by Fat Bread
This was the tactic Yun Xi learned from Hua Huo's seed. It seemed that, though Hua Huo's sword had beat them down, they still couldn't remove this weakness of theirs, their compulsion to attack a perceived weakness.
"I see. So..."
Yun Xi understood how to win against the five generals. They were too impetuous and especially had an unintelligible compulsion to attack weaknesses. He picked up the wooden shield, bravely walking towards the area where the remaining four generals guarded.
"Plop!"
"Plop!
"Plop!"
"Plop!"
Chapter 49: Mighty Dragon
"How can it be so simple?" By using the same method, Yun Xi trapped Zhao Ming, Zhao Xiong, Zhao Chu, Zhao Chui, and Zhao Shen beside the bridge. He felt the number of the souls he absorbed and felt pretty confused.
Weren't they five real 3rd-ranked warriors? Compared to the stone army he met at the first stage, why were the famous Five Tiger Generals so easy to deal with?
Weren’t they too weak?
No. Their attacking power and explosive force were both at the 3rd rank. If they fought recklessly with Yun Xi one on one, they could even suppress Yun Xi from all directions.
If it wasn't because they had the same fatal weakness, Yun Xi would have had to pay a great price to win against any of them. Maybe he would even have had to perish together with them.
"Hua Huo... what a genius you are!" Everytime Yun Xi thought that he had overestimated Hua Huo's talent...
... Hua Huo's seed would tell him that he was at a way lower level than Hua Huo.
When Hua Huo was still at the 2nd rank, the Five Tiger Generals' actions were full of weak points. Though they were at the 3rd rank, they were still merely five stronger boorish fellows in Hua Huo's mind.
However, in the eyes of the townspeople, even in the eyes of the people of White Lotus Sword Domain, they all were invincible generals.
99% perspiration was more important than 1% inspiration? That was just a story adults used to cheat children.
1% inspiration was way more important than 99% perspiration. People who had no inspiration would finally reach their limit.
In this world, only a genius who also practiced hard could reach the zenith, just like Hua Huo.
"Does Hua Huo really need my help?" Feeling the increased strength in his body, Yun Xi figured out the degree in which he had improved.
The souls of the Five Tiger Generals were about two times more than the soul of the green hippo. What a great example the green hippo was! He decided that if he saw these kind of green hippos again, he would kill them as much as possible.
"Boom!" A volcano erupted in front of Yun Xi.
Countless amounts of magma soared to the sky.
For a moment, the dust and smoke rose from the volcanic vent and flew ten thousands of meters in the sky. Observing it from the ground, a small half of the sky was almost covered.
"Hua Huo, what are you fighting with?" Looking at the exploding volcano, Yun Xi was stunned for a long while.
By using Quicksilver Motion, Yun Xi turned into the wind, dashing to the central part of the burning volcano area.
Along the way, Yun Xi saw many bodies in separated parts. Every corpse was a strange beast - the beasts the people who just reached the small village owned.
There were about six dead green hippos.
About six dead White Flying Horses.
A dead Griffin.
A dead King Kong.
They all were giants or strange beasts. They were treasures belonging to the people in the village, some of them handed down by their owners' ancestors.
Many strange beasts could live very long, way longer than humans. Training a baby beast from birth, by the time of its death, it could have even protected a family for dozen generations.
In that case, how many strange beasts a big family had and how powerful their strange beasts were, directly showed how strong that family was.
Ordinary people didn't have enough money and time to feed these fierce and strong beasts.
However, those powerful strange beasts were all lying down in a pool of their own blood. Especially the several green hippos, Yun Xi gazed at them with greed.
Because they weren't killed by Yun Xi, he obtained no souls from their corpses. He had to look at these carcasses messed up on the ground.
Not one of them were alive. It seemed that, when Yun Xi was struggling hard to fight with the stone soldier army, Hua Huo had cleared her way by killing, entering the last battle.
Yun Xi even doubted himself... when he reached that place, would the side quest have already been completed by Hua Huo?
"Arrrrgh!" A heaven-shaking roar told Yun Xi that the last battle hadn't finished yet.
"Side Quest: The heroine challenging the evil dragon. Go find her and become her partner, defeat the evil dragon." After remembering the hint of the side quest, Yun Xi knew what the strongest monster in the volcano area was.
A dragon!
No matter where you were, the Western God's Domain or Dragon's Domain, a dragon meant absolute power, the master of dominant power.
Dragon - Even a Wurm, which had only a few drops of dragon blood, was the top hunter who stood at the peak of the food chain.
As the side quest specially pointed out that it was an "evil dragon", Yun Xi couldn't imagine what kind of a vicious monster it was.
Was Hua Huo fighting with such a monster?
After dodging balls of flame continuously and stepping on fire and dust, Yun Xi finally reached the central location of the volcano area and saw two presences who were fighting.
Dragon!
It wasn't an Earth Dragon, Wyvern, nor Aitvaras. It was a real male Fiery Dragon who had red-hot scales and was roaring!
