It's a huge black dragon.

Chapter 36

Shi An was furious.

He had thought that he had only lost his body, and that all the other treasures were still safe and sound in the cave he had once been in, and that as soon as he had recovered his body and regained his strength, he would be able to go back to the Abyss and see his treasures again.

But the sight before him shattered his dreams.

I slept in, and my house was burglarized!

--Those who stole his treasures! They will pay for their greed and ignorance!

Ka-chow, ka-chow.

The sound of cracking rock rang out, amplified by the empty cavern, echoing between the rock walls.

Shi An barely snapped out of her rage.

He turned his head, looking in the direction from which the voice had come.

On top of the cold rock wall, fine cracks spread out like spider webs, a deep palm mark was branded on it, and the surrounding rocks melted because of the heat, as if they were half-molten magma, glittering with a vague crimson color.

Shi An froze and looked down at her hands.

Under the faint light reflected from the snow, the back of his hand shone with a layer of metallic cold light, silver-white, on which one could vaguely see the lines of dragon scales, and the film that had originally covered only the palm and fingertips had somehow doubled in size, and even had a hidden tendency to spread deeper into the wrist.

It was a symbol of his restored strength.

But ......

And what's the point?

Shi An dropped his hand and gazed with a sad face at the empty grotto in front of him, feeling as if a hole had been dug in his heart, as empty as it was, and huffing and puffing as a cold wind poured into it.

It's gone. It's all gone.

At that moment, Shi An felt a sharp earthquake under his feet.

The whole mountain was rumbling, and the sound of crumbling stone could be heard from a distance, as if the stone wall not far behind had been violently damaged and was now collapsing.

All this commotion finally yanked Shi An out of her soulless state.

He craned his head to look behind him in the direction the voice had come from.

Through the thick stone wall, one could faintly hear the sound of the mountain door opening and the cold wind howling.

Shi An sighed listlessly.

If usual, he would have been furious if a human actually dared to destroy his cave like this.

But now without the treasure, the cave was nothing but an empty shell, so what could be lost by breaking in and destroying it?

After all, the most important thing is gone!

The Demon Worm poked its head out of Shi An's sleeve and urgently urged, ''My lord! What are you waiting for! Let's get out of here now, or else when Mu Hang comes, we won't be able to explain why we're here!"

He tugged at Shi An's sleeve with his six thin legs, "When there is green, there is no need to worry about firewood!"

As much as Shi An hated to admit it, the Demon Worm was right.

He hung his head and nodded, taking one last lingering look at the empty cave of stone before him before turning and heading for the direction machine he had come from.

Halfway there, Shi An suddenly stops walking.

For some reason, he suddenly had a ...... very strange feeling.

Something seemed to urge and call to him.

Some kind of invisible magnetism came from the darkness.

Shi An stood in a daze, not moving no matter how much the Demon Worm urged him to do so.

He slowly craned his head in the direction the magnetism was coming from, then took a step.

This was already deep into the cave, and the farthest point was already the end, with thick stones sealing the path tightly, leaving not the slightest space to pass through.

The teenager raised his pale, slender palm and lightly pressed it against the stone wall.

Searing flames that seemed to be able to devour everything rose from the darkness.

The rock wall touched the heat and slowly turned into fiery crimson magma, dripping onto the ground, wrapped in blazing flames flowing along the ground.

Startled, the Demon Worm instinctively crawled deeper into Shi An's cuffs.

This, this is the Dragon Flame.

It was released completely unchecked.

Even without relying on anything, that terrifying flame was still blazing, recklessly emitting a terrifying aura.

Dozens of seconds later, the thick stone wall in front of him was melted away.

Shi An steps inward.

The Demon Worm wanted to follow it over, but some sort of invisible barrier blocked it, dragging it hard through Shi An's sleeve and dropping it to the ground in a sorry state.

Human footsteps could already be heard behind them, and were rapidly approaching this way at the moment.

And Shi An's back slowly disappeared into the darkness.

The Demon Worm fell to the ground on his back, his brain emptying with a look of despair.

Ah ...... sins.

Shi An walked into the cavern that was blocked tightly by rocks.

It was dark on all sides, except for the top, which was open to the light of day, with a flurry of snow sprinkled down and a faint ray of morning light shining through.

In the center of that spacious cave, there stood a huge dark rock, which was covered with snow and completely covered with a pale white.

Shi An lifted her hand and placed it on a spot on the rocky outcrop.

In the next second, the flawlessly controlled flames rose up, and the thick layer of snow instantly melted, turning into warm water that flowed down and overflowed everywhere on the ground.

The huge rocks in front of us change to reveal their true colors as the clear water washes over them.

It was a huge, pitch-black dragon.

He coiled his body, quietly slumbering, the tip of his slender tail resting below his skull, the wings that could cover the sky after unfolding closed behind him, covering most of his body, fine, as if carved out by skilled craftsmen, the dragon scales were indestructible, shimmering with a metallic, cold and hard luster in the morning light.

