Mortal To Immortal (Book 1)
MTI 222 - A Dragon

Jiu Jinyu smirked at Bing Lizi's question. Her gaze looked cold as well as haughty, making her look even more beautiful in different ways.

"Chen Long, huh? That name is too good to have a rotten dragon like him." Jiu Jinyu laughed coldly full of ridicule.

"It's really weird that you end up in this place, but it doesn't really matter now. All I want to know is Brother Chen's whereabouts."

Bing Lizi tried to keep her calm, despite realizing Jiu Jinyu would be difficult to talk to properly.

"The queen doesn't know. Despite knowing it, what did this Queen tell you? There is absolutely no advantage. You rotten lowly human!"

Bing Lizi frowned, while Yao Han and the others were somewhat dumbfounded by Jiu Jinyu's changing style of speech like the ruling queen, even though she already looked quite calm.

Related Jiu Jinyu who was referred to as the Fox Queen by Bing Lizi, made Yao Han remembered the story he had heard when he first met Bing Lizi and Tian Jian.

Jiu Jinyu was none other than the leader of the Nine-Tailed Jade Fire Spirit beast race, the one where they lived was discovered by accident and was visited by Bing Lizi and Chen Long while traveling a hundred years ago.

As Bing Lizi said, Jiu Jinyu's whereabouts were very strange. Maybe he also moved places mysteriously like Bing Lizi first who then saved Tian Jian.

Bing Lizi's eyes looked coldly at Jiu Jinyu who was replying to her with an equally cold gaze full of arrogance.

"You're hard to talk to. You really don't know or just pretend?"

"Hmph, there's no point in this Queen lying either!"

"In that case, I'll ask you something else. What really happened after I disappeared from that place?"

"Hmph, a despicable human like you does not deserve an answer from this Queen!"

Jiu Jinyu's arrogantly reply made Bing Lizi's emotions ignite, making her wrathful and displaying the other side of her.

"The answer to my question is correct!"

Not only snapped, Bing Lizi also unleashed her power. Yao Han and the others swiftly retreated away while being shocked, while feeling the air temperature around where they were standing down swiftly due to the influence of Bing Lizi's strength.

Slowly, a layer of ice covers the ground and snowflakes fall. Jiu Jinyu tried to cover up her shock as Bing Lizi snapped while releasing strength to frighten her.

"How dare you yell at this Queen! Come on, let me tear your body apart!"

"Basar stupid female fox. With your current condition, you want to fight back?" Bing Lizi laughed sinisterly. His aura became colder and scarier as a murderous air seeped out from his body.

A pointed ice spear formed in Bing Lizi's hand which was then directed right in front of Jiu Jinyu's face.

"I feel like you know where Brother Chen is. If you still don't want to say it, this spear will pierce through your face."

"This queen is not afraid of such a lowly threat. Even if this Queen dies in your hands, you never get anything. You can assume your friend the rotten dragon is dead horribly!"

"I've lived for a thousand years and you think I believe in your nonsense?"

"This queen is telling the truth. The rotten dragon had already died in a terrible condition!"

Bing Lizi let out a long sigh and retracted her strength. With a flick of a hand, a layer of ice formed that slowly covered Jiu Jinyu and the roots wrapped around her.

"You-you! Stopit! What do you mean this?!" Jiu Jinyu suddenly panicked.

"My point is to turn you into a grain of ice. Since you're so stubborn, maybe I'd better get rid of you."

Jiu Jinyu could feel Bing Lizi seriously with her words. As the layer almost reached his face, Jiu Jinyu gave up.

Bing Lizi stopped making ice sheets. By force, Jiu Jinyu suppressed her pride in order to survive. He still has an ambition and to make it happen, he must not die sooner, let alone in this strange and middle of nowhere.

"I'm waiting for your answer."

Jiu Jinyu snorted loudly. "There's conditions! You must help this Queen get away."

Bing Lizi clucked softly, then asked Yao Han for help for being lazy to intervene directly. As Yao Han approached, Jiu Jinyu looked at him strangely.

"Boy, your cultivation level is very strange. However, your aura is more strange. Who the hell are you?"

"My name is Yao Han." Yao Han retorted back to his senses, then observed the roots wrapped around Jiu Jinyu. Feeling that the roots were quite difficult to release in the usual way, Yao Han took out the Silver Sky Sword and slashed at those large-sized roots.

"Finally this Queen feels freedom again after all this time."

After breaking free from the winding roots, Yao Han and the others could read the cultivation level of Jiu Jinyu who was in the early stage Golden Core Realm.

Jiu Jinyu observed Yao Han from head to toe, making Yao Han a bit uneasy. Before the Fox Queen could ask, Bing Lizi urged her to speak immediately.

"The lowly human base is impatient..."

Jiu Jinyu explained that Chen Long was still alive and was also in the same place as all of them at the moment. He himself did not understand the reason he and Chen Long could suddenly be in a place like this.

"Where exactly is he now?" Bing Lizi and the others were excited as they were about to find Chen Long.

"The queen doesn't know. Usually he goes around somewhere." Jiu Jinyu answered lazily. "Once again this Queen doesn't expect two rotten humans like you to be alive." Jiu Jinyu looked at Bing Lizi full of vengeance.

Bing Lizi ignored Jiu Jinyu's gaze, then glanced at Yao Han and the others. "At least he's here. Sooner or later we'll meet him."

"Although the rotten dragon did not die, but he lived in a curse."

"What do you mean?"

Jiu Jinyu spread her shoulders. "This queen won't tell you. You'll find out later after meeting him."

There were still some things Bing Lizi wanted to ask, but before she could ask, there was a roar from the sky.

Grooaarr!!!

The loud sound to vibrate the air and make the feathers goosebumps. Bing Lizi and the others stare up and find something not too obvious drifting down.

After a while, it was clear that something resembled a snake with a strange scales.

"Snakes? No, it.. dragon!" yutian Exclamation.

That something is a dragon. Its scales resemble a brownish-green bark, which when viewed from a distance is black. The closer the distance, the stronger the aura of a dragon and the powerful life energy.

"It's not an ordinary dragon, but rather Brother Chen."

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Illustration of Southern Dragon spirit beast Chen Long, Green Wood Dragon.