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Su Ping’s voice echoed at the mountain top. The Inferno Dragon heard it, loud and clear, and gradually stopped shaking. It turned around and gazed at Su Ping.

Suddenly, the Inferno Dragon understood it all, why Su Ping was so angry.

Onward...

The Inferno Dragon made up its mind and took a determined step toward the dragon origin.

“How can you?”

The fact that the Inferno Dragon was able to resist its deterrence came as a shock to the old dragon. A glint of coldness rose in the old dragon’s eyes.

Humph.

The old dragon snorted. As the space trembled, the Inferno Dragon was crushed into pieces...

But soon after, the Inferno Dragon was brought back from death. This time, before Su Ping said anything, the Inferno Dragon went ahead and pressed on toward the dragon origin.

Keep going!

Keep going forward!

The Inferno Dragon could see nothing but the dragon origin. Going toward the dragon origin was an order from Su Ping and what he hoped for him!

Roar!!

The Inferno Dragon let out a shout that was heard only in ancient times. Even though the Inferno Dragon was unable to master that roar completely, it did carry some force.

The purple-blood dragons came to a start. They glued their surprised glances at the Inferno Dragon.

The old Star Rank dragon was stunned to find a force close to the Star Rank in that roar. Where did the dragon learn it?

Another question was how the dragon had learned it.

It wouldn’t have copied that roar after listening to it several times. The Inferno Dragon would have had to listen to that every day, or have a very high power of understanding! “There’s something of interest in you but it doesn’t change anything, you petty thing,” the old dragon asserted. The dragon altered the space and the Inferno Dragon was only able to travel several meters before it died.

Of course, the next second, the Inferno Dragon would return to life.

Keep going!

Roar!

The Inferno Dragon wildly charged toward the dragon origin, pressing forward with indomitable will and determination.

Bang!

Bang!

Bang!

The Inferno Dragon’s soul was broken into pieces time after time, but it would return to life. The Inferno Dragon’s soul had died dozens of times in the span of half a minute. On average, the Inferno Dragon’s soul was being broken every second.

Sometimes, the Inferno Dragon was just about to take a single step forward when it was suddenly ripped apart. The other purple-blood dragons watched on indifferently, not taking any actions. Since the old Star Rank dragon was involved, their involvement would be considered disrespectful for the old dragon.

Bang, bang, bang!

The Inferno Dragon’s soul alternated between life and death and kept on moving.

Dozens of times, hundreds of times!

The purple-blood dragons were completely stunned into speechlessness as they witnessed the Inferno Dragon coming back to life hundreds of times. The old dragon was furious. That was a dirty trick!

“Go back!”

The old dragon growled as the Inferno Dragon was very close to the dragon origin.

Bzzing!

Space vibrated. The old dragon was going to turn back time, to make the Inferno Dragon go back where it started, and make all of its previous efforts futile!

Soon, a glow was cast over the Inferno Dragon; then it stepped forward but it was actually moving back. It soon stopped where it had been brought back to life the last time. The old dragon could not believe that.

It could not make the Inferno Dragon go back further!

The time could only be rewound to where the Inferno Dragon had died the last time, but not any further!

The time before that had been isolated and there was nothing the old dragon could do!

“That is not possible!”

The old dragon was in a daze.

The dragon believed that Su Ping surely had used some artifact to bring himself and his pet back to life. Su Ping–who was not at the Star Rank–couldn’t have done that; the dragon was sure of its judgment about Su Ping.

It was highly unlikely that an artifact could outperform a dragon’s skill!

What could that artifact be?

Something that could manipulate nature’s rules?

At that thought, the old dragon took its eyes off of the Inferno Dragon and instead started to focus on Su Ping.

Since the old dragon had just ignored the Inferno Dragon, the latter had finally made its way into the lake.

The dragon origin in the lake was pulled toward the Inferno Dragon, wrapping the pet with its power.

The dragon origin was like a living organism, but at the same time, it wasn’t a living, breathing thing. Just like the system had mentioned, the dragon origin cared about all dragons and didn’t reject Su Ping’s pet.

“Let me protect you this time.” Su Ping gazed at the Inferno Dragon’s soul as the dragon origin covered it and told it to rest at ease as its body was being reconstructed.

The Inferno Dragon turned around to look at Su Ping before the dragon origin blotted its view.

Soon after, Su Ping felt that the Inferno Dragon’s consciousness had been locked up and their communication was cut off.

Su Ping didn’t try to force the communication, lest it would disturb his pet.

The old dragon didn’t mind the Inferno Dragon; a low-level dragon like that wouldn’t use much of the dragon origin.

Comparatively speaking, the thing that Su Ping used for revivals was of greater interest.