There was an intimidating majesty about him that instinctively struck fear into the heart for fear of disturbing the dragon's peaceful sleep.

Shi An stood still.

He gazed at his former self and fell into a long daze.

*

As he rushed in, Mu Hang could not help but be slightly shocked at the sight before him.

There was not half a bit of snow and water in the entire huge cave, the temperature was frighteningly high, and everywhere there were raging flames that flowed very quietly on the ground and floated in the air, releasing some kind of terrifying pressure outwards.

"Dragons, it's dragons!" The mercenary screamed.

He gazed in horror at the fire floating before him, his eyes lax, "This, this is the dragon's cave!"

Everyone subconsciously caught their breath and instinctively took a step backward.

Although I don't know what it is, the fear coming from the depths of my soul can't be fooled, and that kind of bone-deep trembling is flowing in the blood of my ancestors, passed down from generation to generation.

They subconsciously knew very well that if they touched that terrifying flame, it was going to be devoured with their skin and bones, from their bodies to their souls.

-Except for Mu Hang.

He gazed at the scene before him, burning flames reflected in the depths of his pale blue eyes, as if they were ghostly fires quietly lit in the depths of the ruins of the Abyss.

An intense wariness and excitement rose up in the depths of his soul.

The dragon is here.

Mu Hang shifted his fingers and slowly, re-gripped the long sword in his hand.

He craned his head to Wen Yao behind him, a chilling note in his low voice, "You guys just wait here."

Wen Yao couldn't help but shiver when he came into contact with the other party's eyes.

Mu Hang's eyes are very scary.

She could clearly feel that the other party was letting them stay here, not because they knew that they were not capable of facing an existence like a giant dragon right now and were worried about their safety, but more like ......

Warning.

Warn others to stay out of the way and not to get their hands on their prey.

Otherwise, he would have preceded the gargoyles and not hesitated to take action against them himself.

That terrible frenzy surging under the man's frozen lake-like eyes was downright creepy.

Mu Hang, longsword in hand, made his way towards the only passage.

In the darkness, he caught a glimpse of the amble form of the dragon.

--that beautiful, massive creature, less than a hundred meters away from himself.

Suddenly, however, a flash of surprise passed through Mu Hang's eyes.

He saw that a familiar figure was standing next to the dragon.

The young man's form was so slender that it seemed as if he would be swallowed up by the behemoth in front of him in the next second, and the side of his face was pale and as clean as the first snow in the morning light.

Shi An.

He stood there, craning his head to look.

Those dark eyes were quiet and sad, settled with a deep shimmering light, as if a river of stars flowed under them,

It was only a brief moment of distraction before the sound of boulders crumbling came from above his head, and the burned and melted rock wall collapsed down, filling the narrow passageway completely in the blink of an eye.

The strength of the rocks inside the cave was not at all of the same level as the outside, and the ten thousand years of infiltration of poisonous gas inside the abyss had granted it an extraordinary degree of hardness, an existence that could last for dozens of seconds under the dragon flames released by the dragon at full strength.

Even when Mu Hang came back to his senses, he was still inevitably blocked out.

At that moment, his eyes flickered and were drawn to something on the ground - it was a pale red gem, emitting a moist shimmering light outward in the darkness.

That's the stone he gave Shi An earlier.

Mu Hang sunk his eyes down, subconsciously tightening his fingers and clenching the hilt of his sword.

The last glance of the other man's looking over flashed through his mind.

A sense of dryness instantly set in.

Like ...... destiny.

*

Shi An was startled by the collapse of the mountain, which brought him back from the extreme shock he had just experienced.

He really didn't expect to see his former body in this situation.

I didn't expect Mu Hang to show up at this juncture.

He twisted his head to look at the sleeping abyssal dragon in front of him and frowned slightly.

What's going on with this ......?

Shi An was able to be very sure that she was not the soul that had left □□.

Though he was now trapped in his human form, the essence of his body was still that of a dragon - at best, he had been limited by his form and had become more human.

Then ...... why, he will see his own body?

Shi An raised his hand, unable to resist lifting it to probe the head of the dragon in front of him.

The scales are cold and hard to the touch, like a fake.

It's definitely himself all right.

Shi An subconsciously pushed.

The giant dragon in front of him moved back a bit as he pushed it.

Eh?

Shi An was stunned.

It wasn't right, he hadn't used much force just now, so how could he have pushed his original body?

That's at least thousands of tons!

Shi An clutched one of the dragon's claws, and with a slight effort, lifted it up lightly - it was too light!

He seemed to suddenly that realized something.

Shi An hesitates for a moment, slowly curling her fingers and knocking with her knuckles on the gargoyle before her.

A hollow voice rang out.

Long ago, memories that had been dormant for ten thousand years awoke, and Shi An remembered the three molting periods he had gone through, which finally made him realize what the giant dragon form he was gazing at really was.

--this is him molting.

But don't ...... dragons only have three molting periods?