Chapter 243

Chapter 243: The Meaning of Life.

After flying away from the Coral Land Plateau, the next destination was the Giant Ant Hill Wasteland.

Jie Jie did not notice any significant climate change on the Coral Land Plateau. The two Sunfire Dragons had clearly not stayed there, and it was even possible that they had bypassed the plateau through the Grand Canyon.

They flew towards the southern part of the New Continent, and in the south, the suitable place for Sunfire Dragons to land inevitably led to the Giant Ant Hill Wasteland.

The arid desert, with its rich mineral deposits in underground caves, met the needs of the Sunfire Dragons. Jie Jie also missed all kinds of frogs in the swamp.

The massive body of the Míng Dēng Lóng descended, and its long limbs sank directly into the sand under its own weight.

“Tsk.”

Jie Jie let out a dissatisfied sound. After taking only two steps, the accumulated sand pile turned into quicksand, pulling him down.

In the past, his activities in the Giant Ant Hill Wasteland were mainly in the swamps and wastelands. This was his first time entering the desert. Just by flapping his wings, a large amount of floating sand was blown away, swirling in the air.

After transforming into a Flame King Dragon suitable for desert activities in mid-air, he landed again.

The claws of the Flame King Dragon were thick and padded, allowing it to walk on the desert without sinking. It felt especially comfortable when active in the desert environment.

The desert was not entirely barren. Many weathered rock pillars stood upright in the desert, and barren wastelands and mountains also existed in high-altitude terrains, though only a small part remained, as if the original landscape had been swallowed by the incoming sand.

These sands quickly extinguished Jie Jie’s curiosity. He flapped his wings and took off again, crossing the desert at the fastest speed.

Apart from the Sound Winged Dragons in the air, it was difficult to see other monsters here. Both the Female Fire Dragons and Horned Dragons would build their nests under the sand layer without exception.

Occasionally, a green dot could be seen, which would quickly descend upon seeing Jie Jie, eager to bury itself in the sand.

Female Fire Dragons, these single mothers, always acted cautiously, except when foraging; otherwise, they would guard their nests. The erosion of wind and sand, along with the fatigue of raising offspring alone, made their shells dull, hastening their decline.

Stronger Female Fire Dragons could still compete for forest areas as territories. Female Fire Dragons in the desert were mostly weak individuals, and the survival rate of their young was significantly lower.

Besides the Female Fire Dragons, the situation of another group of single mothers was much better.

In areas with cactus clusters, Jie Jie saw two male Horned Dragons engaging in a horn lock battle, while a female Horned Dragon leisurely ate cacti, waiting for their results.

He approached after transforming into a Winged Dragon and landed on a rock pillar to watch this scene.

Before the two Horned Dragons could decide the outcome, a third Horned Dragon suddenly emerged from underground, breaking one of the Horned Dragon’s horns, meaning that the Horned Dragon lost its mating priority.

But Horned Dragons are inherently ferocious creatures, and what was worth fighting for here was not just the right to mate; cacti were also delicious food.

Strength outweighed the rules of dual combat, turning the cactus land below into a battlefield, with the equally warlike female Horned Dragon getting involved.

The thick giant horns and axe-like tail hammers were excellent can openers, now opening cans of their own kind, resulting in a high disability rate.

When blood was drawn, the battle intensified once more.

The victorious male Horned Dragon was covered in wounds and roared, realizing that the initial fight was for mating rights, beginning to mate with the female Horned Dragon.

The bloody cactus land, which had just been a battlefield moments ago, was filled with the skulls of past losers, but now became a bed of union.

No, too early to say that, it was still a battlefield. The male and female Horned Dragons fought again without affection, until the male Horned Dragon pressed its broken horn against the back of the female Horned Dragon’s crown, completing the mating with difficulty.

Jie Jie landed from the rock pillar to the ground, losing interest after watching for a while, but neither disturbed nor left.

Because the winning Horned Dragon was dying. It was the fiercest, having defeated the other monsters, but also the most severely injured.

Despite being a creature with a longer lifespan, it now resembled a moth.

Growing into an adult seemed to be merely for passing on its seeds, but passing on its seeds to continue life was indeed the highest significance of life.

A sense of sanctity seemed to envelop the male Horned Dragon and its actions.

After completing the mating, the male Horned Dragon collapsed as if exhausted, violently thrown off by the female Horned Dragon, lying on the ground barely alive.

Its abdominal wound was bleeding, and the female Horned Dragon’s back was completely covered in blood.

The female Horned Dragon closed her reproductive tract and departed underground without any sentiment.

The body of the Sound Winged Dragon expanded, and the Lord of Karma Fire ended the life of the Horned Dragon.

Flipping over the corpse of the Horned Dragon to cover its ugly side, the broken shell on its back was opened.

Today’s meal had a very solemn atmosphere.

After eating the meat from the back, Jie Jie left the rest to the cactus land.

There was one more skeleton in the cactus land, but this one had entered as a victor.

A heavy low-pressure atmosphere surrounded Jie Jie until he met the young Flame King Dragon.

It seemed he was no different from the mutually locked male Horned Dragons.

When the young Flame Empress Dragon looked down from the barren mountain, an invisible cage seemed to tightly bind the two Flame King Dragons.

The winner was undecided, yet already decided.

In the eyes of the Flame Empress Dragon, he was undoubtedly the master returning to this desert.

In the weary eyes of the young Flame King Dragon, he was the same.

Clearly, he left a deep impression on the two Sunfire Dragons.

But the lion-like dignity transformed into the cage of the Flame King Dragon, causing him to pounce on the monster before him.

“Perhaps only an Extinction Dragon could break this situation?”

Jie Jie marveled.

But where is the Extinction Dragon? The Extinction Dragon is temporarily absent.

The two Flame King Dragons pounced on each other, locking their bodies and horns together in a horn lock battle.

The young Flame King Dragon struggled but was directly thrown to the ground by the monster.

Jie Jie neither angrily drove it away nor cheered for victory, but only watched the retreating back.

The soft sandy ground echoed with joyful sounds as the Flame Empress Dragon descended from the barren mountain, gathering in her wings and walking gracefully.

Jie Jie suddenly realized.

At this point, the victor reigns supreme, the kingdom and beauty, this was a very good ending for the Flame King Dragon…

But—

Would you like to be the queen?

Jie Jie, who was not just the Flame King Dragon, suddenly asked the beauty.

Thus, several days later, the seemingly lonely but radiating the aura of a victor Spiny Dragon happily hunted frogs in the swamp, satisfying its appetite.

Afterward, Jie Jie flapped his wings, leaving this frog-saddened land, flying towards the Ancient Tree Forest.

Chapter 244