Chapter 3520 — Playing Them Back and Forth
The Blossom Guardian · Page 2 of 2
"Roar—" The Five-Shas Dragon understood him. It quickened its pace, seized Kang Jingming in one claw, and said to him, "Then I'll turn you into a mule first!"
With that, the Five-Shas Dragon swung its foreleg in a wide arc, and with a "whoosh" it smashed Kang Jingming down into the earth—exactly as it had done with Little Eleven.
Kang Jingming had assumed that once the Five-Shas Dragon flung him down, he need only play dead and it would leave him be for a while. But to his surprise, no sooner had he sunk into the soil than he heard thunderous footfalls behind him!
The sound was so tremendous it could only be the Five-Shas Dragon's tread! Kang Jingming went pale with fright. He was no Little Eleven—he could still muster his physical strength and true qi, and the earth here was fairly loose. With one heave he burst up out of the soil, and lifting his head, saw the Five-Shas Dragon already looming before him, a claw raised to strike!
Kang Jingming jumped in alarm and hurriedly quickened his pace, stumbling and scrambling aside to dodge—but the Five-Shas Dragon seemed to have no intention of letting him go, and kept up the pursuit at full speed behind him!
There was nothing Kang Jingming could do. He laughed bitterly to himself again and again. This Five-Shas Dragon was not only highly intelligent, it could understand human speech—and speak it too! Which meant that all those plans he and Zhong Yongliang had made earlier, the Five-Shas Dragon had heard every word of them!
No wonder the beast ignored everyone else and went after the two of them alone!
At last Kang Jingming's strength gave out. He dropped to his knees, gasping like a dog at the point of death—and the Five-Shas Dragon came to a halt before him as well. It looked at him, did not attack, and instead ran off toward Zhong Yongliang!
Zhong Yongliang was sitting on the ground with Zhang Naipao at that moment, recovering his physical strength and true qi. Like Kang Jingming, he had to rely on a high-grade pill such as the Qi-Returning Pill to restore himself; in the wilds of the Five Shas, this five-shas qi could not be cultivated.
Zhang Naipao, by contrast, was absorbing the five-shas qi to cultivate. The trouble was that although he could absorb this demonic qi, his cultivation speed was far too slow—after all this time, he had not even set foot on the Yellow Tier!
He had even thought of finding a few people and using the Bee-Stealing Art to absorb their true qi—but the Bee-Stealing Art could only be used at the Mystic Tier, and it had side effects: one could not absorb endlessly, and each absorption required enough time to dissolve it.
Only at the Heaven Tier could one recklessly absorb others' true qi! That was far inferior to the Southern Dark Art! Of course, purely in terms of the Heaven Tier, the two were roughly equal in power and effect.
So even if Zhang Naipao did go looking for people to drain of strength and true qi, he would have to wait until the Mystic Tier. Right now he could barely manage the Yellow Tier, and the Cloud-Tier Island plan was already upon them.
At this rate, Zhang Naipao was surely going to miss out, and that left him somewhat dejected! After all, back at the Yellow Tier, he had gone through untold hardships to advance to the Mystic Tier!
He had no jade-pendant space like Wei Zhao, nor any heaven-defying cultivation formula like the Xuanyuan Dragon-Taming Art. Once his strength was gone, all his advantages were gone with it, and he was little better than a廢人 a useless man.
When he might rise again was anyone's guess! (Another chapter a little later; it should be done around one o'clock.) RS