Chapter 230
Chapter 230: Little Brat’s Mom’s Jealous Tears, He Actually Ate Four Dragons!
Little Brat’s mom had tears of envy, jealousy, and hate in her eyes. He had actually eaten four dragons!
Her Magic Spells were a bit lacking because she only had forty percent of her Spiritual Power left.
To save him, she lost another ten percent and was down to only thirty percent, while still carrying five Emergency Rations cubs in her belly!
She had to protect her demon dignity, so she was not going to say any of that out loud.
She had to maintain her Great Demon Stage image and keep acting like a big shot to the end.
Jiang Tea Tea pointed at Jin Lin, gave him a look that said “you know,” and stabbed straight at his heart: “Little Snake Demon, you’re so smart, so how did you end up trapped and tortured for three hundred years?”
Jin Lin felt like she almost poked a hole through his chest: “Fellow Countryman Senior, Great Demon Stage Senior, I am only 1,301 years old. I have only been cultivating this human form for less than five hundred years.”
He added: “But the Emergency Rations tonic dragon you raised is really good. All the Huang Dragon Clan members I saw today put together can’t compare to him alone.”
Great Demon Stage Senior truly deserved the title. Even the Emergency Rations she raised were the best. Unlike him, who came here only to be treated as Emergency Rations by others.
Jiang Tea Tea was full of pride, like she was only missing a tail to wag: “If you’re weak, you need to train more, so you don’t end up on someone else’s table again.”
Jin Lin answered at once: “Yes, yes, your lesson is right. From now on I’ll practice more and be more careful.”
Jiang Tea Tea pointed at the bed: “Sit down. I’ll heal your old injuries so you don’t lose in a fight later and embarrass our Demon Clan.”
Jin Lin clasped his hands: “Thank you, Fellow Countryman.”
He moved to sit on the bed in a bold, swaggering way.
Jiang Tea Tea drew on her Spiritual Power, pulled in Spiritual Energy, formed it into a ball, and shot it onto his body, wrapping him completely.
Wrapped in her Spiritual Power and Spiritual Energy, Jin Lin’s old injuries and all the places where scales could not grow were nourished and healed.
After more than ten minutes, the ball of Spiritual Power and Spiritual Energy around him faded away, and most of his wounds were healed.
Jiang Tea Tea left him a Sound-Transmitting Talisman and told him to rest well. Then she went to the room next door. She did not expect Chong Ming, who should have been handling affairs at the Huang Dragon Clan, to already be in the room, as if he had been waiting just for her.
Jiang Tea Tea closed the door, walked in while yawning, ignored his presence, kicked off her shoes, slipped into the bathroom, took a shower, changed into pajamas, came out, lifted the quilt, flopped onto the bed, pulled the covers up, and went straight to sleep.
Watching her smooth, nonstop movements, Chong Ming understood it as a silent order to get lost. She clearly did not want to see him.
He slowly walked to the bedside and sat down. He released Supernatural Abilities and Spiritual Power to calm her and asked: “Jiang Tea Tea, you blocked my lightning today to save Jin Lin and coughed blood. How are you now?”
Jiang Tea Tea answered him: “I am already asleep.”
Chong Ming asked again: “You don’t trust the healers on my warship? I can call Cheng Lin Yue and Cheng Yuan over to check you.”
[Check me for what?]
She had blocked his lightning and only spit a little blood, losing ten percent of her Spiritual Power. The cubs in her belly were perfectly fine.
She just needed to rest. Later she would get off the warship, find a place at the Huang Dragon Clan, put down roots, and absorb fertilizer and the essence of heaven and earth. It would not be a big problem.
Jiang Tea Tea still answered him: “I am already asleep.”
Chong Ming looked at her wrapped tight in the blanket: “You don’t want Cheng Lin Yue and Cheng Yuan to come. Do you want to drink some dragon blood instead…”
Jiang Tea Tea threw off the blanket, sat up, lifted her chin, and looked at him: “Enough, stop testing me. My youngling is fine.”
