Dragon Tamer

Chapter 586: Chapter 588 Leave Everything Else to Me
 

“You heavenly ordained people will never understand how hard life is for us.”

“Since the heavens are so unjust, we can only rely on ourselves to survive.”

“If I could receive divine grace, I wouldn’t hesitate to kill even those who have shown me kindness, let alone my own blood relatives. It’s their mediocrity and lowliness that have condemned us to live no better than rats!”

Wu Wen took a deep breath, and her eyes reddened slightly.

Which beggar would truly feel grateful from the bottom of their heart towards a rich benefactor who gives them money?

If they had a knife in their hand, knowing that killing their benefactor would grant them everything that person owned, not a single beggar would hesitate. They’d probably stab even deeper. Why should they have to face the bitter cold and the threat of savage beasts and demons, while these people enjoy luxury and protection from the powerful?

Wu Wen had led her people to their current position through determination and ruthlessness.

“Your Life Soul’s essence is still in my hands.”

“You, as you are now, are at best a King-Level Realm cultivator. You’re no different from the common and muck-bound spirits of this entire continent, still struggling beneath the World Dragon Gate. Without your Life Soul’s essence, what can you, Li Yunzi, possibly use to compete against me!”

“I almost forgot to thank you for your Life Soul’s essence, which has brought blessings upon our Absolute Ridge Chengbang. You, Li Yunzi, have helped our Wu clan so very much. Once I kill you, I will be the inheritor of the Life Soul’s essence. Within the Nether Gate, there will be a place for me, Wu Wen. I will definitely get my revenge on the Ming God Clan that once sought to annihilate us, and your death, Li Yunzi, will be the first step in establishing my grand undertaking!” Wu Wen said, sneering.

The death of many clanspeople can be quickly recovered from.

As long as one has the Life Soul’s essence and the grace of the gods!

Therefore, Li Yunzi must die. She must be severed from her connection to the Life Soul’s essence so that Wu Wen can fully inherit it.

If the heavens won’t choose me, Wu Wen, as a divine being, then I’ll seize it for myself with my own bloodstained hands!

She took a step forward, standing amid a countless number of Evil Birds. She was surrounded by an army of witch birds like a storm around the military fortifications, with Wu Wen at its center. Like a witch queen, she let out a sharp, long cry, a distress call that instantly sent the Evil Birds into a frenzy, their sharp claws and beaks lunging towards the Flying Dragon Battalion that was coming to Li Yunzi’s aid.

The Flying Dragon Battalion had just taken down a Triangle City Camp and was coming to provide escort, their loyalty unquestionable. Yet even the mighty Flying Dragon Battalion had difficulty bearing the wrath of the Evil Birds.

“Let them pull back,” Li Yunzi said to the black-robed old woman by her side.

“Yes,” the old woman nodded.

The order was given, but the commander, Xu Bei, hesitated.

Riding atop an Azure Dragon at dusk, he was feeling somewhat annoyed.

“Commander, if our Flying Dragon Battalion tries to break through this army of witch birds, we might face total annihilation. If we are to support the Female Monarch, we need to fight our way up from the ground. So at this moment, it’s best if we help the other battalions take down all Triangle City Camps and smash all City-State giant statues. Only by doing so can we completely overthrow this Absolute Ridge fortress!” his lieutenant suggested.

Even with the desire to fight, the Flying Dragon Battalion was powerless. The swarm of Divine Birds was like a God of Death’s flock of Evil Crows to soldiers below Lord Level, easily reaping their lives.

And the experts who were originally by the Female Monarch’s side were mostly entangled with the strong of Absolute Ridge Chengbang. The Female Monarch felt desperately isolated deep within enemy lines.

“Commander, look!” Suddenly, the lieutenant pointed upwards.

An Azure Dragon danced with the falling snow, while above, bolts of blue lightning streaked the sky like a divine army approaching with great momentum!

“Is that… the Azure Dragon Shepherd Venerable!”

“It’s Zhu Minglang!”

“Which Zhu Minglang?”

“The man that we’re not supposed to discuss in the military, the one with the Female Monarch…”

“He’s tearing through the bird swarm’s defenses by himself!”

Seeing this, all the officers in the Flying Dragon Battalion gasped in shock.

The Flying Dragon Battalion was the strongest force of the Li Chuan Army, and if they couldn’t break through the witch birds’ storm, it was astonishing that the Dragon Shepherd alone had created a breach. It shamed the officers, who were both shocked and embarrassed.

“That… Back at the Academy, I heard Zhu Minglang speak boldly about guarding the name of the Female Monarch himself,” a young Flying Dragon Lieutenant muttered quietly.

It seemed now that the only one who could indeed protect her was Zhu Minglang.

The most dazzling sight on the entire battlefield was the Azure Phoenix Azure Dragon. When the Li Chuan natives found out that the Dragon Owner was Zhu Minglang, none could believe it!

It wasn’t that someone was deliberately besmirching the Female Monarch’s reputation by not allowing Zhu Minglang’s name to be mentioned. Rather, within the growing ranks of the Female Monarch’s Army, the name Zhu Minglang was taboo. Just the thought of their most revered Valkyrie belonging to a man would make them tormented, sad, and furious.

But throughout this battle, when the soldiers, who struggled internally with such turmoil and bitterness, saw the strength Zhu Minglang held that could cover half the sky, they felt it was beyond their reach. They could not harbor any resentment any longer.

