338: Chapter 338 Take him... away from here!

The Black Dragon's massive maw, which had been preparing to snap shut, suddenly froze in mid-air.

His scarlet dragon eyes were filled with shock.

Because he sensed a blade capable of threatening his life.

It was pressing firmly against the most vulnerable reverse scale on his neck.

The Black Dragon slowly lowered his head.

The sight before him gave even this ten-thousand-year-old monster a severe shock.

Because Fairy Qingyun—who just moments ago had been pale as paper from massive blood loss, her delicate body limp and weak, unable to even sit up—had miraculously stood up.

She was covered in blood, yet her back was straight as a spear that would rather break than bend.

In her hand, she held the three-foot azure blade that had long been tucked at her waist, unsheathed for the first time in ages.

The edge of the blade was mercilessly pointed directly at the Black Dragon's throat.

What shocked the Black Dragon even more was that the Fairy Qingyun before him was no longer the half-crippled person tightly sealed by his dragon clan restrictions.

Although her cultivation base was far inferior to his as a Dragon Venerable of the Mahayana Realm, she was no longer the Spirit Transformation ant she had been when he first abducted her.

That was... the mid-stage of the Tribulation Transcendence!

"How is this possible?!"

"I have never unlocked the restrictions within your body."

"You tiny human, how could you possibly break through them, and even achieve a breakthrough in the middle of battle?"

The Black Dragon let out an incredulous roar.

Fairy Qingyun's gaze was locked onto the wailing infant in the Black Dragon's hand.

"Monster, for all your scheming, you miscalculated two things."

"First, I, Su Qingyun, am no vase; I am a genius cultivator of the human race."

"The number of people I have killed on the path of the Great Dao is not necessarily fewer than yours."

"You should not have completely let your guard down against me."

Fairy Qingyun said coldly.

"The second thing is..."

"Just how much power a mother can unleash to protect her child!"

It turned out that at the very moment Su Chen was born, the instant the umbilical cord connecting mother and child severed, the purest Primordial Chaos Creation Blood within Su Chen, born from the fusion of their two bloodlines, had surged irreversibly through the wound and into Fairy Qingyun's body.

It was a powerful force capable of changing the world.

Fairy Qingyun's parched dantian, under the infusion of this umbilical blood, was like a long drought meeting sweet rain.

Relying on this violent power that destroyed everything, she forcefully broke through the restrictions the Black Dragon had planted within her.

Furthermore, through accumulated effort finally bursting forth, her cultivation base, despite the weakness of postpartum, defied fate.

In one stroke, she crossed the threshold of the early Tribulation Transcendence stage and powerfully broke through to the mid-stage.

"Put my son down."

Fairy Qingyun sneered proudly, the tip of her sword piercing the skin of the Black Dragon's neck, causing a drop of dragon blood to seep out.

"Otherwise... today, I, Qingyun, even if I have to risk my life, even if it means total annihilation of my soul, will fight you, beast, until the bitter end."

The Black Dragon felt the stinging pain at his neck and was instantly enraged.

He was a dignified True Dragon.

How could he possibly compromise while being held at swordpoint by a human woman?

"You stinking bitch, do you think that by breaking through to the mid-stage of Tribulation Transcendence, you can rival me underwater?"

"I am the King of this Spirit River!"

The Black Dragon roared, his free hand transforming into a massive dragon claw.

Carrying the pressure of a mountain-toppling sea, he struck fiercely towards Fairy Qingyun's head.

He had calculated clearly.

The woman before him was, after all, weak from childbirth.

He would rather take the sword strike at his reverse scale and suffer a serious injury than fail to smash this ignorant woman into pulp.

However, he had ultimately underestimated Fairy Qingyun's resolve.

Facing that fatal blow, which felt like Mount Tai pressing down, she did not dodge or evade.

Instead, a flash of ruthless determination crossed her eyes.

She did not hesitate to ignite the mid-stage Tribulation Transcendence cultivation base she had just broken through to and which had not yet fully stabilized.

In the extreme time gap between the dragon claw falling and the sword blade thrusting, Fairy Qingyun's body transformed into an elusive afterimage.

She gave up the golden opportunity to assassinate the Black Dragon by piercing his neck and dealing him a heavy blow.

Instead, her figure flashed, and braving the Black Dragon's pressure, she appeared like a teleportation beside the arm that was holding the infant.

"Swish."

Fairy Qingyun did not sever the indestructible dragon arm.

Instead, she used her sword to precisely pry open the Black Dragon's fingers.

Taking advantage of the half-breath of time when the Black Dragon was momentarily stunned by the backlash of her burning cultivation, she snatched the swaddled Su Chen into her arms.

"My child..."

Feeling the warm and soft little body in her arms, two lines of hot tears welled up in Fairy Qingyun's eyes.

She did not pause for even a fraction of a second.

She turned around and rushed towards the surface of the Spirit River.

Because she knew that underwater, she was absolutely no match for this True Dragon.

"Want to run?!"

"Leave the child for me!!!"

The Black Dragon, having reacted, let out a terrifying roar that shattered the entire Dragon Palace.

His massive body twisted violently, transforming into his hundred-zhang-long True Dragon form.

Carrying world-destroying fury, he chased madly after Fairy Qingyun's retreating figure.

"Stinking bitch, don't think about running!"

"You should be able to tell that the bloodline in my body resonates with the bloodline in this little guy's body."

"Even if you run to the ends of the earth, I can still drag this little guy out!"

Fairy Qingyun gritted her teeth tightly and said nothing.

Escape! Escape for dear life!

Fairy Qingyun held the infant tightly against her chest.

Her escaping green primordial spirit slowly formed a faint shield around Su Chen.

She dragged her delicate body, which was in tatters after just experiencing a difficult labor and massive blood loss.

Braving the terrifying water pressure in the depths of the Spirit River, she swam frantically towards the surface.

...The water pressure of the Spirit River felt like countless mountains pressing down on her; the dragon breath constantly spewed by the Black Dragon behind her flew past her body.

Each aftershock tore a deep, bone-exposing wound on her back.

Water pressure, dragon breath, postpartum agony.

This triple layer of inhuman torture, which would cause any iron-willed man to collapse and commit suicide, was simultaneously inflicted upon this delicate woman.

Her body was covered in wounds, she did not know how many bones were broken, and her vision had been blurred into a haze by blood and river water.

However, her hands remained tightly clutching Su Chen in her arms.

She did not hesitate in the slightest.

In those eyes, which were gradually losing focus, there was only one conviction.

Swim up.

Take him away from here.

Ten thousand zhang... five thousand zhang... one thousand zhang...

Finally, accompanied by a tremendous sound of breaking water, Fairy Qingyun, like a flying fish leaping out of the water, rushed out of the dark Spirit River surface.

She fell heavily onto the hard black rocks on the bank of the Spirit River, tumbling several times before coming to a stop.