Chapter 222
Chapter 222: To think that I, a dignified snake demon, was locked up and studied for 300 years, I have to kill them
Jiang Tea Tea looked back at the black-gold flood dragon in front of her. His upper body had changed from beast into human form. There were no scales covering it, only scars everywhere, crossing and overlapping all over his skin.
Thin iron chains were hooked into both sides of his waist. Fresh blood flowed out along the chains, dripping down and dyeing the metal a dark red-black.
She looked down at his beast body and snake tail below the waist. The black-gold scales were not complete. A piece was missing here, another piece missing there.
Every place missing a scale was a scar, like someone had dug out the scale and flesh beneath it over and over again.
His snake body was also wrapped with iron chains. One chain was nailed right at his seven-inch weak point, and a whole row of chains was nailed along his tail.
Jiang Tea Tea floated upward, hovering in the water until her eyes were level with the black-gold flood dragon’s human face: “Before you question me, shouldn’t you introduce yourself first?”
The black-gold flood dragon laughed wildly: “Why would I introduce myself to a demon who came here to kill me?”
He could tell she was a demon, just like she had known he was a demon from the first glance.
They both recognized that the other was not human but demon. [Well, well, well, M31 Star System really is full of hidden monsters and leaks everywhere. She is not the only demon here.]
Jiang Tea Tea clicked her tongue, raised the flame staff in her hand, and swung it sideways at the black-gold flood dragon without warning.
Blazing flame light wrapped in powerful spiritual power rushed at him without any attempt to hide it. The oppressive aura shook the water around them, blasting it away and forming a dry circular platform on the huge stone stage where they stood.
The black-gold flood dragon was nailed at his seven-inch weak point and could not use any spiritual power. Other than his two hands, his mouth, and the ability to twist his upper body a little, he could not move. Faced with the sudden spiritual power attacking him, he had nowhere to dodge and no way to dodge.
He shut his eyes unwillingly, waiting for his skull to crack and for death to come. He did not feel pain. Instead, he heard a sharp crack, the sound of a chain snapping.
The black-gold flood dragon’s eyes flew open. His mismatched black and gold eyes flashed with disbelief. The chains embedded on both sides of his waist had broken.
As he was still in shock, the chain nailed at his seven-inch weak point was wrapped in five-colored flame. It burned, broke, and fell away. The row of seven chains nailed into his tail also burned through in the flames and fell off his body.
He was free.
He was free!
The black-gold flood dragon’s gaze trembled hard. He stared at Jiang Tea Tea, his voice shaking: “You… you are not here to kill me?”
Jiang Tea Tea rolled her eyes at him, not hiding her disgust at all: “A flood dragon tied up here and forced to live on rotten meat, anyone can see something’s wrong with you. You do not look very smart. Why would I bother killing you?”
“Forget it. Someone at my Great Demon stage killing you, and then letting other clan members find out later, I would be too ashamed to show my face.”
The black-gold flood dragon, properly despised, changed his snake tail into legs.
He still felt no shame and did not cover himself at all.
His third leg hung there, swinging loosely.
Jiang Tea Tea glanced down without changing her expression: “Even if this creepy place only has the two of us, there is still a difference between male demon and female demon. Pay a little attention.”
The black-gold flood dragon suddenly leaned close to Jiang Tea Tea, sniffed, and took a deep breath of her scent: “You smell so good. You have a dragon scent on you. Is your lover a dragon?”
“Smack!”
Jiang Tea Tea swung her arm back and slapped him across the face, sending his head snapping to the side: “You’re a dignified flood dragon, a top snake demon with the potential for dragon transformation. Yet you let yourself be captured and locked at the bottom of a river, shaming the entire Demon Clan. Even if you do not try to get your dignity back, you still dare disrespect your lifesaving benefactor here?”
“I can more or less guess why you were captured and locked up. It is because you are weak. It is because you are stupid.”
After being slapped, the black-gold flood dragon raised a hand to touch his face. His black and gold eyes stared at Jiang Tea Tea.
After a moment, he used spiritual power to form a pair of pants and pulled them on. His upper body, covered in scars, stayed bare as he sat down on the stone platform and let out a long sigh.
“You should feel lucky you saved me. Otherwise, with that dragon scent all over you, I would chase you to the heavens and down to the earth to swallow you, to boost my cultivation level, complete my dragon transformation, and become a Dragon God.”
He had no idea that her whole body carried dragon scent. She also did not know that this dragon scent on a snake demon like him was a top tier great tonic and delicacy.
Too bad, too bad. He could not beat her. He could not swallow her. She had even saved his life. What a headache.
Jiang Tea Tea planted her flame staff on the ground. Five-colored flame coiled around it, burning bright and dazzling: “The people who tied you up probably dug out your snake gall and ate it. That alone would give them at least a thousand extra years of life.”
“Hey, hey, hey, that magical artifact of yours is pretty good. The fire wrapped around it is the real deal.” The black-gold flood dragon stared at the staff stuck in front of him and reached out, wanting to touch it. Before his hand even got close, he jerked back, but the back of his hand still got scorched, turning black.
Jiang Tea Tea kicked his leg aside, took a chair out from her space knob storage device, set it down in front of him, crossed one leg over the other, and folded her arms: “Of course my stuff is good stuff. Do not even think about stealing it.”
“Speak. How did you end up here, in such a sorry state?”
The black-gold flood dragon grinned at her: “People say when fellow countrymen meet, their eyes fill with tears. Fellow countryman, do not be so serious…”
The flame staff twisted, and the tip pointed right at his throat.
The black-gold flood dragon’s voice cut off. He raised both hands in surrender: “Fellow countryman, we can talk nicely. Just move your magical artifact away from me. I have not recovered from my injuries yet. I cannot stand its flames right now.”
