragon’s breathing instantly became heavier, but she still didn’t wake up.
He took two steps back—
“Wake up!”
In the roar, the Extinction Dragon leapt into the air, delivering the proper wake-up service between large monsters.
White spikes splattered everywhere, filling the gaps of the Glittering Dragon’s Spiral Giant Horn.
The Glittering Dragon’s head also collided with the central pillar from this blow.
Heat began to radiate with increasingly heavy breaths.
The Glittering Dragon opened her eyes, the bewildered golden pupils igniting with pain-filled anger.
“KhhXer!!!!”
The anger locked onto the Extinction Dragon, rolling heat surged and roared, lighting up the gold while also awakening herself from hibernation.
The anger seemed to burn everything, pure heat instantly swept over the Extinction Dragon’s body, making Jié Jié squint slightly.
The pure heat seemed ready to explode the body, cells died and split rapidly, bursting as kinetic energy across the limbs.
Jié Jié flew up, colliding with the Glittering Dragon’s head, using claws or horns—any part of the body that could inflict damage was a good weapon!
“Hah hah hah hah hah!”
Roars akin to laughter echoed in the hollow, interspersed with continuous collisions between the Extinction Dragon and the Glittering Dragon.
“Boom!”
Jié Jié was directly impaled by the Glittering Dragon’s giant horn, crashing against the ceiling.
Claws gripped uneven gold fragments on the ceiling, adjusting briefly before pouncing at the Glittering Dragon’s head again.
In the exhilarating pain, cells burned throughout his body, stacking mighty strength in his muscles.
The ultimate pleasure made Jié Jié blurt out:
“Before your long slumber, let me enjoy myself first!”
The even gold on the Glittering Dragon’s spiraling giant horn began to become blotchy, gold fragments gradually falling off under the impact.
“KhhEr!!!”
The Glittering Dragon roared, surging heat boiling across her entire body, flashes of red scars appearing in the gold.
Terrorizing heat converged, piercing through the Extinction Dragon.
But similarly, the Extinction Dragon also pierced through with a heat wave, smashing heavily on her face.
The Glittering Dragon’s neck groaned, her head heavily tilting to one side.
After smashing her head aside, Jié Jié fell onto the gradually warming ground.
He adjusted his posture, facing a super-large Ancient Dragon three times his size, issuing an indomitable roar.
Chapter 168
