339: Chapter 339 The Bitter Flesh Scheme

At this moment, she was covered in blood, her limbs twisted, and her breathing as weak as a gossamer thread.

Yet, she still struggled to prop herself up with one hand.

She stood up unsteadily.

She turned around and stood on the bank, looking down from a height.

She quietly watched the one following closely behind.

The Black Dragon, which was churning up monstrous waves on the surface of the Spirit River.

The Dragon God's massive head emerged from the water.

It stared at the woman on the bank.

Looking at Fairy Qingyun, who was so weak that a gust of wind could blow her over.

And the small bundle she was protecting in her arms.

The Black Dragon stopped roaring.

He let out a wild, arrogant, and hearty laugh.

"Hahahaha, stupid woman, you're out of energy, you can't run anymore, can you!"

"Do you think you're safe just because you escaped to the bank?"

"Not to mention what I said before—there is a blood resonance between me and this little bastard; no matter where you run, I can pinpoint your location..."

The Black Dragon's laughter shook the surrounding cliffs until they trembled.

"Even now, although this deity is bound by the laws of heaven and earth and my true form cannot leave the Spirit River, but..."

"To deal with you, who are now like a candle in the wind."

"Even if this deity is just in the river, separated by this thousand-foot void, one slap from this deity is enough to smash you into meat paste."

"The Great Medicine will be this deity's in the end!"

"Die!"

Before the words had even faded.

The Black Dragon extended a black dragon claw that blotted out the sky.

Carrying Demonic Power sufficient to destroy a sect.

It broke through the air from the water's surface.

Towards Fairy Qingyun on the bank.

It slammed down fiercely.

Facing this fatal blow.

Fairy Qingyun did not dodge.

Her face—

"Bang—!"

A muffled, thunderous sound rang out.

The earth cracked and shattered.

Debris flew into the air.

The Dragon God's slap landed solidly on Fairy Qingyun's body.

At the very moment of impact, the Black Dragon felt a twinge of regret.

Damn it, I forgot to control the force.

Whether that woman dies or not is irrelevant.

But he was terrified that his violent strike would also smash the precious "Great Flesh Medicine" in her arms.

As the dust settled.

The Black Dragon hurriedly looked through the gaps.

But to his horror, he discovered.

His slap had not smashed Fairy Qingyun into pieces.

It had only knocked her unconscious.

That broken, delicate body.

Lay limp amidst the ruins.

And what made the Black Dragon feel exceptionally furious was.

In Fairy Qingyun's arm, which had gone limp and loosened.

The infant wrapped in cloth that she had protected with her life the entire way.

Had disappeared!

That's right.

As the spiritual energy dissipated.

The infant first turned into a phantom image.

Then simply flickered twice, turned into a puff of air, and dissipated in the cold wind.

It was fake.

It was an illusion.

"ROAR! AAAAAAHHHH—!"

Realizing that he had been played like a monkey by a weak human woman.

The Black Dragon let out an angry roar.

He had actually been deceived.

The thing she had protected with her life all along the way was not some Great Medicine at all.

It was an illusion used to lure the enemy and attract all of his attention.

What made the Black Dragon even more desperate was.

When he tried to use the blood resonance between himself and Su Chen to sense Su Chen's location.

He was shocked to discover.

That between the two originally homologous bloodlines, it was as if there was a layer of gauze separating them.

He couldn't sense it anymore.

Without needing to guess, the Black Dragon knew.

All of this was Fairy Qingyun's masterpiece.

"Bitch! You foul whore!"

"This deity will tear you into ten thousand pieces!"

The furious Black Dragon went mad, driving his Demonic Power to condense a large hand of spiritual energy.

Wanting to cross the boundary.

To go and carry the unconscious Fairy Qingyun on the bank back into the water.

He wanted to take her back and imprison her in the deepest purgatory.

It didn't matter that the Great Medicine was gone, as long as this mother with top-tier aptitude was still around.

At worst, he would just spend a few more years letting her give birth to another one.

Afterwards, he would have plenty of time to torture her!

The spiritual energy hand seized Fairy Qingyun's waist like lightning.

However.

Just at the moment when the Black Dragon's spiritual energy touched Fairy Qingyun's delicate body.

A strange change occurred again.

That Fairy Qingyun who lay limply on the ground, looking so real.

With a soft "boom" sound.

That stunningly beautiful physical body instantly disintegrated upon the Black Dragon's touch, turning into gray ashes dancing across the sky.

As a cold wind blew, not even a speck of residue remained.

"How... is this possible..."

"That slap of mine... she shouldn't have been completely obliterated, soul and all, right?"

The Black Dragon closed his eyes, quietly sensing the changes in the surrounding world.

Only then did he realize.

When Fairy Qingyun was smashed apart just now.

Between heaven and earth, there was absolutely no dissipation of spiritual energy that would occur when a cultivator falls.

In other words.

Fairy Qingyun's primordial spirit must have protected Su Chen and gone to a place he didn't know about.

The shell before him was merely a cicada shedding its skin to escape.

The Dragon God's massive eyes froze.

He looked at the empty bank.

And let out a desperate, low roar like a stray dog.

"Heh... crazy woman, you really aren't afraid of having your soul completely obliterated, actually choosing to use your own primordial spirit to wrap his body, acting as a barrier to cut off the bloodline connection between that bastard and me..."

"Just you wait."

"I don't believe that your primordial spirit can really last forever without dissipating, protecting him for a lifetime."

"I have plenty of time to waste here with you."

...

Meanwhile.

Several hundred kilometers away from the source of the Spirit River.

In a dry cave hidden deep within the layers of the hundred thousand mountains.

A transparent phantom emitting a green light was leaning weakly against the rock wall.

It was a woman's primordial spirit.

It was none other than Fairy Qingyun.

It turned out that.

During the moment she gave birth in the Dragon Palace and took advantage of her breakthrough to the mid-stage of the Tribulation Transcendence to repel the Black Dragon.

This heaven-favored daughter of the Qingxuan Sect.

Had performed the supreme forbidden technique of the Qingxuan Sect, which only the past sect leaders and their successors could access.

"One Breath Transforms into Three Purities."

She had forcibly stripped her own soul from her physical body.

She used her physical body, along with the powerful cultivation base she had just broken through to, to create a "fake mother and child" holding an infant phantom.

Using her real flesh and blood body to bear the Black Dragon's wrath and attract all of the Black Dragon's attention.

Staging a ruse of self-harm.

While her primordial spirit, carrying the real infant Su Chen, had slipped away from the Dragon Palace amidst the chaos, fleeing all the way to this place several hundred kilometers away.

Even when she knew that the Black Dragon had an ability similar to bloodline tracking.

She chose to dissipate more than half of her primordial spirit's power, turning it into a green protective shield covering Su Chen's entire body, cutting off the bloodline connection between the two.

Although the power of the primordial spirit would eventually run out, she would protect him for as long as she could.

At this moment, Fairy Qingyun was left with only this primordial spirit that was on the verge of dissipating.

She gasped for breath, and with her remaining magic power, she manipulated several huge boulders.

"Rumble," completely sealing off the entrance to this hidden secret chamber.

Cutting off all possible detection from the outside world.