How was it possible that such a monster appeared near the small village? Wasn't it a nightmare which only inhabited volcanic areas?
Male Fiery Dragon. It had terrible blood that could make it become a true Giant Dragon. It was a True Dragon!
It was about eighteen meters in length and its scales looked rough and crimson. You could vaguely see dark-red striations on its wings. Even as he was still a few hundred meters away from it, he could feel its horrible atmosphere, which was known as "Dragon's Dignity".
A male Fiery Dragon. It was a real male Fiery Dragon!
If male Fiery Dragons were immersed long enough in magma, it could evolve into a Giant Dragon who could control flames!
Its wide wings, hard scales, and strong four limbs all proved that it could tear any Mortal into two pieces.
No matter if it were the Green Hippo, the King Kong, or the White Flying Horse, they could not be compared to the fiery dragon who owned the blood of a fire-type Giant Dragon.
The Fiery Dragon was a real hero-ranked being. It was a super creature who could control flames and had the "Dragon's Dignity".
However, what was it that Yun Xi saw just now?
The atrocious Fiery Dragon who was so strong that it could swim in magma, had one of its wings cut off and only half of its tail remained. Its body was covered with scars.
Hua Huo, who was just at the 3rd rank, had driven the giant monster into the last ditch.
This wasn't something like a 2nd rank fighting against a 3rd rank, but a Mortal doing serious damage to a hero-ranked monster!
Chapter 50: Dragon Battle-Maiden
That was too powerful!
Yun Xi blankly looked at the both sides that were fighting each other violently, feeling Hua Huo's powerful talent again.
No, it already couldn't be described as "powerful". It was incredible!
Everyone in every God's Domain admitted that a Mortal rank couldn't defeat a Hero rank.
A Mortal 3rd rank of the white-leaf meant the limit of flesh and blood. Even inhuman monsters like the green hippo were still at this rank.
Only Hero ranks of the silver-leaf were entitled to step onto a higher realm. You could say that in essence, Mortal rank creatures and Hero
rank creatures were already two different living beings.
Taking the male Fiery Dragon and the Green Hippo as an example, an adult male Fiery Dragon could easily spit out flame at thousands of degrees and his Dragon Aura field could shock and awe all creatures under the 3rd rank.
If this kind of monsters appeared on the battlefield of Mortals, it wasn't as simple as an invincible enemy, but a nightmare who was going to exterminate all living beings!
3rd rank and 4rd rank. Mortals and Heroes. This was a natural chasm.
"Ding!" The cold sword light pierced the air, chopping at the angry male Fiery Dragon again.
One, two, three, four... Yun Xi exhausted his sight, finally barely seeing traces of Hua Huo's sword clearly.
It was the Flying Swallow Sword, but way stronger than the common Flying Swallow Sword.
Yun Xi had to force all his strength to use the Flying Swallow Sixfold Attack, but any of Hua Huo's casual attacks easily reached fourteen slashes!
Not only that, they were all forced onto one limb, there was no deviation.
"Hong!" The male Fiery Dragon trampled the ground. All its scales suddenly emitted light, and then, a wall of fire shot up to the sky.
The human Mortal body certainly couldn't master this kind of ability. Flame Control was proof that the male Fiery Dragon was at the Hero rank.
However, the wall of fire couldn't even ignite the corner of Hua Huo's clothes.
Hua Huo stepped forward. Comparing to her use of the skill Quicksilver Motion, Yun Xi blushingly felt that he himself was nothing. A moment later, she appeared behind the male Fiery Dragon.
This time, it was her twenty-four times continuous attacks that were at lightning speed and the position she chopped at was the male Fiery Dragon's tail, which was already a little broken.
"Roar" The angry male Fiery Dragon used its ultimate skill, which could kill all creatures whose rank was lower than 3rd rank - Dragon's Roar.
Terrible sound waves spread away. Even Yun Xi, who was hundreds of meters away from there was also caught up in the skill. His eardrums nearly broke.
Hua Huo flexibly brandished her sword, drawing traces in the air in a way that Yun Xi was unable to understand, cutting and splitting the male Fiery Dragon from all directions.
"Hoo!" The dragon's roar, which was able to kill the Five Tiger Generals at the same moment just blew up a gust of wind, making her pretty horsetail flap in the air.
After breaking the dragon's roar down, Hua Huo took a step backwards and then jumped up in the next second.
"Gahu!" The male Fiery Dragon saw that Hua Huo was jumping up, then its next actions made Yun Xi feel inconceivable.
Wielding its claws, it protected its eyes and head. Its body curled up with it wings folded. It looked like it was very proficient at it.
Hua Huo jumped up. She dragged her simple long sword, stroking her fingertip on the blade of the sword. Then, she dropped a few blood drops down on the sharp blade, adding to the light, long sword a bit of a blood-red colour.
