Yan Ning couldn’t afford to tangle with this lunatic any longer. He glared coldly at Xie Chi and Shen Tanqi, saying, “Once he gives birth to the dragon egg, remember to destroy it immediately. Otherwise, all our previous efforts will be wasted.”
Xie Chi absentmindedly replied, walking up to Shen Tanqi.
A dense, ink-like shadow covered Shen Tanqi. Xie Chi reached out, grabbing Shen Tanqi’s collar without pity and throwing him onto the soft couch.
A chilling breeze of dragon’s breath swept through. Shen Tanqi keenly sensed the familiar aura and chuckled abruptly, “You’re having the weakness period. Aren’t you going to run?”
According to their words, Yu Ce would arrive soon.
Xie Chi truly feared nothing.
“Run?”
Xie Chi chuckled deeply, his eyes fierce. He pressed Shen Tanqi down, whispering in his ear, “Why would I run? You should be the one afraid.”
His fingertip, like a sharp blade, lightly traced across Shen Tanqi’s abdomen. “It’s time for him to be born. If it’s not the right time, he’ll have to watch me humiliate his father.”
Xie Chi sighed feignedly, “But don’t worry, I won’t let him see.”
Because…
The moment he’s born, he’ll be thrown out as a stillborn.
Pitiful.
Xie Chi’s smile deepened. For him, Shen Tanqi was just a tool to satisfy his desires. Once he got through this weak phase, he could discard him at will, slit his throat, and find a replacement.
Using Shen Tanqi to the fullest.
“Is that so?” Shen Tanqi retreated into the corner, his gaze fixed intensely on Xie Chi, trying hard to stay calm. “Then you at least need to wait until I give birth. Do you have enough time?”
Inducing childbirth prematurely was defying the natural order, and he already felt a faint, swelling pain.
Surprisingly, Xie Chi actually paused to consider his question seriously. After a moment, he gave a confident answer, “I’ve never tried it before, but I’m sure I can manage. If it takes too long, Yan Ning can die for all I care.”
Shen Tanqi: ?
He paused for a moment, then couldn’t help but laugh at the most inappropriate time, “So, you’re a virgin?”
Quite confident indeed. Shen Tanqi really couldn’t hold back anymore. Just as he was about to laugh again, he saw Xie Chi’s expression darken, and suddenly his ankle was gripped and he was pulled under Xie Chi.
“Is that funny?”
His throat was squeezed.
Shen Tanqi lost his breath, his vision blurring slightly, realizing Xie Chi was slowly stripping off his outer clothing.
This beast.
Fine, looks like I’ll have to use the trick I planned for Yu Ce in the illusion realm on him.
Either way, they were both bastards, no difference.
Xie Chi saw that he suddenly stopped struggling, thinking he had finally learned his place. Smiling, he leaned in and said, “You should try someone else. Maybe you’ll find me more to your liking than Yu Ce.”
Air flowed back into his lungs. Shen Tanqi coughed while breathing, and his eyes were covered with a layer of light water, slowly looking towards Xie Chi.
Caught in the gaze of those eyes, Xie Chi suddenly froze for a moment, a flicker of confusion crossing his face.
He saw Shen Tanqi’s eyes narrow with a hint of mocking smile, but the dark color in his eyes was particularly captivating. “With your abilities, even if you strive for another thousand years, you wouldn’t match a single hair of Yu Ce.”
As he spoke, Shen Tanqi forcefully lifted his foot, gritting his teeth as he kicked under him. He was satisfied to see Xie Chi instantly furrow his brow and emit a stifled groan of pain.
Damn it!
You little brat, I’ll ruin you.
Cold sweat broke out on Xie Chi’s forehead as he tightly grasped Shen Tanqi’s clothes at the chest, gritting his teeth. “Alright, Shen Tanqi, you’re ruthless!”
Shen Tanqi squinted, “Thank you for the compliment.”
Xie Chi took a deep breath, realizing that any more words with Shen Tanqi would only bring trouble. He decided to push Shen Tanqi down on the soft couch directly.
Just as he was about to tear Shen Tanqi’s clothes apart, a cold sword suddenly flashed like dawn, like thunder and lightning, mercilessly piercing through Xie Chi’s chest.