“You have worked so hard just to make your pet complete again. But I will kill it after it comes out; I will kill it again and I will eat it up right in front of you!” The old dragon looked down at Su Ping from a height and uttered the cruel words. Su Ping’s dirty reviving trick had filled the old dragon with rage. The old dragon was determined to make the human feel much more pain.

Su Ping made his way to the dragon origin.

The old dragon didn’t stop him. Su Ping stood in front of the lake. He cast an affectionate gaze at the Inferno Dragon which was within the embrace of the dragon origin before he turned around and announced to the old dragon and the other purple-blood dragons, “From this point on, I will not make any concessions!

“Now, show me what you’ve got!”

Su Ping sounded quite arrogant. The purple dragons were trying hard to hold back their urges of teaching that human a lesson.

The old dragon squinted its eyes. “You can come back to life but you don’t have enough strength yet. I will freeze you up and take away your artifact. Let’s see how you’ll come back to life after that!”

Bzzing!

As soon as the old dragon finished its words, a stream of unimaginable energy surged out and froze both time and space in front of Su Ping!

That was not just space confinement. Even time had been stopped!

Su Ping stood in front of the dragon origin, deadly still. He couldn’t even blink. He couldn’t even think!

If the old dragon were to remove the energy, Su Ping’s thoughts would still be as they were a second before. He might not even realize he had just been frozen on the spot.

Bang!

With a mental instruction, the white bones protecting Su Ping were ripped away. The old dragon brutally took them down one by one!

Even pieces of flesh were attached to the white bones.

The white bones floated in the air.

All the white bones were removed. Su Ping was skinned and that was a scene too terrifying for the eyes.

The old dragon started to search for any trace of a treasure in Su Ping.

The old dragon didn’t ignore Su Ping’s clothes, not even his shoes.

And yet, to the dragon’s astonishment, nothing turned out after a thorough search!

Nothing!

The old dragon thought of the possibility that Su Ping had hidden the artifact in another storage artifact but there was nothing of that sort!

The old dragon believed it would detect a trace because a storage artifact would have to use spatial strength; such an artifact wouldn’t have escaped its detection. The old dragon was full of questions.

Nothing?

Really??

So, Su Ping didn’t carry that artifact with him?

But how could the artifact be used in that case?

The old Star ranked dragon had never heard of such a thing!

Not even after it had lived for tens of thousands of years.

“No way. No way...” The old dragon violently tore Su Ping’s body to pieces, going through its skin, bones, flesh, and searched every inch of it.

Still, the old dragon found nothing. In a rage, the old dragon began to search Su Ping’s soul.

That was a transparent item. The old dragon seemed to be astounded by the soul.

The strength of the soul was usually linked to the person’s rank. Only a secret skill could have strengthened the soul.

But it was evident that Su Ping’s soul... wasn’t even at the legendary rank!

It was merely at about the ninth rank.

That was to say, Su Ping was merely at the ninth rank?!

The other purple-blood dragons were also stunned, and felt they had received a slap on the face.

The creature that had forced its way to the dragon origin was merely at the ninth rank!

No wonder that creature would use an Inferno Dragon, a kind that didn’t even have a legendary-rank bloodline. It turned out that the human himself was at a low rank!

But how could he have demonstrated such strength?

After the initial moment of surprise, the old dragon recognized that the white bones belonged to a small skeleton.

The Skeleton Kings had a bloodline just as noble as that of purple-blood dragons, even more distinguished!

The old dragon fumbled through the white bones.

Still, the dragon found nothing.

The old dragon was at a loss.

However, the next second, those pieces of flesh disappeared and Su Ping came back. He had regained his life again!

He had already died when the old dragon was searching his soul. His soul returned to the system and of course, Su Ping chose to go back.

The old dragon and the other purple-blood dragons shocked into stillness. None of them expected that Su Ping could have revived after such a thorough death.

They found nothing remotely linked to a revival artifact on Su Ping.

Strange!

Inconceivable!

The old dragon was sure that there was something it was unaware of, some sort of secrets. Otherwise, how could a ninth-rank human come back to life time and time again? Not even the old dragon–which had the ability to manipulate time–could have revived itself when the death was that thorough.

The old dragon stared at Su Ping. “You said you were willing to trade if we allowed your dragon to take the dragon origin. Now tell me. How can you come back to life repeatedly?”

Su Ping knew that he had been killed once again. But he didn’t feel that. As such, he understood that the dragon must have used the power of time.

Su Ping chuckled sarcastically but soon adopted a cold look. “I was honest when I was trying to negotiate with you, but you turned me down. You cannot kill me and you cannot figure out the reason, so it is only now that you think about asking me nicely. But... you don’t have the right to know.”

