HCB Chapter 21 Dragon
Chapter 21 Dragon
"Host, she's lying to you!" The system said this without any emotion, but Yan Huai sensed a "I'm just watching you two play house" feeling in its voice. "Besides, you can't kill her!"
Yan Huai paused in his movement of raising the knife: "Why?"
"She is one of the main characters that the protagonist Wu Xie in the book will have to come into contact with, so you cannot kill her."
"What if she tries to kill me?"
"The fifth mission is now issued: kill the human mutated blood zombie. The reward for completing the mission is 1 host bloodline sensing clue, 1 flying tiger claw, and 1 black gold dagger. The reward will be cancelled if the mission is failed."
This mission came so suddenly that Yan Huai didn't have time to agonize over whether to kill her or himself. He tilted his head and said to A Ning, "Hey, Madam, it's not safe here, you..."
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However, before Yan Huai could finish speaking, a low growl of approaching blood zombies came from inside the tomb, followed by A Ning's gunshot. Yan Huai peeked out and saw—wow—so many blood zombies!
In an instant, more than a dozen blood-soaked corpses poured into the tomb chamber that had been shrouded in tranquility. They were all members of Ah Ning's team, their faces burned and their bodies torn and bloodied. Perhaps the only way to identify them was by the name tags hanging around their necks!
"Hey! Aren't you coming to help?" Ah Ning was getting angry. She was all alone with only one gun, and with so many blood zombies, she couldn't hold out for long.
Upon hearing this, Yan Huai glanced sideways at A Ning, then began wildly branding himself with the branding knife, looking at the sky and the ground but ignoring A Ning. He wasn't stupid; what if he got shot while out? He couldn't withstand firearms.
"I won't kill you, let's cooperate!" Ah Ning raised her hand to repel a blood-soaked corpse that rushed towards her, but she was almost out of options. Glancing out of the corner of her eye, she saw that Yan Huai still looked like he was watching her die, so she had no choice but to compromise, "As long as you help me, I will reward you handsomely, you can name your terms!"
Upon hearing this, Yan Huai finally turned his gaze back to A Ning. He had just witnessed firsthand how two-faced this woman was, and he was somewhat skeptical: "You mean what you say?"
"You have to keep your word!" Ah Ning gritted her teeth. Her gun was out of bullets, so she could only pull out her dagger to block the blood zombies' attacks. But these blood zombies were not easy to kill, and they were getting faster and faster. She quickly found herself at a disadvantage. "Hurry up and help me!"
Yan Huai pursed his lips. Since it was a mission anyway, he casually replied and then suddenly stepped forward to block the blood corpse that was attacking A Ning's left side.
The blade was sharp, adding another bloody gash to the blood corpse, but it couldn't inflict any further damage. If it were an ordinary blade, it would have broken by brute force...
Yan Huai frowned and increased the force in his hand. After he leaped up again, the blood corpse in front of him had its entire arm cut off from top to bottom. It felt like a red-hot guillotine was chopping on iron.
Despite having its arm severed, the blood corpse only paused briefly before resuming its attacks and threats without any apparent pain. Yan Huai, having mastered the appropriate force, struck the blood corpse in the neck with his next strike.
A scarlet head flew out. Yan Huai raised his foot and used all his strength. This time, the blood corpse's torso flew backward and crashed into the blood corpses that were attacking A Ning, giving her a chance to catch her breath.
"Killed 1 human mutated blood zombie, mission completed one-third."
The system's progress notification sounded in Yan Huai's mind. Without pausing, he wielded the branding knife faster and faster until the stench of blood filled the entire tomb chamber, and severed limbs lay scattered under the light of the eternal lamp...
"Host, A-Ning is trying to run away."
Yan Huai pinned the third-to-last blood corpse against the tomb wall, and with a sudden burst of force from the branding knife, the blood corpse's forearm and neck were severed one after the other: "Whatever."
"Killed 11 human mutated blood zombies, mission complete 11/13."
Yan Huai exhaled and, looking at the last two blood corpses rushing towards him, activated his bloodline pressure.
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With the sound of two bodies bursting apart, the blood corpse turned into blood mist, scattering onto the stone bricks of the tomb floor.
Yan Huai lowered his head, shook the blood off the branding knife, and sheathed it, muttering under his breath, "Liar."
"Congratulations, host, on completing mission five: kill 13 human mutated blood zombies. The system is issuing mission success rewards. Congratulations, host, you have obtained Bloodline Sensing Clue x1, Flying Tiger Claw x1, and Black Gold Dagger x1. (System notification: The Flying Tiger Claw and Black Gold Dagger have been stored in the Buddhist bead space on the host's wrist. The host may retrieve them at will. Validity: Indefinite.)"
The bloodstains splattered on his face had turned black. Yan Huai wiped them with his sleeve and asked, "What's the clue?"
The clue is: Yinglong has eight tribulations, Jiaolong has four tribulations, and Zhenlong has the fifth tribulation.
Yan Huai didn't ask anything more. He stepped over the bloodstains and continued walking towards the direction of the cyan bloodline he had sensed. This time, there was only this one left...
As they entered a dark and long passageway, the thin blue line that his bloodline sensed suddenly disappeared. Yan Huai looked at a row of regularly protruding stone bricks on the wall and reached out to touch them.
What will the password be this time?
Yinglong undergoes eight tribulations, Jiaolong undergoes four tribulations, and Zhenlong undergoes the fifth tribulation.
Flood dragon...
"Then you're only one step away from becoming a true dragon, right?" Yan Huai murmured to himself, countless possibilities flashing through his mind, but he couldn't be sure of any of them.
Yinglong's Eight Tribulations and Ninety-Nine Thunderbolts, all returning to one, Yan Huai's hand landed on the ninth stone brick. No, it won't take that long.
Jiao has endured four tribulations and forty-nine lightning strikes, yet he is not yet a true dragon. Yan Huai strolled to the forty-eighth stone brick, but it still wouldn't be him.
The True Dragon's Fifth Tribulation consisted of seventy-seven bolts of lightning, riding the wind and shattering the sky, traversing ten thousand mountains and rivers, and transcending the six realms of humans, ghosts, demons, immortals, and gods. Could this be the sixth one?
Yan Huai hesitated to press the stone brick. He closed his eyes and lowered his head, recalling the itching in his hands that had started after entering the rainforest, the increasingly strong and extremely repulsive smell in his nose, the blue veins he sensed, and...
Scales! My scales!
Yan Huai suddenly opened his eyes, which were filled with a crimson light, and the veins on his clenched fists were bulging.
That dragon has his scales on its body!
Sensing its master's tyrannical emotions, the branding knife on Yan Huai's back silently emitted a faint white mist that enveloped him.
Yan Huai gritted his teeth. A sudden burning sensation in his left abdomen forced him to kneel on the ground, where his scale should have been.
By the way, the age that wasn't displayed on the personal information panel when the system was first updated: "I am 23 years old..."
Yan Huai forced himself to stand up and staggered to the twenty-third stone brick, glancing to his left again: "Are you trying to tell me that you're only one step away from becoming me?"
With his left hand slowly moving towards the twenty-second stone brick, Yan Huai did not move his feet. With a slight effort, the twenty-second stone brick was pressed down.
The next moment, the wall in front of them, which was inlaid with the twenty-third stone brick, gradually shrank two meters inward with a hoarse friction sound, revealing the blue stone brick staircase below.