Chapter 34: She came back from the dead

    His grandfather's, he shouldn't have climbed this Jiaojiao tree back then!

    Lao Wen struggled to swallow the yellow charm and blood that were in his mouth.

    The yellow amulet broke into pieces. A streak of red light shot straight from Lao Wen's throat towards the vast ocean in an unknown direction, vanishing into thin air as if it were flying.

    Liu Qi squinted his eyes, "Not too stupid, knowing to look for the Immortal Gate dormitory at this moment?"

    "It's a shame that the message has to take half a day to reach the shore, how can you survive if I want you to die?"

    Liu Qi squinted his eyes at this traitor, "Wen Feng, as an ordinary mortal, where did you get the Dao Kou poison?"

    Liu Qi lifted his withered fingers, randomly pinch-pulling in the air, and the heads of the brothers beside Lao Wen exploded instantly. The white, creamy brain matter dropped directly into the sea, attracting a group of white sharks to feed on it.

    Lao Wen's facial muscles trembled violently. He was about to say something, but was suddenly grabbed by an unknown force, directly holding his head.

    "It doesn't matter, why ask you? Just search your soul."

    Click—

    Lao Wen clearly heard the sound of bone cracking.

    Next, he will be like his brothers, with his head as a melon and explode completely.

    Lao Wen's eyes bulged with fury. "Drive the tiger away and swallow the wolf, drive the tiger away and swallow the wolf!" he thought. How could such an evil spirit be so ineffective, unable to kill this old fellow!

    He clenched his teeth in anger and, amidst the intense pain, spat a mouthful of saliva at the remote immortal.

    Fuck you!

    I'll even die, I'll use crazy fire to burn you!

    Lao Wen's eyes bulged to their maximum size, staring fiercely at Liu Qi. His teeth chattered, and his mind kept replaying the humiliations he had suffered in the past. He thought about his daughter, who was helpless and alone in Dushan Bay, and about the brothers around him who died one after another. Feverish fire!

    Aren't those thoughts of pain supposed to set you on fire?

    Why don't you awaken the crazy fire!

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    In the darkness, Zheng He's eyes suddenly opened.

    She has returned to the Golden Scale Paradise.

    She curled on the ground and coughed softly. Her throat, lungs, and stomach were filled with blood, as if someone had reached in and stirred it brutally.

    "Midday?"

    "Every time she came here, Zheng Dangwu would chat with her a bit."

    Zheng He's face was slightly pale. She looked around and didn't see the girl in white dress.

    "Dangwu?"

    She shook unsteadily to her feet, staring in shock at the skin on her arm. She remembered that she was engulfed in a fierce fire, with burned bones poking out. However, now she was clean-skinned, with blood red and some spots still marked by black ashes, but overall had recovered to near normalcy.

    How did she recover so quickly?

    The tips of her toes moved slightly, and only then did Zheng He realize that she had been immersed in the cool spring water all this time.

    There were ripples of varying depths in the shallow water pool, and within the broken surface, Zheng He saw her own face.

    A fierce and ferocious devils mask was on her face.

    Zheng He's cracked lips moved beneath the mask, but no sound was produced. She uncontrollably ran her fingers over the fierce devil's mask on her face.

    What is this······?

    [Escape Value +60]

    [Current Escape Value is at 100%]

    [Good Nezha Escape is completed. Currently only Evil Nezha is prepared, and the replacement process has started.]

    [Countdown begins: 10]

    [9]

    [8]

    ...

    [Evil Nezha has been fully fitted.]

    lying quietly, with only one eyeball of Zheng He's lifeless body moving slightly, as if to show signs of life.

    The fresh blood, which rose again, slowly covered the pupil, swallowed the black and red blood hole that had been overly burnt. When the blood color soaked the entire face, Zheng He's face was already adorned with a fierce devils mask.

    The flesh of the chest moved as the blood flow returned, and the skin, flesh, and bones grew rapidly. The ghostly Zheng He slowly lifted her right hand and waved it in the air.

