Chapter 159 - 100: 10 Years of Changes
It was Hui Cheng!
’It seems my previous guess was right!’
Xu Lei thought to himself immediately.
Of course, Xu Lei didn’t move.
He just silently watched as Hui Cheng floated up from the riverbed, quietly climbed ashore, and left.
Ten years had passed, and both the Old Daoist Nun and Hui Cheng looked older than before.
After all, time spares no one, not even Cultivators.
Moreover, in all these years, Hui Cheng and the Old Daoist Nun had suffered since Xu Lei had killed both of their sons.
They were now too old to have any more children.
Their own hopes of attaining immortality were not that high either.
They were certainly in a foul mood.
And when one is in a foul mood, one naturally ages faster.
Of course, when people are pushed into a corner, they often fight back.
It was much the same for Hui Cheng and the Old Daoist Nun.
In their desperation, they had likely spent these years traveling the world, searching for opportunities.
And now, it seemed they had actually found one.
Xu Lei didn’t know how they had discovered this place.
But there was no need to investigate that point.
After Hui Cheng had been gone for a while,
Xu Lei quietly approached the spot where Hui Cheng had appeared.
Now that he had a specific location to observe and probe, he indeed discovered something was amiss.
There was indeed a restrictive Array here.
BUZZ!
Xu Lei tried to break it, and to his surprise, with a surge of Magical Power, it actually opened.
The reefs on either side glowed faintly, revealing a Restriction.
Through it, he could see what looked like a deep, underground cavern below.
’Should I go down and take a look?’
Xu Lei pondered, ’What if there’s danger inside?’
But on second thought, this trip to the Mu Prince’s Mansion had been rather spontaneous.
Xu Lei felt it was unlikely to be a trap.
"Lotus Treasure Fragment!"
Still, Xu Lei was cautious. He activated a Lotus Treasure Fragment and sent it through first. "Go!"
It didn’t seem to be attacked.
’I’ll go down and take a look.’
Xu Lei thought, ’It shouldn’t be a trap.’
He had 9,998 lives left, anyway. No need to be so timid that he was afraid to do anything.
WHOOSH!
With that, Xu Lei truly passed through the Restriction and submerged himself beneath the river.
He passed through a submerged, underground corridor.
At the end, he swam upward for a while.
Xu Lei arrived in a fairly spacious underground grotto.
The entire place was ingeniously designed.
Only the entrance was a water-filled corridor.
Once inside the grotto, however, it was dry and comfortable.
Of course, it wasn’t long before Xu Lei’s pupils contracted.
Because in this grotto, there was a Black Flood Dragon.
Golden Chains were wrapped around its body in a crisscross pattern.
The Chains were inscribed with ancient, imprisoning Runes.
At this moment, the Flood Dragon, covered in black scales, had a gentle look in its eyes.
"Human, who are you?"
It even spoke in human tongue, asking, "You’re not with that man and woman from before?
That’s wonderful!
I’m begging you, please save me and my child!
If you can free me, I will repay you handsomely!
Over the years, I have nurtured some Dragon Crystals.
I created them by using a Dragon Race Secret Technique to condense Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi.
If you of the Human Race obtain them, your Cultivation will improve!"
It hadn’t taken human form, so normally it wouldn’t be able to speak human language.
But it was using its Demonic Power to simulate a human mouth within its own draconic maw.
Thus, it looked as if the dragon itself was speaking.
"I am indeed not with them!"
Xu Lei said, "But, Senior, can you tell me what is going on here?
Why are you trapped here?
What did those two people from before want to do to you?"
"I am a Black Dragon!"
the Black Flood Dragon said at this moment. "A descendant of the ancient Dragon Race!
Long ago, I was trapped here by an evil human Cultivator!
He even set up an Array, wanting to trap me here until I died, to wear me down to my death!
But Heaven has eyes and could not bear to see a kind-hearted Demon die a miserable death!
That human Cultivator left before he could refine me and never returned!
He must have met with some misfortune outside!
After that, I remained trapped here beneath the river!
Then that man and woman from before discovered this place!
They discovered me, as well as the Dragon Egg and Dragon Crystals beneath me!
They wanted to steal my Dragon Crystals and Dragon Egg!
They wanted to kill me!
Naturally, I couldn’t let them succeed!
But they couldn’t do anything to me!
So they resorted to using an Evil Technique to activate the Evil Array here and suppress me!
Previously, that man and woman captured more than ten Child Maidens with Yin Bodies and sacrificed them here!
They activated the Array to suppress and kill me!
They are extremely cruel and incomparably vicious!
But they haven’t succeeded yet!
Because with my many years of Cultivation, I can still withstand it!
But they are clearly not willing to give up!
I’m sure they will find even more Child Maidens to sacrifice!
I can see that you, little master, must be a righteous person, a proper Buddhist Disciple!
I implore you, little master, show mercy!
Save us, this mother and her child."
"So that’s how it is!"
As Xu Lei listened, he walked around the grotto, examining the Arrays and Restrictions within.
He thought, ’So they were looking for Child Maidens to throw into the river and then sacrifice!’
In a corner of the grotto, a pile of more than a dozen skeletons was starkly visible.
They were clearly the ones sacrificed by Hui Cheng and the Old Daoist Nun!
Before, they must have been capturing people themselves.
But then they realized it was too inefficient.
It was exhausting and a waste of Magical Power.
That’s why they came up with the idea of using the Mu Prince’s Mansion.
Everything matched what this Black Flood Dragon had said.
Xu Lei felt that its story was probably true.
BOOM!
However, just as Xu Lei was acknowledging this, and after he had moved a bit closer,
the Elder Dragon, which had looked so pitiful just moments ago, suddenly lashed out with its claws!