The next moment, with a flash, a line in the air appeared in front of Yun Xi's eyes. The male Fiery Dragon roared sadly and shrilly as one of its wings was chopped off from the middle.
It was the Sky Flying Sword!
It was Yun Xi's first time seeing Hua Huo's strongest sword skill, the God's Sword Skill with his own eyes.
Only this kind of sword skill could chop off the defiant male Fiery Dragon's wing with one hit. After all, if it was Yun Xi, his attack couldn't do any harm to the dragon's scales.
By analogy, half of the dragon's tail and its wing on the other side were also chopped off by Hua Huo's God's Sword Skill.
No wonder that it was Hua Huo's strongest hidden sword skill. It could even chop off the hero-ranked dragon's wings and tail.
However, after using this skill, Hua Huo did not look happy at all. She didn't keep fighting with the male Fiery Dragon. Using her skill Quicksilver Motion continuously, she ran to a corner in the middle of the volcano area.
Then, she took out a black stone to sharpen her sword.
Ah, her sword was dulled, the weapon was lacking sharpness. When Yun Xi fought with the Green Hippo, he was also facing this trouble, so he understood Hua Huo's action immediately.
The male Fiery Dragon's scales were too hard. Even though Hua Huo's sword was made of stainless steel, an excellent weapon from White Lotus Sword Palace, but it was still not good enough to cut through dragon scales.
Perhaps that was the only reason that Hua Huo hadn't killed the male Fiery Dragon yet.
Her weapon wasn't sharp enough.
If so, maybe...
Yun Xi checked his Armoury, finding a weapon which he regarded as a waste before...
The standard two-handed sword of the Thunderbolt Army in the Western God's Domain. Its weight being a hundred-and-eight kilograms. It could be used as a siege weapon.
"Hua Huo, use it!" Yun Xi took out the sword, which was too heavy for Mortals and threw it to Hua Huo.
"Ah, Little Xi, you're here!" Hua Huo looked at Yun Xi in surprise and happiness. She hurriedly stood up, tidying her little-burnt dress.
Because she had fought with the male Fiery Dragon for a long while, her clothes had been burnt a little apart. However, none of the parts were burned by the male Fiery Dragon's flames. It was burnt due to the igneous magma.
"Don't look at me. Little Xi, ah!" After realizing how embarrassing her dress was, Hua Huo's face turned red.
"You stupid dragon, it's all your fault!"
"Gahu!" The male Fiery Dragon didn't think so. It was just staying in the volcano, but Hua Huo came to it, chopping off its wings and tail. The male Fiery Dragon stared at them with tears welling up. Did I bother you?
I just ate several humans, why must you chased after me up to my nest?!
"Hua Huo, sword." Yun Xi never saw Hua Huo use two-handed swords, but he thought that Hua Huo should know how to use it.
"Oh, you're coming to give me a weapon! Not bad, this dream." Hua Huo looked very happy to see the two-handed sword which Yun Xi threw to the ground.
"I needed this kind of weapon! In that case, this stupid dragon is just dead meat!"
"Woohu!" Though it didn't understand what Hua Huo was saying, the male Fiery Dragon still noticed the two-handed sword that Yun Xi threw to Hua Huo. Suddenly, it shivered.
The next moment, Yun Xi saw the three steps that Hua Huo used to kill the male Fiery Dragon.
The first step, Hua Huo moved to the heavy sword, picking it up by using only one hand.
The second step, Hua Huo jumped up. The blood that slipped from her fingers stained the heavy sword, which was able to kill the dragon.
The third step, a giant "V" crack appeared in the air. It tore the male Fiery Dragon into two pieces.
That was how the heroine killed the evil dragon.
Chapter 51: Sky Sword
"Hong!" The male Fiery Dragon's mountain-like huge body toppled down to the ground. Its four limbs twisted and struggled as its Dragon's Roar shook the earth.
Yun Xi was caught off guard. The afterwind of the Dragon's Roar blew him to the sky.
"How dare you!" At first, Hua Huo was going to kill the male Fiery Dragon without any pain, but now, her anger flared up...
The two-handed sword, which was made by the Thunder Army in the Western God's Domain, was stained with Hua Huo's blood again.
One hit, two hits. Yun Xi hadn't land on the ground but saw one sword light after another take off towards the male Fiery Dragon.
Every sword light was as nimble as a bird flying in the sky.
Every sword light was as heavy as a meteorite hitting the ground.
Extremely heavy and extremely light. Two different properties perfectly blended together on Hua Huo's sword.
Breaking its claws, docking its tail, chopping its wings, cutting its bones, and mincing its flesh!
When faced with Hua Huo's god-like sword skill, the male Fiery Dragon, who arrogantly detonated the volc
ano, was meat on a chopping board: he was completely minced.
"Swish!" As the last action, Hua Huo threw the two-handed sword to the sky, then continuously used Quicksilver Motion three times, which was so fast that you may wonder if her ankles would break. She rushed below Yun Xi, then leaped up, holding Yun Xi in her arms in the air.