In an instant, blood splattered everywhere, even staining Shen Tanqi with Xie Chi’s blood. But this time, instead of fear, he felt a strange satisfaction.
His gaze fell on the bright sword, and Shen Tanqi recognized it instantly as Yu Ce’s sword.
Yu Ce had come, come to rescue him.
Xie Chi’s forehead was bulging with veins. The sword carried the aura of the Nascent Soul stage, nearly shredding his internal organs, but luckily, the dragon ball remained intact.
He reached behind and slowly pulled Yu Ce’s sword out. His eyes still fixed on Shen Tanqi’s face, he spoke with a chilling tone, “Shen Tanqi, I will definitely kill you.”
As the sword tip left his body, blood dripped onto Shen Tanqi’s cheek, sliding down slowly.
Shen Tanqi smiled gently, “Is that so? We’ll see who dies first.”
Yu Ce burst through the door, his dragon’s aura billowing like a blizzard from the Tian Shan mountains, seemingly freezing the entire place solid. Meanwhile, outside the previously clear sky, dark clouds gathered, accompanied by rumbling thunder.
Shen Tanqi called out excitedly, “Yu Ce!”
Yu Ce lowered his gaze towards him, holding something in his hand.
Shen Tanqi looked closely—
It was Yan Ning’s head.
Shen Tanqi widened his eyes briefly, marveling at Yu Ce’s efficiency.
His expression froze slightly, and he suddenly shivered. Why did it suddenly feel so cold?
Looking up, he saw that Yu Ce had already broken through Yan Ning and Xie Chi’s formation. Shen Tanqi finally realized that they had actually been in an inn at the foot of the mountain all along.
Not far outside the window, amidst the gloomy sky, distant thunder rumbled followed by the patter of rain.
Dragons were rare in the mortal world. The appearance of even one dragon was a sign of extraordinary celestial changes, often accompanied by sudden storms.
Moreover, now there were two dragons, both enraged and losing their senses.
Shen Tanqi silently moved closer to where Yu Ce stood, hoping Xie Chi would be wise enough not to harm innocents.
Unexpectedly, Xie Chi grabbed his collar and pulled him close, his voice calm as he addressed Yu Ce, “If you want to kill me, I’ll kill him.”
Yu Ce narrowed his eyes, silent and indifferent. He raised his sword, charging straight at Xie Chi, completely disregarding his threat, determined to end him.
The sword’s intent was exceptionally sharp and chilling. Shen Tanqi had never seen such terrifying sword intent before, as if it aimed to sweep away everything in its path.
It turns out that the Yu Ce he had seen before was merely the side of Yu Ce that Yu Ce wanted him to see.
That sword intent, even Shen Tanqi could sense the killing intent within it, let alone Xie Chi.
In a moment of panic, Xie Chi instinctively pushed Shen Tanqi away and took a half-step back. As the sword tip was about to pierce his chest, he called out softly, “Brother.”
“Mother said to protect me.”
The sword tip abruptly halted.
The murderous sword aura had already caused Xie Chi’s back to be covered in cold sweat.
He stared intently at Yu Ce, his eyelashes trembling slightly as he repeated in a low voice, “How could you forget? She said to protect me. Are you trying to kill me now?”
Yu Ce was powerful, so powerful that Xie Chi had no chance of winning.
Over the years, Yu Ce had suppressed his cultivation at the Nascent Soul stage, but he had never slackened in practice. His accumulated spiritual energy and cultivation were likely far beyond the Nascent Soul stage, possibly even nearing the stage of ascending.
He had underestimated Yu Ce, and overestimated himself.
The person before him was like a jade-faced demon, with no hint of emotion in his eyes. Xie Chi didn’t know how much his words would affect Yu Ce, but this was his last resort. If he took a hit like the one just now, he might perish on the spot, body and soul extinguished.
Xie Chi tried to soften his tone, whispering with a tone of weakness, “Hurting sister-in-law was my fault, but clearly, even before you, I had already laid eyes on Shen Tanqi. Since Shen Tanqi entered the sect, I have been nurturing his spiritual roots daily from the Shen family dungeon using dragon balls.”