    A gust of wind followed her stroke, directly flying towards the moon. The mist in front of the moon instantly dispersed, and in front of the ghostly Zheng He's ghost mask, the body of Jiaomu Jiang dissipated once more, and it silently led her from the deck to mid-air.

    She clenched her fist and smiled in surprise.

    Looking down upon the Forbidden Sea, calling to the heavens and breathing in the earth, a powerful surge of spiritual energy surged towards her from all directions.

    In the blink of an eye, she felt the familiar power and authority.

    This is her ship, this is her sea.

    She extended her right hand towards Liu Qi, who had already noticed the abnormality, her fingers spread out as if to crush him in her palm. "Rebel."

    Liu Qi's figure froze for a moment.

    He loosened his grip on Lao Wen and turned to look at Zheng He, who was floating in the air, with a suspicious look in his eyes.

    "You once wished for it, now, I grant your wish, bestow upon you the transformation into a dragon."

    The ghostly Zheng He spoke with a hint of eerie smile in her tone, spreading her palm and pressing down heavily on Liu Qi.

    Liu Qi looked down at his chest, where beneath the ribs, a huge heart was drumming fiercely, struggling to pierce through the flesh and blood, yearning to rush towards that person.

    The scales that pierced through his skin tore apart his dirty robe into fragments. Suddenly, the huge heart that was not his erupted with unprecedented strength.

    The tail trembled, and he couldn't help but shriek in a hoarse voice. The pupils in his eyes burned with flame and gold, his bones turned into sharp spines, and the blood poured out of his body as if it were being rammed in. His horns twisted grotesquely, his human face transformed into a demon mask, and in an instant, his face looked exactly like the ghost mask on Zheng He's face.

    Liu Qi had always dreamed of becoming a dragon. Now, with horns sprouting from his head and his bones forming the shape of a dragon, he was as close to it as he ever would be. Yet, he had no heart to appreciate his dragon form. Instead, he screamed and spasmed like someone thrown into crazy fire, with all his blood vessels exaggeratedly swelling so much that you could even see the flowing blood within them.

    In an instant, boundless vitality and strength swept across Liu Qi like a tidal wave. His wounds healed at an incredible speed, and his body, which had withered from the Dao Kou poison, began to rapidly grow muscles. Even the feeble snake tail of his disability began to shine brightly!

    Under the moonlight, the giant black shadow covered the whole Jiaomu Jiang ship.

    Liu Qi let out a fierce and piercing howl!

    Unprecedented violence had taken control of his mind, the blood of a dragon burned fiercely within him!

    His clothes burst into pieces, and a black giant dragon shot out like an arrow off a string, unstoppable, straight up into the clouds. The fierce wind and giant waves caused by it rattled tremulously, purging the entire Forbidden Sea.

    All of this happened in a flash. Above the Forbidden Sea, countless beings considered to be taboos emerged from the depths, solemnly gazing at the black figure that suddenly soared upwards.

    Liu Qi felt incredible. He was surrounded by divine light and blazing flames, smashing through layer upon layer of obstacles. He felt that everything he once thought was unattainable was now within reach.

    He even saw the White Jade Capital at the top of the clouds!

    The air he breathed was not air but clouds and mist!

    The moon was within reach, and with one bite, he could devour a corner of it!

    "Day and moon are the eyes, white waves are the teeth, gnawing heaven and earth, transform me into a dragon!"

    "I've become a dragon! I've really become one!"

    A huge wave was stirred around him, and even the enormous Jiaomu Jiang was unable to maintain stability amidst the turbulence caused by him.

    "I am a dragon!"

    In the sky high above, Liu Qi could feel the gazes of countless malicious spirits in the Forbidden Sea towards him. Even higher up in the sky, there were also eyes looking down on this place, but they were obscured by the surging black clouds.

    The whole world watched him, the whole world feared him.

    He is a dragon!

    He looked around the four seas, his gaze filled with majesty and severity, as if a king was touring his own land.

    He didn't stop looking until he saw that demonic mask.

    The ghostly Zheng He tilted her head, as if admiring her new life, her pupils filled with a cold smile.

    "Is it done?"

    "It's now time for me to take my turn, isn't it?"