She knew he was beating around the bush. One moment he wanted healers to check her, the next he asked if she wanted dragon blood. It was all for the cubs in her belly.
She had told him eight hundred times that the Little Brat had nothing to do with him, yet he was still overthinking things and probing her in a roundabout way.
Chong Ming met her eyes, his voice steady: “I care about you. It is only being cared for along the way.”
Jiang Tea Tea waved at him: “No need to explain, I get it. But I also have to tell you, the dragon cub is mine alone. If you dare fight me for it, I dare fight you to the death, and I can find someone else to fight you too.”
Chong Ming’s eyes grew dark, and he sighed softly: “I won’t fight you for it. Go to sleep. I’ll release some Supernatural Abilities and Spiritual Power to calm you, then I’ll leave.”
Jiang Tea Tea grunted and lay down again. This time she did not hide to sleep but hid under the covers to form hand seals and silently cultivate.
Chong Ming released more and more Supernatural Abilities and Spiritual Power, wrapping around her and nourishing both her and the cubs in her belly.
After about half an hour, he finally stood up and left the room. He went to the warship’s office area to handle all the problems involving the Huang Dragon Clan, Li Ao, and the White Wolf Tribe, and to hold everyone responsible for the Li Ao and White Wolf Tribe case to account.
They had failed to fully investigate every person linked to Li Ao, the relevant authorities, and the illegal foreign departments.
The explosion of the Huang Dragon Clan’s scandal was not only about the Huang Dragon Clan. All the researchers involved, their families, and their families’ families all needed to be sorted out and rechecked.
The heads of a whole chain of departments, including the Security Department, Special Operations Department, Judicial Department, Police Ministry, Intelligence Department, and others, were all dug out by Chong Ming and named and criticized.
At one or two in the morning, nobody was sleeping. Everyone was handling related work, arresting people involved, and arranging follow-up tasks.
The Common Citizens on the Capital Planet were shaken awake by night-time alarm sirens, explosions, and the booming sound of Supernatural Abilities.
After waking up and coming out to see what was happening, they could not see anything. Refreshing StarNet again and again also brought up nothing.
The Huang Dragon Clan members on the Capital Planet were called back to the Huang Dragon Clan overnight. Those not on the Capital Planet, those in other Huang Dragon Clan bases, also arrived on the Capital Planet early in the morning.
After they arrived, they got off the ships and were directly escorted back to the Huang Dragon Clan by Security Department police personnel.
In less than twenty-four hours, all the Huang Dragon Clan members in the M31 Star System had returned to the Capital Planet and back to the Huang Dragon Clan’s gathering place.
At two in the afternoon, under clear blue skies, a warship hung silently in the air over the Huang Dragon Clan’s grounds. It was Warship No. 2 of The Empire, the warship that carried the Three Armies’ Commander in Chief and Prince Regent, His Highness Chong Ming.
The warship was so huge it blocked out the sky and sun, full of crushing pressure, as if it covered the entire Huang Dragon Clan settlement.
Over a hundred thousand people of the Huang Dragon Clan, old and young, even the dragon eggs held in arms, did not dare breathe loudly.
They knew the entire Huang Dragon Clan area, including the land for hundreds of miles around, was within the range of the warship’s cannons.
Jiang Tea Tea led Jin Lin down from the warship. She wore an ordinary combat training suit, her hair in a simple bun with two Tea Tree branches stuck in it.
He wore plain pants and a shirt. His hair fell down to his ankles. His face was clean and unscarred, rough and handsome with a trace of wickedness. Now that his injuries were healed and some Spiritual Power had recovered, his flood dragon aura was completely different.
Chong Luo Han and his wife Huang Yu Lin and their family saw Jin Lin restored to his original self and were so panicked they trembled nonstop.
