Chapter 356: Kill the Dragon (1/2)

Kill it!

Qing Han barely hesitated before he raised the Cosmic Skycarver and slashed at the half-asleep baby dragon.

An almost physical consciousness descended upon them with great might, interrupting the attack and paralyzing them like insects trapped in amber. They couldn’t even move a muscle. A pair of eyes that sparkled like the stars opened up in the void and leveled a cold glare at Lu Yun and Qing Han.

“Aooo...” The dragon laying on Lu Yun’s shoulder crooned in babyish tones and opened sluggish eyes, throwing the silver eyes a tired glance before laying back down on the human’s shoulder.

“So it is you.” Violet radiance rose from Qing Han and formed a beautiful figure that stood protectively before the two youngsters. Empress Myrtlestar slowly rose into the air to approach the faintly silver eyes.

“Myrtlestar...” The powerful consciousness in the air rippled with the name. “Wasn’t your soul scattered? How did you regather your soul again?”

The wave of consciousness gradually took shape and clarified into a full set of thoughts; the pair of eyes gazed upon Empress Myrtlestar with startlement.

“Dragon Empress,” identified Myrtlestar.

“She is dead,” the consciousness rippled again. “I am nothing but a strand of her lingering obsession, here to protect the last of the dragons.”

“You can’t protect it like this,” said Lu Yun. His body burst into black flames as he rose into the air before the eyes.

“Impossible!” The eyes goggled in disbelief.

They were no regular eyes, but a powerful treasure. Even origin dao immortals would be suppressed in the face of their might, let alone a mere cultivator. And yet… this cultivator had managed to take flight under the pressure of the eyes!

“This is the dragon nest, the ancestral land of the dragons. Someone turned it into a tomb, which lays an even more vicious curse on your race than that of the Skandha Extinction Tomb. It’s a miracle that the dragons haven’t completely died out yet.”

The sinister evils of the Skandha Extinction Tomb were common knowledge, but few could see through how malicious this skydragon tomb was.

Enneawyrm Coffinbearers!

That must be the reason why the dragons had survived to this day.

Lu Yun wasn’t certain what exactly the Enneawyrm Coffinbearers was, and he couldn’t explain why the thought would come to him.

Both Empress Myrtlestar and the Dragon Empress fell silent.

“If my guess is right, there should also be a curse at the heart of the skydragon tomb. The remnants of the draconic imperial family have almost died out, and only by dispelling the curse may the budding shoots of your race grow.”

“I will go with you and suppress the curse,” Empress Myrtlestar spoke up suddenly. “The Dragon Emperor was a good friend of mine. He came to our rescue when my tribe was struck by misfortune. I must pay him back, or I will never fully return to life.”

She was yet a fragment of a soul. Though she’d found shelter in the Scroll of Shepherding Immortals, she had yet to be resurrected.

“Alright.”

The silver eyes looked at her gratefully. Empress Myrtlestar wasn’t what she had once been, but even her incomplete soul would be capable of doing things no regular human could imagine.