Chapter 542: Chapter 428: Master?
At this moment, Boris was controlling an enormously large Shrimp Dragon, which was constantly dodging. One of the Shrimp Dragon’s massive claws had already been struck down onto the seafloor. The remaining claw constantly blocked the Dragon Breath spewed out by the True Sea Dragon.
The Dragon Breath of the True Sea Dragon was an indescribable undercurrent that would detonate the surrounding sea water upon touching any solid object. The explosion came from this.
"Master?!" Ruosha exclaimed in surprise.
"Master?" Long Yi and Mina opened their eyes wide simultaneously.
It turned out that the relationship between the Tiger Whale Warriors and the True Sea Dragon was much closer than imagined. The homeland of the Tiger Whale Warriors was near the trench where the True Sea Dragon resided. Over time, the two groups established a connection. With the Tiger Whale Tribe’s far superior intelligence compared to the other Sea Clans, the more advanced individuals even reached the same level of intelligence as humans. This brought some excitement into the boring secluded life of the True Sea Dragon. They taught the Tiger Whale Tribe the ability to fight and gave the Tiger Whale Warriors who had passed the True Sea Dragon’s tests the reward of powerful Dragon Power. Ruosha’s abilities came from the True Sea Dragon in front of her - Nox.
"Something’s not right. Master is a very kind person who never gets angry even when we make mistakes. Why is he so angry now?" Ruosha wondered aloud.
"We don’t have to guess, what if we asked!" Long Yi replied.
Meanwhile, Nox, the True Sea Dragon, was still pressing on Boris. Simultaneously, Nox’s mouth opened wide, with a surge of unprecedented Dragon Power gathering within!
"Spare the vanquished!" Long Yi threw a Dragon Spear. Nox’s yet-to-be-charged strike was suddenly released, striking the Dragon Spear’s inexplicable energy and immediately twisted the entire Dragon Spear. Nearby sea water exploded simultaneously, and the resulting impact spread out in a circular bubble, making Long Yi stumble.
"Human?"
Nox took a look at Long Yi, and then his eyes radiated a dazzling light!
"It was you who killed my disciple!!!"
Huh? What?
Long Yi was bewildered .
Boom!
Another undercurrent roared out.
"Master! Calm down!"
Ruosha immediately threw out her now deformed anchor. The undercurrent on the anchor collided with the undercurrent spewed out by Nox, silently annihilating each other.
"Who are you! Why are you calling me Master! I have no human disciples!"
Nox roared.
"Master! It’s me...I am Ruosha! There is a reason why I turned out this way. I will explain it to you later. You just need to know that I am Ruosha." Ruosha quickly explained.
"Ruosha?" The light in Nox’s eyes mildly dimmed.
"The anchor, my undercurrent martial skill, and my Dragon Power. It indeed is you, Ruosha! Ruosha! Why are you with the person who murdered your junior brother! Hurry up and execute this sinner to avenge your junior brother!" Nox shouted loudly.
"Junior brother?" Ruosha was confused.
"It’s him!" Nox lifted his fin, pointing to the rock bed on one side. Indeed, lying quietly there, was evidently a corpse of a Tiger Whale Warrior.
When Long Yi looked over, he recognized the Tiger Whale Warrior who had not long ago left Clamdi in anger due to his sacred duel being insulted by Clamdi!
"Master, I think there might be some misunderstanding. Brother Long would never do such a thing." Ruosha quickly asserted.
"Misunderstanding? Look, his brain bears the marks of Mental Impact, and there is a trace of the Dragon-slaying Sword on his chest! Mr. Clamdi told me, that the only one who could do these two things to a Tiger Whale Warrior under the sea, is him!" Nox said angrily.
Long Yi immediately understood everything. It was simply a case of framing! They were using the framing method to borrow the power of the True Sea Dragon to defeat Boris’s army.
"This is impossible! Master, you may have really misunderstood! Something happened that day which was..." Ruosha rushed to explain what had happened that day to Nox. She also explained that not long after her own junior brother left in anger, Long Yi also left the seabed.
"Mr. Clamdi has already told me. He also confessed to me that he should not have done this, otherwise it wouldn’t have given this human the opportunity to kill my disciple!" Nox roared angrily, "Ruosha! If you are still my disciple, then get out of here! I don’t need your help. Today, I must personally execute this damned human for my disciple’s revenge!"
While Ruosha was still worried, Long Yi had already sneered.
"It seems, Mr. Nox, that you have no intention of giving me any chance to defend myself, do you?"
"The evidence is all here! What possible defense could you have!" Nox roared.
"Then may I ask, where exactly is your ’evidence’?" Long Yi retorted.
"The presence of mental impact..."
"Your most trusted Mr. Clamdi, he also has sea demons, and not a small number of them!" Long Yi pointed towards the distant Sea Emperor Clamdi and added, obviously Clamdi had amassed a new batch of sea demons for protection after that day.