Jiang Tea Tea led Jin Lin to stand in front of Chong Ming and asked: “Commander in Chief Chong Ming, you said you would give Jin Lin an explanation within twenty-four hours. Calling him down now, is that to give him that explanation?”
Chong Ming’s gaze was sharp as a blade, his voice low: “According to my investigation, Chong Luo Han and Huang Yu Lin, the husband and wife, together with their son Chong Ling Lan and daughter-in-law Huang Xi Ruo, are the main culprits who imprisoned and abused Jin Lin, Your Excellency.”
“I have also checked and confirmed their other crimes of treason. Now these four people are left for Jin Lin, Your Excellency, to deal with however he wishes.”
“If Jin Lin, Your Excellency, spares their lives, they will still face execution by firing squad. If Jin Lin, Your Excellency, does not spare them, kills them, and eats them, he will also be fine and will not bear any responsibility.”
His meaning was very clear. No matter what Jin Lin did to this family of four, none of them could escape death.
Jiang Tea Tea looked sideways at Jin Lin: “What do you say?”
Jin Lin looked toward Chong Ming and asked in return: “So the main culprits are mine to handle, and whether I kill them or slice them up is up to my mood.”
“Then let me ask, for the others who ate my flesh, blood, and scales, you’re not planning to have me just let that go, right?”
The Emergency Rations tonic dragon raised by his Fellow Countryman was really strong. Even with some of his own Spiritual Power restored and his body strengthened, he still would not be that dragon’s match.
In other words, his Fellow Countryman really had an eye for talent. She had raised the strongest dragon in the world. If she killed him and ate him, she might even jump straight to Ascension.
Chong Ming stared back at him: “Jin Lin, Your Excellency, problems are solved one by one, and meals are eaten one bite at a time.”
Jin Lin raised his brows, stepped back, and nodded: “You’re right. Things should be solved one by one, food eaten one bite at a time. So, I’m going to eat them.”
Chong Ming spread his hand: “Do as you wish.”
Jiang Tea Tea stood at Chong Ming’s side and looked at Jin Lin with envy.
He could eat four dragons from one family. True dragons were a huge tonic!
Huang Yu Lin, Chong Luo Han’s wife, heard that she would end up in Jin Lin’s mouth and belly and completely forgot that even if she did not die in his stomach, she would still die for treason.
She dropped to her knees and begged: “Jin Lin, we were wrong, we know we were wrong. Please don’t kill us. Please don’t eat us, don’t eat us.”
“We can compensate you. Tell us what you want, and we’ll make it up to you…”
Chong Luo Han reached out to pull her: “Yu Lin, don’t be like this. This is what we owe him…”
Huang Yu Lin flung his hand away: “This is what we owe him, but our son only knew about it and didn’t act. He shouldn’t die.”
“Jin Lin, you, you… you can eat me, eat us husband and wife, and my daughter-in-law too. Just don’t eat my son. I beg you, please don’t eat my son.”
Their daughter-in-law, Huang Xi Ruo, heard this and gave Huang Yu Lin a backhand slap across the face, hysterically demanding: “You old dragon hag! I said it before. As soon as I married into your family, you made me handle your business and kept your son away. So you planned long ago that when things were exposed, you’d pull your son out of it and use me as a scapegoat?”
“I gave your family such an excellent dragon like Xing Qi, and this is how you push me out and plan my death?”
Huang Yu Lin’s face swelled from the slap. She had lost all her earlier confident and elegant strong-woman style. She begged Huang Xi Ruo: “Xi Ruo, don’t make trouble. Ling Lan only knew about our business. He didn’t take part.”
“We were the ones who extracted Jin Lin’s blood, flesh, and scales to make potions and pills to sell. It has nothing to do with Ling Lan. We beg him to spare Ling Lan. We beg him.”
“I don’t see why…”
“I beg you, Jin Lin, Your Excellency, please spare my grandpa, grandma, dad, and mother!”