As he spoke, he felt a bit aggrieved.
Things had been going very smoothly. Yu Ce had never gotten along with Shen Tanqi, so he shouldn’t care whether Shen Tanqi would be replaced by someone else.
But inexplicably, Shen Tanqi and Yu Ce ended up having children together.
“Brother, I never wanted to oppose you. We are both dragons, and this world belongs to us.”
“Do you remember? When we were five, what Aunt said at the ceremony.”
Xie Chi had every word Aunt said back then firmly etched in his mind.
“She said, the dragon race is the only race in the Three Realms free from the control of the heavens. We are born to be the masters of the heavens, the masters of this world. Yet now we are declining day by day. Why should we hand over our world to others?”
He had always believed he was doing the right thing. The fate of the entire dragon race rested on his shoulders. As long as he could successfully ascend, he would lead the dragon race to the pinnacle of the Three Realms.
It wasn’t him who was wrong, it was Yu Ce.
It was Aunt’s decision to exile Xie Chi from the Hidden Dragon Valley. She was half the clan leader, and by the clan’s rules, Yu Ce, the most talented, would be the future lord of the dragons.
But other than the accusation of threatening the position of the Daemon Lord’s successor, Xie Chi hadn’t done anything wrong. Dragons were also daemons, and in a world where strength ruled, he was merely challenging Yu Ce.
It was Yu Ce who was in the wrong, Yu Ce who had made the mistake.
It was Yu Ce who suddenly believed in the goodness of mortals, who believed that eliminating demons and upholding justice was the right path decreed by fate. It was Yu Ce who had abandoned them, abandoned the Dragon Clan.
The year Yu Ce went up the mountain to seek a master, he did so under the guise of exchanging his name as a pawn for reconciliation between daemons and humans, to balance the century-old conflict between them.
For so many years, Yu Ce had never felt that he was wrong.
Xie Chi despised his elder brother, yet deep down, he feared Yu Ce.
Whenever he saw Yu Ce angry, he knew he could never match him in a fight.
The true lord of the dragons had already been decided ever since their birth.
But Xie Chi was unwilling to accept it. The lord of the dragons turned out to be a dragon who was close to humans, a disgrace to their kind.
After a long silence, Yu Ce slowly reached out and retrieved the dragon ball that sustained Xie Chi’s life from his pale abdomen.
“You were wrong.”
“Xie Chi, if I were truly the master of the heavens as you say, how could I hesitate? I would have killed you ten years ago.”
—Instead of waiting until now.
Xie Chi’s pupils contracted, overwhelming despair engulfing his entire being, leaving him feeling like he was plunged into an icy cave.
Just as Yu Ce was about to crush the dragon ball, a low sob suddenly came from beside him. It sounded like someone who had been holding back for a long time but couldn’t hold back any longer.
Shen Tanqi’s eyes were red, clutching the bedding beneath him on the soft couch, murmuring softly, “Yu Ce…”
In an instant, both Yu Ce and Xie Chi’s gazes turned towards him, noticing a faint spiritual light flickering around his lower abdomen.
“He… the baby,” Shen Tanqi faltered at this crucial moment, not even knowing what to say to himself.
He covered his face in extreme embarrassment, and gritted his teeth as he muttered, “The baby doesn’t want to come out.”
Yu Ce was momentarily stunned. The imposing aura of killing intent around him vanished in an instant. He bent down and gently embraced Shen Tanqi, softly comforting, “It’s okay, I’m here. Take your time.”
With his life’s source in someone else’s hand, Xie Chi had no choice but to be honest.
But seeing Yu Ce so obedient and attentive towards Shen Tanqi, Xie Chi couldn’t help but feel…
Very displeased.
However, he couldn’t run away now. He urgently needed Shen Tanqi’s body for his own survival, so he could only wait for Shen Tanqi to give birth.
After a while, Xie Chi took a deep breath and decided to sit beside them, urging Shen Tanqi in a low voice, “Come on, push harder. He’s just stuck a bit. Crying won’t help. Put some effort into it and push him out.”
Shen Tanqi: …?
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