"And the Dragon-slaying Sword..."
"It’s nothing more than a blade, such shaped metal rods can be found anywhere in the world. Furthermore, are you certain it’s mine?"
As he said this, Long Yi summoned Lingling. The crystal greatsword radiated with a Fighting Aura, an injury caused by such a sword would undoubtedly be severe.
"You’re quibbling! Your greatsword can transform into any shape!"
A round-faced chubby merman charged over, shouting at Long Yi.
"Oh, look who it is, Little brother Bangi. Could it be that after our Tiger Whale warrior was forced to leave, you were so unsatisfied that you attempted to get him back? But the poor fool didn’t pay you any mind, so in a fit of rage, you killed him. Afraid of the True Sea Dragon’s revenge, you simply decided to frame me? And even conveniently pretending to start a war?" Long Yi began to weave a tale with a faint smile on his face, not caring if it was true or not. He was simply slinging the mud back, see who would fear who.
Upon hearing Long Yi speak in this manner, Bangi’s complexion drastically changed.
"Damn, don’t tell me I guessed it right?" Long Yi laughed.
Turns out, Long Yi got it pretty much right.
After the Tiger Whale warrior left, Clamdi considered letting him go would be a significant blow to his reputation. So, he resolved to find the Tiger Whale warrior and apologize sincerely to salvage his prestige. He found him, but the warrior didn’t think highly of him. Not only that, the young Tiger Whale warrior chided Clamdi, vowing to alert all Tiger Whale warriors not to serve in Clamdi’s kingdom upon his return. The two parties fought, and in a rage, Clamdi summoned his sea demon which delivered a full-strength mental impact, meanwhile, he pierced the warrior’s chest with his own spear.
By a series of coincidences, this blow ended up killing the young warrior.
Upon the ebb of his rage, fear gripped him. Clamdi could only concoct a scene in haste that the Tiger Whale warrior was killed by a Dragon Knight, using the Dragon-slaying Sword he found. He also reported to True Sea Dragon alleging that someone killed a man in the protective Nox’s territory. Clamdi decided to go to war with Boris in order to avenge him.
Nox, who had hurried over, loudly interrogated Boris, inquiring about Long Yi’s whereabouts. Naturally, Boris couldn’t disclose it. Thus, Nox progressively forced Boris, trying to get him to hand over Long Yi.
Hence, the situation escalated to this point.
Looking at Bangi’s expression, Nox felt slightly shaken, as Bangi didn’t seem to be in the right.
"Damn it," Clamdi cursed under his breath, "this idiot Bangi can’t keep a secret!"
"Lord Nox! Don’t listen to that liar ’sweet talk’! With the strength of a Tiger Whale warrior, and him being your disciple, under the sea, apart from this damned Dragon Knight, who else could be a match for a Tiger Whale warrior!" Clamdi shouted in panic.
"I think there’s a misunderstanding here." Long Yi stepped forward.
"Mr. Nox, is it? The reason I stand here and rationally explain things to you, listen to you accusing me of murder, is solely because you’re Ruosha’s master. Not because of your prestige or anything else. And the reason I bother explaining, stems from my dislike of the false charges imposed on me, not fear of your power. If you’re curious, ask about me. I, Long Yi, on land, not to mention Dragon Knights, even airborne giant dragons have died under my hands, too many to count on two hands. If anyone is my enemy, I would not let them leave my sight alive. And if I already let them go, I would absolutely not stoop so low as to assassinate them! Be it your disciple, the Tiger Whale warrior, or even you, Mr. Nox, take a good look at my eyes, can you see even the slightest bit of fear in them!?"
Long Yi’s words were extremely domineering. Mina’s eyes were full of twinkling stars at the sight of him, and upon glancing at Ruosha beside her, even her big eyes were filled with surprise: "This bastard Long Yi can actually sound so tough—be he’s offended her master, he’s going to be in trouble."
As expected, the anger Nox had just about managed to suppress was ignited once again by Long Yi!
"In that case, I am eager to see what abilities Dragon Knight Long Yi actually has!"
Long Yi sneered coldly: "No big deal, but it will be just enough!"
The crystal greatsword’s light flickered intensely, and with a powerful kick off the sea bed, Long Yi shot towards Nox like a bullet.
At this moment, Little Zi abruptly appeared by Ruosha’s side, "Ruosha, Mina, if you don’t want Nox to die here, you’d better think of a way to stop them."
Ruosha was taken aback: "Isn’t that a bit too serious?"
Yet, Little Zi shook her head, "It is! Very much so! Brother Long detests betrayal and lies the most. False accusations disgust him more than anything. You probably can’t feel it, but he’s been bearing a belly full of rage!"
Ruosha and Mina exchanged a look, and they both saw the shock in each other’s eyes. (To be continued. If you like this work, welcome to vote recommendation, monthly tickets at qidian.com. Your support is my biggest motivation. Mobile users are welcomed to read at m.qidian.com.)
