Legend of the Great Sage

heavenly tribulation? But that would be for the best.
It’ll be perfect for capturing her and interrogating her.
If I had known earlier, I shouldn’t have intensified the heavenly tribulation.
Sigh, I’ve slept for far too long this time.
I haven’t woken up completely.
My head is still a little sluggish.

Lightning shot out again and again as thunder rumbled.

Before they knew it, the lightning gradually dimmed; the thunder gradually became muffled, but it persisted.

I didn’t think she’d actually survive it!

The golden-eyed black dragon glided over, gazing at the Dragon’s Pool dwelling below.

“Now!”

Suddenly, a strange bird’s cry rose up from the mountain, like a hawk’s cry, yet also like a phoenix’s cry.
It filled the air and echoed through the clouds.

The great peng spread its dark-azure wings like clouds that draped down from the sky.
With a great flap, she took off!

Kunpeng!

The golden-eyed black dragon was startled.
If true dragons were to possess a natural predator, then that would be kunpengs.

When kuns wandered the ocean, they fed off dragons.
Once they transformed into pengs, they would capture them like how hawks captured snakes.
Once they caught the attention of a kunpeng, then it would almost be certain death.
As a result, the Dragon clan had an unwritten rule.
Whenever they encountered any young kunpengs, they would always hunt it down and kill it.

However, it was exactly this rule that brought the Dragon clan a terrifying nightmare.

A certain kunpeng reached the apex of daemons, becoming a Great Sage.
He was known as “Heaven-stirring”.
He specially wandered through the oceans and hunted down true dragons, continuing until all of them dove deep into the trenches.
Not a single one dared to wander the oceans and soar in the skies anymore.
Only then did he stop.
He left behind a message.
“For each kunpeng slain by dragons, I will kill five hundred.”

Even the Dragon clan that was very good at reproducing, possessing a great number of members, sustained tremendous losses.
He had never seen it with his own eyes, but it was rumoured that the Heaven-stirring Great Sage’s feathers were that dark-azure colour.

He could not help but hesitate at this sight, but he soon remembered that the Heaven-stirring Great Sage’s days of savagery were past him.
She might have been his successor, so that was even less reason to spare her.

“You want to leave!?”

With a great bellow, the dragon shot through the air, charging straight after the kunpeng.

Xiao An sat on the back of the kunpeng.
The Trisepultural Robes were in tatters, revealing her similarly-damaged white bones.
However, the white bones flowed with an unprecedented lustre.
The Samādhi Flames of White Bone in her eye sockets were feeble, but they became even more consolidated than before.
A huge dragon’s head filled her eyes.

“My turn.”

Rāhu Xiaoming took a step forward and stared at the golden-eyed black dragon with his blood-red eyes.

If the kunpeng wanted to fly higher, there had to be someone to provide cover and stop the golden-eyed black dragon.
Otherwise, she would run out of energy before long.

He was the best choice for this, which was why Xiao An had made him conserve his strength.
Even though this was the best decision, it was a cruel and heartless one too.
This was almost certain death.
Even as a son of an asura god, he stood absolutely no chance at victory when he faced a Daemon Sovereign true dragon in his current state.

He had no complaints about this.
She had almost been smashed to pieces in order to stop the sword of tribulation lightning.
What truly made him feel discontent was hiding behind a woman.
Now that it was finally time for him to take action, he could not help but become quite eager.
As for the consequences, that needed no further consideration.
It was just like what she had said, “If I can’t stop it, I die.”

It was just that simple.

“If I die, get him to butcher this damned worm for me.”

“Alright.”

Rāhu Xiaoming leapt into the fierce winds, throwing himself at the golden-eyed black dragon.

“Lowly being, you’re asking to die!”

The golden-eyed black dragon unleashed his dragon breath.
The coldness was bone-chilling, freezing up the air.
Rāhu Xiaoming was frozen stiff mid-air.
In the golden-eyed black dragon’s eyes, he was already a dead man, so he did not even spare a second glance at him, directly running into him.

“Who did you say… is a lowly being!?”

The surroundings darkened as Rāhu Xiaoming jolted free from the ice.
A terrifying, black giant appeared in the endless darkness, punching the dragon’s head.

The golden-eyed black dragon was taken off-guard and he lost his momentum, rolling a few times in the air before stopping.
He stared at Rāhu Xiaoming in disbelief.