Brat.
After all this turmoil, the night is deepening. The seventh layer is draped in moonlight, and his shoulders and back seem to have been dyed with silver. Even the damp stains on his clothes are visible, but his face, which droops slightly, seems to be shrouded in a dense shadow, making it impossible to see his expression clearly.
He looks at him with a dim expression, lifting his skeleton-like gaunt fingers, "Tonight the emperor will transform into a dragon, how can I tolerate you being reckless here!"
Under the moonlight, his pair of dark eyes seemed almost to fill the entire eye sockets, looking incredibly eerie.
The wind, carrying the frost and snow, slants across the entire space, and in the blink of an eye, the entire world turns dark under his fingertip.
Subsequently, as if someone had broken a jade mirror by accident, the Purgatory Spider was pinned to the spot. The spider legs that were left over turned into crystal debris instantly.
The shards fell slowly, only to be carried away by the wind as they were still halfway down.
The Purgatory Spider let out a sharp scream and leapt directly into the pitch-black sea.
Still, the sea is safer. These humans are too crazy.
The seventh floor did not chase after it. He transformed his legs into a tail, and the several-meter-long snake tail was so dark that it could engulf the moonlight.
"Ah Zhao, my obedient child."
Lou Qi's wrinkled old face broke into a friendly and warm smile, "Is it very painful?"
"Don't be afraid, your adoptive father is here."
Lou Qi waved his sleeves, and a jade white porcelain bottle appeared in his hand. He moved his fingers slightly, and the jade white porcelain bottle opened, releasing a strong smell of medication. He gently peeled open Zheng He's charred lips, and poured the medication into his mouth.
Restores muscle, promotes blood circulation and promotes tissue regeneration.
Zheng He originally had already reached the edge of insanity. After taking this bottle of medicine, she actually regained some of her sanity that had been burned away. She coughed weakly and spat out the charred residue that had been stuck in her throat.
Perhaps it was her own lips, or perhaps it was a fragment of the Purgatory Spider
Under the moonlight, Lou Qi gently stroked the burn scars on her face, "You kid, why do you put all sorts of dirty and smelly things in your mouth?"
His fingers slowly descended, eventually stopping at Zheng He's chest.
"The adoptive father hasn't asked yet, how did you survive?"
His finger tapped on Zheng He's hollow chest, "Adoptive father hasn't taken out your heart yet, has he?"
As if he completely didn't know it, his eyes became cold and sharp like a snake's, as if he hadn't noticed the hissing sound in the echo of his own voice.
"You have always been a obedient child, always listening to your father's words. Last night, at midnight, holding a sharp weapon and sharpening it in front of my window, are you planning to kill me?"
His finger pressed down with force, causing Zheng He's entire ribcage to collapse into a terrifying depression. His tone remained calm, "What else do you have that your father doesn't know?"
"You yourself said that you were willing to help me refine the Dantian Art, offer your heart and soul, how can you suddenly deny it after getting your heart taken out?"
"A naughty child."
Lou Qi's fingers probing into the hollow cavity where Zheng He's heart used to be, "Did you never give your heart to me at all!"
When he said the last sentence, Lou Qi could no longer hold back his emotions. There was a faint but indescribable coldness and madness in the end of his sentence.
In his arms, the human-shaped charcoal suddenly began to rustle, as if scales. With each breath, the sharp scales slowly opened, and new flesh began to regenerate on the dark charcoal. Lou Qi could even hear the pounding heart from this block of charcoal!
It seemed as if something was breaking out of the charcoal like a butterfly emerging from a cocoon!
Lou Qi frowned, his hand on Zheng He's Dantian. There was no Golden Dan, no Yuanling, and even no foundation building. There were no unusual ripples in the air. What is this thing?
That bottle was just ordinary tonifying medicine, how could it have such an effect?
That medicine bottle naturally wouldn't have such an effect. In the golden and divine land, everything Zheng He ate turned into blood plasma, which was quickly absorbed by the parched earth. In response, a clear water flow came down from the sky and the sea, and poured onto Zheng He's body covered in charred coal, putting out the unquenchable fire.
She was reborn in the spring water.
