Chapter 238 – The Cinnabar Birthmark Between Her Eyebrows (Part One) (2/2)

From the Imperial Palace to the Tianhai Clan, to the Divine General of the East’s Mansion, there were many people who could not sleep because of this news. They incessantly analyzed exactly what this would mean.

As the target of all this speculation and discussion, Chen Changsheng was currently in the southern part of the capital, strolling through a bustling night market.

He first went to the famous Quyuan Roast Lamb restaurant at the head of the street and ordered an entire roast lamb. Afterwards, he began to purchase things from the vendors on the street.

Half an hour later, he appeared under tree outside the New North Bridge.

It was a late spring night, but the temperature was not as cold as it had been the past few days. There was not much dew on the blades of grass.

In the distant imperial city, the lights in the corner of the wall illuminated the ground. The light made the tender buds sprouting from the trees seem particularly green, like freshly-picked tea leaves.

This place was very close to the walls of the Li Palace and it was thus heavily guarded. The night ospreys atop the wall who monitored nighttime activity were especially watchful, their eyes shining like pearls in the darkness.

Chen Changsheng hid his body in the shadow of the tree and began to feel out his surroundings. When the squadron of imperial guards was off in the distance, when the night osprey perched on the southeast corner of the wall turned its head left on schedule, he suddenly made his move. With the tiniest of puffs of sound, two balls of dust rose up from under the tree. Two clear footprints had been left behind, but he had already disappeared without a trace.

After a while, the dust gently fell back down, and coincidentally covered up those footprints.

During all this, his body was like a ghost, arriving above the mouth of the abandoned well.

To arrive at the well from under the tree had only taken him one step.

Right then he only had time to think, if the Pope was lying, he would most definitely have fallen into an extremely miserable situation. Would this be considered a sort of test of his trust?

Whoosh.

He landed perfectly in the abandoned well, not even his clothes had touched against the wall.

This sort of accuracy was truly somewhat shocking.

The bottom of the well was once again dug up.

Chen Changsheng fell from the bottom of the well directly into that seemingly abyssal underground space.

He immediately became enshrouded in endless darkness. He could only see the extremely faint glimmer of starlight, and he could only hear the increasingly harsh whistle of the wind.

He fell for an unknown amount of time. The air around him suddenly became viscous, and the speed at which he descended naturally began to slow.

At the end, he floated down to the ground like a leaf. As he put his foot down, there was a cracking sound. He had probably stepped on a piece of ice.

He had already come here multiple times, so he was not alarmed. Taking out a night pearl, he began to illuminate his surroundings.

Along with the shine from the night pearl, the several thousand night pearls that studded the ceiling of this subterranean space slowly began to glow. The pitch-black world became as bright as day.

There was a groaning sound. That was the sound created from the distortion of space.

Chen Changsheng lifted his head and saw the mountainous body of the Black Dragon slowly float over.

The body of the Black Dragon was truly too enormous. As it moved, the sound of the cold wind became increasingly mournful.

The Black Dragon stopped in front of him, and its palace-sized head filled Chen Changsheng’s vision.

Chen Changsheng happily smiled, then waved at it and said, “Zhizhi, I’ve come to see you.”

The Black Dragon’s eyes were indifferent, its whiskers lightly moved to and fro.

As they moved, countless flakes of frost fell from its body, before being blown by the wind into Chen Changsheng’s face.

Chen Changsheng used his hand to wipe off the frost, not at all distressed.

He saw the mischievous look in the dragon’s eyes and he knew that it was just teasing him, or else punishing him for coming to see it in so long.

After, he saw the wound in between the dragon’s eyes.

In comparison to the Black Dragon’s head, this wound was very small.

However, in Chen Changsheng’s eyes, this was a fierce and terrible wound.

He clearly remembered that the Black Dragon never had this wound before.

“Who did this?” He asked gravely.

Even if the Black Dragon was imprisoned under the Imperial Palace, that did not mean that it could randomly become the target of insult and torment.

To leave such a frightening wound on its brow, it was imaginable how powerful that person was.

However, Chen Changsheng did not care. He only thought of demanding justice for the Black Dragon.

That was because right now, he was very angry.