Jiang Tea Tea coughed once. The flame staff did not move away. Instead, it circled around the black-gold flood dragon and formed a ring around him: “Less nonsense. Start talking.”
The black-gold flood dragon had really brought a rock down on his own foot. Since he hit himself, he could only take the pain.
He looked at Jiang Tea Tea and said: “My name is Jin Lin, Lin as in dragon scale. I am 13,000 years old this year…”
Jiang Tea Tea shot him a knife-like glare, cutting him off and warning him: “Talk properly.”
Jin Lin’s mouth twisted. He changed his tone at once: “My name is Jin Lin. I am 1,300 years old. My cultivation talent is very good. In just 1,000 years, I cultivated from snake to python, then from python to boa. But when I was advancing from boa to flood dragon, I was struck by lightning tribulation.”
“Nine heavenly lightning tribulations struck me straight into this demon world I have never seen before.”
“In this world, demons and humans coexist. Demons do not have demonic aura, and we can swagger around in demon form in broad daylight.”
“Even if I used my snake tail to walk on the street, no one thought it was strange. They even thought I was strong and that my demon form looked good.”
“Of course, I also think my demon form looks quite good. Later, I met a dragon. He asked how old I was. I said I was 1,000 years old. At first, he did not believe me. I showed him my spiritual power, and then he believed me and invited me to his cave mansion as a guest.”
“I thought, I actually met a dragon, and my spiritual power is higher than a dragon’s. That dragon also invited me back to his cave. This has to be the good fortune I earned over eight lifetimes, my chance, my chance to become a dragon.”
“So I followed him to his cave. He prepared all kinds of fresh meat for me. After I ate and drank my fill, the next time I woke up, I found I was locked in a box with lightning all around.”
“Every time I struggled, every time I tried to escape, lightning would fall on me whenever I touched the box. It shocked me so hard I could not resist and could not escape.”
“I counted scales one by one. From when I was struck by lightning to when I was caught and locked up here, it has not even been more than three hours. You are still the only demon whose scent I have smelled in this place.”
Jiang Tea Tea could not help herself. She snorted and laughed: “So before you turned 1,000, you were cultivating in deep mountains and forests the whole time?”
Jin Lin nodded: “Yes. I have always cultivated in the Human Realm at Lao Ai Mountain. There are mountains, water, fish, and spiritual energy at my doorstep. It is a rare place for cultivation.”
Not only did he cultivate in deep mountains and forests, he was also not within any Demon Clan territory. He was a rogue demon living in the human world.
The reason humans and demon hunters had not gotten him was probably because he never left the mountain. The demon hunters had simply never seen him.
Jiang Tea Tea suddenly understood: “No wonder you got caught so easily after coming here. You really are stupid.”
Jin Lin was displeased, unhappy: “Hey, hey, hey, we are both fellow countrymen here. Talk if you want, but do not be so mean. That is a personal attack.”
Jiang Tea Tea spread her hands: “Fine, I will not be mean. Go on.”
Jin Lin cleared his throat and continued: “After I was locked in that box with lightning, I thought that dragon wanted to eat me to increase his own cultivation level. But that was not it.”
“He found other demons and had them pull out my scales, draw my blood, and cut my flesh. I do not know what they were doing with it…”
“Later, I finally learned from that dragon’s own mouth that the monster spirits in this little world do not live very long. At most, they live five to seven hundred years.”
“When they get to five or six hundred years, they are old and ugly, not like us demons. The older we get and the higher our cultivation level, the younger we look. We glow with life and look very beautiful or very handsome.”
“That was how I found out they do not know any cultivation methods. They only awaken some abilities, and those abilities are not very strong. They want stronger abilities. They want immortality. To them, my 1,000 years of life is immortality.”
“So for the past 300 years, they have been moving me from place to place, locking me up over and over. They want to get immortality from me. In the end, they locked me in this place, used chains to bind me, and pinned my seven-inch weak point so I could not use my spiritual power.”
“They have been drawing my blood every month, pulling out my scales, cutting my flesh and tormenting me. My whole body is covered in scars, with no patch of good skin.”
“Lately I do not know what happened. They stopped feeding me. No one came to cut my flesh, draw my blood, or pull my scales either. But I have not eaten in three months. I am starving. I do not want to die.”
To think that he, a dignified demon who had cultivated from a snake into a flood dragon, was captured, locked up, chained up, and on top of that, starved until he could only eat rotten corpses.
His more than 1,000 years of cultivation would probably all be wasted, but he was not willing to accept that. He obviously had the hope of becoming a dragon.
Jiang Tea Tea snapped her fingers. The flame staff circling around Jin Lin returned to her hand and turned into a wooden bracelet on her wrist. Firelight flowed across it, beautiful and bright.
Jin Lin’s eyes went wide. If he had a magical artifact like that, how could he have been trapped here for 300 years without escaping?
Jiang Tea Tea crooked a finger at him.
Jin Lin braced his hands on the ground and scooted over on his butt until he was next to her.
Jiang Tea Tea reached out and flicked his forehead: “Idiot, this is not the Demon Clan. You have got it wrong.”
Jin Lin ignored the pain in his forehead: “You are saying this is not a little secret realm where demons and humans coexist. Then what is it?”
Seeing that his stupidity could not be cured, Jiang Tea Tea roughly explained the M31 Star System to him, then paused and asked: “Got it now?”
Jin Lin shot to his feet. The river water outside the platform, which Jiang Tea Tea had blocked with spiritual power, rippled because of his anger.
He shouted, furious: “Damn it. I am already a flood dragon, but in this Beast World, some dragon weaker than me locked me up for 300 years. I am going to find him, kill him, eat him, and make up for 300 years of lost cultivation level!”