Take this moment, for example. Regardless of their loyalty and support, and despite their sworn allegiance, they were barred by the storm of witch birds from offering the slightest help to the Female Monarch. What use was their number or their unified will? They simply couldn’t match Zhu Minglang, who stormed into the enemy camp and stood by Li Yunzi’s side, a Heavenly God personified.

“Actually, I’ve always shipped that couple…” whispered a Flying Dragon Lieutenant who had graduated from the Li Chuan Dragon Taming Academy.

“Pull yourselves together! We must not let down the Female Monarch’s cultivation of us. We shall cleanse Absolute Ridge, victory to Li Chuan!” Xu Bei shouted loudly.

“Cleanse Absolute Ridge with blood, victory is ours!”

Everyone shouted in unison, determined to spare not a single foe!!

Xu Bei, leading the Flying Dragon Generals, charged once more onto the battlefield of the City-State, but as he left the encampment, he still looked back at the proud dragon shadow soaring high above, and at Zhu Minglang who sat upon the Azure Dragon, his heart bearing slight discomfort, yet his eyes filled with increased respect.

For the strong deserved solemn reverence from the Army Guards!

…

Amidst the chaos of Azure Lightning, the evil birds thick as dark clouds vanished within the thunder, while the Azure Phoenix Azure Dragon shone like the fierce sun’s green radiance, purging all the sullied Demonic Qi.

“Within a hundred meters, let not a single Evil Bird survive,” Zhu Minglang said as he leapt down from the back of the Azure Phoenix Azure Dragon, landing beside Li Yunzi.

The Azure Phoenix Azure Dragon nodded its head, its feathers igniting like blue flames, their burning brilliance like piercing light arrows, eradicating all the noxious witchbirds around them.

Zhu Minglang looked around and frowned when he saw there were no other experts or Army Guards by Li Yunzi’s side.

The Li Yunzi he knew was not one to act rashly.

She was the epitome of calm, her wisdom surpassing others, and even when pressed and manipulated, she could still turn the tables…

But in this battle, Zhu Minglang sensed a change in Li Yunzi’s demeanor.

In her coldness, there was anger.

Her decisiveness was tinged with recklessness.

After all, she should not be risking her life alone, she was the commander, her life and death critical to the entire campaign.

“Is it her, the one who framed you?” Zhu Minglang asked, pointing towards the heights, where the military ramparts stood like stacked mountains, and at the summit, there was a woman with red eyes who seemed to possess the ability to control a flock of Divine Birds.

“Yes, she’s also the one who killed our mother,” Li Yunzi replied.

Zhu Minglang nodded solemnly.

So that was it. The woman at Absolute Ridge, the one choking the life out of Li Yunzi, was also the arch nemesis of the Sisters Li Nan!

A pair of unsightly fox-like eyes, they somewhat resembled the eccentric woman he had encountered upon awakening in that dungeon!

It was she who arranged for that poisoned porridge, hmmph!

“You want to kill her with your own hands, right?” Zhu Minglang inquired.

“Yes!” Li Yunzi confirmed decisively.

“I’ll protect you on the way up. Don’t waste even a shred of your energy before you stand before her,” Zhu Minglang said.

“There are still many strong enemies within this military rampart, and another Chakravarti is present,” Li Yunzi added, advising Zhu Minglang.

“Leave all the others in this camp to me. You focus on taking her down!” Zhu Minglang’s eyes shone with a fierce determination.

At this moment, Zhu Minglang’s demeanor bore no resemblance to his usual gentle and nonchalant self; his expression exuded a domineering air and a boundless confidence!!

Li Yunzi, looking at him, couldn’t help but become momentarily entranced.

“Is it me, imprinted on your heart, becoming the shame of your lifetime?”

For some reason, Li Yunzi’s mind flashed back to this phrase, spoken by Zhu Minglang with a wry smile when they first met.

At that moment, Li Yunzi didn’t respond. Having realized that this man was nothing more than an innocent caught in conspiracy, unleashing her humiliation and rage onto him would have been meaningless.

Were she to answer now, Li Yunzi would nod, but only to the first part of the statement.

“I am fortunate to fight alongside you,” Li Yunzi slowly revealed a slight smile on her cheeks, faint yet in the midst of this blood-drenched battlefield, it shone beautifully like a blemish-free bluebell.

Zhu Minglang was also momentarily stunned. It was fortunate that he was a Dragon Trainer with an Azure Dragon protector by his side; otherwise, this moment of reverie might have seen him killed by the surrounding foes.

In this noisy battlefield, perhaps the only thing capable of slaying him was Li Yunzi’s smile, good thing she rarely smiles…

“We are destined,” Zhu Minglang too smiled a little, and having said that, he stepped in front of Li Yunzi.

The oncoming foes were no ordinary opponents, among them one who was the strongest of the Four Heroes, the Northern Hero!

Absolute Ridge City State stood upon the Northern Mountains, where “North” signifies supremacy.

Thus, the Northern Hero was the leader of the Four Heroes, second only to the Dual Chakravarti!

“So you are the master of the Azure Phoenix Azure Dragon, Zhu Minglang?” The Northern Hero strode forward, pointing at Zhu Minglang and declared, “What a pity, your Azure Dragon may have overcome Heavenly Tribulation, but it cannot overcome me!!!”