Chong Xing Qi knelt in front of his arguing mother and grandmother, facing Jin Lin, begging him to take his life instead and spare them.
“Eat me. I’m a double Level S half-Supernatural-Abilities Huang Dragon Clan beastman, almost nineteen years old. I’m young and strong. Please eat me and let them go!”
Jiang Tea Tea had her arms crossed and nudged Chong Ming with her elbow, raising her voice: “Your Highness, look at this family. Not only have they forgotten everything they did, they’re also treating your words like farts.”
“If I remember right, you said just a few minutes ago that their treason has already been confirmed. Even if Jin Lin doesn’t eat them to death, they still can’t escape dying, right?”
The five direct members of Chong Luo Han’s family all turned as pale as snow, almost collapsing, as if Jiang Tea Tea’s reminder was a death summons.
Chong Ming lowered his gaze to look at Jiang Tea Tea’s hand hooked around his elbow. His low voice was like a death bell striking at the heart of the Chong Luo Han family: “They truly have no idea what they’re doing, trying to use a show of filial self-sacrifice as a sacrificial offering to gain a good reputation.”
“They forget that debts must be repaid and murder must be paid with a life. They tortured someone for three hundred years and committed treason for two hundred years. Any one of these alone is a capital crime.”
Jiang Tea Tea’s lips curled: “So, Jin Lin, Your Excellency, are you going to eat them or not? If not, let Your Highness execute them!”
Without another word, Jin Lin transformed into a flood dragon for revenge and for a big tonic. His body was as thick as a water tank and over a hundred meters long.
The places on his body that had once rotted and could not grow scales now had fresh flesh and tiny new scales.
Black and gold scales interwove together, just like his eyes, bright, wicked, and beautiful.
He opened his huge mouth and lunged at Chong Luo Han, the main culprit who had locked him up, tortured him, and treated him like a product.
Chong Luo Han closed his eyes. His wife, son, daughter-in-law, and grandson all screamed in fear.
In the middle of their terrified screams, Jin Lin swallowed Chong Luo Han, Chong Ling Lan, Huang Yu Lin, and Huang Xi Ruo.
Before this, Chong Xing Qi had wanted to take the punishment for his grandpa, grandma, dad, and mother. Now, watching his dad, mother, grandpa, and grandma swallowed by Jin Lin, he fainted from fright on the spot.
After Jin Lin finished eating the four Huang Dragon Clan members, he changed back into human form, let out a burp, and his stomach bulged.
Jiang Tea Tea stared at his belly with envy, jealousy, and hate.
She had not eaten a single dragon since coming here.
Instead, she had five dragons inside her belly.
He, on the other hand, even though he had been tortured, had eaten four dragons. If you did the math, he had earned big from this deal.
From the corner of his eye, Chong Ming kept watching Jiang Tea Tea. She stared at Jin Lin’s belly without blinking, the greedy light in her eyes flashing again and again.
Jin Lin burped, wiped at nonexistent grime on his mouth, and asked Chong Ming: “What do you think should be done with those who ate my blood, flesh, and scales?”
Chong Ming’s gaze tightened: “Among those who ate your blood, flesh, and scales are very young ones, those just entering adulthood, those in their prime, and those already in their old age. Most of them were deceived and didn’t know the potions and pills were made from your blood, flesh, and scales.”
“As the saying goes, those who don’t know are not guilty. But they did eat your blood, flesh, and scales, so they’re guilty, just not to the point of death yet. What do you think?”
Jin Lin pointed at Jiang Tea Tea and said to Chong Ming: “You’re her man. Since you brought it up, I’ll give you some face.”
“Anyone who ate my blood, flesh, and scales, I can spare their lives, but they must pay back with their own blood, flesh, and scales.”
“Those who are young and not yet adults must each give one jin of scales, one jin of blood, and one jin of flesh. Adults must each give five jin of scales, five jin of blood, and five jin of flesh!”