Zheng He's eyes had not yet returned, but she could feel that her situation was dire. Her body responded before her consciousness did. With her right hand, she pressed her four fingers together, and her fingertips grew sharp claws, silently pressing against the back of Lou Qi's heart.
Lou Qi's brows were furrowed tightly, his entire face crumpled into a ball, instinctively feeling something was wrong. Without much hesitation, he threw the lump of charcoal in his arms away.
"Jiáomùjiāo!" (Bristle beast)
Lou Qi swung his sword and shouted, in everyone's frightened gaze, the entire Jiaomu Jiao shook, and the boat paddles contracted and changed direction, lifting it directly into the air!
The sea water slid off the Jiaomu Jiao ship.
Lao Wen and the others were utterly stupefied.
Jiaomu Jiao is alive?
Zheng He's body slightly twisted, and a sword swing through the air. Lou Qi moved away from Zheng He himself, but allowed Jiaomu Jiao to soar into the air.
Jiaomu Jiao suddenly let out a rope and bound Zheng He, and a blue array fixed his hands and feet, binding him in the air.
This feeling, strangely familiar.
She moved her elbow slightly, moving her stiffened arm with difficulty, and swallowed the black coal she had been holding in her hand.
【Please select a weapon you have encountered to bind】
Zheng He gritted her teeth, her eye sockets swollen and painful. The black hole in her eyes was growing. She struggled to scream, "Jiaomu Jiao!"
The charcoal melted in the plasma, revealing a snow-white pearl, which was a reward Zheng He had always carried with her.
The pearl entered her abdomen, and the golden light wave spread rapidly throughout Jiaomu Jiao, dispelling the will that did not belong to Zheng He.
【Congratulations, binding successful!】
Lou Qi watched in shock as the Jiaomu Jiao crashed back into the sea, and all the bindings on Zheng He fell off instantly. The Jiaomu Jiao even bit back and unleashed a binding array on itself.
Just in a moment, the Jiaomu Jiao turned traitorous.
"Jiaomu Jiao?"
An infinite number of black threads are constantly moving and swirling in the air, gradually condensing into a huge serpentine shape that is neither dragon nor snake. The black threads, interlaced and intertwined, are constantly crawling and coiling on its body surface, making it look as if it will burst into the night at any moment.
It's all black, like the bottom of a deep abyss, without any shape of its own.
This is Jiaomu Jiao.
At this moment, this black mist-like thing is guarding Zheng He's side, supporting her so that she is not impacted by the falling ship.
Lou Qi, in his early years, wielded a sword and traversed the land. At the banks of Xiyu River, he killed this malicious dragon that caused trouble for all, and extracted its soul to make into a talisman. He also took its bones and sinews to forge this ship, Jiaomu Jiao.
That was also the year he met this child.
Now, the wild dragon he killed and the child he raised have mixed together, and they no longer listen to him.
Both are demons! They all want to rebel!
"Return to simplicity, she hasn't cheated me, haha!"
But this is not the most important thing for Lou Qi at the moment. He looks at Zheng He, who is still unconscious under the protection of Jiaomu Jiao, with rapid breathing and crazy eyes, "Child, you are indeed my heart!"
"I will definitely succeed if I eat you!"
With a thought, a long, snowy-white sword appeared in his hand, and Lou Qi's gaze instantly turned exceptionally cold and indifferent.
The previous all-encompassing disguise named "Gentleness" that had been protecting him completely faded away at that moment, leaving only the sharpness of sword cuts and indifference.
"Give her to me!"
The cold sword energy thrown by Jiaomu Jiao and Lou Qi collided together, and Zheng He slowly escaped from the charred coal. Finally, she grew eyes, but before she could fully wake up, she felt the whole world disappearing rapidly.
Ha——
Zheng He looked down at her chest, hot blood slowly seeping out from a massive wound.
She coughed up a big mouthful of blood, looking confused at the thing that had pierced her chest.
Five beautiful roses, exquisite to the extreme, passed through her flesh from back to front.
Blood dripped onto the delicate petals of the roses, like thick night dewdrops, trembling and slipping to the ground.