Su Ping’s words of contempt enraged the purple-blood dragons. “You insect. Watch your mouth!”

“Are you seeking doom? I will track your race down and kill every single one of them!”

“How dare you insult our king? Don’t you ever think that we cannot finish your life!”

The old Star Rank dragon pulled a long face. “There must be a limit, whatever skill or artifact you are wielding. You can come back to life hundreds of times, thousands of times, but can you do so for tens of thousands of times? I will keep on killing you non stop!”

“Is that so? Try me!”

Su Ping was bristling with anger. “You are merely at the Star Rank. You’re dragons but you don’t deserve to call others pathetic since you’re not the best of dragons!

“I’m right here and I’m not going anywhere. You disdain me, right? Then come and kill me! I will fight the impossible fight against you!!”

Su Ping’s wild and arrogant words lingered at the mountain top.

Fight the impossible fight!

Of course, the purple-blood dragons were unhappy about it.

Dragons should be the best of all creatures and that mortal human had just belittled them!

Unforgivable!

“Kill him!”

“Kill him!!”

The purple-blood dragons angrily denounced.

The old dragon once again wielded its time manipulation weapon. Su Ping was exterminated after a loud noise, so completely that not even a trace of him was left behind!

Whoosh!

The next second found Su Ping once again standing in front of the dragon, very much alive. Laughing out loud, Su Ping merged with the Little Skeleton which had died together with him, and charged toward the old dragon.

“Let’s find out who will die first!”

Su Ping soared to the sky and waved the Fist of Exorcist.

Bang!

The vibration in space stopped the punch and crushed Su Ping!

Su Ping bounced back to life once more and had restored his peak state. Shouting, Su Ping carried on with that punch.

The old dragon was agitated. Yet again, the dragon killed Su Ping!

Bang!

Bang! Bang!

That went on several times. Su Ping would be killed again as soon as he revived.

But there was no limit to Su Ping’s revivals. He had died ten times, dozens of times, and then over a hundred times!!

He would always be in his prime state after coming back to life each time. On the other hand, the old dragon was evidently losing momentum after striking Su Ping for more than a hundred times. Being at the Star Rank didn’t mean that it could use the energy of time indefinitely. Using that skill would constantly drain the dragon’s strength.

Boom!!

After yet another time of coming back to life, covered in white bones, Su Ping threw a punch at the old dragon.

With a clouded face, the old dragon smashed Su Ping, breaking his bones. Still, Su Ping had managed to land the punch at the dragon’s claw at that final moment. A piece of the scale was broken.

As far as the old dragon was concerned, that punch gave it merely a little pain, as if it had just bumped into a piece of rock.

However, the thought that a ninth ranked creature had been able to hurt it filled the old dragon with rage. It cried into the sky, and that roar dispersed all the clouds; it was heard all across the mountain! All the purple-blood dragons on the mountain as well as dragons of other kinds had heard the king’s roar of fury!

The dragons wondered about the reason behind that fury.

Those dragons at the hillside were stunned to find that the human being was still alive.

What could he have possibly done to enrage the king?!

On the mountain top, after that shout of fury, the old dragon once again smashed Su Ping to pieces, and once again, Su Ping punched the old dragon.

Bang!

Same as before, Su Ping lost his life. This time, the pain was more obvious for the old dragon.

After coming back to life, Su Ping merged with the Little Skeleton, and with a dash, he landed a punch on the old dragon’s stomach. The ferocity of the punch cracked the scales.

The pain infuriated the old dragon even more. After the continuous strikes, the old dragon had started to become tired. On the other hand, that human was not getting tired at all. He would be as ferocious as before each time he returned to life. The old dragon was getting bored of this, and it even started to be afraid.

The human was like an annoying insect that would not die and rather, it would hurt the dragon every time!

The old dragon had already vented his anger. It was no longer in the mood to strike again because it was exhausted.

Su Ping was revived. He stood in front of the lake.

He sneered at the old dragon. Su Ping merged with the Little Skeleton and stood by the lake, guarding the Inferno Dragon. As the old dragon stopped, the other purple-blood dragons believed that it was their turn. “Die, you bastard, die!”

The purple-blood dragons began to manipulate space.

Those dragons didn’t resort to any destructive skills, for fear that they might hurt the dragon origin by which Su Ping stood. The dragons could only use skills to affect space and kill Su Ping with that!

“Try me!!” Su Ping shouted, his eyes glowing.

He punched out. The space around him rippled and some strange chains reached him and pierced him through.

He immediately returned to life, standing in front of the lake.

He had to raise his head to meet the dragons’ gazes, but the dragons had a feeling that he was the one looking down on them.